Chapter 980

It didn't sound difficult, but He Lingchuan wouldn't agree immediately: "Are there already gods stationed on those two islands?" Only with a temple can there be believers; this small god was quite career-oriented.

"Yes. But the power is not strong." Shinan replied, "One of the gods recently fell. Taking advantage of this gap, I want to go there to build a temple."

So it was going to grab territory. He Lingchuan thought for a while: "I can build the temple, but you have to do the maintenance yourself later. I won't be stationed in this archipelago for long."

Shinan had no objection and then said: "Besides the two rounds of Emperor Flowing Pulp coming in half a month—in three to three and a half months, there will be three more rounds of Emperor Flowing Pulp! One of them will be quite abundant, and it is not ruled out that two rounds will follow one after another. It's hard to say after that."

"So frequent?" He Lingchuan's heart jumped.

Either it doesn't fall for sixty years, or it falls twice in three years. Now it's good, five rounds in more than half a year! The frequent appearance of the Emperor Flowing Pulp only shows that the divine realm is turbulent and the Heavenly Gods are falling one after another.

Good, very good.

Shinan naturally said: "The divine realm has been a bit turbulent recently."

Just a bit? "Tell me about it?"

The old woman smiled at He Lingchuan. She only had a few teeth left in her mouth, and the rest were empty holes, so this smile was a bit eerie.

"Why are you interested?"

"Who isn't interested in the secrets of the divine realm?" He Lingchuan said sternly, "The arrival of the Emperor Flowing Pulp means the fall of the Heavenly Gods. These turbulences are related to the Tiangong incident that happened in Beijia last year, right?"

Shinan chuckled: "Yes, that's an important reason."

But it refused to say more; it hadn't let down its guard against He Lingchuan yet.

The bilateral relationship was still in the testing stage, both sides were honey-mouthed and sword-hearted, and both were guarding against the other stabbing them in the back.

He Lingchuan's brows moved slightly.

Smart people listen to the subtext when listening to words, and observe the subtext when observing words.

Shinan said it this way, and he understood: the Tiangong incident was only one of the reasons, not all of them, and not even the main reason.

Then what was the real main reason for the turbulence in the divine realm?

Shinan deliberately avoided answering.

He Lingchuan noted this down and decided to test it separately in the future.

"Let's talk about Naluotian." Shinan hesitated for a while before speaking, "Recently, there is a small, unreliable rumor in the divine realm. Naluotian himself seems to have had a little problem."

"In what aspect?" Only He Lingchuan knew that Naluotian's avatar failed to return but turned into a small tree in the Great Fanghu. But the power of the Heavenly Gods, especially the power of the righteous gods, is vast and profound; even if one avatar is lost, it shouldn't be an unbearable loss.

It's like the difference between being gouged out a large piece of flesh and having a leg broken directly.

So He Lingchuan believed that Shinan was referring to something else.

"How can one know for sure? He wouldn't say it clearly." Shinan said in a low voice, "But He was absent from an extremely important joint meeting, one between Lingxu and the gods, and I still haven't heard the reason to this day."

He Lingchuan's eyes flashed, and he interrupted it: "Did you attend?"

"No." The kid is rude! Shinan was a little displeased, "Do you still want to listen or not?"

"Yes, please go on." He Lingchuan smiled. Was it because Shinan's rank wasn't high enough, and it didn't have the qualification to listen in?

"Also, He has been in seclusion recently, and has temporarily turned down appointments from several righteous gods. This is very rare, very rare."

"Just this?" He Lingchuan was disappointed, "The signs are not obvious, the inference is too far-fetched, right? Maybe He is behind closed doors fortune-telling for Himself."

"The divine realm hasn't been this turbulent for a long time, and He, as a righteous god, is still... actually choosing to be absent and in seclusion at this time!" Shinan coughed lightly, "With Naluotian's temperament, He wouldn't do this without a hidden reason."

Still...? Still what? He Lingchuan felt that what Shinan skipped over was the important content.

Shinan asked him again: "How should I contact you later?"

He Lingchuan said: "In two months, I will look for you again."

He still couldn't let Shinan grasp his whereabouts.

The transaction ended, and Shinan left.

The old woman was still lying on the ground muttering prayers, not even knowing that a god had once descended upon her.

He Lingchuan obtained the intelligence on the Emperor Flowing Pulp and left with satisfaction, not forgetting to open the temple doors and windows.

To get this precious intelligence, Shinan only asked him to build two temples and find another Punishment Dragon Pillar. It sounded like the transaction was unequal, but in fact, the Punishment Dragon Pillar had no cost to He Lingchuan, and building a temple was just a matter of a few bricks and tiles, a small amount of money; while collecting a few pieces of gossip and a piece of intelligence from the divine realm was not strenuous for Shinan at the current stage.

Both sides gained something, and both sides' contributions were within an acceptable range, so this strange "friendship" between man and god could be maintained.

However, given the nature of the Heavenly Gods, not making excessive demands already expressed the sincerity of further contact.

Establishing a relationship is the only way to have long-term business in the future. He Lingchuan also knew this well.

Once is a stranger, twice is an acquaintance; when he comes again next time, he and Shinan will have more formal communication.

He needs news from the divine realm too much, so a small god who is both greedy and ambitious is the best choice at the moment.

As for building the temple, he entrusted it to Fang Canran as soon as he returned to Platinum Island.

When the latter heard it, he only said two words:

"Can do."

So He Lingchuan understood that Lingshan also had some influence in this area.

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Yangshan Archipelago, Bone Stick Reef.

It's called a reef, but the area of this island is actually not small; it's just that the shape is a bit like a bone stick, narrow in the middle and large at both ends.

The crack of the Earthly Yin Qi vein closest to the northern shipping route of the Yangshan Archipelago is on this island.

This starry night was clear and cloudless, and a fox bat flew with the wind to the sky above Bone Stick Reef, circled twice as if to confirm the location, and then slowly descended.

The landing point it chose was in a depression on the side of the island, which was full of broken reef rocks, and it was unknown how deep they went into the ground.

It was just past midnight tonight, and logically speaking, the Earthly Yin Qi should be gushing out, but the whole island was clean and there was no gray mist causing trouble.

The pits and holes under the reef rocks were connected vertically and horizontally; the fox bat found several before it found the target:

A pitch-black crack under a large, flat white rock.

The crack was not big, and it was low; a person would have to squat down to see it.

But this had no effect on the fox bat. It tested the crack entrance for a long time, confirmed that no evil energy was coming out of the shadows, and then carefully crawled inside.

Only a few insiders knew that this was the ground crack of the Earthly Yin Qi vein!

There were only seven such cracks in the entire Yangshan Archipelago. But the rich Earthly Yin Qi they emitted could turn most of the islands into no-man's-lands.

The fox bat was on a mission to see what was suppressing or absorbing the Earthly Yin Qi so that it would no longer permeate the archipelago.

In the past, it would fly to Dragon Spine Island on sunny days when the sun was high to find some fruit to eat, so it had a considerable understanding of evil energy. But it was also extra cautious when crawling into this ground crack, moving forward two steps and retreating two steps, ready to evacuate at any time.

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