Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 175 City God’s Temple

Li Xuan glanced at her, picked up a bag with his right hand, shook it a few times, and said, "Do you have any children here aged five or six? They were sent here half a year ago. I need to redeem them."

The madam was taken aback. So, he wasn't here to have fun or sell his services, but to be a good person.

She took the bag, shook it a few times to feel the weight of the silver, and said with a smile, "Yes, yes, there are several. I brought them all over for you to see, young master."

That's at least fifty taels of silver!
What's the point of spending this money on a skinny, weak child?

The madam felt she had struck gold and quickly summoned a group of children. These children had sallow faces and empty eyes, and were somewhat emaciated due to long-term malnutrition.

The mute girl saw one of the children and called out cautiously, "Er...Er Dan?"

Her voice elicited a response from one of the children in the row in front of her. It was a short child who didn't look like he was five or six years old at all.

Is this Erdan?

Li Xuan asked calmly, "Are you always hungry?"

The madam shook her handkerchief and said, "Oh dear, the pretty ones have become 'skinny horses,' and what's the point of these ordinary ones eating so much food before they can make money... Young master, you don't know, food costs money."

Li Xuan said "Oh," and then took out a bag of silver and put it in the madam's hand: "Give these children good food and drink, don't make things difficult for them, I will come to pick them up in a while."

The madam asked doubtfully, "How long is 'a while'? If it's too long, this money won't be enough."

Li Xuan stroked the gourd at his waist and said, "It will take at least two or three months. I won't keep you waiting too long."

Two or three months is just to appease the madam; in reality, she only needs two or three days to take these children away.

Li Xuan took Erdan away from the brothel.

After confirming that he had left the brothel, the poor child burst into tears and asked, "Dumb girl, I'm so glad you're alright. Has your leg grown back?"

As the five children at the time, each of them had a physical disability. Erdan was missing an arm and was forced into a brothel as a backup, just in case he was needed elsewhere.

The mute girl said, "It was made by our Father Li; he's a god."

Erdan looked somewhat bewildered and fearful, and said, "I want to go home."

After saying this, she felt even more confused, because her home was in Guangdong, but her parents were dead, and she had been sold to bad people by her neighbor...

Li Xuan took Erdan to a secluded place and used his merits and spiritual energy to regrow Erdan's lost arm.

Erdan's empty eyes regained a sliver of hope for life.

The three continued to their next destination, Nanfeng Pavilion, a place just as disgusting as a brothel, except the gender was changed from women to men.

Li Xuan used the same method to train the prodigy.

The mute girl asked, "Father Li Xuan, is Third Brother still not out?"

Li Xuan was silent for a moment: "He's just like Ah Gou..."

Ah Gou is dead.

On the third day after entering the Nanfeng Pavilion, unable to bear the insults and beatings, Third Brother crawled into the well when no one was looking.

The body was thrown into a mass grave.

When Li Xuan arrived at the mass grave, he was somewhat taken aback. There were so many corpses there, men, women, and children. They were basically all wrapped in straw mats and buried in a haphazardly dug pit. Some of the pits were even too shallow, and rainwater washed the bones out of them. In one pit, he found the skeleton without legs, which should be his third brother's remains.

Niuwa, whose legs had been restored, stood with the mute girl and Erdan, sobbing uncontrollably, watching Li Xuan dig a deep pit and rebury his third brother's remains...

After burying his third brother, Li Xuan arrived at the dilapidated temple that the mute girl had mentioned, the Fude Zhengshen Temple. It was a small earth god temple, and the statue on the altar only had half a body. The upper part was broken on the ground and could not be recognized as its original appearance.

The mute girl searched the dilapidated temple and found only tattered clothes, a skull, and a few scattered bones in a corner.

These are Ah Gou's remains...

Because he had been dead for so long, wild dogs and other animals came into the dilapidated temple and gnawed his bones to pieces. You could even see traces of sharp teeth gnawing on his skull.

Li Xuan stared blankly at Ah Gou's scattered bones.

Ah Gou was one of the children he met at the dock, but he's dead now, and his bones have turned into this state.

Li Xuan's breathing became rapid. He opened his hands and then clenched them into fists, gently biting his lips as he carefully collected the bones and took them outside the county for burial.

He arrived at the meeting point at the City God Temple.

The City God Temple is much larger than the Earth God Temple, but it has been abandoned. The ground is covered with weeds, the incense burner has collapsed, the statue is still relatively intact but the color has faded, and there are many stray dogs defecating on the ground.

Sun Zhou and Zhang Xiaocao were here, now accompanied by six more children...

Sun Zhou took out a burnt incense stick from his pocket and said, "Thanks to your divine incense, sir, we avoided a lot of trouble. However, I couldn't resist bringing two extra, which led to my discovery. Xiao Cao was injured while taking a knife for me."

Zhang Xiaocao sat on the dry grass, her back covered in blood.

This injury was nothing to Li Xuan. He took out the purple-red gourd and healed it. Finally, he used his merit to heal the children's injuries.

Seeing how magical the purple-red gourd was, Zhang Xiaocao said, "That's great! We'll never be afraid of getting hurt again."

Sun Zhou immediately rebuked, "Nonsense! Although I don't understand magical artifacts, I do know about the balance of Yin and Yang. The gourd has such a magical effect that it must either consume something inside or consume your magical power!"

I think it's best not to let the gentleman use this gourd unless it's a life-or-death situation.

There was one more thing he didn't say: using the gourd requires energy, which means that some kind of energy inside will inevitably run out one day!
Li Xuan's methods are magical, but he is not as omnipotent as a god in mythology. If he were, he could kill all the corrupt officials and bandits in the world with a wave of his hand. Why would he go through so much trouble to prepare for an uprising?

Sun Zhou speculated that Li Xuan was not a true immortal, but merely a chivalrous person who had acquired some of the abilities of an immortal.

Whether Li Xuan is a real or fake deity.

Sun Zhou had already made up his mind to follow. You know, human desires are like an abyss. Especially when ordinary people obtain such magical abilities, most of them will definitely satisfy their desires immediately. It's not surprising how perverse they can be. Of course, it's also possible that they will use this power to bully others and try to become emperors themselves.

But on Li Xuan's body.

Sun Zhou didn't see that ambition; all he saw was pure compassion and ruthless methods.

He planned to conceptualize Li Xuan's identity, making it a beacon of survival in the hearts of suffering people, a belief that would inspire people to restrain themselves from doing bad things, and at the same time warn that evil people will be punished for doing bad things!

Only by promoting a sense of good and evil in people's hearts can we gather more people of justice!

People change. If everyone becomes evil, then the only way to cleanse this world is through destruction.

Inside the City God Temple, Li Xuan sat on a prayer mat looking at the statue of the City God. Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind: as a judge of Fengdu, he should be allowed to go to the underworld, right?

(End of this chapter)