"Well, this, Master?" Wu Sheng looked at the void beside him.

Abbot Kongkong is not in the temple, so Monk Kongkong has the final say on this matter.

"Since everyone has come to ask for help, it doesn't matter if they put it away. But if such a big statue was moved here from Jinhua City, is it really okay?" Kong Kong said.

That statue is more than one foot tall, not to mention the long distance from Jinhua Road to Lanruo Temple. If such a big statue is moved, it will definitely attract people's attention. This is Lanruo's original intention.

"No, it's not that one." Lao Feng waved his hand.

"It's this one."

He untied the package on his body and took out a wooden statue from it. It was maroon red, only over a foot tall, lifelike, and looked exactly like the statue in the City God's Temple.

"This is the real statue. It has been hidden in the statue in the City God's Temple all these years." The old temple congratulated.

"It's still a little different."

Looking at the statue, Wu Sheng felt a special aura on it, as if there was something living in the statue.

"This can be temporarily stored in Lanruo Temple." Kong Kong said.

"Thank you, Master."

"You're welcome, let's put him in the side hall." Kong Kong thought for a while and said.

"Hey, please find a quieter place." Lao Miaozhu added.

"Easy to say."

Kong Kong took the old temple Zhu to the side hall, found a spot between the two Arhat statues, and placed the City God statue. Compared with the two tall Arhat statues, the City God statue was really small.

very.

"Thank you, Master, cough, cough, cough." Lao Miaozhu couldn't help coughing.

"It's getting late. Donor, please stay here tonight. Wu Sheng, go arrange a side room and let your senior brother prepare some fast food."

"good.

Wu Sheng went to prepare the room.

There are still many rooms in Lanruo Temple, but there are only a few places where people can live. The four of them lived in the four best rooms. After making arrangements, he went to see Monk Kong Kong.

"Master, do you think it is really appropriate for the statue of the City God to be placed in our Lanruo Temple?"

"There shouldn't be any problem with temporarily placing it, right?" Kong Kong said.

"Strictly speaking, the city god can be regarded as a local god, right?"

"So, the City God is originally the god of the underworld, managing the affairs of the underworld." Monk Kong Kong thought for a while.

"What could be the reason why he might lose his soul? Why don't he go to other places and come so far to a place like ours where birds don't shit?" Wu Sheng continued to ask.

"No life."

"Um?"

"There's a lot of bird droppings in the yard, haven't you seen it?"

"I'm off topic, Master!"

"Oh, in this case, I will go and have a good talk with the temple Zhu later and ask him to talk to the City God. When I go to bed tonight, I will ask the City God to tell me a dream and ask him to ask these things clearly. He will tell us tomorrow. You

What do you think?" Kong Kong said.

"That's fine. Anyway, the abbot is not here and you have the final say. If anything goes wrong, you are responsible for it," Wu Sheng said.

The empty monk smiled and turned around to go to the room where Zhu Zhu temporarily rested in the old temple.

During dinner at night, there was still no sign of Abbot Kongkong.

"Uncle Abbot hasn't come back yet?"

"No." Wuyou shook his head.

After dinner, because he had been traveling all day and was old, Lao Miaozhu went to sleep in the wing room early.

It was night, the moonlight was bright, and Wu Sheng was practicing in the courtyard as usual.

The power of the moonlight is gentle, not as strong and hot as the sun during the day. He can practice for a long time, and even stand in the courtyard all night.

"Master, master."

When he was practicing until midnight, he suddenly heard someone shouting.

"Who is it?!" Wu Sheng looked around and found a figure floating in the corner of the side hall in front of him. He was wearing a red robe, three long strands of beard, and a crown. However, his figure was not very condensed. He seemed to be floating there.

Not the real person.

"City God!" He was stunned for a moment.

The man's appearance was exactly the same as the City God he saw in the City God's Temple in Jinhua City, and the place where he appeared now was outside the side hall where the statue of the City God was placed.

Wu Sheng walked over, and it turned out to be the spirit of the city god. He looked about forty years old and had no real body.

"Lu Nomination has met Master, thank you Master for taking me in." The City God bowed his hands to Wu Sheng.

"Lu Chenghuang is so polite." Wu Sheng said.

"I really had no choice but to come to Lanruo Temple this time," Lu said.

"But what big thing happened in Jinhua City?"

The city god is the god who protects the city. He is also the ruler of the underworld of a city. He is in charge of the living and the dead, rewards the good and punishes the evil, life and death, misfortunes and blessings. He is very important to a city. The place he protects is also the place where he practices.

, the source of the power of faith, generally will never leave easily.

"Someone wants to refine my soul." Lu Nomination said after hesitating for a moment.

"Refining Soul, you are the city god!" Wu Sheng was very surprised after hearing this.

"Hey, since the concept of immortality came into existence, there is no longer a city god." Lu Nomination sighed.

Under the moon, Wu Sheng chatted a lot with the city god and learned a lot of news.

The City God was originally the god of the underworld, in charge of the night affairs of a place, patrolling a place at night, weeding out demons and ghosts, protecting the people of a place, and also enjoying incense offerings. However, since the current emperor ordered the construction of longevity temples in various prefectures and counties twenty-five years ago,

, things gradually changed. First they respected Taoism and suppressed Buddhism, and then they forced people to worship Taoist Changsheng. The Chenghuang temples in various places became increasingly deserted, with fewer and fewer people visiting. This was actually a robbery of faith, and it was done openly.

, but they have no choice. The concept of longevity represents the imperial power of the emperor. Is the whole world the king's land, and the shore of the land is the king's ministers. From a certain aspect, they, the city gods, can also be regarded as the king's ministers.

"The city god has a spirit and protects the people of the place, so some people come to worship and worship. What about the Temple of Immortality?"

"There are also practitioners in the Temple of Immortality. In the first few years, they did do something for the people. Many of the things the people asked for were efficacious. The people also believed. There were more offerings and incense.

Already." Lu said.

"Oh, then why did we see a different scene when we went to Jinhua City? The Changsheng Temple was a bit deserted, the alleys were empty, and there were not a few pilgrims at all?" Wu Sheng said.

He did see such a scene when he went to Jinhua City last time.

"It has been like this five years ago. Since then, the Temple of Immortality has only been open to the public on a few days every month, allowing people to go in to burn incense and kneel to worship. The rest of the time, it does not receive pilgrims." City God said.

"Why?"

"I don't know. I don't dare to get close to the Temple of Immortality. I always feel that there is something dangerous inside." Lu said.

"On those two nights, there were monsters in Jinhua City. Was it you who appeared in the City God's Temple?"

The last two times he and Monk Kong Kong stayed in the City God's Temple, the first time there was a flying head flying in the air outside the temple at night, and the second time there was a cat demon who killed the watchman outside the City God's Temple.
Chapter completed!