"Sold already? That fast?"
Li Yue opened his eyes, startled.
He had only just closed his eyes to study the Divine Technique, "Heavenly Thunder Art." He hadn't expected the Yin Soldier Artifact to have sold already.
Feeling the twenty extra units of divine power within him, he broke into a delighted smile.
Ten units of divine power more than before!
That feeling was simply exhilarating.
Now he finally understood where those unscrupulous merchants got their satisfaction.
No—
He wasn't an unscrupulous merchant.
He was doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, devoting himself to making the Blue Star Deities' followers stronger.
"Keep going!"
"I'll keep devoting myself!"
His excitement rose, and he immediately began casting the Divine Technique, "Yin Soldier Artifact," again.
Although it took two hours to fully condense an Yin Soldier Artifact,
there were twelve hours in a day.
He could condense six Yin Soldier Artifacts.
If he sold them all, he'd make a pure profit of sixty units of divine power.
Sixty units a day meant 1,800 units a month!
Of course—
He understood that there probably weren't many Blue Star Deities willing to spend twenty units of divine power on an Yin Soldier Artifact...
But any divine power he could earn was worth earning.
"Before I transmigrated, I was a wage slave, working ten hours a day."
"I never thought that after transmigrating and becoming a deity, I'd have to work twenty-four hours a day."
"Wouldn't that make me an even worse wage slave than before?"
The thought crossed his mind, and his expression turned rather peculiar.
But before transmigrating, he'd been a wage slave to buy his boss a house and a car.
Now he was a wage slave for his own future!
Those were hardly the same thing!
More than thirty li from Four Seas Village,
lay a range of rolling, rugged mountains.
Villages of all sizes sat scattered deep in the mountains and forests, living almost completely cut off from the outside world.
It wasn't that they wanted to live cut off from the world.
Rather, every village belonged to a Demonic Creature as private property!
The people of Cangmu Town called this region the "Land of Demons" and regarded it as forbidden territory.
"Temple Keeper, our goal is to rescue the villagers in this Land of Demons?"
Zhang Ronggui asked, looking at Li Youming in surprise.
This place was crawling with Demonic Creatures!
It was forbidden territory to the people of Cangmu Town!
"This region is full of lesser Demonic Creatures, nowhere near as powerful as the Wolf Demons of Thousand Wolf Mountain."
"And this village is ruled by a Fox Demon. Its aura has only just reached the second rank."
"I can kill it."
Li Youming looked toward the village ahead and spoke.
Slay the Demonic Creatures and bring back the villagers they treated as food.
After suffering so much at the hands of the Demonic Creatures, these villagers would surely become far more devout in their faith in the Deity!
He had thought it over for many days before making this decision.
To fulfill the Divine Oracle Lord Zhangyue had handed down, he had to do it well.
That meant improving both the number and the quality of the Believers.
These villagers had it far worse than they had before.
The Wolf Demons of Thousand Wolf Mountain came down once every three years to devour nine people, giving the Four Villages time to recover.
But the Demonic Creatures here—
If they were in a bad mood, they'd eat people.
If their Demonic Creature friends came over, they'd even serve up a few people to entertain their guests.
Not enough people to eat in their own village?
No problem.
They could just go catch some more from the outside world.
"But I've heard there's a great Demonic Creature in this Land of Demons..."
Zhang Ronggui still hesitated.
This was far too risky!
After all, they were Demonic Creatures!
Terrifying, utterly fearsome Demonic Creatures!
"So what if there's a great Demonic Creature?"
"Behind us stands Lord Zhangyue, whose Divine Might is immeasurable."
"Before Lord Zhangyue, if that great Demonic Creature dares show its face, Lord Zhangyue will surely slay it!"
Li Youming said fervently.
Zhang Ronggui immediately nodded.
That was right.
A true God stood behind them!
Li Xiuwu and Li Xiuling also nodded repeatedly.
In the eyes of these two Grade A Believers, Lord Zhangyue was invincible beneath heaven!
"Let's go."
Li Youming led the way, with Zhang Ronggui, Li Xiuwu, and Li Xiuling—three martial artists at the peak of the first rank—following behind him.
Behind them came twenty martial artists of the middle first rank.
"Who are you?"
At the entrance to Fox Village, two burly men with green eyes stood guard. Seeing Li Youming and his group, they weren't afraid in the least and shouted at them.
After all, they were Master Fox Demon's underlings.
What human would be reckless enough to harm them?
In their eyes, weren't all the other humans just food, too?
When Master Fox Demon was in a good mood, he even gave them some meat.
"Licking the tiger's paws. Kill them."
Li Youming gave the order coolly.
He hadn't spent the month waiting around doing nothing.
He had already visited the Land of Demons several times and learned a great deal about the region.
These Demonic Creatures' lackeys were all man-eating scum, guilty of every wicked deed. They all deserved to die.
Swish—
Two martial artists stepped forward. Their blades fell, and the two burly men were killed on the spot, their faces frozen in disbelief.
Though they were lackeys of the Demonic Creatures,
they had never become martial artists.
Before long—
They had entered Fox Village.
More than a dozen middle-aged men with brutish faces and green eyes immediately gathered around, leering.
"Where'd these Two-Legged Sheep come from? They've delivered themselves right to us, as snacks for Master Fox Demon."
"Break their legs and lock them in the sheep pen!"
The man in the lead waved his hand.
He was a martial artist, and there were two more martial artists among his men.
In his eyes, dealing with a dozen or so people would be a piece of cake.
"None of you deserve to be human."
"Kill them all."
Looking at the green eyes of the crowd, Li Youming spoke coldly.
Those who ate their own kind had green eyes!
The more they ate, the greener their eyes became!
Swish, swish, swish—!
Blades flashed like lightning, and the green-eyed men were easily cut down one after another.
Even the two martial artists of the lower first rank, along with the leader, a martial artist of the middle first rank, were killed in the blink of an eye.
From inside the shabby wooden huts and thatched cottages around them, many unkempt villagers peered out from hiding.
When they saw the green-eyed men killed,
tears of vengeance streamed from many of their eyes.
They hated the Demonic Creatures.
They hated these beasts, too—the ones who willingly served the Demonic Creatures and gorged themselves on the flesh and blood of their own kind until it dripped from their mouths!
"Leave, quickly."
"You killed Master Fox Demon's men. He'll be here soon."
"By then, you won't be able to escape even if you want to."
A trembling old man pushed open the thatched cottage door and urged them with heartfelt sincerity.
"That's right, brave warriors. Hurry and leave."
"Don't end up like us, raised as Two-Legged Sheep by the Fox Demon."
Another old man came out and spoke.
Looking at the two old men,
then at the other villagers secretly watching from inside their homes, Li Youming's expression turned solemn.
"Fellow villagers! I am Li Youming, the Temple Keeper personally appointed by Lord Zhangyue, the Orthodox Land God of Four Seas Village!"
"I've come to slay the Fox Demon on your behalf!"
At his words,
the villagers of Fox Village who heard him were thrown into an uproar, unable to believe it.
Slay the Fox Demon?
How could any human hope to match such a terrifying, utterly fearsome Fox Demon?
None of the villagers in Fox Village believed him.
As for the Orthodox Land God Li Youming mentioned, they assumed he was just trying to make himself sound important.
"Leave, quickly."
"The Fox Demon will be here any moment."
"The Fox Demon is already here."
Li Youming looked ahead.
A gust of wind swept up as a Fox Demon, more than a zhang tall, strode through it. Its body was crimson, and terrifying demonic energy billowed around it.
The villagers were so frightened that they scrambled under their beds, trembling.
The two old men collapsed to the ground, their faces deathly pale.
The Fox Demon had come!
After what had happened today, three or five of them would probably be dragged away and eaten!
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