Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 99 - 87: Even the City God Can’t Discern Daoist Priest Fan’s Foundation! City God’s Command! (Seeking First Subscription)_3
It was dusky all over, made of an unknown type of wood.
Fan Wu squeezed it slightly with some force, yet did not break the City God’s Command, indicating that it was quite solid, even more so than ordinary steel.
Carved on it was a column of small characters—City God of Yinghe Prefecture!
Below that was a vermillion talisman script.
Although Fan Wu did not understand talisman script, he could vaguely make out that it was likely the character "command."
Because it looked very much like "command."
Then he took it as the character "command!"
"Tomorrow, at midnight, during the hour of Zi, is my birthday. If you are interested, visit the City God Temple again. I will, on that night, enlighten mortal cultivators and well-intentioned strange creatures on the teachings."
As these final words fell,
Fan Wu faintly heard the sound of a bell again, the lingering bell tones echoing in his ears, mind, and soul.
The next instant.
The scenery changed once more!
Fan Wu smelled the strong and pungent odor of burning incense and candles, saw the beautifully renovated main hall of the City God Temple of Yinghe Prefecture, and heard the whispers of a few people inside the temple.
He was back.
"Does that mean... I was just pulled into the Netherworld by the City God? What a place—the Underworld! It did feel quite eerie, but within an acceptable range. The yin energy in the Underworld didn’t penetrate my body."
Fan Wu looked down at the City God’s Command in his hand; at his feet lay the Demon-slaying Sword.
Clearly.
The City God of Yinghe Prefecture had returned the Demon-slaying Sword to him.
Fan Wu slung the Demon-slaying Sword on his back once more and toyed with the City God’s Command in his hand.
He suddenly looked toward the City God and took the initiative to ask, "As the City God of Yinghe Prefecture, you must know where the evil creatures that escaped from the great prison are located, right?"
The eyes within the statue of the City God seemed to move slightly as a faint voice reached Fan Wu’s ears, "I do indeed know, and I have prepared to command the Yin Envoys to capture all of the strange creatures."
With a smile, Fan Wu said, "Why not also share the creatures’ locations with me, so I can do a good deed for Yinghe Prefecture?"
"..."
A few breaths later, Fan Wu walked out of the main temple hall, satisfied.
Though he had not earned any Free Attribute Points from visiting the City God Temple,
he considered it a fruitful gain nonetheless.
Outside.
Upon seeing Fan Wu emerge, the Yin Envoy Huang San was about to reflexively greet him with "Daoist Priest Fan," but... the next moment, his gaze was captivated by the City God’s Command in Fan Wu’s hand.
Instantly.
The greeting he intended to utter was caught in his throat. His indiscernible face showed an expression of astonishment so exaggerated that only he could know its extent.
"The... the City God’s Command?!" Huang San was dumbstruck, "The City Lord God... gave Daoist Priest Fan the City God’s Command?!"
"Ssss!!!"
Huang San took a sharp breath of yin energy, for he felt from the City God’s Command the aura of the City Lord God! This indicated that the command was authentic!
To see the holder of the City God’s Command,
was as if seeing the City God himself!
Immediately, Huang San bent over in deep respect, "Yin Envoy Huang San of the City God Temple of Yinghe Prefecture, at your service... cough, cough! Greetings to the holder of the command!"
Could the City God’s Command also be used in this way?
Fan Wu remembered that the City God of Yinghe Prefecture had mentioned—bearing this command, ordinary Yin Envoys who saw him would have to show him some respect.
Now it seemed, this was far beyond a little respect.
Seeing Huang San’s submissive posture...
Fan Wu felt that even if he asked Huang San to help him do some wicked deeds,
Huang San probably wouldn’t refuse.
It was unclear whether other Yin Envoys from other places would also show the same respect to the command as Huang San did. After all, the boss of other Yin Envoys would be the City Gods of their respective jurisdictions, not the City God of Yinghe Prefecture.
Fan Wu casually tucked the City God’s Command into his bosom and then left the City God Temple.
Ready to do what he was supposed to do now.
That was to kill the monster!!
Just now, his last request to the City God of Yinghe Prefecture... had been granted.
He simply uttered a single word, "Granted."
Fan Wu suddenly knew the locations of all the escaped creatures within the great prison of the City God!
Even more, he could vaguely sense that some creatures had moved to other locations!
It was as if he had been given a clairvoyance cheat! Or a full-map cheat!
Such a grand opportunity to harvest Free Attribute Points.
How could Fan Wu miss it?
...
Tonight, the city of Yinghe Prefecture was in great turmoil, with a large number of monsters at various places within the city.
Some were lurking.
Others were causing mischief.
Fortunately, the Yin Envoys of Yinghe Prefecture and the heaven-commanded forces worked together, relentlessly pursuing the escaped monsters. And with the City God of Yinghe Prefecture having arrived from the Netherworld to the mortal realm, the monsters had nowhere to hide.
Given just one night + one day, the Qin Heaven Officials and the Yin Envoys would essentially be able to recapture all those monsters.
Or even kill them!
A little Banner Officer of the Qin Heaven Officials, leading a dozen or so men, besieged a ferocious ghost, whose body was shrouded in Yin Energy and was so ghastly that one glance at its fierce ghostly face would send chills down anyone’s spine.
Facing the encirclement of over a dozen Qin Heaven Officials, even the ferocious ghost began to falter under the onslaught.
"Sir, this evil ghost appears to have low intelligence, and we can’t communicate with it. Should we try to restrain and capture it, or should we just obliterate it?"
One of the Qin Heaven Officials, while grappling with the evil ghost, rapidly inquired.
"Kill it!"
The Little Banner Officer spoke sternly, "We are not the Yin Envoys of the City God’s temple. When the Qin Heaven Officials deal with monsters, unless there are orders from above... the choice is to kill!"
"Yes!"
The Qin Heaven Officials instantly revealed their murderous intent, seeing the struggling evil ghost before them as nothing more than a "dead" ghost.
However.
Just as the Little Banner Officer was about to completely annihilate the evil ghost with his Peach Wood Sword...
Suddenly!
He seemed to detect some disturbance and instinctively dodged by tilting his head.
Whoosh!
A pitch-black Fire Talisman, like an arrow unleashed from its bow, zipped past the Little Banner Officer!
The Fire Talisman plunged deep into the body of the evil ghost.
The ghost’s form hesitated for a moment.
The Fire Talisman that buried itself into its Soul Body erupted with a burst of red dark light, the terrible expression on its face filled with agony, as if the talisman within caused it immense pain.
In the blink of an eye... the dark red glow from the Fire Talisman had engulfed the soul body of the evil ghost.
Boom!!!
The ghost was utterly obliterated!
Yinghe Prefecture’s Qin Heaven Officials were stunned.
Before they had the chance to deliver the final blow to the evil ghost, this sudden Fire Talisman that flew in like a launched arrow...
Where had it come from?
They immediately followed the direction from which the Fire Talisman had come, some turning their heads, others spinning around to look.
They saw.
A figure, towering and burly, slowly walking forward under the moonlight.
On him, there emanated an aura even more ghastly than the evil ghost itself!
The Qin Heaven Officials’ alarm bells rang loudly!
They were instantly on high alert!
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