Zhou Kao said calmly, "City God, it's no use for you to make such a fuss here. This is God's will. It's God's will to kill you, not me, Zhou Kao. As a god, you don't know the will of heaven. Now that you are about to die, who can you blame?"
"No, it's not destiny. You must have cheated. If you have the ability, draw the number again. If you get the best lot again, I will have nothing to say." The City God said in panic.
"You don't believe in destiny? Hey, how ridiculous! As a deity, you actually don't believe in destiny. You high and mighty deities claim to control destiny, but you don't know that you are just like the common people, just a powerful ant between heaven and earth. You have a time of birth and a day of destruction, and today is the day for you, the City God, to die."
Zhou Kao finished speaking and continued, "You don't believe in destiny, but I do. To make you give up, I'll draw another lot and see what the result is."
Zhou Kao shook the lottery box again.
Compared to Zhou Kao's relaxed and carefree writing, the City God was a hundred times more nervous because this lot was related to his life.
"Wow~!"
The bamboo stick tube began to shake, and soon, the second bamboo stick flew out of the tube. The magical thing was that when the first bamboo stick flew out, another bamboo stick flew out with it.
“Blat!”
The two bamboo sticks fell to the ground in no particular order.
On one part of the bamboo stick, three words were clearly written: Best fortune.
There is more than one, the two that were shaken out this time are both auspicious.
"All of them are auspicious signs. How could this be possible?" The City God roared almost madly.
At this moment, he felt as if the whole world was against him.
"Three times of auspicious numbers is impossible. You must have changed the lottery box. It's full of auspicious numbers, with no winning or losing numbers."
The City God rushed over like crazy, stronger than the stick tube, but because he was too excited, he used too much force and the stick tube shattered immediately.
Most of the bamboo sticks fell out and landed on the ground.
"Win the lottery, lose the lottery, lose the worst lottery"
All the bamboo sticks on the ground had small words written on them. Most of them were medium, bad, and very bad numbers. As for good numbers, there were very few. It was not at all what the City God had guessed, that they were all good numbers to deceive him.
For a moment, the City God was dumbfounded and collapsed to the ground, feeling extremely desperate.
Zhou Kao said, "City God, what else do you have to say now?"
The City God just sat on the ground, at a loss.
"It doesn't matter if you don't speak. God wants to kill you today. Don't blame me for being ruthless with my sword." Zhou Kao said calmly.
Zhou Kao held a big knife in his hand, the red line between his eyebrows was faintly visible, flames were faintly burning in his eyes, and his aura was rising. He strode to the side of the City God.
"Wait, wait." The City God spoke at this time.
"Any last words?" Zhou Kao asked.
The City God shook his head and said, "Today's death at the hands of Master Zhou is a well-deserved punishment. I have nothing to say. This is all karma, it is heaven's will. Heaven wants me dead. However, before I became the City God, I was also a scholar. Master Zhou, could you please wait a moment while I straighten my clothes?"
After saying this, he knelt on the ground, took off his City God official hat, straightened his clothes, and trimmed his beard.
His movements were neither slow nor slow, and there was no fear on his face. It seemed that he had already accepted the result and stopped struggling or resisting.
Zhou Kao was holding a big knife beside him, and there was a divine light of fire on his body. It was obvious that he was the star god who came to the world to cleanse the human world. There was no room for him to resist.
God must have a divine way of dying.
After Zhou Kaorong, the City God, straightened his clothes, he did not give him time to delay any further. The big knife in his hand, wrapped in flames of heart fire, fell on the City God's neck.
The City God knelt on the ground obediently, like a prisoner waiting to be executed, with his neck stretched out and an expressionless face.
Although he was afraid of death, when the moment of death really came, he, as the City God, remained unusually calm, because in his heart he had helplessly accepted this result.
"I'll send you on your way today."
Zhou Kao's eyes flashed, and he immediately raised the big knife in his hand.
The City God didn't know what was going on at the moment, but he suddenly raised his head slightly and looked outside the City God Temple, laughing heartily: "It's God's will, it really is God's will. It turns out that there is a sky above the heads of the gods. We are not the sky, no..."
Zhou Kao didn't know what the City God understood before he died, but he didn't hesitate at all and swung the tiger-patterned sword in his hand.
There were no screams, no blood splattering.
The City God is a ghost without flesh and blood. When the knife fell, the City God's head immediately rolled off his neck and rolled along the ground towards the door. However, before it rolled to the threshold, the large head turned into an extremely rich incense and spread in the air.
"What a great Heavenly Punishment Sword!"
After the City God's head disappeared, his faint murmurs before death echoed in the hall.
The headless body of the City God was still kneeling on the ground, but his body was gradually disintegrating. Incense began to spread out, and the whole hall was suddenly filled with smoke, as if it was on fire.
However, this smoke is not real, but illusory and cannot be seen by the naked eye. Only those who practice Taoism can see it.
"Hundreds of years of accumulated incense and offerings have all been dissipated in one day." Zhou Kao's eyes moved slightly, and he spoke slowly.
"Click, click~!"
At this time, cracks appeared on the statue of the City God in the City God Temple. Finally, with a bang, the head of the City God on the statue broke off and fell directly from the statue.
The altar in the temple was blown into pieces with a loud bang.
The City God died, the statue collapsed, and the altar was destroyed.
This sign is obvious. From now on, there is no god in this City God Temple and it has become an ordinary empty temple.
"Ok?"
Zhou Kao took a look and saw that the incense emitted after the death of the City God did not dissipate, but floated above the City God Temple, condensing and lingering, like a thick layer of white clouds that could not be dispelled.
"Are they waiting for the new City God to inherit the incense?" He frowned and couldn't help but guess.
This has nothing to do with him anymore, let County Magistrate Wang deal with it.
Zhou Kao was just a rough man with some martial arts skills.
With a glance, I saw a few furtive figures hiding behind a dim door on the side of the City God Temple.
"Where did you come from, little devil? Come out." He shouted suddenly.
Chapter 78 Ending
"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Zhou, don't, don't be angry, it's me, it's my two brothers!!!"
At this time, a green-faced ghost soldier and a black-faced ghost soldier walked out from the darkness in panic.
They were recruited as ghost soldiers after the death of the brave soldiers defending the city. Zhou Kao had even seen them summoning souls.
"So it's you. What are you hiding there for? Are you doing something shameful?" Zhou Kao frowned.
"Mr. Zhou, you have misunderstood me. I have done nothing shameful. Am I not here to greet you, Mr. Zhou?"
The two ghost soldiers appeared, nodding and bowing, with a flattering smile.
Zhou Kao said, "I have things to do now and don't have time to take care of you."
It’s getting late. I’ll deal with the matter of finding a good family for Zhang Yingjie after sending Yu Niang back to the East China Sea tomorrow.
After saying this, he was about to leave, but suddenly he remembered something, so he stopped and spoke again.
"And I'll tell you two to do something."
He still has to take some responsibility and can't just walk away.
I have to come here myself!!
By then, the place will be filled with smoke and chaos, and I will feel even more uncomfortable.
"What are your orders, Lord Zhou? My two brothers will fight to the death." The two ghost soldiers said hurriedly.
Zhou Kao asked, "Are there any other ghost soldiers or ghost messengers in the City God Temple?"
"Yes, yes, they are all staying in the Little Ghost Hall next door." said the green-faced ghost soldier.
Zhou Kao said, "Now that the City God is dead, I'll let you two lead them. Don't let any chaos cause ghosts to run rampant in the city. If any ghost soldier disobeys or wants to take advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos, kill him. I don't want to be distracted by these gods and ghosts."
"Yes, yes, don't worry, Mr. Zhou. My two little brothers will definitely get it done. But, but, Mr. Zhou, we have only just become ghost soldiers for a short time. We are afraid that we two little brothers are no match for those troublemakers in the Little Ghost Hall."
The green-faced ghost soldier said it with a solemn oath at first, then said with a sad face
The dark-faced ghost soldier beside him nodded and said, "Yes, it's not that I'm unwilling to fight to the death, but I'm afraid that even if I sacrifice my life, I still won't be able to accomplish what Mr. Zhou wants. That would be a sin. If I die, that would be a small matter, but if I fail to accomplish the task, that would be a big one."
"Stop beating around the bush. What do you want? Tell me." Zhou Kao said calmly.
He was not angry about the two little devils taking the opportunity to seek benefits and the scars on Yue Yi's clothes that looked like Qi and Wu Liu.
The guards of the old Zhang family still need monthly wages and food to support them, so this kid naturally needs the same. Even the emperor can afford hungry soldiers.
If you want others to do things for you, there will naturally be benefits.
In this regard, the weekly exam will certainly not be a problem!!
"I dare not, I dare not. I only ask that Mr. Zhou can reduce the amount of incense in the hall. Then my two little brothers will be satisfied." The green-faced ghost soldier said with a flattering smile.
Zhou Kao looked up at the thick incense coiling above the hall, and then said: "You guys are good at picking things. This is the incense accumulated by the City God for hundreds of years. It is a great tonic for you ghost soldiers and ghost officials.
But I have a use for these incense sticks, and I can't just use them casually. So, I'll give you a small portion of the incense sticks over there, but you must remember, that's all. If the incense sticks here are even a fraction less, I'll hold you accountable."
In fact, Zhou Kao didn't know what the incense was used for, but he couldn't say it clearly.
After saying that, he pointed to a corner of the hall.
There was a strong smell of incense floating in that area.
"Thank you, Mr. Zhou, thank you, Mr. Zhou."
The two ghost soldiers were overjoyed upon hearing this and knelt on the ground to kowtow and express their gratitude.
"Okay, just do what I told you to do just now. If there are any mistakes, I won't chop you up, I will just tie you up and let you bask in the sun." After Zhou Kao finished speaking, he strode away.
As soon as Zhou Kao left, the two ghost soldiers looked at each other, then laughed excitedly, and immediately turned into a gust of cold wind and flew into the thick incense in the corner.
Suddenly, the thick incense smoke began to tumble and wriggle, and there seemed to be two figures rapidly condensing and taking shape, as if they were trying to transform into solid entities.
The two ghosts absorbed the incense eagerly, dividing up the incense in the corner without leaving a single bit.
As if he still felt unsatisfied, the black-faced ghost soldier wanted to grab a handful of incense sticks next to him and eat them.
"That's enough. Lord Zhou has ordered that only this corner of the wall be used for incense. If you take another bite and Lord Zhou finds out, your life will be in danger. Don't forget, just now, right below us, the high and mighty City God provoked Lord Zhou, and in the end he had to stretch his neck and have his head chopped off by him."
The green-faced ghost soldier next to him was so scared that he quickly grabbed him and pulled him back.
"Hey, hey, I couldn't help myself. Sorry, sorry. I won't do it again next time."
The black-faced ghost soldier trembled all over, then smiled awkwardly and quickly withdrew his hand, as if what he saw was not delicious incense, but arsenic and poison.
"Okay, we have enjoyed the incense, and it's time to get down to business. If we don't do this well, I'm afraid we will have to spit out the incense we have eaten. Mr. Zhou's temper is a joke." The green-faced ghost soldier said seriously again.
"That's true, but with our current level of skills, those ghost soldiers and their leaders can be easily captured, right?" said the black-faced ghost soldier with a grin.
The two ghosts swayed and fell to the ground again, revealing themselves as strong and burly men wearing armor.
He doesn't look like a soldier, but more like a general.
Above the ghost soldiers are the ghost generals. Although a ball of strong incense is not enough to make them ghost generals, it does make them different from ordinary ghost soldiers. If they enjoy the incense a few more times, it is not impossible for them to truly become ghost generals.
I feel that my future is bright following Mr. Zhou.
With this idea in mind, the two ghost soldiers swaggered through the wall and flew towards the nearby Little Ghost Hall.
There is an inconspicuous little hall in the City God Temple, where the ghosts enshrined are all holding swords and guns, holding chains, hanging knives on their waists, and have ferocious faces. Although there are not many incense sticks here on weekdays, they are much better than ordinary ghosts.
There are not many little ghost statues in the Little Ghost Hall, only seven or eight.
Those who can occupy a statue here are all close confidants of the City God.
But now, the City God is dead, and the emperor has his own ministers in this dynasty, so naturally, those high-ranking leaders and bosses are no longer taken seriously.
“Whoosh! Whoosh!”
Soon, gusts of cold wind began to blow in the Little Ghost Hall, sometimes colliding with each other, and there was a faint sound of weapons colliding, as if someone was fighting inside. If you listened carefully, you could hear the sound of shouting and killing.
However, this situation did not last long and soon subsided.
The two gusts of cold wind, which were heavily scented with incense, gained the upper hand and calmed down the other cold winds.
Chapter 79 Final Farewell
"Zhou Yixian, you are truly a warrior, a righteous man, and a gentleman! I wish you all the best!"
County Magistrate Wang was deeply moved by Zhou Kao's righteous act of traveling hundreds of miles to see his mother and her friend off.
When he learned that Yu Niang was the little princess of the Yellow River, he promised to wear his official robe to see her off.
As the Marquis of Baili, Dayu, is seeing him off, he will certainly not lose the etiquette.
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