Damn it! Let’s smash the darkness together!

Chapter 1479 - 213: The World for All, Invincible Within the Town

Now three Lotus Platforms are in hand. Although this whole journey has been quite long, it’s actually been less than an hour since entering the No-Life Mysterious Sect.

This efficiency can be considered "amazingly fast."

This is the advantage brought by strength.

If it were not for his recent advancement in strength, crushing his enemies along the way, he would have been delayed much longer.

As they passed the foot of the mountain, Xiao Ya glanced back at the villagers still shouting "Long live the County Chief!" in front of the temple at ’Hall Joy’ Village and couldn’t help but quietly ask, "Hey, not to say anything but, are you really planning to do that save the country from crisis, save the people from suffering thing?"

"Uh, just fighting the White Lotus Sect, not up to that level..."

Xu Shu replied casually, feeling a bit embarrassed by Xiao Ya’s compliment.

Xiao Ya was immediately choked up, "I wasn’t complimenting you!"

Xu Shu paused and continued, "But even if it was, what’s wrong with that? Little Ya, as a dignified director of the Judgement Department, hasn’t the Supervision Bureau taught you equality for everyone? Don’t you feel that occasionally saving these oppressed lower-class people from suffering is something worth doing?"

"I just knew you’d be so naive."

Xiao Ya was stunned for a moment and suddenly sighed, "There’s something I have to remind you of to prevent your young heart from being hurt in the future."

Xu Shu twitched, "Why are you acting older than your age? Stop acting like an old grandma instead of a little girl."

Xiao Ya said solemnly, "Don’t interrupt, I just want to remind you that these relic dwellers, they can’t simply leave the sect. It’s not just that simple. They..."

She bit her lip, looking conflicted, as if unsure whether to speak up, but finally made up her mind.

"You know, in the Four Sufferings Mysterious Sect, there are no normal people? These villagers can’t be considered human? According to the sect’s peculiarities, they seem normal during the day but as soon as night falls, they reveal their true nature, they are monsters hidden beneath human skin!"

Saying this, Xiao Ya looked at Xu Shu with a pained expression, afraid that his "seemingly barbaric but essentially upright, kind, and weak heart" would be hurt because of this.

Result.

"I know." Xu Shu calmly responded.

Are you kidding? I’ve been in the Four Sufferings Mysterious Sect.

Back then, the people of the Wulaoxuan Sect were the same, everything was normal in the first half of the night, indistinguishable from living people in the real world, even their "spiritual perception" didn’t show anything unusual.

But come the latter half of the night, their true nature of ’rules and tales of the sect’ was exposed, they all craved living flesh and blood to nourish themselves, truly "red-eyed monsters."

That’s the curse of "Wulao Suffering."

And since these are relics too, how can the ones cursed by "No-Life Suffering" be simply suffering from having their children taken for sacrifice by the White Lotus Sect?

There must be more! At certain points in time, who knows what these villagers will turn into!

Seeing Xu Shu being so open-minded, Xiao Ya froze: "You know..."

Knowing yet still doing this?

Xu Shu replied speechlessly, "Little Ya, you’re being too concerned! My reasons for saving them aren’t as complicated as you think. I can save, I want to save, so I save them."

Xiao Ya was taken aback: "That simple?"

Xu Shu nodded: "That simple."

"Even if they aren’t humans, and all you’ve done is futile, it doesn’t matter?"

"Of course." Xu Shu chuckled lightly and added, "But you got one thing wrong."

"What?"

"When I’m saving them, they are human."

"!" Xiao Ya trembled all over, stunned on the spot.

She looked at Xu Shu with complex eyes.

Clearly, he’s just a brute, yet why does he keep saying things that surprise me, overthrowing my understanding of him again and again...

Suddenly, Xiao Ya found that she didn’t quite understand this man.

At this moment, Xu Shu pointed with his chin to the village ahead in the curved valley where smoke was curling up, "Don’t just stand there, time to start working! This village is odd... we’re in the northwest, what Lotus Platform should this be?"

Xiao Ya regained her composure, took a deep breath, "It should be the ’Earth’ Lotus. Corresponding to the Kun position."

"Oh~ so this is Kun Village. I thought the previous Fire Accumulation Village was Kun."

"Why? Fire Accumulation Village, with fire accumulation, corresponds to leave fire, it’s common, uh..."

Mid-sentence, Xiao Ya noticed Xu Shu’s walking posture had become quirky.

"Why are you shrugging your shoulders like that for no reason?" Xiao Ya asked.

"Oh, sorry, I just remembered a harmonious old friend."

...

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Xu Shu’s journey to "Kun Village" was not ideal.

Actually, this place is called Golden Lotus Village.

The so-called ground-born golden lotus, "Kun Village" lacks everything but two things.

First is the chef who makes crispy cakes, which they have plenty of.

The main livelihood in this village is making crispy cakes; every household makes them, and most of the men are short and stout, all with "Wu Dalang" type builds.

Second is the brave warriors who hunt tigers, which they also have plenty of.

This is the largest village so far, with nearly five hundred households, and many strong men wander around who can tear wolves apart bare-handed.

These warriors all wear White Lotus Sect costumes, sporting pointed hats, wielding whips, tasked to continually squeeze the crispy cake farmers.

Should any family fail to produce enough crispy cakes and complete the task, they would have their children taken away for sacrifice.