Chapter 652 433: Primordial Bone Relics
Whoosh~~~
The air currents above Baojiao City swirled, and after a flash of strong light, only a mysterious youth dressed in black stood towering in the sky.
Inside the city, all the households worshipping the God of the Yellow Heaven witnessed the sudden shattering of their shrines.
"Dead?"
Someone whispered softly, incredulously saying:
"Is the god dead?"
Instantly, even though the people of Baojiao City were haggard and emaciated, they couldn't help but roar like beasts that had endured for over a year.
"Ah!!"
The whole city was filled with cries and roars.
Meanwhile, different from the citizens' cries of joyous collapse, the Taoist soldiers belonging to the Peace Path in the city all uttered sounds of horrifying fear:
"Impossible, this is impossible, how could the god die?"
Especially the Taoist who was later elected as the leader of the Peace Path; he looked up at the heavenly dome and shouted:
"My god, my god, please respond to us!"
However, before his voice could reach far.
He saw the mysterious youth standing in the sky, glancing down.
Boom!
Just one glance.
Bang!
The body and divine soul of this unnamed leader of the Peace Path, who had at least Seventh Realm possession-level cultivation, exploded and shattered under the oppressive power of Chen Ku's Tenth Realm primordial spirit, dying instantly.
At the same time, Chen Ku opened his sleeves, and from them flew out a Fire Beak Pot. He blew into it; immediately, the pot spun rapidly.
"Gather all the demon people of Peace Path in this city into the pot, refine them!"
In no time, the pot, restored to Ninth Realm level, flew down from the heavenly dome, its mouth opening, and the demon people below were sucked into it, one after another like snowflakes.
"Great savior!"
The people of Baojiao County, witnessing these evil demon people being absorbed into a treasure, looked at Chen Ku, who slowly descended from the sky, and cried out with joy, kneeling and sobbing:
"Divine being! Heaven has sent a divine being to save us!"
Chen Ku landed on the Central Street of Baojiao County, looking at the villagers kneeling all around, feeling a bitterness in his heart.
These people were his kin and countrymen.
Years ago, lacking power, he could only lead a few to leave Baojiao County. Now, finally having the strength to face the Tenth Realm Yellow Heaven Evil God directly, he returned too late.
He waved his hand.
A gentle breeze lifted everyone, and he spoke:
"You folks need not do this, I am no divine being. You have suffered, and I have no grain, only some demon meat. You can roast it to eat; it can replenish some Primordial Qi."
He waved his hand again.
And one by one, the demons of the First and Second Realm from the Evil Summoning Banner, appearing as wild boars, tigers and leopards, or deer and sheep, were summoned out, skinned into raw meat, and a fire was lit for everyone to cook themselves.
Hundreds of large demons piled into a mountain of meat.
"So much meat!"
The people, oppressed to the extreme by the Peace Path and under siege by the Daji Dynasty, barely sustained life with daily food, let alone tasted meat.
In an instant, they scrambled to tear at the demon meat, searching for branches to roast at the fire.
As the people roasted meat.
Chen Ku's voice spread out, saying:
"Now all the demon people of the Peace Path in Baojiao City are dead by my hand. You must decide whether to stay in Baojiao County. My suggestion is to inform Magistrate Li Lishan, who will naturally send troops to help rebuild Baojiao County. If you do not wish to stay, you can also go to Qiu Dragon Mansion to find work, as it is relatively safer."
With his strength, he could recover Baojiao County, but he had no intention of claiming credit, as his identity needed to be kept secret due to his divine skills, which must not be easily exposed.
Therefore, the credit for recovering Baojiao County would depend on who could help rebuild it, naturally gaining some recognition.
Especially Li Lishan, who would likely come quickly to claim it as an achievement.
Naturally, the people of Baojiao County will be relocated properly once more.
This can be considered the best help that Chen Ku can provide for the local people in a subtle way.
Upon hearing Chen Ku's words, the people each fell into a brief state of confusion...
Some even suggested erecting a statue for Chen Ku, venerating him as another deity, but Chen Ku sternly refused, saying, "Worshipping others will devour your vitality and life. Cherish your life."
With that said, he pondered for a long time and took something out of the Hero King Realm—an ordinary precious metal ore, secretly embedding a single hair of the Blowing Fur to Soldiers into it, saying:
"If anyone is willing to go to Qiu Dragon Mansion to seek help and save their homeland, take this stone. In times of danger, simply smash this stone on the ground and shout 'help,' and I will have a power that descends to aid you. But remember, this power can only be used once, lasting only three breaths. After use, it will be gone."
Having said that, he displayed the stone in his palm, looked around, and asked:
"Who will safeguard this item and go to Qiu Dragon Mansion?"
With one sentence, hundreds and thousands of people immediately shouted, "I am willing, I am willing..."
Chen Ku scanned the crowd and immediately spotted a familiar face among them—the small boss Xu Li of the Manure Gang, whom he had met during a small meeting with various halls at the Dragon River side.
He remembered this person being on the side of the Medicine King Hall, and later heard during his months in Baojiao County that this person was a rather righteous young man.
So he tossed the stone to him, saying:
"Remember, it can only be used once at a critical moment."
The young man, with a buzz cut and wearing a short jacket, whose ribs were pressed against his chest from hunger, held the stone with both hands in surprise and said, "I remember, I remember."
"Well then, good luck to you all."
After finishing speaking, Chen Ku's figure flickered and disappeared before everyone's eyes.
That's as much as he can do for the local people, and settling everyone still requires the Imperial Court and the government to step forward personally.
"Benefactor, take care!" "Benefactor saves the distressed..."
And after Chen Ku disappeared, the Central Street was filled with kneeling civilians, crying with immense gratitude.
Chen Ku did not immediately leave Baojiao County but turned to the Yellow Heaven God's temple, namely the shrine that enshrines the deity.
Since he has subdued the divine thought of the Yellow Heaven God, he certainly shouldn't leave empty-handed.
Whoosh~~~
The Fire Beak Pot was like a divine fire creature, devouring the Demon People of Peace Path throughout the city, a Ninth Realm-level magical treasure, virtually uncontrollable by anyone throughout Baojiao County.
Thus, as Chen Ku stepped into the divine temple, it was so clean and empty that not a single person was there.
"Let me see, what is still hidden in this Peace Path's shrine?"
Chen Ku's divine sense began scanning everything within the temple, sparing neither the void above nor the ground a hundred feet below.
Soon, he felt a familiar Qi mechanism of the Yellow Heaven God, shockingly existing within the heart of the shrine enshrining the Yellow Heaven God.
In an instant, Chen Ku vaguely recalled the process when he took gold from the City God Golden Body in Baojiao County. Back then, the City God Golden Body contained the corpse of the City God when alive, and only such a link could ensure the shrine could properly nourish the deity, as if in its own flesh.
"Could it be that the Yellow Heaven God left behind some flesh or remains?"
Chen Ku opened his hand, and with a swift grab at the already fragmented abdomen of the statue within the shrine, he conjured an attraction like a vortex.
A moment later, a colorful gemstone like a rainbow stone on the beach was seized by him.
"What is this?"
Chen Ku subconsciously used his divine sense to explore, and upon contact, he felt an unprecedented pure Primordial Qi, vast as the ocean.
"Is this a Shariputra containing extremely abundant Primordial Qi? Could it potentially be refined from the flesh of the Yellow Heaven God during his lifetime?"
Thoughts associated with this swirled in his mind.
From the overheard content, the Yellow Heaven God was a tribal leader from ancient times, defeated by the Ancient Emperor, his remains divided into several parts, with the head banished to the outer starry sky. He found a peculiar space there, rebuilt his divine consciousness and true spirit, but could not return to the human world due to the rules set by the Ancient Emperor, thus had to descend into the human world via divine thought.
Even the descent of the divine thought was insufficient; he needed a Pure Yang Destiny body to bear his intent. At this moment, Chen Ku glanced at the Shariputra again.
Immediately, he obtained more information from it:
"For the Yellow Heaven God to reincarnate in the human world, at least three elements must merge: his divine thought, a compatible destiny body, and this Shariputra full of strong Primordial Qi."
Chen Ku could distinctly sense that the amount of Primordial Qi far exceeded any Tenth Realm cultivator he had encountered, and currently surpassed his own Tenth Realm Divinity Transformation cultivation. If the Yellow Heaven God absorbed this Primordial Bone Relic's Qi, he might directly restore his cultivation to the pinnacle of the Tenth Realm, successfully surpassing the Divine Soul Cultivator's heavenly tribulation, and become a Loose Immortal.
"Can I absorb this Qi?"
He attempted to use the previously acquired 'Nine Heavens Divine Spell' to absorb this Divine Soul Essence Qi, feeling that if he could fully absorb it, he might drive his martial arts cultivation into the Tenth Realm Primordial Heaven level, enhancing his Blood Qi to Nine Heavens Perfect without any issues.