Chapter 646: Chapter 194: The Fury of Daoist Priest Fan! Crossing a Red Line! (A 10,000-word mega Chapter, please subscribe)_3
The entire body had been hollowed out.
Only a pitiful skin was left.
Fortunately...
Daoist Priest Fan had returned.
Head Arrestor Liu had survived!
Daoist Priest Fan had returned.
Qiulong Temple had its clear sky back!
"Daoist Priest Fan..." Although his throat was dry and his voice hoarse, Head Arrestor Liu persisted, "The whole of Qiulong County has now fallen into a crisis. Those rebels from the Blood Gu Sect aren’t only skilled in the Daoist arts, but they are also fully armed."
"Moreover, their numbers surpass those of the government officials in Qiulong County by far," Head Arrestor Liu said bitterly, "If we want to survive, we can only obey their commands."
"Mmm... I understand," Fan Wu nodded, his face seemingly expressionless.
Head Arrestor Liu couldn’t discern any particular emotion from Daoist Priest Fan’s eyes or face. He didn’t know whether Daoist Priest Fan felt anger or something else upon hearing the news.
But in this moment, all he could hope for was that Daoist Priest Fan would extend a helping hand to Qiulong County.
After all, if the people of Qiulong County were to continue being exploited by the rebels of the Blood Gu Sect...
The death toll could reach far beyond just hundreds or thousands!
Those rebels from the Blood Gu Sect didn’t regard the people of Qiulong County as human beings at all. In fact, they didn’t even regard them as livestock; they treated them worse than animals.
"Right... right!" After swallowing a gulp of saliva, Head Arrestor Liu weakly spoke, "These past few days, I’ve seen the Blood Gu Sect rebels capturing the people of Qiulong County and taking them to some mysterious places. I don’t know where they’re being taken to, but I do know that once those people are taken away, they never come back."
"I fear that their chances of surviving are very slim. Although I don’t really want to curse anyone, it seems that their chances of living aren’t great."
Fan Wu nodded and then asked, "Do you know where in Qiulong County the highest concentration of Blood Gu Sect Disciples is gathered?"
Head Arrestor Liu answered hurriedly, "The government office! Most of them are at the government yamen of Qiulong County!"
"Daoist Priest Fan! I’ll take you there!!"
...
Qiulong County.
Government office.
The Magistrate of Qiulong County, who usually held power like an Earth Emperor, was now licking his lips and ingratiatingly said to a middle-aged man before him, "Sir, the new batch of people has already been delivered to the Blood Pond. I’ve ordered them to be washed clean and then thrown into the Blood Pond."
As he said this, the Magistrate of Qiulong County gathered a little courage and curiously asked, "Sir, seeing as I have sided with the Blood Gu Sect for so long, may I ask you a question?"
The middle-aged man sitting on a Taishi Chair was fiddling with the Magistrate’s Jade Seal of Qiulong County.
He glanced at the Magistrate of Qiulong County and replied casually, "What question? Go ahead!"
"That... that Blood Pond, what exactly is it for?" the Magistrate of Qiulong County inquired curiously, "Sir, you previously instructed me to bring a hundred clean people there every seven days, regardless of their gender or age."
"I’m genuinely curious, what is it for, to require so many people to go there? Could it be that those who are sent there are already..."
"Ha!" The middle-aged man scoffed, "I thought you were going to ask something else. The Blood Pond is no secret within the Blood Gu Sect, its purpose is to nourish the Gu God!"
"Gu... Gu God?" the Magistrate of Qiulong County was somewhat baffled.
Then he saw the middle-aged man flip his palm, revealing a very peculiar little insect in his palm.
It looked like a maggot from a dung pit, but it was slightly fatter than such maggots.
And upon closer inspection, it seemed as if one could see a faint glow emanating from the surface of the worm’s skin, instantly captivating the Magistrate of Qiulong County’s gaze.
"This is the Gu God!" the middle-aged man declared, "A cultivator who consumes the Gu God will receive the great power bestowed by the Gu God him- or herself, and even undergo mysterious changes to the body."
"However..." he said coldly, glancing at the Magistrate of Qiulong County, immediately noticing the undisguised coveting look in his eyes, and sneered, "A mere official like you, who knows nothing of cultivation, would only explode and die upon consuming this; the manner of your death would be extremely miserable."
These words from the middle-aged man terrified the Magistrate of Qiulong County, who hastily stepped back several paces, wanting to distance himself from the Gu insect.
The middle-aged man put away the Gu God and said, "Don’t underestimate such a tiny insect. To successfully raise one Gu God, a few dozen lives might suffice under favorable circumstances. Unfavorably, it might take hundreds or even thousands of lives."
"However... the people of Qiulong County are quite decent. Using thousands of lives over this period, we have managed to produce six lower-class Gu Gods and one upper-class Gu God."
Sweat broke out on the Magistrate of Qiulong County, chilled by the revelation that these little insects were cultivated with human lives, requiring dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of lives.
