The Tao is far away

The waning moon hangs on the branches.

The tranquility of the night did not descend upon the village, instead the place was shrouded in blood.

The neighing of horses, the screams of women, and the crying of children linger in the village.

With a "bang", Wang Chi's door was kicked open, and three big men holding torches and long knives broke into the house.

The three men had dark and ferocious faces, and it was obvious that they were not ordinary people.

Wang Chi had heard the noise outside a long time ago and was thinking of sneaking out and leaving, but the three men seemed to have a purpose and walked straight towards his house.

Logically, he should go to the big house, which made him very depressed.

Wang Chi would not be afraid if these three people broke in, because his pistols were already loaded and waiting for them.

Although the three men looked fierce, they were stunned when they saw Wang Chi sitting cross-legged on the bed, as if they thought of something.

His expression immediately became amiable: "Er Gou, right? The second leader of Qingfeng Village wants to invite you. Come with us."

Qingfeng Village? Aren’t these the bandits on the top of the mountain? Why would they ask me by name? It’s strange.

"Boy, there is an immortal cultivator nearby. He should be in the same group with these horse bandits. Let's go and take a look." Situ sent a message to Wang Chi.

"If there is a cultivator I won't avoid him, but what if he is a master?"

"I sensed it with my spiritual sense, it's just an ant in the Qi Refining Stage"

"Most of those who are with these bandits are not good people. You have been practicing for a while, and it is time to learn how to fight against others. Just treat it as enforcing justice for the heavens!"

"With me here, what danger are you afraid of?"

Situ said a lot, and Wang Chi thought for a moment. Until he heard the last sentence, Wang Chi felt that what he said made sense.

Wang Chi stood up and followed the three men.

The place we were going to was not far away. It was a piece of flat land in front of the ancestral hall in a village not far away.

Wang Chi followed the three people to the place, which was brightly lit at the moment, and bandits on horseback holding torches formed a circle.

And those within the circle are the people of Murakami, like lambs to be slaughtered.

Inside the ancestral hall, women were screaming, bandits were going crazy, and doing shameful things in Murakami's ancestral hall.

Not only that, all the strong men in Murakami had their hands tied behind their backs and were forced to kneel on the ground.

The bandits would occasionally raise their knives and slash at their heads, with their horses' hooves crushing their heads and blood splattering on their fanatical faces.

The sounds of rape echoed in the ancestral hall, and blood dyed the land red.

"These beasts!"

"Come on, kid, come here." A scarred man who looked like a leader waved at Wang Chi.

The person behind him kicked Wang Chi and yelled, "Hurry up, our second in command is calling you."

Wang Chi walked over with no expression on his face.

"I heard that your master is Carpenter Wang?" asked the second in command.

Could it be the master’s enemy?

"Yes."

“Forget it, forget it. You go and ask. I’ll go in first…” the second in command said to someone behind him, and then entered the ancestral hall.

The person behind him turned out to be Village Chief Li!

"Uncle Li, I didn't expect you to be in cahoots with these people," Wang Chi said expressionlessly.

"Haha, Ergou, I treated your master well, but when he died he didn't even leave me a longevity pill."

"Do you think I don't know his identity? I've known for a long time that he was secretly cultivating immortals!"

"I always call you elder brother, but now he is dead and I have to pay for his burial out of my own pocket!" Village Chief Li shouted in a stern voice, his face full of fanaticism.

Only then did Wang Chi remember why Village Chief Li was so kind to help him when Carpenter Wang passed away. It turned out to be because of this.

Now Village Chief Li is colluding with these bandits, is he sure that Carpenter Wang left some elixirs for his apprentice?

"I don't understand what you mean by cultivating immortals!"

At this time, Situ sent a message to Wang Chi: "Be careful, that immortal cultivator is hiding in the dark, I have erased all traces of your spiritual power."

"You've made great progress, kid. You were almost struck to death by lightning that year. If I hadn't brought you to Carpenter Wang, you would have been dead long ago." Village chief Li mentioned what happened that year.

"Ergou, look, I'm old and useless. Please give me a pill in consideration of what happened back then." Village Chief Li's voice softened and he began to beg.

"Besides, you don't want your good friend Erhu to die here, right?" He pointed in the direction behind Wang Chi.

Wang Chi cursed inwardly, this old guy was threatening him.

If he hadn't been concerned about the immortal cultivator hiding nearby, he would have used a fireball talisman long ago.

"Okay, if you let him go, I'll give it to you."

After saying that, Wang Chi took out two yellow pills from his arms and held them in his hands.

When Village Chief Li saw the elixir, he felt as if he had seen some rare treasure. His eyes lit up and his body began to tremble.

He was about to take the pill from Wang Chi when someone in the ancestral hall behind him shouted, "Wait!"

Then, the scarred second in command jumped down from the platform of the ancestral hall with bare chest and snatched the pill from Wang Chi's hand.

"I will gladly accept these two pills!"

Village Chief Li looked at the pills that had been intercepted and began to panic: "Second Master, this is not what we agreed on. I have exchanged the lives of all the villagers with you. You can't go back on your word!"

The second in command frowned, looked at Village Chief Li and said nothing.

He waved to his men, who nodded, entered the ancestral hall, dragged out the dying women, and slashed them with the knives, completely killing them.

Then, three people took out a black bell from their pockets.

The blood-red patterns on the bell made people feel very uncomfortable.

The three men began to shake the bells, and the sound they made seemed like magic. Light blue shadows emerged from the corpses on the ground, and their appearance was exactly the same as the stones on the ground.

"Haha, it turns out to be the Soul Gathering Bell," Situ said.

"Soul Gathering Bell?"

"A magical tool for collecting souls. It seems that the person behind this is using these mortal souls to practice magic."

Wang Chi was shocked. It was simply horrifying that he killed these mortals just to practice his skills.

Village Chief Li next to him seemed to still be unwilling to give up. He wiped the cold sweat from his face and showed a flattering smile: "Second in command, there are two pills. I beg you to be merciful and give me one. For this pill, I will sell all the people in the village." Village Chief Li's voice was still trembling. It seemed that the movement of the Soul Gathering Bell just now scared him a lot.

"Oh!" The second in command rubbed his temple with his right hand and sighed.

Village Chief Li is still chattering.

Suddenly, he stretched out his hand and grabbed Village Chief Li's neck, and said fiercely, "Shut up!"

The second in command was indeed a bandit, with great strength, and the village chief Li was killed in an instant.

His eyes were wide open and his tongue was sticking out.

Don't rest your eyes!

"Second Master, my master left me something. I'll give it to you. Can you let me go?"

Wang Chi spoke, his tone sounding pleading.