The Extraordinary Urban God of Medicine

Chapter 921: Chapter 921: Worshiping the Deity Chapter 921: Chapter 921: Worshiping the Deity At this time, the mud house where Huang Xiaolong and the others were located, had already been surrounded by the villagers of the Divine Cave Village, from the inside out, in three layers.

The village chief, who had led Huang Xiaolong and the others into the trap, was now outside, commanding with murderous aura, emitting a roar like that of a wild beast.

Suddenly!

Whoosh~~~~!

A crossbow arrow, tearing through the air like lightning, venomous like a snake, shot towards Huang Xiaolong inside the house!

The archer was a robust young man, with a square face and a beard, very brave, bare-chested, with an accurate aim, his arrow directly targeting Huang Xiaolong’s head.

After this arrow was released, the villagers all cheered, as if this sturdy young man was the number one warrior of the village, revered by all.

However, not to mention Huang Xiaolong, even if any ancient martial Grandmaster were to see this arrow, they would find it extremely laughable, as if it were a child shooting an arrow.

Huang Xiaolong casually grabbed the crossbow arrow, then threw it back out.

The arrow, returning at a speed several times faster, wailed like a ghost!

Phut~~~!

This arrow penetrated the sturdy young man’s hard skull, going straight through, carrying blood and fragments of white brain tissue with it, its momentum unabated, shot through several villagers like skewered candied hawthorns, then finally embedding deeply into the trunk of an old tree.

At this, the entire Divine Cave Village’s villagers were simply dumbstruck!

“You beasts!!!!” Ma Chuxia gathered all her True Qi in her palm, and with a slap blasted a big hole through the mud house, dust and smoke billowing!

Amidst the falling dirt and ash, Ma Chuxia shot out like lightning. She was like an enraged leopardess, her hands like blades, each swing taking the life of a villager!

The villagers completely collapsed. Although they were barbaric and cruel, faced with a powerful enemy who could easily crush them, they had long lost their nerve.

They wanted to scatter and flee, but their speed was far less than Ma Chuxia’s killing pace.

Ma Chuxia’s eyes were red with slaughter!

Xiaohong and Qingqing also rushed out, blew a breath, and a demonic wind swept by; just like that, all the villagers, like wooden stakes, were immobilized, unable to move an inch.

Several Taoists from the Metaphysical Society watched Xiaohong and Qingqing, completely shocked by their incredibly skilled spells.

With the villagers immobilized, Ma Chuxia’s killing was even more like cutting melons and vegetables.

In the blink of an eye, the ground was covered in blood, strewn with corpses, leaving only a dozen or so villagers still alive, though not for long.

Terrified, they shook like sieves and screamed frantically, “Mercy! Have mercy! Have mercy!”

“Ah~~ this is the first time I’ve seen my little wife this angry…” Huang Xiaolong shook his head, then his eyes slightly turned, and he moved swiftly, grabbing Ma Chuxia’s arm. “Little wife, just wait a moment.”

“Little Long! Don’t stop me! I want to kill these heartless beasts! You saw it too, in that village chief’s house, a young girl is still kidnapped, she has been violated beyond recognition! And… all those Taoists from our Metaphysical Society… they all died at the hands of these beasts…” Ma Chuxia’s eyes filled with hot tears.

“Well, little wife, I’m not saying you can’t kill them, but something just occurred to me…” Huang Xiaolong smirked mysteriously. “Do you want those dozen or so Taoist priests to come back to life?”

“Huh? Resurrect…” Ma Chuxia snapped back to clarity. “That’s right! Little Long, I forgot your identity! You surely have a way to bring them all back to life!”

“I’ll give it a try. But as for these villagers, don’t kill them yet, and don’t leave any wounds on their bodies. I’m planning a soul summoning to return to a borrowed corpse,” Huang Xiaolong said as he pulled out a stack of yellow papers from his canvas bag.

“You guys, come over,” Huang Xiaolong gestured to the few Taoist priests from the metaphysical society.

The several Taoist priests scurried over.

“You all know the names, lunar birth dates, and Eight Characters of those deceased Taoist priests, right?” Huang Xiaolong asked.

“We do, we do! They were our own brothers; we’re familiar with these details,” the Taoists from the metaphysical society nodded hastily.

“Then that’s good. Write their names and lunar birth dates on the yellow paper, and make sure there are no mistakes. I’m going to summon their souls. If their spirits haven’t gone to report to the underworld yet, then I should be able to call them over,” Huang Xiaolong distributed the yellow paper to the Taoist priests.

“Spare us! We had no choice… Please, spare us…” The village chief, not yet killed, was blubbering with tears and snot. “It’s like this, our Shendong Village, generation after generation, has worshipped a deity… That deity, it likes to eat human flesh… That’s why we harmed outsiders who came to our village and…and threw their bodies into the cave for the deity to eat… If we don’t worship it… the deity will send down disasters and wipe out our entire village… We were forced to do this…”
“A deity?” Huang Xiaolong was taken aback.

“Yes, right! In the ancient cave on the back mountain, there is a deity…” The village chief cried bitterly. “Whenever outsiders enter our village, we…we offer these outsiders as sacrifices to the deity… Spare us, please, we did it for self-preservation… Right! That black knife you’re looking for, it is…it’s in the hands of the deity! My grandfather told me, the black knife in the painting at my home, it’s a treasured possession that the deity carries with it all the time—it’s a sacred object…”
“Heh heh~~ How interesting, a deity in the cave? No wonder this village is named Shendong Village,” Huang Xiaolong realized suddenly.

Qingqing muttered from the side, “Young master, what kind of deity could that be, and besides, a deity wouldn’t eat human flesh… In this world, those who love to eat human flesh the most, hehehe, are—”
“Us demons!” Xiaohong continued, “Young master, there must be a demon living in that cave on the back mountain! I wonder if it has taken human form. Let’s go and see!”

“I understand. Village chief, you’re old and your body is decayed. Even if I wanted to use a body for soul summoning, I wouldn’t want yours…” Huang Xiaolong smiled slightly, waved his hand, and a ripple swept through the air. The village chief’s head then burst upward with a whoosh, neck blood spurting wildly.

“Mr. Huang, we’ve finished writing!” The few Taoist priests handed over the yellow papers with the names and lunar birth dates written on them to Huang Xiaolong.

Huang Xiaolong began the soul summoning.

He chanted the spell silently, and the yellow papers ignited spontaneously.

However, after the yellow papers burned to ash, the spirits of the deceased Taoist priests were still nowhere to be seen.

“Little Long…” Ma Chuxia was on edge.

“Don’t worry, they all died unjust deaths, they must be full of resentment. Theoretically speaking, they wouldn’t report to the underworld right away. Let’s wait and see,” Huang Xiaolong reassured her with a gentle voice.

Just then!

Not far away, over a dozen blood-soaked spirits slowly drifted towards them. They peeked around woefully, some with smashed heads, others with bodies pierced by crossbow arrows.

Suddenly, these spirits began to cry out loud, bowing to Ma Chuxia, “Leader, little spirits pay respect to the Leader…”
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