The emperor was the first to vomit, and soon after, people who lived near Xingtai also vomited.
The others who hadn't vomited felt their stomachs churning and barely managed to hold it in by covering their mouths.
The root cause of everyone's nausea and vomiting is—
That huge, ugly... toad on Xingtai.
A toad is usually only about the size of a palm, but that's enough to make anyone who sees it feel nauseous.
Xianyun's true form is a toad that has lived for five hundred years, almost as big as a pig.
His wrinkled, yellowish-brown skin was covered with tiny, fist-sized bumps, so dense they looked like a tumor meeting.
It could scare any person with trypophobia to death indiscriminately.
Because Qi An had burned them, many of the fleshy lumps had ulcerated and were oozing pus.
His body was covered in foul-smelling, disgusting pus, which was still dripping down.
The claws were burned to a crisp, and the already ugly face was burned into a charred mess. The disgusting visual impact was even less than that of a pile of excrement.
The crowd erupted instantly, with screams, vomiting, and curses filling the air.
"My God, the Imperial Advisor is the real monster, and a toad at that..."
"It's disgusting, I can't take it, I'm going to throw up..."
"I'm going to throw up too, he even touched my head, ugh..."
"A toad has actually become our national advisor, and we even call him a living god. It's ridiculous..."
"Thank goodness for the goddess, otherwise all of us people of Dacheng would have been eaten by this disgusting monster. It was too terrifying."
As for why the emperor was the first to vomit, it was because his vomit was exactly the same as the pus flowing from that fleshy lump.
The unidentified creatures moving inside looked like miniature versions of toad offspring.
The emperor felt like vomiting up his internal organs when he thought about what kind of elixirs he had been consuming for so long were made of.
No wonder he felt something surging inside his body every time he took the pill; it turned out to be the little toad dancing around.
Qi An waved his hand dismissively, and all the vomit stench vanished instantly.
She asked the emperor with schadenfreude, "Are you still going to save him?"
"No... save me... ugh..."
Seeing that he was vomiting so badly that he couldn't even speak, Qi An slapped him on the top of the head, almost scaring the others to death.
But the emperor immediately stopped vomiting after the palm strike, and felt a stream of clear energy flowing into his body from the top of his head, making his mind clear.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
The goddess is so powerful, and also... ruthless!
This constant threat of regicide is truly a test of their nerves.
The emperor wiped his mouth clean, not daring to look at Xingtai, and angrily said:
"What a great imperial advisor! What a living god! He's actually a treacherous monster who deceived the emperor and almost killed me."
"Please, Goddess, immediately vanquish the evil demons and restore peace to the people of Dacheng!"
If he could, the emperor would have loved to exterminate Xianyun's entire family.
Fu Gui curled his lip, "Hypocrite, so what if he's afraid of death? He's using the common people as a raft."
Qi An's expression was icy, and he snorted, "You think this is too much? The worst is yet to come."
As she spoke, she formed hand seals and projected the images she saw through the Soul Searching Technique into the sky, just like showing an open-air movie.
Fu Gui looked up at the sky with everyone else. She was also very curious about what Xian Yun had done to make the eldest brother so resentful.
Five minutes later, the crowd erupted in cheers again, with even civil and military officials collapsing to the ground.
This time, everyone felt only overwhelming anger and lingering fear.
Why does the Imperial Preceptor travel around every now and then?
Why does my cultivation level increase significantly every time I return from a cloud travel?
Why have girls and children been disappearing so frequently in remote towns in recent years?
In the sky, everything became clear.
The footage clearly shows that the missing girls and children of Dacheng were all used as "cultivation materials" and transformed into the cultivation level of the Imperial Preceptor.
Fu Gui was dumbfounded.
No wonder Sister An'an was so angry; this toad actually used such a heinous cultivation method.
There is a wicked technique in the demon realm that can rapidly increase the cultivation level of demons in a short period of time, but it is extremely sinister and immoral.
That is to throw virgin girls and children under the age of seven into the formation and drain their blood little by little.
Any demon with even a modicum of integrity would disdain such a thing. Moreover, cultivation gained through such crooked means is largely unreliable and not conducive to long-term success.
Qi An detested this kind of evil magic. She believed that gods, immortals, demons, monsters, and mortals each had their own path.
Bullying the weak across boundaries is something only the most despicable cowards would do.
It's like a young, strong man punching an old people's home and kicking a kindergarten. Is that impressive?
In any case, none of the demons in Liyue dared to do that.
Because anyone who dared to do that was personally drained of their blood and had their soul crushed by her.
Fu Gui thought to himself, "This is truly a disgrace to the demon realm."
A demon with five hundred years of cultivation only dared to attack mortal girls and children who were powerless to even kill a chicken.
If he were to encounter Sister An'an, that demon goddess, she would surely skin him alive.
The shocking scene aroused the people's bloodlust. They forgot their fear and angrily threw whatever they were holding at Xingtai.
If they hadn't been subdued by the goddess, their entire populace would have become cultivation material for monsters if things had continued this way.
The disgusting toad now has rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs on its body, making it look even more disgusting.
The angry shouts of killing rose and fell among the crowd.
"Kill the evil Taoist..."
"Kill the evil Taoist..."
The emperor was also furious.
Although he has been obsessed with cultivating immortality in recent years, those people were, after all, his subjects, who were then wantonly slaughtered by the national advisor he appointed.
How will the people view him as emperor?
How will history books record his story?
"Goddess, on behalf of the people of Dacheng, I beg you to heed the will of the people and slay this demon."
Qi An raised her hand, and the noise stopped instantly. The people looked on expectantly, waiting for her to act on behalf of Heaven.
"Rest assured, everyone, I will give you justice and execute this scoundrel."
The toad buried in the garbage spoke human language.
"No...don't kill me! I know I was wrong, I'll never do it again, please spare my life..."
"You don't know you're wrong, you just know you're going to die."
Qi An raised his palm upwards, and the toad floated in mid-air above Xingtai.
"Then repay those innocent girls and children who died tragically with your own blood and flesh."
With a wave of her hand, dozens of knives flew out from the sheaths of the imperial guards, enveloping the toad in a formation of blades.
“Strip him naked.”
At Qi An's command, dozens of knives moved simultaneously, their flashes creating afterimages, and blood and chunks of flesh rained down on the execution platform.
"Ahhh..."
Xianyun screamed incessantly as he was sliced into a thousand pieces amidst the cheers of the crowd, until his head was severed and he could no longer scream.
Qi An took the earth-yellow demon core into his palm, and a blue flame ignited, burning the flesh and blood on the execution platform, along with Xianyun's soul, into nothingness.
Truly, a thousand cuts and a thousand cuts, reduced to ashes.
"Thank you, Goddess." The emperor breathed a sigh of relief and bowed in thanks.
Civil and military officials and common people knelt on the ground, bowed deeply to her, and said in unison:
"Thank you, Goddess."
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