"Good! Good! Good!"
The man shouted three "good"s in a row, and finally burst into a hearty laugh. The slightest trace of hesitation in his eyes also disappeared.
He didn't care at all whether he would live or die.
Since he picked up the big sword and went to battle to kill the enemy, he never thought he would survive.
Tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of lives were sacrificed before. Who would feel sorry for them?
Maybe when they were on the verge of death, they really had all kinds of reluctance towards this world.
But what they were most reluctant about was not seeing the day when the enemy was driven out.
What they were most reluctant about was still not driving the enemy out earlier.
What they couldn't let go of until death was all the fellow countrymen behind them and their own country.
As for their own lives and deaths, they had already put them aside.
"It's good that the country still exists and the people are still alive. It doesn't matter whether we die or not."
After the man had sighed for a long time, he finally pulled himself out of his excited state. Only then did he remember to ask about his situation.
"You just said this is a painting scroll. What do you mean by that?"
It was naturally Nian Nian who took the responsibility of explaining the painting scroll and all the things.
Including the fact that they were looking for the evil god, the little dumpling told everything without reservation.
Hearing that those people from the Sun Country dared to use the lives of their fellow countrymen and their heroic spirits to feed the evil god, the man was almost furious. The group of heroic spirits behind him even picked up their big swords and wanted to fight.
After listening to the whole process of the matter, the man only had one sentence.
"Where is the evil god? Let me go over and kill him!"
"We haven't found it yet. This is the second last layer. The evil god is on the next layer."
The little dumpling smiled brightly. This space was controlled by these heroic spirits, and she didn't feel any evil aura. Obviously, the evil god was not here.
Then there was only one last place left.
When she caught that culprit, she would definitely beat him until his soul scattered.
But now another problem arose.
What should these heroic spirits do?
The little dumpling also tried to let this man try to send them to the next layer, but the heroic spirits simply didn't know how to operate. They were not real ghosts who had cultivated properly, so of course they didn't know any operations of ghosts.
After struggling for a long time, Nian Nian took out one gourd after another from her small satchel and said, "There is another way. If you all leave this layer of space, we will be automatically transported to the next layer. But now we can't go out yet. If we want to go to the next layer, we can only trouble you uncles to go into these gourds. One gourd can't hold many ghosts, so it may be a bit crowded."
"What's the big deal? It doesn't matter if it's crowded. We've suffered all kinds of hardships in the army. But little girl, you have to promise me one thing."
The man waved his hand indifferently. They were the best at enduring hardships.
Back then, they hid in the snow for three days and three nights just to ambush the enemy. They didn't even move a bit. A little bit of crowding was nothing.
"Please tell me."
"If you fight with the evil god, please let us out to fight with him. I'll feel really uncomfortable if I don't teach this turtle a lesson."
The man was also a forthright person. After hearing this, the little dumpling just thought for a moment and then agreed.
What's the big deal? When fighting the evil god, of course the more people, the better.
After reaching an agreement, the little dumpling began to pick up the gourds to collect these heroic spirits.
The number of gourds was limited, but the number of heroic spirits was too large. They really had to stuff them in forcefully.
When the last gourd was used up, they barely managed to stuff all the heroic spirits in.
Finally, there was a sudden spin, and they were transported to the next layer.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived at the next layer, they saw a sea of people.
Oh no, to be exact, it was a sea of souls.
There were also some living people among them, but the number of living people was still small.
The souls were trapped on the left side, while on the right side were the bound and unconscious people.
In the middle was a long stone staircase that extended to the highest point.
The arrival of Nian Nian and the others was extremely abrupt, but it didn't cause any waves.
The reason was simple. There were simply too many people here, and no one noticed the sudden appearance of three small black dots.
In the distance, a pitch - black shadow and a man in a long robe standing with his hands behind his back were talking.
Nian Nian took out the sound - transmitting talisman for a long distance, clicked on the character "Xun" to activate the eavesdropping mode.
"A thousand souls and a hundred bodies of flesh and blood. In at most a few more hours, the formation will be completed."
"Aren't you heart - broken for losing so many of your subordinates?"
The man standing next to the shadow had a very shrill and gentle voice, with a bone - chilling coldness.
"I only want their flesh and blood. Their souls will naturally become my subordinates and serve me in the future. Why should I be heart - broken?"
The gentle - voiced man sneered twice and stuck out his tongue to lick his lips.
Nian Nian squinted her eyes and took a closer look. She saw that the man's tongue was split into two long and thin parts, just like a snake's tongue. He also looked quite similar.
"Xiangliu, stay away from me. You stink so much. I'm about to throw up just smelling you."
The shadow pushed the gentle - voiced man.
Xiangliu!
That man was actually Xiangliu?!
One of the ancient ferocious beasts, with a snake - body and nine heads, it had devoured countless people. Wherever it went, it would turn into a swamp. The water it spat out was even more powerful than a flood. It was bitter and spicy, and anyone who drank it would die.
In the widely circulated legend nowadays, Xiangliu was beheaded by Dayu because it disrupted Dayu's flood - control project. But in fact, Xiangliu was once a subordinate of Gonggong, the god of water. Because Gonggong was away on business and there was no one to watch over it, Xiangliu wantonly devoured pigs, horses, cattle and sheep in human tribes, and even developed to the point of eating people. When Gonggong came back, he couldn't tolerate it and wanted to behead it himself. Unexpectedly, Xiangliu was seriously injured and escaped.
After that, there was no news of Xiangliu for a long time. The Kunlun School thought Xiangliu was already dead. Later, it was heard that there was a monster with nine heads called the Yamata no Orochi in the land of Dongying. Its habits and characteristics were exactly the same as Xiangliu's. The Kunlun School thought Xiangliu had escaped to Dongying. Just as they were about to take action to eliminate it, the news came that Abe no Seimei in Dongying had killed the nine - headed snake.
After that, there was no more legend about the nine - headed snake. Everyone thought that either Xiangliu had learned to be well - behaved or it had been completely killed or sealed by Seimei.
Nian Nian never expected that this guy was not only alive and well, but also got involved with the evil god they were chasing.
That's right, that black shadow was the evil god they had been chasing.
Unexpectedly, this guy had this hidden card at the deepest part of this painting scroll.
"I'm tired. Call me after you succeed."
Xiangliu rolled his eyes, sat down on the ground directly, and lazily lay there.
These two guys were hooking up. It seemed that they were going to use the living people and souls here to feed themselves.
They really never changed their evil ways.
What did Xiangliu just say?
These living people were all subordinates of that black shadow, that is, the subordinates of the evil god.
Could it be that these living people were all from the Sun Country?