Little Yellow's Weakness, Sacrifice

The next day, just as dawn broke and the rain stopped and the clouds dispersed, Liu Yi took Little Yellow and left the temple to continue his travels.

Little Yellow transmitted his Divine Sense telepathically. "That woman in green hasn't returned all night. Could something have happened to her?"

Liu Yi replied Divine Sense, "Life and death are determined by fate, and wealth and honor are bestowed by heaven. Since she dared to scheme against that female ghost, she must bear the corresponding consequences."

Besides, there's no rule that she has to come back; she might have already left after achieving her goal.

I called you a stupid dog yesterday, but you really do look like one today.

Looks like I need to draft a textbook for you so you can study properly, otherwise you'll really turn into a stupid dog.

"Ah, no! I just didn't understand. I don't want to study."

Little Yellow shuddered as he recalled the days when he had to study as soon as he opened his eyes, his face filled with fear.

Liu Yi smiled slightly, "You don't have to study, but then you'll have to cultivate diligently and strive to break through to the Divine Acupoint Realm within ten years, otherwise you'll still have to study."

"No problem!"

Little Yellow immediately straightened up, a smug smile instantly spreading across its face:

"I have the Cultivation Method you tailored for me, and coupled with the fact that I reached the Peak of the Dao Image Realm several years ago, I will definitely be able to break through to the Divine Acupoint Realm within ten years."

Looking at its confident appearance, Liu Yi nodded and said, "In that case, it's settled then."

A sense of smugness welled up inside him: This silly dog, Little Yellow, is too green to try and outsmart me.

Unexpectedly, the excuse he made up on the spur of the moment could actually urge it to cultivate, and it also allowed him to figure out the little guy's Achilles' heel.

If it dares to slack off in its cultivation in the future, just offer it the choice of "either cultivate diligently or study obediently," and that will surely keep it in check.

Just as they were pondering this, a strange noise suddenly came from the mountain path ahead.

He looked up and saw a wedding procession heading up the mountain along the path, carrying two red silk sedan chairs.

Strangely, none of the people accompanying him showed any joy at the occasion; their faces were deathly pale, their eyes filled with barely concealed fear, and even their steps were unsteady.

Liu Yi frowned slightly, his gaze darkening.

This group of people was too unusual, so he immediately used his Divine Sense to investigate. He saw the bride and groom sitting in two bridal sedan chairs.

Their hands and feet were tightly bound with thick ropes, and their mouths were stuffed with strips of cloth, so they could only let out muffled whimpers.

Her body struggled incessantly inside the sedan chair, but she could not break free; her eyes were filled with despair and fear.

Seeing this, a cold glint flashed in Liu Yi's eyes, and he instantly knew that it was another evil sacrifice.

He had already seen many such shady dealings during his travels around the world.

With a swift movement, he instantly stood in mid-air in front of the wedding procession, his aura exploding outwards.

Under the immense pressure, everyone in the group was so overwhelmed that their knees went weak and they collapsed to their knees with a thud.

Liu Yi immediately raised his hand and waved, two soft beams of divine light enveloping the bridal sedan chair and gently placing it on the ground.

At the same time, a divine light swept by, and the strips of cloth in the mouths of the bride and groom fell off by themselves, and the ropes binding their hands and feet also broke.

The two men, now free, were overjoyed at surviving such a close call. They immediately knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly to Liu Yi.

"Thank you so much, Immortal Master, for saving our lives! My brother and I have no way to repay your kindness, except in our next life to repay your great favor by repaying your kindness in the name of kindness!"

Liu Yi gently raised his hand, and a soft force lifted the two of them to their feet, saying gently:

"No need for formalities. Tell me, what exactly happened?"

The groom's older brother spoke urgently, his voice still trembling:

"Reporting to the Immortal Master, my brother and I were passing through Gao Family Village and planned to stay overnight."

Who would have thought they would be so heartless and cruel as to capture us and offer us as sacrifices to the Locust Mountain God.

The younger sister, dressed as the bride, nodded hurriedly, her eyes filled with lingering fear.

"What my brother said is absolutely true!"

We never expected that the village, which seemed so simple and honest, would actually be so vicious, wanting to sacrifice us to the Locust Mountain God.

Upon hearing this, Liu Yi's eyes flashed even colder.

He had assumed the bride and groom were from their village, but he never imagined these people would capture innocent outsiders to sacrifice.

Such behavior is truly despicable.

He looked up at the leader of the wedding procession, his voice icy. "What else do you have to say?"

The leader was none other than the Gao Family Village. Looking at Liu Yi, who had suddenly appeared, his face had drained of color, replaced only by terror. He hurriedly kowtowed and begged for mercy.

"Immortal Master, spare my life! Immortal Master, spare my life!"

We didn't mean to take lives carelessly, but if we didn't do this, the Locust Mountain God would be enraged, and all three hundred of us in the village would die!

"The lives of people in your village are precious, but other people's lives aren't?" Liu Yi sneered, his tone full of sarcasm and coldness.

The Village Chief Gao trembled and hurriedly explained, "Immortal Master, please understand! This is the first time we've ever kidnapped an outsider for a sacrifice."

Previously, the villagers would draw lots to decide who would be sacrificed, but now Gao Family Village has dwindled from over a thousand people to just over three hundred. They simply cannot afford any more losses, so they had no choice but to arrest outsiders.

The twelve villages surrounding Locust Mountain take turns offering a young couple as a sacrifice to the mountain god every year, or their villages will be wiped out.

Three villages have now been affected.

Even if we wanted to escape, we couldn't. If we ran away, the mountain god's messenger would catch us and we'd die an even more gruesome death."

Upon hearing this, Liu Yi frowned slightly. With his powerful telepathic abilities, he could clearly sense that what Village Chief Gao said was true, and a few doubts arose in his heart. He asked:

"This Locust Mountain God is so wicked, haven't any other cultivators come to get rid of it before?"

Village Chief Gao quickly responded, his tone full of bitterness:

"Yes! Seven immortal masters have tried to slay the mountain god, but none of them have returned and there has been no news of them since."

We were so desperate that we had no choice but to offer sacrifices for temporary peace.

Liu Yi pressed on, asking, "What exactly does the Locust Mountain God look like? Where does he reside? And what do his messengers look like?"

Village Chief Gao hurriedly replied, "We A Mortal have never seen the true face of the Mountain God."

But those mountain god messengers were all outstandingly handsome men and beautiful women.

As for the location of the mountain god, it's halfway up the main peak in front of us.

Liu Yi frowned slightly as he looked at the Gao Family Village in front of him.

Their sacrificial act had its reasons, and since it was the first time they had arrested outsiders, it wasn't appropriate to simply kill them.

He could only let out a cold snort, his voice carrying an undeniable air of authority:

"I will personally go and slay the Locust Mountain God shortly. From now on, all sacrifices will cease. If anyone dares to offend me again, I will execute them without mercy!"

Upon seeing this, the villagers of Gao Family Village hurriedly kowtowed in unison:

"We will obey the Immortal Master's decree! We will never dare to perform any more sacrifices in the future."

Liu Yi glanced at the kneeling crowd and waved his hand. "You can all go back to the village now."

"Thank you, Immortal Master, for sparing my life! Thank you, Immortal Master, for sparing my life!"

As if granted a pardon, everyone scrambled to their feet and hurriedly carried the empty bridal sedan chair, running back towards the village without looking back.

Liu Yi glanced at the brother and sister who had been sacrificed, then casually took out fifty taels of silver and System Seed from his Storage Space and handed them over.

"You don't need to go back to Gao Family Village to get your luggage. Be careful not to get caught again. Take this silver and the System Seed and leave this place as soon as possible."

The brother and sister accepted the silver and the System Seed, bowed deeply to Liu Yi, and said, "Thank you for your generous gift, Immortal Master. We will depart now."