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A large number of refugees were driven away by the barbarians in Caizhou, and countless bodies were left along the way.

In some places, the plague began to break out. Afterwards, Zoroastrianism, which came from the north, said that people's sufferings in the world were all caused by natural sins and the sins accumulated in previous lives. They called on the people to respect fire and worship fire, saying that only in this way can the sins in this life and in the past life be washed by the fire and thus gain the mercy of the gods.

"Why do you doubt God? Meteorites from heaven are the warning of God to the world. Even if everyone is full of sins, even if no one is innocent, God loves the world and God is willing to give the world a chance, so he descends meteorites one after another and heavenly punishment in order to warn the world. However, people do not repent, the father is not kind, the son is unfilial, the superior is not kind, and the inferior is unrighteous. There is no god in their hearts, so there is no fear..."

On the stone altar full of red holy marks, a man sat on the red lotus and whispered: "The world is so dirty. They have failed the opportunity given to them by God and the mercy of the gods. They have been punished now. What you see and experience are all the sins of this world and the consequences caused by them. Tell me, why do you still not want to believe in God? Didn't he bring down the punishment of heaven before you? Yuehu, Kongshan, and to the capital? Why do you still doubt God and deny God when you see the power of God?"

Around him, the densely packed people fell to the ground and listened to the teachings of the messengers of God.

The man stood up, wearing red clothes, as bright as fire under the scorching sun: "Mortals should never question the nobleness of God. Only God can save the world. Worship God and believe in God, only in this way can they be reborn in the holy fire that devours all kinds of things. You have seen the miracle that God has shown, but what have you done? The birds in the hunter's cage know that in order to survive, the distance between God and mortals is better than that of hunters and birds. Foolish people, are you not even the wisdom of birds? Why don't you pray for the grace of the Holy Phoenix and please the holy Phoenix, and thus gain the rebirth of the future?"

"Holy Phoenix...Holy Phoenix...Holy Phoenix..."

A loud shout sounded from all directions. The thin and thin people no longer had the power to stand up, but they used their last remaining strength to shout pilgrimage to the altar, hoping that their voice could be heard by the messengers of God and thus by the gods.

The man in red robe opened his arms and listened to everyone's cry with satisfaction. The gathering of shouts was like the wind, blowing his sleeves.

He waved his hand, and the mysterious power was invisibly swept away. Everyone stopped shouting and lowered their heads even more violently. They cried on the ground, fearing that they would not appear pious enough, and they were silent, fearing that they would disturb the divine envoy's instructions.

"This world has lost hope. The Holy Phoenix will eventually bring down the pure holy fire and cleanse the sins of this world. Only by believing in the Holy Phoenix and serving the Holy Phoenix, God's people can be reborn in the flames of destruction. Leave your sins, abandon your doubts, believe in God, kneel down and worship God, and you will be saved."

He waved, and in the crowd, a wooden cart was pushed over by several Zoroastrians. On the cart, a unkempt prisoner was tied to a cross-shaped wooden stand.

The man in red robe shouted: "This man is the so-called disciple of the Mo family. They ignore the mercy of the gods, ignore the miracles brought by heaven, and say that people conquer heaven, and say that people conquer God. It is people like them that brings disputes that cannot be eliminated in this world and filth that cannot be washed away by this world. Their disrespect is the root of the ugliness of this world. Their swords are the source of chaos in this world, and because of people like them, the world cannot be saved. Everyone says, what should we do?"

The people shouted in unison: "Burn him to death! Burn him to death! Burn him to death..."

Everyone rushed up, piled up firewood, raised the torch and lit the prison cart. The flames rose and everyone dispersed. The man in red robe on the altar walked down and pressed his hands, and the flames that had been ignited were suppressed by invisible force.

"This man has committed sins, but I am willing to give him another chance. I want everyone to know that God's mercy exists forever." He said mercifully toward the banished prisoner in the prison cart, "Why don't you abandon your stubbornness and follow everyone to kneel down and worship God? Have you heard it? The gods cried because of the foolishness of the world. Did you see it? The gods were angry because of the disrespect of the world. Thinking of the name of the Holy Phoenix, kneeling down, and thirsting for the grace of the Holy Phoenix, and you will be reborn."

The man cursed: "Bad Holy Phoenix! Demon, don't be here to deceive the public!"

He looked around angrily: "Don't believe people like them. Only by relying on yourself can you stand up..."

Boom! The man in red robe opened his hands and the flames rose further, swallowing the angry man. He walked back to the altar and opened his arms: "Did you see it? It is because of such unrepentant people that the world cannot be saved. He taught you to rely on yourself, look at your thin hands, think about your hungry belly, who among you can easily destroy a mountain and a lake like a god? The god's little warning can no longer bear it. A person who can't even save himself, but he is determined.

God, do you foolish people unite and overthrow the gods? Can you ignorant ants unite and overthrow the fire-breathing dragons? More than this is the gap between man and gods? God can easily destroy the world, but why did God not do this? Because He has mercy. You are bathed in the mercy and grace of God without knowing it. You are so foolish in the past, but you are blessed now, because God loves you, and God sends us to preach His miracle, so that you can hear the grace of God…”

"Don't doubt God, believe in God forever! Let go of the anger in your heart, and don't take up swords like these foolish people. These people are no longer real Messengers. They have forgotten their ancestors' teachings of non-attack and love. People are born with sin, so they must atone for all their sins. Natural disasters, earth disasters, and the killing of heavenly soldiers from the north are all tests of Gods to you, and you must endure them."

"You shall bow down with the most pious heart and kneel down to the gods. The suffering of this life is the starting point for your new life in the next life. You are happy, because you have been watched by the gods, and God is watching you and looking at each of you. Just worship the gods and worship the Holy Phoenix, every sin you have suffered in this life will be a hundred times more happy in the new world after the fire rebirth, and those who are disrespectful will be burned and tortured by the fire forever and will never be liberated."

"This disrespectful person has received the punishment he deserves. But even so, I still want to pray to the Holy Phoenix for these sinful people, asking the Holy Phoenix to forgive their stupidity, forgive their disrespect, and allow their sins to be cleansed in the fire, only because"

The man on the altar raised his arms and shouted to the sky: "God loves the world!"

"Holy Phoenix...Holy Phoenix...Holy Phoenix..."

The fire was burning wildly, and the man on the fire gradually lost his life in the struggle. The people shouted the Holy Phoenix, and the air waves under the scorching sun kept rising and rising again.

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"This 'Pingshan Tiger' Kou Pingshan was originally a famous hero in Caizhou!" Jie Wudao and the girl in red, A Cai, and more than a dozen Yinze heroes who had escaped from Luzhou walked together in an abandoned village. He whispered: "In the past, he was a lawless hero, righteous and wealthy, and righteous. After the barbarian invaded, he formed a rebel army and responded to Ning Hanlin's call. However, the official army was defeated too quickly. The local regiment training he formed was soon defeated by the barbarian army. All his family was killed by the barbarians. He hid in Hushan and continued to fight with the barbarians. He was a hero who gave a thumbs up in the world."

This area was already deserted, and the scorching sun made the fields around the countryside cracked dry holes. On the land in the distance, there were corpses of starving wild wolf, flies buzzing, and densely lingering on the corpses. At the entrance of the village, a hero ran over the stone well, and the others looked at him. The hero was at the entrance of the well and looked inside, then turned around and shook.

Jie Wudao was silent for a moment, and the others didn't say anything. Then everyone continued to walk forward.

"Before, we are in contact with the 'Pingshanhu's men and horses. The brothers sent out first responded. Although Hushan, like Yinze, are the targets of the barbarian army to be wiped out, the mountains are high and the forests are deep, and at least they can hold on for a while." Jie Wudao continued.

The girl in red looked back and looked up at the height, then turned back: "I'm afraid I still have to find a way to contact the people from the Mo Sect."

Jie Wudao said: "It is not easy to find people from the Mo Sect now. They are the targets of the Barbarian Army's focus on suppression. Any force, if you have any involvement with the Mo Sect, will be surrounded and suppressed by the Barbarian Army. In this case, people from the Mo Sect may not dare to emerge."

A Cai raised her hand and wiped the sweat from her forehead. She was the largest and also suffered the most scorching of the poisonous sunshine. Her skin, which was already dark, was filled with sweat, and she radiated a crystal luster in the sun.

They continued to walk forward for a while.

The girl in red said, "It's this?"

Jie Wudao looked at the mountain temple in front of him and said, "It's this!"

At this moment, a man walked out of the mountain temple and saw that this man, with tall and burly muscles and slightly bulging temples, all showed the strength of foreign masters, and his round eyes seemed unusually peaceful.

"Captain Kou?" Jie Wudao was quite surprised.

The big man walked towards them: "Brother Jie, you two are..."

Jie Wudao said: "This is Miss A Cai, this is Miss Xue Hongxian. The two girls are the leader of Kou Daxia Kou, the 'Pingshan Hu'."

He was also surprised that the leader of the Hushan Rebel Army came to greet him in person. The girl in red bowed and said, "The little woman has long admired the name of the leader of the Kou. When she met today, the talented man was even more famous."

Kou Pingshan said, "You are polite girl." He said, "I heard that there are three girls who were wanted by the barbarian army. I wonder where one of them is?"

The girl in red said, "My junior sister has something to do, and she will go in other directions. She will try to turn with us in two days."

Kou Pingshan nodded: "This is not a place to talk. Let's go to the front first and talk on the way."

They left the mountain temple and walked forward in the mountains. Jie Wudao said, "Captain Kou, how dare you help me? Just let the brothers below you come if you have something to do."

Kou Pingshan said: "It's okay, they are waiting in front of you. The barbarians are hateful. I don't feel at ease if I don't come here in person."

The girl in red suddenly asked, "Chief, is your hand injured?"

Kou Pingshan raised his head and said, "The barbarians have been siege and suppressed them very well. I met several masters and injured my thumb, but it doesn't matter." He said, "It's just a flesh-and-hearted injury. Compared to these days, dead family and friends are nothing. But it doesn't matter. I don't complain. I'm asking for it. I deserve it. I have figured it out."

Jie Wudao shouted: "This is a cruel barbarian, destroying my hometown, killing my relatives..."

Kou Pingshan said: "No, no, this is our own sin. Look, look at those flies, why are they flying around the bones? Because of the stench, because they emit stench, all of these flies and mosquitoes following. We are guilty, we have been sinned since we were born, but we didn't know that now we have been punished, and everyone has been punished. Haha, this is the retribution we deserve. My wife died, my children died, and my brothers were burned away by the fire. I set the fire with my own hands. There is no way, retribution..."

Everyone looked at each other. Jie Wudao frowned and said, "Chief, what are you talking about?"

Suddenly, a ray of light shot from behind. The girl in red quickly turned around and saw a light flashing on the hill in the distance. She said in surprise: "There is an enemy!"

Jie Wudao turned his head suddenly: "Captain Kou, what's going on?"

Kou Pingshan murmured: "It's useless, that's God, that's God! Why do you have to go against God? There's no hope, there's no hope at all."

The girl in red eyes contracted: "Zoroastrianism?" and shouted: "Let's go!"

Horse hooves rolled in the distance, and soldiers and swords rushed in the forest. Everyone knew they had been trapped, so they didn't care about so much, so they turned around and ran. Behind them, Kou Pingshan knelt on the ground with a trembling body, wrapped his thumbs around with cloth strips, and lit them with a fire sniff. The thumbs were as close as pillars, and the flames ignited.

He crawled on the ground: "Saint Phoenix...Saint Phoenix..." He kowtowed and wailed: "I am guilty, I am wrong. Return my family to me and my children to me."

My head kept hitting the rocks on the ground, and blood flowed like a stream...

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[Thanks to book friend "School Sword Scholar YQ" for his 10,000 reward.]
Chapter completed!