The Water General, Jia Linghou, who had visited this place during the day among the Heavenly Gate Generals, examined the flesh and blood on the ground and used his magic to ascertain the problem!
"Damn it! How dare they cause such a huge disturbance within Shuntian! Where did these flesh and blood puppets come from!"
Fu Linghou, the Heavenly General among the Heavenly Gate Generals, was furious. The Embroidered Uniform Guard behind him were loading their cannons, ready to fire another round at any moment!
At this moment, in front of the main hall of the Eastern Peak Temple in the distance, several Yin Si Divine Lords appeared. Their appearances were somewhat strange.
"Yin Si Divine Lords, are you all right?"
"No, Commander, look at what's on their necks!"
The Heavenly Gate General stopped Luo Sigong, who was about to enter, and pointed to the necks of the appearing Yin Si Divine Lords. Instead of chains, there were strange white circles.
"The Fangxin Qu Ling worn by Song Dynasty officials!"
Luo Sigong recognized it as an accessory worn around the necks of civil officials in ancient times. How could it appear on the necks of Ming Dynasty divine generals?
The Ming Dynasty had never issued such uniforms.
And it wasn't just a few Yin Si Divine Lords. Behind these divine lords stood many people, all of whom were Embroidered Uniform Guards dispatched to guard the Eastern Peak Temple. Their eyes were now vacant, and what was most terrifying was their faces!
"The faces are wrong. Those aren't the faces of living people, they're sculpted faces!"
"Skin-painting demons? Impossible! Such minor demons couldn't possibly enter Shuntian Prefecture!"
The Heavenly Gate General felt that the situation was tricky. Were these Yin Si Divine Lords before them truly Yin Si Divine Generals anymore!
"The problem I felt during the day might be related to this. People's faces were swapped with the statues, and the statues' faces were swapped with people. That's why the temple caretaker said he had smashed the faces of two divine statues and replaced them. Now it seems they weren't smashed, but torn off!"
The two Heavenly Gate Generals used their divine eyes to illuminate the scene. This time, they saw something. From the people in the Eastern Peak Temple, they could discern eerie, illusory forms, with only a rough outline.
These outlines were like shadows, or like hazy gas, attached to the numerous people and gods in the Eastern Peak Temple.
The firearms were ready. The Heavenly Gate Generals did not hesitate, believing that the Yin Si Divine Generals had now become enemies. They unleashed a volley of fire, and the main hall of the Eastern Peak Temple collapsed with a roar!
Smoke billowed, and darkness receded. The sun was still hanging in the west in the sky; it was not yet dark.
But here, everything was turbid and dim.
"Giggle! Giggle!"
The divine generals saw the smoke dissipate. The firearms had destroyed the main hall of the Eastern Peak Temple. Inside, the Yin Si Divine Generals had disappeared, seemingly having fled. However, some had not left in time, and many had been killed by the explosions, their flesh and blood turning into mud. The faces of the statues were also destroyed on the ground.
But from the shattered statue faces on the ground, strange laughter could still be heard.
These laughter converged, gradually transforming into normal language, but this language could not be heard from outside.
The Heavenly Gate Generals only heard strange laughter from within, but saw no figures, and were about to bombard them again.
"Laughing my ass off, fire the cannons! Bomb these ghosts to death!"
Inside the temple, the "statue divine generals'" broken faces began to converse:
"This is the firearms of the Ming court? Indeed, they are far more powerful than our Song court's firearms, and they even have divine incantations attached... If we had such weapons back then..."
"This is terrible. Why are such powerful firearms being used in the capital! Is the Ming Emperor mad? No wonder that girl Huo Jun died. She burned through the Ming court's national prestige with Taiyin Tribulation Fire, and then was blown up by these firearms, wasn't she?"
"It's not necessarily that she's dead. Huo Jun has some skill in controlling wishes."
"Divine beings of the Yang world are trapped in the Yin world and cannot return to the human realm. Now that they have regained human forms, they are merely divine forms attached, relying on the power of black miasma to return from the dead. It is not yet time to truly invert yin and yang."
"It doesn't matter if the bodies are destroyed. The forms and spirits have already arrived in the Yang world. We just need to let the black miasma devour them, and then we will devour the black miasma to obtain powerful Yang world bodies!"
"The black miasma is indeed difficult to control. This thing can even transform into human form and not obey our will, but only we have been able to subdue this strange power throughout history..."
"We cannot bring our Yin world bodies. The separation between the two realms is troublesome... The avatar of that great deity went ahead. Why hasn't yin and yang been inverted yet? Isn't it already You Shi (3-5 PM)!"
"We don't know for now. Let's retreat. We cannot let the statues of the Divine Lords be attacked. Those are our 'flesh altars' holding our wishes, and they cannot be lost. We'll give them this first main hall."
"You're right. There's no need to rush. It should be almost time. We can prepare to release the great ghost..."
"Alright, everyone, I won't say any more. The cannons are firing again. See you later, everyone. Let's die for a bit first..."
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Bombards unleashed their firepower. The firearms, enhanced with divine incantations, possessed earth-shattering power. The area in front of the Eastern Peak Temple was completely razed to the ground. Darkness retreated madly, revealing the front one-third of the Eastern Peak Temple.
On the ground, a few statue fragments were still laughing, only to be crushed by the foot of a Heavenly Gate General!
"Don't approach that black mist. Clear the way with firearms! As for Old Xu... let's hope he has good fortune!"
Although it sounded impolite, when the other party no longer held hostages, there was no longer any need to worry about them killing them.
The divine generals stormed into the Eastern Peak Temple, preparing to go to the rear hall to "rescue" Old Xu. At this moment, the entire ground of Shuntian Prefecture shook!
The Zhen hexagram had been broken!
The divine generals did not yet know what had happened when, from the rear hall of the Eastern Peak Temple, a burst of joyous laughter echoed. Then, within the black mist, the image of a giant ghost god gradually appeared!
The Yin world kills, and for every person killed, another wish is generated. The physical body can be attached by a strand of black energy, and then these ancient forms and spirits can return to life through flesh.
The great ghost chanted:
"A thousand ghosts fly daily, and cannot be forbidden... Only allowed to kill the people of the world, billions dead..."
The words uttered by the great ghost were horrifying. The divine generals had a premonition that something big was about to happen. Luo Sigong's body also tensed, and his face and robes gradually transformed into the appearance of the Earthly Division's fierce official, Yin Tianjun!
.........
In the seventy-two Yin Si Red Pavilions, both Embroidered Uniform Guard and Eastern Depot personnel entered to investigate. As a result, for several Yin Si Divine Spirits in the Red Pavilions, it was only You Shi, and they had already arrived at the entrance of the Red Pavilions wearing bells.
What followed was a free-for-all slaughter!
The Heavenly Bureau Yin World, divine generals slaughtering each other!
Within Shuntian City, chaos erupted in an instant. In the West Market area, a play was being performed when the ground suddenly shook violently. Many citizens thought it was an earthquake and stood up in fright. However, it was just a tremor, and then there was no further movement.
People chattered, bewildered. Some prepared to leave, but after only a few steps, they ran into the embrace of Yin Si divine spirits.
The citizens, terrified by colliding with Yin Si, turned pale. In the next moment, the Yin Si Divine General suddenly struck, twisting off the person's head!
Blood splattered, and a head rolled to the ground. The faces of these Yin Si divine spirits were wooden, like sculpted divine faces, having lost their human appearance. Swirling mists surrounded them as they raised their cleavers towards the citizens of Shuntian.
In heaven and earth, only the opera troupes continued to perform. The play being staged on the stage suddenly transformed into King Yama judging minor ghosts. In an instant, their red robes and colorful garments were shed, revealing the figures of the Yin Si Dharma Gods.
"Kill, they're killing people, killing people!"
Someone shouted, and the Yin Si gods began their slaughter of the citizens here!
The child with the Nezha hairstyle watched in confusion. At this moment, a shadow appeared beside him and his craftsman father.
The blade descended.
On the child's chest, the talisman written by Ji Xiang suddenly shone brightly at this critical moment!