Day and night tour

Chapter 152 Getting up
"Why does the evil god want to control believers? In this respect, the evil god is the same as the god in heaven."

As a teacher, Li Chengfeng is used to answering questions carefully in class, especially when the questioner is someone he sincerely admires.

"There are many theories about the birth of gods. The most accepted theory is the theory of the power of incense and vows. For example, after suffering from disasters, pain, and illness, sentient beings in the world, out of worship of nature, imagine the existence of gods, so they build temples for them and offer incense.

Temples and incense gathered the wishes of all living beings, and finally this wish became spiritual and became a god.

From a certain perspective, the more believers a god has, the more power he possesses."

Zhou Xuan picked a thorn and asked, "If that's the case, since that god has fallen for so long, why don't you gather your willpower and create a new god?"

"First, there are too many beliefs in the Well Country now. There are countless temples, new white walkers born every year, and gods in every state. They have all divided the beliefs and the willpower. The willpower has been divided into many shares, but the number of each share is not enough to create a god."

Zhou Xuan felt that what Li Chengfeng said made some sense. He discovered that the beliefs of the Jing Kingdom were truly diverse. There were quite a few Bodhisattvas and Arhats, each with its own believers. There were also many halls that lit incense, all of which were dividing up a relatively fixed amount of vows.

"Second, it is rumored that the nine gods have all fallen. However, after generations of research, it has gradually been discovered that not all of the gods have fallen. At least a large part of them have not fallen. They are just sleeping."

"Why are you so sure?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"Over the past two thousand years, traces of fire have appeared in various places. Although the number of occurrences is still small and they are only traces, and no one has actually witnessed the fire, it still strongly proves that most of the gods are alive."

Li Chengfeng smiled and said, "I am a believer myself. I believe in the God of Pain and Disaster. 160 years ago, a sacrificial site was discovered in the ruins of a village on the coast of Tiantong. The breath of the God was found in a broken flying lantern. This is the trace of fire!"

“If we regard the heaven and the earth as a container with a huge capacity, it has an upper limit after all, and it cannot expand infinitely.

This container can only hold nine gods. Even if one or two gods actually die, the vacated space will be quickly swallowed up and filled by the remaining gods.

When not enough gods die, there won’t be enough space for new gods to grow.”

Li Chengfeng brought the topic back to this point and said, "The gods rely on the condensed will of the human world, and so do the evil gods. However, the gods have a lot of believers, so they don't need to control too much, and there are still a steady stream of believers lighting incense for them!
But evil gods are different. They are regarded as evil. People are afraid of them, dread them, and hate them. They will never receive a large amount of incense and prayers.

Only in some remote villages or hidden places in cities do believers build temples for it and burn incense to offer sacrifices.

Unlike the gods who have a wide range of incense offerings, the evil gods will firmly control the believers, making each believer provide the maximum amount of incense offerings and squeezing them as much as possible. "

“There are so many things to consider here!?”

"Many, because in order to exert strong control, the evil god will resort to methods such as calling names, swallowing hair, and offering bones."

Li Chengfeng explained,

Roll call means that before performing human sacrifice, believers write their names on a piece of paper, burn it to ashes, mix it with water to make mud, and smear it on the evil god.

Hair swallowing: the believer and the evil god cut off a strand of hair at the same time, mix them together, and then swallowed by the believer.

Offering bones means that believers take off a piece of their own bones and offer it to the evil gods as a sacrifice.

Entering the bloody eyes - when the believer and the evil god look at each other for a long time, the evil god's thoughts will be infused into the believer's eyes. That thought is like a bloody worm lurking in the white of the eye. Once the evil god needs to control the believer, the bloody worm will quickly drill into the believer's brain.

These are the four most common ways of controlling evil gods in Jingguo.

Therefore, some experienced people who go to the underworld to worship gods know that if they enter some temples that look gloomy, they must not write their own names, cut their hair, or look at some strange people or statues of gods!
But in the past ten years or so, the evil god has rarely descended, and over time, everyone has gradually forgotten these three taboos!
"Human sacrifice is a way for believers to communicate with the evil god, but I see there is no control method in your ritual, so I'm reminding you."

"Isn't it better without it?"

Zhou Xuan just felt strange. You treat me as an evil god, but I don’t control you and bless you for nothing. Are you still not happy?
"The evil god is not you, but the tattoo on your body... If you don't control me, I'm afraid the blessing will not take effect."

"It's okay, go ahead and write." Zhou Xuan stretched out his left hand and waited for Li Chengfeng to write on his arm.

"Really not necessary?" Li Chengfeng asked again.

“Don’t worry.” Zhou Xuan used his perception to carefully explore the tattoo of “Heavenly Official’s Blessing” and it really did not have the requirements of “swallowing hair, naming, and offering bones”.

Don’t add unnecessary requirements, otherwise Zhou Xuan will really become an evil god!
"Since the young master insists on doing so, I will write it."

Li Chengfeng dipped his fingers into the blood again and wrote the three words "Little Protector" on Zhou Xuan's left arm.

As soon as the words fell, the nail on Zhou Xuan's middle finger began to grow visibly, and only stopped after growing half an inch.

There are faint tree branch patterns on the long nails.

Zhou Xuan cut the nails with scissors and stuffed them into Li Chengfeng's bloodstain.

A wonderful feeling suddenly filled Zhou Xuan and Li Chengfeng.

Li Chengfeng felt a sense of growth. The flesh that had been torn apart just now healed automatically. His obese body also felt inexplicably relaxed.

Zhou Xuan felt even stranger. He suddenly felt his face become stiff. He wanted to laugh, but he couldn't control the muscles on his face.

There was a mirror in the corner of the old painting studio. Zhou Xuan looked in the mirror and found that his expression was a little too solemn and his body was standing too straight.

Not only his expression and posture changed, but even the bones of his face were changing - his face was thinner, and his cheekbones were square and hard, making Zhou Xuan's face look fierce.

Zhou Xuan noticed that his appearance had changed a bit, and was very curious, so he wanted to get in front of the mirror to take a closer look, but when he raised his hands and feet, even his walking posture had changed.

He first turned sideways, then raised one leg very high, waved his right hand high, and took a huge step forward... "Is this... Tiangang Step?"

Li Chengfeng was horrified and blurted out.

"What did Teacher Li see?" Zhou Xuan asked.

Li Chengfeng did not respond. He was immersed in his own world, muttering, "No wonder the control method was not used... No wonder... Although it was a human sacrifice, it was not the believers communicating with the evil gods, it was a human sacrifice of the believers communicating with the gods!"

……

In the Yunluo Mountains, the copper coin priest, who had not been happy for long, now looked downcast.

He had an extremely ugly expression and a gloomy face.

To be honest, he had misjudged something. When he learned that Zhou Xuan was going to perform a human sacrifice, he thought that the tattoo Zhou Xuan had figured out was the tattoo of the ancient clan.

But now, he realized that human sacrifice was not only a way for believers to communicate with evil gods, but gods could also use it.

In other words, this is not a human sacrifice, but another ancient witchcraft ritual.

His hope of getting away with it was finally shattered by Zhou Xuan's "Tian Gang Step" and his fierce and stern face.

“It turned out to be a spirit-revelation ritual!”

The copper coin priest squeezed out a word viciously!

To put it simply, the ritual of spirit possession is to invite the spirits to possess one's body.

In the Wu family, when there are some major events, such as sacrificial beheading, the beheader needs to possess the spirit medium and cut off the sacrificial head in the identity of a god.

The Copper Coin Priest also knew that there were two branches of the tattoo lineage, the Tree Clan and the Ancient Clan. The tattoos of the two clans were generally similar, but there were deviations in temperament.

The tattoos of the Tree Tribe appear divinity amidst the eeriness, but the tattoos of the Ancient Tribe... are basically evil spirits!
Apart from the different temperament,

The tattoos of the Tree Tribe and the "Twenty-Four Pictures of Gods", for each picture, the tattoo artist needs to enter into a state of spirit possession and then "transform" the tattoo.

Since Zhou Xuan has already possessed the spirit world, it means that "Blessings from Heaven" is one of the twenty-four pictures of gods.

"Tree clan, tree clan...I will tree your grandmother!" The copper coin priest slammed his fists viciously on the table of the human skin temple.

"what!"

There were sounds of terrified shouting from under the table.

In the past two days, the copper coin priest has ordered the tribesmen that no one is allowed to approach the sacrificial site. How could there be a sound under the table?

He suddenly lowered his body and looked under the table...

……

"It's not a human sacrifice. It seems to be a spirit possession by the Wu family! The gods are possessed."

Li Chengfeng had profound knowledge of mysticism, and after seeing the Tiangang Steps, he reacted quickly.

"Now that you have seen the Star Lord, kneel down immediately."

Zhou Xuan's consciousness had been occupied by the divinity after he was possessed. He swept his sharp eyes towards Li Chengfeng, and pointed his left hand like a sword, pointing at Li Chengfeng.

In this possession, the one who possessed Zhou Xuan was the deity of the "Stargazing" hall of Jing Kingdom - Xingjun!
For a moment, Li Chengfeng didn't know whether to kneel down or stand.

Although the other party was possessed by the Star God, Li Chengfeng was, firstly, a member of the Bone Elders Society and did not believe in the Star God. Secondly, he was so old and self-righteous, it would be inappropriate for him to kneel down to a young man like Zhou Xuan.

But just stand there, the other party is a god after all, although he is just a god in possession, just the thought of a god!

He was struggling with his inner thoughts when suddenly, Zhou Xuan's right hand emitted a light blue light.

The light became thicker and thicker, turning into fog, covering Zhou Xuan's face, and then the sounds of swallowing and chewing were heard.

Suddenly,

Zhou Xuan couldn't help but let out a low growl. His fierce face became wild, and his steps were no longer the Tiangang steps, but the mysterious and strange steps used by the Zhou family when they performed Nuo dance.

A fierce and violent atmosphere permeated the entire old painting studio.

The thoughts of the star god who was possessed by the spirit writing board have been eaten up by the Nuo god!

Zhou Xuan was possessed by the Nuo god and glared at Li Chengfeng. Just one glance and Li Chengfeng stopped hesitating and knelt straight!

He had a feeling that if he offended the Star Lord just now, he would just be unlucky and a paper tiger to scare people.

But if he offended the Nuo God in front of him, he would really eat him...

(End of this chapter)