Work Prophet
Chapter 372 - 130 Rebirth Bell

Chapter 372: Chapter 130 Rebirth Bell

Li Yu received a notification from Forging House on his way back from work while on the subway the next day.

It announced that a new feature had been launched, but to experience it, one first had to pay 1,500 faith points to purchase an item of equipment.

Li Yu didn’t hesitate too long before he clicked to make the payment.

This time, the Equipment Department unusually arranged for Hornet Instant Delivery, allowing Li Yu to receive his new equipment within an hour after placing the order.

Li Yu opened the package and found a bell inside.

The bell’s design was quite conspicuous, made entirely of brass, with a handle shaped like the character for "mountain", and the central part resembling a small sword pointing straight to the sky, with some talismans and the Big Dipper pattern engraved on the bell.

Li Yu searched online and discovered that this thing was called the Three Pure Ones Bell, an important Magic Artifact in Taoism, also known as the Soul Summoning Bell.

There was a saying, "When the Soul Summoning Bell tolls, let no living approach."

However, inside this archaic Three Pure Ones Bell, Li Yu saw a rather discordant QR code.

He opened the scan function on his phone, scanned the QR code, and subsequently was redirected to the Forging House product page.

[Rebirth Bell]: Can absorb and preserve the soul of a newly deceased person. Each use costs 100 faith points, and requires the consent of the soul’s owner. The soul can reside within for no more than three days, until a new body is found.

Li Yu was stunned for a moment when he saw this description because it was rather malevolent, reminiscent of the Evil Artifacts crafted by the wicked in Immortal Cultivation novels.

He continued reading, looking at the specific instructions of the [Rebirth Bell].

After reading carefully, Li Yu realized that as powerful as this artifact was, its use came with several restrictions, the first being that it required the consent of the soul’s owner.

Li Yu didn’t have Yin Yang Eyes, couldn’t see Ah Piao, and thus had no way to communicate with the spirits of the deceased.

This meant he would have to arrange the entry into the bell with the dying person prior to their death, and in addition, he needed to find a corpse that could receive the soul for the rebirth to be completed.

This was a troubling issue since the requirements for the corpse were very high, and though some minor injuries could be repaired, there were no solutions for inherent diseases in the body.

For instance, if you chose a body that died of liver cancer, even with a new soul, the original liver wouldn’t simply recover.

Similarly, bodies that were severely damaged, like those decapitated or mangled in car accidents, wouldn’t work either. Likewise, too old bodies, even if successfully reborn, wouldn’t live long...

In sum, finding a suitable corpse was not easy, and it could easily stir extensive public opinion. In today’s era of short videos, such news spread very quickly.

However, in another dimension, such troubles were much less, and suitable corpses were easier to find.

Li Yu had now understood why Hephaestus had previously mentioned that the new technological breakthrough could transform missionary methods.

If one were to ask what the biggest bottleneck in the development of the Double Rest Sect was now,

The answer was still talent.

Even though Li Yu had continually been seeking talent through various means from inside and also luring them from outside, as a nascent organization, the Double Rest Sect simply did not have enough people.

Especially in terms of high-level talent, there was a significant gap.

Education required resources and time, but now, the emergence of the [Rebirth Bell] presented Li Yu with an alternative solution.

He discovered he might be able to utilize the education system of this dimension to groom high-achieving students, who could directly fill the talent gaps in the other dimension.

This quite excited Li Yu, as a major feature of modern society was its high degree of specialization; everyone had their own areas of expertise, and Li Yu was no exception.

Although he had always been using various forms of knowledge and technology to address the challenges faced by Bratis, many things he himself only had a superficial understanding of, relying on the search functions of Baidu and Google to collect answers online.

This could indeed address some problems, but certainly, it wasn’t as good as the work done by professionals.

If they could bring in some specific talents as needed, the Double Rest Sect could have gotten even more assistance.

The recruitment cost of 100 points of faith was still affordable for Li Yu at that time.

He previously had a total of 2762 points of faith. After spending 1500 points to purchase the "Rebirth Bell," he was left with 1262 points. If he used them all, he could have recruited 12 people.

However, for caution’s sake, Li Yu decided to initially recruit just one person to see the effects.

The only problem now was where he should go to find someone on the brink of death.

...

The next morning, Zhang Yanlin received a text from Li Yu asking her to come to City Third Hospital.

During her more than a month of employment, she had been almost completely left to her own devices after Li Yu had dumped the task of decorating the office on her and then disappeared.

Now that the renovation was nearly complete and Zhang Yanlin had bought most of the furniture, which was off-gassing formaldehyde while she checked and fixed deficiencies, there wasn’t much else to do.

So she had been asking Li Yu daily if there was any other work for her, until finally, she received a response.

Upon receiving the message, Zhang Yanlin immediately took the subway to City Third Hospital and even bought a carton of Golden Classic at a supermarket at the entrance; she then made her way to the inpatient department.

She saw Li Yu in the hallway on the third floor, sitting on a bench with a laptop, typing away.

Zhang Yanlin quickened her steps and walked up to Li Yu.

Li Yu also sensed something and looked up, noticing the box of milk in Zhang Yanlin’s hands, he was a bit surprised, "Why did you buy milk?"

"Shouldn’t I bring something when visiting a patient? By the way, who is hospitalized, your friend or a client?" asked Zhang Yanlin curiously.

"Consider them a client for now," said Li Yu. "Since you bought it, just leave it here, and remember to claim it back later."

"Oh, alright."

Li Yu pointed to a seat nearby, signaling Zhang Yanlin to sit down.

"Haven’t you always asked me what our main work is?"

"I remember you mentioned that it involves cultural dissemination and teaching technological knowledge in underdeveloped areas."

"That’s right, but I never told you where those underdeveloped areas are, did I?"

"Are they in the mountainous regions of our country or in Africa?"

"Neither, they are in another universal plane."

Zhang Yanlin snorted with laughter, but then, seeing the serious expression on Li Yu’s face and realizing he wasn’t joking, she gradually wiped the smile off her face.

"Space exploration, do any companies offer this kind of service?"

"It’s not quite the same. All I can tell you is that another universe does exist, and there are life and civilizations there, although their civilizational level is roughly equivalent to our Middle Ages."

"Ah ha?"

"You haven’t called me crazy, which is better than I expected."

"I’ve worked with you for a year before, so I know your character, but what you’re saying now is still too... hard to accept."

"I know, I didn’t quite believe it at first either, until I personally got there."