The defeated saint is also on the way to tame the evil god today

　"Okay, time to go."

　Xingmo stood up, put the tip under the quilt, and waved to Aurora.

　The two walked to the door of the bar and were about to leave when the door was suddenly pushed open.

　"Uhhh, there's... there's something evil! Aaaaaahhh!"

　The shirtless man fell to the ground, twitching a few times, and blood continued to seep from the scars on his back.

　The bloodstains looked like they were caused by an attack from some wild beast, and there was some black liquid in the wounds.

　"Oh, here it comes," Aurora said. "Do you feel it?"

　"I feel it." Xing Mo nodded.

　While everyone's attention was focused on the man lying on the ground, Xingmo sneaked into the spirit world and Aurora tore open a rift.

　A few seconds later, the two materialized on the town's clock tower, looking towards the horizon together.

　Sparse black figures were pouring in from the entrance of the town. The mounted police had already started fighting with them. Sporadic sounds of musketry rang out throughout the town, accompanied by screams.

　"It seems that when the steamship transported that extraordinary object to New Garo, it pulled some bad things with it," Aurora said. "That looks very much like... a contaminated person?"

　To call them human beings is a bit of a stretch.

　Xingmo could vaguely make out the outlines of those things - either a broken limb crawling on the ground, dragging tentacles, or a head with limbs growing out. In short, they were all kinds of weird.

　Those things are more like fragments of people.

　Or rather...it is the "mimicry" of some kind of person.

　"They are the people of the Filthy River," Xingmo muttered. "They look difficult to deal with."

　"What do you mean? Should we help?" Aurora asked. "Actually, it's okay if we just ignore it, right?"

　""

　Xing Mo was silent for a while, then shook his head:

　"It's useless to care. There must be more than this. We can't stay here and help them forever."

　"But if I'm not mistaken... they can tell us where the great sage Thoth Ibrahim is."

Chapter 244: The Blasphemers (Part 3) -4k- (Two Updates in One)

　According to Xingmo's speculation, those "filthy people" should be the by-products of the experiments of the great sage Thoth Ibrahim.

　The steam airship carried away the Great Sage's finished product, and the filthy people followed the finished product across the desert and came here.

　The destination should be Singara.

　From this point of view, those "monsters" should be similar to the invisible fog, entangled bodies of some kind of cursed power.

　If the souls of the golden people are floating in the cursed river, then the existence of these filthy people is a mimicry of those dead souls.

　The mimicked golden people will naturally head towards New Gara.

　because of him

　They died at the hands of the Garo people.

　"We definitely can't solve it," Xingmo said. "Since even Maoyan Town can be invaded, it means that the main roads in the desert may have been crowded with these monsters for a long time."

　"We can definitely avoid it," Aurora said indifferently. "We can't touch them anyway. They did it themselves. Let them enjoy it."

　"That's true, but if we can find Thoth Ibrahim's laboratory, we should be able to find out what he has created."

　Xingmo said as he pulled out his wand and spun it around, turning it into a cane.

　"We need to find a relatively intact spirit and interrogate it."

　"You're interrogating something like this?" Aurora laughed. "Don't you think it's dirty?"

　"You will help me anyway." Xingmo smiled.

　"Oh, that makes me feel awkward."

　Aurora said this, closing her eyes and lightly grasping at the air.

　The next second, Xingmo felt a green light appear in his vision.

　Among the group of black monsters, a filthy person was marked in green.

　"That guy should be the most complete one." Aurora said.

　Xing Mo looked at the guy and saw that it was constantly devouring other filthy people around it, and from time to time it would drag a mounted policeman and his horse into its dark body for assimilation.

　It is already three meters high.

　"Hmm...it seems like it can be seen without any mark..." Xingmo complained.

　"You're so annoying~" Aurora poked Xingmo.

　"Then I'll go up, cover me from here."

　After Xing Mo finished speaking, he jumped down from the bell tower and landed on the ground with a trail of flaming feathers.

　Aurora sighed, pulled out a musket from the space beside her, and placed it on the edge of the bell tower.

　“Let’s go!”

　In front, the mounted police had retreated behind the front line. They blocked the main road with sandbags and other shelters and brought in a hand-cranked miniature machine gun.

　"Da da da da da--" Dense rain of bullets hit the filthy people on the streets, tearing those twisted monsters apart.

　But the black mountain was not shaken at all. All the filthy people who were killed were swallowed up by it, and it became bigger and bigger.

　"Concentrate your fire! Attack that big beast!" the policeman roared.

　All the hand-cranked machine guns and steam muskets were aimed at the Black Mountain. The dense tongues of fire instantly engulfed it, stirring up a black wave in it.

　But it did not suffer any damage, and the surface was torn into cracks by the bullets.

　The next second, pure flames suddenly burst out from those cracks and swept towards the battle line—

　"boom!"

　The operator of the hand-cranked machine gun was instantly engulfed in the flames, and the police officers who did not have time to retreat behind the front line were also engulfed by the flames, and their upper bodies almost immediately turned into charcoal.

　"Damn it!" the sheriff cursed. "Where's the support from New Garo? Why didn't we receive an early warning?"

　The raging flames swept across the battle line frantically. There seemed to be several cracks on Black Mountain's body, each of which was spewing flames, like a giant dragon with three heads and six arms.

　The battle line will not last long before it collapses.

　Just when the sheriff was at a loss, he heard running footsteps.

　When I turned around, I saw a girl in a veil running towards me quickly, holding a magic wand in her hand.

　"Kid! Don't run this way!" the sheriff shouted, "That guy is no ordinary monster! You..."

　Xingmo ignored the sheriff. She jumped onto the trench made of sandbags and then leaped into the air.

　Black Mountain instantly discovered Xingmo's existence, and its cracks turned, spitting out tongues of fire towards Xingmo.

　Just as Xingmo was about to be engulfed by the flames, she lightly tapped her wand—

　"boom--"

　The fire string played, and the blazing fire gently embraced Xingmo, swirling around her body, and then suddenly surged back towards Black Mountain—

　"boom--"

　A corner of the Black Mountain's expulsion was torn open by the raging fire, and the charred surface of the broken part was flashing with sparks.

　As if aware of the newcomer's strength, Heishan's body surface mutated rapidly. Hands broke out from the surface, with sharp claws growing from the fingertips, grabbing towards Xingmo.

　At this moment, gunshots were heard from the distant bell tower:

　"boom--"

　"boom--"

　"boom--"

　The ammunition imbued with the power of fire strings instantly tore all those hands apart, and the broken black limbs flew everywhere.

　Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xingmo snapped her fingers, and the scorching wind created by the fire string pushed her towards the Black Mountain like an arrow.

　At the moment she was about to touch the Black Mountain, she turned her staff and pulled out the Spine of Saint Auros.

　"bass--"

　The golden light flashed, accompanied by exploding high temperature.

　The Black Mountain was cut in half from the middle. After a brief delay, an expanding fireball exploded from the interior of the Black Mountain, instantly engulfing it.

　"boom!"

　With his back to the golden flames, Xing Mo retracted the Divine Bone Sword, tapped the ground with his cane, and struck the six strings:

　"Soul Cage."

　She waved her wand, and the lights of 2 fire, 2 shadows, and 2 ice intertwined to form an illusory blade—

　"Shhh-"

　A hole was torn in Heishan's spirit body, and a twisted soul poured out from the hole, and was immediately imprisoned in the air by Xingmo.

　"Where is your nest?" Xing Mo asked in a low voice.

　The twisted soul uttered a harsh whisper, like a curse, or like some language that had never been circulated in the world.

　Xingmo frowned and listened for a while

　Then he whispered:

　"...Can't understand."

　At this moment, Aurora's laughter sounded in her mind:

　"Pfft, idiot."

　"Do you understand?" Xing Mo glanced at the clock tower.

　"I didn't understand it either, but its meaning is very clear..."

　At this moment, a map appeared in Xingmo's mind, marking a location in the desert.

　“It tells a story instinctively, and its instinctive point is… right here.”

　Xingmo closed her eyes and carefully observed the map in her mind.

　"Isn't this near the sunrise?" Xing Mo murmured, "So close?"

　"Yes, very close. It seems our great sage is using the power associated with God to do evil."

　"Sufficient spiritual power..." Xing Mo murmured.

　The reason Xingmo wanted to perform the ascension ceremony at Sunrise Land was because Principal Merlin mentioned that "the spiritual energy in that place is very abundant."

　So, what is the great sage doing there?

　His finished product was the extraordinary object that was transported away by the steam airship, which possessed a powerful spiritual pressure.

　As a side effect, the filthy people from the Cursed River emerge from the sand sea and vent their resentment on the living.

　"Let's go there and find out what's going on." Xing Mo said, "It's near the God's residence anyway."

　"Well, shall we go?"

　"Wait a moment."

　Xing Mo turned her head and saw a man who looked like a sheriff walking out of the trench with his men and walking towards her quickly.

　"Miss, thank you for your help," the sheriff bowed deeply to Xing Mo. "I've never heard of someone like you coming to Hat Brim Town. May I ask who you are..."

　"Don't worry, you're just a traveler passing by." Xing Mo smiled.

　"Ah..." The sheriff seemed to realize that the girl in front of him did not want to reveal her identity. "Anyway, thank you for your help. We really didn't expect something like this to happen..."

　"How much do you know about those monsters?" Xing Mo asked.

　The sheriff shook his head.

　"Not much. The garden had previously issued a prevention plan for cursed objects, asking us to saturate the entire area with incense as much as possible at night, but obviously, this didn't help us."

　"It's indeed a headache," Xingmo shook her head. "Don't you have any wizards stationed in your town?"