Shu land.

On the road leading to Jiannan County, there are steep mountains all the way.

A carriage of ghosts and gods pulled by ghost horses passed through the night, and the dark lights on the car glowed with a faint light, which further showed that this was a trip of ghosts and ghosts from the underworld.

And there must be one party that is in power, because the person who can afford the Demon Soul Horse is definitely not an ordinary county god, and ordinary deputy civil and military judges would not dare to show off like this.

In front of the large carriage, two ghosts and gods, one tall and one short, stood, controlling the ghost horses and riding away in the distance.

Lin Daxia, the Chenghuang God of Jiannan County who had just emerged from the realm of Zhou Chenghuang God, took his own Chenghuang God Seal and token and couldn't wait to go to his place of enshrinement overnight to take office.

Accompanying him were his followers, ghost officials, and guarding ghost generals. The new City God, Lin Daxia, was so proud at this moment that he felt that the heaven and earth were in his hands.

From then on, he lived forever and became a god, controlling ghosts and gods, and controlling the life and death of mortals.

Even the emperor was not as free and comfortable as himself. Lin Daxia had just seen the majesty and power of the city god of Yizhou. The sight of countless ghosts and gods worshiping was almost no different from the emperor.

And the feeling it brings to people is better than that of being a mortal emperor.

Because the ones crawling under the feet are not mortals, but gods from all directions.

Once he takes up his post, as long as he is not caught by the underworld's evil deities in the Reincarnation Hall, this god can stay in power for hundreds of thousands of years.

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"I didn't expect that the former Jiannan County City God was so stupid, worked so hard and had great luck."

"I finally ascended to the throne of God, but died in battle due to demons. The dignified Lord of the County and City didn't know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and ended up with his body and soul destroyed."

"This Jiannan County City God's position has ended up being advantageous to me."

Lin Daxia was a new ghost and god who took advantage of the lax laws and regulations when the underworld was first established to take advantage of the troubled waters to ascend to the throne.

The underworld is eager to completely suppress the evils of demons and spirits, and arbitrarily bans ghosts and gods. Naturally, there is a mixture of fish and dragons, leaving many hidden dangers. However, in order to solve the evils of demons in time, it can be regarded as a temporary expedient.

It was at this time that Lin Daxia participated in and passed the Underworld Ghosts and Gods Examination by virtue of being recommended by the local ghosts and gods as a person with outstanding merits and reputations, when the underworld was unable to directly check his personal merits.

Then through the operation of the entire Lin clan, the ghost officials who came to investigate by Yin Yang Highness directly gave him a high rating based on merit, reputation, and conduct.

Therefore, he stood out and actually filled the vacancy of the Jiannan County City God. He took office as the Yifang County City God.

The attendant ghost official on the side looked back at the majestic god wearing a divine robe in the carriage: "Sir, is there no difference between being a god and being an official?"

"As long as this and this are in place, it will just keep rising!"

Lin Daxia stroked his beard: "Since ancient times, some things cannot be changed."

"God is not made by humans. Since it is made by humans, we cannot avoid these underlying rules."

"I spent all the incense money prepared by my uncle for this purpose to bribe our local county god."

"As for the so-called merit and reputation, it is not the ghost officials sent by the Yin Yang Palace who have the final say. For this reason, Taoist Lan of Taiyi Temple was given the position of a state Taoist official in the imperial court, and the way to the Taoist gate was opened.

Let the ghost officials of this gate face us."

"That's the ghost clerk from the Yin Yang Palace's Department of Officials. He wants a full share of the next three hundred years of incense belonging to me in Jiannan County. This skin-removing and bone-removing thing is really evil."

"In the past three hundred years, I can only be a cow and a horse for him."

Having said this, Lin Daxia was still aggrieved.

Even though I gritted my teeth and agreed, I still feel pain in my head and heart when I think about it now.

Short? The attendant ghost official immediately said: "Master, if it weren't for the scribe ghost officials of the Yin and Yang Palace, we wouldn't be able to take the position of City God of Jiannan County!"

"If you follow the rules of the mortal court and get such a lucrative position, you will have to pay at least 20,000 taels of silver to the imperial officials. This does not include the filial piety paid to you every year after taking office."

"If you look at it this way, the scribe and ghost official in the Yin Yang Palace Department can already be considered a conscience."

"No matter how much you lose, you can slowly recover it later."

Lin Daxia nodded: "However, the power of this incense was directly taken away by the underworld, and it was not taken from us!"

"There's nothing to gain from this!"

"Let's think of a solution after taking office! Fill the holes of these clerical and ghost officials as soon as possible. Thinking about the debts of hundreds of years, I really can't sleep peacefully."

The ghost official once again thought of the repeated orders given by the God of the Underworld: "What is the meaning of accumulating merit?"

Lin Daxia sneered: "Isn't this the same as the pedantic words preached by the academy and the decrees read out to the people by the government?"

"As an official, you should love the people as your own children, you should not be arrogant and extravagant, you should not form cliques for selfish interests, you should not be greedy for gold and silver, and you should not..."

"You talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, but you are just trying to deceive the world. Who would believe it except a stupid young man?"

"What kind of merit? It's just something to fool everyone. Your master and I have already asked in the underworld. This thing doesn't exist at all!"

Lin Daxia was considered to be a senior figure in the court of Shu. He saw these things clearly and did not believe them at all.

But he forgot that he was no longer an official in the court, but a ghost and god in the underworld.

The person above him is not the emperor who is allowed to be deceived by them, but the Taoist Lord Kongchen and the divine monarchs who master the laws of the great road.

Finally arrived at Jiannan County and entered the Chenghuang Temple along the lantern-lit Shinto.

The ghosts and gods of the county have already been waiting at the entrance of the temple. County gods, mountain gods and land gods from all over the country are all present.

Seeing the demon spirit horse coming through the air, all the ghosts and gods stepped forward to greet it.

The carriage of ghosts and gods fell, and the ghost horse turned into white light and converged, turning into a magic weapon that was put away by the ghost general driving the carriage. A group of three ghosts and gods stood directly in front of the City God's Temple.

"Jiannan County Civil Judge Zhang Ji."

"Jiannan County Military Judge Le Pingkang."

"..."

"The land of Xiacan Township..."

"Meet the City God."

Ghosts and gods with a radius of hundreds of miles bowed and saluted mightily, aiming at Lin Daxia, the newly appointed City God of Jiannan County.

Lin Daxia was so proud that he actually said directly: "Ping Shen!"

With this gesture, he seemed to regard himself as the god of this area.

Although the ghosts and gods were stunned when they saw his behavior, no one dared to say anything and respectfully welcomed the newly arrived City God and headed towards the realm of Incense and Fire God.

Nowadays, not only the state city God's temple has the incense and fire god realm, but even the small county town god's temple also has the incense and fire god realm.

It’s just that the divine realm of incense and fire in the Zhoucheng God’s Temple is like a shrine and an imperial city, while the divine realm of the County God’s Temple is just several times larger than the temple outside.

Lin Daxia walked into the realm of the City God, looked at the splendid temples and palaces, and laughed.

This look is like looking at the palace hall that belongs to you, and the people guarding you on the left and right are just your own ministers.

Immediately he told the people around him: "Go and find some dancers and musicians to come over and add to the fun."

"Today, all my colleagues, please don't go home until you are drunk."

Zhang Ji, the literary judge on the side, immediately said: "City God, we are in the land of the underworld. Where did the dancing girls and musicians come from?"

"We have already prepared a banquet and recited poems. Wouldn't it be nice?"

Lin Daxia said nonchalantly: "Just capture that mortal soul and release it back tomorrow."

The surrounding ghosts and gods were in panic, but they could not resist the orders and urgings of the superior ghosts and gods.

Immediately I saw the dancing girl and singer in the county town, her soul captured by ghosts and gods, and she was playing and singing in the realm of incense and fire.

The banquet transformed by the power of incense was filled up and down the hall, cups were exchanged, and people sang and danced.

The newly appointed City God is already completely immersed in his future career as a ghost and god.

I just feel that the sky is high and the emperor is far away. In the future, no one can control or do anything to control me in this one-third of an acre of land that belongs to me.

Sure enough, everything was exactly as he imagined.

Suddenly there was a loud bang at the door, as if someone was coming through the divine realm.

A ghost official rushed in and said to the ghosts and gods in the temple.

"It's not good... it's not good..."

Zhang Ji, the civil judge of Jiannan County and the ghost official's boss, asked: "Why are you so panicked?"

The ghost official immediately shouted: "The two envoys of the Reincarnation Hall, Black and White, are right outside the door."

As soon as he heard Black and White Wuchang's name, the whole hall suddenly became quiet.

These are the envoys of the underworld who specialize in hunting down ghosts and gods. Although they are only of low divine rank, even the city gods of the state can only tremble in front of them.

Lin Daxia shuddered, and before he could stand up, he saw two ghosts and gods exuding a fierce and icy aura stepping into the temple.

His Highness Samsara Black and White Wuchang walked in, and the entire Incense God Realm became three points colder, and ice began to condense along their feet.

The leader, Bai Wuchang, raised his head, his eyes searching, and finally looked at Lin Daxia, the City God of Jiannan County, who had only been in office for a few hours and was not feeling hot in his buttocks.

"Jiannan County City God Lin Daxia, you have committed a crime."

"The Yin Division God has decreed that we and I will be sent to the ghost prison."

"Why don't we just surrender and capture him."
To be continued...