My mythology is different from yours

"What about tonight? Are you unable to defend the city tonight?" Xuanzhi asked.

Now that she was in such a situation, she had nothing to hide. The Holy Maiden of Qinglian said calmly, "If I don't do this, why would you ask the gods to subsidize this land?"

If she doesn't subsidize the land, how can she devour divine power?

There were three bunches of lotus flowers in the arms of the Qinglian saint, one was budding, one was in full bloom, and the other was withered.The withered lotus revived after devouring the divine power of Xiaotiangou and Somersaulting Cloud, and sprouted buds.

But after walking in the gossip furnace, the gossip furnace refined the divine power she had swallowed, so the new lotus flower withered again.

Xuanzhi didn't understand and said: "I was originally guided by Lady Xuancheng to help Linfu County resist evil spirits. Even if you don't use such coercion methods, I will do my best to help you replenish your divine power."

Qinglian Saintess turned her head to look at her, her eyes were still as clear as washing, and she said in a cold voice: "Is it like what you did in other towns and counties? Bring your gods and descend like gods to save the people from the fire and water .”

She said with a low laugh, "From now on, your gods will be enshrined here with me and share the incense, until I am completely forgotten by them, and I will end up like Xuan Sheng?"

"They are not gods relying on incense." Xuan Zhi slowly opened her eyes wide, she really wanted to defend the Great Sage and True Monarch Erlang, they did not need the incense of this world, and had no intention of competing for offerings from mortals.

"But Xuancheng Yuanjun needs it, and we, the earth immortals sealed by her, need it." Qinglian Saintess looked indifferently, looking up at the statue of Xuancheng Yuanjun in the temple, "Mortal people don't know how to be grateful, Xuancheng Yuanjun As the Twelve Righteous Gods, wasn't she also abandoned in the end? She just protected them too well, allowing them to receive all the blessings of the gods, but there was no god in their hearts."

She tore off a petal from the only remaining lotus bud in her bosom and threw it into the air.

The petals dissipated in the air, revealing a picture, in which a plaque with gold characters on a black background was revealed, and the words "Qinglian Shengnv" hung high above the main hall, but the handwriting was mottled and faded, far from what it is today The plaque on the temple is so bright.

The brocade mantle and red pillars in the temple, the original bright blue leaf lotus totem on the roof beams of the temple, now look very old, and the vermilion paint on the beams and columns in the temple is also mottled and faded. At first glance, the whole temple seems to be covered with a layer of old. of ashes.

Most of the incense offerings in the incense burner have been extinguished for a long time, only the thin bamboo sticks at the end of the incense offerings are left, and a few sticks of burning offering incense are sticking crookedly in the ashes.

This shrine had never been so neglected before.

Shen Tutao did not know when she came behind Xuan Zhi, stretched out her hand to hold her wrist, and slowly scanned the scene in mid-air, saying: "It is the scene of the past."

"A year ago." Qinglian Saintess said softly.

Xuan Zhi looked up at the god statue in the scene, the jade statue of Qinglian Saintess was also dim, not as bright and incense-filled as when they first entered the palace.

"It was after the number of demons outside the city began to increase that the incense in my temple began to flourish again. They repainted the walls of the temple and replaced the old red silk curtains. The incense continued to burn every day."

After coming out of the gossip stove for so long, Qinglian Saintess gradually recovered, she slowly got up from the ground, stretched out her hands to comb her long hair, and continued: "You see, only when disaster is imminent, they will know the value of gods. "

After Xuancheng Yuanjun's divine power gradually disappeared from this land, people were infested by evil spirits one after another, so they finally remembered the goddess who protected them.They remodeled the two temples, and the incense was increasing day by day. When they found that the saint was more effective than the empress Xuancheng, people's incense was concentrated in the hall of the saint.

A long time ago, the city held a ritual of offering sacrifices to the gods every year. Later, it changed with the national festival, from one festival every year, to one every three years, and finally once every five years.The sacrifice was not as grand and meticulous as before, as if it was just an errand.

But this time, before the national day of offering sacrifices to the gods, the people in the city were frightened by the evil spirits, and held a very grand ceremony of offering sacrifices to the gods, and almost the whole city was mobilized.Maiden Qinglian sat in the sedan chair of the wandering god, looking at the land she had blessed for a hundred years, she was very happy at first.

However, as more and more evil spirits invaded Linfu County, her densely populated county was the first to bear the brunt. Qinglian Saintess began to feel exhausted. She spread out her divine power, and while enduring the bite of the demon, she hoped that the divine power of Empress Xuancheng could cover this land again.

But as time went by, Xuancheng Yuanjun's divine power became weaker and weaker.The divine power of Saintess Qinglian was devoured and consumed by the evil spirits, and the number of evil spirits outside the city became more and more every night, and they could not be expelled or killed.In the end, several mysterious demons crossed the city wall and invaded the city.

After Qinglian slayed Xuanmo, on the way back to the temple, she heard the frightened people complaining that she could not protect the county and city, and that Xuancheng Yuanjun, the Great Xuan Lord, had abandoned them.

They secretly waited anxiously, praying for a more powerful Martial God to enter Linfu County as soon as possible.Rich merchants and officials in the city spent a lot of gold and silver to invite monks to escort them, looking for the wooden plaque of the god of war everywhere, trying to escape from the county.

Some who couldn't ask for it even came to ask for her holy goddess card to be hung in the carriage, and took the risk and moved out with their family.

"I haven't given up on them yet, but they abandoned me first!" Qinglian shattered the scene in the sky with her palm, and turned to look at the statue of Xuancheng Yuanjun, "Why should I do my best to protect such a person?" them?"

After her words fell behind, the hall was silent for a moment, and there was a very light sneer, Shen Tutao put Xuanzhi's wrist, rubbing her fingertips once and for all, and said: "Since you hate them so much, you can directly abandon Xuanzhi and give them to you." If you leave here, the people in this city will die as soon as they die."

The saint turned her head and stared at him fiercely, her eyes were extremely clear, and the emotions surging inside were also extremely clear, she was not reconciled.

Shen Tutao raised her eyebrows and said: "Oh, it seems that you are reluctant to wear the magic book."

The road to the Great Dao is difficult and dangerous. If you want to ascend to God, you need to go through hundreds of thousands of years. This road is much more difficult than being incensed by mortals.

Holy Maiden Qinglian smiled, and she didn't know when she recognized the identity of the person in front of her, and said, "Your Majesty the Ghost Emperor, how can you understand the struggle of me and other ants like you who are blessed by heaven and earth and born as gods. "

Qinglian Saintess closed her eyes, a lotus totem appeared between her brows.

At this moment, three thunderous drums were heard from outside the hall.Shen Tutao raised his sleeve and waved it away, and the four doors in front of Xuancheng Yuanjun Hall opened with a bang.

The sun has already risen from the sky, the twilight morning light shines into the hall, and Kagura comes from all directions in the county, quite loud and lively.

Looking out from the door, you can see that the island in the middle of the lake is densely packed with people, all facing the Qinglian Holy Goddess Temple, and all of them are holding lit incense in their hands, following the sacrificial process in Kagura He continued to worship and kowtow, and murmured the name of Qinglian Saintess in his mouth.

These people's expressions are dull, but their eyes are bright, with a faint lotus mark floating on their foreheads. The piety and fanaticism in their eyes is like a kindling of fire, burning in everyone's eyes. Looking at their actions in the corner, it was similar to the sacrifice ceremony I saw last night.

Xuan Zhi's expression froze suddenly, she raised her hand, and a bouquet of incense floated from the table and fell into her hand.She looked at the Holy Maiden of Qinglian, her eyes slowly ignited the same devotion, and when she heard the Kagura, as soon as she folded her knees, she wanted to bow down and kowtow like the crowd outside.

Shen Tutao hugged Xuan Zhi's waist, "You want her to kneel down?"

He pointed at the void with the other hand, and a golden light pierced through the air. The golden cone pierced the center of Qinglian's eyebrows and passed through them.

Qinglian Saintess couldn't even utter a word, and her whole body was broken like glass.

Shen Tutao pinched Xuan Zhi's cheek, without any worry on his face.

The expression in Xuanzhi's pupils struggled for a long time, and slowly regained clarity. She caressed her heart, and said in shock: "I just burned a stick of incense in her palace when I first came here, and I almost signed a contract of sale with someone. Sun Du must worship her."

"It's useless to sign it. You can't be tied down by the deed of selling yourself in this world." Shen Tutao said, "What's more, you are a widow and you will have no children and grandchildren. If you sign it, the other party will suffer."

Xuanzhi: "..." You are amazing for being able to give birth.

She turned her eyes and looked around, "Where is Qinglian Saintess?"

Shen Tutao took her out of the temple and climbed to the roof of the temple. From here, people could be seen standing on the long streets around the county city. The crowd of worshipers spread all the way from the temple on the island in the middle of the lake. Everyone is here.

The two walked around the county town, and all they saw were such tireless worshipers.

"Saint Qinglian is much smarter than your empress Xuancheng. She not only binds this batch of incense burners, but also binds the descendants of the incense burners." Shen Tutao knocked down the temple of Holy Maiden Qinglian, and the statues in the temple It was broken into powder, but the rituals of worshiping the gods in the county town continued.

The incense all over the city gathered in the air and floated towards the Qinglian Temple. The smoke re-condensed in the air to form the figure of the saint. Her feathers fluttered. The blooming lotus returned to her arms.

But then, another golden seal emerged from the totem between the eyebrows of the Holy Maiden of the Qinglian. That circle of golden seals imprisoned her in place, dismantling her divine power bit by bit along the lotus totem contract.

Shen Tutao pierced through the center of her eyebrows with the Qiankun knife, and dropped a magic circle on her body in an instant.Soon, the marks on the foreheads of the people worshiping outside the temple also showed a ray of gold.

Once the divine bond between her and the people here is dismantled, her last means of saving her life will be gone.Qinglian Saintess couldn't believe it, "Your Majesty the Ghost Emperor, there are rules of heaven, and there are differences between humans and ghosts. How can you interfere with human affairs at will? I am not a member of your divine court, and you can't go beyond Xuancheng Yuanjun to deal with me privately! "

Shen Tutao said nonchalantly: "Who told you to touch other people randomly."