I attained immortality in the real world.

Chapter 131 Fallen Gods Cause Calamity
Shuzhou, Mingtan Village!
As the red sun rises in the sky, Ye'er Mountain is bathed in a golden hue.

Along the path in Mingtan Village, several idlers climbed the mountain early in the morning and arrived at the shrine on the cliff of Ye'er Mountain.

The strong, muscular man at the head of the group, named Xu San, lit a stick of incense and placed it on the half-dried radish in front of the statue.

He knelt down and prayed devoutly: "Mountain God, please bless me so that I don't have to work every day, I can find money when I go out, and I won't be caught by the authorities for doing bad things. When I get rich, I will come to burn incense every day."

The road god is a wild god or hairy god worshipped by the roadside, and usually receives very little incense offerings.

Believers are just passersby who, with a "let's believe it or not" attitude, offer a quick prayer with empty hands. Few people would bring incense to worship, and their faith is hardly devout.

The meager offerings to the God of the Road are insufficient to sustain the existence of a deity.

But the mountain deity worshipped on Ye'er Mountain is different; a layer of incense ash has accumulated under the shrine, and the incense offerings are even more abundant than those at the local earth god temple.

However, the local earth god temple holds village sacrifices on the first and fifteenth of each month, ensuring a good harvest regardless of drought or flood, a feature that the road god cannot match.

"Woo!"

Wisps of smoke rose.

Inside the shrine, an abstract tiger statue emerges from which an invisible spirit appears.

It could barely be considered a humanoid phantom, but it had a pair of ferocious fangs and sparse tiger fur on its face, making it look like a half-human, half-tiger monster.

alienation!!
Occupying someone else's idol and seizing their offerings will naturally come at a price.

Absorbing unpurified, polluted incense will cause irreversible contamination of the consciousness of the gods.

Yuan Qi was not a cultivator in his lifetime, and he couldn't even control his consciousness. The pollution was completely absorbed into his body without any filtering.

In just three months, they have already undergone extremely serious alienation, but in order to survive, they have no choice but to drink poison to quench their thirst.

At this moment, the phantom that Yuan Qi manifested was devouring the incense filled with chaotic thoughts, a tuft of tiger fur grew on his face, and the scarlet color in his eyes deepened.

After eating his fill, Yuan Qi looked at his unrecognizable self and murmured, "Am I still me? Am I still alive?"

Believers believe that the mountain god is a tiger.

Yuan Qi's image has been distorted in the direction of a tiger.

The believer's thoughts are filled with negative emotions such as greed and laziness, which also directly affect Yuan Qi, causing him to evolve into an evil god.

At this moment, in terms of both appearance and thought, he is a completely different individual from the kind-hearted village elder before he was deified.

Yuan Qi's tiger-like eyes scanned Xu San and the others, his emotions indescribably complex.

Finally, he let out a long sigh: "It's all the fault of these good-for-nothing bastards, who are irreversibly turning this old man into an evil god. Fortunately, Mingtan Village is remote enough, otherwise, if I had unfortunately encountered a passing immortal, I would definitely have been killed on the spot!"

"........."

three months ago.

Yuan Qi escaped from the land temple in Mingtan Village and occupied the unclaimed mountain temple, becoming a wild god.

The temple is severely lacking incense offerings. To maintain its basic survival, it needs more villagers to worship it, and at least a few stable and devout believers.

Yuan Qi initially used dream manipulation to inform villagers of their lost property, illegally interfering with reality to obtain offerings.

The villagers received unexpected wealth, and the mountain god's reputation spread throughout the village. Villagers flocked to the cliff to offer incense and pray, and the mountain god indeed gained a wave of faith.

However, the village lost very few things, and the dream was equally illusory.

The Stone-Boiling Immortal enlightened Wan Sheng, who had the destiny of a child. After Wan Sheng woke up, all he could remember was that boiling stones could make one an immortal, let alone an ordinary person.

Usually, upon waking, most of the dream's content is forgotten, making it impossible to definitively attribution to the mountain god. Most worshippers receive nothing, and after a period of time when no one dreams of the mountain god or receives unexpected wealth, the incense offerings at the temples dwindle again.

"........."

One hundred casual believers are not as good as one devout believer, since a devout believer can help spread the faith.

Yuan Qi quickly adjusted the development strategy.

Choosing to protect only one person, first communicating in advance through dreams, and then using one's own weak ability to interfere with reality to enable the other person to rise above others.

By establishing role models and successful examples, the mountain god achieved his goal of reaping the rewards of worshippers, thus gaining a group of believers like Xu San.

As for why Xu San and his group of idlers were chosen?
To allow oneself to be negatively corrupted and alienated towards evil gods.

The reason for not choosing a good person as a role model is quite simple.

It's impossible!
It's simply impossible!
Although there are good and evil people in the world.

But for honest and hardworking villagers, every harvest is earned through hard work. They don't gamble or take risks, so the effects of the gods are very limited. Even if they want protection, it's difficult or the cost-effectiveness is extremely low.

Besides, even if someone was originally an honest person, after acquiring ill-gotten gains, they will gradually become like Xu San.

For every person who gains wealth, someone else must lose it.

The essence of protection is to seize the interests of others to support one's own followers.

Those who use evil god methods to spread their faith are destined to be bad people and will naturally become alienated in the direction of the evil god.

"........."

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

After Xu San and his companions finished speaking their plea to the mountain god, they kowtowed three times with utmost sincerity.

Before he could even look up, a sudden voice rang out: "Tiger, your exorcism technique has gone wrong! What do you have to do with these thugs?"

Upon hearing the sound, Xu San and the others looked up at the same time and found a man and a tiger walking slowly towards them from the mouth of the cliff.

The man was a young man of short age, with a particularly well-proportioned figure and a height of over two meters. He exuded an aura of power that belonged to a strong person.

The main reason is that he has a tiger following behind him, so it's hard for him not to have a strong presence.

The tiger was far stronger than any other beast in the mountains and forests. Even without standing, it was almost as tall as an adult man. One look at it made the hairs on the tiger's body stand on end, and it exclaimed in terror, "The mountain god has appeared!"

The group prayed for the mountain god to appear, and upon seeing the mountain god descend, they did not hesitate for a second and ran towards Mingtan Village.

Although he lacked confidence in outrunning the tiger, he was quite confident in outrunning his companions, which was somewhat like Lord Ye's love of dragons.

Chen Jing and Xu Wu, one man and one tiger, left the Xiuren Temple and headed towards Liangjiang City. Chen Jing took the opportunity to experiment with the Heaven-Summoning Technique.

From the chaotic world consciousness entangled with spirit and data, information about oneself was successfully extracted, guiding the way to Mingtan Village.

Chen Jing glanced at the shrine and replied, "There is indeed a connection. The mountain god enshrined here is me, but it has been taken over by other ghosts and monsters."

[The Mind Seal - The Image of Bixie.]

Spirits without physical bodies have a weak ability to deal with reality, but to harm a spirit requires power of the same level.

Chen Jing released the Bixi Dharma Image, and a real, tangible beast appeared behind him, its power increasing by a level.

Before he could even make a move, Yuan Qi bravely knelt down and begged for mercy: "Great Immortal, spare my life! I am the local deity of Mingtan Village. I only occupied the statue of the Great Immortal because I had no other choice but to live there."

(End of this chapter)