Chapter 238: Faith That Never Dies

Sanxiu luckily picked up a life from the weak water and returned to the real wind and rain.

Because of the illusory shadow of the temple that was imprinted in his heart, his cultivation not only stagnated, but declined more and more, and even the power of faith that crossed the ten-mile realm through wind and rain failed to pour into his divine soul, as if he was paid tribute to the temple in his heart.

The dignified river god has since become a vessel for the beliefs of others.

Even more serious than these is the loose Dao mind, just like a king who looks down on the world and suddenly falls into the world, and still becomes the kind of person at the bottom of society, living a lowly and humiliating life, and anyone who encounters this kind of thing will collapse their faith.

Under such a multifaceted torture, the scattered cultivation that had once changed from the immortal path to the divine path has since collapsed.

Fortunately, the wind and rain have been smooth all year round, and there have never been natural or man-made disasters, so even if the scattered cultivation is no longer what it used to be, no one has found it, on the contrary, those people who have been sheltered in his divine domain have attributed all such merits to the protection of the river god.

The incense is flourishing year by year, and the power of faith is about to condense into a river.

But none of this has anything to do with casual cultivation, not only does he not enjoy these worldly beliefs, but he is getting older and older, and in just a few decades, he seems to be a hundred years old.

Originally, the life span of a cultivator was longer than that of mortals in the world, although he could not live forever, he could live to be more than 100 years old, but the temple in his heart not only devoured the faith that originally belonged to him, but also devoured the essence in his body.

The boat was still floating on the vast and weak water, and even though it had been a long time since they had set out from the shore, there was still no trace of the other side.

The fragrance on the ship has changed too much compared to some time ago, and the smoke that was originally oppressive has become holy and clean at this moment, and there is a feeling of being in a real river temple.

Like the Inspiration King, Ning Shu knew how terrible it was for a god to collapse his original faith, and for mortals, it was even more serious for a god who had absorbed faith in itself, not to mention that there were other marks of faith in his heart that did not belong to him.

Just like the Daomen and the Divine Dynasty, there are different from each other, and even the opposite concepts of water and fire, if a Daomen monk is forcibly brought over, it is very difficult to instill in him the concept that the Divine Dynasty is mainly mundane, and it is even more unrealistic to let a person like Ning Shu of the Divine Dynasty accept the view that the Daomen is above the world.

If you forcibly indoctrinate with spells, you are afraid that a normal person will become a stupid person.

For the encounter of the old river god, it is particularly cruel.

When Ning Shu was in Ping'an City, he once heard the old man tell such a story.

There is a very strange insect in the mountains, this kind of insect is in the shape of lines, like dry wire, and what is more terrifying than its appearance is its way of survival. This insect does not die like other insects, or it breaks out of its cocoon until it dies of old age.

It was born in the body of other insects, relying on the nutrients of other insects to survive, and the insects that were invaded by this insect have lost their lives since then, and have been controlled by this wire-like insect all their lives, like a walking corpse.

Folklore says that dead corpses are called zombies, so these zombies that lose their lives and are housed in their bodies and controlled by other things are called zombie bugs.

Ning Shu had seen the tomb ghost, whose body was a spirit, occupying the dead corpse for cultivation, this kind of entry and control only after he was dead, compared to entering when he was alive, the continuous erosion was not so cruel.

It is more uncomfortable to see yourself die, become someone else's puppet, and have no power to change this situation, than to die.

Looking at the old river god in front of him, Ning Shu didn't know what to say.

The old river god shook his head, sighed and said, "The rest of the stories are all because of unwillingness. ”

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There are no disasters all year round, and the scattered cultivation is not noticed by people The weakening of divine power.

But there are unforeseen circumstances.

I don't know when a fish demon came in the wind and rain.

This fish demon is the Heaven Swallowing King from the Infinite Mountain.

When I first came, there was no big movement, presumably because I had heard of the prestige of the river god here, and I didn't dare to cause trouble, but over time, it noticed that the state of the loose cultivation was not good, and a struggle ensued.

If the loose cultivation is at its peak, he can naturally suppress this Heaven Swallowing King with one hand, but his state is indeed too poor, not only the divine power and essence in his body are exhausted, but even the power of faith cannot be used, and after a few rounds of fighting, he was beaten into the river by the demonic Heaven Swallowing King, and fled back to the River Temple.

The people of Nanlian Village did not know the root cause, but the river god they believed in suddenly lost the ability to protect themselves, so they despaired.

The Heaven Swallowing King is the younger brother of the King of Inspiration, and naturally knows how to destroy a god, so it asks for a sacrifice from Nanlian Village, and asks for the incense that has traveled ten miles through the wind and rain to it.

He had leaned on the stone pillar in front of the river temple and seen the people he sheltered throwing children into the river as sacrifices, and he had seen desperate people who had lost their livelihood because the waters had been controlled and committed suicide by throwing themselves into the river.

Compared to the lack of his divine power, these pictures were like a knife in his eyes, slashing his body one by one.

The call of the world failed to get him back on his feet, and these calls for hope turned into a complaint of disappointment.

The temple collapsed, the idol was dusted, and the divinity was gone.

From prosperity to decline.

These are all seen by Sanxiu, but what makes him even more unacceptable are the people living in the haze.

And in terms of the choice of ways to solve all this, Sanxiu chose the only and most risky method.

It can also be said that there is no way out.

Tracing back to the roots, the source of everything is the temple rooted in his heart, and this temple is on the other side of the weak water.

Whether it is out of the duty to denigrate the gods, or the unwillingness to cultivate one's own heart...... In short, Sanshu once again embarked on the road to the sacred lake in the mountains.

This time, he didn't come back.

He is still at the peak of his cultivation, and he can't retreat in the weak water, how much can he do now that he is weak?

Since then, there has been one less river god in the ten-mile realm of wind and rain, and there is one more extradilist person standing on the flat boat on the weak water of the illusory world.

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The later story, Ning Shu and Xu Yuanxin both knew it and had already experienced it personally.

The King of Heaven Swallowing had no one to stop him from crossing the wind and rain for the sake of disaster, and even cast a spell to block the South Curtain Village and turn it into a forbidden area.

Xu Yuanxin left the Yuxu Palace, walked down the Kunlun Mountain, traveled all the way here, although he had the intention to punish the demon, but he was a step late and was escaped by the King of Swallowing Heaven, and finally found that this place was extraordinary, and after leaving a confinement talisman, he returned to the Yuxu Palace to read the classics.

Ning Shu went all the way south, passed by Nanyue, crossed the mountains, and rescued Mu Qing'er of Nanlian Village who went up the mountain to ask for help on the way, and then stayed in Qingxi Town to understand the truth of the matter and decided to go to Nanlian Village to eliminate demons, and finally with the help of secular faith, he entered the Shinto and successfully killed the King of Heaven Swallowing, and re-established the river god faith.

When Xu Yuanxin came back, he found that Ning Shu had successfully eliminated the demon, so he immediately invited Ning Shu to hunt for treasure together, and finally met the old river god who had been missing for a long time and fell into weak water.

After listening to this story, which has lasted for nearly a hundred years, even the old river god, who has recovered his senses and is a person who has experienced it firsthand, is also sighing.

"I'm sorry for the people who have traveled ten miles through the wind and rain. He said with a look of compassion on his face.

"The most important thing in life is that you can't help yourself. Ning Shu thought to himself, and then bowed sincerely to the old river god.

Although the old river god still failed to go back to save his people in the end, it is enough to be respectable just because he gave up the immortal path, entered the divine way, and sheltered the world for three hundred years.

"So what's in the temple on the other side of the river? What exactly is the heritage here?"

Ning Shu asked the key to the problem.

First of all, it is precisely because there is an illusory wind and rain crossing before the flood under this holy lake, and it is the weak water of the Tianhe River that flows in the wind and rain crossing that makes the old river god fall here, and it is also because the mysterious temple on the other side of the river erodes the soul of the old river god, which will lead to the later occupation of the river by the King of Heaven Swallowing.

And Ning Shu and Xu Yuanxin stayed in Nanlian Village because of this follow-up series of events, and came to the holy lake, the two of them had the same original goal as the old river god, that is, to find the inheritance.

But even after all of them have come to this stage, they still don't know what this so-called inheritance is.

The old river god shook his head when he heard this, and said: "It's not a secret, even if I have ended up like this, I still haven't seen that thing in the temple, when I came here for the second time, before I could react, the whole person fell into the weak water, and when I woke up again, I saw you." ”

"As for the inheritance here, I don't know the specifics, but when I was the god of the river, I saw a stone tablet at the bottom of the river, which recorded some legends and shallow spells, combined with my experience when I first came, if it is not bad, this inheritance should be a kind of law to the sky, and there may be a magic weapon, it is an innate magic weapon, because there is a high probability that this illusion before the flood is the evolution of that magic weapon. ”

Ning Shu and Xu Yuanxin glanced at each other and saw the surprise in each other's eyes.

Danger aside, this spell and magic weapon alone is enough to make people risk their lives to give it a try.

The law of heaven, the innate magic weapon.

This is the most precious thing in the two major realms of the cultivation world, especially the small world within, as well as the magic weapon of the weak water of the heavenly river.

Ning Shu had a semi-innate magic weapon in his hand, which could allow him to break through many killing games, and Xu Yuanxin seemed to be generous and threw out a copy of the Yuan Shen method towards Ning Shu, but she knew in her heart that such a method was rare even in the Jade Void Palace.

But it's all here.

The old river god sighed leisurely and said, "The two of you are younger, and the old man still has some things to ask you two for. ”