Chapter Seventy-Seven: Old Qin
"Old Qin, have you thought it through? Are you going to send your child away? Tonight it's our turn!" A man approached Xiao Tian's father and asked softly.
"I haven't decided yet, we'll talk about it later," Xiaotian's father said calmly.
“The spiritual energy here is very abundant at night!” Hu Lijin said with great joy. Her body, which had been scorched by the sun during the day, began to recover rapidly at night thanks to the rich spiritual energy.
Ru Huan also felt her body begin to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy. Unlike the fox spirits, she absorbed the spiritual energy here into a vortex!
Seeing Ru Huan's terrifying ability to absorb spiritual energy, the evil god and Hu Lijing quickly moved to the other side, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to absorb even a single bit of spiritual energy.
Xiao Tian's mind was still replaying what his father had said to him. Seeing his father's hesitant expression, it seemed like he was hiding something from him, but since his father wouldn't say, he had no idea what had happened.
Unable to fall asleep, Xiao Tian tossed and turned in bed. He looked at his younger brother beside him, covered him with the animal skin that had been pulled back, and then tiptoed to his own bedroom.
"Huh! Is it really windy outside?" Xiao Tian looked at the gaps in the wooden planks of his attic with some confusion, and heard a whooshing sound coming from inside.
Xiao Tian gently opened the door. It was quiet outside. Where did the wind come from?
"Xiao Tian? Why aren't you asleep yet? What are you doing?" The woman's voice rang out.
"I need to pee, I need to get up and pee!"
"Oh, remember to close the door after you spill it!"
"Yes, Mother!"
Xiao Tian gently closed the door, then looked up at the attic where there was still a whooshing sound. Feeling a bit strange, Xiao Tian held onto the stairs and slowly began to climb up...
"Someone's coming up!" Ru Huan said.
The evil god and Hu Lijin were so frightened that they immediately held their breath, and Ruhuan also stopped absorbing spiritual energy.
"Squeak".
The building door slowly rose, and a small head slowly emerged, its eyes full of curiosity looking around.
This attic was where my father kept his things. He usually forbade my brother and me to come up here, and even my mother wouldn't let us.
I remember once coming up the stairs out of curiosity. I had just reached the top of the stairs and hadn't even opened the door when my father grabbed me and gave me a severe beating. I never came up there again after that.
Xiao Tian opened the building door and looked at the building surface, which was covered with a thick layer of dust. Not far away, there were three strangers staring intently at him from a pile of boxes containing unknown contents.
Xiao Tian was startled, slipped, and tumbled down the stairs.
"Xiao Tian, what are you doing?" The woman heard the noise, lit an oil lamp, and groped her way over.
"Mother, it's nothing, I just accidentally bumped into the stairs," Xiao Tian replied, enduring the pain and fear.
"You careless child, did you bump into anything? Does it hurt?" the woman asked as she came over.
"Hehe, Mom is fine, look at me, ouch..." Xiao Tian was about to prove to his mother that he was alright, but when he moved, the pain in his back made him gasp.
"Why don't you turn on the light at night, child?" the woman scolded as she helped Xiaotian sit down on a stool.
"Mother, it's alright, you go back to sleep! I can handle it myself!" Xiao Tian said.
"You're just like your father, always acting mysteriously, I wonder what you're up to?" the woman complained as she poured medicinal wine for Xiao Tian's bruises.
After her mother helped her into bed, she couldn't sleep at all! Who were the three people in the attic? Why were they in her house? Why had her father and mother never mentioned them before?
No wonder Dad has been forbidding his younger brother from going upstairs lately, and even Mom won't allow it. Doesn't Mom know who's upstairs?
Why was her father locking these two girls and a terrifying-looking man in the attic? Was her father, ostensibly a herb hunter, actually a human trafficker?
Xiao Tian was in a state of turmoil. Seeing the two girls staring intently at him, he felt extremely uneasy. If his father really was involved in human trafficking, should he remain silent or tell his father that such a heinous crime should be stopped?
Xiao Tian was very conflicted, not knowing how to tell his father. Just as he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly heard someone opening the door to his house!
Xiao Tian was about to make a sound, but he thought it was his mother getting up to go to the toilet, so he didn't pay any attention until he opened the front door and heard a very familiar footstep walking into his room!
Xiao Tian's initially happy mood suddenly turned into a dilemma. His father had returned, and he wondered if he should persuade him to stop doing such heinous things.
"Squeak!"
The door to Xiao Tian's room had been opened, and a very burly and familiar figure stood quietly in front of it, motionless.
"Xiao Tian, what are you doing now?" The woman thought it was her son causing trouble again, and her tone was tinged with impatience and anger.
"Father, are you back?" Xiao Tian endured the pain and struggled to get out of bed, then looked at his father who was not far away and asked.
"Hmm!" The man gave a soft "hmm," then took a step and walked to his bedside, looking at him coldly.
Xiao Tian suddenly met his father's gaze, and an indescribable chill rose from the depths of his soul! He felt that his father tonight was very unfamiliar, so unfamiliar that it frightened him!
Xiao Tian's father stared at Xiao Tian for a long time before turning to look at his youngest son, who was sleeping soundly. The man slowly walked to his youngest son's bedside, bent down, and prepared to pick him up.
"Honey, you're back?" the woman suddenly asked from the doorway.
"Um"!
The man responded softly and continued to pick up his youngest son. Suddenly, the son opened his eyes and saw that he was already in his father's arms. However, his father's gaze was no longer filled with the usual doting and loving affection; it was very cold and eerie.
"Father, I'm so scared of you looking like this!" The youngest son said timidly in a low voice, looking at his father like this.
"Honey, where are you taking the baby so late?" The woman sensed something was wrong with her husband and asked with some confusion.
The man didn't say anything, just held his youngest son and prepared to leave, but the woman stopped him at the door.
"Honey, what are you doing?" The woman watched as her husband prepared to leave with their youngest son in his arms. It was the middle of the night, and the baby wasn't sick. Where was he going with the child in the middle of the night?
"Um... move... aside!" the man mumbled.
"Honey, what's wrong with you?" The woman felt her husband's behavior was very strange, so she tried to touch him, but he kicked her to the ground!
"Mother! Father, why did you hit Mother?" Xiao Tian saw his father kick his mother over and quickly got out of bed, went to his father, and prepared to protect his mother.
"Get...out!" the man mumbled, but his face was cold as he stared intently at the mother and child in front of him.
"Honey, if you don't tell me where you're taking our youngest son, I won't let you leave this door!" The woman stood up with a pained expression, still blocking the doorway.
"You're asking for...death!" the man said haltingly, holding his youngest son in one arm and reaching for the woman's neck with the other.
"Honey, what are you doing, cough cough...!" The woman was being fiercely choked by her husband, and no matter how much she feared being hit, her husband wouldn't let go!
"Father, what are you doing? Let Mother go right now!" Xiao Tian saw his father grabbing his mother's neck, and his mother was about to suffocate. He quickly grabbed his father's leg and cried out, but his father kicked him away!
"Honey... are you crazy...?" the woman said with great difficulty, her eyes already brimming with tears.
"Let her go!"
Just then, a voice rang out!
The man slowly turned his head and saw that there were three more people in his son's room at some point.
"Heh heh... please, save us..." the man suddenly said with great difficulty, as if he were being pressed down by something.
Hu Lijin looked at the man opposite her, as if he were possessed by something, and she could no longer control her behavior.
"Who...who are you...? Why are you stopping me...? They...have...fulfilled their obligations to me," the man said haltingly. "I'm just here to...take what belongs to me...!"
"I don't care about your contractual obligations, I'm telling you now to put this child down!" Hu Lijin said forcefully, looking at the man.
"What if I... don't let go? What can you... do to me?" The man tilted his head and looked at Hu Lijin, his grip on the woman's hand still tight. The woman's eyes had begun to roll back, and gurgling sounds came from her throat!
"Let go of my mother!" The little angel struggled against her father, but her strength was like an ant trying to shake a tree, completely futile.
Hu Lijin teleported to the man's side and poked his forehead with a finger!
A cloud of black mist appeared on the man's forehead. Hu Lijin shot out a beam of strong light from her fingers, trying to disperse the black mist on the man's forehead, but no matter how Hu Lijin stirred it, she could not disperse it.
Hu Lijin had no choice but to settle for second best, directly suppressing the ball of black energy into the man's body. The moment the black energy was suppressed, the man collapsed to the ground with a thud, and the woman was also choked unconscious...
"Dad! Mom! What happened to you? Little brother, are you alright?" Xiao Tian looked at his parents who had collapsed into a pile, and his little brother who was crying loudly in fright. He quickly pulled his little brother out of his father's arms.
"Master, why can't I dispel the black aura on his body?"
“This man has already signed a contract with this thing, and this thing has taken root in him. It’s normal that you can’t get rid of it,” Ru Huan said.
"How can we get rid of this dark energy?" Hu Lijin asked.
“It can’t be removed unless this thing voluntarily cancels its contract with this man; otherwise, this man will always be controlled by this thing!” Ru Huan said.
"Please, please save my father!" Xiao Tian overheard Ru Huan and Hu Lijing's conversation and realized that he had encountered a master. If it weren't for them stopping his father tonight, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
"Xiao Tian? Your name is Xiao Tian, right?" Hu Lijing squatted down and asked the little boy whose face was covered in tears.
"Yes, yes, my name is Xiaotian. Please, sisters, save my father!" Xiaotian hugged his younger brother and knelt down before Ruhuan and Hu Lijin.
"Evil God! Carry this man to the bed first, and Hu Lijin, carry this woman to the bed too. Separate the two of them!"
Then the two people who were with them carried the unconscious couple to the bed.
"Sister, is my mother alright?" Xiao Tian, holding his younger brother, came to Ru Huan's side and asked his mother with a worried look.
"It's nothing, she just fainted, she'll wake up in a bit!" Ru Huan replied.
"Oh, thank you, sister. Sister, could you..." Before Xiao Tian could finish speaking, Ru Huan refused him outright.
"cannot"!
Seeing Ru Huan's unapproachable expression, Xiao Tian wisely refrained from saying anything more, simply holding his brother and silently shedding tears...
"My child, my child's father, where are you taking our child? My child's father, wait for me!" The woman, lying on the bed, suddenly bared her teeth and claws, as if trying to grab something but unable to.
"Mother, we're all here, Mother, wake up, we're all here!" Xiao Tian quickly carried his younger brother to his mother and grabbed her cold hands as he spoke.
"Xiao Tian, Xiao Tian, where's your little brother? Did your father take him away?" The woman grabbed Xiao Tian's hand and asked anxiously.
"Mother, Father didn't take my little brother away. He's here with me. Look!" Xiao Tian quickly handed his little brother, who had cried himself to sleep, to his mother.
"That's good, that's good. Where's your father?" the woman asked hurriedly.
"Here!" Xiao Tian pointed to the bed opposite him.
"I'm so glad you're alright, you scared me to death, boohoo..." The woman hugged her two sons and sobbed.
"Mother, it was these two older sisters who saved us," Xiao Tian said, pointing to the three people behind him.
"Ah...?" Only then did the woman notice that there were three more people standing behind her son!
"Thank you for saving us, three of you," the woman said, preparing to get up and bow, but Ru Huan stopped her.
"Xiao Tian, help me down, let me see how your father is doing?" the woman said.
"Mother, Father is alright now. You should rest for a while and then go see him," Xiao Tian advised.
“I’m a little worried about him!” the woman said.
"It's alright! He won't die anytime soon, he'll just suffer a bit!" Ru Huan said.
"Ah?" The woman's face changed when she heard Ruhuan's words. If something really happened to her husband, how would she and her two sons survive?
"Master, can we please save this man?" Hu Lijin was moved with compassion and pleaded with Ru Huan on behalf of the family.
“Some things can’t be solved with just a little sympathy. Do you know what this man has been through? Do you know what’s inside this man’s body? Sometimes helping can make things worse, don’t you know that?” Ru Huan asked Hu Lijin.
"Master, I know I was wrong!" Hu Lijing lowered her head and didn't say another word.
"Xiao Tian, let me ask you, where did you find that spirit storage jar, or was it given to you by someone else?" Ru Huan asked, looking at Xiao Tian.
"This spirit storage jar was given to me by my father. I don't know where he got it from," Xiao Tian said, glancing at his father who was still lying in bed, and then at the spirit storage jar he had placed on the table.
“It seems we still need to wake this man up,” Ru Huan said.
Ru Huan walked up to the man, who had been lying on the bed. He slowly sat up, and by the time Ru Huan was beside him, he had already opened his eyes!
"Where did you get the spirit storage jar that you gave to your son?"
"I... got it from Old Man Fan in our village. He didn't want to give it to me at first, but he agreed after I told him I wanted to give it to my Xiaotian as a birthday present!" the man said.
"Okay, I understand!"
After Ru Huan finished speaking, the man slowly lay down again, as if nothing had happened.
"Do you know this old man Fan?" Then she turned to look at Xiao Tian and asked.
“I know, it’s just south of our village,” Xiao Tian answered truthfully.
“Take me to him now!” Ru Huan said.
“We probably won’t find him now, because he shouldn’t be home!” Xiao Tian said.
"Why?" Ru Huan asked.
"Because he should be like my father now, gone to the Plains of Divine Desolation, and hasn't returned yet!" Xiao Tian looked timidly at this incredibly beautiful yet unapproachable older sister.
"It's the Divine Desolation Plains again. Is this old man Fan digging for spiritual herbs in the Divine Desolation Plains just like your father?" Hu Lijin asked.
"This old man Fan is not; he went inside with my father and the others to collect treasures!"
"Finding a treasure?" Hu Lijing was somewhat puzzled.
"We go in there to pick up trash, to pick up those weird-looking things that none of us dare touch!" the woman replied.
"Under normal circumstances, it should have been a long time before your father and the others returned?"
"Let me see!" Xiao Tian said, handing his younger brother to his mother. The little guy opened his eyes, glanced at his mother, and then continued to sleep peacefully.
"It should be about two more hours!" Xiao Tian said, looking at the moon in the sky from the doorway before going back inside.
"Take us to him in two hours!" Ru Huan ordered directly.
"Okay, I'll take you there as soon as he gets back. Sister, can you tell me where you're from?" Xiao Tian was very curious about why these three people were in his attic.
"I'll tell you this as long as you lead me to that old man Fan!" Ru Huan said to Xiao Tian.
Two hours later,
As dawn approached, just as Ru Huan was about to ask Xiao Tian to take her to find that old man Fan, there was another knock on Xiao Tian's door.
"Is Old Qin here? Has your Old Qin come back yet?" a woman's voice asked from outside.
"Oh, it's Old Zhao's family. My husband, Qin, is back. What's up?" Xiao Tian asked as his mother replied.
“My husband, Lao Zhao, and many other men in the village haven’t returned yet. We’ve come to ask if your husband, Lao Qin, has come back. Now that Lao Qin has returned, could you please tell us what’s going on with these men in our village? The time has come and they still haven’t come back!”
"Oh, my husband Qin is still taking a shower. I'll call him out after he's done!" The woman said, glancing worriedly at the man still lying on the bed.
"Okay! Open the door first, we'll come in and wait, it's a bit cold outside," the woman outside said.
The woman had no choice but to go to the front door. As soon as she opened the bolt, a group of people rushed in, making the already cramped house feel even more crowded.
"Old Qin, we're here today to get an explanation from him!" said Old Zhao's wife.
"What exactly happened?" The woman was even more puzzled.
"You tell her, let her really know what Old Qin of theirs has done!" Old Zhao's family pulled out a young man hiding behind the crowd and said.
The young man lowered his head, secretly glanced at Xiaotian's mother, then looked behind him and, finding that Lao Qin was not there, dared to raise his head a little.
“Last night, when everyone went to the Plains of Divine Mourning, the people of our village walked together to the Plains of Divine Mourning. After we all knelt before the God of the Plains and prayed, everyone offered their sacrifices.”
When it was time for Lao Qin to offer his sacrifice, we found that he had nothing in his hands. We thought that Lao Qin was going to sacrifice himself, but unexpectedly, Lao Qin swung the hoe in his hand and smashed it on the head of the God of the Plains!
Old Qin's actions terrified us all, and we hurriedly tried to stop him. But Old Qin swung his hoe and repeatedly smashed it against the head of the God of the Plains.
After smashing the God of the Plains, Old Qin collapsed to the ground. Just as we were about to go check what had happened,
Suddenly, a cloud of smoke rose from the God of the Plains, enveloping us all. I'm naturally timid and had never seen anything like it before. I was so scared I almost peed my pants and fainted. When I woke up, everyone in the village was gone, even Old Qin was gone! The young man blushed as he recounted how he had been scared to death.
"Did you hear that? Your old Qin is quite formidable; he even dared to smash the Plains God who protects us. But if you have any grudges against this Plains God, don't use our men as cannon fodder, everyone, right?" Old Zhao said.
"Yes! The God of the Plains blesses my men every year so that they can dig up a lot of spiritual herbs. I don't know what Old Qin was thinking!"
"Since Lao Qin has come back alone, and he caused all this trouble, we won't say anything. We just need him to go to the Godsor Plains and bring our men back from there."
The crowd was buzzing with discussion, it seemed that these women wouldn't give up until they were given an explanation!
"snort"!
Just then, a cold snort suddenly came from inside the room. Although the sound was not loud, it seemed to strike a chord in everyone's hearts, and everyone immediately fell silent.
"I didn't expect you coward to still be alive. Well, that devil wouldn't be so desperate as to eat something that smells like urine!" Old Qin's voice said from inside, his tone full of sarcasm.
"Old Qin, now that you've shown up, give us an explanation. What happened to our men? You're the one who caused this mess. You have to bring our men back safe and sound, or we won't bother your family anymore!"
"Yes, you caused this mess, so why should your husband take the blame?"
"Old Qin, no matter how you look at it, this doesn't make sense!"
Countless people chattered amongst themselves, gradually approaching Old Qin's family as if they might attack at any moment.
"Give you an explanation? Explain what? I'm helping you! Helping you get rid of this demon called the God of the Plains!" Old Qin said, looking at the crowd outside.
"Say a few more words, Lao Qin, say a few more words, and maybe we'll believe you!" Old Zhao's family said to Lao Qin with a mocking look.
"Hey, you wet-pants brat, tell them, all of us who dig for spiritual herbs, and those who go in to collect scraps, anything related to the Godslayer Plains, tell me what they're offering as sacrifices to the God of the Plains?" Old Qin stared intently at the young man as he spoke.
"Ah... stop talking, I'm sorry to Father Wen Dao, and I'm sorry to my son..." The young man suddenly roared like a madman, as if he had suddenly gone mad.
"Heh heh, a coward is a coward. He can't even handle this little bit of pressure, yet he wants to go dig for spiritual herbs?" Old Qin said with a look of disdain as he looked at the young man who had already broken down.
"Old Qin, what's going on?" Little Tian's mother also sensed that something was wrong.
"We went to the Gods' Shattered Plains to dig for medicinal herbs, scavenge scraps, collect gems... all sorts of jobs. Did you really think we were going to dig? Scavenge? Dig in the dirt? Hahaha... you're being too naive!"
Do you know the Zhang family, who made their fortune a few years ago by digging up a Blood Spirit Ginseng? Wasn't it the Zhang family, whose youngest son, who wasn't even three years old, who went missing for two or three days before he found the Blood Spirit Ginseng in the Divine Grief Plain? Do you know why?
"Alright, since you want an explanation from me, you'll all come with me to the Plains of Divine Devastation tonight. Remember, when you go back now, search the places your men never let you touch, see what's inside, and take it. We'll go together tonight. Remember, don't forget to take what your men hid, or you'll end up like your men tonight!" Old Qin finished speaking and then began to shoo the women away.
The women were skeptical, but some of them suddenly looked grim, suggesting that some men hadn't kept it from their wives, who did know something.
“Old Qin, I heard my husband say that you just can’t bear to part with your two children. The God of the Plains has urged you many times, but you just won’t hand over your children. Your father’s flesh has already been sacrificed, and now you can’t bear to die yourself, and you can’t bear to part with your children. You may have had your fun smashing things, but you’ve harmed us men. Doesn’t your conscience hurt? How are we orphans and widows supposed to live?” A woman pointed at Old Qin and said.
"Li family daughter-in-law, do you know something? Tell us!" The women who were about to disperse gathered around again.
“I’ve heard my husband say that when they go to the God’s Shattered Plains, they’re not going to dig up any spiritual herbs or pick up any treasures. Instead, they’re going to exchange things for something. The better the things they offer as sacrifices, the more valuable the things they get.”
The Zhang family sacrificed their three-year-old son for a single Blood Spirit Ginseng before they even went to town.
"I couldn't bear to part with my son, so I killed my father-in-law, sob sob sob..." The woman broke down in tears as she spoke.
Countless women felt a chill rise from their feet to their heads! It turned out that people in every household in their village had suddenly disappeared, all killed by their own descendants!
"Now you know? Are you still coming with me to the Plains of Divine Grief tonight to worship your God of the Plains? Oh, I forgot to tell you, the God of the Plains dislikes women like you very much. He only likes people, the younger the better, especially the one you're holding in your arms," Old Qin said sinisterly, looking at a woman holding a baby in her arms.
"Ah... please stop talking!" Countless women fled from Old Qin's house in a panic, as if they had encountered something extremely terrifying...
The once noisy Qin family home suddenly became very quiet, with only Xiao Tian and his mother still recovering from the shock of what had just happened.
"Honey, is what you just said true?" Xiao Tian's mother looked at the man she had been with for over ten years with disbelief, who now seemed so unfamiliar.
Old Qin didn't say anything, but walked up to Ru Huan and the others, and then suddenly knelt down on the ground with a thud.
"I know you don't belong here, please take my wife and children and leave!" After saying this, Old Qin started kowtowing on the ground.
"Honey, what are you doing? Get up!" Xiao Tian's mother felt extremely uneasy as she watched her husband suddenly kowtow to thin air.
"Sister, please save my father!" Just as the woman was about to help her husband up, her son also knelt on the ground, kowtowing in one direction as he spoke.
"Are you all crazy?" The woman watched her husband and son kowtowing to thin air, and she was on the verge of a breakdown.
"Mother, can't you see? They are kowtowing to two young ladies, and there's also a very tall person," her youngest son suddenly asked.
"You mean there are three other people in our family besides us?" The woman felt a chill in her heart, realizing that these three people might be the ones her husband had brought back from the Plains of Divine Desolation. Now, her whole family was doomed.
"This is the result of your own actions, and there's nothing we can do to help you!" Ru Huan said coldly.
"I know I deserve to die, but my wife knows nothing, my two children know nothing, they are innocent!" Old Qin said to Ru Huan with a pleading look on his face.
"Innocent? Then when you sacrificed your father, did he deserve to die?" Ru Huan asked.
"I know I'm being rebellious, but my father agreed to it himself. If I don't use his flesh as a sacrifice, what will happen to our whole family? Either it will be me, or it will be my two sons!" Old Qin said, looking completely devastated.
"Then why didn't you choose me?" Xiaotian's mother asked.
"The God of the Plains looks down on women, considering them unlucky creatures, so he won't allow women to be sacrificed!" Old Qin said.
"My father's flesh has already been sacrificed, and I owe it a huge debt. Last night, I was prepared to die with it, but I didn't expect that I couldn't kill it at all. It even entered my body and came to our house to take our child away. If it weren't for these three people here, our youngest son might be dead by now!" Old Qin said.
"You can all see it, so why can't I see it?" The woman looked in the direction where Ru Huan and the others were standing with some confusion. The three of them, father and sons, could see it, but she couldn't.
"Because our ancestors were sacrificed generation after generation, the God of the Plains gave us a little bit of supernatural ability, which allows us to see things that ordinary people cannot see. This supernatural ability has been passed down from generation to generation, but this supernatural ability is also a sign that we are to be sacrificed!" Old Qin said with tears streaming down his face.
"So you mean our two sons will end up like you?" The woman felt all her strength drain away, and she slumped softly into the chair.
"Please, I just want my wife and children to be alright. I'll bear this alone. The farther they go, the better. That way, even if I die, I can rest in peace!" Old Qin pleaded, looking at Ru Huan and the others.
"Why should we help you?" Hu Lijing asked.
"If you help me, I can tell you a place where you can become normal people like us!" Old Qin said.
"Normal people? Aren't we normal now?" Hu Lijin asked.
"Hehe, if you had gone outside, why didn't any of us see you, except for my two sons and me?"
"You mean we're like ghosts in your world? Ordinary people can't see us?" Ru Huan understood.
"Yes, and you should only be able to come out at night because you're afraid of sunlight during the day, which is why we can see you at night!" Old Qin analyzed.
"A ghost? Honey, you're saying there's a ghost in our house!" The woman was so frightened that she hugged her two sons who were playing, afraid that the ghost she couldn't see would harm them.
“They’re not ghosts, but they have similar characteristics to ghosts,” Old Qin said, turning to comfort his wife.
"Your current state will soon weaken you further and further. During the day, you will be slowly melted by the sunlight. If you don't find a body to contain yourselves, you will slowly dissipate from this world!" Old Qin said.
“You’re describing those souls; we’re different!” Hu Lijin said.
"Different? How so? You are like a floating seed. If this seed doesn't take root and stays floating in this world, how long do you think it can stay intact?" Old Qin said, looking at Ru Huan and the others.
“That makes some sense, but not much. Although we don’t have a physical body like yours, I can guarantee that we can live much longer than you. You should take a look at yourself first. Don’t think that just because I’ve suppressed that thing inside your body, everything will be fine. When that thing comes out at night, not a single living being in your village will be able to escape!” Ru Huan said.
"That's why I wanted you to take my wife and children away from here, the farther the better!" Old Qin said worriedly.
"While you still have some time, tell us about this Plain of Divine Devastation and the God of the Plain," Ru Huan asked.
"What? You're also interested in this Plain of Divine Desolation and the God of the Plain? He can see you, but you two can't, because you're both women!" Old Qin said with certainty.
"Whether you can see it or not is none of your business. Just tell me about the situation in the God's Lament Plains."
"I don't know either!" Old Qin said with a bitter expression.
"You don't know either?" Hu Lijing looked at Lao Qin with some doubt.
"We ordinary people can only stay on the edge of the Gods' Lament Plains. This creature that calls itself the God of the Plains blocks our way. It says that as long as we offer sacrifices to it, we can get what we want. So we are just pretending to use these tools. We have not actually gone into the Gods' Lament Plains!" Old Qin said.
"Heh heh, it seems you've all been thoroughly fooled by this pretentious and delusional person!" Ru Huan sneered.
"What do you mean?" Old Qin sensed that something was wrong.
"What god of the plains? The thing inside you is probably some beast from around you that has become a spirit. It's trying to scare you ordinary people by claiming to be some kind of god and demanding sacrifices from you in exchange for benefits. It's then coaxed and intimidated you into signing a covenant with it for generations to come, making you ordinary people its prey for generations to come!" Ru Huan said.
"Ah...you're telling the truth?" Old Qin's eyes widened, somewhat unable to accept this fact.
"Think about it, why can't this god of the plains touch women? Because women have their periods every month, and that's what he fears most. If these women don't offer him sacrifices during their periods, he will reveal his true form."
Furthermore, does it require you to cut your relatives' corpses into small pieces when sacrificing them, and prohibit the sacrifice of living adults? Can four- or five-year-old children be sacrificed?
"How did you know?" Old Qin increasingly felt how terrifying Ru Huan was.
"Because this beast is not very big to begin with, if you sacrifice a living adult to it, it might be killed by the adult. So you can only use your hands to kill your relatives and then feed it with the dried meat of your relatives little by little!"
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