Chapter 51: Demonic Cultivator

A quarter of an hour later, Tie Niu had been hog-tied by the three of them, bound up like a zongzi.

Zhang Xingyu pulled off the black cloth covering his face, only to discover that he was actually just a half-grown child with a naive face.

This was just too unbelievable, right?

A tall guy at one meter ninety, and he was just a child.

Could it be that he grew up eating some kind of hormones?

"Let me go, let me go." Tie Niu shouted while struggling.

"Stop yelling. If you yell again, I'll chop you down with one blade," Hu Siping threatened from the side.

"Fourth Brother, don't scare him. He's still just a child," Zhang Xingyu said to Hu Siping in a low voice.

He turned around and asked Tie Niu loudly: "Tie Niu, where are you from?"

Tie Niu looked blank.

Damn! He really was a stupid ox; he couldn't even understand what was being said.

"Tie Niu, where do you live?" Zhang Xingyu asked, changing his approach.

"My home is right at..." Halfway through his answer, Tie Niu suddenly stopped.

He said to Zhang Xingyu: "I can't tell you. My mother said I can't tell strangers where I live."

Zhang Xingyu smiled.

You're still a good child who listens to his mother.

"Tie Niu, why did you want to capture us?" Zhang Xingyu asked softly, a kind and amiable smile on his face.

Tie Niu replied: "A wicked person came to the village and captured my mother and me. That person said I had to capture three people within one day to trade for my mother. If I couldn't capture two people before dark today, he would kill my mother."

Hearing him say this, Zhu Dafu, who was standing to the side, spoke up: "Are you stupid? Why didn't you go report it to the officials? Once you report it to the officials, there will naturally be bailiffs to help you save your mother."

Tie Niu shook his head like a rattle-drum: "It won't work, it won't work. The wicked person said if I dared to report it to the officials, he would kill my mother first."

"Stupid, don't you know to go find the uncles and elders in your village to help?" Zhu Dafu had the expression of someone lecturing a child.

Tie Niu shook his head again: "It won't work, it won't work. Everyone in the village has been captured by that wicked person."

Zhang Xingyu frowned upon hearing this: "What kind of wicked person is he, and why did he capture you all?"

Tie Niu shook his head again: "I don't know. That wicked person said the number of people captured wasn't enough and wanted me to come out and capture some more for him."

Zhu Dafu curled his lips: "He told you to capture, so you capture? Don't you know how to run?"

Tie Niu shook his head even more vigorously: "It won't work, it won't work. If I ran away, what would happen to my mother!"

Hearing his answer, the three of them couldn't help but shake their heads.

Tie Niu was still a very filial child, it was just a pity his IQ had some issues.

Zhang Xingyu looked at Hu Siping and Zhu Dafu: "Fourth Brother, Dafu, how about we go meet that wicked person and rescue the villagers?"

Upon hearing that they were going to act with chivalry and righteousness, Zhu Dafu immediately clapped his hands in agreement: "Good, I agree. Let's go right now."

Hu Siping showed a look of hesitation: "I don't know what that wicked person's abilities are like. If that person is a cultivator, we won't be able to beat him!"

"That person only dared to capture these mountain villagers, so his abilities likely aren't that high," Zhang Xingyu thought for a moment and said.

Hu Siping thought about it and nodded: "Fine. But everyone still needs to be careful. I don't want any of you to have any problems."

Zhang Xingyu stepped forward to untie the ropes on Tie Niu's body and said to him softly: "Tie Niu, you lead the way in front. We will go with you to rescue the villagers."

"Oh!" Tie Niu nodded in agreement while picking up his firewood blade.

Taking advantage of the sunset's afterglow, the four of them rushed down the mountain.

Halfway there, Zhang Xingyu asked Tie Niu again: "Tie Niu, what kind of weapon does the wicked person who captured you use?"

Tie Niu shook his head: "I don't know. That person waved his sleeve, and I fainted."

The mountain village was not very far from Death Valley.

Before it was dark, the four of them arrived at a small forest near the village. This was about one li away from the village. Through this small forest, one could clearly see the situation in the village.

This was a small mountain village, with a clear stream running through it. Along the stream, a winding stone path had been built. On both sides of the stone path, a dozen or so small farm courtyards were scattered. Bamboo fences, green vegetable plots, rubble walls, and thatched cottages.

It was already dinner time, but the mountain village, which should have had curling smoke, was completely still. The mountain village was silent, let alone cooking smoke; there wasn't even the sound of wild dogs or chickens and ducks.

"Three big brothers, that wicked person lives in the village chief's house," Tie Niu said, pointing to a courtyard in the center of the village.

Zhang Xingyu nodded: "Tie Niu, you stay here for a while. The three of us will go in to save the people."

Tie Niu shook his head like a rattle-drum: "That won't do. I want to go back to save my mother."

This blockheaded ox.

Zhang Xingyu didn't want Tie Niu to go with them, fearing that Tie Niu would accidentally expose the three of them.

However, no matter how he tried to persuade him, Tie Niu just wouldn't agree. Tie Niu kept repeating one sentence: "I want to go back to save my mother."

This stubborn blockheaded ox!

Seeing that he couldn't persuade him, the three had no choice but to take him along.

Before entering the village, Zhang Xingyu instructed him again: "Tie Niu, when we enter the village later, just follow behind us. Don't speak, and don't run around."

"Mm." Tie Niu nodded vigorously.

In the center of the village, at the village chief's house.

A man dressed in black was standing at the courtyard entrance, waiting anxiously.

"That black kid, why hasn't he brought the people yet? Could he have run away? Probably not, he's blockheaded, and I used his mother to threaten him, so he shouldn't have run. Hehe, once he brings the people, I'll kill him and these people in the house together; it'll be just right for refining my Blood Demon Blade."

At the thought of the Blood Demon Blade, his eyes shone.

"Blood Demon Blade, oh Blood Demon Blade, once I refine the essence blood of these forty-nine people into you, you will be able to advance to the fourth grade, and your power will greatly increase. Hehe, from now on, in the Blood Demon Hall, who will still dare to look down on me, Wu San?"

This person muttered to himself for a while, then turned and returned to the courtyard.

The village chief's small courtyard was about two or three hundred square meters, with three blue-stone tiled houses built facing the courtyard gate.

Don't underestimate these three blue-stone tiled houses; they were the most luxurious place in the entire village.

In the middle of the tiled houses was the village chief's main hall, where more than forty villagers were being held.

The villagers were terrified; children were crying, adults were sighing, and the elderly were praying.

"Mom, I'm scared, I'm scared." A little girl sobbed while clutching her mother's arm tightly.

"Child, don't be afraid, Mom is here." The young mother comforted her while secretly shedding tears.

At this time, a seven-foot-tall strong man stood up and said to a white-haired old man: "Village Chief, that wicked person locked us here, he definitely has bad intentions. Village Chief, we have to think of a way to get out."

The village chief sighed: "The door is locked by the wicked person, we can't get out!"

"We can't just sit here and wait for death. Village Chief, if that wicked person opens the door and comes in later, let's all rush up and fight him together?" The strong man roared in a low voice.

"Fight, how do we fight? The person just waved his sleeve, and we fainted?" Another thin and weak villager interjected from the side.

In the corner, an old woman was kowtowing and praying incessantly: "Heaven, please save us, please save us!"

A middle-aged woman came to the door, pounding on the door while begging loudly: "Let us out, let us out. Whatever you want, we can give it to you. We have grain, we have copper coins, as long as you let us go, we will give it all to you."

Outside the main hall, the man in black laughed loudly: "Stupid villagers, do you think I'm a bandit from the mountains? Grain, copper coins, how could I look at such things?"

"Then what do you want? As long as we have it, we will give it to you. Just beg you to let us go." Inside the main hall, the woman begged bitterly.

"What I want is the essence blood in your bodies. These things, I will take them myself later. Now, all of you shut up for me. Otherwise, I will burn you all to death inside with one fire," the man in black said loudly.

"Don't burn, don't burn. We'll shut up, we'll shut up..."

Inside the house, the old woman was so scared she covered her mouth, and the strong man didn't dare to make a sound.

The child's mother, while crying, used her hand to tightly cover her child's mouth.

The room instantly became quiet.

"Hahahaha," the man in black laughed wildly.

"Stupid villagers, your lives are all in the hands of me, Master Wu. I let you live, and you can live; I want you to die, and you must die." ===== CHAPTER 52 =====