[Quick Wear] Daily Cleansing of Trash

Chapter 132 Banshee 6

Liujia Village is located deep in the mountains. Although it is surrounded by mountains, there is a big river in the village, so the villagers live a good life by fishing and shipping.

Suddenly one day, a "river god" came to the river on which the Liujia Village had depended for survival for generations, and ate up the villagers who were fishing in the river, dyeing the river red with blood.

The village chief was terrified and immediately fled with the villagers. Unexpectedly, the time spent outside was short, but after a while, black snake scales appeared on the faces of the villagers in Liujia Village, and they hibernated.

There was no other way. In order to avoid being beaten to death by outsiders as monsters, the villagers had no choice but to return to Liujia Village. Once they returned to Liujia Village, all the strange symptoms of the villagers disappeared.

The "River God" told them that Liujia Village would be its territory from now on. If the villagers wanted to fish and sail on the river safely, they had to offer it a young child every year, regardless of gender.

From that time on, Liujia Village began to practice human sacrifice. At the end of each year, the village chief would organize the opening of the ancestral hall, put the names of children of appropriate age that year into an urn, and draw lots to determine the new year's sacrifice.

After doing this, the people in Liujia Village could always catch big and large fish when they went fishing, the weather was good when sailing on the river, and the village was prosperous.

However, no matter how many children there were, they couldn't withstand such a consumption. Moreover, in this place where demons roamed, even going to the next village could result in encountering a demon on the way and being eaten to the bone. Therefore, every person in the village was a precious treasure.

If the people of Liujia Village were given a choice, they would rather live their previous life, relying on the weather for food and not going hungry, than endure the pain of separation from their loved ones.

The current village chief is over 50 years old. Since he took over the position of village chief, he has been trying to find a way to solve the problem of the "River God".

He wanted to ask for help from "gods" from other places, and he also thought about adopting out all the children in the village to nominally sever ties with the village. He even tried to let his eldest son serve as a "suicide squad" to replace the children in the village as sacrifices, but all his methods failed.

He didn't find a solution until his little grandson was sacrificed.

Today is the southern New Year calendar. A few days ago, the ancestral hall was opened and Wang Er’s youngest daughter Xiaohua was chosen as this year’s sacrifice.

Liu Erniang was an exile from outside the village. When she arrived, the villagers told her about the human sacrifice. However, at that time, Liu Erniang was no longer able to survive. Seeing the prosperity of Liujia Village, she finally chose to stay, married Wang Er, and gave birth to a daughter, Xiaohua.

Over the years, Liu Erniang watched her eldest sister-in-law weeping as she sent her nephew away, watched the village chief's grandson thrown into the river, and watched many children crying for their mothers only to be drowned. Her fear grew deeper and deeper. Just as she was secretly storing food and planning to find a chance to escape with her daughter, Xiaohua was picked.

Xiaohua is seven years old this year, which originally did not meet the village's original lottery age of three to six. However, with the number of children in the village decreasing, the village chief had no choice but to expand the age range.

There's no other way. Some of the younger children aren't yet weaned, and the older children will be the future labor force, the lifeblood of Liujia Village. If the number of children continues to decrease, the age limit for the lottery may have to be extended further.

Liu Erniang originally thought that she could take her child out immediately. Even if the mother and daughter could only hide outside after the mutation, it was better than dying in the monster's mouth.

Liu Erniang is different from the villagers who have lived in the village for many years. She has seen the outside world and has not accepted her fate. She wants her daughter to live.

The villagers had seen many mothers and children separated, and in the face of Liu Erniang's crying and begging, everyone's face was numb.

Wang Er couldn't bear to sacrifice his daughter, but his nephew had also been sacrificed. Every household in the village had sacrificed a child, and he was too embarrassed to ask for mercy for his own child. If Xiaohua didn't go, other children would have to be sacrificed. He couldn't speak, so he could only bow his head and remain silent.

After hearing what the village chief said, Jiao Niang felt uncomfortable.

Although the mortals in the east also have to pay tribute to the sects that protect them, and may become cannon fodder when encountering fights between monks, at least they will not be eaten without knowing why one day.

The southern part is the territory of demons. Although there are demons that don't eat humans and only accept tributes, who can say anything good about such a gamble?

The original tribe members do not eat humans, but they do not have much sympathy for mortals and only mind their own business.

If a mortal comes to the door with something to ask for, I will help him if I am in a good mood, but I will ignore him if I am in a bad mood.

In the South, the law of the jungle prevails.

"Thank you, Immortal, for helping us slay the demons and saving Liujia Village from disaster!"

The village chief led everyone to kneel on the ground and kowtow to Jiao Niang, and everyone had a strange expression on their face.

There was a hint of confusion in the joy, as if saying, "Is this good enough?" "Has the 'River God' really been killed?"

"Woooo..."

One woman covered her mouth and cried silently, as if she wanted to vent all the pain of losing her child.

Liu Erniang hugged Xiaohua and kowtowed to Jiaoniang, her heart filled with gratitude.

With the death of Ban Jiao, the curse on the villagers disappeared, and they could finally leave the village.

The river was filled with half-dragon corpses, and the strong smell of blood might attract other demons. If killing a tiger only brought wolves, Liujia Village would be in dire straits.

Jiao Niang was so evil that she searched in the space and found a sewage purifier and threw it into the river.

Things in the high-dimensional interstellar world are really powerful. After an hour, the half-dragon corpse was no longer visible in the river. After another hour, although the river water was still a little red, the smell of blood was no longer there.

Yao Niang rested in the village for one night and said goodbye to the villagers and left early the next morning.

She didn't notice that when she used magic to set up a protective barrier for Liujia Village, the mark belonging to Xuanyuan Cave Master on the back of her neck flashed silently and quickly returned to calm.

In the dim and quiet cave, a shapeless black mist opened its eyes.

"Got you!"

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They are about to reach the border between the south and the west. Jiao Niang estimates that she will be able to enter the west in two days.

Looking at the back of her neck in the water, Jiao Niang felt a little uneasy.

This mark was placed on her original body by Xuanyuan Cave Master. As soon as she received the memory, she began to find a way to remove this invisible "dog chain" imposed on her.

But maybe her level is not as good as that of Xuanyuan Cave Master, so she has not been able to successfully remove the mark so far.

"It shouldn't be like this..." Jiao Niang murmured.

She was currently practicing techniques she had gathered from the divine world, and with her talent, her progress was rapid. She felt that if she were to follow the current level of cultivation among humans, she should be at least at the Mahayana stage.

Is the gap between the Mahayana stage and the Tribulation Crossing stage really that huge?

It seems that Gou is right!