"I am not fasting, but thank you all for your kindness."
Black Owl didn't tolerate the boy's habit of bullying the villagers. He directly refuted his statement before revealing his purpose: "However, I have come here because I have something to discuss with you all."
The boy, still embarrassed, stood there, glancing around at the uncles and aunts in the village before awkwardly lowering his head.
The villagers didn't hold a grudge against a child; their focus remained on Black Owl, and they all said:
"Please tell us what you need. If it's within our power, we will do our best to help."
"Yes, Immortal, your willingness to stay and help us check on the livestock makes you a great benefactor to our village!"
"Yes, please feel free to ask if you need anything!"
These are the lowest-ranking mortals of the Danling Continent:
Humble, simple, easily fooled and taken advantage of, and prone to becoming stubborn and hateful.
Their respect for him at this moment is merely the respect of the weak for the strong, and also contains elements of self-interest.
Black Owl saw through all of this, so he didn't have much emotion towards these villagers: "Before you and Da Niu captured my brother, did you discover anything else about the missing and mysterious deaths of livestock in the village?"
"this……"
The villagers fell silent, looking at each other, none daring to utter a word.
That child is the immortal's younger brother. If he says something wrong and angers the immortal, it could be a disaster that wipes out the entire village!
"It's alright, just tell me the truth, I'll make the rest of the decisions," Black Owl said, seeing their concerns.
The villagers were still hesitant to speak; the power of cultivators over ordinary mortals was simply too great.
It was the boy, who was still a teenager, who spoke first to make up for his previous recklessness, saying, "Immortal, I have seen some things, but I don't know if they are related to livestock."
"You said," Black Owl said calmly, looking at the child.
“I think I saw a person when I was gathering firewood in the woods a few days ago, but it was probably a wild animal because its eyes were red. It seemed to be standing and hiding in the bushes, and it ran very fast.” The boy’s account sounded a bit chaotic: “I was afraid it would hurt me, so I didn’t take any firewood and ran back to the village. I told Dazhuang about it, and he laughed at me for being a coward, so I haven’t mentioned it to anyone since. You can ask Dazhuang if you don’t believe me.”
"No need, I trust you," Black Owl nodded calmly.
What the child said basically matched what Feng Xiao said, so it's highly likely that what he saw at that time was Feng Hua.
It seems that something must have happened to Feng Hua, because their eyes really did turn red.
"What about you? Don't you have anything to say?" Black Owl's gaze shifted indifferently to the villagers. "If not, I'll search around the village again. If I don't find anything unusual, I'll take my brother and leave."
He didn't want to get too entangled with these people, lest he be tainted by unnecessary karma.
Upon hearing that he was leaving, the villagers became anxious. If the immortal left, they would not be able to deal with any powerful wild beasts that might come their way.
“Me too! I saw it too. There’s half a footprint near my livestock shed. I don’t know if it’s human or wild animal.”
"And my house, the fence of my livestock shed was smashed to pieces, and I haven't had time to clean it up yet."
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