"Sir, when are you planning to go contain that Taboo Item?"
Jin Meiting’s eyes were practically shimmering.
She loved seeing her Master display his awesome power.
Jiang Chaosheng looked at Jin Meiting, his expression blank.
Jin Meiting was suddenly reminded of the curse on her Master and realized she had misspoken.
"I’m sorry, Sir. I forgot about your restriction."
Jin Meiting sat down in a chair, picked up her phone, and started to check the recent weather forecast.
But alas, there was no signal in Antique Shop Zero.
A little awkward.
’I’ll have to make sure to keep track of the rainy days from now on.’
Jiang Chaosheng said quietly,
"It won’t rain for the next half-month."
Jin Meiting froze for a moment.
’No rain for half a month?’
Jin Meiting said resentfully,
"Then the Public Security Bureau is in for a world of hurt."
The Bureau’s Criminal Investigation Department had no idea what they were up against.
If they insisted on focusing on that dilapidated temple and making a big move on it, a lot of people would probably meet a grim end.
Jin Meiting glanced cautiously at Jiang Chaosheng.
"If the authorities get into a standoff with that temple, won’t that also be bad for us when we try to contain the Taboo Item?"
Dejectedly, Jin Meiting propped her chin on her hands and leaned over the table, her large breasts squashed out of shape.
She had long since fully adopted the role of a female slave, viewing herself as one of Jiang Chaosheng’s possessions.
When her Master ran into trouble, she would feel unhappy too.
Jin Meiting suddenly thought of something, and her beautiful eyes lit up.
"I have the Succubus’s Evil Mark, so I’m a Supernatural Being, too!
Can’t I help you contain the Taboo Item?"
Jiang Chaosheng glanced at her.
"You’d be killed by the Taboo Item in the West City Suburb, and then I’d have to contain two Taboo Items."
Jin Meiting paused, then gave an awkward laugh.
"How could that happen? I have a Taboo Item on me, too."
Jiang Chaosheng said,
"Neither you nor Xia Li have tapped into even one percent of your Taboo Items’ power."
Jin Meiting understood, a hint of awe appearing on her face.
Awe for the Taboo Items.
’She and Xia Li had already become extraordinary, yet they’d only developed a tiny fraction of their Taboo Items’ power?’
’So dangerous...’
’And I deal with such dangerous things every day.’
She secretly peeked at Jiang Chaosheng.
’He’s even more dangerous.’
A fire ignited in Jin Meiting’s lower abdomen. She gently squeezed her legs together, but kept her expression neutral, feigning calmness.
"So what do we do? Who knows when this damn weather will bring rain. If only we could make it rain ourselves."
Jiang Chaosheng’s fingers tapped lightly on the rim of his teacup.
"We can make it rain."
Jin Meiting’s delicate body froze, and her beautiful eyes, fixed on Jiang Chaosheng, began to sparkle.
"You... you can make it rain?"
’Like an Immortal performing Cloud Formation and Rainfall?’
’Isn’t that what an Immortal is?’
Jiang Chaosheng pressed his lips together.
"Go make dinner."
The curvaceous beauty Jin Meiting quickly picked up the peppers from the table and, swaying her full hips, obediently went to the kitchen.
Jiang Chaosheng poured out the water in his teacup, wiped it with a clean white towel, stood up, and walked toward the back room.
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The shelves in the back room were lined with all sorts of Taboo Items.
Taboo Items with a prefix of 5.
This number sequence means: The Taboo Item contains a soul.
For example, item 5-23, the retro Maybach entangled with vengeful spirits.
A family of three sits inside that car, all neat and tidy.
Taboo Items with a prefix of 4.
This number sequence means: The Taboo Item can raise one’s Life Level.
For example, item 4-18, the Succubus Seal.
After Jin Meiting used the Succubus Seal, her Life Level was raised, and she became the Supernatural Creature known as a Succubus.
Taboo Items with a prefix of 3.
This number sequence means: The Taboo Item does not possess direct destructive power.
For example, item 3-01, the Soul-Sealing Demon Jar.
The Soul-Sealing Demon Jar can seal souls, preventing them from entering the cycle of reincarnation, but it cannot kill anyone.
For example, item 3-21, the Wishing Stone.
The Wishing Stone can grant a wish that does not violate the great laws of causality, but it cannot directly harm living beings.
Taboo Items with a prefix of 2.
This number sequence means: The user can wield it to unleash forbidden levels of destructive power.
For example, item 2-15, the Ghost Shadow Gloves.
The user of the Ghost Shadow Gloves can capture a creature’s shadow. The creature that loses its shadow will become a vegetable.
Devouring the shadow grants the user the power the creature had in life. The user can also manipulate the captured shadow, turning it into a shadow puppet.
Taboo Items with a prefix of 1.
This number sequence is the most peculiar and also denotes the rarest of Taboo Items.
This number sequence represents Extraordinary Creatures, or the corpses of Extraordinary Creatures.
There is a lost Taboo Item, number 1-03, named Evil Crow, which can traverse Yin and Yang.
Jiang Chaosheng also wanted to see what an Extraordinary Creature actually looked like and broaden his horizons.
Unfortunately, this type of Taboo Item is extremely rare, and the antique shop currently has none.
Taboo Items with a prefix of 0.
Regardless of whether a Taboo Item has an independent soul, can raise Life Levels, or allows its wielder to control Forbidden Power, if it is related to Deities, it falls under this number sequence.
For example, item 0-03, the Scythe of Death.
For example, item 0-13, Cain’s Seal.
The Taboo Item that Jiang Chaosheng needed, the one that could make it rain, was on shelf ’0’.
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Jiang Chaosheng stood before the shelf, looking at a dim, gray pearl that resembled a piece of cracked marble.
Number 0-15, the Dragon Pearl.
According to the Manager’s journal, there was a remnant soul inside this Dragon Pearl.
A remnant soul... of the Dragon King!
Jiang Chaosheng opened the Manager’s journal to an entry by the previous Manager, Li Qinglian.
"It’s over. The curse on my body has deepened.
I shouldn’t have been so soft-hearted. I should have gone and retrieved the Evil Crow.
Now, I can only leave Antique Shop Zero on rainy nights.
I remember now, I once discovered a Dragon Pearl in the Great Western Sea. A Dragon Pearl from the Tang Dynasty. Holding it allows one to summon rain!
After I brought it back to the shop, I just placed it on the shelf.
But... that Dragon Pearl can’t be considered ’contained.’
Inside the Dragon Pearl is a sliver of the Dragon King’s resentment. Under the control of this resentment, the Dragon Pearl’s Forbidden Power is terrifying to the extreme.
I couldn’t contain it in the deep sea; it was just too difficult.
Hehe, luckily I was clever enough to trick the Dragon King’s resentment and bring the Dragon Pearl to Antique Shop Zero.
Antique Shop Zero suppressed its malevolence. Now it’s just a dead thing sitting on a shelf!
I’ve never provoked it, but in order to resist the curse, I have to give it a try."
Jiang Chaosheng turned to the next page.
"How terrifying! So terrifying!
Even if it’s only resentment, it’s the resentment of a god. And to a mortal, that’s still a god!
The most terrifying part is, that god has gone mad! It won’t listen to my commands!
Even when I kowtowed and begged, it wouldn’t help me.
It attacked me and nearly put me into an eternal sleep!
But... I really don’t want to borrow the power of Antique Shop Zero to purify this resentment.
Because it’s just too pitiful.
Forget it. I’ll just bear this curse. It’s not like I can die anyway."
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