Fairy, I really have control over you!

Only then did he discover it.

In fact, the female boss's hand holding the sword was also shaking slightly.

"My fairy, you have worked hard."

Gu Zhinan whispered something in her ear and gently took the magic sword from her hand.

"I just can't stand it any longer."

Pei Wanyu closed her eyes tightly, her voice trembling slightly.

"Human nature."

Gu Zhinan whispered to comfort him: "If I had the immortal's peerless martial arts, I would also be unable to help myself when I saw that old monk who imparted the Dharma wantonly slaughtering and fooling the people."

After saying that, he wiped the blood-stained Xue Ji clean and looked around.

It was discovered that the green-robed old man with the Buddhist name "Renchou Niu" was lying behind a pile of corpses, trembling and looking over here in horror.

"Father, why don't you leave?"

Gu Zhinan walked over coldly.

Only then did he realize that the latter, as a second-level believer, did not have the so-called golden wings of merit.

You know, when Pei Wanyu used the first AOE sword energy "Shocking Cold Ten Thousand Miles" just now, almost all the monsters showed the pair of bone wings of the leech blood monster.

"Brother Shenhou, I want to run too, but my leg is broken."

The old man pleaded, "Can you let me crawl out slowly?"

"You can live, but you have to tell the truth."

Gu Zhinan asked: "As a second-level believer, why don't you have the so-called merit and holy power?"

The old man sighed and said, "Originally, I was about to receive the Demon-Falling Pill bestowed by the Venerable. No, no! The "Holy Pill of Merit", but I didn't expect that the day before yesterday, when I extradited the Gu couple, the shrew killed several of her followers. According to the laws of the Buddhist country, if I cannot extradite enough valuable followers within seven days, I will be exiled outside the city and start all over again."

"I see, no wonder you are so enthusiastic."

Gu Zhinan smiled and said, "Do you think we are valuable now?"

The old man took one look at the blood on the ground and said tremblingly, "Why not count it?"

"I see that you have not been completely brainwashed by the demon, so I'll give you a chance."

Gu Zhinan said: "Take us to the inner city palace."

According to the confession of the old man Ugly Ox.

There were a total of 108 Buddhist temples for teaching the Dharma in the outer city, and the one that was liquidated happened to be located in a remote area of ​​the lower street of the outer city.

Perhaps because of this, there was no disturbance outside for the time being.

The pilgrims, believers, and patrolling monks along the street were still busy with their own affairs.

"What are your plans next?"

The cold voice of the female boss came to my ears.

Gu Zhinan leaned over and whispered in her ear: "Fairy, now that you have made a move, you can't take the new three steps. You can only--"

Before he finished speaking, a pair of gorgeous and cold phoenix eyes glanced over: "Are you blaming me?"

"Absolutely not."

Gu Zhinan said: "I now feel that when the Taoist priest is publicly executed tonight, you, the fairy, cut off the head of the king in public, which may awaken more brainwashed believers."

"But I still don't know how they control the minds of believers."

Pei Wanyu's eyes were deep: "There is no Gu on the believers in the temple."

"This is not important."

Gu Zhinan said: "Just now in the Buddhist temple, watching the fairy settle accounts with those evil followers, I suddenly understood a truth."

"Um?"

"If the evil deeds here have become so severe that they are irreversible, then we must thoroughly purify the people and the city!"

The three men disguised themselves as believers, chanted scriptures along the way, and soon arrived at the inner city.

Compared with the ruins of the outer city, the several-meter-high black iron gate of the inner city alone gives people a solemn and dignified feeling.

Standing at the city gate, one can get a clearer glimpse of the towering golden roof of the palace and the huge statue of the venerable deity next to it.

"Three of you, you have the high-level believer tokens that you searched from Zen Master Kongshan. You can enter the inner city directly."

The old man in green robes limped forward with a cane and said, "As for me, I have been demoted to a first-level believer and cannot enter. I will take my leave now."

Gu Zhinan narrowed his eyes and said, "Father-in-law, I see that your mental state is much better than the people in this city. Tell me the truth, are you clear-headed?"

"what?"

The green-shirted old man's face changed slightly, and his eyes dodged: "No, I don't understand what you mean, sir."

Gu Zhinan said coldly: "You know that you eat maggots every day, you know that what the little Taoist said is right, you even know..."

"You are out there recruiting believers every day, calling it 'extraditing people to paradise', but you are actually harming people!"

"And the reason why you can sense that we are practitioners is because you yourself are also a Taoist Qi cultivator!"

"I"

Frightened by the gaze of this noble young man, the old man turned pale and took several steps back.

After a while, he sighed and said, "What if I know, what if I don't know?"

"I was originally a lay disciple of the Dragon and Tiger Temple in Jinyang City. There were frequent demon disasters in the city, so I followed the temple master to eliminate the demons, but I found that the demons were all raised by the county government. The county magistrate wanted us to go along with them, but I and the temple master refused. When I returned home."

"My son, daughter-in-law, and an unborn grandchild were all killed by the demon."

"And in this Buddhist country, I can often see them."

"Although their existence is an illusion and a false image to you gentlemen, to me..."

"Life is rarely confused."

As he spoke, a sad smile hung on the corners of his mouth. "My lord and the two ladies are both people who can accomplish great things. I wish you all the best in the future. As for me, I have to go back to comfort my grandson."

Looking at the old man's trembling back.

Gu Zhinan couldn't help but think of the woman he had seen earlier, who was holding her dead child and feeding her with a loving face.

Live a real but painful life, or indulge in illusory happiness?

The damn Venerable One really knows how to play with human nature.

"Fairy, let's go."

Gu Zhinan said firmly to Fairy Pei, who also had a solemn expression on her face, "Destroy this evil fantasy town."

"Ah."

Fairy Pei, who had been calm and silent throughout the whole process, nodded for the first time and whispered, "It must be destroyed."

"Brother Gu, I know who the king is."

A soft female voice came from behind.

Gu Zhinan looked back and saw Her Royal Highness the Ninth Princess, looking at him with her beautiful red eyes.

"What's wrong, princess?"

Gu Zhinan walked forward with concern.

Since entering the outer city, he could clearly feel that Bai Yingying seemed to be hesitant to speak many times, as if she had something heavy on her mind.

"Sister Pei, Brother Gu, did you see that red flag?"

Bai Yingying raised her jade-white little hand and pointed into the distance.

Gu Zhinan looked as he was told and noticed that on the golden roof of the Buddhist temple behind the city gate, there was a white flag with a red half-moon painted on it.

"Hey, this is..."

Gu Zhinan felt that the red moon on the flag looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where it was.

"The red moon on the flag is the emblem of the Xiao family, one of the eight great families that defend the country of Daxia." Bai Yingying said with a look of hidden pain, "The head of the Xiao family of this generation grew up with my father and is a sworn brother. My father has always had poor health, so this Uncle Xiao often comes to the palace to visit him and is very kind to me."

"I didn't expect that he was actually related to this disgusting Buddhist country."

At the end, the little princess couldn't hold back her tears and let them fall.

"It may not be him. It could be someone else from the Xiao family, using the title of the patriarch."

Gu Zhinan comforted.

However, after listening to Bai Yingying's words, he finally remembered some of the background descriptions about the eight great families that guard the country.

Two thousand years ago, a remarkable martial arts emperor appeared in the Great Xia Dynasty. Although this emperor was born a fake eunuch and had an affair with the imperial concubine of the time, he was a man with a broad vision and a caring heart.

After he led the righteous men of Kyushu to eliminate the evil demons from outside the domain and purge the universe, he took his concubine to cut open the gate of heaven and ascended to heaven.

Before leaving, he used his supreme authority as the emperor to enfeoff the eight great families within the Great Xia Dynasty, along with the royal family, and required that every six hundred years, the power be peacefully transferred, and the eight great families would select new candidates based on the situation in the Nine Provinces and the wishes of the people to continue to run the dynasty.

Moreover, if a certain family dominates the dynasty and causes chaos in the government and the people to suffer, the other families must unite to impeach it and put an end to its tyranny.

As for which eight families they are, the game copy does not mention them.

But Gu Zhinan now vaguely feels that

He, the Fourth Master Gu, makes those behind the scenes so fearful.

The Gu family is most likely one of the eight great families!

"If this Buddhist purgatory that turns people into demons was really created by the 'Uncle Xiao' mentioned by Bai Yingying, and the current emperor also acquiesced to this, then the hard work of the Human Emperor who is suspected to be a time traveler has been wasted."

"Alas, what is the matter with the Six Dynasties, just for the sake of family's private interests?"

Gu Zhinan shook his head and felt that the atmosphere in this Buddhist country had become even more gloomy and depressing.

indeed.

If you fight all the way to the end, and after you lift the curtain of darkness, you find an even darker sky behind you, that would be really fucking despairing.

Just sighing.