Chapter 461: Chapter 325: Thousands of Ghosts Come to Pay Tribute!
Soul Differentiation, Possession Manifestation!
This is the realm of Daoist primordial spirit cultivation.
Xu Yang had mastered soul differentiation and possession manifestation after transforming his primordial spirit into the pure Yang state by breaking through the Divine Transcendence Realm on Helan Mountain and refining a patch of “Thunder Sea”.
Xiao Yu was the first living being that Xu Yang “possessed”.
At that time, Xu Yang had unlocked Xiao Yu’s spiritual intelligence, allowing her to obtain the “demon immortal inheritance” and quickly cultivation into a great demon comparable to the Martial Arts Celestial Phenomenon Realm.
He attached a strand of divine thought to the clay statue, and at this moment, when “Possession Manifestation” took effect, he controlled the clay statue’s body.
Listening to the question from the giant stone statue, Xu Yang laughed and said, “I am me, not the reincarnation of anyone… As for my rapid cultivation progress… it’s probably related to my talent and diligence.”
The giant stone statue was momentarily taken aback.
Even with its thousand-year wisdom, it had never seen someone so boastful about themselves.
It then transformed into a middle-aged man with a goatee, wearing a black robe. Sitting in a chair, he said indifferently, “With such achievements in just a few months of cultivation, your future is limitless. Now you take the risk of meeting me, are you not afraid that I’ll kill you?”
Xu Yang controlled the clay statue to shake its head.
The middle-aged man said, “You’re quite daring, not fearing me at all.”
Xu Yang replied, “City God, you have misunderstood. I am not here to see you because I am brave… it’s because you don’t have enough qualifications to kill me.”
“Hmm?”
The middle-aged man was furious, and with a sudden slap on the armrest, he rose to his feet, his eyes flashing with a cold light as he sneered, “A mere Daoist Sage, who somehow achieved Daoist primordial spirit cultivation… Do you think you can be arrogant in the presence of this City God with such trivial skills?”
Boom!
At his outburst, the entire City God Temple trembled.
Outside the City God Temple, the gray fog surged, and the statues all opened their eyes, turning their heads simultaneously towards Xu Yang. Instantly, a wide range of strong and weak auras permeated, forming an immense pressure.
However, Xu Yang’s soul was now pure Yang, and he had made significant progress in spiritual power through multiple Divine Transcendence Realm talisman formations!
This kind of pressure was nothing to him.
He controlled the clay statue, his tone turning cold, and scolded harshly:
“How audacious!”
“You’re nothing but a bunch of dogs! I’m talking to you calmly and peacefully to give you some face!”
“Don’t take my kindness for granted!”
City God: “…”
He had initially wanted to give Xu Yang a taste of his power, but he didn’t expect that Xu Yang would “turn the tables,” giving him a taste of it instead.
After a moment of shock, his killing intent was revealed, and he roared angrily, “Boy… How dare you speak to this City God like that as a junior…”
Boom!
His body was enveloped in gray mist, and he suddenly sent a palm strike.
Crack!
The clay statue instantly shattered into pieces. From within the statue, a strand of gray flow flew out, screaming, “Sir… Why are you hitting me?”
The voice belonged to the land deity.
Xu Yang’s strand of divine consciousness safely retreated at the moment the City God attacked.
“Damn it!”
Cursing inwardly, the City God coldly ordered, “Go, bring that boy to me… Today, this City God will break his vow and kill!”
“Yes!”
Outside the City God Temple.
The numerous stone statues rose one after another, preparing to head outside.
“No need to search.”
At this moment, Xu Yang’s voice came.
He, along with Chen Jingzhou and Pang Juan, had entered the “world” where the City God Temple ruins were located through the door.
With a flick of his wrist, a stream of light flew towards the City God.
The City God reached out and caught the stream of light. Upon closer inspection, he found it to be a white jade token.
Meanwhile, the stone statues attacked Xu Yang.
“Hold on!”
The next moment, the City God shouted.
He stopped the stone statues, staring intensely at the white jade token in his hand, unable to control the trembling of his body.
“Ding!”
“The City God has been frightened, Merit Points +10000, Constitution +1, Geomantic Omen Control +1.”
In Xu Yang’s mind, the system notification sounded.
Xu Yang glanced at the system panel.
What the hell was Geomantic Omen Control +1?
He was not a “god,” so could he also control geomantic forces?
However, there was no time for him to study it at this moment. Instead, he said coldly, “As you recognize the Emperor’s decree, why haven’t you knelt yet?”
The City God’s legs weakened, and he fell to his knees with a thud.
He respectfully placed the white jade decree in front of him, knocked his head on the ground three times, and trembled, “Xingqing Prefecture City God, greetings to Your Majesty!”
This City God was granted his title by the Heaven and Earth in ancient times.
Silver City was called Xingqing Prefecture back then.
Xu Yang reached out into the air, grabbed the decree, and casually said, “Rise.”
The City God bowed his head to the ground, “I dare not… I didn’t know your identity, and I offended you. I hope you can forgive me, Your Majesty.”
Beside them,
Chen Jingzhou and Pang Juan were dumbfounded and couldn’t help but ask, “Director Xu, what is this… Emperor’s decree? Why is a City God so fearful of it?”
“The Emperor’s decree represents Emperor Beiyin of Fengdu. Of course, a tiny City God would be afraid.”
After hearing the system prompt in his mind, Xu Yang said to the City God, “You’ve mistaken me for someone else. I am not the Emperor Beiyin of Fengdu.”
“Ah?”
The City God raised his head, full of confusion, “May I ask… who are you, sir?”
You’re not the emperor, and yet you dare to use his tone to tell me to “rise”?
However, he knew in his heart that anyone who could obtain the Imperial Decree was no ordinary person – at least not someone he could provoke. Even if he had transformed into an evil deity now, he only did so to survive, not wanting to force himself into a dead end.
Reaching out into the air, Xu Yang pulled over the chair the City God was sitting on, sat down with a cigarette in his hand, looking down at the kneeling City God, and said, “You don’t need to know about my identity. You only need to know… With one word from me, the experts from the Underworld will immediately come to the human world to eliminate you.”
“Ding!”
“After being frightened, the City God’s merit value increased by +10000, physical constitution +1, and mastery of geomantic omen +1.”
The City God respectfully begged, “Spare my life, Your Excellency!”
“Whether you will be spared or not depends on your performance.”
Xu Yang waved his hand and said, “You all are the official deities granted by Heaven and Earth, who should have guarded the human world and protected the people. Yet now, you have turned into evil deities, which is a violation of the Underworld’s Heavenly Palace’s decree. You should be thrown into the eighteen layers of hell and never be reincarnated for eternity!”
The City God wailed, “Your Excellency… We only did this to survive. Six hundred years ago, the spiritual aura in the human world dried up, and the Dao fell silent… Eventually, the people even overthrew our temples, and if we did not transform into evil deities, we would undoubtedly die!”
“In order to transform into evil deities, we collected resentment and evil qi from the corpses on the battlefield.”
“After we transformed into evil deities, we have never done any evil deeds outside…”
Xu Yang questioned, “What about the people in those residential buildings?”
“I brought those people into the domain to draw on their power of faith in incense and restore my cultivation realm.”
The City God bowed again.
Outside, a group of stone statues knelt down one after another and spoke, asking the City God for mercy, “The City God did this only to restore his strength as soon as possible and prepare to go to the Underworld…to stand up for us!”
“Although our deity status is small, we once protected the people, and if not for our contributions, at least for our hard work!”
“Why would it be us who got abandoned?”
“Abandoned by Heaven, Earth, and the people?”
A group of stone statues each expressed their grievances.
After listening to them, Xu Yang fell into silence.
Like the Great Priest of Xuan Mountain Temple who had turned into evil deities, and the Land Deity who had joined the Asura Sect, although their initial goal was to survive as well, they relied on harming innocent people to complete the transformation.
Moreover, after turning into evil deities, they caused chaos and wreaked havoc everywhere.
However, the “evil deities” in front of him had not hurt anyone.
The City God even presented his “accusation document”, which contained thousands of words detailing his plan to visit the higher-ups of the Underworld to seek justice for his subordinates’ many “evil deities.”
After reading the document, Xu Yang said, “Since you’re already an evil deity, entering the Underworld will only make you the first target of their crackdown…even if you manage to submit this document, your position as a City God – the high-ranking official representing the Underworld in the human world – turned evil deity would at least result in you being thrown into the eighteen layers of hell to save face for the Underworld!”
The City God passionately said, “Instead of surviving by dishonourable means in the human world, I prefer to sacrifice my life for my brothers and seek a way out for them… Currently, the Yin-Yang Path has opened up, and the Black and White Impermanence are catching ghosts everywhere with their ghost officials, arresting evil deities…”
“Sigh!”
Xu Yang sighed.
He wanted to say, “Putting aside the facts, isn’t it a sin for you guys to transform into evil deities?”
But he couldn’t bring himself to say those words, so he said, “You don’t need to go to the Underworld… I’ll help you deal with the accusation document, and I can help you explain things to the Black and White Impermanence too… But there’s a condition!”
“Do not harm people in the human world.”
“Otherwise, even if the Black and White Impermanence won’t kill you, I won’t let you go either.”
Overjoyed, the City God and the stone statues asked, “Really?”
Xu Yang stood up, displeased, “Whenever I, Xu Yang, speak, my words are as good as gold. How could there be any falsehood?”
The City God continued, “Then… should we withdraw this domain?”
Xu Yang nodded, then shook his head, “Don’t worry about withdrawing it now. There are still many ghosts inside, and if the domain is withdrawn, won’t they all escape?”
“I’ll contact the Black and White Impermanence later, and have them bring the ghost officials over. Once we’re done dealing with these ghosts, it won’t be too late to withdraw the domain.”
“As for you all…”
“I’ll go to the Ghost Market first, and when I’m done, I’ll contact Lord Cui to find you a proper arrangement.”
After leaving the City God Temple and returning to Wu City, it was already past 9 pm.
The house was empty.
All the women had already gone to the Ghost Market.
Xu Yang found a barbecue joint, called Ma Long, and they planned to have some late-night snacks before going to the Ghost Market.
More than half an hour later, Ma Long arrived.
He complained, “Old Xu, what’s going on… Why is Wu City so gloomy tonight? I see ghostly shadows filling the sky, thousands of ghosts are coming, and it seems that many ghosts are rushing to Wu City… There isn’t going to be some major event happening, is there?”
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