267 Evil Dragon (1/2)
”Yes, Sir!”
The constables following Xu Ren were rewarded heavily by him. With a ferocious stance, they went up, grabbed the sorcerer and tossed her into the water.
The sorcerer struggled but alas, she was only a skinny only woman being thrown into a deep river. After a few shrieks, she sank into the water and was no longer seen.
”This...”
The people who were giving their offerings were shocked.
Although they had seen unreasonable tortures by the officials before, most of these tortures were only executed on the weak and poor people. None of them would dare to go against a god.
But now, did the newly appointed district minister just sacrificed the sorcerer to the Water God?
Within seconds, the timid ones among them started to feel the jitters.
”Oh? The sorcerer is not back. Could she have forgotten about us? How about someone go down and take a look?”
After saving the two children from becoming sacrifices, Xu Ren smirked.
No one dared to look at him in the eye.
”Bloop! Bloop!”
At this moment, the calm water began to bubble.
A black shadow emerged and bubbles floated up, together with blood and a few drapes of cloth. It was a horrific scene to behold.
”Wa! Wa!”
A child's cry was heard, and it was ear piercing.
”It's the Water God! The Water God is enraged!”
The villagers were panicking. Some of them looked at Xu Ren with hatred.
'Hmph! If not for my low rank, I would've wiped out all of such evil offering practices!'
Xu Ren was composed and his thoughts were clear.
Since he had brought people with him to interrupt the offering practice, he would have been prepared.
At this point in time, at the opposite side of the river, a black shadow flashed as Fang Yuan leapt into the water.
He was extremely quick and went straight to the River God. At that moment, he could see how the River God looked like.
It was about 10 feet long, completely black with a flat head and 4 legs. It was an andrias, a variation of a salamander.
”Wa! Wa!”
The andrias had eaten the sorcerer and wanted to send a wave of water to flood the people ashore. As soon as it saw Fang Yuan, it was stunned and let out a crying sound of a baby.
”It's horrible!”
Fang Yuan's eyes glittered. ”Water spear technique!”
”Whoosh!”
His control over water was delicate and powerful now, and the water spear that he conjured was a sky blue and was much more hardy than before.
”Wa! Wa!”
The andrias knew that the water spear was powerful. With a shriek, many white pearls were spat out of its mouth.
As the pearl glittered, the imagery of the spirits of a young boy and girl appeared. However, the two children had bloodshot eyes, sharp teeth and claws and were protecting the andrias.
”Are these servant spirits?”
Fang Yuan was stunned.
There was a saying from a long time ago which goes 'Being a servant for the Tiger'. This saying meant that the powerful spirits would eat people and capture their souls, turning them into their own servants.
This was the case for the andrias.
Furthermore, seeing all the pearls in front of him, the number of killings the andrias had done was shocking.
Seeing this, Fang Yuan was shocked. ”Demon, you've sinned. Even if the heavens would let you off, I wouldn't!”
In reality, after understanding that the trend of the realm was the downfall of the demons and the uprising of the humans, all of Fang Yuan's actions were pro-humans. Since the andrias had killed numerous humans, its fate energy would be weakened and it would surely meet its downfall. Therefore, there would not be further complications after killing this andrias, and there was no need to worry about any backing that it might have.
This was taking actions according to heaven's will, which would make things simpler. If one were to go against heaven's will, it would not be just doubly hard, but one would have to be prepared to face tribulations from the heavens as well.
”Shake!”
As he mustered his demonic strength, a ripple emerged from the tip of the water spear.
The spirits of the young boy and girl were stunned and froze at their spots.
”Ah!”
As the spirits were destroyed, the water spear continued on and struck on the body of the andrias, penetrating through. It continuously shrieked in pain, and its Yin Spirit emerged. ”You cannot kill me! I am the official Heizi River God, appointed by the Imperial Court!”
”Go f*ck yourself!”
Fang Yuan's Yin spirit emerged and struck its claw out, crushing the andrias's Yin Spirit within his hands.
”Bloop! Bloop!”
As soon as the Yin Spirit was dead, the andrias lost its breath and started to sink down.
The many spirits among the pearls floated around. If left untouched, they would become a group of water spirits and would trouble people.
”Sigh...”
Fang Yuan released a water current and collected all the pearls together.
”It seems that these pearls are made from the bones of people. In every pearl, there is a sealed spirit in it. It must have used a demonic fire to smelt these pearls and transform them into powerful servant spirits...”
As he thought about the techniques he had browsed through before, he released his spiritual will and fiddled with the bone pearls.
”Crackle!”
After an explosion, the demonic energy of the andrias was wiped off the bone pearls, and the spirits in the 49 pearls were released.
”Contain!”
Although the technique was different, Fang Yuan could still attempt the general technique of containing spirits. Quickly, he pointed his finger at the many spirits.