Chapter 42: Did the Taoist Immortal deceive you? Or did the Taoist Immortal deceive me?

Li Guifen feels that everything she is experiencing now is a bit unrealistic.
But she knew that this was the truth.
The calls are rising and people are indignant.
The sky was full of boycotts of Taoist immortals. People were crying, choking, collapsing, and waking up. The city was shaking and anger was burning.
Some people cry because they are wrong, while some people cry because they are right.
The people of Xia State rushed to say goodbye. At the moment the porcelain statue was broken, they woke up completely and realized that the Taoist immortal was a ghost and a disaster.
From then on, Taoist immortals no longer had a way to gain new believers through deception, and no one would become a believer because of the evolution scam.
Even all Taoist believers can no longer disguise themselves as humans and live among the crowd.
Their weird and delicate faces are their symbol. Countless people attacked the Taoist believers, either by beating or insulting them. They restrained the believers, and some even stabbed them with knives to pay for the lives of their deceased family and friends.
This is a new beginning.
Amidst the countless crowds, Li Guifang looked at the sky, pursed her lips, and tears kept flowing. She was happy because at least she could tell her child that her mother had not been deceived.
And did the most important thing.
"Son, Mom has cleared your name."
Li Guifen waved her hand.
Go with peace of mind and don’t worry about mom anymore. Mom will continue to fight against the Taoist immortal to the end with your will.
With a determined look in his eyes, Li Guifen looked around. Suddenly, he saw a familiar figure in the crowd. "Sun Che" was mixed in the crowd, looking at her quietly.
Li Guifen's smile was filled with hatred. He picked up a stone and threw it at "Sun Che", hitting Sun Che on the head.
Now, she is not afraid of him.
"You fake body, just wait, I will arrest you now!"
"I won't be fooled by you. No one will be fooled by you. From now on, it will be..."
"Am I fake?"
Sun Che murmured, looking at his hands blankly with a puzzled look in his eyes.
"Of course you are fake. My son has been hidden in the stone statue. You are a fake, you are just a substitute!!"
Li Guifen took a step forward. He was furious and just wanted the fake Sun Che to pay for his son's life.
But the next moment, Sun Che's pupils shrank:
"mom!!!!!"
"Run!"
"Puff."
A sword pierced through the crowd and pierced Li Guifen's heart, causing blood to splatter.
Li Guifen's words came to an abrupt halt, her determined eyes turned into disbelief, she stared at the sword behind her chest, stood there in a daze, blood oozing from her mouth, then she coughed, blood spurted out, she trembled and touched the sword on her chest, then fell to the ground with a thud.
Blood soaked the ground, and Li Guifen's body twitched on the ground. The shouting around stopped for a moment, and everyone looked at Li Guifen and Sun Che.
In Li Guifen's blurred eyes, at the last moment, he saw Sun Che spread out his hands, his body covered with his mother's blood. He looked at Li Guifen, tears streaming from his pupils .
"mom!!!"
He grinned and suddenly started laughing crazily——
“Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!”
"Am I real? Am I fake?!!"
"I'm cultivating immortality? How could I be fake? I am Sun Che. I've been favored by the Taoist immortal. I'm cultivating immortality!"
“Why did you lie to me!!!”
“Daoxian!!”
"mom!!!!!!"
Sun Che's head was twitching, and the expression on his face kept changing like the face-changing in Peking Opera, sometimes sad, sometimes crazy, sometimes calm, and sometimes laughing. He said words that others could not understand and did things that others could not see.
Not only him, all the weird Taoist believers around him began to go crazy. They looked at each other in disbelief. They begged and pleaded, still thinking they were human.
But they are not.
“Ahhhhhh!”
A Taoist believer had a crazy look on his face. He grabbed the back of another Taoist believer, and his strong hands suddenly pierced into his body. Then he pulled it out suddenly, and the entire spine was pulled out. The Taoist believer whose spine was pulled out fell to the ground in a daze, losing consciousness.
"I am the real one, and you are the fake one!"
"I can tell the difference."
He held the spine in his hands and polished it with his own flesh and blood. His body soon became broken, his skin and flesh were twisted, and his pupils were extremely dilated. However, because his body was very hard after practicing, he also polished the spine sword to a shine.
"Hehe, hehe, I can cultivate immortality, they are all fake."
"Stop messing with me!"
As the last sound rang out, he grinned, revealing a ferocious smile. He hunched over, and the spine sword beside him moved on the ground like a centipede, then pounced towards the nearest person!
"I did it, I did it!"
"I am indeed real, they are fake, and the world is fake."
"They are fake, the world is fake..."
The Taoist believer was murmuring, trembling, with tears on his face, as if he was crying and laughing, sad and happy.
The rational people still present understood that things were different now! They ran to say goodbye, saying the same thing:
"escape!!"
“Run away!!”
Some people tried to stop the Taoist believers, but they were often caught up by several flying swords before they could get close, and were chopped into pieces. Then the Taoist believers continued to chase the scattered crowd without changing their expressions, and killed people with their swords.
There is only one sentence in his mouth:
Am I real or fake?
In just a few breaths, the entire square was cleared out. People either fled or fell to the ground, their eyes wide open. There were also Taoist monks who were holding their spine swords, staggering in disarray, their souls fading.
"Boycott the Taoist Immortal, boycott the Taoist Immortal!"
Zhang Huaiyi was still shouting, his eyes red, his fists clenched tightly, waving them up and down. He was still immersed in the pain of Qiao Yuan's death, immersed in the excitement of the people's awakening. He had finally waited for this moment. In his imagination, this meant that the people were no longer fooled. Thousands of people were spared from the murderous hands.
"Brother Qiao Yuan, it's never too late to mend the fence after the sheep have been lost. The living must continue to live. I will definitely inherit our legacy and continue to protect..."
"Run, run!"
“Run away!!”
Faint shouting came into Zhang Huaiyi's ears through the window of Qiao Yuan's house. He was stunned and looked out the window in confusion.
Outside the window, a large number of people were running in the narrow track. They were pushing and shoving each other in a disorderly manner, so that many people fell down. However, the people behind them did not stop at all and stepped directly on people's bodies just to run faster.
“Here they come!”
“Run away!!”
The crowd's voices grew clearer, but Zhang Huaiyi grew increasingly confused. Why were people running? Hadn't they already been exposed? The Taoist immortal was no longer a threat, so why were they still running?
The next moment, he got the answer, and he saw a scene he would never forget:
A man holding a spine sword chased after him. He wailed, cried, chased after him, trembling, and said:
"Why are you running? I'm not a ghost! I'm a human!"
"Believe me, I am really cultivating immortality!"
"No, you are all fake, all fake!"
He loosened his grip, and the spine sword in his hand ran out like a centipede, piercing into the body of the fleeing man.
Like waves of wheat, many people fell down, and some others escaped, but the Taoist believers knelt on the ground, neither chasing nor running away.
Instead, he held his head and squatted on the ground crying:
"Why don't you believe me?"
"I'm real, I'm real."
"I don't know."
"Did the Taoist deceive you? Or did the Taoist deceive me?"
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