Chapter 643: Chapter 193: Shocking Change in Qiulong County! The Name of Fan Wu Known to All! (17,000-word Mega Update)_11
The task that the Blood Gu Sect gave him was to oversee a weapon forge, and they also fed him a strange worm, forcing him to swallow it.
Head Arrestor Liu didn’t need to think hard to know that this worm was no ordinary creature, but to save his own life, he had no choice but to close his eyes and gulp it down.
Later, he found out just how terrifying the worm was.
He witnessed with his own eyes as one of his colleagues, who defied an order from the treasonous Blood Gu Sect, ended up with his body hollowed out by the very worm he had ingested!
This scared the daylights out of Head Arrestor Liu!
"Sigh..." Head Arrestor Liu patted his belly, his face etched with a bitter expression, "I wonder if one day, I will end up like that? If only I could send a message about everything happening in Qiulong County to Daoist Priest Fan."
"But the problem is, having consumed that bizarre worm, just taking half a step out of Qiulong County would result in my body being hollowed out by that fiendish creature."
Under such circumstances, it’s not to mention sending a message to Daoist Priest Fan.
It’s a huge challenge just to reach the Imperial Astrologers in nearby Bai He County.
"A bunch of traitors, all of them cultivators, even ordering the entire county to forge weapons for them," Head Arrestor Liu shook his head, "What on earth are they trying to do? They couldn’t possibly be aiming to overthrow the Great Zhou Dynasty, could they?"
All he could do now... was to try his best to hold on to the little conscience he had left, which he only picked up after meeting Daoist Priest Fan.
Head Arrestor Liu didn’t know how long he could last like this, wondering if he might revert to the self he so despised.
Or worse, if the covert actions he took were discovered.
Would his entire family then be executed by the Blood Gu Sect?
Hiss!
Just thinking about that manner of death... made him shiver uncontrollably.
He touched the handle of the long knife strapped to his waist.
Head Arrestor Liu took a deep breath, "I better hurry back to the weapon forge... It’ll be terrible if I’m discovered."
"Indeed, it would be quite terrible," a sudden sinister voice that made Head Arrestor Liu turn deathly pale startled him.
He hastily looked towards the direction of the voice.
And saw a man in a black robe, who had appeared at the corner of the alley not far from him! The robe was different from ordinary ones, bursting with an exotic ethnic character.
This was...
The attire of the Blood Gu Sect!
Cold sweat broke out all over Head Arrestor Liu; he felt his whole body stiffen with fear. He didn’t know if it was... the worm inside him acting up or he was just plain terrified.
"Have... have you been following me all this time?" Head Arrestor Liu’s voice trembled as he spoke.
The Blood Gu Sect Disciple sneered coldly, "I’ve had my suspicions about you for a few days now, just didn’t know what you were up to. Today, on a whim, I followed you secretly and discovered you were actually stealing military provisions from the Blood Gu Sect?!"
"You scoundrel, feeding such precious rations to those two-legged sheep?" the Sect Disciple’s eyes began to seethe with boiling intent to kill, "It seems you do not wish to live, eh! Today, you traitor who betrays us from within, shall be your day of death!"
"But, in my humble opinion... he can survive past today," came another voice.
"Hmm?!!"
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