Oh no, the original has become a stand-in.

Yu Ziqing was at a loss for what to say.

To be honest, the information from the original, although not gibberish, was basically unintelligible, making it hard to even use as hints for divination, let alone brain connect the dots.

The one he made, though was gibberish, still could offer some points for speculation with quite straightforward connections.

Listening to the upstart's detailed description, Yu Ziqing felt a little convinced by what he had imagined.

At least the hints that the upstart pieced together through partial divination led to a good outcome.

He successfully escaped once, taking away the most important treasure.

Although Yu Ziqing felt this was because the Saint was out of touch with the times for too long, not expecting a counterfeit to be made so quickly, plus the things they encountered in the deep sea were mostly resolved through brute force.

Once narrowly escaping death, he became an evil spirit for just two days before regaining consciousness.

Yu Ziqing thought it was the upstart's good luck since he decided to come a few days earlier and was excited to try the Fish Bone ritual.

Unfortunately, Yu Ziqing felt it was useless; no matter what's said, the effectiveness is the true logic.

Yu Ziqing glanced at the upstart, secretly thinking that even if he told the upstart that the crystal was a knockoff, the upstart wouldn't believe it.

Now there's a troublesome matter: the crystal was taken by that Black Shadow Man, and Yu Ziqing needs to think of a reasonable way to give a backup fake to the Saint.

As long as it didn't fall into the hands of the Cliff Divine King, Yu Ziqing could accept it.

With Dadui's return imminent, the path to the Tenth Tier is about to open, and all kinds of devils and monsters are starting to emerge.

And with that Black Shadow Man, through his power, it's roughly confirmed that he doesn't belong to the Cliff Divine King.

Coupled with the process of tattooing the upstart, there's now a ninety-percent chance that the black shadow's power is related to the Mud Sea of the Muddied World.

Calculating the time, the Mud Sea of the Muddied World has been around for a long time, and the Black Shadow Man has existed for quite a while.

The upstart alone has been around for several decades.

The changes in the Mud Sea of the Muddied World probably weren't caused by his renaming of the Evil Ghost, but the event brought about unexpected changes.

After chatting about recent events with the upstart, Yu Ziqing asked,

"What's your name?"

The upstart hesitated, remaining silent for a while.

"From now on, call me Yuan Chou."

Yu Ziqing nodded and didn't ask what he used to be called, though it would be easy to find out that his surname was Chou.

"Do you need help with the remaining assets of your family?"

"No need, the old me is already dead, holding onto those external possessions would just inform that person that I'm still alive.

You can take it, the only valuable thing left in the family is a spirit stone ore vein and a copper ore vein."

Yuan Chou spoke calmly; he truly no longer cared about the property.

Even if everything was provided to him alone, he probably wouldn't have the opportunity to advance to the Ninth Tier.

Yu Ziqing didn't insist, he actually wasn't interested in those things.

Spirit stones might be hard currency, used as money, but in reality, compared to other resources, they were the least valuable.

Yet, everyone could use them.

Whether for cultivation, setting up arrays, making talismans, artifact refining, alchemy, flying boat, or puppet, they were used.

Yu Ziqing sent a message to the Deceitful Ghost, casually mentioning that he had resolved a newly emerged small Forbidden Land, and he didn't need to handle the rest.

When he appeared there, the Evil was gone, and with the Chou family dead, no one dared to cross Yu Ziqing, leaving everything for themselves.

Even if Yu Ziqing did nothing, the people from Dali, no matter how greedy, would still eventually hand over a big share to Yu Ziqing.

Otherwise, so near to Almsgiving Town in western Dali, offending the Hungry Ghost Trading Company would mean never being able to do well over there again.

The soft approach might exclude them from the business chain.

If they offended them too much, and enmity was formed, in the Abyss Rift Valley, one mistake and a whole group of devils might rush out, accidentally storming their base—anything could happen.

After all, it had already happened once before.

Guarding the Abyss Rift Valley was never the responsibility of the Hungry Ghost; it was the responsibility of the Dali court.

Yu Ziqing didn't meddle much; he didn't even bring Yuan Chou back to Jinlan Mountain, just stayed in the Health Club in Almsgiving Town, digging out a new research lab underground, equipped with various shielding methods.

He wanted to study the Fish Bone ritual and Yuan Chou's current state carefully.

This method of advancement, essentially different from normal cultivation, if the risks are controllable and the costs acceptable, and strong enough.

Then Yu Ziqing might try the Black Ship Saint's approach.

Some bizarre guys might not be killable directly, or it might be too wasteful to kill them directly.

This borrowing-power Dharma Method then becomes a new path.

Moreover, for those with an average Qi Refinement talent, average Body Refinement talent, and even more average Refining God talent, this might be a new path.

Who knows if they might have stronger talent in this area.

The people within Jinlan Mountain, due to environmental constraints, couldn't refine Qi; long under the influence of Alien power, it's estimated they wouldn't have any Qi refinement talent if they left.

For Body Refinement, aside from those who stayed at Jinlan Mountain long enough to consume the Jinlan Mushroom, the rest had average talent, especially the last batch of villagers joining Jinlan Mountain, who were really quite average.