After nightfall, the firelight in the apse of the Thousand Machines Palace was lit one by one, reflecting the sparkling snow lake.

Flying Shadow wore a white feather weaving robe that symbolized the sect leader, and her body seemed to be covered with a layer of cold moon brilliance, and the red lotus bloomed silently at the same time as she stepped on the water, and between the mottled light and shadow, the same red snowflakes poured down, and the girl teased the cold lake water with her hands, like a light and beautiful peacock began to dance, with her dancing, the water lines spread out in a circle, and a stream of water lifted from the center of the lake, revealing a delicate mechanism inside that was also carved with the red lotus totem.

Feiying held his breath, his fingertips caressed the red lotus very lightly and slowly, and the petals began to stretch one by one, as if some extremely pure spiritual power was spreading through the water of the snow lake to the source of the glacier farther away.

The wind swept down from the sky, and the bright moon became hazy at this moment, and the water surface glowed with a strange fluorescence, and the water droplets were like countless thin fragments beating.

The red lotus, which symbolizes the White Sect, should be a bright and dazzling color, but now the light of the flowers floating on the water is extremely soft, like a spring breeze washing people's hearts.

Xie Lanyan stared intently at this scene, this was the scene she was most familiar with, the sect leaders of the past generations would call the head of the hundred spirits with a prayer dance at the Snow Lake Festival, and she could faintly hear an ethereal voice rippling in the ice river, making her trembling heart unable to calm down for a long time.

She had read the history books of the White Sect, and if Lord Feng Ji heard the pious calls of the cultists, she would awaken at the source of the distant glacier, and then listen to the pleas through the waters of the snowy lake.

Legend has it that she slept on a white bone and surrounded by countless beautiful moon-white flowers, and she would put her hand on her chest, and with a slight hook, a burning immortal bird would roar out of her heart, and the mythical bird would travel through every corner of the land to help the aliens through all kinds of difficulties.

The record of her in the Baijiao history book "Liuhelu" can be said to have exhausted all the praise in this world, and the innate longing for her in the depths of the blood and bones of the aliens is also deepening this sacredness every minute.

This instinctive respect made all the aliens ignore one fact - except for the unbelievable appearance a year ago, she hadn't responded to the call from the Snow Lake Festival for fifty years, and the last person to see her was not the high-ranking sect leader Si Ming, but Xiao Yibai, a noble son from the imperial capital Tianzheng Mansion and a family of gate lords.

She was as shocked as all the aliens, but she also chose to remain silent, and she didn't need to explain her actions to anyone, she was the only god on the continent to the aliens.

However, until the red lotus flower was fully opened, the petals were blown up by the wind and drifted towards the higher sky, the snow lake was still quiet, and countless actinized red lotus flowers opened and closed their petals rhythmically, and the stamens in the center were windless and automatic, but there was no sound to respond to their call.

This kind of loss is not the first time, every time there is a completely different feeling, which makes Xie Lanyan, who is standing motionless in place, his eyes dark and his mind is chaotic - although she always likes to compete and ridicule a few words, she still admires Feng Ji extremely much in her heart, has Feng Ji really given up on the aliens who are still alive on this land? It has been a thousand years since the fall from the sky, the human army is expanding year by year, the economy and trade of major cities are thriving, their schools have cultivated a large number of talents, and their martial arts halls have also made ordinary people stronger, while the aliens ...... Lost the protection of the sky, lost the ability of heaven, and hid in the inaccessible mountains and dense forests, seemingly at ease, but in fact weak and incompetent.

How could such a powerful and proud woman, such a woman who made the royal family who claimed to be the descendants of the gods of the sun and the moon in the heavenly realm have to retreat, how could she tolerate the lack of growth and progress of her people for thousands of years?

Suddenly, an extremely terrifying thought uncontrollably popped up from Xie Lanyan's mind - she really gave up, she really didn't care about the life or death of aliens anymore!

"Sister Lan?" Cen Qing, the big priest beside her, shouted softly, perhaps she had long been accustomed to such an ending, and comforted lightly, "Sister Lan doesn't have to be sad, after all, Lord Feng Ji hasn't responded to the Snow Lake Festival in the past fifty years, you look so bad, why don't you go back to Zhuming Palace to rest earlier?" ”

Xie Lanyan came back to her senses, her eyes immediately looked at Cen Ge who was reaching out to bring Feiying back next to Xuehu, and the big priest who was also dressed in white looked calm and calm, and gently touched Feiying's lost cheek and whispered a few words of comfort.

After going to the snow tablet to pray in advance, the vast majority of the disciples have said goodbye to the sect leader today and left, and now there are some ordinary disciples who don't know martial arts and spells in the Qianji Palace, almost all of them are refugees who have come here to seek refuge because of natural disasters and man-made disasters in recent years, these people have been staying on the mountain to do some cleaning and planting herbs, and now the White Tiger Legion is coming down the mountain, and Lord Feng Ji has no response, not only does he not call the disciples to resist together, but instead he does the opposite and dismisses everyone under the pretext of asking for help, What the hell did he think?

"Ah Qing, take Feiying to rest." Cen Ge handed the girl to his sister, and he sat by the lake.

The glorious red lotus flowers on the surface of the lake had not yet dispersed, and they floated one by one under the light touch of his fingers.

Xie Lanyan looked around at the empty apse, as if he understood something, and asked in a low voice: "Cen Ge, are you planning to stay alone and fight to the end with the army?" Your master is a promiscuous person, and you should be like her? I admit that you have received the guidance of the King of Garan and are far superior to the great commanders of the past dynasties in terms of magic cultivation, but there are a total of five White Tiger Legions stationed in Garo, although only the third detachment has been assembled outside Fulong Town at present, and the other detachments must be on the way to support, if you gather all your strength to resist to the death, even if the chance of victory is slim, you can make the human race lose its skin and suffer a lot, now what can you win single-handedly? ”

"What kind of place does Sister Lan think the White Sect is?" Cen Ge didn't answer directly, but inexplicably asked this question that she didn't expect, Xie Lanyan was stunned for a while, and only came back to her senses for a while and asked, "Do you want to listen to the truth?" ”

"After all, only people like you and me who can understand some hidden secrets are qualified to answer this question." Cen Ge nodded, that gaze sincerely made Xie Lanyan's heart thump, but for some reason he quickly avoided the other party's gaze with some loss, "No matter how vicious the White Sect is, it is the only reliance of the alien race, without the forbidden art to deter the army, what can we do to protect ourselves?" Is it true that you have to pray to God and Buddha every day and pray to the gods to save you? Hehe, it's all the result of those damn humans pressing on step by step! Even if they use forbidden techniques to draw their blood, peel their bones, and control their souls, it is also their own resentment against others, and they deserve it! ”

Such vicious hatred only made Cen Ge raise a peaceful smile: "Sister Lan is right, no matter how vicious the White Sect is, it is the only reliance of the alien race, what we have to do is to try our best to protect every sect member, instead of binding them with 'faith' and making them become dead souls under the iron hoof." ”

Xie Lanyan was speechless for a while, and when he heard Cen Ge lower his tone, he continued to ask, "Does Sister Lan hate the White Sect?" ”

Xie Lanyan's eyes were bloodshot for a moment, and he suddenly bit his lip because of anger, and scolded, "What do you want to say?" You were deliberately testing me in the Houshan Cemetery before! I said that the crazy female spider in Fulong Town was not my ghost, and I don't know what happened to the three missing! Cen Ge, what I hate is Yun Qiushui, and what I hate is King Jialan! I have believed in the White Sect since I was a child, and when I was twelve years old, I came to the Garo General Altar, and I did leave because of emotional failure, but I never hated the White Sect, and I still want to do my best to protect it! ”

"Well, I believe that Sister Lan's words are sincere, but ......" Cen Ge's attitude was so flat that the second monk Xie Lanyan was confused, but the last two "but" made her heartbeat suddenly accelerate to the limit, "But, the person behind Sister Lan - do you think so too?" ”

"What?" Xie Lan swallowed his mouth, looked up at the other party incredulously, and his demeanor, which was still righteous just now, was suddenly full of emptiness, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"I guess." Cen Ge's tone was empty, and every word made Xie Lanyan walk on thin ice, "If you want to go to the Lotus Altar, you will definitely pass through the Houshan Cemetery, although there are more than a dozen people who can control the mother spider, but the only person who can go through the cemetery to the altar is you, the former Great Commander, Xie Lanyan, but I believe that Sister Lan hates the sect leader and master, and still maintains her original loyalty to the Bai Sect, but at this time, controlling the mother spider in Fulong Town that was originally used to monitor to attack ordinary people is more like provoking Xiao Qianye to lead troops to fight and destroy the Bai Sect as soon as possible." Who would be so desperate for me and him to be killed? So I guess there should be someone else behind Sister Lan, who took advantage of your hatred for Master and Sect Master and wanted to kill two birds with one stone. ”

Xie Lanyan took a step back, and the look in his eyes gradually changed: "No...... That guy said that he just wanted to take the opportunity to get rid of the two brothers of the Tianzheng Mansion, and if they died, the army would naturally withdraw, and the White Sect would be safe! ”

"Oh?" Cen Ge was shocked, but he still tried his best to maintain his composure, "Fanning the flames at the critical moment when the crown prince ordered the army to retreat and we finally breathed a sigh of relief, Sister Lan naively thought that it was to save the White Sect?" ”

"I ......" Xie Lanyan spit out a word, the blank in her mind made her raise her hand and press her forehead hard in a little pain, Cen Ge continued, "Actually, the few blood curse necromancers I placed in the Thousand Machines Palace didn't find any abnormal behavior on you, and even the altar and cemetery have no traces of anyone breaking in, but the number of blood butterflies in the altar seems to be less, and the color is much brighter than before, Sister Lan should know, the stronger the power of the blood butterfly, the more gorgeous the color, I have to suspect that someone has gone in the sea without telling the sky." , it seems that I guessed correctly. ”

Before the words fell, Cen Ge's hand stirred the lake water, picked up a photogenic red lotus and dragged it to his fingertips, he waved gently, the flower spun and flew towards Xie Lanyan, and then turned into a clear lake water and wet her cheeks, she strangely reached out and touched the water droplets on her face, the snow lake in the apse of the Thousand Machines Palace was actually artificially excavated, and only the sect leader could drain and gather from the source of the glacier through the mechanism at the bottom of the lake, so the water of the snow lake would carry the purest divine power from Lord Feng Ji, and it was said that it was the hottest flame in the world, It's enough to keep all the evil spirits away.

Xie Lanyan looked at her reflection on the lake in a daze, under the mottled lotus halo, a blood-colored butterfly appeared on her cheek inexplicably, and even struggled to stir up her wings after being soaked in the lake, and suddenly she felt a sharp stinging pain gushing out of the depths of her skin, almost making her eyes almost fall headlong.

In the next second, Cen Ge's sleeves rolled up the water flow to form a water curtain, and his fingertips hooked the water droplets and pulled out thin silk threads to catch the blood butterfly trying to escape, what he never expected was that the seemingly delicate butterfly directly cut the lead of the water flow condensed with its wings, and the water droplets exploded with a "crackle", and the breath of the blood curse instantly diffused, and the rich ghostly mist gradually covered the vision, and even the several dead spirits he kept in the main altar flew over uncontrollably, circling and flying over the apse with teeth and claws!

Dangerous! The moment this thought came to him, the air around him made a crisp sound like glass breaking, and an invisible spell enchantment was shrouded silently, Cen Ge took a step back cautiously, feeling that his back was sticking to something biting and cold, and instinct made him pull out the short sword hidden in his sleeve without hesitation and slash it down, and sure enough, there was nothing behind him and he cut a deep gap with his sword, like a hazy paper window, and there was a faint light ink-colored shadow behind him, The vague outline flickered.

Soon the strange mist disappeared, and the blood butterfly took the opportunity to escape, only the unconscious Xie Lanyan fainted at the water's edge, half of her cheeks were soaked in the snow lake, obviously it was just a very slight wound, but the blood gushed out continuously, dyeing the clear lake water into a dazzling blood color.

Cen Ge was terrified - blood curse? Someone actually cast a blood curse on Xie Lanyan! The most important thing is that whether he was in the Houshan Cemetery before, or now he deliberately led her closer to the snow lake, he didn't even notice that this woman had a blood curse on her body at such a close distance?!

At the same time, he realized something even more dangerous, the other party not only knew about the forbidden technique of the White Sect, but even cultivated above him!