A legendary eye tyrant was hardly an opponent worth boasting about for Zhang Yuanbai, who could ascend to godhood at any time.
After the divine generals under his command had dismembered it, and the divine officials and celestial clerks had purged even the aura left behind by the eye tyrant, Zhang Yuanbai taught the villagers of Dao and virtue, enlightened their minds, and established a local Land God to bless the region with abundant harvests.
Faith had never been something fixed.
Even petitioners who had entered a divine kingdom, or priests who preached a deity's doctrines, might betray them over some matter.
Moreover, most deities in the Crystal Wall World merely plundered faith while pursuing their own aims.
When had they ever truly put the people first?
Take Tyr, the god of justice. More often than not, what he did was driven by his desire to bring order to the world.
In that process, bringing peace and stability to the people was merely incidental.
The evil of an orderly land would inevitably attract him less than that of a chaotic one.
Zhang Yuanbai also had his own purpose. His razing of mountains and smashing of temples, his preaching of Dao and virtue, were likewise for the sake of his own Dao.
Yet such acts of walking the Dao were, for ordinary people, undoubtedly better than demanding that they blindly offer up their faith.
Perhaps he ought to learn from the Supreme Tao Ancestor, merely preaching the Dao and proclaiming virtue, governing through non-action. But that was not his Dao, after all.
Mages had never been a profession free of desire or ambition.
For Zhang Yuanbai to obtain a mage's inheritance, the two must necessarily have been compatible in nature.
Once Zhang Yuanbai had settled the affairs of this village, he