Everyone jumped off the spirit boat.
After landing, I could only smell the stench, and my nose was blocked.
Baili Chengfeng, who always liked cleanliness, frowned slightly. Even though using spiritual power would damage his body, he still used spiritual power to seal his nostrils to avoid smelling the unpleasant stench.
“Ga ga ga—”
The village was dead silent, without a trace of human activity, except for crows perched on the dead branches, cawing.
"Are all the people in this village dead?"
"Ah? That's too tragic, isn't it?"
"Could it be that bandits massacred the village?"
Everyone looked at the village in front of them and speculated endlessly.
Jiang Deng was also looking around the village. Her gaze was mainly focused on the wooden door at the entrance of the village. The door was tightly closed, and there were no signs of forced entry. It didn't look like it had been robbed by bandits.
"Let's go in and take a look."
Pushing open the wooden door, Jiang Deng walked into the village.
Seeing that their leader Jiang Deng had gone in, the others naturally followed. The closer they got to the village, the stronger the stench they could smell.
However, Jiang Deng remained expressionless. She followed the stench and found the source.
It is the best courtyard in this simple village. If nothing unexpected happens, the person living here should be the village chief.
Squeak——
Jiang Deng pushed the door open and walked in. What caught his eye was a pile of bloody corpses. There were more than a hundred corpses, filling the yard. At first glance, it looked like a small hill.
"ah!"
Everyone couldn't help but scream.
They are all teenagers under the age of 30. Since entering the Taichu Sword Sect, they have been concentrating on cultivation. Few of them go down the mountain to carry out missions, and their minds are relatively simple.
At this moment, seeing such a cruel scene, it is inevitable that it is hard to accept.
"vomit!!!"
“This is too cruel!”
Jiang Zhi frowned, "I used my spiritual sense to search the village and found that there were no survivors. All the villagers are here..."
Zhou Shan said indignantly: "Those bandits who killed them are simply not human!"
"wrong."
The person who spoke was Xia Chenqing.
As he was in the Nascent Soul stage, he had already gone down the mountain to complete many missions and had seen many shady things, so he was naturally calmer than the other disciples.
Xia Chenqing looked at the corpses carefully and found that they all had hideous faces and their limbs were twisted in extremely strange postures. The strangest thing was that their souls had all disappeared!
"It's the evil cultivators who are causing this." Xia Chenqing came to this conclusion with certainty.
What?
Everyone looked at each other.
A simple-minded disciple scratched his head and asked, "Evil cultivator? Senior Brother, what is an evil cultivator?"
"Those of us who focus on our own cultivation and do not harm mortals are considered righteous cultivators, while evil cultivators will use all kinds of cruel and evil methods to quickly improve their strength by killing their own kind." Xia Chenqing explained.
Feng Jiuyou wondered, "But how can an evil cultivator improve his strength by killing these mortals?"
"To be precise, they were all treated as food."
The one who made the sound was Jiang Deng, who was squatting on the ground and observing the corpse closely.
Faced with the hideous corpses, Jiang Deng remained calm, her eyes fixed on the abdomens of corpses one after another.
There was a big hole in the abdomen of each corpse. It did not look like damage caused by external forces, but rather damage generated from within, as if something had taken root and sprouted in their abdomens, eventually bursting their stomachs.
A flesh-colored strip can be vaguely seen in the internal organs. It is not the intestine, but seems to be a part of something that has grown out. The thing that grew out at the end has disappeared, as if it has been picked off.
Xia Chenqing frowned and asked, "Master Jiang, what do you mean by that?"
"To cultivate medicine with one's own body is the blood bodhi."
Jiang Deng and Baili Chengfeng said in unison.
Realizing that someone had said the same thing as them, the two of them subconsciously looked at each other. There was panic in Jiang Deng's eyes, while Baili Chengfeng was confused.
"Ah! I'm just guessing."
Jiang Deng secretly thought that he was talking too much and quickly looked away, no longer looking at Baili Chengfeng.
Baili Chengfeng felt a little strange. How could Jiang Deng, a cultivator at the Foundation Establishment stage, know so many things?
Xia Chenqing glanced at Jiang Deng and Baili Chengfeng, and finally chose Baili Chengfeng, who seemed more reliable. "Ye Shangshi, can you tell me in detail?"
Baili Chengfeng didn't hide it, "Blood Bodhi is a special kind of spiritual medicine, nurtured by the essence, blood, and souls of mortals. Killing these evil cultivators is probably to use them to feed the spiritual medicine."
"Then how come they are all dead?"
The disciple who was speaking felt cold all over. He really couldn't understand who could be so cruel and indifferent to the lives of so many mortals.
Jiang Deng slowly stood up and said, "It must be that the evil cultivators planted the seeds of the Blood Bodhi into the village well. Anyone who drank the well water became a container for the spiritual medicine."
"The spiritual herbs took root, sprouted, matured, and blossomed, bursting their stomachs and forcing them to die in fear. As soon as the spiritual herbs like Blood Bodhi matured, they were harvested by the evil cultivators. The remaining corpses were useless, so they were thrown here by the evil cultivators."
Jiang Deng couldn't help but sigh when he said this. "These villagers are dead and their souls are gone. There's no hope of saving them. Let's burn them down."
Hearing this, Feng Jiuyou looked at Jiang Deng indignantly, "This is truly too cruel! The dead should be buried in peace. In my opinion, you are just afraid of trouble!"
Jiang Deng glanced at him coldly and said sternly, "Do you know that the unnecessary deaths of so many people are likely to cause a plague? If the plague spreads to other villages, more people will die."
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