Kongsang Mountain is the only place to reach Qingqiu country, it is the natural barrier of Qingqiu country, the swamps at the foot of the mountain are all over, the poisonous miasma is soaring to the sky, the top of the mountain is covered with snow all the year round, the inaccessible track is a place rich in demon beasts and poisonous insects, and the human race can hardly pass through Kongsang Mountain.

There is an abyss called "Heimulberry Ditch" in Kongsang Mountain, there are countless poisonous insects and beast corpses under the abyss, accumulating white bones, shocking, here has almost become the forbidden land of the human race.

Legend has it that 100,000 years ago, the spring and waterfall on Kongsang Mountain, flowers and fruits are everywhere, and it is lush everywhere, but since the war of immortals and demons 100,000 years ago, affected by the war, the aura here is increasingly depleted, and Kongsang Mountain has become a paradise for monsters and poisonous insects, and a forbidden place for human races.

Legend has it that on the edge of the cliff of the abyss of this empty mulberry mountain, there is a thousand-year-old dragon mulberry tree, it is said that this fruit blooms once in three hundred years, and bears fruit in three hundred years, mortals can prolong their life for hundreds of years when they eat it, and ordinary people who cultivate immortals can easily cultivate to the supreme fairyland.

The thousand-year-old dragon mulberry fruit is the best medicinal material for refining the seventh-order Yuan Shen Pill. As long as the immortal veins of immortal cultivators are not broken, but those whose immortal power is exhausted or their bodies are damaged, they can recover eighty percent of their immortal power by taking the seventh-level immortal elixir Yuan Shen Pill refined by the thousand-year-old dragon mulberry fruit.

There were countless immortal cultivators who tried to fly through the abyss of the Black Mulberry Ditch and reach the other side of the cliff to pick the dragon mulberry fruit, but they were cleaved into the abyss by the unknown lightning that appeared out of thin air in the sky, turning into charred white bones.

After so many times, no one came to venture with the Terrans or Immortal Cultivators, and Kongsang Mountain became a forbidden mountain.

Feng Chengcheng, Mingyue, Hua Qiandu, Mei Ren, Bai Ze and other more than a dozen Shushan disciples, after a day and a night of sword flight, arrived at the foot of Kongsang Mountain Daze Town, the day they arrived happened to be December 1, the next day is the girl's sacrifice day.

Daze Town is a large town at the foot of Kongsang Mountain.

A small river flows out of the Kongsang Mountains next to the town of Daze, forming a huge lake - Zeshui Lake. The lake is vast and sparkling, the water and grass are green, the birds fly and the fish jump, and the green mountains are reflected, which is a scene of its own.

The water and grass around the lake are fertile, green grass, and the radius is not less than hundreds of miles, surrounding the lake, inhabited by many villages, and the population is large.

Its inhabitants have lived here for generations, living in peace and contentment, living a peaceful life from sunrise to sunset.

However, in the past month, there have been a series of lost babies in Daze Town.

Just three days ago, Daze Town lost five more children at once, these children are babies between the ages of one and five, and now Daze Town is shrouded in a terrifying atmosphere, and the people are panicked and cannot live all day.

And the residents of Osawa Town blamed the loss of the baby on the result of the sacrificial girl they selected during last year's Dragon Festival, which was not very satisfactory to the nine-headed Dragon Lord.

Therefore, on this year's Nine-Headed Divine Dragon Festival, Daze Town decided to select two beautiful girls, dress up as brides, carry them to the Nine-Headed Divine Dragon Temple, and sacrifice them to the Nine-Headed Divine Dragon, in order to obtain the understanding of the Nine-Headed Divine Dragon.

When Mingyue and the others arrived in Daze Town, the streets of Daze Town were lit up with lights and crowds, and countless people rushed to the streets to watch the two girl brides selected for the nine-headed dragon.

Mingyue, Feng Chengcheng and the others stood in the crowd, watching from afar.

I saw that on the distant street, the crowd was lined up on both sides, densely packed, crowded and impassable, only revealing the stone road in the middle. From the end of the stone road, two rows of suona, gongs and drums came staggeringly, and behind the team, there were four strong men, happily carrying two colorful sedan chairs.

The sedan chair is festive red inside and out, with red silk flowers hanging on the top, and big red, small bunches of hydrangeas hanging from the four corners, which look joyful.

The carved windows on both sides of the sedan chair are hung with sedan curtains, and through the windows of the sedan chair, you can see the slender girl sitting in the sedan chair.

The two girls are delicate and beautiful, their skin is white and delicate, their beautiful eyes are lowered, and there are still a little sad tears on their childish and delicate faces.

They were dressed in bright red satin wedding dresses, with their heads combed into a bun of soon-to-be-married women, and the big red silk flowers were inserted in the buns, huddled in a corner of the palanquin, their white and slender fingers twisted together nervously, and their beautiful little faces showed various expressions of fear, helplessness, helplessness and despair, which was heartbreaking.

The parents of these young girls disposed of them as objects for a mere fifty taels of silver, and their feelings can be imagined, how helpless, sad, and desperate they were.

However, these onlookers looked extremely excited, as if it was a happy thing to sacrifice a girl.

Those onlookers who ate melons, while watching the excitement, commented on the two poor girls.

"Wow, the girl who sacrificed this year is so beautiful, I drool when I see it."

"Where did you pick this girl? It's stunning. ”

"The first girl is the second daughter of the Zhang family in Dahe Village. The second girl is the third daughter of the Li family in Xiaohe Village. They have many daughters in both families, and they don't feel distressed when they come out of the sacrifice. ”

"What's so distressing about this? Sacrificing a maiden will not only have a glorious reputation, but also a reward of fifty taels of silver from the town, which is enough for the family to eat and drink well for many years, and to marry a daughter-in-law for his son, what a good thing. "Fifty taels of silver, I have worked hard all my life, and I can't earn so much silver."

"If my daughter raises too much, sooner or later it will be someone else's family. If you marry normally, where can you get so much bride price? ”

"Wang Sixty, I remember that your family has two daughters, and they have reached the age of fourteen or fifteen, so you want to sacrifice your daughter in the unknown year, right?"

"You old thing, Lao Tzu doesn't sacrifice his daughter, that's what only poor people are willing to do. Lao Tzu still wants to wait for him to get old and look at his daughter a few more times. ”

"Two beautiful girls were sacrificed this year, Lord Shenlong shouldn't blame us, right?"

"Hopefully the baby won't go missing again."

"What if the baby is still missing after sacrificing the maiden?"

"You crow's mouth, don't talk nonsense, we have both sacrificed two maidens, how can the baby still be missing?"

"It's time to carry it to the sacrificial shrine in the town, where the girls will stay for one night, and tomorrow morning they will be carried to the Dragon Temple to offer sacrifices."

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At this time, the town of Osawa

On the streets, the lights are colorful, the gongs and drums are noisy, the firecrackers are roaring, the crowds are surging, and the voices of people are noisy.

Tomorrow is December 2nd, the Nine-Headed Dragon Festival, the day of sacrifice for the nine-headed dragon, and the residents of Daze Town are so excited that they almost forget about the disappearance of the baby.

Mingyue listened to the discussion around her, and a sadness surged in her heart, not knowing whether to sympathize or condemn these ignorant villagers, she suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness.

Hua Qiandu shouted: "I'll go, are these people human?" The girl was clearly either eaten by a monster or ruined, and these people were so happy? ”

Mingyue also sighed: "These girls are so pitiful, they are equivalent to their biological parents, for a little money, sell them, and no longer care about their life or death."

Feng Qingcheng looked at the crowd of cheers and said, "There are many unfair things in the world, this is just the tip of the iceberg, let's do our best."

Mingyue nodded and sighed deeply, although she couldn't care about the injustices in the world, as long as she was allowed to meet her, she must not stand idly by.

The villagers of Daze Town were not very excited when they saw the immortal-like disciples of the Shushan Immortal Sect, nor did they show any signs of welcome, but just glanced at them indifferently, and then focused on the lively and lively procession of sacrificial girls to welcome their relatives.

Mingyue and the others followed the lively flow of people and came to the door of the sacrificial ancestral hall.

At the entrance of the sacrificial ancestral hall, a huge stone statue five or six meters high is erected.

The body of the stone statue is stout, soaring through the clouds, like a dragon and a snake, with nine heads on its head, its appearance is extremely ugly, its eyes are vicious, it looks extremely penetrating, and it also has the power of the slightest primordial god.

Feng Qingcheng said in a low voice: "This stone statue actually has a trace of the power of the primordial gods, no wonder I always feel that this stone statue is a little weird."

Bai Ze exclaimed in a low voice: "This, this is not a dragon, this is an ancient fierce beast, Xianghu."

Mingyue asked suspiciously, "Xiangyi?"

Hua Qiandu asked stupidly, "What the hell is Xiangyi?"

Feng Qingcheng's face changed, and he said, "This stone statue does look like an ancient fierce beast."

Bai Ze said: "Xiangqiu, also known as Xiangliu, is an ancient fierce beast. According to the ancient scripture "Classic of Mountains and Seas", the snake has nine heads, is sexually lewd, likes to eat people, is good at psychedelia, and everywhere it passes, it becomes a country. The water it spouts is worse than a flood, and it is good at creating floods. Spit venom, blood is highly poisonous, saliva can form venom swamps, can cause death. Unexpectedly, there are such powerful monsters hidden in this empty mulberry mountain. ”

When everyone heard this, their faces changed, this monster is too powerful, I don't know if they can subdue it this time?

The mayor of the town, Mr. Wei, was standing in front of the sacrificial ancestral hall in the center of Daze Town, with more than a dozen patriarchs of Daze Town, to greet the welcoming team, staring at the person carrying the sedan chair, and carrying the two sacrificial girls into the sacrificial ancestral hall, he personally lit three incense sticks and respectfully inserted them into the incense burner under the stone statue.

Firecrackers crackled, smoke filled the air, and the smell of gunpowder choked. There are countless people, carrying Ming in the crackling sound of firecrackers

The tributes that were to be paid long ago were continuously sent into the sacrificial ancestral hall, and the huge sacrificial ancestral hall was instantly stuffed.

It turned out that in addition to sacrificing girls, Daze Town also had to pay tribute to three animals.

These three animals are, ten pigs, ten sheep, and ten cows, and these tributes must be slaughtered in advance, wrapped and decorated with red silk, and will be sent to the nine-headed dragon temple together with the sacrificial maiden tomorrow morning.

The mayor of the town, Master Wei, with more than a dozen patriarchs, dressed in costumes and with pious expressions on their faces, respectfully knelt on the futon in front of the stone statue, and bowed and bowed.

After the ceremony, today's preparations are basically over, waiting for tomorrow's main event, the sacrifice of the maiden bride and tribute.

The noisy crowd gradually dispersed, and the streets became deserted again.

Master Wei found out that Feng Tingcheng and the others, and when he saw Feng Tingcheng and Mingyue, he was stunned for a moment, this time the people sent by the Shushan Immortal Sect had an extraordinary temperament and outstanding demeanor, and he didn't look like an idle person, he immediately put on a flattering smile, and asked, "These are the disciples of the Shushan Immortal Sect?"

Feng Tingcheng nodded and said: "The deity is the head of the Shushan Immortal Gate, Feng Tingcheng."

Feng Qingcheng pointed to Mingyue, Hua Qiandu and Bai Ze and the others and introduced: "This is Elder Mingyue of the Shencao Gate, Elder Hua Qiandu of the Medicine Gate, and Elder Bai Ze of the Taishang Gate."

When Master Wei heard this, he was so frightened that his legs weakened and he knelt down on the ground, and said again and again: "The palm, the head of the family, and all the elders are here in person, I am fortunate to wait, I am fortunate to be waiting."

(End of chapter)