Chapter 198: Chiseling the Mountain to Save the God Looking at the people carrying shovels and hoes, rubbing their hands, as if they were going to rush to the battlefield the next moment after drinking tea. For a moment, Jiang Lin and Tu Shanyu were both confused. The two looked at each other. Jiang Lin raised his hand and said, "Boss, please help me." "What do you want, sir?" The boss was an old man. After hearing Jiang Lin's greeting, he put down the hoe in his hand and came straight to Jiang Lin. Jiang Lin pointed at the people around him and asked softly, "Boss, what are you guys going to do?" "At this time of year, the busy farming season should have passed, right?" The boss heard this, looked around, and replied as a matter of course: "We are going to save God." "what?"
Jiang Lin was stunned when he heard this, and Tu Shanyu beside him also looked over with some confusion. The old man simply pointed around and said, "We all have to go." The conversation here has attracted a lot of people's attention. Some people looked over and gave Jiang Lin a kind smile. Jiang Lin nodded in return, thought for a moment and then asked, "Which god wants you to save?" Hearing this, the old man raised his hand and pointed to the mountain not far away, saying, "Grandpa Mountain God." Jiang Lin and Tu Shanyu looked at each other, the former stood up, walked out of the tea stall and looked towards the mountain. Tu Shanyu continued to ask: "Old man, the power of gods is beyond the imagination of mortals like us, so why do they need mortals to save them?" The old man looked at the people around him again, seemed to estimate the time, and then simply sat down. "You are a foreigner and don't know our customs, so it's understandable, but please don't say what you just said." "People here don't have to believe in the Mountain God, but if you say something bad about him, you'll be stabbed in the back." Tu Shanyu didn't have any intention of refutation, he just nodded and said, "Please enlighten me, old man." The old man said: "Our area is not very prosperous, but we live by the mountains and eat the mountains, so at least we can have a bite to eat." "The mountain god is merciful and has set a rule that we are not allowed to go up the mountain in winter, but the next year there will always be abundant vegetation, and we can take medicinal herbs or firewood to support our families." "It's just that you are not allowed to kill too many animals. But if a hunter goes up the mountain, as long as he controls his greed, he will always gain something and will not return empty-handed." "So, over the years, although we are not rich, we are safe, happy and self-sufficient." "But things have changed in recent years..." The old man looked at the mountain not far away, called Benshan, and said, "The mountain god no longer appears. No matter how solemnly we perform sacrifices, there is no response. But before this, even if a child made an altar on the mountain and worshipped the mountain god, he would always have a good dream that night." "We even tried to mobilize the whole county to hold a big temple fair, hoping that even if the mountain god was angry about our waste, we would ask him to show up and rebuke us." "Ten years. It's been ten years."
The old man sighed, stroking his hoe, and said, "Over the past ten years, the vegetation on the mountain has become increasingly sparse. No matter how hard we try to maintain it, it withers year by year." "Later, the county magistrate invited a Feng Shui master, who said that our Benshan Mountain had lost its spirituality." "because……" When the old man said this, he tightly gripped the hoe with his withered hands, and there was anger in his old and turbid eyes. "The mountain god is trapped under the mountain!" "Without the power of the mountain god, Benshan will naturally wither!" "It was only then that we realized that it wasn't that the Mountain God had given up on us, but that he had been suppressed by the so-called Heavenly Rules!" "The gods in heaven said that our mountain god has committed a crime!" "You bastard! I don't accept it!" In the end, the old man even roared in anger. Tu Shanyu couldn't help but turn his head and look at the people present. Everyone stood up, holding various farm tools in their hands. No one spoke, they just filed out and headed towards Benshan in silence. "These two cups of tea are my treat to you. Please help me close the door and hang up a sign when you leave." After the old man finished speaking, he turned around and followed the people away. When he reached the door, he bumped into Jiang Lin who had just returned. He nodded at Jiang Lin and passed by him silently. Jiang Lin watched the old man and the people walking away, then walked over to Tu Shanyu and sat down. "Master, how is it?" Tu Shanyu knew that Jiang Lin had just gone to check out the foundation of that Benshan Mountain. "The mountain god here is waiting for punishment." Jiang Lin said softly: "According to the rules of the Heavenly Court, if a god is impeached and the allegations are substantiated, the god must not use his divine power without authorization and must wait for the inspector of the Tianshu Court to come and investigate." "But it doesn't mean that he will be imprisoned and await punishment." Jiang Lin turned around and looked in the direction of Ben Shan, and said, "Or, the supervisory envoy has already obtained substantial evidence and is temporarily detaining him, waiting to be brought to the Heavenly Court for trial." "Or, this immortal god did not abide by the rules of heaven and still used his divine power during the waiting period." Tu Shanyu listened quietly and found that what Jiang Lin said was almost the same as what the old man had just said. "Do you think it's the former or the latter?" Jiang Lin did not answer, but a dark gilded light flashed in his eyes, and he said: "There is the aura of the Supervisory Envoy on Ben Mountain." "But I don't know the specific situation." Tu Shanyu said: "Then let's go and take a look."
Jiang Lin nodded, and the two of them stood up together and walked towards Benshan. On this journey of less than ten miles, the two men encountered quite a few people. No, not quite a few, but a lot. The closer they got to the foot of Ben Mountain, the more there were. From the elderly to the young children, every citizen was gathering at the foot of Ben Mountain. Jiang Lin raised his head and looked towards the top of Ben Mountain. There, there is a figure that is invisible to mortals. The man was wearing the standard star robe of the Tianshu Academy's supervisory envoy. He seemed to have noticed Jiang Lin's gaze and bowed slightly to Jiang Lin. Jiang Lin only took a glance and then looked away without paying too much attention. But the supervisory envoy simply looked away and looked indifferently at the people who had gathered together. From where he looked, the common people, not much bigger than ants, were slowly crawling and gathering together. A disdainful smile appeared on the corner of the inspector's mouth. Just a bunch of ants. ………… At the foot of Benshan Mountain. When Jiang Lin and Tu Shanyu arrived, a large number of people had already gathered here. "More than 20,000..." Tu Shanyu stood beside Jiang Lin and spoke softly. Jiang Lin didn't say anything, but just looked at a high pile of earth that was temporarily built. There is an altar on it, with three sacrificial animals neatly placed on the altar. There are a dozen elderly men in their octogenarians, silently worshipping and chanting scriptures. "Sacrifice!" An old man in the lead shouted, and then all the people knelt down. The incense from the famous mountain was burning, and under the blessing of the people's wishes, the incense turned into a torrent and flowed straight to Benshan. However, this pure incense, which was condensed from the power of incense and wishes, the most sincere faith of the people in the mountain god, and the coveted by countless immortals and gods, was not accepted by Benshan. Instead, he allowed the incense to dissipate. The mountain god of Benshan not only did not respond to the incense and prayers of the people under his rule, but directly rejected them! The people were not surprised. If it were usual, they would be disappointed, reflect, burn petitions, and beg the mountain god to appear again, even if it was to scold or even bring a disaster, so that they would know where they had gone wrong to make the originally kind and compassionate mountain god so determined. But now, the people all know. It's not that the mountain god doesn't respond to their sacrifices and incense, but... "Old and young masters!"
The county magistrate was wearing a green official robe, holding a hoe high in his hand, his face flushed. The energy-cultivating skills he had gained from reading the Four Books and Five Classics had been thrown away. "I have been governing Dingfeng County for more than eight years under the order of the Emperor. I believe I have never been stupid! I have long considered myself a local!" "Now! I, the old man, have the audacity to ask you for a word!" As he spoke, the county magistrate picked up a bowl of wine, drank it all, then raised his arm in anger and threw the bowl to the ground. Accompanied by a "pop" sound, the county magistrate's hoarse roar sounded. "The damned God suppressed our mountain god!" "Do you fucking admit it?!" Once a word is spoken, thousands of people will follow! "deny!" "deny!" "deny!" Unity is no longer an empty phrase at this moment, but an extremely apt description. The county magistrate weighed the hoe in his hand, turned around and looked in the direction of Benshan. "Fuck the gods! Fuck the rules!" "It's not your turn to judge whether the Mountain God is guilty or not!" "The mountain that nurtured our ancestors has imprisoned our own gods!" "Damn it! I don't recognize it!" "Old and young men! Dig!" "cut!!!" More than 20,000 people shouted these two words almost at the same time. All the people swarmed to Benshan, led by the county magistrate and a group of old men! The massive project began. Twenty thousand people may sound like a lot, but compared to the towering mountains, they were so small. The people did not know what kind of punishment their behavior would bring. They also didn't know that even if Benshan was hollowed out, the mountain god imprisoned in the small world of gods would not be freed. They only know one thing. Dig up the stupid mountain and rescue our God! "The power of will..." Tu Shanyu stared blankly. In her eyes, the wishes of millions of people were rising at this moment, and even the gods would look at them with awe! She murmured to herself, "Once upon a time, the old man told me that when he was controlling the flood, millions of people followed him and were united in their hearts. Even the Emperor of Heaven would be terrified." "I have never been able to imagine what that scene would be like, but now..." Tu Shanyu saw it. Although these more than 10,000 people may be just a fraction of a fraction compared to the countless ancestors who helped Dayu control the floods.
But the unity of everyone's wish is no different. Jiang Lin was also watching the scene and couldn't help but ask, "Do you think the people are fools?" This question was very strange and abrupt, but Tu Shanyu understood what Jiang Lin meant. She shook her head and said, "Grandpa once said that the people of the human race are the simplest and the most complicated, but there is one thing that is true." “They will always remember whoever is good to them.” "Yes, they will always remember whoever is good to them." Jiang Lin repeated Tu Shanyu's words and looked towards the top of Ben Mountain. There, the shadow of the supervisory envoy had disappeared without a trace. "What crime has such a mountain god committed?" Tu Shanyu shook her head slightly. What crime did the mountain god commit that could make the people spontaneously and recklessly do such a thing? What crime could he have committed? Jiang Lin knew very well that merits were merits and faults were faults, and they could not be confused. But the problem is that the mountain god is the god of people's livelihood, and his power is both great and small. The crimes that a god of people's livelihood can commit are nothing more than betraying the people, neglecting management, causing disasters to occur in the area under his jurisdiction, or even practicing evil ways and performing living sacrifices. But the God of Stupid Mountain in front of him was obviously not the case. That's why Jiang Lin was curious about what kind of sin the local mountain god had committed? Moreover, what did the note say, asking me to come to this stupid mountain? What did it mean for me to come here? Did you know that the people here would spontaneously dig the mountain to save the gods, so you came to watch the fun? Obviously there is more to it than that. Thinking in his heart, Jiang Lin called out to Tu Shanyu, took a step forward, and shortened the distance to an inch. Soon he arrived at the top of Ben Mountain. As I stepped onto Benshan Mountain, I felt a slight trembling sensation. Jiang Lin knew that it was an illusion. This mountain had roots. Even if it didn't, it would not shake without any wind or waves. But the feeling is real. It was because of the wishes of the people living at the foot of the mountain that shook the mountain spirit. Jiang Lin felt the vibration and looked not far away. There, a figure appeared. It was the inspector from Tianshu Academy who had just greeted Jiang Lin from a distance. "Little God Tan Daoxian, I greet the Master." The inspector who called himself Tan Daoxian was a middle-aged man with meticulously combed hair, with a few strands of white hair here and there. His temperament is gentle and elegant, and every move he makes carries a soothing ancient charm. The first impression given is that this inspector will be easy to get along with. "Meet the messenger."
Jiang Lin nodded in return. Although there was a struggle between the Celestial Beings and the Ascension Department, and it was almost exposed, not every immortal was caught up in the struggle. Even if it is the case, one should still be respectful. After all, the other party did not offend Jiang Lin, right? "The messenger also saw the movement below the mountain." Jiang Lin pointed to the foot of the mountain and said, "I am a wandering official and I shouldn't make any comments. But the people are so agitated. If there is no good explanation, I'm afraid it will cause even greater chaos." "So, may I ask the messenger, what crime has the mountain god of this place committed? Can you please show up, or let the mountain god come out and explain it to the people?" When Tan Daoxian heard Jiang Lin's words, he looked somewhat helpless and said, "Master, your words are too serious, but the sins committed by the mountain god here are indeed not easy to tell to mortals..." He even subconsciously looked around, as if to make sure that no one could eavesdrop, before he looked at Jiang Lin and spoke. "The crime committed by the mountain god here is..." "They concealed the incense offerings, deceived the people, and enriched themselves." (End of this chapter)