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At this moment, the Giant Spirit God had not a shred of arrogance left in his heart. Lu Yan had opened up a brand-new path beyond aligning with the times or defying the great trends, and his methods convinced the Giant Spirit God completely.

Lu Yan’s expression remained calm, as he gently shook his head and said:

"The time is not yet ripe."

Having said that, Lu Yan turned his gaze toward the Spirit Vein of Beimang Mountain.

The Yin Soldiers who had left Luocheng earlier had now returned to the place of the Spirit Vein.

These Yin Soldiers, clad in armor and wielding Soul Hooks, were leading a multitude of lost souls.

There were lost souls of corporate slaves in work uniforms with dark circles under their eyes, lost souls of girls with steel pipes through their chests, and lost souls from ancient battlefields with shattered armor holding banners...

Among the many cages formed by the entwined Soul Hooks, the blood-stained general from the ancient battlefield appeared mighty and dignified.

Yet, in this scene supposedly of Underworld Yin Soldiers escorting convicts, both the Yin Soldiers and the lost souls were in a lazy demeanor.

Even the ancient battlefield general within the cage yawned in boredom, as if he had not just come from a battlefield but rather participated in an Underworld cosplay convention.

A strange look flashed across Lu Yan’s face as he commanded:

"The disguise can be lifted."

As soon as his words fell, all the lost souls and Yin Soldiers heaved a sigh of relief as if a weight was lifted off their shoulders.

Ghost Qi emanated from the bodies of the lost souls, and then their disguises began to fade away.

Whether they were modern lost souls or ancient battlefield souls, once the Ghost Qi dissipated, the identical black armor-covered Soul Bodies were revealed.

All the lost souls had been disguises of the Yin Soldiers from the beginning.

And the origin of these Yin Soldiers was that Lu Yan had the Blood God use Yin Soldier transformation technology to convert fierce ghosts.

Assisted by the Giant Spirit God, the Blood God painstakingly researched for several days and finally mastered the key to the Yin Soldier transformation technology, resulting in three hundred transformed Yin Soldiers working overtime.

These Cyber Yin Soldiers, once transformed, possessed basic capabilities of a Soul Computer, with powerful computational abilities, Spiritual Wisdom, and perfect control over their Soul Bodies.

The perfect control over their Soul Bodies, aided by Ghost Qi, allowed them to disguise themselves as any soul entity.

Such a disguise could not be easily seen through even by a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, let alone ordinary people in the city.

It was precisely due to this characteristic of the Yin Soldiers that Lu Yan decisively orchestrated a grand show of the Night Parade of Hundred Demons in Luocheng as a countermeasure against the Urban Celestial Dao.

Originally, Lu Yan planned for a part of the Yin Soldiers to disguise themselves as ancient battlefield souls from Beimang Mountain, then have a staged battle with the Yin Soldiers within the city, with videos shot from various angles to enhance the shock factor of the scenes.

However, upon learning of this, the Giant Spirit God proposed a different approach.

"The reason humans fear souls often stems from folklore and personal encounters.

Relatives, friends, even oneself, anyone could become a ghost after death. This fear, so close yet so unknown, is the fundamental reason ghosts are feared."

"If we only create a batch of ancient battlefield souls, although strong, the ancient battlefield is still too distant for most people, making it difficult to maintain fear within their hearts.

The Lord can completely search for cases of death from seven days ago, then command some Yin Soldiers to disguise themselves as urban souls returning on the seventh day.

The impact of this part of the lost souls would be no less than that of the battlefield souls, especially in the eyes of various forces, as this is an extremely important signal.

The world will change, and new souls may be born after death. Ask who would not develop a reverence for the Underworld that controls the world after death?"

In fact, the Giant Spirit God’s design was very successful. Although the massacre brought by the ancient battlefield souls became the focus, more people directed their attention to the Underworld Yin Soldiers and modern lost souls once the initial shock of the appearing souls faded away.

Especially the existence of the modern souls, which made them realize that they too might become those wandering souls after death, leading to endless speculation and debate about urban souls online.

Some believe that the big fog was what allowed the returning souls on the seventh day to reveal themselves in the world.

Others argue that whether it’s the mist of Beimang Mountain or the fog of Luocheng, the essential source is the Underworld.

More experts and scholars brought up a pile of classics to try to prove their views, leading to fierce battles online.

Lu Yan browsed the abundance of information online, already having a plan in mind.

Looking up at the night sky, Lu Yan sensed the malice from above the sky.

He could clearly feel that as the online discussion heated up, and the public’s discussion increased, the malice from the Urban Celestial Dao was rapidly declining.

The ultimate reason was that the Urban Celestial Dao’s cognitive manipulation could no longer be sustained.

The strength of each version of the Celestial Dao correlates with the version level, and the urban version has no Extraordinary Power, making it one of the weaker types of Celestial Dao.

Lu Yan chose the urban version to stir up trouble largely because the power of the Urban Celestial Dao was not apparent.

Especially under the trend of urban development and peace, if an individual does not have sufficient karma or sins to provoke the Celestial Dao, the Urban Celestial Dao simply cannot take action against them.

Lu Yan, bearing the Profound Yellow Merit Fire and protected by Merit Divine Techniques, made it impossible for the Urban Celestial Dao to bring about any calamity.

So when Lu Yan initiated the Spiritual Energy Revival, the Urban Celestial Dao could only respond to the challenge by trying to suppress the heat of the Revival and conducted cognitive manipulation worldwide, blocking information related to Beimang Mountain.

Perceiving the Urban Celestial Dao’s counteraction, Lu Yan began to orchestrate this self-directed plan.

Simplistically, cognitive manipulation means blocking all information related to Beimang Mountain in the public’s cognition, but it’s not amending memory at the soul level, allowing for recovery.

Hence, the Urban Celestial Dao guided various forces to seal off information about Beimang Mountain and delete traces on online platforms.

With cognition blocked and no trace left in the real world, the spread of Spiritual Energy Revival information was almost completely cut off.

But Lu Yan took a different path, creating a Night Parade of Hundred Demons and Yin Soldiers Crossing to directly declare the return of the Spiritual Energy Revival to the world.

With such intense information impact, coupled with the Giant Spirit God secretly keeping some backups and pushing videos past the audit to everyone, it successfully pushed the topic to the peak.

As the Night Parade of Hundred Demons and Yin Soldiers Crossing were spreading, the public gradually started to recall memories about Beimang Mountain.

Even if cognitive manipulation could block related memories, under the impact of billions of massive network messages, the Urban Celestial Dao’s cognitive manipulation became hard to sustain.

In an instant, as if an invisible shackle was broken, the aura of the Urban Celestial Dao rapidly declined.

Subsequently, a message popped up in front of Lu Yan.

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