global invasion

Eastern Jin Dynasty 500 years ago

Taohuayuan

It was already late at night when we traveled from Lingjiu Temple in Dafu to the boundary of Taohua Village.

The dark blue sky is full of stars, and a full moon hangs high, which is too beautiful to behold.

Peach Blossom Village, where the lights have already been turned off for rest, is full of life at this moment, and the sound of shouting and shouting can be heard from a distance.

Listening carefully to the shout, Liu Nianzhi's face darkened and his brows were tightly frowned.

"Burn him!"

"Monster, burn him to death!"

"What's going on?" Ah Man jumped out of the carriage and looked into the distance, the fire was brightly lit at the sacrificial altar in the village, the crowds were crowded, and the noise was abnormal.

"Who are they going to burn to death?" Ah Man was confused, "Isn't Will here, why did such a thing happen?"

Liu Nianzhi's heart sank immediately, and he rushed over.

There are more than 600-year-old locust trees planted on both sides of the road leading to the sacrificial altar. At this time, the flowers are falling, and the ground is covered with a thin layer of golden yellow.

Normally, stepping on this layer of gold, and then looking up at the majestic sacrificial altar, one's heart would be filled with unspeakable surges.

But at this moment, there is only endless anxiety and anger.

Before rushing out of the avenue, a figure jumped out of the trees, hugged Liu Nianzhi's waist and dragged him into the forest.

Liu Nianzhi hit him hard with an elbow, the man let out a muffled grunt, but he didn't let go.

"Go over, they will burn you to death together!" Shan Hanxi said in a low tone, "Aman, come here!"

Lai Aman bent down and rushed into the woods, his expression stunned: "What happened? Where's Will?"

Liu Nianzhi grasped the hand around his waist, raised his leg and kicked hard on a tree trunk, and slammed into the tree behind him hard.

Shan Hanxi didn't let go, and slammed his back against the trunk of the tree. The giant tree shook, and broken flowers rustled down.

Shan Hanxi's back was in severe pain, and the strength in his hands suddenly relaxed a little. Liu Nianzhi broke free, stepped back, and kept a distance.

"You take Ah Man out of here, I want to go there."

Shan Hanxi said: "What did you do in the past!? Now they treat us as immortal monsters and want to burn us to death!"

Liu Nianzhi's expression was sad and determined: "But Will is there, I can't just watch him being burned to ashes like this!"

Shan Hanxi said: "It was only burned once. When they disperse, we will retrieve Will's ashes and regenerate him..."

Liu Nianzhi paused and said, "It's not just Will, it's not just Will they burned to death."

Shan Hanxi was in a daze and couldn't hold back the words.

Liu Nianzhi said: "You take Ah Man and go back to your place. The rules can't be messed up."

Ah Man reacted with belated awareness: "Are they burning Will to death?"

The shouts on the other side of the sacrificial altar became louder, and people shouted in unison: "Burn him, burn him!"

Liu Nianzhi immediately turned around and rushed towards the crowd holding torches.

"Nianzhi!" Ah Man yelled, and was about to chase Liu Nianzhi, but was stopped by Shan Hanxi.

Ah Man struggled and said excitedly: "Ah San, let me go! I can't watch them burn to ashes alive!"

Shan Hanxi covered Ah Man's screaming mouth, and said helplessly: "But we can't go out now! Someone has to take care of the aftermath, otherwise who will regenerate them?!"

Ah Man's body froze, and then he said bitterly: "Then I'll kill them! Kill all these wolf-hearted people! Anyway, they should have died a long time ago!"

As Ah Man said, he drew out the soft sword at his waist, his eyes were red, and he was about to rush out and start a killing spree.

"Aman!" Shan Hanxi hugged his waist, "Don't be impulsive!"

Ah Man struggled violently, Shan Hanxi almost stopped him, so he had to chop Ah Man on the back of the neck with a knife, Ah Man suddenly lost consciousness, and his body collapsed instantly.

The fire flickered, and the orange halo spread out, lighting up the small piece of sky on the sacrificial altar.

As soon as Liu Nianzhi appeared, the noisy crowd quieted down, staring at Liu Nianzhi with hatred.

"Monster!" A loud voice suddenly shouted in the silence, "You monster that eats people's lifespan!"

"Burn to death, burn to death together!"

Liu Nianzhi looked up and saw Will was tied to a pillar, wrapped in a wet cloth soaked in kerosene, a bronze sword was stuck in his neck, cutting off his spine, making him still conscious, but unable to move.

"Cannibal Yangshou?" Liu Nianzhi walked towards Will, the crowd automatically dispersed, and asked mockingly, "A monster that should be burned to death?"

The once-kind village chief said sharply at this moment: "Don't think that we won't recognize you if you change your face! 700 years ago, when the Qin State was in chaos, you pretended to take us to build another home, saying that you are some goddamn envoys, Purdue Sentient beings, nonsense! In fact, they are sucking our Yangshou. For hundreds of years, no one in the village has lived past the age of 40! Didn’t it tell you to absorb Yangshou to satisfy your own immortality, what else could it be?!”

Liu Nianzhi looked coldly at the village chief who was speaking, his eyes were as bright as a stick, piercing into people's hearts.

But can't explain.

They couldn't live to be 40 years old because they violated the rules and saved these people who should have died in troubled times.Rules do not allow, it is difficult to live long.

"Isn't it?" Seeing that Liu Nianzhi didn't speak, the village chief regained his confidence, "Otherwise, why do you all live forever while we all die early? It's clearly a monster! We should be burned to sacrifice to the heavens, so that the gods can be equal I live long!"

Liu Nianzhi smiled mockingly, and asked, "Is it giving you longevity, or granting you immortality?"

"Don't deceive the crowd with gossip! Arrest him and burn him to death, burn him to death!" The village chief's expression changed, and he waved his hand to make people shoot arrows.

Liu Nianzhi narrowed his eyes and glanced, the villagers who were holding longbows suddenly felt cold all over, the bowstring was fully drawn, but they were so stiff that they couldn't let go of their fingers.

"What are you doing in a daze!" The village head shouted, "How can there be longevity if you don't get rid of the evildoers? Shoot me arrows!"

The daring one loosened his fingers, and the black arrow left the string, whistling out, piercing Liu Nianzhi's heart.

Liu Nianzhi took the first one with his bare hands, but the second and third... Countless arrows followed closely.

After a wave of arrows rained, Liu Nianzhi's body was covered with black arrows, and his snow-white gown was stained red with blood.

Liu Nianzhi's face remained unchanged, he pulled out the arrow feather that hit the heart, and under the eyes of everyone who was terrified and disgusted, he threw the black arrow back into the archer's arm.

The crowd screamed in surprise, and they wanted to shoot again, but they saw Liu Nianzhi's figure flashed and rushed towards the crowd, followed by someone screaming.

In just a few breaths, all the bow-holders around him lay on the ground moaning.

The faces of the people changed one after another, their eyes were full of horror, and when Liu Nianzhi looked at it again, they couldn't help backing away.

Liu Nianzhi continued to pull out the arrow feathers from his body, and the blood dyed the whole white fir into an eye-catching blood red.

"Back then, I protected your ancestors from escaping to this place, opened up mountains and opened up land, and built a paradise for the world. I thought it was a place to live and work in peace and contentment," Liu Nianzhi turned and walked towards Will who was on the sacrificial altar, "But I was wrong. Immortality, immortality Not old, who doesn't want to live forever?"

"Don't be so high-sounding! Your immortality is just robbing us of our lifespan. Now we are just getting back what we deserve!" The village chief jumped out, grabbed a torch from one person, and threw it to the side of the sacrificial altar with a distorted expression. "You hypocritical monsters should be burned to death!"

The torch was lit with kerosene, and the flames took off, rushing all the way to Will.

Liu Nianzhi stepped on the flames to block the flames. At the same time, he held the bronze sword on Will's neck and slowly pulled it out forcefully.

The village chief panicked: "Set the fire! Don't let them escape! Set the fire!"

The villagers were in chaos immediately, and all the torches in their hands were thrown onto the sacrificial altar.

The kerosene spilled on the table was ignited, followed by the wooden sacrificial table, and the raging flames shot up into the sky in a blink of an eye.

Will was wrapped in a white cloth soaked in kerosene, and a spark was enough to ignite it.

Rao Liu Nianzhi tried his best to untie the tarpaulin regardless of the burns on his hands, but he still couldn't stop the flame from spreading.

Will stretched out his ignited arm and pressed it against Liu Nianzhi's chest, trying to push Liu Nianzhi out.

But instead, Liu Nianzhi grabbed his hand, and together with the flames, Liu Nianzhi hugged Will into his arms.

"I regret it, Will." Liu Nianzhi hugged him tightly, his flesh was burned, the pain was severe and sharp, and his voice trembled.

Will hugs him back, and the two of them are caught in the flames together.

"I regret it too. I regret compromising and choosing faith between faith and you." Will's face was distorted, his vocal cords were damaged, and his voice changed tone. After speaking, his voice gradually disappeared. "If I can do it all over again..."

Liu Nianzhi watched his own flesh being set on fire, the intense pain seemed to magnify his emotions.

"We can do it all over again." Liu Nianzhi looked at Will with lowered eyes, and the flames illuminated his eyes extremely brightly, "From now on, abandon faith and God."

Will grabbed Liu Nianzhi's arm tightly and wanted to speak, but he couldn't make a sound because of the damaged vocal cords.

Liu Nianzhi held him in his arms, and the fire had already engulfed both of them.

"I know what you're going to say, but we can't go back to the past. Since we gave up and chose this path, we have no ending. If we want to end, we can only create it ourselves."

The flames became more and more raging, and the monstrous flames licked the flesh all over his body, leaving nothing but pain.

"Heaven and earth are not benevolent, they treat all things as dogs, Gods are inhumane, and treat the people as dogs. If the sky deceives me, it will destroy the sky; if the god deceives me, it will kill the gods."