Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 357: Incense (I)

It seems that many things have two sides.

The secular gods doubted Lin Beixuan's ability and did not believe that a mere human could lead them to defeat the Xuanhuang hungry ghosts in Luozhou.

However, when they saw with their own eyes that Lin Beixuan shattered the divine domain of the Pelican God, other thoughts began to arise in their hearts.

They first looked at the army under Lin Beixuan's command. Although their number was not large, each of them was stained with strong blood, which was more than many ordinary armies in previous dynasties.

Then, they turned their attention to Lin Beixuan.

That unique temperament, when still, is like the calm, dark blue waters of the North Sea, with no visible waves; when moving, it is like raging waves and rolling thunderclouds, emitting an awe-inspiring power, which can suppress the Pelican God with a flip of the hand and shatter the opponent's divine domain.

You have to know that even for this group of secular gods of the same status, it is not an easy task to defeat the Pelican God.

After the Pelican God left, the secular gods looked at each other, each with their own thoughts.

Just at this moment, a young general from the Beiming Army quickly came to Lin Beixuan and whispered something in his ear.

"General, we have prepared a spacious room according to General Shen's instructions. We can use it to entertain the gods present."

The young general spoke tremblingly, and from time to time he could not help but raise his head to glance at the dozen or so majestic figures, and then immediately lowered his head, not daring to look again.

"Oh my god, how did the general manage to remain so calm in front of so many secular gods?"

This young general was none other than Guan Shuo, whom Lin Beixuan brought out from the Ku River. Because of his courage in killing the enemy, he had been promoted from a small sergeant to a captain in charge of nearly a thousand soldiers.

When Lin Beixuan heard Guan Shuo's whisper, there was no surprise on his face, as if he had already known about this.

He nodded towards Guan Shuo and said calmly: "I understand. The aura emitted by the secular gods here is harmful to you. You should go down first."

"Yes!"

Guan Shuo clasped his fists and bowed to Lin Beixuan, then straightened his back, slowly turned around, and left the city wall with firm steps.

As a Bei Ming Army soldier who was nominated from among several captains to stand on the city wall, they naturally could not weaken the majesty of the Bei Ming Army and let these secular people look down on them after seeing it.

After Guan Shuo walked to the top of the city wall, Lin Beixuan smiled softly and said, "Thank you all for running around for so long. The reception area has been cleaned up. Let's go there to discuss anything."

"Alright."

The Fox Spirit God followed Lin Beixuan's words and responded.

Basically, communicating while standing on the top of the city wall is inconvenient, so it would be best for Lin Beixuan to make some preparations in advance.

So, under the leadership of Lin Beixuan, one by one the secular gods came to a spacious and comfortable sacrificial hall in the center of Wangfeng City.

This was supposed to be the place where the noble families in Wangfeng City held sacrifices to secular gods. It is still relatively well preserved, with the tables, chairs and altar just covered in a layer of dust. With a little tidying up, it can be used as a place to entertain guests.

At this time, the table here was already filled with food, and candles were lit in the center of the hall and in various corners, making it look very bright even in the dark.

Of course, secular gods may not care about these human foods. They value more the incense and offerings made by believers who truly believe in them. However, according to the etiquette of worldly sacrifices to secular gods, these are all necessary.

In recent years, Luozhou has been plagued by starving ghosts so badly that basically all the people in Luozhou no longer believe in secular gods.

Having lost their homes, their faith also collapsed.

On the contrary, those scenes of pious offerings, burning incense and praying have become a thing of the past, replaced by dark despair and fear.

Under continuous famine and disasters, the word "secular god" has gradually become an object of ridicule among people.

As the host, Lin Beixuan was the first to enter the sacrificial hall, and the other secular gods followed suit and took their seats.

The Fox Spirit God sat next to Lin Beixuan, while the Xun God disappeared.

She glanced at the seat originally reserved for the God of Xun, sighed, and said nothing more.

She knew what the other party was going to do without having to guess.

The God of Xun hates the Xuanhuang hungry ghosts extremely, and will try his best to remove any nails that may hinder their plans.

Perhaps the other party's approach was a bit radical, but the Fox Spirit God couldn't say anything.

The secular gods looked at the food on the table in front of them, and then their eyes stopped on a small incense burner in front of each of them.

There was a long incense stick in the incense burner, and it had been lit. Wisps of smoke were rising up and swirling in the darkness.

"You little guys are so thoughtful!" The housekeeping god smiled softly with gentleness in his eyes.

"Haha, they are afraid that we don't eat human food, but incense, so they placed an incense burner in the middle. This starting point is not wrong, but we won't eat incense without the power of incense!"

The guardian god of the earth was also smiling. He put his hoe aside and looked very happy.

Obviously, the simple and stupid behavior of the Beiming Army not only did not disgust him, but instead made him feel a little warm and friendly.

After hearing the words of the housekeeping god and the earth-protecting god, the other secular gods stared at the incense burners in front of them and fell silent.

Xiao Ming Shen lowered his head and sighed softly: "We have failed this faith, and now we deserve this price."

Only when a person truly believes in secular gods can he gather a wisp of incense power. Given the tragic situation in Luozhou today, coupled with the fact that many people have died, there is almost no incense left in the incense temples of secular gods.

Without incense, they will not be able to open the incense temple, and their strength will drop to a lower level than before.

The gods stared at the incense burner in front of them in a daze, while Lin Beixuan was observing them silently.

Having seen and understood worldly gods, he no longer felt as uneasy and fearful about the worldly gods who once seemed high and mighty to him. Instead, he treated them with a normal attitude.

After thinking for a while, Lin Beixuan spoke first to break the silence.

His voice was low and magnetic: "Everyone is gathered here with me now, and I believe you have all learned about our plans and arrangements from the Fox Spirit God. Although our current situation is not ideal, it is in our hands. We can't go on like this forever. This is not good for the remaining people in Luozhou or for you!"

Lin Beixuan's eyes swept over every secular god present. No matter if they were persuaded by the Fox Spirit God or relied on favors, since they were able to come here, it meant that they still hoped that Luozhou would become sunny again.

They were once the hope of countless believers, and many of them worshipped them every day before the disaster, but they still ended up dying in the end.

Lin Beixuan didn't believe that he had not planted the seeds of guilt in the hearts of these secular gods.

It is said that everything has a cause and an effect. Believers worship secular gods to ensure safety. This is the cause.

Secular gods bestow blessings to fulfill the wishes of believers, this is the result.

There is a deep connection between the two. If the secular gods cannot overcome it, this will become their most terrifying inner demon disaster.

"I have heard that some gods feel disappointed and think their existence is being forgotten and ridiculed."

Lin Beixuan directly laid out the biggest dilemma facing these secular gods.

"But I want to say that the real gods are the sustenance in the hearts of countless believers. It does not lie in those blind worships and incense, but in the shelter and hope you give to believers." "Unfortunately, you did not do this."

Upon hearing this, the expressions on the faces of the secular gods present turned ugly, and even the guardian god of the earth and the housekeeping god sighed helplessly.

Lies don't hurt, truth is the knife.

At this moment, Lin Beixuan's words were like a sharp blade, stabbing into the hearts of the secular gods present.

That was the fact, and they had no way of refutation.

Lin Beixuan let out a long breath: "Now, the remaining incense power you have is probably not enough to light up the incense temple in the mansion!"

Lin Beixuan curled the corners of his mouth, and suddenly stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers in the air.

Everyone's eyes were attracted by the sound of his fingers and fell on Lin Beixuan's hand. They saw a faint flame rising at the fingertips of Lin Beixuan.

"call--"

A gust of wind blew, but the flame did not shake at all. Instead, as the fireworks lingered, pure and rich aromas of incense emanated from them.

"This is……"

The guardian god frowned slightly, and the lightly swaying flames at Lin Beixuan's fingertips were reflected in his eyes.

"Incense...fire!?" The housekeeping god took a deep breath, his eyes revealing undisguised shock.

If we say that Lin Beixuan defeated the Pelican God because he had possessed his own original divinity in advance, and shattered the Pelican God's divine realm with his extremely high quality, this is already a genius that is enough to amaze all the secular gods.

But now Lin Beixuan showed his skills again, which scared them a little.

It makes sense and plausible that one can refine the divine organs in the state of summoning gods and realize one's own original divinity in advance.

But it is somewhat incredible that you can open the temple of incense at this time.

What is the incense temple?
That is a temple that will only be gradually opened after it is promoted to a secular god and opens up the divine realm, and is able to absorb the incense and faith of believers.

As a result, you, who are at the stage of summoning gods, not only opened up your own divine domain, but even opened the temple of incense and offerings. So what is this? Are you summoning gods or a human immortal?

If you are currently only at the stage of summoning gods, what will it be like when you reach the level of human immortal? Suppress the secular gods with a flip of your hand? Discuss the Dao with the secular masters?
This is a bit too exaggerated!

People often feel shocked, doubt themselves, and experience a severe impact on their hearts when they discover something that subverts their worldview.

The secular gods present now fully confirmed this statement.

Even the Fox Spirit God, who had the most contact with Lin Beixuan and thought he knew him better, couldn't help but open his mouth and couldn't control the expression on his face.

She knew that Lin Beixuan was growing very fast, but this speed was a little too shocking.

Finally, a secular god couldn't help but ask the questions that were on everyone's mind.

"Why are you able to condense the power of incense, and it is so pure!?"

That’s right, what shocked and concerned them even more was that the power of Lin Beixuan’s incense was extremely pure, even many times purer than theirs before Luozhou suffered the disaster.

In the past, the power of incense that they condensed was at most a mysterious mist that looked like flames.

But at this time, the burning on Lin Beixuan's fingertips had completely turned into flames.

The gap between the two is simply beyond words.

“So this is what the power of incense should be like?” A secular god without a physical body, whose body was like a constantly shifting shadow, spoke with difficulty.

He is the God of Shadows. Those who believe in him are usually petty thieves who borrow his power to do evil things.

Strictly speaking, he was one of the evil gods present among the dozen or so secular gods in Luozhou.

However, although he is an evil god, he himself has not done any major evil things. It is just because of his abilities and channels that he is used by his own believers to do evil, causing his reputation to deteriorate. He does not care about his reputation, so he got the name of the evil god.

However, when believed in by evil people, the power of incense it can provide is the most mixed, even less than the power of incense that can be provided by many ordinary people's homes.

Therefore, when the Shadow God saw Lin Beixuan's incense power, which was so pure that it had turned into the shape of a flame, his heart was so excited that it almost jumped out.

"I also want to know why the incense power you condensed is so pure!" Shadow God asked, pretending to be calm.

Lin Beixuan glanced at the secular gods and said calmly: "I have not condensed the power of incense. This is just the initial appearance of the incense in my temple."

"Does the power of incense need to be refined?"

Fox Spirit God: “…”

Guardian God: “…”

Housekeeping God: “…”

……

All the secular gods present were silenced by Lin Beixuan's words.

After a long time, Shadow God finally smiled bitterly and said.

"The power of incense itself carries the desires of many people. It needs to be refined before it can be stored in the Origin Temple. If it is not refined, the temple will gradually decay and eventually collapse into ruins."

"What followed was that the secular gods lost their minds, and the thirty-nine disasters came early, and eventually the gods died and disappeared."

Lin Beixuan was stunned. To be honest, he really didn't know about this.

Because the incense received in his temple has always been in the shape of this flame, and not as complicated as the Shadow God said.

All he felt from the incense was pure longing, home, and the desire to drive out the Xuanhuang hungry ghost.

The incense in his temple was basically provided by these people in the Beiming Army.

All those who trust and believe in him do so to restore the blue sky of Luozhou and hope for a better tomorrow.

At the meeting tonight, he displayed the power of his incense. His original intention was to let these secular gods in front of him see that, given the current predicament of Luozhou, as long as you sincerely unite for the people to fight against the starving ghosts and take back the fallen Luozhou, you can also be believed by the people like him, and thus gather incense again.

Unexpectedly, these secular gods focused on the quality of his incense.

"Forget it. After all, we've shocked them for a while. It will be easier to handle next!"

Lin Beixuan thought secretly in his heart, but the expression on his face was calm and indifferent.

He raised his eyebrows, and the incense on his fingertips gradually extinguished: "So, do you all want to control this pure incense power like me?"

　There should be another chapter later, keep your word!!
　　
　
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