Chapter 1218: Leaving the Stockade

The villagers in the stockade came one after another to watch, and upon seeing this enormous monster, everyone was filled with sighs.

"Mr. Chen, on behalf of everyone in the village, I thank you." The old village chief led a group of people, and they knelt down to Chen Yu one after another, performing the traditional grand ceremony of the stockade.

Chen Yu calmly accepted their kowtow before helping them up.

"Old village chief, the stockade was indeed in a crisis before, but those Daoists were not good people either, so I wiped them all out."

"The skin and flesh of this thing have no value to you, so it must be burned; otherwise, it might bring you some trouble."

"Very well, we will listen to everything Mr. Chen says." The village chief nodded.

Burning something with such a massive physique was extremely difficult, and the ordinary villagers' blades could not even harm the creature's fur.

Chen Yu took out the Corpse Dissolving Powder and sprinkled it over the thing from head to toe, which finally dissolved its corpse.

It was just that the Corpse Dissolving Powder could not completely dissolve the giant beast's skeleton; it only dissolved its skin and flesh, so the bones were still set on fire and burned.

That evening, the villagers held a ceremony at the settlement to mourn the children who had died for the stockade over these years.

"Chen Yu, are we leaving tomorrow?" In the evening, after the banquet ended, Zhou Meng found Chen Yu and asked.

"It is time to go. I have other matters to attend to, and aren't you in a hurry to go home?" Chen Yu asked.

"What matters do you have to attend to? Can I go with you to see?" Zhou Meng was quite curious about Chen Yu's life.

She wanted to know what the life of someone like Chen Yu, who possessed great divine abilities, was actually like.

"Killing." Chen Yu spat out the two words.

"Kill... ing?" Zhou Meng felt that this sentence of Chen Yu's was somewhat chilling.

"That's right, killing." Chen Yu nodded slightly: "You had better try not to get involved in the affairs of my world, otherwise it will do you no good."

"In your world, is there no constraint of law?" Zhou Meng asked.

"No, there is only the law of the jungle." Chen Yu shook his head.

"What law?" Zhou Meng asked again.

"The strong are respected." Chen Yu said: "In this world, the weak will not be sympathized with."

"The weak will not be sympathized with..." Zhou Meng's expression was somewhat complex; indeed, her understanding was limited to those mundane matters in the secular world.

Therefore, she did not have much understanding of Chen Yu's world. In her view, killing should be constrained by secular law.

But in Chen Yu's world, it was not. These things seemed like common, everyday occurrences to Chen Yu, which left her very puzzled.

"Actually, you have come into contact with too little of this world. Not to mention our world of Dharma Cultivators, even the secular world is a world where people eat people."

Chen Yu said: "It is just that you haven't seen it. If one day you truly see it, then you will never return to your current life."

"Is that so?" Zhou Meng sighed slightly and said: "Then I would rather never come into contact with these things."

"I also hope you never come into contact with these things, because once you do, you will never be able to return." Chen Yu smiled and said.

"After walking a bit further, I will return to the Dharma Cultivator sect. You wait for me at the foot of the Mountain, and after I resolve my matters, I will send you out of the Mountain." Chen Yu said.

"Okay." Zhou Meng nodded. As things stood, it seemed this was the only way.

Early the next morning, Chen Yu and Zhou Meng were set to leave.

The villagers here were very grateful to the two of them, and when they were leaving, the whole village saw them off for a long distance before stopping.

They walked westward all the way, crossed several mountain ridges, camped out at night a few times, and then approached the mountain gate of the Yi Jian Pavilion.

At noon that day, Chen Yu and Zhou Meng stopped by a stream to rest. When she went to fetch water, she suddenly froze on the spot, then stared fixedly at a stone by the stream.

"What's wrong?" Chen Yu felt her expression was off, so he hurriedly ran to her side. Upon seeing the thing before them, Chen Yu could not help but frown as well.

There, in front of a stone, lay a corpse half-prostrate.

Beside this corpse was a military-green travel bag; he must have been dead here for several days already.

This guy's body had already begun to rot, and one could smell a strong stench of decay from far away.

"Is he your boyfriend?" Chen Yu looked up and asked.

"It's him." Zhou Meng took a deep breath, and tears could not stop falling.

Although the corpse was unrecognizable, she could still identify his clothes.

Chen Yu sighed slightly: "My condolences, the fault is not yours."

"If I hadn't insisted on dragging him here, perhaps he wouldn't have ended up like this." Zhou Meng's tears fell uncontrollably; she was truly full of regret and self-reproach now.

But in this world, there is no regret medicine.

"It is all Life. If he hadn't abandoned you and had taken people back to find you, perhaps he wouldn't have died here." Chen Yu shook his head and said: "Deal with his corpse, you shouldn't look at it."

Zhou Meng nodded, turned to the side, and sank into grief.

Chen Yu dissolved the corpse, then walked to Zhou Meng's side: "This matter might bring you trouble, because you came here together with him."

"I will tell the police the truth." Zhou Meng said.

"Tell the truth?" Chen Yu smiled: "Then how will you explain the things you encountered along the way?"

"I..." Zhou Meng was slightly stunned. Yes, if she told the truth, how would she explain the things she encountered along this journey?

Would she tell the police that she met a man with brilliant Medicine skills? That this man could make her wounds heal?

That she also went to a stockade where the villagers used their own children as sacrifices?

That she also told the police she met an ape three stories tall, a man-eating Demon?

She could be certain that if she said this to the police, they would immediately send her to a mental hospital.

"Some things cannot be told truthfully; sometimes one must learn to lie." Chen Yu said: "Otherwise, this will bring unnecessary trouble upon yourself."

"But what should I say when I go back? He came out traveling with me." Zhou Meng said with a heavy heart.

"Tell the police that you separated when entering the Mountain because of a disagreement." Chen Yu said: "These Mountains stretch for thousands of miles; no one will be able to investigate his affairs."

"But will the police believe that?" Zhou Meng looked up and asked Chen Yu.

"As long as your story is fabricated convincingly enough, they will certainly believe it." Chen Yu smiled slightly: "But if you want to tell the truth, that might really bring you some trouble."

"I understand." Zhou Meng nodded slightly, and she kept Chen Yu's words firmly in her heart.

"Let's go, further ahead is the place I need to go," Chen Yu said, looking at a Mountain peak in front of him.