In the few hours from midnight to the present, the Grand Elder sat cross-legged on the futon in front of the offering table, his eyes always closed, and he remained motionless like a sculpture.

However, King Xuanyuan could be sure that while she was standing here silently, the Great Elder already knew that she was coming.

After she stood here, she also turned into a sculpture, without any life, quietly waiting for the Great Elder to ask for divination.

Under the futon, in front of the offering table, there is a copper brazier, which shines with a cold blue luster under the flame of a giant candle with butter.

There was something like charcoal burning inside, which had turned white, and the blue flames were windless, as if there were many small snakes mixed in there, trying to pounce out.

On the night of the full moon, as long as it is not during the retreat, the Great Elder of the Flame will sit in front of the statue of Emperor Xuanyuan, holding a silver plate against the brazier, and calculate whether the rejuvenated person has entered the world and where he is.

This is the norm and has been the case for thousands of years, without interruption.

It is also according to the usual practice, on the night of the full moon, King Xuanyuan will appear in the position where she is standing, slightly bowing her head to look at the silver plate in the hand of the Great Elder, and wait for the dawn of the east to appear without saying a word, and then leave quietly as she did when she came quietly.

Her shawl hair began to become translucent, proving that it was almost dawn, that her monthly routine was coming to an end, and that it was time for her to go back to rest.

But at this moment, the silver plate in the Great Elder's hand fell to the ground, making a crisp sound.

The loud sound of the silver plate hitting the ground was quite harsh in the empty hall, causing the unsuspecting King Xuanyuan to slam his spirit.

Seeing that the routine was about to be over, how could the Great Elder make a major mistake of accidentally dropping the silver plate to the dust?

Ancestral silver plates that have been passed down for thousands of years are not allowed to touch mortal dust.

Completely instinctive, King Xuanyuan's body flickered, turned into a phantom that could not be caught by the naked eye, bent down and reached out to pick up the compass from the ground, and held it in both hands and handed it to the Great Elder.

The Great Elder didn't answer, as if he couldn't wake up all year round and never opened his eyes, which would be wide, his eyes were full of incredible blankness, and he was muttering something in his mouth covered by white beards.

King Xuanyuan didn't disturb him, keeping his hands on the compass and listening.

"Ahem, ahem—how, like this?"

After the Great Elder coughed violently a few times, he could finally be understood.

"How, like this?"

The Grand Elder repeated the words, turning his head to look at her.

Her voice, so cold that it didn't have the slightest emotion, came from under the golden mask: "What, how? ”

"I could clearly feel it roaring in anger, circling up and down, trying to break through the white fog that covered my eyes and my consciousness. I was about to see it, I saw it—but it suddenly disappeared, disappeared without a trace, and I could not feel it again, even if I took out all my consciousness. ”

The Great Elder's eyes slowly closed, and he said dreamily, "It is once again hidden in the unfathomable white mist, without the slightest breath, as if it had never appeared. How so, like this? ”

King Xuanyuan asked softly, "Will it come out again?" ”

"I don't know, I can't feel it, and I can't see it."

The Great Elder stretched out his hand, took the silver plate, and said in a tired voice, "Someone, someone must have pressed it down with force before I could see it, not allowing it to come out, not letting me find it." ”

King Xuanyuan's eyes, hidden under the golden mask, shrank leisurely: "You mean that people in the outside world already know that we are searching for that person, and when they saw that the black dragon was about to break through the fog, they suppressed its vacancy in time?" ”

"That's it, and that's all it can be. Otherwise, with the host's current control over the black dragon, it is far from reaching the realm of free retraction. ”

The Great Elder nodded, and the white whiskers at the corners of his mouth kept trembling: "Master, absolute master." Only the unborn master—"

He was talking about these words of the master, which sounded incoherent, but King Xuanyuan knew very well what he was talking about.

The man who had been searched by the flames for thousands of years finally appeared some time ago, and the Great Elder tried his best to feel its existence almost every day, hoping to lock down the specific location of him through the oldest divination.

It's just that it hasn't succeeded, and after the black dragon entered the world, it was like diving into the sea, and there was no movement for several months.

But on this full moon night, the Great Elder clearly felt the existence of the black dragon, and he immediately urged all his minds, so that the magnetic needle in the silver plate in his hand and the holy flame in the copper brazier also changed to a three-body integration with his thoughts, and he went all out to get close to the direction of the black dragon's existence.

The Great Elder felt the black dragon, and even more so how angry it was at the moment, desperately hoping that it could break out of the thick fog in a fit of rage—and the black dragon was about to follow his thoughts, and never see the bottom or the edge of the white fog!

A long-cherished wish of thousands of years will be fulfilled at this moment!

The Great Elder, who was sitting like a dead tree on the surface, was extremely excited in his heart, and summoned it even more frantically, come out, come out!

He had already clearly felt that in the next moment, the black dragon that was about to break out of the white mist suddenly dived again.

In smooth water.

The Great Elder, who was extremely disappointed, was unwilling to lose its trace like this, and immediately urged his mind, risking the danger of his soul being scattered, and plunged headlong into the white fog where he could not see the bottom, let alone the edge, hoping to find the clues of the black dragon from it.

Then, he saw a pair of eyes.

A pair of sparkling evil, demonic red eyes.

When his mind met the eyes, his soul immediately screamed as if surrounded by fire.

Fortunately, the Great Elder retracted his thoughts in time and broke out of the white fog, if he delayed for a moment, it would not be a matter of falling the silver plate to the mortal dust, but it would be transformed into a god, and he would return to the west.

According to the growth cycle of the black dragon, the Great Elder did not believe in its host, and could control it freely, and when he felt that he was being spied on with his mind, he immediately sensed the danger that must not be exposed, and then quickly hid.

The black dragon hid in time at the most critical moment.

What does this mean?

It can only be said that someone realized the danger after the black dragon was about to be exposed, and immediately helped its host and hid it.

How powerful the host will be after being swayed by the black dragon's demonic nature-The Great Elder felt that only King Xuanyuan could control him.

But King Xuanyuan is in the Xuanyuan Temple!

So, who did what King Xuanyuan could do?

Master.

An unborn master!

In the outside world, will there be such a master?

No way!

But he exists.

Moreover, the Great Elder was now basically certain that the master who helped the host hide the black dragon should be very clear about how important it was to the flames.

Who is the master?

How did he know this?

Since he knew this, why did he deliberately let the black dragon play a divine dragon?

As he thought of this last question, a cold sweat suddenly broke out from the Great Elder's forehead.

He suddenly figured out why the master did this.

This is a trap that was laid against him.

That master should have known that on the night of the full moon, the Great Elder was using all his consciousness to search for the existence of the black dragon, so he risked the specific location of the black dragon being exposed, and deliberately provoked the black dragon to the left and right hosts, so that the Great Elder could detect it.

When the Great Elder was about to lock on to the Black Dragon, the master let the Black Dragon hide in time, attracting the Great Elder who was looking for success and didn't want to let go, risking the danger of being scattered, and plunged headlong into the dense fog to search for it.

When he plunges into the thick fog, he will devour all the black dragons that invade his territory, and he will devour the Great Elder.

After the Great Elder was transformed into a god, there was no one in the entire flame who could use his consciousness to explore the existence of the black dragon thousands of miles away.

In that way, the Black Dragon would never come to the Valley of Flames, and King Xuanyuan would never be able to be reborn.

After suddenly figuring out this, the Great Elder soaked his heavy clothes with cold sweat, and a sickly blush appeared on his old face wrinkled like orange peel.

He didn't say this, but King Xuanyuan felt it, stared at the holy flame that was burning calmly at this moment, and asked softly, "Since there are people in the outside world who know the importance of the black dragon to my Flame Valley, why did they destroy the host while it has not become more powerful?" ”

King Xuanyuan had asked this question many times, but the Great Elder had never answered her.

She asked now, it seemed to have become a routine, and she didn't expect the Great Elder to answer, and after asking, she turned around and walked quickly to the door of the main hall.

It was already dawn, her hair had turned jet black, and her voice when she spoke was also with a woman's unique tenderness, and her mind began to think like a woman.

Don't women who love beauty pay special attention to their appearance?

Sleepless all night is the biggest enemy of a woman's beauty and moonlight, so on the second day of a full moon night, she will sleep until the next morning.

King Xuanyuan, who loves beauty, walked out of the door of the temple quickly, and the voice of the Great Elder came from behind: "The black dragon can reincarnate you, and it will also destroy you." ”

Her delicate body was shocked, Huo Ran turned her head, stared at the Great Elder, and after a long time, she slowly said: "I tried to use the black dragon to regenerate, but they tried to use the black dragon to destroy me. ”

The Great Elder, who had his back to the door of the temple, did not speak.

Silence is sometimes the default meaning.

King Xuanyuan waited for a moment, and then asked, "So, whether it is for us or for them, with the help of the host's black dragon, when it is not yet fully mature, we will not kill the host without authorization. ”

The Great Elder spoke: "When the peaches are not ripe, it is useless to pick them. ”

King Xuanyuan seemed to chuckle: "Then, do you think that if I can personally wait for the peaches to ripen, will our hope of success be many times greater?" ”

The Great Elder turned his head, looked at the woman bathed in the golden sunlight of the early morning, and said slowly: "According to the ancestral system, when the eyes of the Emperor Xuanyuan Statue have not turned red, King Xuanyuan is not allowed to leave the Flame Valley. ”

The woman bathed in the golden morning sun raised her hand and brushed the hair of her sideburns, and said lightly: "The ancestral system is determined by people." Since people can decide, they can also be overthrown. ”

The Great Elder didn't speak, but turned his head.

"I hope that you can do the ideological work of the other elders, and allow me to break the ancestral system and step out of the Valley of Flames."

King Xuanyuan also turned his head, just like his knees were not bent, but more like flowing water, floating down from the ninety-nine steps, but his voice could be bundled into a line and reached the ears of the great elders in the temple: "Suddenly, I am now full of urgency for the arrival of this day that I have never felt before—they always say that the outside world is very exciting, and I want to see it." ”

Invisible sounds, like a tangible dragon, constantly reverberated over the empty temple beams.

The golden color spilled in from the skylight in the heights, reflecting on the eyes of the statue of Emperor Xuanyuan, gilding with a faint layer of red.