The Earth God and the Child

The seventh reincarnation.

In this life, Lin Xuan was no longer a mortal.

He had become the Earth God of this small town, receiving the local people's incense offerings in the Earth God Temple.

"Earth God, bless my grandson to pass the imperial examination and become the top scholar."

"Earth God, bless me, Wang, with a surge of gambling luck so I can win back a few hundred taels of silver."

"Earth God..."

As the Earth God, Lin Xuan found the wishes he heard in these people's hearts utterly tiresome.

With his divine power, it was already difficult enough to protect an entire town from ghosts, demons, and evil spirits.

If he truly had the ability to make every wish come true, why would he bother being an Earth God here?

Besides, these people were far too mercenary. They expected wealth and glory after offering sacrifices worth only a few copper coins.

If such a god really existed, he would want to worship one too.

Perhaps they felt that the Earth God Temple was not efficacious enough, or perhaps there were other reasons.

The number of worshippers coming here gradually began to dwindle.

As the Earth God Temple grew increasingly deserted, the old temple keeper, seeing that there was no more profit to be made, made up an excuse to deceive him and went home to look after his grandson.

Lin Xuan did not particularly care when he saw all this. He found the incense offerings of those impure-hearted worshippers distasteful anyway.

Fortunately, some worshippers really did have their wishes fulfilled after coming here to pray, and would return to the temple to repay their vows.

Since the temple keeper was gone, they had no one to give incense money to, so they brought offerings instead.

An old woman had