CHAPTER 170: CHAPTER 117: RIVER GOD OR DEMON?

The so-called River God is indeed a demon.

Soon, Jiang Zi Yun took Xu Guang and the two left the old woman’s house.

Dressed in gray cloth clothes, the man covered in frostbite was just about to turn around when he suddenly felt a towering figure in front of him.

He looked at Xu Guang with a sense of helplessness.

In an instant, he only felt the world spinning around him.

The Enchanting Soul Tribulation of the Fifth Grade Realm is far beyond what someone who hasn’t practiced martial arts can resist.

"Are you monitoring this family?"

"Yes, the village chief said, the crazy old woman’s daughter used to be a servant of a wealthy family and would disrupt the peace of our Cloud Water Village, so we can’t let people from here leave."

"Have you seen the River God?"

"No, but the village chief has seen it. Our Cloud Water Village has survived bandits thanks to the River God Grandpa."

Xu Guang remained expressionless, but a sigh emerged in his heart.

In this chaotic world, who is evil and who is good?

Although the River God demands the villagers to sacrifice infants every year, it indeed protects this place from bandits entering.

Xu Guang didn’t want to think about such complex issues. This land belongs to the Shen Family, and if things go wrong, it’s the Shen Family’s fault.

Another reason to trouble Shen Suzhen.

Bandit troubles are rampant, allowing demons to wreak havoc.

For some reason, even though he’s never met Shen Suzhen, he feels very averse to this person.

In any case, it’s all Shen Suzhen’s fault.

...

At the edge of the village.

It’s the small house of the village chief, where a man dressed in gray-black clothes is carefully attending to a middle-aged woman about his age, but her aura is very weak.

She is just as skinny, but she suffers from a severe illness.

"Village chief, when will your family have children? All the families capable of bearing children in the village have already contributed. As the River God’s proxy, you should set an example."

A few middle-aged men blocked the door, speaking to the man in the gray-black cotton jacket.

The village chief’s gaze was indifferent, pointing at his wife behind him, "Do you think she can still have children?"

The leading middle-aged man babbled on, "She can’t, but your daughter-in-law can. Your son has been dead for three years, and you’ve been raising a mad woman for three years, let her have a child for you, why not?"

Another person beside him said, "Today, two women came to the village, very beautiful. Village chief, you could also get them to bear children for you, or let the entire village take turns having them bear children."

"Get out!"

The village chief finally erupted in anger, his aging figure resembling a raging lion.

"You’ve practiced martial arts, why not kill them?"

A sudden voice came from behind him.

The village chief paused in closing the door, seeing Xu Guang gathering his long sword, the sword gleaming as new, without a trace of blood.

But on the ground...

There were corpses strewn all around.

"You..."

Xu Guang stepped into the village chief’s house, as if entering his home.

"From Jiufeng Mountain?"

Xu Guang was surprised, not expecting the other to recognize his identity.

The village chief pointed at the dao pattern on Xu Guang’s shoulder representing the Fuzi Generation of the Wanhua Institute.

"I’ve seen such a thing before."

"What exactly is the River God?"

The village chief did not answer, only pointed at his own mouth.

Xu Guang did not press further, only continued, "Then another question, do you not feel guilt for aiding and abetting the River God, helping to find infants as sacrifices?"

"Are you going to kill me?"

A hint of relief flashed in the village chief’s eyes.

A shadow suddenly rushed out of the room. It was a woman holding a kitchen knife, protecting the village chief behind her, "Spare my father, sir, he’s not a bad person."

"Without my father, the people in the village would no longer be human!"

Xu Guang quietly watched, as if pondering something.

He thought about what those villagers said about the mad daughter-in-law.

"It seems you were the one who informed Liu Cheng."

The woman remained silent, biting her lip, standing guard in front of the village chief.

Xu Guang seriously looked at the village chief, seemingly understanding everything.

As the mad woman had said, without the village chief, without setting those so-called rules, the people in the village would become breeding livestock for that River God, like swine waiting to breed in a pigsty.

By then, they wouldn’t really be human.

Of course, they would just barely be human.

At least, when Xu Guang fled for his life, he had encountered beastly creatures that were truly not human.

...

In the dim River God Temple.

The tall sculpture was shrouded in shadow, its dragon head and human body seemed like a clay figure.

Ghostly shadows moved eerily through the temple, gathering in the corners behind the clay figure.

A humanoid creature, neck held high, its body arching backward, muscles bulging, trembling as if enduring immense pain, blood trickling down.

Its neck stretched very long.

Suddenly, its head appeared from behind, with a neck half a meter long.

Its head was equally bizarre, like a snake?

If observed closely, one would find, apart from the head, this person was almost identical to the dragon-headed clay figure.

Without a doubt, this was a monster, a complete monster.

Besides the body, the head was entirely unrelated to a human, the face covered with snake-like scales, eyes becoming reptilian vertical pupils.

In its vertical pupils appeared a hint of ferocity.

"Again, it’s those meddling fools from Jiufeng Mountain!"

It seemed to see through something, noticing Xu Guang and the two women, Shen Muyu.

Suddenly, its gaze revealed a sinister look.

"These two women..."

The forked tongue, like a snake, couldn’t help but lick its lips, sweeping over its body like an animal, licking clean all the blood that seeped during practice.