I can push my cultivation progress to the end

Before the village chief could respond, Li Hai spoke first to the two children:

“Children, you two don't need to be sacrifices to see that damn Salt God. Go home quickly and find your parents.”

To their surprise, the two children exchanged a look and then shook their heads in refusal:

“No, no, we are the chosen sacrifices. We are to be sent to Salt God to be eaten. If Salt God is hungry, the village will suffer.”

“That's right, Officer,”

The old village chief chimed in, “Our Yu Family Village has been doing this for over a hundred years. It has always been this way, and everyone is used to it.”

“Just because it's always been this way, does that make it right?”

After coldly saying this, Li Hai looked at the old village chief with a glint of coldness in his eyes.

He realized that if he wanted to persuade the ignorant people of Yu Family Village, if he wanted to save the two children and even more children, he had to deal with this old thing first.

But simply killing him would be useless. Instead, it would only strengthen the resolve of the remaining villagers, unless he killed them all.

So now, there was only one way.

That was to control the village chief's mind and consciousness.

Even the pure mental power from his [Mind Condensation Level 2] was enough to suppress and control the old man's thoughts.

Li Hai did exactly that.

His eyes gleamed with a strange light, and he immediately plunged the old village chief's brain into blankness through eye contact, his body stiffening on the spot.

Then, a second later, the old village chief returned to normal, but the look in his eyes towards Li Hai had changed from vigilance and fear to respect and worship.

With the change in his gaze, the village chief immediately glanced at all the villagers, deliberately amplifying his voice as he said:

“Officer, you are right! We really can't keep sacrificing like this. Otherwise, what if Salt God's appetite grows one day, so much that he needs to eat ten or eight children every month? How can we do that? Our village doesn't have that many children for him to eat.”

As soon as these words came out, all the villagers looked at each other, and after thinking about it, couldn't help but nod their heads in agreement.

The village chief was right.

They could afford to offer two children every three months.

But if they had to eat ten or eight children every month, then their Yu Family Village… would be wiped out.

At the thought of this, the villagers' blind fear of the Salt God quietly diminished a lot, and even their numb hearts began to brew with a trace of resentment.

But just then, the two children who were to be sacrificed spoke again, they said uneasily:

“But… but if Salt God really brings disaster, won't Dad and Mom, and our younger siblings, and the whole village… won't they all be finished?”

“Don't worry.”

Li Hai smiled, “With me here, your village won't suffer any disaster.”

With that, he raised his right hand, and the words 'Neither Nor' lit up in his palm, aiming at the Lihu Lake in front of him… and began to suck.

Whoosh—

Under the suction of the cave heaven portal, a huge waterspout suddenly swelled up on the surface of Lihu Lake, rotating with a rumbling sound and flying into Li Hai's palm, landing in a barren valley in the East Forest Garden of the Guiyou Cave Heaven.

The terrain there was sunken like a basin, perfect for holding the lake water.

That's right, Li Hai's idea was to directly drain the entire Lihu Lake.

“Aren't you a lake god? Good, I'll drain your lake and see if you show yourself!”

Li Hai's thoughts and actions were very simple and crude, but they frightened all the villagers of Yu Family Village, who had never seen anything like this before.

“Water Dragon King! This is the Water Dragon King!”

The old village chief, who had become extremely observant at this moment, immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic, while constantly muttering words like “Dragon King bless” and the like.

The Yu Family villagers not far away, seeing the village chief kneeling down, also knelt on the ground, kowtowing incessantly while shouting “Dragon King bless” with all their might, even the two newly awakened children were doing the same.

Thus, under the worship of the crowd, this river god sacrifice ceremony instantly turned into a water-pumping construction… no, it was a Water Dragon King water-sucking scene.

At the scene, every second, tens of thousands of cubic meters or even more of lake water were being drawn by Li Hai's single palm into the East Forest Garden of the Guiyou Cave Heaven, turning into his future 'blood bottle' reserves, constantly increasing by thousands of tons.

“Too slow, too slow.”

After sucking water for a while, Li Hai couldn't help but raise his other hand, opening another cave heaven portal and starting double-portal water suction.

Whoosh~ Whoosh~ Whoosh~

Instantly, his water-sucking power went up another level.

But even so, Li Hai, who had sucked tens of thousands of tons of water, was still not satisfied, still feeling it was too slow.

So, a few seconds later, he actually leaped up, plunged into the Lihu Lake, completely immersing himself in the lake water, and then opened cave heaven portals all over his body, starting 360-degree all-round water suction.

And the already turbulent surface of Lihu Lake suddenly became agitated with turbulent waves, starting to rush and surge madly towards the humanoid 'water abyss' Li Hai underwater at a rate of tens of thousands of cubic meters per second.

For a time, Lihu Lake, a small inland salt lake that had never seen any major storms, began to slowly sink in a visible manner, centered on a boiling vortex, under the shocked gaze of everyone in Yu Family Village.

Hoo~ Hoo~

Whirr whirr whirr~

The wisps of water vapor rising into the sky, upon encountering the vast wind in the high sky, immediately turned into rain, bombarding the earth, drenching everyone in Yu Family Village into drowned rats.

But just then, the old village chief, soaked to the bone, suddenly shouted against the wind and rain:

“Folks, don't be afraid! Don't be afraid, look over here, look at me!”

Everyone immediately looked at him upon hearing this.

Then, the old village chief scanned all the villagers and asked loudly:

“Everyone, do you know what exactly is happening to this Lihu Lake?”

Everyone shook their heads blankly.

“This is the Water Dragon King, he old man…”

The old village chief raised his head and pointed at the boiling Lihu Lake, shouting with wide eyes, “Fighting with that lewd Salt God at the bottom of the lake!

When the Dragon King defeats the Salt God, everyone in our Yu Family Village will be completely free!”

“Oh oh oh!!”

All the villagers were first dazed, then immediately excited, shouting one after another, “Dragon King saves us from suffering, saves us from suffering!”

“So villagers!”

The old village chief said again, “The Dragon King has arrived, the clear sky has come, and we are saved! Let us all kneel down together and pray for the Dragon King!”

As he spoke, he knelt down first, clasping his hands together towards Lihu Lake and chanting.

The other villagers also hurriedly knelt down, praying in a chaotic manner towards the churning and roaring Lihu Lake.