"Fellow immortals, please give us a way to survive. If there is no rain, we will all die!"
This group of villagers no longer knelt down to worship Dong Li, but instead turned their eyes to them and kowtowed.
Looking at the nearly one hundred people in the village, each of them was skinny and had bulging eyeballs, making their eyes look particularly big.
They all gathered in the yard and knelt down. These people had either numb or greedy expressions that locked onto them. Even Leng Qingning and other cultivators felt terrified, not to mention that Dong Li did not have strong combat power at the moment?
"Get up, everyone, or I won't be polite!" Yan Ci raised his hand and created a powerful hurricane, blowing these people up.
At this moment, the heavens sent out a thunderbolt mixed with a hint of cold light, striking Yan Ci with great force, as if to warn him.
When the onlookers saw this, they all showed satisfaction on their faces, and no longer had the fear they had before.
"It's a punishment from heaven. God is punishing them!"
"God is on our side!"
Yang Fan clenched his fists in anger, "This God is really unfair. He actually deceives and favors these unruly people!"
However, the smiles on their faces didn't last more than a few seconds before they shattered in the next second.
"This man actually escaped the punishment from heaven!"
Yan Ci gave a sarcastic smile and quickly dodged, the lightning struck directly on the spot, creating a large black hole in the ground.
Seeing that the thunder struck nothing, the thunder brewing in the sky became even more angry. Bursts of dazzling white light flashed in the clouds, and then a silver-white ball of light flashed and surged down.
The clouds in the sky were so dark that the whole world was dimmed and it was almost suffocating.
Yan Ci was suspended in mid-air, his golden eyes looking solemnly at the long thunder surging towards him from the sky. However, when he swung out the Longyuan Sword to smash the thunder in front, the thunder behind it surged towards him one after another.
There were sounds of thunder and explosions in the yard.
This scene made Leng Qingning and the others extremely angry. Zhou Xuan clenched his fist and asked, "What does Heaven mean? Is it trying to deceive these people?"
"This is a warning from heaven. If the Saint doesn't participate in the sacrifice in three days, heaven will punish her!"
The lightning broke through the protective shield on Yan Ci's body and headed straight for him. A strong tingling sensation immediately surrounded him. Heavenly thunder has always been the natural enemy of the demon race. Seeing that the lightning was still expanding, it was clear that it wanted to force Yan Ci to death.
The outline of scales appeared on Yan Ci's body, and demonic patterns appeared faintly on his forehead. Because of the contract he had made with himself, his cultivation was restricted to the Nascent Soul stage, and he was completely unable to resist the thunder tribulation. Was he going to be exposed?
Leng Qingning was furious, a surge of rage rushed to her head. She immediately pulled out the silk thread and mobilized all her strength to block behind Yan Ci.
"Are you crazy, stupid woman? With your cultivation level, you're just going to die in vain. Go away quickly!" Unexpectedly, the petite body hugged his body tightly, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't pull her away. Yan Ci's eyes were bloodshot, and he roared with almost all his strength.
Just as the surging lightning touched Leng Qingning, she suddenly felt an extremely strong burning sensation in her dantian, and a mysterious and powerful force instantly burst out from her body.
Somewhere in the dark, she seemed to see those mysterious and majestic eyes again, looking down at the sky coldly.
"roar--"
"How dare you, a mere little world, hurt my people!"
A shadow emerged from the clouds, trembling in fear at the powerful beast.
Suddenly, a beast roar that resounded through the sky was heard between heaven and earth. In an instant, everyone trembled, knelt on the ground, and surrendered to the majesty of this voice.
The surging white lightning was instantly shattered by a huge figure who raised his hand and waved it. In an instant, the thunder brewing in the air trembled and fled away.
A ray of light suddenly broke through the dark clouds in the sky, illuminating the earth. The sky and the earth became clear again. The dazzling light made the villagers kneeling on the ground cover their eyes with their hands.
The huge beast figure, which was about the same size as the half-sized beast, looked at her lovingly with its silver-white eyes. When he looked to her right, he showed a look of surprise. He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something to Leng Qingning, but his figure quickly disappeared.
Leng Qingning looked at the villagers coldly, "If I see any of you disrespect Dong Li again, don't blame me for being rude!"
"Your Excellency has wronged her. We don't want to treat her like this, but she is not a human being at all..." A voice seemed to ring out from the crowd, and suddenly the man was covered in the mouth by the villagers next to him.
"Are you crazy? Hurry up and leave." The whole village scattered like birds and beasts. In the yard that was originally blocked with people unable to get in or out, in a blink of an eye, only they were left.
"Thank you...you. If only I had met you earlier...it would have been so great..." Suddenly, a woman's miserable sobbing was heard all around, and everything in the world changed in an instant.
The girl she was protecting had a pale face, disheveled hair and was floating in the air. Two lines of blood and tears flowed from her hollow eyes, and her legs were actually sawed off alive!
"You are... Dong Li?" Yang Fan looked at the evil spirit in front of him in disbelief. Thinking of the girl who was bright and beautiful just a moment ago, and how she had suddenly turned into this half-human, half-ghost appearance, his heart ached more than if it had been sawed open. "How could this happen?"
The clear and hot weather was instantly covered by dark clouds, with gusts of cold wind. There were no cracks left on the scorching and cracked earth. Deep white bones lay on the ground. The only neat thing was that the road was piled with withered yellow leaves, stained with black and red blood.
Countless dark evil spirits greedily absorbed the souls of the villagers floating on the streets. The villagers' souls were torn into countless pieces by the evil spirits, and they let out shrill screams.
The neat and simple wooden houses around were scattered here and there, covered with mottled spider webs. The entire Goddess Village had become a ruin, and only wandering souls were wandering around the streets.
Those wandering souls smelled the breath of living people and were rushing over greedily. However, when they saw the girl with her legs sawed off, they trembled all over, screamed, and floated away.
"Dong Li, how did you become like this? Is everything we just experienced fake? You were already dead?" Leng Qingning seemed to have grasped the truth and suddenly became enlightened.
However, she couldn't be happy, because it meant that all their previous efforts were in vain and she failed to save the girl.
Blood was still flowing from the girl's empty eyes. Her face still maintained the peaceful expression of her teenage years, but in this situation, it seemed particularly terrifying.
"Yes, I died a long time ago. Before you came, they dug out my eyes, sawed off my legs, and bled to death."
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