Lin Che devoured all the strange flames that filled the mountain.
He felt a warm sensation all over his body, an indescribable comfort, a sense of satisfaction and fullness that could not be compared to eating a delicious meal.
"Now that I've consumed the strange fire, the miasma and poisonous fog here can be easily dispelled!"
Lin Che casually unleashed a burst of righteous energy, and immediately, the surrounding miasma began to evaporate like water droplets in a hot pot.
He should dispel the miasma here and rid the nearby people of a great scourge; this is what he, as a semi-saint, should do.
The dissipation of the miasma immediately attracted the attention of more people.
Over the past two days, martial artists with cultivation levels had already approached the area, as the changes here affected their lives. Now that they saw the miasma dissipate, they naturally cheered.
More and more martial artists and ordinary people came to watch.
"The poison gas is gone, that's wonderful. Our ancestral land is saved."
"Look, there seems to be a figure inside. Is it our guardian deity?"
“There really are guardian spirits. Last year they said they saw a guardian spirit, but I didn’t believe it. It turns out it’s true.”
"No, our guardian deity isn't like that. He's not that tall, it's not him—"
Hearing the commotion outside, Lin Che simply strode down the mountain and arrived in front of them in a few steps.
When the people saw Lin Che's appearance, they immediately retreated and dared not approach.
Lin Che asked, "Fellow villagers, I have dispelled the miasma and poisonous fog in the mountains behind your village. There was a demon here before who deliberately released this poisonous fog. Do you know where he went?"
The surrounding crowd erupted in another uproar, but no one dared to answer.
Lin Che had already noticed that there were more than a dozen fourth-rank martial artists among the crowd, who seemed to be the leaders of this group of people.
"You answer this! Where did the demon inside go?"
Unexpectedly, the fourth-rank martial artist, his face full of anger, held back for a while before finally speaking: "He is not a demon, he is our guardian deity. He protects us, and many of us have been healed by our guardian deity when we are sick."
"That's right. The guardian spirit said we mustn't go near this mountain range. Did you go in and steal something from the guardian spirit?"
"Hmph, I can tell you're just a martial artist with decent cultivation. But we're not afraid of you. Here, our guardian deities are our family. You're not."
“Children used to frequently go missing in our village, eaten by ferocious beasts. In the end, it was the guardian deity who killed the beasts and protected our village.”
Lin Che never imagined that these people had been brainwashed.
They actually believed in that powerful being who secretly devoured the dragon's energy.
However, this should be the work of that powerful being of cause and effect. Since he is a powerful being of cause and effect, he may disdain dealing with ordinary people, but that does not mean that he is a fool.
The power of cause and effect only needs to reveal a little bit of its methods to win people's hearts.
This method is quite simple: the powerful being caused the child's death is then blamed on a ferocious beast. By killing the beast, one can become a hero.
Lin Che made this judgment because he sensed the aura left behind by many murdered children in the mountains. In the poisonous fog and the strange creatures in the mountains, no ferocious beast would carry children in, kill them, and then escape successfully.
Lin Che didn't want to explain to them, nor did he need to.
He suddenly looked up and gazed into the distance, where a powerful aura of cause and effect was rapidly approaching.
Immediately following was a deafening roar: "Damn beast—where is my Heavenly Spiritual Fire? Give it back!!"
With a loud boom, a burly figure appeared almost out of thin air atop the mountain.
Lin Che's spiritual sense enveloped the person, but found it to be completely dark. He could only see with his eyes, and he was slightly startled. This was not a person, but a dragon!
Its appearance was almost identical to the golden dragon that Lin Che possessed, except that it was slightly smaller and its body only emitted a pale golden color.
Its body is covered in dragon scales, it has four claws, a ferocious yet majestic dragon head, and two dragon whiskers that keep twitching.
Lin Che spoke up first: "You're the guardian they're talking about?"
The golden dragon spoke in human language: "Where did my Heavenly Spirit Fire go? You possess the aura of the Heavenly Spirit Fire; did you release it?"
As soon as the golden dragon finished speaking, its eyes widened suddenly, and it roared in fury, "You swallowed it?! Awooo!"
The golden dragon roared to the sky, its voice echoing between heaven and earth, filled with terrifying power. The people were terrified by the roar and fled in all directions.
call!
The golden dragon suddenly whipped its tail, slashing fiercely at Lin Che. The terrifying power was enough to blast half a mountain away if it were to strike it.
Lin Che frowned slightly. This golden dragon in front of him had indeed done a lot of bad things. If he dodged it directly, the people who were fleeing behind him would suffer. It would be fortunate if ten or twenty thousand people were killed or injured.
"town!"
As soon as Lin Che spoke, a surge of righteous energy from the sky crashed down and struck the golden dragon.
It's unclear whether the golden dragon was too arrogant or too angry to dodge, but it stubbornly endured the suppression of this righteous energy without retracting its tail, determined to strike Lin Che.
Boom!
Lin Che struck out with one hand, directly knocking away the sweeping dragon tail.
And because the righteous energy had already struck the golden dragon, only half of its body was sent flying, tumbling back down the mountainside. All of this happened very quickly, as if the golden dragon's tail had struck a spring, slapping out and then bouncing back violently.
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