Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 855 The Six-Colored Deer Reappears

Following the recent arrest of Wu Xian, the new village was now filled with ruins.

The ground was littered with soulless, beast-like figures, creating an atmosphere of oppression and terror.

Wu Xian crawled silently among them. He had soft and resilient pads under his palms and soles, so he didn't make a sound even when he stepped on the ground.

He climbed to the center of the new village and found Ge Chengzong under an old, crooked tree.

But he looks completely different from before.

Ge Chengzong's body was like an inflated ball of flesh, with bright red flesh writhing under skin as thin as a cicada's wing. His limbs were short compared to this mass of flesh, swaying back and forth on the ball of flesh, like a rubber glove being blown up like a balloon.

"Damn old thing!"

"Why do you still have self-awareness!"

"Let me go! I'm your son! You've controlled me your whole life, can't you just let go after you die?"

"You always said that the blessed land was dangerous, and that I had to live on at all costs in the blessed land. I have already done everything I could for it, so why is it you who wants me to die now?"

At the top of the fleshy ball grew two hairless heads with similar appearances.

One of them looked a little old, with downcast eyes and kept its mouth shut, saying nothing. The other was quite young and was shouting wildly.

Upon seeing this, Wu Xian suddenly realized what was going on.

No wonder Ge Chengzong didn't participate in the pursuit just now; it turns out he's become like this.

Wu Xian then stood up and gradually returned to human form as he approached.

The aged head, seeing Wu Xian covered in blood, raised its head and ignored Ge Chengzong's shouts, directly engaging in conversation with Wu Xian:

"Are you an official sent by the City God to handle this matter?"

Wu Xian did not answer, but instead asked, "Are you Ge Feng?"

The old man nodded with difficulty.

"I'm sorry, my son has caused trouble for the institute and committed an unforgivable sin."

“I have worked for the City God Temple for many years, but it wasn’t until two years ago, when I was accidentally drawn into the blessed land, that I realized how terrifying the real blessed land is.”

"So when I found out a few months ago that he had also been involved in the blessed land, my heart was filled with fear."

"In my fear, I did so much and said so much to him after he first came back from the blessed land, all in order to save his life."

"Perhaps it was the pressure I put on him that led him down this path of no return."

“Actually, when I first discovered that he had gone down a wrong path, I had the opportunity to stop him, but I only destroyed his body and was too soft-hearted to destroy his soul. Therefore, I also share in the sins he committed.”

Wu Xian shook his head: "Even tigers don't eat their cubs. Anyone else might have hesitated. This is not your fault."

Ge Feng did not agree with Wu Xian's words, but he did not correct him: "I want to thank you for the divine spell you released. The power of the divine spell awakened me from my slumber and gave me a chance to make amends for my mistakes. This time I will not be lenient."

When Wu Xian released the Purifying Heart Mantra, light shone between him and Ge Chengzong, so a large part of the power was also applied to Ge Chengzong.

During their conversation, Ge Chengzong kept shouting, trying to get into the conversation, but both Wu Xian and his father completely ignored him.

Meanwhile, the sounds of fighting on the other side of the new village gradually subsided. This meant that there were not many people left in the Soul-Losing Formation who had not yet had their souls taken away.

Ge Feng said weakly, "My current strength is only enough to restrain him inside my body. Can I leave the rest to you?"

Wu Xian nodded: "Don't worry, everything has been arranged. It won't be long before everything is over."

Ge Feng breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this.

After witnessing the tragic state of the blessed land, he vowed never to let the real world become like the blessed land.

Therefore, his greatest fear is that Ge Chengzong will escape and use his strange and cruel abilities to destroy the luxurious security of the real world.

"There's one more thing I'd like the institute to know."

"My son has indeed gone astray, and it would be fitting if he were to die in the deepest hell. But he was originally a good child. The truly dangerous thing is an evil entity that has seeped into his soul, and it is that evil entity that has caused..."

Wu Xian interrupted Ge Feng: "It's a six-colored deer, isn't it?"

Ge Chengzong, who had been shouting, suddenly stopped, and Ge Feng slowly nodded.

After the first night in the new village.

Wu Xian initially believed that the story of the six-colored deer and the blood-red deer carcass in the well were just a cover left by the mastermind to conceal his own existence.

After all, Wu Xian had just experienced the blessed land of the 'Nightmare Mystery Tower'. Even the genuine evil spirit sleeping maiden could fall from grace and become a mad fairy maiden because of the incense and faith of mortals.

Even if the original story of the Six-Colored Deer was dark, it was still a righteous deity with temples built for it, worshipped by mortals for so many years, carrying the beautiful wishes of mankind. How could it have become something even more terrifying than ordinary evil spirits?
Therefore, after escaping from Xincun for the first time, Wu Xian asked the City God's Office for information about the Six-Colored Deer when reporting the situation.

In the real world, beings that can be worshipped are all under the supervision of the City God's Office, so the City God's Office must know more about the Six-Colored Deer.

After the report, Wu Xian immediately went to the Taoist temple that enshrined the six-colored deer.

To verify his suspicions, Wu Xian devoutly offered incense to the six-colored deer. Perhaps due to the special nature of the deer, Wu Xian received a vague response from the deer while offering incense, which further confirmed to him that the six-colored deer in the new village was fake.

But in the evening, after Wu Xian and He Qiao finished their wild party, he received the information he had obtained from the City God.

To his surprise, he discovered that the information he had heard from Li Qiuhong was all true!

Indeed, the first temple dedicated to the Six-Colored Deer was located in the old village ruins.

Centuries ago, there were indeed wild beasts in Wild Apple Mountain that would raid villages at night in an attempt to become human.

Even the story that the Six-Colored Deer once set up a barrier near Wild Apple Mountain to protect humans is true!

This information made Wu Xian realize that things were probably not so simple.

The villagers' access to information was limited to knowing about the legend of the six-colored deer; any further details had long since disappeared over time.

Therefore, the Xincun incident is indeed inextricably linked to the Six-Colored Deer!

That evening, Wu Xian communicated with the City God's Office again. Through the information from the City God's Office and by searching for past cases, they finally arrived at a very likely conclusion.

The mastermind behind the new village is indeed Six-Colored Deer.

But it is not a six-colored deer from the real world, but a six-colored deer from a blessed land similar to the real world!
(End of this chapter)