Chapter Twenty-Three: Hope After Despair, and Despair After Hope

"But the dragon lord of the rocky mountain is the flow of immortals and gods, who can see the sun through the clouds, can call the wind and rain, and has vast magical powers, but we are just mortal fetuses, and the dragon lord is against him, I am afraid that he will only give his life in vain." Lin Jiu frowned for a moment, and then said worriedly.

As soon as Lin Jiu's words came out, the crowd around him also remembered the huge gap between humans and immortals, and immediately calmed down, and the magical power that he perceived, which had just been active in Lining City, suddenly fell silent again.

Suddenly, Lin Jiu suddenly noticed that a gaze fell on him.

He followed his gaze and looked at him by the same person who had just stirred people's hearts.

However, what made Lin Jiu strange was that he had already made such a mess, but in the eyes of the man looking at him, instead of being vigilant, he had a sense of looking at his own people.

"Something is wrong, there is a problem." The corners of Lin Jiu's eyes twitched.

"This friend's words are not unreasonable." The person who stirred people's hearts nodded, "When I met the mage of the Golden Light Temple before, I also asked the mage of the Golden Light Temple about this. ”

"At that time, I thought that even if the enemy is strong and I am weak, but for the sake of the welfare of future generations, I just gave up this old bone, and it is worth it."

"But I didn't mean it, it's because I'm rare and weird, and I don't know the compassion of the Venerable Master of Jinguang Temple." The man clasped his hands together and sang a song on his chest.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the mage of Jinguang Temple has a saying, this time against the demon dragon, we only need to do one thing."

"The mage has already calculated that the demon dragon sent the general to come here, just to take the time when the dragon raises its head on the second day of February next year, flood Lining City, and take advantage of the power of heaven and earth to take advantage of the situation."

"Flooded Lining City?"

"What's the matter?" For a moment, people were panicked.

All the people resounded about the flood that covered the world, and their faces were full of fear.

The most poisonous thing in the world is water and fire, after a fire and water, it can be said that everything is white and black, no matter whether you are rich or powerful, in front of water and fire, you can only whine and mourn.

"When our ancestors, we also worshiped the Dragon King, speaking of which, everyone can be regarded as having a bit of incense, otherwise, let's go to the Dragon King Temple to burn pillar incense for the Dragon King to admit a mistake, and if the Dragon King is not gracious, he will bypass our Lining City, or perhaps, the Dragon King will see our sincerity, and we can also protect our Lining City in the future." Lin Jiusi glanced down and lowered his voice, as if he was afraid of being heard.

In the past, people didn't dare to mention these words, but at this time, when it came out of the mouth of Lin Jiu, a 'foreigner', no one dared to accuse him.

Everyone was thinking about Lin Jiu's words - compared to the monstrous flood that could drown several generations and more than ten generations in one go, to welcome the Dragon Lord back, even if it was an annual sacrifice, it didn't seem unacceptable.

After all, the lesser of two evils.

Next to him, the person who stirred people's hearts looked at Lin Jiu, who also used words to stir people's hearts, and his heart was also full of emotion - he was the warden in charge of the documents and archives in this Lining City.

He couldn't help but recall the task that the mages of Jinguang Temple had privately issued to them - to spread rumors in the city, to make the people of Lining City desperate, to make them desperate, so that they would have no other support but Jinguang Temple.

He was still struggling before, how to make the people in a city desperate, how to make the people in a city desperate, but he didn't want to, Lin Jiu just appeared.

[It is worthy of being a mage, it is really clever and thoughtful, this stranger must have been arranged by the mage. 】

This man pondered, and he promised that he and Lin Jiu would give hope and extinguish hope, and the two of them would definitely be able to perfectly complete the task assigned by the Master of Jinguang Temple.

"Incense? Where do you go to offer incense? The temple of the demon dragon, I don't know how long it has been demolished, you still dare to go to incense? Are you really not afraid that after communicating with the demon dragon, you will be swallowed by the demon dragon first? Seeing that the atmosphere was almost set off by Lin Jiu, and even some people were already arguing in private about where the nearest Dragon King Temple was, the warden finally opened his mouth and said an extremely desperate fact.

The temple of the Bibo Dragon King exists, but it was in the past - since the last war with the Jinguang Temple, after the defeat of the Ten Thousand Saints Dragon King and the retreat of the Troubled Stone Mountain, the temple outside the Ten Thousand Saints Dragon King has almost been demolished.

People are very utilitarian creatures, especially in the face of gods and demons, when they need anything, what demons and ghosts they can worship, but when it is not effective enough, what gods, they can also be far away, just like Fang Cai, these people who have respected Jinguang Temple for dozens of hundreds of years have given birth to the same idea of giving up Jinguang Temple.

In the past, the people of Lining City revered the Ten Thousand Saints Dragon King because the Ten Thousand Saints Dragon King could make them have a good time, but when their prayers could not be answered for decades and hundreds of years, naturally no one would pray to the Ten Thousand Saints Dragon King, and even the temples of the Ten Thousand Saints Dragon King would be demolished and rebuilt into a place to worship other gods.

The so-called people fight for a breath, and gods fight for a stick of incense - for a sacred, the demolition of temples and the destruction of statues are tantamount to the greatest humiliation.

The people of Lining City, who had sat down all this, were too late to hide all this in front of the Ten Thousand Saints Dragon King, and how could they dare to expose all this in front of the Ten Thousand Saints Dragon King.

That is to say, the retreat that these people envisioned was a doomed end from the beginning when they fell back in front of the Ten Thousand Saints Dragon King.

- At least in the eyes of these Terrans, it's a dead end.

"So what do we do now?" The people in the tea shop became panicked, and the words they exchanged with each other quickly spread in all directions, and soon spread throughout Lining City.

Compared with the announcement issued by Lining City, the residents of Lining City obviously believe more in the results of their own 'discussion'.

It didn't take long for the entire Lining City to be shrouded in a bleak and gloomy cloud.

So at this time, the people sent to Lining City by Jinguang Temple finally appeared.

The light of the Buddha and the chanting of the Buddha rise in unison.

Then the earth swelled with golden lotus, and the sky fell with golden flowers.

In a moment, eighteen monks of all sizes came out from various temples, growing lotuses step by step, slowly coming.

Lin Jiu quietly glanced at it with his magic eye-Buddha's light and Sanskrit chanting, three points were true, but the golden lotus of that day was a complete illusion, but it was enough to deceive those mortals who were mortals in the flesh.

"Amitabha, good, good." Eighteen golden reflective halogen eggs stood at the highest point of Lining City, and saluted everyone in Lining City with their hands folded, all of them were dignified.

And with the Buddha light, the Sanskrit chanting, the heavenly flower, the golden lotus - it is simply a divine monk, a holy monk.

Even if Lin Jiu looked down on these 'bald', he had to praise it at this time, so he looked good.