The Path to Sainthood from Fairy Tail

As the first villager came out, the rest of the villagers followed.

The villagers were gaunt, skinny, and looked like they hadn't eaten a full meal in a long time. Holding kitchen knives and pots and pans, they slowly walked towards the spot where the pig demon had died.

They were dressed in rags that looked as if they had been put together from scraps of cloth.

Judging from these aspects alone, their lives cannot even satisfy their basic needs. It is hard to imagine that this is a village located at the foot of Qingyunmen Mountain.

When Li Xuan and Jie Lu came back with a pile of firewood, they found a group of villagers surrounding the pig demon and constantly touching it.

Some people even couldn't help it and started a fire next to the pig demon.

The materials for making fire are the fences, thatched huts and other things that were destroyed by the pig monster.

In this way, their speed would naturally be much faster than Li Xuan and Jie Lu who went far into the mountains to look for firewood.

"What are you doing? Stop it! The pig monster cannot be eaten, it will kill people if eaten!" Li Xuan threw down the firewood and shouted loudly at the villagers near the pig monster.

Although these villagers had nothing to do with Li Xuan, and even their status and position could not be compared, he still did not want them to die in vain.

The identity of Master Li Xuan still made these villagers feel afraid, so after Li Xuan shouted, most of the villagers stopped what they were doing.

But some villagers only paused at the beginning and then continued with the previous action, disregarding life and death.

Li Xuan quickly walked over to the villager who was lighting the fire, kicked over his pot and pan, and said viciously, "Are you guys going to die? You won't starve to death after eating monster meat, but you'll be in excruciating pain!"

"Still cutting meat, are you all deaf? Can't you understand what people are saying?!"

Li Xuan pointed at the villagers who were cutting up the pig demon's body and cursed loudly. He quickly moved to the side of the villager holding the knife and snatched the kitchen knife from the man's hand.

"give me back!"

Seeing that the villager dared to resist, Li Xuan knocked him unconscious and threw the kitchen knife aside.

After looking around, his eyes fell on the pig demon's corpse.

After a quick calculation, he found that the pig demon's current corpse and the flesh cut off by the villagers could not be combined into a complete pig demon.

What was missing were the limbs that were cut off by Li Xuan.

"Where are the pig demon's limbs?"

Li Xuan questioned the villagers around him.

But his action just now was too overbearing. The villagers all looked away timidly, not daring to look at Li Xuan, and no one told the whereabouts of the limbs.

"If you don't tell me where the limbs are, you're endangering lives. How foolish!"

But no matter what Li Xuan said, these villagers remained numb and didn't even want to speak.

Xie Li hurried over carrying firewood. He approached Li Xuan and asked, "What should we do now? They're so uncooperative, we can't get our work done."

Li Xuan thought of a solution and quickly said to Jie Li, "Put down the wood. We don't need it right now. How much food did you bring?"

Xie Yu was surprised by Li Xuan's question, but answered truthfully, "We originally took into consideration that this was our first mission and we might encounter different situations, so we brought three days' supply."

"Take them all out."

After saying that, Li Xuan came to a villager, snatched the pot from his hand, and simply started a fire.

Then they cooked a pot of thick porridge with the dry food, dried meat and water they brought with them.

Under the burning fire, the aroma of meat quickly spread.

At this time, Li Xuan pointed at the food and said to the villagers, "I'll ask one last time, where are the pig demon's limbs? Whoever tells me can eat. I can also guarantee that everyone will have enough food and warm clothes in the future!"

The villagers who were originally surrounding the area had already been drooling over the stewed meat porridge. Under the influence of hunger, when they heard that they could eat, they started talking about that person like hungry wolves.

"It was the hunter from our village who took the pig demon's limbs away!"

"Yes, his family took them away in a car."

"He said he could sell it for a good price and then buy food to share with us."

“There are still wheel tracks there.”

"..."

The villagers talked at once and told the whole story.

Li Xuan followed the direction pointed by the villagers and saw two wheel tracks in the distance.

Because the villagers were constantly moving around nearby, the wheel marks were covered up. Unless you looked carefully, you would not notice two traces of wheel marks on the ground.

After learning that the pig demon's limbs were sold, Li Xuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In this way, as long as it is recovered in time, the tragedy caused by someone accidentally eating the monster meat can be avoided.

Thinking of this, Li Xuan said to Jie Li, "You watch here and don't let them snatch it. I'll go and get it done!"

Xie Xu made a gesture that it was all right. "Leave it to me. Be careful when you go."

Before leaving, Li Xuan said to the villagers, "Those who want to eat, go home and get a bowl. Line up and each person will get one. Anyone who disrupts the order will continue to starve!"

After a final warning, Li Xuan followed the wheel tracks to chase after him.

Fortunately, this village is some distance away from the county town, and the officials living near the village also went to the county town to seek refuge because of the monsters.

It would take a long time for the hunter family to sell the pig demon's limbs.

When Li Xuan caught up, the hunter family of three was pushing a wooden cart forward with difficulty.

The hunter pushed from behind, his wife pulled from the front, and their children pushed from the side.

Perhaps because they obtained more food from hunting, these three people did not look as thin as the other villagers, otherwise they would not be able to push the pig demon's limbs.

After Li Xuan caught up, he directly blocked the three hunters in front of him, like a banished immortal descending to the mortal world.

Li Xuan stood with a sword in hand and said to the three of them, "You three almost caused a disaster!"

The younger child was frightened by Li Xuan's fierce tone. His eyes became moist and he was about to cry.

The hunter's wife knelt on the ground and kept begging: "Master Immortal, it's our fault. We shouldn't have secretly taken your spoils."

The hunter quickly walked over to his wife's side and knelt down together. "I'm sorry, Master Immortal, I was bewildered. I saw the pig demon's limbs thrown aside and wanted to sell them. The money would allow our family to get through this cold winter, and maybe even allow us to live in the county town..."

Li Xuan didn't care about their selfishness, but continued to warn them in a serious tone: "Ordinary villagers don't know, don't you, a hunter, also know that monster meat can't be eaten directly?"

"If an ordinary person eats unprocessed monster meat, they will surely die. And you still want to live in the county town? I bet you'll be beaten to death in the street before you can even count your money and go home!"

The hunter couple kowtowed repeatedly, "We dare not, we dare not! Please forgive us, Master Immortal. There won't be a next time!"

"I was just blinded by greed. I didn't realize that humans can't eat monster meat. Please give us a way out!"

Li Xuan had no intention of pursuing the matter further, so he simply said to the three people, "Fortunately, no one has died from eating monster meat. Now return the monster's limbs, and I will not pursue your matter further."

"Go back and live a good life. Don't think about such unrealistic things. If it were someone else, they wouldn't care about your life or death. Oh no, no, no one else would give you this opportunity either!"

The hunter couple only heard Li Xuan's words that he wanted to let them go. As for the rest of the content, it was drowned out by the sound of continuous kowtowing.

Li Xuan said directly to the two of them: "Hurry up and get up. If you send it back now, you might still be able to eat meat porridge. If you go too late, there will be nothing left!"

After getting Li Xuan's consent, the two immediately stood up, turned the car around, called their children to go with them, and hurried back to the village.

Li Xuan followed behind them all the time. When the hunter couple sped up, he also quickened his pace.

They slowed down, and Li Xuan also slowed down his pace.

In this way, under Li Xuan's supervision, the hunter family successfully sent the pig's trotter back.

When he reached the entrance of the village, Li Xuan saw from afar a man in white clothes roasting the incomplete body of a pig demon with flames.

Xie Li, who was entrusted with the important task, was helping out on the side, occasionally handing kitchen utensils or other things to the man in white.

Li Xuan's first reaction when he saw this scene was surprise and curiosity as to why this happened.