As soon as the time turned, it was 5 days later.

The nearest human gathering place to Qingyang Temple is called Qingping Town. The scale is small, with a population of less than 30,000, and a city wall is erected around it to resist the 'heterogeneous' that come and go at night. Physical defense, blocking.

Since it is a gathering place of human races with a population of 30,000, it naturally has an unparalleled charm, like a piece of fragrant fat, attracting countless demons and ghosts.

Similarly, Qingping Town has existed in this land for so long, so it naturally has the strength to resist the crisis environment. According to 'Shuipenwan', the guardian forces here are divided into:

The yamen established by the imperial court is composed of ordinary people, not a "dragon group" composed of strange people and strange people like "big sticks". They are all ordinary cruel officials, whose main job is to exploit and squeeze the people, they can be called a bunch of useless wood.

These low-level employees belonging to the ruling system of the Chu State do not have the power to fight against demons, aliens, and evils, and even some mortals who are too polluted and distorted and alienated can do nothing, but it is still no problem to form a team to beat civilians and oppress the old and weak of.

In addition to the daily exploitation and oppression, it is violence to maintain the normal operation of the town, manage the normal life of the common people, and barely maintain the level of food and clothing.

It is also their existence that represents that the laws of the "Chu State" still cover this land, maintaining Chu State's legal principles and ruling power over this place.

The normal operation of the yamen has successfully incorporated this small town into the national fortune system, and with the four-sided city wall as the boundary, it is fed back by the power of the national fortune, arouses the "people's hearts", provides the lowest level of "shelter power", and will not be destroyed by those outside the city wall. Monster attack.

It can be understood as a special magic circle or enchantment.

Although the life of the residents in the city is hard, they get more shelter than the outside world. If you can just survive, you don't really want to die. And this desire to "survive" gathers to form a force, which invisibly flows into the city wall, and is stimulated by the yamen set up by the imperial court to resist the dangerous world outside.

This is the most humble "people's aspiration".

In the territory of Chu State, one after another such 'towns' gathered together to form Chu's 'National Fortune', allowing the court to gain the power to fight against demons.

The two complement each other, and if the common people live and work in peace and contentment, the 'national fortune' will be strong. The prosperity of the country will feed back every town, the protection will be stronger, the danger will be lower, and the people will win. vice versa.

Qingping Town is just a small town, the living standards of the people are barely above the food and clothing line, the 'people's hearts' are half-dead, and the 'shelter' provided by the National Fortune is also weak, which cannot completely prevent a series of supernatural crises.

There are still a large number of demons and ghosts that can break through the defense at night and haunt the town. There are even stronger monsters that live directly with people. Therefore, it is very common for civilians to disappear and die every now and then.

In good times, people who starve to death or freeze to death may be more likely to die than monsters.

The second force to protect mortals comes from the righteous camp and a small number of special Confucian scholars.

There are not only temples in the town that specialize in chanting scriptures and praying for blessings, selling amulets, consecrating and giving birth to female benefactors;

After all, weddings and funerals are a necessity of life. But living in this kind of world, it is very common to lose three souls and seven souls, get up at night and bump into a ghost, little monsters grow in the fields, and foreign objects grow in the house.

Therefore, there is a huge gap for monks and Taoists who have mastered a little magic power and have a skill, probably at the elementary school level. And their 'doing good' is often a necessary part of their own practice of the 'new law'.

It’s not that one loves to do good deeds, but that ‘good deeds’ are related to the practice of the new law. If you don’t do enough good deeds, you won’t be able to complete specific rituals, digest secret medicines, and cultivate supernatural powers.

Therefore, these sects kidnapped by morality have no choice but to become the "righteous sect".

In the same way, the "School" to which some scholars who studied the Four Books and Five Classics belonged has also summed up the "Confucian Sequence Secret Medicine" in a hundred years. After taking it and digesting it, it can also master the power of mana. And through the behavior of brushing monsters, deepen the understanding of studies, and enhance knowledge and mana.

This is the unity of knowing and doing, and applying what you have learned.

It is said that in the Chu state imperial examination, in the provincial examination every three years, in addition to the cultural assessment Qiuwei, there is also a battle assessment Qiuhun. The imperial court will uniformly distribute 'secret medicine, new Confucianism', and organize candidates to participate in demon hunting.

Within the specified time, take the secret medicine and master a new "Confucianism supernatural power" developed by the imperial court. This is used to hunt demons and test students' understanding of the saint's teachings, as well as their own intelligence. There are death indicators

These human beings who are not necessarily kind in nature are 'quasi practitioners? ’, and by charging high remuneration, it also brings a sense of security to the civilians. It is more about his own path of practice, which coincides with protecting mortals.

Finally, there is the Town God's Temple in the town.

"Chenghuang" is a high-quality idol jointly selected and canonized by the residents of the town from the records of the county annals, tracing back to some famous people in the local history.

At first, the people worshiped together, begged for a stable life, and offered a lot of incense. It is indeed possible to create a qualified 'Incense God' through the unique rules of heaven in this world.

And with the "Temple of the City God" as the anchor point, a small space is opened up, where the City God communicates with Yin and Yang, and takes away the souls of the dead within the scope of belief. It is not possible for the "wandering soul" to wander for a long time, be polluted by the twisted spiritual energy in the sky and the earth, alienate into evil spirits, cause disasters in the world, and eventually lose control and become evil.

But as the 'City God' continued to receive incense offerings, it became stronger and stronger, and gradually developed sanity. Coupled with the distortion of the way of heaven, the selfishness of people's hearts, and the corruption of the world, the gradually growing "City God" will naturally become corrupted with the filth.

The underworld of this world is broken and scrapped, and there is no complete 'reincarnation system'. And when a pregnant woman gives birth to a new life, she can give birth to a 'new soul'. As a result, the backlog of ghosts in the underworld gradually increased, making it difficult to deal with. Take the initiative to help ghosts reincarnate, and consume extra power

Over time, the evil spirits in the small underground mansion devoured each other, and the city **** also held a large amount of wealth and soul currency and gradually became corrupted. In the end, based on the "City God's Temple", the blackened City God recruited powerful evil spirits and fierce ghosts, forming the largest "black and evil force" in the small underworld, and turned Qingping Town into its sphere of influence.

Every night, there will be a "Ghost Soldier Squad" under the command of the City God patrolling the town, suppressing and arresting all demons and lonely ghosts who dare to act presumptuously.

Because the whole town is its crops. Only when the people's life is stable can they have a great life and maintain a positive population growth. Coupled with the high rate of premature death, natural disasters and man-made disasters, there is an endless stream of "soul resources" to invest in without taking the initiative.

Therefore, the "green-faced ghost" who has gradually become a demon, as a vested interest in the local area, is also a force to protect the stability of Qingping Town. Responsible for patrolling at night, eating the cake of the underworld, and suppressing other disobedient ghosts in the small underworld, and grabbing territory.

Of course, indiscriminately hooking up the souls of a few healthy people for a dental sacrifice; or which girl you fancy, ask her family to help her dress up, and send her to the underworld to take a concubine or something? It is also reasonable.

After all, I am for everyone, and everyone is for me. As a city god, how can he only do good deeds without establishing dignity?

Under the struggle of these three parties, the yin and yang worlds in Qingping Town, the demons and ghosts inside and outside the city, and righteous people maintain a fragile balance. The number of civilian deaths has also remained within a healthy range~lightnovelpub.net~ However, all of this was broken a few days ago. The cause is naturally the banquet of demons].

That night, Bailang made some coquettish manipulations, causing all the big monsters in this land to twist and rush to the street, leaving the stage early, especially the city **** "Green Faced Ghost" in Qingping Town also died, leaving a niche in the underworld. Then there was another large-scale **** cleansing, which caused the demons in the underworld to start migrating.

For Qingping Town, the most intuitive impact was the shattering of the statues in the 'City God's Temple'. Once the boss died, the second and third heads rebelled one after another and robbed the god's position.

In addition, the 'City God's Temple' itself is just the largest 'black and evil force' in the small underworld, but it has not been unified, but has many competitors.

When the green-faced ghost pounced, the order of the yin and yang worlds was completely messed up, and everyone wanted to compete for the position of 'City God'. In addition, the "five ghosts and Taoists" that Shui Penwan was thinking about also had properties in the local underworld.

In the end, the passage to the underworld in Qingping Town was broken, and the "ghost watch team" not only went on strike, but also staged night tours of ghosts every day. And some fleeing monsters also passed through this place to break through the 'city wall defense', came in to make a fortune and ran away.

The death rate began to soar, and the people panicked to the extreme. The monks and priests were too busy with their funeral affairs, and the panic gradually tended to get out of control.

At this time of crisis, the legend about the "Magic Banquet" and the story of the mysterious Bai Zhenren... also spread rapidly under the propaganda of several survivors.

Even a survivor of a wealthy businessman who had been hard-brainwashed, took out the shock fee given by Bailang, and clamored to erect a statue of the city **** for the 'Bai Zhenren', to restore the underworld, and to keep everyone safe. Then a group of greasy-faced monks broke in, smashed the shop and seriously injured them.

Under such circumstances, how could Bailang sit back and watch his little brother get beaten?

As a result, two shops opened in the center of the town. A group of strangers in strange costumes began to walk around the streets.