Easy Way of Cultivation: Power Harvesting-Chapter 109 - 72: Fishing for Demon Fiends, Ancestor God of the Ding Clan, Golden Body of Evil Spirits (Part 3)
Wei Fan raised an eyebrow, "A god?"
Peng Mingjie and several others jumped down from another carriage, "That’s right, a god. It resides in the temple, has a golden body sculpted, and receives incense offerings."
Ning Xuan and Su Xuerong were dumbfounded, "The Demon Fiend actually became a god, enjoying incense offerings. Why hasn’t the Demon Suppression Bureau eradicated such an Evil God?"
Peng Mingjie said, "If it were that simple, the Demon Suppression Bureau would have acted long ago."
Li Fengyi looked around. Everyone had gotten off the carriages and put away their things, and she was the first to walk towards Dingyang Town, "Hundreds of years ago, before Su City existed, this place was a mix of Human and Demon-Demons, with humans merely being food raised by the Demons.
An ancestor of the Ding Family died outside and turned into an Evil Spirit, returned to Ding Family Village, and protected his descendants from being disturbed by Demons.
Over the centuries, Ding Family Village developed into Dingyang Town. The people in town just need to go to the temple every seven days to offer one stick of incense and some Essence, Qi, and Spirit, and their family would be safe.
For hundreds of years, I’ve never heard of anyone in Dingyang Town being harmed by Demons. Do you think the tens of thousands of people living here would want you to kill their god?"
Su Guangwen said, "The key point is that this Evil Spirit hasn’t done anything outrageous; it truly protects one side. It only absorbs some Essence, Qi, and Spirit, which just makes the body a little weak. Don’t assume all Demons are idiots."
Ning Xuan was confused, "Don’t they know that Evil Spirits are Demons and should not be touched?"
Peng Mingjie laughed, "We know not to touch Evil Spirits because we were told since childhood that Evil Spirits and Demons are bad. But if you were told since childhood that Evil Spirits are gods, the spirits of our ancestors protecting us after they die, would you still think the Evil Sprit is bad?"
Ning Xuan gasped.
Li Fengyi said, "The main issue is that there isn’t just one such god. With Mountain Gods, River Gods, Ancestor Gods, and Sacrificial Spirit Gods, there are various reasons involved, making it impossible for the Demon Suppression Bureau to eliminate them outright aggressively; they can only send people to guard such places.
The Demon Suppression Bureau has so many people, but you rarely see a few because everyone is stationed at such places.
As long as these Evil Gods don’t leave their territory, nothing will happen.
However, if they leave their territory and do something outrageous, the Demon Suppression Bureau can publicly exterminate them.
Over the centuries, many things have been negotiated at the table. The Demon Suppression Bureau has risen step by step to its current position; it wasn’t able to deter all Demons from the start."
Wei Fan realized he had underestimated the Demons before, considering the previous semi-colonial state, and now seeing them living openly in temples is even more blatant.
The ten people entered Dingyang Town and finally saw another team of Demon Suppression Guards stationed here.
They came to replace this team to continue guarding, and in seven days, another team would come to replace them.
"Where is Brother Xie? Why hasn’t he come?"
The captain of the team scanned the crowd, not seeing Xie Zhiyuan, and his expression changed slightly.
They belonged to another Captain’s subordinates and had been stationed here, not knowing that Xie Zhiyuan and Shan Jinhong had already perished.
Li Fengyi and the others’ expressions darkened, "Captain Xie has perished. This is our new captain, Wei Fan."
Wei Fan stepped forward, clasped his fists, exchanged greetings with the team, and then they packed up and left Dingyang Town.
Their station was a small courtyard, not far from the temple dedicated to the Ding Family’s Evil Ancestor God, bustling with people coming and going.
Wei Fan pointed at the temple, "Can we go in and take a look?"
Li Fengyi shook her head, "It’s best not to go. We are here to monitor and intimidate, and the people of the Ding Family do not welcome us, nor does the Evil Spirit have any goodwill towards us. It’s best if things stay peaceful between us."
While speaking, she looked at Ning Xuan and Su Xuerong, "Although such guard missions rarely have incidents, never let your guard down. Evil Spirits are not truly kind.
They just raise people to harvest slowly, like picking leaves from a cabbage. They take one leaf from this stem and another from that stem. Although not uprooting a stem, they can take a large bunch, and after a while, new ones grow.
If they were to uproot them one by one, it wouldn’t last long."
The group shuddered.
These are the real Demons. Compared to them, the Demons that grab people to eat are not scary at all.
Su Xuerong couldn’t help but exclaim angrily, "They’re simply ignorant, both pitiable and hateful!"
Li Fengyi shook her head, "Pitiable? Maybe not. Hateful? Truly so. They might not be unaware of these things!
It’s just that over the centuries, countless surrounding villages and towns have been wiped out, while the Ding Family grew from a small clan of a few dozen households to today’s tens of thousands.
In essence, it’s because the world isn’t truly peaceful.
If the Demon Suppression Bureau could eradicate all the Demons, sparing the people from Demon harassment, the Bureau would become their gods.
Don’t compare martial artists like us to the common folk. For them, it’s about survival and three meals a day. Whoever enables them to live becomes their god, even if they’re being raised like crops!
The group began tidying up the house, cleaning the rooms, and preparing food.
The townspeople around knew Dingyang Town worshipped Evil Spirits, so ordinary people didn’t want to come here, and the locals in Dingyang Town disliked these Demon Suppression Guards, refusing to work here, so the guards had to do everything themselves.
Even their food and drink were arranged by people from the government office in a nearby town, delivered periodically.
Of course, the Demon Suppression Guards also didn’t trust the people of Dingyang Town much, reluctant to use their people or eat their food.
Who knows when that Evil Spirit may tire of staying here and want to relocate, and might kill these Demon Suppression Guards before leaving.
