Chapter 579: Divine Mercy
The night after the snow was bright. The shadows of the trees and the houses intertwined, transforming into outstretched hands, groping for something in the darkness.
King Tongze felt cold.
Since becoming a ghost, he has no longer been affected by cold or heat, and this kind of cold has almost been forgotten.
But at this moment, he had to turn pale and shiver on his bed of hay and straw, which once again awakened some memories of his time as a mortal.
Gods are also mortals.
Wutong was originally five young men with good fortune. They cultivated supernatural powers, acquired magic spells, and gradually became famous.
The voice of the Immortal Jin Ting rang in his ears, saying, "If the three kings can still walk, leave now."
The sound of the whistling cold wind was so loud that even if you made some noise at night, it would not be easy to be discovered.
King Tongze said, "I can't leave."
He was so weak that he wasn't joking when he said his death was near.
"I broke my bones and internal organs. Even if I hadn't been injured, I would have frozen to death in the night without shelter."
The Immortal Jin Ting said, "That's going to be difficult."
King Tongze can fool people for a while, but not for seven days.
These people, starved of food, have reached their limit. Can they really endure for seven days? It's hard to say.
King Tongze fell into a drowsy sleep, but was awakened by the Immortal Jinting in the middle of the night.
There is someone wandering outside the door.
It was a shadow that was extremely hungry. Even if it wanted to sleep, it couldn't. It could only wander at the door, looking around, and looking in through the drafty door with a red eye.
King Tongze felt even colder and suddenly said, "Come in."
The shadow seemed to be frightened and stopped for a while, neither coming in nor leaving.
King Tongze didn't say anything else, and the shadow slipped away quietly, ultimately failing to break the terrible boundary.
King Tongze began to worry and asked again, "Are you really out of magic power?"
The Immortal Jin Ting sighed and said, "If I blow on them now, they will all disappear. I don't even have the ability to reveal myself to them."
King Tongze stopped talking.
The situation was in agony until dawn, and it should have been even more dangerous, but it was suddenly eased.
Many people froze to death in the village. Some people couldn't help but cry so loudly that they attracted the neighbors, who snatched the body away and soon smoke rose from the chimneys.
King Tongze smelled the aroma of meat, and someone pushed open the door and offered a piece of half-cooked meat to the gods.
The immortal just looked at him quietly, and he kowtowed hard and ran out of the door.
King Tongze did not eat the meat. If necessary, he would eat it, but there was no need.
Eating will not prolong his life, and not eating will not make him starve to death. As long as he is not killed, he can hold on for a while by relying on his spirit.
The meat was eaten up quickly. If you didn't eat it yourself, it would soon be taken away by others, perhaps your companions.
As the day passed, everyone changed.
When hungry, man is a beast. When full, he falls into torment again.
They could no longer look directly at others, but only slanted their gazes and cast them vaguely on the ground, and they no longer spoke.
Someone came to King Tongze's room and prayed to the gods, asking for forgiveness.
King Tongze despised such weak and incompetent people, but he could only speak softly, representing the heavens' forgiveness, and told him: "You are doing this just to survive, and the heavens won't blame you. If you feel uneasy, do good deeds in the future to atone for your sins."
The man felt comforted and left peacefully.
Another day passed, and the little food they ate was no longer enough to sustain their activities in the winter.
They were once again starving.
The piece of meat offered to the immortal was taken away from the immortal's bedside again and enjoyed by the offerer himself.
Even gods are powerless to stop it, and condemning eyes cannot defeat hunger.
Smoke from some of the village's homes continued to rise as usual, but the doors were closed and there was no crying.
They went out and searched but found nothing. They could only tighten their belts and breathe out weakly.
So the danger fell on the gods again.
People can offer sacrifices to the gods, but they can also take the offerings away from the table, and the gods cannot stop them.
People can seek comfort from the gods, and then look back at the gods to feel at ease about living.
King Tongze could not offer bribes, so he could only use threats.
"If you disrespect the gods, you will be punished by heaven."
Those fearful eyes retreated again. People are in awe of heaven, for it is a little reliance and hope.
But soon all hope was lost. The youngest child passed away at night, and was found stiff in the morning.
They could eat other corpses, but they couldn't bear to eat their own child. They could only swallow their grief and bury him in the yard. They didn't dare to cry, let alone carry him out.
At night, when the child's parents fell asleep, others dug the child out again, but they still accidentally alarmed the child's parents, who rushed to grab the child back, locked the house, turned off the lights, and the whole family quietly left in the night, as if they had left together.
Those who work in vain become even hungrier, so hungry that their eyes turn green.
A god who cannot move is actually a real weakling.
The wolf-like eyes rushed into the house and surrounded the immortal. The immortal could not pretend to sleep, but could only pretend to be calm and kind with great compassion, saying: "Please eat me."
He stretched out an arm and said, "Start with this arm."
It was as if a true divine being had descended to the world, the manifestation of the compassionate Buddha. Such holiness made people afraid to take action.
But bluffing was useless. King Tongze said, "Give me a knife."
He took the knife in his right hand and cut off the flesh of his left arm. The red flesh fell off, but not much blood flowed out, showing the difference between gods and mortals.
The mortal received the gift and crawled out with the holy meat in his hands.
This was the fourth night.
On the fifth night, the gods gave him his left leg.
On the sixth night, the gods gave him his right leg.
On the seventh night, the mortal waited outside the immortal's house early, waiting for the immortal's mercy.
King Tongze said fiercely: "Jin Ting, I want their lives!"
The Immortal Jin Ting said, "I will obey the command of the law."
The time has come, and the soul that was captured by the underworld finally returned with guidance and revived in the formation.
But the Great Immortal Jin Ting could not get out, because the array plate was sealed by King Tongze, like a locked box, locking the Great Immortal Jin Ting's strength inside.
After venting his hatred, King Tongze said, "When I release you with my divine power, I will die. You must kill them all and then take my body back to Shangfang Mountain."
The Immortal Jin Ting accepted the order.
King Tongze then mobilized his spiritual energy and unsealed the formation.
Smoke floated out from the array plate, and the Immortal Jin Ting, with white hair and green clothes, landed beside the bed.
King Tongze forced himself to move his eyes and look at him, but the light in his eyes faded.
The Immortal Jin Ting stared at his eyes without blinking, as if he could see some clues from those eyes that were not closed.
But since he couldn't see anything, he had to give up and lifted the mattress, revealing a bloody and bony body. Jin Ting Daxian followed suit and locked King Tongze's body into the formation disk.
Then there was a loud bang, the roof exploded, and it disappeared into the sky.
Such a big commotion frightened the mortals, who were terrified and panicked, fearing the gods' revenge, so they fled in the wind and snow at night.
After eating the flesh of the gods, they found strength that they did not know where it came from, but they walked all night and fled into a big city, from which they were never found again.
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