The fire roared. Xu Feng drew a breath of fresh air outside and caught a faint earthy tang mingled with the scent of incense. That incense came from the Longflow River God. It seemed Mr. Li had been right: though worship of the Longflow River God had long since fallen into neglect...
Its "vat" was still there.
It just wasn't full.
If it were full, the sheer size of that "vat" would be enough to suppress many unworshipped evil gods.
Xu Feng rolled up his trousers and walked barefoot through the mud outside. He gathered firewood, drew in the incense smoke, and threw the Gloomwood Duke into the fire.
This time, he brought the incense over pinched between two fingers and fed it into the flames. The incense suppressed the Gloomwood Duke, and the fire burned him up.
Xu Feng even tried the Sword-Finger Gesture.
A piercing pain shot through him, and he promptly stopped!
Still, that one attempt told Xu Feng he had lived up to his charge. Whatever else happened, last night's work was done.
Even against a Gloomwood Duke from the Yellow River, Xu Feng found that after "upgrading" the Earth God Shrine, he was no longer as powerless as before. With that done, he still had to take down the lantern.
Sun Dashi hesitated.
The price for stitching a corpse was not the same as the price for stitching the Gloomwood Duke.
Of course, Master had said...
Master: "Just charge the usual rate."
Sun Dashi would not agree.
Because charging the usual rate would be much like the "one plate, three fingers" arrangement.
It might have been agreed upon beforehand, but it was not truly fair.
It looked as though he was coming out ahead, but in truth, he was taking a huge loss!
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