Chapter 1

Li Ang's right thumb pinched the second and third joints of his little finger, his ring finger bent under his thumb, his index and middle fingers joined and straightened, making a standard sword gesture.

He used his sword fingers to rapidly draw a pattern in the air, and shouted, "Taishang Laojun teaches me to slay treacherous spirits, divine masters to kill and punish, not avoiding the powerful, first slaying demons, then beheading night wanderers. What god dares not submit, what ghost dares to resist? Act as swiftly as the statutes command!"

Because of the loud noise, Xing Hechou and Wanli Fengdao, who had also been awakened, almost spat out their water.

These two had also read Zhu Xuemin's notes,

Knowing that the exorcism incantation Li Ang spoke was quite orthodox,

But from their perspective, the pattern Li Ang drew in the air was clearly a picture of a chick pecking at rice.

The moment Li Ang finished the last stroke, an inexplicable gust of wind swept through the hall,

A burly figure wearing a skull mask and heavy armor slowly rose from the floor in front of Li Ang, and said in a low, hoarse voice, "Soul Lock Warden is here, greetings to Realist Ximenzi!"

This burly figure held a short-handled scythe in his right hand and carried a lantern chained in his left. His appearance was ferocious and imposing, exuding an almost overflowing aura of evil.

Needless to say, this figure was naturally Chai Chai wearing the paper cosplay armor.

Miss Chai was deeply immersed in the role, and while speaking, she knelt on one knee,

The gaps in her armor constantly emitted a gloomy green light—actually, she had placed several strong green fluorescent sticks inside the paper armor for cosplay.

Xing Hechou and Wanli Fengdao, who knew the inside story, twitched their eyes,

But the common mortals in the hall were clueless. Hearing the majestic and domineering name "Soul Lock Warden," their jaws almost dropped in shock.

Among the folk-circulated underworld systems,

The highest position naturally belonged to the Great Emperor of Mount Tai, Tianqi Rensheng, followed by the Great Emperor of Fengdu, the Five Emperors of Chi, the Six Heavens of Luofeng, and the Ten Kings of Hell of the Netherworld.

(Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha belonged to an outlier figure forcibly brought into the underworld system by Zen Buddhism, and was not included in this list.)

Below the Kings of Hell were the City Gods stationed in both the Yin and Yang realms.

The City Gods guarded their respective cities, leading their subordinate officials (the configuration of subordinate officials in City God temples of different levels also differed) in charge of the living and the dead, rewarding good and punishing evil.

In related Taoist legends, righteous cultivators would only build a high altar in the most dangerous situations and invite the Thunder Department, the Thunder City Prefecture, the Two Institutes, and the Three Divisions to slay overly powerful evil spirits and demons.

If the demons were weaker, the cultivators would solve the problem themselves,

If they couldn't solve it, they would ask the City Gods of the Netherworld for help.

And lower-level rogue cultivators could only summon nameless and faceless wandering souls to drive.

The "Soul Lock Warden" summoned by Daoist Ximenzi did not seem to belong to the City God system based on the name,

Moreover, looking at the terrifying and imposing figure holding a scythe and a lantern, emitting green light,

It was estimated to be a higher-level direct official of the Netherworld...

Then, how powerful would Daoist Ximenzi, who could summon a direct official of the Netherworld with just sword gestures and hand seals without borrowing a platform, be?

Including the gangsters, everyone in the hall was horrified, instantly increasing Li Ang's faith power by fifteen points.

【Swamp Divinity:】

This was much faster than the natural growth of the God's Mark. Before, when Li Ang used divine power to cultivate and evolve worms, the energy bar of the Swamp Divinity had been declining overall, and the income couldn't cover the expenses.

Now that he had finally found a simple and quick way to collect faith power, he had to seize the opportunity and vigorously exploit it.

"Realist summoned me, is there another fierce evil spirit that needs to be slain?"

Miss Chai, who knew what Li Ang was thinking, also cooperated, shaking the lantern in her hand and saying in a very imposing and low voice, "The ghosts and monsters in my Nether Prison are almost exhausted."

"It's not about eliminating evil spirits,"

Li Ang shook his head, "I just want you to take a look at the three souls and seven spirits of these villains and reward good and punish evil."

"Oh?"

Chai Chai heard the words, turned around, and looked at the gangster leader who was trembling and dared not speak. She stepped forward step by step, and a green light burst out from under the skull mask (actually, she took the green fluorescent stick out from inside the armor).

"Mistreating parents, burglary, robbery, seeking money, harming lives, committing crimes, unforgivable!"

Miss Chai snorted coldly, "Sentenced to the Ice Hell, suffering from piercing cold wind, cracked wounds, and iron worms pecking at the brain marrow for five hundred years!"

After saying that, she waved the paper scythe and slashed it over the gangster's head,

The gangster instantly rolled his eyes, foamed at the mouth, and fainted to the ground, unconscious,

And the lantern in Miss Chai's hand also burst out with a brighter green light than before.

It looked as if she had used the lantern to directly plunder the evil-doer's soul.

"This... this..."

The thug who had held the knife across Li Ang's neck looked at his companion who had fallen to the ground, and like being electrocuted, directly dropped the short dagger in his hand, retreated a few steps, trembling all over, his face as white as paper.

Miss Chai slowly turned her head, her figure flickering, instantly flashing in front of him, and a green light flashed in her eyes, as if she was examining his three souls and seven spirits.

"Committing crimes, violating laws, insatiable greed, harming the innocent. Sentenced to the Black Rope Hell, suffering from sawing with hot iron ropes, burning skin and piercing flesh, scorching bones and boiling marrow for two hundred years."

After saying that, another slash, and the thug rolled his eyes and fell to the ground.

Seeing their two companions fall to the ground so strangely (actually, Li Ang used the cat-eye's skills to directly stun them and lose consciousness), the remaining six thugs dared not resist any longer.

They hurriedly released the hostages they were holding, retreated in a panic, and all fled to the adjacent room of the hall, trying to escape to the backyard along the adjacent room and climb over the wall to the street—

Even if they were caught by the government soldiers on the street, imprisoned in the dungeon, and executed in the autumn, it would be much better than directly enjoying the suffering of hell.

"Bang bang bang!"

The six thugs frantically smashed the door, but the thin wooden door seemed like a thick stone wall,

No matter how hard they punched, kicked, or slammed their bodies against it, it remained motionless.

"Help! Help!"

One of the thugs, seeing the Soul Lock Warden slowly approaching step by step, was even so scared that he wet his pants, crying and shouting loudly, trying to seek help.

All of this was so strange in the eyes of the crowd in the hall—

From their perspective, the wooden door was clearly already open,

The six thugs were just crowded at the entrance of a doorless doorway, only a few steps away from crossing the courtyard and climbing over the wall to escape.

The onlookers directly regarded this strange scene as the magic of the Taoist priest (actually, these six thugs were just under a illusion), and the awe and worship of Daoist Ximenzi rose sharply,

【Swamp Divinity:】

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Li Ang looked at the rising faith power in the player information bar, feeling happy in his heart, but his face remained calm, watching the situation develop with indifference.

Don't talk, pretend to be an expert.

"Sir, Taoist priest, I have an eighty-year-old mother above me and a baby waiting to be fed below me, please spare my life, in the future I will definitely..."

One of the thugs, realizing that he could not escape, knelt on the ground, tears streaming down his face, and was about to say, "In the future, I will definitely be a law-abiding and kind citizen, build temples, and enshrine immortals," but he was interrupted mercilessly by Chai Chai.

"Seeing profit and forgetting righteousness, enticing people to commit crimes, instigating litigation, repaying kindness with enmity. Sentenced to the Mountain of Knives Hell, suffering from chopping with knives and axes for two hundred years."

Chai Chai slashed, her cold voice carrying a trace of anger, "Daoist Ximenzi is an immortal with noble character and upright conduct, how could he fancy a vulgar person like you. Go to hell."