Chapter 538 - Chibao

Chapter 538 - Chibao

“Phew~” Qiu Chibao was sprawled out on the ground while carefully fanning the flames with her breath. She was cooking something in her broken bowl above the fire.

Rumble!

Her stomach rumbled, and she tied the strings of her pants tighter.

Her name was Chibao[1], but she rarely filled her belly.

It had been the same when was still living with her parents, and it remained the same even after she got married.

The fire grew smaller, and she panicked. She looked around her and quickly grabbed a handful of human bones beside a bonfire to fuel the flames.

Qiu Chibao sighed in relief when the flames got stronger. She then carefully removed the tile that she had used to substitute as the bowl lid.

The boiling water had three cobblestones within it; she prodded the stones with her rusted knife and grinned in delight, which brightened up her dirty face.

Qiu Chibao then covered the bowl and added more firewood. Afterward, she grabbed the nearby bundle of rags and rocked it in her arms.

“My son, the stones will soon go soft. Once it’s soft, you can drink the stone soup, and your illness will be cured! You can even become an Immortal!”

Qiu Chibao was so thrilled at the idea that she was chuckling while playing with her laughing son.

Just then, the people sleeping around her suddenly woke up in agitation.

An old man sleeping beside her woke up and stretched. His legs accidentally knocked over her bowl.

“My stone soup!” Qiu Chibao cried out in despair. The Dharma Sect members around her stirred and stood up one by one.

“Kill that Daoist in red robes! He killed our Lord Wu Zhu!” someone shouted, and everyone buzzed with agitation.

“Who killed our Wu Zhu?! Without him talking to Sir Arrogant Stone, the stone soup might not going to work!”

Qiu Chibao forgot about her despair when she heard those words. She stopped collecting the cobblestones on the ground and placed her rusted knife into the bundle of rags that she had used to wrap her son. She stood up shakily and wanted to charge at the front lines, but she was too emaciated to do so. She was too weak to shove away the person in front of her. NewW novels updates at novelhall.com

“Let me go! Let me go! I can’t see!” Qiu Chibao shouted, but no one heard her.

It turned out that the refugees had been eating Kaolinite!

Those who consumed Kaolinite wouldn't live for long. Li Huowang even saw a human’s leg in the refugee's stomach; it seemed that they had been eating each other as well.

Li Huowang knew that those who had joined the Dharma Sect would commit all kinds of atrocities. It was definitely not a good thing to worship God Yu’er, but did they have a choice?

“Sir Arrogant Stone, protect me!” An old man with white hair raised his stick as he charged at Li Huowang.

Li Sui’s bronze coin whipped around the old man’s neck and tore off his head.

Li Huowang walked over the head and moved forward.

He looked at their faces, and for some reason, he recalled his master, Dan Yangzi.

All of them were just like Dan Yangzi, firm in their beliefs but ignorant. And that was exactly how they were manipulated...

Li Huowang discovered another truth of this cruel world when he saw the frenzy in the eyes of the decapitated heads.

This crazy world had ground everything the people in this world had to dust, including their rationality. Thus, they could only place their hope on God Yu’er; it didn't matter even if God Yu'er forced them to become murderers.

The people were innocent, but Li Huowang had no choice but to use their blood to forge a path to live.

However, perhaps death was better for them. Dying meant emancipation from suffering, and it was much better than living life as a mindless zombie.

Jin Shanzhao stared at the scene in front of him with eyes filled with sadness and anger. He cried at the sight of such injustice, “ARGH!”

That was the first time Li Huowang heard his voice ever since he became an illusion...

All of a sudden, the ground beneath caved in, and his legs were stuck!

He looked around and saw three mounds of earth rapidly approaching him.

Li Huang knew that there had to be someone commanding so many sect members, but he never expected them to come here so soon!

1. meaning eating till full ☜