The next day, the people of the village were busy with joy, the women cooked more food, set up the altars, the young men sharpened their spears and wiped their shields, or practiced the slashing skills on the side, and the young and beautiful women of the clan came out in full costume and gathered on the side to whisper.

All chores are commanded by an elder, and they are complicated but not chaotic. Listening to Ruo Ziyi's introduction, this person is Elder Shi of the Rite Department of the Velvet Clan.

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As it gets late, the village gradually becomes lively, and the leaders of each branch lead their own teams to march mightily, and there are many torches winding along the village paths.

Tian Nuoning finally couldn't bear Ruozi's soft grinding and hard bubbles, and reluctantly agreed to go and watch the excitement with the other three.

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By the time the four of them arrived, many people had gathered in the square outside the Lingshan Cave, and the drums were playing in unison, singing and dancing.

In the center of the square stands a high altar, on which stands a statue of a woman, smiling and smiling, with kind eyebrows.

Directly in front of the altar were wooden chairs with the best line of sight, where several men with saber-toothed tiger teeth sat upright, drinking and laughing. Among them, the most eye-catching is an old man wearing three saber-toothed tiger teeth, with a black gauze woman standing beside him, and everyone is sitting in a cluster, presumably the patriarch of the velvet clan in Ruozi's mouth last night.

Sure enough, Ruo Zizhu pointed to the group of people and introduced them to Tie Mian and Tian Nuoning one by one, the old man with three saber teeth and tiger teeth was indeed the patriarch of the Velvet Clan, Wu Lisu, and the black gauze woman beside him was his granddaughter Su Jilan.

Unconsciously, an elder climbed the altar, and when he looked at it with an iron face, it was Elder Shi who was in the center during the day.

As soon as Elder Shi raised his hand, the drums died down, and the noisy crowd quieted down.

Elder Shi cleared his throat and said something that Tie Mian couldn't understand at all, then picked up all kinds of strange utensils on the altar and began the sacrificial activities, sometimes waving, sometimes singing. Everyone watched excitedly, and couldn't take their eyes off it.

"What are they sacrificing?" Iron Mask asked.

"Nuwa God. Ruo Ziqi whispered, "This Rong tribe was originally a subsidiary tribe of the Nuwa tribe, but it was moved here after the defeat of the Nuwa tribe. Therefore, every major festival, it is still necessary to sacrifice to the god Nuwa. ”

Iron Mask nodded.

Suddenly, Elder Shi on the altar knelt on the ground and shouted, his hands raised to the sky. Everyone also knelt on the ground and shouted excitedly, and the atmosphere reached a climax.

A young man in the corner looked a little strange, and although he also knelt on the ground and shouted with the crowd, his demeanor was slightly stiff.

Tian Nuoning noticed the man very keenly and glanced at it.

Elder Shi suddenly got up and waved his hand, and everyone stepped back. A group of armoured armorers walked out.

This group of young armor soldiers was in a group of twelve, lined up in a neat line, and looked at them with iron faces, and noticed the man he had met in the shade of the trees last night, and saw that he was in the second row, and he was particularly eye-catching with his one-armed arms.

It's just that the man was a little nervous, and the spear in his hand trembled.

Elder Shi lit the water with a willow branch and gently flicked it at everyone, as if to give them courage and good luck.

After the ceremony, Elder Shi gave an order, and the first line of armor soldiers walked into the Spirit Mountain Cave with firm steps.

At this life-and-death moment, in the crowd behind them, the parents of these armorers were nervous and at a loss, and a few of them fainted.

No one in the audience spoke, and the tense atmosphere made Iron Mask hold his breath.

There were faint exclamations and moans in the cave, and the atmosphere of anxiety in the field became more and more intense.

After a while, several armor soldiers with broken armor staggered out of the cave, shouting for help, and the skin dripping with blood in a few places on their bodies had turned purple.

The wizard healers who had been waiting for a long time quickly swarmed around to treat and detoxify the wounded, but it seemed that the poisonous snakes in this cave were very poisonous, and from time to time there was bad news, and the moans of the injured and the wails of relatives were heard, and the scene was instantly chaotic.

Elder Shi on the altar suddenly shouted a few times, and everyone immediately fell silent and looked in the direction that Elder Shi was pointing.

A man, armed with a gun in one hand and a bloody snake head in the other, came out of the hole panting.

"Wow!" everyone cheered when they saw this. Elder Shi did not hesitate to praise and shouted.

Surrounded by the crowd, the man slowly walked up to the altar and placed the snake's head on the table.

After a while, the sound of drums suddenly sounded, and several young women came out and danced around the altar, dancing gracefully and fascinatingly.

The other women in the crowd squirmed out of the crowd at the urging of their parents, smiling blushingly and jumping around the altar to the sound of their parents.

Directly in front of the altar, the old man wearing the three saber-toothed tiger teeth also urged the woman with the black veil beside her, but the woman in the black veil pushed and twisted for a while. The old man couldn't screw her after all, so he waved his hand, and that's it.

"Na na, the bride selection has begun, oops, it's really enviable. Li Hao's eyes lit up. After a moment the drumming stopped, the man would step down from the altar and hand the head of the snake to the girl he had chosen, and they would be married. ”

"Brother Iron Mask, if it were you, which one would you choose? If it were me, I would choose that one. ”

Li Hao pointed at it, and Tie Mian also looked over, "The person is beautiful, the waist is also great, and it looks like a stunner in the world." ”

"But that's not bad. Li Hao pointed again, "That one is about fifteen or sixteen years old, and the tender one can pinch out the water." ”

A faint gaze shot from beside him, but Li Hao didn't seem to notice it at all, and was still judging there with his iron shoulder.

Iron Mask felt embarrassed for a while, and didn't know what to say.

Suddenly, the drumming stopped, and the women stopped, and everyone refocused on the altar.

I saw the man with the head of the snake in his hand and walked down the altar.

And all the hearts of the people were raised to their throats.

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The man staggered, didn't look at the woman next to him, pushed aside the crowd, and walked straight to Tian Nuoning!

Kneeling down on one knee, he offered the head of the snake with both hands!

Ruoziyu looked at the man with a frightened face, and suddenly felt a little familiar, it turned out to be the man he met on the road at the edge of the village when he entered the village yesterday.

The picture on the man's face of intoxication when he saw Tian Nuoning at that time emerged, "No...... Sister Nuo Ning ......," Wakako stammered.

Following the footsteps of this man, everyone in the village also discovered that there was such a fairy beauty in this corner behind him, and all the women in the field were unsurpassed, and everyone was speechless in surprise.

After all, there will be some dealings with the Velvet Clan in the future, and it seems unwise to dismiss their face on such a grand festival.

Tian Nuo Ning didn't look at the man in front of him as if nothing had happened, the majesty of the god made the man bow his head unconsciously, and he didn't dare to look at her.

"It's just a snake's head!" a man slammed out of the queue and blocked in front of Tian Nuoning. Ruozi looked at it fixedly, and it was an iron mask.

The man who knelt on one knee didn't know what Iron Mask was talking about, and looked at him suspiciously, and everyone also cast questioning glances at Iron Mask.

Iron Mask didn't speak, and his figure shook into the Spirit Mountain Cave.

As soon as the light dimmed, a faint green light could be seen, and a huge snake seemed to be aware of it, and as soon as it raised its head, a gust of wind passed, and the snake's head flew into the air.

On the obscure dragon sword, blood is not stained!

Before the head of the snake landed, it was held by a person with one hand, and reflexively went out of the hole, leaving only the headless snake body standing upright, and after the figure of the person left, slowly oozing blood.

Everyone in the field outside the cave saw only a blink of an eye, and the iron-masked man carried the snake's head and flashed back to the man. The most amazing thing is that the head of the snake in his hand seems to be alive, spitting out a letter and wanting to bite!

"That's it, if you want me, I can get it for you!" Iron Mask said coldly.

"Bell!" the sacrificial vessel in Elder Shi's hand fell to the ground, speechless in surprise. The elders seated in front of the altar also stood up.

"Boom!" the crowd erupted into thunderous cheers, and the shouts of "Ha Hang, Ha Hang!" resounded through the heavens and the earth.

"Hazek means mask. Ruozi took two steps back and whispered.

Enthusiastic villagers quickly gathered around and surrounded Iron Mask. Iron Mask didn't know what to do for a while, so he was surrounded by everyone and walked to the altar.

Tie Mian excused himself several times, but it was difficult to refuse, and under the pull of Elder Shi, he ascended to the altar.

The crowd chanted together, and the most enthusiastic drum music of the night suddenly played, and many women came out one after another to dance around the altar.

The patriarch urged the black-gauze woman beside him again, and when he saw that she was still squirming, his voice became stern, and he scolded a few words, and the elder next to him also persuaded a few words.

With tears in her eyes, the woman took off her black veil and entered the scene from an unnoticed corner.

As soon as the woman came off the stage, Iron Mask noticed her, her face was clear and bright, and she danced gracefully, like a butterfly shadow in the moonlight.

The moonlight is still the same, the singing and dancing are leveling, but I don't know whose heart is cold.

Iron Mask's heart suddenly calmed down, and he stared at the woman as if it had been thousands of years.

"It's like you!" Iron Mask said quietly, not knowing who to say it to.

At the end of the song, the women stopped singing and dancing and fell to their knees.

This time, Iron Mask did not shirk it, and walked straight down the altar with the head of the snake in his hand, and walked towards the woman.

Li Hao and Ruo Ziyi opened their mouths in surprise, and Tian Nuoning still stared at Tie Mian coldly.

Walking up to the woman, Iron Mask stopped, and the woman kneeling on the ground did not raise her head, but trembled nervously.

Iron Mask stretched out his hand to pick her up, and when he saw her clear pupils, Iron Mask smiled warmly, and instead of handing her the snake head, he took her hand and walked towards the group of armor soldiers.

He walked up to the one-armed warrior, took his hand, and clasped their hands tightly, placing the snake's head on top of each other.

"Be together, cherish, don't be like me. ”

Holding back the overflowing tears, the iron face held his head high, and left here in front of the silent crowd.

Walking to a glade where there was no one, the tears that had been suppressed for ten years flowed down quietly.

"Xin'er, I did the right thing, didn't I? Iron Mask said quietly.

The air was suddenly filled with the fragrance of green bamboo, and the smiling woman in the air warmed the past and present lives, time turned, Mu Yue and Lan Xin, as if they had never gone away.

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