After Li Xiuyuan allowed the City God to straighten his clothes, he didn't give him any more time to delay. The immortal-killing sword in his hand fell on the City God's neck.
The City God was like a prisoner waiting to be executed. He knelt on the ground and stretched out his neck, his face expressionless.
Although he was afraid of death, when the moment of death actually came, as a city god, he was extremely calm, because in his heart he had no choice but to accept the result.
"I'll send you on your way today."
Li Xiuyuan's eyes flashed, and he immediately raised the immortal sword in his hand.
The City God didn't know what was going on at this moment. He suddenly raised his head slightly and looked outside the Temple of the City God. He laughed and said: "God's will, it is God's will. It turns out that there is a sky above the gods' heads. We are not the sky, not...
.”
Li Xiuyuan didn't know what the city god understood before he died, but without any hesitation, he dropped the immortal-killing sword in his hand.
There were no screams and no blood splattered.
The City God is a ghost and has no body of flesh and blood. When the sword fell, the City God's head immediately rolled down from his neck and rolled along the ground toward the door, but it did not reach the threshold yet.
The large head turned into an extremely rich incense and spread out in the air.
"What a great sword for killing immortals..."
After the City God's head dissipated, his murmuring words before his death echoed in the hall.
The body of the City God who had lost his head was still kneeling on the ground at this moment, but his body gradually started to collapse. Waves of incense began to emit, and the entire hall was suddenly filled with smoke, as if it was on fire.
However, this smoke is not real, but illusory, invisible to the naked eye, and can only be seen by those who practice Taoism.
"Hundreds of years of accumulation of incense were all gone in one day." Li Xiuyuan's eyes moved slightly and he spoke slowly.
"Click, click~!"
At this time, cracks appeared on the statue of the City God in the City God Temple. With a final bang, the head of the City God on the statue broke off and fell directly from the statue.
Without bias, the altar table in the temple was blown to pieces with a bang.
The city god died, the statue collapsed, and the altar table was destroyed.
The signs are obvious. From now on, this City God's Temple has no gods and has become an ordinary empty temple.
"Um?"
Li Xiuyuan took a look, but saw that the incense emitted by the City God after his death did not dissipate, but floated in the sky above the City God's Temple, condensing and lingering, like a thick layer of white clouds that lingered.
"Are you waiting for the new city god to inherit this incense?" He frowned and couldn't help but guess.
If this is the case, doesn't it mean that Guo Beicheng will soon have a new city god take office?
If the new arrival is good at fulfilling his duties, what if he is as good as, or even worse than, this city god?
Besides, the imperial court is corrupt now, and there is no guarantee that the gods will not be the same.
"Generally speaking, the City God is appointed by the gods of the Heavenly Palace. Now there is a problem with the City God. There is no trace of the gods in the Heavenly Palace. I think this Heavenly Palace is not a pool of clear water. I dare not expect such a Heavenly Palace. In this case, this
I will appoint the city god of Guo Beicheng."
Li Xiuyuan's eyes flashed, and he made up his mind.
Although the city god he appointed was not orthodox, he was equivalent to the little hairy god in the mountains.
But so what, the so-called orthodoxy is just a sentence. As long as the position is secure, even if a little ghost becomes the city god, it is also orthodox.
With this thought, Li Xiuyuan's soul flashed and he returned to his physical body.
I had just returned to my physical body and was about to leave the temple when I glanced out of the corner of my eye and saw several sneaky figures hiding behind the dim door of the Chenghuang Temple.
"Where did you come from, kid? Come out." He shouted suddenly.
"Old, eldest young master, don't, don't be angry, it's the younger one, the younger brother." At this time, a green-faced Yin soldier and a black-faced Yin soldier came out of the darkness in panic.
"So it's you. What are you doing hiding there? Is there any shameful deed?" Li Xiuyuan frowned.
"The eldest young master has misunderstood the younger one. How can the younger one do anything shameful? Isn't the younger one here to greet the eldest young master?" The two Yin soldiers nodded and bowed, showing their flattering smiles.
Li Xiuyuan said, "I still have things to do now and I don't have time to care about you."
After saying that, he was about to leave, but suddenly he remembered something. He stopped and said, "I'll tell you two to do something."
"Please give me the eldest master's orders. The two younger brothers will do their best." The two Yin soldiers said hurriedly.
Li Xiuyuan said: "Are there other evil soldiers and ghosts in the City God's Temple?"
"Yes, yes, they are all staying in the little ghost palace next to them." said the green-faced Yin soldier.
Li Xiuyuan said: "Now that the city god is dead, I will let you two lead them. I will be useful in the future. If any of the underworld soldiers refuse to obey or want to take the opportunity to cause chaos and destroy him, I don't want to be distracted at this juncture. Strange things."
"Yes, yes, eldest young master, don't worry. The two younger brothers will definitely handle it well. But, eldest young master, the younger two have just become Yin soldiers not long ago. They were injured again when they went to capture the evil ghost a while ago. The little ghost palace There are a few thorns among them, and the two younger brothers may not be able to compete with each other."
The green-faced Yin soldier first said swornly, and then said with a sad look on his face.
The dark-faced sinister soldier next to him nodded and said, "Yes, it's not that I'm unwilling to sacrifice my life, but I can't do anything about the young master even if I'm afraid of risking my life. That's a sin. When the time comes, it's the young master who dies, and it's a mistake." It’s a big deal.”
"Stop beating around the bush, what do you want? Tell me." Li Xiuyuan said calmly.
He was not angry at the two brats who took the opportunity to seek benefits.
The bodyguards of my Li family still need to be paid monthly and fed with food and wine. Naturally, the same goes for this brat. Even the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers.
If you want others to do things, the benefits are inevitable.
"I don't dare, I don't dare. I just ask the eldest young master to make the incense all over the palace a little smaller, and the two younger brothers will be satisfied." The green-faced Yin Bing said with a flattering smile.
Li Xiuyuan looked up at the thick incense coiled around the main hall, and then said: "You guys know how to pick things. This is the incense that the city god has accumulated for hundreds of years. It is a great tonic for you Yin soldiers and ghosts. But I have a use for these incense and can't use it casually. Let's do this. I will reward you with a corner of the incense over there, but you must remember that it is nothing more. If the incense here is even less, I will ask you. ."
After speaking, he pointed to a corner of the hall.
There was a thick aroma of incense floating in that place.
"Thank you very much, young master. Thank you very much, young master."
The two Yin soldiers were overjoyed when they heard this and knelt on the ground and kowtowed in thanks.
"Okay, do what I just told you to do. If anything goes wrong, I won't kill you. I'll just tie you up to bask in the sun." After Li Xiuyuan finished speaking, he strode away.
As soon as Li Xiuyuan walked away, the two Yin soldiers on the back looked at each other, then smiled excitedly, and immediately turned into a gust of Yin wind and flew into the thick incense in the corner.
Suddenly, the rich incense rolled and squirmed, and two figures seemed to be rapidly condensing into shape, as if they wanted to transform into entities.
The two ghosts absorbed the incense hungrily and divided up the incense in the corner of the wall, leaving no trace behind.
It seemed that it was still a bit unsatisfactory, and the dark-faced Yin soldier wanted to grab a handful of the incense next to him and eat it.
"That's enough. The eldest young master has ordered that only the incense in this corner is allowed. If you take one more bite and the eldest young master sees it, I'm afraid your life will be in danger. Don't forget, it was just below us, so high above us.
The city god offended the eldest young master, and in the end he had to stretch his neck and let the eldest young master chop off his head."
The green-faced Yin soldier next to him was so frightened that he hurriedly grabbed him and pulled him back.
"Hey, hey, I couldn't help myself. Sorry, sorry, I won't do it again next time."
The dark-faced Yin soldier shuddered, then smiled, and quickly took his hand back, as if what he saw in front of him was not delicious incense, but arsenic and poison.
"Okay, now that we've finished enjoying the incense, it's time to get down to business. If we don't handle this well, I'm afraid I'll spit out the incense I've eaten. The young master's temper is a joke." The green-faced Yin soldier said seriously again.
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"That's right, but with our current behavior, wouldn't the squad leader be able to catch those Yin soldiers easily?" The dark-faced Yin soldier grinned.
The two ghosts swayed and fell to the ground again, and what emerged was a burly and powerful man wearing armor.
He doesn't look like a soldier anymore, but more like a general.
Above the Yin soldiers are ghost generals. Although a rich incense is not enough to make them ghost generals, it does make them different from ordinary Yin soldiers. If they enjoy the incense a few more times, it is not impossible to truly become ghost generals.
possible.
I feel like my future is bright with the young master.
With this idea in mind, the two Yin soldiers swaggered through the wall and flew towards the Little Ghost Palace next to them.
There is an inconspicuous little hall in the Chenghuang Temple, in which are worshiped the ferocious-looking imps holding swords, guns, chains, and waist knives. Although there is not much incense here on weekdays, it is much better than ordinary imps.
There are not many little ghost statues in the Little Ghost Hall, only seven or eight.
Those who can occupy a statue here are all close followers of the City God.
But now that the city god is dead, this time the emperor and his courtiers, as well as the usually superior class leaders and bosses, naturally don't take it seriously.
"Hoo! Hoo!"
Soon, gusts of dark wind blew up in the Little Ghost Palace, and they collided with each other from time to time. There was a faint sound of weapons clashing, as if someone was fighting inside. If you listened carefully, you would also hear the sound of shouting and killing.
However, this situation did not last long and soon subsided.
Only the strong wind of the two incense took the upper hand, calming down the other winds.