Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 277: Three Disasters and Nine Tribulations

In the gaps between several valleys, there is a long and winding path that leads to nowhere. The valley is barren, and large and small stones protruding from the dry mud can be seen everywhere.

The team of more than 200 people walked in an orderly manner, divided into two groups, front and back, protecting a dozen women and children in the middle.

At the front, Wu Huo was scratching his hairy head and looking at the map in his hand.

He was illiterate so he didn't understand what was on the map, but he knew that the area circled in red was where they needed to go.

"As long as we go here... and then through there, then... well, we should be able to reach the place we agreed to meet with the general."

Wu Huo talked to himself, not caring at all about the incredulous looks from the guards around him.

Shen Tingmiao walked to Wu Huo with the spirit shrine in her arms, tilted her head to look at the route he was pointing at, and said mercilessly: "Your route is wrong. If we follow your path, we will all fall off the cliff."

Wu Huo's expression froze, he coughed twice, and returned the map to Shen Tingmiao.

After Lin Beixuan left, the team was temporarily led by Shen Tingmiao. It was not because she was so strong that she could convince everyone, but because she was the only person besides Lin Beixuan who could read and understand the map.

Shen Tingmiao took the map and said without even looking up, "According to what he meant, from now on, all of you two hundred people will have to spend time learning to read."

"Ah!?" Wu Huo's face was a little ugly: "I can't learn those things!"

"You have to learn even if you can't. Literacy is more important than training in personal martial arts and battle formations."

"Since I don't want to be a general anymore, can't I just be a charging soldier?" Wu Huo said sincerely, and some of the strange people around him also nodded.

Shen Tingmiao smiled and said, "I didn't say that. He told me to do that."

Upon hearing this, Wu Huo immediately lowered his head and sighed. He could pretend not to hear what Shen Tingmiao said, but he did not dare to go against Lin Beixuan's wishes.

Seeing Wu Huo's look, Shen Tingmiao didn't intend to dwell on it any longer. She turned her head to glance at the women, children and kids who were panting in the middle of the team, frowned, and spoke to the deputy who was following her.

"We've been walking for quite some time, let's all take a break."

At this time, it had been half a day since they parted with Lin Beixuan. They had been walking without stopping. The men were fine, but the women and children could no longer bear it.

"Come on, come on, pass out the water, one bottle per person. If you feel tired, eat some candy."

Wu Huo asked the person who was responsible for carrying water to distribute the bottled mineral water on his back to everyone.

After resting for a while and everyone regained their strength, they set off again.

Shen Tingmiao expected to reach the destination within one day, but now the distance is still quite long and no one dared to delay.

At this time, a new group of people were brought in to carry water and food.

Carrying water and food is a heavy burden for the guys, and everyone is in a hurry, so they basically take turns carrying them in batches.

"Oh, it would be great if we had a few animals so we wouldn't have to carry these things every day." Guan Shuo, who had just carried a bag of food, sighed.

This time it was the turn of the people from Xiahe Village who had just joined the team to serve as food carriers.

At first he felt at ease with the food on his back, but the fact is, who wouldn’t feel tired after walking for a long time?

Carrying hundreds of kilograms of food along the mountain road would be difficult even for a strong alien, let alone an ordinary person like him.

And most importantly, it will delay their training time.

After two days of joining the team, Guan Shuo discovered that there was something very peculiar about this team, which overturned his previous understanding of the army.

That is, whether these people are walking, sitting or lying down, they seem to be doing some kind of exercise.

Except for a few leaders, the rest of the people tend to speak very little. They basically do not say a word and just focus on following instructions. They seem to be in a hurry, but their steps are surprisingly neat, as if they contain some special rules.

If you get closer and compare the breath of the two people, you will even find that their breathing frequencies are strangely the same.

After discovering this, Guan Shuo couldn't wait to officially join the team.

When he was a child, he would listen to storytellers at the market about the various ways of the people in the underworld, which might be mysterious and strange, or extraordinary...but these were only the power of an individual.

If you encounter a military formation, they will just launch a simple charge on the battlefield. No matter what sophisticated methods you use, they will be useless.

It was a dignified and upright force that overwhelmed others with force. Any personal skills seemed insignificant in the face of such power.

No matter how strong you are, can you defeat ten people?

Even if you are confident that you can hold your own against ten soldiers, what about a hundred, or even a thousand or ten thousand people?
The power of the military formations has been verified in practice. Even those high and mighty secular gods can only beg for mercy in front of tens of thousands of troops.

When Guan Shuo heard this, he was shocked.

Because in his eyes at that time, the gods worshipped in each village were already extremely important existences. Even the richest landlords in the village had to offer sacrifices and pray for fewer diseases and disasters in the future and good weather in the coming year just like the common people who made a living from the soil.

However, someone told him that the secular god is not invincible. Even ordinary people, if they gather together and work together as one, can pull the secular god down from his throne.

"This is the way of the army, using force to suppress the gods!"

Guan Shuo's eyes were shining, and he subconsciously followed the person in front of him to adjust his pace and imitate the other person's breath.

However, he was carrying a heavy burden of food on his shoulders, so the process could not last long before it was interrupted. His breathing was disordered, and his steps became messy and he found it difficult to keep up with the rhythm.

"Ho, ho..."

Guan Shuo was breathing heavily, and he turned his head to look at the heavy bag of grain on his shoulder. He was so angry that he didn't know where to vent.

Just now he almost entered that mysterious state.

"The General is back!!"

Suddenly, an excited voice came from behind the team.

Guan Shuo turned his head and looked back. He was quite tall, and even some taller strangers could not stop him. He saw the black-robed figure walking towards them at a glance.

The figure seemed to be walking slowly, but he could cover a distance of more than ten meters in one step. His eyes were focused on the face of the figure, and it was Lin Beixuan who brought them out of Xiahe Village.

But...why is the other person holding a child in his arms?
Could it be that he rescued someone from somewhere again?

Guan Shuo thought to himself, and stopped with everyone else, putting the grain bag on his shoulder on the ground.

At this time, Wu Huo and Shen Tingmiao also came from the front to the back. They first looked at Lin Beixuan carefully, and after confirming that he was not an evil spirit in disguise, they relaxed their vigilance.

Lin Beixuan looked at the people waiting for him in front of him, and a faint smile appeared on his face, while a strange look flashed in the eyes of the Xunshen in his arms.

What surprised it was not that Lin Beixuan had so many people waiting for him, but the smiles on everyone’s face in front of it.

"These people seemed to trust him very much, and everyone was happy about his arrival." The God of Xun glanced at Lin Beixuan, and what it saw was different from what ordinary people saw.

Although it is not one of those secular gods that relies on faith to survive, it can also observe the power of faith in a person.

Among the people in front, almost most of them had a strong white light flashing on their bodies. These white lights were like floating ribbons, converging towards Lin Beixuan.

'A guy who hasn't even started to call on the gods has actually begun to gather the power of faith!'

The god of Xun was shocked in his heart, but he remained calm and indifferent on the surface.

When it first saw Lin Beixuan, it was already a little shocked that the other party had refined two divine organs and was filled with the aura of disaster and calamity.

The former was easy to understand. Over the past thousands of years, it had seen many geniuses who were able to cross a major realm and refine divine organs. However, the latter was a little puzzling to it.

The aura of disaster and calamity are two different auras. Disaster can only be brewed by secular gods who have ascended to the throne, while disaster is even more difficult to bring about. No matter whether it is a human or a god, the most feared thing is to be contaminated by the aura of disaster.

The aura of disaster will only appear on specific people or gods.

If a person is infected with this habit, he will become self-denying and self-defeating, destined to be a widower or lonely for the rest of his life, and misfortunes will never come singly.

If a god is involved, the situation will be even more serious. Some people with weaker strength will not be able to escape and will suffer from it every day, entering the three disasters and nine calamities ahead of time.

The Three Disasters and Nine Tribulations are a difficult hurdle that all secular gods will face, no matter if they are small secular gods, big secular gods, or secular masters who manage the rules of the world, none of them can avoid it.

Once you start to fall into calamity, the calamity energy in your body will continue to accumulate and become impossible to get rid of. If you cannot survive it, you will end up dead.

This is also the fundamental reason why all the secular gods, big and small, will choose the right person and take the initiative to descend to protect the human when they advance to the realm of summoning gods.

Because of the calamity energy contained in the Three Disasters and Nine Tribulations, only human practitioners in the human immortal realm can resist it. When a person steps into the human immortal realm from inviting gods, he will no longer be troubled by the calamity energy. He will be completely reborn and can resonate with the heaven and earth more easily than ordinary gods.

This seems to be the restriction of secular gods by the secular heaven, and also the protection for humans.

Otherwise, if human beings are born insignificant and secular gods have no constraints at all...

'You're thinking too far ahead!'

The God of Xun calmed down and lay obediently in Lin Beixuan's arms, ignoring the calamity on Lin Beixuan's body.

Because it had discovered long before that although Lin Beixuan possessed calamity energy, it was suppressed by another mysterious thing.

It couldn't see through it, nor could it understand it. After careful consideration, it simply followed Lin Beixuan and became his protector, thus taking up the position when the other party would invite gods into the mansion in the future.

Following his mood, a smile appeared on the little face of Xunshen, and there was a hint of pride in his eyes as he looked at Lin Beixuan.

"You think I just want to recover safely by your side, but I actually have a bigger goal!"

Lin Beixuan had no idea about the psychological activities of the Xun God. At this time, he had already come to Wu Huo and others.

"General, didn't you say we would meet up at Shankou Village? Why did you come out from behind us?" Wu Huo asked curiously.

Lin Beixuan smiled and shook his head: "Something happened."

"This is?"

Different from Wu Huo's focus, Shen Tingmiao set his sights on the God of Xun.

"A wild child I picked up in the mountains." Lin Beixuan put the God of the Thousand Elements on the ground: "It can temporarily help us solve some of our current problems."

"What can a little girl do to help us?" Wu Huo was puzzled.

However, just as he finished speaking, his cheeks quickly swelled up and turned red, and he suddenly flew backwards.

When everyone saw this scene, they were stunned at first, and then their eyes all turned to the girl next to Lin Beixuan.

The God of Xun paced with his hands behind his back, slowly walked to Wu Huo and squatted down, his face serious. As Wu Huo covered his face with his hands and looked at him in shock, he casually pointed to a huge rock beside him.

‘Boom! ! ’

Amidst the astonished gazes, the boulder kept squirming, like a ball of plasticine, being constantly kneaded and formed into a round shape by invisible hands in the air, and finally turned into the shape of a cow.

Accompanied by a crisp snap of fingers, the stone cow suddenly shook its head, and stone chips on its body kept falling off, revealing its bright eyes inside.

"It...it became real!" Wu Huo rubbed his eyes and looked at the magical scene in disbelief. The resentment he had felt for being slapped away by the other party suddenly dissipated.

The legendary gods who can turn stone into gold are far inferior to the power of this petrified object.

The difference is that the stone cow is actually alive!

Wu Huo hurriedly climbed up and walked forward to pull the cow's ears. It was soft and warm, and it was undoubtedly a living creature.

He opened his mouth and looked at Lin Beixuan in shock, then looked at the little girl with her hands behind her back, and vaguely understood something in his heart.

He was just a little bit nervous, but he was not a fool. How could someone who could resort to such means be an ordinary person? So he immediately bowed respectfully to the God of Xun and begged for forgiveness.

The God of Xun nodded with satisfaction, raised his head slightly and looked at Lin Beixuan.

"I have done what I promised you."

However, Lin Beixuan shook his head: "It's not enough, at least six are needed."

Upon hearing this, the God of Xun just frowned, but without saying anything else, he directly created five more stone cows on the spot.

After transforming all the remaining five stone cows, its face became noticeably paler. It was obvious that molding stones into spirits was a huge drain on it.

"Thank you!"

Lin Beixuan stepped forward and lifted up the Xun God. This was something the two sides had discussed on the way here. After learning that the other party had this ability, Lin Beixuan immediately thought of using it on his own team.

It is impossible to distribute the supplies for more than 200 people to each person, but rotating them in batches will lead to inconsistent training within the team. Now with these stone cows, the pressure on the team when traveling can be greatly reduced.

Following Lin Beixuan's orders, several ox carts were quickly made by the man who used to be a carpenter.

Guan Shuo looked at the food on his and many other people's shoulders being placed on the ox carts one by one, and felt inexplicably unbelievable. Just now he was thinking that the food on his shoulders had delayed his training, but a solution appeared immediately. It was really what he thought of.

"No, it's not that what I think will happen, but General!" Guan Shuo suddenly raised his head and looked at Lin Beixuan, his eyes full of admiration.

He thought of the previous food crisis, which was the same. It seemed that everything was solved as soon as Lin Beixuan came back.

Just when Guan Shuo and many others felt relieved of their burdens and were showing great respect to Lin Beixuan, they did not notice that a pair of eyes were silently falling on them.

The God of Xun raised his eyebrows and uttered an exclamation that only he could hear: "Another pure force of faith!"

(End of this chapter)