strictlysupreme #281 - Two parading gods?
#281 - Two parading gods?
No sooner said than done!
I was just thinking about having some chicken soup.
There's no way I can wait until tomorrow.
Because even the landlord's family has no surplus grain.
Xu Chengxian summoned the monsters he had sent out to gather information, calling them back to assemble.
If Zhang Wan and Song Fangwu and the others hadn't gone up the mountain to hunt some game to supplement their meals, they probably wouldn't have been able to last until today.
"I really don't understand, what's the use of gathering so many mortals?"
"You don't understand," Xu Chengxian said with a smile.
What could an old monster weapon spirit understand about military strategy?
How could it understand the importance of establishing a base first?
It probably doesn't even know the principle of anticipating failure before planning for victory.
In the place he came from, the secret to a victor's success was summed up in four words: uprightness, and the natural course of events.
Despicable and shameless behavior could only be a means to an end, and should never define one's character; in other words, you had to distinguish between your own people and the enemy.
In the Eastern Earth human realm, he was willing to consider ordinary people as his own.
Who told cultivators to compete with us for cultivation resources!
But there was no need to say this out loud, otherwise it would make him seem too ambitious.
So he told Da Hei: "Of course I want people to build a temple for Xiao Cui, and to provide her with incense."
As for why there were more and more people even though the temple was almost finished.
That was simple.
If the temple was finished, wouldn't they have to build granaries?
If they built granaries, wouldn't they have to build a road?
"Let's put aside the matter of why you want to build granaries in the temple. I don't understand, what's the point of building a road?" Da Hei asked, scratching his head.
Build a road?
Did they still need to build a road?
If you transformed into your original form and rolled around on the ground, you could flatten those few hundred meters of road.
Guarantee it wouldn't break for hundreds or thousands of years!
But instead, you're making mortals work so hard to build it?
What's wrong with you?
"Heh heh," Xu Chengxian chuckled, "Building a road is, of course, for transporting grain!"
If the granaries are built, how will the grain be transported here without a road?
"…So why are you building granaries in the temple?" Da Hei asked.
"Not build granaries? If we don't build granaries, where will we put the grain that's transported here after the road is built?" Xu Chengxian replied.
Da Hei: (⇀‸↼‶)
He suspected that Xu Chengxian was playing with him.
Because if he kept asking, he could block himself from both sides!
"Haha!" Xu Chengxian laughed.
He discovered that since Ling Xiao and Ling Yunzi were gone, his IQ had simply skyrocketed.
Anyway, it was no problem to tease Da Hei.
He was, after all, an adult who could make a living independently in his previous life; he didn't mind being a hanger-on taking advantage when he didn't need to use his brain.
But when he needed to stand up, he had to be able to stand firm.
Otherwise, he would really become a salted fish to be stewed.
Having the position of a righteous god worshiped by the human race meant having the basis to interfere in the affairs of the human race.
And also a way out.
At least if things came to the worst, Xiao Cui and he would have a chance of survival.
Moreover, he could take this opportunity to greatly interfere in the affairs of the human race.
What's more, wasn't the opportunity to make a name for himself here?
Who said that spreading a god's name didn't count as making a name for yourself?
Killing two birds with one stone!
"Haha! I'm really too…"
"Big Cub!"
Just as Xu Chengxian opened his mouth, Bai Xiaocui suddenly rushed over, holding a ball of white mist in her hands.
"Big Cub, look at this!"
"Look at what?"
"There's a Little Cat Nineteen!"
"Xiao Cui, don't act cute."
Cat Nineteen is Cat Nineteen, what's with the Little Cat Nineteen, this… wait!
Xu Chengxian's divine sense carefully scanned the ball of white mist, and felt the same divine power as on the statue and divine seat.
This is the power of incense?
Inside the white mist, there was indeed a tabby cat lying prone, and it looked almost exactly like Cat Nineteen's demon form.
"What's the situation?" He reached out and grabbed the white mist.
At the same time, he flipped out the jade slip left by Ling Yunzi to search.
Finally, he found relevant information in the folk belief system of gods.
Under each grade of divine position, there are several types of unranked subordinates who accept assignments.
Golden Boys and Jade Maidens, Yaksha Ghost Messengers, Day and Night Wandering Gods, Black and White Impermanence.
Although they have no rank, they are all considered servants of the divine position and can receive human incense.
And the ball in front of him was a newborn—
"Wandering God? Night Wandering God?" Xu Chengxian looked at the ball of stuff, first stunned, then laughed.
"This is really getting what I wanted."
Although Xiao Cui had a divine position, he, as a guardian similar to a priest, still had to abide by the rule that he could not casually attack the human race.
This led to their available combat power being very limited.
Especially against mortals without cultivation.
The most direct way, of course, was to possess mortals.
Xiao Cui could use divine power to possess believers with her primordial spirit.
But righteous gods don't possess, and those who possess are not righteous gods.
To use spirit writing to possess someone would be struck by lightning.
Perhaps someone could try it later.
Xiao Cui herself was a demon from the demon realm, so doing so would be too dangerous.
This was like blocking the most direct way to circumvent the rules.
Another way was to control spirits and dispatch generals.
The heavenly soldiers and generals of heaven and earth and the soldiers and generals of various altar could follow the decree to capture and guard mortals.
This was considered a permitted procedure.
However, the captured mortals could not be subjected to private torture, but had to be reported to the local City God, and finally, after the City God's interrogation, the evidence and charges would be sent to the human imperial court's government.
The government would punish them.
In short, it was very troublesome.
But the advantage was that the procedure was complete, and all parties were regular personnel, with no hidden dangers.
The best thing was to dispatch heavenly soldiers and generals, guaranteeing that everything could be done quickly and well.
Xu Chengxian originally wanted to take this path.
But obviously, this path was impassable.
People ignored him, and that Wang Lingguan even struck him with lightning.
That guy politely rejected him with several middle fingers.
He could only take another path.
Using his own subordinates to do things.
Unfortunately, Xiao Cui's current divine position was very low.
The Land God of Fortune was also a ninth-rank god, without even his own seal, and usually could only borrow the City God's seal, and couldn't even command a little ghost.
"I'm really fucking impressed!" Xu Chengxian sometimes really wanted to start a live broadcast to complain to the people of his previous life about this shitty experience.
Folk-worshiped gods like the White Maiden were of the same rank, but their treatment was definitely worse.
Of course, they also had no subordinates to dispatch.
But the advantage was that the altar in her temple could support the soldiers and horses of the Dharma sect.
In other words, there was no official establishment, but they were allowed to hire some temporary workers.
But without official establishment quotas, this was the most difficult thing to do.
"I've transmigrated, but I still can't escape the official establishment, I'm really drunk." He looked at the newly formed Wandering God spiritual form and couldn't help but grind his back teeth.
Who understands, family, after all the hard work, we got an official position for our Xiao Cui, but this cadre has no cadre positions under him, is this reasonable?
Why did Xu Chengxian want the Yellow Turban Warriors to recruit troops at the Xuanmen Military Headquarters before?
He just wanted to try if he could get two regular soldiers to work.
They came with their own official establishment, although they were following the Taoist system outside the Heavenly Court divine officials, but they were all under the Heavenly Dao, so this could be considered a brotherly unit borrowing personnel.
Whether it was heavenly soldiers and generals or spiritual form soldiers and generals, they were all rushing to earn merit, which was the power of incense.
So as long as the procedure was correct, it was possible to successfully recruit a few who couldn't think straight and wanted to start a business, or were willing to come down and earn extra money.
Spiritual form soldiers and generals wanted to improve even more, so the chances of success were greater.
And the benefits of recruiting them, of course, in addition to the smoothness of doing things, there was also the consideration of combat power.
But obviously, it didn't work out.
This time, it was rejected by a dog-like person named Li Jia.
Only then did Xu Chengxian have to follow what he had thought before, using up the divine power he had just obtained on Zhang Wan and the others, letting them deal with Xiao Hei Wang and a group of bandits.
To be safe, he sealed the ghost friends that Song Jue used to haunt the Zhang residence as divine generals.
The investment was too large, and although his subordinates were loyal, they still needed to be cultivated to grow up.
Now it was good, he actually had an extra Wandering God spiritual form out of thin air.
Although it wasn't an official establishment, it was at least a contract worker.
An eighth-order monster beast was enough to deal with mortals when necessary.
"Big Cub, there's more than one Little Cat Nineteen~" Xiao Cui giggled, and with a wave of her hand, another small ball of white mist appeared in her palm.
Inside was a gray mouse.
"Look who this is~ It's Little Mouse Laibao~ Yo~"
Xu Chengxian's eyes widened, another Wandering God?