Chapter 9: The Village God Beats on the Door

  Thanks to Drunken Eyes' summit, insisting on pirated copies, and blowing kisses to Book Friends who rewarded me...

  It's unknown how many years or months have passed, but the oilcloth had long since rotted away. Several silver ingots fell out, which looked black and had obviously been buried for a long time, with some oxidation.

  Liu Yi tried to pick up that silver ingot, which weighed no more than five taels. Even so, it still took Liu Yi a great deal of effort.

  He directly threw the shadow into the supermarket, and Liu Yi suddenly found that he had fifteen more yuan in his hand.

  No way, Liu Yi thought to himself. Even if you calculate it as one jin being sixteen taels, then one tael of silver is approximately 31.25 grams. Calculating at five yuan per gram, it should be at least 155 yuan. How can it only be fifteen yuan?

  Then Liu Yi suddenly realized that the acquisition price of this supermarket was only one tenth?

  Then... Liu Yi turned his head and took another look at the prices of various goods in the supermarket. The prices that had originally seemed normal now seemed to have increased by tenfold...

  Suppressing the urge to vomit blood, Liu Yi tried to think positively. At least the supermarket was acquired, which allowed him to replenish his funds. He wouldn't let all his money be spent and then just stand there blindly.

  Besides, if there were no supermarkets, wouldn't it be even more difficult for oneself?

  Thinking about it this way makes me feel much more at ease.

  There were only five or six silver ingots left, and Liu Yi couldn't bear to sell them anymore. It was too much of a loss!

  If I had seen this silver when I first helped Wang's family, would I have caused so much trouble?

  Buy a silver bangle from the supermarket, more than 80 pieces. Originally not expensive, you multiply by ten to see?

  Liu Yi thought so and decided to keep these silver coins. Moreover, he decided that from now on, he would try his best not to spend money.

  He hasn't carefully strolled through this supermarket, today he just casually strolls around. The goods in the supermarket, as long as he takes a fancy to something and touches it, will directly appear in the present world. And after selling out, they will immediately be automatically replenished. Never worry about selling out.

  Inside is a dazzling array of goods, the kind found in a super-large supermarket. It occupies all five floors, with clothing, electronics, jewelry, and even a marketplace for vegetables.

  Even the surrounding areas have car sales, all kinds of famous sports cars, to trucks, everything is available. Even excavators are available. It can be said that as long as you can think of something, this supermarket has it for sale!

  What made Liu Yi feel the most off was that there was even a special area for selling weapons. All sorts of big and small firearms, and bucket after bucket of yellow bullets. It made Liu Yi's eyes dizzy.

  As soon as I left the supermarket, it was only a second outside. In just that blink of an eye, the ghostly figure had already come out of the temple gate and disappeared without a trace.

  Although temporarily safe now, Liu Yi still hasn't forgotten that feeling of drifting aimlessly like a lonely ghost not long ago.

  A huge sense of crisis, precarious and unpredictable, weighed heavily on Liu Yi's mind.

  "The Six Paths of Reincarnation" a book, emerged from the sea of consciousness and began to flip through it.

  Most of the content in this book is still invisible to him, and what he can see is mainly some common sense, as well as three spells that he has already learned.

  However, those outlines were very difficult to understand, and Liu Yi had never read them before. Now it's just right to try reading them slowly.

  But soon understood its meaning, a bright light suddenly flashed in his mind. A memory, as if born out of thin air.

  Liu Yi remembered how he died and why he appeared in this world.

  So it was, so it was. I came into this world with a mission!

  But it is to put the world in order, heaven and earth, gods and ghosts, each in their own sequence, to complete the Great Way. The heart is joyful, inside, without speaking of great brightness, but also a piece of transparency. As for the future, there is no more that kind of confusion.

  After this incident, the villagers behind the mountain began to believe in Liu Yi.

  At least every time after going up the mountain, I will remember to enter the temple to burn incense and kowtow.

  Especially after Liu Yi sent the silver armlets to Wang's family, more and more people came to burn incense in the temple. They were mostly old women who would come early in the morning or late at night with a bundle of incense sticks, showing great diligence.

  Liu Yi saw it all in his eyes. In the early days of the Taoist movement, one could hardly avoid looking at the benefits and relying on miracles to attract followers.

  However, true believers are not bought. These means can only be used in emergency situations and are not commonly used.

  On this day when the sky turned dark, after the last few incense-burning devotees left, an old man with a goat-like beard, leaning on his cane, knocked on the door and entered.

  Liu Yi was somewhat surprised, this old man approached him, he didn't notice at all. Plus the strange reaction just now, it's already dark outside. Where else would an old man come to the temple at this time?

  Just looking at him in the past, this old man looked kind and benevolent, without any special features. Just like an ordinary old man!

  However, the old man stood still in front of the idol and pointed at it with his crutch, scolding: "You pestilence from who-knows-where, you're actually competing with me for incense. Believe it or not, I'll smash your broken temple!"

  Snatching incense, where did this start?

  A drop of divine power ignited, and the technique of observing the air was displayed. The old man then revealed his true form. Unlike the three fires on a living person's body, there were mottled and dark divine lights on his body. On top of his head, there was also a cloud of energy that resembled a treasure canopy, constantly rolling over.

  In terms of quantity, the old man's divine power is a hundred times stronger than Liu Yi's. However, they are all impure and mixed, even this cloud of energy is the unrefined incense wishes that have not been purified in time.

  Just looking at the utilization rate is pitiful. Most of the external incense and candlelight have not been refined, and the divine light is even more obscure and chaotic.

  What's most important is that this old man actually didn't summon or control and refine his divine power.

  "I get it, this is a social god!" Liu Yi reacted.

  The state of gods in this world is still quite backward, a loose sand. Not to mention the kind of god that dominates everything, even a complete pantheon does not exist.

  This deity is also without a divine call, that is, there is no complete divine position, divine status and so on.

  Even if it's been decades since the village at the foot of the mountain has been worshiping him, he's still no match for Liu Yi.

  He coldly smiled and directly walked out of the dojo, saying: "Your village's god is not well-guarded in your village, what are you doing running here?"

  That village deity was a bit soft and afraid of the strong, seeing Liu Yi walk out of the temple. His divine power was pure and bright, something he had never seen before. He felt a little apprehensive, took two steps back, and then shouted: "You wild god, where did you come from? The mountain is my territory. You're stealing incense from me. Aren't you afraid of the county's inspectors?"

  In this world, the gods show their sacredness. For sacrificial affairs, what is most valued is that even the minor gods in the countryside have a management system and are not casually self-established.