While the examiners were all uneasy and suspicious, looking around them and feeling as though an invisible Predator stood at their sides, Lu Zheng, the "alien," had already returned to Hua Country with Si Lingxi and Shen Ying.
Before crossing back to Great Jing, Shen Ying had uploaded the costume-change video she had filmed in Antarctica. The long-waiting netizens swarmed in once more.
"Fairy!"
Having just crossed back and arrived at Peach Blossom Glade, Tao Qing came forward to meet them. "The Peach Blossom Temple in Guoyue County, Hezhou, Zhiyang Province, has been harassed by heretical gods and licentious cults. Tao Zhen has taken eight sisters there to provide support."
"Oh?" Shen Ying's gaze sharpened. "What happened?"
As her cultivation grew ever higher and her Incense Luck ever more abundant, Peach Blossom Shrines and temples throughout the land could solve most problems merely by borrowing the accumulated power of the Old Peach Tree through peach branches.
Furthermore, the Eighteen Peach Blossom Heavenly Maidens made regular patrols. Demons, ghosts, and monsters everywhere knew that the Peach Blossom Shrines had formidable backing, surpassing even the various Mountain God Temples and Land God Temples that received little attention.
Thus, since their initial campaign to reclaim Peach Blossom Shrines and temples across the land, even as those shrines and temples gradually expanded afterward, it had been a long time since they had encountered a situation requiring the Eighteen Heavenly Women to provide support.
"In an old village deep within the mountains of Guoyue County, a heretical god and licentious cult was being worshipped. It seems the other side gained some fortuitous opportunity and greatly increased its cultivation, so it began harassing the Peach Blossom Temple in an attempt to seize its Incense Luck. The temple keeper could not hold it off," Tao Qing said.