As Li Hai finished speaking, the internal view of an unfamiliar room slowly appeared in the waxy yellow light screen before his eyes.
This room was filled with various exquisite ornaments made of gold and silver.
At the same time, in the gaps between these ornaments, countless jewels, porcelain, and antiques were placed.
Thus, at a glance, this room, like a treasure vault, was filled with treasures, dazzling and mesmerizing.
And surrounded by these numerous gold and silver treasures, a man with white hair and a weathered demeanor, yet extremely young facial features, sat in the center of the light screen, staring at Li Hai on this side of the screen with an extremely cold gaze.
"Heh~"
The unfamiliar man stared at Li Hai for two seconds, then suddenly sneered, "I wondered who it was, turns out it's you... Li Hai."
"Oh?" Li Hai raised an eyebrow, "So you know me?"
Upon hearing this question, the man showed no intention of answering Li Hai; he picked up a golden bracelet studded with pearls and jade, carefully wiping it as he leisurely said:
"To be able to float in the water and talk to me so calmly and at ease, your swimming must be excellent. I guess... the Salt Slave has already been killed by you."
"Salt Slave?" Li Hai tilted his head and said indifferently, "Are you referring to the Li Lake Salt God?"
The man smiled silently: "Salt Slave, Salt God... Hehehe, the name doesn't matter, he's just a dog beneath my feet anyway."
As he spoke, he raised his head to look at Li Hai and asked, "By the way, Li Hai, do you want to be my dog? If you're willing, all this gold and silver..."
The man pointed to the mountains of gold and silver behind him and said with a smile, "I'll give you half, how about it?"
"I probably know who you are."
Li Hai didn't take his bait, narrowing his eyes and sneering, "In the entire Dragon Mountain area, only Lang Yun-sheng, the First Head of the Black Wolf Bandits, has so much gold and silver and is so arrogant, overbearing, and repulsive, right?"
"You guessed right, young man."
Lang Yun-sheng gently put down the bracelet, then picked up a jade vase and began to carefully wipe it, asking without looking up, "Li Hai, you killed my disciple Zhou Hu. How do you think I should torture you? Should it be a thousand cuts and dismemberment, or castration and sent to a brothel?"
At this point, he suddenly looked up and said with a gentle smile, "How about this: you become my dog, and we'll let this matter go, how about it?"
"Your disciple? Heh~"
Li Hai still didn't take the bait, crossing his arms and sneering, "He's the bastard you had with someone else's wife, isn't he? Your good disciple Zhou Yugen told me everything."
"Bastard? Are you cursing me?"
Lang Yun-sheng's face turned cold, "Fine, from now on, even if you become my dog, you won't get half an ounce of gold."
"Don't worry, you will have it."
Li Hai grinned and said, "As long as I kill you, everything of yours will be mine, including all your bastards, I will kill them all."
Then, without waiting for Lang Yun-sheng to speak, Li Hai continued:
"Old Ghost Lang, actually, there's one thing I don't understand. Why is your fetish so disgusting? You steal someone's wife, and you insist on making them watch. What kind of behavior is that? You're an animal."
"Disgusting? Animal? Hmm~"
Lang Yun-sheng stopped his movements, actually thinking very seriously for a moment, then said, "You're right. From another perspective, everything I've done is indeed disgusting and animalistic."
"Oh?" Li Hai said in surprise, "So you know that yourself."
"Of course I know, but... I am just such a selfish person."
Lang Yun-sheng said indifferently, "No matter how many evil deeds I commit in the eyes of the world, I still eat well and sleep soundly every day. What can I do, hehehe? Besides..."
He smiled meaningfully, then leisurely said, "If I don't commit all sorts of evil and act as I please, how would the world know that my martial prowess is astonishing and that I dominate this region?"
"Good, very good, hahahaha, it seems then..."
Li Hai first smiled knowingly, then said chillingly, "For you, there is only one word: 'kill'."
"Good, come and kill, come and kill me."
Lang Yun-sheng let out a wild laugh, "I'll be waiting for you to kill me, Li Hai. See you there."
With that, he abruptly closed the light screen.
And on the Li Lake side, Li Hai, deep in the lake water, suddenly had the waxy yellow light covering him cease.
"What a Lang Yun-sheng, what a heinous villain."
Li Hai grinned with Killing Intent, "Only by killing a rare scumbag like you can I feel truly exhilarated."
...
"Fellow villagers, the Salt God has been killed by this official beneath Li Lake. From now on, do not worship it anymore. If you dare to conduct human sacrifices again, then the next time it will be the bandit suppression army. All participants in human sacrifices will be treated as bandits who disregard human life and will be arrested and beheaded!"
On the shore of Li Lake, Li Hai stood on high ground, looking down at all the Yu Family Village villagers who were looking at him, and solemnly declared:
"Remember this: all deities in this world that require human sacrifice are vile and evil gods, without exception.
The more you sacrifice to such lewd and evil gods, the more unfortunate you will become, ultimately leading to the tragic end of your family's ruin. Do you remember?"
All the villagers responded loudly: "We remember."
"Hmm, very good."
Li Hai nodded in satisfaction, then said indifferently, "Thus, this official bids farewell."
With that, his figure flashed, carrying gusts of hurricane-like air blasts as he sped towards the high sky, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
And when Li Hai had completely left, the old village chief standing among the Yu Family Village crowd suddenly froze, his eyes becoming blank.
He stared blankly around, muttering somewhat at a loss:
"How strange, why do I feel... hiss... I feel very wrong."
Just then, a few villagers suddenly asked the old village chief:
"Village Chief, the Dragon King has left, shouldn't we return to the village?"
"The Dragon King has left?"
The old village chief was about to ask which immortal this was when a memory suddenly surged into his Chaos-filled mind.
This memory was everything he had said and done when Li Hai had mind-controlled him earlier, all vivid and clear.
Yet it felt extremely unfamiliar, as if it were someone else's experience, not his own.
This made the old village chief can't help but wonder if he had been possessed by something just now.
So he squinted his eyes and began to ponder.
"I understand."
The old village chief, having figured it out, mumbled softly, "The one who possessed me just now must have been the Turtle Prime Minister of the Dragon Palace. He is the Dragon King's minister, who else could it be?"
Then, he surveyed the villagers who had gathered around him, and said loudly:
"Folks, let's go back to the village now... to work!"
"Ah?"
The villagers looked at each other, then asked in a chorus, "Village Chief, what work are we going to do now?"
The village chief said: "Tear down the old temple, build a new temple!"
The villagers asked: "Which deity's temple are we going to build?"
"Who else could it be?"
The village chief said decisively, "Of course, it's the Dragon King who saved our Yu Family Village."