Blade of Reckoning: A Folk Horror Saga
Chapter 685

Maitreya Appears

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Night-Traveling God?!

Li Yan was somewhat startled and suddenly looked up.

He had no time to heed Luo MingZi's warning and immediately formed the Mystical Gestures to investigate.

The Smelling Mystical Power activated. He smelled a trace of incense smoke, and its outline gradually emerged in his mind.

It was a human-shaped phantom, roughly four meters tall, cloaked from head to toe. The sound of chains also came from its body.

There was no mistake. It really was the Night-Traveling God.

After discovering the ancient Queen Mother God Statue's mutation, Li Yan had asked people to carefully organize records on the evolution of deities.

He had a good relationship with Wudang and Qingcheng. In this world, the Daoist traditions had been passed down in an orderly fashion, and many supposedly lost ancient texts were still well preserved. Thus, the origins of certain folk deities had also been clarified. The Night-Traveling God was one of them.

Within the Daoist tradition, he was mainly responsible for patrolling at night and observing good and evil in the mortal world.

Together with the Day-Traveling God, he was worshiped in City God Temples.

The City God's nightly patrols followed fixed areas.

The routes of the Day- and Night-Traveling Gods, however, were relatively free. Any disturbance in the Gangsha Energy would attract them.

If demons, evil spirits, or sinister entities caused trouble, they would suppress them directly.

Of course, not every place had Day- and Night-Traveling Gods.

It was like an upgraded configuration. If a local City God Temple could only afford to support its troops, it naturally had no energy to spare.

Even in some places where the Day- and Night-Traveling Gods could manifest, they could at most be used for reconnaissance.

In the capital, they were undoubtedly much stronger, comparable to the guardian folk

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