Chapter 196: Lu Gong's decision
Seeing this scene, all of Lu Gong's moods were destroyed.
After the new policy was issued, especially the excessive conscription, the local resistance has entered an unprecedented fierce stage.
This is definitely not an isolated case, and it is not the status quo that he can change.
LΓΌ Gong gradually realized the meaning of Bai Gu and Ma Ruchu's words. If you keep putting yourself at the bottom, with that weak and humble conscience, you will never be able to change the world.
Those who are truly capable of solving problems are the ones who stand on top of this world.
Then let's start with Qin Fengdao first!
LΓΌ Gong sped up his speed and soon saw a city that was not too big. According to the map signs, this place called Xilin is a county town like Tianshui County.
In the afternoon, the whole Xilin is unprecedentedly desolate, overlooking from above, there are few people on the street, the only avenue, the shops are already half closed, and there are few pedestrians, most of them are old and young.
The City God Temple is on the edge of the main street in the center of the city, and Lu Gong easily found the location, but he did not rush down at the first time.
Lu Gong is indeed extremely eager for more worship money, but this does not mean that he will turn every city god into his own ghost general without a bottom line.
Flying around the city for a week, Lu Gong did not encounter any obstacles, and just happened to pass by a land temple on the edge of the city, he subconsciously landed.
In the Land Temple, three incense sticks are burning, and the wooden painted statues inside are already covered with dust. Lu Gong had a bad premonition and shouted twice at the temple, but there was no response.
He simply flew in and landed on the altar. "The land lord is here?"
The small temple was extremely quiet, and the cool autumn breeze blew incense ashes and raged wantonly on the altar.
Will it go out?
Lu Gong thought about it, and was ready to wait and see.
Until nightfall, even the incense ashes in the land temple had already been swept away by the autumn wind, and Lu Gong still didn't even see the shadow of the land god.
His patience had run out, and he rose against the wind and flew into the city.
Except for a few lights that remained in the night, the whole Xilin was like a ghost town, and the city was like a dormant evil ghost that revealed its true colors at night.
Lu Gong found the second land temple as he wished, flew directly in, shouted, and still did not respond.
Two quarters of an hour later, LΓΌ Gong left and went to the third land temple, but still found nothing.
The ominous premonition in his heart grew stronger. If it is just one or two temples that have no gods, then it may be a coincidence, but three temples in a row are empty of gods, which says a lot.
Lu Gong tried his best to adjust his mentality, this time he no longer looked for the land temple, and directly swept up into the sky, and came to the sky above the city, and his divine consciousness rippled out.
Sure enough, the impact of the divine consciousness caused an instant reaction.
In the center of Xilin City, a cold snort sounded in the City God Temple, and then the bull head and horse face rose to the sky, rushing towards Lu Gong.
Lu Gong stayed where he was until the two ghosts stared at him one on the left and the other on the right.
"Who is the demon who dares to make trouble in Xilin?" The bull's head was like a bell, holding a big knife in his hand, and his eyes were like lightning.
Lu Gong didn't want to talk nonsense with them, so he said directly: "Two poor masters, I have something to inquire about!" β
"Report your name, or don't blame us for being polite." The horse screamed angrily, and the chains in his hands were already shaking.
Lu Gong was already in a very bad mood, and when he saw them with such an attitude, his heart moved, and the Spiritual Detention Technique was instantly activated.
The two demons were frozen in place, and they found themselves completely unable to move, and they were suddenly shocked out of their bodies.
Lu Gong raised his voice and said: "I don't want to hurt the two, but there are some problems, please cooperate with the two!" β
After a pause, Lu Gong let go of the Spiritual Detention Technique.
The two demons glanced at each other, quickly realizing what had happened.
The bull head stared at Lu Gong, and suddenly his eyes rolled, his face instantly turned extremely dark, and his voice trembled slightly. "You're the one...... Si Tianjian wanted box spirit! β
Ma Mian's body trembled, and he almost subconsciously wanted to escape, but he quickly controlled his emotions after reflecting the difference in strength.
Lu Gong looked at the two ghosts who were sweating and said softly: "That's right, I am Lu Gong." β
The two ghosts took two steps back, and found that Lu Gong didn't have any intention of stopping them, but stopped.
Niu Tou took a deep breath, summoned up great courage, and arched his hand: "Lu Gong, we are just a little ghost who does things, and we have always had no enmity with you......"
Lu Gong interrupted him. "As I said, I don't feel like hurting you."
Lu Gong himself didn't expect that his name was now so loud, and it had such a great deterrent effect.
"I don't want to listen to nonsense, I just hope that the two poor masters can tell each other the truth." Lu Gong didn't bother to continue to pay attention to their emotions, and said directly: "I went to a few land temples today, why haven't I been able to meet a land god?" β
The two ghosts were stunned for a moment, but they didn't expect Lu Gong to ask such a question.
The bull head stiffened his head and said, "Now, the entire land god of Xilin no longer exists. β
"All?" Lu Gong's heart was shocked.
The bull head nodded vigorously: "That's right, Xilin originally had sixty-four land gods. But after the new policy was issued, these land gods have been stripped of the fragments of their golden bodies. β
"This is the masterpiece of your City God Temple, right?" Lu Gong asked coldly.
The bull head shook his head and said, "You can say that, but can we be blamed for this?" The new policy was issued, requiring every place to pay more than five times the number of gold body fragments and offering money, who does not know that the imperial court deliberately made an excuse for the local government to take the opportunity to clean up the hundreds of years of Shinto addiction? β
"Take the opportunity to clean? Could it be that these land gods have committed some sin? Lu Gong said angrily.
"Sin? They have original sin! The bull head seemed to have eased up, took a deep breath, and said: "The Divine Dao of the world has been in the hands of the Heavenly Master Mansion for thousands of years, and now the Holy Lord wants to take back the management of the Divine Dao, of course, he must completely cleanse it. β
Looking at the bull's indifferent appearance, Lu Gong didn't know why, but there was a sense of powerlessness in his heart.
"Haven't you thought that you are also a low-level god and one of them?"
"Nope. We're not like them. Niu Tou said seriously, "We are ghosts, and we are within the establishment of the Heavenly Supervisor, how can we be compared to those ordinary land gods?" β
"Are you not personal gods? Didn't you climb up from the bottom of the gods? Forgetting who you are so quickly? Lu Gong's voice grew colder.
Only then did Niu Tou realize that the situation was not good, and exclaimed: "Lu Gong, you said that you won't hurt us." β
"That's right! Of course not! Lu Gong sneered and swept directly towards the City God Temple, "However, you ghostly skins should also be taken off!" β
As soon as it landed in the City God Temple, there was a loud noise, and more than a dozen ghosts rushed out from the statues of each god in an instant, and immediately surrounded Lu Gong.
Lu Gong stared at the hall in front of him, looked at the golden statue, and shouted loudly: "Lord Chenghuang, how long are you going to hide?" β
"Hide? Hahaha...... Lu Gong, you take yourself too seriously! As soon as the voice fell, the entire City God Temple trembled violently, and the golden body on the altar jumped directly from above, smashed the gate of the main hall, and landed in the courtyard.
This is like Zhao Fengyu's golden body, majestic and solemn. But when Lu Gong looks at this golden statue now, he feels that his face is terrifying.
"Wanted by Si Tianjian and the front division of the palace, I didn't expect you to dare to appear, this mansion respects you as a man. Give you a chance to live, and leave quickly, otherwise you will be sent to Si Tianjian for disposal. The golden body's voice was cold.
But Lu Gong clearly captured the pure fear from that voice, and he tried his best to hide it, but he couldn't hide from Lu Gong's knowledge.
"Lord Chenghuang is scared?" Lu Gong felt a little ridiculous.
The golden body instantly burst out with bursts of golden light, and shouted loudly: "Afraid? The government just doesn't want to kill innocents. β
"It's a good indiscriminate killing of innocents. When Lord Chenghuang took off the fragments of the golden bodies of those low-level gods, he shouldn't have mentioned these four words to them, right? Lu Gong said coldly.
"Don't talk nonsense, Lu Gong, what are you going to do?" Chenghuang was covered in golden light, and he had already gathered his strength to make an attacking posture.
"I don't do anything, I just want Lord Chenghuang to do what he should do!" Lu Gong's voice fell, and the silence of everything instantly moved.
In an instant, the dozen or so ghosts around all froze.
The golden body of the city god was also fixed in place, and even the flow of his gaze stopped.
"Detention Spirit!" Lu Gong snorted lightly, and a divine soul in the golden body was instantly stripped out.
Lu Gong did not hesitate to open the dark space, and directly accepted the fixed divine soul into it, and with a movement of his mind, he directly entered the dark space.
In the dark space, Chenghuang's spirit trembled violently, but his instinctive resistance couldn't hold on for even a moment, and his eyes gradually became calm.
"Hand over all the money for the offering!" Lu Gong gave the order.
The next moment, he threw out the spirit of the city god and reintegrated into the golden statue.
The silence of all things was removed. There is no change in the entire City God Temple, but the golden body of the City God has become much gentler.
The golden body turned around, returned to the altar and sat down, the spirit swept out of the platform, and ordered to the dozen or so ghosts around who didn't know what was going on: "You all retreat!" β
More than a dozen ghosts looked at the City God who suddenly changed his attitude in confusion, hesitated for a moment, and quickly returned to their respective idols.
"Lu Gong, come with me!" Xilin Chenghuang said softly.
Lu Gong had long been accustomed to the transformation of the divine soul in the dark space. Whether Xilin Chenghuang is missing or what is more, Lu Gong can't figure it out.
After so many experiences, Lu Gong already knew that the dark space was more like a contract for the divine soul.
The divine soul that entered it was able to completely retain its divine sense, but it could not resist the instructions of Lu Gong, the master.
In other words, he is still him, but he cannot disobey Lu Gong's orders.
Entering the main hall, Xilin Chenghuang took out all his private money for the first time. "This is the remaining offering money from all these years, and the total is twelve thousand taels."
As he spoke, Xilin Chenghuang stuffed the silver tickets, silver and copper coins into Lu Gong's body.
Lu Gong landed on the altar, listening to the sound that kept ringing in the depths of his soul, and only spoke again after a long time.
"You stay in this temple and take care of Xilin and all the local gods around it. For the low-level gods who do not act, they will be replaced directly, but for the gods who have always obeyed the law, they must be protected! β
"I understand!" Xilin Chenghuang has completely changed his appearance, and he is very obedient.
"On Qin Feng Dao, do you know any other city gods?" Lu Gong asked.
Chenghuang quickly told him everything he knew.
After listening for a long time, the sun had already risen, and Lu Gong had a clear understanding of the situation of the city gods in the five nearby counties.
"In other words, since the New Deal came down, the state city god has already made clear its attitude to you, replacing all the low-level personality gods, handing over the golden body fragments, leaving the god seat vacant, and clearly marking the price?"
"Yes! It's not just us at Xilin, but almost all of the places I've learned about do this. Xilin Chenghuang sighed, shook his head, and said, "Lu Gong, I know what you're going to do, but it's too late. Even if you can solve the problem of the entire Qin Feng Dao, it is impossible for the dead low-level gods to be resurrected. You're just embarrassing us by doing this. β
"Si Tianjian needs a fragment of the golden body, it is the will of the Holy Lord, and it is not something that anyone can disobey. Even if you change the entire Qinfeng Road, there are still dozens of roads in the world, and there are prefectures, prefectures, and even the Chenghuang Temple in Kyoto. How much can you solve? β
"How much can be solved!" Lu Gong said directly.
When there is no order, the city god on the opposite side is a complete self of Godhead.
Seeing that he couldn't convince Lu Gong, he sighed. "In fact, many of us also know that we are deeply guilty, but this is the case in the world, what can we do except follow the decrees of the imperial court?"
"I'm not here to reason with you, I've already told you too much along the way. Found it useless at all. So from now on, I just want results! β
"You wait. I'll show you the results! β
Lu Gong's voice fell, and he had already left the City God Temple and flew straight to the official road.
This time, he already knew in his heart, and he had already figured out a few small cities near Xilin.
Dozens of cities in the entire Qin Feng Dao, now the gods at the bottom have ten rooms and nine emptiness, Lu Gong hovered in the sky for a while, and landed in the City God Temple of the second city, and even the ghosts inside were not alarmed.
The silence of all things was activated, and directly from the golden body of the city god, the divine soul was detained into the dark space.
The task was arranged, and when Lu Gong left, he was one step closer to the goal.
"I'm still 13,000 taels away from being promoted!" Flying to the third city, Lu Gong began to look forward to it slightly.
If it can continue so smoothly, according to the average city of 10,000 taels of silver, you should be able to receive at least 200,000 taels, that is, there will be at least more than 200,000 taels of surplus after promotion.