Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 242 - 239: Wang Yuan, the Magnificent Rat, An Old Friend is Coming

Chapter 242: Chapter 239: Wang Yuan, the Magnificent Rat, An Old Friend is Coming

Shanyang City, City God Temple.

In a luxurious study that was even more spacious than a palace, columns of Yinchen wood were adorned with coiling dragons, and the wooden floor was polished enough to reflect one’s image, is characterized by its detailed decoration in white jade—simple, yet not simplistic.

The ancient Divine Tao also made the various architectural and decorative aspects of this place somewhat retro, not entirely synchronizing with the Human Dao of the outside world.

Of course, this also indirectly indicates that this place is really... very expensive!

Huang Wu, dressed in a light red gold-embroidered skirt, knelt on a soft couch. In her hand, she held a brush radiating divine light, quickly writing down document after document in comparison with the files on the desk.

On several other tables beside her, Lady Peach Fairy, Xing’er, and Nie Hongying, these three Yin Officials, was also working hard for their own Dharma Master.

This was the new "Acting City God" Old Master Wang’s small Cabinet and Secretariat, where the gathering of Yin Officials was both capable and pleasing to the eye.

As for himself...

Bang!

Holding the City God Seal dipped in the black pine smoke seal mud specially used for Netherworld documents, he forcefully stamped it on a document.

The document that read "Informing all divine officials and clerks along the route, allowing Tang Xingye’s spirit of Zaolin Village, Wutong area, Huaiyuan County to return to his homeland" suddenly brightened, having taken effect.

That’s right, I am just a soulless stamping machine.

Bang! Bang! Bang!...

The judge and clerks of the City God Temple brought various documents to the study, handing them over to Wang Yuan’s Yin Officials. After they marked them with handling suggestions, they would just need Wang Yuan’s final stamp approval.

These documents were not complicated; otherwise, the mechanically rigid City God Lords made of clay and wood wouldn’t have the capability to handle them.

Most of them were dispatch documents for ghost souls.

Simply because with the extending years of great disasters, refugees arose everywhere, and there were corpses from starvation all over the land.

The local ghost souls could directly be sent to the Underworld through the City God Temple, but more and more ghosts that died away from their hometown and couldn’t return were becoming increasingly difficult to manage.

The year-over-year surge in the death toll had all the City God Temples operating at full capacity.

Only when Wang Yuan himself sat in this position did he truly glimpse the severity of the current situation.

"Alas, anyone with a heart could surely understand that this is just the beginning, at most just an appetizer. Who knows how long the tragic scenes will continue," he said.

Having lived two lifetimes, Wang Yuan vividly remembered the past lifetime without any Weird presence.

There were four clearly recorded "Little Ice Ages" in the entire history of Divine Land’s civilization, each of which resulting in reduced food production and chaotic times, would cause the population to decrease by more than four-fifths!

In the future, he would probably deeply miss the "leisurely" days of the present.

Ding ding ding...

Just then, a somewhat scholarly judge outside the door lightly struck a Jade Bell, waking Wang Yuan who was lost in his thoughts.

"My lord, you have already worked hard for a whole Two Hours, it’s time to go off duty," he said.

Hearing this, Wang Yuan came back to his senses, set down his seal, and stretched profoundly.

"Has it been Two Hours already? Time really flies when you’re focused on work.

Sister, Lady Immortal, Hongying, Xing’er, let’s call it a day, we’ll continue tomorrow,"

"Okay, just let me finish this one."

"Yes, Dharma Master!"

Under normal circumstances.

No matter who it is, once someone takes up the divine position of the City God System, it is irreversible. They would gradually lose all "humanity" under the erosion of incense, with only "divinity" remaining.

Becoming what the believers expect them to be.

Even for ghost heroes who had advanced to the Yin God realm and activated the Merit Golden Wheel, once they took the position of City God, they could probably last no more than ten years at most.

For Magicians, the divine position of "Human Ghosts" was like the Investiture of the Gods, universally feared and avoided.

Even just acting as City God was very risky.

Yin God holding the City God Seal, mobilizing the City God’s power to manifest awe-inspiring spiritual power.

Every day, one could last for only a Two Hours at most within the City God Domain to ensure that they were not harmed by the high concentration of Incense Fire Vow Power.

If one exceeded this time, it could cause irreversible damage, severely affecting their future path.

However.

When the City God Seal itself chose a new master, the "Fool" Old Master Wang not only accepted the perilous command without hesitation but also worked to the full extent of the Two Hours every day.

The Yin Soldiers, Yin Officials, and ghosts in the City God Temple, who had not completely lost their emotions, couldn’t help but shed tears of excitement, deeply admiring such a heroic figure among men.

Unfortunately, apart from Wang Yuan’s own Yin Officials, nobody else knew.

Under the protection of the "Unity of Heaven and Man" Merit Golden Wheel, he had long been completely immune to the Dragon Qi Prohibition of the Prefecture City level.

Others might suffer as if living a fate worse than death upon taken the position of City God.

But putting him in there was like letting a mouse into a rice bin.

Not to mention Two Hours, even working all day without rest was absolutely no problem.

Work for Two Hours every day, slacking off for eleven hours, and still receiving full payment.

Eh? Such good fortune exists in this world?!

It’s beneficial for cultivation within the official realm, sitting on the City God’s throne is just the same.

As long as Wang Yuan sits here, suppressing the Dragon Qi Core, daily income will match half of what the Deceit Market brings in terms of Yin Morality and incense.

And this salary can’t help but feel like stealing, even someone as thick-skinned as Wang Yuan feels somewhat uncomfortable.

Once Huang Wu and the others returned to the Five Senses Altar City, Wang Yuan leisurely walked out of the study and said to the meek Civil Judge waiting by the door with a pleased expression:

"Wenzhong, have you already entered the threshold of the ’Earth Department Taoism - Black Law Judge Method’?"

The meek Civil Judge, Li Wenzhong, was flattered and quickly bowed deeply, saying respectfully:

"Indeed, I have entered the threshold; thank you, Old Master, for granting me this method. Your humble servant will repay your great kindness even at the cost of my own life!"

"Very good, very good. If you encounter any difficulties during your cultivation, go and seek advice from Judge Zeng."

"Yes, Old Master!"

This Acting City God had only taken office three days ago and had already gathered two Black Law Judges under his command.

They were Li Wenzhong from the Civil and Military Judges of the Eighteen Bureaus of the City God Temple and Zhang Mingda, the Judge for the Cases of Evil Ghosts and Poor Souls.

City Gods and their subordinates are usually loyally martyred heroes or wise and upright personas esteemed in life.

Both judges were men of loyalty and integrity in life, each possessing over three thousand points of Yin Morality.

As they have not been long in their posts in the City God Temple, they haven’t completely turned into clay and wood idols and there is still a chance to save them.

Black Law Judge Method Precepts:

3. A vast amount of Incense Fire Vow Power is needed as "Earth Spirit Qi" to assist in cultivation. Therefore, one must borrow the method from someone who can move freely within the ’Dragon Qi Prohibition’ at the initial stage of cultivation.

Note: Their poison, my honey.

Human Ghosts immersed in Incense Fire Vow Power will gradually turn into clay and wood idols that mechanically respond to the ’Dragon Qi Prohibition’, but practicing this method can avert disaster.

Truly achieving—Three feet above one’s head there is divinity! (Chapter 224)

It is early October now and all things considered, Wang Yuan and his team only have four months left to resolve the issue of the "Dragon-Breaking Gate, Heart-Piercing Formation" at Yunhe Bridge.

Even if Zeng Wentai works restlessly, he can only solve three hundred wrongful cases in a month, which is less than one-twentieth of the total.

Having no choice, Wang Yuan can only take advantage of his position and moonlight as a rat, shearing some wool from the City God System.

But as the team grows, some insufficiently greedy Old Master Wang felt that temporarily, he probably had enough Civil Judges, but he still lacked a Military Judge who could fight and kill.

Someone like the missing Nie Renxiong, with both a Yin God realm and Merit Golden Wheel, would be even better.

In chaotic times, without thunderous methods, how can one manifest a Bodhisattva’s compassion?

The strongest point about the Earth Que Golden Book is indeed that it allows for "pulling a crowd to brawl" systemically, doesn’t it?

Wang Yuan was just about to return to the Yang World when a streak of golden light tore through the sky and landed in his hands.

It was a decree from his immediate superior, the Yu State City God.

"Nine Soldiers will send reinforcements to your Dengzhou Prefecture, command all garrisons, camps, government offices, and City Gods within your jurisdiction to cooperate fully, errors will not be tolerated..."

Wang Yuan glanced over it and was immediately overjoyed:

"Reinforcements are finally arriving!

I’ve inadvertently become the highest authority in Dengzhou Prefecture; do you know how much pressure I’m under?

But, having said that, who exactly are these ’Nine Soldiers’?"

...

Almost at the same moment Wang Yuan received the message.

A world-weary figure also stepped into the territory of Dengzhou Prefecture.

He was a fifty-something old man dressed as a traveler, carrying a knapsack and wearing straw sandals.

Shading his eyes with his hand, he inspected the upsurging Tribulation Energy in Dengzhou Prefecture using the Mountain and Sea Qi Method, and immediately his face was filled with worry.

"Although the ’Age Star’ has now receded back into hiding, it doesn’t mean the events are over.

This ’Heavenly Official’ can lead the development of all matters towards the worst possible direction, akin to the power held by my ’Great Fate’, who governs destiny and lifespan.

The scattered ’Evil God Order’ might create countless fierce Strangeness.

And the most troublesome one, ’Yellow Seal Strange Immortal - Yellow Robe Child’, I may not necessarily defeat it!

I also know that because similar ’knowledge’ attracts each other, this rotten and troubling incident is likely to fall on my head.

Aiyo aiyo, Old Xu, you really are a glutton for punishment, you’ve long seen that big changes are coming to the Turbid River Basin, yet still lingered nearby. Have you now walked right into the fray?"

This old man was none other than Xu Zhenzhi, who had kindly warned Wang Yuan at the "Dragon Gate Meeting" to leave the Turbid River Basin. (Chapter 150)

At that moment, the old man suddenly seemed to remember something, clapped his hands, and exclaimed excitedly to himself:

"Right! Don’t I have a young friend here in the Imperial Dragon Guard? Even I can’t see through this young man’s fate.

But I can ascertain that he himself is a major magnet for trouble; he doesn’t need to seek out trouble, for it will surely find him.

Since the task arranged by the ’Great Fate’ must be completed, why not... heheheh..."