Chapter 128 - 126: This Really Works

Chapter 128: Chapter 126: This Really Works

Lin Feng hadn’t expected Zhou Jun to call and ask how to deal with the bad luck that came from worshiping at the Land God Temple.

"Why are you asking? If you’re worried something will happen, you don’t have to worship."

Realizing Lin Feng had misunderstood, Zhou Jun quickly explained, "It’s not for me. A friend of mine opened an entertainment company.

You know how it is in that industry—good people are an endangered species.

Netizens are telling the celebrities at his company to come worship, so he was wondering if there was any way around it."

"Well, if they’ve broken the law, there’s no way around it. They’ll have bad luck if they come to worship.

If it’s just a minor moral issue, nothing too serious, then worshiping won’t cause any problems.

And of course, people who do good deeds will certainly receive the Earth God’s blessing when they come to worship."

"Ah! So doing good deeds gets you blessings!"

"It works for minor moral failings, but not for serious ones. For people like that, even doing good deeds won’t necessarily help.

Besides, the good deeds have to be sincere. Any hypocritical or half-hearted charity is useless."

"I get it. So if they only have minor moral failings but have sincerely done a lot of good deeds, then nothing will happen?"

"Right. But if they’ve committed a crime, doing good deeds won’t help. They’d be better off turning themselves in sooner rather than later."

"Thanks for clearing that up. I’ll bring some friends over to worship in a few days. We’ll see if there are any hidden villains in the group."

After hanging up, Zhou Jun immediately sent the information he’d gotten to the entertainment company boss.

’I guess that repays the favor. I just wonder how many bad apples are hidden among my friends.’

"Alright everyone, anyone want to go to Lin Xian Village to worship the Earth God? If you’re in, sign up with me, and we’ll all go together."

"Brother Zhou, me! Me! You didn’t take me last time."

"Okay, I’ll take you this time. Anyone else?"

"Zhou Jun, won’t we face retribution for worshiping that Earth God?"

"What are you afraid of if you haven’t done anything wrong? Only bad people face retribution."

He looked at the messages in the group chat and saw that most people agreed to go. A few, however, said they were busy and couldn’t make it.

He decided he wouldn’t hang out with those few people anymore. ’I didn’t even say when we were going, and they’re already busy? They’re obviously feeling guilty about something.’

’This Earth God is actually pretty useful. It helps you tell who’s worth being friends with and who you should cut out of your life.’

The information Zhou Jun got from Lin Feng quickly spread across the internet after he shared it.

At that point, some celebrities who felt their own morals were a little questionable started looking for ways to do good deeds.

Suddenly, major charitable organizations started receiving a flood of donations. Some people, worried that just donating money wouldn’t be enough, even started doing hands-on charity work themselves.

This directly sparked a trend of philanthropy, as people who were worried about facing retribution began looking for ways to do good and build up good karma.

This unexpected development surprised the relevant government departments that had been monitoring the situation; they hadn’t anticipated such a positive side effect.

In a car in Jiangcheng City, Wu Jie was holding up his phone and livestreaming. He couldn’t believe that his good deed of helping someone had ended with him being slandered in a long-winded online post.

Since he hadn’t filmed it, he had no way to prove his innocence and was getting dogpiled by netizens.

The emergence of the Earth God of Lin Xian Village gave him hope that he could clear his name.

"I’m almost in Wuyuan County. To all the people who slandered me: if you have the guts, come meet me at the Land God Temple in Lin Xian Village.

Don’t you dare chicken out. Let’s see who the good guy is and who the bad guy is."

"Brother Wu is a legend! That piece of trash who wrote the hit piece doesn’t dare to say a word now."

"Haha, from now on, if anyone writes one of those long-winded hit pieces, just tell them to go worship at the Land God Temple in Lin Xian Village first. I won’t believe anyone who refuses to go."

"Lin Xian Village is badass! Ever since the Earth God showed up, I’ve noticed a lot of people online have gone into hiding and don’t dare to pop up anymore."

"Haha, from now on, if you’re looking for a significant other, remember to take them to Lin Xian Village to pray for the Earth God’s blessing as the first order of business."

"To the commenter above: I already told my blind date about it, and she immediately blocked me."

Many others like Wu Jie, who needed to clear their names, were also rushing to Lin Xian Village.

Just then, in Lin Xian Village, a group of Daoists and a few monks got out of their vehicles at the same time.

The online drama from the previous day had prompted several Daoists with skeletons in their closets to make excuses, pack their bags, and flee Wuyuan County overnight.

As a result, the Daoists who arrived this morning all had strange expressions on their faces.

"Fellow Daoist Qiu, did those men who left last night really have something urgent to attend to?"

Qiu Zhengyang had heard the news that morning and was already fuming. He couldn’t believe there were villains in their ranks.

"’Urgent business’ my ass! Once this is over, I’m going to file a complaint against them. We have to purge vermin like that from our ranks."

A fellow Daoist beside him added, "I really didn’t expect this. A few other fellow Daoists who had contacted me about coming suddenly said they’re not coming anymore. Three of them!"

"Sigh. They said they were coming yesterday. We waited all day for them, and now today they’ve backed out."

"We should keep our distance from people like that from now on."

Many of the Daoist masters were in a foul mood. The previous night’s turn of events had made them realize that people they once thought were upstanding were, in fact, afraid of the Earth God’s punishment.

’This might be a good thing, though. From now on, to judge a person’s character, we can just have them come here and worship the Earth God.’

"I hear those bald donkeys over there have it even worse than us. Only two of them showed up today. The rest were too scared to come."

"Heh, you can count the number of true monks these days on one hand. Anyway, let’s not talk about them."

Up on the mountain, Qi Yangming and his disciple learned of their arrival. Since someone had to stay and watch the Land God Temple, only Feng Ziling could go down to greet them.

The tourists who had come to worship stared curiously at the large group of Daoist masters, as well as the two monks standing nearby.

The officials who had accompanied them had already been in contact with Lin Feng. They were also here to handle matters concerning the Land God Temple.

They took note of the names of the Daoists and monks who had originally planned to come but had backed out at the last minute, intending to investigate them upon their return.

Lin Feng didn’t appear personally when these two groups arrived; he only met with the officials from the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee who had come with them.

Inside the Land God Temple, the Daoist masters had just finished worshiping the Earth God. As they smelled the unusual fragrance, their expressions all changed one by one.

The two monks looked at the Land God Temple, the expression in their eyes changing as well. ’If only this were a Buddhist monastery,’ they thought.

Neither of them entered the temple, which only made the Daoist masters look upon them with even greater disdain.

"Daoist Qi, you’ve been here the whole time. I heard you supervised the construction of this temple. Did you notice anything unusual while it was being built?"

"Everyone, I didn’t discover anything miraculous during the construction. The anomalies only began to appear after it was completed.

I’ve already inspected the entire temple, but I couldn’t find the source of the issue."

"That’s rather strange. Could it be that the Earth God has truly manifested?"

As Cultivators, while they hoped Immortals existed, their years of practice had led them to believe such things were nothing but myths.

Now, being told that an Earth God had manifested, their first instinct was to suspect it was all a hoax.

But all the information they gathered indicated that the Land God Temple in Lin Xian Village was genuinely supernatural, leaving them feeling rather bewildered.

"Brother, what did that Boss Lin have to say?"

"Boss Lin didn’t say anything. We asked, but he just said he didn’t know."

Someone chimed in, "Lin Xian Village has other supernatural aspects too. Maybe there’s something special about this location itself."

"That’s right. I heard there’s a magical Arrow Tower, too. There really might be something to this place."

"Brother, I was wondering if it would be possible for us to meet with Boss Lin?"

Qi Yangming replied, "That’s not my call to make. I’ll have to ask."

"Then we’ll be counting on you, Brother."

Suddenly, a commotion erupted outside, and everyone turned to look.