Work Prophet
Chapter 382 - 140 Foreign Country Visitor

Chapter 382: Chapter 140 Foreign Country Visitor

The crowd parted slowly in front of Greta, their gazes toward Li Yu filled with reverence.

The girl had to admit that, at least in this land, the Double Rest Sect and its Prophet indeed possessed significant prestige, and it would not be easy for the Life Church to take over here in the future.

As for why Li Yu enjoyed such popularity, Greta thought she had glimpsed some clues over this period.

This small sect, located in a corner of the Western Territory, was surprisingly well-stocked.

In this place, Greta had seen many things not found in the Royal Capital, whether it was the red brick houses everywhere, or the bathhouses, new farming tools—all left a deep impression on her, but what shocked her the most was "Tom and Jerry."

For the first time in her life, the girl saw animated paintings, and the mice that were always scorned were actually the protagonists.

Especially the latter point had greatly shaken Greta.

Although she wouldn’t say it out loud, her heart had grown quite fond of Li Yu and the Double Rest Sect, because even in the Life Church, which had saved her life and given her a second chance, most people looked at her coldly, except for Priest Cornelia.

The gazes they usually cast at her carried a hint of disdain, and Greta knew it was because she was always with those dirty rodents.

The girl had considered making new friends, but she couldn’t abandon her rat companions. They were not only her foundation but had also accompanied her through the toughest times in her life.

Greta felt complicated emotions, and at this time, Li Yu had already approached the ox cart.

He first checked the body on the cart. Nearly six hours had passed since Jie Qi’s death, the body was beginning to stiffen, and the joints were fixing in place, hard to move even by hand.

Aside from the broken neck, Jie Qi’s body was well preserved, without any missing limbs.

According to the user manual, such a body met the requirements for rebirth.

So Li Yu didn’t hesitate any longer, calling two black hound guards to lift the body onto the stone altar they had just erected that afternoon.

In fact, using the Rebirth Bell didn’t have such strict conditions—as Li Yu had done with Niu Xiangui’s soul before, the process was quite simple. But now, he was holding a Heroic Spirit Summoning Ceremony in front of thousands of followers.

It definitely couldn’t be as casual as in the hearse.

Some actions that didn’t serve much practical purpose but helped to enhance the solemn atmosphere and sense of mystery were certainly necessary.

For instance, the location of the stone altar, Li Yu placed it under a fir tree.

At the same time, he carved the emblem of the Double Rest Sect on the tree and then pulled out a joker card from a deck of playing cards, placing it on Jie Qi’s chest.

He covered him with a sheepskin blanket.

After all this, it was getting dark. Li Yu took seven high-power flashlights from Hera’s hands and arranged them around Jie Qi’s body.

Once the flashlights were turned on, seven beams of light shot straight into the night sky, an impactful scene.

Then Li Yu extinguished one of them and placed his right palm on Jie Qi’s forehead. With his left hand, he stretched out his thumb and little finger toward the sky, while the other three fingers were brought together, pointing to the ground.

As he made this characteristic prayer gesture of the Double Rest Sect, the loud sound of the suona also started to play.

This time, Li Yu’s chosen piece was "Little Saber Society Overture."

This golden oldie has been used in many TV dramas and movies, starting with Hu Jinquan’s "Dragon Inn," followed by Jet Li’s Huang Feihong series, Zhou Xingchi’s "Journey to the West" and "Kung Fu," and even in "The Return of the Monkey King"...

Whenever the situation becomes critical, and a hero is about to make their entrance, "Little Saber Society Overture" would rise as the background music, suitably fitting for the summoning of a Heroic Spirit in the present circumstance.

As the piece concluded, followers of the Double Rest Sect present all raised their left hands, spontaneously joining Li Yu in prayer.

And Li Yu recited the incantation to summon the Heroic Spirit.

"Heed the call of thy Lord, thy body under my command, thy sword at my disposal, obey the will of thy Lord, strictly adhere to the commandments of thy Lord, transmigrator from another world, respond to me!"

After uttering the last word, Li Yu finally completed the lengthy prelude and pulled out the Rebirth Bell from his suit pocket, shaking it seven times and softly chanting Niu Xiangui’s name three times.

The Rebirth Bell then began to shake violently, ringing for a good three or four seconds before returning to calm.

At the same time, Li Yu noticed some subtle changes beginning to occur in Jie Qi’s corpse.

His body slowly lost its stiffness, joints regained mobility, and his complexion turned rosy again, while Li Yu could hear the cracking sound of bones knitting back together at the neck.

However, these changes were only noticeable to Li Yu, who was closest to the scene. For others standing by, they could only see that after Merlin chanted the incantation, the corpse still had not come back to life.

The crowd of onlookers was silent at first, but after a while, hushed whispers began to increase.

Greta folded her arms across her chest and snorted, "After all, it’s just a small church on the border; summoning a Heroic Spirit..."

She stopped mid-sentence.

The next moment, she saw the body that had been lying on the stone dais suddenly sit up, flinging off the sheepskin blanket, and then uttering two incomprehensible words.

——F*ck!

Niu Xiangui’s first expletive was triggered by the dense crowd nearby; apart from music festivals and Tiantongyuan Station on Line 5, he had never seen so many people gathered together.

And immediately following, he let out his second expletive.

That was because Niu Xiangui noticed that most of those guys were dressed in burlap, looking like something out of the Middle Ages.

Then he looked down at his own body, which brought on his third expletive.

Niu Xiangui had never seen a version of himself so magnificent and robust, his arms now as thick as his original thighs – the thighs that had grown half a size thicker from eating too much takeout.

Besides, there wasn’t much fat on these arms; they were almost all muscle, and the rest of his body was in a similar condition.

Niu Xiangui could feel the original energy pervading this body.

I’ve really traveled through time, and turned into a hunk?!

Facing this scene that defied common sense and was filled with wonder, Niu Xiangui unhesitatingly contributed his fourth expletive.

And these two words would later become the most common response among Servants to summoning, as the Monks of the Double Rest Sect translated it to praise the Lord, expressing the Servants’ joy in their hearts at the time of being summoned.