Chapter 105 Bury It
A cry of surprise broke the deadlock.
"Oh no! The Moonlight Vine is gone! The Moonlight Vine is gone! The blessing of the Moon God is gone!"
Then there were cries and shouts.
Tao Xianhun was shaking all over, his chest rising and falling, but he sneered after hearing the sound, and then cursed with tears in his eyes, "It's good to be gone, it's good to be gone."
Lin Du suddenly asked, "Are there no new faces among these?"
"Yes," Tao Xian tried to hold back his emotions, "some of them don't look familiar."
Lin Du wrote them down one by one, intending to go back and look for clues.
Monks have a long life span, and in hundreds of years they can develop many industries and have many ways out.
She handed the spiritual vine to Granny Ma, "Granny, how many clones can a vine have?"
"If there are too many, the main body's strength will be weakened. Usually there are two."
Granny Ma collected the spiritual vine and ignited the blue ghost fire in her hand, burning the storage bag and the things inside to ashes.
Lin Du was about to say something but stopped himself. There were also several hundred spirit stones in the storage bag!
"What about the seeds in the villagers' bodies?"
"I can develop a drug to kill that thing. The older ones are too deeply rooted to be removed, but the younger ones can still be saved."
"Please, Granny Ma..." Lin Du paused, "Save them."
Granny Ma looked at her deeply and asked, "When are you going to kill him?"
Lin Du met the old man's eyes calmly, "After Mo Lin removed the poison from the snake."
Granny Ma knew that she was clever and just smiled.
"I have one last question, please tell me, mother-in-law."
"Men were planted with seeds to extract their vitality, those with good spiritual roots were taken away, and all the women were left behind to breed offspring. What was the reason for the women who were chosen as brides?"
"The demon eats souls to nourish the ghosts. I gave him a new body that day, but I had no way to heal the injured ghosts."
"Those two girls were born during the Yin period, so the Yin energy is particularly strong."
Lin Du seemed to be thinking about something. She wondered why that person still wanted to do evil even though he had a new body and no longer needed to eat flesh and blood to sustain himself. It turned out that his soul was damaged.
"So that thing originally only wanted the ghost of a girl born in the Yin hour?"
"Yes, vitality is a good thing, but it stands to reason... this kind of shortcut takes a long time to cultivate, so it is a taboo to rush into it."
"Can the spirit vine seeds control human fertility?" Lin Du asked again.
"No, but in winter, the spirit vine seeds will stop growing. The man in whom the seeds are planted will have the best yang energy in winter."
Lin Du suddenly realized something, "So... half of the reason why I was forced to give birth one after another was not because of the control of the spirit vine?"
The crying and shouting behind him was getting closer and closer. Granny Ma looked at Lin Du and said, "I told you before, you are in big trouble. The most troublesome thing in the world is not to offend a strong person, but to offend a group of fools."
"The demons don't think this is a problem, only you idiots are afraid."
Lin Du lowered his eyes, "I know."
Of course she knew.
Granny Ma clapped her hands and turned her head, "See, I told you she's also a fool."
One kind of rice cannot feed two kinds of people.
Tao Xian strangely agreed with what Granny Ma said.
The voices of the group of people were getting closer and closer. Lin Du suddenly raised his hands and quickly rolled up all the torn white robes. Then he quickly held the fan and pretended nothing had happened.
"It's all the fault of those outsiders!"
"What will happen to our village in the future?"
"Without the Moon Goddess' protection, we will all die!"
"They are evil spirits, they must be evil spirits!"
A group of people followed the wheel tracks and found them. They were holding various farm tools, and the village chief was holding a strange magic weapon.
"Look! It's them, it's really them! They killed so many people!"
“They are evil!!!”
"The Moon Goddess must have felt that we were harboring evil spirits, so she left in anger."
"Kill them and offer them as sacrifices to the Moon God. Will the Moon God calm down?"
"They look like immortals, but I didn't expect them to be wolves and tigers!"
The Supreme Sect has always been the number one righteous sect, but there came a day when it was labeled as evil.
Several stones were thrown at the three people from the Supreme Sect, but fortunately they were able to dodge them successfully.
Lin Du raised his hand and pressed his head again, which was hurt by the noise. Then he walked in front of the crowd and looked at them steadily with his pair of dark eyes.
The one who led the way was the village chief. When he met those dark eyes and that pale face with veins on the forehead clearly visible, he subconsciously took a step back.
Lin Du endured the emptiness and fatigue in his mind and said, "Village chief, you are here at the right time. Let's take a look to see if this corpse is from your village."
Her voice was very calm, so calm that she seemed to completely ignore the angry and desperate villagers, as if those "evil" and some confusing swear words were not scolding them.
The village chief subconsciously followed her direction and looked at the row of corpses.
Suddenly, the village chief's pupils shrank, and he looked at the youngest among them, "Brother!!!"
Mo Lin was about to stop the group of villagers who were about to take action, but when he heard this, he stopped and his big eyes shook in fear.
What surprised him was not the village chief's call of "brother", but why the junior uncle could even calculate this and why he wanted to reveal the matter.
Suddenly, an old man exclaimed, "That's not him! That's not the one who was taken away that year! I remember his face."
Lin Du blinked his eyes. It was true.
She smiled slowly and then casually took out a silver mask. "Do you think we are evil?"
The silver mask that had long been washed clean by the rain covered Lin Du's face. Then she tilted her head, revealing half of her face, and said in a sinister tone, "How outrageous."
All the villagers were stunned.
"Isn't that...isn't that the mask of the Moon Goddess's messenger?"
Mo Lin's big eyes clearly showed a hint of surprise. It turned out that Lin Du had taken away the white robe and mask just for this.
Lin Du decided to go all out and said, "I have raised you for five hundred years. Now the fate has come. I have come here in my incarnation. I will bring back the children who have left after they die, and allow their souls to return to their homeland. You should take care of yourselves from now on."
As she spoke, she turned to look at Mo Lin and Xia Tianwu and said, "Bury it."
Everyone looked at the person in front of them in surprise and suspicion, not knowing who would kneel down first, and then soon one after another they all knelt down.
"Forgive me, Moon God. Forgive me, Moon God."
"Please pray that the Moon Goddess will continue to bless our village."
Lin Du lowered his eyes and looked at the dark backs of the heads. He chuckled, then suddenly raised his voice with great anger, "I have been feeding you all these years, but you really let me down. Look at you now. How can you be considered devout believers? You are nothing but... parasites."
The mighty spiritual power poured out, and everyone trembled like chaff in a sieve.
The cloud-patterned boots stopped in front of the village chief, who knelt down after hesitating for a moment. Lin Du leaned forward slightly and lowered his voice, "You should know everything, right? Those girls were forced to give birth continuously. They have no value other than giving birth."
She thought of the memories in the pregnant woman's soul. Any woman who was eighteen years old or older and had not been chosen by the Moon Goddess would be divided up by the men in the village.
They are shared wives and tools for reproduction, and have no other identity.
Only if more children are born will the Moon God give more food.
Lin Du could feel the despair and confusion in the pregnant woman's heart.
Xinya has heard about the outside world from occasional passers-by, but what she has to deal with are men who treat her as a commodity or even as discarded material.
"It was clearly your voluntary offering in the past, not a request from the Moon Goddess, wasn't it?"
Lin Du concluded softly.
The village chief was shocked, then he knelt down and pounded the ground with his head, "Please forgive me, Moon God, please forgive me."
"It's just that it has been like this for all these years. We thought, we thought, that this was the rule that the Moon God gave us."
Lin Du sighed and suddenly didn't want to say anything more.
Over there, Mo Lin and Tian Wu had already buried the body and put up a wooden sign with no words on it.
Xia Tianwu chanted the mantra for rebirth while the talisman in his hand silently rolled up tongues of fire, and then a gust of west wind blew away the talisman ashes.
"I command you to save all sentient beings, and to bring them to a new life as soon as possible. I command you to save all sentient beings, and to bring them to a new life as soon as possible."
The group left Qinglu Village in such a strange way. The villagers behind them followed with respect and fear, but they never dared to stop them.
Who knew that when they reached the entrance of the village, someone suddenly broke through the dense crowd of villagers and rushed up from behind, "Lord Moon God!"
A familiar face appeared in front of Lin Du, and his black grape-like eyes flashed with a soft and affectionate light, "Lord Moon Goddess... So you gave me flowers last night. If you leave, you will take me with you, right?"
Lin Du looked at the girl in front of him silently, then his gaze fell on the moonflower in the girl's hand, and he was a little stiff for a moment.
Even Granny Ma was stunned for a moment.
Lin Du raised his hand to his forehead, what does it mean to lift a stone and drop it on one's own feet?
That's it.