Chapter 665: Chapter 197: A Ghost King! Chilling Actions! (10,000-Word Mega Chapter, Please Subscribe)_4

The woman spoke fearfully, "I’ve seen... I’ve seen it, they’re not quite human, not quite ghostly. Their skin doesn’t look human at all, they’re born with sharp, monkey-like features, and rows of teeth in their mouths that are even sharper than those of wild beasts."

"Moreover, when those demon infants are born, they don’t wail and cry, but instead they speak human language! It’s as if they’re born with intelligence that doesn’t fall behind adults!" 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"I... I’ve never seen anything so bizarre before."

After telling everything she knew,

the woman hastily said, "You should leave quickly!"

"If you wait until nightfall, it’ll be too late to leave! I’ve heard from others that every night, there are monsters patrolling near the village. Then the monsters bring new women, and if you happen to encounter those monsters..."

"You’ll likely be caught by them!"

"How many of them are there?" A sudden voice made the woman startle. She heard the voice continue, "If you choose to run away now, will they appear?!"

Looking in the direction of the voice, the woman saw a tall and burly figure that had approached unnoticed.

She truly couldn’t describe how immense the figure seemed.

In her memory, none of the monsters she had seen were as tall as this man.

Was he also from the Great Zhou Dynasty?

The woman swallowed hard, then responded, "I... I’m not really sure how many of them there are, possibly a dozen or maybe even several dozen."

"If I choose to escape during the day, they won’t appear, but come night, they’ll capture me and bring me back. Everyone who’s brought back ends up like this."

She said bitterly, "For people like us who are pregnant, how far can we get in just one day’s time?"

"We would be captured and brought back sooner or later."

"Let’s wait here till tonight then," Fan Wu stroked his chin, "That’s what we’ll do!"

"Wait until... huh?" The woman’s eyes widened in astonishment after realizing what he had said. Staring at Fan Wu with an incredulous expression, she felt as if she was dealing with lunatics, "Don’t you realize how dangerous this place is? Those are monsters! Fiends! They are all mighty and ferocious!"

"It’s precisely because there are monsters and fiends here that we will stay for a day," Yun Jiuqing explained smoothly on behalf of Fan Wu, "As cultivators, it’s our duty to draw our swords and help when we see injustice."

"Cultivators?" The word was like pressing a button, causing the woman to jump to her feet.

Excitement was written all over her face, "Are you cultivators?"

"Yes," Xing Fengzi said, "All of us are cultivators."

The woman burst into tears, "I... I’ve been here for over two years, and I finally... finally have met cultivators!"

In the eyes of ordinary folk like her, cultivators were almost like omnipotent Terrestrial Immortals.

From a young age, she had heard how powerful, strong, and high in status cultivators were.

But because she lived in a remote county, the number of cultivators she had seen was few and far between. And even then, she had only seen them from afar without ever having actual contact.

Thus, she fantasized about cultivators, believing that all of them were as impressive as the legends described.

So, when she learned that Xing Fengzi and the others were all cultivators, she finally understood why these people dared to stay here—they were all cultivators!

And judging by their demeanor, they must be very formidable cultivators, right?

After all... she had depicted the monsters to be so terrifying, yet none of them showed much fear.

At that moment,

the woman felt as though she had grasped a lifeline!

Reason told her that this lifeline might not save her. The terrifying monsters that had taken her here weren’t vegetarians.

If these cultivators couldn’t deal with the monsters, then she might very well be executed by the monsters.

But,

since it was already a matter of ’what if,’ why couldn’t it be that ’what if’ these cultivators could deal with all the monsters?

...

News of a group of outsiders suddenly arriving in such a village obviously couldn’t be kept secret. After all, there were at least dozens of women in the village, and with so many eyes on Fan Wu and the others, how could it be concealed?

Furthermore, Fan Wu and the others didn’t have any intention of hiding their presence.

They could feel timid eyes stealthily sizing them up.

When they turned their gaze in that direction, those eyes would immediately shift away.

Pretending as if they didn’t see Fan Wu and the rest.

Little did they know that to Fan Wu and his companions, such small movements were utterly incapable of remaining hidden.

And they heard every whisper among them.

"Who are those people?" A woman with a swollen belly, hiding in a corner, whispered curiously, "They don’t seem like people from the Great Yan Dynasty. Their accent doesn’t quite fit."