Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes.

Chapter 75 Transformation
The autumn wind blows the yellow leaves all over the courtyard.

Sui You stood up and listened to the words spoken by the county magistrate.

"Hean Dao?"

His expression changes:
"These evil cult monsters also want to take advantage of the chaos?"

"It's okay, let them come."

Shangguan Yunxianting wiped the corners of his mouth elegantly with a handkerchief, as if he had everything under control, with an awe-inspiring confidence:

"Let Yao Wang Tang know about this. After all, they are the ones who dug up their ancestors' graves."

Sui You's eyes flickered and he nodded: "Your Excellency has a good opinion."

Throughout the dynasties, there has always been a shortage of various cult organizations, especially in times of chaos, when cults have a natural breeding ground.

Most of the evil cults, in essence, are just for defrauding people of their money, or for deceiving believers, especially female believers, into practicing dual cultivation with them, for their own selfish gain.

This kind of cult is nothing to worry about and it will not become a big deal. It is basically a small religious gang entrenched in a certain county or township. It is no different from bandits and can be wiped out with just a few troops.

But there is a kind of cult that cannot be underestimated.

Just ...

I don't want anything.

They do not want incense and donations from believers, nor do they want statues and temples from believers, and they do not covet beauty at all...

They even treat illnesses and injuries for believers for free.

This kind of cult is the most terrifying.

Because he does not seek anything, he can establish a stronger impression of "sacred and selfless" in the hearts of the people.

However, those in high positions can see it at a glance.

The less you seek, the bigger your ambition will be.

Ping An Dao, this mysterious Taoist organization suddenly emerged from Baojiao County. Along with their appearance, disasters and epidemics also emerged. Then they claimed to treat diseases for free and use talismans to heal injuries...

The key is that those talisman waters are really effective!
This item alone is enough to completely compete with Yaowangtang, one of the three major forces in the county.

Taking away someone's wealth is tantamount to killing their parents.

Yaowangtang sells medicine. If you provide free medical treatment and use talismans and water to save lives, how can Yaowangtang continue to do business?
………………

Caishikou was a dirty and messy place, filled with rotten vegetable leaves, fruits, pears and peaches, and the smell of pigs, sheep, fish and shrimps.

Not far away, the intersection where the people of Baojiao County usually came to buy vegetables had been completely cleared, and the people were blocked twenty feet away.

The four intersections were guarded by soldiers from the county government, and no one could get close to the twenty-zhang range.

In the middle of the intersection, there was no execution platform, only nine figures kneeling on the ground, all with black cloths on their heads and wearing white prison uniforms. Their crimes were written on wooden signs hanging around their necks.

The wheels are rolling.
Chen Ku followed the prison van that was escorting Ni Kun to Caishikou and stood among the people. He watched Ni Kun being escorted off the prison van, handcuffed, and kneeling with the ten men.

Ni Kun was forced to kneel there, close to being beheaded. No one could remain calm at this moment. Even a notorious bandit would be terrified, with legs trembling.

This is the instinct of human nature, the greatest fear between life and death!
In order to overcome or divert the great fear of death, Ni Kun knelt down with the nine death row prisoners, staring intently at Chen Ku who was in the crowd:

“You little thief! You little thief! Even after I die and become a ghost, I will haunt you and make sure you die a miserable death! Ahhhh, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die ahhhh…”

The more he gritted his teeth, the more his teeth chattered in fear, and he could hardly speak clearly.

"I...I don't want to die..."

Chen Ku stood among the people. Although he had killed people before, those people died very quickly, not like the scene now...

All death row inmates know that they are about to die. This countdown to death is the most torturous and painful, even more terrifying than the moment of death.

Chen Ku noticed that several death row inmates, whose faces were covered with black cloth, were trembling all over and had feces and urine flowing everywhere.

"I remember watching some interviews in my previous life. Even the most vicious death row inmates would have their shit and urine all over the floor when they were executed, and their whole body would convulse before they died..."

Chen Ku looked at the various postures of the ten death row inmates at the intersection, feeling complicated. Only then did he realize that the mood he felt when he killed people was different from the mood he felt when he was witnessing the execution of the death row inmates.

Suddenly, he noticed that among the ten death row prisoners, even a great thief like Ni Kun, who was in the Inner Qi realm, was shaking all over before dying, his lips trembling, and he was so scared that he was like a madman...

However, there was a death row inmate whose head was covered with a black cloth, whose face could not be seen. He knelt there straight and motionless, perhaps because he was numb or had calmly accepted his fate. "This person has a good mentality."

Just as Chen Ku was looking at the death row inmate with admiration, who was different from the other death row inmates in terms of calmness.

At the end of the execution ground, a county lieutenant in black official uniform sat on a grandmaster chair with a square table in front of him. He gently picked up a cup of tea, took a sip and asked, "Three quarters past noon, how much time is left?"

The county lieutenant is the third in command under the county magistrate.

During the Daji Dynasty, each county had one seventh-rank official, two eighth-rank officials, and some ninth-rank officials, such as the chief clerk, inspectors, and the heads of the three shifts and six departments.

The only seventh-rank official was the county’s judge, Shangguan Yun.

He has two deputies. One is the county magistrate, who assists him in handling county affairs and is the "prime minister" of a county. There is another one whose status is slightly lower than that of the county magistrate, that is, the county lieutenant. He is an official in charge of criminal and judicial affairs such as catching thieves and maintaining public security. His rank is generally slightly lower than that of the county magistrate. He is also one of the county magistrate's deputies and the third in command of a county.

The person sitting on the execution stand now is Ma Tianlin, the third-in-command of Baojiao County.

"Your Excellency, there is still half a quarter of an hour left."

"No need to waste even a moment!"

County Magistrate Ma sneered coldly:
"They are all extremely vicious criminals. Let's execute them. Many people are waiting to see their blood."

"The county lieutenant has ordered that noon has arrived. Starting from left to right, identify the bodies one by one and execute them!"

Accompanied by a loud shout.

Some of the people in Caishikou had closed their eyes out of fear, while others were staring with wide eyes out of curiosity, waiting to watch.

An executioner with a red scarf on his head first took off the hood of the first person on the left. It was a man, about 30 years old. After verifying his identity, he raised his knife and cut him off...

"hiss……"

Chen Ku listened to the series of fears and gasps of the people around him, and then saw the head of that good man rolling to the ground.

"Hurry, hurry, dip the blood while it's hot. Hurry up if you want to dip it in blood! One blood steamed bun for each person! One tael of silver!"

And at the moment the head fell to the ground, Chen Ku looked at the constables who were responsible for maintaining order at the scene and started shouting at the people around him.

"I, I, I, I need one, please excuse me, sir... My child has been infected with the plague and needs help."

Chen Ku looked at the crowd and found that many people actually opened their hands and handed over silver. The jailers immediately took a dozen steamed buns from the cage next to them, put them in their arms, ran to the neck of the man on the execution platform, and dipped the steamed buns in the blood of more than a dozen people. After coming down, they collected money with one hand and handed out steamed buns with the other.

In this round trip, he made more than ten taels of silver from a dead body and a steamed bun worth a dozen cents, and some people even didn't buy it.

"Wait for the next one. This person's blood is no longer hot. It's useless."

Chen Ku was stunned, and then his heart was chilled. It was not because of the ignorance of the people. The practice of using human blood steamed buns was a common thing in the past before the founding of the country. Needless to say, it is very common in ancient times now...

But making money from this is a bit... disgusting.

Chen Ku could not help but remain silent. As long as one was an apprentice of Yaowangtang, he would know that human blood steamed buns could not cure epidemics.

Otherwise, Chai Tiangui wouldn't have to be so grateful to Chen Ku for sending him a bait rat that could really cure all kinds of poisons.

Naturally, the government would know more about whether the blood-soaked buns can cure diseases, but they still sell them for money...

The executioner today was the county lieutenant, so naturally, this was something the lieutenant acquiesced to.

Chen Ku didn't plan to read on.

But just when he was about to turn around and leave.

[A group of demons from the Ping An Dao threw out talismans, covering this place. It is bad for the master and creates bad luck...]

A huge warning appeared in Chen Ku's mind and he looked up subconsciously.

boom! !

All I saw was a cloud of yellow talisman paper flying in the air from somewhere, landing on the shops and the ground around Caishikou, and suddenly exploding, forming waves of air that spread out.

Many people were injured in an instant.

Chen Ku was in the crowd and was also affected in an instant. He felt the fire and air waves covering him and were about to spread to him. If he didn't die, he would be seriously injured.

At the critical moment, he transformed.

(End of this chapter)