Chapter 225 224. The Frog God and the Story (Please subscribe!)
The mountains fell into silence.

Several figures in the Unfrozen Lake looked at the red water. After being stunned for a moment, they rushed over and helped up the frog monster with a sword on his back.

When he looked at Xu Qing again, his face was filled with shock and horror.

This frog demon, carrying a sword and a knife, has always admired the human race's books and rivers and lakes. In addition to practicing the martial arts of his clan, he also found a sword and a knife technique from somewhere, and practiced them to great depth. His combat power is quite impressive in the clan.

With such strength, he couldn't even block a casual attack from the opponent.

"Oh no! This is a tricky idea! Go ask Grandpa for help!"

Say it.

Several frog monsters dived into the water, kicked their legs, and swam quickly towards the bottom of the lake.

"Won't we stop them?" Zhong Neng Shu stared at the ripples spreading on the lake.

Xu Qing had already noticed that there was still a lot of breath at the bottom of the lake. Obviously, there should be a whole family of frog monsters living in the lake.

"Not urgent."

"Okay, you have the final say." Zhong Nengshu spread his hands. Both Xu Qing and Bai Lele's strength is extraordinary.

Unless a cultivator with great supernatural powers appears, or a genius cultivator as evil as them, they will not be able to defeat the two of them.

Xu Qing didn't wait long.

After just a moment, a large number of bubbles suddenly gurgled out of the lake.

Figures emerged from the water like bamboo shoots after a rain.

Xu Qing took a quick look and estimated that there were about fifteen or sixteen frog monsters, one of which was in the fourth realm, four were in the third realm, and the rest were in the second realm.

This force is already very terrifying if it is placed outside, and can be considered a second-rate force. Except for big cities like Huai'an, it is probably impossible to stop them from coming out in full force.

but
Why would the Arctic Exorcism Institute allow such a powerful demon force to exist in Dasheng?

Just as Xu Qing was thinking about this, his eyes fixed and he stared at the bubbling lake.

next moment.

The water column exploded with a "bang", and a frog monster as big as an elephant emerged from the water.

However, Xu Qing's gaze did not fall on the giant frog, but on its head.

There, a frog, who looked very old and frail, was sitting on a chair like a human, leaning on a cane.

The aura of this old frog monster was very ordinary, without any strong oppressive force, but Xu Qing actually felt divinity from this frog monster?
Frog God?
An idea suddenly occurred to Xu Qing.

There has always been a custom among the people to worship the frog god.

Xu Qing knew this.

However, since the founding of the Great Sheng Dynasty, all kinds of obscene sacrifices, big and small, have been eradicated, and the belief in the frog god is no exception.

But this is only an apparent disappearance. At certain times, people will still spontaneously offer sacrifices to the frog god.

Because the frog god is often related to rainfall and rice farming, people will inevitably offer sacrifices to him in order to pray for a good harvest.

The government usually turns a blind eye to this.

After all, food is the foundation of people's survival. It would be too inhumane to deprive them of even this.

Of course, everything must be done under the premise that nothing happens.

"My two fellow Taoists, I wonder why you come to hurt my people?" The old frog monster on the head of the giant frog monster spoke slowly.

Xu Qing looked directly into the eyes of the old frog demon and said calmly:

"Because you drive away mosquitoes and harm people!"

"Also, there was nothing wrong with coming to your house, but your clansman was the first to attack, so he was at fault. Don't accuse others of crimes without any reason."

As soon as these words came out, the frog monsters in the lake flew into a rage: "Asshole! How dare you talk to Grandpa like that?"

Some even had demonic energy trembling in their bodies, wanting to teach Xu Qing a lesson. "Quiet!" The old frog demon pounded his cane.

No matter how impatient or angry the other frog monsters were, they had to keep quiet.

"Excuse me, where are you two fellow Taoists from?" The old frog demon glanced at Xu Qing and Bai Lele with his turbid eyes.

Although they were both relatively young, they looked very awe-inspiring, and it was obvious that they had extraordinary backgrounds.

"Does it matter where they came from?" Xu Qing shook his head. "What matters is that you drove away mosquitoes and blocked the road, and killed several people who stayed overnight in Lujin Temple."

"Anyone who hurts a demon can be killed."

When the old frog demon heard Xu Qing say this, there was no anger on his face, he just said calmly:
"It is true that we drove away mosquitoes and blocked roads, but it is not us who harmed people."

"It wasn't you who did it?" Xu Qing raised his eyebrows.

"Yes." The old frog demon nodded, "We drive away mosquitoes and block the road to prevent more people from dying in the Lujin Temple."

Xu Qing's face immediately became serious.

Without asking, the old frog demon continued: "This Lujin Temple is dedicated to Lujin Goddess. Do you two Taoist priests know?"

"know."

"Do the two Taoist priests know the origin of this Lady with exposed tendons?"

Xu Qing shook his head.

The owner of the teahouse only said that the deity enshrined was Lu Jin Niangniang, but he did not reveal her specific origins.

The old frog demon narrowed his cloudy eyes slightly and said slowly:

"This Lady Lu Jin was actually an ordinary woman. Her name is no longer known. She is only called 'Lu Jin Woman'."

"One day, the naked girl and her sister-in-law passed by this mountain. As it was getting late and they were exhausted after walking all day, they could only find a place to stay."

"There was no village nearby at the time. There was only a thatched house, and in that house lived a lonely old man in his forties."

"The sister-in-law saw that this was the only place to stay, so she had no choice but to shamelessly ask someone to take them in for a night."

"The old man was kind and took them in. He even gave them his bed and slept on the floor with a straw mat."

"My sister-in-law was very grateful for this, but the naked girl strictly abided by the rule of 'men and women should not touch each other', tried her best to avoid suspicion, and resolutely refused to stay overnight."

"In the end, the woman with exposed tendons chose to sleep outside the door. That night, mosquitoes were rampant and they sucked her alive until her tendons were exposed and her blood dripped."

"Later, a Confucian scholar passed by this place and was moved by the loyalty of the woman with exposed tendons. He built a temple to commemorate her merits."

Xu Qing seemed to be thinking about something after hearing this.

No wonder the clay statue has the meaning of "moral principles", it turns out this is the reason.

"Fellow Daoist, what do you think of this rumor?" asked the old frog demon.

"It sounds like a story made up by Confucian scholars. If the woman with exposed genitals was afraid that the old man had bad intentions and didn't want to live in his house, that's understandable."

"But just to comply with the rule of 'no physical contact between men and women', sleeping outside the door by yourself, isn't that a bit strange?"

The old frog demon nodded his head. "There is indeed another version of the story. The naked woman didn't really sleep outside the door voluntarily."

"Instead, he was knocked unconscious and thrown outside, becoming food for mosquitoes in the mountains. In the end, the mosquitoes sucked all his blood dry and he died."

Xu Qing's eyes became solemn.

If this is true, how resentful must the woman with exposed rib cage have been when she died?

The old frog demon looked at Xu Qing and said slowly: "The Confucian scholar built that temple because he wanted to use the Confucian 'morals' to suppress the female ghost who died with hatred."

"It's a pity that he underestimated the female ghost. The temple couldn't completely suppress the female ghost."

(End of this chapter)