Chosen One, how did I end up as the villain?

"He was planted here by someone; the bones of his legs are still inside, though they are twisted and deformed, and his flesh has taken root in the soil!"

Upon hearing this, Shen Wan'er thought for a moment.

"So, according to this, this person should be a Nightmare Eater, but because of his different growth path, he has become this way."

Shen Huainian nodded. "His neural network is spread across the branches, and those branches must be his head."

"But what about these corpses?"

Shen Wan'er pointed to the pile of mutilated corpses and asked.

"During the fight, I saw that a large portion of these corpses had very deep cuts on their necks, and since there was no blood in their bodies, I guessed that they had been bled out."

"bloodletting?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Wan'er walked to the vicinity of the corpses. She squatted down to examine them and found that the nearby corpses all had wounds on their necks.

Judging from the appearance, it seems to have been caused by a knife cut; it was quite deep and reached the throat bone.

"Could it be a Nightmare Devourer fed with blood?"

Shen Huainian shook her head. "It doesn't seem like it. You saw it yourself just now; these branches are already connected to the corpses. They've been fused with the flesh and blood of the Nightmare Devourer. Bleeding them out is pointless. I think that blood is for their use!"

As he spoke, he pointed to the beautiful herbs.

"You mean watering!"

"That's right!"

Qin Huaiyu came to this conclusion by judging by the smell of blood, which was stronger the closer one got to the herb garden.

"How despicable! To use human blood as nourishment, they truly treat human life like a game!"

Shen Wan'er clenched her delicate fists. She had only heard her master say before that some malicious cultivators would use blood to cultivate herbs in order to make them grow faster.

Seeing it with my own eyes now is truly unacceptable; so many ordinary people died for a few medicinal herbs.

She was deeply troubled.

"Since these herbs have been carefully cultivated, let's wait here. I want to see who this ruthless person really is."

"it's useless."

Qin Huaiyu shook his head helplessly.

"How could it be useless? Could that person have forgotten their precious possession?"

"I can't forget it, but I won't come back!"

Qin Huaiyu looked at the dead Nightmare Eater.

"This thing is clearly a guardian of the creation. Do you think it wouldn't have some connection with its owner? It's been at least an hour or two since we entered. If it were going to come, it would have come long ago. If I'm not mistaken, it should have abandoned this place."

"How could that be? Would he really give up these elixirs?" Shen Wan'er frowned.

"What if there is something more important than the elixir?"

"you mean?"

Shen Wan'er frowned and pondered for a moment, then seemed to have come up with an answer and said:

"identity!"

Not bad, you even figured it out. My personal instruction was worthwhile.

Qin Huaiyu said with great satisfaction:

"Well, this also proves one possibility."

This person's identity is shady and they have deeper schemes to hide, which they dare not expose.

"If one medicinal herb garden is like this, and we don't find the person soon, who knows how many more people will suffer!" Shen Wan'er said in a deep voice.

This damn sense of justice, woman, this is a nightmare!

Qin Huaiyu sighed and rubbed his forehead, saying helplessly:

"The current clues are limited and cannot be verified at all. This matter cannot be rushed, especially since there is still the Hidden Spirit Temple issue to be resolved!"

"Can......."

Shen Wan'er wanted to say something, but she swallowed it back as soon as she opened her mouth. She was unwilling, but she was too busy to do so.

Seeing this, Qin Huaiyu turned to look at the little girl who was still in a daze.

"Girl, are you alright?"

The little girl nodded mechanically, seemingly still reeling from the shock of what she had just witnessed.

"Your brother is asking you, didn't you see it last time you came?"

Qin Huaiyu pointed to the so-called "tree".

"I've seen it, but it doesn't move!" the little girl said with a pained expression.

Forehead?

Qin Huaiyu raised an eyebrow.

"It's very likely that the noise Xiao Rui made didn't disturb it!" Shen Wan'er said after thinking for a moment.

"I think so!"

Qin Huaiyu forced a smile. "Alright, since that person has given up the spiritual medicine, let's take it. It'll save these things from harming people!"

"........."

Shen Wan'er, why does this sound so awkward?

The little girl shook her head.

"What's with all those expressions? I'm just thinking of others, I'm incredibly kind!"

After saying that, he plunged into the medicinal herb garden.

"What a disgrace! This is so embarrassing!"

Shen Wan'er covered her face and ran inside.

The soil, nourished by blood, tinged with reddish-black, and the two men trod upon it, mercilessly acting as harvesting machines.

It took about fifteen minutes.

They returned laden with their loot, and guided by the little girl, they passed through the town of Dunzhen and returned to the Shen family.

.........

Yinling Temple

Inside a meditation room.

"Slap"

A loud, crisp sound rang out.

Kongzhi sat upright on a futon, his former kind and gentle face now replaced by a distorted expression.

At his feet was a teacup shattered into countless pieces, while opposite him, Kukai stood trembling with fear.

"Tell me, what exactly happened?"

Kukai, speaking in a high-pitched voice, said fearfully, "According to the news from down the mountain, it's Qin Huaiyu."

That kid caught the black rat through Zheng Laizi, and that spineless rat had no guts to confess everything in front of a bunch of townspeople, and...