"stop!"

Just as the machete was about to fall and my head was about to be separated from my body, a loud shout came from Huang Yilan's voice.

The big man's knife stopped and did not move. Everyone looked at Huang Yilan who was walking over quickly. At this moment, he was not timid or shy at all, but was upright and arrogant. He was completely different from before.

Huang Yilan walked in front of me, blocked me from facing everyone, and said loudly: "Fellow villagers, since everyone believes in my ability and elects me to be the village chief, then I must decide public affairs! Indiscriminate lynching is illegal, no

Asking for reasons to kill people is not allowed by the laws of heaven and kings. They..."

Goatee said angrily: "It's not your turn to speak!"

Huang Yilan did not give in: "Old village chief, you have abdicated. Now I am the village chief, and I represent the will of the whole village. I was raised by everyone, and it was everyone who paid for me to study outside.

, I will never forget this kindness, you

Everyone is my relative, and I will never help outsiders harm my own relatives. It is precisely because I have learned knowledge, understood the law, and seen the world, and everyone believes in my ability that they elected me to be the village chief. So,

Now why don’t you take my advice?”

The old village chief was very angry and his beard was trembling, but he said nothing. The other villagers were surprised by Huang Yilan's change. Many people were whispering and nodding.

Huang Yilan continued: "You have to speak rationally. When they came to our village, they neither stole nor robbed, nor did they do anything contrary to morality or law. Why should we kill them? The world is different now.

There is no place in the world where you can act like this, the palace is open to people to visit..."

I sensed strong aura fluctuations coming from the temple, which was a feeling of anger and uneasiness. Xiaoxue immediately said to me: "It feels uneasy because the villagers have been shaken. The faith of the villagers is the source of its power. No wonder it is so powerful."

!”

I suddenly realized that I had asked Master before why spirits and the like like to cling to statues in small temples or big trees, pretending to be gods and ghosts for people to worship. Master said that it is because they can gain strength and benefits from people's beliefs.

, colloquially speaking, it means "receiving incense". The more people believe in them, the more sincere their faith is, and the greater their energy.

To give a simple example, if an ordinary person is regarded as a leader, his potential will be stimulated, he will exert ten times more confidence, courage, wisdom, and perseverance, and even accomplish earth-shattering feats, let alone a ghost or god? A small thing,

Under the admiration of countless people, he will also think that he is a real immortal, and make a bigger noise than an immortal.

Then what is in the temple in front of you protects these villagers with its ability, and at the same time gains strength from the beliefs of these villagers. The villagers are very united and regard it as the supreme existence, so it is powerful.

Our power is invincible. But if we can undermine the villagers' trust in it and break the unity among the villagers, its power will weaken and we will have an opportunity!

How can the villagers' trust in it be destroyed? No one wants to die or show their ugly side. This is the basis of their unity and belief. But is their will really like an iron wall with no gaps?

I thought of the three families at the entrance of the village. The uncle who smoked cigarettes was complained by his relatives every day and was unable to change the status quo. He endured silently in order to protect the family and could not let go of the family. For him, living is actually a huge pain.

Do you really want such eternal life?

?The young man who is trapped in love can't let go of his secret crush, but he misses her day after day like this year after year. Doesn't he want to be free? The young mother with her child has her heart broken thousands of times, if it weren't for the fact that she can't let go of her child.

, has already followed her deceased husband...

From these three families, we can generalize to the situation of the whole village. In fact, everyone is very tired and lifeless, but everyone has something they can’t let go of, so they are persisting. If someone wakes up

If they don't want to live any longer, they will completely ignore the "gods" who protect them, and will not make things difficult for us. Huang Yilan grew up here and knows every household well. As long as he comes forward to persuade, he will definitely be able to change this.

The copper and iron walls completely collapsed!

I was about to speak when Xiaoxue said, "I'll tell him."

Yes, it is not convenient for me to speak, otherwise the villagers will think that Huang Yilan has been bewitched by me. It is best for Xiaoxue to tell him secretly.

Xiaoxue began to communicate with Huang Yilan and conveyed my thoughts to him. Huang Yilan was still telling the villagers empty truths. He was stunned for a moment, with a determined look on his face, and soon changed the topic: "Fellows, I know

Each of your families has difficulties, and now I am here to solve specific problems for you and prove that I, the village chief, am capable! Song Cuihua, you come out first."

A girl with big eyes and long braids walked in outside. She was quite pretty, but her skin was a bit thicker and darker. She lowered her head and played with her braids and asked, "What do you want me to do?"

Yilan said: "Everyone knows that you have been waiting to get married, but in fact you know very well that your unmarried husband has been dead for many years and cannot marry you. How miserable it is for you to wait like this. Brother Qingliu has been

He likes you secretly, so why not marry him?"

Song Cuihua immediately turned pale, with tears in her eyes, and said angrily: "I don't want to live a long time ago. I won't marry him even if I marry a pig or a dog!" After saying that, she covered her face with her hands and ran out.

Huang Qingliu is exactly the "love saint" young man I have seen. He looks like he is lost and lost: "No wonder she never looks at me. After so many years, I am not as good as her fiancé who died long ago, haha..."

I secretly praised him. He broke through the dream of two families with just one sentence. It was like shooting two birds with one stone!

Huang Yilan said: "Third uncle, you are most afraid of the noise at home, so you have been enduring it, but in fact your home is the noisiest household. This shows that you are just a blind man fighting mosquitoes in vain!"

The third uncle was the old man I had seen smoking cigarettes. Hearing this, his face was full of shame and despair, and he turned around and left without saying a word.

Huang Yilan walked to the little girl and knelt down and asked: "Xiao Li, do you want to wait for your father here, or go to find your father with your mother?"

The little girl thought for a while: "After waiting for so long and not coming back, of course I have to go find him!"

…

Huang Yilan knew the situation in the village well, and as long as he opened his mouth, he would definitely hit the mark and wake up the villagers who were addicted to their own dreams. He also knew very well that the villagers living like this were actually suffering endlessly, so it was better to be completely free.

This may seem a bit cruel, but it is actually a kind of kindness.

At first, he spoke one by one. Later, he didn't care about other people's reactions. He just talked about whoever he saw and pointed out the most difficult parts of others. Yuan Gui woke up at some point and recited the Buddha's name in a low voice. His compassion and compassion were even stronger than before.

What's more, this peaceful and compassionate voice and breath also greatly affected the villagers, calming their anger, resolving their depression, and awakening their kindness.

People left one after another, all looking lifeless. The thing in the temple finally woke up, looking very angry and disappointed. At first, I was worried that it would hurt people in a rage, but it didn't. Maybe it was...

Under the influence of the compass, its anger gradually disappeared, its disappointment became more and more serious, and it seemed to be more frustrated than the villagers.

Suddenly, a white light shot up into the sky in the temple and disappeared without a trace in an instant. Many villagers who had not left fell down one after another. In the blink of an eye, they all fell to the ground. Only one Huang Yilan was still standing. Then he ran to the crowd and found

He killed his mother, hugged his mother and cried loudly.

Xiaoxue let out a long breath: "Great, it's finally over."

I couldn't help but ask again: "What on earth is that?"

Xiaoxue said: "I don't know, it feels like a breath of energy, or a ray of light. Theoretically, if a stream of spiritual energy can be condensed and not dispersed, one can cultivate the righteous path with spiritual consciousness, but it is definitely hundreds of times more difficult than the cultivation of monsters.

I have never encountered light or air that creates a climate."

Ling Fengpiao and Feiyang Zhenfei also woke up one after another and asked what was going on. I briefly told what happened. They were very annoyed that they missed the most exciting part. They were also very curious and asked what happened.

What thing has such ability?

Before I could explain, Compass suddenly said: "When we were trapped, I saw what it looked like with my discerning eyes. It was a very big tree with a very nice fragrance, and it was a woman."

The three of us were stunned. Ling Fengpiao hurriedly asked: "Is it a tree or a woman?"

Compass said seriously: "It's a tree and it's also a woman."

I was very surprised. There once was a big camphor tree in our village that turned into a demon and almost harmed the whole village. In the end, it was struck to death by lightning. There was a human-shaped core inside, and there was a heart at the end that became my psychic.

Divine Wood Seal. Could it be that here again I encountered a big tree that turned into a demon and turned into a human? What a coincidence, right?

Xiaoxue said with certainty: "It's not a tree demon, but it may turn into a tree, or it may be parasitic on a big tree. It should be somewhere not too far from here. Let's go look for it."

The four of us are still tied to the pillar, how can we find it?

Huang Yilan cried for a while and then came back wiping her tears: "How could this happen? Why did they suddenly die? Do you think I harmed them?"

He was hit by strong emotions and was a little incoherent. I said: "If I guessed correctly, this village had an outbreak of plague and smallpox more than two hundred years ago, and many people died. These people prayed to the gods in this temple before they died.

Bless them, they are all kind people. Perhaps their sincerity moved a god-like existence, which exerted its power to prevent the villagers from dying and concealed the true appearance of this place... Now it has abandoned this place.

, everything is back to normal.”

Yilan cried silently, and I continued: "Actually, you know very well that they are suffering by living like this, but they all have knots in their hearts that they can't let go of. You are not harming them, but helping them."

They are free."

"Then why didn't I die? Why am I different from others?"

I said: "The people here have lost their vitality and cannot have children. You must have adopted them from outside. After living for more than two hundred years, the villagers here have begun to get tired of it, but they have no courage to change, so they started to

You adopt a baby outside and let the child come into contact with the outside world, hoping that he can change this place one day. In other words, what you do is exactly what they want, and it is arranged by them subconsciously. This is cause and effect."
Chapter completed!