As the blood gushed out rapidly, Zhou Xing Ye's struggles grew weaker and weaker, and the despair and pain in his eyes became heavier and heavier.
Finally, under the astonished, curious, fearful, and gleeful gazes of the crowd watching outside the shop, he died with his eyes wide open and his face contorted.
The naihe token that Li Hai had pulled out, once it entered the iron basin and touched Zhou Xing Ye's blood, guzzled down the entire basin of blood like a fish, then began to flicker with black and red light.
Li Hai, with quick reflexes, stretched out his left palm and instantly scooped the naihe token out of the iron basin, then circulated True Force into it.
Buzz—
In an instant, the familiar clear, cold voice resounded in his mind:
"Guiyou Cave Heaven has been successfully activated. Do you wish to enter?"
Li Hai immediately responded in his consciousness: "No."
The clear, cold voice immediately replied: "Command received."
Then, after only a moment, the voice spoke again: "After Guiyou Cave Heaven has been successfully activated, its absorption function and virtualization function are now open. Do you wish to enable them?"
"Virtualization?"
Li Hai was a little confused, "I can roughly understand the absorption function, which is to take in external objects and store them within the Cave Heaven, but what does this virtualization mean?"
In his confusion, he immediately chose to enable Guiyou Cave Heaven's virtualization function.
Whoosh—
In the blink of an eye, the naihe token in Li Hai's hand cracked, shattered into dust, and scattered onto the ground, leaving only a trace of black and red light that seeped into his palm.
"Eh?!"
Li Hai raised his hand to look and found that on the skin of his left palm, two small ancient seal characters, 'naihe', appeared out of nowhere, shimmering with bloody light.
At the same time, lines of textual information also flashed in his mind.
After reading through all this information in a flash, Li Hai immediately understood what this so-called virtualization function truly meant.
According to its meaning, the essence of Guiyou Cave Heaven was not in this naihe token, but outside the mortal world, and the token was merely a small gateway.
And when Li Hai activated the Cave Heaven and became its master, this gateway would detach from the naihe token and transfer to his body.
As for the two characters 'naihe' on his left palm, they were merely the external manifestation of the Cave Heaven's gateway.
If Li Hai wanted to change its position, whether to his glabella, the sole of his foot, or even his buttock, it was a minor matter that could be changed at will with a single thought.
Besides these, Li Hai's current body would also be unable to enter the Cave Heaven hereafter, and could only exist outside the Cave Heaven.
However, this did not mean that he would no longer be able to manipulate the various things within the Cave Heaven in the future.
Li Hai could use the power of the Cave Heaven's gateway to manifest an invisible perspective and invisible limbs within the Cave Heaven, freely observing and touching all objects inside the Cave Heaven.
"Hahaha."
He was in a great mood and laughed loudly, "To put it simply, isn't this just a Storage Ring, but with a much larger internal space and extremely high growth potential?"
Li Hai roughly calculated that the Guiyou Cave Heaven's side hall, which was rectangular in shape, was about a hundred zhang long, sixty zhang wide, and a little over one zhang high, less than two zhang.
This area and space were quite large, enough to hold many things.
Immediately, Li Hai opened his left palm and aimed it at the pile of dust left by the shattered naihe token on the ground, activating the absorption function.
Buzz—
In the blink of an eye, this pile of dust vanished without a trace, appearing on the ground inside Guiyou Cave Heaven's side hall.
Li Hai believed that since it was Materials left by the naihe token, it must be extraordinary.
Perhaps in the future, it could even be used to forge divine weapons, so it was better to keep it collected.
"Benefactor!"
Suddenly, a hesitant voice reached Li Hai's ears.
He followed the sound and found an old woman with a weathered face and old clothes suddenly stepping out from the crowd watching outside the shop.
As soon as the old woman reached Li Hai, she knelt down with a thud and pleaded:
"Benefactor, could you please give Zhou Xing Ye's head to this old woman?"
"Oh?" Li Hai reached out to help the old woman up, "Do you have a grudge against him?"
After standing up, the old woman merely nodded to herself and was unwilling to say more, only muttering: "I, I want to use Zhou Xing Ye's head... to mourn my daughter, my grandson, and my husband."
"I understand." Li Hai nodded, then turned and used the pig-slaughtering knife to cut off Zhou Xing Ye's head, holding it by the hair and handing it to the old woman.
The old woman didn't care about the blood on her hands at all, only gritted her teeth and clutched the head, scratching and clawing at it, wishing she could crush it in her embrace.
"Thank you, thank you, Benefactor!" After venting her hatred, the old woman knelt down again and kowtowed loudly to Li Hai, then, hugging Zhou Xing Ye's head, she hurried away.
And after the old woman set this precedent, several more people immediately emerged from the surrounding crowd, all kneeling before Li Hai:
"Benefactor, I want Zhou Xing Ye's left arm."
"Benefactor, I want Zhou Xing Ye's pair of hands."
"Benefactor, I want Zhou Xing Ye's black heart."
...
These people, men and women, were all different, but the only thing they had in common was that their faces were full of hatred and grief.
Li Hai understood and did not ask further, nodding his head and turning to busy himself with the knife.
As he worked, he couldn't help but recall the scene of him slaughtering pigs and distributing meat in the countryside in his previous life.
It was just like now, with a crowd of people eagerly gathered around.
Only then, after the meat was distributed, the villagers gave money.
Now, after the meat was distributed, the common people offered gratitude.
The two seemed different, but in reality, they were somewhat similar.
The similar point was that Li Hai felt extremely pleased.
And what he sought in this life was pleasure.
...
"Sir, can you give me some more clean blood? The blood on the ground is too dirty. I'll take it and dip steamed buns in it for my grandson to eat. The doctor said that the blood of such evil people is very effective for treating illnesses!"
"It's all distributed, there's none left."
Facing the old woman's ignorant request, and the eager common people around, Li Hai was also very helpless.
But no matter how fat Zhou Xing Ye was, even if he was as round as a ball, he couldn't be divided among so many people.
One could only say that his three-hundred-jin body simply could not bear the evil he had committed.
After dealing with these people, Li Hai walked towards the Zhou Family Residence again.
"I gave you so much time to prepare..."
He looked at the hundred or so musketeers in three inner and three outer rows at the entrance of the Zhou Family Residence and couldn't help but sneer coldly, "In the end, you only managed to set up such a small formation, without a single expert. How disgraceful."
Suddenly, an old man in luxurious clothes appeared in the innermost rank of musketeers. He looked at Li Hai, who was dozens of zhang away, and shouted from afar:
"This old man is Zhou Yushu, the unworthy head of the Zhou Family, and also the fortress lord of Zhou Family Fortress. May I ask, young hero, what enmity do you have with my Zhou Family?"
Li Hai said: "No grievances, no grudges."
As he spoke, he also glanced at Zhou Yushu's personal interface from afar.
Unexpectedly, this old man didn't know any martial arts at all; he was a pure ordinary person.
"Hahahahaha~"
Zhou Yushu laughed coldly, "Since you have no enmity or grievances with my Zhou Family, young hero, why did you torture Xing Ye so cruelly?!"
Li Hai chuckled: "Is he your grandson?"
"No." Zhou Yushu said, "He is the grandson of my third brother, Zhou Yugen, but I regard him as my own, like a true grandson."
"Good, very good."
Li Hai smiled with satisfaction, "So Zhou Yugen, Zhou Hu, and Zhou Xing Ye are actually grandfather, father, and grandson, a family. How wonderful."
After speaking, Li Hai put away his smile and strode towards the Zhou Family Residence.
Zhou Yushu saw this and immediately shouted anxiously: "Fire! Quick, fire!"
At his command, the entire musketeer squad immediately opened fire.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Accompanied by bursts of smoke, bullets rained down and instantly all blasted towards Li Hai, who was slowly walking forward.