Chixia Peak is the highest peak in the Puba Mountains. It is surrounded by dense primeval forest, and halfway up the Chixia Peak, there is a flat open field, and in the middle of the open field is a black water hole all year round.

This pool is called a backwater pool because its water does not know where it came from or where it goes, and it is as black and shiny as ink.

Not far from the backwater pool is a bottomless cliff, the bottom of which is covered with a layer of white mist, and it is impossible to see what is happening below.

"Where is this?"

At the foot of Chixia Peak, two horses, one black and one white, stopped at the entrance. On horseback sat two handsome figures. Yun Die, who was dressed in red and had a heroic posture, looked up at the towering mountain peaks and asked curiously.

"This is Chixia Peak, a place with beautiful scenery."

Bluestar said with a smile, and as soon as he pulled the reins, the horse spread its hooves and ran towards the path. Seeing this, Yun Die hurriedly hit her horse to keep up.

At this moment, the backwater pool is not like the usual deserted, and it is full of men, women, young and old dressed in white. Everyone was wrapped in white gauze on their heads, and their heads were hung down, with solemn expressions.

The men circled the backwater pool, and at the edge of the pool, a man in a colored robe was holding a torch in one hand and a colored bell in the other, and followed the edge of the backwater pool in a circle.

The man also wore a pointed high hat on his head, and his face was painted in a variety of colors, making it impossible to tell his gender or age.

Yun Die couldn't help but want to laugh at the first sight of that person in the forest,

"What are they doing that?"

Lan Xing's face sank, "That's their sacrificial ritual, everyone has to do it when they die." ”

"Uh......"

Yun Die quickly stopped talking and didn't speak again.

"Hey, aren't we going down?" Yundie asked in a low voice. They hid behind a huge rock next to the open field. Because of the distance and the trees, no one noticed them for the time being.

"Wait, are you sure you're going to this occasion?"

Lan Xing asked him without replying.

"Uh........." Yun Die quickly shook her head and quietly leaned closer to Lan Xing's side.

Now that it was approaching dusk, this scene was particularly strange in the deep mountains and old forests, but what she didn't understand was what Lanxing brought her here for. Although she asked all the way, it was a pity that Lanxing never let go of her doubts.

Neither of them spoke, just quietly watching the scene in the distance.

I saw a bamboo raft parked by the waterhole, and on the bamboo raft lay a person, to be exact, a dead man. Dressed in white and wearing a flower crown, he has a beautiful face, his eyes are closed, his hands are neatly placed at his sides, and all kinds of bright flowers are placed beside him.

The bamboo raft was fastened to a stake by the pond with a rope, and after the strangely dressed man followed the pond three times, two shirtless men came out of the crowd, untied the rope tied to the stake, and then pushed the raft towards the center of the pond with a long bamboo pole.

I couldn't see the water flowing in the pool, and the bamboo raft went to the center of the pool by itself.

"Is that stagnant water or living water?"

Yun Die asked curiously and whispered.

"Huh?" Bluestar blinked, not understanding.

"If you don't understand, forget it, you won't understand it."

Yun Die glanced at him, continued to look ahead, and heard the voice of Lan Xing in his ears, "That's backwater, so it's called Backwater......"

After a pause, he said as if to himself, "When all the people here die, they will be sunk into this stagnant water like this........."

Yun Die's face turned white, goosebumps appeared on her back, she seemed to see the white bones and countless souls at the bottom of the pool, was it bitten by the creatures in the pool or soaked alive by the dark stagnant water in the pool.........

A cold wind blew, and she couldn't help but shiver, and goosebumps came out of her arms.

"Are you cold?"

Lan Xing approached her, her warm breath blew in her ears, Yun Die's ears were a little hot, and she unconsciously shrunk her neck.

"...... scared by you"

She said angrily, not daring to look back at him.

Lan Xing bent the corners of his mouth, did not speak, and looked fixedly at the pink skin that was only an inch away from him.

At this time, in the middle of the backwater pool, the bamboo raft carrying the corpse did not move in the pool for a long time, and the people surrounding the pool began to stir a little, bowing their heads and whispering to each other, Yundie was too far away to hear what they said.

Lan Xing, on the other hand, looked at the scene in the pool and fell into deep thought.

After a long while, the raft began to move slowly, whirling in the center of the pool, and everyone's eyes suddenly gathered there, and no one dared to make a sound.

"Not good!"

Bluestar let out a low cry.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, it exploded from the center of the pool, and for a while, the water in the pool was blown dozens of zhang high by the huge impact force, just like a powerful fountain, and fell from the sky, splashed into the water, and the shore by the pool.....

There was an uproar in the crowd around them, and they all retreated, some screaming in panic, while others covered their heads and faces with their sleeves to prevent being splashed by the black pool.

Waiting for the splash to dissipate, the bamboo raft in the pool just now has long disappeared.

"Huh? What about bamboo rafts? ”

Yun Die asked in a curious whisper.

"Look closely."

Lan Xing pointed to the center of the pool, and Yun Die noticed that there were shattered bamboo rafts floating in the pool, one by one, floating gently in the rippling water.

"Corpse...... Just sank to the bottom of the pool? ”

Yun Die asked in a low voice, with an inexplicable strange feeling in her heart, does this mean that the bones do not exist?

She always felt that there was something strange about this backwater pool, so it would burst out with such great power, look at the edge of the pool, the crowd had receded far away, and the grass splashed by the pool, all the grass turned black, as if it was still emitting a faint black smoke.

"Maybe..... bar. "Blue Star is not sure, this has not happened in previous sacrifices, and this time...... Could it be that Master has discovered something unusual?

At this time, the sky had begun to darken, and Yun Die couldn't quite see the scene in the field clearly, just when she was squatting a little impatiently, Lan Xing's hand around her shoulder tightened.

"What's wrong?"

She turned to ask Blue Star.

Lan Xing didn't speak, just slowly stood up, grabbed her hand, and held it tightly in the palm of his hand.

In the blink of an eye, there was a group of men and horses on the edge of the pool, all dressed in red clothes and wearing red veils, and everyone was riding upright on horseback, holding a long whip in their hands.

"Uh...... When did these people appear? ”

Yun Die's mouth opened wide in surprise, if it weren't for the whip used by these people, she would have thought that Hongling was coming.

"Just the moment you turn your head......" Lan Xing replied in a low voice, the expression on his face became a little solemn, he looked at the sandalwood box on Yun Die's back, and whispered, "The sword on your back must be held firmly, and it may be used later." ”

After a pause, he said, "Of course, it's better not to use it." ”

Yun Die was a little dumbfounded, is this going to take her to fight? She suddenly wanted to turn around and leave, but her hand was clenched tightly by Lan Xing, and she knew that Lan Xing would never let her go at this moment.

She hesitated for a moment, and said weakly, "But this is ..... I won't use this, will I? ”

"It's okay, you'll be there when you open it."

Bluestar shook her hand and said.

Is this a boost to her? She doesn't want to ......

While she was thinking, the crowd below had become a pot of porridge, and the team of red-clothed men rushed into the crowd standing on the shore with whips, flying horses' hooves, panicked running crowds, heart-rending cries, and the sound of "poof, puff, puff" heavy objects falling into the water......

For a while, the shouts of killing shook the sky, and people on the shore kept falling into the black backwater pool, and they disappeared before they could struggle.

The leader of the man in red looked like a woman, with a graceful figure, his exposed arm flicked slightly, and the long brown whip wrapped around the neck of an old man, and then, with a flip and a pull of his wrist, the old man was dragged in front of the woman.

"Red ..... Red Elder..... You? ”

The old man grabbed the whip around his neck with his hand, his eyes widened in disbelief, and his pupils were full of fear and uneasiness.

"Die!"

Elder Hong snorted coldly, raised his arm, and the long whip in his hand wrapped around the old man's neck, and flew straight out like a kite with a broken string, "poof", and smashed heavily into the pool, stirring up a circle of black spray.

"Dean-sama!" A heart-rending cry came, and a young man in a coarse cloth robe quickly rushed over, and the spear in his hand stabbed straight at the woman in red, but unfortunately, the red elder seemed to have eyes on her back, and when the young man's spear was about to approach her, she clamped the horse's belly with her legs, and the whip in her hand appeared behind her back.

The moment she turned around, her whip had already wrapped itself around the young man's spear, and with a strong pull, the young man staggered, and the spear in his hand followed her whip, falling ten feet away, and plunged straight into the dirt on the shore, the handle of which still trembled slightly.

Gongsun Ying, who was dressed in fairy wind and bones, was also a little anxious at the moment, he guessed that his younger brother Gongsun Huan would definitely take advantage of Mrs. Ning's funeral to make some noise, but what he didn't expect was that even Elder Hong, who had always been obedient and arrogant, was on Gongsun Huan's side.

"Patriarch Qiyu, Elder Red has come over with someone to kill!"

Gu Si covered his bloody arm, knelt in front of Gongsun Ying with a "bang", and said angrily. The shirt on his chest was already in tatters, and the two whip marks were flattering.

"Deacon Gu, you are ......"

"Elder Red, she ....."

As soon as Gu Si finished speaking, a long whip wrapped around his neck. Gongsun Ying was shocked, he didn't have time to draw his sword, he hurriedly swung a palm, and the strong palm wind only forced the whip-wielding person to let go of Gu Si, and did not hurt the person by half a point.

And his palm wind injured a few clansmen not far away, holding his heart and spitting out blood.

"Hiromi! Don't stop yet! ”

Gongsun Ying pulled out the long sword at his waist and shouted angrily at the woman opposite.

"Huh, stop?"

The woman who was called by Gongsun Ying to be Hongmei easily separated the long sword stabbed by her side, slapped away the person on the right who was blocking her way with her backhand, stopped her steps, and sneered, "Patriarch thinks, will I stop?" Or do you want to spare me even if I stop now, patriarch? ”

"As long as you stop..."

Gongsun Ying looked at the woman in front of her with tears in her eyes, when did her methods become so vicious?

"Patriarch, don't think too much, soon, your position as the noble patriarch will change hands, so ...... Do it! ”

As soon as Hongmei's words fell, the person had already flown in front of Gongsun Ying, and as soon as the long whip came out, he went straight to Gongsun Ying's feet.