Chapter 663: Chapter 197: A Ghost King! Chilling Actions! (10,000-Word Mega Chapter, Please Subscribe)_2

Apart from such a corpse, they also saw several other bodies, hung from different banyan trees. The bodies had no clothes on and had also been disemboweled.

The look of horror and despair on their faces suggested that before their death, they had endured extremely painful experiences.

It was chilling to the onlookers.

Spine-tingling!

"They are all females!" Yun Jiuqing exclaimed, "Who could be so cruel? To commit acts that outrage both heaven and humanity... Don’t they fear retribution from the heavens?!"

Liu Feng weakly said, "If retribution like that really existed in this world, then there wouldn’t be so many evil people."

In this mysterious and divine world, although there were gods, divine retribution only existed in legends.

It existed only in storybooks.

It existed only in the tales of storytellers.

Xing Fengzi furrowed his brow and said, "It feels as if someone forcibly extracted something from their bellies. Utter cruelty. Such a person cannot be considered human."

As everyone approached one of the corpses and looked up closely, they could see that the blood on the body hadn’t completely dried, and the stench it gave off was very faint.

It was as if they had been killed not long ago.

At most, they died last night.

"Who’s there?" At that moment, Xing Fengzi instantly focused his gaze in a certain direction. Then he saw a figure, seeming startled, turn its head and run.

"Stop!" Xing Fengzi reacted swiftly, throwing a talisman with a flick of his hand. The yellow talisman with red writing struck out towards that figure.

And the talisman hit the figure’s right leg with remarkable accuracy, sticking to it as if plastered on.

When the talisman emitted a faint glow and began to burn, the figure’s right leg went numb.

After crying out in alarm, they collapsed directly to the ground.

"Ah! My... my leg!" The person frantically slapped at the burning talisman on their leg.

After the talisman was extinguished, the sensation in the right leg finally returned.

The person hurriedly tried to get up to continue running.

But before they could get up, they saw several figures appear in front of them.

When they stiffly looked up.

The figures before them...

Were none other than Yun Jiuqing and the others!

"Don’t... don’t come any closer! You... don’t come near me!" She screamed in terror, her hair disheveled, "Don’t kill me, don’t kill me! I... I won’t run away, I won’t run away! I will give birth to the child, please don’t kill me!"

Her fearful screams somewhat bewildered Yun Jiuqing and the others, who at first thought she might be some sneaky villain.

But upon closer inspection, they realized the situation was different from what they had thought.

It was a very ragged-looking woman.

With disheveled hair covering her face, it was hard to see her features, and the clothes she wore were very thin.

The fear revealed in her tone.

It couldn’t be feigned.

"She is pregnant," observed the sharp-eyed Xing Fengzi, pointing at the woman’s belly. "That’s not a belly caused by fatness; there must be a child inside. Combined with what she just said, this place is indeed not simple."

"Don’t kill me... don’t kill me... Wuu, please don’t kill me, I don’t want to die here," the woman kept muttering.

Xing Fengzi assessed, "She must have been traumatized; she looks quite severely frightened."

"I’ll try using a calming talisman on her." Yun Jiuqing took out a talisman, and with lightning speed, she affixed it onto the woman’s forehead.

The woman, who was screaming and shouting, suddenly froze, and the fearful eyes beneath her disheveled hair gradually cleared.

That was the effect of Yun Jiuqing’s calming talisman.

The woman bewilderedly swept her hair from her face.

Her skin was a wheat color, a complexion that fit with those from the Great Yan Dynasty. And at the same time, her features were revealed to be rather delicate.

She looked up at Yun Jiuqing and the others... saw the beautiful Yun Jiuqing, saw Xing Fengzi in his tattered Daoist robe, saw Liu Feng appraising her curiously, and then saw Fan Wu standing not too far away.

"You..." The woman swallowed nervously, touching the talisman on her forehead.

"You all look so pale... Are you not from the Great Yan Dynasty?" Her voice normalized as she spoke.

Finally, it no longer carried the fear of earlier.

"Indeed, we are not from the Great Yan Dynasty; I am from the Great Zhou Dynasty," explained Yun Jiuqing patiently. "Are you from this village? Do you know what has happened here? Why are there so many bodies hanging from the trees?"

As soon as she mentioned this, fear once again appeared on the woman’s face, although not as intense as at the start.

She hurriedly said to Yun Jiuqing, "You had better leave this place quickly; it is not a place for you to stay. Especially you!"