Seeing the Thunder Ancestor Temple smashed left me with an inexplicable sadness.
Leaving aside whether the Thunder Ancestor Temple had truly sheltered the local people as they fled disaster, it had at least suppressed the wronged souls of the Luo Residence and kept the area safe.
The local people had also held the Thunder Ancestor Temple in great reverence.
Yet their descendants had dismissed the Thunder Ancestor as superstition. Not only had they torn down his temple, they had even smashed his statue.
Those souls had already been suppressed for decades. Another twenty or thirty years, and they would have returned to the Underworld.
But now that the Thunder Ancestor Temple had been destroyed, those wronged souls certainly could no longer be held down.
"How could they be so foolish? They just went ahead and smashed it."
I sighed. "They could simply have stopped making offerings. Why did they have to smash the place?"
The Seventh Master shook his head. "There was no stopping the tide of the times. If the people who tore down the Thunder Ancestor Temple back then hadn't done it, their own lives probably wouldn't have been easy either."
The records stated that for many years after the Thunder Ancestor Temple was demolished, nothing strange had happened in the area.
Reading this, I felt puzzled and asked the Seventh Master, "Why didn't anything strange happen after the Thunder Ancestor Temple was torn down?"
The Seventh Master said, "First, the Thunder Ancestor Temple had already suppressed those wronged souls for decades. Even after the temple fell, they wouldn't immediately come out to cause trouble. Second, it was also because of the 'tide of the times.' The people back then were very united, and they had strong convictions."
"When one person has conviction, it can be destroyed. When