Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 123 - 95: Sinister Curse! The Burning Buddhist Sect Scripture! (Seeking First Subscription)_3

Chapter 123: Chapter 95: Sinister Curse! The Burning Buddhist Sect Scripture! (Seeking First Subscription)_3

His release was like the tipping of a domino, causing the rest of the tense-faced, bamboo-stick wielding people to also let go.

Yun Jiuqing, who observed this scene from behind, was dumbfounded! She felt... that Daoist Priest Fan’s actions were a bit too brutish. Isn’t this too intimidating?

However, Yun Jiuqing couldn’t deny that Daoist Priest Fan’s approach was highly efficient.

Indeed.

The gaunt peasants no longer dared to lift their "weapons."

"Ah, this..."

Yun Jiuqing scratched her head, feeling that Daoist Priest Fan was doing something improper, yet also acknowledging that what he did was very useful.

Damn, her scalp was so itchy! Could it be, she was growing a brain?

"Could you tell me where you come from? What happened that led you to such a plight?" Fan Wu wasn’t someone who liked to meddle in others’ affairs, unless he discovered Free Attribute Points in those affairs.

His proactive inquiry was because he smelled the scent of Free Attribute Points on these people!

If not for Fan Wu’s exceptionally keen sense of smell, he might not have noticed... the faint strange scent emanating from these emaciated individuals. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

This scent was very weak...

It wasn’t specters.

It was something weird!

This meant that these people had encountered something weird or specters at least in the past half month!

Fan Wu’s questions were directed at the man who had just fallen on his rear on the ground.

As the man raised his head in pain and saw Fan Wu looking at him, he shivered, feeling extremely insignificant before Fan Wu.

The man swallowed nervously.

Although there wasn’t the slightest hint of a murderous intent from Fan Wu, the man still felt that if he didn’t answer... the consequences could be particularly grim! The towering Daoist Priest before him really seemed like a homicidal maniac!

His lips trembled as he began to speak: "We... We people have fled all the way from Dong’an Prefecture and arrived at Yinghe Prefecture. We... we didn’t expect to encounter Taoist Priest you on the way, we did not intend to offend Taoist Priest you."

"If... if Taoist Priest you finds us too eye-catching, we can leave this place. We can set up camp further away and we will not hinder Taoist Priest you."

The man’s response was practiced and humble, like one who was frequently persecuted.

And why did it feel like he, Fan Wu, appeared to be a big villain?

As if he were a brutish ruffian bullying men and tyrannizing women?!

Fan Wu twitched at the corner of his mouth, but he did not elaborate on this, instead, he continued to the man, "I just asked you two questions, and you have only answered the first one for me."

With a bitter expression, the man said, "Taoist Priest, sir, I... I really dare not say! To speak of it would be taboo! If I do, I will be cursed!"

"Some among us have already been cursed! There are already people who have died because of the curse, ah!"

"Curse?" Fan Wu’s eyes narrowed.

It seemed.

His sense of smell hadn’t failed him.

The thing about curses, they were either related to weird creatures, specters, or some malevolent practises.

All three, to Fan Wu, were Free Attribute Points delivered to his doorstep!

There was no question of letting this opportunity slip by.

"We these people..." The man was about to say something when he suddenly shuddered and dared not speak any further. His thoughts raced, and ultimately, he said cautiously, "We have all been cursed, and about the specific situation... I want to say it, but I can’t."

"Just like I told you just now, once spoken, the curse on us will act up. The curse will follow us for life, until the day we die."

"We just couldn’t stay there any longer, so we tried to get away from that place in order to break free from the curse."

"But after we arrived at Yinghe Prefecture, we discovered..."

"It’s useless!!"

"Amitabha!" Monk Zhi Kong had approached at some point without anyone noticing. He looked around at each person’s gaunt face, then at the man with the bitter expression, and said, "Donor, you may speak freely. I am a monk from the Hanling Temple, Nanjun Prefecture Government, and I know some Buddhist methods to drive away evil."

He took out a Buddhist scripture and handed it to the man, saying, "Donor, you only need to hold this scripture in both hands, and the Buddha will protect you from the curse."

"Donor, there’s no need to worry, this scripture has been consecrated by a high monk of Hanling Temple and possesses a certain power to suppress evil."

The man accepted the scripture in a daze, feeling, as soon as he touched it, as if the scripture were a warm stove.

It’s hard to imagine a book could be so hot to the touch.

"Is it... is it true?" the man asked, "Can it really... truly suppress the curse?"

"It should be able to," replied Monk Zhi Kong.

The man looked back at his fellow villagers behind him, each one thinner and weaker, with hollow cheeks and lifeless faces.

He then looked at the monk, the Taoist priest, and the young master of the wealthy Fu Family in front of him.

Clenching his teeth, a determined look flashed in his eyes.

Holding the Buddhist scripture in his hands, he began, "We are from Dawu Village, Shuize County, Dong’an Prefecture. Shuize County is on the very outskirts of Dong’an Prefecture, and our Dawu Village is even more remote."

"It takes five days to reach Yinghe Prefecture from there, even if you walk day and night without stopping. We fled to Yinghe Prefecture from Dong’an Prefecture because we could hardly survive there any longer!"

"The crops we raise can barely feed us after we pay a portion of the harvest as grain tax to the Imperial Court..."

"But then one day, people from the county yamen suddenly came to our Dawu Village with a strange idol. They told us—this is the Earth Deity brought to Shuize County."

"They asked us to give offerings to the Earth Deity..."

He paused here.

Suddenly, the man realized that the scripture he was holding had become extremely hot.

He stopped speaking abruptly.

He quickly looked down.

To his shock, he saw that the edges of the Buddhist scripture were emitting sparks!

"High monk, what... what is this?" The man was so frightened he didn’t know if he should throw the scripture away.

Seeing this, Monk Zhi Kong’s expression changed dramatically.

"Discard it quickly!" he immediately said.

The man did as he was told, hastily opening his hands to release the scripture, which fell to the ground...

In an instant!

Flames burst forth!

The burning scripture rapidly turned to ashes, which were then scattered by a gentle puff of wind.

Looking at the remains of the scripture, Monk Zhi Kong said with a grave tone, "Amitabha... can the curse really be so powerful, affecting us from a whole prefecture away? Even if Shuize County is not far from Yinghe Prefecture, this curse is extremely dangerous!"

"Just what kind of vile and deceitful being would cast such a malicious curse upon innocent people?!"

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