Inheriting A Divine Cultivation Clan At The Start, All My Juniors Are Empresses-Chapter 75 - 74: Two Types of Monsters

According to normal reasoning, a villager being beheaded in public is undoubtedly a very despairing matter.

Even if they’re not weeping openly, shouldn’t there at least be some screaming?

If that’s not possible, they could at least tremble a little while clutching their skirts, or at least show some expression. Why are their actions so stiff?

Haven’t they learned anything about an actor’s self-cultivation?

Yuchi was utterly bewildered by the villagers’ reactions.

At the center of the village, the villagers gathered together.

The calmness they displayed sent a shiver down Yuchi’s spine.

He even saw indifference in their eyes.

As if the deceased wasn’t one of their kin, like seeing a wilted flower, or just merely a fallen leaf.

Exaggerating further, it was as if it were just a ripple on the river during a rainy day.

Are you kidding me? Are the villagers’ mindsets really that resolute?

"A little expression, maybe?"

And just as Yuchi was observing with a furrowed brow, things changed immediately.

The beheaded villager began to rot, and the flesh on his body flaked off like soil being washed away by water.

The skeleton shattered like powder.

When seen last, a palm-sized white mouse was revealed hiding within.

The white mouse, emerging into daylight, didn’t show joy, but extreme fear.

It immediately tried to escape from the bloody corpse, only to be caught by Chen Guangsheng, who snatched it into his palm.

"Little thing, I’ve tolerated you long enough, and now you still want to run?"

"Don’t you know what the Demon-slaying Bureau is?"

Yuan Wansong coldly stared at the mouse, which squeaked wildly as he squeezed it.

It even attempted to bite Yuan Wansong’s palm, but instead of creating a wound, its teeth shattered.

One of its legs was squeezed into the shape of a noodle.

Yuan Wansong tortured the mouse with a gleaming smile, looking as innocent as a boy next door!

"...I must have been drained of Yang energy by Qingzhu, which is why I’m seeing things."

"I must be dreaming now."

"Yes, that’s it."

Yuchi pinched his thigh, only to feel intense pain.

When he looked up, Yuan Wansong unexpectedly threw the tormented mouse at him.

The mouse traced a bloody arc in the air, landing right in Yuchi’s hand.

Yuchi almost lost his breath, nearly passing out.

"What the hell is wrong with you? Yuchi is just an ordinary person who’s never seen such a monster in his life."

"Why are you pretending like this?"

"The first time you saw such a thing, could you have stayed as calm as him?"

Xun Xian was quite displeased with Yuan Wansong’s action, outright ignoring her as a bodyguard.

Or don’t get me started on Yuan Wansong; even Xun Xian herself didn’t sleep for days when she first saw such a monster.

Yuan Wansong laughed boisterously, repeatedly apologizing, "Sorry, sorry, my mistake, my lord, I was too rash."

"But don’t worry; this little mouse poses no threat."

"Its teeth are shattered, and I’ve sealed its demon Qi with True Qi, nothing to fear."

Swearing inwardly, Yuchi gripped this fat white mouse with both hands, forcibly maintaining a calm demeanor.

He had no idea why an ordinary villager contained such a mouse!

And still living!

If it were just a mouse, there’d be no problem, but this mouse looks too decayed, doesn’t it?

This white mouse’s eyes are eerily human-like, with large eyeballs, not just scary, but downright horrifying!

Imagine placing such a creature near a child’s bed; the child wouldn’t sleep for three days and nights!

Child, "Have we wronged you somehow? Why treat us like this?"

What the hell is this?

Yuchi simply couldn’t understand how a seemingly normal villager’s body could house such a white mouse? fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

This situation is entirely against common sense!

Yuan Wansong noticed Yuchi’s face filled with complex emotions, and after witnessing Yuchi quickly compose himself, he expressed slight surprise.

"So it’s true his courage is quite strong? Encountering a monster for the first time and he didn’t even scream?"

"My lord, it seems I underestimated you before?"

"You’re born a warrior!"

Yuan Wansong remarked oddly.

Tired of dealing with Yuan Wansong’s peculiar tone.

"Let’s put other matters aside for now and focus on the situation at hand."

"Is this what you call a monster?"

Yuchi looked incredulous.

He felt the large white mouse writhing vigorously in his grasp, sensing a sickening feeling hidden within its body that made his scalp tingle.

Estimating he might need to seek healing from Qingzhu in the next couple of nights.

My healing girlfriend! Yuchi smirked wryly.

"Yes, this is indeed a monster."

"Just a tiny thing, isn’t it adorable."

The large white mouse was once again drawn into Yuan Wansong’s palm, then tossed to another samurai of the Demon-slaying Bureau.

The samurai placed the mouse inside a cage, maintaining an unperturbed demeanor the entire time.

For them, such occurrences were commonplace, although they missed witnessing the third young master of the Wei Family’s scream earlier.

What a pity.

So, is the other party’s mentality appropriate?

"...Alright, can someone explain this to me now?" Yuchi looked at Yuan Wansong.

Yuan Wansong was more than willing.

"Since you have questions, our government cannot refuse your request."

"The situation is quite simple."

"Everything starts with the two forms of the monsters themselves."

Two forms? Yuchi looked at the squeaking white mouse in the cage.

"Yes." Yuan Wansong, "There are two types of monsters we’re referring to, one type from the lower three states."

"These monsters visibly appear as monsters, either gigantic or non-human in appearance."

"Generally bloodthirsty and brutal, with a deep-seated enmity with us cultivators."

Involuntarily, Yuchi nodded, finding the statement fairly aligned with what he understood. This is what a monster truly is.

It’s the kind of thing you can recognize at first glance.

Also, he knows the relationship between cultivators and monsters is extremely hostile.

It’s long past the stage of mere distrust of non-kind; it’s about mutual predation and killing.

Luckily, monsters are confined to the lower three states and don’t dare come to other places.

Yuan Wansong looked at Xun Xian, "Miss Xun, care to continue my explanation to the esteemed Lord?"

In truth, Yuan Wansong didn’t want to talk.

Xun Xian was quite uninterested in Yuan Wansong, pretending not to hear.

Yuan Wansong wore a displeased expression.

While Yuchi was pondering with a frown, he was forced to continue, "The other type of monster is the kind you see now."

"These monsters desperately want to live in the guise of humans; they are born to deceive."

"They infiltrate human bodies, controlling human will to live."

"Just like these villagers before you, they’re no longer true villagers."

"There’s a white mouse hiding within each of their bodies, having crept in at some point."

"You don’t need to worry about what these white mice are called because that’s not the focus."

"The focus is understanding that they’re like a plague."

"In our Demon-slaying Bureau, this is known as a demon plague."

Demon plague...

Yuchi found the Demon-slaying Bureau’s description rather apt, and judging by Yuan Wansong’s introduction...

This white mouse’s function seems akin to that of a parasite?

Like those large bugs that parasitize a snail’s antennae in his past life, utterly disgusting and intense.

Coupled with a plague...

Yuchi postulated boldly.

"If one person in a town is parasitized by a monster, would other people also become parasitized?"

"Of course." Yuan Wansong was surprised, "You’re indeed wise, my lord."

"These white mice can give birth."

"A litter of a dozen or so."

This teenager merely didn’t know the situation, but after understanding it, he immediately accepted such a concept?

For Yuchi, post-Civil Foundation times should mean monsters can’t become spirits.

But under current circumstances, not only had these monsters become spirits, they had changed their form of existence.

They had parasitized the populace!

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