I gather power with my gift of God and build the heaven.

After devouring the mouse, the scarecrow's aura of power instantly increased a little.

At the same time, the puppet rules between heaven and earth were also improved slightly, even getting closer to the rules of life.

Next, the new scarecrow began to get busy quickly, looking in front and suddenly behind, killing and devouring all the birds, beasts, insects and snakes.

In just one night, dozens of acres of fields had been searched completely, killing countless birds, beasts, insects and snakes.

Wang Chao wandered among the puppet rules and was able to sense that part of the puppet rules were faintly embedded in part of the life rules, and had a vague connection with some birds, beasts, insects and snakes in the world.

Invisible and illusory threads extended from the puppet rules and continued to extend towards the birds, beasts, insects and snakes.

However, these invisible and illusory silk threads seem to be neither disconnected nor connected to them, and have not been completely integrated into their bodies.

Wang Chao had no way to control them and could only slightly sense their location and some of their psychological fluctuations.

Feeling this situation, Wang Chao couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

If the scarecrow, or the many puppets between heaven and earth, kills and devours enough lives.

Can those invisible and illusory threads be completely integrated into those lives and then turn them into puppets under their control?

In this way, can he rely on puppet rules to control all life in the world? Or even turn the rules of life into rule puppets.

At that time, he will be in compliance with the puppet rules and control the puppet rules, but he will also be the master of the life rules at the same time, controlling all life behaviors in the world.

Thinking of that situation, Wang Chao felt excited but also a little frightened.

Such a world is nothing more than a larger stage.

All life between heaven and earth is like puppets in our hands, and all developments in the world are nothing but pre-set scripts.

Comedy or tragedy is just a matter of his thoughts.

Is there any future for such a world?

However, he will not use it to control life in the world.

But if he wanted to understand the mysterious operation of the rules of life, he would definitely not refuse.

In an instant, Wang Chao was completely immersed in the mystery of the operation of the rules and no longer paid attention to what was happening in the outside world.

At dawn the next day, the villagers of Xujiazhuangbao went to work early in the cool morning.

Xu Dashan walked hurriedly, carrying a hoe, with a smile on his face.

In these years when most places are suffering from famine, their village has a bumper harvest this year, which is naturally something to be happy about.

Xu Dashan came to the fields and looked around, but did not find any trace of birds such as sparrows. He thought to himself that it seemed that this scarecrow was quite useful.

Xu Dashan couldn't help but look towards where the scarecrow was.

Hmm. Something seems wrong.

However, Xu Dashan frowned and thought about it, but he couldn’t remember what was wrong.

Take two steps forward again and step into the world.

"Pfft!"

Xu Dashan only felt his feet go soft, as if he stepped on something.

He moved his feet away, lowered his head and looked carefully. Facing the faint light from the east, he saw clearly what he had just stepped on. It was a dead rat. It was a rat that had been dead for a long time and had become a mummy.

Xu Dashan couldn't help but be slightly stunned. Why didn't he notice the dead rat yesterday?

Could it be that I didn't pay attention?

Shaking his head, Xu Dashan gave up exploring and kicked it out of the farmland, then started bending down to work.

During this process, Xu Dashan discovered many things about animals and began to feel that something was wrong.

After walking a distance inside and when it was only more than ten meters away from the scarecrow, the scarecrow suddenly turned around and looked in the direction of Xu Dashan.

"Intruder!"

The next moment, the scarecrow appeared in front of Xu Dashan.

Looking at the scarecrow that suddenly appeared in front of him, Xu Dashan, who was bending over, couldn't help but feel a little confused. Wasn't the scarecrow in front of him? How did it come to him? Did he remember it wrongly?

No, he definitely wasn't mistaken, he just took a quick look and was sure that the scarecrow was still a long way away.

At this moment, he finally remembered what he felt was wrong when he saw the scarecrow before.

The scarecrow he made was not there, but in another direction.

Just when Xu Dashan's whole body stiffened and he wanted to slowly retreat away, he suddenly heard a hoarse and strange voice coming from the scarecrow in front of him.

"Trespassers, leave the farmland"

For a moment, Xu Dashan froze on the spot, his lips trembling and unable to speak.

After a while, Xu Dashan gradually regained control of his body.

"Weird, weird, weird!"

With a roar that shook the earth, Xu Dashan turned around abruptly and ran out, crawling.

However, his panic-stricken escape immediately destroyed countless crops.

But at this moment, how could he care about so many things?

However, he couldn't care less, as the Scarecrow would not allow him to do so. Two red lights instantly appeared in his eyes.

"Destroy the crops, die, die, expel! Expel!"

Although after being affected by the evil spirit, the scarecrows in this world also have the intention to kill humans who destroy crops.

However, it ultimately did not violate the core rules that Lu Jun had engraved when the Scarecrow was created.

Humans who intrude into farmland can only be expelled but not killed.

The purpose is to prevent scarecrows from killing innocent people who accidentally enter the farmland.

After the puppet rules are projected into this world, the corresponding rules still exist.

However, due to the distortion of the strange energy, the constraints of those rules have become much weaker.

Like the Huashan Sect's wooden man puppet, even with Wang Chao's intervention, the erosion of strange energy and rules is still unavoidable.

The same is true of the scarecrow today. The scarecrow is integrated with strange energy. Its spirituality can be described as a combination of negative consciousness. It has a great desire for killing, flesh and blood.

There is even a tendency to forcibly distort the core rules.

As the Scarecrow's power grows, it may distort the core rules in the future and kill all lives that enter the farmland.

However, even if it does not kill the intruders now, it will still expel them violently.

In an instant, the scarecrow came behind Xu Dashan. Countless straws shot out and instantly wrapped around Xu Dashan's body, dragging the person holding him out of the farmland.

However, this may not cause much harm to the humans in the Celestial World, and at most they will be disturbed by some illusions.

However, if they were the people of the Celestial Empire, they would be restrained and thrown out of the fields because they had the status of heaven and earth and could block even the interference of illusions.

However, this behavior, which did not cause much harm to the people in the Celestial Empire, was fatal to the people in the late Ming Dynasty.

In an instant, a large amount of strange energy invaded Xu Dashan's body.

Xu Dashan felt his entire body was cold, as if he had fallen into an icy cave, with all his flesh and blood frozen.

At the same time, countless strange illusions instantly overwhelmed his mind.

"Ah~! Hoho, hoho"

Xu Dashan opened his mouth in pain, wanting to ask for help, but he could only make a slight hoarse sound, and his breathing and heartbeat gradually weakened.

Finally, when he was about to reach the end of the field, Xu Dashan's breathing and heartbeat stopped.

The scarecrow dragging Xu Dashan paused for a moment, and red light began to flash where the eyes were.

Finally, the straw that tied Xu Dashan suddenly grew and lengthened, like strands of iron wire, and pierced into Xu Dashan's body.

Well, before he died, he was a human life that needed to be expelled.

But after its death, it is just a corpse, which is no longer within the protection and expulsion of the core rules, and can be completely devoured to enhance its strength.

"Gu Gu."

Accompanied by a sucking and swallowing sound, Xu Dashan's body quickly shriveled up and eventually turned into a skinny corpse.

The aura of power from the scarecrow was rising rapidly.

In the end, Xu Dashan's body was filled with straw and was filled with an extremely strong and strange power.

Finally, after extracting Xu Dashan's energy, the scarecrow was about to take back the straw from Xu Dashan's body.

However, at this moment, the straws actually showed a hint of resistance, or even rejection, to it.

While devouring Xu Dashan's spirit, the straw inserted into his body was also constantly being washed by Xu Dashan's spirit, carrying some of his spiritual imprints, creating some differences from the scarecrow.

It is precisely this difference that causes a slight repulsion between the two sides.

The scarecrow tilted his head and looked fixedly at Xu Dashan in front of him.

After a long while, the scarecrow's eyes suddenly lit up, and the blood-red light was dazzling.

The next moment, the straws that were wrapped around Xu Dashan broke off the connection with the scarecrow and instead sank into Xu Dashan's body.

Immediately afterwards, countless strange auras and the power of puppet rules began to gather towards Xu Dashan.

Gradually, Xu Dashan's body began to transform into wood and straw.

At the same time, the straws grew rapidly, tangled and woven, and soon turned into a new scarecrow wearing Xu Dashan's clothes.

The remaining soul of Xu Dashan also merged into the scarecrow at this time, giving it extremely strong spirituality, but also extremely strong resentment.

Why was I the one who was killed? Why didn't anyone come to save me?

I am in so much pain

Now that I am dead, please come and accompany me.

Die die die.

At this moment, the scarecrow transformed by Xu Dashan was full of hatred towards life and humanity.

It was not until noon that Xu Dashan's family realized that something was wrong. Xu Dashan had not returned yet.

When they came to the field to search, the final result was self-evident: there were more scarecrows in the field.

Even the extra scarecrows began to spread to the surrounding fields, occupying one field after another.

As a result, more and more people began to suffer.

Eventually, Scarecrow's actions were discovered.

In an instant, everyone fled in panic and reported to the authorities.

However, faced with the strange scarecrow, the government was helpless.

It is said that in the direction of Shanhaiguan, there is a being that can suppress or even kill strange things.

It’s a pity that they don’t have such people here.

In the end, all they could do was to seal off the area. As for the people who lost their land, that was not within their consideration.

It was not until June of 1632, the seventh year of Chongzhen, that Huang Taiji launched his second expedition against Ligdan Khan. He attacked Xuanfu in Datong and an army of nearly a thousand people arrived nearby.

Looking at the golden rice fields in the distance with heavy rice ears bending the stalks, the Qing army leader could not help but be overjoyed.

Judging from the appearance of the rice fields in the distance, they can harvest at least 10,000 shi of grain, right?

As for why no one harvested such crops, they didn't think too much about it.

No matter why it was not harvested, the crops here now belong to them.

Of course, it is impossible for them to harvest it themselves.

The first thing they did was to send people to capture many civilians and force them to harvest crops.

Although some nearby people knew that there were strange scarecrows in the fields, they also reported it to the Qing army.

But how could the proud Qing army care about what they said?

You know, the underworld of the late Ming Dynasty has covered a large area outside the Great Wall.

The strange power of the underworld is also extremely corrosive and lethal to life.

But at the same time, it can also really hurt the weirdness.

Therefore, they are not completely powerless when faced with weirdness.

However, after entering the pass and getting away from the underworld, this ability will be greatly reduced.

But even so, it is still possible to resist or even suppress some weirdness.

Therefore, after hearing the villagers' story, they led their troops to the rice fields with disdain, ready to strangle the scarecrow.

The moment they stepped into the field, a nearby scarecrow locked onto them, turned around instantly, its strange eyes glowed scarlet, and a hoarse, eerie voice came into their ears.

"Intruder, die!"

The moment the words fell, the scarecrow had already arrived in front of the Qing army. Straws shot out at a rapid speed, instantly piercing through several leading Qing soldiers.

Obviously, as they continue to devour humans and distort the core rules with their strange aura and a large amount of negative consciousness, these scarecrows no longer fully follow the rules except for guarding the farmland.

Now, any life that enters the farmland will be hunted down by them.

"Ah~! Help!"

After the scarecrow suddenly appeared and killed several Qing soldiers in an instant, the Qing army that broke into the farmland immediately fell into chaos.

However, they were well-trained after all, and they quickly calmed down and quickly formed a formation.

"Supreme gods, you are our protectors, please protect us from evil and give us the power to destroy evil."

A shaman at the back of the team quickly raised his hands and prayed.

The next moment, streams of strange gray-black aura emanated from his body and instantly enveloped the soldiers in front.