Bodhisattva, please help me in my spiritual practice!

As Ao Peng's influence expanded, he discovered that after establishing a temple, the faith of ordinary people could be transformed into incense offerings.

For more than a month, Ao Peng also instructed his subordinates to spread the faith of General Wu Gong as much as possible.

There was definitely not enough time to repair the large temple, but there was still time to squeeze in time to repair the small temple. Tianjin was full of small local shrines, so the gang members simply set up a small shrine next to the local shrine. When ordinary people finished their daily worship and saw that there was a small shrine next to it, if they had a few extra incense sticks, they would naturally share them with the shrine.

In addition, with tens of thousands of gang members bringing their families to change their incense offerings, a powerful force for changing customs and traditions has been formed and spread throughout Tianjin.

Inside the Xu family mansion, Ao Peng saw that his deity, Little Chaos, was carrying more and more incense sticks, and naturally became very envious.

Even if each person prays earnestly once every ten days or half a month and offers one or two sticks of incense, the incense ball that Little Chaos is holding now has as many as 5 sticks of incense!

However, this time Ao Peng did not snatch it from Chaos, because he realized something serious!

Incense offerings are a form of cause and effect. If you receive incense offerings from others, you must repay the corresponding cause and effect. This is something that the original guide reminded Ao Peng of!

Although this is a dungeon world, a fruit of the vast world, the rules of the incense and divine path should be the same as those of the vast world!

So the incense ball grew larger and larger in Chaos's hands, but in Ao Peng's eyes it also appeared increasingly murky.

Fortunately, when he established the title of General Wu Gong in the dark, he also decided what he would do in this world.

The Qing dynasty led the country astray, and the barbarians harmed the people.

General Wu descended into this world with the purpose of eliminating these two calamities.

As long as he can earnestly fulfill his promise and the value of what he accomplishes is worthy of the 5 incense sticks, he can naturally take the incense sticks away.

An increase in incense offerings is naturally a good thing, but there are also some unpleasant things.

His recent thoughts have been focused on the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty. From the information about that Shoushan Tianhuang stone, Ao Peng has learned that the other party does indeed have residual imperial fortune protecting him. Therefore, he uses the Little Chaos to frequently contact the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, hoping to use the [Verse of the Righteous Fruition of Speech] to reduce this residual imperial fortune.

Since Little Chaos itself was born from the seed of the [Seal of Conquest] skill, it naturally also possesses this skill.

However, this usually effective skill failed to catch the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty from his tongue this month. Every time the last emperor was about to speak, he would forcefully swallow his words back, as if some divine will was preventing it.

Just as Ao Peng was pondering, Chen Xiaodao suddenly rushed in to report.

"Brother, something strange has happened in Tianjin recently. It's a small thing, but the brothers feel something's not right, so we decided to tell you about it."

"What's wrong?"

"Brother, as you instructed, when we were building a small shrine next to the local earth god temple, we suddenly discovered that many of the statues in the temples have recently been vandalized. Many earth gods have even had their heads chopped off!"

Suddenly, Ao Peng had a flash of inspiration and looked sharply at Chen Xiaodao!

Fearing Ao Peng might misunderstand, Chen Xiaodao quickly said, "Brother, I've inquired privately, and we definitely didn't do the beheading of the local earth god. Besides, although this is a small matter, the fact that so many earth god temples have had their heads severed has already caused quite a stir among the people!"

The head was severed?

Ao Peng suddenly remembered something: the starting point of his old-school game!

The ancient temple also enshrines deities dressed in court robes, whose exposed hands and feet are not human, but rather those of cattle, horses, or rats, and whose heads have been severed!

At first, Ao Peng didn't think much of it, assuming it was some kind of debauchery or lewd ritual in the wilderness.

But as he progressed through the game, he learned that the so-called "old soil" was just the dregs of the previous era.

The era preceding the new era corresponds exactly to the Republic of China.

Those deities of oxen, horses, and rats are not some wild and lewd worship, but rather the twelve primordial stars symbolizing the era!

Someone is now using a similar method to sever the local earth god in Tianjin!

"Tell the brothers not to act rashly. I'll go and check it out myself."

So in the afternoon, Ao Peng pretended to go to various venues to collect rent, but secretly circled around Tianjin a quarter of the way to check the situation.

Just as Chen Xiaodao reported, many of the heads of the local earth god statues had been severed. Even the intact statues did not emit any incense smoke, which meant that the statues were "empty" and no earth god resided inside.

Left with no other choice, Ao Peng headed out of Tianjin. Just as he was about to leave the city, he saw a local earth god temple next to a post station. Feeling a pang of emotion, he got out of his carriage, took out incense, bowed to the temple, lit the incense, and stayed overnight at the post station.

That night.

Ao Peng, who hadn't slept, noticed the knocking and said, "Come in."

A local earth god, dressed in a slightly faded robe, floated in from outside the house and respectfully bowed, saying, "Thank you for your incense offering today."

Ao Peng smiled. "I've met the local earth god. The main reason I'm staying here today is to inquire if you are aware of the recent beheading of the earth god in Tianjin?"

Upon hearing Ao Peng inquire about this matter, the local earth god showed a panicked expression, looked around, and hesitated to speak.

The other party is afraid of something.

Ao Peng instantly understood that a deep, chaotic circle spread out from him, enveloping the Earth God, and then gave the Earth God the right to speak in the outer realm of chaos, "This is my outer realm manifestation. Earth God, you speak here, and only I can hear you."

The profound and mysterious chaos spread out, and the local deity, who already knew that Ao Peng was no ordinary person, was now even more certain. He hurriedly bowed again, "So it turns out that a true cultivator has arrived."

Ao Peng hurriedly said, "This method of concealing the secrets of heaven cannot last. Speak quickly if you have something to say. The destruction of the earth god temple is no small matter, and you will definitely be implicated."

The worry on the land god's face turned into resentment, "True cultivator, you may not know this, but a month ago, a Japanese sorcerer forcibly used magic to win over the land deities of Tianjin. Any land deity who did not obey his call was killed by his curses!"

Ao Peng frowned and asked, "Didn't you unite to resist?"

Although the local earth god in front of me is not very powerful, there are at least a hundred such gods in Tianjin, especially small ones. If the earth gods unite to rebel, there is no reason why I wouldn't feel it at all.

In other words, these local deities were defeated one by one in an instant!

The Earth God's resentment deepened. "True cultivators, you may not know this, but it's not that we didn't resist. It's because that last Qing emperor was tyrannical and relied on his remaining imperial fortune to suppress our divine power, which allowed that Japanese sorcerer to succeed!"

Ao Peng immediately understood and asked, "Then why did the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty help the Japanese sorcerers? Was there any benefit for him?"

The local deity replied, "With the help of Tantric monks, they built a mandala in an attempt to gather the earth's energy in Tianjin to nourish their meager imperial fortune. Therefore, they forcibly abducted us local deities, and anyone who disobeyed was killed. The reason I dared not speak recklessly just now is because the Tantric monks have the ability to hear divine ears; if I speak here, they can hear me over there!"