Chapter 161: Empathy
After entering the temple, Liu Sanniang saw that the destroyed Buddha statue had returned to its original state. Miao Zhen was by the Buddha statue, looking at her warily. The crowd surrounded Liu Sanniang and Chu Yan.
Miao Zhen’s eyes were cold as she said, “These two outsiders destroyed our faith and angered the gods. Today, we will punish them in front of the gods.”
Liu Sanniang said calmly, “You’re really willing to do anything for your grandson. I’ll say it again. What is not yours will never be yours. You can’t force it.”
Miao Zhen’s eyes darkened, but she quickly suppressed her anger. No one sensed the change in her expression.
Xia Qiluo was not her opponent at all. Liu Sanniang was.
Miao Zhen did not look at Liu Sanniang. She said to the village chief, “Village chief, let everyone sit down and pray with their hearts. Please pray to the Buddha statue. When the time comes, just chop off one arm of these two people as punishment. We don’t have to go so far as to kill them.”
The village chief nodded. “Okay, we’ll listen to you.”
What they had destroyed was everyone’s faith. Breaking an arm was considered to be a light punishment. Not taking their lives was the greatest mercy.
Miao Zhen nodded and everyone sat down.
Xia Qiluo was also in the crowd. She didn’t do anything, but since everyone was sitting down and she was still standing, she sat down too. She was just a spectator and didn’t believe in the Buddha statue they were worshiping.
She was here to see if Liu Sanniang and Chu Yan would be punished by these ignorant villagers. Until she saw their arms being chopped off with her own eyes, she didn’t want to leave.
Seeing that everyone had sat down, Miao Zhen turned around and knelt down in front of the Buddha statue. The villagers also knelt down and prayed sincerely.
Miao Zhen chanted a scripture that no one could understand.
Liu Sanniang also sat on the ground with Chu Yan sitting beside her. Liu Sanniang glanced at Chu Yan and he smiled. “Sanniang, don’t be afraid. I’ll protect you.”
Liu Sanniang closed her eyes. She felt warmth in her heart. The seed that had already sprouted in her heart began to grow crazily. Chu Yan’s smile and words were like raindrops nourishing the seed, accelerating the growth of the bud.
Liu Sanniang released her power, which formed a huge field and enveloped the entire temple.
Gradually, people opened their eyes and looked around in confusion. At this moment, they felt like they were in an alternate world. What they saw shocked them.
They saw a woman who was competitive and narrow-minded. However, she was also smart and quick on the uptake.
When the woman gradually grew up, her facial features gradually became clear. All the villagers revealed puzzled expressions. Wasn’t she the god whom they worshiped?
When they saw that this woman had poisoned her fellow cultivator in order to obtain him, their expressions became complicated. Would such a terrifying woman really protect them when they went out to the sea?
Was the Buddha statue that they had worshiped for decades really this unscrupulous woman?
However, when they saw the woman’s appearance gradually change, they knew that this was the Buddha statue worshiped in the temple. The statue’s image was of the time when the woman was young.
When they saw that this woman had set up formations to absorb the vitality of a place in order to get pregnant, they felt terrified. The vegetation in the place where the vitality was sucked away withered, and not a blade of grass grew.
They saw that the woman’s lover committed suicide after waking up, and she was furious. She came to the fishing village to settle down and gave birth.
As time passed, the woman’s son grew up and fell in love with someone else. She gave her son love poison. Who knew that her son would die in an accident? The vitality she absorbed did not make her son live to a hundred years old. He died when he was eighteen.
At this moment, they already knew that this woman was Miao Zhen.
After her son died, Miao Zhen forced her daughter-in-law to give birth.
This child was Zhang Tianyou.
That year, three old people in the village died. In their sleep, a white worm crawled into their noses. When the worm came out, they were dead. The worms crawled back into Miao Zhen’s jar and were fed to her daughter-in-law.
Everyone thought that the old men died naturally, but they did not expect it to be like this.
Zhang Tianyou was born with a congenital deficiency and needed many lives to sustain his life.
He was not supposed to exist, so his body was weak and he was always sick.
The people kneeling began to sob. Someone choked and said, “That’s my mother, my mother. I didn’t know she died just so Zhang Tianyou could live.”
Every time Zhang Tianyou was seriously ill, someone would die.
The truth which they did not believe was now revealed before them.
Xu De broke down and cried. He never knew that his wife died like this.
His wife was pregnant for ten months and gave birth early in the morning. She was in serious danger, so Xu De went to ask Miao Zhen to treat her. Miao Zhen was a doctor. She was always able to treat all kinds of illnesses. She always had a way. He went to look for Miao Zhen for help, but Miao Zhen brought death to his family.
Seeing his wife eat the white worm and gradually lose her life, the pain was enormous.
Xu De held his head in pain and screamed. “Ah, ah… I want to kill this old witch. All these years, I actually worshiped such a vicious person. I deserve to die…”
The truth was too painful.
The people who had lost their loved ones could not accept the fact that they actually worshipped the murderer. How could this not be painful?
Someone hammered his chest, wailing. “My son, my poor son! Miao Zhen, I’m going to kill you…”
Someone held his head and shouted in agony. “Miao Zhen killed my father. She deserves to die. Zhang Tianyou, this bastard, shouldn’t have lived in this world.”
Everyone was in pain and afraid.
Liu Sanniang opened her eyes and her strength gradually faded.
The sky had already begun to brighten. Unknowingly, several hours had passed.
Miao Zhen’s hair fell off, and her body was like a skeleton. She laughed gloomily. “Hahahahaha, a bunch of idiots, it’s too late. The formation is complete. All of you will die. The heavens didn’t give me what I wanted, so I will get it myself. No one can stop me…”