Immortal Dao Fruits, Cards to Help Me

Chapter 97 Mr. Chen, a kind-hearted citizen

If Chen Xiuxian and his group had done something big, the City God would be the first to know because of his advantageous location.

As someone directly involved, Youyuan Dao was the second to know.

If there had been no fire, it would have been fine; before dawn, no one would have known that everyone in the temple was dead.

But the fire was quite large!

Soon after, someone in a nearby village spotted the fire and realized it was Yuanjue Temple, and the news spread.

Then, not long after, those who were destined to meet him outside the city found out.

The temple of Xiao Luohan, one of my four protectors in Shencheng, Liaodong, has caught fire!

However, not long after the City God's ghost soldiers left, the spies from outside the city arrived overnight.

What they found was a room full of crooked-necked monk corpses and mangled martial arts monk corpses.

And there's the headless corpse of the Laughing Arhat.

Most importantly, there was the dungeon and rows of innocent corpses!

The spies wanted to contact the city's higher-ups, but the city gates were already locked; how could they get in?
After hesitating for a long time, he remembered that there was another protector outside the city.

Although I don't want to deal with that ill-tempered butcher guardian, there's no other way now.

But when he arrived at Dayushu Town in a furtive manner, he saw a group of people wearing cotton-padded coats and smoking pipes, pointing and talking about the collapsed Cao Liao courtyard.

Overnight, both of the guardians outside the city died!

……

"How to do?"

"Who did it!"

"We must find them and take revenge!"

"The most urgent task now is to stabilize the situation; the angels from Shandong are about to arrive!"

"Could it really be the City God?"

"The new City God is making his first big moves and is now targeting us!"

"Could it be the General's Mansion?"

Inside the secret room, seven or eight people were arguing amongst themselves, but no one could come up with a solution.

To put it simply, although these people rose to prominence by using the banner of the White Lotus Sect and some evil practices, they were not originally capable individuals.

They usually act all high and mighty, but when faced with an unexpected event, they all panic.

The biggest question now is, "Why did the City God destroy Yuanjue Temple?"

Is it because the deeds of those bald monks have been exposed?

I already told them to bury Damn it a little further away. What a damn bad luck!
But who killed Cao Liao, that butcher? Was it also the City God?
Did the City God discover the inside story of the Predestined Path?
It must be said that Chen Xiuxian's tactic of framing someone really disrupted the Youyuandao's plans.

If it were really just two guardians who died, they would be flustered, but not as panicked as they are now.

But bringing in Li Chengliang, the newly appointed City God, was truly a death sentence.

After all, to some extent, the City God was appointed by the imperial court to interfere in the underworld. It was an extension of the imperial court's power.

However, the Dao of Fate is an organization under the banner of the White Lotus Sect, and it is plotting a rebellion!
Another thing is that the important figure from Shandong has a complicated background and a very important purpose for coming.

This happened just a few days ago, what are we going to do?

……

At this moment, Wang Chuan had already finished washing up, put on a plain outfit, and went to the City God Temple with incense and candles.

After meeting the temple keeper and giving him some silver, he knelt before the City God statue for a long time and refused to get up: "This sinner, Wang Chuan, wants to expose the White Lotus Sect's conspiracy in Shenyang to Your Majesty the City God!"

Chen Xiuxian was naturally unwilling to merely rely on the City God's name.

The Daoist sect was, after all, a cult with 70,000 to 80,000 followers and 2,000 to 3,000 combatants.

Even some officials and soldiers have been infiltrated.

If I can kill a few of the ringleaders, can I also wipe out all the other henchmen?
Doesn't that make him a heretical cultivator?

When the time comes, he will be covered in blood and exude a murderous aura that will reach the heavens, making it dark wherever he goes.

Even the demonic cultivators had to be polite and offer Chen Xiuxian a seat!
Then he praised him, saying, "He will surely become a great demon in the future!" Chen Xiuxian naturally wanted to use this opportunity to his advantage and brought the City God Temple into the picture.

After all, as mentioned before, the City God has the responsibility to protect the land and the power to punish evil and promote good.

Organizations like Youyuandao, which use evil magic to secretly gather followers with ulterior motives, are precisely the ones he should be in charge of.

However, he had just been appointed and hadn't noticed yet, so Mr. Chen, a concerned citizen of Shenyang, chose to report him.

Wang Chuan was the one he sent to "turn himself in"!

Now it all depends on what you, City God, think.

How will you deal with this predestined relationship?

Of course, Chen Xiuxian could understand that the City God had just taken office and hadn't even assembled his entire team yet.

And so, he himself is a righteous man, and has long had a deep cooperation with the Liaodong General's Office.

It's perfectly reasonable for us to continue our cooperation with the City God Temple and help the people eliminate harm!

The City God can just give us a banner!
At this time, the City God Temple was truly shabby.

Although Li Chengliang was appointed as the City God, the City God Temple in Liaodong was newly established, unlike those in major cities in the Central Plains, where the temples had a history of several hundred years and a deep-rooted system. He could get things done as soon as he took office.

This required him to be promoted one position at a time at the Liaodong City God Temple, which was truly a small place with only a handful of people.

He only managed to recruit about thirty underworld soldiers, the highest of whom was roughly equivalent to the gambling freak Ma Si'er. They were hardly up to the task!

If it weren't for the fact that Li Chengliang commanded thousands of troops while he was alive, and that many of his old friends had wandered in the underworld and the spirit realm after their deaths and hadn't been reincarnated yet, it would probably have taken several years just to assemble the basic team.

Faced with this situation, did he have any other choice?
Of course, he was, after all, the Earl of Ningyuan, who commanded thousands of troops, killed countless enemies, and guarded Liaodong for 30 years.

Even now, his sons hold important positions in Liaodong and other border regions. They have their pride too!
Although Chen Xiuxian wasn't summoned to the temple, the City God, through Wang Chuan, said that he would need the assistance of a "righteous man" like Chen Xiuxian in the future.

City God Li Chengliang: If you do me a favor, I'll let this matter slide.

So, Chen Xiuxian and a few others formed a team with the Martial Judge, the Golden and Silver Shackles General, the Chief of the Swift Reporting Division, and the Day and Night Patrol God under the City God, intending to wipe out the upper echelons of the Youyuan Path in one fell swoop!
It can only be said that the City God really doesn't have many people under his command. There are only a few people in the military positions, while the civil positions and other departments are vacant.

We're really strapped for cash!
Otherwise, wouldn't we have to take down Chen Xiuxian, that madman who dared to frame the City God, first?

With Wang Chuan, the philanthropist, as his capable assistant, Yuan Dao's mid-level insider, and the City God's local advantage, their every move could not escape Chen Xiuxian's eyes.

For example, the high-ranking members of the Youyuan Dao gathered outside the city, intending to temporarily leave Shencheng to avoid being harmed by the City God. They gathered at the farm outside the city to assess the situation, and also to stick together for mutual support and ensure their safety.

We'll make further plans after that important figure from Shandong arrives in three to five days.

But this also gave Chen Xiuxian and his men the opportunity to capture them all in one fell swoop!

Then that evening, Chen Xiuxian and his group, along with a group of underworld officials from the City God Temple, went to kick down the door!
Chen Xiuxian: "Open the door! The Shenyang City God Temple has come to bring you warmth!"

Chen Xiuxian: "City God Li asked me to give you my regards."

Upon hearing this, Li Rusong, the martial judge of the City God Temple (Li Chengliang's eldest son, who died in battle in his forties), rolled his eyes in anger.

……

The other two protectors of the Dao of Fate are Dou Qian, a level 25 Golden Abacus, whose public identity is that of a big merchant, owning one of the four large trading posts in the city.

The other one is Guan Sou, who is level 26 and runs a coffin shop. He looks to be in his sixties or seventies and is all skin and bones. Players jokingly call him "Old Coffin Stuff".

Dou Qian, the master of the Golden Abacus, is skilled in some incantations and unorthodox spells. He has a variety of methods, but none of them are particularly powerful or outstanding.

This person is mainly good at business. With the help of magic and the power of fate, he has become very successful in the business world of Shenyang.

The old coffin maker was a practitioner of the ghost path, raising forty or fifty ghosts of various sizes.

According to a player's post, this old coffin-head is obsessed with corpse refining and frequently digs up graves in mass graves. Anyone in their family who recently died is in for a bad time!
If a player bumps into you, the quest will be triggered.

Either you follow him to learn corpse refining and join the Path of Destiny, or you will be hunted down by him.

One player found grave robbing and corpse refining disgusting, so he followed the old man and did it.

The result was naturally that they couldn't win—a level 10-something fighting against a level 20-something.

After he was resurrected, he inquired and tested the situation from various sources and discovered that the old coffin-covered man had a newly refined corpse that looked eight-tenths like him—it was clearly made from his corpse!

That player was using incredibly foul language on the forums back then!
Besides these two, Youyuandao also has one hundred "Taoist soldiers", one hundred "Buddhist soldiers", one hundred "heavenly soldiers" and one hundred "ghost soldiers"!
They are fanatical believers who have had some basic exposure to magic and have been blessed or consecrated.

There are also sixty or seventy "guest advisors" who have practiced martial arts, and four or five hundred farmers, employees, and confidants who depend on them for their livelihood and can be directly mobilized...

(End of this chapter)