6kv #294 - Governor, stop watching the show!
#294 - Governor, stop watching the show!
"Brother Sima, don't talk nonsense, this isn't..." The Zheng family head quickly tried to smooth things over.
But Sima De didn't give him a chance, and said loudly, "The Immortal Master certainly isn't willing!"
As he spoke, he looked up at Xu Chengxian on the city wall, his face full of smiles.
Who would be willing to risk their own life for the sake of others?
Even those lowly commoners wouldn't be willing, and he, as a member of the gentry, enjoying wealth and privilege, was even less willing.
So, would this cultivator, possessing power that mortals didn't have, and with the ambition of immortality, be willing?
If he could be so hypocritical at such a young age, it would be quite rare.
"Life and death are predestined, and the Immortal Master doesn't need to bear the karma of others."
Although he was courting death, Sima De still had some rationality left, knowing that he couldn't push Xu Chengxian into a corner, and he smiled as he retracted his words.
The words spoken by cultivators in public, especially in front of the common people, were no different from oaths.
The heavens might not respond to the oaths of mortals.
But if a cultivator broke an oath, the Heavenly Dao would send down a demonic tribulation during their tribulation crossing.
The reason they dared to cooperate with those three forces was because they knew this secret.
"The commoners are ignorant, all ungrateful and greedy people. If his answer is negative, then the so-called compassion of the White Lady is just empty words."
Seeing Xu Chengxian, high above, smiling silently, Sima De sighed inwardly with regret.
When he boldly asked that question just now, he really wanted to hear the other party's answer.
"If he agrees, then when the day comes that we need him, we can force him to fulfill his oath."
The world is vast, and plagues are common.
The flesh and blood of cultivators, for mortals, can be considered a life-saving panacea.
It's just that mortals without cultivation aptitude have weak constitutions, and eating things containing spiritual power has great hidden dangers. But when life is at stake, of course, saving life is the most important thing.
Presumably, when the time comes, there will be people who want to force this Master Xu to fulfill his oath.
As a mortal, if he could cause a cultivator to lose his life because of this... it really is, an exciting prospect.
Killing a god.
Too bad.
In the end, he didn't dare.
If he really agreed, then it would be a never-ending feud.
"Ha!" Xu Chengxian let out a meaningful laugh.
Killing a god?
Killing an immortal?
This Sima De dog actually had such brave ideas?
Still too timid, why did he give up?
Tsk, what a pity.
If he had persisted in questioning, I would have had a reason to kill him.
"Whether this Daoist Master bears the karma of others or not, let's put that aside for now." He smiled and looked at the three family heads below the city wall, "Aren't you afraid that I'll kill you for talking to me like this?"
"Immortal Master is an otherworldly being!" The Zheng family head immediately cupped his hands when he heard that something was wrong, "How could you recklessly commit murder?"
"Yes, yes." The Wang family head also said, "With Immortal Master Xu's celestial appearance, favored by the heavens and earth, he certainly wouldn't do such evil deeds!"
"Heh heh, trying to corner me?" Xu Chengxian smiled, "Knowing that cultivators can't arbitrarily kill ordinary people without cultivation?"
"Your Excellency!"
At this time, Cat Nineteen, who had completed his tribulation, appeared on the city wall.
These words had some meaning.
On the surface, he was talking to Cat Nineteen, but in secret, he was referring to Xu Chengxian. If he agreed to let Cat Nineteen kill people, he would be destroying this cat demon.
"What a divisive tactic."
"What a sense of security!"
Xu Chengxian laughed.
Then, with a wave of his horsetail whisk, several white silks transformed into silver snakes, coiling towards the backs of the three people.
The next moment.
In the void, where the silver snakes touched, five figures appeared.
"This!"
"Not good!"
"Dodge quickly!"
The five figures dressed as cultivators felt that something was wrong and each tried to parry and resist.
But in the blink of an eye, their movements suddenly stopped.
They looked up straight at the city wall.
They, they saw a huge illusion of a flower snake!
A hissing sound came from their ears.
The boundless pressure made them unable to move.
The sound of the snake hissing also plunged their souls into a daze.
Then, they were tied up tightly.
And dragged into the air.
Appearing in front of everyone without struggling.
Four men and one woman.
All with old and decrepit faces.
The common people were confused, but the people of the aristocratic families, especially the three family heads, and some other major household managers hiding in the dark, were all shocked.
"This is, Old Immortal Weng?"
"The Zheng family's immortal?"
"Grandma Ancestor has been captured!"
"Lingzhou City, the sky is about to change!"
For a time, the crowd was in an uproar.
Many of the common people in the city had already gathered.
There were probably tens of thousands of people inside and outside the city wall.
Even if they were all speaking in low voices, the sound waves gathered together were noisy and very clamorous.
"Immortal Master Xu, what do you mean by this?" The Zheng family head forced himself to suppress his panic and asked loudly.
"What do I mean?" Xu Chengxian said, "These people are the offerings of your three families, right?"
After he finished speaking, he chuckled.
They were only at the second or third level of Qi training.
He had completely suppressed these five people in the instant he returned to his true form.
The three family heads below didn't speak.
But obviously everything was already understood without words.
"Everyone, I'll say it again." Xu Chengxian said lightly, "My Lady is compassionate and can't bear to see the common people suffer."
Without him saying it, many people could understand what this meant.
The suffering that the common people are currently suffering is the lack of food.
Not being able to bear to see the common people suffer means asking the three family heads to take out the food.
But the family heads seemed to not understand and remained silent.
...
"They can't possibly agree."
Inside a hole in the wall on one side of the city gate, a handsome man under thirty years old stood in front of a small window with his hands behind his back, frowning as he looked at the family heads on horseback.
"Sir, this Master Xu seems to be a strong dragon crossing the river." The scholar following him said.
Neither side was willing to give in, and it seemed that it would be difficult to end this.
After the scholar finished speaking, he saw his lord's face change.
He couldn't help but be surprised: "Sir?"
The governor raised his hand at him, signaling him not to speak.
The scholar was puzzled, when he heard his lord say: "Immortal Master, what do you mean by this?"
The scholar couldn't help but change his face at once.
Following the governor from the capital to Lingzhou, he of course knew some of the methods of cultivators, such as voice transmission.
Which immortal master had transmitted a voice to the governor?
Most likely it was that Master Xu on the city wall.
He guessed right.
Just a moment ago, the governor heard a voice in his ear.
Asking him:
"Lingzhou Governor, stop watching the show."