1067: Chapter 653_2 1067: Chapter 653_2 What righteous warriors?
Under the State Preceptor’s formation, even if they could enter the Imperial Palace to wreak havoc or to assassinate the Emperor, they would be surrounded and extinguished by the people inside!
In this country, Taoist Temples are the most popular, followed by Monk Temples, and Martial World comes third!
Buddhist temples are also suppressed by the Taoist Temples!
Followers of the Guandi Cult often attack some temples, and many temples have little to no incense burning within!
Monks who go out to beg alms are even beaten by followers of the Guandi Cult!
In this country before, they believed in the Heavenly Master!
No matter how capable the Monks are, the incense offerings they desire are exceedingly difficult to obtain!
Even with happy or mourning events, those who believe in the Heavenly Master will invite the Elders from the Taoist Temples to perform the rituals!
But little did they know that the Guandi Cult, under the cover of the heavens, were harming people, not sparing even the dead!
The souls of the deceased, within seven days while still lingering, are captured by followers of the Guandi Cult using evil techniques!
The relatives who trust the Guandi Cult don’t realize their loved ones are not on the Road to Hell, but instead have their souls collected by the Guandi Cult for cultivation, causing the souls of the deceased to be scattered and destroyed!
These souls are fed to the followers of the Guandi Cult as nourishment for the soil!
Thunderstrike struck the deity statue in the great hall, and the souls bound within were scattered by the blast!
The remnant souls inside the statue were turned to ash by the thunder and disappeared between heaven and earth!
The thunder technique of Eryao was continuously used, destroying all Wooden Tokens held by anyone in the Taoist Temple, including those stored in the warehouse!
In all courtyards of the Taoist Temple, in the face of thunderous strikes, people screamed; these screams were not only from the Taoists but also from the Wishers who had just come to fulfill or make wishes!
Those who possessed Wooden Tokens were all extinguished by thunder; with the Wooden Tokens destroyed, the contracted Demon Souls and Evil Charms, once the bearer died, had their conditions offered up by the Evil Charm Demon just before death!
This situation is dire; it could cause severe fainting, turn one to a demented state, or rapidly age someone by decades, making some look close to death!
At the very least, those who had just made wishes also had their Souls sucked away within that short period, leaving their minds buzzing, as if some vital connection had been lost, their entire beings as though they had been deprived of their souls.
Seeing this situation befall the Wishers, Eryao felt no pity; perhaps this recklessness is the required punishment for wrongdoing!
Of course, there are those who, for their selfish desires, became believers of the Taoists, acting as go-betweens, those so-called intermediaries that introduce guests.
They received more severe punishments!
This is indeed a heart-wrenching matter, as their greed and selfish hearts introduced villagers and acquaintances as offerings to the Guandi Cult; surely this is the act of evildoers who bring disaster upon everyone for their gain!
The Guandi Cult has brought calamity upon countless for hundreds of years across the whole world; this country has been particularly devastated!
That Taoist Nun, thinking Eryao was the Young Sect Leader, when suddenly struck by thunder, her body where the Wooden Tokens were placed was injured!
Moreover, there was feedback; thunder was her nemesis, and at this moment, she was in her room with her disciples around!
When this incident happened, the disciples were terrified; they each had such Wooden Tokens, but since their Taoist cultivation was shallow and they harmed fewer people, many of them served as attendants!
As the thunder struck their room, they all suffered light injuries and their souls were slightly damaged!
Startled, they sought help from their master, only to find the master was in a worse state than them!
And her clothes…
With the outer garment torn, the flashy undergarments inside were revealed!
What was most unbelievable was that as the clothes around the neckline were torn more severely, they saw…
women’s undergarments.
How could the master be wearing women’s lingerie?
Seeing this, it wasn’t as straightforward as a man wearing women’s lingerie; it looked quite substantial!
The male disciples, already agitated, upon seeing their master’s condition became dumbfounded, mouths agape, losing their prior panic!
To those unaware of the situation, it would seem as though they were struck dumb by lightning!
Thunder continued to strike the rooftop, incessantly, and their master’s clothing became increasingly tattered by the lightning!
Although the clothes grew more ragged, there were not many injuries visible on the body, perhaps due to internal injuries!
They watched their Master being tortured by thunder and lightning without an ounce of sympathy in their eyes but rather a certain evil gleam.
“Tsk tsk tsk, their companion of day and night turns out to be a woman, and such a bewitching one at that?”
“Oh oh oh, my decade of singlehood, at this moment, my gaze is about to break the monastic code!”
“Master, how did we not realize you’re a beautiful woman all this time?
Ah ah ah, we’re always together, Master, and you’ve seen all of us men, seen us bare!”
The Taoist nun, suffering under the thunderstrike, didn’t initially notice this look in her disciples’ eyes.
The thunder came suddenly, she only felt her body paralyzed, perhaps there were internal injuries, an intense pain throughout her body.
She couldn’t care less about the pain; she wanted to go outside and see what was happening!
Why was the Taoist Temple struck by lightning in its entirety!
Those disciples hadn’t suffered as terribly as she did.
The thunder destroyed their wooden tokens, cleansed the blood evil from their bodies, and then the lightning ceased its assault.
The one who suffered the most was herself, the Master; the lightning seemed to target her specifically, making her body alternately burn with heat and shiver with cold!
Wanting to lower her head to check her condition, her head was numb from the lightning, making bending down somewhat difficult, and her limbs were even more numb!
If she had been prepared earlier, she might have used the talismans on her to fend off the attack, but alas, the lightning was too swift!
All her possessions had been struck by lightning and reduced to ashes!
By the time she felt the chill in her body, she had already been severely injured.
When the lightning stopped striking her, she collapsed to the ground, vomiting blood!
It’s not that she hadn’t vomited blood when struck, but the lightning had drawn all the blood away!
As she spat out several mouthfuls of blood, and before passing out, she took one last look at the disciples in the room!
“Aren’t any of you going to help your Master up.”
The Taoist nun collapsed, still unaware that there was something off with the disciples’ glances!
At this moment, all she could think of was for them to quickly fetch the healing medicine, she had a youth full of great promise; she didn’t want to die!
Perhaps it was intuition that made her feel that the thunderstorm was not natural; it was a targeted, deliberate attack, possibly by an enemy, or maybe even from people of another faction!
Since the Taoist nun had learned evil techniques for decades and had been invincible within the Guandi Cult, she thought their Cult was the pinnacle of this country, of this world!
There were no stronger cultivators, nor was there anyone with such a great power to easily dispatch them!
But now she believed it; this was like the fabled Tribulation Crossing, her abilities had yet to reach such depths, so of course, she had never experienced such intense thunder and lightning!
“Master, how are you holding up?”
The three disciples came back to their senses.
Whether their Master was a woman or a man, she was still their Master; they couldn’t just let her die!
Therefore, one fetched healing medicine, another fetched water, and yet another lifted the Master onto the bed!
When that disciple was lifting the Master, not only did he smell blood, but also the fragrance of a woman’s body!
For a moment, he became lightheaded!
The Taoist nun seemed to feel something wrong with her body; in her dazed state, she glanced down and became aware of her condition!
At this moment, she felt no shame.
If it wasn’t for the injury, there might have been another kind of development; right now, though, she couldn’t care less.
One disciple fed her the medicine, and another helped her drink water!
The Taoist nun placed a thin blanket over herself, drank the water, took the medicine, and felt slightly spirited as she said weakly:
“Quickly, go check on the condition of the courtyard opposite us, see how our Young Master is doing?”
The three disciples looked at each other, at this moment neither daring to disobey the Master nor to go out, fearing that they would be struck dead by lightning the moment they stepped outside!
“Master, there’s still powerful thunder and lightning outside…!
Going out there will mean certain death!”