Chapter 105

A cry of alarm broke the deadlock.

“It’s not good! The Moonlight Vine is gone! The Moonlight Vine is gone! The Moon God’s blessing is gone!”

Then there were cries of despair.

Tao Xian trembled all over, his chest heaved, but after hearing the sound, he sneered, then he said with tears in his eyes, “It’s gone, it’s good that it’s gone.”

Lin Du suddenly asked, “Were there any unfamiliar faces among them?”

“There were a few,” Tao Xian barely held back his emotions, “There were a few who weren’t familiar.”

Lin Du made a note of them, intending to find clues later.

Cultivators have long lifespans, there are too many industries and retreats that can be developed over hundreds of years.

She handed the vine to Granny Ma, “Granny, how many clones can one vine have?”

“If there are too many, the main body’s strength will be weakened, usually two.”

Granny Ma took the vine, and a dark blue ghost fire ignited in her hand, burning the storage bag and everything inside it to ashes.

Lin Du hesitated, there were a few hundred spirit stones in that storage bag!

“What about the seeds in those villagers’ bodies?”

“I can develop a medicine to kill that thing, the older ones have rooted too deep, they can’t be removed, the younger ones can still be saved.”

“Please, Granny Ma…” Lin Du paused, “Save them.”

Granny Ma looked at her deeply, “When are you going to kill him.”

Lin Du looked into the old woman’s eyes calmly, “After Mo Lin removes the Gu poison.”

Granny Ma knew she was clever, she just smiled.

“I have one last question, please tell me, Granny.”

“The men were implanted with seeds to extract their vitality, those with good spiritual roots were taken away, the women were all left behind to breed offspring, what is the reason for those women who were chosen as brides?”

“Demons eat souls to nourish their yin souls, I gave him a new body that day, but I couldn’t heal his injured yin soul.”

“Those two girls, they were all born at the yin hour, their yin energy is particularly heavy.”

Lin Du thought for a moment, she understood why they all had new bodies, they no longer needed to eat flesh and blood to sustain themselves, but that person still wanted to do evil, it turned out that his yin soul was damaged.

“So that thing, originally it just wanted the yin souls of girls born at the yin hour?”

“Yes, vitality is also a good thing, but logically speaking… this kind of shortcut, the cultivation world is long, being hasty is a taboo.”

“Can the Moonlight Vine seeds control people’s reproduction?” Lin Du asked again.

“No, but in winter, the Moonlight Vine seeds will stop growing, the men who have been implanted with seeds will have the best yang energy in winter.”

Lin Du suddenly understood something, “So… the reason why they were forced to give birth one after another, is not half because of the control of the Moonlight Vine?”

The cries behind them were getting closer, Granny Ma looked at Lin Du steadily, “I told you, you’ve gotten yourself into big trouble, the most troublesome thing in the world is not offending a strong person, but offending a group of fools.”

“Demons won’t think this is a problem, only you fools are afraid.”

Lin Du lowered her eyes, “I know.”

Of course she knew.

Granny Ma clapped her hands and turned her head, “See, I told you, she’s also a fool.”

One grain of rice can’t raise two different kinds of people.

Tao Xian actually agreed with Granny Ma in a strange way.

The voices of the crowd were getting closer and closer, Lin Du suddenly raised her hand, rolled up all the broken white robes as fast as she could, then quickly held her fan and pretended nothing had happened.

“It was those few outsiders who did it!”

“What will happen to our village in the future!”

“Without the Moon God’s protection, we will all die!”

“They are demons, they must be demons!”

A group of people followed the wheel tracks to find them, they were holding various farm implements, the village head was even holding a strange magic artifact.

“Look! It’s them, it’s really them! They killed so many people!”

“They are heretics!!!”

“The Moon God must have felt that we sheltered demons, so she left in anger.”

“Kill them, sacrifice them to the Moon God, maybe she will calm down.”

“Look at them, they look like immortals, but they are actually wolves in sheep’s clothing!”

Wushang Sect has always been the number one sect of the righteous path, but there was a day when they were labeled as demons.

Several stones were thrown at the three people from Wushang Sect, luckily, the three of them were able to dodge them smoothly.

Lin Du raised her hand and pressed her head again, which was aching from the noise, then she walked to the front of the crowd, her pair of dark black eyes stared at the crowd.

The village head was at the front, he looked at those dark black eyes and that pale face, where even the blue veins on his temples were visible, he subconsciously took a step back.

Lin Du endured the emptiness and fatigue of her divine sense, and spoke, “Village head, you’ve come at the right time, come and see if these corpses are people from your village.”

Her voice was very calm, so calm that it seemed to completely ignore the angry and desperate villagers, as if those “demon” words, which were still messy and dirty, weren’t directed at them.

The village head subconsciously followed her pointing, looking at the row of corpses.

Suddenly, the village head’s pupils contracted, he looked at the youngest one among them, “Brother!!!”

Mo Lin was about to stop the villagers who wanted to get their hands on them, but he paused when he heard this, his big eyes widened in shock.

What surprised him was not the village head’s cry of “brother”, but why the little junior sister could even calculate this, and why she wanted to reveal the truth.

Suddenly, an old man-like person also exclaimed, “That’s not, that’s not the one who was taken away that year! I remember his face.”

Lin Du blinked, sure enough.

She slowly revealed a smile, then casually picked up the silver mask, “Do you think we are demons?”

The silver mask, which had been washed clean by the rain, covered Lin Du’s face, then she tilted her head, revealing half of her face, her tone was chilling, “Really, how dare you.”

The villagers were all stunned.

“That’s not… that’s not the Moon God’s messenger’s mask?”

Mo Lin’s big eyes clearly showed a hint of surprise, so it turned out that Lin Du picked up the white robes and the mask earlier for this.

Lin Du went all out, she simply said, “I raised you for five hundred years, now our fate has come to an end, I have come in disguise, after those children who went out died, I will also bring them back, I will allow them to return to their homeland, from now on, you should take care of yourselves.”

She said, turning her head to look at Mo Lin and Xia Tianwu, “Bury them.”

The villagers looked at the person in front of them with suspicion and fear, they didn’t know who knelt down first, but soon one after another, they all knelt down.

“Moon God, forgive us, Moon God, forgive us.”

“Please continue to bless our village, Moon God.”

Lin Du looked down at the crowd of black heads, she chuckled, then her tone suddenly rose, her anger was immense, “All these years, I have raised you, but you have really disappointed me, look at your current appearance, how can you be considered devout believers, you are just… parasites.”

Spiritual pressure poured out, the villagers trembled like sieves.

Her cloud-patterned boots stopped in front of the village head, who hesitated for a moment before kneeling down, Lin Du leaned over slightly, lowering her voice, “You should all know, right? Why those girls were forced to give birth continuously, besides giving birth, they had no other value.”

She thought of the memories in the pregnant woman’s soul, any woman who reached the age of eighteen and wasn’t chosen by the Moon God would be divided among the men in the village.

They were shared wives, tools for reproduction, they had no other identity besides that.

Only when they gave birth to more children would the Moon God bestow more food.

Lin Du could feel the despair and confusion in the pregnant woman’s bones.

Xin Ya had heard about the outside world from those who occasionally passed by, but what she faced were men who treated her as a commodity, even a reject.

“It was clearly your own voluntary offerings before, not the Moon God’s requirement, wasn’t it?”

Lin Du concluded softly.

The village head trembled all over, then he knelt down and kowtowed, “Moon God, forgive us, Moon God, forgive us.”

“It’s just that all these years, it has been like this, we thought, we thought, this was the rule the Moon God gave us.”

Lin Du sighed, she suddenly lost the heart to say more.

Over there, Mo Lin and Tianwu had already buried the people, they erected a nameless wooden tablet.

Xia Tianwu chanted the Rebirth Incantation, the talisman in her hand silently rolled up flames, then a gust of west wind blew the ashes away.

“Command to save all beings, hurry up and be reborn, command to save all beings, hurry up and be reborn.”

The group of people left Qinglu Village in this strange way, the villagers behind them followed with both respect and fear, but they didn’t dare to stop them.

Who knew that when they reached the entrance of the village, someone suddenly broke through the crowd of villagers and rushed forward, “Moon God!”

A somewhat familiar face appeared in front of Lin Du, her black grape-like eyes flashed with tender light, “Moon God… you even gave me flowers last night, if you leave, you will also take me away, right?”

Lin Du looked silently at the girl in front of her, then her gaze fell on the Moonlight Flower in the girl’s palm, she was momentarily stiff.

Even Granny Ma was stunned.

Lin Du raised her hand to support her forehead, what is it called when you pick up a rock and hit your own foot?

This is it.