71: Chapter 71 The Events of That Year

Not long after, Shangguan Qingxue arrived with her team at the location where Lu Siye and the others were.

"Little brother, tell me in more detail about the process of the Ghost transformation you witnessed," was the first thing Shangguan Qingxue said upon seeing Lu Siye.

Lu Siye nodded and described in detail everything he had seen during the memory playback.

After listening, Shangguan Qingxue stared at the small building for a while, then made a decisive decision.

"Start digging!"

What happened next had nothing to do with Lu Siye. After handing Liu Wenxuan over to the Evil Suppression Bureau, he returned to the Tongjiang Residential Area.

The Evil Suppression Bureau would handle Li Sisi's household registration, identity verification, and her cremation and burial; Lu Siye did not need to worry about it.

Back in his own small apartment, Lu Siye lay exhausted on the sofa, like a salted fish, beginning a temporary state of slacking off.

He hadn't expected that just attending a class reunion would lead to such an encounter.

The dead are gone, and the living must go on.

He only hoped that his dorm brother, who had accompanied him for four years, would be able to live on well after suffering this blow.

Although he had been busy and exhausted all night, he had gained quite a bit of Fear Value. With over three thousand Fear Value points added, his balance returned to over 30,000, reaching 31,130 points.

Seeing such a large balance, Lu Siye immediately felt full of energy again.

Springing up from the sofa, Lu Siye quickly took a cold shower, then sat cross-legged on the floor, took out the unfinished blood spirit pill, and began to Cultivate.

Early the next morning, Lu Siye finished his Cultivation and went to a nearby rice noodle roll shop to have breakfast.

Just after ordering and sitting down, Lu Siye saw a breaking news notification pushed to his phone.

{Shocking! A thousand-person pit discovered in Tianhai City; is this a loss of humanity or a distortion of morality?}

This headline was worthy of a clickbait news site; it had that familiar flavor.

Clicking on it, he saw that the thousand-person pit mentioned in the news title was discovered in the suburbs of the North District of Tianhai City, and it even included a few photos of the scene.

In the photos, long police lines had been set up around the pit, and hundreds of professionals were surveying the large hole.

The photographer's angle was outside the police line, so they hadn't captured the situation inside the pit.

Lu Siye looked carefully and, on the edge of one of the on site photos, saw a dilapidated small building with a courtyard.

Sure enough, that thousand-person pit was near the small building they had been at last night.

Skipping the images, Lu Siye continued reading.

The news listed some recorded thousand-person pits in the history of Jiuzhou and mentioned various speculations about this one, but there was no accurate explanation.

It seemed it was just news meant to attract attention.

Lu Siye closed the article and turned to open the official website of Tianhai City, where he saw a recently published piece of news about the thousand-person pit.

{Our city has newly excavated a large-scale massacre site. It is estimated that there are over a thousand victims in the site. The specific time and year of the site are yet to be determined.}

The news also included several high-definition photos of the thousand-person pit, which were filled with shattered clothing and bleached bones.

It was truly shocking!

So it really was a thousand-person pit; no wonder it possessed such massive Yin Qi, capable of pushing a newly dead person to the level of a Ghost.

However, after that incident with Li Sisi, he imagined there wasn't much Yin Qi left in the thousand-person pit.

After reading the full content of the news, Lu Siye looked at the comment section below and found a piece of useful information.

A netizen had commented, stating that based on the relatively intact clothing in the pit, it could be roughly determined that they were likely from the Republic of China era, and this thousand-person pit was highly likely related to the history of the Little Japanese invading Jiuzhou back then.

Below this comment, there were doubts and agreements, but mostly condemnations of the Little Japanese.

After finishing reading the comments, the hot rice noodle rolls were just served by the owner.

Lu Siye turned off his phone and focused on enjoying the food.

Although this world had supernatural powers like Ghosts and practitioners, the historical trajectory over the past five thousand years was no different from his previous life.

At most, there were slight differences in details, but the important historical threads remained the same.

Although he didn't understand why, with a behemoth like the Evil Suppression Bureau sitting in charge, Jiuzhou had still been invaded?

Could it be that the Evil Suppression Bureau back then had fallen into internal strife?

Or perhaps a powerful enemy had appeared at that time, making it impossible for the practitioners of Jiuzhou to spare the effort to participate in the counterattack?

Regarding this matter, Lu Siye had previously searched in the exorcism app, but he couldn't find any clues at all.

He didn't know if it was intentionally concealed by the higher-ups? Or if his own authority was insufficient?

He couldn't figure it out! He completely couldn't figure it out!

After finishing three rice noodle rolls, Lu Siye dispelled the messy conjectures in his mind.

Since he couldn't figure it out, he wouldn't think about it!

He would strive to Cultivate and become stronger. As long as he continued to grow stronger, he would inevitably be able to come into contact with higher-level secrets.

Moreover, the Spiritual Energy Revival was imminent. At that time, he didn't know how many Ghosts would revive, so the stronger his own strength was, the more security he would have.

After eating the three rice noodle rolls and returning to the Tongjiang Residential Area, Lu Siye began to think about his own situation.

Currently, his Cultivation of the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Art was limited by the conversion speed of Yang Qi, and his progress was extremely slow, so he couldn't quickly improve his strength for the time being.

As for the Five Tiger Soul-Severing Blade, he had just broken through to the Major Achievement Realm not long ago, and he had no clue about the Perfection Realm for the time being.

The body-protecting Cultivation Technique, Diamond Indestructible Divine Skill, had been Cultivated to the Proficiency level, and there was still a significant gap before the full-body power integration, so he could focus on Cultivating that.

As for the Bei Ming Divine Art, since using Yang Qi or life force was more effective against Ghosts, he usually only used Internal Energy to enhance his own power to increase his explosive force.

And during battles, he would absorb the opponent's Yin Qi, thereby weakening them.

Compared to the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Art, which directly added attributes, the Bei Ming Divine Art was more like adding buffs to Lu Siye and debuffs to the opponent.

Right, there was also the simplified version of the Life-Death Talisman, which acted as a tracker.

Although the Internal Energy in his Dantian had not yet accumulated to the limit, he could consider breaking through.

Perhaps the Major Achievement level of the Bei Ming Divine Art could bring him greater combat power enhancement.

As for movement techniques, his Lingbo Microsteps was also approaching the limit of the introductory level, so Cultivation to the Major Achievement level could also be put on the agenda.

Thinking of this, Lu Siye decided to first Cultivate the Diamond Indestructible Divine Skill to the point of full-body power integration, and then strengthen the Bei Ming Divine Art to Major Achievement.