I’ve Led the Villain Astray, How Do I Fix It?

It’s a very joyful bonfire gathering and very simple barbaric people…Xu Zirong might think like this if the corpse on the grill didn’t belong to a cultivator, and he might even be impressed by such a particular and raw scene…

He felt that his bottom line had already been crossed. Even though he knew that there were still some cannibals in the Amazon jungles even in modern times, he still found it unacceptable when seeing it happen…

It’s not like he’d never seen people eaten by monsters. Back then, when he was defending Wuti city against the intrusion of monsters, countless people were beaten to death. Xu Zirong obviously wasn’t disgusted by those bloody scenes, but he really felt like vomiting with the current one.

Xu Ziyan felt very ambiguous – he certainly found it disgusting to eat human beings, but he had no reason to stop the others. After all, it had nothing to do with him.

“Ahem, let’s look somewhere else first.” No matter what, Xu Ziyan couldn’t stand it anymore. He planned to go somewhere else and return if they really couldn’t find the door.

Xu Zirong shook his brother’s sleeve lightly, “brother, isn’t there something wrong with the tree?”

Xu Ziyan raised his eyes for a glance and was surprised to find that the group of little people kept breaking open the fruit of the giant tree during the barbecue, and they were also sprinkling seeds onto the corpse.

If there were no other changes, Xu Ziyan must have thought that the fruit of the giant tree was some kind of seasoning, but what shocked him more was that the corpse started to take root after the seeds were being sprinkled.

That’s right, they were really sprouting.

They saw some wicker-like branches constantly emerging from the corpse. These branches continued to extend towards the giant tree, then merged into the huge root system of the giant tree.

These little people were led by an old one with a cane. They knelt down towards the giant tree, praying with words.

Of course, Xu Ziyan didn’t know what they were praying for. He only knew that the giant tree absorbed the branches that had been created from the corpse, and it began to shed pieces of green light from the top. Immediately afterwards, he witnessed that someone alive was created.

Xu Ziyan: Damn it! x2

A relatively tall man began to rise continuously under the green light. After he moved, all the green light falling from the giant tree started hitting him.

There were more and more light. The tall one was getting closer and closer to that of a real human. When the green light completely disappeared, the people standing there looked exactly the same as the corpse they just put on the grill. There were even no differences in their clothings.

Neither Xu Ziyan nor the two guys with clinginess disease expected such a dramatic change. The cultivator who had just grown up (in its true sense) saluted the giant tree respectfully, then left in a hurry. The rest of the group began to feast, eating up the remaining parts of the corpse and started the next sacrificial activity.

“Damn it, is this a monster?” Xu Ziyan was totally in a bad mood. Damn, they were still resisting the demons here, how could they know that there was a group of little men using secret methods to turn themselves into normal humans?

“Brother, don’t worry. Haven’t you noticed that there aren’t many of them here? The main thing that can create such a big effect is certainly the true. Moreover, if they want to turn themselves into a human, they must first have the corpse of a cultivator. I don’t think they’re numerous enough to cause troubles.” Xu Zirong observed more carefully and soon discovered the key point.

Xu Ziyan agreed after thinking about it. First, not many people could enter the fragmented continent, and even if all the little people successfully turned themselves into real cultivators, they couldn’t cause any big incidents in any world of cultivation.

It’s all because they weren’t numerous enough.

People living in primitive tribes were mostly short-lived and weren’t very fertile. It was purely a dream to rule the world with such a small group of people.

He was really worrying too much.

Xu Zirong gently squeezed his brother’s fingers and smiled, “my brother is kind-hearted, that’s why you’re worrying.”

Xu Ziyan wasn’t flattered at all by this compliment. He glanced at Xu Zirong suspiciously and felt that he’s much more normal than Tianle, or perhaps it’s just his illusion.

(Xu Zirong’s proud look: this is the power of contrast!)

(Tianle: == It seems that my knee hurts just now.)

For this group of little people, Xu Ziyan had no intention of massacring them all. Even if the scene of cannibalism was a bit disgusting, but he had to obey to natural selection and he wasn’t supposed to interfere in the evolution of a new group.

He squeezed Xu Zirong discreetly, signaling him to leave together, but Tianle suddenly pointed to the big tree and asked, “Eh? Look, is there a light curtain door?”

Xu Ziyan looked in the direction he was pointing at, and suddenly became speechless =口=.

Damn it, it really became true! The light curtain door of this continent was actually on the canopy of that giant tree, so how were they supposed to get through it?

It was impossible to do so by flying on a sword, and they already tried it at the beginning. Once they flew, a huge force would be generated on the ground, pulling them off the sword.

Tianle, who was unwilling to give up, tried several times, but he never succeeded.

“Are we…supposed to climb a tree now?” Xu Ziyan looked at the looming light curtain door on the treetop and smiled helplessly.

Although the little people looked ugly, Xu Ziyan didn’t look down on their attack power.

During the next sacrifices, he saw one of the group of cultivators that they met before, who could chase so many cultivators until they wet their pants. This group of little men should never be underestimated.

“Then what should we do? We have to pass.” Tianle spread his hands lazily.

Xu Ziyan thought hard for a long while and finally agreed to Xu Zirong’s plan. First, he sent blood monsters to test it out and see what they would be capable of.

A tiny blood rat quietly approached the giant tree.

Not long after, Xu Zirong’s facial expression changed drastically, “my blood monster just collapsed.”

“What? Is it dead?” Xu Ziyan asked in surprise.

“It’s not dead, it’s collapsed.” Xu Zirong shook his head with a confused expression.

He raised his head to look in the direction of the giant tree, flicked his finger slightly, and soon a drop of red blood essence burst through the air and merged into his body.

He waved his hand, and an identical blood rat jumped out from his side. If he didn’t know that Xu Zirong didn’t like to collect blood monsters of the same kind, Xu Ziyan would definitely think that this rat and the one just now were twins.

“What’s going on here?” Xu Ziyan asked in surprise.

If Xu Zirong’s blood monster was dead, he could only get the blood essence of another monster to re-coagulate, but no one ever heard that the blood essence of a dead blood monster could return.

Xu Zirong narrowed his eyes slightly, with a playful expression on his face, “it seems…that it’s not dead, but that the spells that maintained this blood monster has collapsed.”

Xu Ziyan: …

Why did he suddenly feel like he’d lost all his acquired knowledge?

“The spell has collapsed? It sounds interesting.” Tianle’s eyes lit up, and he took out a rat with mechanics from the pocket.

This mechanic rat looked rough, the camouflage hair on its outer skin had already fallen off. Perhaps it had been used for too long.

Tianle opened the belly of the mechanic rat, stuffed a small piece of spiritual stone inside before letting it go.

After a while…

Tianle said blankly, “I’ve lost contact with my rat.”

“So we can’t even use a mechanic one?” Xu Ziyan asked in surprise.

Tianle nodded in a serious manner, “luckily, I still have a backup plan, or my little shell wouldn’t come back.”

Xu Ziyan: == This guy actually named a mechanical rat…

As Tianle said, the mechanism rat got out of the grass after a while.

Tianle poked Xu Ziyan with his finger.

“Why?” Xu Ziyan looked at him.

Tianle said with no expressions on his face, “go and ask it.”

“Ask who?” Xu Ziyan was at a loss.

Tianle showed a moment of ferocity. Then, he turned his face vigorously, and pointed at the mechanism rat.

Xu Ziyan walked over in a daze and asked the wooden mechanic rat, “what happened just now?”

He saw a dim shadow rising from the mechanism rat, and the shadow replied, “when the mechanism rat gets close to those little people, the array inside failed, so I brought him back.”

Xu Ziyan: Damn it! Isn’t this a ghost? Although it’s a little lighter, it’s certainly a real ghost!

Tianle, aren’t you afraid of ghosts? Why are you carrying one with you?!

After the ghost answered, it quickly retracted into the mechanism rat. It seemed to understand that Tianle didn’t want to see it at all.

Xu Ziyan touched his chin and looked at the sky, “didn’t you say that you’re afraid of ghosts?”

Tianle glanced at his face angrily, “my master told me to either bring him or a dozen super ugly ghosts. What would you choose if you were me?”

Xu Ziyan: …Hehe…it certainly takes a maniac master to teach a manic disciple…

Xu Ziyan wiped his face vigorously and decided to get over with the topic about maniacs.

He picked up the mechanic rat and returned it to Tianle, who immediately put the thing in his pocket.

“So, as long as you approach those little people, your own spells will be invalid, and even the spells wouldn’t work?” Xu Ziyan concluded.

Xu Zirong thought for a while and nodded.

“Then if we want to fight them, we must rely on physical strength?” Xu Ziyan asked suddenly.

Xu Zirong was stunned for a moment. Generally, most duels among cultivators rely on spells. Although there were a few physical cultivators who were known for their strength, most of them were still relatively weak.

Although he looked down on the ignorance of those little people, he would not underestimate their strength. And although they were pretty short, their arms must be incredibly strong.