Yefutidaolu

Chapter 147 Legislation
The Divine Dynasty does not collect taxes in the form of money or grain, but rather pays for them in the form of spiritual materials, monster materials, and the like.

In this regard, there are many ways for farmers in the Divine Dynasty to pay taxes.

The simplest way, of course, is to work hard on the farm, get up early and go to bed late, and grow as many and better spiritual materials as possible.

In this way, if the output of spiritual materials is sufficient, taxes can naturally be paid.

Some very capable farmers have their own way of managing crops. Not only can they pay taxes, but they can also have some surplus to eat themselves to strengthen their muscles and bones, or sell them for money.

Of course, there are naturally some unlucky people or those who are not good at farming. The spiritual materials they grow are not enough to pay the taxes. In that case, they have to find a way to make up for it themselves, or buy them from somewhere else. Anyway, the tax cannot be reduced, otherwise it will easily prevent it from raining in your fields.

It really is 'not given to you'. You can see clearly that it is raining in the sky, and the field of your neighbor ten feet away is full of rain water, but only your field is sunny, without a drop of rain, and the rain clouds have made a hole in that place.

This is also the power of gods. The gods under the Zuo family can do this.

In order to prevent such things from happening, as civilians, we have no choice but to find our own solutions.

Capable people would exercise their muscles and strengthen their bodies, go into the mountains and forests to hunt monsters, use the monster materials to pay the tax burden, and also provide some meat for their families to eat.

Catching strange snakes and drying them into dried food to pay taxes, killing tigers and using their skins to pay taxes are all common practices. The farmers of the Divine Dynasty are not easy to deal with. In the eyes of many monsters, these little supermen are just demons.

However, if they are unlucky, they will die at the hands of monsters. This is a battle for survival.

Others will go into the mountains to collect herbs, climb rocks to see springs, or go prospecting and dig for ores. These are also spiritual materials and can be used to pay taxes.

As long as you can pay the taxes, the Divine Dynasty will provide you with normal weather and everything will be so stable.

But it's just that I'm a little tired.

Hunting, mining, and collecting herbs in the mountains, just thinking about these things will make you realize how hard, dangerous, and tiring they are, needless to say.

Just talking about farming in the village, there are many things to pay attention to when growing spiritual materials, so you have to get up early and take care of it all day long, and a lot of it needs to be done in the early morning in winter.

Just like now, it is clearly the early morning of winter, but there are already people here defrosting, clearing dew, and maintaining spiritual materials. Even though their hands are covered with frostbite, they are still constantly scraping off the frost on the leaves to prevent the spiritual materials from being frozen and causing problems.

The hands can be restored, but the spiritual material cannot be restored if something goes wrong.

A similar situation would occur during the harvest season, when the gods would suddenly arrange for rain...

This is uncommon, but it can happen for a variety of reasons.

At that time, no matter what time it was, whether it was dark or not, even if there were knives growing on the ground, people had to go out to harvest. Otherwise, they would not be able to pay the taxes and would have to sell their children.

But in Gao Jian's opinion, the current situation... is a little bit wrong.

Gao Jian saw that working with them, there was a... fox?
It should be a fox, but it has not mastered the art of shapeshifting. It looks like a woman, but its ears and tail cannot be retracted, and its nails can be seen to still have some claws.

You also need to learn how to transform monsters, which is also a kind of magic, called transformation method, or transformation art.

A long, long time ago, after being created by the ancestors of the demon clan, it has been widely circulated as a means to allow animals and plants with inherent deficiencies to imitate the perfect bodies of the "primates of all things". Basically, more than 90% of the demons can do it.

Whether the transformation is perfect or not depends on one's personal level.

The monster in front of him was obviously not very good. He could clearly see its weirdness. Although the curves of its body were roughly human-shaped, its ears and tail could not be ignored.

Moreover, the other person exuded a scent of incense that Gao Jian was very familiar with.

This seems to prove that the other party is the mountain god here.

Why... are you doing farm work?
Gao Jian's knife is ready.

Is it possible that we can’t add more to the meal of Zoulong?
Gao Jian hesitated and stood at the entrance of the village.

However, it was still discovered.

"Sir?" Several farmers were seen looking over there.

As one person made the discovery, soon, as if in a chain reaction, the people in the farmland straightened up one after another, and they all found a man in cloth standing at the entrance of the village.

Not like a farmer.

Farmers sometimes carry swords, but they are usually the type that can be used to clear the way, do work, and kill people, like a hatchet. A long sword like Gao Jian, which is shaped like a seedling, is not suitable for daily life and production and can only be used to kill people.

Moreover, the clothes are very fine. They are not made of torn linen. In fact, they are all black, which shows that they were dyed with very good dyes.

The cheapest dyes are wood ash and indigo. Blue cloth clothes are also the most commonly worn by the common people, while black clothes like Gao Jian's are quite expensive.

This kind of black color, which is not cheap, needs to be dyed with "iron paste". It requires soaking rusty iron blocks in vinegar for more than a month to get the iron paste. A bucket of iron paste will be used up before it can dye a piece of cloth. Therefore, it will cost at least a thousand dollars to cut out such a set of clothes.

Clothes are an important asset for the common people. At critical moments, they can be used to pawn clothes for money, so they can be considered a fixed asset. The sword and the black clothes are enough to make these farmers judge that... this is not a good person.

Gao Jian and the people around him thought that he was dressed simply, but in the eyes of ordinary people, these clothes were not something that ordinary people could wear.

So many farmers rushed out of the fields, not caring about anything else, and ran to Gao Jian, kneeling down consciously: "Sir, this year's taxes have been paid, and these are the seeds we just received after the winter solstice! They have just sprouted!"

Gao Jian looked at them kneeling in a row and shook his head.

This was the reason why he was unwilling to come to these villages to deal with people before. Usually, he would land, kill the gods and leave, and go directly to the officials, without giving the villagers time to react.

Because Gao Jian really finds it difficult to deal with this situation.

But this time was different. The gods here seemed a little weird. Gao Jian could clearly see that the fox, which had not yet fully transformed, had a terrified look on its face. It stopped where it was, as if it wanted to run, but seemed to feel that it should not run, so it stood there stiffly, looking at a loss as to what to do.

Gao Jian shook his head and said to the villagers, "Don't worry, I'm not here to collect taxes. I'm just passing by. Don't worry about it. I'll find a place to sit for a while and leave soon."

After hearing this, the farmers were obviously relieved.

In any case, as long as they are not here to collect taxes, the problem is half solved.

Taxes and corvee labor are all serious matters. As long as the masters are not here for these things, it will generally not be a big deal.

Gao Jian was also a little embarrassed. In fact, his original plan was to come over, kill the blood-sacrificial god here with a knife, then drag the corpse away, and wave goodbye without taking away a cloud.

But seeing the one who helps with farm work

Gao Jian can conclude that the other party has never eaten anyone.

It's very simple. Eating people can speed up the progress of the transformation method to a great extent. If you eat more people, you can soon transform perfectly into a human body, instead of still having animal ears and a tail like now.

In that case, forget it. Let’s put Lao Ma’s snack on hold.

Ok……

It doesn't necessarily have to be put on hold, you can buy some spiritual materials in this village and fill his stomach.

Thinking of this, Gao Jian found a place to sit down and wait for the villagers to finish their work.

Generally speaking, villagers must stock up on supplies for the winter, and the same applies to some spiritual materials that are left over after paying taxes.

Although most of them are not very precious things, they are still effective. If you can't eat monster meat, you can eat some spiritual materials that replenish your energy.

But they are busy now, and it would not be good to ask them to take me home suddenly. This place is farmland, and it is still some distance away from the village buildings. I should wait until they are done.

Winter is not too busy, so taking care of the frosted leaves shouldn't take until noon.

Gao Jian sat nearby, waiting quietly.

Cangzhou is located in the northwest of the Divine Dynasty, and the climate is quite cold. As the saying goes, 'the north wind blows the white grass to the ground, and snow falls in the Hu sky in August'. Cangzhou was once a Hu land.

However, the Hu people had been annihilated. On the ancient battlefield, 90 million heads were beheaded, leaving a record of this in the history books.

This is now the territory of the Divine Dynasty.

He didn't wait long.

About half an hour later, although other farmers were still busy, the land god, the fox, had already packed up his things and walked towards Gao Jian.

This made Gao Jian move closer to the scabbard calmly, but he did not show any great hostility. It seemed that he just found a random place to put his hand.

The fox was getting closer and closer to Gao Jian.

Gao Jian thought for a moment, stood up, and took the initiative to say: "I have seen this land."

At the moment of speaking, Gao Jian clearly saw the other party's situation.

It was indeed a fox, with red hair and a tuft of white hair at the ends of her hair and tail, but she had a pure aura, and not only had she never eaten humans...she hadn't even eaten meat since she started practicing?

No, you are a fox.

She looks like a typical fox demon, with slender hands and feet, and fair skin. Although her figure is curvy, she does not look very coquettish because she is wearing ordinary blue cloth clothes and her temperament is very simple. She looks like a farm girl, dependent and cuddly. People do not feel that she is dangerous, but only pitiful and cute.

This kind of behavior is much more dangerous than a mentally retarded fox with a coquettish look on its face.

However, although the skin is tender, there are still some traces of farm work on the hands, which can be seen that they are not left in a day or two.

The Taoist tradition practiced from within...isn't it a god?
The other party is similar to Gao Jian. He is not specialized in the lineage of the God of Incense. He just has the aura of incense on his body and has cultivated a golden body of incense. That's all.

The fox bowed towards Gao Jian, lowering his head even lower, and said cautiously, "I dare not let the senior say that I have met you. I, the little god Bai Lingqing, pay my respects to the senior."

As she spoke, she bowed down, revealing all her weaknesses to Gao Jian.

Seeing this, Gao Jian took his hand away from the scabbard and said, "Don't be nervous, I am just passing by, but... as a god, why are you doing something so inappropriate?"

It was the first time that Gao Jian had seen a god doing farm work himself.

Even if you have good intentions and simply want to help these farmers, you only need to control the weather and not ask for food. Why bother doing the rough work yourself?

"How can planting be considered inappropriate? The success or failure of farming is related to hunger and satiety. If farming is neglected, the annual budget will be lost. The Divine Dynasty still holds the ploughing ceremony. If so, the gods will stay here. As the land god, it is my duty to manage these things." The fox named Bai Lingqing said so with a serious look.

"And..." She suddenly became shy as she spoke, lowered her head, and said embarrassedly: "I have received incense, but actually... I am a latecomer, not a god of incense. I still have omissions in managing the weather, and I always cause trouble to everyone..."

"So that's how it is." Gao Jian suddenly realized that this matched what he saw.

The other party has a golden body of incense, but he is obviously not from the lineage of the Incense God, and does not know those magical arts. However, he can control the weather, which shows that his own practice can still control the energy of heaven and earth.

As for what the story was, Gao Jian had no idea since he had never taken action, but he was not going to delve into it.

There is no need to know the reason for others' cultivation. He is just a local god.

So, Gao Jian, feeling relieved, said: "By the way, in your village, I see that you are planting Platycodon and Salvia miltiorrhiza now, right?" Gao Jian looked at the fields.

"Yes, these are the seeds distributed by the government this year, and they have been distributed for several years in a row." Bai Lingqing nodded.

While speaking, she was also secretly observing Gao Jian's expression.

Bai Lingqing felt guilty.

This warrior who suddenly appeared... is so scary.

Although she didn't see any hostility from the other party, and he didn't seem to have any intention of holding the knife, she clearly realized a few words ago... that she might die.

The other party almost chopped her to death. Although there was no evidence, she just felt so.

So, Bai Lingqing walked up and took the initiative to face the other party.

Because she had to come up.

She is the only practitioner here, and she is the mountain god here. No matter what comes, she has to come up and face it, otherwise... she would be unworthy of all the incense.

So, even though her legs were weak and her whole body was shaking, she did not run away. Instead, she carefully faced the terrifying man in black in front of her.

Fortunately... the other party really had no intention of killing.

But, spiritual materials were mentioned?

Did he come here for the spiritual materials? Bai Lingqing's legs trembled, and worries lingered in his heart again.

This village does have some spiritual materials in reserve, which had just been harvested in autumn. With the joint efforts of Bai Lingqing and the villagers, some were left after paying taxes.

I had wanted to keep it and see if I could use it to earn more next year... Is it going to be snatched away?
"I need some salvia miltiorrhiza, please prepare some for me." Gao Jian said, "You will be the one paying for it."

As he said this, he gave the other party ten gold coins.

Ok?
Ten gold?!
Bai Lingqing stared blankly at the ten gold coins in his hand.

This is... ten gold coins.

For a cultivator at the first level, ten or twenty gold coins are enough for them to save up for a year. Moreover, Bai Lingqing can't even save ten gold coins a year. As a land god, her source of income is actually very meager.

Other land gods basically make money from the villagers. How much they make depends on how much offerings the villagers give them, or if they have the ability to make up for it elsewhere. Apart from this, they have no other income.

The imperial court would not pay salaries to the gods of land. Only some of the more famous gods of mountains and rivers and large temples and famous temples had the opportunity to receive funding from the imperial court. Ordinary small temples of land were simply ignored.

However, for other land gods, as long as they are ruthless and ruthless enough, a village with tens of thousands of people, or even many larger beings with 20,000 or 30,000 people, can squeeze a little money out of each of these villagers, and in a year, they can make about 20 to 30 gold coins for their own cultivation expenses, which is almost the normal income level of ordinary first-level practitioners. Even first-level practitioners in Cangzhou can get so much. But Bai Lingqing did not do this, even though she knew it was stupid.

Because, even if she didn't do this, there would be no benefit. There were thousands of people in her village. Even if she got ten gold coins, it would only be twenty or thirty coins per person when distributed to each villager. They could live a better life, but the benefit would be limited.

The farmers really can't be squeezed out of more money, and Bai Lingqing doesn't want to squeeze them either. It's actually a good idea to let everyone's money belong to everyone.

So…she’s poor.

"What are you standing there for? Isn't that enough?" Gao Jian urged.

"No, it's too much..." Bai Lingqing said, "Salvia miltiorrhiza only costs a few hundred dollars..."

A few hundred dollars is a huge sum of money for a farmer.

Even in Cangzhou, it would take manual laborers one or two months to earn that much.

However, this also shows how big the income gap is between farmers who grow crops and laborers in the outer city of Cangzhou.

Although the outer city of Cangzhou is rotten, you can really make money there. It is better to carry bricks in the outer city of Cangzhou than to farm at home.

Otherwise, why would so many people pour into the outer city of Cangzhou like garbage?

"Then you just cook it for me. Crush one hundred pounds into ten pounds, and then boil ten pounds into one pound. Then mix the one pound with flour and sugar and roll it into balls. The money for other raw materials and firewood is also included in this. Most of it is yours, and the rest is considered as wages. Go, I'll wait here. It will take about three hours for me to leave. Three hours should be enough for you to cook." Gao Jian said to the fox in front of him.

The fox hesitated.

But looking at the adult in front of her, he didn't seem to be short of money. She thought about it and felt that eating the rich man's money was not considered eating, so she nodded and ran away quickly.

Gao Jian looked at the other person and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Sure enough, there are always exceptions.

Now that we have confirmed that the other party is a good person, just sit here and wait.

As for Bai Lingqing, she hurried back to her mountain temple.

The Mountain God Temple is called a temple, but except for an incense burner at the door, the rest of the structure is basically the same as that of a residential house. However, it is still possible to see that it is completely different from the surrounding areas. The surrounding farmers' houses all use rammed earth walls, while the Mountain God Temple is made of wood and is more beautifully built.

Because of her cultivation, the one she built was stronger, bigger, and made of better wood.

She dragged all the wood back from the forest herself, which was very tiring.

That incense burner is the symbol of her being the god of incense.

What is the difference between the obscene worship of wild gods and the official gods of the court?
The answer is simple, it depends on whether there is an appointment from the imperial court.

If you are canonized, you will be included in the list of gods, stamped with the official seal, and given a plaque and an incense burner. You can use this incense burner to collect incense and cultivate the golden body of incense.

The incense burner is a free magic weapon provided by the Divine Dynasty to these land gods. It is also a means of monitoring them. The incense burner has a count of how much incense it has received.

Not only the farmers are subjects of the Divine Dynasty, but the land gods are also subjects of the Divine Dynasty.

All under heaven are the king's subjects.

When we walked into the mountain temple, we saw a lot of little foxes inside.

The furry little foxes seemed to be practicing the art of shapeshifting. They got up early. Some were chopping wood, some were boiling water, some were holding knives tremblingly, and seemed to be trying to cut vegetables. Some were shivering in bed due to the cold and refused to come out. Some were dragging the one who refused to come out, trying to pull it out of the quilt.

As soon as Bai Lingqing arrived, he saw the man holding the knife, which was so heavy that it was about to fall over.

She quickly stepped forward, picked up the knife, and said, "Honghong! I told you not to use the knife. You are too weak now!"

The little fox felt aggrieved and spoke in human language: "Sister..."

They can speak human language, which is a sign of refining the horizontal bone. It can be seen that these little foxes have practiced the shapeshifting method, but they can't turn into humans. Their posture and form are not much different from those of animals.

Bai Lingqing ignored that one and went over to grab the one under the quilt: "Wake up, lazy bastard!"

The furry creature that was caught hugged her hand, curled up into a ball, made gurgling sounds, and was unwilling to let go.

She didn't care, she pushed the other one away and threw it to the slightly bigger one: "Ah Xing, I leave it to you."

"Under my command! Big sister!" The other bigger fox immediately stood at attention and shouted happily, then pounced on the one who couldn't get out of the bed and began to tickle her, the two furry foxes rolled into a ball.

Then she walked to the backyard and saw another fox, but this one could walk upright and its paws seemed to be able to hold things. It was chopping wood.

Bai Lingqing praised: "Mingde, have you learned how to chop wood?"

"Well! It won't be long before I can transform into a human!" The fox chopping wood said proudly with his hands on his hips and his head held high.

A mountain temple is simply a fox den, with seven or eight little foxes and an old fox of the mountain god, both male and female, but it is impossible to tell the gender. After all, they are foxes, and it is difficult to tell the gender.

"Mingde, go help me bring the firewood over and boil some water."

"Boil water? Are you going to cook breakfast? I'll go right away." Mingde put down the axe sensibly.

"No, I'm going to get the alchemy cauldron! There's a big job today!" She gestured and rolled up her sleeves quickly: "Ask Honghong to go to each household and help me get their leftover dried salvia miltiorrhiza, and then use the purchased ones to make up a hundred kilograms." Bai Lingqing said.

"Ah? So many?" Mingde was a little surprised: "Why do we buy so many salvia miltiorrhiza? We can't eat them all. The old men who collect salvia miltiorrhiza should come in the spring. Big sister, do you want to make elixirs now?"

"Someone wants to buy it and has paid a lot of money! But they want us to boil it and send it over. The money has been paid, you can use it to pay the villagers for the salvia miltiorrhiza!" Bai Lingqing said, taking out a gold coin and handing it to Mingde.

One gold coin was more than enough to buy one hundred kilograms of dried Salvia miltiorrhiza. The price was much higher than usual, but she did not take advantage of the villagers.

As for the remaining nine golds...

Of course she accepted it with a smile!
There's nothing wrong with earning money by your own ability. You can't share the money with the villagers, right?
In Bai Lingqing's opinion, since they had caught a rich sucker, it would be a waste not to make some money!

She is not a fool, nor a saint!

Of course, saints are all fools!
Bai Lingqing showed a sly smile. After all, she was also a fox, hehehe!
The happy mountain god began to build a pot, light a fire and boil water amidst a group of furry little foxes running around.

The little foxes also ran around, either helping or making trouble, and began their own process.

At this moment, Gao Jian was looking at the mountain temple.

The mountain temple is only a few hundred meters away from here. At this distance, a physical body at the third level of Gao Jian can hear very clearly the sounds produced by normal conversations inside.

In other words, he could hear clearly the conversation between the foxes, Bai Lingqing's inner calculations, how hard he worked, and even the whispers of the farmers around him.

Even if Gao Jian did not open the jade pillow, his perception was still far stronger than that of the first realm.

There is no way. For practitioners, the prerequisite for them to engage in high-speed combat is that their perception can keep up. One can imagine how sharp the perception of Gao Jian, who can engage in supersonic combat, must be.

Every time an acupoint is opened, all attributes of the human body will be comprehensively strengthened, and then the corresponding acupoints will be given characteristics. Finally, these characteristics will be utilized according to the practice method.

For example, the Crimson Palace. Gao Jian opened the Crimson Palace in order to cooperate with the Niwan, allowing the Crimson Palace to house hundreds of spirits in the body to strengthen the physical body, and using the heart energy in it to make his heart and soul endless.

The shamans of the Zuo family opened the Crimson Palace in order to allow external gods to hide in their bodies and cultivate the art of hiding gods. At the same time, they could also use their mental power to amplify the gods' and their own thinking abilities.

Shui Cangcang once showed Gao Jian that for the Qi Refiners, they opened the Crimson Palace and mainly used it to nourish their "primordial spirits". None of the hundreds of spirits in the body were important, as long as the primordial spirits could be nourished by the mental power of the Crimson Palace, they could rely on the primordial spirits to mobilize the vital energy and then "refine the Qi".

This is the difference brought about by different methods of cultivation. For the same acupoint, everyone uses it differently.

There are thousands of techniques and methods of cultivation in the world, and no one's is the same. Many Taoist characteristics have been derived from them, and even with the Great Song of Xuanhua Tongmen, Gao Jian cannot fully describe them all.

"What a fox, but that's good." Gao Jian muttered to himself with a slight smile.

It would be great if you could meet a good person.

This fox is pretty good. Although it is a little cunning, it does not cross the line. It just makes people feel that it is a little smart and not annoying.

Although he is a good person, he is not so selfless as to be stupid. He also likes to enjoy himself and would build a big house for himself, but he does not oppress others when building the house.

Taking care of a bunch of younger brothers and sisters, he naturally had to struggle for money, but he did not exploit the villagers for money. Instead, he would secretly earn some gold and hide it.

From the looks of her, she seems to be able to make medicine. She even has an alchemy furnace at home. She must be making money by making medicine.

Gao Jian was thinking wildly and felt that the other party was quite good.

There is no need to demand that everyone is a kind-hearted person. Everyone is struggling for his or her own life, and the same is true for these mountain gods. As long as they do not oppress or bully others, they are great people.

However, just as he was thinking about this, Gao Jian suddenly noticed that there was something wrong with the incense burner at the entrance of the mountain temple.

This made him stand up immediately.

In just a moment, Gao Jian drew his sword and rushed over there!

Because he knew that the incense burners in the mountain temple were distributed by the imperial court.

The imperial court? The imperial court of Cangzhou is the aristocratic family!
The central government of the Divine Dynasty does not have such strong control over border areas such as Cangzhou. It only remotely controls this area through the aristocratic families to maintain its rule.

There is no doubt that the Zuo family controls these incense burners. The unusual movement of the incense burners at this moment must be related to the Zuo family!
So Gao Jian immediately stood up and rushed towards the incense burner.

A distance of several hundred meters was nothing to Gao Jian at the moment. After two or three seconds, he had arrived at the location of the incense burner!

He held the rusty knife tightly, exerted all his strength, and chopped it down fiercely!

At this moment, the rusty knife had no sharp edge at all. It would be more accurate to say that Gao Jian had smashed it with a stick rather than chopped it down with a knife.

With a clang, the ground shook! The incense burner exploded!

The incense ash was shaken and scattered, spreading dozens of meters around, forming a ball of ash.

At the same time, Bai Lingqing, who was humming a song in the backyard of the mountain temple, suddenly groaned and fell to the ground with a thud.

"Ahem——!" Her pupils dilated and her face turned pale in an instant.

Her body instantly turned into dark gold, and the next second, this dark gold exploded with a bang, turning into golden smoke and dust that spread around.

The golden body of incense was shattered, and all the incense smell leaked out. It could be said that all her long-term accumulation was dissipated in the blink of an eye.

Fortunately, she is not a complete incense god, otherwise, she would be back to square one.

But even so, the impact allowed her to instantly detect its source.

Her fragrance was taken away.

It was some kind of superior being who used her incense scent for other purposes, seemingly... for positioning?
But no matter what, Bai Lingqing was confused.

what happened?
The higher being... could it be the chief priest in the county? Isn't the chief priest... a third-level realm? How could he deprive her of her incense?

However, before she could figure it out, the smell of incense around her suddenly gathered again.

Under the astonished eyes of the little foxes, a man in black kicked the door open without knocking, walked straight through the lobby and came to the backyard.

The incense scent that had turned into dust was pinched in his hand, and then he slapped it back at Bai Lingqing.

The incense and golden statue were restored.

Bai Lingqing's complexion still hadn't recovered.

She just looked at the man who broke in behind her in panic.

It’s the man in black just now.

That’s a great idea.

Gao Jian already had a knife in his hand and said, "Gather the villagers, take shelter, and stop working."

"I just broke your incense burner because someone reached out of it, but the incense smell is still yours."

"Go to shelter, don't come back to look here, even if you look, you will die."

Following Gao Jian's words, Bai Lingqing felt...

He is a higher god.

No... What is a higher god? She has never heard of it, so how could she know this term?

So, she suddenly grabbed Gao Jian and said, "Senior... there is a voice in my head."

"What?" Gao Jian frowned.

"I don't know... but now you're telling me, it seems to be called... the higher gods?"

Gao Jian seemed to realize something and asked with a serious expression, "Has anyone come to teach you Shen Yun recently?"

Bai Lingqing covered his forehead, endured the discomfort, and said: "It's... it's the chief priest of the county. He said that he wants to 'spread the law' and the court wants to 'legislate'."

(End of this chapter)