Chapter 175: The Light of Miracles
Inside the main hall, the ceremony has already begun.
The girl knelt on the futon, bowed her head gently, and chanted words in her mouth.
At the door of the main hall, a middle-aged man in a white robe walked in.
"Meet the Prime Minister. ”
Men and women standing on either side saluted in unison.
The minister is the strongest person in this city except for the king.
He looked at the girl kneeling in front of the futon, and said straight to the point: "Your mother hanged herself." ”
"What?!" the girl got up in shock: "Mother...... What's wrong with my mother? I'm going to see her!"
"Stop, kneel!" shouted the Counsellor angrily.
His words were like a spell, and as soon as he shouted in surprise, the girl immediately fell to her knees again, leaned her head against her head, and wrenched her hands behind her back, without saying a word.
The minister said coldly: "Why did your mother hang herself, don't you know?"
The girl knew better than anyone that she was not her father's daughter at all, but that her mother was pregnant with a general before marrying into the royal family.
At first, she didn't know it herself.
It wasn't until later that she discovered some differences between herself and other royal descendants, and secretly told her mother about it.
That day, she watched her mother cry in front of her as a tearful person, the last luck in her mother's heart was gone, she cried and told herself about it, at that time she felt that the whole world seemed to collapse, and she also cried into a tearful person.
They knew better than anyone what it was to deceive the king in Broken City.
That's a capital crime to be put in a ghost prison, tortured and abused inhumanly for seven days, and then cut by a thousand cuts!
And she was about to take the first assessment of the descendants of the royal family, and at that time she cried for several days and nights, and almost cried blind. In the end, she used all kinds of means, crying and making trouble, cheating, and finally stumbling to live to the age of seventeen, although some people had doubts during this period, but fortunately, her father was still quite fond of her mother and herself, and every descendant of the royal family was a warrior who could fight against the aliens outside the city walls in the future and plant the Qingyue Banner of Broken City farther away.
But she didn't have royal blood at all.
Many of the talents she has shown over the years are actually the result of hard practice behind her back, such as practicing an ordinary fire-making technique every day and night for half a year, making it a fake with the innate fire-controlling skills of the royal family, or feeding the cat in the temple every day, communicating with it for more than a year, and then pretending to understand the language of other creatures and letting it follow her instructions......
She just wants to praise her various behaviors with God's reward.
But no matter what she did, she couldn't escape the call of the gods at the age of seventeen.
On the other side of this palace, it is said that there is a forbidden place called Shi Yuan, and the blood of each royal descendant can summon an extremely powerful spirit from Shi Yuan after the ritual is initiated, and the royal descendants who summon them can make a bloody contract through the ritual to control this spirit.
She had originally wanted to carry a portion of the blood of the royal descendants with her, which she would secretly use when the ritual was initiated.
But before each ceremony, there is a special person in charge of bathing and changing clothes, and the spirit summoned is only in harmony with the bloodcutter, and it is only a matter of time before her identity is revealed.
At this moment, she heard her mother's self-hanging, she didn't have any sadness, she hated her mother to death all these years, if it wasn't for her for a moment's pleasure, how could she live such a life for so many years, if it weren't for her own strong heart, I'm afraid that her hair would fall out now.
My mother has enjoyed a good life for seventeen years, and she is almost old, but now she can't stand the pressure and leaves first......
There's one less cellmate......
Alas, he should not be far from death.
"Mother...... Mother is good, why ...... I...... I don't know. The girl looked up sharply, her eyes full of tears, still pretending to be stupid.
The minister stared at her coldly and said, "It's just a civilian woman who died, it's not surprising, summoning spirits is the top priority, and it can't be delayed." Now that there is a shortage of people in the 'Yuanxing', if you can successfully summon the spirit, it will be the beginning of glory. ”
The girl nodded weakly and said, "Yes, Lord Counsellor, but my mother died today, and I ...... in my heart."
The counselor interrupted her and said, "The ceremony continues, and I will personally preside over it." ”
As he spoke, the minister walked to the stone gate, took the scroll of the white-robed woman, and recited it deeply.
The girl trembled and clasped her palms, thinking about countermeasures in her heart, but now that the Prime Minister was in front of her, if she dared to run directly, she would definitely be caught and thrown into the ghost prison, and when she thought of the terrible scene in the ghost prison, her shoulders couldn't help but tremble, and tears flowed down her eyes, pretending to miss her biological mother.
And these words also stirred up turbulence in the hearts of others.
Could it be ...... Isn't she the king's daughter?
This......
The girl is quite famous in the royal family, and when she appears on some big occasions, she can hold the royal family's noble shelf well, demure and elegant.
Her swordsmanship is also extraordinary, the previous few times she went out of the city to hunt demons, she performed remarkably, and even got the king's commendation, many people regard her as an excellent inheritor, so the whole city, her admirers are also quite a lot, but the identity of the royal family is so high, most people can only look far away in their lives.
But if it's all fake......
Everyone looked at the sobbing little girl with different thoughts.
The ceremony took place as usual.
When the minister had finished reciting the scriptures, the stone door lit up in the girl's trembling eyes.
In the center of the stone gate, there seemed to be a heart beating, and then the pale crimson aura began to flow along the lines of the stone gate like blood, and in a short period of time, the crimson aura flowed all over the gate, and the ancient totem was filled with a dazzling light.
A rumbling sound rang out in the hall.
The stone door slowly opened.
All eyes were drawn to it.
Even if it wasn't the first time they had seen it, the people present were still firmly attracted by the scene behind the stone gate.
It was a round, inwardly collapsed plane, the plane seemed to be composed of countless straight lines and fine lines, they were moving at a very fast speed, but it was impossible to distinguish whether it was inward or outward, facing them deep cavern like a pair of eyes, and its pupils were buried in the depths of the incomparably deep, its 'whites' of the eyes showed a gray that was close to nothingness, and behind it there were faintly small white points of light, like fish swimming in the water, and behind the points of light, there was a gray-white moon...... The moon moved slowly towards them, far and near.
It's a huge abyss coming on.
As soon as it was opened, a sense of oppression descended on the palace, and everyone couldn't help but close their eyes after staring, silently reciting the scriptures of the pure heart.
If Ning Chang was there, he would have found that the appearance of this abyss was almost exactly the same as that in the Southern Wilderness.
In the same way, all the people here, even the kings, will be sent back to their original point when they walk into the abyss.
It doesn't admit anyone.
The girl also trembled in front of this abyss.
She felt the abyss watching her, seeing through all her disguises.
All mortal beings are a lowly ant colony in front of it, and it is so eternal, like the end of a ruin that can never be reached outside the city.
"The light of the light is lit, the king's blood summons the soul, the life of life, and the call of the Lord ......"
The minister chanted in a low voice.
He took the dagger from the woman behind him, gently pulled it out, and handed it to the girl who was crying with pear blossoms and rain.
She listened to the dagger rubbing against the wooden sheath, as if something had cut through her heart.
The girl took the dagger tremblingly, knowing that all the cleverness was useless.
She wanted to stab her heart directly.
But she was afraid of death.
She picked up the knife and slit her palm, praying inwardly.
"Daddy, help me...... You don't have to be a summoning spirit, I am willing to make you a cow and a horse, obey your words, give you the best treatment in the city, and offer you as an ancestor...... Please come out......"
She wept, then put her hand on the concave side of the abyss.
Blood flowed in.
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In the desert, the battle gradually came to an end.
Blood Feather Jun and the Spirit of the Sword Sutra sang and harmonized, and kept cheering Ning Changjiu, one said that Zhao Xiang'er was good, and the other said that Lu was good to marry, hoping that he would miss the two daughters-in-law in his heart, so he would lose the courage to resist.
Ning Chang had a headache when he heard this, if it weren't for the fact that the broken sword was still useful, he would have buried it directly in the sand.
The moon sank.
From a distance, the moon glows grayish, but when it sinks to the horizon, the whole moon is black, with only a faint silver glow at the edges.
The ancient tree was in the distance, keeping a distance from Ning for a long time, and he was afraid to move forward.
The rest of the surviving souls were also confronting each other, launching tentative attacks from time to time, but most of them had some wisdom and were very desperate for their lives, and each attack was not to kill the other, but to make themselves reach the place where the moon had fallen faster.
Ning Changjiu cut his finger again, using blood as bait, causing those souls who were trying to keep their sanity into a carnage.
But blood is not useful for everyone.
Jiuying's hatred for himself was beyond the temptation of blood.
At this moment, after countless battles, its soul was also scarred, and the sarcoma on it was also cut away by the axe.
It swam towards itself.
Ning Changjiu did not back down this time.
His hatred for Jiuying is even higher than Jiuying's hatred for himself.
When it first appeared, he felt the urge to kill it to pieces, but reason stopped him.
At this moment, the rest of the large and small souls have been in a few hours
There were almost no casualties in the melee.
The time for the decisive battle has finally arrived.
The Nine Babies are like a raging chariot, coming at a gallop.
Ning held the broken sword for a long time, and the spiritual power in his body was surging.
"Sword Spirit!" Ning Changjiu shouted.
The spirit of the Sword Sutra witnessed the battle for several hours, and it was also extremely happy, "Okay, shopkeeper." ”
Ning Chang's pupils suddenly dilated.
Before the Nine Babies pounced, Ning Changjiu also jumped high.
In the darkness, the two figures silently misunderstood.
The collision of the nine babies rushed into the air.
Ning Changjiu came to the top of Jiuying's head in the blink of an eye.
The sword pierced, and in the sound of soul scales shattering, the blade of the sword pierced deep into the soul of the Nine Infants.
The soul-like hiss was white, swinging round and round.
Ning Chang stood on the forehead of the Nine Infants, dragging the sword and running forward, the sword tore through the soul scales, cut along the central axis of its skull, and cut out from its upper jaw.
Jiu Ying kept roaring, opening his severed mouth, wanting to swallow Ning Changjiu in one gulp.
Ning Changjiu directly reached out and grabbed its strongest teeth, kicked the soles of his feet, rushed forward, and the sword in front of him cut through the crook of Jiuying's mouth, and then ran wildly, directly splitting its body from the center and cutting it into two!
The soul of the Nine Babies was shattered.
Ning Chang's pupils refocused on it.
The moon sets, stops.
He took his sword and ran away, his soul splashing like water along the way.
The moon is coming.
The moment he leaped to his feet, something like a sickle stabbed him at his feet.
It was a scorpion lurking in the sand.
Blood Feather Jun made an instant decision, flew out of his sword, and spewed it away with a mouthful of true fire.
It also has time to ask for credit from Ning for a long time.
The black moon came, and his body rushed into the darkness that seemed like eternity.
I don't know how long it took, but his body slowly fell to the ground.
Ning Chang did not come to the previous space as he imagined.
It was a new place, a world of caverns, like a beehive, each filled with white-gray light.
"What is this?" the Spirit of the Sword Sutra asked.
"I don't know. Ning Chang replied.
"How do you get out?"
"I don't know. ”
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......
"Take her away, and put her in a hell prison. ”
The minister glanced at the hourglass that the man in black was holding.
The hourglass has been drained.
But behind this stone gate, there was not the slightest movement.
In the main hall, everyone fell silent, and the eyes they looked at the girl were no longer gentle, but cold, like looking at a corpse with countless wounds.
"No, don't take me away! There must be some misunderstanding...... Wait, Lady Counsellor...... Wait......" The girl kept pleading, knocking down again and again against the stone door, hoping for a miracle.
The Prime Minister's face was extremely cold, and he looked at the girl, already thinking about how to explain to the king after her death.
"Wait, Minister-sama...... My deity may be missing arms and legs, so he walks more slowly, you ...... Do you give him a chance......" The girl kept wiping her tears, despair in her heart.
On either side, men and women in black and white clothes came out, grabbed the crook of the girl's arms, picked her up, and walked out.
"Chancellor, spare me, don't take me to a ghost prison...... Kill me now, use the knife now, please......"
"Woo woo, you let go of me......"
The girl's hands were grabbed and dragged mercilessly towards the outside of the hall.
The dare of a shameful and despicable illegitimate daughter to step into the solemn and sacred halls of this royal family is in itself a blasphemy against the gods.
Her fate was sealed.
The girl was dragged out the door.
When she enters the door and goes out, the reversal of her status is very different.
Her heart was so dead that she was shackled and dragged down the steps.
"Wait. ”
Behind him, the voice of the prime minister suddenly sounded.
The girl was startled and turned her head sharply, and she found that all the people were looking in the direction of the stone gate.
Her heart rose to her throat, and she kept wiping her face, and in her blurred vision, she didn't know if it was an illusion—there was a light in the abyss behind the stone gate.
She couldn't make a sound, but she kept wiping her eyes, but her tears were wiping more and more.
She stared at the seemingly ordinary white light.
It was the brightest and brightest light she had ever seen in her life, and it would forever be imprinted in her life.