Chapter 299 They Deserve to Die
"Oh my god, it seems that the monk's guess was wrong! The body-snatching plant can't resist the so-called 'breath of Yinglong'!"
Turtle Qichun exclaimed.
Guan Tang Bao frowned: "That's not right! If buying the 'Yinglong Breath' has such a big impact like the zombie virus, then why are we fine?"
King Bamboo Grass was also surprised and said, "Hey! Yes! It seems that we are fine!"
Zhu Xian had listened to everything the Jade Emperor had to say. When she heard everyone's doubts, she guessed, "It's probably because you don't worship it, so you have no connection with it... Also, I'm afraid that the so-called 'breath of Yinglong' affects the soul, and you don't have a soul in your body, so the pollution that acts on the soul will have no effect on you."
“Oh—I see!”
Guan Tang Bao suddenly understood and said, "Even if that cultivator took over the tree demon's body, his soul didn't change, so he was still affected, right?"
Zhu Xian nodded and said, "That's right, plant spirits don't have souls, they only have consciousness, and that's probably why they are not affected."
Nietzsche looked at the seven trees that were still waving their arms around but were intimidated by the power of the Bamboo Immortal and did not dare to act rashly. He humbly asked the Bamboo Immortal, "Senior Bamboo Immortal, how should we deal with this thing now?"
"well……"
Zhu Xian sighed and said with sympathy, "First, peel off the soul that is attached to the seven trees. It's time, fate, and luck, and it's beyond human control. The seven trees look more than three hundred years old, so I guess the monk has also been trapped in this world for more than three hundred years."
As he finished speaking, a soft white light flew out from his fingertips and penetrated into the largest of the seven bushes.
The shrieking sound coming from the vines stopped abruptly, and soon a dark shadow seemed to be squeezed out by something, stumbling out from the bushes.
The black shadow could only be barely seen as a human figure. Its facial features had long been blurred, its limbs were abnormally swollen, and there were even many things similar to vines growing on its back, which were long and constantly waving.
It roared silently, fell on all fours, and struggled wildly, its neck bound by the white light, like a tethered animal.
The Jade Emperor rarely showed a frivolous smile, and asked in a muffled voice, "He... can he still be saved?"
Zhuxian shook his head and replied, "The seven spirits are all scattered, and the three souls are all polluted. It is better to give him a quick death."
The black shadow seemed to sense something and struggled even harder. Zhu Xian did not delay and casually sent out a green light, which pierced the black shadow's forehead. In an instant, the struggling black shadow suddenly seemed to be frozen in place, and after a few seconds, it shattered into a piece of broken mist and disappeared on the ground.
Nietzsche and others who watched the whole process had no idea, only the Jade Emperor felt a little aggrieved - that was a living person!
"Well, even though this little guy has been sleeping for many years, he has been forced to run around all the time. He should know something. If you have any questions, you can ask him. Although he can't speak human language, I can still tell you."
As the Bamboo Fairy spoke, he cast another spell on the largest seven-bush tree. However, this time the spell seemed to be beneficial to it. The seven-bush tree trembled, and then gradually stretched out its vines in the warm white light. Many tender leaves also grew on the vines one after another.
The leaves of the seven-bush tree are heart-shaped and soon cover the entire plant, making it look lush and green. The red mist that originally surrounded it gradually dissipated.
Seeing the seven bushes change their appearance, the bamboo fairy said with satisfaction: "This is its original appearance."
"Senior, do you mean for us to ask it?"
Turtle Qichun pointed at the seven-bush tree with a somewhat conflicted expression and asked.
Before the Bamboo Fairy could say anything, the Seven Bushes tree actually stretched out a vine and gently patted the Turtle Qichun's shoulder.
Qi Chun of the sea turtle jumped three feet high reflexively, causing the vine to stand awkwardly in the air and sway for a while. Qi Chun of the sea turtle then realized that the vine was just greeting him, and flew back a little embarrassedly, explaining to the vine: "Ahaha, sorry, I got pulled too much before, so there are some sequelae..."
As he spoke, he cautiously reached out and poked it.
Guan Tang Bao glanced at the thick vine with regret and muttered, "Does this mean it becomes a friendly force? Then I won't be able to use it as a spiritual material. Sigh..."
Qicongmu seemed to have heard what Guantangbao said. It retracted its vines in a whoosh and extended its other vines into the soil and hid them, as if it was afraid that everyone would come up and cut them off.
In the end, it was the reliable Nietzsche who took the initiative to undertake the task: "Senior Zhuxian, please help me ask if it knows anything about the sect of that cultivator, and what happened that year..."
Zhuxian nodded, closed his eyes, and the foot on the ground suddenly turned into a segmented sugarcane, then extended into the soil.
After a long while, he finally spoke: "Well... those... those cultivators all came from the Sword Sect of Liuzhou, including the one who possessed it. They were ordered to come to Zhongzhou to find human sacrifices to feed Yinglong, apparently to deal with some 'sect catastrophe'. Later, when the human sacrifices could not be supplied, the passage to the small world of Dongtian could only be opened from the outside, and this place was completely out of control... That's about it."
Guan Tang Bao asked, "The human sacrifices are those headless people, right?"
Zhu Xian took the initiative to explain: "Yes, but human sacrifice is not their invention. Thousands of years ago, human sacrifice was a resource of the major sects and was used to worship immortals and gods. However, because this method would attract heavenly disasters, it was gradually abandoned."
After listening to Zhuxian's explanation, several players couldn't help but talk about it.
"Wow! This setting is so dark!"
"I remember that there is a similar setting in the ancient myths and legends of our flower-growing family!"
"It seems like a mass grave was unearthed in Yinxu or somewhere else? Even women and children were found there! Ugh! How scary!"
"Our modern society is still good! Otherwise, we would just be sacrificing our lives!"
The Jade Emperor couldn't help but curse, "They really deserve to die!"
“They deserve to die!”
The person who said the same thing was Fang Xianyu, who had been wearing a helmet through the players' perspectives.
The legend of human sacrifice is a very old story, and she didn't know much about it. She could roughly guess the reasons why human sacrifice was abandoned - if you enjoy human sacrifice, you will bear the karma, and over time, heaven will bring down disasters. This kind of killing the goose that lays the eggs and bringing about one's own destruction is no longer acceptable!
But the absence of human sacrifices does not mean that the people of Guixu Realm are no longer "human sacrifices".
Heavy taxes, a precarious living environment, and being implicated and losing one's life for all sorts of weird reasons are not much different from human sacrifices.
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