I Have a Golden Crow

Three days later, at the Demon Spirit Institute in West Xia Park.

Escorted by the police officer, Du Yu walked out of the small building of the Demon Spirit Institute.

The blazing sun hanging in the sky scorched Du Yu's face, causing him to squint slightly.

"Second Brother!" A melodious female voice came from a distance.

Du Yu shaded his eyes with one hand and looked far away, seeing two girls with different styles standing in the shade of a distant tree.

Among them, the fair-skinned and beautiful girl was constantly waving towards this side.

The short-haired girl, full of vigor, was also looking this way, but she was much more composed than the big brother.

"You two came out so quickly?" Du Yu strode forward and instinctively looked left and right for cars when crossing the street.

The empty street once again reminded Du Yu that this was a "Ghost City," without even residents, let alone vehicles.

However, the West Xia Flute mission had been resolved, and in a few days, West Xia Town would reopen, and the residents would return home.

Four words: Accumulate virtues and do good deeds!

The ordinary citizens were undoubtedly forced to leave their homes.

But Du Yu and his team solved the issues related to Demon Spirit, allowing the citizens to return home, which was certainly a meritorious deed.

Du Yu always felt that for a period in the future, his luck would be very good?

"Which department from the bureau called you?" Li Mengnan, upon seeing Du Yu approaching, eagerly asked.

Du Yu: "Something like the Archives."

Lin Shiwei: "Archives and Historical Records Office."

Du Yu nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes! It was them, asking me to recount the life of the West Xia Flute.

When I first entered the dream, I was only preoccupied with bitterness, what did I understand!

I gave them a rough outline and then told them to ask Senior Brother Fu..."

"Hehe." Lin Shiwei chuckled, noticing that Du Yu had recovered his usual state.

Since the West Xia Flute project was conquered, Du Yu's spirits had been somewhat low, seemingly hard to recover.

Li Mengnan looked a bit fearful, softly saying: "We were called by the people from the Second Department for a talk, they were very serious, one scarier than the other."

Du Yu: "What does the Second Department do?"

Lin Shiwei: "They supervise the work of various teams within our bureau."

Du Yu pouted, not caring in his heart.

Everything was done, and you're coming to supervise?

You just wanted to talk to Li Mengnan, if it were me, I wouldn't even go!

When I completed the mission, the big boss behind the scenes of the Twenty-Ninth Bureau, Cheng Feng, was right there, accompanying the whole time!

Do I need you to supervise me?

Du Yu took out the newly acquired credentials from his pocket and muttered: "Which department are we from again?"

Lin Shiwei, leading Du Yu towards West Xia Park, said: "Third Department, First Brigade."

Du Yu opened the black wallet, vertically opening the credentials, with a large bookstore emblem at the top.

The bookstore emblem was circular and dark gold, with a graphic of a bookstore, in an impressionist style.

In the emblem illustration, Du Yu could see the shadow of the Demon Spirit Bookstore in reality.

After all, in this Great Xia land, besides the slightly unique Bottomless Bookstore, all other bookstores in the Demon Spirit Realm looked very similar.

They were all independent wooden two-story buildings.

The vertically unfolded black wallet, with the bookstore emblem on the top, represented the institution Du Yu belonged to.

Below it, there was a finely crafted card, which, under the sunlight, also showed the anti-counterfeit markings printed on it.

The card had a portrait of Du Yu, with a few lines of text below:

"Demon Spirit Bookstore

Department of Spiritual Artifact Culture Research and Management Protection

Du Yu"

The front of the card was quite impressive; it would be even better if the long string of words about the Twenty-Ninth Bureau could be removed.

After all, the fewer the words, the cooler it appeared~

The information on the back of the card was much more detailed, including Du Yu's date of birth, blood type, detailed department affiliation within the bureau, and so on.

The Third Department that Du Yu belonged to was the one in charge of handling matters related to spiritual artifact projects.

Besides the 1~3 Departments, the Twenty-Ninth Bureau also had an office, personnel room, finance room, spiritual artifact management room, archives, and historical records room, etc.

Du Yu wasn't interested in learning more; anyway, he just had to follow Master Qing.

Living as a carefree little grunt made life simpler.

The trio chatted as they walked into the quiet West Xia Park.

At this moment, West Xia Park was under lockdown, and the position where the West Xia Flute used to be was also tightly guarded.

For the first time, Du Yu used his privilege, entered the park with his credentials, but it wasn't to carry out a mission, rather just to stroll and chat...

"Poor Big Brother, didn't even have a dream in the end?" Du Yu turned his head to look at Li Mengnan.

"No worries, I'll have Senior Brother Fu play the flute for me sometime." Li Mengnan seemed to take it well, after all, the ancient spiritual artifact was in her senior brother's hands.

It's just a matter of whenever she wants to listen, she can listen.

In fact, Li Mengnan was quite happy.

In this mission, although she only played a minor role, she carried out Master Qing's tasks responsibly and appropriately.

It must be noted, this was a task involving an ancient spiritual artifact!

The level was so high that ordinary Demon Tamers couldn't even dream of it; Li Mengnan was already very satisfied to have participated.

Du Yu paused, leaned on the railing with one hand, gazing at the sparkling waves of the distant lake: "If it's really as we've analyzed, that Great Xia will enter the era of artifact revival, we'll have plenty of opportunities to conquer various spiritual artifacts in the future."

Times have changed!

With continuous resurgence of spiritual artifacts, though they remain invaluable and rare, they no longer possess singularity.

However, compared to the Bell Bracelet, Jade Gourd, and West Xia Flute, Du Yu still believed that his own Shadow Gu Tower was the best.

Though ancient spiritual artifacts each have their special effects, the effects of the Shadow Gu Tower are undoubtedly the most domineering and powerful!

The Shadow Gu Tower can not only provide output and control but most importantly, it can nourish Du Yu's body and speed up his growth.

Li Mengnan was full of anticipation: "Yes, I'm very eager to see what the next rising spiritual artifact will be."

Du Yu came back to his senses, looking at the girl beside him: "In future missions, maybe you'll also be like Senior Brother Fu, obtaining a spiritual artifact and unlocking the spirit-controlling bloodline."

"Hmm?" Li Mengnan blinked her eyes.

She was stunned for a while, then suddenly raised her elbow, placed it on Du Yu's shoulder, and pointed to the sky with one hand: "Look."

Du Yu squinted, following the direction of the girl's finger, and saw the sun: "What's up?"

Li Mengnan: "Does it look like a pancake? So big, so round!"

Du Yu: "..."

Lin Shiwei couldn't help but chuckle softly: "Haha~"

Du Yu gave Li Mengnan a sidelong glance, not in the best of moods: "Silly brother!"

If the continuous rise of spiritual artifacts is an inevitable trend of the times, shouldn't you take advantage of this wave?

Why let others benefit for nothing?

The Great Xia never lacks Demon Tamers!

Since spiritual artifacts have risen, if you don't take them, naturally, someone else will!

We're in the Twenty-Ninth Bureau, working right on the frontline, perfectly positioned to benefit first!

By then, I must carefully identify the spiritual artifacts, and check what attributes and skills they have.

If they're particularly powerful, even reaching the level of Shadow Gu Tower, I must strive for them with all my might!

With each additional spiritual artifact, an additional skill, naturally comes an extra life insurance... uh.

Damn, I indeed should be called in for a talk by the people from the second department of the bureau.

Isn't this just pure abuse of public resources for personal gain?

"By the way, Little Tower." Du Yu asked through the Spirit Contract, "How many spiritual artifacts can one person have?"

Shadow Gu Tower: "..."

Not receiving a response for a while, Du Yu asked doubtfully: "Shadow Gu Tower?"

Shadow Gu Tower: "Spiritual artifacts are different from Demon Pets, we only need acupuncture points filled with Spiritual Qi, not a home.

A Spirit Master, theoretically, can contract many spiritual artifacts.

But in my era, even the most powerful Spirit Masters generally only had 1~2 spiritual artifacts, at most not exceeding 3."

Du Yu was a bit puzzled: "Why?"

Shadow Gu Tower: "Not all spiritual artifacts are like me, providing energy nourishment to the owner.

The vast majority of spiritual artifacts in the world consume the Spirit Master's Spiritual Qi, body energy, and a person's Spirit, Essence, and Qi.

The Human Race cannot handle too many spiritual artifacts."

Du Yu looked troubled, this was quite a dilemma.

Consuming body energy or Demon Breath and such was manageable, after all, Shadow Gu Tower is like a supply station.

But "Spirit, Essence, and Qi" was troublesome.

This stuff is mysterious and elusive; it's a life trait that comes with the Demon Tamer's growth.

Speaking of just "energy" alone, if Du Yu never slept, even if Shadow Gu Tower gave him more energy, he'd still get tired!

Du Yu could only regain his spirit through sleep, with no other method!

Du Yu: "It seems that if I contract another spiritual artifact, I'd better choose carefully."

If it's not up to the power level of Shadow Gu Tower, I absolutely can't contract it lightly, as there is a quota.

Shadow Gu Tower: "The master is only considering efficacy."

Du Yu was a little puzzled: "Hmm?"

Shadow Gu Tower: "We are also beings with thoughts and personalities.

You are a Demon Tamer, not a pure Spirit Tamer, you have many Demon Pets inside you."

"So?"

Shadow Gu Tower: "I'm very quiet, master. It's my nature, and I've been through a lot, so I've always been very quiet.

But I live inside you, you can consider me a different kind of Demon Pet.

You know, you've encountered many problems while nurturing Demon Pets."

Hearing this, Du Yu was dumbfounded.

If he wanted the Demon Pets to unite harmoniously and affectionately, Du Yu put in a lot of effort, something that could be considered a painstaking endeavor!

The Demon Pets are young, and it's inevitable for them to compete for attention.

And Shadow Gu Tower, with its vast experience or its nature, is gentle and quiet, so Du Yu never worried about it.

But just because Shadow Gu Tower is like this, doesn't mean other spiritual artifacts' Artifact Spirits are the same!

If you really encountered a quirky and difficult Artifact Spirit, wouldn't that throw the team into chaos?

"Oh no." Du Yu was startled.

Senior Brother Fu, West Xia's Flute!

Du Yu had seen the story of West Xia's Flute, and could understand the dedication of West Xia's Flute!

If you say Du Yu and Shadow Gu Tower are like a loving couple.

Then West Xia's Flute is more like "marrying down" to Fu Jianzhou!

Fu Jianzhou has so many Demon Pets in his body, if a great power suddenly forcefully enters his team, there better not be any trouble...

Shadow Gu Tower: "This is another reason why Spirit Masters contract only 1 or 2 spiritual artifacts.

Master, we are strong. And powerful Artifact Spirits always have their own personalities.

I'm not sure what other Artifact Spirits' attitudes towards Demon Pets are.

After all, this is the Great Xia hundreds of years later, it's our first time changing our own attributes and our first time signing a contract with a Demon Tamer.

But what I can confirm is that hundreds of years ago, the relationships between Artifact Spirits inside a Spirit Master varied, and among them, there were naturally malicious competitive relationships."

"Hmm..." Du Yu nodded secretly, "In the future, if I really meet an ancient spiritual artifact that I particularly like, and it has a particularly strong effect, I'll ask for your opinion first.

If you don't like it, we won't sign it."

Du Yu's thoughts were simple.

Shadow Gu Tower has been accompanying him and helping him grow during his weakest and most difficult starting period, as an ancient spiritual artifact.

In the coming era of the revival of spiritual artifacts, no matter how good other newly risen ancient spiritual artifacts are, none are as important as his own Shadow Gu Tower!

As Du Yu's emotions conveyed, Shadow Gu Tower fell into silence.

Without receiving a response, Du Yu probed: "Don't you want me to contract other ancient spiritual artifacts?"

"No, master, you can contract if you like.

I will... well, I will always be very quiet, and always protect you."