I Become a Martial Arts God in the Chaotic Demon World-Chapter 96 This is the god you worshipped, now it’s dead! (Added more for Alliance Hierarch Blowing Away the Clouds)

Han Zheng's judgment was not mistaken; he wasn't taking a gamble, he was nearly certain that only if he got close could there be hope of slaying the Mountain God.

Moreover, it seemed that Han Zheng had inadvertently disrupted the Mountain God's cultivation, causing the Pill Furnace beneath it to fail and igniting half of its body.

Those girls who had been assimilated by it had their three souls and seven spirits trapped by the Mountain God, unable to transcend after death.

Now, as soon as Han Zheng severed a single root, it would be devoured by the vengeful spirits it had trapped.

"Don't kill me! I am a Great Demon under the command of the Black Mountain Demon King, If you kill me, the Black Mountain Demon King will pursue you relentlessly until death!"

The tree deity, weakened, roared, but its voice was no longer as arrogant as before, but rather tinged with a hint of panic.

"So, even you demons are afraid of death."

Han Zheng scoffed disdainfully.

Beneath the sharp blade, demons were no different from humans.

Even the most ferocious creatures, when faced with death, were afraid like any other.

Over there, Ye Liuyun and the other two, who were utterly exhausted, also heaved a sigh of relief when they saw this scene.

They hadn't expected that such a massive Great Demon would truly be defeated by them, now begging for mercy like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

However, Han Zheng showed no mercy, his movements with the Autumn Water Shocking Swallow in hand growing fiercer. In a moment's effort, most of the roots had been severed; only two or three remained.

But just then, Li Youde led the villagers of the Li Family Village, armed with bows and arrows, hunting knives, and long spears, surging over.

"Save the Mountain God! By no means can we let them kill the Mountain God!"

Now, Li Youde's face did not show the groveling obsequiousness of before, only a ferocious and ruthless expression.

The moment he had learned that the Demon Cleansing Department was clashing with the Mountain God, he had made his decision.

He could not let the people from the Demon Cleansing Department kill the Mountain God!

He had not been bewitched by the Mountain God; the deity's power was not of the mind.

All he knew was that if his collusion with the demon came to light, he would surely die.

Even if the Demon Cleansing Department did not implicate Li Family Village, without the Mountain God, how would their entire village survive?

Liyun Mountain, in fact, was poor in natural resources, and they were only able to live their current lives by relying on the Mountain God's protection.

Without the Mountain God, everyone would starve to death!

If it came to it, they would just kill the Demon Department's people, follow the Mountain God deep into the mountains, and continue to sacrifice to it.

Human nature is greedy, accustomed to inertia.

Accustomed to easy prey delivered to their doorsteps, they had long forgotten how their ancestors had hunted, how they had survived.

Li Youde did not need to threaten them; with a call to arms, the majority of the villagers decided to join him in saving the Mountain God and attacking the Demon Cleansing Department's people!

Ye Liuyun watched incredulously at this sight.

As a member of the Demon Cleansing Department, the local people had always treated him as a savior when he went out on missions to slay demons.

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This was the first time that, as a member of the Demon Cleansing Department, he was targeted by the local villagers.

And those whom they were supposed to protect wanted to kill them in return!

Seeing the villagers of Li Family Village charging toward the Mountain God, trying to obstruct Han Zheng, Yang Tianqi couldn't help asking, "Brother Ye, do we take action?"

Although they were exhausted and severely injured at this point, it wasn't to the extent that they could not deal with a few hunters.

Ye Liuyun was not a man of indecision, but at this moment, he hesitated subconsciously.

If the other party had been people from the Martial World or villagers controlled by the demons, he would have acted without hesitation.

But he knew very well that they were not controlled by the demon; they were just ordinary villagers.

Was he to wantonly slaughter these ordinary people?

As Ye Liuyun hesitated, those somewhat moldy bows and arrows in the hands of the hunters shot towards Han Zheng.

Though Han Zheng had yet to condense the Water and Fire Immortal Clothes, his True Martial Refinement had reached great success, and his physical body was as resilient as ordinary metal.

These ordinary bows and arrows, without the infusion of Inner Strength, could only leave a white mark on him.

A cold look flickered in Han Zheng's eyes.

He did not hesitate at all. He swung his sword imbued with Blood Slaughter Demon Qi and instantly bisected several villagers at the forefront.

Civilians?

Those who took up arms against him were no longer civilians but enemies!

True Qi materialized in his hands, attracting a short spear, which he threw with a fierce motion, instantly impaling several villagers.

Han Zheng turned around to sever the last roots of the Mountain God completely, then moved swiftly into the crowd.

Amidst a shower of blood and flying limbs, Li Youde was dragged by Han Zheng by the neck in front of the Mountain God.

"Is this the Mountain God you worship? Then today, I will show you how a god dies!"

Han Zheng activated the Dragon Elephant Prison Suppressing Power, his hands forming the Great Vajra Ming King Seal, as his blood and strength exploded and burst forth, thundering down!

Great Vajra Ming King, subdue evil and slay demons!

Accompanied by a booming roar, the colossal body of that Mountain God tree demon broke apart completely under Han Zheng's seal!

[Slain an early-stage Xuan Gang Realm Great Demon, obtained two thousand pieces of Demon Essence.]

Han Zheng, holding Li Youde's head, coldly said, "This is the god you worshipped; now it's dead."

Li Youde suddenly burst into maniacal laughter.

"I know what you want to do!

You want me to feel I was wrong, that I shouldn't have offered the girls from the village as sacrifices to the demons, you want to see me regret!

But I refuse to regret!

At first, my Li Family village had less than a hundred families, barely scraping by meal to meal, potentially falling off cliffs and losing lives just to hunt a wild rabbit.

Over the years, with Lord Mountain God's protection, my Li Family village has grown to over a thousand households, and everyone can afford to eat meat!

And what we had to give in return was merely sending Lord Mountain God a maiden each year.

I, Li Youde, can face my ancestors above and descendants below without shame, even if I die!"

Han Zheng shook his head, "I didn't want to see you regret. Whether you do or not, what is it to me?

Today, I only kill people, not judge hearts.

I just want to tell you that you can accompany your god in death!"

As his words fell, Han Zheng directly beheaded Li Youde.

He didn't bother telling Li Youde that the lives of those maidens mattered, that they were not born to be sacrificed by him.

Li Youde had gone completely mad, or to put it more accurately, he believed what he did was right, was correct.

His offerings to the demons were not out of greed, but simply as a village chief trying to better the lives of his people.

However, none of this mattered to Han Zheng; he never cared to contemplate right and wrong, good and evil.

Some things are beyond good and evil. Standing from the benefitted villagers' perspective was right, while standing with the sacrificed maidens, standing with Li Sanniang, was evil.

Han Zheng didn't speak of right or wrong, good or evil, only of friend or foe.

The other villagers had already become too frightened to approach after Han Zheng's killing spree.

After the death of Li Youde, they scattered in panic, and Han Zheng couldn't be bothered to chase after them.

Ye Liuyun and Ye Caiyun helped the exhausted Yang Tianqi over.

"Brother Han, you really dare to take action. Our Demon Cleansing Bureau has rules against slaughtering innocent people, which is seriously taboo."

Yang Tianqi said, somewhat worried.

The Demon Cleansing Bureau was originally established to eradicate demons and protect Great Zhou.

If the Demon Cleansing Bureau started to oppress the common people, then it would utterly lose the reason for its establishment.

Over the years, the Demon Cleansing Bureau could be ruthless toward demons, could be ruthless toward sects, but it couldn't be ruthless toward the common people.

Han Zheng indifferently said, "I didn't kill civilians, I killed demon accomplices."

Ye Liuyun added gravely at the side, "Brother Han is right, these are not civilians, but demon accomplices!

From the moment they picked up their swords against us, they ceased to be innocent civilians!"

Previously, Ye Liuyun had always referred to Han Zheng by his name; it wasn't until now that he began to address him as Brother Han.

Ye Liuyun was actually somewhat prideful, and among the younger generation of the Southern Mountain Demon Cleansing Department, there were fewer than ten individuals he acknowledged.

Now there was one more, and that was Han Zheng.

Not to mention strength, just in terms of mental state, Han Zheng was already far stronger than him.

In the moment when the villagers charged forward, Ye Liuyun hesitated, not striking immediately.

Yet Han Zheng made a decisive move, controlling the situation and instantly establishing superiority.

"How should we deal with this thing?"

Han Zheng glanced at the corpse of the Mountain God.

Most demons left behind nothing but rotting flesh when they died, but the physical bodies of some demons could actually be used for alchemy or as materials for artifact refining.

Some could even be consumed, though they needed to be specially processed to remove the demon energy first.

Otherwise, eating it directly, with demon energy entering the body, would be poisoning oneself.

Ye Liuyun said, "Let's head back to the Demon Cleansing Bureau first. There is a department specifically responsible for handling the aftermath that will take care of it."

After regaining some strength, the four of them left Li Family village.

As they were leaving the village, Li Sanniang knelt on the ground, weeping silently. She bowed deeply to the four of them, her head not rising for a long while.