"Yang Shenlong?"
The restless onlookers around him were shocked when they heard this name.
Although there are many practitioners in all over the world, it is not uncommon for ordinary people to see a few. But top disciples of the Nine Heavens Immortal Sect like Yang Shenlong and Chu Liang are really rare to see.
Of course, even if the name was fake, the strength Lin Bei showed was enough to shock them. There may not be any practitioners among the crowd, but they are all dominating the surrounding villages and towns. How capable can they be? Seeing his cultivation level as soon as he took action, he didn't dare to step forward.
Lin Bei didn't have many opportunities to show off his authority like this. He immediately raised his chest and raised his head and yelled loudly: "You actually dare to engage in such evil rituals and murder innocent boys, girls and children on the land of Kyushu. It's unlucky for you to meet me today! Don't be too happy. Hurry up and catch me, wait for me..."
Before he finished speaking, Chu Liang couldn't wait any longer and stepped forward to lift the curtain.
This is not something he wants to see for himself, but for the resentful soul of the scholar in the vase in his arms to see clearly, is this his daughter?
Although the resentful soul of the scholar did not dare to show up, his soul power was not weak now and he could feel the surrounding scene. The moment he saw the girl, he immediately responded to Chu Liang: "This is our daughter! Young Master Xia, we must save her!"
"Don't worry." Chu Liang replied.
When he looked at the people around him, his eyes became much darker.
The old man in black shirt had already stepped forward, cupped his hands and said: "Several young heroes and immortal masters, this is a sacrificial ritual that our Lingguan Town has performed for thousands of years. It is not an evil sacrifice. It is just to float the two soul boys downstream with the river to pray for good weather and good weather next year. No illness or disaster. You see, all the people in our town are guarding both sides of the river. Someone will rescue them when they reach the downstream."
Chu Liang looked around, and the people around him nodded, indicating that what the old man said was true.
The old man added: "Our Lingguan Town is located in Zhongzhou. If there were human sacrifices, the adults in the Supervisory Government would not tolerate us long ago. How can they let us do this every year?"
What he said was quite reasonable. Such a high-profile human sacrifice was still taking place in the land of Zhongzhou, not far from the capital of Yu. It is estimated that after tonight, the people from the Supervisory Government will come to find it tomorrow. It is impossible for it to have existed for so many years.
When he said this, the three of them were silent for a while.
Lin Bei's momentum suddenly weakened.
When the people around him saw this, they gathered around, and voices began to ring out from the crowd, "I disturbed the sacrifice. What will the two spiritual officials do if they get angry?"
"If there is punishment next year, who will be responsible?"
"Can't let them go!"
"..."
Seeing everyone gradually getting angry, Lin Bei waved his hands in embarrassment and said: "There are grievances and debts. I, Penglai Yang Shenlong, will be responsible for this matter. If you want revenge, you can come to me."
Chu Liang looked at the crowd surging forward and asked the old man in black: "My father-in-law, who are you?"
"I am the patriarch of the Xiao family in Lingguan Town, and my name is Xiao Youde. The six villages here are all dominated by members of the Xiao family, so the sacrifices over the years have been presided over by the head of the Xiao family." The old man in black shirt replied.
His tone was not fierce, but he did not control the behavior of the surrounding tribesmen. More and more people were approaching, and it seemed that they wanted to put pressure on Chu Liang and the others.
If you are a righteous practitioner, you cannot attack ordinary people at will. And it was unreasonable to destroy normal sacrifices. He naturally wanted to force them away.
But Chu Liang immediately asked: "Chief Xiao, in fact, we are here today because a pair of parents lost their child, so we came here to help them find it. We happened to find that their lost child was at your sacrifice ceremony. This That's why I took action. If there is any misunderstanding, I still hope to see Haihan. It's just that the origin of this child needs to be explained clearly."
He did not discuss the issue of the sacrificial ritual with the Xiao family, because he knew that even if the sacrificial ritual was abnormal, they would not be able to detect it in a moment. It is better to move the breakthrough point and seize the opportunity first.
"This is impossible." The head of the Xiao family shook his head categorically: "Only descendants of the Xiao family can participate in our sacrifices. The six villages in Lingguan Town take turns sending out soul boys. It is impossible for outsiders to participate."
"Oh?" Chu Liang asked, "Then whose child this girl is, can I call her out and confront her?"
"This year should be the child of Dongshan Village, right?" Xiao Youde turned around and looked at a middle-aged man behind him, probably the village chief or something like that, and asked, "Where are the parents of the soul boy?"
"Er Shan! I'm calling you!" The middle-aged man turned around and said hello twice, and then a couple cringed out of the crowd.
The man is thin and has dark skin; the woman is similar in appearance, also thin and small, and both look like simple farmers.
"Is this child from your family?" Xiao Youde was not so polite in front of the clan members and asked directly in a deep voice.
"Yes... yes... ah, no..." The man named Ershan stuttered and spoke for a long time. He nodded and then shook his head. Finally, under Xiao Youde's gaze, he said: "I... my family My daughter is sick, and I happened to pick up this little girl... so... I asked her to take her place."
He originally wanted to lie, but even though Xiao Youde didn't know his daughter, all the people in the same village around her knew her, so there was nothing he could do about it.
"Bold!" Xiao Youde was immediately furious, "The ancestral rules state that only descendants of the family can participate in the sacrifice, but you actually find an outsider to participate!"
"Clan leader! I was wrong, I was wrong!" Xiao Ershan seemed to be frightened and began to kowtow repeatedly.
"Since it's a misunderstanding, there's no need to make it too big." When Chu Liang saw this, he smiled slightly and said, "Then I will send the girl back to her parents. As for this sacrifice..."
"It's already passed the time, and the blood is impure. If we sacrifice it, I'm afraid the spirit officer will be angry. That's it for today. Let's finish it tomorrow." Xiao Youde clasped his fists and said, "I have to thank a few young heroes for stopping it, otherwise The consequences are disastrous!"
"It doesn't matter, it just happened to be the right time." Chu Liang waved his hand, and the three of them turned and left.
The parents of the boy who participated in the sacrifice over there also took their child back, and the family hugged each other and left. The people present in Lingguan Town dispersed one after another. It seemed that the sacrifice ended hastily, and everyone was a little unhappy.
As for Xiao Ershan and his wife, they were ostracized by everyone and scolded as they left. But they didn't seem to care. They just looked back many times and looked at the direction Chu Liang and the others were leaving, as if they were very afraid.
Chu Liang seemed to leave without looking back, but in fact, with his spiritual consciousness spread out, he had already seen everything.
The three of them came to a quiet hillside not far away before stopping to discuss the matter. At this time, the little girl in her arms had fallen asleep, probably because she had been fed some ecstasy drug.
It looks fair and clean and quite cute.
Lin Beidao: "I thought this sacrifice was for mandrills. If it's not a human sacrifice, then where are we going to find mandrills?"
"That's not a hurry." Chu Liang smiled and said, "Whether there is a problem with the sacrifice or not, there must be a problem with Lingguan Town."
Just now, the resentful soul in the vase in his arms was very excited and almost rushed out.
It was only at this moment that Chu Liang released the resentful spirit. As soon as the scholar's resentful spirit came out, he immediately fell to his knees.
"My husband and I passed by here with our young daughter and stayed overnight at Xiao Ershan's house. We didn't want him to poison the food and kill us overnight. Young heroes, if there is justice in this world, please avenge my husband and me!"
(End of chapter)
