Chapter 168 Hell on Earth
After Yunduan left with 11,000 people, Jiang Lisheng and others went to South City.

Compared to the bustling and lively North City, the South City is dead and dull.

On the streets and in front of the houses, there were rotting people or corpses lying everywhere. The air was filled with a strong stench. Through the blocked streets and iron fences, every place you looked was filth and people suffering from disease.

None of these people gathered around the iron fence to cause trouble, and those who were able to move around had dejected and desperate looks on their faces. It was obvious that they had already realized that if they were infected with this disease, there was no cure, and they would not survive if they went out, and would also harm their relatives outside.

Jiang Lisheng tried to mobilize her spiritual power, but her spiritual palace was still empty. No matter how strong her will was, she couldn't mobilize even a trace of it. She closed her eyes and imagined that Senior Brother Wei was locked up inside, but it didn't work. This trick didn't work on her. She no longer had those spiritual power balls that she could activate due to strong emotions.

After a long while, she opened her eyes and shouted inside: "Who is Zhao Baocai?"

The people inside looked numbly at the group of brightly dressed people coming out; no one stood up, and no one spoke.

"Zhao Baocai!" Jiang Lisheng shouted twice again.

Still no one answered.

The surroundings were extremely quiet, quiet inside and outside, as if there were tens of thousands of people locked up inside and there was no one there.

Jiang Lisheng was discouraged. "Who among you knows him? Go call him over. I..."

Xi Jili grabbed her and said, "Sister, don't make promises easily. You can't save them."

Jiang Lisheng stopped talking.

At this time, a man lying not far from the fence, half of his body rotted, stretched out his hand weakly, pointed at the man lying on the ground next to him, who was completely rotten and had become an unrecognizable corpse, and said: "He, his name is Zhao Baocai, and he died yesterday."

Jiang Lisheng was silent.

Xi Jili reached out and pulled her, "Senior Sister, let's go."

Jiang Lisheng stood still.

"Senior Sister." Xi Jili's voice became heavier.

Jiang Lisheng whispered: "So many lives, I..."

"You can't save them, even if the Golden Immortal comes." Xi Jili pulled her away forcefully, "These people can only have this fate. Rather than letting them continue to live and suffer, it's better to burn the city now."

Jiang Lisheng disagreed, "No."

Xi Jili stopped, looked at her, and said seriously: "Senior sister, we are just cultivators, not gods, nor immortals. We are not omnipotent."

Jiang Lisheng was discouraged.

Xi Jili pulled her and said, "Let's go."

Jiang Lisheng couldn't move her legs. Even though she knew in her heart that she couldn't save them, she couldn't move her legs. "I have elixirs. If I give them the elixirs, maybe I can think of a way..." Xi Jili asked her calmly, "Can your elixirs save tens of thousands of lives? It can only prolong their lifespans and make them suffer more."

Jiang Lisheng clutched the storage ring. Indeed, there were not tens of thousands of pills in her storage ring. Over the years, she had learned everything and was not focused on refining pills. Although there were many random pills, many of them were failed pills that she had put away as poison pills to be given to anyone who offended her. There were indeed not many pills that could save lives.

Zhu Wenyin stepped forward and whispered, "Junior Sister Jiang, just listen to Junior Brother Xi. Let's go! There's no point in staying any longer."

Lu Shaoling also came over and said reluctantly: "Yes, Jiang Junior Sister, you have lost all your spiritual power now, and we can't cure these people's poison. Saving Pei Rong alone took all our strength, not to mention these tens of thousands of people. From what I've seen, half of them are probably dead, and the remaining half can hardly walk. There is no time for us to think of a solution."

Chu Bitumen did not expect that the heartless little girl who had always loved to get into trouble since she was a child could not stand such things more than all of them and had such a soft heart. He said: "We have saved the lives of tens of thousands of people, so our trip is not in vain. As for these people, we really can't save them, so why make it difficult for ourselves? We are the immortals who pursue the great way of immortality. Our state of mind should be detached from all things. The people in the mortal world only have a life of a hundred years, which is just a blink of an eye. After they die, they will go to the gates of hell, and the ghost world will take them in and reincarnate them again."

"With so many people going to the ghost world, the ghost world must be very crowded, right?" Jiang Li said.

"We don't care whether the ghost world is crowded or not. When people die, they go to the gate of hell, and there should be this door for them to leave." Lu Shaoling said, "Let's go, Jiang Junior Sister, if you can't do it, we will do it. After the matter here is over, we still have a lot of things to do. We have to go to the Qixuan Gate and investigate the matter of the demon."

Jiang Lisheng nodded.

When everyone saw that she was convinced, they looked at each other and pulled her away from South City.

Jiang Lisheng turned around to look, but her view was blocked by the fellow disciples from the two sects. She could not see anything, so she withdrew her gaze and felt very uncomfortable.

Yu Congrong patted her shoulder and said, "It's not your fault that you can't save people. We practitioners have a long way to go. Mortals grow old, get sick and die, and reincarnate every hundred years. Even if you can't save people, it doesn't matter."

Lou Qianyi whispered, "Yes, Senior Sister Jiang, the emperor of the mortal world wanted to burn and kill the people. We were able to save so many people. We have already done a good deed. We have saved those who can be saved, and there is nothing we can do about those who cannot be saved."

Chu Bitumen took out the flying shuttle and asked everyone to board his magic weapon.

Jiang Lisheng was pulled by Lou Qianyi onto Chu Bitumen's shuttle. The shuttle took off into the air, but she never took her eyes off and kept looking down.

Xi Jili said he would burn the city, but he did not take action. No one took action either. Everyone sitting on Chu Bitumen's flying shuttle was silent.

Chu Bitumen did not leave immediately. The shuttle stopped above Hexin City, facing South City below. Looking down from the height, the situation in South City could be seen more clearly. It was like hell on earth.

Pei Rong's eyes were red, and he whispered, "I know many of these people. Sometimes when I return to the city from the military camp, they greet me with a smile. My father governs Hexin City with all his heart, and the people respect and love him very much."

No one spoke.

Pei Rong continued, "There are many people who moved to Hexin City last year. Because my father governed Hexin City well, the government subsidized many policies that benefited the people, and the people came here to settle down. I didn't expect that it was the Pei family who harmed them."

Xi Jili was annoyed, "Stop talking!"

His face was grim. "What's the point of you saying all this? In order to save you, my sister's spiritual palace is now empty. Although she has a lot of elixirs in her storage ring, they are elixirs that can only be eaten by cultivators. If mortals eat them, they will only accelerate their death. The reason why you can live well is because you are born with spiritual roots. On the other hand, Yun Wang was sent to the Canglan Pool of my sect. If these people could be saved, would you need to say this? My sister just ate a meal from your family, and she rushed around to save you and capture the souls of your parents. Now she has no choice. It's already painful enough. What else do you want?"

Pei Rong withdrew his gaze, his eyes red, and he stopped talking.

　Monthly ticket, huh?
　　(End of this chapter)