Chapter 1 The altar that day

It was early morning in midsummer.

In an ordinary residential building, a teenager of about 16 or 17 years old was sitting in front of a computer desk, muttering to himself:

"On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the gates of Yin open, and evil spirits and demons come."

The young boy Lu Ran stared at the screen, watching the scene of ruins in the video.

The streets of the night market, which should have been bustling, were now ablaze with flames and filled with ferocious black dogs.

Their bodies were stained with bloody lines, and their mouths were filled with flames, destroying everything in sight.

The evil demon clan, the blood disaster dog!

This is not a movie clip, but a real news report.

Every fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, all kinds of evil spirits appear and wreak havoc on the world.

"What a murderer." Lu Ran muttered to himself.

The video only showed the evil demons wreaking havoc in the city.

In the demon caves and on the battlefields at higher levels, the war between humans, gods and evil demons is even more brutal!

If one day, the evil army really breaks through the defense network and rushes into the human world,
"Lu Ran?" A pleasant female voice suddenly came from outside the window.

Lu Ran's home is on the first floor, so he could hear the sound clearly.

"Hmm?" Lu Ran came to the window and saw a tall and graceful figure under a big tree.

The girl was wearing a white dress and her long black hair fell on her shoulders.

It happened to be about to rain, and gusts of wind blew, making the girl's long hair dance and her skirt flutter.

"Oh~~~"

Lu Ran sighed and looked at his desk mate and class monitor.

Seeing Lu Ran's reaction, Jiang Ruyi couldn't help but blush.

She usually wore a blue and white school uniform, and never had her hair as long and her white skirt fluttering as she did today.

"It's broken!" Lu Ran leaned his elbow on the windowsill and looked at the gentle and lovely girl under the tree with a smile.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Ruyi asked puzzledly.

Lu Ran: "Who can tell the difference between you and Chang'e?"

Jiang Ruyi's face turned even redder, and she couldn't help but give Lu Ran a cold look: "You are just a sweet talker."

Lu Ran pursed his lips.

You talk as if you've tasted it.

"Let's go quickly. Today is a day to worship God. Don't be late." Jiang Ruyi held a booklet in her hand and shook it gently.

"Oh." Lu Ran turned and walked towards the computer.

The disaster report in the video was from half a month ago. He specially watched it just to give himself a boost.

Because today is the first day of the sixth lunar month, the annual day to worship God!

On this day, the gods will select believers from the human world.

The so-called "gods" are actually a group of sculptures that come to suppress evil spirits.

In the early 1980s, on a full-moon night, a group of demons suddenly emerged and wreaked havoc on the world.

It was an extremely cruel and bloody history.

Until three months later, when the whole world fell into deep despair, dawn finally came!
Mysterious sculptures appeared one after another, all over the world, suppressing all kinds of evil spirits.

A war between gods and demons began and continues to this day.

With the advent of the sculpture, humans finally have an effective way to resist. Those monsters that are difficult to destroy with human power can be punished by divine power!
At this point, mankind entered an era of "universal worship of God."

When people reach a certain level physically and mentally at the age of 17 to 18, they may be accepted as believers by the gods.

As long as you become a believer, you can cultivate divine power, learn divine laws, and fight against the evil demons.

"After so many years, it's my turn now."

Before turning off the computer, Lu Ran took another deep look at the evil bloodhound in the video.

For Lu Ran, every fifteenth night of the lunar calendar is extremely difficult to endure.

He's had enough of the feeling of fear and powerlessness!
"Bring an umbrella, it looks like it's going to rain." The girl's voice came from outside the window again.

"Oh!"

For some reason, it always seems to rain on the day of worshipping the gods every year.

It's magical, just like it always rains during the college entrance examination every year.

Lu Ran walked out of the house holding an umbrella, walked quickly to the girl, and pointed at her special outfit: "For Master Jianyi?"

"Yeah." Jiang Ruyi took a step forward and opened the booklet.

In the pages of the book, one blocky head after another comes into view, all of them sculptures of gods.

This screen is like the hero selection interface in a game.
There are nearly a hundred gods in Daxia, and they are divided into nine rows, which are equivalent to nine levels.

And the first person in the first row is the god Jian Yi!

This is a sculpture of a woman.

Her long skirt fluttered, her long hair danced, she held a sword behind her back in one hand, and with the other hand she made a gesture and placed it in front of her.

Although it is a stone sculpture, it cannot conceal her fairy-like appearance and her transcendental temperament.

"You will succeed." Lu Ran encouraged at the right time.

Don't be fooled by Jiang Ruyi's gentle and quiet appearance, her physical test data, martial arts level and other comprehensive results are among the top three in the whole school!

"Master Jian is a cold and arrogant fairy." Jiang Ruyi was a little distressed.

When gods select believers, in addition to looking at human qualifications, they also consider another factor - character.

Countless examples have shown that the closer a person's personality is to that of God, the easier it is for him to be accepted as God's disciple.

Jiang Ruyi is the gentle and quiet type.
Suddenly, the girl frowned and tried hard to look cold.

Lu Ran didn't understand and looked at the girl in the white dress curiously.

But Jiang Ruyi raised her chin slightly, pretending to be condescending, and said lightly: "How is it?"

Lu Ran: “.”

She is worthy of being a woman!

The speed at which they changed their attitude was faster than the speed at which netizens turned pages of a novel!

"Hehe~" Jiang Ruyi was easily defeated and looked at the album of gods again.

The smile on her face gradually turned back into a sad look.

Lu Ran comforted him, "Personality is just a reference, not a decisive factor.

You have strong qualifications and a sincere heart, so you will definitely succeed!"

Jiang Ruyi looked at the elegant figure of Master Jian in the picture and listened to Lu Ran's comforting words.

Gradually, a smile appeared on her face again: "Well, you will succeed too."

Lu Ran looked at the fifth god in the third row of the book.

It was a statue of a stern-looking man wearing a cloak and holding a talisman - a jade talisman!
He is also the god believed in by his late father, Lu Xing.

It was drizzling, and the two of them, holding umbrellas, came to the gate of Yuxiangcheng No. 1 Middle School.

The campus was packed with people, and the rainy days could not stop people's enthusiasm for worshiping the gods.

With the blessings of the citizens, Lu Ran and Jiang Ruyi struggled through the crowd and entered the school gate.

On the playground, the second-year high school students have lined up neatly, waiting for the worship ceremony to begin.

There were also many senior high school students who were not selected last year and came to try their luck under the organization of the school.

Every year, about 30% of students fail to be selected, but the success rate of those who try again the next year is
Almost zero!

Faced with the cruel reality of having no God to protect you, many students cannot bear it and many of them cry and make a fuss.

Lu Ran didn't want to be that kind of person, so he had been training very hard.

All just for today!

"Tsk tsk~ These two are really brave! The homeroom teacher is right in front of them, and they're still sticking so close?"

As soon as Lu Ran and Jiang Ruyi walked into the class queue, they heard a burst of discussion.

"Damn, what's so good about Lu Ran? He's just taller than me, whiter than me, and more handsome than me. Ugh, I feel bad and want to cry."

"You are the only one with impure thoughts. Didn't you see that squad leader Jiang didn't bring an umbrella?"

"You brought it! Your umbrella is the biggest in the class. You can even set up a stall to sell kebabs there. But I never saw the monitor crawl under your umbrella?"

"Nonsense! I haven't sold it yet. Wait until I set up the stove. Do you think she can come over?"

"Eh, what the hell?"

Amid the discussion, Jiang Ruyi blushed and argued, "Don't talk nonsense."

"Hey." Lu Ran stopped and handed the umbrella to his deskmate.

Jiang Ruyi refused: "No, you fight."

Lu Ran: "It's okay, I'll just go and squeeze in with the kebab vendor."

"Heh." Jiang Ruyi was a little embarrassed and annoyed, but was amused by Lu Ran's words.

At Lu Ran's insistence, she took the umbrella and walked towards the team.

The weather was still good and the rain was getting lighter and lighter.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the worship ceremony began in the drizzle.

A female student from Class 1 () of Senior High School was the first to step onto the podium, and under the expectant gazes of the crowd, she invited a god.

"Hey, a fortune teller?"

"Spiritual fortune! This is Master Lingqian!" the sharp-eyed student shouted.

In the sky, a shadow of a man more than ten meters tall quietly emerged, looking down with a smile. He was tall and slender, wearing a long gray cloth gown, holding a bell in one hand and a cloth flag in the other.

But the words on the fortune-telling banner were a little blurry and I couldn’t make out clearly what was written.

"This is the god in the fourth row! It is said that believers of the oracle can help people find love, predict fortunes, etc."

"Come on! You still have to go to the temple to have your fortune told. The believers of the oracle are too unreliable."

"Right, right! Especially during combat, the damn random draws and random use of skills!"

"Chunchun is just a bunch of gamblers."

"You're still complaining? This is the god from the fourth row! You're lucky enough to be able to ask for the god from the eighth row!"

The students below the stage were talking about it, while the female student on the stage was so surprised that she knelt down before the god.

Mr. Lingqian was still smiling, the fortune-telling flag in his hand swaying lightly, and wisps of mist fell from the sky and flowed towards the rostrum.

In a short while, the white mist poured into the students' bodies, and the figure of the god, the Oracle, gradually dissipated.

"Success?"

"Congratulations!" Cheers and applause rang out inside and outside the campus.

But amid the noise, there was also some gossip like "another gambler".

Then, the second student was pushed onto the podium.

What this male student prayed for was the god Jiuzhu who was ranked in the seventh row.

The shadow of this god is quite blurry and it is difficult to tell its gender, but the bamboo whip in its hand is very clear and beautifully shaped.

Although the god's rank was low, the students did not dare to neglect him and immediately knelt down respectfully.
It was from this deity that the situation took a sharp turn for the worse!

There are more than 1 people in Class 2, Class 3, and Class , and all the gods invited are below the fifth level.

Among them, the majority are gods of levels six, seven, and eight.

The various human-shaped gods, animal-shaped gods, and plant-shaped gods dazzled everyone and made them sigh inwardly.

I thought the Fourth-Class God Oracle was just the beginning.

I didn’t expect it to be the peak?
Having said that, it is better to be sheltered by gods than to have no protection at all.

After the three classes finished worshipping the gods, more than ten students had already failed.

“Only a dozen people failed to be selected?” Lu Ran saw everything and started to wonder in his heart.

This year, the ratio of believers recruited by the gods seems to be particularly high?

Is it because the evil demons are becoming increasingly powerful that the gods have lowered the threshold for accepting disciples?
"Cheer up, everyone!" The class teacher Li Yanzhu shouted loudly, awakening Lu Ran who was in deep thought.

Finally it was his Grade 4 () class’s turn!
At the front of the queue, Li Yanzhu led Jiang Ruyi to the podium and said, "Show your deepest respect."

Jiang Ruyi nodded slightly, and walked quickly to the center of the podium following the teacher's instructions.

"Students are ready, we can start." A male teacher gave the order on the side.

Jiang Ruyi lowered her head and closed her eyes, clasped her hands together, and placed her fingertips on her lips.

The young girl is dying.
The sky is gloomy and the drizzle is misty.

The girl in the white dress is like the only bright color in this gray world.

As he watched, Lu Ran’s heart began to beat fast!

Because he saw his own white moonlight!

I saw a huge shadow of a man appear in the sky.

He was wearing a snow-white cloak and surrounded by four white jade plates, each of which was engraved with strange runes.

What is quite strange is that the four white jade plates are respectively wrapped with fine sand, frost and snow, electric current and sparks.

"Master Yu Yu Fu?!"

"Oh wow! Is this true?"

"Fuck, the god in the third row?" There was a cry of surprise from the playground.

Since the beginning of the worship ceremony, the highest-ranking god people have seen is the Oracle in the fourth row.

It is conceivable how difficult it is to invite the gods in the first three rows, and how high the standards of the gods for accepting disciples are!
"And! Wait, there's another god coming?"

"what??"

At this moment, the playground was almost boiling!

For the first hundred or so students, most could only pray for one god to show up. Occasionally, there would be a situation where two gods would fight for someone, but those were conflicts between gods of the sixth or seventh tier.

The second god who is about to appear must be at least of the third tier!

Why do you say that?
After all, how could anyone who dares to snatch believers from the third-class god Yu Fu be an ordinary person?

"It looks like a beast god, Tianluan! Oh my god, Tianluan?!"

"The gods in the second row? They are actually second-class gods?"

"This is such a waste, it would be better to give me one! I am not picky, I will obey the adjustment."

High in the sky, the shadow of a phoenix quietly emerged.

It is snow-white all over and has a graceful figure. Under the gray sky, it emits a holy light and is dazzling.

On the rostrum, Jiang Ruyi bit her lower lip lightly and looked into the sky.

Mr. Jian,

Do you still look down on me?

"Ruyi, be decisive!" The head teacher was very excited, but had no time to celebrate. "Make a choice within 10 seconds!"

To be indecisive is a great disrespect to God.

If you are not decisive, both gods will leave you!

Jiang Ruyi did not hesitate for too long. Her gaze lingered on the two gods for a moment, and then she bowed apologetically to the second-class god, Tianluan.

Then, the girl turned towards the Third-Class God, Jade Talisman.

Under the astonished gazes of the crowd, the girl lifted up the hem of her skirt with one hand and slowly knelt down:

"Ruyi wishes to become Master Yufu's disciple, worship him day and night, practice divine arts, and eradicate evil spirits from the world."

Yu Fu nodded with satisfaction, and mist appeared in his palm, flowing towards the girl kneeling on the stage.

Seeing this scene, Tianluan's figure gradually disappeared.

After 20 seconds, the jade talisman slowly disappeared, and Jiang Ruyi, who accepted the fairy mist into his body, opened his eyes.

Those eyes were clear and bright, with a hint of divine charm.

"Yo huh~~~"

"As expected of Goddess Jiang! Beer!!"

"I am really impressed! Instead of respecting the second-class gods, they turned around and respected the third-class gods."

"Jiang Ruyi! Jiang Ruyi!"

There was thunderous applause, discussions and cheers on the playground.

Below the podium, Li Yanzhu hurriedly called out to Lu Ran: "Lu Ran, hurry up! Hurry up before Master Yu Fu leaves!"

The class teacher knows exactly what the goals of each student in the class are.

"Where's Lu Ran?"

"Lu Ran, the teacher is calling you!"

"Here they come!" Lu Ran strode forward, but heard some gossip coming from behind.

"What the hell are you wasting time on? Hurry up and worship the gods. Show your true colors! Save yourself from pestering squad leader Jiang every day. What else can you do except talk?"

Lu Ran frowned slightly and turned his head to look.

There were many students behind the right side, but Lu Ran immediately spotted a tall male student.

Kou Yingquan looked back at Lu Ran coldly without dodging his gaze.

"Lu Ran." Li Yanzhu greeted and escorted him, pulling Lu Ran's arm forward and constantly admonishing him, "Focus and show your most pious attitude!"

"Yes." Lu Ran quickly gathered his thoughts and strode onto the stage.

He was extremely serious about worshiping God.

Lu Ran has really had enough of feeling weak and incompetent!

"Students are ready, we can begin." The male teacher gave the order again from the side of the rostrum.

Lu Ran bowed his head and closed his eyes obediently, praying silently.

1 seconds, 2 seconds, 3 seconds.
"I want to see what god you can pray to!" Kou Yingquan snorted coldly from the podium, "Don't be unable to pray for anything. Me, fuck?"

Kou Yingquan's face froze, and he felt a gust of cold wind blowing, and his back felt cold!

In just a moment, the temperature between heaven and earth dropped sharply!

"What kind of god is this?"

"Something's wrong! What the hell! Isn't this evil?"

"The demon clan·rouge man!"

"what??"

The playground suddenly exploded with screams everywhere.

Not only were the students panicking, the teachers present also looked terrified and felt their hair stand on end!

The first day of the sixth lunar month is the annual day to worship gods!

On this day, the gods select believers in Daxia, and demons and evil spirits are most well-behaved.

But this kid Lu Ran...
On the first day of the new year, an evil demon was invited to the altar where everyone was paying homage? !

　Long time no see, I'm back (￣▽￣)

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(End of this chapter)