"What? Is there a problem?"

Xiao Mu stared at Lei Shun, trying to discern something from his expression.

"I just didn't expect that there would be a Fourth Realm warrior among us humans!"

Lei Shun took a deep breath, his astonishment undiminished.

However, deep within his eyes, there was a hint of hidden joy.

The emergence of a Fourth Realm warrior among humans held significant meaning.

"Continue, what exactly happened to the Land God of March City?"

Xiao Mu brought the conversation back to the topic.

"I'm sorry," Lei Shun apologised. "I was so shocked to hear that you're also human that I forgot to explain the situation."

"The Land God Temple of the Wu family village existed since the world was first mutated. When I took charge of the city, I tried to remove it. However, the powerful evil ghost in the temple killed over a dozen of our best fighters. It was simply too powerful to be dismantled."

"Did no powerful fighters come to suppress it?"

Xiao Mu asked, puzzled.

A Curse Ghost level evil ghost shouldn't be free to kill humans. The Alliance should have sent powerful fighters to suppress it.

That's the purpose of the Offensive and Defensive Alliance among the races in the human world.

Lei Shun sneered, "Powerful fighters? They did come, even more than one. However, after visiting the Land God Temple, they turned around and left, leaving nothing behind."

"Was there such a thing?"

Lei Shun's words surprised Xiao Mu.

The Alliance sent people who, faced with the Land God Temple full of evil ghosts, just turned tail and fled. The reason for this baffles him.

Even as a Fourth Realm warrior, shouldn't they at least put up some resistance?

And even if they can't resist it, the Alliance can still send stronger fighters.

After a pause, he casually asked, "Do you remember who had come?"

"Who?"

Lei Shun tried to remember. After a moment, he said, "One was claiming to be Perfected Man Yu Wei, and the other was Perfected Man Ma Ming."

"Ma Ming!"

Xiao Mu was taken aback.

He didn't know who this Yu Wei was, but Ma Ming was too familiar. Just a few days ago, he had killed him.

Could there be more to this than meets the eye?

Given Ma Ming's resentment towards humans, Xiao Mu felt it was very likely that he had done something harmful to them.

"And the disappearance of the Earth Seal, what's that about?"

Xiao Mu recalled his mission to March City.

Lei Shun said, "The disappearance of the Earth Seal, as we guessed, should be related to this Land God Temple. However, due to the evil nature of the temple, none of us dared to go in and search."

"Forget it, take me to the Land God Temple."

Xiao Mu chose not to think too much about it and decided to visit the Land God Temple first.

"Mr. Xiao, are you sure you want to go to the Land God Temple?"

Astonishment spread across Lei Shun's face.

He never expected that rather than being deterred by the strange happenings at the Land God Temple, Xiao Mu would be determined to go.

"You lead the way."

Xiao Mu felt there was nothing to explain and gave the command.

"Alright!"

Lei Shun's expression was odd, but he still nodded. "Please wait a moment, Mr. Xiao. I'll alert my men to clean up Zhang Yang's corpse."

Xiao Mu nodded.

Lei Shun stepped aside to call his men to collect Zhang Yang's body. After the call, he once again used the helicopter to take Xiao Mu to the Wu family village.

The helicopter landed in a threshing field outside the Wu family village.

A vehicle was already waiting in the field.

Lei Shun gestured for Xiao Mu to get off the copter and then into the car.

"Boss Lei, wait for me!"

From afar, a young martial artist in his twenties arrived using Qinggong, and in the blink of an eye, he reached the threshing field.

"Phew!"

The martial artist panted heavily, "Finally, I've caught up."

"Chen Rui, why are you here?"

Lei Shun's expression subtly carried a note of reproach.

"I heard that the elder from the Alliance is heading to the Land God Temple, how could I not be here?"

Chen Rui's face was full of grief and indignation, "That evil ghost killed our leader Zhang today. We must avenge him no matter what."

However, after a quick glance at Xiao Mu, his face instantly replaced with a smile, "Hehe! Is this the elder sent by the Alliance? Nice to meet you, elder. I am Chen Rui."

Then, extending his hand eagerly to shake hands with Xiao Mu.

Xiao Mu stretched out his hand, "I'm Xiao, Xiao Mu."

"Mr. Xiao, nice to meet you! Nice to meet you!"

Chen Rui warmly shook hands with Xiao Mu, holding Xiao Mu's palm and shaking it.

"Nice to meet you."

Xiao Mu subtly withdrew his hand.

"I heard that Mr. Xiao is going to the Land God Temple. My brothers and I are all here. As long as Mr. Xiao is willing to destroy that temple, just give the order. We will do anything."

Chen Rui confidently beat his chest, with an enthusiastic attitude.

Along with his words, Xiao Mu saw, in the direction from where he was coming, a dozen martial artists were approaching.

"Ah!"

Lei Shun sighed, revealing a bitter smile on his face.

"Mr.Xiao, I will take you to the Land God Temple."

Chen Rui was very enthusiastic, beckoned Xiao Mu to follow him, leading the way without waiting for Lei Shun to say anything else.

"Thank you!"

Xiao Mu casually thanked him, following him.

Everyone got in the car and headed to the Land God Temple.

It took only about ten minutes to reach the Land God Temple.

The temple was built on another threshing field, next to a grove. It occupied a large area, but the temple itself was small and appeared to be in a state of disrepair.

A strong black gas radiated from within the temple, reaching up to the sky. This evil energy carried an endless invasive atmosphere, which would make people feel uncomfortable even with just a whiff of it, long term exposure, would deplete a person's energy and cause them to die rapidly.

However, these weren't what surprised Xiao Mu the most, what truly astonished him was that in this area of the Land God Temple, people were continuously lined up to enter the temple to offer incense.

There were many people offering incense, both old and young. Xiao Mu spotted several elderly people who were weak and feeble. A single gust of wind could seemingly knock them over.

Everyone in the queue had a grief-stricken expression, nevertheless, they still entered the temple to offer incense.

After coming out, these incense burners looked even more haggard, as if they were about to die at any moment.

"Umm!"

An elderly man who had just offered incense suddenly groaned and slowly slumped to the ground.

"Father! Father!"

"Grandpa! Grandpa!"

Several people outside the Land God Temple rushed over to support the old man, but eventually, a mournful cry was heard.

This cry was extremely hopeless and desolate.

Opportunistically, Xiao Mu glanced over.

The old man was dead, absolutely dead.

"Dammit! To hell with it!"

Chen Rui cursed loudly, clenching his fists tightly.

"Keep your voice down! You don't want to live anymore."

The suddenly outburst caught Lei Shun off guard. He hurriedly reached out to cover Chen Rui's mouth.

"I don't care about living anymore, this evil ghost dared to kill leader Zhang. How can it let you and me go? Either way, we are dead, might as well die cleanly, early!"

Chen Rui shouted loudly, veins popping out on his forehead, seeming indifferent to life and death.

"Ah!"

Lei Shun sighed, his face filled with deep helplessness.

"Why do these people come here to offer incense?"

After watching for a while, Xiao Mu couldn't suppress his curiosity.

Offering incense to the evil ghost is like committing suicide.

He couldn't understand, knowing that it would kill themselves, why these people still come to offer incense?

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