The outrageous things in the world are often beyond ordinary people's expectations.
Bai Lang, who had just experienced his first fight, judged based on his rich experience in 3A games in the first half of his life, that the next encounter would only become more and more difficult. Then he passed the level all the way, killing the gods and Buddhas, upgrading and unboxing, and finally killed the younger brother.
Defeat the boss at the end of the level with blood, and walk out of the gate of the City God's Temple in the rising sun.
He also tortured out the first-hand accurate information from the ghost toad. There are still 6 'adopted sons' of the same level as it. They are all at the peak of Qi refining. Even the boss and the third have simply completed the foundation building, and they are small bosses.
level.
With this power alone, if we exclude the superiority of the Four Heavenly Kings over the power system of this world, the two combinations can even be equal.
On top of the Seven Sons, there is also their old father, the guardian boss of this version, the Moon Swallowing King. A big toad closely related to the ultimate goal of the Five Ghosts Taoist. Refining Qi and transforming into gods is definitely not in the 'Shuipen Wan'
under.
Such a big boss has a total of five good brothers. This shows that tonight's challenge is far more difficult than he can handle in ten days of battle.
Then...
Lang made his way smoothly into the 'City God's Temple'. The resistance from the underworld encountered along the way was approximately 0. There was no need for the 'Rohans' to take action, and they were crushed by the reserve 'Fish Knife Monks'.
It was clean and relaxed, which made him a little suspicious.
There is definitely a conspiracy!
After breaking into the City God's Temple, the resistance he encountered was only low or high. The defense force in the temple was pitiful, and there were almost no housekeeping ghosts left. Bailang once wondered if he had fallen into a trap? Do these guys know how to do it?
Sing an empty city strategy.
There is definitely a big conspiracy!
After that, it’s gone.
Because everyone with some ability ran out to wander. The battle between Bailang and Ghost Toad was so huge that the ghosts and monsters from other nearby camps were also attracted to it.
After seeing the fiasco of Gui Ha, the other "adopted sons" received the news one after another. They did not want to be stupid and go up to fight head-on. They all chose to wait and see, and arranged spies to watch Bailang all the way to the bottom of the pass. Seeing that the "others" were indifferent, they continued
Stay silent and wait for the other brothers to take action first.
When the spies watched Bai Lang and his men break into the City God's Temple, they suddenly realized that it was too late to take action. They thought that since it was already too late, they simply pretended not to know.
In any case, the Dharma King had no final plan, and this City God’s Temple was his old man’s base, so he must have an absolute trump card that no one could predict. Those monsters who broke in would be destined to die. That’s the case...
So not only did no one come to support him, the little ghosts who were watching nearby dispersed and ran away in the opposite direction, harassing the local residents even more. They tacitly pretended that they had no knowledge at all, and they were obsessed with harassing the little widow and completely forgot about themselves.
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Bailang didn't know the external situation, so he entered the "City God's Temple" under the guidance of the ghost toad. With the help of Shuipenwan, he quickly found and controlled the passage connecting the Yin and Yang worlds.
It is an underground cave in the temple, about six or seven meters deep. It is dark and gloomy inside. If you light a candle and crawl through it, you will reach the end soon. But the power of the City God's Temple can penetrate the hole that does not exist in reality.
The path goes straight to the underworld, which is very wonderful.
In the end, Shuibenmaru explored all the way through the "Feng Shui Guide to Tombs" and found control of the City God Temple in the main hall where a new giant golden toad statue was enshrined. He seized it and cut off the two realms of yin and yang.
Everything went as smoothly as a dream. There was no so-called Moon-Swallowing Dharma King, hidden methods, or bosses guarding the gate during the whole process. The ghost toad who kept boasting and exaggerating the power and terror of his godfather also stood aside in embarrassment.
It wasn't until the human faces on the vellum all looked at it with strange expressions that the toad said with difficulty: "My foster father may have gone out to visit friends tonight."
Just when Bailang's group occupied the City God's Temple and cut off the passage to the underworld. Somewhere in the underworld, in a house, the Moon-Tenguan Dharma King, whose eyes were protruding like hyperthyroidism, put down his wine glass and shouted angrily: "Who dares to ruin my good deeds?"
Next to him, another Taoist with an ugly and strange appearance asked, "What's the matter, brother?"
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"Is this it?"
In the City God's Temple, Bai Lang looked around curiously and saw that the main hall was filled with strange statues of ghosts, holding blood-stained Qimen torture tools, making skin-pulling and bone-pulling movements. The surrounding walls were covered with scenes of hell, with tall wooden beams and walls.
In the gap, there are genuine dried corpses of monsters and ghosts hanging.
The style of the temple is distorted and realistic, and it is a temple. The decoration is eerie and terrifying, as if the underworld has been directly brought to the human world to intimidate mortals. It is completely different from the 'City God's Temple' that Lang had seen in his previous life.
If a mortal comes here to burn incense, he will definitely be affected. His rationality will plummet and he will fall into extreme fear. Then fear will arise in his heart, he will pay for it honestly, and he may have nightmares for many days in a row, and he will be completely tamed.
In the center of the main hall, there stands a golden statue of a giant toad swallowing the moon. On both sides of it, there are two unfinished sculptures. The body part has been completed, showing the appearance of a human torso, each in a pose.
The head has not been finished yet, so the specific appearance cannot be seen, but it can be judged from the patterns on the clothes that it is the other four monsters among the "Five Immortals". And the main one is "Toad".
"It's done, it's done!" Shuipenwan was also observing the City God's Temple, with a happy face, as if he were looking at his new house. While looking at it, he introduced: "Don't look at the small area here, but in fact there is another world. This place in the human world.
Part of it is just an entrance. The real subject is actually still in the underworld. The land there is vast and sparse with ghosts, and it is suitable for underworld creatures to live in. I have visited it many times. It is bigger and more impressive than my Taoist temple."
The ghost toad following the two people also spoke from time to time. After a lot of chatter, Bailang understood that the real territory of the City God was a special small space that connected the human world and was attached to the underworld.
The true location is elusive and has no precise coordinates. It is anchored by the beliefs of many mortals in Qingping Town and maintained through incense offerings. With the help of this 'space', the city god can go wild in the city, arrest and suppress all ghosts and ghosts, and resist the outside world.
Demonic invasion.
It can also be used as a place to raise soldiers. Ghost soldiers are selected from the underworld for sacrifice. They are given special positions and blessed by the power of the city god system. They can travel freely between Yin and Yang, and are not inhibited by the protection force in the city at night. Patrols are made to maintain law and order. OnePlus
With one reduction, it has a double home field advantage.
The ghosts he encountered tonight had not yet joined the 'City God System', so they did not receive much blessing, and were also suppressed by the power of protection. In addition, this 'space' could also connect all living beings in the city to fall asleep at night.
Since the yamen in the mortal world have been idle for a long time, the city god has assumed some of the functions of "solving cases". Occasionally, he dreams of interrupting cases to gain reputation and urges mortals to offer incense on time. But that is all in the old almanac, and on the eve of the death of the green-faced ghost, occasionally he will not
May the poor man offering incense be dragged into his dream, tortured in all kinds of ways, and then let go.
As time went by, the bedridden old man went berserk and demolished several houses before he was suppressed by the Taoist priests who exorcised the demons. Afterwards, the poor ghosts nearby began to live frugally, and the incense immediately became prosperous again.
"What to do next?"
The Chenghuang Temple is not that big in the human world. Bailang turned around and then went back to the original place and looked at Shuipen Wan.
"In my opinion, we first cut off the Yin-Yang passage, and then destroy its statue, so as to prevent the ghosts in the city from returning, and losing the blessing and protection of the city god. As long as they wait until dawn and are illuminated by the sun, their strength will be greatly reduced.
The weak ones were wiped out, and the strong ones were nothing to worry about. I had all my troops ready at that time and acted in a high-profile manner."
"In front of the mortals, stage a great purge. Use your real achievements to speak for yourself, slay demons and demons in a river of blood, and win the hearts of the people. Then you recommend yourself and seize the throne of the City God. At that time, people will want you to win.
Building a good reputation and becoming a 'City God' can be said to be a matter of course. Once we are firmly established as a 'City God', the key to controlling yin and yang will fall into our hands. We can advance, attack, retreat and defend. We have a place to settle down and further penetrate and control this area.
A little underworld on the edge of the earth.”
Shuibenwan turned into a dog-headed military advisor and spoke his mind. Although it was an old routine, it has been popular since ancient times. Bailang repeatedly agreed, while Ghost Toad became colder the more he listened to it.
Its adoptive father allowed the ghosts under his command to wreak havoc in the city for ten days, with the purpose of building momentum for his rise to power. They seemed to have occupied the City God's Temple, erected a statue, and made all preparations, as if they were already the masters of this place.
The most critical step is missing, being recognized by the residents of the city. This is also the special feature of the 'City God System', a broken version of the local civil servants in the underworld - the belief system. If you believe it, you will have it. If you don't believe it, there will be nothing.
In order to win people's trust, the old toad had to create trouble first, and then take action to rescue him when the trouble got bigger. Now that the fire was not strong enough, he would still make trouble for three more days, and the trouble would get bigger and bigger, driving 10% of the residents to death and madness before taking action, which would be the most effective.
Only when it is good can it be considered stable.
Then Bailang came. Lang didn't mind that the heat was not enough, so he decided to end this tragedy early and directly rescued people. He put an end to the ghost trouble at night and cut off the old toad. In addition, he saved money by giving porridge and saving people during this period.
The word-of-mouth and the initial spread of 'healing faith' barely sat on the throne of the City God.
When he sat on it, he had many ways to continue to consolidate his reputation and deceive people's hearts, and the more he sat, the more stable he became. As for offending that toad, it was originally because he came to trouble the 'Five Ghost Taoist', and he was afraid that the other party would notice something was wrong and run away early.
Lose.
Now that he has formed a deadly feud, he naturally recharges his batteries and waits for his target to arrive. Lang Zan couldn't help but sigh: "This is truly a God-given opportunity!"
The city god's ability to enter dreams is more in line with Jidu's [Nightmare Realm]. He even suspected that this was an upgrade routine prepared by the 'Food Paradise' to further strengthen him so that he could work hard in the canteen.
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After deciding to take advantage of other people's property in the underworld, Lang's mentality changed and he began to carefully observe the layout of the City God's Temple as if he were visiting his own new house.
He has only occupied the part of the human world, disconnected the yin and yang channels, and has not refined the 'City God's Dharma Domain'. He still has to wait for dawn and rely on the right time and place to complete the reception before he can step into the 'underworld' part.
To that old toad, Lang's behavior was more like breaking into an unmanned store first and then welding the door shut, blocking the would-be boss from the back wall.
I can't get it for the time being, but even if the back door is welded, you can't even think of coming in to snatch it from me. Even if you are trapped in the underworld and are too strong to find your way to the earthly world. This time difference is enough for me to apply for registration as a store owner first.
"The layout here is a bit out of place and needs to be changed," Lang commented.
Shui Pen Wan retorted: "Mortal people are ignorant. If they blindly give favors and no one thinks of them well, they will become enemies. I must be kind and powerful at the same time. Without fear, where will the incense come from?"
"You don't understand this. I have southern thaumaturgy. Just follow my instructions and you'll be fine. Later, remember to send someone to shovel down the wall and paint something festive on it. I have a girl holding a fish and a dragon here.
Eighteen New Year pictures.”
The group of people walked and walked, Bai Lang verbally assigned a new decoration task, and finally came to the statue that the Moon Swallowing Dharma King had built for himself. The more he looked at it, the more something was wrong. He frowned and realized that the matter was not simple: "Hey, you guys found out
No? This toad statue... why does it smell like a monk?"
Lang looked at the sculptures on both sides of the big toad again. Combined with the hell paintings around him, he suddenly felt like he had walked into a temple. The composition and furnishings in this temple were all similar to the Buddhist temple, but there was no trace of Arhat and Bodhisattva. Instead, they were all demonic.
There is a secret connection between the two.
"What's so surprising about this? When I first came here to visit the Green Faced Ghost, his statue of the City God also had a Buddhist Zen feel, and he even rode a white elephant underneath him."
Lang still has an impression of the dead old city god: "Is he the ghost king with an elephant leg growing on his head and an elephant leg full of eyes?"
"That's him." Shuibenwan recalled, "Buddhism is prosperous in the Chu region, and there are temples in every city. If you encounter a big city, there will be a lot of orchids inside and outside the city. The sects and schools are not the same. Internal fighting is fierce, and many sects are at war.
In the process of birth and death, many Buddhist secret medicines flowed out. And then it was possessed by demons and practiced secretly, without anyone's guidance to transform the Buddha into a demon, which made it even more complicated. Therefore, it is not surprising that there is a bit of Buddhist Zen in the statue."
"Oh~ Is that so?" Bailang nodded, but he always felt that something was wrong?
At this time, the ghosts in the city also sensed that something was wrong, and their connection with the underworld was cut off. Just like someone cut off the WiFi, although relying on that little 'cache', they have not yet been suppressed and rejected by Qingping Town's 'protective power'.
But he was already alert to something bad, and the waves were heading towards the Chenghuang Temple.
Bailang was well prepared for this, and arranged for the "Rohans" to form a formation and block the entrance. One man blocked the way and no one could open it. At the same time, he also began to take the lead in swinging a sledgehammer to destroy the big toad and set up for himself.
Nice statue.
In a fragment of the underworld on the other side, Dharma King Tunyue, who was having a drink with his good brothers, suddenly changed his expression and shouted: "No!" Then he covered his head and screamed: "Ah! It hurts me too.
!Trash, a bunch of trash! They allowed the enemy to destroy my golden body!"
For its own plan to ascend to the throne, it specially sneaked into the underworld, took a secret path across several fragments, and found its old friend to issue an invitation. It was originally thought that the demons around Qingping Town had been purged, and there were no noteworthy enemies for the time being.
There are seven more bad boys and ghosts from the underworld wreaking havoc in the city, so there is nothing to worry about. Who would have thought that not long after he left, his roots would be destroyed. What on earth are those losers doing?
At this time, the group of losers also became anxious, wondering what on earth the adoptive father was doing? How could someone break in so casually and cause such a big trouble?
Just like half an hour ago, after Bai Lang stormed into the City God's Temple, he was also wondering what on earth these mentally retarded people were doing? Why didn't they stop me?