Chapter 439 Would the gods descend for nothing?
"They ran away!"
The fox stared down intently.
"Saw."
"I'm going to bite that monster to death!"
"There are so many monsters in this sea, can you bite them all?"
"Bite it all! Bite it slowly!"
“But we won’t stay here forever.”
"Yes! What should we do then?"
"Not urgent……"
Lin Jue shook his head and closed his eyes.
Then continue to sit here.
The sea breeze did not stop, but instead grew stronger.
Before long, the strong wind tore the white clouds in the sky into pieces and used the clouds as ink, smearing the sky all over. The original blue sky turned into a gloomy one, with messy dark clouds everywhere.
"It's summer now..."
Lin Jue calculated the time.
Summer is rainy in itself, and the last month of summer is even more so. There are often continuous heavy rains in the inland areas, frequent flash floods, and strong winds, waves and storms are prone to occur at the seaside.
Although this mermaid is big and looks scary, its skills are not that high; it just has the tendency to grow big.
Of course, Taoism does not mean ability.
Being big in size means having great strength, which is also a skill.
But because its Taoism is not very high, it lacks some magical powers.
If the general brought enough soldiers and used clever strategies to lead it away from the sea, set traps to trap it, and then used kerosene, poison, giant hooks and spears, it might be possible to kill it.
But once these soldiers ran away, they missed the best opportunity to kill them head-on.
After that, it was just as he expected.
The wind never stopped, but became more violent and noisy.
By night, the wind had become so strong that it could almost blow people away, rolling up thousands of waves, foam like snow, not only flooding the coastal beach, but also madly hitting the stone wall under the Etou Mountain.
The wind was deafening and the waves roared like thunder.
The spiritual rhythm of heaven and earth also became wild and changeable.
The practice of Taoism is nothing more than feeling the heaven and understanding the earth. The heaven and earth are full of spiritual charm at all times and change infinitely. Lin Jue is sitting here at this moment, so he naturally looks carefully at this magnificent seaside scene that he has never seen before, and also carefully understands the mystery of the changes in the heaven and earth at this moment, and experiences the manic natural power of the heaven and earth.
"Rumble..."
In the distance, thunders were falling from the sea, as if carrying the power of annihilation, splitting heaven and earth.
The giant turtle was also frightened and hid in the seabed.
What a great time.
There are both violent gales and mighty thunder.
It's not that there are only wind and thunder here and now.
But Lin Jue was quite accomplished in the art of wind. From calling the wind, to the strong wind, to the returning wind, to the art of no restraint, he was deepening his understanding of the wind all the time. At this moment, in his mind, the clearest feeling was naturally the violent gale between heaven and earth.
The Thunder did it on purpose.
Two years ago when Lin Jue was in the capital, he regretted that although he possessed the thunder-inducing technique and wanted to use it to comprehend a more powerful force of thunder and comprehend a more advanced thunder technique, it was already past midsummer and there was very little thunder in the world for him to visualize and comprehend, so he had to put it aside.
Last year, I went to Nanshan Mountain again to appreciate its spiritual charm, but I didn’t have the chance to feel the thunder of midsummer.
In the midsummer of this year, I was right at the seaside.
The storms and thunder at sea are stronger than those inland!
I can't take care of anything else.
There are three thousand laws of heaven and earth, some to take and some not to take.
There is naturally no sunrise today.
Not for five days in a row.
During these five days, the giant turtle has been hovering nearby and has never gone far. The soldiers in the city who were supposed to exorcise the monster did not come here at this time, but only sent one or two spies to take a look every day.
After five days, the wind and waves subsided.
Lin Jue saw the general and the soldiers coming again.
This time we brought more soldiers and carried more things.
The giant turtle lay quietly on the beach. After the waves receded, it looked like a small hill.
Just when Lin Jue thought that the soldiers had finally made preparations and were about to come and eliminate the monster, he saw that they saw the giant turtle from afar and did not even come up to test it, but just avoided it again.
After about half an hour, Lin Jue discovered that they had circled behind the Etou Mountain and were climbing up the mountain.
Not long after, a slight smell of incense wafted from behind.
The fox man stood up, stretched his neck, and looked in that direction with a serious face.
Those soldiers actually worshipped gods on the mountain.
It turned out that what they were carrying were not baits for exorcising demons, but offerings for worshiping gods.
The place where they were worshipping was only a few dozen steps away from Lin Jue, but the grass on the top of the mountain was very dense, and Lin Jue was sitting cross-legged on the outside near the cliff. Unless they came over, they could not see him.
Lin Jue heard their voices.
"Lord Yili, the monster is on the beach at the foot of the mountain right now. Please send down your divine thunder to kill it!
"Grandpa God! The King of Yue has given me a death order. If I cannot get rid of this monster in ten days, my head will be chopped off. Please, God, send down your divine power to help me!
"God, please save me! Please, God, please save me!"
Lin Jue remembered that when he went up the mountain, he did see a small temple at the back, which also had statues of gods inside.
But he remembered that it was not the statue of Lord Yili, but of Lord Yuru, who was also one of the Three Saints of the South.
This guy is interesting...
There were only ten days left before he was beheaded. Not only had he entrusted his entire life and property to the gods, but he was actually worshipping the wrong gods.
Naturally, the gods did not respond.
The general shouted and begged for a long time before leaving in disappointment.
"Military Advisor, what should we do?"
"Don't panic, General! Maybe we just worshipped the wrong god! This giant turtle has been wandering along this coast these days. It has never done this before. There must be some god helping us here!"
The group slowly went down the mountain, still avoiding the giant turtle.
By the next day, the storm had intensified again.
The general is here again.
This time he brought more offerings and still came to worship the gods, but he changed the one he worshipped to a local sea god.
As expected, there was still no response.
But there is one difference this time -
A soldier accidentally walked a few more steps to the top of the mountain and found Lin Jue sitting on the top of the mountain.
"General! There's a Taoist priest sitting over there!"
The soldier immediately ran back and reported to the general.
Taoist priest?
When the general and the military advisor looked over, they saw that there was indeed a Taoist priest sitting at the very edge of the cliff of Etou Mountain, not moving at all. It seemed that they had been sitting there for who knows how long.
A fox was his companion.
The general saw that he had a bit of celestial air. After careful thought, he also felt that in such stormy weather, with a big monster lurking below, an ordinary Taoist would probably not come to sit on the top of the mountain. What's more, he was dressed in a Taoist robe and had an extraordinary demeanor. Even the fox beside him looked somewhat magical. So the general hurriedly stepped forward to salute and called him a god.
The Taoist was helpless and shook his head, saying that he was not a god, but just a cultivator.
"How long have you been here, Taoist priest?"
"It's been more than half a month."
"More than half a month!" The general was shocked again, "Then the Taoist priest has seen everything I've been waiting for these days, right?"
"Indeed."
The general had a vague realization in his heart.
The military advisor next to him gave him another look.
The general understood what he meant and immediately bowed: "Even if the Taoist priest is not a deity, he must be a great man. May I ask your name?"
"My name is Fang Jue, and my courtesy name is Wu Zhi."
"I am Yang Hongyi, the city guard general of Mirage County. I am ordered by the King of Yue to get rid of the monster below, but we have no way to get rid of it. We have prayed to the gods, but the gods have not responded." The general bowed respectfully towards him, looking anxious, "Please teach me, Taoist priest, how can I get the gods to get rid of this monster?"
"How come the general doesn't have a way to get rid of the demon?"
"Ah? Please enlighten me."
"The general is wearing armor, with a sword hanging from his waist. He is very strong. He has many elite soldiers under his command, all wearing armor and holding weapons. He also carries kerosene, poison, giant hooks and spears. Aren't these all ways to eliminate demons?"
Lin Jue paused and shook his head.
"As for the gods mentioned by the general... I wonder if the general has ever heard a word of it?"
"What?"
"The gods will not descend for nothing, they will come to meet you according to destiny."
"Why, why not?"
The general's face couldn't help but twitch.
"Although the gods have the duty to exorcise demons, the world is in chaos now, with demons and ghosts appearing everywhere and causing trouble. If the gods were to do it themselves and exorcise demons in the lower world, even if there were twice as many gods in the nine heavens, they would not be able to handle it in a short time."
Lin Jue had not yet said whether the gods were willing to exorcise the demons, but only thought that all the gods were very diligent:
"For example, here, near the sea, there are countless sea monsters. They come ashore one after another during the chaos. How can we rely on the gods to eliminate them all? If the general is not willing to do anything and just puts all his hopes on the gods, how many gods will take care of him if he is not a famous general or minister? Wouldn't he just sit there and watch the monsters harm people and get beheaded in the end?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier beside the general shouted:
"How dare you! Where did this evil person come from? How dare you speak to my general like that?"
The general immediately turned around and scolded him:
"No rudeness!"
When he turned his head back, he had already revealed a bitter smile: "What the Taoist said does make some sense, but the monster is so huge, how can mortals like us deal with it?"
"That monster is indeed difficult to deal with, but there are ways to deal with it. If it were an ordinary citizen, seeing how scary it is, they would turn around and run away, I can understand that, but the general's job is to fight for his life, especially in this world. Moreover, now that the higher-ups have issued a death order, if the general still doesn't dare to fight it, I'm a little puzzled." Lin Jue said, "And up to now, the general has actually missed two good opportunities to fight the monster."
"two?"
"First, the weather was clear before, and second, the storm subsided yesterday." Lin Jue said, "I heard from the general that there are only ten days left. It seems that the general will have to fight for his life in the storm."
"This……"
When the general heard this, he understood clearly that the Taoist priest must have come here some time ago and cast a spell to lure the monster here so that they could fight it.
"Please give me some advice, Taoist Priest!"
"I've already said that there is nothing much to advise. There are too many monsters in troubled times. Even the gods are too busy to handle them, let alone a mere Taoist priest like me. To keep the world safe, we need warriors like you who are both capable and courageous." Lin Jue said, but paused. "If you are willing to give it a try, I have something that I can lend you."
Lin Jue flipped his hand and took out an object.
The general immediately stepped forward respectfully and took it carefully. He saw that it was a wooden ball the size of a pigeon egg with patterns on it. He didn't know what it was made of.
"General, take it with you and go to kill the monster. It may help you. After you kill the monster, remember to return it to me."
After the Taoist said this, he closed his eyes.
(End of this chapter)
