Chapter 288 Goodbye Golden Monkey
Fishing village, early morning.

Following his mother's shouting, the 17-year-old boy slowly got up from the bed and opened his tired and dull eyes. It took him a long time to wake up from his messy thoughts and he couldn't help but laugh at himself:

"I'm afraid I'm the only one who has ever achieved the status of a deity..."

Other gods, whether they are righteous or unrighteous, are all as awe-inspiring as hell and awe-inspiring in front of their believers.
The gods of normal people are always high above, and mortals only need to offer incense and burn it with trepidation. If the gods say a few words to the believers, it is a great honor for the believers, and it is a blessing that has been cultivated for three lifetimes!

What? You still dare to be dissatisfied? I think you are a little bit unfaithful and unfilial...

In short, there should be a strict hierarchy and order between gods and believers. This is very convenient for gods and also helps believers increase their awe and become more pious.

But Lin Liu is different. He has not had a single peaceful day since he started to recruit followers!
Due to his lack of experience as a god, Lin Liu did not know that he should vigorously create the image of a great and glorious god who is sacred and inviolable, but instead he was too approachable.

As for those believers who want to talk to the gods every other day and complain, he just foolishly meets their requests. If they make requests during the day, he will work overtime to send them in dreams at night. He only cares about getting whatever they ask for...

Originally, Lin Liu's appearance was very scary, with a blood-red aura of hostility and murderous intent, and he didn't look like a good person, so the believers were quite afraid of him at first, and their words and actions were very restrained, not daring to talk to him too casually.

But now, seeing how friendly and unassuming he was, the followers gradually stopped being afraid of him and the topics of conversation gradually became less interesting:

God, I have been suffering from insomnia recently. Is there something wrong with my life span?
Oh my god, my cat and dog always pee everywhere. Is there any way to cure this?

God, I was beaten by my parents, is there any way to avoid pain when being beaten?

The questions were becoming more and more far-fetched, but Lin Liu didn't think there was anything wrong. As long as the believers dared to ask, he would dare to answer!
I will try my best to answer the questions that I can. For those that I cannot answer, I will use my divine power to deduce them before answering them.

After doing this for a while, there were more and more trivial things, and he had to do them all by himself. Being 007 was a common thing, and he was worse off than a god...

But it pays off!

Under Lin Liu's self-exploitation of working overtime, although his followers do not have much awe of him, their faith in him is quite solid.

After all, if a deity who revolves around me every day shows up in various ways, with a strong sense of presence and effectiveness, then I would be a bit stupid if I still don’t believe him…

Because of this, Lin Liu, who was as hard-working as an ox or a horse, actually enjoyed it.

However, his business scope is limited to answering questions for everyone, and does not include making wishes, killing people, etc.

If someone wants to make money, he will only provide a set of effective industrial plans instead of giving money directly.

If someone wants to kill or harm others, he will only scold the believer and teach him to abide by the doctrine and be a law-abiding citizen!
If someone gets worse, he will not show mercy and will directly call the idlers of the first generation of believers over to beat that guy up:

Troublemakers! Send the Blood Godsons one by one!

Although Lin Liu did not want to abuse the Blood God Son, he would not be stingy with those who were shameless and would provide them with a free brainwashing service to ensure that they would turn over a new leaf and become a new person...

Under this positive development policy with appropriate rewards and punishments, Lin Liu's career can be said to be thriving. If he wants to expand his followers on a large scale, it will be easy!
However, after considering many factors, Lin Liu gave up the expansion policy:
First of all, the external situation is not good. After all, the imperial court is powerful. Although the teachings of the Western King Sect are still "strive to be law-abiding citizens" for the time being, it will definitely affect its development if it is exposed to the imperial court too early.

Secondly, the internal composition is impure and the population quality is not high. A group of illiterate fishermen and farmers will definitely not be able to carry the banner of uprising!
For example, the Western King Uprising Army that Lin Liu had seen in his previous life, their quality...

All I can say is that if you rely on this kind of valuables gang to accomplish great things, you will end up in failure sooner or later!
Therefore, Lin Liu fully absorbed the experience of King Xi and believed that it was necessary to improve the quality level of the believers. Various cultural knowledge, practical knowledge, moral and legal knowledge... none of them could be lacking.

In the future, a basic base with maximum purity and high quality will be of great importance.

To this end, Lin Liu spared no effort to expend his divine power and sent a message to all believers in his dreams in the middle of the night. They held meetings and classes together to achieve the great goal of universal literacy without disrupting normal production and life.

I can only say that he is really not worthy of being a god, just like a teacher who runs a school with his own money...

[You treat the gods as cattle and horses, which is shocking and makes the gods and ghosts weep. You are unique throughout the ages, without any predecessors or successors! ]

[But your efforts are meaningful. With your fourteen years of hard work, you, at the age of seventeen, have spread your faith to dozens of villages around you, large and small. They are all your true fans.]

[After reaching this scale, you temporarily slowed down the pace of expanding your territory, and the development policy also changed from "quantity" to "quality". You wanted to educate all of them! ]

[You hold small meetings every day and large meetings every month. In order to raise the collective quality of these rural folks who have been working on this small piece of land for generations, you have worked hard and taught them lessons all night long.]

[Although dreaming is actually the same as sleeping and does not affect your body's rest, your work intensity is too high, and you still feel tired after waking up every day... Therefore, your father often scolds you as a lazy bug. 】【This is the price you pay. 】

[Of course, there is another price, which is that your incense power can never be saved, and it is used like running water, taken from believers and returned to believers... You don't produce incense, you are just a carrier of incense...]

[But you don't care much about this, because everything is difficult at the beginning, and laying a foundation in the early stage is the most critical. Only a positive and upward incense base can provide reliable strength for future great undertakings. ]

[The incense and divine power are just a mere token of your love. When you cross states and counties and establish your own territory in the future, you can have as much as you want. Why should you be sympathetic? If you keep searching and searching without a vision, it will only ruin your plan! ]

[Yes, you have ambitions in your heart. Although you have always emphasized that your doctrine is to "be a law-abiding citizen", the court is in decline, various bandits are rampant, and the decline of national fortune is obvious. Whether you want to seize the throne or not, the only way out is to rebel. ]

[All this hiding one's strength and biding one's time is just for the sake of making a splash...]

【…】

[Of course, you have not revealed all the above-mentioned grand gestures. You have always used the image of the statue in your dreams. You have always kept your own existence hidden, so that it is unknown to outsiders.]

[One of the reasons is that you don't like to be in the spotlight, so you deliberately hide your true identity. Another reason is that it comes from the bloody lesson of the King of the West in your previous life! ]

[Shinto monks are biased in nature. Their souls and Dharma images have infinite power, but their physical strength is no different from that of ordinary people. Once their true forms are exposed, they can be easily killed by ordinary people, just like the King of the West in his previous life. Even if he cultivated his Dharma image, he would still die with regrets...]

[You don't have much experience in spiritual practice, so you can only carefully follow the path of the King of the West. It doesn't matter if you don't understand, just do the opposite of what he does! ]

[“King Xi, you died a good death!”]

[You silently thank him for his kindness in using yourself as a negative example, and then sigh and say: In order to thank the King of the West, you decide to send him to the West again when the right opportunity comes...]

[In short, because you were afraid of being exposed, you behaved normally in your daily life, and even your parents didn't notice anything different about you.]

[You cast nets to catch fish, go to the sea to collect shellfish, make salted fish, and make shrimp paste every day. You have mastered these fisherman skills that you learned in your previous life. You are very efficient and hardworking. When your parents see you, they still complain that you are a lazy bug who can't wake up, but they don't scold you too much...]

【As you grow older, your parents start to arrange your marriage. 】

[Just like in your previous life, they chose the daughter of a fisherman from the same village where you grew up, and you did not object. Although your ambitions in this life are far greater than those in your previous life, you have always been very upright in your position.]

[You don’t think you are more noble than others, nor do you think that others are unworthy of you. On the contrary, you have been together for decades in your previous life, and you have a deep affection for your wife.]

[Especially in your previous life when you went out to sea to search for immortals, you felt that you owed your wife and were not able to share the same bed and grave with her, so you planned to make up for everything in this life. Even though you are no longer the silly fisherman boy in your previous life, your feelings and intentions remain unchanged! ]

[So, the wedding date was quickly set, just like in the previous life. ]

[But you are not busy concentrating on getting married. At this critical moment, you still have an important thing to do. ]

[You calculated the date silently and turned down the fishing trip in advance. Then, amid your father's complaints, you watched him row out to sea alone while you sat quietly by the sea, waiting for the important moment that would influence your life...]

Lin Liu sat cross-legged on the beach, the fishy sea breeze blew past, blowing his hair and also his thoughts, making him sigh:
"It's another reincarnation..."

This is where the dream of my previous life began, and it is also the turning point of my destiny. It was here that I met a monkey for the first time in my previous life. From that time on, I was destined to never be content with being ordinary.

It opened the door to a new world for my young self, and from then on I never forgot the stories of gods and monsters, until I finally sailed out to sea in my old age, embarking on that final journey...

In this life, it comes again.

How should I deal with it?
With all sorts of thoughts in mind, Lin Liu looked towards the place where the sea and the sky meet:

A broken raft was getting closer and closer to the land under the blowing of the sea breeze.

On the raft, a faint golden light appeared, like a dream...

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(End of this chapter)