Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes.

Chapter 128 Winning Gold in Public
The lively sounds of gongs, drums and firecrackers from the City God Parade have not yet faded away.

[There is a City God Duan Mingbi who will bring bad luck to the owner of the plot for three days, which is unfavorable to the owner and will cause evil. Kill him to get the evil spirit.]

This reminder from the change chart made Chen Ku's heart feel like a spring thunder.

What the hell?

He subconsciously looked towards the receding figure of the shrine.

"How did I offend the City God? Why did he bring me three days of bad luck?"

Chen Ku's heart beat faster:
"Could it be that the City God heard what I was saying in my heart? How is that possible?"

Not to mention what he was thinking just now, he had not thought about the City God at all. At most, he just commented on the reasons why the Daji Dynasty eliminated evil and supported the righteous gods from one perspective.

You have no connection with the City God at all?
Second.

If the City God really had the ability to see through everyone's heart, why would every household beat drums and gongs to ask for "donation deeds"?

after all,

If there is a person, or a so-called "god", who can see what everyone is thinking, then there should be no rebellion in the world, and there should not be any secrets even in Baojiao County.

The so-called evil people of Ping An Dao, as well as the plots of various major businesses, all the things that cannot be made public will be like a mirror in the mind of the so-called City God.

Chen Ku used dialectical thinking to analyze that it was impossible for him to be punished by the City God just because of his thoughts.

Then he looked at Jiang Shaoyou beside him.

It was as if nothing had happened and he was still watching the team with great interest.

I am even more convinced of this.

You know, the words that just came out of Jiang Shaoyou's mouth were even more disrespectful.

that is because……

at this time.

After the procession of the gods ended, two people dressed like yamen runners came from behind, one holding a book and the other holding a plate. They came to the Tongwen Pavilion and smiled and bowed to Jiang Shaoyou:

"Master Jiang, I wish you a happy new year and prosperity. May the City God bless you and bring you good weather and good harvests this year."

"Thank you, City God, for your blessing."

Jiang Shaoyou was well prepared. He smiled and clasped his fists in return. Then he waved his hand and a waiter behind him sealed a silver note worth one hundred taels.

The two "city god runners" were delighted when they saw the 100 taels of silver and immediately called out the names:
"Record it, Jiang Shaoyou from Tongwenguan, West Street, donated one hundred taels of silver for incense offerings."

Accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums.

The yamen runner's shouts echoed throughout the streets.

"Goodbye." Jiang Shaoyou smiled and bowed.

Watched the two yamen runners leave.

Chen Ku seemed to understand something.

But he still confirmed it and asked, "Brother, does every household need to donate? What will happen if they don't donate?"

Jiang Shaoyou thought for a moment and said, "This City God Parade is divided into four waves, passing through the four main streets of the inner city. It's the fifth day of the first lunar month, and almost all businesses are open, so every household has to donate more or less. If you don't donate... I heard that you will be unlucky, but it's hard to say exactly how you will be unlucky."

Will you be unlucky if you don’t donate?

Chen Ku's face turned slightly blue, it was really because of the reason of not donating.

Jiang Shaoyou seemed to have guessed something from what Chen Ku asked. He was startled for a moment, and then asked to confirm, "Junior brother, your iron shop is not open today?"

Chen Ku answered truthfully, "The Medicine King Hall is closed for six days, and I gave the Iron Shop a seven-day holiday. It is indeed closed today. I guess when the City God rode past my Iron Shop on horseback, the door should have been closed."

Jiang Shaoyou pondered and said, "This is not good."

Chen Ku raised his eyebrows and said, "What's wrong with that? Yaowang Hall is not open today."

Jiang Shaoyou said, "Although the City God Temple is not a government office in the world of the living, it is also a government office in the underworld because it has been granted a title by the imperial court. They certainly won't beat people openly, but secretly writing down people's names and using tricks on them is... hard to say. As for the Medicine King Hall, although it hasn't opened yet, as a giant in the city, it has always had no shortage of incense and offerings. Junior brother... I think you'd better take advantage of today and tomorrow to have someone make up for it."

Chen Ku felt upset.

What kind of world is this?

When he was collecting herbs, he had to exploit them in the firewood market. When he opened a shop and started a business, he had to pay taxes to the government. Now... there is even a damn City God Temple that he has to "be forced to donate money."

"Understood, Brother. I'll go first."

Chen Ku suppressed his thoughts and remained expressionless.

I have to go to the iron shop first and then make a decision.

"Well, don't take it lightly. Although the City God was conferred the title posthumously and has no physical body, he is still somewhat spiritual because he has received incense and worship. Try not to offend him." Jiang Shaoyou said, "Junior brother, you know what's going on. I won't say more."

Chen Ku bowed and said goodbye.

Unexpectedly.

I had just left Jiang Shaoyou's Tongwenguan and was walking towards his iron shop when I accidentally stepped on a pile of cow dung.

Chen Ku's face was grim, and he was even more suspicious:
"Is this bad luck...really true?"

Or is it just a coincidence?

Suppress your thoughts and ideas in your mind.

Turn around,
Half an hour later, we arrived at the railway station.

Unexpectedly, the door of the railway company was actually opened. Wu Gui was inside the railway company. When he saw Chen Ku coming over, he immediately apologized to Chen Ku with a tearful face:

"Boss, it's all my fault. I actually forgot about this. Every year on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, we have to donate incense to the City God Temple. This year, we have a long holiday. When I heard the gongs and drums of the City God Temple outside, I hurried over and found that there was white paper pasted on the door of our shop."

"Blank paper?"

Chen Ku looked at Wu Gui holding a piece of white paper with a look of deep regret on his face. The paper was three inches wide and seven inches long. There was no writing on it. It was just a clean piece of white paper.

But when he took over and touched it, he immediately received a reminder of the change diagram:

[The City God has used moldy paper to affect the fortune of the owner of the picture, and has brought bad luck for six days, which is not good for the owner... Killing the moldy paper can obtain one level of evil spirit, and killing the City God can obtain one level of evil spirit from five levels.]

"The Fifth Realm? Then the City God is the true god of the Fifth Realm?"

Chen Ku looked at the reminder on the change chart and couldn't help but frown.

Five realms!

Very powerful!

After all, if we only count the real human masters in Baojiao County, there are only two in the open, one is the county magistrate, and the other is his own master.

However, thinking about it the other way around, it is more certain.

The City God of the Fifth Realm is certainly strong, but it is impossible for him to have the ability to "see through people's hearts". After all, he is only in the Fifth Realm, and he is not the 'Founder of the Fire Deity Sect' who can refine the Fourteenth Realm magic weapon, the Fire Mouth Pot. He couldn't help but feel a little relieved.

Look at the white paper again.

I roughly understand that this is a bit like the 'ticket' issued in the previous life.

Kill?

Why keep something that brings him bad luck?
But it's better to kill it privately.

Otherwise, it would be too easy to attract targeting again.

At this time, Wu Gui spoke up, and he said with great guilt: "Boss, I am the person in charge of the store. I should remember this matter. It is all my responsibility. I will pay out my own money and donate twenty taels to the City God Temple to redeem our iron shop."

"No, it has nothing to do with you."

Chen Ku took a deep breath and said:

"I'll go to the City God Temple by myself."

"Well, do you have money with you?" Wu Gui was about to take money out of his pocket: "I have twenty taels here, take it..." Chen Ku shook his head and refused. Wu Gui was his shopkeeper, and his salary was only that much a year. How could he let Wu Gui pay for him?

When he subconsciously touched his cuffs.

His expression suddenly became even uglier.

"Shit, the hundred-plus taels of silver in my sleeve are gone."

It was New Year's Day, so he wouldn't take too much money with him, but he did bring a hundred or so taels of silver. Unexpectedly...

lost.

One hundred taels of silver is the price of a pearl grass.

"Boss, what happened?" Wu Gui saw that Chen Ku's face suddenly looked unhappy.

"It's okay. You stay in the shop and watch over it. I'll be out for a while."

Chen Ku left the iron shop and returned along the same route. His lost things were not like other people's lost things, which were difficult to find. With the sense of smell of a greyhound, he believed that he could find them.

Can,
When Chen Ku returned along the same route, he used his sense of smell to search carefully, but he couldn't find his banknote.

"Is the bad luck brought by the City God really so outrageous? It only took half an hour to go back and forth. Even if someone picked it up, could it have run ten miles away? It can't have been taken away by a bird, right?"

New Year's Eve.

First step on cow dung, then throw away the banknotes.

Chen Ku couldn't help but feel even more deeply touched by the three days of bad luck that the City God had brought upon him.

"What a resourceful City God! Although he certainly didn't just bully me, after all, not every household or shop would pay incense and money, otherwise there wouldn't be 'white paper posting' and 'bad luck warnings', but I was bullied like this for no reason, and I feel extremely unhappy."

If it were his previous situation, facing heavy taxes and discipline, he might have just held his nose and endured it, but now, not to mention that his cultivation has improved, he also has various means of transformation, so he prepared to go to the City God Temple to find out the details.

He wanted to see if the City God really had omnipotent powers.
If you don't make this clear, and bring bad luck to him today, if he offends the City God Temple again in the future, will they curse him?
Chen Ku has always been a steady and cautious person who likes to prepare for certain unknown threats in advance.

Then they arrived at a remote forest outside the city.

First, he used the power of the volcanic crow to spurt a ball of fire from his mouth and burned the unlucky white paper.

[The owner of the picture kills the moldy paper and obtains a realm of evil spirit... He also needs to kill the city god who is the source of bad luck in order to completely eliminate his own bad luck.]

City God...

Humph.

Chen Ku was in the dense forest.

I shouted "change" in my heart.

It immediately changed into the form of a three-inch-tall white mouse marten, with a pair of wings growing from its ribs. It suddenly shook its wings and flew towards the City God Temple in the city.

"Go and check the situation. If you feel threatened, run away immediately..."

With his strength as a second-level flower marten, and the ability and speed to change size and fly, if things go wrong, he can just hide anywhere or fly into the sky. He has a strong ability to protect himself.

The City God Temple is located about ninety feet outside of Liushu Alley on West Street in Baojiao County. It was built eighty years ago. It faces north and south and covers an area of ​​one hundred acres, which is larger than the area of ​​the county government office.

There are several halls in the temple, including the Offering Hall, the Main Hall, the Enjoyment Hall, and the Touring Hall.

Chen Ku turned into a white-haired mouse, three inches in size, and came to the entrance of the City God Temple, which is the south-facing Xian Hall. This hall is the place where the City God enjoys the incense of all living beings and the people offer incense.

The fifth day of the new year.

The hall was crowded with people, shoulder to shoulder. Everyone held incense in their arms. Some of the incense sticks were as thick as pillars. Rich or poor, everyone came to burn incense.

Chen Ku folded the wings under his ribs into his body and turned into a white-haired mouse. He followed a group of believers into the hall. While people were not paying attention, he climbed up the angled beams and columns, and followed the beams and columns to the wooden structure of the ceiling caisson of the hall.

He carefully looked at the ten-foot-tall golden statue of the City God enshrined in the Xiandian. The statue was dressed as a military general, holding a broadsword in his hand, and looked very majestic.

Two small eyes stared at the golden body of the City God.

Be ready at any time and fly.

But after staring at it for a long time, I found that I didn't seem to be affected at all, and I couldn't help but think:

"It seems that I overthought it. I thought that according to the settings in the novels and movies of my previous life, once you enter the City God Temple, it is probably equivalent to entering the City God's 'world'. But now I have been watching his golden body for such a long time and there is no movement. I guess... I overestimated the ability of the Five Realms City God."

After all, if this City God Temple covering an area of ​​100 acres is the other party's kingdom of God, and its ability can cover 100 acres, with such great ability, why would it be confined to a small Baojiao County?

Since he was sure that the City God did not notice his coming in.

This means that even if the City God is conscious, it is not on the golden body in this exclusive palace.

Otherwise, it should have been noticed long ago.

"Could it be that he followed the parade team out? I seem to have heard of the parade of gods in the previous life, which is to throw the holy grail and wait for the god to agree, and then invite the god out of the temple. Some gods are very homely and will not come out to play no matter how much you invite them..."

With this in mind, he cautiously and boldly tried further, and cautiously and boldly jumped down from the back beam of the hall and landed on the back of Jin.

really,

Nothing happens.

Then the true body of the City God must be somewhere else.

But just when Chen Ku was about to go to other halls and the backyard to check.

[The owner of the diagram meets the second condition of the fifth transformation diagram practice]

【Fifth Change Diagram】

[Awakening conditions: 10,000 taels of gold, 10,000 taels of silver essence, one pound of incense, one step of ultimate martial arts, one fourth-level evil spirit]

[At this time, within three meters of the owner of the picture, two cultivation conditions are met: ten thousand taels of gold and one pound of incense.]

(Note: The one pound of incense gas beside the owner of the picture has not been refined. It needs to be branded with the owner's spirit before it can be offered as a sacrifice)
[Do you choose to directly sacrifice 10,000 taels of gold? ]

Chen Ku was stunned.

Gold? Incense?
He didn't expect that he had accidentally triggered the conditions for completing the fifth transformation diagram.

The smell of incense is easy to understand.

This is the Hall of Worship of the City God Temple, the place with the most incense offerings, so it is normal that it is triggered.

just,

gold?

Where is...

Chen Ku was stunned for a moment, then he looked at the golden body under his feet, and a thought flashed through his mind?
"Is it this golden body? What the hell? It's not gold-plated? It's pure gold?"

He was completely shocked.

Then, the crazy thought in my mind couldn't be stopped.

Looking towards the Xiandian and outside the main hall, today is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and at least thousands of people are bowing and burning incense to the golden statue of the City God in the main hall.

In front of so many people...

Sacrifice this golden body?

Gudong~
Chen Ku seemed to be able to hear the sound of his own saliva swallowing, and then he was torn between his conscience and his desires:

"Ten thousand taels of gold. If I don't take it for free, according to the ratio of gold to silver in Daji, one tael of gold can be converted into twenty taels of silver. That means I need to use two hundred thousand taels of silver to exchange for gold. I only have this much money after selling my house and shops... I might as well rob this City God Temple."

Grit your teeth and get ruthless.

"You bring bad luck to me, and I will take your golden body! Sacrifice!"

Suddenly, a golden light burst out in the entire City God Temple.

(End of this chapter)