Fried Salted Fish
Chapter 276 A Sage Strikes Someone
Central Northern Hongwu Avenue, four hundred yellow-faced Door Gods Qin Qiong brandished their tile-faced golden maces.
Central Ximen Avenue, Southern Huashi Avenue, Central Hongqiao Street, Southwestern Gaojing Avenue, Southwestern Pishi Street...
Door God Yuchi Gong, Slaughter God Fierce Zhang Fei, Zhao Saint Emperor Lord Zhao Yun, the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Erlang Shen, Nezha the Third Lotus Prince, the Four Heavenly Kings, the Four Sea Dragon Kings...
South Central Huowa Lane, Southeastern Mafu Street, Southeastern Taiping Street...
Kitchen God, Pear Garden God Emperor Tang Ming, Sesame Cake God Emperor Xuan of Han, Weaving God Zhang Heng, Weaving Goddess Weaver Girl, Earth and Wood God Patriarch Puan, Thunder Envoy Social Order Thunder God, Tea God Lu Yu, Lacquer Sculpture Painting God Wu Daozi, Book Immortal Cai Wenji, Brush God Meng Tian, Eye God Arhat, God of Poverty Longtou...
And the White-browed God, protector of brothels, and Fan Kuai, the Deer-head King, protector of peddlers, who were fabricated in Gusu.
Driven by the multitude of gods, transformed from divine statues, these wooden and clay figures came to life, endowed with form and spirit, and borrowing the incense offerings of millions of people, manifested and appeared before the Thirty-six Guards of Yingtian Prefecture and many White Lotus Society members!
A White Lotus Society Earth Immortal great cultivator saw this scene before him, the eight hundred Guan Gong now charging towards him!
At the same time, they all shouted: "I view you, young one, as if you were a marked head for sale!"
"Damn it! Attack!"
The White Lotus Society Earth Immortal great cultivator commanded the soldiers of the Southern Right Golden Guard, as well as other White Lotus Society disciples, to break through the blockade of these eight hundred Guan Gong at all costs. At this moment, the roar of Zhang Fei appeared on the adjacent street!
There was no particular meaning; due to the divine skill inherent in the divine statues themselves, they were formed by the fixed impressions of the people. Thanks to the circulation of *Romance of the Three Kingdoms*, the scene of Zhang Fei roaring at Dangyang Bridge was regarded as a classic. Therefore, on the adjacent street, because there were many butchers, every household enshrined Zhang Fei and Fan Kuai. Now that they appeared together, they were like the two Hemha generals, their voices shaking the heavens, causing countless White Lotus Society members and garrison soldiers to vomit blood!
And among this group of Zhang Fei and Fan Kuai, there would also be mixed in several Li Kui. The popularity of *Water Margin* also opened up the folk incense market for the Liangshan heroes...
"These are just false gods! They... they!"
The White Lotus Society Earth Immortal great cultivator spoke halfway, unable to continue, because even for folk divine positions, there must be wandering souls to inherit them, and the divine positions of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are not easy to inherit. Even the lowest-level false Guan Di must be recognized by Guan Gong's statue, which is related to the power of wishes.
But this group of things in front of him were obviously not true gods, but they were not transformed from wandering souls!
How they manifested before his eyes, how could he know!
"What's wrong with them?"
A soldier chief asked the great cultivator. The great cultivator said fiercely: "They are all demons possessing the divine statues! That's it, attack them for me!"
However, the national prestige on the soldiers was useless!
Because these gods also possessed national prestige!
"They are transformed by the wishes of millions of people. Unless these millions of people are not subjects of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise, the national prestige will be useless against them."
"Moreover, a considerable part of them have been officially conferred by emperors or dynasties of past generations."
"Those who have been officially conferred all possess national prestige. You should understand this, right?"
Shadow Soldiers twisted and appeared, outwardly appearing as Ji Xiang, appearing nearby, taunting the White Lotus Society great cultivator. The White Lotus Society cultivator was shocked, because how did this "person" appear beside him without him even noticing!
"Who goes there!"
The "Ji Xiang" transformed by the Shadow Soldier did not answer at all, and ordered the Guan Gong:
"These people are all subordinates of treacherous officials of the current dynasty. They are heretical disciples, not righteous cultivators. Guan Di, please quickly take action to execute them here, so as to rectify the heavens!"
Buzz buzz buzz buzz!
Eight hundred Green Dragon Blades were swung, eight hundred large hands stroked their beautiful beards, and then... the light of the blades flickered!
The great saber suddenly slashed in front of him!
The White Lotus Society Earth Immortal great cultivator was shocked. He used a magical artifact to block the Green Dragon Blade, but found that this thing was extremely heavy, unlike something false!
Afterwards, the Green Dragon Blade was powerful and heavy, smashing the magical artifact, and even the White Lotus Society Earth Immortal great cultivator took a blow, and three fingers were directly chopped off!
"A pile of wooden divine statues, even if they have transformed into true gods, how can this wooden Green Dragon Blade still shatter my magical artifact!"
Qi and blood circulated, and these Guan Gong who came to kill actually had the level of Earth Immortals!
The White Lotus Society Earth Immortal great cultivator used his magic power and blew up the head of a Guan Gong with one blow, but the exploded head immediately turned into incense, and recovered as before in an instant!
An incense body, immortal and indestructible!
"How do you compare to Yan Liang and Wen Chou!"
This Guan Gong, whose head was exploded and recovered, roared, and then slashed over with a knife!
The White Lotus Society great cultivator cursed!
Yan Liang and Wen Chou are nothing!
I am an Earth Immortal, don't think that you can do whatever you want just because you have been consecrated!
But he could contend with Guan Gong here, but the other garrison soldiers and White Lotus Society disciples were simply no match for the Guan Gong legion. They were defeated at the first encounter! Soldiers gathered together can attack cultivators and demons. The most important thing is the national prestige on their bodies. Even if they are cultivators of the Ming court who do not possess national prestige, it is difficult to cause too much damage to soldiers with national prestige.
But this group of things, they are incense gods!
And they have all undergone the proper conferment of the Ming Dynasty!
The White Lotus Society great cultivator turned his head and saw that the other Earth Immortal cultivators were all blocked by several Guan Gong and could not break free. Most of the spells they practiced were similar to those of the Buddhist sect. After all, the head of the White Lotus General Church here was the Prince of Lu, with Buddhism as the main practice and Taoism as secondary, but Guan Gong also had the Garma body in Buddhism, so Buddhism was of little use to Guan Gong.
"Oh, Guan Gong was conferred the title of Xie Tian Protector of the Country Great Emperor in the tenth year of Wanli. You White Lotus Society disciples are only protected by a prince. Guan Gong's identity has been officially conferred by the emperor. Your national prestige is useless, and when you encounter Guan Gong's national prestige, it will naturally be shattered."
"Didn't you feel that the national prestige of this Yingtian Prefecture is continuously gathering higher and higher on these eight hundred Guan Gong?"
"The strength of this Guan Gong also depends on the amount of incense offered by the people. If the wishes of millions of people are equivalent to the Heavenly Heart Realm, and the wishes of ten thousand people have already reached the level of the Ascension Realm, then reducing it to Guan Gong, sacrificing it to him, and turning him into a true god, then at least, at least, he will have the strength of an Earth Immortal, right?"
The shadow Ji Xiang "reminded" from the side.
The White Lotus Society great cultivator's face turned pale!
Cold light shattered the sky, and several Green Dragon Blades slashed from above, below, and all four directions!
.......
Buzz buzz buzz!
"Damn it, the Door Gods are attacking people! The Door Gods are attacking people!"
"It's not even the first month yet, why are these people pasting Door Gods on their doors!"
Qin Qiong and Yuchi Gong jumped down from the gate, and the statues of the Door Gods ran out from each household, wielding golden maces and iron whips, and smashing wildly at the Ming army of Yingtian Prefecture! One whip struck down, the ghost ascended to heaven, gold and stone burst apart, and a huge explosion erupted!
And some houses also jumped out of old men wearing bamboo hats and raincoats, holding divine whips, listening to people outside shouting that Jiang Taigong had jumped down from the roof beam!
In Huowa Lane, which was gathered with fire tile workers, belonging to the working masses, there were many Kitchen Gods and Kitchen Goddesses. Now they were all blocking the lane. A team of Southern Garrison soldiers saw a divine battle erupting on the street not far away. A group of clay gods came to life and were attacking people everywhere. The vanguard of the Southern Garrison had been defeated. This team of prefecture soldiers was preparing to detour through Huowa Lane, but as soon as they entered, thousands of Kitchen Gods all turned their heads and stared straight at them with kind and charitable eyes.
Old men and old women, happy lane.
Gulu.
A centurion of the Southern Garrison swallowed his saliva and asked the hundred-household officer of this team of prefecture soldiers:
"Hundred-household, are we, are we going to fight? This is the Kitchen God..."
It is said that hitting the Kitchen God will shorten your life by at least three hundred days.
The hundred-household officer hardened his scalp and said with difficulty: "Now the prince's order is the most important thing, so what if it's the Kitchen God, attack for me!"
This team of prefecture soldiers rushed into Huowa Lane!
The Kitchen Gods picked up kitchen knives and spatulas!
And struck down from above!
And a giant spear suddenly flew out of Huowa Lane, smashing the hundred-household officer into mincemeat!
Only to see a black-armored divine general appear at the end of Huowa Lane.
Mount Heng's Wrathful King God, in Yingtian Prefecture there is a temple dedicated to the Southern Mountain, and one of the divine lords enshrined in it is Xiang Yu. But the incense is not flourishing, it is just an ordinary martial god in folk customs, and the scope of faith is small, and cannot be compared with Guan Gong.
.......
On the banks of the Qinhuai River, in the Confucius Temple, a powerful fist smashed out, hammering an Earth Immortal cultivator into mincemeat on the spot!
Only to see a huge statue wearing long clothes and five or six meters tall walk out!
Yingtian Prefecture's Confucius Temple, next to it is the Jiangnan Imperial Examination Hall, which was the largest imperial examination site in the entire Ming and Qing dynasties, with eight hundred Zhuangyuan, one hundred thousand Jinshi, and one million Juren from the early Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty!
And in this Confucius Temple, there is a divine lord worshipped by the entire Yingtian, from royalty and nobles to peddlers and hawkers!
Confucius!
Beside the Confucius Temple, there also appeared several people, Yan Hui, Zeng Shen, Meng Ke....
On the banks of the Qinhuai River, some of the government troops who had finally arrived here saw the Confucian sages walking out of the temple, and then swinging their arms around, blocking the road ahead!
And Confucius found the fallen Prince of Lu, and stomped directly with his big feet!
At the critical moment, Fire Lord and Crown Prince Liejie appeared, and with a wave of their hands, used Fire Escape, disappearing from the spot!
Some thousand-household officers of the Yingtian Prefecture army arrived here, did not see the Prince of Lu, but ran head-on into Confucius.
What awaited them was a fist as big as an iron pot!
"The sage is attacking people!"
Among all the divine lords in Yingtian, there is no true god stronger than Confucius!
.......
The great changes that took place in Yingtian shocked even Qin Nuxiu, who was killing in all directions in the clouds. She was stunned for a moment, and used her immortal eyes to watch Yingtian, and found that folk gods were appearing in various places, and in large numbers, and were fighting with the Thirty-six Guards of Yingtian Prefecture and the numerous cultivators of the White Lotus Society!
She saw that Prince Lu did not wait for the soldiers to come to rescue him. Crown Prince Liejie and Fire Lord took him away and transferred his position, using Fire Escape to go to Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum.
"Ran away using escape techniques."
And seeing Prince Lu transfer, the wandering monk naturally did not dare to stay here, and immediately flew away, while the other Earth Immortal cultivators were granted a great pardon, including Jiang Quzi and Bai Wuzi, and fled towards the outside like their lives depended on it!
In an instant, the Thirty-six Golden Light Bodhisattvas turned into thick incense and scattered in Yingtian!
Bearing the brunt of blocking a Celestial Immortal, more than a moment had passed, and more than a dozen Yuanshen had already died. If it was any longer, they would not be able to save their own lives!
But in front of the Ascension Realm, it is meaningless for ordinary Yuanshen to escape.
Qin Nuxiu waved a palm, and the palm turned into a knife, immediately spanning the center of heaven and earth! Now that the Thirty-six Golden Light Bodhisattva Great Array had been broken, and the wandering monk and other experts had also retreated, did the remaining Yuanshen and the like still think they could escape from her blade light!
"Without the two Refinement Gods holding spiritual weapons, and without the Great Cultivator of the Pure Yang Realm, people in the Innate Realm are quick on their feet, and they may be able to escape by riding the six-colored auspicious clouds, but you Yuanshen Huangting, riding four or five-colored clouds, also want to escape from my hands?"
After saying that, she suddenly began to sing:
"The swan flies high, taking off a thousand miles in one fell swoop.
Its wings are ready, traversing the four seas.
The north wind howled, and the shape of a giant swan spread its wings. At this time, a fortune descended from the Dao of Heaven, seemingly from that fortune dragon. Qin Nuxiu felt the weakening of this fortune and could not help but sigh:
"The fortune of the Han Dynasty has declined, and now less than one in ten thousand remains. For fourteen hundred years, dynasties have changed, and how many things of ancient and modern times have been swept away by the rain and wind."
"The awe-inspiring person is as if still here."
"Who says the Han Dynasty is dead."
The Swan Song, using the song to transform into a blade of light, entrusting fortune to it. If it was in the Han Dynasty, using this blade, it would be able to break the Thirty-six Golden Light Bodhisattva Great Array with a casual strike, but it is not possible now. The fortune of the Han Dynasty has weakened to the point where it can only kill petty thieves, and it is difficult to make any great achievements against those peak human experts.
One blade covered the heavens and the earth, and all the Yuanshen cultivators were killed, and the clouds in the sky were cleared, and only the dazzling stars outside the sky could be seen.
One thousand four hundred years, even the stars have moved a little bit, and the millennium of the outer mountains and rivers and the millennium of the inner mountains and rivers cannot be regarded as the same.
Qin Nuxiu exclaimed: "The Gate of Heaven opens, vast and boundless, Mu Bing gallops, to attend the feast. The light illuminates the night, virtue and faith are evident, the spirit permeates the vastness, and immortality is joyful..."
During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the gods greatly opened the Gate of Heaven, and the Taiyi Immortal manifested, seen by Emperor Wu.
Legend has it that after Emperor Wu died, his spirit ascended to immortality through this Gate of Heaven, never to return to the human world.
"That's right, where's that kid?"
Qin Nuxiu looked around and did not find Ji Xiang's true body. She descended to an alley and saw the Shadow Soldier transformed into Ji Xiang's appearance.
"You are... a transformation of Little Xiang?"
Qin Nuxiu looked at this Shadow Soldier with interest. The Shadow Soldier nodded: "An incarnation outside the body."
"Why were you standing with Prince Lu, that treacherous official, and now you are rebelling against him? What's going on?" Qin Nuxiu asked.
The Shadow Soldier asked: "How did Elder Sister appear here, and even assassinate the Prince? What grudges does Prince Lu have with you?"
Mentioning grudges, Qin Nuxiu seemed to lose some interest: "That divine general from the Jinshan Water Mansion, he's his subordinate, right? I wouldn't want to kill someone just because of a divine general who went astray, but some of the things Prince Lu did, I occasionally noticed them while I was looking for my two teachers."
"Most importantly, someone gave me benefits and asked me to intercept and kill him here. I figured that killing him would be eliminating harm for the people anyway, helping this Ming Dynasty court solve a rebellious prince. Now there are not even a few immortals in this world. If this prince ascends to immortality, then the emperor of this Ming Dynasty can also be replaced."
"Deliberately waiting until before ascending to immortality to act, is to fear that acting before will startle the snake. He himself is also a top expert in the Pure Yang Realm. Although he can't beat me, if he wants to run, I definitely won't be able to find him."
The Shadow Soldier was curious: "The one who asked Elder Sister to kill, could it be Vajrapani?"
"Oh? How did you know?"
Qin Nuxiu looked at the Shadow Soldier curiously: "That big black-faced Vajra is not bad, much more polite than the Celestial Immortals I met on the Ten Continents and Three Islands before."
"I don't have any ill feelings towards Buddhism. When I killed someone back then, Emperor Huan of Han saved my life. He himself was the Buddha Emperor of the White Horse Temple. This big black-faced Vajra said that his teacher when he entered Buddhism was the abbot of the White Horse Temple, who was also Emperor Huan of Han's teacher. In this relationship, I helped him kill this prince out of old friendship."
"As for the benefits given to me, here."
Qin Nuxiu threw a small box to the Shadow Soldier: "Take it back to your true self. This thing can help you ascend to immortality again."
"I don't have anything particularly needed in the world, but I remember that your cultivation is almost crippled, so I asked for something for you."
The Shadow Soldier was stunned, and even Ji Xiang's main body in Fuli was also stunned, and then fell silent.