Please control me, my divine being!

[The statue destruction is 100% complete. Currently, three disciples of Liu Ren are still alive.]

Zhou Qing watched the task progress being updated in real time.

There are three other direct disciples. Pang Ziyue, who escaped, is one of them. The other two are either in Lianshan City or still hiding in this Taoist temple.

However, after wandering around the Taoist temple for so long, the other party still didn't come out, which clearly indicated that they had sensed danger.

The ear-shaped timer bar next to it was almost fully lit.

Each time a statue is knocked down, the progress bar increases significantly, and there's no way to avoid it.

To complete the River God's mission, this progress bar is inevitable and will eventually be filled, attracting the attention of the Huang family.

However, the entire map has now been searched, and anything of even slight value has been collected. The most valuable items are probably the special materials dug out from each statue.

These materials can all be pieced together and fused.

It has now become [a slightly damaged statue of the Six Ren Immortal Master: a statue imbued with the Immortal Master's spiritual power, containing immense amounts of corpse energy and incense smoke; it is an extremely high-level mundane object.]

However, Zhou Qing was still unclear about how to use this mundane item.

It's estimated that Li Qinghe used sacrificial offerings to himself, which should be easy to figure out.

The game text continued to appear.

You wiped out the Liuren Taoist Temple, and several of your direct disciples died at your hands.

The mysterious master priest, not wanting to linger in battle, took the River God statue used to awaken the ritual and escaped through a secret passage, heading towards the River God's hiding place, the underground bank of the Turbid River.

The massive destruction caused underground disturbances that reached the surface.

After dealing with the Fajiao followers who were causing trouble in Lianshan City, the brokerage firm and the Huang family also began to send people to explore the underground dry well.

You can choose to go to the secret passage to stop Pang Ziyue's conspiracy, kill He Bo, and end this disaster in Lianshan City.

Alternatively, they could hide on the spot and wait for the Huang family to arrive, then reap the benefits.

Or they might create an even bigger spectacle, telling everyone that disaster is about to strike.

Even though the mountain city was under the control of the Huang family, there were always some clear-headed people who maintained their sense of self, such as the innkeeper and her daughter, the hidden children, and the old woman who transported corpses. If they had known in time, they might have been able to escape with their lives.

Of course, sometimes choosing to retreat is also a viable option.

After all, you are all alone, with no ties to anyone. If you can let go of your hatred, everything here will no longer concern you.

With our current strength, there's nowhere in the world we can't go.

Many options are displayed on the interface.

Zhou Qing glanced at the girl's profile picture next to him. Since the beginning, her inner thoughts had been popping up frequently.

Most of them expressed their disgust and hatred towards the teachings of law.

The other part was about thinking about why places like Lianshan City and Huangshui Town, which she had known since childhood, had become like this.

The gods are worshipped and offered incense constantly, but instead of protecting the people, they bring endless suffering.

Zhou Qing sighed.

He could already guess what choice the girl had in mind.

From a rational perspective, he naturally wanted to temporarily avoid the situation, wait for the Huang family to deal with the River God and both sides to be exhausted, and then he could recuperate and then take advantage of the situation.

However, the girl would never think that way.

The hatred for her mother's murder, the humiliation of her family's destruction, and the suffering and tragedies she had witnessed along the way had brought her anger to its peak.

Moreover, she is inherently kind, and given the opportunity to save someone, she would never choose to give up.

Even if he could forcibly control her to leave, just like his previous actions of forcibly protecting the girl's mother, it would only delay the detonation of this bomb, which would only cause greater damage when it exploded.

Li Qinghe is very important to me.

Without her, I don't know what my game would have become.

There might be new characters, the game might end abruptly, or there might be other changes.

Everything is unknown.

But at this moment, after a period of anxiety and uncertainty, Zhou Qing breathed a heavy sigh of relief, shook his head to shake off all his worries, activated the now-cooled-down whispering function, and said softly, "Go, do what you want to do, let everything burn."

……

A gentle breeze brushed past my ear.

Li Qinghe heard a faint, divine voice, which seemed to descend from the heavens as it drew nearer.

"Go, do what you want..."

She clenched her fists, her eyes slightly red.

Li Qinghe took a deep breath, looked at the gloomy and eerie Taoist temple that had buried countless lives, and at the talismanic flames floating in front of her.

She opened her right hand, and the talisman on her hand flashed.

She instantly stored a talismanic fire in her sleeve, and with a wave of her hand, she flung the fire out, sweeping away the gloomy land.

The fire talisman flickered on the ground, quickly rolling out a line of fire, and the raging flames spread.

The dazed-looking Taoist boys watched helplessly as the flames spread throughout the temple, their motionless bodies remaining motionless.

After several dozen breaths.

The rolling flames completely engulfed the Taoist temple.

Violent explosions rang out continuously from inside the temple, and fire talismans exploded one after another.

Flames flickered in Li Qinghe's eyes. He looked up at the wellhead hanging above him, his mind racing with thoughts of the Huang family, the River God, the Fa Sect, and the brokerage firm. Without further hesitation, he strode into the secret passage.

……

Lianshan City, the alley behind Huangxiantang.

Qin Hongshi, along with the group of brokers, gazed intently at the shimmering silver light below the well.

"Nightmare Talisman? This kind of illusion has been hidden in the city for so long without anyone noticing? What are you all good for?"

No one answered Qin Hongshi's scolding.

She walked coldly to the well, staring at the silver light below. Her once normal eyes gradually turned pale, and then the silver light melted away instantly, the nightmare spell easily broken by her pupil technique.

But the instant it broke, intense flames shot into the sky.

Like a fire dragon trapped at the bottom of a well, it found its only exit and eagerly surged out.

The flames from the explosions of countless fire talismans underground, combined with the heat generated by the burning of the entire Taoist temple, were all trapped beneath this dry well. When they suddenly burst forth, they blasted the courtyard to pieces.

Qin Hongshi's expression immediately changed, and he withdrew and retreated.

The flames transformed into a pillar of light, illuminating the dark sky above Lianshan City.

"Retreat! Something's happened below!"

Shen Cishuang naturally remained hidden in the group, slowly fanning herself with a white paper fan, her eyes constantly shifting as she looked at Fan Datong beside her.

Splash!

The paper fan is opened.

A faint sound reached Fan Datong's ears.

"Notify the others that it's time to move out. Head to Huangxian Hall. The Huang family and the Fajiao sect are about to fight to the death."

Qin Hongshi did not notice Shen Cishuang's subtle movements. Seeing that the flames that had burst out did not dissipate for a long time, she immediately ordered people to find other entrances.

Meanwhile, inside the Huang Xiantang.

Huang Liu, whose hair wriggled like whiskers, stood before the enormous statue of Huang Xian in the center of the hall, his expression expectant.

"A divine tablet is about to appear, with the Yellow Immortal above, and our northern lands will have another breeding ground."