Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 415 - 156: Nanjun Trembles! The Sin of Slaying a True God! (10,000-word mega - , subscribe please)_6
"And yet, it is such a place that we yearn for, a Divine God... one of which was slain by Fan Wu. I recall that within the Great Zhou Dynasty, there should be no more than twenty Earth Gods, right?"
Not every county town has an Earth Temple, nor does every Earth Temple in these towns have a real Earth God.
These Earth Gods with the status of a true deity are, after all, quite rare within the Great Zhou Dynasty.
An Earth God’s authority in the mortal realm might not be as high as his, the lord of the manor, but the Earth God’s status is indeed much higher than his.
Moreover, when the Earth God was granted his seal, he might have ascended to the Heavenly Court.
He might even have seen what the Heavenly Court looks like.
And him?
As for what the Heavenly Court above the nine heavens looks like, it only exists in his fantasies.
Longing to see it, yet unable to catch a glimpse.
He could only sigh softly.
His heart filled with countless emotions.
"Perhaps we should also be more wary of that Witch Immortal. I think we have already overestimated this rural Evil God, yet, unexpectedly... we still underestimated our opponent," said the Thousand Household Leader of the Qiantian Divine at this moment.
Yun Shouji nodded, "To corrupt and beguile a Divine God... This is no ordinary rural Evil God. At the very least, it shows that the other party is more powerful than an Earth God."
"I heard from that crazy girl at home that Fan Wu and that Witch Immortal have a feud that cannot be reconciled. But it’s not that Fan Wu has a feud with the Witch Immortal, rather the Witch Immortal has a feud with Fan Wu." 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚
The Thousand Household Leader of the Qiantian Divine spoke with a strange expression, "Could it be that the incident in Shuize County made Daoist Priest Fan and the Witch Immortal enemies?"
Yun Shouji replied with a wry smile, "Probably so, and now their grudge is not only about the incident in Shuize County."
"Qiulong County, Qiulong Temple," the Thousand Household Leader of the Qiantian Divine said with deep emotion, "Your father-in-law has taught a fine disciple indeed!"
"...I even doubt whether he is really my father-in-law," Yun Shouji uttered.
He seriously suspected that the Qiulong Temple’s old Heavenly Master, who had taught Fan Wu, was not really his father-in-law, but someone else altogether.
For example, that his actual father-in-law had died long ago, and it was someone else, impersonating his father-in-law, who then brought up a formidable person like Fan Wu.
Yun Shouji felt that this possibility was more likely.
After all... to accept that highly unreliable father-in-law, as it was, presented quite a challenge for him.
It also attributed to the initial poor impression that Fan Wu’s deceptive master gave to Yun Shouji, the lord of the manor.
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Meanwhile.
Netherworld.
"The unique karmic sin of slaying a Divine God is indeed difficult to erase. Some Divine Gods of lower rank than you might not notice the karmic sin on Fan Wu, but those of higher rank might detect it at a glance," the City God of Yinghe Mansion was toasting and drinking with an Underworld Deity as if they were two old friends catching up over drinks.
The drinks they were indulging in were naturally not any ordinary worldly wine; even a whiff of it might intoxicate a commoner.
If a mortal were to take a sip, they might immediately die of alcohol poisoning.
Even cultivators of this world might not be able to have a single drink of this special wine.
Because they are not qualified to drink it.
Their physical constitution and their level of spiritual cultivation are not sufficient to allow them to handle this kind of drink.
This is a special wine from the Underworld.
Upon hearing this, the Underworld Judge laughed and said, "I had already reported this matter to the higher-ups earlier, and those gods and Buddhas of higher rank than me would definitely become aware of this incident. After all, the death of a God of the Earth is indeed shocking enough to alarm quite a number of Heavenly Gods."
"Indeed," the City God of Yinghe Prefecture lamented, "This man is truly a dragon among men, but he can also be considered a harbinger of death, striking down wherever he goes."
The City God of Yinghe Prefecture was puzzled, "To be honest, I do not understand why he would be favored by True Martial Great Emperor."
The Judge shook his head, "Who knows? The intentions behind actions taken by existences on the level of True Martial Great Emperor are not something that we minor deities can conjecture. Even if we were to speculate for decades, centuries, millennia... we would still be clueless."
"You, like me, cannot discern the true extent of Fan Wu’s abilities; we can only say that he is not as simple as he appears on the surface. You should also be able to see just how extraordinary his growth has been, right?"
The City God of Yinghe Prefecture nodded slightly, "Back when he was in Yinghe Prefecture, he seemed to struggle quite a bit against a specter bewitched by a rural Evil God’s Deity General. True, he ultimately won, but he definitely had to exert his full strength at that time."
"And not so long ago, when he faced a so-called Ghost King of the Ten Halls, he also expended a fair amount of effort," the Underworld Judge added. "Then, in the blink of an eye, he could slay a God of the Earth, his growth rate was just outrageous."
"Exactly! To those who don’t know any better... they might think he had been jointly conferred by Heavenly Court and Imperial Court as a proper deity, enabling him to leap across so many levels," the City God of Yinghe Prefecture, unable to understand, could only attribute these mysteries to Fan Wu’s special nature.
And the conversation between the two deities was not kept secret, and thus their respective Yin Envoys overheard it.
The Yin Envoys brought by these two deities could not help but look at each other in astonishment.
Even though they were wearing tattered bamboo hats covering their faces, making it difficult to see their expressions clearly, one could still perceive a hint of shocked awe in each other’s eyes.
They had never heard their superiors praise a mortal so highly, and that mortal had actually slain a God of the Earth!
Goodness!
One must never underestimate the Gods of the Earth!
Even a minor God of the Earth is a formidable "personage" to these Yin Envoys, who are normally only qualified to run errands.
They did envy Fan Wu for the praise and wonder he received from the two deities.
But if they were to be asked to do the kind of things he did,
Sorry.
That would simply be asking too much of these Yin Envoys!
All the Yin Envoys under the City God of Yinghe Prefecture and this Judge, when combined, would at least number in the thousands. But even if you bound all these thousands of Yin Envoys together, could they contend with a God of the Earth?
The answer is...
Impossible!
Thousands of Yin Envoys bound together would probably not be able to defeat a God of the Earth. And to recklessly kill a righteous god is not a crime that a bunch of fanciful Yin Envoys can bear!
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Meanwhile, Fan Wu, who was at the center of discussion in Nanjun of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was utterly unconcerned about all those debates...
At this very moment.
After several days and nights of travel, Fan Wu had left the region of Nanjun in the Great Zhou Dynasty and entered the central prefectures of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
The Imperial City of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Was situated right in the midst of the central prefectures!
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