Desperate people, accept the seed of my soul!

His heart was gripped by an invisible force.

The more you hold on, the tighter it gets.

It was so tight that he could clearly feel the shape of his own heart.

I could feel the blood in my heart being squeezed out little by little, flowing through my blood vessels to my limbs.

His fingers began to swell.

The skin under the fingernails was stretched until it shone, and each finger swelled to twice its original size.

He opened his mouth to shout, but a metallic taste rose in his throat.

He spat out a mouthful of blood, which splattered onto the butcher knife at his feet.

"save--"

The word "life" in "help me" was not uttered yet.

The blood in his heart was completely squeezed out.

The heart shrank into a dry, shriveled lump of flesh inside the chest cavity.

He lay on his back on the ground, his eyeballs bulging out so much they seemed about to pop out of their sockets.

His mouth was wide open, still forming the final shape of a plea for help.

died.

The courtyard fell into a deathly silence.

Then everyone collapsed at the same time.

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

Wang Meng's wife knelt on the ground, her forehead pounding against the ground with a loud thud.

"I'll betray my man! Wang Meng used to hang out with Chen Hu and his gang! He was involved in breaking your leg too! He told me it himself! He said he kicked you more than a dozen times, until the soles of his shoes were worn down!"

"What did you say, you crazy woman!"

Wang Meng lay on the ground roaring, his eyes so red they looked like they were about to bleed.

"I spent 80,000 yuan on a bride price to marry you! And now you're selling me out!"

"I'm telling the truth!"

Wang Meng's wife turned her face away, her expression one of madness.

"How many despicable things have you done over the years? Do you dare to tell anyone in front of others?! You followed Chen Hu and his gang, beating people, setting fires, and robbing construction sites. All the money you earned was ill-gotten gains! I've wanted to divorce you for a long time! I'm not going to live with you anymore!"

She turned around, crawled on her knees toward Song Chao, and grabbed his blood-stained trouser leg.

"Brother! Brother, please let me go! I'll divorce him! I'm going back to my parents' house right now! I won't say a word about what happened today!"

Song Chao looked down at her.

It didn't move.

He didn't say anything.

Behind me, another sharp voice suddenly rang out.

"Miao Cuihua, stop pretending to be a good person!"

She is Chen Hu's younger sister, Chen Xiaolan.

She pointed at Wang Meng's wife kneeling on the ground, her voice sharp and shrill.

"You think I don't know? How many men in the village did you sleep with before you married Wang Meng? Your eldest son isn't Wang Meng's at all! He's Li Mazi's from the village entrance!"

Wang Meng's wife's face instantly contorted.

"You're talking nonsense! Say another word and I'll tear your mouth apart!"

"What's wrong with that? You dare to do it but not admit it?"

As Chen Xiaolan spoke, she became more and more excited, and the fear in her eyes was completely replaced by a frantic will to survive.

"Big brother! Big brother, I'm reporting you! Wang Meng has three lives on his hands! Two years ago, during a construction site demolition, he led the charge in pushing an old man who was holding out of the house off a building, smashing him to pieces! The case remains unsolved, and the police haven't found the killer yet! He's the one who did it!"

"You're talking nonsense!"

Wang Meng roared and lunged forward, forgetting that his legs were already useless. He bounced up from the ground and then fell back down, hitting his chin on the concrete floor, knocking out two front teeth, and his mouth was full of blood.

The courtyard was in complete chaos.

Everyone is frantically exposing other people's crimes.

Wang Meng's uncle said that Wang Meng had stolen the minimum living allowance from elderly people living alone in the village.

Zhao Gang's uncle said that Zhao Gang was keeping two women on the side, one of whom was his coworker's wife.

Chen Laoshuan's second daughter-in-law said that the Chen family had not divided the spoils fairly, and that Chen Laoshuan had embezzled 200,000 yuan from Chen Hu but had not given it to him.

Everyone is desperately trying to separate themselves from others.

Everyone is trying to exchange their own life for the crimes of others.

hoarse.

act like a buffoon.

Song Chao stood in the middle of the courtyard, watching this scene unfold.

The curve of her lips grew wider and wider.

The silent sneer turned into a low, guttural laugh.

The low chuckle turned into a loud, boisterous laugh.

Laughter echoed through the blood-soaked courtyard, making the tiles on the walls tremble slightly.

Everyone stopped arguing and stared at him in horror.

"it is good."

Song Chao stopped laughing, lowered his head, and his gaze swept over every distorted face in the courtyard.

"You have pleased me."

"In return, I will grant you a graceful death."

He raised his hands.

Spread all ten fingers.

The blood-red fog in the air suddenly boiled over.

Countless fine blood streaks extended from his fingertips, weaving a dense blood net in the air.

A bloody web covered the entire courtyard, enveloping everyone within it.

Those streaks of blood didn't come from Song Chao's body.

He materialized the bloodline power by condensing the blood mist that filled the air with his mental energy.

Each blood vessel was as thin as a hair, floating in the air, gleaming with a cold, dark red light.

They fell slowly, as if someone had scattered a red veil from the sky.

Chen Xiaolan stared blankly as she looked up and saw a thin line of blood drift onto her forehead.

It's cold.

It feels like snowflakes falling on your skin.

Immediately afterwards, she heard a very faint "pop" sound coming from under the skin of her forehead.

That was the sound of capillaries bursting.

No pain.

It really doesn't hurt.

Before she could even feel fear, her vision went dark.

The blood in her body was drawn out from every pore by that thin, hair-like blood thread.

Within seconds, the person shrank and withered, like a sac that had been drained of water.

He collapsed limply to the ground.

All are dead.

There were no screams.

There was no struggle.

Seventeen people collapsed to the ground at the same time.

The blood vessels receded, slowly retracting back to Song Dynasty's fingertips.

The courtyard returned to silence.

Song Chao stood amidst the pile of corpses, the blood mist around him thicker than before.

The fog was so thick that his figure was almost invisible.

Only a pair of dark red eyes emitted a faint glow in the blood mist.

He turned and looked at the corner of the wall.

Chen Hu's wife is still alive.

She held her child tightly, every muscle in her body trembling violently.

But she didn't participate in their infighting.

She remained huddled in a corner the entire time, holding the child in her arms, without uttering a single word.

Song Chao glanced at her.

He turned and walked out of the courtyard gate.

Chen Hu's wife collapsed to the ground, tears finally streaming down her face.

She covered her mouth, afraid to make any sound.

She looked down at the child in her arms.

The three-year-old son was so frightened that he stopped crying, stared at her with wide eyes, and reached out his little hand to touch her face.

"Don't cry, Mommy."

The child spoke in a tender voice.

She hugged her child tightly, and her tears flowed even more fiercely.

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When Song Chao left the village, Shikan Village behind him was already shrouded in a thick, blood-red mist.

The bloodline power that had escaped from his body did not dissipate after he left; instead, it grew stronger and stronger.

Because he has released all the power that had been accumulating within his body.

The blood of the forty-six people, after being tempered and transformed by the Soul Seed, became a strange existence that exists between matter and energy.

This blood mist cannot be dispersed by the wind, nor diluted by rain, and is not bound by any natural laws.