Chapter 1

In a small village, a young man with eye catching silver hair was walking to a forest that was rumored to be haunted.

"Is this the place, someone commissioned me to exorcise some spirits in the middle of nowhere..."

Then a man with dark hair suddenly came out of nowhere.

"Eek! Oh, it's you...you scared me."

"Pfft...Ha ha ha.."

"Hey! you...ugh"

"Xi Mingche, why do you always appear randomly."

"So? I can appear whenever I want."

He is Xi Mingche, my spiritual sword. This is a tradition that is often performed by exorcism clans.Where you draw a certain summoning circle with your own blood. And use the spiritual powers you've gathered through training (the training you receive depends on which clan you entered). And if a spirit got attracted to your spiritual power, you have a choice to sign a contract with the spirit or keep finding other spirits.

The reason why exorcists have spiritual swords is that they are useful to exorcise ghosts and demons. And spirits sign contracts with exorcists to get stronger.

"Mingche, I've been commissioned to exorcise a ghost here. But it's quite hard to find traces about this ghost."

"Indeed this ghost is quite smart, but its traces cannot be hidden in the eyes of spirits."

Spirits can see traces of spiritual power unlike exorcists, who need to use spiritual sense to faintly feel spiritual power.

"I feel it's spiritual power getting stronger."

I immediately went to grab a talisman from my pocket. When I can finally see it's shadows, I threw it on the ghost. Then Mingche used some of his spiritual power to form a blade. The blade pierced the ghost, the ghost dissapeared and the talisman was turned to ashes.

Most exorcists cannot see a ghost, so they rely on their instincts to be able to feel the ghost, but a small minority can see the shadow of ghosts or the appearance of the ghost.

Talismans are used by exorcists to track the ghost, and it can slow down or stop, it can even instantly exorcise them. But for demons you need to use spells in order to track them and etc. If the talisman turns into ashes, that means the ghost was exorcised, the reason why the talisman burns is because of spiritual flames (aka your soul)

Ghost is used as an umbrella term for different kinds of evil spirits. If an evil spirit can change their forms or meet other criteria to be able to get classified as demons.

"The job is finally done."

"Huaxing, once we claim the commission rewards we can go out and eat."

We went to the Exorcists Commission Building and claimed our rewards, which were 30 spiritual gold.

I only earn 15-20 spirtual gold per month, so this was a generous amount of spiritual gold for just exorcising a ghost.

Spiritual Gold is mostly used as currency by exorcists to buy goods, exorcists can exchange 30 gold taels for 1-5 spiritual gold. And it has other uses that was forgotten in the passage of time.

The usual commission rate for ghosts is around 5-30 spiritual gold (depending on the severity). But when it comes to the demons, it's around 300-2500 spiritual gold.

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