Dong Li was suddenly filled with resentment, surrounded by black mist, and bright red blood flowed from his empty pupils, dripping onto his white clothes.
The eerie wind, mixed with the hoarse cries, drifted in the air. The temperature in the air dropped suddenly, and the biting chill penetrated deep into the bone marrow, making several people inexplicably frightened.
Suddenly, she was suspended in the air, her aura soared, and her strength quickly increased to the great perfection of Dongxu. An unprecedented sense of oppression came over Leng Qingning, and she felt like a mountain was pressing down on her back, and she half-knelt on the ground.
Everyone's face changed, and they saw Dong Li sneer with contempt, her face full of sinisterness, and she stretched out her slender red nails and crushed all the souls floating around. Those souls begged her for mercy.
"Dong Li, we were wrong, please forgive us." Leng Qingning then realized that the man with pale face and disheveled hair was the man who tried to do something inappropriate to Dong Li when they went to find her just now.
"When I begged you desperately for my life, did you ever hesitate for a moment? When you were pushing me to death, did you ever imagine that you would end up like this?"
The man looked horrified.
"You created me in the first place. To satisfy your greedy demands, I constantly consume my divine power," Dong Li said with a sad look in his eyes. "But you also destroyed me with your own hands!"
The man's soul was instantly crushed by her.
The souls of the villagers were everywhere. They fled in fear, were swept away by the cold wind, and fell into Dong Li's hands. She seemed to have fallen into madness, her hair flying wildly, and her body was covered with shocking bloodstains.
The souls of the villagers turned into black mist, dyeing the entire sky and earth dark.
“Hey~”
A sudden sigh was heard. Leng Qingning and the others all looked around vigilantly, but could not find the source of the sound.
"Who is it?"
Dong Li and the wandering souls around him didn't seem to hear the sound, as if only they could hear it.
The old man sighed deeply and said, "You have all seen how pitiful Li is. If we allow her to continue to be obsessed, it will only lead to greater bloodshed. If her resentment becomes full, it will cause an indelible disaster to the entire continent."
The voice was exactly that of the stone statue old man who brought them to rescue Dongli in the beginning.
Several people couldn't help but look at Dong Li, whose strength was increasing as he continued to devour ghosts.
Leng Qingning immediately shook her head and said, "You think too highly of us. How can we stop Dong Li with our strength?"
"Old man, she is going to crush us to death with one hand, you are harming us."
The old man was silent for a moment and then said, "I know her best. She is a very kind child and she will not hurt you." As the voice fell, the stone old man never spoke again.
Looking at Dong Li who was still devouring souls, Leng Qingning felt a little conflicted. She opened her arms to block her and stop her from devouring souls.
"Get out of the way!" Dong Li stared at her with his dark eyes.
"Are you going to stop me like those people?" Dong Li's eyes turned vicious, and the red light brewing in his palm was swirling.
"No, I can't let you make this mistake. They are the ones who made the mistake, and they are the ones who should pay the price. You shouldn't have to pay such a heavy price for such a group of people."
Perhaps touched by her words, Dong Li withdrew his hand and looked at her with a scrutinizing expression.
"Since you have helped me, I will not kill you. I will give you one chance. If you can really do it, I will let you go. If not, then you will die with these people!" He waved his hand, and the scenery in front of him changed drastically.
Leng Qingning and the other seven looked at the scene in front of them in confusion. Ye Qingzhu and Bai Xichen, who were originally at the village chief's house, appeared in the square with them.
"Look, that's Miss Li. Why is she tied there?" Hearing Yang Fan's voice, she immediately raised her head and saw the girl with her legs tied with iron chains. She was kneeling in the middle of the square with her eyes closed praying. In front of her was a huge altar with three incense sticks burning on it, and some shriveled fruits and a very small amount of meat placed on it.
Although Dong Li's behavior just now gave them a strong shock, Leng Qingning still felt a nameless anger rising in her heart when she saw her being treated like this by these villagers.
"This is too much! How could these villagers treat her like this? No, I have to rescue her!" Yang Fan drew his sword and chopped at the iron chain on Dong Li's feet.
Unexpectedly, the sword in his hand went straight through Dong Li's body and missed.
"How could this happen?" He tried again in disbelief, but the result was still the same as before.
Dong Li prayed bitterly with a pale face, but she only had a little divine power and could not bring rain at all.
The villagers around them seemed to be unable to see them and were urging them on from below.
"Why hasn't it rained yet? Village chief, can she do it? If not, kick her out of the village immediately, so we don't have to support someone who eats for free."
"Hurry up, it's already been an hour, why are you still praying?"
The constant urging made Dong Li increasingly flustered, and sweat broke out on her smooth forehead. Her vision suddenly went dark, and the feeling of severe physical exhaustion hit her like a landslide, causing her to fall heavily to the ground.
The eyes of the villagers below gradually became gloomy, and their gazes unconsciously looked at the girl's fair and beautiful face, as well as her exposed snow-white arms.
"Look everyone, the saint is fake. She doesn't know how to pray for rain. Let's get her out quickly!"
Seeing the fainted girl, several people in the crowd looked at each other with malicious intent, and took advantage of the chaos in the crowd to drag the girl off the stage.
Dong Li only felt that there were several hands groping around her body. She wanted to pull these hands away and stop them from dragging her away, but she was powerless all over. She could only look at the village chief for help.
"Village Chief, we are doing a good deed. Do you still want to help this freeloader?"
The village chief looked at them and sighed, "What a sin!" He secretly threw a key out of his sleeve. Dong Li saw this and a look of despair appeared in her eyes. The three men picked up the key with great joy, opened the iron lock on her ankle and dragged her away.
Others turned a blind eye.
"Girl, you can't blame me for this. I'm also considering our village. I hope you don't blame me..." As he said this, the village chief showed a look of reluctance, turned around and left, letting her desperate roar sound behind him.
Leng Qingning and the others were in the environment she had created and could empathize with her despair and helplessness.
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