The entrance to the village by the lake.
Densely packed, small snakes covered the ground and fled like a tide, followed by the villagers whose eyes had already turned red and they were mad and hot.
Suddenly there was a loud sound of drums and thunder.
A huge footprint descended from the sky, stepping on the snakes with a "bang", and the copper coins all over the ground sparkled in the sunlight, piling up into a small hill.
"God! It's a god!"
Someone looked up and pointed at the sky. There was a ball of light bursting out and surrounded by fairy air. The shocking kick just now came from it.
The villagers stopped, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, muttering something in their mouths, pious and respectful.
Zhang Ling changed his accent and took advantage of the opportunity of the Yellow Turbans' rise to prominence to tell the villagers not to believe Li Tianshi.
Suddenly, the rosy glow disappeared without a trace.
Someone shouted, "May the gods appear and bring us wealth!"
Everyone suddenly understood why the snake turned into copper coins all over the floor.
Suddenly, people rushed over to divide up the mountain of copper coins in front of them.
It is estimated to be about hundreds of thousands of strings of cash!
However, no one knew that there was a ghost wandering aimlessly around. It was the soul of a mortal named "Black Bull" who was originally bitten to death by a snake.
A gust of cold wind blew over there, and two or three ghost messengers came. They circled around the soul, looked at it a few more times, but shook their heads and prepared to leave directly, as if they had no intention of taking it back to the underworld for reincarnation.
Zhang Ling chased him close and attracted the attention of the ghost, who asked who he was.
The young man in green clothes told his name and position, and started chatting with everyone.
The other party seemed to remember something and asked if he had ever served as a mountain god in Jieyang Mountain. The young man nodded and admitted it. Unexpectedly, these ghost officials fell to their knees and repeatedly called him "Your Majesty".
Zhang Ling dispersed the breeze and dragged them up, asking suspiciously, "Oh? Do you recognize me?"
The ghost explained, "It was indeed the Supreme Lord Jinba who mentioned it unintentionally, and we have kept it in mind."
Zhang Ling nodded and asked, "Just now I saw that you seemed to be worried about this soul. Could you tell me about it?"
To this, the ghost messengers replied as follows.
It turned out that just when they were about to take the soul back to the underworld, they suddenly discovered that the black bull was killed by some sacred being using strange magic. The bull had not committed any sins, and his karma was not heavy. He was not a person who should have died. If they did not find out the truth and redress his injustice, it would be difficult for him to reincarnate.
If a person who does evil is executed on the spot by a passing saint, he will be fulfilling the duty of an immortal official to uphold justice. There is no need to worry so much. He can be directly taken back to the underworld and judged in the netherworld.
The King of Hell repeatedly warned people not to bring complicated messes to the underworld. If an innocent mortal gets into trouble with some god, let that god solve it, or let a passing god take care of it. In short, the underworld will not just clean up the mess.
It is precisely because of this reason that there are always wronged souls wandering around in the world. If no one cares or asks about them for a long time, they will eventually become evil.
"I wonder which deity makes you so fearful?"
Although Zhang Ling already had a guess in his mind, it still needed to be verified before it could be true.
One of the ghost messengers came closer and whispered, "In Shunjiang County, Lihua Mountain, Lihua Temple, there is a Li Tianshi. He is the registered disciple of a certain God of Wealth."
Having said this, the ghost officials did not continue.
A registered disciple of a certain god of wealth?
Zhang Ling pulled out two or three immortal dates brimming with spiritual energy from his sleeve and gave one to each ghost officer. "He's a registered disciple, so why are you so wary?"
The ghost messengers were delighted to receive the immortal dates, and thanked them profusely. They became even more attentive, telling them everything they knew, "Your Majesty, you may not know this, but the sacred disciples above us like to be registered. This way, the karma involved is not too serious, but we can make them our closed disciples. If one day, this disciple becomes an immortal and ascends to heaven, he will be our most reliable and trusted helper. If one day this disciple causes trouble down there, we can just blame him by registering his name. Even if we report him to the Jade Emperor, it will not be a serious matter, nor will it hurt us."
Zhang Ling frowned slightly. Can gods also do this?
This feeling is inexplicably familiar.
Zhang Ling said to the ghost messengers, "Could you please take this mortal's soul back to the netherworld first? I have full authority over all matters here, and I will give the King of Hell an answer when the time comes!"
The other party said with a smile on his face: "Your Excellency is being polite. You and Your Excellency Jinba are close friends. Such a small matter is not worth mentioning."
After they said goodbye to each other, a cold wind blew by in a moment, and two or three ghost officials took away the mortal's soul and sent it straight into the underworld.
Zhang Ling stretched out his hand, summoned the paper-cut and put it into his sleeve, then pondered for a moment.
Shunjiang County, Lihua Mountain, Lihua Temple, Li Tianshi.
A registered disciple of a certain God of Wealth.
Along the way, his name spread far and wide, not only among the mortals in remote villages and towns on earth, but even among the ghosts in the underworld.
Suddenly, Zhang Ling remembered the black wind monster he had killed in Yongning County earlier. Its true form was the paper-cut in his sleeve at this moment.
At first, I was still wondering why the other party kidnapped people, turned them into cows using animal-making techniques, and sold them to people everywhere.
Now thinking of this Master Li, I seem to have some clues.
The other party seemed to be very short of money, but also seemed not to be short of money. Instead, he was very interested in the souls of mortals.
eccentric!
Ignoring the mortals behind him picking up copper coins at will, he headed straight towards Shunjiang County along the lakeside road.
This time I will meet the famous Master Li Tianshi.
Clearly, as a disciple of a certain god of wealth, he is rich and free, so why does he want to change into a human being like "Yousheshi" to cheat mortals of their money?
Why did he use the bronze snake to harm mortals and take away their souls?
If it had not been discovered and stopped here today, the bronze snake would have already escaped with the soul in its belly.
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