If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 78 Shinto Giant
Guan Laozu said: "I am definitely not afraid of human immortals, but the underworld is different. If the human immortals take the initiative to destroy the City God Temple, I can fight back; if the human immortals kill people in the territory of Yingxiang Mansion, that is a human matter and is not under the jurisdiction of the underworld. If the forces behind the Eight Immortals of the West want to take action, the movement will definitely be huge and cannot be concealed.

Even if the noise was small, it could be concealed from others.

Those immortals are well versed in Taoism and if they report my violation of the Heavenly Law to the Ten Kings of Hell, I will be in big trouble.”

It’s the same old saying, some things only weigh a few ounces if they’re not weighed, but they weigh more than a thousand pounds if they’re weighed.

There are countless counties and prefectures, countless city gods and land gods in the world, but there are only ten Yamas and perhaps more judges, but they certainly cannot supervise all the actions of all the city gods and community gods in the world.

There are ghosts and gods who take advantage of loopholes in rules and systems to seek personal gain for themselves, but they don't cause any major trouble. As long as it's not exposed, generally no one will pursue it.

After all, ghosts and gods were once human beings. Human beings have to consider human feelings, and ghosts and gods also have human feelings and worldly ways.

But once the news becomes known to everyone, it will be impossible for the big boss of the underworld to turn a deaf ear to it.

Once the rules are followed strictly, what you may think of as a small matter may turn into a fatal crime.

If the City God harasses the common people, they will not even be able to find a place to appeal for justice.

But Guan Chenghuang dared to provoke the "Eight Immortals of the West". The big bosses behind the Eight Immortals did not need to do anything themselves. Instead, they wrote a petition that night and burned it to the judge of the underworld or the King of Hell.

"Then what should we do?" Hu Chen looked at the old ancestor with an awkward expression, and said, "Yu'er ate the bone-changing pill. Even if she can't enter Xianyang to serve the emperor now, with her immortal martial arts talent and sword bone supernatural power, she can become the pillar of our Guan family in the future."

Ancestor Guan was a little irritated, and paced back and forth for a while, saying: "According to my original wish, of course I am very happy to acknowledge this granddaughter.

With her around, my Guan family will sooner or later produce a powerful immortal.

Just like right now, if there was a human immortal guarding the Guan family, our situation would be very different.

The human immortals and the city gods work together and are not afraid of the revenge of the Eight Immortals. "

If there is a human immortal in charge of the Guan family, even if the City God of Guan takes action secretly, the blame can be put on the human immortal.

Even Guan Chenghuang doesn't have to do anything himself. Just by relying on his absolute control over the county government, he can allow his own immortals to gain absolute home advantage.

After struggling for a while, Guan Laozu made up his mind and said, "I will arrange for Wenlong to meet the Prince of Qinghe.

Alas, our Guan family’s foundation is indeed a little lacking.

If the Li family is willing to send a human immortal to protect Guan Yu, the Guan family will owe them a big favor.

In the future, let the Human Immortal Guan Yu pay it back, ten times or a hundred times."

"Will the Li family help?" Hu Chen's face flashed with resentment, "If they wanted to see a human immortal appear in the Guan family, they would have agreed to help us contact the immortal in Wanshou Mountain.

If I had refined the Nine-transformation Bone-changing Pill twenty years ago, I would have already achieved the Human Immortal stage."

“It’s different.” Guan Laozu said with a complicated expression: “Using the Li family’s favor and asking the immortal from Wanshou Mountain to help will at least waste an opportunity to become a human immortal.

Human immortals are also a foundation for the Li family.

So, it’s normal for the Li family to ignore you.

Protecting Guan Yu does not require wasting any of the Li family’s resources or favors.

After all, we are not asking the immortals to risk their lives to protect Guan Yu.

Moreover, Guan Yu killed Kong Zan and deposed Zhou Lang, which made some contributions to the Kingdom of Shu.

In addition, since the Rebellion of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms, you and Wenlong have made contributions and hard work. As the royal family of Shu, the Li family should express some appreciation.

Otherwise, if the heroes are discouraged, who will work for the Li family in the future?"

After saying this, he looked Hu Chen up and down, frowned and said, "We can talk about Guan Yu later. Your situation is no better than hers. At least she is not dead yet, but you are dead."

Hu Chen was startled and asked quickly, "Grandfather, didn't you send away the Ghost?

I didn’t see the ghost of death, so it shouldn’t count as death, right?
Since he is not dead yet, he can be saved.

I beg Grandfather to show mercy and use his magic to save my grandson."

As he said this, he knelt on his knees, hugged Guan Chenghuang's legs and started crying.

"Don't cry, stand up!" Guan Chenghuang shouted in a low voice and pulled Hu Chen up.

"I never said you were hopeless, it's just that the dead energy in your soul is growing too fast, which makes me a little worried. Why are you so anxious?"

"Then Grandfather, please act quickly. The longer you delay, the more death will come." Hu Chen urged.

Guan Chenghuang said calmly: "It is only your soul that has returned now. When Chi Yanju brings your remains into Yingxiang Mansion, I will examine them carefully to determine whether you can be rescued and how to rescue you."

Hu Chen panicked again, "It will definitely be possible to rescue them. The Red Smoke Horses are working day and night and will be able to enter the country soon."

"Alas, even though the Red Smoke Horse runs day and night, Da Shu is too big and Feixian Ferry is too far. Three days have almost passed. With the weather about to enter summer, your body will probably stink in three days." Guan Chenghuang sighed.

Hu Chen looked at him eagerly and said, "Grandpa, you not only have magical powers, but you are also a miraculous doctor. When you were alive, you could already heal the dead. Although my grandson's corpse smells a bit, at least there is still meat and internal organs."

"Master Guan, Master Guan" suddenly, a series of dull shouts were heard outside the narrow land temple.

Guan Cheng Huang's expression changed slightly, and he turned around and warned Hu Chen, "The God of Death who wants to take your soul has come! Go find a place to hide in the back. Remember, when you die, don't breathe, don't talk, and don't move. Do you understand?"

When he heard that the ghost of the devil had come, Hu Chen did not dare to say "I understand". He just turned pale, nodded fearfully, and tiptoed into the back room.

After Hu Chen disappeared, Guan Chenghuang straightened his clothes, strode out with his head held high and a dignified look on his face.

As he reached the door, a mighty general in chain mail came over, saluted with his fists, and leaned close to the City God's ear and said helplessly, "Ancestor, I have tried my best to get the two ghost officials to drink, but they just can't get drunk.

I also went to Clearwater Bay to select a few beautiful but ill-fated singing girls, and brought their souls to the yamen, where I let them sing and dance to entertain the two ghost officials.

They pushed and groped the singer, but never did anything to get the pig on the bench. Just now, they suddenly broke away from the singer's arms, threw down their wine glasses and bowls, and said that they smelled the scent of General Guan Huchen and wanted to come over for business.

Oh, what do you think we should do? "

Guan Cheng Huang gritted his teeth and said, "What else can we do? They don't care about just fine wine and beautiful women. We can only keep increasing the price until they are satisfied."

After saying that, he walked straight out of the front yard and asked the green-faced, fang-toothed gatekeeper ghost to open the front door.

"Master Guan!" The two ghosts bowed to Guan Chenghuang first.

Guan Chenghuang also returned half a greeting: he just cupped his hands without bending over to bow.

"Gentlemen, please come in and talk." He pointed inside the house, and after the two Wuchang had crossed the threshold, he took a slight lead and returned to the Tudigong's residence with the Wuchang.

"Please take a seat!"

"You're welcome, City God Guan."

After exchanging pleasantries, the God of Land brought a pot of hot tea. After Guan Cheng Huang drank a cup with Wu Chang Gui, he took out an eight-inch-long book from his wide sleeves and said, "Please read this, my two envoys. It is clearly written in the Book of Life and Death that Guan Hu Chen was loyal to the emperor and protected the country. He lived to be 118 years old and died of old age on his bed."

As soon as the book was opened, he turned directly to the page about Guan Huchen.

It was clearly written in black and white: Guan Huchen, lived to be 118 years old, was loyal to the emperor and protected the country, was brave in taking on responsibilities, and should enjoy the blessings of his children and grandchildren and die on his bed of old age.

These few simple sentences roughly summarize Hu Chen's life.

"Guan Huchen is not even fifty this year, and it is far from time for him to enter the underworld." Guan Chenghuang said to the two impermanences.

The two impermanences just glanced casually at the Book of Life and Death.

Bai Wuchang said expressionlessly: "Master Guan, you are an experienced official with a wide range of experience. You should understand that the Book of Life and Death is suitable for most people, but not for everyone.

For example, if a god who is beyond the Three Realms saves people and makes them immortal, or kills people and eliminates evil, this is something that the Book of Life and Death cannot predict in advance. The fate of those who are saved and the evildoers who are eliminated will change.

Even if there is no supernatural power, certain unexpected events may create many ghosts who died in vain.

Not to mention the distant past, just take the recently deceased Flag Hunting Immortal Kong Zan as an example. His life span according to the Book of Life and Death was at least 1,800 years.

Eighteen hundred years later was the time when he would become a scattered immortal for the first time, not the time of his death.

After becoming a Yin God, he entered the underworld and modified the names in the Book of Life and Death.

Erase your name from the 'Human Register', re-register in the 'Immortal Register', and become an immortal recognized by the Heaven and Hell.

From then on, he became one of the free and unrestrained immortals and was no longer controlled by the gods and ghosts of the underworld.

As a result, he died, his soul almost scattered, and only a trace of resentment remained, which condensed into an evil ghost and fell into the City of the Dead. Who knows how much torment and suffering he will suffer in the future. "

Hei Wuchang continued expressionlessly, "According to the rule of the underworld that 'the dead are the greatest', if someone's life span exceeds the years recorded in the Book of Life and Death and he has not died yet, he is guilty.

The soul-catcher should take the initiative to find him and take his soul to the underworld for judgment.

If someone dies before reaching the age limit recorded in the Book of Life and Death, then they are dead and will re-enter the cycle of reincarnation according to the normal process.

Guan Chenghuang stuffed the "City God's Book of Life and Death" back into his sleeve, scraped off the foam with the cup lid, and said slowly: "I am an old official with many years of experience and have experienced many things.

Once, I took in the soul of a kind-hearted man named Zhang, and planned to keep him by my side as an assistant.

The judge of the underworld sent a letter saying that Mr. Zhang’s life span had not yet ended and he should be sent back to the human world.

At that time, Mr. Zhang had been dead for 49 days and his body had long been buried.

But I appeared in his dream to his son, and the next day when the coffin was dug out, Mr. Zhang was indeed back to life.”

The Black and White Impermanence looked at each other and remained silent.

Not to mention Guan Chenghuang’s personal experience, the number of times the two of them have personally sent souls back to the world is more than a hundred times in the past fifty years.

It’s better if someone dies “accidentally” before the end of his life span.

Some people clearly deserved to die, but the judge secretly extended their lifespan by one or two decades, and then said that their lifespan had not yet ended and they should be sent back.
A century is twelve years!
Those events of extending one's lifespan or returning one to life usually involve the intervention of great immortals and Buddhas.

They didn't dare to ask and took it for granted.

But do you think that Guan Chenghuang is a "big boss of gods and Buddhas"?

Guan Chenghuang put down the teacup, fumbled in his sleeves for a while, and pulled out two golden "sticks" that were as thick as two little fingers and four feet long.

The Black and White Impermanence finally couldn't maintain their wooden expressions anymore.

Their eyes widened, and a blush of desire appeared on their pale faces.

Guan Cheng Huang's elegant face quickly flashed with a look of pain, and he handed the two "small sticks" to Wu Chang, saying: "Since I took office, I have been working diligently and conscientiously for a hundred years, protecting the people of the county, and now I finally get some rewards.

These are two sticks of 'burning incense sticks'.

The power of incense offered by believers throughout the city has been refined by the City God's Seal and purified into pure wish power that can be absorbed by any ghosts and gods.

The total amount of one stick is equivalent to the incense burning of 10,000 families in a year."

"Thank you, Lord City God!" The Black and White Impermanence were delighted and hurriedly took the burning incense and put it in their arms. They bowed their backs and paid respectful tribute to the City God who was sitting on the throne.

——After purification, it is equivalent to the incense offerings of 10,000 families for one year, so before purification, it was at least 20 years of offerings from 10,000 families! Guan Chenghuang is so generous that he is not only a "Shinto boss", but a "Shinto giant"!

Since he is such a "giant", he is certainly qualified to send the souls of the dead who have not yet completed their life span back to the world.

(End of this chapter)