Chapter 1 Listening to the Cries

Hearing the woman's cries, Zhao Zhijing's chest heaved. He was so enraged that he wanted to send a Buddha to be born and another to ascend to heaven. With a loud roar, he grabbed his sword and ran out of the house.

Bang!

He kicked open the door of the room where the 'God of Wealth' was enshrined and swung his sword at the gilded statue within.

"Damn it all!"

Having traveled the martial world for years, Zhao Zhijing was no slouch in martial arts. This strike was chillingly cold and would have shattered the statue into a million pieces.

The statue was of a handsome man with a smile that was not a smile.

As the sword light howled, the statue suddenly laughed, speaking in a human voice:

"Zhao Zhijing, if you kill me, your vast wealth will vanish like smoke, and your beautiful wives and concubines will leave you. Have you thought this through?"

Laughter accompanied the howling of Yin winds, and the furniture in the room shook.

Buzz~

Zhao Zhijing's sword strike faltered. It was clear that there was no obstruction, yet he could not bring himself to strike.

"Lewd god, evil god! I'll kill you!"

Zhao Zhijing's blood surged, and he wildly hacked at the air.

The sharp sword collided with the invisible air, and the room was immediately a mess.

"Your family fortunes declined, and it was all thanks to me! I made you money, made you rich, and allowed you to marry beautiful wives and concubines! And now you want to kill me?"

The laughter suddenly turned lewd:

"You've come back just in time. I was about to play with your beautiful wives and concubines right in front of you, hahaha..."

Whoosh~

Gusts of Yin wind swept up, blowing from the room into the courtyard.

All that was heard was a series of screams as five women, flailing their arms and legs, were enveloped in the Yin wind and flew out of their respective rooms.

While still in mid-air, the clothes on their bodies began to unravel automatically, blown away piece by piece by the Yin wind.

By the time they arrived inside the room, they were already several stark naked white sheep.

"Ah! Evil god! Evil god! I want to kill you!"

Zhao Zhijing's eyes were about to split as he frantically hacked at the invisible barrier, infinite regret rising in his heart.

He regretted worshiping the evil god and its lewd shrine, which had harmed his wives and concubines and brought him great shame.

"Get out! Leave my house!"

"Hahaha! You regret it? Too bad, it's too late!"

The evil god laughed strangely:

"Don't you know, it's easy to invite a god, but hard to send one away? You kowtowed and begged me to come, and now you want me to leave? There's no such easy thing!"

Whoosh~

Amidst the screams of the women and Zhao Zhijing's roars.

A figure slowly walked out of the statue, a handsome naked man.

He stood suspended in the air, licking his lips:

"This is what we gods should enjoy, the tribute we deserve!"

Roar~

But before he could finish speaking, a golden light suddenly burst forth from Zhao Zhijing, who was bound by the Yin wind and unable to move.

Accompanying it was a deafening roar.

Buzz~

The golden light burst forth from Zhao Zhijing's chest, transforming into a large dog-like lion phantom in the void.

"This is?!"

Zhao Zhijing's heart trembled amidst the golden light. Suddenly, he remembered the little dog squatting on Daoist An's shoulder.

That little dog had even bared its teeth at him for plucking a hair from it.

But at this moment, how mighty was this divine dog?

"What is that?!"

The evil god cried out strangely and turned to flee.

But all that was heard was a roar, and the lion-like dog pounced on him, opening its mouth wide and biting off the evil god's legs.

With another bite, it severed his throat and swallowed his entire head!

Then, its body swelled, and it swallowed the evil god whole.

"Dog God!"

Zhao Zhijing collapsed to the ground in a mixture of great sorrow and joy, kowtowing repeatedly.

The other women, who had been stripped naked, also knelt down, sobbing and thanking him repeatedly.

Compared to Zhao Zhijing, they were the most grateful.

"Howl~"

The large dog glanced back at Zhao Zhijing, bared its teeth, and then disappeared in a golden light.

With the evil god gone, Zhao Zhijing's family hugged each other and wept bitterly.

After this incident, Zhao Zhijing enshrined Daoist An's memorial tablet in his home and also sculpted a statue of the divine dog, which he worshiped daily.

In the years that followed, he did many good deeds.

But that is another story, for now, we will leave it at that.

Sifang Tavern, sixth floor.

An Qisheng sat by the window, drinking wine under the moonlight.

The height here was excellent, and the angle was good. He could overlook half the city's night view.

The Da Qing Dynasty did not have a curfew, and the night was quite lively. The lights of thousands of homes competed with the starlight and moonlight, creating a unique scene.

Woof, woof~

A yellow dog the size of a fist squatted on the corner of the table, wrestling with a large bone, drooling and whining.

"With the Yin Si in chaos, all sorts of demons and monsters can't sit still..."

An Qisheng's eyes were deep.

The Yin Si City God system certainly had great drawbacks, and it was even more because of the many restraints that Tianyi Zhenren seized the loopholes, using humanity to break the Yin Si City God system. But it was precisely because of these restraints that these City Gods would not be as reckless as the evil gods.

When the Yin Si City Gods were present, these lewd shrines and evil gods could not gain a foothold at all. But with the collapse of the Yin Si City Gods, just as when a country is about to perish, demons emerge in large numbers.

Whoosh~

Under the night, a golden light broke through the air.

It came suddenly and entered the sixth floor of the tavern, merging into the yellow dog's fur.

"Woof~"

The yellow dog let out a comfortable cry, as if it had eaten some great tonic, and the whole dog perked up.

"Let's go."

An Qisheng put down a piece of silver and leisurely went downstairs.

The yellow dog jumped onto his shoulder.

.......

Outside Shining Prefecture City, in a low-lying small courtyard.

"Pfft!"

A young man dressed as a scholar was practicing Qi cultivation. Suddenly, his body shook, and he spat out a mouthful of fishy-smelling blood.

"Who broke my Desire God!"

The young man suddenly stood up, his face twisted: "That Zhao Zhijing is just a mortal, it couldn't be him. The Shining Prefecture City God has left, it couldn't be him, who is it?!"

His eyes were bloodshot, and he was extremely angry.

His name was Ning Yudao, and the evil god was a 'Desire God' that had been separated from his cultivation of the *Seven Emotions Extinction Method*, equivalent to one-seventh of his life.

Now that it had been killed, it had almost cost him one-seventh of his life!

He never expected that he had been so careful, yet he had still brought disaster upon himself.

Whoosh~

As he stood up, several grotesque ghosts and gods emerged, surrounded by Yin mist, slowly swimming around him.

"Seventh brother is dead, sob sob sob..."

"Hahaha! Seventh brother is dead!"

"You said that Zhao Zhijing's ancestors had never produced cultivators, so there would be no danger. You killed him!"

"It hurts me so! Seventh brother, I will definitely slaughter him!"

"Thinking back, seventh brother's voice and smile are still before my eyes. If I had known he was going to die, I would have swallowed him!"

"Good riddance, everyone should die, everyone should die!"

The ghostly faces transformed by the Yin mist were all different, all with strong emotions, wailing and shouting.

"Enough!"

Ning Yudao shouted in a low voice, his soul aching:

"Something has happened in Shining Prefecture, we can't stay here long, we must leave as soon as possible! You suppress my injuries for me!"

Ning Yudao felt uneasy, faintly sensing a crisis.

At this moment, he was restless. After shouting, he took all the Yin ghosts around his body back into his body, and with a shake of his body, he disappeared into the house.

Whoosh, whoosh~

In the howling night wind, Ning Yudao glared fiercely at Shining Prefecture, his resentment overflowing.

But the fear in his heart grew even deeper, and he dared not stay any longer, disappearing with the wind.

Fleeing into the distance.

At the same time, he chanted scriptures in his heart, moving his magic power, sensing the scene that the 'Desire God' had seen before his death.

"A dog? Which road's great demon is it?"

Sensing the scene of the 'Desire God' being swallowed alive, Ning Yudao's face twitched, and he became even more frightened.

He could see that it was just a phantom.

A phantom that could so easily swallow his Desire God, how could its true form be?

Moreover, canine great demons are best at tracking, so they might be chasing after him.

Awoo~~~

As soon as he had this thought, he heard a roar that broke through the night sky in the distance.

Although it was a canine, its sound was as vast as a lion or tiger, with a trace of divinity in its majesty.

"It really is chasing after me!"

Ning Yudao's heart trembled, and with a bite, he ran wildly into the distance, pulling the Yin mist out of shape.

Awoo~

The yellow dog opened its mouth and barked, then patted its mouth lazily, revealing a human-like boredom.

An Qisheng walked unhurriedly, his eyes clearly reflecting Ning Yuzhen's frantic running in the mountains and forests:

"Unexpectedly, there is still a big fish..."

His heart moved slightly, and the Da Yi Diagram reacted accordingly, with writing flowing out of the water-like light:

【Consumed Dao Power: 186 points】

【Ning Yuzhen (38/85)】

【Original trajectory: Born in the Imperial Heaven Realm's Human Dao, Shuning Prefecture, Dan Prefecture, Daqing Dynasty, in a wealthy family. When he was young, his family declined and he was in poverty. He obtained an evil technique, the *Seven Emotions Extinction Method*, and soon became a registrar after cultivation...】

【For the sake of cultivating evil techniques, he harmed one prefecture, and finally, the evil technique was completed.】

【In the 97,643rd year of the Imperial Heaven, he became the shell of a giant in the evil way and was reduced to ashes.】

An Qisheng had learned about the *Seven Emotions Extinction Method* from the *White Bone Demonic Art*. This was also one of the seventy-two evil techniques that were circulating in the old heretical sects.

The *White Bone Human Demon* uses the skeleton as its core, devouring flesh and blood essence to cultivate.

And this *Seven Emotions Extinction Method* uses the seven emotions and distractions to cultivate. The stronger the seven emotions, the faster the cultivation speed.

People who have practiced this method throughout the ages have all used torture as a means.

Compared to his predecessors, this Ning Yudao, who wanted to defile a man's wives and concubines in front of him, was far behind.

Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, an evil cultivator who practiced the *Seven Emotions Extinction Method* secretly seized a city and used evil techniques to cause fathers and daughters to engage in incest and sons to kill their mothers, and all of this would be felt by them!

The Buddhist path may not be good, but the evil path is definitely not!

Awoo~

The yellow dog roared from time to time, urging Ning Yuzhen to run for his life, making his scalp tingle.

An Qisheng followed behind unhurriedly.

Before long, they had reached the mountains hundreds of miles outside of Shuning Prefecture, and Ning Yuzhen's body swayed a few times, darting into the mountains and forests, disappearing.

Whoosh~

An Qisheng stopped outside the forest, his eyes gazing into the distance.

Faintly, he could see the rolling miasma in the mountains, with countless resentful auras hidden beneath the swamps, and even a sacrificial altar.