Chapter 1082 - 280: Strings of Inspiration, Chain Reaction (5k)
A few days later, Yu Ziqing received a message from Song.
His reckless antics had indeed elicited a response from the new emperor, who, in his own somewhat reckless manner, ordered the Langya Institute to rename the Evil Ghosts when compiling the Classics.
This matter could be considered both significant and insignificant.
After all, the number of Evil Ghosts under heaven is indeed numerous, because as long as there are humans, there will always be Evil Ghosts.
Renaming them in the Classics isn't really a big issue.
After all, traditionally, the official scientific name can be whatever the authority desires, but people call things as they like.
You call it Coriander, if that makes you happy, I like to call it Cilantro, my menu says Cilantro, and no one says I'm wrong.
Under normal circumstances, this would just be a trivial matter; similar things happen every few years.
The bigger issue is the attitude of Jinlan Mountain, the attitude of the Hungry Ghosts, the attitude of this crazy new emperor, and the attitude of Langya Institute.
As soon as the matter surfaced, the Lihuo Institute quickly followed up, treating it as a trivial matter of face, something insignificant.
Lihuo Institute was the first to rename the Evil Ghosts.
Evil Ghosts weren't good to begin with, many of them cannibalistic, destined to be killed if they grew in power.
The bad seeds of Lihuo Institute decided that since these Evil Ghosts liked to stir trouble, they should be renamed to Hostile Ghosts and let them go trouble the Fierce Ghosts.
After all, Fierce Ghosts are no good either; some might not start as malicious, but over time, they become just like Evil Ghosts.
They enjoyed watching whoever ended up dead.
They also took out a couple of notorious Evil Ghosts who were troublemakers.
After this chaos, the Jade Tablet channel naturally followed quickly.
Those who controlled the channel didn't dare rashly comment on the new Daqian emperor's actions to unleash a massacre.
But the renaming of Evil Ghosts and Hungry Ghosts, with Jinlan Mountain slaughtering Evil Ghosts and forcing them to change their clan name, became a widely welcomed headline news.
The speed of this news spread far exceeded previous times, coupled with the upper echelons' wills; Song also lent a hand.
In less than a month, even some commoners living in the cities started talking about how Evil Ghosts were forced to change names because they stirred trouble with Hungry Ghosts.
Yu Ziqing's goal was also achieved; now people didn't need to differentiate between Evil Ghosts and Hungry Ghosts anymore.
Just as this news dominated the headlines and people enjoyed discussing it more and more, a change nobody anticipated began.
In a small city, within the prison of the northwest region of Daqian.
A burly man with a face full of flesh, emanating Evil Qi, slammed his head against the thick stone wall of the dungeon.
Once, twice, until his face was a bloody mess, he collapsed on the floor, losing consciousness.
This Evil Dao preparatory member knew that if he was dragged to the execution ground, he wouldn't even have the chance to become a ghost.
Now, using the dark qi in the dungeon, he directly killed himself here, hoping for a slim chance to transform into a ghost.
In life, he was vicious, involved in human trafficking and abductions, arson and murder, committing all kinds of evil; if he died with unresolved anger, he would most likely transform into an Evil Ghost.
Oh, the prison guard said the court renamed Evil Ghosts; from now on, they are called Hostile Ghosts, all the same anyway.
However, after his death, as the yin qi converged and Evil Qi spawned, his Divine Soul fluctuated, beginning to change.
His Divine Soul transformed, taking on his death appearance, head sunken, bloody and mangled, yet his expression remained ferocious and vicious.
In the midst of his transformation, a deviation suddenly occurred.
As if two forces were tearing at his Divine Soul, he muddled through until dawn; by then, he was completely transformed but remained standing there, having not regained any consciousness, even his instincts were vague.
Everyone thought it was just a name; there was no difference between Evil Ghost and Hostile Ghost, essentially the same.
Unfortunately, the very name evidently created deviations during the transformation process.
He succeeded in transforming, yet he didn't.
Before settling into this name completely, he couldn't take that final step.
When dawn arrived, the prison guard inspected the cell, saw the corpse, and the dazed ghost standing there, and after another bout of chaos, invited the newborn ghost to bask in the noon sun.
It turned out that the glory of the Great Sun, burning a newly transformed Hostile Ghost, was no big deal.
After killing the Hostile Ghost without causing any harm, naturally they needed to report their merit.
The County Magistrate didn't dare to fabricate the report, writing down the strange characteristics of the Hostile Ghost.
Within a month, the Jinyi Wei received dozens of reports of bizarre Hostile Ghost transformations.
Even Song didn't anticipate that simply renaming under the banner of the Divine Dynasty would provoke such a large reaction.
There was even an Evil Ghost occupying a remote mountainous area, who took advantage of the terrain, declared themselves king, and voluntarily renamed themselves as a Hostile Ghost.
Then, they underwent a drastic change in personality, charged out from the Yin Domain, and were directly captured alive.
Yu Ziqing was bewildered when he learned of this.
This time he had really just acted on a whim, messing around; at most, he was giving the new emperor a hint, making a statement from afar, but it was just an idle move.
Now, hearing how this incident seemingly triggered a chain reaction, Yu Ziqing rubbed his chin, starting to reminisce.
Why did he even think of stirring trouble this way, was it all just finding entertainment with Ruan Renwang, acting on impulse?
Why did he do it this way?
Was something guiding him? Or was there something he subconsciously knew without realizing it, serving as the basis for his choice?