Dragon Tamer
Chapter 1174 - Chapter 1174 Chapter 1178 Facing the Heart Demon

Chapter 1174: Chapter 1178: Facing the Heart Demon Chapter 1174: Chapter 1178: Facing the Heart Demon …

A group of strong men immediately picked up oil lanterns and hurried toward the dam.

The dam had already filled with water, and silt was continually surging from the mountains and forests into the dam, carrying with it strong impact forces. Should the dam be unable to bear the weight, it might very well lead to a catastrophic mudslide!!

Old Creek City was, in fact, what used to be Dam Village.

When Zheng Yu saw the silt beginning to pile up on the streets, and some of the houses located in lower-lying areas already soaked by water, he immediately sensed something was amiss.

“What’s going on?? Why isn’t the gate opened???” Chief Zhou bellowed.

“We can’t open it, it’s like something’s stuck in the valve!” said the dam guardian.

“Everybody go over and help, if we don’t release the water, our old city will be submerged!!” Chief Zhou said.

The rainstorm kept intensifying, this green rain was different from ordinary rain, it was difficult to stop it using conventional spells, and what’s more, the green rain carried a terrifying strangeness, capable of causing some underground rivers to gather, which could significantly increase the water level in a short period of time. If not drained promptly, the entire old city would soon be inundated!

A group of people moved forward, joining forces to push the millstone-like gate mechanism, but no matter how many people joined in, the gate wouldn’t budge an inch.

Zheng Yu gently brushed the palm of his hands in front of his eyes, and his eyes immediately burst forth with God’s Light.

Under the scan of God’s Light, Zheng Yu could instantly see things ordinary people could not!

At the site of the huge wooden axis that the large group of people were pushing, there were a cluster of dark shadows. Under the green rain, they emitted an exceedingly dreadful and sinister aura, resembling water ghosts crawling out from the flood, lined up in rows. Whenever people attempted to push the gate, they would push back in the opposite direction!

Ghost Push Gate!!!

These water ghosts were obstructing, they even emitted a horrifying growling sound, audible only to a few.

“Drown them, drown them, drown them!”

“They all deserve to die, they all deserve to die!!”

These Green Water Ghosts were frenzied and terrifying, harboring immense hatred toward the people.

Zheng Yu’s gaze inadvertently shifted to the hilltop, where there was a cemetery; those buried there were the four families who had perished in the flood due to the negligence of the Old Temple God of Wine!!

The ones blocking the gate were the Green Water Ghosts transformed from these four families!!

They had all become water ghosts, without being delivered by any rites???

When the Old Temple God of Wine was still around, these Green Water Ghosts didn’t dare to cause trouble, but upon the death of the Old Temple God, they were completely unleashed and began their vile retribution!!!

“It’s your turn now, your turn to taste what it’s like to have your throats filled with silt!!”

“Why do you get to live well while we, who lived downstream, had to die!!”

“It was clearly you who didn’t manage the dam properly, it was you!!”

“You killed us!!!!”

The Green Water Ghosts roared incessantly, these roars were inaudible to others, who only felt the chilling and turbulent wind and rain beating against them, their bodies breaking out in goosebumps!!

Zheng Yu quickly flipped through his ancient tome, looking for information about these evil spirits.

However, Zheng Yu had not anticipated that these Evil Spirits were exceedingly tenacious and fostered deep-seated grievances. With the influence of Eternal Darkness, Green Water, and the God of Evil Wishes–Hong Mo, these Green Water Ghosts became incredibly powerful, so much so that it was extremely difficult to transcend them with the Divine Fire meant for annihilating ghosts!

These malevolent specters required transcendence because, being entities that have already experienced death once, cleansing them was an immensely challenging task. Moreover, this dam was the scene of the incident, and once the Evil Spirits gained the advantages of time, location and harmony among people, some of their abilities became incredibly difficult to disrupt.

Take for example, if they stubbornly blocked this dam with their lingering resentment, even if you scattered their souls to the winds, the dam would remain as indestructible as if made of solid gold!

“Everyone had better retreat to higher ground quickly,” Zheng Yu spoke out.

These Green Water Ghosts were extremely difficult to deal with; they had died here once and been sealed here. Now that they were released, they sought to have every person from Dam Village accompany them in death!

“Do all of this seem familiar to you??” It was at this moment that the face formed from Hong Mo’s black mist drifted over, mocking Zheng Yu.

Zheng Yu naturally understood what Hong Mo was referring to.

In Rong Valley City, Zheng Yu withheld the water and caused the city’s crops to fail, with a portion of the population dying of starvation.

When he finally opened the gates to release the water, he drowned the starving people of Wutu with the resultant flood.

This was very similar to what the Old Temple God of Wine had done in the past.

When the Old Temple God of Wine was young, in order to protect the people of Dam Village, he opened the floodgates and drowned the inhabitants of four downstream families…

“I can see your Heart Demon very clearly,” the face in the mist continued.

“A Demon Lord who harms life and kills without mercy, are you really trying to discuss with me the relative value of the lives of the majority versus the minority?” Zheng Yu couldn’t help but feel amused.

He had never regretted any decision he had made, and he did not expect himself to be a saint.

He was unapologetic.

“But he is still your Heart Demon, isn’t he? Otherwise, why do you always dream of them when you sleep?” Hong Mo laughed.

“That’s the difference between you and me. When you harm others, you never feel remorse; you lack any compassion and never reflect on your sins. That’s why you are scum, an Evil Immortal, trash. I dream of them because I feel guilty towards them, my heart of compassion has tortured us for so many years, and I reproach myself for not having been able to do better at that time, perhaps they would not have had to die. I remember them constantly, carrying this guilt forward, only hoping to become stronger so that one day I won’t have to make life and death decisions about the few versus the many. I hope they can all survive,” Zheng Yu calmly responded to his Heart Demon.

Yes, that was his Heart Demon.

But he had always faced it squarely.

He could have extinguished this Heart Demon long ago, but he needed the Heart Demon to remind himself that he was not perfect, that he needed to bear this sin to redeem more people.

Hearing this explanation of facing the Heart Demon, Hong Mo’s misty face twisted into an unspeakably fierce snarl!

In the past, faced with any level of deity, a few words from him could cause their Heart Demon to inflate indefinitely, or he could plant a seed of evil in their hearts with just one sentence and watch it slowly sprout.

But this Zheng Yu, his will was incredibly firm.

He even kept his Heart Demon as motivation for making himself stronger!

This made him more difficult to deal with than those who had no Heart Demon!

“Heh heh, you speak quite eloquently, but that’s because you’ve only had to choose between people unrelated to you. I want to see how you make your choice this time!” Said Hong Mo.

He had plenty of means to torment people.

And he had time to play this game with Zheng Yu slowly!