"Ah Shui, why did you make this thing for me?"

Zhou Xuan circled around the Lotus Throne a few times, not understanding Black Water's intentions.

This time, Black Water was also being proud, not responding or acknowledging Zhou Xuan's teasing. Miss Qiang advised, "The God of Black Water naturally has his thoughts, it should be very useful."

"I feel its greatest use is to have Bai Gu Monk recite the Heart Sutra for me, to dispel my inner restlessness."

Zhou Xuan shook his head, entering the City God Taoist Temple.

Inside the temple, the soul of the Great Elder Li Jiumu had already been through interrogation.

The eyes in the City God Taoist Temple carried out interrogations, relying on invisible gazes, as firm as iron whips, lashing directly at the soul's will, something Li Jiumu couldn't withstand.

At this moment, he was huddled and trembling in a corner inside the temple.

"Great Elder, how was the taste of the interrogation?"

Zhou Xuan just mentioned the word "interrogation," and Li Jiumu trembled involuntarily, his Divine Soul shuddering.

"Look at me, Great Elder."

Zhou Xuan said casually, and Li Jiumu dared not resist, casting a weak gaze over.

As their eyes met, Zhou Xuan saw all the memories of Li Jiumu's present life.

Because the eyes of the Taoist Temple had prepared in advance, they washed away many of Li Jiumu's useless memories — at least from Zhou Xuan's perspective, they were of no use — so the memories Zhou Xuan saw were filtered versions, rich in information.

Zhou Xuan saw the means of control the "Nine Snakes God" used on Liuyun Village.

There was a certain year when the Nine Snakes God was angry at the people of Liuyun Village due to the poor quality of sacrifices, not descending for several months in a row.

In the first month, the lives of Liuyun Village's people remained ordinary, but in the following months, the adult men and women among the tribe began to feel lifeless, then experienced severe physical pain, struggling to engage even in tasks like silk processing, weaving, or hunting, let alone endure the pain of just walking or stretching.

Some even found breathing immensely painful.

Some tribe members, when discussing this "pain," described their bodily sensations as if their bones and flesh were like two rough palm trees rubbing together whenever they moved,

each rub causing excruciating pain.

Finally, in their most unbearable moment, gathering the tribe's strength, they collected the sacrifices needed by the "Nine Snakes God," ultimately summoning the god's descent.

After the ritual that day, stone pillars spontaneously emerged from the earth within the village, each entwined by nine thick black snakes.

"The Nine Snakes God has descended, this great deity has not abandoned us, his devoted followers."

Great Elder Li Jiumu called out to the tribe,

the villagers, despite their immense pain, hobbled and limped towards the stone pillars, where they cut open their arms and thighs, letting their blood spill onto the pillars.

With the nourishment of blood, the sculpted snakes on the pillars came to life one by one, slithering over the tribe members. Their massive bodies secreted a yellowish, thick fluid as they moved,

the fluid seeped through the tribe members' pores into their flesh and bone, acting as a lubricant, fully erasing the rough, grating sensation between bone and flesh.

The tribe members eagerly stretched and moved their limbs, their bones and flesh becoming slick, pain disappearing and vitality surging through their bodies once more.

"Ordinary people experience no pain while walking or breathing, so why does it seem the people of Liuyun Village are naturally different?"

Zhou Xuan pondered, then thought, why did the bone and flesh grinding pain only affect the adults after the Nine Snakes God's departure, and not the children in the village?

An obvious deduction came forth.

"I understand, the lubricating instinct of bone, blood, and flesh that humans naturally possess was taken from the villagers in adulthood, only to be returned by the Evil God through repeated sacrifices to the Nine Snakes God, leading to the lack of natural lubrication in their bodies."

"The Nine Snakes God uses its own secretion to lubricate bones, reducing the pain the villagers feel due to insufficient lubrication, thus controlling Liuyun Village."

In that instant,

Zhou Xuan suddenly comprehended why Peng Town's Tree Clan also had terrifying Life Temple Blood Sacrifices, yet the Alien Ghost Peng Hou linked behind it was a God-level among the Heavenly Dome, and the Tattoo Hall was a legitimate Tangkou,

whereas the Nine Snakes God was called an Evil God, and Liuyun Village was a Yin Hall.

"Gods and Alien Ghosts control believers and disciples through faith;

whereas Evil Gods take what the believers originally possess and then bestow it back.

From a certain perspective, Alien Ghosts and Gods truly aid their believers and disciples; however, no Evil God ever helps anyone."

Your suffering, indeed, was quelled by me, yet your suffering was also crafted by me.

"Such a deceptive method does not align with the Jing Country's Incense Fire Divine Dao, and naturally faces rejection."

Zhou Xuan continued to watch the scene of Li Jiumu's memories… After the villagers recovered their lost vitality, Li Jiumu went alone into the mountains, kneeling before a grave overrun with weeds.

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