I have been bound in a forbidden place for five hundred years. Why are you crying when I am a casual

"What's going on? Have you noticed the changes in these mortals?"

"They no longer seem to be just aimless and idle; they've started to get irritable again!"

"Could they be targeting us soon?"

Almost at the same time that Master Huixuan was casting his spell, Gu Xiu and the others, who were moving quickly through the crowd, immediately noticed something unusual.

These mortals did not consider them as targets, so after the Tianyuan Sword Sect members were taken into the Mountain and River Remnant Realm, these crazed mortal believers seemed to have lost their purpose and, like the martial monks before them, became aimless.

Even when they were being stepped on and used as stepping stones, these mortals remained oblivious and unresponsive.

But now.

Although these mortals remained in a daze, they began to slowly become irritable, even unconsciously reaching out to tear at their surroundings, and their gazes started to turn towards them.

Although they haven't completely taken action against them yet, nor have they immediately self-destructed, these changes in them all indicate something.

Time is running out for Gu Xiu and his group.

"Damn it, the Buddha Light City Wall is still so far away from here. Even if we are fast, we can't get there in a short time."

“Once we are treated as the enemy, we don’t even have a chance to back down.”

"These mortals clearly have no cultivation, but the power they generate when they self-destruct is incredibly terrifying. I don't know what method these bald monks used to control them."

"We need to think of a solution quickly, otherwise we'll become increasingly passive."

"..."

As they moved forward quickly, they began to discuss their strategy.

Just a pity.

Even though the Sword Saint couldn't solve the problem before, it was clearly not something they could easily find a solution to. After much discussion, they finally realized that the only thing they could do seemed to be to fight their way out.

The only advantage is that they now only have a few people in total, which makes them more flexible than before, and perhaps they don't need to kill all the mortals to clear the way.

but……

Many mortals will surely die.

"If all else fails, you can also enter the Mountain and River Remnant Realm. My physical strength, combined with my defensive techniques, will be able to ignore the damage caused by their self-destruction." After thinking it over, Gu Xiu came up with a solution that was not a viable one.

Relying on physical strength, plus the defensive power of the Xuanwu Shield.

Given his mobility, he wouldn't necessarily die in the crowd, and he could minimize the deaths of these ordinary people.

Although everyone felt helpless, they had no choice but to agree.

"Fellow Daoist Gu, look behind you!"

After a while, Li Muchen's voice suddenly came from behind. In fact, even without his reminder, Gu Xiu had already noticed that Shi Siling behind him seemed to be struggling desperately, and her fingernails were only half an inch away from the back of his neck.

Her cultivation was temporarily sealed, but she still wanted to attack him.

Looking back, Gu Xiu noticed that Shi Siling's face was full of struggle; she seemed to be fighting against the urge to attack him. This struggle clearly caused Shi Siling immense pain, making her scream repeatedly.

At the very moment Shi Siling made her unusual move, the already extremely irritable and violent mortals finally made them their target.

They lunged at them frantically.

He then chose to self-destruct without hesitation.

"boom--!"

"Bang bang bang-!"

The snow bones mixed with blood mist instantly enveloped everyone.

Fortunately, they were all prepared and managed to avoid these self-destructions, but this obviously couldn't last long. Gu Xiu didn't hesitate any longer and decisively took Ye Wentian and his group into the Mountain and River Remnant Realm.

Immediately afterward, the power of the physical body was pushed to its limit, and the Xuanwu Shield appeared in an instant.

After doing all this, Gu Xiu looked back at Shi Siling and found that the mortals had been manipulated into madness, but Shi Siling behind him had not harmed him. However, judging from her expression, she was in even greater pain.

Seeing her in such pain, Gu Xiu couldn't help but frown, even wondering whether he should also put her into the Mountain and River Remnant Realm.

However, a thought suddenly struck Gu Xiu.

I've come up with a solution.

A surge of spiritual energy coursed through his body. Within his dantian, the Nascent Soul Five Divine Palaces on the Dao Platform opened, releasing a surge of divine power. As Gu Xiu spoke:

"Sleep peacefully, and do not harm anyone!"

This is one of Gu Xiu's five divine officials, the supernatural power of the Receiving and Distributing Divine Official.

The words of a sage!

This supernatural power can force someone to obey one's commands, and the controlled person cannot disobey. It's just a pity that this supernatural power consumes a lot of energy and can only be used on people of lower cultivation levels, so Gu Xiu rarely has the opportunity to use this supernatural power.

This time, he was just trying his luck, hoping to see if he could appease Shi Siling.

The result is no surprise.

Even though Shi Siling's cultivation level had decreased, she was still at the same level as herself. The words of the sage were useless to her, and she was still struggling to resist that power.

Seeing that it was ineffective, Gu Xiu planned to put her into the Mountain and River Remnant Realm. However, he did not expect that Shi Siling, who was in great pain, still resisted parting from Gu Xiu. She held onto Gu Xiu's clothes tightly with one hand and was unwilling to leave.

There is no way around this.

Although the Mountain and River Remnant Realm was powerful, it could not contain those with a strong will to resist. Helpless, Gu Xiu could only use his cultivation to reinforce the restrictions on her body again to prevent her from self-destructing on his back.

but……

"The words of the sages had no effect on Shi Siling."

"And what about these mortals?"

Gu Xiu's gaze swept over the mortals still self-destructing around him, a glint of light flashing in his eyes. Without hesitation, Gu Xiu immediately activated the divine power of the sage's words again, speaking to a mortal desperately trying to squeeze through the crowd to self-destruct:

"Stop right there! Wake up!"

These words carried a mysterious power, like a serpent, swiftly burrowing into the mortal's brow.

In that instant, the mortal, who had been filled with fanaticism and rage, froze on the spot. His previously manic eyes suddenly turned to terror, as if he had been awakened from a nightmare, staring around in utter fear.

"What...what's going on? Where am I? Who..."

Before he could finish speaking, another person next to him suddenly self-destructed, unleashing a terrifying force that abruptly stopped him from saying anything more. Fortunately, Gu Xiu intervened in time, using the Xuanwu Shield to protect the mortal.

otherwise.

He is probably going to turn into a bloody mist in this self-destruction.

"Who...who are you? Where are we? What's going on? Why did this happen all of a sudden?" A series of questions came from the mortal's mouth again. He felt as if he had just had a dream, and in his dazed state, he seemed to have gone to the eighteen levels of hell described in Buddhist scriptures.

But when he woke up, the nightmare actually came true. The blood mist all around and the crazed people were exactly the same as in the nightmare.

but.

Gu Xiu did not answer his question, but after briefly probing the other party's situation, he couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised.

Really useful!

He didn't know how this Buddhist kingdom controlled these mortals.

However, he knew that the Buddha Kingdom's methods of controlling souls were ineffective against his own supernatural powers as a treasurer. The other party's mind was clear, and although he was terrified, he was not controlled.

More importantly, since the targets of his supernatural powers were merely ordinary people with no cultivation, the consumption of his sage's words was extremely small.

It's almost to the point of being negligible!

Thinking of this, Gu Xiu glanced around, then without hesitation, he once again activated the Treasurer's Divine Power. This time, however, he didn't use it on a single person, but instead channeled his cultivation to expand the power to a ten-zhang radius around him.

"Give me all of them..."

"Wake up!!!"

The roar was like a raging wind, sweeping outwards from Gu Xiu within a ten-zhang radius. Wherever it passed, the previous fervor quickly subsided, and the mortals who had been rushing forward to self-destruct all stopped in their tracks.

"what happened?"

"what happened?"

"Why am I here?"

"People are dead! People are dead! How many people have died?"

"Something's wrong with them! Wake up, Uncle! Wake up!"

"Grandma, Grandma, don't run away! It's me, Nannan! What are you doing, Grandma!"

"..."

The scene instantly descended into chaos. Just like the mortal who had been awakened by Gu Xiu before, this group of mortals who were awakened this time were also instantly plunged into fear and confusion.

but.

Before their questions could be answered, a figure dressed in a white robe with a full head of silver hair, carrying a woman on his back, leaped high into the air and raced westward from the center of the crowd.

And each time he landed, he would quickly speak, uttering a single word:

"Awake!!!"

But as he raced along, amidst the frenzied tide of mortals, a long road was forged by those who were clear-headed.

Viewed from a distance.

It was like a sharp arrow that had already been shot, heading straight for the heart of the Buddhist kingdom!