The sickly girl is killing her way through the weird world

"I've called you three here because I need your help. You should all have seen the situation in this temple. Before, those people from the Lotus Cult invaded this place and killed almost all of my followers. The whole temple was burned to the ground like this."

"Even if none of you come, judging from the current situation, I probably won't be able to hold on for much longer."

Bai Yao didn't speak when she heard Yang Gong's words. She didn't believe the old man's words. She glanced at Bai Qian next to her and found that the girl was daydreaming again.

"I don't know, what do you mean?" Bai Yao asked bluntly.

"Before we discuss our purpose here, I would like to ask you both why you have come to Taiheng City," Yang Gong said after a moment of silence, his blue eyes fixed on Bai Yao.

Upon hearing this, Bai Yao turned to look at Bai Qian beside her.

Under Bai Yao's gaze, Bai Qian snapped out of her reverie and pretended to think about it seriously.

"Use Lotus Mother to make soup?" This was an idea she had since she returned. Lotus Mother's true form seemed to be a lotus flower. She could vaguely see its appearance from the red-haired woman. Since it was a lotus flower, it should be able to be used as a medicinal ingredient to make soup.

I'm curious about what it tastes like.

Bai Yao and Yang Gong: "?"

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I'm so sorry it's so late QAQ. There's more to come, I'll post it as soon as I finish writing it ?(???)?

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Volume 1: Chapter 243, Is the other party a bad person? Bai Qian: Really?!

The scene immediately fell silent.

After all, there was no other way but to calm down. What Bai Qian had just said was so astonishing that no words could describe it.

The words "lotus root" and "stewed soup" seem completely unrelated, don't they?

Take the lotus seeds and stew them into soup...

Neither Bai Yao nor Yang Gong disliked Lian Mu, but they dared not even think about such a thing. The most they could think of was to severely injure Lian Mu, and they never even considered the possibility of her dying.

It is true that Lianmu, Yanggong, and Lingxi are all deities, but among deities, there must be a hierarchy. Yanggong is one level below Lingxi, while Lianmu is more than one level above Lingxi.

Yang Gong knew perfectly well how terrifying Lian Mu was, and that was precisely why he had no designs on her; he only hoped to drive her away.

He gave Bai Qian a deep look and muttered something like, "The younger generation is formidable, and a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger."

He didn't dwell on this matter for too long. What Bai Qian said was her business, and he certainly couldn't believe it based solely on one person's opinion.

“It seems that our goals are similar,” Yang Gongdao said.

"The reason I sought out the three of you is to deal with the Lotus Cult. You should all have seen the situation in the city, so I won't go into details. When the Lotus Cult came before, they took away my essence," the old man continued.

"I hope you can help me bring back the source; perhaps then there will be a way to resolve the current situation."

Bai Yao stared at the old man with a face full of wrinkles, especially at the charred banyan tree behind him. The eerie roots of the banyan tree were intertwined, like pythons coiling together.

She didn't quite trust the old man across from her. If it was a matter of judging by appearance, the old man certainly wouldn't believe her. Although, if that were the case, apart from her own sister, there was no one in the world she could trust.

If we don't judge a book by its cover, then we can only rely on intuition and existing information to determine the old man's purpose.

In this world, she felt there were probably very few gods who could maintain their rationality and sanity.

Turning to look at Bai Qian beside her, Bai Yao found that Bai Qian didn't care much about the matter. In fact, Bai Yao felt that Bai Qian was somewhat... hoping that the person in front of her was a bad guy.

Pretending not to notice that her younger sister's thoughts were even more abnormal, Bai Yao then looked at Yang Gong.

"That's no problem." He agreed for now, but the exact situation would need to be assessed based on the available information.

Yang Gong also saw Bai Yao's distrust, but instead of explaining, he said, "Although I only have half a body left, I am quite familiar with many things in Taiheng City. If you two really have any purpose in coming to Taiheng, you can tell me, and I may be able to explain."

Bai Yao didn't rush to ask, but Bai Yao next to her raised her hand.

"Martial arts." Just two simple words.

Yang Gong was taken aback upon hearing this, not quite understanding Bai Qian's meaning. However, after a moment's thought, he roughly understood what Bai Qian meant.

"You mean supernatural abilities that can be cultivated? I haven't collected any of those, since the low-level ones are useless and the high-level ones are hard to find."

“However, I do know someone in Taiheng who has a special ability. An old friend of mine has one, and I remember it being quite powerful,” Yang Gong continued.

"You can use this to find it. It usually lives in the mass grave west of Taiheng City." A brown wooden staff was handed over; the staff, made of banyan tree roots, gave off a heavy feeling.

Bai Qian took the wooden staff, glanced at it, and after checking it to make sure there was nothing wrong, handed it to Bai Yao.

"This wooden staff is a magical artifact that I have been refining for many years. Although it is not particularly powerful, it is still sufficient as a self-defense artifact. It is of no use to my current crippled body. You can take it and use it for now as a small reward."

"After this is over, once we've driven out those Lotus Cult members, we'll bring up some other things that you might be more interested in," the old man continued. He knew very well that empty words were useless; without offering something substantial, it would be difficult to impress anyone.

"These are all things we should do." Bai Yao still had some doubts about Yang Gong's purpose, but as the saying goes, one doesn't hit a smiling face. Yang Gong's attitude at this moment could be described as quite friendly. Under these circumstances, even if she had doubts, she wouldn't show them.

"I just wanted to ask you if, besides the Lotus Sect, there are any other forces in Taiheng that are related to demons?" This was the key question.

Upon hearing this, Yang Gong pondered for a moment.

"Yes, there is. In fact, the current chaos in the city is related to that group of people. I wanted to investigate it before, but unfortunately, the Lotus Sect acted too quickly. Before I could investigate, the Lotus Sect had beaten me into this state. If you are interested, I can tell you a few locations in Taiheng that you can go and take a look. That group of demons is most likely active in those areas."

"Xinglin Temple, Hengning Theater, and that dilapidated tower in the city." Bai Yao remembered the three places she mentioned.

Bai Qian, who was standing next to her, blinked when she heard the familiar place name. She remembered very clearly that there were no apricots at Xinglin Temple.

After inquiring about these three places, Bai Yao asked about some information related to Taiheng, but this time he didn't get any useful information from Yang Gong.

Later on, Yang Gong began to introduce some of Taiheng's folk customs, such as the need to carry a pair of scissors to ward off hungry beasts. When asked what the hungry beasts were, he said they were just legendary things, and what he said was basically the same as what Nian Qi had said before, the so-called evil beasts that could bring famine.

Perhaps it is also related to the Lotus Life Sect.

Although Bai Qian was listening to the conversation between the two, most of her attention was focused on the Liu Yin Mansion.

She had been trying to rebuild Willow Shade Mansion since just now. Because she had swallowed a lot of strange incarnations with the help of the [Furnace Core], Willow Shade Mansion was quite complicated at the moment.

The bright moon hangs in the sky, and the light, fiery clouds shine in its glow. A huge willow tree covers half the world, and beneath it, bones lie scattered. Vibrant flowers bloom from the bones, and a river, as wide as a stream or a great river, flows to its end and pours into a deep, bottomless lake beside it. In the distance, a mountain is faintly visible, and its shape resembles a tiger arching its back.

This is the current state of Liuyin Mansion, but when we tried to make Liuyin Mansion appear in reality before, we found that we couldn't construct anything.

It might be due to insufficient resources at the time, but it can also be roughly determined that the overall construction may be a bit too complicated. Perhaps we could try a single construction?

Or, to put it another way, how about reorganizing the Liuyin Mansion at this time?

The things in Liuyin Mansion now seem numerous, but they are not systematic. If we connect these things together with a single line...

Bai Qian and Nian Qi followed Bai Yao out of the temple. Apart from the faint rustling of tree roots, there was only the sound of their footsteps.

"It's a pity about this temple." Bai Yao looked back at the charred temple. If it had been intact, it would have been very beautiful.

Bai Qian turned around and looked at the temple with Bai Qian. She was slightly taken aback, but then she immediately had an idea.

"This temple?" She stepped on Bai Yao's shadow, still keeping her head down.

"It already has some of the style of the temples in Liangdu. If you go to Liangdu later, you can see the temples of the gods worshipped there. They are all different in style. If we were to find a few synonyms, it would probably be extremely extravagant." They don't treat people like human beings. Just one of the main halls is required to be tens of meters high to accommodate statues of the same height. I don't know how many people died from exhaustion.

Bai Yao's reminder did indeed give Bai Qian some ideas.

If we want to connect all the various things in Willow Shade Mansion together, perhaps starting with the architecture would be feasible?

Building temples is certainly feasible, and the statues in the temples will become real. In addition to temples, other buildings are also feasible, whether they are pavilions, towers, palaces, or even pyramids made of corpses.

I've also considered using [blood sacrifice] to turn these things into weapons, and I might try that later, after thinking about it carefully.

After building a group of palaces, they can also be used as weapons to smash people, perhaps even more effective than normal weapons?

Cultivation has become a game of building houses, which sounds much simpler.

With an idea in mind, Bai Qian looked at the various things in Liuyin Mansion and began to ponder.

You could try building a small temple first, just like the one you saw when you first traveled through time.

First, lay the foundation and then decide what to use as a substitute for the stone used to build the temple. Bai Qian took a tour of Liu Yin Mansion.

His gaze lingered on the stark white bones beneath the willow tree.

The Temple of White Bones... that should be normal, right?

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Volume 1: 244. Who looks the weakest among the three? Of course, it's the shortest one.

The banyan tree stood tall, and the old man stood at its top, watching the three people leave the temple. His cloudy eyes were fixed on the person who hadn't spoken a word since they met. He was puzzled, feeling a strange sense of familiarity, but he didn't know where this familiarity came from, since he had never seen this girl before.

They should also be locals from Taihang...

After gazing intently in the direction Bai Qian and the other two had left, He stopped thinking about the problem. Given his current state, he should focus on recovering. He hoped they could trust him; if not, he would have to try the method himself.

The aged figure disappeared into the charred black banyan tree behind him, as if the restless roots had fallen into deathly silence.

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It can be said to be a world made of blood and flesh. Bright red is the most basic tone here. Everything is stained with that blood color: the water flowing on the ground, the corpses hanging in the air, and the robes on people that seem to be soaked in blood. The bright red is so vivid that it hurts to look at the eyes, and it is full of grotesqueness.

This was a massive altar, seemingly composed of a dozen or so blood-red pools stacked one on top of the other, ranging in size from large to small. Beside the pools lay corpses and people bathing in them. Their skin was emaciated, their eyes vacant, and they sat quietly in the pools, their skin covered with tiny, lotus-leaf-like plants.

"That jar on the east side was smashed? Who did it?" Several people dressed in red robes were discussing the matter in hushed tones. They were the controllers of this place, and also the de facto rulers of Taiheng City at this time.

"There's also a lotus altar to the south. They were attacked before. Although they escaped, several followers were killed."

"Didn't they say that a descendant of the goddess E'nu had been there?"

"I don't know." They discussed what was happening in Taiheng, but their tone was quite calm, without any of the panic or anxiety that should have been there.

Among these people, a young man wearing a loose red robe and missing an arm walked over and looked at the people in red.

"Quiet." The slightly cold tone of the words silenced the red-clad figures present, who all turned to look at the young man.

It's hard to say whether it was respect or longing, but at least at this moment, they did not show any resistance.

"I know about everything you've mentioned, and I've already sent people to test the waters, so you shouldn't worry about it for now," he warned coldly, his words carrying a hint of chill.

"Your next task is to prepare for the ceremony in a few days. I will find a way to replace the missing lotus skin drum. As for the troublemakers, I will also deal with them."

"If anyone goes to discuss these things again, it just so happens that there are a few lamps missing on this jar, which can be used as lamp oil."

The scene immediately quieted down, perhaps because the warning from the young man in red had an effect.

"What about the thing you've been asking us to investigate?" one of the men in red whispered.

"Let's ignore the famine in this city for now. Let it be, whether it's caused by demons or something else. It's even beneficial to us," the young man replied decisively.

"Now we just need to finish what the headquarters asked us to do and send these transformed lotus soldiers over. The lotus soldiers from other places have already been sent over. If we delay any longer, we might be held accountable by them."

"At that point, it won't be as simple as being boiled into lamp oil."

The group of people standing with the young man fell silent upon hearing this, looking at the corpses hanging in mid-air beside them and the people crawling below the altar. The densely packed people, like ants, crawled as if they were facing the female statue on the altar, who stood high there, looking down on the masses below.

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"What's next?" Bai Yao turned to look at Bai Qian beside her. Bai Qian hadn't said a word the whole way, but she was used to it.

"The mass grave?" This is the place that Yang Gong mentioned before, saying that he had a friend there. Bai Qian has nothing to do now, so she might as well go and take a look.

Because of the construction of the Willow Shade Mansion, she still needs to find more martial arts or supernatural abilities. Now that she has received relevant information, she definitely wants to go and take a look.

"Okay, be careful." After hesitating for a moment, Bai Yao nodded and did not intend to stop Bai Qian.

"Nian Qi and I will go back and take a look." After thinking for a moment, she continued. She was no longer too worried about Bai Qian. If she had to worry about anyone, she should be more concerned about the demons and monsters in Taiheng City.

She planned to go back and gather information about the surrounding area. Since Nian Qi couldn't get any useful information out of her, she could only look at the remaining people in Taiheng City. There should still be some people in the city, so it shouldn't be a dead city.

Bai Qian nodded, and Bai Yao helped Bai Qian lower her head and carefully straighten her collar.

"Then we'll head back now. If you get hungry, just come back."

"Oh." Bai Qian watched Bai Yao and the other person leave, then stood there for a while.

Looking at the temple built from bones in the Willow Shade Mansion, perhaps because it was inspired by the temple when I first transmigrated, the temple had a crooked and twisted beauty, like randomly pieced-together building blocks. It was far from symmetrical, and more like the bizarre feeling of a child's doodle.

Ultimately, I lacked this kind of experience before, and the things I built were indeed not very good-looking.

My gaze lingered on the messy temple for a moment before I slowly turned away from it.

What should we do next...?

Go to the mass grave.