Chapter 124: Divine Mace Protector

"Hahaha, who else—eh!"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was flushed by the evil energy of the Investiture of the Gods and was going crazy, when suddenly she "saw" black shadows floating slowly toward her.

They were not the Human Immortals who assassinated the Daoist acolyte Qingsong, but ghosts.

The guests and girls who died in the battle of Human Immortals.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu even recognized several familiar faces among them.

For example, Master Li, Jin Gui, and Bitao who were drinking with "Mole Hair" earlier...

They were soaked in bright red fierce evil energy, confused, with expressions both blank and painful.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu regained her reason, suppressed the soldier-weapon evil energy in her Sea of Consciousness, and looked at the Investiture of the Gods in her hand thoughtfully.

She had a vague realization in her heart that they were all attracted by the Investiture of the Gods.

"Jin Gui, Bitao, and you, you, you..."

She called out the names of the girls she knew, and looked at those she didn't know with her eyes, using the Investiture of the Gods to shine on them.

They were all girls from the Red Sleeve Academy and maids serving the girls.

"I, Yu Fengxian, on behalf of the Great Qin Emperor, the Great Qin Empress Dowager, the Imperial Envoy Dongfang, and Guan Laozu Qingsong, enfeoff you as the Western Toilet Gods. If there are vacancies for Toilet Gods, you will have priority to fill them."

As the words fell, blood-red evil energy like silk ribbons immediately rolled all the girls who were named and shone upon into the Investiture of the Gods.

Toilet God means the god of the toilet.

But the divine position of the Toilet God is not managing the toilet and feces.

The Toilet God is in charge of divination of good and bad luck, delivering babies, entertainment, and other divine positions, generally held by women.

For these tragically dead girls, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu had pity, but was unwilling to bear the responsibility herself, giving them the Guan Chenghuang and Social Order positions that were too heavy.

After all, the Investiture of the Gods belongs to Great Qin. She can pretend to be awesome now, but she can't occupy it for a lifetime.

"Save me, Emperor's Order, give me the Emperor's~~~ ah ah ah~~~"

The shrill wail came through the wall hole from outside the building.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was startled. This voice... very miserable, very distorted, it seems to be Guan Laozu Qingsong?

She looked around and downstairs carefully, and didn't see a single Human Immortal assassin jump out.

After hesitating for a moment, she quickly rolled up the Investiture of the Gods.

As the Investiture of the Gods closed, most of the scarlet evil energy filling the Purple Mansion dissipated instantly, and the burden on her soul also lightened by more than half.

The sudden relaxation almost made her collapse to the ground.

Forcibly using the blood evil energy of the fierce tiger divine intent to drive the Investiture of the Gods consumed too much soul power.

And she vaguely felt that her Sea of Consciousness had undergone some unspeakable changes.

Perhaps the Daoist acolyte Qingsong was right; the fierce evil energy of the Investiture of the Gods is a bit ominous...

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu shook her head and ran out quickly.

"Guan Laozu, you..."

Drilling out along the wall hole, she found that there were no enemies around the Daoist acolyte Qingsong.

He had already left the gate of the Red Sleeve Academy and was in the middle of the street outside the gate.

It seemed that something went wrong when he used the Earth-Escaping Talisman; his body was almost completely buried in the mud. A mound of earth bulged in the center of the street, flashing with bright yellow light.

And under the ground around the mound, it seemed that earth dragons were hidden.

They were like bloodthirsty sharks, drilling frantically under the ground, circling and biting the mound on the ground.

One could hear ferocious and distorted beast roars coming from underground, along with the sound of biting and colliding.

Very terrifying.

What made Seeing Xiao Yu Yu feel surprised was that one of the fast-moving earth dragons gave her a sense of inexplicable familiarity.

"It's a Dragon Vein, it's the Sand Dune Dragon Vein!"

Her inspiration flashed, and she recalled the source of the familiarity.

On the day Qingsong took Huchen to behead the Sand Dune Dragon Vein, when the Dragon Vein was dug and broken, there was a similar familiar aura.

"Could it be that the mounds biting Qingsong are all Dragon Veins that were beheaded by him? The Dragon Veins are dead; are they Dragon Vein ghosts?"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu quickly counted the mounds on the ground, and there were exactly thirty-six!

"Emperor's Order—give it to me~~~~~"

Under the earth-yellow light group, the Daoist acolyte Qingsong let out a desperate roar again.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu hesitated.

In her reason, she wanted to throw the Emperor's Order over immediately, but when she thought so, a sense of annoyance and discomfort immediately rose in her heart.

Even if the Dragon Vein is dead and only the last resentment remains, it can still affect her.

"Guan Laozu Qingsong, the Emperor's Order is with me; how can I give it to you?"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu decided to submit to interests, not instinct.

"BOOM—CRACK!!"

Her decision angered the Dragon Vein soul, the earth was angry, and the sky seemed to be angry too.

The dark night sky suddenly thundered with lightning.

Bolts of purple-red lightning directly drowned out Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's call, smashing fiercely onto the earth-yellow light group.

"BOOM, BOOM!"

The previous lightning hadn't gone out, and the next one followed closely.

An absurd illusion rose in Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's heart: the thunder has a will, very urgent, scrambling to fall, wanting to completely strangle the "eternal sinner Qingsong."

Heaven's punishment!

Old thief Qingsong has done too much evil, and now he is going to be punished by Heaven and destroyed by Earth.

"Guan Laozu Qingsong, catch it!"

She suppressed the irritability in her heart

She suppressed the restlessness in her heart, threw it with force, and tossed the purple-gold iron plaque toward the yellow light cluster.

"Boom—"

A bolt of lightning as thick as a person's embrace struck the Human Emperor's Token directly, and in an instant, the entire Tianmen Town was illuminated by blue-white light.

"Stand down!"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's consciousness went into a trance, as if she saw an emperor wearing a crown and a black robe, ten zhang tall, replacing the Human Emperor's Token, standing firm against the sky-filling thunderstorm and scolding the firmament.

"Boom—, boom—"

The thunderclouds in the night sky did not disappear; instead, they seemed to have been provoked, and the lightning became even denser.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu had a sudden realization: lightning has no will, but this lightning was not natural; it was being driven by a heavenly god.

The heavenly god driving the thunder had emotions such as anger and urgency.

"Whoosh!"

The Human Emperor's Token seemed to be angry too, flashing with brilliant golden light, and it flew straight into the sky like a golden longsword, charging into the center of the thunderclouds and stirring them gently.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu faintly heard a scream.

It came from deep within the thunderclouds in the sky.

It shouldn't have been an illusion; after the scream, the thunderclouds quickly disappeared, and the Human Emperor's Token also fell like a meteor.

Before the token hit the ground, the "Dragon Vein Remnant Soul" gnawing on the green pine underground seemed to have received an order or felt pressure, emitting an unwilling roar before dissipating in all directions, gradually vanishing without a trace.

"Boom—!!"

The earth of Tianmen Town shook gently a few times, and cries of "the earth dragon is turning over" rang out from afar.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu leaped up and reached out to catch the Human Emperor's Token, but with a flash of golden light, a god in golden armor appeared abruptly in front of her, snatching the Human Emperor's Token away first.

The divine general wore golden armor and a golden helmet, was four meters tall, burly and majestic, with an aura as powerful as a heavenly god.

It was just that he had a transparent, illusory feeling.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was pressed by the overbearing aura until she couldn't breathe.

Even the Marquis of Lieyang hadn't given her this feeling.

She hurriedly gripped the Investiture of the Gods and took two steps back, assuming a defensive posture.

The golden-armored god floated in mid-air and said indifferently, "I am the Zhang Lingguan of the Taiyi Sect, the Divine Mace Protector Zhang Songzhi, summoned here by Qingsong. Now, hand over the Investiture of the Gods to me."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu glanced at the zhang-long iron mace at his waist; it was very imposing and full of baleful energy.

"Divine Mace Protector" was indeed a fitting name, but didn't "Protector" sound a bit like a bandit?

He didn't look like a proper god.

She cupped her hands, bowed three times, and then said, "My lord Zhang Lingguan, please forgive me. I am a barbarian with shallow knowledge; I don't know what a Zhang Lingguan is, nor have I heard of a Divine Mace Protector.

I only recognize the old Guan Laozu Qingsong.

It is not that I covet the divine artifact of the Central Plains, but I truly cannot fail the entrustment of Guan Laozu Qingsong.

How about we save the old Guan Laozu first? There is a divine physician named Min in Tianmen Town whose medical skills are very brilliant.

Anyway, I am here and cannot run away. Once the old Guan Laozu wakes up, everything can be discussed."

Upon hearing this, the Divine Mace Protector frowned and said slowly, "You are indeed ignorant, but you are not a bad person. Once we return to the Taiyi Sect, I will claim credit for you to the Sect Master."

He floated down to the ground, his body turning from illusory to solid, bent down, reached his hand into the scorched soil, and pulled out a charred, incomplete "corpse."

"Guan Laozu Qingsong, you, you cannot die!"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's cry was desolate, and at least seventy percent of the emotion was real.

Because the deduction of the "Qingsong Extermination Method" had been completely extinguished at this moment.

Counting Sui Yuanzi and the Thousand-Handed Qianshou Qianshou Dao Sheng Sheng, all three awesome "daddies" she had just bowed to today were gone.

The "Father-Extermination Method" hadn't even been fully completed.

Was she too unlucky, or were they too unlucky?

Anyway, she felt she had suffered a huge loss.

Sui Yuanzi and the Thousand-Handed Qianshou Qianshou Dao Sheng Sheng were still okay; they had started earlier, and the deduction was more than half complete, yielding a rich harvest.

The Daoist boy Qingsong had just become a "daddy"... and he was a true scripture cultivator and a disciple of the Dao Palace!

This cheap "daddy" came quickly and left even more quickly.

The Divine Mace Protector turned around and said impatiently, "Stop howling. The physical body is nothing but a stinking skin bag; the person is dead, but the soul remains. It's just like changing clothes.

Give me the Investiture of the Gods, and I will immediately take him back to the Zhengyang Palace."

"Now that the old Guan Laozu is dead, there is even less need to rush. Could you tell me about the 'Zhang Lingguan'—"

Before Seeing Xiao Yu Yu could finish speaking, the Divine Mace Protector extended a finger as thick as a radish and pointed it vaguely at her, "Freeze!"

She was frozen and couldn't move; she couldn't even blink her eyes.

Taking the Investiture of the Gods from her hand, the Divine Mace Protector said again, "Release!"

"You are small but talk too much; I don't have time to chat with you," the Protector muttered after releasing Seeing Xiao Yu Yu.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu blinked her eyes, and sure enough, she could move freely again.

"My lord Zhang Lingguan, I believe you; you are indeed the guardian divine general of the Taiyi Sect—"

Before her excited flattery was finished, the Divine Mace Protector disappeared suddenly, just as he had arrived.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu looked around blankly; the street was full of potholes and a mess, and in the distance, neighbors and passersby were cowering, not daring to approach.

Behind her, the Red Sleeve Pavilion was burning with crackling flames, brick walls were collapsing, and the wounded were groaning and wailing.

"Little Fengxian, help me~~~"

Aunt Liu's miserable wail awakened Seeing Xiao Yu Yu again.

With a few leaps, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu returned to the second floor, and without another word, she picked up Aunt Liu with her left hand and carried the teapot with her right, running wildly toward the outside.

It was almost the fourth watch, around one or two in the morning, when Seeing Xiao Yu Yu finally returned to the Xiaojing Pavilion, exhausted.

Hong Qu stood in the courtyard, staring straight at her.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu smiled bitterly: "Don't blame me. I didn't want to be in the limelight at all, and it did me no good. They forced me; I had no choice. I wanted to live."

"Your servility to the brutal Qin is too heavy. If you had pretended to see nothing, who would have troubled you?" Hong Qu said.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu understood that this girl had already learned the general course of events from the survivors.

At that time, there were many people on the second and first floors; they were not the targets of the assassins, and quite a few people survived.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said: "Do you know why Guan Laozu Qingsong came to the Red Sleeve Pavilion?"

She didn't mention the position of the Jin Yang Guan Chenghuang, but whispered about the reward the Great Qin had given her, and then said: "Even if I didn't know that 'Mole-Face' was Zong Erbu, even if I did, what position would I have to stand on their side?

They wanted to kill me, not just because of today's events.

Killing me at Feixian Ferry was for the Nine-Turn Bone-Changing Pill.

I didn't offend them at that time, did I? The divine pill also belonged to the Guan family and had nothing to do with them."

Not to mention the complex personal relationship between her and Qingsong, the Guan Chenghuang position she gave Duan Yuhan was right there on the Investiture of the Gods.

Whoever holds the Investiture of the Gods can control the gods on it.

How would the Eight Immortals of the West treat the ghosts and gods appointed by the Great Qin imperial court?

With even a little bit of brains, she couldn't possibly allow others to steal the Investiture of the Gods.

Hong Qu said bitterly: "I don't want you to kill Uncle Zong and the others, and I can't bear for you to be killed by them, but your karmic entanglement is almost endless and impossible to resolve.

Earlier, I secretly decided that if any uncle came to rescue me and intended to kill you along the way to avenge Uncle Kong, I would have to beg them to spare you no matter what, but now..."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu smiled: "Now you still have to stick to this idea, but the wording needs to change a bit.

You tell them that I am just a lump of poisonous, stinking dog shit.

Stepping on it brings no benefit; instead, it will dirty your own feet, and if you accidentally slip, it's an even bigger loss."

Hong Qu shook her head: "At this moment, killing you is no longer for profit.

Killing you is for revenge, for a clear state of mind, and even more so to wash away humiliation!"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu sighed: "But I can promise you that when I can crush your uncles under my foot, I will move my foot and spare them."

"You are very arrogant. But this time, just like last time, killing Uncle Zong was purely because of your good luck," Hong Qu said.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu threw herself onto the couch and said weakly: "That's right, this time it was dog-shit luck again.

Who could have imagined that 'Tiger Soul Seven Kills' could trigger the blood-sea baleful energy in the Investiture of the Gods?

This kind of dog-shit luck is rare and cannot be sought.

I'm afraid; I'm extremely afraid now. I definitely won't have this kind of luck next time.

Sigh, Hong Qu, for the sake of us being sisters, do me a small favor. When you are free, help me pass a word in the Western human-immortal circle, saying that I am willing to worship the 'Eight Immortals of the West' as foster fathers, just to save my life.

I am not deeply servile to Great Qin; I am just lacking love, lacking care and reliance!"

These words were so pitiful that Hong Qu's heart softened, and she felt a genuine sense of pity for her.

"Uncle Zong was the last of the 'Ten Great Human Immortals of Xilu,' and even he was killed by you. Who else can I count on?"

Hong Qu pitied Seeing Xiao Yu Yu, and she also pitied herself.

Her own hope had been extinguished by this Sha barbarian.

The uncles who could save her and were willing to save her were all dead; it really is harming others and harming oneself.