City God Temple

  The little ghosts knew things that weren't many, but for Feng Xiaoxiao and others, it was enough.

  This street was actually just an ordinary street with no special features in the past, and the change started suddenly a month ago. The mountain ghosts and demons gathered here at that time were still just a confused and chaotic mass of spiritual bodies, with insufficient memory and intelligence, and they wandered the world solely on instinct.

  As Li Chang said, these spirit groups cannot last for long in today's environment, at most only three to five days. If there is no special opportunity, they will soon return to being a cluster of nothingness and drift back between heaven and earth.

  However, in this street, there is a mahjong house that is different from other places. Those spirits that should have dissipated will be involuntarily sucked in when they pass by, and then slowly condense into mountain ghosts and demons. Except for not having a physical body, it is basically no different from normal living beings.

  Gradually, the mountain goblins in this street increased in number within a month and gained intelligence. Everyone naturally gathered together to study how they survived, and just as the goblins were discussing it heatedly, a woman appeared to dispel their confusion - because the owner of this mahjong hall was the City God.

  Cheng Huang is a god who governs both yin and yang, and is also the legendary guardian deity of the city, equivalent to a local official in the underworld. Those with larger jurisdictions are equivalent to circuit intendants, prefectural Cheng Huang are equivalent to prefects, and county Cheng Huang are roughly equivalent to county magistrates... Depending on their respective ranks, the jurisdictional areas managed by Cheng Huang in different regions also vary in size.

  Of course, nowadays all methods are useless, and the Taoist practice of this city god in the mahjong hall is also useless. The scope of jurisdiction is the smallest in history, with only one street...

  In mythological legends, Cheng Huang is specifically responsible for investigating good and evil among humans. Under his jurisdiction are the Wenwu judges, various gods, General Ganliu, General Fanshie, General Niutou, Daye Youling, and General Jiaosuo. For all living beings within the jurisdiction of Cheng Huang, their spirits will be arrested by General Fanshie (also known as Heibai Wuchang) and taken to the Cheng Huang Temple for trial. After that, the spirit along with the trial results will be transferred to the underworld. This is equivalent to a preliminary examination before being sent to a higher authority... And the problem lies in this link of sending for trial!

  All laws have fallen. Even the divine realm is empty, let alone the underworld. Moreover, in today's earthly environment, ghosts can't even take shape, basically disappearing into thin air soon after death. The entire underworld is desolate and empty, and even if City God wanted to transfer cases to higher authorities, there would need to be a place that could receive them, and ghost judges who could handle the matter.

  Not to mention that the current staff under the jurisdiction of this city god is not even complete. Except for that woman who explained everything, Hei Wuchang, all the other subordinates on the other side are ordinary people, in short, they were a group of small gangsters who followed him when he was still an ordinary gangster.

  Such a local institution is clearly not enough, the Cheng Huang is the local official of the Yin world, and his own Dharma body can protect one side of the yin spirits. However, at the same time, he cannot send these yin spirits to the underworld, so in this way, the ghosts and monsters that were sent but could not be sent away settled down here...

  "Cheng Huang..." The little fox's brow furrowed in doubt: "I always feel like I've smelled Li Chang's scent."

  Yang Yan also agreed: "Even if it wasn't him who did it, it must be someone he knows. I just don't believe that with such a big commotion, Li Chang, who's been searching for immortals all over the world, wouldn't know anything about it?!"

  It's fine for me and Feng Xiaoxiao, after all, we've only been awakened for a few months and aren't familiar with the business. Plus, everyone isn't really enthusiastic about finding colleagues... But then there's this one very eye-catching Cheng Huang. And on top of that, there are even more eye-catching mountain spirits and ghosts all over the street. If Li Chang didn't know anything at all, it would be too unbelievable.

  Ao Qian let out a sigh of relief: "Is it Cheng Huang?! Then this store can be considered for rent." Originally, he thought the feng shui here was bad. Later, seeing ghosts and monsters all over the street made him want to withdraw immediately. But unexpectedly, the situation took a drastic turn, and after inquiring about it, he found out that the feng shui here wasn't bad, but rather too good... Although currently, he can only govern one street, within the current national scope, there's probably no other place that can produce a Cheng Huang besides this one.

  Feng Xiaoxiao was taken aback for a moment, but then thought about it and realized that she had come to see the store with her friends anyway. Whether the city was in chaos or not had nothing to do with her, even if Li Changdong's hands were involved in the middle of it all, it wouldn't affect her own head.

  "Second brother, I think Ao Ge's words also make sense. Renting a shop here should be feasible... As for the City God, we can visit him later and ask him to take care of Ao Ge, after all, he is a local snake..." Feng Xiao Xiao turned her head to ask Yang Zhan.

  Yang Yan looked at Ao Qian and said: "You make your own decision."

  The rent is fine, the location is fine, the decoration is fine... and now even the background is complete. Except for occasionally having to endure some aesthetically challenging ghost faces when going out, everything else is perfect...

  Ao Qian thought for half a day and finally smiled: "Rented!"

  "What's going on?!" A voice came from behind everyone.

  A group of ghosts turned their heads, and Feng Xiaoxiao followed them to take a look, only to find that the little rascal who had been driven away earlier had come back, and this time he brought a muscular man with him.

  The little rascal still couldn't see the group of ghosts, and with a look of no fear in his eyes, he walked through the bodies of the ghosts to stand before several people: "What are you all doing here?!"

  The ghosts ignored the little rascal in the same way, and excitedly pointed to the muscular man who introduced a few people to Feng Xiaoxiao: "Great Immortal, this is Cheng Huang Ye."

  A few people whispered: "......"

  The man stared blankly, furrowed his brow to look at the group of ghosts, and then looked at Feng Xiaoxiao and a few others. Originally, he was just wondering why so many ghosts had suddenly gathered around here. After arriving at the scene and seeing that there were living people, he thought it was some kind of evil person being surrounded by ghosts causing trouble. Only now did he come to his senses, and it seemed that this was a fellow practitioner.

  "Are you the ones my brother said were going to open a store?! Ah, I remember now! You're... checking out the environment?!" As he spoke, his eyes swept over the group of ghosts.

  A group of ghosts burst into loud laughter: "Don't worry, Lord City God, do we need to investigate the environment of our street? That's absolutely one of the best."

  The little rascals are sulking, why is the big boss being so polite to these people?!

  The wind blew gently, and a figure emerged from the alleyway with a smile: "We're planning to open a pet store here, so please take care of us in the future... How about we change the subject?!" This alley was indeed too secluded, it looked like a place where people did bad things. Plus, there was a mysterious rascal around, and some things were not suitable for clear talk.

  The man nodded: "My chess and card center is just nearby, would you like to go there and sit for a while?" Mahjong halls can't be called mahjong halls directly, they need another name to cover it up. Otherwise, opening one on the street so openly is asking for trouble.

  Just as a few people were about to respond, another young punk rushed in from outside the alley and hastily pulled the muscular man away: "Boss, hurry up! Those xxx punks are here again, the brothers are waiting for you to take charge." Negotiate first, then fight. This punk B obviously came to summon the main force.

  Muscular man suddenly flew into a rage: "He's playing with me, does he think I'm a sick cat? Where are those bastards? Take the lead and go, I want to see...bbb..." As he spoke, he followed the little hoodlum B hastily away.

  Only a group of speechless ghosts and monsters were left, plus three even more speechless Xiao San.

  There was also a little rascal A who was forgotten, awkwardly rubbing his head and dryly laughing: "Uh, the boss is in a bit of a hurry, maybe he didn't have time to chat with you guys... How about I take you to the game room to wait for a while?"

  Yang Yan looked at the table: "I think it's not necessary, in the future pet store will open here, there will be plenty of opportunities to gather our heads, let's go take a look at the storefront first."

  Bidding farewell to the little rascals, when he went to inspect the store again, Ao Qian, who had fully understood the situation this time, did not hesitate and signed a rental agreement with the landlord on the spot. He also paid half a year's rent and deposit in one go. The main reason for his quick decision was that there were many ghosts following him, making a fuss, and under their friendly introduction, Feng Xiaoxiao and a few others understood the store better than the original owner in just a few minutes... At least the original owner would not have known that there was a nest of cockroaches living between the roof and the second floor.

  Set the future store address, then it's decoration and renovation and procurement. As for the pet store, only Ao Qian is more familiar with this aspect, so everyone doesn't follow him to join in the fun. Anyway, this can be done slowly, wait until the store opens, and publicize it to the original old customers, with Ao Qian's previous reputation, it will simply enter the normal track.

  In just a few hours, not only had Ao Qian's storefront been finalized and rented, but the construction of the city wall on the other side was also completed. As they left, they coincidentally ran into Muscle City Wall's younger brother who came to invite everyone over for dinner.

  Thinking about the future, and also being a bit hungry, Feng Xiaoxiao and others didn't hesitate to follow Xiao Hunhun to a small restaurant that was said to be famous throughout the street. As soon as they entered, they saw a muscular man sitting at an empty table with a menu ordering food.

  Look, several people have arrived. The muscular man waved his hand and shouted loudly: "Have you guys arrived?! Hurry up, hurry up! I've already ordered a few dishes. Take a look and see if there's anything else you want to add?!"

  Feng Xiaoxiao was a straightforward person. After hearing this, he walked over to take a look at the menu, which was full of meat dishes... He picked up his pen and added two vegetarian dishes and a soup. Then, he handed the menu back to the stunned store clerk: "Go ahead, hurry up with the food, everyone is starving."

  The muscular man laughed heartily: "Sister, your temper suits my appetite. You say what you want to say, which is much better than those timid little girls."