Time flies, and a week has passed in the blink of an eye.

It's quite strange, the appearance of the Giant Shell Ancestor Demon God fishing... ignited a storm across the Nine-State and Four Seas.

Yet, in these seven days, nothing has happened.

The hidden forces seem to have remained dormant, and paradoxically, ever since the Giant Shell Ancestor Demon God appeared, the world has inexplicably become much more peaceful.

Everyone is developing, lying low.

Just watch and see, anyone who tries to take the lead in the Nine-State and Four Seas, the ancient hero that first rises will surely get beaten.

During these seven days, the pattern of the Nine-State and Four Seas has gradually stabilized, with everyone owning a Soul-Calling Banner, cleaning up 50% of kitchen waste everywhere, and even forming sales channels.

Embers material and Tear Stones have vaguely become general commodities of the new era, enabling fortunes.

For instance, the people of the Bone Demon Royal City go everywhere with a net bag during the day to catch Embers, and at night, they hide under the covers and cry to produce Tear Stones.

Every citizen can make big money and has a promising future.

And Xin Xichen has already established cooperation in advance.

During these seven days, inside the Court, they have started breeding new Super Golden Coin Child at full power, making a frenzied stockpile, ready to launch new Magic Coins and distribute Super Golden Coin Child to various coinage factories across the Nine-State.

It is worth mentioning.

Also, after starting cooperation with the Royal Family, a potential force has begun trying to harvest the entire market.

This made the blacksmiths at Sword Casting Manor complain: Xin Xichen also needed money, as the Emperor secretly harvested the Nine-State to fill his own little treasury.

Capital City, Imperial Palace.

On both sides are Chronicles of Time, with ancient hero mural tombs inlaid on painted walls.

Xin Xichen sits on the throne, fiddling with a new Magic Coin, "Has it been investigated?"

"It has been investigated."

Dao Yueniang nods, "Besides us, there is another force secretly plotting, but their funds aren't much, just small skirmishes."

"And this force is from the Dragon Race, Jiao Wuyu and Li Youzhu."

Upon hearing this news, Xin Xichen was not surprised but rather revealed a faint smile, "Very good, have those two younger generations also joined Xi Rong's line."

Such commercial arrangements cannot be concealed.

As the Human Race Emperor, if I couldn't find this out, the Dynasty would have long been in danger.

...

...

Bone Demon Royal City.

The production of Tear Stones was extremely high in these seven days, and the Embers collection has come to fruition.

According to statistics, the Sea Race citizens' per capita income has already reached 60 Magic Coins daily, a figure previously unimaginable!

In the past, Loose Cultivator Zhang Huaping, a Five-Body Realm Great Perfection Demon Hunter, was at the top among ordinary people in local cities, earning about 60 Magic Coins a month.

Now here, it's daily!

Of course, this is based on sacrificing one year of lifespan every day, and for now, the Sea Race residents have enough lifespan, but once they run out of surplus lifespan, the income will significantly decrease.

Nevertheless, all the Sea Race citizens have started living relatively affluent lives.

At this moment.

An old fisherman, carrying a fishing rod, was strolling in the wilderness, "Almost at the Bone Demon Royal City?"

Suddenly, he saw a few young men with Soul-Calling Banners by the roadside, fishing like they were using net bags.

Apparently.

A gold rush, or rather an Ember rush era, has completely begun.

Everyone is using a Soul-Calling Banner as a fishing net bag, catching everywhere.

Like now, these two Low Tier cultivators are confronting each other.

"There's an Ember here." A cultivator's eyes flashed.

The opposing cultivator also secretly thought, "There's an Ember here, it's sneaky, maintaining its habits from when alive, holding a Soul-Calling Banner, trying to catch other Embers."

"However, I'll capture it now."

Whoosh!!

He threw a Soul-Calling Banner, and the opponent simultaneously threw a Soul-Calling Banner.

A flash of light, and the two figures instantly disappeared, leaving only two Soul-Calling Banners shaking frantically, shining with struggling light.

After two or three seconds, the shaking of the two Soul-Calling Banners on the ground stopped.

Successful capture!

Old fisherman: "..."

He was silent, both Embers thought they weren't dead, wielding Soul-Calling Banners attacking each other—has the era become like this now?

He shook his head, picked up two white Soul-Calling Banners from the ground, "This kind of fishing method now is really intriguing."

He continued walking for a while and occasionally saw a few young boys fishing.

These boys even started a new and fresh battle game.

"Let's battle!"

"The loser has to hand over their Embers!"

"Watch my White Feather Shark!"

"Come out, Cyan-eyed Yellowfish!"

Swish.

Embers emerged from each of the Soul-Calling Banners, fighting fiercely under the command of the two young fishermen.

This was called the "Yan Shuangying Game," originating from Detective Yan Shuangying passing by the street, watching the kids play and devising a battle game for them, which is now very popular.

After all, the Soul-Calling Banners were originally Magical Artifacts used to control Embers and manipulate or counter the Ghosts, so of course, they could be used for battle now.

The old man fishing was pleasantly surprised, "Good! Good! The Bone Demon Race is quite interesting, designing such an order, it suits my aesthetics perfectly, now this is the world of my dreams... this kind of battle, I'll update it to our Neutral Nursery some other day."

He kept walking and finally entered the city gates, stepping onto the main street of the Bone Demon Royal City.

"Have you heard? Pseudo-humans have entered the city?"

"Is it true?"

"That's right, I have a friend who works in the patrol team, at White Rainbow Lane, Pseudo-humans have come in, led by Detective Yan Shuangying himself to make the arrest, and the Pseudo-human even pretended to have amnesia at the time?"

"Wait, isn't it said there's a check when entering the city? Pseudo-humans have new hiding methods, and our detection Magical Artifacts will also update."

"You don't understand, I hear Pseudo-humans play the Yin trick, they deliberately stay dormant, updating several methods to hide brainwaves in one go, now outdated instruments can't detect them anymore!"

"Is it that scary?"

...

Clearly, the Pseudo-humans have started causing trouble again.

Or rather, they never really stopped doing so in the first place.

Just remaining dormant and hidden.

They know very well, as long as the Fake Human Brain Wave Detector is unresolved, they can never rise again!

They also have powerful Soul Physicians internally, who have been madly researching secretly, finally coming up with synchronized brainwaves, making it impossible to detect their anomalies through brainwaves anymore.

"Looks like the Pseudo-humans are baring their fangs once more."

On the streets of the Bone Demon Royal City, hearing voices on both sides, the fishing old man smiled, "From now on, the Pseudo-human detectors will be completely useless, they can't prevent the Pseudo-humans anymore, what should be done?"

Pseudo-humans entering the city without any hindrance!

This is a wave of fierce Pseudo-human attacks.

Even he was very curious about how the common people of this era would respond.

However, after a wave of chaos in the Bone Demon Dynasty, they quickly came up with corresponding measures.

A royal decree was posted.

[Starting today, the Immortal Artifact Hongmeng will update all residents' residence certificates, with Hongmeng implementing a 24-hour Soul-locking Technique seal, locking all citizens' sea of consciousness, marking them with a citizen's proof, a batch of 100 citizens entering every minute per batch.]

[All citizens must immediately queue up, any citizen who hasn't updated the Soul-locking Technique will lose their citizenship, cannot use the Eye of Identification, and cannot conduct business within the city.]

[Pseudo-human possession cannot obtain the memories of Soul-locked citizens and can be easily detected as Pseudo-humans. Starting today, all citizens with amnesia will be treated as Pseudo-humans!]

[If all members of a shop have had the Soul-locking Technique applied, they should post it at the shop entrance to avoid entering Pseudo-human shops.]

... The fishing old man watched this scene with a smile, "They have their precautions, Pseudo-human shops, Pseudo-human alleys, indeed are frightening! Going inside as a live fish, coming out as a pseudo fish, who would dare to enter?"

"This response measure, although troublesome, is quite good! The Bone Demon indeed has some management standards!"

But.

Only the Immortal Artifact Hongmeng would dare to do such a thing, wouldn't it?

Applying the spell to lock the sea of consciousness to each citizen, a living person would have been exhausted to death long ago!

"The Pseudo-human Calamity, it's erupted."

The fishing old man pondered for a while, looking at the sky above the Royal City, he said faintly:

"I originally intended to make my presence known, emerge, and sweep across the Four Seas, as the mastermind behind the scenes, informing the world what I stole from them, leaving some hidden sect in ancient history where I was once known as a God..."

"But now, the Pseudo-human Calamity has broken out, I'd better not add to the chaos."

"I'll wait until they stabilize the Pseudo-human Calamity before I stir things up... After all, Pseudo-humans are one of my enemies as well."

The fishing old man shook his head and sighed, unconsciously finding himself under a coral tree, watching a group of elderly Sea Race people playing chess.

He decisively joined the group of clamoring old men, enthusiastically shouting, "Play here," "Yes, play here," "Step aside, you useless lot, let me play a round."

"See, you all really are a bunch of useless people." Before long, he was sitting in the main seat playing chess, defeating a whole lot of elderly opponents.