From a corner of the palace came the sound of a flute, sometimes low and gentle, sometimes sad and gloomy, sometimes urgent and sometimes slow, sometimes high and sometimes low, and those who sleep may not wake up when they hear it, but will sleep more deeply. Even if someone can't sleep at night, when they hear the sound of the weeping flute in their ears, they unconsciously evoke memories of the past and shed tears.

Either way, no one is like Tu Qitang, who is not sentimental, but angry. It's not that Tu Qitang doesn't have the ability to appreciate, it's not that he has no memories to recall, and it's not that he's upset and looking for someone to vent to. Because for him, this flute sound is not a comfort for longing, but a poisonous curse that leads him to the point of no return.

In the corner of the dormitory, the surface of the lake is calm and waveless, and at first glance it looks like a mirror smeared with ink, and the faint night breeze blows the dejected branches, making it difficult to set off a trace of style. In this situation, the sound of the flute sounded desolate, the dark figure standing by the lake could not help but be weak, quietly blending into the night, her pale face did not have a trace of blood, her low-hanging jade eyes hid unknown secrets, her beautiful nose, and her red lips played a sad melody.

No one knows where she came from, but in this kingdom of Qiuzi, she is a messenger of the unblasphemous God on high. She doesn't need to be known for her true identity, she will leave this place sooner or later, so why bother with a little more nostalgia.

She kept playing this piece, bringing sorrow and emotion to everyone, but she was unmoved. Usually the person who plays the player can only move others if she moves herself first, but her mood really does not change at all, maybe her heart has become ice, maybe she has no intention of appreciating it at all, just waiting for his arrival.

Tu Qitang looked at her back from a distance, full of anger rising, and strode forward, until he was only one step away from her, he stopped indignantly, stared at the back of her head, and seemed to breathe fire in his eyes.

The flute stopped abruptly, and the shrine maiden slowly opened her eyes and looked at the lake in the darkness, she sighed softly and slowly turned to look at him. Unfortunately, before she could see the face in her memory, she received a heavy slap on the left cheek, which was extremely heavy, causing her ears to rumble, and dark red blood spilled from the corners of her mouth and dripped onto the placket of her clothes.

In front of him, he turned into a ghost, and it took a long time to return to normal, and the witch smiled faintly, rubbing the blood from her mouth with her right hand, and still holding the flute in her hand. The night breeze blew across his cheeks, and he felt like a burning pain, obviously such a faint wind.

In fact, this kind of pain is nothing to her at all, compared to the pain she has endured in the past, what is this pain? What's more, he was the one who beat her, and she didn't even have room to complain. Not to mention slapping her, even if she kills her, she will take the initiative to send her head.

Facing the angry Tu Qitang, she had nothing to explain, knelt down to him on one knee, bowed her invincible head, and humbly called: "Sect Master." ”

Tu Qitang didn't even feel like answering her, although he was the sect leader in her mouth. Tu Qitang is the leader of the Xiling Sect, she is the holy daughter of the Xiling Sect, and in front of him, she only has absolute obedience. Hiding her identity and coming to Qiuzi and becoming a shrine maiden of the Qiuzi royal family is just following the holy order, which is not her original intention at all.

The Xiling Sect intended to gradually annex the Western Regions, but she didn't, and until now she didn't understand why the sect leader did this. She has been a saint of the Xiling Sect since she was a child, and the Xiling Sect in her memory has never been involved in political affairs, let alone serving any regime. The Xiling cult believes in the gods and relies on the power of the gods to benefit the people, and their status is exalted, inviolable and profane, and will never allow the worldly and despicable people to be defiled.

But since when did the Xiling cult become the eagle dogs of the rest royal family to annex the Western Regions, and simple faith has become a trick to confuse the world. Whenever she saw the ugliness of those pious believers who were usually eager for the elixir of bliss, she hated them from the bottom of her heart, and hated to throw them all into the altar as sacrifices. Whenever she saw them taking the elixir and indulging in lust and debauchery, she could only pretend not to see it, otherwise she would definitely not be able to control her bloodbath.

She didn't understand why she was following such instructions, but it was the instructions given by the Bright Moon Holy Maiden she admired the most, which made her not even have the courage to refuse. Whether it is the Holy Maiden of the Bright Moon or the Sect Master, how can they be blinded by the desire for profit, how can they lead the sect to blaspheme? She thought about it for a long time, but she still couldn't figure it out, all she could do was to obey unconditionally and watch herself become one of them!

The gods who have believed in them for many years have not been able to stop this from happening! After many years of cultivation, I let my cultivation be lost, and I fell into the abyss of sin step by step. Everything was given by the Sect Master, if he hadn't lied that the Sect Master had died violently and presented himself as a prince of rest, how could the Xiling Sect be restricted by the royal family everywhere? If he hadn't been plotting to annex the Western Regions and using the power of the Xiling Sect to realize his ambitions, how could the Xiling Sect have fallen to this point? But she couldn't bear to blame him, who could know him better than she did?

Not everyone can be the leader of the Xiling Sect, and Tu Qitang has been destined to take on this important task since he was born, even if he is ignorant and ignorant, he does not know what he is doing. In order to practice the best martial arts and internal strength of the Xiling Sect, Tu Qitang, who had just turned three, had to practice for ten hours every day, even in his sleep, he had to maintain the posture of practicing, and if he couldn't hold on, the person in charge of guarding him would be whipped mercilessly.

Not only that, he eats the same food every day, the snow essence that grows in the Stara Mountains, this medicinal herb that absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth can resist a hundred poisons, and can make the internal force increase a hundred times, but long-term use of snow essence will make it difficult for people to digest, and it is common for people to be difficult to swallow. But if he secretly spit it out and was discovered, he would inevitably be whipped again.

When Tu Qitang was ten years old, he was already one of the top ten masters in the Xiling Sect, but the intensity of his practice did not weaken because of this. The sword mountain and sea of fire in the altar, it is for traitors, but if there are disciples who betray the Xiling Sect, their fate is only a dead end, and the people who were thrown into the sword mountain and the sea of fire almost did not leave alive, except for him, Tu Qitang.

Looking at the handsome and healthy Tu Qitang in front of her, the witch still couldn't help but sigh, it was undoubtedly a miracle that he survived. She sympathized with him, not only because he had suffered so much, but because it was none other than the Bright Moon Holy Maiden of the Xiling Sect who had honed him with the Hellish Cultivation Method.

Tu Qitang was brought up by the Bright Moon Holy Maiden, if this is in the people, the Holy Daughter of the Bright Moon can be said to be his adoptive mother, why Tu Qitang was chosen as the sect leader No one knows, but the Holy Maiden of the Bright Moon does have great hopes for him. She honed him in this brutal way, and eventually got the sect leader she considered qualified.

Since the Holy Maiden of the Bright Moon can control Tu Qitang's life, then the authority of the sect leader is also in her hands. The reason why the witch couldn't bear to criticize Tu Qitang was because she suspected that everything was the instructions of the Bright Moon Holy Maiden, although Tu Qitang had the name of the sect leader, but in fact he was the puppet of the Bright Moon Holy Maiden.

The supreme ruler of the Xiling Sect is the head of the sect, and the head of the sect is assisted by the holy woman, and the four holy women representing the southeast, north, and west are loyal to the sect leader to guard the altar and cultivate the congregation. The Holy Maiden must obey the orders of the Church Master without any objection. Among the four shrine maidens, the Holy Maiden of the Bright Moon, who is the East Holy Maiden, has the highest status, especially after the death of the previous leader, she takes care of all the affairs of the church as the acting leader, including the appointment of a new leader.

The Southern Holy Maiden of the Xiling Sect, who was sent to Qiuci, was transformed into a witch of Qiuzi, and in the name of the gods, she firmly held the royal family in the palm of her hand, and her task was to occupy an advantageous position and wait for the next instructions of the Holy Maiden of the Bright Moon. She was disgusted by the time she waited for instructions, and if she hadn't sworn allegiance to the Xiling Sect, she would have hated to leave the altar that had long since deteriorated. She is not afraid of being a traitor, it is nothing more than walking in the sea of swords and fires, even if she does not have the confidence to come out alive, at most she will die.

However, she was unwilling to die in a daze, she wanted to survive, waiting to see the true face of the Bright Moon Holy Maiden, see what the Xiling Sect would become, and see the fate of the puppet sect leader Tu Qitang. She is a few years older than Tu Qitang, and she is also a child whose parents are missing, and she is also a child chosen by the Holy Maiden of the Bright Moon, who has gone through life and death to become a messenger of God, and it is not easy for them to survive.

She was about five years old when she went up the mountain, and she was already sensible, and she remembered that there were hundreds of children who went up the mountain with her. Year after year passed, and less than ten remained, and when they finally ascended to the altar, only four. Three girls were ordained saints, and the only boy became the leader. No one dares to be unconvinced that Tu Qitang has become the sect leader, he is the only one who has walked out of the sword mountain and the sea of fire alive, he is the most qualified person, and he deserves to ascend the throne of the sect leader.

No one knows how Tu Qitang survived the extremely arduous cultivation, no one knows how much effort he put in, and no one knows how many times he escaped death. As a saint of the south, she knows how difficult it is to ascend to the altar, the well-behaved and cute little boy in the past is very much like her lost brother, she was worried that he would not survive, so she always kept an eye on him, and watched him grow into a real sect leader, and her heart was happy for him.

But I didn't expect that Tu Qitang, who became the leader of the sect, seemed to be a different person, and he was no longer the little boy who was afraid of the dark and ghosts. In the past, the Holy Maiden of the Bright Moon punished disobedient children, in addition to whipping, there was also a ruthless trick, that is, to lock them in a small black room, and even let people pretend to be ghosts to train their courage.

Nan Shengnu has always been obedient and obedient, she doesn't know what it's like to be scared by ghosts in the small black house, but a few of her companions who have lived with her for many years have been locked in and never come out, and they are scared to death. Maybe the Holy Maiden of Mingyue has long intended to appoint Tu Qitang as the head of the sect, and his discipline is particularly strict, when he was thirteen years old, he took advantage of the unpreparedness of people to steal rabbit meat, he should be very hungry, caught a hare in the mountains and forests and roasted it on the spot, but he didn't expect to be caught by the Holy Maiden of Mingyue, so he was imprisoned in a small black house.

After being locked up for a day and a night, when Tu Qitang was released, his expression was dull and his eyes were in a trance, and he didn't dare to speak when he saw people, and he practiced desperately every day. He didn't speak until a few months later, but he hasn't been seen smiling since.

"You are so bold that you dare to ignore my instructions!"

Tu Qitang roared at her, and Nan Shengnu's memories were interrupted, and she looked up at him, unable to find a trace of her former appearance.