Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes.

Chapter 129 Sensation (asking for monthly pass at the end of the month)

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the City God patrols the streets and goes out to clear away miasma for the people and bless them with good health.

After receiving the blessing, the people would all flock to the City God Temple on this day to burn incense, pray, make offerings, and express gratitude for the City God's protection.

Inside and outside the main hall of Xiandian on the south side of the City God Temple, and even on the long street outside, were packed with thousands of people.

If Chen Ku paid close attention, he would have found that there was even an acquaintance among these thousands of people. That was Che Wenping, with whom he had once shared a bunk bed when he was a waiter at Yaowangtang.

Che Wenping accompanied his mother to the City God Temple today to pray and burn incense. Many people came in the early morning to burn the first incense stick. He and his mother came here early in the morning to line up. Although they certainly couldn't get the first incense stick, they got a front position because they came early.

But just when he and his mother were kneeling outside the entrance of the hall, burning incense and kowtowing with the people.

boom!
Suddenly a loud noise was heard from the hall.

"What's the noise?"

Thousands of people inside and outside the hall and on the long street all looked up in horror and looked inside the hall.

I saw.

Accompanied by a loud bang, the golden body of the City God Duan Mingbi in the Xian Hall suddenly emitted a large area of ​​golden light all over the body, and then turned into a golden airflow that filled the hall and spread out.

"The City God has appeared!!"

I don't know who shouted first, but someone shouted excitedly with surprise and admiration.

Followed by.

Che Wenping and his old mother were also shocked and exclaimed:

"The City God has appeared! Blessings! This is a blessing from God!"

Although the existence of the City God is no secret and he is also supernatural, it is rare for the people in the city to see him appear in person.

Unexpectedly, on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year in the 154th year of the Daji Dynasty, the City God was in a good mood and appeared to emit golden light to the local people...

Even the temple masters who were on duty today in the main hall were stunned, looking at the mist emanating from the golden body.

The middle-aged temple master surnamed Duan couldn't help but murmured in a low voice:
"That's not right. Wasn't the ancestor invited out to parade through the streets? How could this happen?"

But just when he was at a loss for words.

suddenly,

A terrified and horrified cry as if the sky was falling came from the direction of the people and believers outside the temple:

"Ah, look, everyone, look, half of the City God's body has collapsed, disappeared, and melted away!!"

These words awakened all the people who were immersed in the appearance of the City God and knelt down to kowtow.

At this moment, everyone looked up subconsciously.

Even the temple director Duan's face changed drastically and he turned back to look.

I see,

The golden body of the City God, which had just shaken and emitted golden light, suddenly lost two-thirds of its body at this moment, leaving only the hollow legs below the thighs and a weapon.

when.

Then, a leg bone actually fell from mid-air.

“Golden Body!!”

Duan Miao was just looking at the golden statue of the City God, which looked like something had bitten off most of it, leaving only the legs. His eyes went dark and he could not stand steadily. The world was spinning around him, and he yelled:

"The bones of the ancestors!"

The golden statue in the Xian Hall was cast by the descendants of the Duan family after eighty years of accumulating countless amounts of gold and silver and melting the gold into water.

Although it is not made of pure gold throughout, two-thirds of it is hollow, but the gold used is more than a thousand kilograms.

The reason why it is hollow is that it is necessary to cast a solid golden body ten feet high, which costs an arm and a leg.

The second reason is that the body of the statue is hollow, which is a rule to leave space for "entering dirt".

Zhuangzang, also known as Zhuangzang, is an important ritual in making statues of gods.

It is intended to give life to the idol.

This process involves equipping the statue with symbolic internal organs and spirits, and endowing the statue with divine power and protection by placing items with symbolic significance, such as scriptures, precious edicts, talismans, tablets, etc.

Dirty items include but are not limited to ritual implements, bodies, scriptures, etc.

These items are used to attract people's worship. What is contained in the golden statue of the City God is actually a leg bone of General Duan Mingbei.

Only in this way can the general absorb the incense through his own corpse to condense his spirit, obtain "yin longevity", and become a true god appointed by the court with supernatural powers.

this moment.

Duan Miao was feeling dizzy and everything was going black.

The believers and common people were even more terrified.

The golden statue of the City God was bitten off by a mysterious force, and two-thirds of its body was bitten off. The dirty things inside the statue also fell out.

No matter how you look at it, this is not the City God appearing.

Instead it's like...

The demon has invaded the City God Temple!!
But it was at this time.

"There's something! Something flew away from Jin's body!!"

The guards from the City God Temple inside the main hall shouted:
"Quick, grab it, the transformation of the golden body must be related to this thing!"

Almost at the moment when his golden body was swallowed by the transformation diagram, Chen Ku flapped his wings and flew out. He didn't even have time to pick up the fallen leg bone.

He guessed it.

That leg bone is most likely another cultivation condition sensed by the transformation diagram.

A carrier that contains "a pound of incense".

Can,
The transformation diagram also reminds that this item needs to be refined before it can be sacrificed.

This thing was a leg bone. One could easily guess that it was related to the City God Duan Mingbi. He had no way of guaranteeing that if he took this thing, the City God would find it somehow...

So he swallowed the golden body first and ran away.

I will find a chance to take advantage of this incense later.

now,

The temple master also saw amid the shouting of the crowd a small monster with wings under its ribs, but only the size of a palm, which had already flown out of the hall.

He didn't have time to think about how much this little monster had to do with the swallowing of the golden body, and he almost instinctively yelled:
"Catch that beast!"

In an instant, rapid bell sounds rang out throughout the City God Temple. Experts rushed out from several halls, and some even held bows and shot arrows into the sky.

Whoosh!Whoosh!Whoosh!
Chen Ku dodged more than a dozen arrows in succession and could fully feel that the archers in the City God Temple were quite powerful, and some of them were even at the Profound Passage level.

Unfortunately, they neither practiced the archery skills of Coach Chai, nor had Chen Ku's strong bones and golden eyesight.

For an ordinary archer at the Xuanguan realm, it might be easy to shoot wild geese, pheasants, etc. in mid-air, but the flower marten that Chen Ku transformed into was a second-level demon. It moved dodged and could not be hit by a single arrow.

Then, as Chen Ku's wings vibrated, he flew higher and higher, and it became impossible for him to fly that high.

Chen Ku felt the threat from the arrows below disappear.

I dare not stay.

"Slip away."

Immediately flew out of the city.

And it was at that moment when Chen Ku used the transformation diagram to swallow up most of the golden body of City God Duan Mingbi in the Xian Hall, causing the leg bones that were used to hold the incense to fall off.

Inner city, on North Street.

The procession is about to end.

The shrine of the eight-man sedan suddenly exploded and turned into flying wood chips, revealing a small statue no more than two feet tall in the shrine. It was a smaller version of the statue of City God Duan Mingbi in the City God Temple.

Instantly.

The statue was exposed to the air, and the whole street began to be filled with flying sand and stones and dust and fog.

The people were greatly shocked, and the temple messengers who were carrying the shrine across the border were even more shocked.

Especially the old man with the "asking for directions incense" on his head, his face turned pale, and the next moment, he seemed to have lost the whites of his eyes, and suddenly had a seizure on the spot, his head shaking...

After a few breaths, his face turned even paler, but he regained his sanity, and then he shouted:
"Hurry to the county government office."

Half an hour later.

The procession arrived at the county government office and went straight into its backyard.

Shangguan Yun was inside the room, wearing a white robe instead of official uniform, and suddenly frowned:
"Duan Chenghuang? Why are you making such a fuss and breaking into the official residence?"

As he spoke, he looked towards the incense burner in the room.

I saw that in the incense on the incense burner, a two-foot-tall outline of a general was condensed, and he was furious:
"Something has stolen my golden statue in public and also smashed this general's incense bones. Shangguan Yun, as the magistrate of Baojiao County, I order you to quickly find out the truth."

"Hmm? You order me?"

Shangguan Yun stood there with his hands behind his back and said calmly:
"How dare you! You are just a ghost god appointed by the imperial court, yet you dare to speak to me like this. Do you really think that your ninth-rank county baron is a title in the world of the living? Or do you think that I am the mediocre county magistrate who served six years ago?"

One word fell.

Then he saw Shangguan Yun's eyes were spinning like a whirlpool, with a frightening edge and pressure.

What the two-foot-tall general saw in the eyes of Shangguan Yun was not only the spirit and momentum in Shangguan Yun's eyes, but also the great national fortune that Shangguan Yun possessed as a seventh-rank county magistrate.

The City God was a title conferred posthumously by the imperial court, and a heroic soul was given a title after his death. Everything was granted by the imperial court, so in a sense, he was also a "high-ranking official."

In terms of rank, he is also a seventh-rank county city god and also a county baron.

If he met an ordinary county magistrate, he could not only intimidate him with his divine power, but also suppress him with his rank.

But Shangguan Yun was different. Not only did he possess the secret power of martial arts spirit, but he also never took a Yin spirit like him seriously, so...

Not only were his furious threats useless, but he was also suppressed and forced to stagger back by Shangguan Yun's extraordinary spiritual martial arts skills and the invisible power and luck of his official position.

This invisible power of national destiny is of no use to those who practice martial arts, but it is naturally able to restrain the City God who was born from the national destiny.

Duan Mingbi couldn't help but lower his voice:
"Shangguan County Magistrate, are you not going to intervene? My City God Temple was conferred by the imperial court, and it is also the imperial court's underworld office. If someone steals my golden statue, it is equivalent to stealing the plaque in the lobby of your county government. If you don't intervene? Where is the majesty of the imperial court?"

"This is related to the majesty of the court. I will not ignore it. The City God will return to the temple first. I will send someone to investigate thoroughly."

Shangguan Yun closed his eyes and said.

"Then this City God will wait for the news from the County Magistrate!"

Wait until the smoke from the stove dissipates.

There was something strange in Shangguan Yun's eyes:
"Stealing the golden statue in public? Who has such ability?"

Of course he couldn't just ignore the matter, so he immediately sent Wang Yixian, the head of the third squad in the county and known as the "God of Knife", to take people to investigate.

Less than half a day.

The news of the theft of the golden statue in the City God Temple had spread throughout the streets and alleys of the city.

A sensation.

Especially since there were thousands of people witnessing the incident.

So, all kinds of rumors came out.

Some say that "the City God had to pay tribute and donate every year, which angered the Heaven, so the Heaven took away his golden body"...

This statement was definitely spread deliberately by someone who doesn't want to make donations to the City God Temple anymore in order to influence and guide public opinion.

Another said, "It was the Qiulongfu thief 'Kong Kong'er' who came to Baojiao County and stole the golden statue in public."

There is a lot of truth to this statement.

It was also said that before Kong Kong'er stole the golden statue, he actually left a note at the City God Temple, saying that he would come to take the golden statue at noon on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

Then everyone in the City God Temple made preparations in advance, and even gathered several thousand people, but "Kong Kong'er" still succeeded.

People were shocked when they heard this...

Kong Kong'er is worthy of being the number one thief in Qiulong Mansion. He can actually do such an incredible thing.

but,
In fact, the most widely circulated statement is the fact witnessed by many people.

That is,
There was a little monster that looked like a mouse, was white in color, and had small wings. As the golden body disappeared, it flew out of the hall.

Many people saw this with their own eyes.

Some people directly gave the little strange beast a name, calling it the "Two-winged Gold-Eating Beast". Some people even found out its habits from somewhere and made them up themselves, saying that this "Two-winged Gold-Eating Beast has wings under its ribs, looks like a white mouse, and feeds exclusively on gold. It is a rare demon... It is said that the feces it excretes can turn gold into pure gold..."

For a time, many people believed it to be true.

The entire Baojiao County was in an incredible uproar.

As for Chen Ku.

He went out of the city early in the morning, changed his clothes, and then quietly returned to the city.

Arrived in the city.

Hear the consequences and rumors of all the things he had caused.

I couldn't help but feel relieved.

Sure enough, no one would have thought that they would do this.

He was also a little curious about those outrageous rumors. How were they made up?

He actually named his marten "Two-winged Gold Swallowing Beast" and said that he eats gold and excretes pure gold...

but.

The more outrageous the rumors were, the safer he was.

most,
It would be even better if we could really pin everything on that great thief “Kong Kong Er”.

Chen Ku returned home carefully.

I stepped on a pile of cow dung on the road again. I guess it’s because the City God hasn’t been killed yet, so my bad luck is still going on…

However, thinking that I only had three days of bad luck in exchange for 12,000 taels of gold from the other party, this deal was not a loss.

that's it.

I have been careful to stay at home and not go out.

On the second day.

The sixth day of the lunar month,

It’s time to start construction of Yaowang Hall.

Chen Ku felt that it would be better for him to stay at home for two more days and wait until the bad luck was over before going back to work. At the same time, it would be good for him to wait and see the situation at the City God Temple at home.

In this way, I stayed at home until the eighth day of the New Year.

Chen Ku is not ready to go to work yet.

But one thing was delivered to the door first.

"Shopkeeper Chen, this is the 20,000 jin of iron that Master Xie from our Firewood and Iron Shop lost to you years ago. It has been delivered now. Please sign for it."

Chen Ku was overjoyed.

Unexpectedly, it was Xie Qingfeng’s iron mother who sent it.

Now, not to mention that the weapon can be made heavier, the most important thing is...

The fourth variation chart.

It can be repaired.

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(End of this chapter)