The long-planned assassination finally arrived abruptly when Lu Zhengchun's wailing attracted everyone's attention.
Among the crowd near the execution site, a group of civilians first saw soil-colored ripples disperse beneath their feet, soil churned like a swamp, then burst forth like a soil fountain, spraying mud, earth, and dust.
A soil-colored, ethereal, and majestic "giant" emerged from the ground. It had sturdy arms, a waist that required dozens to embrace, clad in strange armor, its face hollow.
This was manifestly the image of the "Earth God" worshipped by the common folk.
And within the chest of the "Earth God," surprisingly wrapped like silk cocoons, were two human figures.
One was Ren Kun, wearing a soil-colored daoist robe, a square face with a flat nose, yellowish eyebrows, forming hand gestures with his left, and gripping a four-sided bronze spike with his right hand.
