"Bang dang."

There was a crisp sound, and it was extremely clear in the silent shrine.

For a moment, everyone looked at the ruins not far away.

As early as in the vision, they had seen the magnificent and vast main hall of the shrine.

As of the death of Han Guangren and Chen Chuyan, the main hall of the shrine is still in good condition.

Then the ruins in front of him were obviously made by the god of agriculture and that evil thing.

Just by looking at the vast ruins, you can perceive their astonishing destructive power.

Obviously, Saturnalia is more powerful than what is depicted in the picture.

Hearing the movement in the ruins at this moment, everyone was vigilant for a while.

"Grock."

Su Mo stepped on the remaining gravel on the ground and walked forward.

Song Ruyuan and others also stepped forward.

On the contrary, the many monsters under the high stage seemed to be still immersed in the ritual and had never moved.

Soon, the group came to the ruins.

Looking at the ruins and wooden beams and rubble in front of them, everyone's nerves collapsed.

Su Mo waved violently in the direction where the voice came from.

A large, broken wooden beam snapped open, revealing a squeaky gray-skinned mouse below.

"After doing it for a long time, it turned out to be a mouse, give me a start."

Zhuo Ningning patted his chest and said with palpitations on his face.

Yao Wenkai next to him glanced at her and asked out loud:

"Do you think rats can survive in this environment?"

Zhuo Ningning was stunned.

It's normal to have rats in the ruins.

But this place was perennially filled with a gloomy mist before they held the ceremony.

In this case, are there still ordinary mice?

Zhuo Ningning's scalp exploded.

At the same time, the flying mouse had already opened its mouth.

Its mouth bulged outward, turning into a huge mouth the size of a basin, and its inside was full of countless sharp teeth, and it was biting at everyone.

"Poof!"

It was as if someone reached out and pinched the mouse.

It hung in mid-air, unable to move.

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but come up and take a closer look.

It was then that they realized that the limbs of the rat were very similar to those of humans.

It looks like shrunken and crumpled hands and feet.

There were several rotting wounds underneath him, and I could even see through the wounds that the empty inside.

Apparently it was long dead.

"If nothing else, this should be the Liu family's experiment.

Just, how did it come to this place? ”

Chen Shuo's face was puzzled.

Song Ruyuan thought for a while and replied:

"This should be the sacrifice prepared by the Liu family at this festival.

It's a pity that I didn't have time to offer it to the god of agriculture, and the catastrophe broke out.

After that, the rat probably took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the shrine and stayed here until today after his death. ”

"That's about it."

Su Mo crushed it on the spot with his spiritual hand.

"It looks like it has eaten a lot of corpses here, otherwise it wouldn't have grown like this."

Su Mo looked at the black qi after the corpse had dissolved, and his brows furrowed slightly.

He always felt that the breath of this rat was faintly familiar.

I look like I've seen it somewhere.

I just think about it, but I can't remember it for a while.

"Well, it shouldn't be too important."

Su Mo comforted himself and turned to look at the ruins in front of him.

As far as the eye can see, the entire ruins are about the size of a football field, and they are piled with countless building debris.

If you want to clean up the muck truck, it will take at least two or three days to transport dozens of trucks.

But now—

"Give it to me!"

Su Mo stretched out his right hand and raised it upwards suddenly.

In the next second, under the stunned gaze of Xue Lansu and the others, countless building debris seemed to have lost their gravity and floated into the air one after another.

In an instant, pure spiritual power swept through all the wreckage of the building.

Confirm that there is nothing important.

The garbage was melted into a ball by Su Mo, turned into a huge garbage ball, and threw it aside.

Looking at the twenty-meter-tall garbage ball, the corners of Chen Shuo's mouth twitched slightly, and he said to Su Mo:

"Can we throw this ball a little farther away? It always feels like it's going to collapse at any moment. ”

Su Mo thought about it and felt quite reasonable.

Immediately, the entire giant ball was lifted up and thrown into the distance.

With an arc that disappeared into the air, there was a faint vibration on the ground.

When everyone saw this scene, they couldn't help but look at each other.

Let's hope there's no bad luck living there.

When they came to their senses, the group all looked at the wreckage that remained in the clearing.

It was a statue in human form.

He was dressed in a cyan scholar's robe, and his hair was tied in a high bun on his head.

The face is very rough, the body is powerful, and the muscles are extremely strong.

It feels like a samurai who forcibly plays the role of a scribe.

And his location, according to the layout of the entire shrine hall, should be in the main hall of the main hall.

He should be the idol of the god enshrined in the ancestral hall.

Could this be the true nature of the Saturnalia?

"The entire shrine was completely destroyed, but the statue looked intact.

Perhaps the god of agriculture has a lot to do with this statue.

Just like the incense in the classics says that incense becomes Shinto. ”

Hearing Xue Lansu's speech, everyone also thought slightly.

As early as ancient times, there was a method of incense becoming a god.

Spiritual things in the world, whether they are enchanted or the essence of plants and trees, can use incense to cast a golden body of wish power and ascend to the god level.

This is a cultivation system that is very different from that of a sorcerer, and it is also a cultivation path that many predecessors have taken.

It is rumored that after cultivating this system to the extreme, it is not weaker than the high-level existence of the sorcerer system at all.

However, in comparison, the path of incense is more difficult to cultivate.

The first is to gather incense, which is the result of the faith of the world.

The world is fickle, and incense is easy to get and easy to lose.

Usually a believer receives incense by giving him a favor.

But human nature is often very greedy, and the further you go, the more you demand.

If it can't be satisfied, it will even be resentful.

There have been many similar incidents in the past.

In addition, the higher you ascend, the more incense you need.

This leads to the need to propagate faith, and the struggle for faith often leads to new disputes.

and even triggered a god war.

In the past, there were not a few small gods who died under the divine war, or even were devoured.

From this point of view, incense into Shinto is more brutal than the sorcerer system.

Last but not least, incense is toxic.

Incense is born because of people's beliefs, and it is natural to be infected with all kinds of worldly desires.

This desire is the most terrible poison in the world for the gods who pursue purity and transcendence.

If it fails to be washed and refined, it will inevitably suffer an extremely serious backlash when it is promoted, and even fall directly on the spot.

The further you go, the higher the level, the more serious the poison of the incense becomes.

This is a calamity that accompanies the gods for the rest of their lives.

It is also the price that is destined to be paid for choosing this path.

At this moment, looking at the blue-robed martial artist statue in front of him.

Su Mo always felt that the other party gave him a very familiar feeling.

It was due to the familiarity of temperament, and perhaps he had seen his kind somewhere.

"The god of incense? No, no, there was no trace of incense gathering on this man's body. ”

At this moment, Song Ruyuan and others also discovered this.

In the way of incense, the statue of the god is a very important instrument.

Especially in this kind of the most important shrine in the village, if this statue is left by the gods who have become Shinto with incense, it definitely has a miracle that ordinary people can hardly imagine.

Under normal circumstances, the idols of the gods are contaminated with the incense offered by the believers all the year round, and over time they can be impregnated with spirituality and become spiritual objects.

Later, it can even become the earthly body of the gods.

With the help of the idols, the gods were able to walk on the earth in a physical form.

Therefore, the idol is an extremely important instrument for the gods.

In particular, the statues in the main hall of the shrine must be closely protected to prevent them from being damaged.

But the statue in front of him could not see any traces of careful protection.

He looked very vivid, but there were many scratches on his body, even near his feet, and there were marks of smoke and fire.

Everyone can imagine that a certain temple keeper was negligent for a moment, allowing the fallen incense candle to burn to the statue.

Perhaps the keeper was later punished, but the fact that the statue was never restored is a testament to the attitude towards him.

"It seems that this idol is not a statue of the god of agriculture.

So the question is, since this is not a statue of the god of agriculture, why is it enshrined in the shrine of the god of agriculture? ”

Yao Wenkai asked the doubts in the hearts of many people on the field.

Song Ruyuan thought for a while and said:

"Is it possible that, in fact, the god of agriculture did not walk the incense into the way of the gods?

Judging from the information we have gathered earlier, the behavior of the god of agriculture is indeed very similar to that of incense into Shinto.

For example, to bless the three major families, or to ask the Liu family to prepare the body of the gods.

But don't forget that for a hundred and fifty years, the god of agriculture has not greatly expanded the objects of his blessings.

Theoretically, to collect faith, the whole village must have to provide much more than the three major families.

But he limited his target to the three major families.

Even if sacrificial wine is given during a festival, it is far from the point of collecting incense.

What he did made me feel like I was bound to the three major families.

This is simply not what normal gods should do. ”

"Maybe he's sifting through fanatics?"

Chen Shuo put forward his own opinion.

"I don't rule it out."

Song Ruyuan bowed slightly, and then said:

"But even if they are fanatics, only the Liu family can barely meet the requirements among the three major families.

Like the performances of the Chen family and the Han family, in fact, they can't be classified as fanatical believers.

If the god of agriculture practiced incense and became a Shinto, he would definitely know this if he could clearly feel the level of faith of the believers.

But he was attacked by Chen Chuyan at the ceremony, which is a little unclear. ”

When everyone heard this, they all realized the problem.

Xue Lansu said in a condensed voice:

"Maybe the god of agriculture did not cultivate incense to become a god, but he must have collected incense, at least from the three major families, otherwise there would be no theory of blessing.

So the question is, if a deity doesn't want to practice Shinto, what is he doing collecting incense for? ”

"I'm afraid we have to start with this statue in front of me."

Su Mo said, looking at the blue-robed martial artist statue not far away.

As early as when everyone was discussing, he was already carefully examining the situation of this statue, and he also found some clues.

And now, it's almost time to validate the leads.

Su Mo didn't have any nonsense.

He pointed like a knife, and the crimson blood condensed on it, and in an instant, even the temperature of the air rose rapidly, and there was a sense of heat and dryness around him.

Immediately after, under everyone's gaze, Su Mo pointed to the belly of the statue of the god.

There was a soft "poof" sound, as if the red-hot iron tongs had sunk into the ice and snow.

This statue, which was still well preserved in the great war hundreds of years ago, manifested a wound directly on the abdomen.

The moment the wound appeared, a terrifying black air flow suddenly rushed out from within.

At first glance, it looks like a tidal wave breaking through a dam, raging and irrepressible.

However, when Su Mo withdrew his hand, the wound on his abdomen quickly began to heal and quickly recovered as before.

Only the entire idol had lost a little luster, and it looked like porcelain about to break.

Although in the process of the crowd did not hear any words, nor did they do any more actions.

But what they saw in front of them was enough for them to know what was going on.

At this time, the leaking black air currents seemed to have found a gathering point, and they all converged together.

Immediately after that, it condensed into an illusory old man's human form.

The old man with white hair and a kind face looked at everyone on the field, smiled and said:

"I can sense the festival and ceremony you are organizing, presumably you are all descendants of Chenjia Village, right?

It's a good idea that you can come here today to redo the festival.

Now that the entire Chenjia Village has been destroyed due to the invasion of foreign evils, I, as the deity of Chenjia Village, feel very saddened by this.

It just so happens that now that you descendants have come, with my blessing, maybe you can rebuild Chenjia Village and repeat the glorious prosperity of previous years! ”

Listening to the words of the god of agriculture, everyone seemed to be able to feel his impatience.

Su Mo sighed and asked:

"Dare to ask the god of agriculture, where did the foreign evil that invaded Chenjia Village that day go?"

"Naturally, I suppressed it."

The god of agriculture stroked his beard and said with some smugness:

"That external evil is unexpectedly strong, thanks to Chenjia Village, with me, a local god.

If it were placed somewhere else, the whole city would have been destroyed. ”

Chen Shuo listened, and couldn't help but say in a strange manner:

"But even if Chenjia Village is garrisoned by a god like you, there are still heavy casualties, doesn't this mean that there are gods or no who are the same?"

"That's not true."

The god of agriculture said solemnly:

"It is precisely because Chenjia Village has me, the god, that can eliminate external evils and prevent him from continuing to go out and harm people.

If you change to another city and there are no gods stationed there, after the foreign evil devours the people, it will only become stronger and more harmful.

Although I was unable to save the villagers of Chenjia Village, it seems that I was a bit derelict in my duty.

But I saved more people outside of Chenjia Village, isn't that a credit? ”

"I already understand your words, and it's not impossible for us to worship you, but before I can do that, there is a question that needs to be answered through you."

Su Mo said in a deep voice.

When Saturnalia heard this, he smiled slightly:

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

Su Mo looked at the god of agriculture and asked in a condensed voice:

"Who sealed you here?"

(End of chapter)