Shen Kingdom, North Kingdom.
In a village with only a few dozen families.
In the Shen Kingdom, the villages and tribes were self-governed. All the affairs in the village, including the villagers' life and death, were in the hands of the village elders. Although this made a small number of people have too much power, it also saved a lot of manpower for the Shen Kingdom's imperial court.
At this moment, a murder case was being tried in this village.
Outside the simple, thatched courtroom, dozens of villagers stood outside, craning their necks to watch.
Inside the courtroom, two strong men were holding down a skinny man. The skinny man was still struggling. One of them hit the back of his leg with a thick wooden stick, forcing him to kneel down heavily.
An old man with white hair and beard wearing a hat sat in the chair in front. He held a wooden stick that symbolized power and knocked it hard on the ground. With a dark expression, he gritted his teeth and said, "Aragu, you actually dared to murder my nephew, Tuoji. According to the village rules, I will now sentence you to death by stoning. What do you have to say?"
Aragu was pressed to the ground and still struggled. His eyes were bloodshot as he said with extreme grief and indignation, "Tuoji wanted to rape my fiancée and tripped and got injured. You didn't punish him, but you want to kill me. God is watching. Everything you did when you were alive will go to hell after you die!"
The old man's eyes flashed coldly. "You said Tuoji was injured, but someone clearly saw you hit him. Bring the witnesses here."
Two men walked in and pointed at the skinny man kneeling on the ground. "It's him. We saw him hit Tuoji with our own eyes."
The skinny man's eyes were filled with grief. These two men wanted to rape his fiancée, but the immortals destroyed their manhood. They held a grudge and took revenge on him. Right now, he was filled with endless anger, but he couldn't fight back.
The old man knocked his cane hard on the ground and said sternly, "Aragu, as a lowly peasant, you actually dared to hurt a noble. According to the law, you should be sentenced to death. Now, I sentence you to death by stoning. Men, take him away and execute him immediately!"
The skinny man was taken out and pushed into a pit.
Someone had filled the hole with sand and soil. Everything below his waist was buried in the ground and he couldn't move. Not far away, there was a pile of rocks. The big ones were the size of fists and the small ones were the size of a baby's head. These were used for the execution.
When someone was sentenced to be stoned, the villagers would line up to throw stones at him until he was completely dead.
This kind of punishment was very cruel, but the cruelest thing was that the victim's family and friends were also required to participate in the execution. Just as Aragu was about to be executed, a woman rushed over crazily and shouted, "Aragu, Aragu!"
However, as soon as she approached, she was forcefully pulled away.
A man limped over to the sand pit. Half of Aragu's body was already buried in the ground, and his hands were tied behind his back. The man had a mocking expression on his face. He patted Aragu's face heavily and said, "Aragu, don't worry and die. I will help you take good care of Alicia … Ah, you lowly peasant, let go!"
Two of Toji's fingers were bitten. Cold sweat poured down his forehead. He kicked Aragu's chest. When he pulled his hand back, his fingers were bleeding. He wrapped his injured fingers with a handkerchief and strode out of the sand pit. Gritting his teeth, he said, "Smash him to death! Smash him to death!"
The execution began. Everyone picked up stones from the ground and threw them at the sand pit. Buried in the sand, Aragu couldn't dodge. Soon, his head was bleeding.
Toji still couldn't vent his anger. He ordered the two men behind him, "Take Alicia to my house. I want this peasant to see the consequences of offending a noble!"
His two men received the order and forcefully dragged Alicia away in front of dozens of villagers.
Buried in the sand pit, Aragu's eyes were bloodshot. He roared like a beast, but he was trapped in the sand pit and couldn't move at all.
On the other side, Alicia used all her strength to break free from the two men. She looked back at Aragu and said sadly, "Aragu, Alicia will still be your wife in the next life!"
With that, she slammed her head against the stone wall. A blood-red flower bloomed on the wall. Alicia's body fell limply to the ground.
Toji's subordinate reached out and touched Alicia's nose. He stood up and said in disbelief, "Lord Toji, she's dead …"
Toji waved his hand unhappily and said angrily, "This stupid woman. So what if she's dead? She's just a peasant. Drag her down and bury her later."
With that, he crossed his arms and watched coldly as everyone executed Aragu.
After Alicia committed suicide, the figure in the sandpit let out a roar and stood there in a daze, not moving at all.
Hard rocks fell on him, but he didn't dodge or dodge. He just stared blankly at Alicia's corpse.
At a certain moment, all of the executioners, including Toji, suddenly shivered inexplicably.
The surrounding temperature seemed to drop. They felt as if a huge rock was pressing down on their chests. In the sky, the clouds changed. A gust of wind blew on the ground, blowing sand and rocks. Everyone couldn't care less about the execution. They all covered their faces with their sleeves and hid behind the stone wall.
In the sand pit, half of Aragu's body was buried. He broke the ropes on his hands and pushed himself out of the sand pit with both hands.
His eyes turned blood red. He took a step forward and disappeared. The next time he appeared, he was already in front of Toji.
Toji opened his mouth wide in shock. Before he could say anything, Aragu punched him in the head.
Bang!
Toji's head exploded like a watermelon. With two more bangs, his two subordinates also died on the spot.
Seeing this, everyone fled in terror. Aragu walked to Alicia's corpse. The blood in his eyes slowly faded. He squatted down slowly and hugged his head in pain, choking with sobs.
Soon, a figure flew out of the village.
It was a man in a white robe. He walked in the air. When the villagers saw him, they all knelt down and shouted, "High Priest!"
The man pointed with both hands. The ground under Aragu's feet suddenly became extremely soft, sinking him into it.
Then the ground became hard again. Only Aragu's head was left outside.
The man in the white robe stood in the air and said sternly, "How dare you, lowly commoner! How dare you!"
Under the ground, Aragu took a deep breath. The ground that trapped him split open, and he jumped out.
Seeing this, the man in the white robe's expression changed. He grabbed a spear on his back and stabbed it at Aragu. However, Aragu reached out and grabbed it. He used a bit of force and took the spear from the man in the white robe. He bent it and threw it aside.
The man in the white robe couldn't do this himself. Seeing this, he was scared out of his wits and fled as if his life depended on it.
Just then, two more figures descended from the sky.
Li Mu didn't expect to see this young man from the Shen Nation again. What surprised him was that when they first met, he was just a mortal. Now, he already had the aura of a Fourth Realm.
It seemed that the change in the power of Heaven and Earth just now was because of this person.
Although this young man didn't cultivate, he had clearly activated the power of Heaven and Earth to fill his body. Back then, Xiaoyu used the incantation to move heaven and earth and instantly advanced to the Fifth Realm. This young man from the Shen Nation's situation was completely because of his special constitution.
His innate spiritual body awakened once, and it was also his only chance to fill his body.
However, because he didn't cultivate and didn't know anything about cultivation, he only had the realm but didn't have the strength of a Fourth Realm.
After the young man glanced at Li Mu and Ao Chengxin, he looked down at the woman's corpse on the ground. Without hesitation, he slammed his head against the stone wall beside him.
Boom!
With a crash, the stone wall collapsed. He was still standing in the same place.
He lowered his head and looked at his hand, then touched his head. His face was blank.
Li Mu asked in the language of the Shen Nation, "What are you doing?"
The young man looked at Li Mu with sorrow in his eyes. He said, "Alicia is dead. I want to go with her. Even if we become ghosts, we want to be together."
Alicia was the woman from the Shen Nation that Li Mu had casually saved last time. At this moment, her corpse was 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 two love each other so much, you don't have to die …"
He stretched out two fingers and swiped them in front of the young man's eyes.
Aragu realized that he had seen Alicia again. He ran over excitedly and wanted to hug her. However, he passed through her body.
Li Mu walked over and said, "She's just a ghost now. She needs to cultivate before she can reform her body. Forget it. Since we're fated to meet again, I'll help you again."
He formed a seal with his hands. After a wave of the power of heaven and earth, Alicia's body slowly solidified.
She was already dead. Li Mu couldn't resurrect her. He could only help her reform her body temporarily.
The man and woman hugged each other again. They were very excited.
Some things didn't discriminate between countries. Li Mu was moved by the feelings of this man and woman. Since he was already meddling in other people's business, he might as well help them to the end. Li Mu planned to teach them cultivation. With Aragu's talent, it would be a waste if he didn't cultivate. Although Alicia didn't have much talent, as long as she cultivated to the third realm, they could be a normal couple.
He touched their foreheads with his finger and transmitted the relevant information into their minds.
"Thank you, benefactor!"
The couple knelt on the ground again and kowtowed to Li Mu to thank him.
Aragu kowtowed a few times. He looked up and asked Li Mu, "Benefactor, you're from the Great Zhou, right?"
Li Mu nodded and didn't deny it.
Aragu said longingly, "I heard that everyone in the Great Zhou is equal. If the nobles break the law, they'll be punished. Anyone can cultivate. Women will also be protected … Compared to the Great Zhou, this is a kingdom of demons."
Li Mu said, "The Great Zhou wasn't as beautiful as you said from the beginning. It's because of the wise empress' leadership that the Great Zhou of today became what it is today."
Aragu lowered his head and said, "Our empress will only promulgate laws that benefit the nobles. They won't care about lowly people like us."
Li Mu looked at him and said meaningfully, "You have to create a happy life with your own hands. If all the oppressed people of the Shen Kingdom unite, they can also change the world …"
After saying that, he said lightly, "Happy, let's go."
Two streams of light streaked across the sky again. Aragu watched them leave. When the light disappeared from his sight, he looked down at his hands and muttered, "All the oppressed people unite …"
…
When he returned to the South County, Li Mu already had a preliminary idea about the Shen Kingdom.
Although the two countries often had conflicts recently, neither the Great Zhou nor the Shen Kingdom would easily start a war with the other country. The Shen Kingdom didn't have the strength to start a war. Although the Great Zhou had the strength, there was no need to start a war. After all, for a long time, the national policy of the Great Zhou was to develop peacefully.
It was best to let the Shen Kingdom fall into chaos. Logically speaking, with the situation in the Shen Kingdom, countless people were widely oppressed. When they were oppressed to the extreme, they would resist. Such a regime would be difficult to stabilize.
However, the most oppressed people in the Shen Kingdom were mostly limited by sects. The slave mentality was deeply rooted. They were willing to be oppressed and naturally wouldn't resist. Moreover, they couldn't cultivate. Even if they wanted to resist, they didn't have the strength to do so.
What they needed was guidance. Although these people didn't have the strength, their psychokinesis was very useful.
Li Mu could tell that Aragu was different from the other people at the bottom. However, he was too weak and couldn't be of much use for the time being. He had only planted a seed in Aragu's heart.
Now, he needed someone with absolute strength and ability to infiltrate the Shen Kingdom and complete this matter.
There were many experts that the Consecration Department could mobilize. They could fight, but no one in the entire Consecration Department could take on the responsibility of guiding the oppressed citizens of the Shen Nation.
If it really couldn't be done, Li Mu would have to do it himself.
However, unless it was absolutely necessary, Li Mu didn't want to do it himself. This meant that he would have to stay in the Shen Kingdom forever. This was something Li Mu was more resistant to.
Speaking of which, the officials in the imperial court were the most suitable for this kind of thing. Their cultivation might not be very high, but they had been in the imperial court for many years. They were all old foxes. They definitely had their ways of doing this kind of thing. However, it would be difficult for them to gain a foothold in the Shen Kingdom if they didn't have the strength.
This matter could only be discussed at length. The matter in the South County was temporarily settled. Li Mu left Ao Run here to ensure that the border waterways were safe. He returned to the Divine Capital with Cheng Xin. He planned to discuss it with the Empress slowly.
However, before they reached the Divine Capital, Li Mu's expression suddenly changed on the flying boat.
Just now, he suddenly felt that one of his soul clones attached to the eight Realm Six demonic corpses suddenly lost connection with his Primordial Spirit.
Immediately after, the second soul clones also mysteriously disappeared.
Li Mu left the ten demonic corpses with Phantom Princess. Although Li Mu couldn't use his soul clones to control them, there was always an extremely weak connection between his soul clones and his Primordial Spirit.
The disappearance of the connection meant that something had happened to the demonic corpses.
Li Mu stood on the flying boat. After hesitating for a moment, he changed directions and headed straight for the Thousand Fox Nation.
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