Chapter 387: The Advantage is Mine

Baixiang Village, which was originally like a paradise, now had an extremely tense atmosphere.

“It’s a wolf pack! The mountain wolf pack is attacking.”

“Call all the men from every household, grab weapons, and go to the village entrance!”

“Hurry up, send someone to contact the ‘temple invoker’… Everyone don’t worry! With the temple invoker here and the Land Deity’s protection, a mere wolf pack can’t do anything to us!”

When Lu Yang cautiously projected his divine aense to observe quietly, he shockingly saw more than a dozen giant wolves, each as large as a calf, completely surrounding the entire village.

Revealing pairs of scarlet eyes, their howling and growling caused panic on the faces of the old, weak, women, and children in the village.

People’s hearts were wavering.

“So that’s how it is. The foundation of incense offerings lies in human hearts. That’s why the Earth Temple shook. If I don’t manifest my spirit, the incense offerings will scatter…”

Mortals are very realistic.

They will only believe in you if you are useful. If you are useless, they will naturally replace you with someone useful. When human hearts waver, the incense fire divine realm naturally becomes unstable.

After figuring out the situation, Lu Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

“Fortunately, it’s not someone plotting against me after all…”

Having calmed down, Lu Yang felt a little helpless. No wonder he was so anxious; he was genuinely afraid. Just then, a voice suddenly rang out:

“Land Deity… protect our homes and people with your divine powers!”

The voice went straight into the Earth Temple, instantly causing the incense offerings directed at the [Baixiang Village Land Deity] to surge, seeming ready to swarm out.

Lu Yang looked over.

In front of the Earth Temple, an old daoist priest about fifty or sixty years old was holding three sticks of incense, placing them respectfully into the incense burner.

However, the Baixiang Village Land Deity was now unconscious. Yet someone could use these incense offerings without his permission.

“Temple Invoker…”

Lu Yang quickly found the old Daoist’s identity from the Baixiang Village Land Deity’s memory. The so-called Temple Invoker was a low-level cultivator under the Divine Dao system.

“They don’t gather incense offerings themselves but attach to an incense-offering Deity, using the method of [Inviting God] to obtain the Deity’s spiritual power and divine abilities. Their strength depends entirely on the Deity they rely on. If it’s a Temple Invoker of a Capital City God, under [Inviting God], they probably can rival a Great Perfected One at the Foundation Establishment Late Stage?”

With this thought, Lu Yang immediately summoned Patriarch Nether Whisper.

Patriarch Nether Whisper understood tacitly and immediately dropped a stream of Incense Offering Divine Power, replacing the Baixiang Village Land Deity’s incense offerings, and enhanced the old Daoist outside.

“Hm?”

In the next second, the chanting old Daoist’s voice stagnated, and a trace of doubt appeared in his eyes, but he soon regained his calm and indifference.

The safety of the village was most important; everything else was trivial.

“Many thanks, Land Deity!”

After speaking, the old Daoist puffed up his body. Enhanced by the Incense Offering Divine Power, he strode towards the outside of the village with huge steps to resist the invasion of the wolf pack.

“Although they didn’t come specifically for me, it’s obviously detrimental to Baixiang Village.”

Lu Yang pondered in his heart, then raised his gaze, looking at a small mountain peak about a thousand miles away from Baixiang Village. Two figures stood there impressively.

Although the other party seemed to have concealed themselves, the methods were very crude.

“Perhaps this is also an opportunity to witness the methods of these divine dao cultivators in Seven Luminaries Heaven, so as to avoid capsizing in the gutter in the future.”

Lu Yang thought while arranging things.

Long Yue at Foundation Establishment Late Stage, Heaven-Mending Peak Master at Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, Patriarch Nether Whisper, Dragon Girl Sui Ling, and over ten rogue cultivator banner spirits at Foundation Establishment Early Stage…

Myriad Spirits Banner, all Foundation Establishment banner spirits deploy!

If the opponent’s force was too great and he wasn’t a match, then retreat immediately. Let Patriarch Nether Whisper run away with him, while other banner spirits stay behind to cover the retreat!

…

On the mountain peak Lu Yang had focused on earlier.

Two daoists were sitting cross-legged. Smoke drifted from an incense burner in front of them, constantly inhaled into their mouths and noses, bringing a ruddy color to their faces.

A moment later, both Daoists opened their eyes.

One of them formed a hand seal, and a long sword behind him unsheathed in response, emitting a crisp sword cry. Rolling incense offerings turned into sharp sword qi scattering in all directions.

“…Senior Brother Lin.. what an incredible power!”

Seeing this, the other Daoist couldn’t help showing envy: “Junior Brother has practiced this [Evil-Breaking Righteous-Manifesting Sword Art] for many years but hasn’t even grasped the basic…”

Lin Sheng smiled upon hearing this, his smile containing smugness, but on the surface, he said gently and elegantly: “I only have a small achievement because I am a few years older than Junior Brother Wang. As long as you willing to work hard and diligently cultivate my White Lotus teachings, sooner or later you can catch up with me.”

“Thank you for your kind words, Senior Brother…”

Wang Anping also showed some excitement upon hearing this.

Immediately after, he took out a copper bell he carried with him, injected all the incense offering divine power from his body into it, and then shook it vigorously.

This treasure was named [Beast-Summoning Bell].

As the name suggested, this treasure could be used to drive wild beasts in the mountains. Even enhanced with incense offering divine power, the wolf pack besieging Baixiang Village came because of this.

“Senior Brother, in my opinion, why go to such great trouble?”

While activating the spiritual treasure, Wang Anping asked curiously: “With our cultivation, neither of us is inferior to that Baixiang Village Land Deity. Does he dare not to comply?”

“If he complies, it’s actually more troublesome!”

Lin Sheng shook his head and sneered: “What we want isn’t a Land Deity; what we want is Baixiang Village, the incense offerings of this village.”

“If he complies, how can we still spread our teachings?”

Wang Anping still didn’t quite understand: “In that case, wouldn’t it be fine to just kill him directly? Then when we spread teachings, who would dare to stop us?”

“Stopping us… certainly no one dares to stop.”

Lin Sheng’s voice was calm: “But if the Land Deity just died and we come to spread teachings immediately, wouldn’t these unruly people figure it out? Even if they believe it, it’s not true belief!”

“Incense offerings obtained this way have too many distracting thoughts and aren’t pure enough.”

“So the best way is like what i am doing now. Get a few demons to kill their way into the village first, kill a few people, and shake the foundation of that Land Deity’s incense offerings.”

“Over time, with more people dead, naturally no one will believe in that Land Deity. We just need to wait patiently until the village is forced into a desperate situation, then act to save the villagers from despair. Naturally, we can win over all hearts and turn this Taiyue Mountain Baixiang Village into a base for my White Lotus Sect.”

Turning the tide from collapse… why it collapsed—don’t ask.

However, in the next second, the confident smile on Lin Sheng’s face suddenly froze. He saw a change suddenly occur in the battle between humans and wolves in Baixiang Village in the distance.

It was impressively that old daoist who received Lu Yang’s incense offering divine power enhancement.

At this moment, he was simply like a god descending to the mortal world. Charging into the wolf pack single-handedly, he punched out with both fists and easily pounded two giant wolves to death.

“It’s that Land Deity’s Temple Invoker.”

“Hmph, sure enough, he acted.”

Seeing this, Lin Sheng looked gloomy and cold: “It’s alright. You and I secretly intervened, sealing off his land deity temple, leaving him without divine power. The result is the same!”

Thinking of his senior and junior brothers, both were elites of the younger generation of the White Lotus Sect.

At such a young age, he was already favored by the deity. Although he was a temple invoker, he was in no way inferior to the local land deity, and he could even rival the county city god.

A mere Baixiang Village.

Could a few County City Gods pop out?

The advantage is mine!

Boom!

After speaking, he rode his flying sword. Rolling incense offering divine power poured into the sword, instantly turning into a shocking sword rainbow, falling towards the direction of Baixiang Village.

The two daoist priests, concealed by their divine power, were unseen by mortals. In a flash, they arrived before the earth god’s temple, then forcefully smashed through the barrier and entered, their voices booming like thunder:

“Baixiang Village Land Deity! We are… are… are…”

The voices of the two stopped abruptly.

What they saw was not the pitiful, helpless land deity they had imagined, but a dense, endless array of terrifying figures.

Now, they were all looking at them in unison.

At this moment, Lin Sheng and Wang Anping only felt a bone-chilling cold spread from their hearts to their limbs and bones, rushing straight to their heads, making their teeth chatter.

In the end, only a sound was barely squeezed out from their throats—

“Huh?”

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