Building an Earth God Shrine Is a Proper Job (Thanks to Pluskr)

"Our chance to rebuild the Earth God Shrine."

Master understood us. He glanced at Xu Feng, then at himself.

He said nothing more.

He simply found a place to climb up with Xu Feng.

Supporting Master beside a half-collapsed wall, Xu Feng said, "Master, look. What do you see? This is our chance to tear down the old and build something better!

"The lightning didn't kill us last night, and the snakes outside didn't bite us to death. Surely it's time we took another step forward."

Master said, "We're two Corpse Sewers of the Lower Nine Classes. Where could another step forward possibly take us?"

But when Master saw the dense carpet of dead snakes outside, he fell silent.

Even with all Master had seen, this was a rare sight.

He looked around. "Were these the snakes outside the Earth God Shrine last night?"

"Yes! These were the snakes outside. If the City God you brought hadn't stopped them, we'd both have ended up in their bellies!"

Just then, a gust of wind blew their way. The smell made both their faces tighten.

Master clamped his mouth shut!

Xu Feng covered his nose and mouth too.

Xu Feng had it especially hard.

He had only recently entered the trade. In theory, he had seen one badly decomposed corpse up close.

That was the corpse of the Corpse Liberation Immortal.

But that Corpse Liberation Immortal's corpse had rotted so thoroughly that it spared Xu Feng the worst of it.

Now he caught this smell. Snake stench and corpse stench were different: one clung to your body and clothes like an invisible ghost, filling anyone who smelled it with dread; the other charged straight into your lungs, foul enough to knock you out.

The smell of these snakes was the latter, all