Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 130 - 98: Driven to Desperation by Evil Tricks! With Daoist Priest Fan’s arrival, there is hope in the sky! (Please subscribe)_1
"This... this Taoist Priest, he actually killed all these government officers?" Wu Heishan was completely stunned; he originally thought Daoist Priest Fan went there to reason with those government officers first.
First, to question the local officers of Shuize County, why would they conspire with malicious entities to harm people?
And then, if they couldn’t come to an agreement, to consider other options.
But what he found was that he had greatly underestimated Daoist Priest Fan.
The Daoist Priest didn’t bother to say much to them.
He simply swung his fist and killed them!
What baffled Wu Heishan the most was... five grown men, one of whom seemed capable of magic, were just finished off by Daoist Priest Fan in a flash!
The brutality of those scenes left him, a former hunter, speechless.
To be able to capture a man single-handedly.
To effortlessly burst a man’s head.
How terrifying?
How fierce?
The wolves and tigers in the mountains weren’t as formidable as Daoist Priest Fan, were they?
And moreover!
Daoist Priest Fan didn’t kill wolves or tigers; he killed government officers! He killed five in one go, one of whom even appeared to have a not-so-simple identity, perhaps an official of no low rank!
Then, then... what’s the difference between such actions and rebellion?
Hiss!
"Amitabha, do not worry, Donor. Daoist Priest Fan has already stated that they were not legitimate officers of the Imperial Court," Monk Zhi Kong saw through Wu Heishan’s thoughts at a glance, as all those thoughts were written all over his face.
He spoke to comfort him, "These were all followers of malicious entities. Perhaps... perhaps Daoist Priest Fan’s methods were too extreme, but it was a necessary move within a situation with no alternatives."
"They were already intent on taking Daoist Priest Fan’s life; if Daoist Priest Fan didn’t employ thunderous methods, I’m afraid he couldn’t have curbed these people’s malicious intentions."
"Amitabha."
"Well said."
"Well said."
Looking at the corpses with their faces beyond recognition, Monk Zhi Kong didn’t even know if the words he had just spoken contradicted the compassion of a Buddhist heart...
But he knew that only by saying so could he calm Wu Heishan’s heart.
Although he too was shocked by Daoist Priest Fan’s fearsome murderous intent, as a cultivator, Monk Zhi Kong quickly steadied his emotions.
He silently chanted Buddhist scriptures for the salvation of souls, to offer liberation to these sinners.
Even if... their souls had been shattered by Daoist Priest Fan.
But the necessary formalities still had to be observed.
After chanting for a short while, Monk Zhi Kong approached in the direction of Fan Wu.
He looked down at a human skin on the ground, his furrowed brows tightening even more, so much so that a deep "川" character was etched between his eyebrows.
Monk Zhi Kong said in a somber tone, "Amitabha... These evil cultivators have used real human skin! They must have killed the local officials and then skinned them."
"Then they used some unique secret technique to make the human skin into special masks, disguising themselves to take the place of the local officials."
"That means..." Yun Jiuqing, who’d joined them at some point, interjected.
She even crouched down, fiddling with the skin mask.
She didn’t find it disgusting that the mask was made of human skin and just picked it up with her bare hands, feeling it carefully.
"Has the entire Shuize County fallen?"
Yun Jiuqing took a deep breath, "Does this also mean that this place is very likely the main base of those evil cultivators? Even if it’s not their headquarters, could it be a very important stronghold?"
Yun Jiuqing considered a possibility, "If they can control the whole Shuize County, doesn’t that mean there must be a substantial number of these evil cultivators?!"
"Possibly dozens? No... more! When we left Yinghe Prefecture, we encountered those Witch Immortal followers aiming to ambush cultivators, and there were already over twenty of them."
"If this place is one of their gathering points, that indicates the number of evil cultivators here..."
"Is no fewer than a hundred!!!"
Yun Jiuqing was quite shaken. In a relatively remote county with certainly not a large population, having tens of thousands of inhabitants would already be the limit for Shuize County.
For a county town with only tens of thousands of people, the county government with just over a hundred officials was enough to manage it well.
And now, all those hundred plus officials in the county government had been replaced by evil cultivators!
What was the significance of over a hundred evil cultivators?
If each of them gave Yun Jiuqing a kick, they could turn her into a pulpy mess!
"Daoist Priest Fan, are we still going deeper into Shuize County?"
Yun Jiuqing couldn’t help but ask weakly.
"Hmm."
The skin on the back of Fan Wu’s hand trembled, and the drop of blood that had stained his hand was flicked away.
He said, "How can one hunt the tiger without entering its den?"
He turned to the two hunter brothers, "You two, take this poor Daoist to see the statue of the Earth Deity in Dawu Village, then lead the way deep into Shuize County."
"It’s best if the approach is direct to the government office."
Wu Heishan and Wu Heishui, the brothers, looked at Fan Wu with eyes full of reverence, as if gazing upon a divine being.
In the face of such a request from Fan Wu,
They swallowed hard.
Nervous to refuse.
They nodded in agreement, again and again.
Then they led Fan Wu and the others into Dawu Village first, and followed a small path overgrown with weeds to a temple hall that had obviously been refurbished not many years ago, still relatively new.
