From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 367: Discussing the Desolate Sea Market Again

Not long after the Ghost Mother Black Fox landed, an extremely huge sea toad fell from the sky, and its two claws grabbed Tiger Mountain Island, ready to overturn it.

"Xuanhu, have you offended your enemies?" Yu Shuyang asked with a little surprise.

There are formations inside and outside Hushan Island. The most important thing is that there is a winged tiger suppressing the mountain root under the island, and the giant toad cannot be pushed away for a while.

Xuanhu was wearing a mask and no expression could be seen on his face. It was quite embarrassing. He refined the Netherworld Origin of Lei Island and released the Sea Toad Taoist Soldiers and Hai Damu.

Unexpectedly, Hai Damu went crazy and chased Xuanhu all the way to fight. If Xuanhu had not used the origin of the Netherworld to cultivate the authority of the Netherworld God, they would probably still be fighting with him on Lei Island.

"Where is the ground vein on your island? Once I build the Yin-Yang Road, I will definitely throw the stinky toad to Youdu Mountain." Xuanhu said angrily.

Xuan Hu has just forged the divine authority of the underworld, but has not yet collected any incense. His most powerful means at the moment is the Yin-Yang Road. He needs to connect the earth veins to create a Yin Qi well before he can cast a spell to trap the enemy.

Yu Shuyang couldn't bear to watch Tiger Mountain Island being pushed down and broken, so he pulled out the Qiankun Long Snake Bag from his waist and said, "Long Snake Boy, go and drive this toad away."

The long snake bag fell to the ground and turned into a Taoist boy, who bowed to Yu Shuyang, then transformed into a long snake, parted the clouds and fought against the sea toad.

Here, Hai Damu gathered three thousand sea toads and transformed them into a giant frog that was a hundred feet long. Hushan Island was shaken slightly by his push and was about to be overturned.

As soon as the long snake boy entered the water, it grew bigger until it became sixty or seventy feet long. It was the long snake's shedding device, and its transformed demon body was also affected by the snake's shedding.

The long snake and the cane toad are both naturally giant beasts. They don't have many magical powers. When they meet, they compete in brute force.

The long snake boy directly wrapped around the cane toad, opened his big mouth and sucked it hard, trying to put the cane toad into the Qiankun bag.

Hai Damu had just experienced a time when he was entangled by the Yin-Yang Road and fell into the Yin-Yang world. This time he was captured again. He activated the formation first, and the three thousand sea toads each used the wave-pushing technique.

Then I saw the green waves rippling under the feet of the sea toad. The waves were like ballast stones, directly pulling the sea toad, so that he could not be put into the bag of the long snake.

Seeing that this method didn't work, the long snake boy immediately attacked the toad's head with his snake mouth, intending to swallow Hai Damu and the three thousand sea toads into his stomach.

After all, the giant frog is a hundred feet tall, and it is not easy for the snake to swallow it. At this time, Hai Damu will not sit still and wait for death. He opens his mouth and spits out toad paste, which is the natural venom of the toad monster.

The long snake boy is not a real monster. Moreover, there is a space of heaven and earth in his belly. All the toads are stored in the space without being contaminated at all.

Hai Damu and the long snake boy fought for a long time, but neither side could do anything to the other. At this time, the great temple priest who was hidden in the air saw that the time was right, so he directly activated the treasures of the God of Goods.

Then a pair of golden chopsticks appeared, and the chopsticks clamped on the long snake, and in an instant it turned into a brocade bag with snake scale patterns.

Without the long snake restraining it, the giant frog turned around and tried to push Hushan Island again. The golden chopsticks threw away the brocade bag and headed straight for Haidamu.

The giant frog was picked up by two golden chopsticks and scattered into a pile of small toads. The three thousand sea toad Taoist soldiers were all covered with golden lumps, and the most important thing was that they only had one hind leg.

The three-legged toad is called the golden toad, and it is born with good fortune in money. The temple priest accepted Hai Damu as his disciple because he valued the identity of the three-legged golden toad.

The hundred green flies under the throne of the God of Goods are equivalent to the three-legged golden toad. However, the golden toad is a divine beast of wealth, so logically, it should belong to the God of Wealth.

This God of Wealth was originally the incarnation of the founder of the immortal way. Later, he was infected by the will of heaven and has always acted on instinct. Naturally, he did not accept the golden toad as his follower.

Hai Damu's master cast a spell that broke the magic circle, and he complained dissatisfiedly, "Master, why don't you help me?"

The chief temple priest stepped on a dark golden auspicious cloud and pointed at Hushan Island and said, "Can't you see that this is Taoist Yu's Hushan Island?"

Hai Damu had been following the temple priest since he was a child. When he heard the tone of his voice, he immediately understood that his master was angry and knew that he could not cause trouble again.

"Master, I was also in a hurry..."

Before Hai Damu could finish his words, his master hit him with a cane from mid-air, causing his ears to ring.

"You bastard, you're lying in front of me. Do you think you can fool me?" the chief temple priest shouted angrily.

Hai Damu was awakened by his master's beating. He knew he had done something wrong and begged for mercy, "Master, I was wrong."

Hai Damu covered his face and cried while speaking. He was really wronged. He chased Xuanhu just now for revenge, but he was furious in his heart.

Unexpectedly, when Xuan Hu came to Hushan Island, he and Yu Shuyang had new and old grudges, so he thought of overthrowing Hushan Island.

"Tell me yourself, how many stupid things have you done since you came to the Desolate Sea? I think you are obsessed with sex." The temple priest said angrily.

Hai Damu came into contact with the black-nosed groundhog and was bewitched by the evil power of lust. The chief temple priest had a vague guess about this, but unfortunately he had no means to remove the evil power.

The foundation of Shinto monks lies entirely in the authority of the gods. Even if the chief temple priest has a first-class cultivation level and sees that his disciple is not stable, there is nothing he can do.

The reason why the gods can be manipulated by the will of Heaven is because they lack the means to resist. The Shinto monks below are even more lacking in such means.

Hai Damu covered his face with his hands, lowered his head and said nothing. He did not dare to resist his master. He became more and more angry with Yu Shuyang in his heart, thinking that it was all his fault.

"Put aside your thoughts, Taoist Yu's status in the Taoist Alliance is not ordinary, and it is unwise to make an enemy of him.

Besides, the burrowing rat demon has been killed, so you should stop causing trouble.” The chief temple priest advised his disciple.

Shinto monks have spiritual perception and can sense things like gods. Just now, after taking a look at Hongchi Island from a distance, they knew that the Black-nosed Ground Rat and the Barbarian God Linjun were both dead.

Hai Damu knew his master's temper and did not dare to refute him. He just pretended to be listening obediently, secretly thinking about how to retaliate.

Black-nosed Groundhog sent him a flying talisman, saying that Yu Shuyang had tried to harm her. Now the master said that Black-nosed Groundhog was dead, and it must have been Yu Shuyang who did it.

At this moment, Hai Damu seemed to have suffered the revenge of having his wife and son taken away from him, and he wished he could kill Yu Shuyang right now.

Seeing his apprentice filled with hatred, the temple keeper sighed and said, "Go back and dig the trench. Don't worry about this."

Shinto monks are one with the temple and are not affected by the killing disaster. They are used to seeing people destined to suffer disasters. Seeing that his disciple repeatedly refused to listen to advice, the temple priest was helpless.

Hai Damu did not dare to disobey his master's order. He bowed to the clouds in the sky, then gathered three thousand sea toad Taoist soldiers and dived into the deep sea.

On this island, the long snake boy was knocked away by the golden chopsticks, and Yu Shuyang noticed the trace of the temple priest. He hurriedly asked Xuanhu about the specific situation.

Only then did they know that the chief temple priest and Hai Damu really went to gather the twenty-four thunder islands, and that Xuanhu trapped the sea toad in the Yin and Yang realm.

Yu Shuyang didn't know that the Black-nosed Groundhog had sent out flying talismans, nor would he have thought that the Black Fox had helped him in the past. When he learned that the Black Fox had changed its position as a god, he hurriedly asked curiously, "Are you going to be a Road God?" Road Gods are similar to Door Gods, and are also transformed from ghosts and gods. There are two Road Gods, namely Open the Road and Show the Way, and both gods look like armored warriors.

The God of Opening the Way and the God of Revealing the Way are both soul-collecting messengers. The white paper figures held in funerals are them. In ancient times, they were responsible for clearing the way in the Nuo dance and were one of the 72 ghosts under Fang Xiangshi.

The Middle-earth world has an incomplete system of ghosts and gods, the ghost kingdom has not developed, let alone the soul-catcher, so the road god has not appeared.

Xuan Hu heard the unspoken meaning in Yu Shuyang's words and guessed that he knew something about the Road God. He then said with a smile on his face: "Little Taoist, do you know the authority of the Road God?
Why don't you give me some pointers? It's not easy to practice with ghosts and gods. I was chased and beaten right after I escaped. You think you have pity on me."

Black Fox Pengwei was also very angry. He was chased by a junior like a dog, shouting and killing. If he had a hot temper, he would have fought with the other party to the death.

Yu Shuyang laughed and said, "Xuanhu, being a road god is not easy. I heard there are three types of road gods. One is called the Road Opener, who is responsible for leading the way to the underworld and is the soul-collector in funerals.

One is called Xianlu Shen, who is responsible for guarding the souls of the dead in the cemetery, showing the ghost road to send the dead souls into the underworld, and is also the soul messenger in the ghost country.

There is also a god called the Guiding God, who drives away ghosts and evil spirits and is specifically responsible for killing evil ghosts and wandering souls. He is considered a ghost killer.

In addition, there is also a Yinlu Wutongshen who specializes in lending Yin debts. You have also seen those Yin debts, the Yin Treasury of Poqian Mountain.

Yu Shuyang was also helping his cousin Li Zhen. If he wanted to increase the power of the spiritual officer on duty and the Yin Treasury God of Wealth, he had to build the Yin Treasury and the Yang Treasury.

After hearing what Yu Shuyang said, the black fox with fluffy tail continued to sense the authority of the underworld road and found that it was just as he said, it had four uses: opening the way, showing the way, leading the way, and five connections.

The core of Shinto authority lies in integration and utilization. For example, the literary god Wenchang Xingjun, because he is tied to the human imperial examination, surpassed the literary god Wenqu Xingjun in one fell swoop.

At this time, the Black Fox Pengwei occupied the authority of the Underworld Road. If one wanted to increase its power in the future, he had to bind to it and choose one of the four road gods, or mix the four priesthoods.

The black fox with fluffy tail remained silent. Yu Shuyang saw that he was thinking so he stopped disturbing him. He released the formation and let the long snake boy in.

Outside the formation, the chief temple priest also followed and landed on Hushan Island.

"Island Master Yu, I have come here uninvited to discuss the affairs of the God of Goods Temple and the Desolate Sea Market." The chief temple priest said straight to the point.

"Excuse me for being polite, Grand Temple Master. I heard that the issue on Lei Island has been resolved?" Yu Shuyang did not hide it and took over the conversation with a smile.

"Everything on Lei Island has been done. We are just waiting for your arrangements. I wonder when we will start construction?" The temple keeper said with a smile.

Building a temple for a deity is not as simple as building a house. It requires preaching and building the temple, and the believers have to build the temple brick by brick.

"You can take care of the arrangements regarding the Goods Temple, and we've already discussed the matter regarding the Desolate Sea Market.

We need to order a treasure ship and discuss with Jinlu Island about the trade route to Menzhou. We should first make two trips to see how it works." Yu Shuyang replied casually.

The chief temple keeper thought for a moment and asked, "You killed the mole and the barbarian god, didn't you? Without the barbarian goods, how can you maintain the trade route?"

The Temple of the God of Goods and the Water Market are integrated. The sale of goods in the Water Market is the best sacrifice to the God of Goods, and it is also a collection of incense and wishes.

The core of worshipping gods lies in belief, not how precious the offerings are or how strong the incense is. The key lies in the thoughts and cognition of the believers.

For example, the ghost fox Fu Ji used the Zi Gu god. Originally, the Zi Gu god was just a toilet god, but because she was bound to Fu Ji, she inexplicably gained the ability of divination.

Similarly, the black fox Pengwei was originally a male fox, but because of the Li people's belief, he became the ghost mother. Later, the Hua people destroyed the Guifang and Zhongshan tribes. Without the recognition of the believers' sacrifices, the ghost country of the black fox was directly abandoned.

Gods and believers are two sides of the same coin, influencing and changing each other. When gods change their authority, believers change their beliefs accordingly. Similarly, when believers change their beliefs, the authority of gods also changes accordingly.

"Don't worry, my cousin Li Zhen practices the Way of the God of Wealth. He originally had a treasure ship that traveled along the Wuzhou trade route.

Speaking of which, we have a connection. The core of Wuzhou's trade route is the Huaihe Water Market. I discussed this with him.

There are goods in Huaihe Shuishi, Jinlu Island and Qingqiu Islands, which can be transported to Huanghai Lei Island in due time.

Right now, the Taodushan Islands are also undergoing changes. If we can unite with the other islands, it shouldn't be difficult to start business on the Menzhou trade route." Yu Shuyang expressed some of his thoughts.

Trade routes are the transportation and exchange of goods. The core is: transporting goods from the south to the north and selling goods from the north to the south. It is nothing more than buying low and selling high.

For example, the spiritual grains from the Qingqiu Islands can be harvested three times a year, and as long as they are transported to the inland of Jiuzhou, there will be no worries about business. Therefore, the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea tried to find a way to blockade the Qingqiu Islands.

Menzhou is close to the North Sea, and the huge snow-capped mountains suppress the earth's atmosphere. The climate is extremely cold, and it is only warm for half a year at most. The biggest lack in the local area is food.

Yu Shuyang thought that he could ask the Long Snake Boy to transport the spiritual food from the Qingqiu Islands in the future, which should be no problem.

In fact, the blockade of the Qingqiu Islands is just a decoration. The Qingqiu Fox Kingdom uses it to isolate itself and avoid deep ties with the Dongyi people, and the East China Sea Dragon Palace is used to isolate the sea merchants.

"That's fine, then it's up to you. I'll arrange for Jin Chan to go to Lei Island to build a temple, so you'd better go and take a look.

Choose a place and mark out a water market so you can build it," the chief temple keeper advised.

He thought of his apprentice Hai Damu and wanted to help mediate, but found he had nowhere to start, so he had to bring up the matter of Lei Island. He wanted to arrange for the two to meet more often, and he would help mediate in secret.

Yu Shuyang nodded and said, "My cousin is out. When he comes back, let's go to Lei Island together to take a look.

There is one more thing I need to discuss with you. Can we build a few more temples on this Lei Island?"

Upon hearing this, the chief temple priest looked at Yu Shuyang with interest and said, "The temple also has an unwritten rule that requires people to keep a distance from each other and not compete for incense offerings.

However, Lei Island is rather desolate, with no aquatic creatures around. It's not impossible for you to build another temple, but who would you build it for?"

When Yu Shuyang heard the chief temple priest say this, he said, "They are both unknown new gods. One is called Tai Sui Dragon God, and the other is called Zhi Ku Ling Guan."

As a Shinto monk, the chief temple priest can feel the authority of the gods just by the name of the gods. The Tai Sui Dragon God is a dragon god in charge of blessings and disasters, and is vaguely related to the Celestial Dragon God.

As for the warehouse spirit officer, he is more subtle. He feels like a warehouse god, and is vaguely related to fortune and misfortune.

"As long as it's not related to freight, it doesn't matter. However, the temple will have to be downgraded. We can only build a small temple and erect a small statue." said the chief temple priest.

Yu Shuyang nodded and said, "I'll discuss this with my cousin later."

(End of this chapter)