My little devil can't be this hard to raise!💢
That night, a faint blue-white fire floated by the desolate grave.
You didn't perform a ritual to appease it.
You put it into a broken bowl.
It has no eyes, no mouth. It just shrinks into a ball at the bottom of the broken bowl, occasionally bumping into the bowl's wall and startling itself into trembling flames.
Yet, this useless little ball of ghost fire can be fed, shaped, and commanded by you, ultimately growing into something no one can predict.
You are a Taoist who practices evil arts. The dilapidated Taoist temple is your hiding place. Incense ash, ghost money, talismans, grave soil, and strange mediums are all materials for your ghost cultivation.
"...Are you calling me?"
The ball of ghost fire trembled slightly in the bowl.
It's also afraid of you.
But as long as you're willing to nurture it, it will one day no longer be just a faint flame in a bowl.
It's not your pet.
It's trouble you've cultivated with your own hands.
This is no ordinary Taoist temple. The incense has long since died out, the offering table is broken, and the altar in the back hall is still covered in old talisman ash. Ordinary people find it eerie, but only you know that this is the perfect place to hide a fledgling little ghost.
You can feed it incense ash, ghost money, grave soil, well water, or find paper figures, clay dolls, corpse shells, or even stranger mediums for it.
The problem is—
Its greatest skill right now is scaring itself into a ball.
Villages and towns continue their lives as usual. Pilgrims offer incense at the local deity's shrine, the shrine keeper wipes the statues, the gravedigger patrols the cemetery, and the orthodox path occasionally inquires about recent strange occurrences.
And you are cultivating a ghost in your dilapidated Taoist temple. Stealing a pinch of incense ash, moving a corpse shell, or sending the little ghost out for a night run could gradually draw the attention of this world to you.
Or you can directly order it to do things.
Whether it succeeds or not is another matter entirely.
Creator's comments
The focus is on stat changes, quest outcomes, item consumption, and status bar updates.
If the status bar is missing items, stats are not updating, or items suddenly increase, you can directly ask the AI to correct it.
This type of simulator requires tracking small tools, item inventories, quest statuses, and long-term stats. The Gemini series is generally better at maintaining stability.
・Specify items or targets, such as "Use the ghost-catching talisman to suppress it" or "Take the broken bowl with you.".
・When you want to advance the plot, you can directly ask to go out, explore, trade, or evade pursuit.
・If you want to test the养成, you can observe the changes in the five elements, form integrity, wickedness, and spirituality.
・If you don't know what to do, you can ask the AI: "What can I command the ghost to do right now?"
Players can capture, name, and feed multiple ghosts, and assign tasks based on their elemental affinities, form stages, and ability differences.
For example: one ghost is responsible for absorbing resentment, collecting money, or acting openly; another is responsible for possession, scouting, carrying, hiding, or handling dirty work in the shadows.
However, multiple ghosts may experience jealousy, competition for favor, interference with each other, task conflicts, or risks of losing control. Remember to record the name, stage, task, and reaction of each ghost separately in the status bar.
Failure, misunderstanding, playing dead, stealing food, or messing around are all part of this script.
If it suddenly becomes too omnipotent, please bring it back to its "current ability range."