Chapter 10: Change the City God
Honglian County, living alone in the south of South County. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The county seat of info is named after the six-petal red lotus mountain in the center, and it is a veritable mountain town.
The Chenghuang Temple Gate in Honglian County is even more unique, and it is located on the top of the highest peak, and it is the place where incense is the most vigorous. From the bottom of the mountain to the front of the temple, there are a total of 360 steps, one is higher than the other, and the terrain is very steep.
Among the twelve counties in Jiangnan South County, the Honglian County God's Temple is the most effective in making a wish, and the collection of sacrifices for the common people is also the most lenient. Therefore, Lord Cui is deeply loved by the people, and many people set up the city god tablet at home, and worship three times in the morning, afternoon and evening, lest they neglect the gods.
The spring equinox solar term, a migratory bird since ancient times; The second is to wait for Lei Nai to speak; Three waiting for the start of the call.
It was the third day after the vernal equinox, the fifteenth day of the second month of the Tianyuan calendar, and the sky was cloudy and rainy. The Yuan Bird has already returned, but the thunder and lightning have not yet arrived.
Today is the day of public sacrifice in Honglian County God's Temple, and only these two days a month will the gate of the City God's Temple be automatically opened, and usually no incense will be accepted from believers.
The devotees did not care about the bad weather, and began to climb the mountain before dawn, and set out from the base of the mountain with sacrifices. Regardless of the mud, step after step, he knelt down facing the top of the mountain and bowed. Just to let Lord Cui see his sincerity and sincerity and fulfill his wish.
There is an endless stream of believers, winding from the foot of the mountain above like a swimming dragon.
On the top of the mountain, the City God Temple of Lord Cui has been a complete single-entry courtyard house since ancient times. For thousands of years, the upper and lower courtyards of the City God Temple have been built on the three-story platform in turn, and have never changed.
Buckle the mountain gate!
The first pillar incense on the top is naturally Yang He, the commander of the mortal world of Honglian County, and he is also the host of each sacrifice. This is the second time this month that he has offered incense to worship.
In fact, Yang He has been in the mountain since yesterday. Because he was too fat, he could only climb to the top of the mountain out of breath with the support of the officials.
But he did not have any dissatisfaction, in order to show the supreme respect for the divine power, he led the county minister, the chief bookkeeper, the warden and other personnel, bathed and burned incense three times before daring to go up the steps and knock on the mountain door.
In the past, the mountain gate of the City God Temple would be guarded by City God Yin soldiers, shrouded in a layer of black fog to prevent outsiders from watching. But today, Yang He discovered a strange thing: the Yin soldiers on the handle of the mountain gate were gone, and the layer of fog curtain had also disappeared, and the outline of the central theater could be seen vaguely.
"What's going on? But don't let anything happen? ”
Yang He wiped a handful of cold sweat, and didn't dare to enter the mountain gate to check the situation easily. The officials who erected a human wall around them to maintain the order of the sacrifice also looked at each other. It has been sacrificed for hundreds of years, and it seems that there has never been such a strange thing as today.
Something is going to happen!
After all, Yang He is the lord of a county, and he knows more about the divine power above the imperial power than others. Lord Cui of Honglian County is the head of the twelve county gods of Nanjun County respected by the royal family of Jiangnan Ziguo, and he is famous.
When the first time Honglian County was adjusted, the alternate county commanders around him were all envious of Yang He's good luck. You must know that Lord Cui, the lord of the city god, is illustrious in a radius of thousands of miles, and his majesty is well-founded. Some of the surrounding ferocious wandering gods Mao Shen did not dare to set foot at all, and their achievements under his rule were ironclad and safe.
In the five years that Yang He served as the county commander, Lord Cui showed his true identity only during the first worship in the main hall, and finally received his sacrifice and recognized his position as the county commander. Compared with the tragic county order that was not treated by other county gods in the same period, and even had his neck broken and his soul swallowed, it was enough to make him grateful and sobbed.
In particular, the county guard, who has frequently come to Honglian County to worship the City God, has told him many times recently. Recently, the Jiangnan sub-kingdom has been in turmoil, Shinto is out of order, new gods have not been established, and there are many evil deeds in the mortal world, and there is an urgent need for new gods to take the throne and regain the authority of Shinto!
If the Wood Spirit God, the resident god of the Jiangnan Sub-Kingdom, did not assign a new god, the local Chenghuang Lord Cui of Nanjun, would be the candidate for the most popular new god in Nanjun. Lord County Shou asked him to worship Lord Cui more, don't slack off, and don't slack off.
Yang He naturally complied, you must know that Lord County Shou is his biggest backer, otherwise he would not be able to get the fat difference of the Red Lotus County Order.
"Bless the City God, but don't have an accident!"
Yang He suppressed the panic in his heart, and finally stepped into the mountain gate with one foot.
"Ahh
When he saw the scene in the temple, his eyes were black and he collapsed to the ground.
I saw that the original majestic building was staggering, as if it had been gnawed by something. The theater building of the lower courtyard and the main hall of the upper courtyard were all murdered, and even the roof of the side hall was blown off.
"Lord Chenghuang, Lord Chenghuang......"
Yang He immediately instructed the county officials and the chief bookkeeper around him to arrange for the officials to stop the follow-up believers from knocking on the mountain door, and then rushed to the main hall with a rolling belt. At this moment, Yang He's waist is not sore, his legs are not painful, and he can't wait to fly in with his wings.
The county officials could barely suppress the panic in their hearts, and they all realized the seriousness of the consequences. If Lord Cui, the City God, really had an accident today, then Honglian County would definitely not be peaceful in the future. Perhaps just like the surrounding neighboring counties such as Wangjia County and Si County, evil gods come and go freely, and mortals are devastated, and they have become the back garden of demons and monsters.
"You must bless the city god with good luck and tide over the difficulties!"
Maybe it's the voice of the crowd that plays a role. Yang He rushed to the outside of the main hall alone, and the plaques on both sides with the words "The wind and rain are smooth, the country and the people are safe" disappeared, and the plaque of the City God Temple on it was slightly tilted.
Inside, the statue of the god of the city god in the center is intact, but the color is slightly gray and dull, I don't know if it's because of the light. However, the civil and military judges on both sides were beaten, and those who lacked arms and legs seemed to have gone through a fight.
"Lord Chenghuang, Master Cui, you must always be a saint. What the hell is going on here? Yang He let out a sigh, guessing that it might be related to the recent Shinto battle, but he didn't dare to think about it at all.
He hurriedly took out the county official seal he carried with him, burned incense and prayed, then bit his ten fingers, and held the city god seal on the waist of the city god with both hands, allowing it to suck his own blood, but he didn't dare to move half a finger.
"Lord Chenghuang, Lord Cui, please show your saints! As long as you can always be holy, I am willing to do so, even if my blood is drained! ”
As soon as Yang He finished making his wish, he immediately felt a big mouth open on the Chenghuang seal, and the blood flowed rapidly. In the blink of an eye, the ten fingers that were as fat as turnips were left with a layer of bone and a piece of skin, and the Chenghuang Seal was still sucking his hand so hard that he couldn't even move.
"Ahhh
Yang He felt that all his blood was poured out, and it was swallowed by the City God Seal. Then I watched the whole person thin into a piece of paper, and the official uniform on his body couldn't hold up.
What frightened him even more was that the City God Seal didn't seem to stop at all, and was still sucking it non-stop. He felt like he was going to be completely torn apart, and his whole body was creaking.
"Lord Chenghuang, you ...... Finally...... What's wrong? ”
Yang He's mouth was gurgling with beads of blood, and his voice was weak and hoarse, intermittent.
He felt that maybe he would hang up in the next moment, and the blood would dry up and die!
"I'm so full"
The seal finally stopped sucking blood, and then a murmur came from the idol, as if it had just woken up.
"City ...... Huang...... Father...... Your old ...... It's finally here? ”
Yang He really felt that he had come back from the ghost gate, and saw that only a thin layer of skin was left on his arm, and the blood on the palms of his hands was blurred, and he was about to suck into ribs.
If you want to cry without tears, only pain!
"Hey, who are you?"
A whirlpool appeared at the avatar of the City God, and he asked Yang He softly.
"Villain...... Honglian County Ling Yang He...... City God...... Your old ...... You okay? ”
Yang He collapsed to the ground, and he wanted to get up but his eyes were full of stars, so he had to endure the boundless pain and gasp back.
"Lord Chenghuang, Lord Chenghuang, how did I become a Chenghuang? What the hell is going on? ”
A blood-colored shadow walked out of front of the idol. The shadows were densely packed with cracked cobweb-like fragments, like blood-colored glass. He was not dressed in the golden python black robe of the city god, and his face was still blurred.
"Master Cui...... Villain...... When it comes...... That's it......" Yang He didn't even have the strength to raise his head, and finally couldn't hold it anymore, and fainted from excessive blood loss.
The blood-colored shadow glanced at Yang He on the ground, and didn't care about him. Instead, he walked down the altar and circled around the main hall to take a closer look.
"Hey, I thought I was going to die!"
"I remember fighting with Di Cao, and in the end, the divine soul was united, and then the divine soul was broken?"
"Could it be that at the last moment, the little monk and the big fat rabbit rushed back to save me?"
"Eight or nine are not far from ten, but what about them, they can't even see a shadow?"
"What exactly do they want to experiment? Now he actually threw me directly to Honglian County and made a city god! ”
"What's next?"
……
It turned out that this muttering blood-colored shadow was Lu Xing.
Lu Xingzi shattered his soul after the battle with Di Cao, and now he was awakened by the stimulation of the City God's Seal absorbing Yang He's blood. He began to slowly sort out his thoughts.
Although he didn't understand why he appeared in the Honglian County Chenghuang Temple, it was obvious that he had survived again!
"Is it for the sake of Shinto Soul Crushing?"
Lu Xing touched his head. He vaguely remembered that when he was living in the statue of the Moon Shao Shenjun to worship and refine the love silk, he once took advantage of the drunkenness of the little monk and the big fat rabbit, and he took the opportunity to take advantage of the little monk's words. Although he didn't ask the purpose of the two of them to help him become a god in the end, he heard them talk about some special divine soul cultivation methods.
The Divine Soul is the first foundation level to step into Shinto. Whether it is the fragments of the law of enlightenment to become a god, or the sacrifice of the gods to forgive the talisman to become a god, or other coincidental steps into the way of the gods, the cultivation method of the divine soul is definitely the biggest taboo for the gods. It has always been regarded as a top secret by the gods. Even the closest servants of the gods will not reveal the slightest. Once the secret is leaked, the gods will hunt down to the end until death.
Broken Soul is a very old, very strange, very painful and difficult method of sacrificial cultivation in the cultivation of the divine soul, which is only passed down from generation to generation among the gods and spirits, and is recited from mouth to mouth. It needs to keep refining the divine soul, and then wait until a certain stage to completely shatter it, and then start all over again.
The cycle repeats itself, and the cycle repeats, every time the divine soul sacrifices the priesthood will not be repeated, and every time it is reborn in Nirvana, no one knows how many times it will take for the divine soul to be consummated. Because no god dares to sacrifice more than three times.
Even the most daring gods did not dare to attempt to break souls easily. Because once the divine soul is shattered, without the interference of external forces, it is very, very difficult to condense again. And no one can guarantee that they will succeed in nirvana every time.
The most important thing is that the divine soul has always been a forbidden area for the gods, and it is impossible to casually let outsiders interfere with their own divine souls. You must know that the Divine Soul Fragment is a great supplement for other gods, and it is a shortcut to the cultivation of stepping into the divine position.
The last thing the gods trust is their own kind!
Lu Xing vaguely felt that he had guessed the right direction. However, there is still a big problem in front of him now, he has become Lord Honglian County Chenghuang Cui, which seems to be an unchangeable fact.
But his spirit was still very weak, and he could only barely manifest himself. And now he is only in the mortal City God Temple, and has not yet set off to sit in the City God's Mansion in the underworld, how to prevent being debunked by the officials of the underworld, and how should he be a city god?
His head was a mess now, and he couldn't untie the knot.
"Lord Yang, Lord Chenghuang has appeared, right? The common people want to meet the city god and sacrifice and petition! ”
"Lord Yang, the lowly people are incompetent, and the people outside really can't hold it down. Everyone is rushing in, and they can't pull it anymore! ”
"My lord, my lord, it's not good, it's not good. I can't hide what is going on outside! Someone broke through the human wall and saw the City God Temple collapse. said that Lord Cui, the city god, was cursed by heaven and died! ”
Outside the palace gate, the shouts of the officials pulled Lu Xing back to reality.
Headache, what's the here? What to do?
Lu Xing has never had such an experience, and the six gods have no master.
Whatever, the soldiers will block, the water will cover the earth, and let's go hard!