Master of Strange Dao

Offhandly offering incense, poisoning an Earth Deity, and having it engulf everything in one breath, followed by a good while before the poison to took effect.

Now, this sincere blessing, full of devoutness, aims to poison the County City God and all his shrimp soldiers and crab generals, but I guess it might not be enough.

Less poison is better, too much would instead bring about too great a change.

Let's give it a try.

As dawn began to break, the active crowds within the city all went home, preparing to rest.

Within the City God Temple, on the Divine Platform, there sat an old man radiating Divine Light, the incense fire transforming into a halo around him, his face kind and benevolent.

On either side of him, the City God's day and night patrols, Civil and Military Judges, government officials, and the entire entourage, also returned to their places.

The County City God waved his hand, and the vast incense fire energy swirling around the temple continuously surged into the City God Temple.

A part of it merged into the temple, another part was distributed by the City God to his underlings, and the majority transformed into beams of white light, ceaselessly entering the body of the City God.

As daylight grew strong, inside the City God Temple, suddenly a government official staggered, his body starting to emit an ominous aura.

The government official opened his mouth, wanting to say something, then faint beautiful blessings began to float around his ears.

Hearing these blessings, his body gradually became ethereal, silently disintegrating from within, silently dissipating.

For a moment, the ominous aura began to permeate inside the City God Temple.

The kind-faced City God's expression silently shifted to one of ferocity as black Qi appeared silently on his face.

The benevolent skin slowly peeled off, revealing the blurred flesh beneath, full of Evil Qi and fostering malevolent forces.

He formed a Seal with his hand, slowly lifted it, and his face grew increasingly darker, his features becoming less human.

All the toxins were forcefully pushed to his mouth using the power of the entire City God Temple.

Just at that moment, that sincere blessing resounded in his ears, becoming clearer and clearer.

The toxins then transformed into the most digestible energy for him, rapidly merging into his body.

The City God opened his mouth and spat out a mass of Black Blood, hitting the Night Patrol beside him. The Black Blood quickly merged into the Night Patrol's body, causing its condensed flesh to disintegrate into an illusion, the ominous aura bursting out from within and suddenly obliterating it.

The City God spat out most of the toxins, but some of it permanently merged into his body.

Watching his subordinates, one after another, poison and die, the ominous aura grew stronger.

The City God, determined, sat cross-legged on the Divine Platform and turned into a divine statue.

In an instant, starting from the top layer, the five-story City God Temple began to collapse layer by layer.

The Fifth Tier directly shattered into powder, the Fourth Layer cracked and continued to collapse.

By the time the collapse reached half of the Third Layer, the shaking of the entire City God Temple slowly stopped.

The statue transformed back into the form of the City God again, his facial skin gone, the naked flesh appearing like a myriad of flesh pieced together, eerie and dreadful.

He stretched out his hand over his face, and after a moment, Divine Power surged, and he regained his kind and benevolent appearance, all Evil Qi and Wraith Qi completely dissipated, leaving only the Earth Deity's incense fire.

The two and a half remaining layers of the City God Temple were the price he paid.

His energy and Divine Power plummeted, from what was comparable to an Eighth Tier Cultivator, now barely reaching Seventh Tier.

The City God Temple was his foundation, and by harming his foundation, he had barely managed to survive the peril.

"Someone come."

He shouted sternly, looking around, but it was utterly empty.

He had survived, but all his subordinates were killed by the force of the incense fire imbued with an ominous aura that he had distributed.

The County City God's face was grim as water, and he couldn't help thinking about an incident from two days ago, when a local Earth Deity in one of his towns had suddenly died.

At that time, it was said that there was an outsider.

However, after the day and night patrols inspected the area, they found nothing, and that person had not crossed the river to leave.

They all couldn't find him, and had assumed that this individual, a Body Cultivator, was already dead.

Unexpectedly, he was still alive and had used some unknown method to poison the incense fire.

He used his divine power to produce a page from a golden book and wrote down the incident, as well as how he had barely managed to neutralize the poison after being poisoned, detailing every bit of it.

He had heard that recently, several Ninth Tier Strong ones had suddenly appeared among those evil beings, causing heavy losses in some areas.

Even the Capital City was taking this matter very seriously.

It seemed that those evil creatures were still undeterred and had found another method of resistance.

He casually threw out the page of the golden book, which transformed into a bolt of golden light and shot towards the sky.

In Wuzi City, Yu Ziqing was holding a rice cake, slowly nibbling on it, watching the City God Temple collapse partially, watching that streak of golden light fly out.

He had a rough idea now.

With his current strength, sincerely blessing and mixing his incense fire with other incense fires, he probably couldn't poison an Eighth Tier Earth Deity to death.

The poison of the incense fire could have this effect, and it probably wouldn't much affect his strength, but it would likely have a significant impact on his identity.

As for a Ninth Tier Earth Deity, with his Fifth Tier strength, bolstered by the identity of the King of Hungry Ghosts, and raising the standards, he probably couldn't poison the other party to death either, but weakening them should be possible.

Hiding inside the shrine, Yu Ziqing sighed inwardly.

He had known it would be troublesome but hadn't expected it to be this complicated.

He wandered around the city and saw the County Magistrate Mansion, where the people inside were also Incense-eating People.

This meant that things were becoming extraordinarily complicated.

Because the City God could even materialize the County Magistrate Mansion within his sphere of influence in its entirety.

This proved that he had completed the infiltration and plundering of the County Magistrate Mansion.

The systems had all been replaced.

In his hand, the County Magistrate Seal of Wuzi City was being suppressed and obscured here, virtually losing the power it should have.

The City God had not only replaced the County Magistrate but now held an authority even higher than that of the County Magistrate.

Yu Ziqing probably understood why in the Annals of An Shi, as long as he had the Big Seal, he could freely enter and exit.

But here, four Prefectural Governor Seals and thirty-one County Magistrate Seals combined still did not allow him to leave this place.

He did not know why, at the end of the Dadui, everything had developed so quickly.

And in the end, why and who had sealed-off the entire Dadui together.

Just thinking about it made Yu Ziqing feel it was inconceivable and hard to accept.

In this place, he, a normal person, had bizarrely become labeled as an evil being.

He wanted to look for those strong ones who had come before, who were now probably not easy to find.

There was no way for an evil creature to blatantly carry a megaphone around shouting where are you.