Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 214 - 214 204 The Duty of the Gods

214: Chapter 204: The Duty of the Gods 214: Chapter 204: The Duty of the Gods What does it mean to become the God of a nation?

Being recognized as a deity by the official government of Great Han, one is able to enjoy the worship of the entire nation.

It can be said that as long as the Han Dynasty exists, Jiang Chen will never lack the power of incense ceremony.

However, although this divine palace is good, there is one error.

Glancing at the palace, Jiang Chen activated his divine thoughts, and a massive surge of divine consciousness appeared, slightly altering the inscriptions on the divine seat and the hanging board of the hall.

Instantly, the inscriptions changed.

The four characters on the divine seat changed from “Demon Suppression Heavenly God” to “Demon Suppression Heavenly King.” The hanging board which read, “Demon Suppression Heavenly God Hall” also changed to “Demon Suppression Hall.”

Indeed, Jiang Chen had been promoted, but Huo Qubing was unaware of this.

Hence, when he constructed the divine palace, he made it a Heavenly God Hall instead of a Heavenly King Hall.

However, the mistake was unimportant, as Jiang Chen could manually correct it himself.

With a flash of heavenly light, the Demon Suppression Heavenly God Palace underwent transformation, and its name was altered accordingly.

The sharp-eyed mortals who witnessed this scene were initially stunned, but their expressions quickly changed dramatically.

They fell to their knees in unwavering devotion, continuously crying out, “The Demon Suppression Heavenly God has shown his divine might.”

“No, it is the Demon Suppression Heavenly King that has shown his divine might.”

“The Demon Suppression Heavenly King has shown his divine might.”

This commotion caught the attention of the people around them.

They, too, noticed the changes in the Demon Suppression Divine Palace.

All at once, the area became a frenzy.

Everyone fell to their knees, muttering prayers, most of which were pleas for the blessings of the Demon Suppression Heavenly King.

Such as blessing my entire family with peace; bless me with success in my studies; bless me with a long life, promotion and wealth; bless my daughter-in-law with a chubby baby; bless me to be noticed by a rich wife…

Jiang Chen listened to these for a while, but eventually became irritated.

It’s okay for people to seek his help in slaying demons and monsters, providing peace and safety is also quite acceptable, and aiding them in promotion and wealth is still bearable.

However, seeking his aid in producing a child seemed a bit too much.

There were even people seeking his blessings for marital harmony, which was truly hilarious.

It’s amusing how young people wish for good things, wishing for wealthy wives.

Perhaps they might be more suited for a resounding slap instead.

He is just the Demon Suppression Heavenly King, responsible only for slaying demons and monsters, not an all-knowing, all-seeing god.

Many of the people’s prayers, he simply couldn’t answer.

Fortunately, despite receiving many prayers, Jiang Chen didn’t necessarily have to respond to all of them.

Since he is a Demon Suppression Heavenly God, he only needs to respond to prayers related to his duties.

As for things unrelated to his duties, he doesn’t need to respond.

Indeed, if gods had to respond to every prayer from sentient beings, wouldn’t this world be in chaos?

If someone prayed for a god to take another person’s life, should the god oblige or not?

Only reasonable prayers are to be answered by the gods, while the unreasonable ones are filtered out.

Of course, unreasonable and irrelevant prayers can be ignored.

However, reasonable and duty-related prayers must definitely be responded to.

For instance, if someone were to pray for Jiang Chen to slay demons and monsters, Jiang Chen would definitely respond.

If he didn’t, he would suffer the backlash of the power of incense ceremony.

Accepting the power of incense ceremony isn’t an easy matter.

Once accepted, a cause and effect relationship is bound to form with the individuals generating the power of incense ceremony, hence one must protect them.

The Heavenly Dao is unbiased.

Since cultivators benefit from the power of incense ceremony, they must pay a price.

Protecting the people who believe in them is the price.

The incense ceremony of sentient beings can strengthen the gods.

After receiving the power of incense ceremony, gods use this strength, which is enhanced by the incense ceremony, to protect the believers.

This is indeed a kind of reincarnation, a cycle of the Heavenly Dao, and the ultimate principle of Human Path.

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“Huh?”

“People being harmed by evil spirits?”

Just as he was about to withdraw his divine consciousness, Jiang Chen vaguely heard someone praying to him.

There were evil spirits harming people, and they hoped the Heavenly King could manifest his divine might and slay the evil spirits.

Slightly intrigued, Jiang Chen released his divine consciousness to take a closer look.

These so-called evil spirits were a kind of demon.

Therefore, slaying evil spirits is precisely the duty of the Demon Suppression Heavenly King.

Then, if someone requested this and he heard this request, he would definitely need to respond.

Although the gods and immortals were not manifested in the Nanbuzhan Continent, it didn’t mean that it was devoid of demons and evil spirits.

The barrier of the Nine States was only aimed at high-level immortals.

For those small demons, they were simply out of its scope.

Moreover, ghosts were extraordinarily unique creatures.

They were humans in life, and ghosts after death, but essentially, they were still human.

Thus, the Nine States barrier had no effect on ghosts.

In the Nanbuzhan Continent, there were often disturbances created by ghost soldiers, and these were the reasons.

Ghosts were also human, dead humans!

Jiang Chen’s divine consciousness, through the connections formed by the incense ceremony, traversed endless space to reach the side of the prayer.

He then used the Sun and Moon Divine Pupil to gaze at the individual.

Suddenly, various cause-and-effect scenarios about the issue emerged in Jiang Chen’s mind.

Afterwards, his expression darkened.

An evil ghost seeking revenge!

The reason why that man was haunted by an evil spirit was all because he himself had killed the person who had turned into the evil spirit.

Now, after that person’s death, their resentment did not dissipate but transformed into an evil spirit seeking revenge.

This was something brought upon by one’s own actions, and it was not appropriate for others to get involved.

Heaven’s will is clear, and retribution is inevitable.

The evil ghost seeking revenge is in accordance with the operation of the Heavenly Dao.

If outsiders intervened, it would inevitably be recorded by the Heavenly Dao, and they would carry karmic power.

With karmic power comes karmic tribulations.

What cultivators dread the most is none other than karmic power, for it could claim lives.

Having figured this out, naturally, Jiang Chen ignored the man’s request.

However, not saving the man did not equate to letting the evil spirit continue its recklessness.

After some thought, Jiang Chen dispatched two heavenly soldiers to monitor the evil spirit.

The evil spirit seeking vengeance was not a problem, and any virtuous person would not intervene.

However, if in the course of seeking revenge, the evil spirit harmed innocent people, then the evil spirit could no longer be allowed to remain.

In short, to sum up, vengeance is permissible, but innocent people must not be implicated.

After all that was settled, Jiang Chen began gathering the wishful power of incense ceremony from the Merit Gold Wheel that appeared in response to his thoughts.

Jiang Chen had his own understanding of the claim that ‘the power of incense ceremony is poisonous.’

That is, “take from the people and use it for the people, and the incense ceremony will bear no poison.”

However, if one were to take from the people but neglect their welfare, the backlash from the incense ceremony would indeed prove poisonous, potentially costing one their life.

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After taking care of the matters related to the divine palace, it was time for Jiang Chen to carry out the main task — leading his heavenly soldiers on a patrol to let the Three Realms’ demons know that the Demon Suppression Heavenly King was coming to spread warmth.

However, as his heavenly soldiers were newly formed, although they were all seasoned fighters, they hadn’t fought against demon soldiers before and were inevitably a bit rusty.

Jiang Chen was concerned about potential accidents, so he planned to first practice their skills on some ordinary demon kings.

After his heavenly soldiers became familiar with the demon clan’s fighting styles, it wouldn’t be too late to seek trouble with the Six Demons.

Thinking about training his soldiers, Jiang Chen naturally planned to take all of his 7,800 heavenly soldiers down to the Lower Realms.

As the Sun Temple had sent people over, the defense of the Demon Suppression Hall was directly entrusted to the Heavenly General Yun Ting and his heavenly soldiers.

PS: After being busy for a whole day, I finally got the air conditioner installed.

It cost me 2800!

It’s like more than half a month’s manuscript fee.

Enough talk, time to start saving money.

I’ll start creating bursts of content from tomorrow!

For motivation, I’ve decided to write while watching the electricity meter.

The cool air the air conditioner blows is money.

Also, the movie of “Gods’ Grave” has been officially released, it’s available on iQIYI.

Everyone, please go and watch it.

I can’t be the only one losing money here.