Ni Xinzhi and Zhuzhu followed curiously, and soon they heard the faint crying of the family and the crying of the baby.
Isn't today their grand festival? Why are there crying?
"Don't cry. It's fair to say that you have no chance with this child. Once he is sacrificed to the Dragon God, the Dragon God will bless our town with good weather this year. You two are still young and will have another child. "
The mayor's voice rang in the small courtyard, "Guo Liu, please leave the child to me. The time of sacrifice is coming soon."
Sacrifice?
What kind of dragon god are you sacrificing a child to?
Is this a god or a demon?
Zhuzhu and her father looked at each other, feeling a bad premonition in their hearts, and at the same time they released their spiritual consciousness to explore the small courtyard.
The young man from the family said "yes" and took the child from his wife's hand.
The baby looked only five or six months old, white, plump and cute.
Even a strong-willed cultivator like Zhuzhu couldn't help but feel soft and fond at the first sight.
And they actually wanted to sacrifice such a cute child.
The mother of that child held her child tightly and refused to let go: "Let me take another look, one more look..."
"Ms. Liang, please stop being stubborn and delaying the sacrifice. Can you bear the Dragon God's anger?"
The mayor's face darkened and his voice became slightly more dignified.
The young man named Guo Liu took advantage of his wife being frightened by the mayor's words and quickly stepped forward to snatch the child and hand it to the mayor.
The movements were crisp and neat, making people wonder whether the child was his biological child.
The mayor took the child and nodded with satisfaction and walked out. The other people in the town followed the mayor excitedly, singing songs that Zhuzhu couldn't understand, and walked all the way to Qianqiu Lake.
Soon Guo Liu also picked up his wife, who could only suppress her crying, and followed him.
Zhuzhu and her father followed them silently.
They wanted to see if this so-called dragon god was a god, or a monster that was causing trouble?
Qianqiu Lake was only a dozen miles away from the town, and they arrived there soon.
The mayor carried the child to the lake and put it into the boat that had been arranged by the lake.
At the other end of the boat were two live sheep with their limbs tied up, and some fresh offal from the animals.
The mayor put the child down and knelt down by the lake to worship Qianqiu Lake three times in a row. The people behind him also followed the mayor in worshiping.
"Lord Dragon God, your sacrifices are ready. Please protect me, Qianqiu Town, and make the weather smooth and safe."
After the mayor finished speaking, he and the people stretched out their hands to push the boat into the lake.
Not far from the shore, an undercurrent emerged from the bottom of the lake, pulling the boat toward the center of the lake.
"The Lord Dragon God has appeared. He has accepted our sacrifice. We must have a good harvest this year."
When the people saw this scene, they gathered around the shore singing and dancing excitedly.
Zhuzhu's consciousness could only detect more than two miles away from the lake, and she couldn't detect it any further away.
I saw the undercurrent pulling the boat farther and farther.
Zhuzhu became more and more anxious, no matter how far away they were, they wouldn't be able to save the child in time.
After all, children are innocent.
In order to live a better life for themselves, these people did not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of these children in exchange for the protection of a dragon.
Not to mention whether this kind of protection can last long, but how innocent are the children who were eaten by the dragon?
How could they have the heart to give their child to a monster to be eaten like this?
In other words, these townspeople have lost their due humanity and are no longer worthy of being called human beings.
"Dad, I'm going to save the child!"
Zhuzhu sent a message to her father's spiritual consciousness, but her father Ni Xinzhi was one step faster than her. He used his body skills to step lightly on the water and jumped onto the boat to pick up the child.
"what are you doing?"
The mayor pointed at Ni Xinzhi and asked loudly, "He is a sacrifice to the Dragon God. If you dare to take away the Dragon God's sacrifice, you will be punished by the Dragon God. Quickly, put it back."
Ni Xinzhi looked at these ignorant people coldly, jumped up and rushed to the shore.
How can a dragon that eats innocent babies be called a god? Heaven will not allow such a monster to transform into a dragon.
At this moment, Zhuzhu had a bad premonition in her heart and quickly raised her sword to meet her father.
The next moment, a sudden change occurred. The lake water surged several feet high with a roar, and a giant spotted snake about ten meters long rushed out from the lake surface.
Is this the so-called dragon? The so-called Dragon God?
Zhuzhu was stunned for a moment and then a little disappointed. This giant snake just had a little bulge on its head, and it was still far from becoming a dragon, let alone a dragon.
When the giant snake saw that the delicious food in its mouth had been robbed, it became extremely angry and spit out a water arrow at Ni Xinzhi's back.
"Dad, be careful-" Zhuzhu reminded loudly.
Ni Xinzhi sensed danger and threw the child in his hand to the oncoming Zhuzhu.
"then!"
Then, without any worries, he turned around and took out a talisman shield to block it in front of him.
A harsh sound of "stab!" was heard, and the fourth-grade talisman shield was completely destroyed after only resisting a water arrow.
This giant snake turned out to be a fifth-level spiritual beast!
Unexpectedly, in this remote town with thin spiritual energy, there is actually a fifth-level spiritual beast stationed there.
Zhuzhu held her child and worried about her father.
The fifth-level spiritual beast is equivalent to the cultivation level of a real person in the late stage of Jindan. My father is only a foundation-building Dzogchen cultivation level and is no match for that giant snake.
Zhuzhu wanted to step forward to help her father, but there was an extremely delicate child in her arms.
She was worried about leaving her child to the inhumane townspeople behind her.
The time was tight and she could not hesitate any longer. It seemed that Huahua could only take care of the child.
Zhuzhu released Huahua from the demon pet bag, put the child on its back, and told Huahua to stay away from the war zone.
Huahua felt a little confused by the soft child on her back. Why did the owner have more children as soon as he came out, and it became a pig with children.
It was a little at a loss, but it still raised its tail carefully, and gently wrapped the child on its back and fixed it on its back to prevent it from falling.
The people around them looked at this scene and realized that these two outsiders were actually practitioners.
There are some people with unyielding conscience who hope that the two of them can destroy the Dragon God and return them to a peaceful life.
There were also some followers of the Dragon God who believed that they had blasphemed against the Dragon God. They angrily stood on the shore and cursed at Ni Xinzhi and Zhuzhu:
"You outsiders who blaspheme the gods will be cursed by the Dragon God."
What a dragon god, it’s just a spiritual beast pretending to be a god.
Zhuzhu jumped onto the boat and stood back-to-back with her father at both ends of the boat, looking at the giant spotted snake on the water.
I don’t know what kind of miraculous medicine that snake took, but it was able to speak human words at the fifth level of cultivation, but it could only say two or three words: "You - die!"
Its voice was extremely cold, making people feel chilled for no reason.
Zhuzhu sent a message to her father's spiritual consciousness: "This snake is a water-based spiritual beast. It is in a favorable position. Its spell power is greater than ours. We can't defeat it at all. We might as well lead it to the shore."
"But there are many people on the shore..." Except for the mayor, who is a monk in the Qi Refining Stage, those people are all unarmed mortals.
For upright practitioners like Ni Xinzhi, when they embark on the path of spiritual practice, their elders will warn them not to bully the small with the big and not to ignore the lives of mortals.
These principles have been ingrained in Ni Xinzhi for half his life, so he would not see them sacrificing children.
Likewise, he didn't want to lure the giant pied snake to the lake and let innocent people die.
"Some of them no longer deserve to be called human beings."
Zhuzhu didn't care at all about the lives of those on the shore, whether they were forced or voluntary, they sacrificed their own or other people's children to the spotted snake with their own hands, and the blood stained on their hands was no more evil than the spotted snake. few.
Why should she care about the life and death of these people...
