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

After receiving the blessing of the strange energy, the morale of many Qing troops instantly soared, and they all stepped forward and swung their swords.

"Ms. mist mist"

The black blade light flashed across the sky, instantly chopping the scarecrow in front into pieces.

Although the broken scarecrow was shaking, it was trying to be put back together.

However, the black air lingering at the broken part suppressed them tightly, preventing them from gathering together.

Looking at the broken scarecrow, the shaman at the back immediately stepped forward. The gray-black strange energy lingering around his body instantly enveloped the scarecrow, constantly colliding with the strange energy in the scarecrow's body, canceling each other out.

In the end, the strange energy in the scarecrow's body completely dissipated, and he himself turned into blood-stained straw.

But the Shaman was not having an easy time either. His life force was instantly reduced and his body became thinner.

The shaman slowly stood up, slowly turned his head to look at the soldiers behind him, and gave orders in a dry and hoarse voice.

"Burn it!"

"Whoo!"

The soldiers looked at the shaman with a little fear, responded respectfully, and then took the remains of the scarecrow to a distant place and burned them.

Why not burn it on site?

Well, unless they don’t want to harvest the rice anymore.

In this way, at the very beginning, they did kill some scarecrows, and with the help of the army's shaman, they completely destroyed the scarecrows' ability to regenerate.

Seeing this scene, many villagers who were forcibly driven here were all shocked and stunned.

What the Ming government could not do, the Qing army could actually do easily.

Could it be that the Ming Dynasty has really fallen on its heels, and the Later Jin is the destined ruler?

The fact is, as long as they are within the coverage of the underworld, everyone can gain similar abilities by absorbing and exhaling strange energy.

The consequence is that one's vitality will be greatly reduced due to the erosion of strange energy, and each time it is used, the erosion of strange energy will be deepened, shortening one's lifespan.

Therefore, all these beings that have mastered the strange energy will become gloomy and thin, and have a short lifespan.

Moreover, the stronger a person is and the more strange energy he uses, the faster he will die.

After seeing the shocked expressions of the villagers, the Qing army generals could not help but feel extremely proud.

As for the consequences of using the strange energy, he didn't care. Anyway, he wasn't the one who died in the end.

Later on, the Qing army generals even began to divide themselves into small teams to strangle the scarecrows separately.

The death of a large number of scarecrows also alarmed the original scarecrow.

At this time, the scarecrow, after devouring a large number of lives, had already reached the Qi training level. Even the practitioners without heavenly and earthly status in the Celestial World could not fight against it, let alone the people of this world.

Even if those shamans did master some of the mysterious power of the underworld.

But after all, they are not as good as those in the Celestial Empire.

Therefore, facing that original powerful scarecrow, the countless Qing troops were just lambs to be slaughtered.

However, in just a quarter of an hour, more than two hundred people were killed.

Seeing how ferocious the scarecrow was, the Qing army generals couldn't help but feel frightened and began to quickly gather the surrounding troops and be ready for battle.

But they don’t have the military formations of the Celestial Empire.

Therefore, even if everyone gathered together, they were unable to suppress the Scarecrow. Instead, they were killed by it at a faster speed.

Two hundred, three hundred, four hundred.

By this time, the Qing army had already lost their lives. If it were not for the support of their generals and the shamans who accompanied the army, they would have collapsed and fled long ago.

After the shaman accompanying the army was killed, the Qing army generals finally panicked and immediately organized a large-scale retreat.

But, it’s too late to escape now.

At the same time, the dead Qing soldiers began to resurrect one by one.

Well, become a scarecrow.

"Swish"

With mysterious fluctuations, the earth and wood escape technique was activated, and the scarecrows quickly surrounded the Qing army and thousands of civilians who had gathered together.

What followed was a massacre, and only a few hundred people were able to escape.

In an instant, this place became filled with a bloody and eerie atmosphere, with countless scarecrows wandering around, turning it into a scarecrow kingdom.

The Qing army, upon receiving the news, watched from afar.

In the end, they could only retreat with a solemn look.

On the other hand, with countless people being killed and thousands of scarecrows being born, the puppet rules were instantly improved a lot and were deeply embedded in the life rules.

An invisible illusory thread rose above the heads of many humans, seeming to be connected and broken, and to exist and not exist.

And around Xujiazhuang Fort, the power of puppet rules was almost directly manifested.

Even the grass and the earth are being eroded by the power of the puppet rules.

In an instant, the puppet rules and other corresponding rules of heaven and earth, such as the rules of the earth, began to vibrate slightly.

As time passed, the shock became more and more intense, and finally awakened the dynasty.

When he woke up, he immediately noticed the abnormality around Xujiabao. Countless scarecrows were wandering around, pulling the power of puppet rules together, almost evolving into a scarecrow kingdom.

After understanding the whole story through the information recorded in the rules of heaven and earth, Wang Chao could not help but fall silent.

Unexpectedly, after losing their restraints, these puppets affected by the evil spirit would distort the core rules little by little and turn into bloodthirsty and murderous weird puppets.

At this moment, due to the influence of the situation around Xujiazhuang Fort, Wang Chao was able to condense his body in reality.

The power of rules gathered and quickly formed the body of the dynasty. Walking in Zhuangzi, it seemed that there was no difference from before except that it was quieter.

He just changed from a human being who used to gossip about the Zhang and Li families to a wandering scarecrow.

Well, perhaps influenced by the residual souls of death, these scarecrows, in addition to guarding the fields, also wander around the village and its surroundings like humans.

As Wang Chao walked along, all the scarecrows that met him stopped and leaned forward slightly to show their awe for Wang Chao.

In their eyes, the dynasty is the supreme ruler who controls everything about them and is even more powerful than the original scarecrow.

Looking at these scarecrows, Wang Chao hesitated.

I don't know whether to clear them out.

The existence of the scarecrow not only poses a threat to the people around it, but also causes a large amount of rule forces to gather, hindering the operation of the rules.

But at the same time, this is also a necessary condition for the dynasty to become a reality.

Even if he doesn't care about these, the existence of these scarecrows can continuously strengthen the puppet rules as time goes by, and intensify the puppet rules' erosion of the world.

In short, the existence of the scarecrow can be said to have both advantages and disadvantages.

When he arrived outside the village, Wang Chao saw a group of scarecrows, divided into two groups and fighting each other.

One side was wearing the armor of the Qing army, and the other side was wearing the clothes of the Ming people.

The straw flew everywhere and stabbed at the scarecrow on the opposite side.

"Puff puff"

In an instant, countless holes were shot into the scarecrow on the opposite side.

However, it was all made of straw. After they took back the straw, the holes on the scarecrow quickly closed up and were not affected at all.

The reason why both sides acted like this was obviously because they were influenced by the residual soul's consciousness.

Soon, Wang Chao came to the farmland outside the village and found the original and most important scarecrow.

After seeing Wang Chao, the straw around the scarecrow rustled and immediately tilted towards Wang Chao.

Compared with other scarecrows, it can feel the powerful aura of Wang Chao more deeply.

For them, the dynasty is the source of all puppets, it is heaven, it is Tao.

Wang Chao stood quietly, but his mind was already focused on the scarecrow in front of him.

Very spiritual, but just spiritual.

In terms of consciousness, it is much worse than other scarecrows.

Feeling the mysterious connection between him and himself, as well as a special thread of cause and effect that vaguely leads to the sky.

Wang Chao raised his head, looking thoughtful.

Suddenly, Wang Chao had a flash of inspiration and a wonderful idea came into his mind.

Wang Chao gently stretched out his hand, and the puppet rule power gathered by the surrounding scarecrows was easily mobilized by him and instantly immersed in that special thread of cause and effect.

"Om~!"

In an instant, the thread of cause and effect vibrated violently, and rapidly condensed and grew at a speed that could be sensed.

In the Celestial Empire world, after everyone carefully explored that illusory world and found that it did not have much attack power and had no other special features, they all left the vicinity.

Only a few people including Lu Jun were left.

They always felt that this was not an ordinary illusion. Indistinctly, they felt that the illusory world before them seemed to have some connection with them.

However, when they carefully sensed it, it was like a flower in a mirror or a moon in the water, difficult to touch at all.

On this day, everyone was ready to give up.

Lu Jun discovered that the illusory world in front of him suddenly fluctuated violently. It was no longer the people of the Ming Dynasty who used to come and go, but had turned into scarecrows wandering back and forth.

"This is."

Looking at the changes in front of him, Lu Jun instantly perked up, and watched every change with sharp eyes, fearing that he would miss anything and lose the opportunity.

The people around also noticed the changes in the illusion in front of Lu Jun, and they gathered together, staring intently at the illusion world.

As time went by, the illusion became clearer.

By the end, it was even almost close to the illusion of the mind. Although it was still illusory, it was much more solid than other illusions of the world.

When the illusion world stabilized, Meng Fanzhong and others felt that the illusion world in front of them seemed to be more closely connected with them.

But other than that, there is no other feeling.

But Lu Jun was different. He could clearly sense a connection.

It was like the connection between him and the scarecrow he made.

The source of its connection

Lu Jun suddenly looked up and looked at a scarecrow in a rice field. It was different from other scarecrows in that it had completely solidified into a real existence.

After pondering for a while, Lu Jun finally decided to try to separate a part of his mind and communicate with the scarecrow in the same way he made it.

As his mind came into contact with the scarecrow, Lu Jun's perspective changed instantly and turned into the scarecrow's perspective.

When he looked at the scarecrows around him, they were no longer illusory, and he had a vague connection with them, through which he could give them some orders.

At the same time, he could also feel that a force from the depths of distant time and space had established a connection with him. It seemed to be the rule of puppetry, the power of the puppet scarecrow, which was guiding him to come.

Lu Jun controlled the scarecrow to turn around and looked at Lu Jun's real body outside the illusory world. After pondering for a while, he finally decided to follow the power and connection and try to descend with his mind.

As for whether there is danger

How can the path to seeking the truth be smooth?

The mind lightly touched that power and was instantly integrated into it.

"Phew~!"

In an instant, Lu Jun felt his mind suddenly falling at a high speed, and the endless brilliant light quickly receded.

I don’t know whether it was a second or hundreds of years that passed, Lu Jun only felt his heart tremble, and instantly fell into a space.

He calmed his mind slightly and scanned the surroundings with his spiritual sense.

"Is this a consciousness space?"

Soon, Lu Jun determined his current situation. He was now in the consciousness space of a certain existence.

Then, he looked at the spiritual light in the center of the space, which was surrounded by a gray-black strange aura and filled with endless negative consciousness, bloodthirsty and violent.

However, it seemed to be somewhat close to Lu Jun, and had no intention of fighting or killing him.

Lu Jun concentrated his mind slightly, and in an instant he saw an illusory image of a scarecrow within that point of light.

scarecrow?

Looking around thoughtfully, Lu Jun once again separated a more delicate strand of his mind and lightly touched the spiritual light in the center of the consciousness space.

The spiritual light did not show any rejection of Lu Jun's approach, but instead revealed a sense of closeness and excitement.

"boom!"

When the contact was complete, Lu Jun only felt a shock in his heart, and endless negative emotions hit his soul.

Fortunately, although he only descended as a wisp of his mind, his essence was extremely high.

So, he finally withstood the impact of those negative forces and began to check the Scarecrow's memory.

It was originally an ordinary scarecrow in the world, but under the influence of a special force, it eventually turned into a scarecrow puppet and possessed a certain spirituality.

The next step is to protect the rice fields and kill all the thieves who steal the rice and destroy the crops.

At the end, relying on his powerful strength and endless negative consciousness, he distorted the core rules and began to kill people in all directions, killing countless Qing troops and ordinary civilians.

When he felt this, Lu Jun's expression couldn't help but change again and again.

It turns out that the core rules he set weren't so safe after all?

If there is a stronger force, it can also be corroded and distorted.

Thinking about the large number of Qing soldiers and civilians killed by this scarecrow, Lu Jun's heart began to surge and he felt very uneasy.

The Qing army would be fine.

Thinking of the official propaganda about the Qing army's actions, he wished he could kill more scarecrows.

However, thousands of civilians like him are innocent.

"Oh~!"

Lu Jun couldn't help but sigh secretly.