The nearest human gathering place to Qingyang Temple is called Qingping Town. It is small in scale, with a population of less than 30,000. City walls are erected around it to resist the "alien" that come out at night. (Physical defense, blocking.)
Since it is a gathering place of human race, with a population of 30,000, it naturally has an unparalleled charm, like a piece of fragrant fat, attracting countless monsters and monsters.
Similarly, Qingping Town has existed in this land for so long, so it naturally has the power to fight against the crisis environment. According to "Shuibenwan", the guardian forces here are divided into:
The yamen established by the imperial court were composed of ordinary people, not a "dragon group" composed of strange people and strangers like "beating the clock with a big stick". They were all ordinary and cruel officials whose main job was to exploit and squeeze the people, and they could be called a bunch of losers.
These low-level employees who belong to the Chu State's ruling system do not have the power to fight against demons, aliens, and evildoers. They can't even fight against some over-polluted and distorted mortals. However, there is still no problem in teaming up to beat civilians and bully the old and weak.
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In addition to daily exploitation and oppression, he also violently maintains the normal operation of this town, manages the normal life of ordinary people, and barely maintains a level of food and clothing.
It is precisely their existence that represents that the laws of the 'Chu State' still cover this land, maintaining the Chu State's legal principles and dominance over this land.
The normal operation of the yamen has successfully incorporated this town into the national destiny system, and with the four-sided city wall as the boundary, it has been fed back by the power of the national destiny, stimulated the "people's hearts", and provided the lowest level of "protective power" to prevent others from outside the city wall.
Demonic invasion.
It can be understood as a special magic circle or barrier.
Although the life of the residents in the city is miserable, they receive more protection than the outside world. They can live a meager life, and they don't want to die. And this desire for "survival" gathers together to form a force, which invisibly flows into the city wall, and is formed by
The yamen established by the imperial court inspired people to resist the dangerous world outside.
This is the humblest 'people's aspiration'.
Within the territory of Chu State, one after another such "towns" gathered together, which formed Chu's "national destiny" and gave the court the power to fight against demons.
The two complement each other. If the people live and work in peace and contentment, the "national destiny" will be strong. If the national destiny is strong, it will feed back every town, with stronger protection and lower risks, and the people's support will be stronger. Vice versa.
Qingping Town is just a small town. The living standards of the people are barely above the subsistence line. The 'people's heart' is half dead. The 'shelter' provided by the national destiny is also very weak, and it cannot completely prevent a series of supernatural crises.
There are still a large number of monsters that can break through the defenses at night and haunt the towns. There are even stronger monsters that live directly with people. Therefore, it is normal for civilians to go missing and die every now and then.
In good times, more people may die from starvation and freezing than from monsters.
The second force to protect mortals comes from the righteous camp and a small number of special Confucian scholars.
There are not only temples in the town that specialize in chanting sutras and praying for blessings, selling amulets, and consecrating female benefactors and giving birth to children; there are also Taoist priests who specialize in collecting corpses, frightening people, performing funerals, practicing rituals, and exorcising evil spirits.
After all, weddings and funerals are necessities of life. But living in this kind of world, it’s so common to lose one’s souls, bump into ghosts when you wake up at night, goblins grow in the fields, and foreign objects appear in the house.
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Therefore, there is a huge gap in the number of monks and Taoists who have mastered a little bit of magical power and have a certain skill, and are probably at the level of those who have just left elementary school. And their "good deeds" are often necessary for their own practice of "new methods".
It’s not that you love doing good deeds, but that ‘good deeds’ are related to the practice of new methods. If you don’t do enough X good deeds, you won’t be able to complete specific rituals, digest the secret medicine, and develop supernatural powers.
Therefore, these sects that were kidnapped by morality had no choice but to become "righteous sects".
In the same way, some scholars who studied the Four Books and Five Classics belonged to a "school", and over the past hundred years, they also summarized the "Secret Medicine of the Confucian Sect". After taking it and digesting it, you can also master the magic power (the power of the awe-inspiring). And through brushing
Strange behaviors, deeper understanding of studies, and enhanced knowledge and magic power.
This is the unity of knowledge and action, and applying what you have learned.
It is said that the Imperial Examination of Chu State, a rural examination held every three years, in addition to the cultural assessment (Qiu Wei), also had a combat assessment (Autumn Hunting). The imperial court would uniformly distribute "secret medicine, new Confucian methods" and organize candidates to participate in demon hunting
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Within the designated time, take the secret medicine and master a newly developed "Confucian magical power" by the imperial court. In this way, you can hunt demons and test the students' understanding of the saint's teachings and their own intelligence. (There is a death indicator)
These human ‘quasi-practitioners?’ who may not necessarily be kind in nature, also bring a sense of security to the common people by charging high rewards. (Moreover, their own path of cultivation coincides with protecting mortals.)
Finally, there is the ‘Chenghuang Temple’ in the town.
The ‘City God’ is a high-quality idol that was jointly selected and canonized by the residents of the town by tracing back the famous figures in local history from records such as county annals.
At first, people worshiped together, begged for a stable life, and offered large amounts of incense. It is indeed possible to create a qualified 'incense god' through the unique rules of heaven in this world.
And use the 'City God's Temple' as an anchor to open up a small space, through which the City God communicates with Yin and Yang, and collects the souls of the dead in the Yang world within the scope of the belief. This prevents the 'wandering souls' from wandering around for a long time, being polluted by the twisted spiritual energy in the sky, sky and earth, and turning into evil spirits.
Ghosts bring disaster to the world of the sun, and eventually lose control and turn into evil.
However, as the 'City God' continues to receive incense offerings, it becomes stronger and stronger, and gradually develops sanity. In addition, the way of heaven is distorted, people's hearts are selfish, and the world is corrupted. The gradually growing 'City God' will naturally become filthy and bad.
In this world, the underworld is broken into six realms and scrapped, and there is no complete 'reincarnation system'. Moreover, when a pregnant woman gives birth to a new life, she can give birth to a 'new soul'. As a result, the backlog of ghosts in the underworld gradually increases and becomes difficult to deal with. (Proactively help ghosts reincarnate.
, additional consumption of power)
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Over time, the evil spirits in the small underworld devoured each other, and the city god also gradually degenerated with a large amount of wealth (soul currency). In the end, the blackened city god used the "City God Temple" as the foundation to gather powerful
The evil spirits and fierce ghosts formed the largest "dark evil force" in the small underworld and turned Qingping Town into its sphere of influence.
Every night, the "Ghost Patrol Team" under the command of the City God patrols the town to suppress and capture all demons and ghosts who dare to act recklessly.
Because the entire town is its crops. Only when the people live a stable life can they prosper and maintain positive population growth. Coupled with the high mortality rate and natural and man-made disasters, there will be an endless supply of crops without the need to take the initiative.
of 'soul resources' to invest.
Therefore, the gradually possessed 'green-faced ghost', as a vested interest in the local area, is also a force that protects the stability of Qingping Town. He is responsible for patrolling at night, eating cakes from the underworld, and suppressing other disobedient people in the small underworld.
The fierce ghost (fire merger, territorial grab).
Of course, it is also reasonable to seduce the souls of a few healthy people indiscriminately for three days and give them a dental ritual; or to ask a girl from a house that you like, ask her family to help dress her up, and send her to the underworld to take a concubine or something? It is also reasonable and reasonable.
After all, I am for everyone, and everyone is for me. As a city god, how can I only do good deeds and not establish dignity?
Under this three-party struggle, the Yin and Yang worlds in Qingping Town, the demons and monsters inside and outside the city, and the righteous people maintain a fragile balance. The number of civilian deaths has also remained within a healthy range.
However, all this was broken a few days ago. The cause was naturally the [Feast of Demons].
That night, Bailang's tricks caused all the big demons in this land to twist and attack the streets and exit early. In particular, Qingping Town's City God, the Green-faced Ghost, also died, freeing up the ecological niche in the underworld. Then there was another battle.
A large-scale bloody purge caused the demons in the underworld to begin migrating.
For Qingping Town, the most immediate impact was that the statue in the 'City God's Temple' was broken. Once the boss died, the second and third bosses rebelled one after another to seize the throne.
In addition, the 'City God's Temple' itself is just the largest 'evil force' in the small underworld, but it has never been unified. Instead, it has many competitors.
When the green-faced ghost pounces, the order of the Yin and Yang worlds is completely thrown into chaos, and everyone wants to compete for the position of "City God". In addition, the "Five Ghost Taoist" Shuibenmaru is obsessed with also has an estate in the local underworld.
In the end, the underworld passage in Qingping Town was broken, and the 'ghost watch team' not only went on strike, but also staged a night walk of hundreds of ghosts every day. Some fleeing demons also passed through this place to break through the 'city wall defense', come in and make a fortune before running away.
The death rate began to soar, the people were extremely panicked, every family and monks and Taoist priests were overwhelmed with their busy schedules, and people's panic gradually tended to get out of control.
At this time of crisis, the legend about the 'Sahaban' and the story of the mysterious Bai Zhenren... also spread rapidly with the publicity of several survivors.
Even a wealthy businessman (survivor) who had been brainwashed took out the shock payment sent by Bai Lang and clamored to erect a statue of the City God for "Zhenren Bai" to control the underworld and protect his health. Then a group of oily-headed and powder-faced monks broke into the house.
He smashed the shop and was seriously injured.
Under such circumstances, how could Bailang sit back and watch his little brother get beaten?
As a result, two shops were opened in the center of the town. A group of strangers wearing strange clothes began to walk through the streets.
