The sickly girl is killing her way through the weird world

Bai Yao was still directing these people. Every now and then, when she saw some people exhibiting unusual symptoms, she would quickly use the spiritual fire that Bai Qian had left for her to suppress them.

Two neat rows of people lay on the ground, seemingly unconscious, and were placed in the upper right corner.

"What is this...?" Nian Qi asked, puzzled, upon seeing the people lying down.

Bai Qian glanced at those people upon hearing this.

They seemed to be unconscious, but from her perspective, these people were like puppets, showing no signs of being alive. It should be said that their souls were drawn away by the vortex in the sky.

"Do you recognize that thing in the sky?" Bai Qian asked.

Nian Qi gazed at the vortex, hesitated, shook his head, and then nodded.

"I don't know him, but... he does give me a sense of familiarity," she replied somewhat uncertainly.

"Is it related to hungry beasts?"

"Maybe."

Bai Qian sat on the roof, her right leg, clad in a white sock, dangling in mid-air and swaying twice. Just then, she saw a woman who had been talking to someone next to her suddenly faint.

Watching the wisp of black smoke rise from the woman and fly towards the vortex in the sky.

Something that absorbs divine souls?

He tapped his fair cheek thoughtfully with his finger.

A slightly chilly aura appeared on her neck. Bai Qian glanced at Bai Yao, who had suddenly appeared behind her.

He flicked her fingers off his neck.

Seeing this, Bai Yao sat down next to Bai Qian and reached out to pinch Bai Qian's soft cheek.

"Everything went smoothly?" Bai Yao asked, glancing at Nian Qi.

Upon seeing Nian Qi, she could probably guess what was going on, or at least she felt relieved.

She didn't ask how Nian Cheng was doing, nor did she ask what happened to Nian Qi. For Bai Yao, seeing Bai Qian return safely was enough.

Bai Qian nodded without saying anything.

Seeing this, Bai Yao finally felt relieved.

"Has it all been resolved?" I asked, somewhat curiously.

To be honest, I came to Taiheng this time to see what the Hundred Demon Pavilion was doing there. Now, although I have figured out what the Hundred Demon Pavilion is up to, it seems to be completely different from what I originally planned.

It has been confirmed that the Hundred Demon Pavilion on Taiheng's side and the Hundred Demon Pavilion that wanted to capture him and take him back to Liangdu are not the same group of people; they don't even know him.

"Hmm." Let's just say that.

He handed a piece that looked like a shard of stained glass to Bai Yao.

"What it has left," Bai Qian explained casually.

Rainbow was smashed to pieces by its own punch; its flesh turned into blood droplets, leaving only its broken shell.

"What am I supposed to do?" Although she said that, Bai Yao deftly and quickly put away the glass-like shell fragment.

"I don't know." It looks good.

"I'll go back and find something to frame it; it looks quite nice." After chatting for a while, Bai Yao finally felt relieved. Her daughter was still so clueless.

"Not long after you left, that thing in the sky appeared," Bai Yao explained without Bai Qian having to ask.

"After that, people started fainting one after another. Since we weren't sure what was going on, I gathered them here so we could react quickly if anything went wrong." They were all ordinary people who regarded Bai Qian as a goddess. If we didn't take care of them, probably none of them would survive.

"Although we're not sure what that thing is, we can tell that it seems to be absorbing the souls of ordinary people in the city. If it continues like this, there's no chance that many people in the entire city will survive," Bai Yao speculated. Although she didn't have the ability to directly observe the vortex like Bai Qian, she could still make sense of it based on her speculation.

"Should we just cut it off?" Bai Qian asked eagerly.

It seems that as soon as Bai Yao nods, [Su Tang] will immediately fly out from his sleeve. [Su Tang], which has just been refined, has not yet been tested for sharpness.

Bai Yao didn't answer the question, but stared at the vortex in the sky and pondered for a moment.

Reason told her that she definitely couldn't do that; it was too impulsive.

But her past experiences and her own feelings told her that her younger sister's idea was not wrong.

No matter what schemes you have or what brilliant plans you come up with, when the plan comes to an end, in the end, you still have to take out your knife and cut off the enemy's head.

Since that's the case, why not just pull out a knife from the start and chop off the other person's head? That way, we wouldn't have to go through so many detours or spend so much time.

Bai Yao was still pondering when she heard an old cough.

The old man appeared on the eaves of the nearby house at some point, coughing as he leaned on his cane and looked at the vortex in the sky.

Yang Gong should be in a deserted temple outside the city.

"While it's not impossible to take direct action, I still don't recommend you do it." He stood on a rooftop not far away, looking towards Bai Qian, his aged voice not very clear.

"This thing in the sky is the resentment that Taiheng City has accumulated over the years, which was gathered together by the Hundred Demon Pavilion using a rather special method." He said, glancing at Nian Qi.

“Normally, under normal circumstances, even if resentment would arise, it shouldn’t be like this. But because Taiheng City is a special case, people starve to death every year due to the influence of the hungry beasts. These special resentments have accumulated more and more. Originally, according to the Hundred Demon Pavilion’s plan, the intention was to have the hungry beasts devour them directly to restore their strength.”

"Now..." It goes without saying that Bai Qian has already dealt with all the demons and hungry beasts in the Hundred Demon Pavilion, so these resentful spirits have nowhere to go.

"So we can just cut it off?" This was the key point Bai Qian grasped.

This left Yang Gong, who was about to explain, speechless for a moment.

"It is currently collecting the souls of these people. Because they have lived in Taiheng for many years, the people have no ability to resist the collection of this resentment. If you cut it down directly, you will also shatter the collected souls along with it."

"I came here specifically because I have a solution that, if not anything else, should at least resolve this matter peacefully."

Upon hearing this, Bai Qian dangled her legs in mid-air and swayed them a couple of times, seemingly unconcerned.

Bai Yao sat next to Bai Qian and pinched Bai Qian's slightly chubby thigh, telling her not to swing her legs like that, as it was really not very ladylike.

Bai Yao was somewhat uncertain. She didn't particularly trust Yang Gong, the local deity of Taiheng, who hadn't shown any trustworthy qualities so far.

"What method?" Bai Qian asked directly while Bai Yao was still hesitating.

“I will gather these resentments. Since this mass of resentment was originally prepared for the hungry beast, it is relatively easy to control. I can find a way to control these resentments and slowly separate the souls it has captured.”

“This process may require some assistance from hungry beasts,” Yang Gong said, glancing at Nian Qi, who had been quietly keeping his head down, pretending to be an ostrich.

Bai Qian blinked upon hearing this.

"Is this okay?" He took out a bead from his pocket. The purple bead seemed to contain a monster covered in rock-like armor. It lay quietly in the bead, pretending not to notice even though it was being watched by outsiders.

They were so terrified of Bai Qian's beatings that they dared to stay obediently inside, otherwise they would have turned into mincemeat like Hong.

"This is..." Yang Gong stared blankly at the bead in Bai Qian's hand. Of course, he knew what was inside the bead, but was this still the hungry beast he knew?

"I caught it outside, isn't it beautiful?" Bai Qian nodded, as if she were showing off some collectible.

"If we had this, things would be much simpler," Yang Gong said, nodding without replying.

"Next, I will try to guide those resentful thoughts. At that time, I will still need Nianqi's help to suppress the backlash of these resentful thoughts."

"However, I cannot be sure that these resentments will not affect me. So if I am later eroded by these resentments and lose my nature and sanity, I will probably fall from a god to a crazy monster."

"If it really comes to that..."

"Please kill me," the old man said solemnly.

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Volume 1: 276. This world needs a thorough cleansing.

Yang Gong felt that He was like an old man reminiscing about the passing of spring, but He was indeed no longer young.

I vaguely remember that before becoming a god, I was just an ordinary person. It was only by chance that I had the opportunity to become a god.

When He first became a god, He must have been thinking about the people of Taiheng, and He granted their every wish as much as possible.

The supreme god ignored the people, and the emperor of the country was even less inclined to care.

He could only try to make Taiheng a better place on his own.

Failed.

It cannot change people's hearts, much less change the order of this world.

Powerful clans occupy high positions in the imperial court. They don't even need to deliberately affect the livelihoods of ordinary people; their mere existence is like a whirlpool that devours the blood and sweat of the people.

It only swallows and never spits out.

Taiheng was not a wealthy place to begin with. With these people around, countless people would starve or freeze to death every winter. He was indeed a god, but only a minor one.

No one possesses the power to rule the world like the supreme Lord of Mount Tai.

Helping people cure their illnesses, slightly improve their luck, and raising homeless children to adulthood is the maximum He can do.

There are no hungry beasts in the wilderness; the biggest hungry beasts in the entire Taiheng are these powerful families and this utterly corrupt country.

In fact, after learning of the existence of the Hungry Beast, they didn't even care much.

At most, a hungry beast might eat a few people each year, but the powerful families of Taiheng, and even the government, ate far more than just a few people.

When a hungry beast eats a person, the year, place, and person it ate will be recorded. But when a powerful family eats people, the county annals make no mention of it.

There was nothing he could do. He started to feel tired, and I don't know when it started, but he began to fall silent.

Silently watching all this, it was as if watching a towering tree gradually decay.

I don't even want to open my eyes.

Until the Lotus Sect entered the city, the Hundred Demon Pavilion infiltrated the city.

Watching those aristocratic families being slaughtered by the Lotus Life Sect.

The Lotus Life Cult doesn't need these people; rather, the Lotus Life Cult's propaganda is surprisingly credible.

All things are equal.

They were all equally regarded as food for the Lotus Mother and the Blood Maiden.

One bad company was replaced by an even worse one.

The Liang state governed the country by treating the people as slaves, pigs, and dogs, yet they also believed that the people were like crops growing from the earth, which would grow again after being harvested.

What about the Lotus Life Sect?

They treat the people as resources, but they also know that resources are precious. Even if the resources are ultimately used for blood sacrifices or to make magical artifacts, they will still distribute food to the people during the process, ensuring they are well-fed. They will also tell the people that after they die, they will be gathered by the Lotus Mother and placed in the Land of Lotus Life.

This is why, no matter how bad the reputation of the Lotus Cult is or how sinister it appears, there are still people who believe in it. They can have enough to eat and even find a god to rely on. As for what the future holds, how would the people who are starving to death tomorrow know?

The world is like a race to the bottom, and the people can only choose one side.

He originally thought that Taiheng was probably just like that.

In any case, given His current state, it's impossible to see what the future holds.

They had originally planned for the entire Taiheng to be swallowed whole by the hungry beast, and for everyone to perish together.

Then she came.

What kind of bullshit Lotus Cult, Hundred Demon Pavilion, or even some hungry beast? Cut them all down with a single sword strike.

He did something that He had always thought about but never dared to do when He was young.

If the fruit is rotten, pick it off; if the roots are rotten, cut them off. What kind of life can you expect if you just make do?

That's all that's left.

He said these things as resentment, but they were nothing more than the hatred that everyone had harbored over the years.

They starved to death, froze to death, died of disease...

Perhaps because of the special nature of the place, the resentment accumulated over the years has been enough. It is said that in some places, resentful demons are born. It seems that the people of Taiheng are still quite kind. Right now, they have only gathered together in a group of resentment and hatred, instead of directly turning into resentful demons and killing everyone in the city.

Following that person's suggestion and killing him with a single sword strike would not be unreasonable, but it would be too much of a hardship for the common people.

They suffered so much in life, and even in death, their resentment persists despite not harming a single person.

The old man floated gently in the air, gazing at the vortex so close to him, and sighed softly.

He glanced at the girl beside him who was still trembling slightly.

"Don't be so nervous, I'll make sure you're alright."