Chapter 182 Cutting down mountains and destroying temples
There are no more incense burners in the City God Temple.
Even the temple keeper doesn't care about it.
The demise of Cuiwei City God is only a matter of time.
It is difficult to say whether the Protector of the Saints is unwilling to punish him, does not want to punish him, or knows that he is doomed to perish and is too lazy to care about him, or maybe it's a bit of both.
The three of them arrived at the City God Temple.
I didn’t see it clearly that day, but when I looked again today, I saw the life story and origin of this City God written on the wall of the main hall.
It is said that there was a great disaster in this place in the early years of this dynasty.
This City God was originally a wealthy man in the city, and was very rich. At the end of the drought, he opened his granaries to release grain, and donated money to help the local people.
After the drought, six or seven out of ten households in the city were left empty, and he did not survive. Later, the people remembered his kindness, so they reported to the government, made a statue for him, built a temple for him, and named him the City God of this place.
Until today, it has been nearly two hundred years.
"I didn't expect that this City God had such deeds in the past." Lin Jue couldn't help but frown, with mixed feelings, "I didn't expect that such a person in the past would fall to this level now."
The junior sister also frowned, looking puzzled.
"Brothers and sisters, there is no need to be suspicious. You must know that most of the corrupt officials and traitors in the world have been admirable in the past. If they were like this from the beginning, they would not be able to reach a high position." The third brother felt that this was normal, "Besides, this matter may not be like this."
"Hmm? How do you put it?"
"During drought, the rich opened their granaries to release grain and gave money to the people." The third brother showed disdain, "Who knows if he did it voluntarily or if the people came in to take it? Anyway, people are dead and the money has been paid. After this incident, which people would be willing to say that they robbed the grain money? How could his family be willing to say that he was unwilling to open his granaries and give money when he saw the people starving to death, so that he was forced to do so in the end?"
"..."
Lin Jue thought about it and felt that it made sense.
The junior sister was secretly shocked again——
Why is the third brother so smart?
The fox didn't understand and lowered its head to lick its fur.
The three of them withdrew their gaze from the wall, walked to the front of the altar, and stared at the statue in the middle.
I only heard the third brother's voice sink and he shouted:
"Cuiwei City God! Why don't you show up?"
He did not light incense when he said this. According to Shinto rules, if the Cuiwei City God was not in the temple at that time, his voice would not be heard without the guidance of incense and candles.
But Third Brother has other skills.
This method is called throwing a stone to test the water.
A piece of brick flew out and hit the statue's eyebrow, instantly breaking a piece of it and revealing the mud inside.
There was a cloud of smoke in the temple and the smell of incense could be smelled.
"Who? Who dares..."
In the smoke, the statue in the center changed. The harsh edges and colors became softer, and the body and facial features became vivid. After three or two breaths, Cuiwei City God appeared on the altar, covering his eyebrows.
"Ouch……"
When he saw the three people standing below, especially Lin Jue standing on the left, he was even more shocked.
"You... you..."
The third senior brother also learned the method of calling the wind from Xianyuan Temple. He flicked his sleeves and closed the temple door with a bang.
The light in the temple suddenly dimmed.
The young Taoist on the far right held a bean in his hand, which suddenly grew larger and longer, turning into an ancient long sword, which he held in his hand. The Taoist in the middle, who looked to be in his thirties, also grabbed a handful of beans and threw them into the sky. After they landed, a dozen more soldiers appeared in the City God Temple, as if heavenly soldiers had descended to the earth.
On the left is a Kun Dao who has drawn her sword and is examining a clay statue.
There is also a white fox sitting next to it.
The three men and the fox were all staring at him.
"you……"
After you said a few words, the City God got a little flustered and changed his words: "I wonder what the real people want to see me for?"
"Nothing else. It's just that the local people are angry that you are not doing your job well and are harming others. They want to tear down your statue and replace it with another one, but they are afraid that you will cause trouble, so they asked us to come and do it for them."
The third senior brother said to the Cuiwei City God.
Lin Jue was also surprised when he heard this.
Who said that Third Brother has no brains?
If the people make statues of gods, they naturally have the right to tear them down. If the people give gods power, they have the right to take it back. But power is something that is easy to give but hard to take back. Therefore, it is easy to invite gods but hard to send them away.
Therefore, since ancient times, exorcising evil spirits and destroying lewd temples can only be done by people of high moral character and clear conscience, unless one has great legal power. If one's moral character is not enough to surpass the ghosts and gods, and one has flaws, the ghosts and gods will not accept it during the process, and will find your flaws, either to argue with you, attack your heart, or to take advantage of it to sue you in court. In short, it is rare that one will not fail.
A few Taoists would be suitable.
When the City God heard this, he was shocked and angry:
"What are you going to do?"
"The monk may escape, but the temple cannot. You, a mediocre god, are making things difficult for my junior brother. Do you still think you can escape today?"
The third senior brother said this without wasting time talking to him or taking any action. Many soldiers in the temple rushed towards the altar.
The temple was not big to begin with, and the dozen or so soldiers were all tall and mighty, looking even more powerful than bears and tigers in their armor. It was already crowded enough for them to just stand in the temple. Once they rushed toward the central altar and the statue, their momentum was truly terrifying and unstoppable.
The City God was immediately shocked.
With such momentum, I'm afraid that no one will have a chance to chop my statue into pieces, right?
"How dare you!"
Cuiwei City God was so angry and frightened that he didn't care about anything else. He just stretched out his hand, and something appeared in his hand. He didn't know whether it was a gavel or a seal. There was an illusion of a table in front of him. Anyway, he raised the thing in his hand high and slammed it down with all his strength.
"Snapped!"
There was a thunderclap, as powerful as the collapse of heaven and earth.
All the soldiers in the temple froze in an instant. Some were charging forward with shields raised, some were stabbing forward with guns, some were drawing bows and arrows indifferently, and some were slashing with swords with angry eyes. Under the sound of thunder, none of them could move.
"Kamiwei?"
Seeing that the situation was not right, the third brother immediately took back the bean soldiers.
The City God stood above, looking down from a high position. When his life was in danger, he angrily scolded and questioned the people below:
"You Taoists! You are so arrogant to come here to do this god-killing thing. Do you really think you are both saintly and virtuous? Have you never done anything against your conscience in your life?"
Lin Jue was immediately startled——
What the City God said makes some sense.
Gods are naturally in the hands of virtuous people. If gods are without virtue, they should naturally be deposed. But does deposing gods mean that virtue is no longer required?
If one himself is a person lacking in moral character, how can one have the qualifications to blame the gods or even depose them?
The next moment, a huge wave suddenly surged above the altar in front of them. In an instant, the temple, altar, statues and gods disappeared, and only a vast ocean with surging waves and no boundaries was seen.
Lin Jue, who had just drawn his sword and stepped forward, pulled back, but how could he be faster than the huge wave?
After taking two steps back, I couldn't retreat anymore.
The whole world became an ocean.
Dark clouds rolled in, thunder flashed wildly, huge waves hit us one after another, and the raindrops hurt my body.
Lin Jue was just about to hold the sword tightly to avoid losing it, when he realized that the sword had disappeared.
"Ok?"
Just when he was about to look for the sword, he found that his hand was gone.
I was alone, floating on a leaf, rising and falling with the huge waves. When it rose, it felt like I was ascending to the sky, and when it fell, it felt like I was falling into a bottomless abyss. The ups and downs alone brought me great fear.
Then he couldn't help wondering, the leaves were so light and his body was so heavy, why didn't it sink into the water?
When he turned around, he found that he had turned into a maggot.
Not only his hands were gone, but his feet were too.
"wrong!!
"This is……"
Lin Jue was originally terrified, as he never thought that the City God had such magical powers. After a moment, he came to his senses.
How could a mere city god have such abilities?
Then he remembered that one evening when they were chatting under a tree after dinner, he heard his master say that the underworld gods like the City God often deal with extremely vicious monsters and ghosts, so Shintoism gives them the means to intimidate monsters and ghosts. The essence of this is probably that they borrow the power of gods and officials from the Shinto system, and many vicious monsters and ghosts will be intimidated and dare not resist when they see this.
But can this kind of earth god really destroy the heaven and earth?
Lin Jue immediately understood in his heart——
The scene before our eyes is exactly the divine power that the City God in the Shinto system uses to frighten away evil spirits and ghosts.
At this time, it is used to shock myself.
If you can't figure it out, you might really suffer from it. If you are really scared, you may even die both physically and mentally.
But Lin Jue not only knew this, he himself was not a ghost that had committed a crime and was detained. He felt very at ease and there was not a single uneven place. How could the intimidation of the City God have much effect?
"Yongshen!"
He closed his eyes and shouted angrily, immediately clearing away all the illusions.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back in the City God Temple.
I saw that the City God was still standing on the altar. He had just slammed the gavel in his hand but had not yet picked it up completely. The previous experience was only a moment, but a figure had already appeared in the air.
It’s the junior sister who draws her sword to the sky!
Her figure flew towards the altar like a fairy, the long sword in her hand reflected a cold light, and she slashed down with the momentum of twisting her body.
"laugh!"
The smoke in the air was split apart.
Cuiwei City God had no experience in fighting with others. Seeing this situation, he was so frightened that he almost lost his way. He didn't even dare to look at the sword that was slashing towards him. He just raised his hands and covered his face with his sleeves like an ordinary person, and instinctively bent down to avoid it.
But if you don’t see the sword, how do you know where it comes from? If you don’t know where the sword comes from, how can you avoid it?
A sword slashed across his shoulder.
"Oh!"
Cuiwei City God cried out in pain. Seeing that Kun Dao had fallen onto the altar, he did not dare to think too much and quickly crawled to another place, shouting as he crawled: "Wang Wuguan, Liu Wuguan! Protect me, protect me! Come quickly to protect me!"
The City God is running and Kun Dao is chasing him.
“Look, this city god has been worshipping here for two hundred years. Although he is worshipping, and we are practicing spiritual arts, he is still superior to us in terms of Taoism and strength.” The third senior brother had also come out of the illusion. Seeing this scene, he was not worried or anxious at all. He just stood there and talked to Lin Jue -
"But you don't have to think he's so great because of this. The gods are divided into civil and military, and each has his own strengths. This mediocre god is just wearing an official robe. You can tell what he is like by looking at the fear in his eyes."
Lin Jue listened silently and waved his sleeves.
A gust of wind rushed out.
With a loud bang, the City God, who was crawling like a dog, was suddenly knocked flying, hit the wall, and bounced back silently.
When he stood up, he saw three pairs of feet standing in front of him, with two swords pointing at him.
There was also a fox, which came close and stared at him curiously.
"Dear masters, please listen to me..."
The Taoist thrust out the long sword and stabbed him between the eyebrows.
The sister next to him was afraid that he would not die cleanly, so she raised her hand and pushed him away, and the hot spiritual fire outlined his body.
My mind has been made up, why listen to your nagging?
The City God stopped talking and his whole body quickly changed color, becoming stiff and rigid. When the flames died down and his sword was drawn out, he fell onto the altar with a bang.
Then he fell from the altar to the ground.
A clay statue shattered.
Lin Jue swung the sword and put it back into the scabbard.
"Junior brother, you are in a good mood. You woke up earlier than me." The third brother said casually, and then looked at the fox next to him, "Junior brother, this fox is really extraordinary. It can wake up so quickly. Logically speaking, the magical powers of the underworld gods such as the City God are more effective in dealing with demons and ghosts, and are less useful to us living people."
"I see."
No wonder the third senior brother collected the bean soldiers at the first opportunity. He was probably afraid that the pressure from the underworld gods of the City God would directly shatter the remaining souls among the bean soldiers.
"But I was not awake at the earliest. When I opened my eyes, Junior Sister had already drawn her sword and rushed to the altar."
"Oh? What did Junior Sister see?"
"What did you see?"
"Hmm? Isn't Junior Sister shocked by this spirit?"
"What shocked you?" The little sister was puzzled and looked at them, "Brother, what were you doing standing down there just now?"
"Ok?"
Lin Jue and his third senior brother looked at each other.
The two of them talked about the illusion just now and the origin of the gods' magical powers. After listening to it, the little sister suddenly understood, but then she felt scared and confused.
"I didn't see anything. I just heard the City God slamming the table and talking. I thought that he not only did those things, but also dared to embarrass my senior brother, so I picked up my sword and went to find him!" The little sister opened her eyes wide and thought deeply, "He must have regarded my senior brothers as his enemies and looked down on me, so he didn't care about me."
Lin Jue knew that this was probably not the case.
The master often said that this little junior sister had a clear and transparent heart. He refuted it with his predecessors who also said that her five energies were pure. If she were truly flawless, then probably ghosts and gods would not be able to find a loophole to deal with her.
"Ha ha……"
The third brother also smiled and patted his robe: "Never mind, the matter is over, and we should leave..."
Walking out of the temple, I feel free and easy.
The sun was blazing outside.
……
Asking for double monthly tickets before the expiration date!
(End of this chapter)
