"Sir, they are not ordinary people." A guard pulled the corner of Sha Chengyang's clothes and pointed at Fan Chengli timidly.
"Master Priest!" When Sha Chengyang saw who the person was, his heart skipped a beat.
Although the Sha family dominated the area and even the Qingning Temple often had no control over them, they were still nominally under the jurisdiction of the Qingning Temple. His previous actions had violated the laws of the temple, so he couldn't help but feel guilty.
Looking at the people who came with Fan Chengli, his eyelids twitched even more. There were eleven chief priests, and they gathered in Pingchuan City. What was going on?
He didn't know that among these eleven chief priests, one had already surpassed the normal strength of a lower-level temple chief priest, far surpassing it. It was only because of his status that he still wore the robes of a lower-level temple chief priest. If he knew, he didn't know how terrified he would be.
"Let Sha Mingyuan come out to see me and tell him that Huayu Temple's chief priest Mu Hanyan, Qingning Temple's chief priest Fan Chengli, Fengcheng Temple's chief priest Chu Yanghe... want to see him." Fan Chengli was too lazy to say more to him, and he reported the names of the chief priests of each hall in one breath and said.
"I'll go right away." Sha Chengyang quickly turned around and ran towards the city.
"No need." At this moment, a tall old priest walked out of the city gate surrounded by a dozen priests and nearly a hundred guards.
"Master Patriarch!" Sha Chengyang and others hurriedly bowed and saluted.
Obviously, this tall old priest is Sha Mingyuan, the head of the Sha family, and the lord of Pingchuan City.
"I wonder what brings you all here from afar. I am sorry that I failed to greet you in person. I hope you will forgive me." Sha Mingyuan waved his hand to signal Sha Chengyang to leave, and said with a bow.
Although he was facing eleven main priests, he was neither humble nor arrogant, and was indeed a character.
If she hadn't seen that scene before, Mu Hanyan might have had some admiration for him, but now, she didn't have the slightest fondness for him. As the head of a family and a city, he actually allowed his own children to oppress the common people, even exposing the evildoers in broad daylight. It would be strange for Mu Hanyan to be fond of him.
You have to know that Sha Chengyang is just a guard, not even a priest, but he is so unscrupulous in helping the evildoer. How arrogant and domineering should the other members of the Sha family be?
"Lord Sha, we came to Pingchuan City this time because we have an important matter to inform you. Let's go in and talk about it." Fan Chengli said.
"I'm sorry, everyone. My Sha family is busy with ancestor worship and it's not convenient to entertain outsiders. If you have anything to say, please talk about it here." Sha Mingyuan said lightly.
"What!" Everyone present was stunned.
These are the chief priests of all the major temples. Fan Chengli himself is the chief priest of the Qingning Temple, and Pingchuan City is under the jurisdiction of the Qingning Temple. Even though Sha Mingyuan is quite powerful, he is only the lord of Pingchuan City. He actually dared to refuse them entry. Is he preparing to make a big fuss?
"Lord Fan, is Pingchuan City really under the jurisdiction of Qingning Temple?" Chu Yanghe couldn't help but ask.
In any other place, upon hearing that the High Priest was arriving, one would have thrown aside, not to mention ancestral worship, even if the sky fell, and rushed out to greet him. Furthermore, it wasn't just one High Priest who came, but eleven High Priests from the temple. Sha Mingyuan, on the other hand, simply turned them all away.
The other chief priests also looked at Fan Chengli with extremely strange expressions.
Fan Chengli's face flushed with shame. The Sha family was quite powerful, and Sha Mingyuan's own strength was even comparable. He had originally been eligible to compete for the position of Chief Priest, but Sha Mingyuan had no such intentions, preferring to live in peace and contentment as a local tyrant. Therefore, Fan Chengli was reluctant to offend Sha Mingyuan, and the two of them lived in peace. He hadn't been to Pingchuan City in over a decade, and he hadn't expected Sha Mingyuan to show him off today, completely humiliating him in front of the other Chief Priests.
"Sha Mingyuan, what do you mean?" Fan Chengli shouted angrily.
"Master Chief Priest, please calm down. This ancestor worship is the millennium-long ceremony of our Sha family. It is really inconvenient to entertain outsiders. Please forgive me. If you really have something important to say, please say it here. If not, I will take my leave first." Sha Mingyuan said with a smile, and there seemed to be some contempt in his eyes.
"Sha Mingyuan, don't forget that Pingchuan City is under the jurisdiction of the Qingning Temple!" Fan Chengli laughed angrily and said in a bad tone.
He is the chief priest of the Qingning Temple. If he really wants to fall out with the Sha family, he has plenty of ways to deal with them. He wants to see how long Sha Mingyuan can be so arrogant.
"It was before, but not now." Sha Mingyuan said lightly, taking out a golden scroll.
"God's will!" Chu Yanghe and others were all shocked.
Although they were only the chief priests of the lower-level temples, they all had good family backgrounds and recognized at a glance that this was the divine decree issued by the Lord God himself, representing the Lord God's supreme authority.
"Yes, this is the divine decree issued by the Lord God himself back then. According to the Lord God's will, the descendants of the Sha family can choose any city as their hereditary territory, outside of the main cities of the temples on the Continent of Gods. It will be on par with the lower-level temples and only be governed by the upper-level temples. In other words, from now on, my Pingchuan City has the same status as your Qingning City, and you have no right to issue orders to my Pingchuan City." Sha Mingyuan unfolded the scroll and said calmly.
Fan Chengli and others came forward to take a look, and sure enough, the content of the divine decree was exactly the same as what Sha Mingyuan said, but it looked like it had been there for a long time, and no one knew which generation of divine master it was. But no matter which generation of divine master it was, it was still valid today.
Fan Chengli and the others looked at each other in bewilderment. They had never dreamed that Sha Mingyuan would possess such a divine decree. Logically, with the Divine Lord's decree, the Sha family could have established their own temple, and there was no need to be subordinate to others. But they didn't know why they had endured it until today.
"Okay, I still have important things to attend to, so I won't try to keep you here any longer. Next time you come, I will treat you warmly and apologize to you all, hahahaha." Sha Mingyuan laughed and turned away without any apology.
"Wait, we came to Pingchuan City today because we have something important to tell you. Master Sha, have you heard about the massacre of hundreds of villages a few days ago?" Although Mu Hanyan was also surprised, she did not worry about such trivial matters and said directly.
"Oh, who are you?" Sha Mingyuan stopped, looked at Mu Hanyan and asked.
"The chief priest of Huayu is Mu Hanyan." Mu Hanyan said.
"It turns out to be Chief Priest Mu. I've heard of your name for a long time. I've also heard some rumors about what you mentioned. Why, do you want my help? But I'm sorry, if even you major temples can't do anything about it, I'm afraid my Sha family can't be of any help either." Sha Mingyuan said with an arrogant snort.
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