Chapter 974: Chapter 854: The Year of Jiazi, Great Fortune Across the Land

"Cut down the corpse positions to seize the incense, the people’s hearts return to their place at this moment..."

In the human world, all clay idols were sliced in one night, and in the Netherworld Palace, Hu Ma wielded his saber, charging straight up to face countless deities.

Beside him, the Meng Family Ancestor was already severely injured, his body shattered, and as he faced this boundless host of deities, it seemed as if a primal fear arose within him.

Though restrained by Hu Ma, there was now a hint of neglect in him, while Little Hongtang beside him, was still bravely tagging behind Hu Ma, occasionally sneaking things to eat.

Yet no matter how, the power of the three of them was far inferior compared to the might of the Third Hall Emperor Ghost and that hall full of deities, appearing to be mere ants challenging the heavens.

But the outcome was beyond everyone’s expectation, Hu Ma transformed his body into a bridge, cutting towards the Emperor Ghost, not by his own hand, but borrowing the calamity of the human world to strike.

Facing his saber, only to see in the Netherworld Palace, figures clad in ten thousand radiances, suddenly had their heads rolling down, their golden bodies shattered, dimmed, seeming to revert to their original form, with light, flimsy paper men or ragged cloths scattered everywhere.

Hu Ma’s saber, seemingly rushing against an army, in reality, struck directly before the Third Hall Emperor Ghost.

The Third Hall Emperor Ghost, witnessing the deities falling from the sky, was engulfed in indescribable terror: "What outrageous acts have you done in the human world?"

"The outrageous ones are you!"

Hu Ma borrowed the furious murderous aura of the human world, the Emperor’s Great Saber in his hand turned bloodthirsty and sinister, severing the Third Hall Emperor Ghost’s head with a single cut, then turning around to split the bodies of the nearby Fourth Hall and Fifth Hall Emperor Ghosts into halves.

He grabbed their shattered bodies, swallowing them with a ravenous mouth, chewing with a ghastly complexion, laughing wildly: "The people are the path, the people’s heart is the reason!"

"This calamity starts from the people’s hearts, what do you count for?"

"..."

Amid the furious roar, he swung his saber forward, slicing through the Third Nether Hall, murderous intent surging, aimed directly at the remaining two halls within the Netherworld Palace. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

At this moment, having sliced through three halls, he immediately attracted the rolling Purple Qi, flowing to the human world, and he himself felt the calamity in the human world rising again, sweeping away the worldly shackles, leaving none to block the calamity.

He felt exhilarated, also feeling, for the first time since undertaking the task left by his Hu Family ancestors, so close to changing the world, feeling the genuine joy.

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"Calamities never cease, human fortune exhausted, yet refusing to worship gods, insisting on cutting them down?"

Someone rejoices while others grieve, some are stirred, yet others feel inexplicable fear.

Er Guotou sliced down all corpse position gods in the world, not eating beef returning gods to people, traveling across the world at this time, in the already stopped wind and snow of the Southwest, a high platform had long been built.

On the platform sat more than ten people in dirty clothes, covered in dust, with seven strange flags erected before them, none other than the Benefit Sun Family, sitting honestly, waiting for the Reincarnators to come for a duel.

But before they saw anyone, they instead witnessed the changing fate of the world, saw the worldly blessing and fortune, originally scattered by this calamity, now erased in an instant, looking across the world, all was white and clean like snow.

And in their eyes, the worldly state had already formed the weakest moment in history.

The Sun Family Master with mismatched eyes and the crooked-mouth Benefit Sun Family’s Great Knife, stood up in terror, tiptoed and looked closely, then cried out: "What is happening?"

"This world is broken and ragged, ought to be patched up, barely containing the disaster, blocking Tai Sui, yet you have cleanly cut down in one night..."

"Is it possible, possible that you intend to cut off your own path of survival..."

"..."

"You are wrong!"

But as they cried out these words, a man with an umbrella stepped across the snow, strolling to the high platform.

He walked straight up the platform, coldly gazing at the Sun Family’s people, whispered: "When the world is broken beyond measure, it is better to rebuild than to patch up!"

"Saying gods receive incense, ward off disasters and protect people, all are lies!"

"Gods reside in people’s hearts, not sought externally, the so-called gods are merely transformed from people’s hearts, left by ancestors."

"Such a principle, perhaps the ordinary folk in the world don’t fully understand, but even they know the importance of the fire pit, know the importance of ancestors, and you being the Blessing-seeking Sun Family, don’t you understand?"

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"We understand!"

The Sun Family Hall Official, lacking the self-respect and dignity of other Path Hall Officers, merely cried upon hearing: "All gods in the world are sealed by Douyi, when gods are with Douyi, they exist, but words speak easily, what solution is there?"

"Do you think we summoned the snow and wind to bring disaster to the food-protection general?"

"No!"

"All other ten surnames, are stealing the authority of heaven and earth, only our Sun Family, are truly guarding the most terrifying thing!"

"Back then, the State Preceptor not only gave the Ghost Cave thirty-six tribes tasks, but the most important task was given to our Sun Family, those thirty-six families, are guarding the Ghost Cave, filling the stomachs of those things below, preventing them from causing trouble."

"Whereas our Sun Family has to guard the world, every time those things below are unsatisfied, wanting to come out, we must find sacrifices for them to eat their fill..."

"What our Sun Family does, is decide who dies, who becomes sacrifices, every time those things below come to the human world, we must unleash disaster, however many they want, we can only give as many."