I Slay Gods and Demons in the Deceit Night
Chapter 623 - 373: Please Saint Master to become Saint Master!

Chapter 623: Chapter 373: Please Saint Master to become Saint Master!

This enclosed land never sees daylight.

Only the Treasure Beads embedded all around emit a glow akin to moonlight.

These Treasure Beads, produced by the Holy Land Refining Hall, link together to form a Great Array.

This formation draws power from the deep underground, the flowing dark river, and emits light continuously.

This little bit of light brings a remote hope to the endless darkness.

But the hope is too remote, having already transformed into disappointment, and today, it’s almost despair!

The surging waves become even more intense today!

Voices of outcry rise one after another, chaotic and mixed with murderous intent!

"Why is there only one bowl of porridge today? Are you trying to starve us to death?"

"Clearly, there is still a lot of grain in the storage, why not take it out?"

"Could it be that you withheld the grain, sold it for Silver Tael, or exchanged it for some treasure?"

"Where is the Saint Master?"

"We want to go out!"

"Previously, it was said to hide away for a period of time, how many days has it been now? Are you trying to bury us alive to make room for your descendants?"

"People of the Holy Land are now worse off than the refugees outside the Pure Land?"

"Let me tell you, my ancestors also served in the Taixuan Mountain Range, do not humiliate us!"

"Why hasn’t the Saint Master come to uphold justice yet?"

"Let us out!!!"

...

Deep within the Great Array.

Here, over a hundred people are gathered together.

These are all the elders, stewards, and disciples of various branches ordered to stay behind.

"The current situation outside is unknown, we do not know how much longer we have to wait in the formation, food must be saved, no matter how big the turmoil, this hole cannot be opened!"

"For a short time there’s no problem, but over time, change will inevitably occur."

"People of the Holy Land, unlike the Human Clan outside, cannot be satisfied just by daily food distribution and seasonal clothes."

"The ones making the most noise are those already well-fed and wealthy; they are most dissatisfied with their current barely survivable state."

"And most of these people come from uncommon backgrounds, hard to suppress forcibly."

"But if we go on like this for a long time without a solution, we won’t be able to appease the crowd, and change is sure to occur."

"..."

All the high-ranking officials present look complicated in expression.

They are responsible for guarding the Holy Land as ordered by the Saint Master.

Before the Saint Master met with misfortune, he feared sudden changes one day, leaving no time to move all the people of the Holy Land.

As expected by the Saint Master, though arrangements were made in advance for the people of the Holy Land to gradually disperse into the Three Prefectures, the change still came too quickly!

When the change occurred, a large population remained in the Holy Land, to avoid ripple effects, they had no choice but to move into the underground Great Array.

This Great Array took nearly twenty years to build, starting preparations after the Saint Master was attacked back then.

From the widening of underground rock layers, to setting up the formation, continuously storing food, breeding livestock, and trying to plant various trees and vines that can survive underground, hoping they bear fruit as food each season.

In theory, the food stored up till now, the livestock bred, and the Spirit Plants grown through formation, if economized, should suffice to sustain those beneath the underground Great Array.

After all, the initial expectation was the worst-case scenario... when the Saint Master falls, this world transforms into Forbidden Land.

This formation can barely avoid the disasters of Forbidden Land, roughly protecting for a cycle of sixty years!

"Since the Saint Master was attacked till now, all our preparations have been for survival; it was, after all, a bit urgent! We weren’t quick enough to handle the change in human emotion, causing today’s chaos..."

The leading elder, with a grave face, said, "If the Saint Master were fine, he would open the formation; now that he is silent, the outside must have turned into Forbidden Land! Unable to walk outside the formation now, we are sitting and consuming resources; if not frugal, chaos will ensue, and the consequences are unimaginable!"

"What should we do now? Could it be we forcibly suppress?" Another middle-aged man said in a deep voice.

"Forcible suppression won’t appease the crowd, this move will have endless consequences!" The elder said so, pondered and said, "Have you found the source behind the unrest?"

"Found it."

A young man stepped forward, saying, "Back when the Saint Master was attacked, the heads of those three branches lost control, affecting their followers, but a small portion of people were outside then, unaffected, thus not punished... But their relatives were slaughtered, harboring resentment, and now incite others!"

The elder shook his head slightly, said, "They are indeed adding fuel to the fire, but the real spark... is because the current situation indeed causes dissatisfaction among people! Moreover, initially, some lower disciples, who bullied others, worsened the chaos in human hearts..."

The middle-aged man said in a low voice, "Those bullying disciples have been executed, but the current circumstances can’t be improved."

The young man hesitated and said, "If so, should we publicly announce that the Holy Land will become a wasteland, turning into Forbidden Land?"

"No!"

Another elder of the Qi Refining Realm shook his head and said, "This would cause even greater panic, and in despair, order would collapse, and people would die, a lot of people would die!"

"Our original intention was to let people gradually accept the current situation over time, after a year or so, when the timing is appropriate, everyone has speculated in their hearts, then frankly tell them, it could still be peaceful."

"But now the situation is clearly not right, someone has already highlighted the conflict!"

"If they were refugees, satisfied with food and clothing here, it would be enough, but they are not refugees after all."