My enemies became my companions

Chapter 493: Not Working

“It shouldn’t work.”

The voice was neither loud nor soft, and it was heard in the temple. Several people immediately turned around and glared at the wild man who came from nowhere.

Li Chengxing was startled, and quickly pulled Chen Yi aside, lowering his voice and speaking quickly:
"Although it doesn't work now, Taoist priest, you shouldn't keep making shocking statements."

After saying this, Li Chengxing clasped his hands together, closed his eyes, and bowed three times in a proper manner.
"Don't blame the gods, don't blame the gods, good luck in the new year, good luck in the new year."

Chen Yi's face was calm as usual. He looked at the five statues on the table. In the midst of the smoke and fire, two people on the left were dressed in green and holding branches, and two people on the right were holding incense burners. The person in the middle had a horn sticking out from his thick hair. The child standing on the rusty ingot had a frozen smile on his face. The incense ash made the faces pale...

Five rampant gods.

Even if people from all corners of the country come from all over the world, they all have an unwritten rule, which is to worship at any mountain or temple. It's not because they are so pious, but because they are afraid of neglecting the gods and Buddhas. If the gods and Buddhas are not effective, it's okay, they won't bother you, but if they are effective, then they are not real gods and Buddhas...

It is not known whether such gods and Buddhas can bestow blessings, but they can certainly bring disasters. Once you are disrespectful, the gods and Buddhas will be dissatisfied and will bring disasters to you. At the very least, you will lose money and get sick, and at the worst, your family will be broken up and you won't even know how you died, so you can't be an enlightened ghost. Among them, there are also those who are kind and generous. Although they don't have much magical power, they can still grant any wish. However, among the wild gods, the latter are too few and the former are too many.

The Wuchang gods enshrined on this table are one of these wild gods, and they are the kind that often bring disasters and rarely grant blessings.

So this is why Chen Yi said it shouldn't be effective. To be more extreme, it's not that it shouldn't be effective, it shouldn't even be enshrined here.

When Li Chengxing led Chen Yi back to the back hall, he suddenly heard:
"Brother Li, I was not trying to shock you just now. This thing cannot work."

Li Chengxing turned around and asked in surprise:
"What the Taoist priest means is..."

"Have you heard of Wuchang God?" Seeing Li Chengxing shook his head, Chen Yi continued, "The Wuchang God often pretends to be Wuxian God, so people confuse the two. But Wuchang God is not Wuxian God. The latter is a legitimate god, while the former is a wild god. Most of them are transformed by the five brothers. Moreover, if these five people are not evil and have deep resentment, they will definitely not become Wuchang God...

In other words, is this a wild god or an evil god? "

These words were spoken extremely professionally. As soon as they came out, Li Chengxing's face turned slightly pale. He couldn't believe it. Since his father, this town god has always responded to blessings and brought disasters. For more than 50 years, he has been worshipped by millions of incense sticks. How could he be an evil god in the Taoist language? But after seeing Chen Yi's ability last night, Li Chengxing was half-believing and half-doubting for a while.

"Although I have never seen such a god in other places, but over the years, the town god has never made things difficult for us..."

Chen Yi interrupted, "There are good and evil wild gods. The best one is Pangu, but good gods are a minority, and evil gods are the majority, such as the defeated generals and the Chaos Mountain God. These five gods are the latter, and they are similar to those things that raise little ghosts. Moreover, I see that the City God Temple in your town is abandoned. I am afraid that... the City God has long been out of reach, and his magic power has shrunk, and he can no longer govern here.

You may not understand even if I say too much. Anyway, this is not a good spirit to deal with. It is more troublesome than the spirit of a horse. Where is the temple priest? Take me to see her. "

Li Chengxing stared with his eyes wide open, and after a pause he said, "The temple keeper, the temple keeper is Duan Guan."

Duan Guanshi... Chen Yi heard this and thought of Duan Siyuan whom he met at the poetry meeting last night, and asked hurriedly: "...her husband's surname is Duan, is he the same as Duan Siyuan..."

"It is Brother Duan's mother."

"Take me to her immediately."

...........
Although Duan Guanshi was a temple priest, she did not live in the temple, nor did she live near the temple. According to Li Chengxing, a year or two ago, Duan Guanshi moved to the old house alone because of conflicts between her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.

The inefficiency that Li Chengxing mentioned started a year ago.

Chen Yi pondered secretly that this kind of wild god who was difficult to deal with should not and could not be effective. Logically speaking, it should be a good thing if it was not effective. But the problem was that it was effective before, but now it is not effective. This does not seem like a good sign.

On the way, Chen Yi listened carefully to what Li Chengxing said, that this town had received some blessings and had the blessing of the town god, which made him feel even more strange.

The town is not big, and it only takes a quarter of an hour or two to walk from one end to the other. The border of the town blends into the lush greenery.

What came into view was a courtyard surrounded by overgrown weeds, a shabby house with half-broken bricks and tiles left on the eaves, the ground was covered with dust, and there was a quiet and dead silence.

The base of the wall was covered with moss and weeds.

Hands and feet crawled out from the thick dark blue shadows...

Chen Yi looked closely and saw a hand with a protective ring, a foot stepping on a gold ingot, a half-broken sword, and a pile of statues hidden in the weeds. He took two steps forward and pushed open the half-closed door, and heard a few "clicks".

Inside the door, faded statues of gods were piled up like a small mountain, with hands and feet sliding down from above.

This scene revealed an inexplicable weirdness. Li Chengxing was frightened and his ten fingers were trembling slightly.

Chen Yi frowned and looked around, but couldn't find Duan Guanshi. He turned around and looked at the room full of statues of gods. For a moment he couldn't figure out what the temple keeper was doing.

Among the statues, there are immortals, Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Arhats, Zhong Kui, Shentu... almost everything is included.

Chen Yi turned his head and glanced at Li Chengxing, who understood and hummed his lips, calling out bravely: "Grandma Guan? Are you there?"

There was no echo in the empty house.

Chen Yi counted with his fingers and found no trace of anyone in the yard.

Then he turned his head and looked casually, only to find that Yin Tingxue's ear moved slightly.

"What did you hear?" Chen Yi asked.

Yin Tingxue frowned, and then asked in confusion: "There are sheep bleating..."

Are there sheep bleating?

Chen Yi became even more confused and immediately went out and walked around the backyard.

When he came back, he really brought out a goat.

“Meh, meh…”

When the goat saw the stranger, it struggled uneasily and called out several times.

"Why is she raising sheep here?" Chen Yi asked Li Chengxing.

At this moment, Li Chengxing felt a cold wind blowing in the yard, which seeped into the courtyard, causing a sharp pain in his heart. Thinking of the Five Gods mentioned by Chen Yi, he said in a trembling voice: "I don't know either. I'm afraid it's to exorcise evil spirits..."

Chen Yi grabbed the goat's mouth and looked around. It had inner middle teeth and two pairs of teeth. It was about three years old. He said, "The goat used to exorcise evil spirits is black, and the one she raises is white."

Li Chengxing couldn't figure it out either. He had never thought about the secret of this god-suppression method before, and now he just wanted to leave quickly.

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but the goat seemed to look at him a few times.

The wind was cold and Li Chengxing shivered.

suddenly,

There was a hurried call from outside.

"Brother Zhiyuan, Brother Zhiyuan!"

Li Chengxing turned around and saw a scholar running towards him, waving anxiously.

"Oh no, oh no! We've been looking for you for a long time, hurry up and come with us to the government office, hurry up!"

"What happened?"

"Duan Wenqu, Duan Wenqu...he killed his mother and was arrested by the government!"

(End of this chapter)