Chapter 1044: Slaughter of the Village

Regardless of the method, refining corpses is extremely cruel, and the Medicine Corpse is no exception. Chen Yu opened a door, turned, and went down to the basement level.

On the basement level, he indeed found a passageway. He walked along this passage for over ten minutes and emerged from a hidden cave.

And this place was already on the edge of the border.

Chen Yu was now halfway up a mountain. Below the mountain, there was a small village. The village was not large and was surrounded by mountains on three sides.

Looking down from the mountain, one could see the houses in the village arranged in an orderly fashion, and the direction of the only exit seemed to face a sharp point.

Chen Yu's brows knitted together involuntarily; the orientation of this village was problematic. The only exit facing due north was like a sharp blade.

And this sharp blade was called the Sharp Knife Curse, which was extremely unfavorable for the village. If nothing unexpected happened, people in the village would frequently die.

Moreover, this time the Sacred Object of the Brahma Sect had appeared in this place, and the fate of the people in this village had become uncertain once again.

Chen Yu stood there watching for a moment, then suddenly his brows knitted slightly; from the village, he vaguely sensed a smell of blood.

Chen Yu quickly went down the mountain and walked toward the direction of the village entrance.

Upon reaching the village entrance, the thick smell of blood became even stronger. The further Chen Yu walked forward, the more he felt alarmed.

Entering the village, he saw a villager lying in a pool of blood. There were several hideous and terrifying wounds on the villager's body, and these wounds were dripping with blood, as if the villager had been attacked by some extremely ferocious beast.

Chen Yu bent down to examine the wounds on the villager's body. He felt a slight sense of alarm; this villager was an ordinary farmhand, and he did not know why the villager had suffered such a fatal blow.

A more intense smell of blood wafted from inside the village. Chen Yu's heart stirred; he stood up quickly and rushed forward.

The further he walked, the more alarmed he became. He saw many people lying scattered in all directions around the village.

The manner of these people's deaths was extremely miserable; some had died from beast attacks, and others had been poisoned by toxic creatures. Furthermore, they had been dead for some time, likely since the morning.

Because their appearance maintained the start of a new day's life. This village was very poor and still lived a primitive life; they had difficulty with water and had to go five or six miles away to fetch water.

And that place was already outside the border. A teenager carrying two huge water buckets, with the buckets pressing down on his thin, weak body, had died very miserably.

"There are monsters." Chen Yu's brows knitted tightly. He was not yet sure if this was done by people from the Mu Mansion and the Brahma Sect, but judging from the situation here, it could not be unrelated to them.

Just at this moment, a white figure flashed on one side and darted into the village. Chen Yu shouted, "Who is it? Stop!"

If there were no accidents, this village had already been slaughtered, and judging from the perpetrator's methods, it was extremely cruel. More importantly, many people had different internal organs dug out—hearts, livers, lungs, etc. —which should be part of some cruel ritual.

Therefore, Chen Yu was also extremely furious. He pressed his right index and middle fingers together, forming a Sword Finger, and swept them across the void. With a "chi" sound, a Sword Light formed in mid-air, and then a Sword Intent struck toward that person.

The other party was naturally also highly skilled. He saw the other party condense their right hand, and with a "crack," a deep blue Ice Sword formed at this moment, which then slashed down toward Chen Yu's sword.

From the other party's sword momentum, Chen Yu vaguely sensed a power from the Dark World, and this Ice Sword actually had a faint trace of Buddhist intent.

"Si Chen?" Chen Yu was startled. He withdrew his right hand and forcibly pulled back the Sword Intent that had already been unleashed.

"Brother Chen." The weapon in Yu Sichen's hand slowly vanished, and she ran to Chen Yu's side, both surprised and happy.

"Why are you here?" Chen Yu asked.

"I was originally looking for you, but there was a deviation during the search, so I inexplicably arrived here. As soon as I arrived, I discovered the village had been slaughtered."

Yu Sichen grabbed Chen Yu's hand and said, "I was originally going to go in to check the situation, but I didn't expect to run into you."

"You didn't contact me, how did you know I was here?" Chen Yu asked in surprise.

"That night on the Snow Mountain..." Speaking of this, Yu Sichen's cheeks turned crimson. "I took advantage of when you were fast asleep to leave a mark on you, so I can find you anytime and anywhere in the future."

"This... how come I didn't know?" Chen Yu was stunned, saying with a wry smile.

"I secretly placed the mark, so it's normal that you didn't know," Yu Sichen said shyly. "I did this so that I could find you anytime and anywhere in the future."

"Alright, did you find out anything inside?" Chen Yu asked.

"No, but judging from the wounds on these people, it should be some kind of monster, and this thing should be related to the Brahma Sect, because there is a trace of Buddhist intent on it," Yu Sichen said.

Chen Yu nodded slightly. The Brahma Sect was a branch of the A-San Divine Sect, and its influence outside the border was very large.

Moreover, the beliefs of the A-San Divine Sect were somewhat chaotic, so it was normal to have a trace of Buddhist power.

"Let's go inside and take a look," Chen Yu said. "I feel that the things here are not ordinary, and I heard that the Sacred Object of the Brahma Sect has appeared here. My mission this time is also aimed at the Brahma Sect."

"So I must figure out what exactly is going on inside."

"Good, I was just about to head inside." Yu Sichen nodded, then held Chen Yu's hand, and the two walked into the village together.

Seeing Chen Yu again, Yu Sichen was in a very good mood. Now, she finally had the appearance of a girl in her twenties.

The further they walked into the village, the more corpses there were, and these corpses were all villagers from here without exception.

Among them, a mother was still holding a child less than a year old in her arms. A bloody hole had appeared on the child's forehead, and both mother and child had already breathed their last.

Perhaps because he had children, this was the scene Chen Yu could least bear to see. He turned away, a trace of killing intent already in his eyes.

No matter who did this, they would definitely pay the price for this incident.

Yu Sichen on the side watched this mother and child silently, then slowly knelt on the ground, pressed her palms together, and silently chanted scriptures. Then, her right hand slowly brushed over the mother and child, and a touch of Buddha Light appeared on them.

This was the Soul Crossing Mahayana Buddhism. Yu Sichen had practiced Buddhism while in Jizhao and had already reached the realm of Human-Faced Buddha Heart. This act could help this mother and child enter Reincarnation.