Chu Rong's eyes turned to the old man's words, and he saw that the two young people who came with Uncle Xiang and the others were supporting each other at this time.

One of them held his wrist, and the palm on the wrist turned from bruised to rotten brown, and the back of his hand, which had been swollen, began to wither, like a piece of rotten and festering wood, folding down at an abnormal angle.

He glanced at it, his expression unchanged, as if he was not surprised by the young man's injury, but just instructed the old man as usual:

"Take him down and heal."

As if this situation was just commonplace for him, it wasn't unusual.

When Song Qingxiao saw this, she couldn't help asking:

"What the hell is hidden at the bottom of the lake?"

As soon as she asked, the first appearance smiled slightly, and she was not as flustered as Uncle Xiang, but explained to the old man with a goatee in a whisper, and after taking the two young men to treat her injuries first, she straightened her clothes slowly and said with a smile:

"Don't tell the girl, the name of the lake is Jiuquan," he paused, tugged at his sleeve, turned his face away, and asked with his chin half-raised:

"What do you say is under the Nine Springs?"

He paused for a moment, and then said:

"Hell!"

After Chu Rong said this, he turned sideways again, politely made a 'please' gesture, and motioned for Song Qingxiao to go in the direction of the verandah.

Pinluo was a little frightened and didn't dare to rush in, but Song Qingxiao looked as usual.

Anyway, her cultivation is profound, and she is here for the Dragon King, even if this place is the Longtan Tiger's Den, she is naturally not afraid.

Therefore, Chu Rong gestured, she took the lead in taking the step, Pinluo followed, Chu Rong frowned, and also followed Song Qingxiao's side, but she was half a step behind, not far away, but not too close, which made her vigilant.

This person is very discerning, and he is also very good at dealing with people, and he is old and spicy, and he really doesn't look like a person who lives in a hidden place and can't escape the world.

"It is rumored that Jiuquan is connected to the underworld, so the yin qi there is extremely strong, and the flesh of ordinary people is brittle and rotten, and they can't withstand the impact of that force."

Hearing this, Pinluo couldn't help but interject rashly:

"Can his hand be cured?"

After he finished speaking, his expression was a little apprehensive, obviously remembering the scene when Yichang turned around and left after his exit.

The people here are all arrogant, and they don't look like ordinary people from the outside world, but it can be seen from Yichang's attitude towards Uncle Xiang that this group of people is not popular.

But for some reason, these people are very special to Song Qingxiao, and even treat her as a distinguished guest.

Although Pinluo knew that he might anger the man named Hatsurong by interjecting like this, he cared about his companion's body, and after asking at this time, he boldly glanced at Hatsurong's face, as if he was worried that he would get angry and throw his sleeves and leave.

Fortunately, Chu Rong's tolerance seems to be stronger than Yichang's, and after Pinluo spoke, although he frowned, he didn't get angry, but replied calmly:

"You can't keep your hand, you can only save your life."

After he said this, he turned his head to look at Song Qingxiao again, as if he was explaining to her:

"The yin qi entered from his hand, and it almost cut off the vitality of his hand, and those who can enter the Nine Springs, except for those who have the opportunity of the Great Dao, will not be able to retreat with their whole body," Chu Rong said this, and glanced at Song Qingxiao meaningfully:

"It's a blessing to be able to save your life."

Pin Luo glanced at Song Qingxiao with a strange expression, but he didn't make a sound smartly.

I don't know what the people here are planning, compared to Uncle Xiang's hidden attitude, the people here seem to be much more straightforward, and they say what they have to say, as if they have no evasion at all.

"How many people are there in your Yulun Realm?" Song Qingxiao asked again.

"It's not much, just 147." Chu Rong listened to her question, so he gently reported a number:

"Add a few, that's a total of 152 people."

"The calculation is so accurate?" Song Qing laughed and said casually.

The first appearance is good-natured:

"Yes, we don't have a big place here, we don't have a lot of people, and it's always been fixed."

"Fixed?" When Song Qingxiao heard this, his heart moved: "Hasn't the number of people changed?" ”

"Yes, hardly anything has changed."

As soon as Chu Rong's voice fell, Pinluo couldn't help laughing again:

"How is that possible? People are always born, old, sick and die, how can the number of people not change? ”

Maybe it's because of Chu Rong's kind attitude, and with Song Qingxiao by his side, his tight heartstrings are also a little looser, and he can also insert two sentences at this time.

Chu Rong also laughed:

"It is true that human beings are born, old age, sick and die." He pursed the corners of his mouth, and a ghostly light flashed in his eyes: "But there are both old age, sickness and death, and naturally there is also a new life." ”

He was right, Pinro nodded, and then fell silent.

Song Qingxiao pretended to ask casually:

"Are there women here?"

Since Chu Rong mentioned that there was a new life, it proved that there should be women here, but the people who came to greet Uncle Xiang were all men of different ages, and they did not see women appear.

"Naturally, there is." Hatsurong smiled, revealing a few teeth:

"In our place, the status of women is very unique, and they bear the responsibility of giving birth to new lives, so they are very precious, and they will not go out to meet customers easily, for fear of being damaged, so Miss Song has not seen it for the time being."

After he said this, he added two more sentences:

"Because you are also a woman, Lord Yichang also attaches great importance to you, let me receive you well, I am afraid that I will be neglected."

The words of the first appearance are weird, and they seem to reveal a lot of information, but there is something not quite right.

The woman in the Yulun Realm has a unique status and bears the responsibility of giving birth to a new life, so it is easy not to go out to meet guests, for fear of being damaged.

That's what he said.

But throughout the ages, women have borne the great responsibility of giving birth to the next generation, and they have never heard of it because it is so precious that it has reached the point where even guests cannot be met at will, and they are afraid of damage.

Such an attitude is not like treating an equal person, but like treating a fragile piece of porcelain, which is not only protection, but also has the meaning of disguised imprisonment.

Song Qingxiao thought of this, and said:

"Let's talk about the Dragon King Festival."

Uncle Xiang was secretive about this, and he didn't want to mention it more.

On the contrary, Yichang was blunt, as if he did not shy away from mentioning it.

Seeing that she deliberately mentioned the Dragon King again, Pin Luo couldn't help but shrink his head, and subconsciously glanced at Chu Rong.

Her demeanor was natural, and she naturally asked in a commanding tone, as if she was not afraid of causing displeasure to the people in this Yulun Realm.

But when Chu Rong heard her say this, he didn't seem to be angry, and when he saw that she finished asking, he said:

"The Dragon King Festival is a very grand festival in our place, held every three years, and it is necessary to select beautiful maidens for the sacrifice ceremony."

'Shhh ’

He said such a horrific sentence flatly, but he didn't expect how the people on the side would react after hearing what he said.

The young Pinro didn't expect him to tell such a secret, and he couldn't help but gasp deeply, revealing a look of shock.

Now that the outside world is developing rapidly in all aspects, he never imagined that among the 'immortals' in the Yulun Void Realm surrounded by the Nine Dragon Caves, there would still be such ignorant, ignorant, weird, and terrifying customs.

"Sacrifice, sacrifice ceremony?" Pinluo trembled, Chu Rong turned his head to look at him, smiled and nodded:

"Yes."

"What kind of sacrificial ritual?" Song Qingxiao's reaction was much calmer than Pinluo's, and when Chu Rong saw that she was curious about this, he couldn't help but patiently explain:

"We will select a beautiful girl in advance, who is not more than eighteen years old and needs a virgin with an innocent body, and in a specific period of time, sink her to the bottom of the Nine Springs to appease the yin energy at the bottom of the spring." There was a look of apology on his face, "Miss Song should have seen it when she came over, the yin qi there is strong, and she almost can't suppress it, so there will be some future lives who are walking with you who are injured by the yin qi in it." ”

His behavior was really weird, and the apologies in his tone were terrifying.

This person is not like deciding the life and death of a girl, but only like discussing a trivial issue.

He didn't mind that a life was about to disappear, but he felt a little embarrassed that the yin qi under Jiuquan was out of control and hurt the guests who went there.

The situation was so unbelievable that Pinro could barely hold his breath and make no sound.

After a while, he seemed to have regained his ability to speak, and stammered:

"Sink in, sink to the bottom of the Nine Springs?"

The ferocity of the Nine Springs, he had seen with his own eyes, and as soon as his companion's hand touched it, it immediately rotted and froze.

And Chu Rong himself said that the yin qi inside was very strong, so the young man's palm could not be saved, and after being treated by the people of the Yulun Void Realm, he was lucky to save his life at most.

If you just dip your palm into the water, and the final result is so serious, in the words of Chu Rong, that is, except for those who have attained enlightenment and have great chances, if everyone else cannot retreat from the Nine Springs as soon as they enter the Nine Springs, then wouldn't it cost a person's life to sink the entire sacrificial woman into the Nine Springs?

He didn't expect this seemingly gentle first appearance to say such terrible words without changing his face.

"Yes."

Chu Rong didn't seem to see the shocked look on Pinluo's face, but he still looked calm, smiled and nodded in response.

Maybe it was because Pinluo was following Song Qingxiao's side, he seemed to have adjusted his attitude towards Pinluo in time, and it was not like at the beginning, as soon as the young man interjected, he frowned, but he was able to deal with him as usual, smiling and answering his questions.

"But, but under the Nine Springs, isn't there a hurtful yin qi?"

Pinro was stunned by his straightforward attitude and stammered a question.

"Yes."

Chu Rong replied with a smile.

"Then, the chosen girl, is it the person you said that after attaining enlightenment, there is a great opportunity?"

The more he asked, the lower his voice became, and Chu Rong smiled with a 'hehe' smile:

"How is that possible?" He is like a tour guide who patiently answers the doubts of outsiders, "There are very few people who have the opportunity to attain enlightenment, how can they be so easy to meet?" There may not be a single case for tens or hundreds of years. ”

Chu Rong's tone was meaningful, as if he meant something, but Pinluo's heart was already messy at this time.

Everything in front of him was beyond his cognition, and his initial calm and peaceful attitude was as if the sacrifice of human life was just a natural and trivial matter, which was a great shock to his soul and his previous cognition.

"Then, isn't the sacrificial maiden going to die?"

He muttered.

Chu Rong still squinted his eyes and smiled:

"In a sense, it's true that it will be severely corroded by Yin Qi, but we also have other ways to deal with it."

The poor young man, who had been greatly struck by this, seemed to breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

He also thought that Chu Rong's words meant that these 'immortals' in the Yulun Void Realm had a way to make the sacrificed girl resist the yin qi at the bottom of the Nine Springs, and the simple young man was still feeling guilty and repentant for the 'vicious' imagination in his heart just now.

"That's great." A layer of blush appeared on his originally pale cheeks, and he was a little embarrassed:

"Do you have a way to keep the sacrificial girl from the Yin Qi at the bottom of the Nine Springs?"

"How is that possible?" Chu Rong seemed to be a little surprised when he heard him say this, and glanced at him:

"The Yin Qi of the Nine Springs will reach the extreme every once in a while, and it will be difficult to suppress at all." He patiently explained:

"Although our clan, who has been with Jiuquan all the year round, has a certain degree of resistance to such yin qi, it is not completely exempt from military service."

In other words, the people in the Yulun Void Realm are only a little more resistant to 'freezing' than ordinary people.

"If a person enters the bottom of the spring, he will still be swallowed by the yin qi, but because the resistance is higher than that of ordinary people, the speed of being swallowed will be slower, and the pain will be doubled."

“…… ......Click, click

He wanted to turn his head to look at Song Qingxiao with great difficulty, and wanted to open his mouth, but his body seemed to be disobedient, and he didn't know what to say.

Pinluo once saw his accomplice's hand reach out into the water, and in an instant, it swelled dozens of times, his skin was ulcerated and brittle, and one hand was still like this, if the whole person sank into the water, I don't know what a terrifying scene it would be.

It was a living human life, but Chu Rong said it lightly.

Pinluo, who lives in a modern legal society, could not accept the impact of such barbaric and cruel customs, and his face turned blue and his body trembled.

"But don't worry." Chu Rong seemed to see his ugly expression, and gently comforted him at the moment:

"The yin qi at the bottom of the nine springs will be appeased after receiving the sacrifice, and the yin qi in it will not be as fierce as it is now."

He narrowed his eyes, as if with some pleasure:

"If your accomplice entered the Nine Springs after the sacrifice, if the yin qi was not heavy at that time, even if he reached out to fetch water, he would not be hurt so badly, maybe that hand would still be retained."

"......" Pinro trembled even more when he heard this.

At the cost of a human life, so that the water no longer hurts people, how can he think that the more he listens, the more bizarre it becomes.

As if he was afraid that Pinluo and the others would not understand, Chu Rong said:

"By coping, I mean that after the sacrifice, there will be a series of cleaning work to ensure that the dead Yin spirit does not disturb others and affect others."

"......" Pinluo trembled even more.

At this time, the young man no longer regarded this Yulun Realm as a legendary fairyland, but the more he listened to Chu Rong's introduction, the more he felt that this place was really evil.

He hated to turn around and run away, not to deal with this group of weirdos, who were acting like demons and monsters to young people who had received a modern education of equality, peace, and human life over heaven.

Unfortunately, several people had already reached the end of the corridor and were about to leave the lake.

Uncle Xiang and the others remained on the dock, and the sound of counting the goods became smaller and quieter, and it was almost inaudible.

I'm afraid it won't work to turn around and go back at this time, he can't find the way, and he is also extremely afraid of the dense fog and Jiuquan, so he can only subconsciously turn his head to look at Song Qingxiao at this time.

saw that she also looked calm, and her words seemed to have no effect on her.

And so on –

As soon as Pinro saw her, he vaguely felt that something was not quite right.

is not more than eighteen years old, with a beautiful face, although he is not a virgin, he and Song Qingxiao only met today, and they are not very familiar with each other, so it is not good to rashly ask girls this question.

But she has already met the first two items, and there is a high probability that they are all eligible for sacrifice.

After all, Uncle Xiang probably wouldn't do useless things, so he deliberately brought a girl into the Yulun Realm.

After talking with Chu Rong and discovering that the 'immortals' in the Yulun Void Realm were not the ordinary people who were benevolent and had the common people in his mind as he imagined, but could treat human life as a mustard, barbarism and cruelty, Pin Luo's impression of Uncle Xiang, who had dealt with people in the Yulun Void Realm for decades, also fell to the bottom.

He originally thought that this old man was disgusting and kind-looking, but now it seems that he is probably taking it for granted.

Uncle Xiang repeatedly and ruthlessly threatened to throw anyone who dared to rebel against him into the Nine Dragons Cave on the boat, at that time he thought that Uncle Xiang was just a threat, but now it seems that this old man is extremely black-hearted, maybe he has really done something to destroy his conscience.

He brought Song Qingxiao over, I am afraid that he did not accept money to bring people in to open his eyes, but may have a vicious idea.

The more the young man thought about it, the more frightened he felt, his face changed from blue to white, and then from white to gold, and after a while, he was sweating profusely, and he was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, but because his first appearance was still here, he didn't dare to say anything for a moment, and he just kept glancing at Song Qing's little envoy.

Song Qingxiao didn't seem to see his eyes, but glanced at Chu Rong and said:

"Not more than eighteen years old, with a beautiful face and a pure body...... virgin " she mentioned these points, and every time she said a word, Pinluo trembled, and she was even more anxious.

She ignored the young man who was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and asked with a smile:

"It seems that I also meet such conditions, could it be that you treat me as a distinguished guest, and you also want to use me as a candidate for this Shenquan?"

"Ah, ...... you" Pinluo almost fainted with his eyes open, he was so anxious that the corners of his mouth squirted foam, and he was about to open his mouth to stop Song Qing's words, but Chu Rong smiled:

"Of course not."

"Don't say it, huh?" Before Pinluo could finish speaking, he heard Chu Rong's words and let out a cry of surprise.

"You are a distinguished guest from afar, how can I use you to come to the Sinking Spring?" Chu Rong felt very unbelievable at Song Qingxiao's words, but his attitude at this moment not only did not make people feel reassured, but made Pinluo only feel that the more he looked at his calm expression, the more a chill rose from his spine, stimulating the hair to stand upside down.

Large strands of cold sweat penetrated through the pores, soaking the clothes on the scarf, and then being pushed by the hairs, making a piercing sound of 'Xi Xisuo' when he moved, which was magnified exponentially in his senses, and it was extremely clear.

"The candidate for the Dragon King Festival has already been decided, so you can stay and enjoy it with peace of mind this time." He squinted his eyes and smiled, as if he had some aftertaste:

"We are really deserted here on weekdays, there are no guests not to say, and there is no entertainment, the Dragon King Festival can be said to be the most lively thing, very interesting, I hope you will like it too."

"......" The sweaty young man trembled, and shouted in his heart: I won't like it! The devil loves this thing! I just want to go back!

The 5,000-word big change of double more in one~! ~~

The big change on the first day of the new year~~~ pretending to prove that I will work hard this year~~~

(End of chapter)