You, a living person, are telling me I've served in the underworld for ten years?

Chapter 133 Glorifying His Ancestors: Yang the Ghost Messenger!

Chen Yang, Master Baiyun, and the young monk Huixin all turned their heads and followed the gaze of Zhong Kui's clone.

"Amitabha, good, good!"

The Venerable Baiyun chanted Buddhist mantras and said, “What the True Lord says is absolutely right. The world has changed, and morals are declining. Some people are not much different from demons.”

Chen Yang: "..."

Dude, is it really necessary to go to such lengths with just three young women?

It's nothing more than wearing less clothing, having a strange hairstyle, tattoos on the arms and legs, and wearing earrings and a nose ring... Well, I really can't stand the nose ring!

“True Lord, they are not demons.”

Chen Yang patiently explained, "They were just three young women passing by my shop."

Zhong Kui asked in confusion, "Is it a person?"

Chen Yang nodded.

Zhong Kui was even more astonished: "Why are women in the human world dressed so revealingly these days? Could it be that the loosening of the seal between heaven and earth and the pollution of the Great Dao have caused the collapse of the human order?"

Isn't this going way off track?

Chen Yang said, "Nowadays, the social atmosphere is more open, so this kind of dressing is actually quite normal... I've heard that women in the West can go out without clothes."

Zhong Kui shook his head: "The barbarians of the West, living in a land beyond civilization, how can they be compared to us?"

The three young women, however, were so frightened by the sight of the "stone statue turning into a living person" that they ran away immediately.

Zhong Kui didn't dwell too much on the "spiritual young lady" issue. He looked around and, upon discovering that Chen Yang's family ran a funeral parlor with bundles of ghost money displayed on the shelves, suddenly realized—

"No wonder Chen Huaiyi is so wealthy and powerful that he is called the 'God of Wealth' by the ghost messengers and officials of the underworld... His family's conditions are simply too good."

Chen Yang called Cat Master and Yang Shuai downstairs.

"This humble deity pays respects to the True Lord!"

Cat Lord bowed down in reverence.

Yang Shuai also knelt down on the ground.

After the worship, the cat god said with a fawning smile, "True Lord, since you have just arrived in the mortal world, is there any food you would like to eat? This humble god has recently learned many recipes from all over the world. If there is anything you would like to eat, please just tell me."

"I have never been particular about food."

Zhong Kui waved his hand and said, "Moreover, this avatar of mine is an incense offering avatar, which can only enjoy incense offerings in the human world and cannot enjoy ordinary food."

He then looked at Chen Yang and inquired about the situation of his temple.

Chen Yang said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, I have already spoken with the officials of the Great Xia Dynasty. They plan to build a City God Temple for Your Majesty in the center of Wu City. Preparations have already begun, and construction will start tomorrow!"

"In addition, there are still many temples dedicated to the True Lord in the human world, and their incense is still quite strong."

Zhong Kui laughed and said, "I have already sensed something... Alright, you all rest now, I'll go take a walk in the mortal world first."

brush!
He transformed into a beam of divine light, flew out of the funeral home, and disappeared into the night sky.

Zhong Kui's incense-burning clones flew in the night sky, looking down at the land and cities below, and couldn't help but sigh: "A thousand years have passed, and the human world now... seems to have become very different!"

"The Tang Dynasty was a golden age, a golden age... Now, this era is the true golden age!"

"Ok?"

"There's...yin energy there!"

Suddenly, Zhong Kui's expression shifted slightly, and a hint of joy appeared in his eyes.

He fell from the sky and landed in front of an abandoned primary school.

A glint flashed in his eyes, and he spotted several evil spirits lurking in the abandoned elementary school. He couldn't help but laugh and said, "I didn't expect that I would have wild monsters to deal with so soon after arriving in the human world."

He strode into the school and went straight to the demons.

Soon, the miserable, desperate, and hysterical cries of the evil spirits echoed through the night sky in the empty, abandoned school!
"Zhong Kui!" "It's the legendary Exorcist Lord... Everyone run! Legend has it that Zhong Kui feeds on evil spirits and is in charge of the Punishment Department of the Underworld. If we are caught by him, we will surely be cast into the eighteenth level of hell and never be able to escape for eternity!"

"Mommy, help me!"

Nowadays, ghosts and spirits from the underworld have no way to enter the mortal realm.

Zhong Kui went to great lengths, asking Yama to help him forge the statue and asking Cui Fujun to have Chen Yang send the statue to the mortal world "in a dream." What was the purpose of all this?
People only know that the dead and evil spirits fear Zhong Kui, but they don't know why!

Nothing more than...

They're terrified of being caught and killed!

For many underworld officials and ghost messengers, capturing ghosts and summoning souls is their duty.

But for Zhong Kui, it's just a hobby!

soon.

The yin energy within the abandoned school dissipated, and all the ghosts were captured by Zhong Kui and put into his sleeve. He flew all the way to the Qin Mansion and arrived at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain.

The biography of Zhong Kui states: Zhong Kui was born in Zhongnan, Yongzhou, and lived there.

Zhong Kui was a native of Zhongnan Mountain.

He was exceptionally talented from a young age, excelling in both literature and martial arts. During the Tang Dynasty's Wude era, he went to the capital to take the imperial examination, but failed because of his ugly appearance. In anger, he smashed his head against the palace steps and died.

Upon hearing this, the emperor bestowed upon him a red official robe for burial and conferred upon him the title of "Blessed and Protector of the Home Holy Lord".

During the Tianbao era, it is said that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, Li Longji, suffered from a spleen ailment at Mount Li in Lintong. Despite treatment, the disease persisted. One night, he dreamt of a giant man with extraordinary appearance. The giant man caught a small demon, gouged out its eyes in front of Emperor Xuanzong, ate it, and revealed his identity.

After Emperor Xuanzong of Tang awoke from his dream, he recovered from his serious illness and bestowed upon Zhong Kui the title of "True Lord of Exorcism." He also commissioned the painting master Wu Daozi to create a painting depicting Zhong Kui capturing ghosts in his dream, which was then hung in the palace to ward off evil spirits and suppress demons.

This is the "Zhong Kui Catching Ghosts Picture" that has been widely circulated in later generations!
After a thousand years, Zhong Kui returned to the mortal world, traveled through Zhongnan Mountain, and arrived at "Zhongnan Town".

Zhongnan Town is known as the "Number One Town in Zhouzhi County". The most famous place in the town is the "Shangqing Taiping Palace" where Zhong Kui is worshipped.

Zhong Kui entered the Shangqing Taiping Palace silently and found that his own statue was guarded by a young Taoist boy. With a gentle wave of his hand, the boy fell into a deep sleep, while Zhong Kui absorbed and refined the incense power of the place!

While Zhong Kui temples in other places may have fewer incense offerings, the Shangqing Taiping Palace is extremely popular. It took Zhong Kui a full hour to absorb all the incense power that had accumulated over hundreds or thousands of years.

He didn't leave until dawn, and began to travel the world, catching ghosts and absorbing the incense offerings.

…………

Wucheng.

Yumin Street.

Time flies, and another week has passed.

Construction has begun on the Wucheng City God Temple and Zhong Kui Temple. The state has dispatched a professional engineering team and engineers to build them. The foundation was laid in just a few days, and the project is expected to be completed within a month.

As for the "God of Wealth Temple" designed for Mr. Chen, it is relatively small in scale and is almost completed.

Inside the funeral parlor, Yang Shuai held his phone, seemingly lost in thought all morning.

Seeing this, Chen Yang asked, "Old Yang, what are you doing?"

Yang Shuai stammered, "Old Chen... do you think I should go back to see my family? If I go back, will it scare them?"

"Go, of course!"

Chen Yang said, "You've become a ghost messenger, which is an honor to your family and ancestors. Besides, those are all your closest relatives. Why would they be afraid of you just because you've become a hanged ghost?"

Yang Shuai gritted his teeth and said, "Alright... my [forty] will arrive tomorrow. We'll go back together then. My family will slaughter a cow for a feast, and we can have some fried dough sticks!"

Yang Shuai is a Hui.

Forty days after a person's death, the Hui people hold a major funeral service, during which sheep and cattle are slaughtered, an imam is invited to recite prayers, and blessings are offered to the deceased, asking Allah to forgive their sins and protect the living.

(End of this chapter)