Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 125 - 96: To deal with such evil spirits, just Daoist Priest Fan alone is enough! (Please subscribe)_2
Yun Jiuqing asked, puzzled, "Why didn’t you do this earlier? If you had left Shuize County sooner, you wouldn’t have had to suffer for so long, you wouldn’t have had to endure so much hardship!"
She couldn’t quite understand.
That so-called Earth Deity seemed to have only cast a poison curse upon them, and beyond that, there were no other restraints. Therefore, they could have left Shuize County and Dawu Village much earlier.
After leaving that place, if they didn’t mention this incident, wouldn’t they have lived in peace?
The man replied with bitterness, "Young master, how easy do you think it is to abandon one’s home and leave?"
"At the beginning when this incident occurred, the officers from the county government kept a close watch. They guarded every main road and even the smaller paths strictly."
"It wasn’t until recently that they relaxed their vigilance a bit."
"Giving us a chance to escape."
Monk Zhi Kong interjected, "Donor, you mentioned that the county government was very strict before, but they’ve suddenly loosened their control over the past few days?"
The man nodded.
Monk Zhi Kong asked again, "Do you know why that is?"
The man shook his head.
"Something’s not right," declared Monk Zhi Kong gravely. "If that Earth Deity is some malevolent spirit impersonating a deity, and it has bewitched the entire county government to serve as its slaves...why would it inexplicably order its subordinates to relax their watch?"
"Such a sinister spirit pretending to be a deity should try everything possible to keep a tight control over every single person in Shuize County, right? Why would they suddenly let people leave?"
"Amitabha... I cannot fathom it."
"I cannot fathom it."
"Daoist Priest Fan, what do you think..." Monk Zhi Kong began to inquire about Fan Wu’s opinion on this matter, then he realized that the unfathomable Daoist Priest Fan had vanished from his side without a trace.
He looked around immediately and found that Daoist Priest Fan had already passed by them and headed further ahead.
...
In front of Fan Wu were two grave mounds, hastily piled together with stones and branches. In front of each mound stood a crude wooden board with two crookedly carved names on it.
Wu Dazhuang.
Wu Liuzi.
The scent of death that he had detected earlier, he surmised, must have been emitting from these two graves... Such burials were indeed too hasty.
But it seemed there was no alternative.
After all, how could one expect the villagers of Dawu Village, who possessed so few tools, to dig two graves in the ground? It was truly a difficult task for them.
Even if they had the tools to dig graves, he reckoned that there weren’t many among them who possessed the strength to do so.
Their thin, frail arms and legs.
Their limit was already to carry sharpened bamboo sticks and to embrace a weak infant.
Asking them to lift a hoe and dig a grave...
Probably before they could dig a few times, they would faint from low blood sugar, or from excessive hunger.
"How long is the journey from Shuize County to Nanjun Prefecture Government?" Fan Wu suddenly asked.
Not far from him were a few villagers from Dawu Village, their bodies skinny to the bone.
The villagers looked at each other timidly.
One of the older villagers spoke up weakly, "Replying... to Daoist Priest, from Shuize County to Nanjun Prefecture Government, the journey takes at least ten days. From here to Shuize County, at least five days, adding up to... fifteen days in total."
"Moreover... this is under the most ideal continuous travel. Normally, with rest breaks along the way, it could take twenty days, or even... a bit longer."
Fan Wu nodded thoughtfully.
Fifteen days.
Twenty days.
Tsk.
Fan Wu moved his neck, making a series of cracking sounds. He felt it was necessary to make a trip to Shuize County.
A curse that affects from so far away. And the ability to control an entire county through various means.
No matter whether the other party is human, a specter, a ghost, or demons and devils... they must belong to a very powerful existence.
This meant that the other party was very dangerous.
But it also meant...
A tremendous amount of Free Attribute Points!
"Two of you, come here," Fan Wu said after a thought flashed through his mind, "I need two people who are relatively strong and won’t collapse halfway through the journey."
"Dao... Daoist Priest, what... what do you need two people for?" a villager from Dawu Village asked timidly. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞
"Naturally, to lead the way to Shuize County," Fan Wu replied forthrightly.
Hiss—
The villagers from Dawu Village took a sharp breath; they never expected this physically imposing Daoist Priest to actually want to go to Shuize County!
Didn’t he know about the sinister Earth Deity in Shuize County?
Didn’t he know that the local officials of the county government were all the Earth Deity’s lackeys?
The villagers of Dawu Village had barely managed to escape.
And now they were being asked to lead the way back into that tiger’s den?
How many of them would be willing to do that?
However, what Fan Wu did next made all the villagers from Dawu Village stare in amazement.
He took out a sizeable hemp bag from the pack carried by Old Blue Ox.
He tossed it onto the ground casually.
The rope that tied the mouth of the bag was already very frail, and with such rough handling, it broke directly.
The mouth of the bag opened.
Inside.
It was all dry food!
And even!
Meat!
The villagers from Dawu Village began to breathe rapidly. If not for the overwhelming aura of Fan Wu, they, starving for who knows how many days, almost threw themselves onto that bag of dry food.
