Chu Ci looked at Jiu He who suddenly came to the door in astonishment.
Jiuhe replied seriously: "Yes, I hope you, Lord Guardian Star God, can take me in."
Seeing that Jiu He didn't look like he was joking, Chu Ci was a little confused.
"Why did you suddenly think of becoming my slave?"
Jiuhe hesitated for a moment and looked at the Baishan Mountain not far away.
Chu Ci also looked over.
Bai Shan was standing outside the palace gate, pretending to watch the scenery.
Seeing Chu Ci looking over, Bai Shan shook his head repeatedly: "It's none of my business."
Chu Ci was speechless. Have I ever said anything about you?
You don’t have three hundred taels of silver here!
"You don't need to listen to Bai Shan's nonsense. If it's about the God-Slayer, then there's no need for it."
Hearing what Chu Ci said, Jiuhe knew that he had misunderstood, and quickly explained: "It's not Baishan's fault. You don't have to blame him. It was my own decision after careful consideration. Baishan just told me some things."
"Actually, I have considered it before..."
After Jiu He's explanation, Chu Ci probably understood what she was thinking.
One is that Chu Ci saved her before and helped her eliminate the God-killers, which made Jiuhe very grateful. The guardian temple also helped treat the people of Baikaicheng regardless of reward, which touched Jiuhe's heart.
Moreover, the appearance of God-killers made Jiuhe feel in danger. Especially after knowing that these God-killers were not an exception, she felt even more that if she was alone, not to mention the safety of the sheltered city, even her own safety would not be guaranteed.
Guaranteed.
As for Chu Ci's strength, she had also seen before that the God Killer, who could force the three gods to a dead end, could not survive a single round under Chu Ci's hands.
If she could become Chu Ci's subordinate god, then she would no longer have to fear the threat of the God Killer.
With gratitude in his heart and worries externally, Jiuhe made the decision to join Chu Ci.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Baishan praising Chu Ci. If it weren't for Baishan, Jiuhe wouldn't have been able to make up his mind so quickly.
After listening, Chu Ci glanced at Bai Shan, his eyes seemed to say, you are really good at pimping.
Baishan scratched his head in embarrassment.
Jiuhe looked at Chu Ci with a worried expression.
In the final analysis, these are just her thoughts. Whether she can become Chu Ci's subordinate god depends on whether Chu Ci can like her.
Chu Ci thought for a while and then said: "Do you really want to become my subordinate god?"
"Yes." Jiuhe knelt down on one knee and said seriously: "As long as you don't dislike me, my lord, Jiuhe will always be loyal to you!"
Looking at Jiu He's firm eyes, Chu Ci slowly said: "I understand."
"Then I will accept you."
"From now on, you will be my god!"
With a finger pointing out, the power of the contract instantly spread out from Chu Ci's fingertips, condensing into a thin line connecting Jiuhe's divine seal.
Jiuhe lowered his head and accepted Chu Ci's contract power.
After a while, the divine seal between Jiu He's eyebrows flickered, and a trace of Chu Ci's aura came out, and soon disappeared.
Putting away his strength, Chu Ci threw a white jade bottle to Jiuhe and said with a smile: "When you join my army, I have to show something. This bottle of spiritual lotion can restore your divine power."
Jiu He was shocked when he heard that he could restore his divine power. Just when he was about to refuse, he heard Chu Ci say: "No need to refuse. When Bai Shan became my subordinate, I also gave him a bottle."
"Yes, Master Chu Shen is very generous in his actions." Bai Shan also persuaded him.
Jiuhe hesitated for a moment, but chose to put the white jade bottle away.
"Thank you Lord Guardian Star God for the gift."
"Congratulations, Jiuhe." Baishan walked up and said with a smile, "We will be companions from now on."
"Thank you." Jiu He looked at Chu Ci and asked, "I wonder if there is anything you need to entrust Jiu He to do?"
Chu Ci was startled.
After thinking about it carefully, he seemed to have nothing that needed the gods to do right now.
Nowadays, the development momentum of the guardian temple is good, and the number of priests is also increasing day by day. The temple affairs do not require the intervention of gods.
The monsters that used to bring a lot of trouble to the temple now pose no threat. As long as the number of combat teams is large enough, even high-level monsters will only end up drinking in hatred.
The only person who can be called a threat is probably the God-Slayer of the Temple of Life, who may come again without knowing when.
But they can't deal with the god-killer Jiu He.
After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't think of a task to give to Jiu He, so Chu Ci simply gave it up.
"You can ask Bai Shan about this, he will know clearly."
After throwing the blame to Bai Shan, Chu Ci decisively stepped away, leaving Bai Shan with a confused look on his face.
What the hell?
Lord Chu Shen, when did you give me a mission?
Looking at Jiuhe's expectant eyes, Baishan pondered for a while and said tentatively: "How about I teach you how to fight crickets?"
Jiuhe:……
After accepting Jiu He, Chu Ci returned to the inner temple.
Jiuhe's loyalty was an unexpected surprise to Chu Ci.
Although there is nothing in the temple that requires the gods to intervene now, it does not mean that it will not be needed in the future.
Now that the power of the temple has begun to spread throughout Chengyang Mansion, we will encounter all kinds of things in the future, and there will always be some troubles that exceed the upper limit of the local temple's capabilities.
The existence of Baishan and the others is to solve this kind of trouble so that Chu Ci can concentrate on his cultivation without being distracted by such things.
Moreover, as the god of the border city, Jiuhe's knowledge and ability are stronger than those of ordinary gods, which will also be of great help to the subsequent development of the temple.
The premise is that the Temple of Life does not come to cause trouble.
As he thought about it during this period, Chu Ci felt more and more that there was something wrong with the actions of the Temple of Life.
Not to mention that their crazy hunting of gods can easily attract the attention of the gods, and the timing of their actions alone is very problematic.
Judging from Xiao He's memory, the time when the Temple of Life began to take action happened to be the time when the God Realm was being devastated by the Abyss Realm and concentrated its efforts to suppress the Abyss Realm.
Otherwise, given the power of the God Realm to monitor China, how could these God-killers be so arrogant as they are now.
Of course, this can be explained by coincidence, but the other point cannot be explained by coincidence.
The Temple of Life's plan for hunting targets is too detailed.
The number of gods in each city, their location distribution, their strength, and the information on the temples are basically all there. Even the information on Jiuge City is available.
And they also divided the difficulty based on this information and formulated appropriate hunting routes.
Forget it, the key is that they avoided all dangerous places!
Such as Tianshui City in Shui Mansion, Zhuoyang City in Tianzhen Mansion, Jiuguang City in Taiyang Mansion...
They would not approach any urban area where the middle-ranked god was, and they would not even go to any mansion where the upper-ranked god was.
In Xiao He's entire hunting target map, there are thirteen prefectures and hundreds of targets, but not a single city has a median god, not even a city close to the median god.
Not only that, they also deliberately avoided the temples of the middle god and the upper god.
His Jiuge City is an exception.
Judging from the target classification, the information about Jiuge City should be from when he first became a god and established the temple, so the threat level is not high.
It would be fine to avoid one or two, but they avoided them all. This cannot be explained by coincidence.
This can only explain one problem. The Temple of Life knows which places are the territory of the middle god and which places are the dojo of the upper god. Only in this way can all dangers be avoided.
But this made Chu Ci even more confused.
How did they know the location of these gods?
The divine power detection equipment in the Temple of Life cannot detect the existence of above-median gods, and the median gods and upper-level gods spend most of their time in the God Realm, so even if they have a way to detect them, they cannot detect them.
How can I find someone when no one is there?
After thinking hard to no avail, Chu Ci chose to give up.
Anyway, he has conveyed the information to the God Realm, and it is up to the God Realm how to deal with it afterwards.
Judging from the news sent back to him by the giant spirit, the divine realm will soon organize the gods to eliminate these god-killers.
However, Chu Ci had a vague feeling that perhaps the annihilation operation in the God Realm would not go as smoothly as imagined.
Half a month later.
Chu Ci is teaching Yang Yu in the temple.
"If you want to break through to a high level, a little hard work is not enough."
"You have two special abilities. It will be more difficult for ordinary people to break through the realm..."
When he was halfway through speaking, Chu Ci suddenly felt something in his heart.
After pondering for a while, Chu Ci said: "Well, you don't have to go out recently. You can find Wanhao and teach the new priests for a while. You may gain something by drawing parallels."
"Yes." Yang Yu replied respectfully.
After Yang Yu left, Chu Ci flashed and returned to the virtual world.
The mountains in the virtual world and the hot springs.
Ziyuan, who had just woken up from a coma, was talking excitedly to Gu Huangyan.
Gu Huangyan was very happy, which meant that Ziyuan was finally out of danger. Even if there was no hot spring treatment later, she could still rely on her own divine power to nourish her soul.
Ziyuan was also very happy. She had never seen a smile on her face since she woke up.
At the beginning, she was burning her origin with the belief that she would die. Unexpectedly, not only was she not dead now, but her divine power was also fully restored. How could this not surprise her?
While the two were communicating, Chu Ci came over.
"I can hear your voices from so far away." Chu Ci smiled and said, "It seems that you are recovering well."
Seeing Chu Ci, Ziyuan said happily: "You are the brother Chu that Sister Gu mentioned, right? Thank you for saving me!"
"Brother Chu?" Chu Ci's expression was a little strange: "How old are you?"
Ziyuan was stunned: "Is it so direct?"
"No, I just don't think I'm old enough to be your brother." Chu Ci said with a smile.
Ziyuan pondered for a while and tentatively said: "Then...Grandpa Chu?"
Chu Ci:?
Gu Huangyan was laughing so hard at the side, she knew this scene would happen.
Chu Ci's face darkened: "What grandpa! Is that what I meant?!"
"What does that mean?" Ziyuan blinked.
"I mean, is there a possibility that my age is younger than yours?" Chu Ci said patiently.
Unexpectedly, Ziyuan waved her hand and said firmly: "Impossible!"
Such a firm attitude of Zi Yuan made Chu Ci stunned. He had some doubts about whether Zi Yuan's age was really younger than his.
As a result, Ziyuan's next words broke his suspicion.
"I was born less than a hundred years ago, so I must be the youngest!"
"I'm sorry, I was born less than half a century ago." Chu Ci said expressionlessly.
Zi Yuan's eyes widened and she looked at Chu Ci in disbelief.
"Now you understand." Chu Ci said with a smile.
Unexpectedly, Ziyuan stared for a long time and held back a sentence.
“It is illegal to falsify your age!”
Gu Huangyan on the side couldn't hold it in and burst out laughing.
Chu Ci had a black line: "Speak nicely! Who is faking his age? Why did I lie to you?"
Ziyuan didn't believe it and looked at Gu Huangyan.
Gu Huangyan had laughed enough, wiped her tears and nodded: "His age is indeed younger than yours."
Ziyuan's eyes widened again: "Yes, but isn't he a middle god?"
"Whoever stipulated that the age of the middle god must be older." Chu Ci raised his eyebrows.
Ziyuan was choked immediately.
Yes, there is no rule that says the median god must be older.
It's just that those who can become middle-ranked gods generally have a god's age upwards of a thousand.
Ziyuan also made a judgment based on this, who would have thought that she would meet this weirdo Chu Ci.
But to become a mid-level god less than fifty years after his birth is outrageous!
"Why do you practice so fast?" Ziyuan couldn't help but ask.
"Because I am a genius." Chu Citian said shamelessly.
Ziyuan:?
You mean, I'm stupid?
This time it was Ziyuan's turn to have a dark face, and the good mood she had just woken up suddenly disappeared.
"Sister Gu..." Ziyuan looked at Gu Huangyan aggrievedly.
Gu Huangyan said with a smile: "You don't need to compare with him. Even if you look at the entire God Realm, his situation is unique. We just have to go our own way."
Ziyuan thought about it for a while.
After some conversation, Chu Ci got down to business.
"You are lucky. During the period of coma, there was no backlash of divine power, so your divine body and divine power have basically recovered."
"The injuries on the soul are still a bit bad, and some parts of the soul are still missing, but it's not a big problem. According to this healing speed, your soul will be fully recovered in a few days."
At this point, Chu Ci paused and continued: "It's just that the origin of your burning...can't be recovered."
The lack of origin means the shortening of the life span of gods.
Unless Anshen shows up, Ziyon's original injury will never be recovered in this life.
Gu Huangyan looked sad.
Ziyuan didn't care about this, she hugged Gu Huangyan's arm and said with a smile: "Sister Gu, don't worry, I am very happy to be alive. At worst, I will be more careful in the future, and I can still live a long life."
Chu Ci didn't say anything. He could find a way to find the God of Medicine to get the tranquilizing dew, but he couldn't make a promise.
There are many gods in the divine world who need Anshen Nectar, especially the gods who entered the Abyss Realm this time. Many of them need Anshen Nectar to repair their origins and restore their fighting strength.
Under such circumstances, it was impossible for him to go to the Medicine God to prepare a soothing dew for a god he had just met.
If there is enough Anshen Dew in the future, he can help Ziyuan heal the original damage.