EBE Chapter 523: Must Stop
Chapter 523: Must Stop
After Luo Rufeng and the other two were successfully selected, they were taken to a remote village near the pier. Except for them, all the selected people were temporarily staying in this village. There were guards at the door and they were not allowed to enter or leave freely.
Tens of thousands of people live here, and every old house is packed with people. Ninety-nine percent of them are mortals who need to eat, drink, defecate and urinate. You can imagine what the environment is like.
The village only provided one meal of thin porridge in the morning and evening, which was worse than the conditions when they were slaves on the exile island. Many people were so hungry that some strong men began to snatch food from the hands of women and children.
Pei Yun and the other man checked the situation in the village and returned to the team that was distributing porridge. They saw a young man trying to snatch the porridge from a little boy. The little boy was so scared that his hand shook and all the porridge spilled on the ground.
"Sister!" The little boy burst into tears in fear.
This was exactly the brother and sister that Pei Yun and his companions had seen at the dock that day. However, the man was not satisfied with this and stared fiercely at the woman called "sister" and tried to snatch the porridge from her hand.
The woman had a sullen face and glared back at the robbing man, unwilling to give in, with a fierce look on her face that showed she was ready to risk everything.
Just as the man was about to pounce on the woman with his fangs bared and the woman raised the dagger in her hand, Luo Rufeng stepped forward to stand in front of the woman and kicked the man who wanted to rob her away!
"Hiss!" The man was kicked in the chest and felt severe pain. He fell to the ground, holding his chest and unable to get up for a long time. Seeing how powerful Luo Rufeng was, the others were so scared that they retreated one after another.
At this moment, the patrolling guard who had been watching the excitement from the sidelines also noticed something was amiss. He half-closed his eyes, sized up Luo Rufeng, pointed at him and ordered, "You! Come here! Show me your slave mark!"
Luo Rufeng and Pei Yun beside him looked at each other silently, walked up to the guard and lifted up his sleeves.
Seeing the fake slave mark that Luo Rufeng had made in advance, the guard breathed a sigh of relief. However, the guard seemed very cautious. He took out the spiritual plate for testing spiritual roots and asked Luo Rufeng to test it. Seeing that Luo Rufeng was indeed just a mortal, he completely let down his guard.
"Anyone who causes trouble again will be disqualified from becoming a slave in Xianxia Sect, and useless people will have only one way to go: death!" The leading guard looked around at the people around him and said in a cold voice.
The mortals around couldn't help but shudder, lowering their heads in fear, not daring to look at the person in front of them.
The woman led the little boy forward and thanked Luo Rufeng: "My name is Meng Xia, and this is my younger brother Meng Yi. Thank you for your help, sir."
"You're welcome." Luo Rufeng said lightly, then he took Pei Yun's hand and was about to leave.
Pei Yun secretly conveyed the message: "We should also line up to get porridge. If we want to pretend, we should pretend to be more convincing. The guard has already become suspicious..." As he said that, the two of them lined up at the end of one of the lines.
At night, Pei Yun and the others were preparing to quietly leave the manor and go to the house of Qian Ruxin and his sister to inquire about something. When they passed a corner, they heard a childish voice: "Sister, I'm hungry!"
"Xiao Yi, just be patient. In three days we will be able to leave the Exile Island and go to the Xianxia Sect. If you have spiritual roots, you can completely get rid of your status as a slave..." The woman's gentle and soothing voice sounded.
"Sister, you just gave me all the porridge and didn't drink it yourself..."
"It's okay, sister is not hungry."
Pei Yun and Luo Rufeng couldn't help but stop, but they didn't have any food for mortals. Pei Yun and Luo Rufeng said, "Go to the kitchen and see if there is any food?"
Luo Rufeng nodded and left, but after a moment, he came back with a few steamed buns.
As soon as the two figures appeared, the brother and sister were startled. Only when they saw their benefactors during the day did Meng Xia feel relieved. When they saw the steamed buns in their hands, the brother and sister swallowed their saliva at the same time.
Luo Rufeng handed the steamed bun in his hand to them, but neither of them dared to take it.
Pei Yun said, "We got this from the kitchen. Don't tell the guards. We've already eaten it. This steamed bun is just hush money..."
Unable to resist the temptation of the food, Meng Xia took the steamed bun and thanked Pei Yun and the others gratefully: "Thank you, sir, thank you, miss."
"Eat slowly." Her younger brother Meng Yi had already started to eat voraciously.
After a few days, Qian Ruxin finally took action. The 50,000 people in the village were secretly sent onto the ship that night, including Pei Yun and the other two.
As dawn approached, they disembarked. Pei Yun was surprised and said, "We were actually sent to Bixia Island, and it's very close to Xianxia Sect..."
Pei Yun and Luo Rufeng naturally did not think that the Xianxia Sect really wanted to take these 50,000 people into the sect as slaves, but now they had indeed come here.
"Let's see first." Luo Rufeng expanded his spiritual sense to investigate and secretly said to Pei Yun, "If we enter the Xianxia Sect, the Sect Master and the elders of the Xianxia Sect are no less powerful than us. We might not be able to hide our power and appearance. Be careful!"
"Yeah." Pei Yun agreed.
Unlike the wariness in the two men's eyes, the mortals around them were happily watching their surroundings. Despite the guards' repeated orders for silence, they could not suppress their excitement and began to whisper to each other.
"This is Bixia Island! It really is Bixia Island! We have finally left Exile Island!"
"When I was sold to the exile island, I never thought I would leave one day..."
"Once I become a servant in the Xianxia Sect, I can contact my relatives..."
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However, although they arrived near Xianxia Sect, the guards did not lead them directly into the Sect. Instead, they bypassed the sect gate and came to a man-made cave in the back mountain.
Pei Yun and the other man followed this group of mortals, walking bent over in the dark and stuffy cave. When they were halfway there, Pei Yun was suddenly startled.
Luo Rufeng, who immediately noticed Pei Yun's abnormality, tightened his grip on her hand slightly and asked in a voice transmission, "What's wrong?"
He knew that Pei Yun's soul was stronger than his, and his spiritual sense could detect farther.
"This road leads to...the Soul Refining Tower!"
Pei Yun's face darkened. "I saw the Soul Refining Tower at the end. There's a powerful demon inside, whose cultivation is stronger than both you and me. It must be the so-called tree demon..."
"So... these mortals are all going to be fertilizer for the tree monsters!" Luo Rufeng was shocked, and the two looked at each other seriously.
At this moment, the two of them completely understood the purpose of Xianxia Sect recruiting these 50,000 people!
"It must be stopped! It must be stopped!"
Pei Yun thought of the expectations in the hearts of the brother and sister, and of the 50,000 innocent mortals who were eager to escape from the Exile Island thinking they would have a good life, but they didn't expect that it would be the end of their lives!
In the world of immortal cultivation, she had seen many demons being stripped of their tendons and skin, and their bodies being dissected to take out their elixirs. She had also seen many humans being used as food. Humans killed demons, and demons killed humans, without distinguishing between right and wrong. It was a matter of stance and race, driven by interests, so she did not feel sorry for the cultivators who died in the Soul Refining Tower. If she wanted to get the treasure, she had to take the risk.
But this "person" cannot be these mortals. These mortals have not harmed the demon clan, so they should not be made to bear the consequences. They did not enter the Soul Refining Tower because they wanted to obtain treasures. They were deceived into it by the Xianxia Sect!
"Yun'er, calm down!" Luo Rufeng warned, "We can't make a scene now. Not only will it attract the Xianxia Sect's high-ranking officials, but these mortals won't believe us..."
"If they go in, they will surely die."
"I heard that the leader of the Xianxia Sect is a powerful being in the middle stage of the Void Refinement Realm, and many of the elders under him are also in the Spirit Transformation Realm. You and I alone cannot deal with them. We must notify the elders of the Temple..."
Luo Rufeng said rationally, "The Dao Temple controls all cultivators in the world, and has clearly stipulated that cultivators cannot arbitrarily kill mortals. This matter must be handled by the people of the Temple. Only they can suppress the Xianxia Sect..."
The Xianxia Sect is extremely powerful and is even stronger than the Yunshan Sect.
"How do we notify the temple elders? Even if we set out immediately and without stopping, the journey from Bixia Island to Divine Domain City will take at least a month. These mortals would probably have died long ago."
Luo Rufeng frowned in thought, but Pei Yun suddenly remembered something. His eyes lit up, and he took his hand and said, "Senior Qin Meng gave me a token before. This token is not only my identity token for the Extreme Sword Sect, but it can also be used to send messages. We ask Venerable Qin Gu to make the decision!"