Chapter 628: 192 Chapter: Re-encountering Shen Ji Yue! Must be humble in front of Daoist Priest Fan! (10,000-word Chapter asking for subscription)_2
"Hmm?" Just at that moment, Shen Ji Yue suddenly discovered that among the few people in front of her, apart from Daoist Priest Fan, the expressions of the other three were all slightly weird.
Feeling somewhat puzzled, Shen Ji Yue asked, "Um... Is there something on my face?"
She didn’t quite understand... why were Daoist Priest Fan’s three companions looking at her with such gazes?
Yun Jiuqing asked curiously, "Chief Flag Officer Shen, didn’t you enquire about some information before you came here?"
Shen Ji Yue was taken aback, "Can this kind of news even be inquired about?"
In her impression, matters involving deities were definitely very complicated.
Surely, this isn’t the kind of thing you could randomly find out from just anyone on the street, right? She had even planned to grab a bite to eat at the inn and then visit the local Qintian Supervisor to ask what exactly was going on!
Yun Jiuqing offered a suggestion, "Perhaps you should ask someone about it, I think anyone from Guyuan County would probably know what happened."
Shen Ji Yue was taken aback again.
No way?
Such an obviously major event could be inquired about from just anyone?
She was a bit incredulous, approached the shopkeeper of the inn, and directly asked, "Innkeeper, do you know what happened to the God of the Earth in Guyuan County?"
The innkeeper, busy with his accounts and without raising his head, replied impatiently, "How come all you outsiders come here asking about this same thing?"
After doing some quick calculations, the innkeeper finally raised his head, ready to give a casual answer.
But as soon as he saw the Qintian Supervisor uniform on Shen Ji Yue,
He instantly inhaled a cold breath of air.
Hastily hiding the impatient look on his face, he put on a fawning expression and answered Shen Ji Yue, "Responding to the Qintian Supervisor, you have indeed asked the right person! It’s said that... our Earth Deity of Guyuan County, He... is dead!!!"
Shen Ji Yue: "???"
If it were not for the earnest expression on the face of the innkeeper, she would have thought he was talking nonsense and teasing her.
Shen Ji Yue almost placed her Xuanhua Axe on the table, ready to demand the innkeeper to clearly explain the truth.
"The God of the Earth in Guyuan County is dead?!" Because of the overwhelming shock, she could hardly control the volume of her voice.
Standing at an impressive height of one meter and ninety, she was giving the innkeeper an amount of pressure that was anything but ordinary at this moment.
The innkeeper had already broken out in cold sweat.
Faced with a very tall and imposing female Qintian Supervisor, a small citizen like him wouldn’t dare to argue with her!
Now, the voice of the shopkeeper was trembling as he said, "Yes... yes! At least that’s the rumor going around in Guyuan County. If you don’t believe it, you can ask someone else, their answers will definitely be the same as mine."
Shen Ji Yue was stunned.
Because she could tell that this shopkeeper was not lying.
She knew there was no need to ask anyone else.
This matter... was almost certainly true!!
"Hss—" Shen Ji Yue thought that encountering the minions of an Evil God coveting the Destiny Coffin in Bai He County was already a very serious matter.
Only now did she realize what happened in Bai He County was nothing compared to the events in Guyuan County. Did that county not even have a proper deity die?
What had happened in Bai He County?
After taking a breath to calm herself, Shen Ji Yue quickly continued to question the innkeeper, "How exactly did the God of the Earth in Guyuan County die? Could it be the work of some demonic or deviant force? How powerful would a demonic or deviant force have to be to accomplish that?"
"Uh..." Hearing this question, the innkeeper was a bit at a loss because he didn’t know.
He dared not make up an answer and could only shake his head blankly and say honestly, "I’m not too clear on the details either; it’s just been said that a Taoist killed the Earth Deity."
"I still remember that night was incredibly terrifying. The whole county shook as if a dragon beneath the earth was turning over. If my inn hadn’t been so sturdily built, it might have collapsed due to that tremor."
"A Taoist?" Shen Ji Yue was even more confused; normally, wouldn’t you expect a Taoist to be the kind who couldn’t wait to enshrine and worship an Earth Deity?
Why would anyone attack an Earth Deity?
She couldn’t understand it.
Nor could she make sense of it.
Shen Ji Yue turned back to Fan Wu and the others, the shock still evident on her face. One could imagine how big a psychological impact such news had on her.
"That shopkeeper said that the Earth Deity of Guyuan County is truly dead. From the look on his face, he didn’t seem to be lying," Shen Ji Yue said with a wry smile, "I arrived here an hour or two earlier than you and yet failed to find out about this matter. That’s quite a dereliction of my duties."
Shen Ji Yue asked, "So when you arrived in Guyuan County, had you already enquired about... such news?"
