Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 369: The Ruined Village
"boom!!!"

The giant palm slammed towards Lin Beixuan, carrying with it endless strong winds, even affecting the surrounding space, with faint signs of tearing.

Lin Beixuan raised his head, his eyes fixed on the giant palm of the Xuanhuang hungry ghost. His robes rustled and his half-long hair flew wildly.

Dangerous!
A big word "danger" filled Lin Beixuan's mind.

However, just as he retracted his pupils and the gold and black colors gradually faded, the surrounding scene suddenly changed, transforming back into the dilapidated village where the farmhouses and streams once were, and the terrifying aura of the dark yellow hungry ghosts in the sky also dissipated.

Lin Beixuan was stunned for a moment, but still subconsciously used all his strength to expand the field and barrier to try to resist the attack of the Xuanhuang hungry ghost.

But after a long while, the huge palm still did not fall.

Lin Beixuan withdrew his hand awkwardly.

"What's happening here?"

Then, Lin Beixuan lit up his pupils again, saw through all the illusions, and once again met the huge and terrifying eyes outside.

This time, the Xuanhuang hungry ghost did not attack again, but just looked at him with cold eyes.

"interesting!"

Lin Beixuan was not panicked this time. He narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the Xuanhuang hungry ghost quietly.

The two men have a huge difference in body size. The Xuanhuang hungry ghost's body is as tall as a mountain. At first glance, it seems as if all the clouds floating in the sky of Luozhou are only at its waist.

Lin Beixuan, on the other hand, is of normal height, with a slender and strong figure.

Comparing the two, it's like a dragon and an ant looking at each other, the difference is like heaven and earth.

However, this ant was arrogant and looked at the dragon with level eyes.

"Heh..." A ferocious smile appeared on the corner of Xuanhuang Hungry Ghost's mouth, and his voice was like thunder in the sky, deafening.

Lin Beixuan calmly withdrew his gaze and closed his eyes silently. The gold and black colors faded away, and the magnificent and huge mountain of flesh in front of him gradually disappeared.

He turned around and looked at the surrounding countryside, farmhouses, peach trees and flowing water, his expression somewhat solemn.

It seems that this place is not just an illusion, it is probably many times more complicated than he imagined.

"Let's look around first!"

Lin Beixuan sighed and his eyes fell on the rich landlord who was protected by two guards holding sticks.

In ancient times, there were only two kinds of people who were the most special in a village.

One is the foolish and crazy village guard, and the other is the richest man in the village.

Lin Beixuan hasn't seen the village guard in the village yet, but he has seen the richest man.

"I hope we can find some clues from him."

Lin Beixuan looked at the fat figure in front of him and followed him.

Follow all the way.

He discovered that the rich people in ancient times were really idle.

The other party controls 90% of the village's wealth, but does less than half of what ordinary farmers do.

The reason why it was still half completed was because the other party was not lying down, but was wandering around the entire village like a lion patrolling its territory.

It seemed that the farmers in this village were treated like his servants, and could be scolded and beaten at will.

Even the women washing clothes by the stream were not immune from his criticism.

"Have you finished weaving the cloth you were asked to weave? Have you finished making the embroidered shoes that you were supposed to send to the shoe shop? You are all just trying to slack off while the laundry is going on. If you don't finish the things you were asked to do, you won't get another ounce of corn today!"

Although the fat rich man was fat, his voice was very shrill, as if it was squeezed out of his throat, with a voice like that of a drake.

He stood by the stream with his hands on his hips. The two guards beside him carefully stretched out their hands as if to hug him, for fear that he would accidentally fall into the stream.

"Humph, a bunch of lazy bastards!"

"If I hadn't provided them with food and drink every day, they would have starved to death long ago!"

Rich man Wang cursed all the way and was almost out of breath.

He stretched out his thick finger wearing a jade ring to wipe the thick sweat on his forehead, raised his head and cursed softly.

"Oh my god, the sun is so bright it's going to burn me to death!"

"Hush!" At this time, a guard made a hushed gesture to Mr. Wang, "Master, we dare not speak nonsense. It would be bad if God really heard it and blamed us!"

"Tsk, what's wrong with me cursing the heavens? I didn't curse the secular gods. Could it be that they will really appear and punish me?"

Secular people believe in gods, but that doesn’t mean they respect heaven.

In fact, since the death of the founding emperor of each dynasty, several generations of emperors have failed to govern the country as well as Taizu. The emperors were obsessed with power and refused to listen to honest advice. Instead, they strongly supported eunuchs and tried to take back power from court officials.

This ultimately led to the growing power of eunuchs and corrupt officials.

By the time of the young emperors of successive dynasties, the power of eunuchs had reached an unprecedented high. More than half of the officials in the court were eunuchs. The real great scholars who served the country retired and returned to their hometowns, leaving only a few young people who maintained neutrality and had ambitions in the court.

However, some people often have no rights and can only become chess pieces in the hands of chess players. It is unknown when they will be able to jump out.

As the saying goes, what goes up must come down.

If the atmosphere in the court is not healthy, the officials and clerks below will naturally become corrupt.

In their eyes, the concept of the Son of Heaven no longer exists. Even the emperor's authority is not as enjoyable as that of a county magistrate.

After all, there are landlords and gentry everywhere. For them, anything that can be solved with money is not a problem.

There were even many cases where they would break into farmers' homes and rape their wives and daughters when they were bored.

Although Mr. Wang could not do such a cruel thing, the entire dilapidated village was under his control, and he used various means to take all the land into his own hands.

The farmers lost their land and could no longer afford the heavy taxes and levies from the court, so they gradually had no choice but to sell themselves to the rich man Wang and become farm workers in his family.

Lin Beixuan followed all the way, carefully observing the scenes along the way, and gradually understood the current situation of the entire village.

He felt the scorching sun baking the earth and the scorching temperature. No matter how hard the farmers worked to water and irrigate the fields, the seedlings in the fields still looked withered and weak, and their growth rate was extremely slow.

"If this continues, it won't be long before the stream dries up and the rice seedlings in the fields are killed by the sun."

Lin Beixuan frowned slightly. He knew that he should be experiencing the scene when the drought in Luozhou first started.

"But what does this have to do with this village and the starving ghosts?" Lin Beixuan thought secretly.

He saw that the rich man Wang had no intention of patrolling the fields because the weather was too hot and was preparing to return to his spacious mansion, so he was about to follow him.

Suddenly, a deafening sound came from the edge of the village not far away.

Even though the invisible air waves are far away, the aftermath can still be heard.

"What happened over there?"

Lin Beixuan looked solemn, and quickly ran towards the direction where the sound came from. Although he had visited the ruined village, he still didn't dare to go too far in some areas, which resulted in him not observing some areas within the ruined village.

Carefully arriving at the place where the sound came from, Lin Beixuan did not get too close for the time being, but instead looked from afar with his amazing eyesight.

In his sight, there was a magnificent and huge altar.

This altar was built with pure white bricks and stones, with a strange and retro shape. It looked... somewhat like the altar he had seen on the Xuanhuang Daozhong level in the Xuanhuang Tower.

"Is this an illusion?!"

Lin Beixuan looked at them carefully and found that there were still some differences between the two.

In the center of the altar in front of us today, there stands a giant pillar. Next to the pillar is a landing gear, connected by a thick rope.

Through this end of the rope, the giant pillar can be pulled with less force.

As Lin Beixuan was watching, the giant pillar was pulled by a rope by someone and then fell down heavily.

"boom!!!"

The rumbling sound almost permeated the entire world.

Lin Beixuan saw that the clouds around the altar were swirling. At the moment when the giant pillar fell, it seemed that some kind of force was pouring into the ground along with the impact of the giant pillar.

"Hahahaha... I will definitely succeed. I have come here with the important mission of saving the past dynasties. I will definitely live up to the emperor's trust and continue the dragon vein for the world!"

The person pulling one end of the rope was not a group of people, but a crazy old man in tattered clothes.

His hair was disheveled and he was wearing a Taoist robe. He held a whisk in one hand and used his remaining hand to pull the giant pillar that weighed at least tens of thousands of pounds.

He exerted force with one hand, and the muscles on his arm swelled violently, with blue veins visible, and a dark yellow halo flowed over his body.

This is not just an ordinary Taoist priest, but one with supernatural powers.

However, Lin Beixuan's attention was soon attracted by two other figures.

"It's them!"

Lin Beixuan raised his eyebrows, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

"No wonder you haven't contacted me during this period of time. It was my second uncle who arranged for someone to deliver the goods to the store. I feel like I'm trapped here."

The two figures were none other than Liu Fei and Madam Bai, who had parted hastily after meeting Lin Beixuan.

At this time, the two men had solemn expressions on their faces and were staring at each other not far away from the Taoist priest.

Mrs. Bai held a cane in one hand and a star compass in the other, as if she was preparing for an attack.

"Aunt, will this really work? We have already been defeated many times by this geomancer."

"We have tried so many methods but nothing works. So instead of just waiting like this, we should find a way to kill him and take the Luozhou Earth Core from him."

There was a hint of ruthlessness in the white woman's eyes, and her thin five fingers tightly clasped the edge of the compass. As she injected power into it, the compass began to release a strange five-colored light.

The five-colored light quickly condensed into five unclear face figures around her.

Liu Fei had a look of reluctance on her face. She had actually considered many more things. Even if they took advantage of the Earth Master's unpreparedness and killed him to take away the Earth's core, how could they get past the Xuanhuang Hungry Ghost?

You know, the other party has been guarding outside the village.

Madam Bai seemed to have guessed Liu Fei's thoughts. She frowned and scolded, "Listen to me, don't hesitate any longer. We have been here for a long time. If we don't find a way to take the center of the earth away, there will be more variables in the future."

"And don't forget that the Zhoutian Grand Ceremony has already begun. As a talent sent by our Liu family, you must fight your way out of the encirclement of other families for us in the city."

"You are being trained as a core player in the Jianghu Hall, so you don't have to participate in the preliminaries, but that doesn't mean you can give up participating in the official competition."

"If you don't think about yourself, you should also think about your weddings and funerals, and you should also think about your father."

"He has been stuck at the peak of the God Summoning Realm for a long time. If he continues to be delayed, worldliness will corrode his entire body. Even Shouxiang can't save him. The top three can obtain the God-made Organ. That is his only hope."

"If you can obtain this Earth Core, its value will not only far exceed that of a divine organ, but if you bring it back to the hall, we can also follow the official example and try to mass-produce human immortals."

Madam Bai spoke quickly, her eyes fixed on the Taoist who was pulling the giant pillar. It was obvious that she did not want to miss any opportunity to launch a sneak attack on the other party.

Liu Fei closed her eyes and took a deep breath, as if she had finally compromised after a great psychological struggle.

"I understand aunt."

Mrs. Bai looked at Liu Fei with appreciation and said, "Very good. Now you are going to be the head of the family in future weddings and funerals."

However, just as Madam Bai and Liu Fei were preparing to launch a surprise attack on the Taoist priest, they did not notice that there was a pair of eyes watching them not far away.

Lin Beixuan had a strange expression, a bit puzzled.

"They wanted to sneak attack the Taoist priest, but the people in this village are in a special illusion, repeating the past scenes. It is completely an illusion."

"and many more……"

Lin Beixuan suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes suddenly became sharp.

"Unless the Taoist priest is not a dead thing like us, but a living person!"

Mrs. Bai in front had already found the right opportunity, and she and Liu Fei set up a magic circle on the spot and cast spells at the same time.

In front of Mrs. Bai, the Star Compass was floating in the air, and the five elements halo exuded murderous intent.

The five illusory human figures, represented by the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, were about to assassinate the Taoist priest.

At the same time, the Taoist priest seemed to be completely unaware that someone was trying to attack him, and he was still frantically pulling the ten-thousand-pound giant pillar, causing it to fall heavily in the center of the altar once again, sinking into a hole that was who knows how many feet deep in the ground.

"boom!!!"

The ground was shaking, and gravel and dust were rising like clouds.

At the same moment as the voice fell, a colorless barrier carrying infinite power rapidly expanded along with the figure.

A man suddenly appeared from nowhere, jumped high, and stomped to pieces the Five Elements Shadow that Mrs. Bai had ordered to assassinate the Taoist priest.

Mrs. Bai and Liu Fei had no time to react to this sudden kick. The swirling cyclone under the man's feet, accompanied by various negative conditions, had enveloped their bodies.

Their eyes widened, and no other thoughts came into their minds except shock.

"who!"

The phantom of the Five Elements was crushed, causing damage to Mrs. Bai's compass, and a crack appeared on the mysterious compass.

She stared at the person in front of her, and what she saw was a terrifying and strange mask of the Qiang god, which looked like a divine service method from the ancient Miao country in the Ten Thousand Mountains.

Lin Beixuan retracted the foot that crushed the Five Elements, and countless spider-web-like cracks had appeared in that place.

Under the shocked gazes of Mrs. Bai and Liu Fei, he looked at them calmly.

"Sorry, I have a crush on that Taoist priest!"

(End of this chapter)