Chapter 180: Breaking the Mountain and Destroying the Temple

The Chenghuangmiao no longer had incense.

Even the temple keeper didn't care about it anymore.

The demise of the Cuiwei City God was only a matter of time.

It was hard to say whether that Protector True Lord was unwilling to punish his crime, didn't want to punish his crime, or knew that he was destined to demise, so he was too lazy to care about him, or whether he was stained with a little bit of each.

The three arrived at the Chenghuangmiao.

They didn't see it clearly that day. Looking at it again today, they saw the life and origin of this City God written on the wall of the main hall—

It was said that in the early years of this dynasty, there was a great disaster here.

This City God was originally a wealthy family in the city, rich in one side. At the end of the drought, he had opened the granary to release grain and distributed silver and money to help the local commoners.

After the drought, six or seven out of ten households in the city were empty, and he didn't survive either. Later, the commoners remembered his kindness, so they reported to the government, molded a statue for him, built a temple, and sealed him as the City God of this place.

Until today, it had been nearly two hundred years.

"Didn't expect that this City God once had such deeds." Lin Jue couldn't help but furrow his brows, his heart complex, "Didn't expect that such a person in the past would degenerate to this point today."

The junior sister also furrowed her brows, looking puzzled.

"Junior brother and junior sister don't need to have this doubt. You must know that the great corrupt officials and great rebels in the world mostly had times that made people admire them. If they were this face from the beginning, they wouldn't have reached a high place. Moreover, this matter is not necessarily like this." The third senior brother showed disdain, "Who knows if it was his willingness, or if the commoners came in to take it? Anyway, people died, and money was spent. After this matter, which commoner would be willing to say that he went to grab grain and money? His family members wouldn't be willing to say that he saw the commoners starve to death and wouldn't open the granary to help, so that he was finally forced by people?"

"……"

Lin Jue pondered deeply and felt it was reasonable.

The junior sister was secretly shocked again—

Why was the third senior brother also so smart?

The fox couldn't understand and lowered its head to lick its fur.

The three withdrew their gaze from the wall and turned to look at the deity statue in the middle of the deity platform.

Only heard the third senior brother's voice sink, and shouted:

"Cuiwei City God! Don't appear yet!"

When he said this sentence, he didn't light incense. According to the rules of the Divine Dao, unless the Cuiwei City God was in this temple at this time, otherwise without incense candles as a guide, he wouldn't be able to hear his voice.

However, the third senior brother had his own abilities.

This method was called throwing stones to ask the way—

A brick flew out, hitting the corner of the deity statue's eyebrow, immediately smashing a piece of the eyebrow and revealing the mud inside.

A burst of smoke rose in the temple, and the smell of incense could be smelled.

"Who? Who dares……"

Between the smoke, the deity statue in the middle changed. The stiff edges and colors became soft, and the body and facial features became vivid. Two or three breaths later, the Cuiwei City God appeared on the deity platform, covering his eyebrow.

"Ouch……"

Seeing the three people standing below, especially Lin Jue standing on the left, he was even more shocked.

"You…… you……"

The third senior brother was also learned the method of calling the wind from Xianyuan Temple. With a flick of his sleeve, with a bang, he closed the temple door.

The light in the temple suddenly dimmed.

Only saw the young Daoist on the far right pinching a bean in his hand. The bean flashed, as if it suddenly grew larger and longer, turning into an ancient long sword, which was held in his hand. The Daoist in the middle looked to be thirty or forty years old, also grabbed a handful of beans and threw them into the sky. After landing, there were more than a dozen armored soldiers in the Chenghuangmiao, as if heavenly soldiers had descended.

On the left was a Kun Dao, who had already drawn her precious sword and was examining the deity statue molded from mud.

There was also a white fox sitting upright.

The three and one fox were all staring at him.

"You……"

After a few "you"s, the City God was a bit panicked and changed his words: "I don't know what business the True Men have coming to find this small deity?"

"Nothing else, just that the commoners here are angry that you handle things unfavorably and also slander others, so they want to tear down your statue and invite other deity statues, but they are afraid that you will make trouble, so they entrusted us to do it for them."

The third senior brother said to this Cuiwei City God.

Lin Jue was surprised when he heard this.

Who said the third senior brother had no brains?

To say that the commoners molded a deity statue, naturally they also had the right to tear it down. The commoners gave the deity power, so they had the qualification to take it back. However, things like power were always easy to give and hard to take back. Therefore, since ancient times, it was easy to invite a deity and hard to send one away.

Therefore, since ancient times, driving away evil ghosts and destroying lewd shrines, if one didn't have high magic power, one had to be a person with high virtue and a clear conscience to do it. If the virtue was not enough to overcome the ghosts and gods, and one had flaws oneself, the ghosts and gods would not be convinced in this process, and would find your flaws, either to argue with you, attack your heart, or use this to go to the top to sue you. In short, there were few that didn't fail.

Several Daoists were suitable.

The City God above was shocked and angry when he heard this:

"What are you going to do?"

"The monk can run away, but the temple can't. You mediocre deity, making things difficult for my junior brother, don't you still think you can escape a disaster today?"

The third senior brother said so, and didn't talk nonsense with him, nor did he have any movements. The numerous bean soldiers in the temple had already surged toward the deity platform.

This temple was not big, and more than a dozen armored soldiers were tall and fierce, wearing armor and having the momentum of bears and tigers. Standing in the temple was already crowded. Once they surged toward the central deity platform and deity statue, that momentum was truly terrifying and unstoppable.

The City God was immediately shocked.

With such momentum, I'm afraid that not even one person and one saber would be needed, and his statue would be slashed into dregs?

"How dare you!"

In anger and fear, the Cuiwei City God couldn't care about anything else. He just reached out, and there was an extra thing in his hand, not knowing if it was a gavel or a seal. In front of him appeared the phantom of a table. In short, he held the thing high and slapped it down with all his strength.

"Slap!"

A thunderclap, like the collapse of heaven and earth.

The bean soldiers in the temple were all fixed. Some were rushing forward with shields, some were stabbing with spears, some were coldly pulling bows and arrows, and some were slashing with angry eyes, unable to move under this thunderclap.

"Divine power?"

The third senior brother saw the situation was not good and immediately withdrew the bean soldiers.

The City God stood above, looking down from a high position. In the emergency of life, he angrily rebuked and questioned below:

"You Daoists! Actually arrogant enough to come here to do this act of killing gods, do you really think you are full of holy virtue? Don't you have done anything against your will in your life?"

Lin Jue was stunned immediately—

This City God also had some truth in what he said.

Deities are naturally occupied by those with virtue. If the deity has no virtue, naturally he should be dismissed. But can the matter of dismissing a deity not require virtue?

If you yourself are a person with a lack of virtue, where do you have the qualification to blame the deity or even dismiss him?

The next moment, I saw a huge wave surging from the deity platform in front. For a time, the temple, deity platform, deity statue, and deity disappeared. Only saw a vast ocean, surging waves, boundless.

Lin Jue, who had just drawn his sword and stepped forward, retreated, but how could he be faster than this shocking huge wave?

Retreated two steps, and couldn't retreat anymore.

The whole world became an ocean.

"Splash……"

Dark clouds rolled, thunder flashed crazily, huge waves hit one after another, and raindrops hurt on his body.

Lin Jue just wanted to grip the long sword tightly to avoid losing it, but felt that the long sword was already gone.

"Hmm?"

Just wanted to find the long sword, but saw that his hands were gone.

He was all alone, floating on a vegetable leaf, rising and falling with this huge wave. When rising, it was as if he had gone to the nine heavens, and when falling, it was as if he had fallen into the bottomless abyss. Just the rising and falling between them had great fear.

Then he couldn't help but be puzzled. The vegetable leaf was so light, and his body was so heavy, why didn't he sink into the water?

Looking back, it turned out that he had become a maggot.

Not only were his hands gone, but his feet were also gone.

"Wrong!!

"This is……"

Lin Jue was originally terrified, but didn't expect that this City God actually had such ability. After a moment, he immediately came back to his senses.

A small City God, where did he get such ability?

Then he remembered that he had heard his master talk about it when he was chatting after dinner under a tree at dusk one day. It seemed that local deities like City Gods often dealt with heinous demons and ghosts, so the Divine Dao gave them means to deter heinous demons and ghosts. Its essence was probably borrowing divine power and official power from the Divine Dao system. Many heinous demons and ghosts would also be deterred and dare not resist when seeing this.

But can these local deities really destroy heaven and earth?

Lin Jue immediately understood in his heart—

The scene in front of him was exactly the divine power used by the City God official in the Divine Dao system to deter heinous demons and ghosts.

At this moment, it was actually used to deter him.

If he couldn't figure it out, he might really suffer from it. If he was really scared out of his wits, it was not impossible that his form and spirit would be destroyed.

But Lin Jue not only knew this, but he was also not a Yin soul detained for committing a crime. His heart was even more calm and clear, and he had no uneven places. How could the City God's intimidation have any effect?

"Mediocre deity!"

Closing his eyes and shouting angrily, he immediately washed away all illusions.

Opening his eyes again, he had returned to the Chenghuangmiao.

Only saw that City God still standing on the deity platform, the gavel in his hand had just been slapped down and hadn't been completely picked up. The previous experience was just a moment, but in mid-air, there was already a figure.

It was the junior sister who flew to the deity platform with her sword drawn!

Her posture was like a fairy flying toward the deity platform, the long sword in her hand reflecting cold light, slashing down with the momentum of twisting her body.

"Swish!"

The smoke in the air was slashed open.

The Cuiwei City God had no experience of fighting with people at all. Seeing this situation, he was almost scared out of his wits, and didn't even dare to look at the sword slashing at him, just like an ordinary person, raising his sleeve to cover his face, and instinctively bending down to avoid it to the side.

But if you don't look at the sword, how do you know where the sword comes from? If you don't know where the sword comes from, how do you avoid the sword?

A sword slashed across his shoulder.

"Ah!"

The Cuiwei City God let out a cry of pain. Seeing the Kun Dao land on the deity platform, he didn't dare to think too much, hurriedly crawled to other places, shouting while crawling: "Martial Officer Wang! Martial Officer Liu! Protect me, protect me! Come quickly to protect me!" 【180-

"Ah!"

The City God of Cuiwei let out a cry of pain. Seeing that the female Daoist had landed on the altar, he dared not think too much and hurriedly crawled toward another spot, shouting as he crawled: "Official Wang! Official Liu! Protect me, protect me! Come quickly to protect me!"

The City God was running, and the female Daoist was chasing.

"Look, this City God has consumed incense here for two hundred years. Although he is one who consumes incense and we are those who cultivate spiritual methods, in terms of Daoist practice and power alone, he is still above us." The Third Shixiong had also emerged from the illusion. Seeing this scene before him, he was not worried or anxious at all, but stood in place and explained to Lin Jue—

"But there is no need to think he is anything remarkable because of this. Immortals are also divided into civil and martial, and each has their own strengths. This mediocre god merely occupies a position in an official robe; as for what he is really like, you can tell just by the fear in his eyes."

Lin Jue listened silently while raising his sleeve and waving it.

A gust of tempered wind struck straight out.

With a bang, caught off guard, the City God, who was crawling like a dog, was instantly knocked flying, hit the wall, and fell back down without a sound.

By the time he stood up, he saw three pairs of feet already standing before him, with two swords pointed at him.

There was also a fox leaning in, staring at him curiously.

"Several True Men, please listen to me..."

The Daoist thrust the long sword in his hand, piercing down from the center of the City God's brow.

Beside him, the Xiao Shimei, fearing he would not die completely, even raised her palm and pushed, and scorching spiritual fire traced the outline of his body.

Since the intention was set, why listen to any more nagging?

The words in the City God's mouth stopped, and his entire body rapidly changed color, becoming dull, and his outline stiffened. When the flames dissipated and the long sword was withdrawn, he fell onto the altar with a clatter.

Then he fell from the altar to the ground.

A clay statue shattered.

Lin Jue shook his sword and sheathed it.

"Shidi has a good state of mind, actually waking up earlier than me." The Third Shixiong said casually, then looked at the fox beside him. "This fox of Shidi's is truly extraordinary, actually able to wake up so quickly. Logically speaking, the divine methods and means of underworld gods like the City God should be more effective against demons and ghosts, and of less use to us living people."

"So that's how it is."

No wonder the Third Shixiong had put away his bean soldiers at the first opportunity; he was likely afraid that the pressure of the City God's underworld divinity would directly shatter the remnant souls within the bean soldiers.

"But I was not the first to wake up. When I opened my eyes, Xiao Shimei had already drawn her sword and rushed onto the altar."

"Oh? What did Xiao Shimei see?"

"What do you mean, what did I see?"

"Hmm? Was Xiao Shimei not shaken by this god?"

"Shaken by what?" The little Xiao Shimei was instead confused, looking at them. "Shixiong, what were you standing down there for just now?"

"Hmm?"

Lin Jue and the Third Shixiong looked at each other.

The two explained the illusion from just now and the origin of the god's supernatural powers, which left the little Xiao Shimei suddenly enlightened, followed by lingering fear and confusion.

"I didn't see anything at all, I just heard that City God slap the table and speak. Thinking that not only had he done those things, but he also dared to make things difficult for Shixiong, I drew my sword and went up to find him!" The little Xiao Shimei opened her eyes wide and pondered. "It must be that he regarded Shixiong as a great enemy and looked down on me, so he didn't pay me any mind."

Lin Jue knew that was likely not the case.

Master often said that this little Xiao Shimei had a clear and transparent heart, and the senior who refuted him also said that her five energies were pure; if she were truly without a single flaw, perhaps even ghosts and gods could find no cracks to deal with her.

"Hehe..."

The Third Shixiong also smiled and patted his Daoist robe: "Never mind, the matter is settled, we should be going too..."

They walked out of the temple, looking quite carefree.

Outside, the sun was scorching.