Chapter 1704: Fish Wife

“Shhh!!!”

Ye Qing cut the man off before he could finish. Not only that, as soon as Ye Qing shushed him, the warriors in black outfit abruptly realized that they could neither speak nor move.

“Here comes the fish...”

It was at this moment the fishing rod in the young man’s hands abruptly bent like a bow. Splashes were coming from the well as well.

𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

“Come out.”

The young man gave the fishing rod a gentle tug with only one hand, and a massive fish was pulled into the air.

It was impossible to say how such a big fish managed to squeeze through the small opening of the well. It was at least dozens of meters long. It had a human body but a fish’s behind. It had seven tails with seven colors, and they looked positively gorgeous.

However, the same thing could not be said for its upper torso. At least not completely. The body was a woman’s body. It was curvy in all the right places. However, her face was ugly beyond measure. It was covered in fist-sized warts that constantly leaked smelly, yellowish pus. One whiff was enough to make a grown man throw up the contents of their stomach.

“As I thought, it’s a Fish Wife.”

Ye Qing remarked indifferently as he stared at the strange fish in the sky.

The Fish Wife was also known as the Sick Wife. A Disaster-class Stranger, it was born from places of sickness, filth, and taint. It polluted all wells and rivers in its wake, caused the plants to wither, and the living creatures to fall ill. Over time, it would even trigger a terrible plague. It was scary to put it mildly.

However, Strangers like the Fish Wife were usually found in places with ample amounts of rainwater, or areas where floods and other aquatic threats were frequent. It was very strange for it to appear in the dry and with poor rainfall like the Western Regions.

“Uuuuuu...”

In the air, the Fish Wife was struggling and weeping with all her might. Her cries sounded sorrowful and pitiful like a wife who had been wronged by her husband. Everyone who heard her cries felt sad and shed tears.

Ye Qing paid it no attention, however. He said smilingly, “In the past, the Chief Libationist slew a flood dragon and quelled an aquatic threat. Today, Ye Qing shall slay a Fish Wife and eliminate the root of a plague.”

Ye Qing gave his fishing rod a wave, and the Fish Wife exploded into a shower of blood and gore.

At the same time, well water gushed out of the Calabash Well and into the air.

Strangely, the murky well water instantly became pure and clear as soon as the Fish Wife left the Calabash Well.

The well water merged with the gore of the Fish Wife’s gore and formed a thick cloud of blood.

Pitter patter...

The next moment, rainwater began falling from the sky.

As the rain fell, the thick stench in the air gradually faded into nothing and was replaced by a faint but refreshing scent.

When the rainwater landed on the ground, the withering plants immediately turned a little green.

When the rainwater landed on a human being, the weak and sickly populace of Calabash City immediately regained a bit of vitality and consciousness.

In an instant, the dying Calabash City not only halted its descent toward doom, it was slowly coming back to life.

While it was true that the Fish Wife was the source of countless diseases and disasters, it so happened that the cure was its very own flesh and blood.

Now that the Fish Wife was dead, and the disease plaguing the city was dispelled, it wouldn’t be long before everyone returned to normal, and Calabash City regained its former vitality and prosperity.

“A fisherman fishes from the Calabash Well, and a city sparkles like new.”

Feng Qingyou smiled. “Not bad. You definitely caught some of the Chief Libationist’s magnificence there.”

“Hahaha... you flatter me.”

Ye Qing smiled and walked over to the leader of the black shirt warriors. “Who are you people?”

The leader realized he could speak after Ye Qing asked him a question. However, he wasn’t afraid despite witnessing Ye Qing slaying the Fish Wife singlehandedly. On the contrary, he was filled with rage as he yelled, “How dare you kill the divine child! You’re dead! The Black Water Heavenly God will enact divine judgment upon you and kill you! In fact, everyone in this city is going to die because of your foolishness!”

Ye Qing asked, “Divine child? You mean that Stranger?”

The leader yelled, “That was the divine child of the Black Water Heavenly God! Don’t you dare compare her to the dirty and lowly Strangers!”

“The Black Water Heavenly God will never let you go for killing the divine child. Your only way out now is to kneel, disembowel yourselves, and offer up your heart and loyalty in repentance! Only then will the Black Water Heavenly God forgive your sin!”

Disembowel myself and offer up my heart? Hah! Would your Black Water Heavenly God dare to accept my heart even if I did offer it to him?

Ye Qing mentally ranted, but this so-called Black Water Heavenly God intrigued him. “Who is the Black Water Heavenly God?”

As soon as he mentioned the Black Water Heavenly God, the leader’s face immediately turned zealous and passionate. “The Black Water Heavenly God is the king of the Black Water Divine Kingdom. He is the Lord of Sickness and the God of Death. He is the greatest existence in the entire world. Only those who worship the Black Water Heavenly God could become immortal and eternal when he enacts his divine judgment. Only they could forever live in the Black Water Divine Kingdom.”

“Praise the Black Water Heavenly God...”

“Worship the Black Water Heavenly God...”

“The guy has a lot of nicknames, that’s for sure,” Ye Qing said in a ridiculingly tone. “What is this so-called divine judgment?”

Seemingly sensing the disrespect in Ye Qing’s eyes, the leader flew into a rage. “You dare disrespect the Black Water Heavenly God?! You will face his divine judgment!”

“And I’ll be waiting.”Ye Qing did not get angry. “But before that, tell me what this divine judgment is.”

Unfortunately, the leader could not seem to hear him. He kept yelling in anger, “Oh great Black Water Heavenly God, please enact your divine judgment and punish this blasphemer before my eyes! Plunge him into the eternal Black Water Divine Hell and have the divine child consume his body and soul for eternity, never to be reborn!”

It wasn’t just him. The rest of the black shirt warriors were wearing furious faces and glaring at Ye Qing with pure malice as well. If they could speak, they would have yelled at Ye Qing already. If they could move, they would have ripped him into a million pieces.

“I see. You’re all past saving.”

Ye Qing looked at Feng Qingyou and shook his head. It was clear that these people had been brainwashed by this so-called Black Water Heavenly God. It was pointless to interrogate them any further.

So, Ye Qing bent his finger and tapped the leader in the forehead. His angry yells immediately came to a stop as a demonic lotus bloomed in his eyes.

A few breaths later, Ye Qing withdrew his finger and looked at Feng Qingyou. “They belong to the Black Water Divine Sect.”

As the name implied, the Black Water Divine Sect was a sect that worshiped the Black Water Heavenly God.

The so-called Black Water Heavenly God was a king of a kingdom called the Black Water Divine Kingdom. It used to exist over a thousand years ago.

Over a thousand years ago, a powerful kingdom existed in the Western Regions called the Black Water Divine Kingdom.

The Black Water Divine Kingdom was powerful and prosperous. During its golden age, it once ruled over the western nations and was the one ruler of the Western Regions.

In order to maintain his power and his status and to rule the Western Regions for eternity, the Black Water Divine Kingdom went so far as to practice a forbidden art in hopes of living forever.

Alas, immortality was always an illusion for mortals. Due to the backlash of the forbidden art and the temptation of a Heavenly Demon from Beyond, the king was warped into an unspeakable evil god, and everyone in the Black Water Divine Kingdom transformed into strangers. It was a terrible tragedy that cost countless lives of the Western Regions.

Left with no choice, the nations of the Western Regions came together to suppress the king and sealed off the Black Water Divine Kingdom.

However, the king of the Black Water Divine Kingdom had become a powerful and immortal evil god. He could be sealed or suppressed, but not killed. Not only that, Strangers would break out of the seals and appear in the human world from time to time, wreaking much havoc and tragedies.