After a commotion, Qin Liuxi finally understood why Chengyangzi and his group were being chased and attacked by the villagers of Juzi Village—because they wanted to dismantle the village's ancestral shrine.
Oh, it wasn't exactly demolishing the shrine; it was dismantling the Guardian Beast enshrined inside, a Kui Niu, which had been venerated by this village for generations for fifty years.
Now that Chengyangzi and his followers intended to destroy it, it wasn't surprising that the villagers would go berserk and fight tooth and nail, even though Chengyangzi claimed that the auspicious beast had turned into an evil beast, harming the village. The villagers just thought they were spewing deceitful words to mislead them.
