Building a sect from scratch

"I hope the gods will forgive me——"

The old man spoke profusely and prostrated himself on the ground as he approached Wang Ergou with a panicked expression. The little girl beside him also prostrated himself with a pale face.

After hearing Wang Ergou's question, the old man raised his head and glanced at him, then shook his head and replied: "Young man doesn't recognize gods, so you deserve to die! Please forgive me!"

Wang Ergou thought it was very ridiculous: "Since you don't recognize me, why do you call me a god?"

The old man was stunned: "You... aren't you a god?"

"No, I am a disciple of the nearby Taiyin Sect, not some god!"

"Not a god!?"

The old man's voice suddenly became louder, and the door and window sash nearby also made a faint "creep" sound. It seemed that many villagers were secretly observing the place.

At this time, the little girl's face was a little brighter. She looked at Wang Ergou with her big round eyes, and boldly asked curiously: "If you are not a god, how did you get in?"

"Anya'er! You have no role to speak here!"

The old man scolded the little girl eagerly, which made her shrink her neck, pursed her lips, and dared not make any more noise. The old man stood up and seemed a little more courageous. He smiled at Wang Ergou and said: "Our place is a place blessed by gods. Only gods can come. I heard that there are wars everywhere in the outside world and people are in dire straits. You guys But those who survived? If you have no place to go, just stay here. If you can get in, the gods won't blame you!"

"War? People are in dire straits?"

Wang Ergou's face was almost full of question marks.

"There's no war going on outside!"

"Not fighting!?" The old man seemed a little surprised: "Then which god are you under the rule of?"

"Under the rule of gods?"

Wang Ergou couldn't help but muttered in Tuanmai: "No, I can understand every word this NPC says, why can't I understand it when they are connected together?"

The players who listened to the "live broadcast" from Tuanmai were also confused. Someone came up with an idea: "Captain, ask him if he knows about Guangcheng Sect!"

"Uncle, no, this grandpa," Wang Ergou asked, "Have you ever heard of Guangcheng Sect?"

"Guangcheng Zong?" When the old man heard this name, he looked sad and sighed, and said: "Isn't Guangcheng Zong gone? Alas, when we were still under the rule of Guangcheng Zong, life was easy! How can it be like now? , I have to offer sacrifices to the Water Goddess every year... Oops! I made a mistake!"

The more Wang Ergou listened, the more outrageous he felt. He quickly asked: "Wait a minute, wait a minute, why is Guangcheng Sect gone? Isn't it good? I met Du Da and Du from Guangcheng Immortal Residence in Taiping Town yesterday. Now, who is the Water Goddess?"

The so-called Du Da and Du Er refer to the two NPCs resident in Guangcheng Immortal Residence. One is Du Zhong and the other is Du Heng. They are both disciples of the Guangcheng Sect.

Er Du has a very good attitude towards the players, and the prices he pays for buying spiritual grass, spiritual plants, various finished talismans and other things from the players are higher than those offered by profiteers in the sect. Two NPCs have asked curiously many times why their disciples of the Taiyin Sect like to use their spiritual consciousness to control the actions of puppets instead of walking with their own bodies, and they also like to jump around, so that the players don't know how to answer...

After hearing the news about Guangcheng Zong, the old man was even more surprised: "Guangcheng Zong is still there!?"

"Here you are! You're fine here!"

The old man's expression suddenly changed: "How could this be? When we took refuge in the valley, the gods clearly told us that the Guangcheng Sect was gone..."

Obviously, there seems to be some secret behind it.

But Wang Ergou really doesn’t want to have any more Riddler-like arguments with the NPC in front of him, such as “Can it be said?” It was smelly and long, so he asked impatiently: "Let's not talk about whether Guangcheng Zong is here or not, but who is the 'Water Goddess' you are talking about?"

According to the usual practice, the Water Goddess, who doesn’t sound like a serious fairy, may be the new mission boss—whose good fairy wants human beings as sacrifices every year?

Of course, the old man noticed Wang Ergou's impatience. Seeing that he could come here without knowing anything about the Water Goddess, he was a little trembling: "The Water Goddess is - eh! Since you don't know about the Water Goddess, then, how is that? Coming in?"

Wang Ergou actually had a guess in his mind: "If you are talking about the dark demon in the pool at the entrance of the valley, that thing has been killed by us!"

"The... 绻魔 in the pool? Kill, kill, kill!?"

The old man's hands began to shake, and his expression was first surprised, then worried, and finally turned to doubt. He said: "We have never seen the true appearance of the Water Goddess, but we can hear the Water Goddess's will when we are close to the cold pool. And every year, the queen asks us to send living people to the cold pool at the mouth of the valley as sacrifices, otherwise... ugh... what are you really going to kill in the cold pool? "

"If nothing else, the pool will be clean now, and there is nothing in it! If you don't believe me, go out and see for yourself!" At this point, Wang Ergou suddenly remembered the dungeon, and quickly added: "Maybe in the future There will be something, but it probably doesn’t matter to you. We plan to stay around here and kill the dungeons every day... uh, kill the things that come out of the pool! "

The old man choked with sobs: "Is this true!?"

Wang Ergou skillfully raised the banner: "We are disciples of the nearby Taiyin Sect! We are also under the name of Guangcheng Sect. This time we are here specifically to exorcise demons! When our sect builds a base here, we will definitely not miss even a single demon! Don't worry!"

The old man's voice was trembling, and he asked in disbelief: "Are you immortals from Guangcheng Sect!? Then, the water at the mouth of the valley... the water demon, was it really killed by you?"

He didn't remember the name of the demon Wang Ergou mentioned, but he remembered that it was probably some kind of demon -

How could it not be a demon? It would be fine if it had always been like this to ask for living people as sacrifices every year, but a hundred years ago, everyone also lived under the rule of Guangcheng Sect. At that time, it was stable and peaceful. As long as they served the spiritual fields that were assigned to them, the immortals never blamed them. In comparison, whether it was the Goddess of Water or the immortals who led everyone into seclusion in the valley, they not only forced everyone to take care of more spiritual fields, but also required living sacrifices every year...

It’s not that no one doubted what the immortals said at the beginning, but...how could mortals disobey the immortals? The villagers who had tried to escape had no news, so what else could they do?

The old man has lived for more than a hundred years this year, a rare and long-lived person. The happy days under the rule of Guangcheng Sect outside the valley, which were almost forgotten in his memory, seemed to reappear in front of him. The immortals who occasionally cured the villagers' headaches and fevers, and the life-saving pills and talisman paper for exorcising evil spirits and warding off evil spirits that they could exchange for only some wild delicacies, were just ordinary at that time...

His turbid eyes seemed to be going blind, and his vision gradually blurred, but his hearing was extremely sensitive. He heard a young, energetic and vigorous voice beside his ear saying:

"We are a sect in Guangcheng Sect, called Taiyin Sect, and what immortals are there? We are cultivators, not immortals! But the demon in the cold pond is indeed dead, dead!"

He also heard his trembling and humble voice: "Then what tribute does Taiyin Sect... want us to prepare?"