Quick Transmigration: The Supporting Female Lead Stays Out of It - Chapter 51: Peerless Under Heaven 13

Lin Dan had originally planned to look around the city and inquire about the situation, but the people in the city seemed very afraid of martial artists, and they all dodged and avoided her when she walked over. She didn’t like to bully the weak, nor did she want to grab a civilian and force them to answer her questions. But even if she didn’t grab anyone, others were very happy to do so. Several martial artists wearing black clothes with flame patterns embroidered on their sleeves and collars forcibly pushed open the door of a household and took away all the old and young people hiding inside.

“What crime have they committed?” Lin Dan walked over to ask.

The leading martial artist impatiently pushed her away and cursed, “Get out of the way, don’t be nosy, or I’ll arrest you too and throw you into the plague city to keep those sick ghosts company!”

Lin Dan stepped aside and watched them take the people away.

Bai Yan sighed, “Don’t watch anymore, let’s go too.”

Lin Dan glanced at him and suddenly tapped her toes, disappearing from the spot. Bai Yan had already anticipated that she would do this and immediately chased after her. The two of them quietly followed behind the group of martial artists and arrived at a majestic city wall. A canopy woven from peacock feathers was erected on the wall, and a pale-faced, thin man was lazily sitting under the canopy, surrounded by many beautiful women. Several monks in kasayas stood beside him, clasping their hands together and chattering incessantly.

The man spat out the fruit pit in his mouth and cursed a word, his expression clearly very impatient.

Lin Dan and Bai Yan knocked out two martial artists, changed into the close-fitting outfits embroidered with flame patterns, and slowly walked under the city wall. They heard one of the monks say, “Amitabha, Benefactor Yan, your actions are against the heavens, it’s best to turn back sooner rather than later.”

The skinny man sneered, “I won’t turn back, what can you do to me? Master Fazhao, you can’t do anything to me, so what do I have to fear from the Avici Hell and the consequences after death? If there are truly karmic retributions in life, why am I living so freely? It can be seen that all your words are lies, and can only be used to deceive those ignorant and foolish people!”

Master Fazhao? Lin Dan’s eyes darkened slightly, she never expected that the youngest monk would actually be Master Fazhao, who ranked third among the Great Grandmasters. She saw that he had high brows and broad eyes, his eyes like cold stars, and a cinnabar birthmark on his forehead, which made his peerlessly beautiful face even more radiant and holy. He was currently closing his eyes slightly, reciting scriptures, and his expression seemed very helpless.

Seeing this, the skinny man became even more complacent and continued, “You come every year, aren’t you annoyed? Never mind, I will show mercy once, and allow you to sit on the wall to recite the scriptures of salvation for these sick ghosts.”

Fazhao had no other choice, so he had to sit on the wall and begin to chant scriptures. The monks he brought also set up a ritual ground and slowly chanted.

The skinny man said maliciously, “It hasn’t been a few days, and a lot of these sick ghosts have died. Come, add some life to the city!”

Several martial artists hurriedly dragged the old and young people who had just been captured onto the wall. Lin Dan reacted extremely quickly and immediately grabbed a little boy’s collar, taking advantage of the situation to join the team. Bai Yan sighed helplessly and followed.

As soon as the group walked onto the wall, they were almost suffocated by the putrid stench that rushed towards them. After taking a closer look, they saw that below the city wall was a dilapidated district. Many patients with rotten bodies and missing limbs were staggering along the road, like lonely ghosts. They were infected with the plague and were isolated. They watched helplessly as they gradually turned into a pool of rotten flesh.

When they died, their corpses were burned and their houses were buried. After a few years, a new town could be built, but the skinny man found pleasure in their despair and struggle. He actually isolated this place and built a city within a city. Seeing that the patients were about to die out, he even captured healthy citizens and threw them in, to amuse himself by raising plague patients.

He didn’t give them clothes to wear, didn’t give them food to eat. He threw living things in and watched them pounce on each other like evil ghosts, tearing and devouring flesh and bl00d. Gradually, he discovered that these patients began to kill and eat each other, and he found even greater pleasure. Every so often, he would capture some people and push them off the city wall, watching them being torn to pieces by the patients.

He could have treated his citizens well and completely eradicated the plague, but he turned this place into a plague city for his own enjoyment. The most ruthless person in the world was nothing more than this!

Lin Dan clenched the little boy’s collar, her gaze gradually turning cold. The little boy was terrified and his face turned pale, and he kept shouting for his parents.

Master Fazhao came to the plague city every year, trying to persuade the city lord, but he was seeing him throw the citizens in for the first time. He could no longer recite the scriptures and slowly stood up, saying, “Benefactor Yan, you’ve gone too far!”

The skinny man didn’t pay any attention to him at all and reached out to Lin Dan, “Give me this little brat. The little brat’s meat is tender, the sick ghosts love to eat it.”

Lin Dan held the little boy’s collar, never taking a step. Bai Yan transmitted his voice privately, “Lin Dan, don’t be impulsive. This is the territory of Emperor Yan, and this person is the only descendant of Emperor Yan, named Yan Zhaotian. If you kill him, Emperor Yan will never rest until he is dead!”

People who have cultivated to the Great Grandmaster realm all have their own spheres of influence, and they rarely interfere with each other. This is a tacit rule. If two Great Grandmasters have a falling out, it will inevitably lead to a war between two sects, or even multiple countries, and the people involved would number in the millions? Therefore, although Master Fazhao couldn’t stand Yan Zhaotian’s actions, he had no choice but to advise him.

Seeing that Lin Dan remained still, Bai Yan transmitted his voice again, “Emperor Yan’s cultivation technique is special, and he will no longer be able to have descendants after cultivating to the Great Completion stage. In other words, Yan Zhaotian is his only, and last, descendant, no different from his own eyes. It’s best to think clearly before you act. You are not alone, you also have the Eastern Saint Cult.”

Lin Dan finally looked at him and transmitted her voice, “I have long been unrelated to the Eastern Saint Cult. Since they are acting under my banner, they should be prepared to bear the consequences. That was their choice, it has nothing to do with me. Is this monk here to persuade Yan Zhaotian? Look at him reciting Amitabha all day long, what’s the use?”

While the two were having a private conversation, Yan Zhaotian had already become impatient and shouted sternly, “I told you to bring that little brat over, didn’t you hear me? Never mind, I will throw you down to keep him company!”

However, before he could finish speaking, Lin Dan had already picked up the little boy and flew forward, kicking Yan Zhaotian off the city wall. The guards around him were all top-notch masters, and there was also a Half-step Grandmaster, but none of them could catch Lin Dan’s figure. When they wanted to save the man, Lin Dan had already slashed out a blade shadow, immediately taking the heads of dozens of people. The Half-step Grandmaster only had time to take half a step forward before his head was separated from his body.

Lin Dan threw the little boy to Bai Yan, and she herself stood on the city wall. Whoever wanted to go down to save the man, she would cut them down. In a moment’s time, she had cut down all of the skinny man’s followers.

Due to his physical constitution, the skinny man was unable to practice martial arts, and his mentality had long been distorted. He was accustomed to seeing others struggle in despair. But now, the one struggling and seeking help was himself, and he felt no pleasure at all. Seeing the plague patients, who were neither human nor ghost, pounce towards him, he dodged while shouting, “Do you know who I am? You better hurry and save me, or my father will definitely skin you and tear you to pieces!”

Lin Dan stood on the wall, looking at him with a cold expression. Fazhao stepped forward, as if wanting to go down and retrieve the man, but his path was blocked by her knife. The violent Qi was surging and spewing from the tip of the knife. Before it touched him, it had already cut through the kasaya, revealing Fazhao’s astonished expression. He looked at Lin Dan, then at Bai Yan, who had revealed his true face, and said in a deep voice, “The Asura descends, and the world will jointly punish it!” From this, it could be seen that he was also well aware of those horrific past events, and even, like Bai Yan, had received a warning from his master.

Lin Dan’s reaction was very calm. She just glanced at Fazhao indifferently, then lowered her head. In that moment, the skinny man had already been overtaken by a group of plague patients and torn to pieces. He never imagined that the karmic retribution would come so quickly.

Looking at the plague patients, who had long been tormented to the point of losing their humanity, Lin Dan closed her eyes, and then jumped off the wall and killed them one by one with a single slash. More bl00d splashed and dyed her surroundings, making the already dilapidated district seem even more like hell.

Fazhao frowned, and immediately wanted to fly down and put an end to this murderous fiend, but Bai Yan blocked his path.

“Fa Zhao, you come to the plague city every year, have you ever saved a single wronged soul? Have you ever stopped this demon? You recite Amitabha, Amitabha all day long, what have you done for the world, for morality, for good and evil, what’s the use? Do you know that just a few days ago, she had already killed the seven great evildoers on the wanted list, bringing a moment of peace to this chaotic Jianghu. But you and I are in high positions and should be taking on great responsibilities, yet our actions are not even one ten-thousandth of hers. If you continue with your method, when will this plague city disappear, when will the souls of this city be saved? People have good and evil, and Buddha also has a Vajra that glares with rage.”

Bai Yan turned around and pointed at Lin Dan’s bl00d-stained back, saying, “In your eyes, she is a bloodthirsty Asura, but in my eyes, she is a Buddha who saves all living beings. These patients have been raised by Yan Zhaotian for more than ten years. The plague, which originally had a chance to be cured, has now developed so terribly that even the medical immortal of the Medical Valley cannot cure it. What can we do? Could it be that we should continue to shut them up in this place and let them endure even longer days of suffering and despair, is that your so-called compassion? Furthermore, if Yan Zhaotian gets tired one day and wants to try a new way of doing things, and opens the gates of the plague city and releases the patients, what do you think the outer city will look like, what will this country look like, or even what will this Eastern Tang Continent look like?”

Fazhao looked down, but he saw that Lin Dan’s face showed not a trace of joy, but rather a deep sorrow. She was doing the deed of killing, but her heart held the intent to save. The plague patients, who had initially been scattered and fleeing, gradually stopped, then knelt on the ground and kowtowed to her, immediately lifting their necks and making the gesture of awaiting execution.

Struggling in despair day and night, they no longer wanted to live! Whoever could give them a release from suffering was their great benefactor.

Lin Dan’s knife-wielding motion paused slightly, and then she closed her eyes and continued to kill, the fresh bl00d was warm, but her heart was cold, her body was very comfortable, but her mind was filled with violent fury. There were too, too many injustices in the world; since she was destined to become a god of killing, then she would kill all the evildoers under heaven, and eliminate all the evil deeds under heaven! She was alone, not fearing Emperor Yan, and naturally not fearing life or death.

Fazhao stared fixedly at Lin Dan’s bl00d-stained back, and after a long time, he withdrew his immense inner strength and put his hands together, saying, “Amitabha, I am ashamed, I am ashamed!”