Struggling to Survive with Regression Power in the Primordial Saint Sect

The originally idyllic Bai Village was now shrouded in an atmosphere of intense tension.

”It’s a wolf pack! Wolves from the mountains are attacking!”

”Call all the adults from each household, grab your weapons, and head to the village entrance!”

”Hurry, send someone to contact the temple attendant. Everyone, don’t worry! With the temple attendant here and the Earth Deity’s protection, a mere pack of wolves can’t harm us!”

As Lü Yang cautiously extended his divine sense to observe, he was startled to see over a dozen giant wolves, each the size of a calf, encircling the entire village. Their eyes glowed crimson, and their howls and roars caused panic among the elderly, women, and children in the village.

The hearts of the people were unsettled.

”So that’s how it is. The foundation of incense offerings lies in people’s hearts, which is why the Earth Deity Temple is shaking. If I don’t manifest a miracle, the incense offerings will dissipate.”

Mortal beings are inherently pragmatic.

They believe in you when you’re useful; when you’re not, they’ll naturally turn to someone else who is. As people’s faith wavers, the divine realm of incense offerings becomes unstable.

After understanding the situation, Lü Yang finally breathed a sigh of relief.

”Fortunately, it’s not someone deliberately plotting against me.”

Once he calmed down, Lü Yang felt a bit helpless. He couldn’t be blamed for being so cautious; he was truly afraid. Just then, a voice suddenly rang out:

”Earth Deity, Earth God, protect our homes and manifest your divine power.”

The voice resonated directly into the Earth Deity Temple, causing the incense offerings directed at the ”Bai Village Earth Deity” to surge, as if eager to rush outside.

Lü Yang looked out and saw an old Taoist priest, around fifty or sixty years old, standing respectfully in front of the Earth Deity Temple, holding three sticks of incense, which he reverently placed into the incense burner.

However, the Bai Village Earth Deity was currently unconscious. Without his permission, how could someone else utilize these incense offerings?

”Temple Attendant.”

Lü Yang quickly recalled the identity of the old Taoist priest from the Bai Village Earth Deity’s memories. The so-called temple attendant is a low-level practitioner within the divine path system.

”They don’t gather incense offerings themselves but instead rely on the incense deity, using the method of ’inviting the deity’ to obtain the deity’s divine power and abilities. Their strength depends entirely on the incense deity they rely on. If it’s the temple attendant of the City God, their ’inviting the deity’ technique might even rival a late-stage Foundation Establishment grand cultivator?”

With this thought, Lü Yang immediately summoned Ancestor Ting You.

Ancestor Ting You understood instantly and promptly bestowed a stream of incense divine power, replacing the Bai Village Earth Deity’s incense offerings, and blessed the old Taoist priest outside.

”Hmm?”

The next moment, the old Taoist priest, who had been chanting, suddenly paused, a hint of confusion in his eyes. However, he quickly regained his calm demeanor.

The safety of the village was paramount; everything else was secondary.

”Thank you, Earth Deity!”

With these words, the old Taoist priest, now empowered by the incense divine power, strode confidently towards the outskirts of the village to fend off the wolf pack’s invasion.

”Although they didn’t specifically target me, it’s clear they’re acting against Bai Village.”

Lü Yang pondered, then raised his gaze towards a small mountain peak about a thousand miles away from Bai Village, where two figures stood.

Although they seemed to be concealing themselves, their methods were rather crude.

”Perhaps this is an opportunity to witness the methods of these divine path cultivators from the Seven Luminaries Heaven, to avoid being caught off guard in the future.”

As Lü Yang contemplated, he began to make arrangements.

Late-stage Foundation Establishment Long Yue, mid-stage Foundation Establishment Mending Heaven Peak Master, Ancestor Ting You, Dragon Maiden Sui Ling, and over ten early-stage Foundation Establishment rogue cultivators and demon cultivators.

The Myriad Spirits Banner and all Foundation Establishment Banner Spirits were to be deployed!

If the enemy proved too formidable and he couldn’t match them, he would immediately retreat, having Ancestor Ting You take him away while the other Banner Spirits stayed behind to cover the retreat.

On the mountain peak Lü Yang had been observing earlier.

Two Taoist priests sat cross-legged, with an incense burner emitting smoke before them, which they continuously inhaled, bringing a rosy hue to their faces.

After a while, the two Taoists opened their eyes simultaneously.

One of them formed a hand seal, causing a long sword behind him to unsheathe with a crisp sound. The rolling incense transformed into sharp sword energy that scattered in all directions.

”Senior Brother Lin’s divine power is impressive!”

The other Taoist, seeing this, couldn’t help but show envy. ”I’ve been practicing this ’Righteous Sword Technique to Break Evil’ for years, yet I haven’t even grasped the basics.”

Lin Sheng smiled modestly, though pride gleamed in his eyes. ”It’s only because I’m a few years older than you, Junior Brother Wang, that I’ve made some progress. As long as you continue to diligently study our White Lotus teachings, you’ll catch up to me sooner or later.”

”Thank you for your encouragement, Senior Brother.”

Wang Anping appeared invigorated upon hearing this.

He then took out a copper bell he carried with him, infused all his incense divine power into it, and shook it vigorously.

This treasure was called the ”Beast Summoning Bell.”

As the name suggests, it could be used to command wild beasts in the mountains, especially when enhanced with incense divine power. The wolf pack attacking Bai Village was summoned using this method.

”Senior Brother, I wonder why we go to such lengths?”

Wang Anping, while activating the treasure, asked curiously, ”With our cultivation levels, we’re not inferior to that Bai Village Earth Deity. Wouldn’t he comply with our demands?”

”If he complies, it becomes more troublesome!”

Lin Sheng shook his head and sneered, ”We don’t just want an Earth Deity; we want Bai Village and its incense offerings.”

”If he complies, how can we spread our teachings?”

Wang Anping still seemed puzzled. ”In that case, why don’t we just kill him? Then we can preach freely. Who would dare stop us?”

”Indeed, no one would dare stop us.”

Lin Sheng’s voice remained calm. ”But if the Earth Deity dies and we immediately start preaching, the villagers will surely suspect something. Even if they believe, it won’t be genuine!”

”Such incense offerings would be tainted with too many distractions, lacking purity.”

”Therefore, the best approach is to do as Senior Brother suggests: first, send some demons to attack the village, cause a few deaths, and shake the Earth Deity’s foundation of incense offerings.”

”Over time, as more people die, faith in the Earth Deity will wane. We just need to patiently wait until the village is on the brink of destruction, then step in to save them. Naturally, we’ll win their hearts and turn Bai Village into our White Lotus Sect’s stronghold.”

To turn the tide in a desperate situation—why it’s desperate, don’t ask.

However, in the next moment, Lin Sheng’s confident smile froze as he saw an unexpected change in the battle between the villagers and the wolves.

It was the old Taoist priest, now empowered by Lü Yang’s incense divine power.

He appeared almost like a deity descending to the mortal realm, charging alone into the wolf pack, and with a flurry of punches, effortlessly killed two giant wolves.

”That’s the Earth Deity’s temple attendant.”

”Hmph, as expected, he made a move.”

Lin Sheng’s expression turned cold. ”No matter. We’ll act in secret, seal his Earth Deity Temple, and cut off his divine power. The result will be the same!”

He and his junior brother were both elite members of the younger generation in the White Lotus Sect.

Despite their youth, they had caught the attention of the Divine Lord. Although they were temple attendants, they were in no way inferior to Earth Deities, and could even contend with the County City God.

A mere Bai Village.

Could it possibly produce a few County City Gods?

The advantage is ours!

”Boom!”

With that, he mounted his flying sword, infused it with rolling incense divine power, and in an instant, it transformed into a dazzling sword rainbow, descending towards Bai Village.

The two Taoists, now concealed by divine power and invisible to mortals, flashed and arrived before the Earth Deity Temple. They then forcefully broke through the entrance and entered, their voices thunderous:

”Bai Village Earth Deity! We are...”

Their voices abruptly stopped.

Because what they saw was entirely different from the pitiful and helpless Earth Deity they had imagined. Instead, they were met with countless terrifying figures, stretching as far as the eye could see.

All of them were now staring directly at them.

At that moment, Lin Sheng and Wang Anping felt a bone-chilling cold spread from their hearts to their limbs, reaching the top of their heads, causing their teeth to chatter.

In the end, they could only manage to squeeze out a single word from their throats:

”Ah?”