Cui Moyang cleared out the mountain gods that had appeared and studied them.
After giving Sima Zhao a few instructions, Chu Qing headed straight for the Imperial Capital.
This time, he did not travel very quickly to the Imperial Capital.
He wanted to see what the Great Gan Empire had become.
Without the Millennial Tribulation, many parts of the Great Gan Empire had begun to show signs of life.
People had returned to the ruined County Towns.
The somewhat larger prefectural cities had become bustling.
As for the provincial cities and main cities he passed through, they were even more prosperous.
It was as if the wind and snow from some time ago had merely been a dream.
Yet amid that prosperity, Chu Qing saw this:
Temple after temple rose from the ground.
Statues of Gods and Devils sat within those temples, accepting the worship of the people.
After asking around, Chu Qing discovered:
Everyone, no matter what they were doing, had to burn three sticks of incense for the Gods and Devils every day.
If they failed to burn those three sticks of incense, they would be unable to eat or sleep in peace.
Some even ran before the temples in guilty panic, kowtowing madly and begging the Gods and Devils for forgiveness.
What was interesting was this:
Those landlords and wealthy old men had once squeezed ordinary people dry without mercy.
But when it was time to burn incense and worship the gods, they immediately ordered their hired hands to do so.
They even provided sandalwood incense for free.
"Offerings of incense! This Gods and Devils Law Net truly values incense offerings!"
Seeing this, Chu Qing's conviction grew even firmer.
He did not care how powerful the Gods and Devils Law Net was.
But it had better not