fictionpage #261 - A long drought brings a downpour
#261 - A long drought brings a downpour
Within the Boundless Void.
Liang Jin was overlooking everything happening here from a God's-eye view.
He had created many areas similar to "instances" here.
This City of the Wrongfully Dead was prepared for these most evil individuals.
Liang Jin didn't have the time to deal with these five people one by one.
He had no interest in fighting these martial artists who hadn't even reached the fifth rank.
He watched these most evil individuals fight continuously, eventually dying one by one in the Boundless Void.
Afterward.
Liang Jin exited the Boundless Void.
Returning to the dilapidated temple.
Xiao Liu was somewhat surprised to see Liang Jin praying.
But the next second.
Suddenly, they heard a startled cry from Li Hu and the others.
The men were about to commit violence, but suddenly, they jumped up as if they had been frightened.
Then, they looked around in panic, each of them breaking out in cold sweat, even soaking their clothes.
Li Hu even trembled as he touched his neck, making sure his head was still there.
Following that.
The four men knelt on the ground with a "thump!"
They kowtowed and worshipped the Mountain God statue:
"Mountain God Grandpa! We were wrong!"
"We are not human! We are beasts! Please spare our lives!"
Their pleas were filled with crying, and they kowtowed forcefully while wailing, even drawing blood from their foreheads.
Everything they had just experienced was like a nightmare.
Now, these men only thought that they had offended the Mountain God by trying to harm people in this Mountain God temple, and thus were being punished.
Only Li Hu gripped the knife in his hand, constantly looking around, seemingly trying to find the mastermind hiding in the dark.
"It seems that the Mountain God has manifested," Liang Jin replied calmly.
Xiao Liu was puzzled.
This Mountain God statue was just a clay figure, how could it possibly manifest?
Li Hu finally turned his gaze to Liang Jin.
He pointed the knife at Liang Jin:
"Is it you who's playing tricks?!"
Liang Jin smiled slightly.
The next moment.
Li Hu and the gang suddenly trembled again, as if they had experienced another terrible nightmare.
Only this time, the nightmare seemed to make them particularly uncomfortable and weak.
Li Hu and the five men could barely stand, and they all slumped to the ground.
Their faces turned pale, cold sweat kept flowing, and they looked exhausted, as if they were extremely sleepy.
Even more surprisingly, many white hairs slowly appeared in the originally thick black hair of these five people!
Liang Jin had pulled them into the 【Boundless Void】 again.
It's just that this time, he tormented them for a longer time, not letting them leave so easily.
But he grasped the measure.
He didn't let these five people faint in reality.
Taking a group of unconscious people would be very troublesome.
"Tiger, you have to suffer a little," Liang Jin said as he took out the rope.
Liang Jin didn't intend to let these five most evil people die.
Li Hu gasped for breath and asked angrily:
"What do you want to do?"
Liang Jin grinned:
"I want to raise you."
As he spoke, he walked towards Li Hu and the others with the rope.
Liang Jin really wanted to raise Li Hu and the others, raise them by his side, so that they could enter the Boundless Void every day to be tortured.
If these most evil people were released outside, they would not only harm more people, but might even suffer a violent death.
Liang Jin didn't want these beasts of burden to die.
Li Hu sneered:
"You black-faced man, do you think you can manipulate your Tiger Grandpa just because I'm under an illusion?"
"Bullshit!"
Li Hu suddenly jumped up and slashed at Liang Jin with his knife.
Liang Jin flicked his hand and easily broke Li Hu's long knife.
Then, his fingers were as fast as lightning, and he quickly sealed the acupoints of Li Hu and the five men.
Since mastering the 《Golden Man Spear Technique》matched with the one-legged bronze man, Liang Jin's acupoint sealing skills have greatly improved.
It was too easy for Liang Jin to deal with this group of martial artists who hadn't even reached the fifth rank.
Li Hu and the others felt numb all over after being hit, and they couldn't help but fall to the ground, limp and powerless.
This time, Li Hu was shocked and angry:
"You... you are a master?!"
"You are at least at the fifth rank!"
Liang Jin's casual attack seemed understated, but it made Li Hu feel that he had no power to resist at all.
It was like a child facing an adult's attack and being unable to resist.
This time, Li Hu realized that Liang Jin was a hidden strongman!
But he really didn't understand why Liang Jin's aura was only at the ninth rank before?
If he had known that Liang Jin was so powerful, he wouldn't have been so arrogant in the first place.
But it was too late to say anything now.
Liang Jin then slowly tied up the group of people with ropes.
After this process, Li Hu was also tough, constantly cursing.
Liang Jin couldn't help but pick his ears:
"It's really annoying to hear you talk."
As he spoke, he pried open Li Hu's mouth with one hand, and with the other, he pulled out Li Hu's entire tongue.
He threw the tongue into the bonfire at random, splashing a burst of sparks.
This caused Li Hu to scream in pain.
The four men were so frightened that they didn't dare to say a word, and even lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at Liang Jin.
But how could Liang Jin let them go?
He was afraid that abolishing these people's martial arts would affect their martial arts value in the 【Boundless Void】.
But Liang Jin also didn't want them to be talkative.
So Liang Jin also tore off the tongues of the four men one by one, which caused the four men to groan in pain non-stop.
This frightened the woman beside her, and her cries became louder.
Liang Jin glanced at the woman:
"Girl, it's almost dawn, aren't you leaving yet?"
"Go home quickly."
The woman raised her head and looked at Liang Jin with suspicion, seemingly wanting to determine whether Liang Jin was a bad person.
She turned her head and looked at Li Hu and his party again.
When she saw them wailing miserably and being tied up, the woman finally began to have some courage.
So she stood up and moved her feet to leave the dilapidated temple.
But just as she came to the door, she suddenly heard a thunderclap in the sky.
"Rumble!!!"
The dilapidated temple was shaken, and dust fell rustlingly.
This sudden thunderclap caused the woman, who was already overly frightened, to fall to the ground with her butt, her face pale, her mouth open but unable to shout.
The next moment.
They only heard a knocking sound on the roof tiles of the dilapidated temple.
It was as if countless small objects were hitting the roof.
This sound made Xiao Liu's expression change, and he hurriedly ran out of the dilapidated temple.
He spread his arms and looked up at the sky.
"It's raining..."
"It's really raining!"
"It's been more than two years, it's finally raining!"
"Hahahahaha!"
Xiao Liu shouted excitedly.
Immediately afterward.
"Swish!"
A torrential rain fell.
Rainwater leaked from the roof of the dilapidated temple, gathered on the ground, and made a sizzling sound when it flowed into the fire.
But Xiao Liu stood in the heavy rain and refused to enter the temple.
He let the heavy rain pour on his body, feeling extremely happy.
Even the frightened woman came back to her senses and couldn't help but jump up happily.
She also rushed into the rain, feeling this rare heavy rain.
A long drought meets sweet rain, this heavy rain naturally makes people happy.
In this land of Chang Prefecture, I don't know how many people are looking forward to the arrival of this heavy rain.
At this very moment, countless people were likely as overjoyed as the two of them, celebrating in the rain.
Liang Jin's expression shifted.
He hadn't expected it to rain.
But after such a severe drought, the sudden downpour might not necessarily be a good thing.
The sky also began to brighten at this time.
The long night had finally passed.
Although the sky was brighter, it remained overcast, and the rain continued to fall relentlessly.
The parched earth outside turned muddy under the downpour.
This heavy rain also blocked the woman's path home.
As she gradually calmed down, she returned to the dilapidated temple and sat by the bonfire to warm herself.
Afterward, she was willing to chat with Liang Jin and Xiao Liu.
It turned out that the woman's name was Xu Ling, and she was originally from nearby Xu Family Village.
However, yesterday, Xu Family Village was attacked by Li Hu and his gang.
After a brutal slaughter, Li Hu and his wicked companions abducted Xu Ling as they left.
Fortunately, Xu Ling encountered Liang Jin in this dilapidated temple; otherwise, she would likely have already fallen into the clutches of those villains.
Liang Jin wasn't particularly interested in her experience.
After Li Hu and the others recovered, he continued to torment them using the 【Nine Empty Realms】, squeezing their martial spirits.
This resulted in the hair of Li Hu and his men turning mostly white within a single day.
They had clearly been exploited excessively.
But Liang Jin made a new discovery:
"Their tongues have already been pulled out by me, but in the Nine Empty Realms, they are still intact?"
"Could it be that injuries in reality don't appear in the Nine Empty Realms?"
"No, it should be that they have already entered the Nine Empty Realms. The Nine Empty Realms preserved their complete information, so even if they are injured outside afterward, it won't affect their return to the Nine Empty Realms."
"If that's the case, it's fine even if I cripple their limbs."
But Liang Jin didn't do so for the time being.
Moving around with several cripples would be very inconvenient; it's better to keep their limbs for now.
At the same time, Liang Jin was also concerned about another possibility.
That is, the Nine Empty Realms is, after all, a mental world. Liang Jin's spirit can create things out of thin air within it, so do others also have similar abilities?
After all, what enters the Nine Empty Realms is people's spirits.
Once a person's spirit believes that their body is intact, will they appear intact in the Nine Empty Realms?
Could their spirit even influence the Nine Empty Realms to some extent?
Since this possibility exists, Liang Jin can only slowly verify this conjecture further.
The rain continued to fall.
Everyone thought the heavy rain would stop soon.
But unexpectedly, the rain continued until dusk before finally ceasing.
Seeing that the sun had already set and night was gradually falling, Xu Ling didn't dare to go home alone and could only continue to stay in the dilapidated temple.
And at this moment.
Lei Zhen woke up.
"Brother Lei, quickly drink some water."
Xiao Liu hurriedly ran over to take care of Lei Zhen.
Lei Zhen drank a bowl of water, his eyes filled with confusion, clearly still perplexed by the surrounding situation.
Xiao Liu immediately told Lei Zhen about what had happened in the past two days.
Lei Zhen was greatly moved after listening:
"I never thought that in the end, it would be Song Yingxiong and Liu-zi who were willing to take care of me, showing me such great kindness."
"If the two of you don't mind, I, Lei Zhen, am willing to become sworn brothers with you!"
Xiao Liu was very tempted by Lei Zhen's proposal.
He was just a ninth-rank martial artist, insignificant.
But if he could become sworn brothers with Lei Zhen, who was at the fifth-rank realm, and Liang Jin, who had even higher martial arts skills, then he would undoubtedly gain two strong backers.
But Xiao Liu didn't speak rashly; he still looked at Liang Jin, patiently waiting for Liang Jin's opinion.
Liang Jin was speechless upon hearing this.
Why do these Green Forest people like to become sworn brothers at the drop of a hat?
At the same time, Liang Jin was also very clear that becoming sworn brothers was common in the Green Forest.
But betraying brothers was also common.
Many things cannot be stabilized solely through a sworn oath.
But Liang Jin knew that this Lei Zhen was a man of great righteousness.
Since the system recognized him, it proved that this person was extremely loyal and trustworthy.
Liang Jin thought for a moment and then agreed:
"That's exactly what I was thinking."
Now that he was already in the Green Forest, Liang Jin didn't mind adapting to the life of the Green Forest first.
Especially since this clone had just arrived in Changzhou and was unfamiliar with the place, there were many things he could use these two people for.
Swearing brotherhood with two people today would definitely lead to swearing brotherhood with more people in the future.
Swearing brotherhood was just a ceremony, and brothers were just a title.
Especially in this Green Forest, the matter of sworn brotherhood was just a group of people gathering together to strengthen their relationship for common interests and goals.
There was no need to take it too seriously.
Immediately, the three of them exchanged their ages.
Lei Zhen was forty-seven years old this year, and Xiao Liu was twenty-two years old.
Liang Jin immediately said that he was already fifty years old. Anyway, no one would doubt him if he said he was fifty with this face.
Immediately, Lei Zhen and Xiao Liu recognized Liang Jin as their eldest brother.
The three of them knelt together in front of the Mountain God statue and began to perform the ceremony of swearing brotherhood:
"Mountain God above, we are here tonight to swear brotherhood. May the Mountain God witness our oath."
"We swear by blood to hold righteousness in our hearts. Together, we will plot great deeds and never betray each other."
"Swearing brotherhood is not accidental, our hearts are sincerely united. We will roam the Jianghu with swords, risking our lives without hesitation."
"From now on, the three of us will treat each other with sincerity and share our hearts!"
The three of them kowtowed and took the oath with blood.
"Eldest Brother!"
"Second Brother!"
"Third Brother!"
They all had their own new titles.
Since they had invited the Mountain God to witness, they also needed some offerings to the Mountain God.
Lei Zhen's gaze turned to Li Hu and his group:
"Eldest Brother, these villains are so utterly devoid of conscience and commit heinous crimes."
"Please allow me to wring off their heads to use as offerings to the Mountain God!"
After hearing about the evil deeds committed by Li Hu and his gang, Lei Zhen had long disliked them and was now taking the opportunity to propose this.
Especially after experiencing the "ghost sighting" event before falling unconscious, Lei Zhen had also become respectful of ghosts and gods, and thus was unwilling to neglect the Mountain God.
But Liang Jin shook his head:
"Second Brother, don't be anxious. I still have a temporary use for these people."
Hearing Liang Jin say this, Lei Zhen could only give up.
Xiao Liu took the initiative to volunteer to find some offerings.
He immediately walked out of the dilapidated temple.
But soon, he hurried back, his face filled with panic:
"Eldest Brother, something bad has happened!"
"Outside... outside..."
Before he could say what was happening outside.
Liang Jin and Lei Zhen's expressions had already changed.
They had already heard a roar resounding through the heavens and earth outside, incessant and deafening.
"Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz..."
The roar was extremely loud, almost overwhelming.
The woman named Xu Ling was immediately frightened and cowered in the corner.
Liang Jin and Lei Zhen immediately walked out of the temple door.
They saw that in the vast night, a dark cloud seemed to be flying towards them from afar.
The huge roar came from this dark cloud.
The dark cloud continued to approach, even the moon in the sky was covered by the dark cloud.
Such a sky-covering and earth-shattering power, the momentum was terrifying!
Soon, a rustling sound was produced nearby.
Liang Jin reached out and grabbed something, spread his palm and looked at it, it was actually a locust.
He sighed:
"The locust plague is here."