Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 933 - 248: The Name of Fan Wu Slaying the Evil God Spreads Throughout the Shangwu Dynasty!_4

Such a question not only emerged in his mind, but, thanks to the influence of alcohol, he managed to ask it aloud. Then, he heard the Earth Deity of Lingchen County begin to explain, "If Daoist Fan Wu chooses to ascend to immortality, then he would immediately qualify as an Immortal Official of the seventh rank in the Heavenly Court, even a full seventh-grade Immortal Official, whereas I, this humble old one, am merely of the ninth rank."

From ninth grade, full ninth grade, to eighth grade, full eighth grade, and seventh grade, all the way up to full seventh grade... The difference between these ranks is no minor matter; the disparity is outrageously vast. If one were to compare it to the official positions in the human dynasties, it would be as if someone was summoned by the Imperial Court to serve and was instantly appointed Magistrate of a bustling major county city, and that kind who wields real authority at that.

Even in his drunken state, Bai Sheng understood how preposterous this was. One must know that any random county in their Shangwu Dynasty had a population starting at one hundred thousand. The population of those bustling major counties could even amount to a million. This meant that being a Prefect of a county in the Shangwu Dynasty was essentially like being a Commandant in the Great Zhou Dynasty—a comparison across different levels altogether.

Moreover, these weren’t just any positions within the human dynasties; these were the ranks of Immortal Officials! In Bai Sheng’s memory, out of the five ancient immortals in his family... it seemed only one served in a higher capacity as an Immortal Official in the Heavenly Court?

However, he didn’t know what rank that ancestor held, because the elders in his family hadn’t disclosed such matters. Maybe it was some kind of family secret. Even he, the direct youngest son, wasn’t privileged to know. After learning all this, Bai Sheng became even humbler in his interactions with Fan Wu.

After all, this was someone comparable to an Immortal Official of the Heavenly Court! Even though Daoist Fan Wu didn’t currently hold the position of an Immortal Official, his power had already reached that level. Under such circumstances, if one didn’t show goodwill, it would be purely an act of folly, the kind that only comes from a brain addled person!

Bai Sheng believed he wasn’t crazy; he thought he ought to build a good relationship with this powerful individual. Even if he couldn’t manage that, at the very least, he should not become an enemy. The thought of becoming enemies with such an entity was simply too horrific to imagine.

However, Bai Sheng quickly learned another fact—why was Daoist Fan Wu associating with the brothers Yan Dalong and Yan Dahu? Daoist Fan Wu actually believed the words they had said!

Bai Sheng knew that the brothers Yan Dalong and Yan Dahu were always speaking ill of the National Master. In fact, there were hardly any locals in the Imperial City of the Shangwu Dynasty who didn’t know about it. That’s why he was so shocked and astonished.

Having lucked into a meal with the Earth Deity and drunk to the point of flushed cheeks, Bai Sheng burped, looking bewildered, "Daoist Fan Wu, do you also think that the National Master is a Demon or Devil?"

"National Master, huh?" Yan Dalong interjected with disdain, "You young chaps are hailed as ’Pride of Heaven’, yet you can’t see the true colors of that damned State Preceptor?"

And at that moment, Fan Wu too revealed a slight smile and said, "Whether the other party is a Demon or Devil, wouldn’t we know if we see them with our own eyes?"

Seeing Daoist Fan Wu so confident, Bai Sheng couldn’t help asking in astonishment, "Daoist Fan Wu, could it be that you can see through a person’s truth and falsehood?"

"Perhaps!" Fan Wu chuckled, "For instance, I know that you saved a playmate from water at age eight."

"I also know that at sixteen, you followed your family elders on a journey and saved people who were harmed by followers of an Evil God."

"And that at twenty, you exhausted all your saved fortunes to build houses to shelter hundreds of homeless children from the cold."

"And when you were twenty-two years old..."

"Regardless of whether you did these things to accumulate virtue in hope of an edict from the Imperial Court or the Heavenly Court, to attain immortality, or if you really did them sincerely, in the end, if a person can masquerade as a good person for their entire life, then they are indeed a great good person."

At the end, Fan Wu grinned, revealing a somewhat frightening notion, "You being able to sit here is also because you’ve done these things. Otherwise... your fate might have ended up just like that of the Molten River Evil God, becoming a ’dish on my plate’."

At this very moment, every sentence spoken by Fan Wu.

Made Bai Sheng’s eyes widen with shivers running down his spine!

For, he felt that all of his secrets...

Had been seen through by the man before him!

At this moment, the fear rising in Bai Sheng’s heart was even more intense than when he encountered that Evil God. He had never seen his secrets laid out so clearly before someone else before, with Daoist Fan Wu listing every single thing he had ever done, down to the minor details, as if there had always been an invisible person by his side from childhood. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Moreover, being referred to as "a dish on my plate" by Daoist Fan Wu...what exactly does that mean? Is it that if I weren’t a good person, but rather a bad one... I might be meted out justice by Daoist Fan Wu? And the one stepping into the Earth Temple would not be a living man, but a corpse that can no longer speak? Such thoughts and fears redoubled in his mind!