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The next day, at about five o'clock in the morning, Li Ke, Yuewa and others were already waiting outside the Holy Palace. After all, the cold baptism ceremony is different from ordinary festivals, it has to be held at the beginning of the sun's rising quarter, which symbolizes life and hope. And the person who presides over the ceremony must be the king of the Turkic state, and the person who performs the ceremony must be the high priest of the Turkic state, which is very sacred, solemn, and solemn, and all the Turkic people respect it as a god and dare not blaspheme.

Soon, the sound of the emperor's horn whined, and it sounded from the Holy Palace, like a tiger roaring and a dragon's roar. Although the Turks are Fanbang Huyi, they cannot be compared with the Tang Dynasty, but because they govern the country well, they are also considered a strong clan among the people outside the Saiwai. So, when the gate of the Holy Palace was slowly pushed open by four bare-armed wrestlers, Li Ke was in an uproar with all kinds of surprises in front of him.

Gold bricks and jade tile glazed houses, jade pearl cat stone road, but everywhere you can see with the naked eye, there are carved beams and painted buildings, ghosts and fairies; It is more colorful than the imperial palace where the monarch lives, and it seems to be built by ingenuity, which makes Li Ke amazed and praised, and he never thought of it. Especially those standing guards, all wearing helmets and armor, standing on the four wings of the monarch, holding swords, guns, swords and halberds, extremely domineering side leaks.

The monarch is still young, fifteen or sixteen years old, although he is immature, but there are many legendary stories on his body. It is said that the Turks suddenly rioted decades ago, and the enemies were not ordinary people, but wolves. The strange thing is that after the wolf enters the city, he does not kill men, but only kills women, and also abducts a half-year-old baby boy, who is fed wolf milk every day and night, drinks river dew, eats beasts, and survives with wolves since childhood.

When this son grows up, he has forgotten that he is a human being, and even got involved with the she-wolf in the pack and did indecent things. What's even more strange is that this she-wolf actually conceived for three months because of this, and gave birth to ten mortal children; The ten-year-old monarch in front of him is one of them.

After Li Ke and Yuewa walked into the holy palace with Li Bai in their arms, they first knelt down to see it, and then listened to the young monarch shouting in Turkic Hu: "When the sky comes, the gods will pass the nest altar; The subjects of the four corners bowed down; Kneel! After this call, everyone inside and outside the Holy Palace bowed their heads and knocked on the ground, and this young monarch was no exception. Then he waited for a while, and then heard the young child's voice come from it, and shouted, "I respectfully ask the high priest to descend from heaven!" ”

In an instant, everyone inside and outside the Holy Palace shouted these words together, including Li Ke and Yuewa. Immediately, bursts of black snow suddenly floated between the holy palaces, and when they fell to the ground, they suddenly disappeared, which was very miraculous. Then, I saw a woman in black walking slowly from the side hall, she held a witch banner staff in her hand, stepped on Lingyun, her aura was strong, and everywhere she passed, everyone bowed their heads, not daring to raise their eyes. This person was the high priest of the Turkic state, who looked to be about forty, but because she was veiled, he did not see her true face, nor did he know her real age.

Before and after walking to the holy palace, the high priest did not say much, but only gave a slight salute to the young king, and then turned around and opened the altar, babbling and chanting words, and shouting mantras to the heavens and asking the gods. And asked Li Ke and Yuewa to put Li Bai in a wooden basket, and then knelt in front of the holy pool face to face, and raised him high above his head. After a while, I heard the sound of water splashing in the center of the holy pool, and faintly, it could be seen that a huge blue-winged snake fish was swimming in the square, making a loud scream, as if it was hungry, which made Li Ke and Yuewa suddenly become very worried.

At this moment, the high priest suddenly walked in front of them, stretched out his hand without saying a word, grabbed Li Bai directly by the neck, and then raised it to the sun, muttering a mantra. In the room, Li Bai's crying voice spread throughout the entire holy palace, heartbreaking, resounding for nine days, listening to Li Ke's anger, even if he wanted to get up and rebel to save Li Bai.

However, Yuewa stopped him and signaled not to be impulsive, otherwise there would be misfortune in the Li Mansion; Helpless, Li Ke had to temporarily suppress his anger, calm down and wait for the changes. At this moment, the young monarch suddenly looked impatient, and commanded, "High priest, this baby is crying so harshly, hurry up and cast some spells to shut him up, and don't make any more noise to this king." ”

Although this is not a good thing to hear, it saved Li Bai from fire and water. After the high priest got the order, he had to slowly put Li Bai down and hold him in his arms, and then turned over his hand and played a small magic trick, so that Li Bai's crying and crying stopped. Seeing this, Li Ke and Yuewa couldn't help but swallow a sigh of relief, thinking that Li Bai finally didn't have to suffer anymore. Unexpectedly, in a blink of an eye, I saw the high priest stretch out his thumb and index finger and pinch Li Bai's arm fiercely, instantly bruised and cysted, and he wanted to cry but couldn't cry.

This made Li Ke's eyes full of anger and heartache, and he hated to cut the high priest with thousands of knives and broken his body into thousands of pieces; The same is true for Yuewa. However, they still gritted their teeth and endured it, and they could only grit their teeth and endure it, knowing that they couldn't be rash at this time, otherwise it would be as Yuewa Fang thought before, and it would hurt the entire Li Mansion.

Li Ke endured again, in addition to those anger and unwillingness in his heart, he was also very puzzled, since he settled in the Turks, he asked himself that there was no excessive behavior, and he had not even made half an enemy. But now, the high priest of the Turkic country, who is above ten thousand people under one person, should use such insidious and despicable means to deal with a full-moon child, which is really incomprehensible to him.

So, taking advantage of the fact that the monarch and the high priest were not paying attention, Li Ke first used a wooden basket as a shield, and then gave Yuewa a secret look, and muttered in a low voice: "Madam, why does the high priest treat Bai'er like this?" Isn't it my Li family, where did I offend her? ”

Yuewa frowned and stared, thinking about it for a while and not coming up with a reason, so she had to shake her head and respond. Then, I heard Li Keqiang hold back his anger and said, "Madam, I really can't swallow this breath, Bai'er has just been full moon." Hum! Sooner or later, one day I will twist off the head of this high priest and give it to us to play as a ball. ”

"Shh Yuewa hurriedly stopped Li Ke, and after looking around and seeing that no one noticed, she whispered back: "Xianggong, this revenge will be avenged." But, not now. ”

Li Ke understood what Yuewa meant, so he didn't say anything more, but suppressed the anger in his heart even lower to keep himself calm. At this moment, the high priest walked to the holy pool with Li Bai in his arms, and after some chattering and chanting incantations, he threw Li Bai into the water with a sudden slam without mercy; Once again, Li Ke and Yuewa looked like knives in their hearts, and they couldn't bear to look directly at the side and turn their heads, and regretted coming to participate in this cold baptism.

After all, it was the season of snow melting at the beginning of spring, and the water was so cold that it was unbearable, let alone a child, even an eight-foot strong man. If it weren't for Yuewa's overall situation, and if it weren't for Li Ke's thought of robbing the great monk, then he would have jumped into the pool to save people, and he would have rebelled.

'Bai'er, the gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late. Li Ke gritted his teeth and secretly swore in his heart, saying, "One day, my father will definitely help you avenge today!" I'm sure I'll screw this guy's head off and kick it for you! Certain! ’

At the same time, on the other side, the water of the Sacred Pool was not only as cold as ice, but also bottomless. According to common sense, full-moon babies are born to swim and cannot drown; Even if it is placed in deep water, it will float on its own. But Li Bai was strange, after entering the water, he sank to the bottom of the pool without a shadow, and he didn't come up for a while, which scared Li Ke and Yuewa and cried bitterly, and wanted to jump into the holy pool to find it, but they were forcibly stopped by the guards.

"High Priest!" At this time, the young monarch suddenly became curious and asked, "What about the baby?" Did he just die? ”

"Return to my king!" The high priest bowed his hand and bowed down, but he did not kneel. She said: "This son has been sinking to the bottom of the water for half a cup of tea, and it seems that there is a lot of luck. ”

"Boring! The king thought there was something interesting about today! Hum! The young monarch snorted coldly, and then said: "High priest, let me deal with you, this king has gone back to the palace to play with birds!" ”

"Yes!"

The high priest received the order, and the young monarch turned around and drove back to the palace. At this moment, there was a sudden movement in the holy pool, and the water in the pool seemed to be boiling by a fire, constantly tumbling and bubbling outward. When everyone was shocked, five huge water dragons suddenly flew out, jumped into the sky and circled for a moment, and then they looked like crazy and bit towards the high priest.

After a while, the two were entangled together, and the fight was inseparable and dark. The young monarch was so frightened that he hid under the table, covered his head with his hands and trembled, so embarrassed. Li Ke and Yuewa took advantage of the situation to push away the blocking guards and ran to the edge of the holy pond and cried out in anguish, wanting to find out the whereabouts of their son. As a result, it was okay not to look at it, but they were frightened at first, and Li Bai actually rode on the back of the blue-winged snake fish, pulling its two whiskers and swimming around under the water, having a very happy time.