Gu Wanniang didn't really stay in the Lingnan palace for a long time, because she soon encountered the legendary Lingnan clan's frontier festival.

The Xinjiang Festival is the most important festival in Lingnan, its purpose is to worship the ancestors, and on this day, hundreds of shamans will be sent to attend the sacrifice ceremony together, in order to pray for the ancestors to protect the descendants.

The Great Wizard, who is the head of all the wizards, will naturally attend this time and organize this sacrifice.

This sacrifice was held at night, and Gu Wanniang was dressed in a black cloak, mixed in with the hundreds of wizards. All wizards are covered in faces, and all exposed skin is painted, but it is impossible to see whose face it is.

Gu Wanniang stood in the back position, looking at the great wizard and the king of Lingnan standing on the sacrificial platform, the two of them did not seem to have a deep hatred and hatred between them, but there was quite a tacit understanding, could it be that what Vice General Leng said to himself deviated?

The sacrificial ceremony lasted for most of the night, and it was enough time for the people to disperse. However, many shamans will go into the ancestral mountain of Lingnan with the great shaman, and they will spend the second half of the night in the ancestral mountain full of snakes and insects, which is to keep the spirit of Lingnan.

The group was mighty.

Vice General Leng escorted the King of Lingnan throughout the whole process, but he only sent a group of wizards to the gate of the mountain pass, and then returned.

The head of the great wizard is a woman who can't see her age, her face is full of animal prints, and she can't see her appearance, she only knows that her movements are flexible, and she doesn't look like she is old age.

Gu Wanniang looked around at the surrounding mountains and soil, this was an extremely densely wooded forest, and when she looked inside, she couldn't see the deep roots of the road ahead, as if she had heard the cry of a wild beast.

When they arrive at the Ancestral Mountain, the Great Wizard will no longer walk with everyone, because the sacrifice ceremony in the Ancestral Mountain is a selection ceremony for the Xinjiang clan to select outstanding wizards.

The Great Wizard swept over the standing wizards and said, "The Sacrifice Day is the grandest day of our clan, and all the wizards who enter this ancestral mountain are all chosen by the gods, if you can survive, your prestige among your respective clans will naturally be even greater, if you can't survive, it is the gods who have withdrawn your duties." ”

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, Gu Wanniang seemed to feel that the eyes of the great wizard fell on her body, indeed Gu Wanniang was a little out of place, perhaps because the clothes of the witch were worn on her body, it seemed that Gu Wanniang was much smaller than others.

The Great Wizard left, Gu Wanniang looked at the direction the Great Wizard left, paused slightly, but then followed.

After only three steps, Gu Wanniang was stopped, she was a young man, "Which tribe is the little girl, is the little wizard newly elected this year?" ”

"The place where the great wizard goes is the Valley of the Beasts, and only the wizards chosen by the gods can pass through the Valley of the Beasts safely, and the other wizards will become the food of the beasts. If you want to live peacefully through the second half of the night, you can stay at the gate of this mountain, this beast will not come, people will be vigorous, and you can spend the night peacefully after making a fire. ”

The old wizard's words were interrupted by another young wizard, "Don't listen to him, since they have all become wizards, who will be the lowest-level witch doctor for the rest of their lives like him?" ”

"If you want to be like the Great Wizard, you go to the Valley of the Beasts, and if you pass you, you will be the next wizard's candidate."

Old Wizard: "Those who don't know are fearless, those who don't know are fearless, and the gods are angry." ”

The young wizard and a few companions are ready to enter the Valley of the Beasts, they are all the leaders of their respective clans, and naturally they will not be afraid of the rumors of the Valley of the Beasts.

Gu Wanniang shook her head, "It's good for me to sit as a little witch doctor for the rest of my life." ”

Gu Wanniang found that among the hundreds of wizards, all the older ones or the less timid ones would honestly stand at the gate of the mountain, surrounded by the fire that had just been lit, but the younger generation who were more courageous were eager to try.

Not moving, not only because I don't want to be a beast's meal, but also because the time is not right.

Half an hour passed, and the sorcerers who remained at the gate of the mountain made the fire bigger, and the cries of wild beasts and men were heard in their ears.

Most of the wizards sitting here hung their heads, deaf to the tragic situation in the valley, and the old wizard: "Don't be afraid, there is a fire here, and we can go back at dawn tomorrow." ”

Gu Wanniang also closed her eyes and pretended to sleep with everyone, and waited until the dawn of the next day, and walked to the Valley of the Beasts alone before everyone woke up.

At dawn, the mountains were full of dew, and last night only the moonlight could not really see the scenery in front of them, and when it was dawn, she walked inside, Gu Wanniang only said that this ancestral mountain is a deep mountain and old forest with poor mountains and bad waters.

Walking along the path that the people on the earth have stepped on, on the road you will sometimes see white bones buried in the soil and fallen leaves, leaking out a section, and I don't know whether it is human bone or animal bone, and I don't know how much time has passed.

There were still a few blood stains on the ground, Gu Wanniang only said that she had seen the bloody scene, but she also felt a little worried about the scene in front of her, this inhumane Lingnan wizard's bad habit has continued to this day.

Thankfully, there were no fresh wreckage.

At sunrise it is rare for wild beasts to emerge, but the Valley of Beasts is also difficult to walk, because it is a long and narrow valley with a stream in between, and the ground is muddy and sometimes slippery.

Gu Wanniang slipped on the ground several times, and once almost fell into a pit, the pit was full of fallen leaves, and it looked like a man-made beast trap, but it was probably abandoned for a long time, because there were no traces of artificial excavation in the pit.

The pit is regular, and most of them extend in the same direction, and at the end of the extension is a cave.

The outside of the cave was covered by vines, Gu Wanniang picked up the vines and looked into the cave, the cave was already full of dust, but there was still a coat that fell to the ground, and there were also some rotten beast meat and wild fruits.

Picking up the dress, there was no accident, it was Yi An's favorite white caftan .

Gu Wanniang also found some freshly ground herbs in the cave, and Yi An was injured?

I don't know where I've been taken now.

Gu Wanniang was about to leave the cave, and looked down to find that under the vines at the stone gate, there was a small cyan jasper, and the jasper had been dropped into the soil for some time.

The jasper was dug out of the soil, it was a jade wrench, and there was a splinter on the jade wrench, perhaps because the blood stains fell into it when it was broken, and the blood stains spread with the splinters, as if the jade wrench was born with the lines.

Looking at this jade wrench, Gu Wanniang thought about it, the jade wrench on Yi An's finger in her previous life also had this trace, and it turned out to be here.