Chapter 1654 — The Fool of the Southern Heaven

Huotian Zun spat out a mouthful of blood. The Sage's Precepts, by which the Southern Heaven taught the human race, had been compiled by none other than himself; and it was for that very book that the Heavenly Court had enfeoffed him as the Sage Venerable among the Heavenly Venerables.

The other villagers rushed in a body, cleavers, hooks, iron shovels, hammers, mattocks chopping down upon him, crying: "Beat this disloyal, unfilial, unkind, unrighteous wretch to death! Carry his head off to claim the reward, and we shall be a divine race!"

"This villain's body is so hard, we cannot cut him to death!"

"Quick! Kill a dog, splash him with black dog's blood, and break his sorcery!"

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