Extreme Almightiest Young Master

Chapter 1219 - 1217: Are There Demon Beasts in the Secular World?

"No, something’s not right!"

At this moment, Lin Feng furrowed his brows, a drop of rainwater on his finger. He sensed that something was amiss; the sudden downpour was highly unusual, with no forewarnings. This was very strange. Saying this, he then tasted the droplet of rainwater...

"Lin Feng, what’s wrong?"

"What’s amiss?"

"Teacher Lin, has something happened?"

...

Upon hearing Lin Feng’s words, Xia Lalan and the children were all stunned, asking him with great curiosity. They truly found it odd. What did Lin Feng mean by something not being right? What exactly was going on?

"Haven’t you noticed? The rainwater is salty!" When Xia Lalan and the children expressed their bewilderment, Lin Feng answered earnestly. However, his mind was already making guesses about what could be the cause.

"Salty? How can rainwater be salty?"

"What’s going on here?"

"Teacher Lin, I thought rainwater was tasteless!"

...

Hearing Lin Feng say this, Xia Lalan and the children each caught a drop of rainwater and tasted it, only to become dumbfounded. Wasn’t rainwater supposed to be tasteless? Why was it suddenly salty? It really did seem very wrong!

"This is not normal rain, it’s been deliberately created by someone!"

At this moment, Lin Feng spoke with a grave expression, suspecting that the rainwater might have been artificially induced—otherwise, it shouldn’t be salty! With this thought, he immediately instructed two Great Demons beside him: "You two, take us up into the sky to have a look."

Upon receiving Lin Feng’s command, the two Great Demons flew upward at once. As they reached the skies above, everyone was shocked to witness an eerie scene. The mountains around had formed a ring, with only one path leading outside, and at that moment, above the entire valley gathered a mass of black clouds, a heavy downpour enveloping the entire valley. The sole path leading outside had also been washed away. Even more concerning was the horrifying speed at which the rainwater was rising, threatening to engulf the entire village in the blink of an eye!

"How is this possible!"

"The rainwater is abnormal, how can it only be raining in this place!"

"Even if it rains, it shouldn’t be this sudden. There’s a problem!"

...

The scene before them left Xia Lalan and the children dumbstruck as they discussed among themselves. They all could sense that something was very wrong. This bizarre rain was definitely not ordinary, as if it was controlled by someone, deliberately intending to flood the village!

"That’s why I said something’s not right!"

In this moment, Lin Feng nodded and said with a slight frown. It was as he expected: this rain was not a natural disaster but a man-made calamity. Now he wanted to see exactly what was happening. Thinking this, he immediately said to the two Great Demons, "You two don’t need to go over. Lanlan and I, along with the children, will go take a look."

As soon as the two Great Demons heard Lin Feng’s words, they swooped down from the sky without a word, placing everyone on the ground, then they shrank their bodies and disappeared. Meanwhile, Lin Feng and Xia Lalan, leading the children, rushed toward the village that was about to be devoured.

What was only a journey of about ten miles, they arrived in the blink of an eye. Looking ahead, the village had almost disappeared, with only the rooftops of three or two houses left visible. Everything else had been submerged.

"Condense the Gang Qi under your feet into gas disks to combine with your speed, and you won’t fall into the water, hurry and save people!" Seeing this situation, Lin Feng became anxious and spoke to Xia Lalan and the children. He had taught them the skill to materialize Gang Qi before, so the children definitely knew what to do. Right now, the most important thing was to save people first!

Upon hearing Lin Feng’s words, Xia Lalan and the children were also very anxious and immediately did as instructed. In an instant, they rushed to the village-turned-lake like gusts of wind, their speed extremely fast. As they passed by anyone in the water, they’d pull them up and quickly send them to a safe place, then immediately return to rescue more people, keeping busy without rest!

At this moment, Lin Feng was intently observing the pitch-black raincloud above his head. With his Divine Sense enveloping the cloud, he discovered something abnormal within it. After confirming that something was indeed causing trouble, he waved his hand and a horrifyingly powerful Seven-Colored Sword Gang flew towards the dark raincloud!

"Swoosh!"

To avoid drawing too much attention, the Sword Gang was not very large—only about two meters in width—and it moved extremely fast. It struck the raincloud in an instant without anyone noticing the event.

But just as the Sword Gang penetrated the black cloud, a sudden scream came from within it.

"Ahh..."

The scream was miserable, but not very loud; it was quickly drowned out by the sound of the rain and incredibly, after the scream, the patch of pitch-black raincloud in the sky vanished, and the torrential rain finally ceased.

Glancing at the direction where the dark raincloud had fled, Lin Feng did not pursue it. His priority was to ensure the safety of all the people in the village, so he flashed into action, joining the rescue effort!

There were many villagers, and it took a great deal of effort for Lin Feng and the others to rescue everyone. Everyone gathered together on a threshing ground halfway up the hillside. At this moment, the villagers were panicked and caught in the fears they had just experienced, with some of the younger children even huddling together and crying loudly, creating a chaotic scene.

However, the village chief remained calm at this time. Knowing that it was these two young people who had led the children to save everyone in the village, this elder, who appeared to be in his fifties and wore simple peasant clothing, was filled with immense gratitude. Without these two young people and the children, there was no telling how many people in the village would have survived.

At this moment, the village chief, accompanied by his only son, approached Lin Feng and Xia Lalan. Without saying a word, they knelt down and spoke with extremely agitated voices: "I am the chief of this village, and on behalf of all the villagers in Hehai Village, we thank you. You have saved our entire village!"

After speaking, the village chief was ready to bow down to Lin Feng and Xia Lalan, but how could Lin Feng and Xia Lalan let them bow down? Both moved to support the two and helped them up.

"Village chief, don’t worry about it. We happened to be here, and saving people is the right thing to do." After helping them up, Xia Lalan spoke with a smile. She would not ignore such a situation and thus felt no need for thanks.

Meanwhile, Lin Feng, looking at the village chief, had a thought flashing through his mind and asked, "Village chief, has anything strange happened in the village recently?"

In Lin Feng’s view, whatever was in the black cloud must have appeared suddenly and for a certain reason. Otherwise, the villagers would have died long ago. He needed to understand what had happened in order to make an informed judgment.

Upon hearing Lin Feng’s words, the village chief looked at him with a mix of surprise and recognition. He didn’t expect such a question from the young man before him. Knowing that Lin Feng meant well, the village chief steadied himself and began to recount the incidents that had occurred in the village.

"It all started with an incident that happened yesterday. In the afternoon, a few children were playing near the ancient well in the village. Not knowing any better, they threw lit firecrackers into the well. Unexpectedly, as the children were playing, they suddenly vanished without a trace!"

"The villagers all panicked, but despite searching all around the village, the missing children could not be found. Just as everyone was beside themselves with worry, it started to rain from nowhere, and weirder still, a pond not far from the village suddenly turned blood red. A few braver villagers went to investigate and found the children’s clothes. From that moment on, we knew that the children were dead!"

"Confronted with such eerie events, the elders in the village believed that the children’s wrongdoings had incited divine retribution, while the strong, young men thought that there was some sort of monster in the pond that needed to be killed. But after those men entered the pond, they never came back out."

"You could say that everyone in the village was frightened out of their minds last night. The faint-hearted people wanted to leave immediately, but the only road out was washed away, and we couldn’t leave at all. Given the treacherous terrain and lack of communication methods, our village had already lost contact with the outside world, and we were in a state of panic, all hoping for the rain to stop so we could quickly repair the road and leave."

"But fate was against us, the rain didn’t stop, and starting this morning, it even got worse, with floods beginning to form. Then you all came across what happened next." The village chief slowly explained the events of the past two days, his heart also filled with curiosity. Such strange events had never been heard of before; who could have imagined that a few firecrackers would lead to such a disaster? If not for the people in front of him, it’s likely that the entire village would have perished.

"We beg you, please help us. We really have no idea what’s going on, and everyone in the village is scared to death!" The village chief’s son added, his voice full of panic. Anyone facing such eerie events would be terrified, and now he was pleading for Lin Feng’s help. He had seen that Lin Feng and others could walk on water to rescue people, something ordinary people couldn’t do, so surely they could help.

"So something like this happened!"

"This... What’s going on here?"

"Teacher Lin, this is too strange!"

...

After hearing the father and son from the village, Xia Lalan and the children were all taken aback. They didn’t expect such things to have happened in the village, and for a moment, they were all perplexed, not understanding what was truly happening, all turning their gazes to Lin Feng, wanting to know how he would solve this.

By now, Lin Feng already had a general idea of what was going on. This was definitely not a case of divine retribution; it was the work of Demon Beasts. Although he had not figured out which specific Demon Beasts were responsible, the beast had been injured by him and had fled. It was too late to catch it now, so he could only wait for the beast to reappear before he could help eliminate it from the village.