In the states of Shen State, villages and tribes are autonomous. The handling of all affairs in the village, including the power of life and death of villagers, is in the hands of the village elders. Although this makes the power in the hands of a small number of people excessive, it also saves the Shen State court.
A lot of manpower.
At this time, a murder case was being tried in this village.
Outside the simple courthouse built with thatched grass, dozens of villagers stood outside and peered around.
In the trial court, two strong men were holding a thin man in custody. The thin man was still struggling. One person hit him on the crook of the leg with a thick wooden stick, and he could only kneel down heavily.
An old man wearing a hat, with white hair and beard, sat on the chair directly in front of him, holding a wooden staff that symbolized power. He knocked on the ground hard, with a gloomy face, and gritted his teeth and said: "Aragu, you actually
If you dare to murder my nephew Toji, I will stone you to death according to the village rules. What else can you say?"
Alagu was pushed to the ground, still struggling, his eyes were bloodshot, and he said with great grief and anger: "Toji wanted to insult my fiancée, and he slipped and fell and was injured. You didn't punish him, but you wanted to kill me. God is here."
Heaven is watching, everything you did during your lifetime will lead you to hell after death!"
The old man's eyes flashed with cold light: "You said that Toji himself was injured, but someone clearly saw you beating him and brought the witness."
Two men walked in from outside, pointed at the thin man kneeling on the ground, and said, "It's him. We saw him beating Toji with our own eyes."
The thin man looked sad. The two men wanted to rape his fiancée, but they were dehumanized by the immortals. They held a grudge and took revenge on him. At this time, he had infinite anger in his heart, but he was unable to resist.
The old man knocked his scepter heavily on the ground and said majestically: "Alago, as the lowest untouchable, you dare to hurt the nobles. You should be sentenced to death according to law. Now I sentence you to death by stoning. Someone come and kill him."
Take him down and execute him immediately!"
The thin man was taken out and pushed into a pit.
Someone filled the pit with sand and soil, and he was buried in the soil from the waist down, unable to move. A pile of stones were piled up not far away, ranging from as big as a fist to as small as a baby's head. These were used for executions.
When someone was sentenced to death by stoning, villagers in the village would line up and throw stones at him until he was completely dead.
This kind of punishment is very cruel, but the most cruel thing is that the relatives and friends of the victim are also required to participate in the execution. Just before Alagu was executed, a woman rushed over like crazy and said loudly:
"Alagu, alagu!"
However, as soon as she got close, someone forced her away.
A man limped to the sand pit. Half of Alagu's body was buried in the soil, and his hands were tied behind his back. The man had a mocking expression on his face, patted Alagu's face hard, and said
: "Aragu, you can go to hell without any worries, I will help you take good care of Althea... Ah, you untouchable, please let me go!"
Two of Toji's fingers were bitten, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He put his foot on Alagu's chest. When he withdrew his hand, his fingers were bleeding. He wrapped his injured fingers with a handkerchief and strode out of the sand pit.
, gritted his teeth and said: "Smash him to death, crush him to death for me!"
When the execution began, everyone picked up the stones on the ground and threw them into the sand pit. Alagu was buried in the sand pit, unable to escape, and soon suffered a bloody head.
Toji still couldn't understand his hatred and ordered the two men behind him: "Bring Aisiya to my house. I want to show this untouchable what happens if you offend a noble!"
Two of his men received the order and forcibly dragged Althea away in front of dozens of villagers.
Alagu, who was buried in the sand pit, had bloodshot eyes and roared like a wild beast, but he was trapped in the sand pit and could not move at all.
On the other side, Asia used all her strength to break away from the two of them. She looked back at Alagu and said sadly: "Alagu, Asia will still be your wife in the next life!"
After saying that, she hit the stone wall with her head. A bloody flower bloomed on the stone wall, and Althea's body fell softly.
Toji's men stretched out their fingers, probed between Aisia's breath, stood up, and said in disbelief: "Master Toji, she is dead..."
Toji shook his hand unhappily and said angrily: "This stupid woman, just die when she dies. She is just a pariah. She will be dragged down and buried in a while."
After speaking, he crossed his arms and watched coldly as everyone executed Alagu.
After Althea committed suicide, the figure in the sand pit let out a roar and stood there in a daze, motionless.
A hard stone fell on him, and he didn't dodge or dodge. He just looked at Althea's body with blank eyes.
At a certain moment, all the executioners, including Toji, suddenly shivered inexplicably.
The temperature around them seemed to have dropped, and they felt as if a huge boulder was being pressed on their chests. Above the sky, the wind and clouds were changing, and there was a strong wind on the ground, flying sand and rocks. Everyone ignored the execution and covered their faces with their sleeves, hiding under the ground.
Behind the stone wall.
In the sand pit, half of his body was buried. Alagu broke the rope tied to his hands, put his hands on the ground, and pulled his body out of the sand pit.
His eyes turned blood red. He took a step forward and his body disappeared on the spot. The next time he appeared, he was already in front of Toji.
Toji opened his mouth in shock, but before he could speak, Alagu punched him on the head.
boom!
Toji's head exploded like a watermelon, and there were two more bangs. Two of his men also died on the spot.
Seeing this, everyone fled in panic. Alagu walked to Althea's body, the blood in his eyes slowly faded, he slowly squatted down, holding his head in pain, choking.
Soon, a figure flew out of the village.
It was a man wearing a white robe. He was walking in the air. When the villagers saw him, they all knelt down and worshiped, shouting "Master Priest".
The man pointed with both hands, and the ground under Alagu's feet suddenly became extremely soft, sinking his whole body into it.
Then, the land became hard again, and Alagu only had his head outside.
The man in white robe stood in the air and said majestically: "Bold pariah, how dare you be so presumptuous!"
Under the ground, Alagu took a deep breath, the ground that trapped him cracked open, and he jumped out of the ground.
When the man in white robe saw this man's expression changed, he grabbed a spear from behind and stabbed Alagu, but Alagu reached out and grabbed it. With a little force, he snatched it away from the man in white robe.
Spear, casually bent it and threw it aside.
The man in white robe could not do this himself. When he saw this scene, he was frightened and flew away as if desperate.
At this time, two more figures descended from the sky.
Li Mu didn't expect to see this young man from the Shen Kingdom again. What surprised him was that when he saw him for the first time, he was just a mortal, and now he already had the aura of the fourth realm in his body.
It seems that the change in the power of heaven and earth just now was because of this person.
Although this young man has not practiced, he has obviously inspired the power of heaven and earth to imbue his body. When Xiaoyu moved the heaven and earth with his mantra, he was promoted to the fifth realm in an instant. The situation of this young man from the Shen Kingdom was entirely because of his specialness.
constitution.
The natural spiritual body awakens and has one and only opportunity to be imbued.
However, because he has never practiced and knows nothing about cultivation, he currently has an empty realm and does not have the strength of the fourth realm.
After the young man glanced at Li Mu and Ao Chengxin, he looked down at the woman's body on the ground and without hesitation, he hit the stone wall beside him.
Boom!
With one impact, the stone wall collapsed, but he was still standing where he was.
He looked down at his hands, then touched his head, with a confused look on his face.
Li Mu asked in Shen Guo dialect: "What are you doing?"
The young man looked at Li Mu with sorrow in his eyes and said, "Asia is dead. I will go with her. Even if we become ghosts, we will still be together."
Althea is the Shen woman that Li Mu casually rescued last time. At this moment, her body is lying on the ground in front of Li Mu.
Li Mu looked at the corpse on the ground and said to the young man: "Since you love each other so much, there is no need to die..."
He stretched out two fingers and touched the young man's eyes.
Alagu realized that he saw Althea again. He ran over excitedly and wanted to hug her, but he passed directly through her body.
Li Mu walked over and said: "She is just a Yin spirit now. She needs to practice to condense her body. That's all. Since we are destined to meet again, I will help you again."
He formed a seal with his hands, and after a wave of power from heaven and earth, Althea's body slowly solidified.
She was already dead, and Li Mu had no way to resurrect her, so he could only help her temporarily gather her body.
A man and a woman hugged each other again, excited.
Some things do not respect national boundaries. The relationship between this couple moved Li Mu quite a lot. Since he was already meddling in other people's business, he decided to help others to the end. Li Mu planned to teach the two of them how to practice. With Alagu's talent,
Not practicing is a waste. Although Althea has no talent, as long as they practice to the third level, the two of them can be a normal couple.
He lightly touched the foreheads of one person and one ghost with his fingers, transmitting the relevant information into their minds.
"Thank you benefactor!"
The couple knelt down on the ground again and kowtowed to thank Li Mu.
Alagulian kowtowed a few times, raised his head and asked Li Mudao: "Is your benefactor from Da Zhou?"
Li Mu nodded and did not deny it.
Alagu said with infinite longing: "I heard that everyone is equal in the Great Zhou, and nobles will be punished if they break the law. Anyone can practice, and women will be protected... Compared to your Great Zhou, this is a country of demons.
"
Li Mudao: "The Great Zhou Dynasty was not as beautiful as you said from the beginning. It was because of the leadership of the extremely wise Queen that the Great Zhou Dynasty became what it is today."
Alagu lowered his head and said: "Our emperor will only promulgate laws that benefit the nobles. They will not care about us untouchables."
Li Mu looked at him and said meaningfully: "A happy life must be created with one's own hands. All the oppressed people in the Shen Kingdom can change the world if they unite..."
After saying that, he said calmly: "As you wish, let's go."
Two streams of light streaked across the sky again, and Alagu watched them go away. Until the light disappeared from the end of his sight, he looked down at his hands and murmured: "All oppressed people, unite..."
…
When he returned to Nanjun, Li Mu already had preliminary ideas in his mind about the Shen Kingdom.
Although there have been frequent frictions between the two countries recently, neither the Great Zhou nor the Shen Kingdom will easily go to war with each other. The Shen Kingdom does not have the strength to go to war. Although the Great Zhou Dynasty has the strength, there is no need to go to war. After all, it is very difficult to go to war.
For a long period of time, the national policy of the Zhou Dynasty was peaceful development.
It is best to let the Shen Kingdom stir up chaos on its own. Logically speaking, given the domestic situation in the Shen Kingdom, countless people are widely oppressed, and they will resist when the oppression reaches the extreme. It is difficult for such a regime to be stable.
However, most of the most ruthlessly oppressed untouchables in the Shen Kingdom are restricted by sects and have deep-rooted slave ideas. They are willing to be oppressed and naturally will not resist. Moreover, they cannot practice cultivation. Even if they have the intention to resist, they do not have the strength to resist.
What they need is guidance. Although these people have no strength, their telepathy is of great use.
Li Mu could see that Alagu was different from other lower-class people, but his strength was too weak to be of great use for the time being. He just planted a seed in Alagu's heart.
Right now, he needs someone with absolute strength and ability to break into the Shen Kingdom to complete this matter.
There are many strong people that the Enshrinement Department can mobilize, and they can be used to fight and guide the oppressed people of Shen State. No one in the entire Enshrinement Department can take on this important task.
If it really doesn't work, Li Mu can only do it himself.
But as a last resort, Li Mu didn't want to do it himself, which meant that he had to stay in Shen State all the time. This was something Li Mu was quite resistant to.
Speaking of which, officials in the imperial court are actually the most suitable for this kind of thing. Their cultivation level may not be very high, but they have been in the imperial court for many years and they are all old foxes. They definitely do one thing after another when doing this kind of thing.
Without ability and strength, it is difficult to gain a foothold in Shen State.
This matter can only be discussed in the long term. The affairs in Nanjun have been settled for the time being. Li Mu will leave Ao Run here to ensure that the border waterway is worry-free, and he and Chengxin return to the capital of God, planning to discuss it slowly with the queen.
However, before arriving at the Divine Capital, on the flying boat, Li Mu's expression suddenly changed.
Just now, he suddenly felt that the distraction attached to the eight sixth-level monster corpses he had suddenly lost contact with the soul.
Immediately afterwards, the second distraction also disappeared inexplicably.
Li Mu stayed with Fan Ji all of those ten monster corpses. They were so far apart, and although Li Mu couldn't control them with distraction, there was always an extremely weak connection between the distraction and the soul.
If the induction disappears, it means something happened to the demon corpse.
Li Mu stood on the flying boat. After hesitating for a moment, he changed direction and headed straight for Thousand Fox Country.