Yang Luochen was shocked in his heart, his face was ugly, and it was really as expected, it was indeed not a formal sacrifice.

He said to them: "Di Qing and Yuan Yuan, you two protect Liang Rou and keep up, we must rush to the source of the Yingchuan River before the time of the child."

Di Qing hurriedly said: "Father-in-law, I'm afraid this won't work, this Yingchuan River spreads for eight hundred miles, we are now at the end of the river, even if we don't eat or drink, it will take three days to reach the source of the Yingchuan River."

Yang Luochen didn't pay attention to it at all, and galloped along the Yingchuan River, Yuan Yuan also drove the carriage to follow, Nanxing patted Di Qing's shoulder and said, "Have you forgotten who your stepfather is?

Di Qing suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly followed, and by the Yingchuan River, he saw a carriage and three horses galloping, which caused a burst of dissatisfaction among the people playing in the river by the river.

Liang Rou also complained in the carriage, "Isn't it just a sacrifice, what's strange, I have to go to see it, I'm really idle and have nothing to do."

Yuan Yuan drove the carriage and returned: "My little princess, you don't know this, what gods will use boys and girls to sacrifice, either evil demons or demons"

"As people in the Xuanmen, since we have encountered it, we must take care of it, otherwise those children will not die in vain, and the river god will not continue to harm people."

The group hurried up, and finally arrived at the white jade city among the eight cities of Yingchuan when it was dark, and the eight cities of Yingchuan were named after jade, which was also because of the abundance of jade here.

The eight cities of Yingchuan are: White Jade City, Topstone City, Green Jade City, Qingbai City, Jade City, Moyu City, Huayu City and Jade City.

The white jade city is at the end of the Yingchuan River, and the jade city is at the source of the Yingchuan River, both of which are built along the Yingchuan River, and the jade stones are all from the Yingchuan River.

After arriving in Baiyu City, Yang Luochen asked Di Qing to sell horses and carriages, and the group also found an inn to rest, and waited until the dead of night.

Yang Luochen sacrificed the Silver Frost Sword, letting Di Qing and Liang Rou stand on it, while he took the two of them in front, Yuan Yuan and Nanxing followed behind, heading towards the source of the Yingchuan River.

Liang Rou and Di Qing experienced the flying of the sword for the first time, where had the two seen this kind of speed, still high in the air, Di Qing held Yang Luochen tightly, Liang Rou hugged Di Qing's waist directly, afraid of falling.

Yuan Yuan and Nanxing saw it in the back, and after a burst of teasing, Liang Rou blushed and didn't dare to let go, allowing the two to laugh in the back.

Yang Luochen was silent and didn't look back, and a quarter of an hour later, the group finally passed through the eight cities of Yingchuan and came to the west of the jade city, and a calm and wide river also appeared at their feet.

After flying ten breaths to the west, I saw a high mountain appear in my field of vision, and the water of the Yingchuan River flowed out of this mountain.

There was also a fiery dragon at his feet, which was formed by torches in the hands of hundreds of people, and the sound of children's cries, noises, songs and dances was incessant.

Yang Luochen's sword galloped down and went directly into the mountain, Yuan Yuan and Nan Xing followed, and when he landed, Liang Rou's face flushed for a while, and he didn't dare to look up at Di Qing.

There are trees and weeds all around, and there is not even a road, and it seems that few people enter this big mountain, and the place of worship is at the foot of the mountain, and those noisy businesses are more clear.

Yuan Yuan looked at the surroundings and saw nothing but trees, and asked, "This is the source of the Yingchuan River?

Nanxing replied: "I'm afraid that if you come along the Yingchuan River, you will lose the shadow of the river when you get here, and there are so many people gathered at the foot of the mountain, which should be the source."

Yang Luochen said to them: "Yuan Yuan protects Di Qing and Liang Rou, go to the place where they sacrifice and secretly observe, and you must save the lives of those children." I will go with Nanxing to find this river god, and when the time comes, we will meet at the place of sacrifice."

Yang Luochen let go of his divine sense, and began to look for it in the mountain alone, Nanxing also went to the other side, Yuan Chengcheng said indifferently: "Come on, let's go down the mountain to see how they sacrifice"

"If there are any evil demons and demons, see how I, Yuan Yuan Daxian, clean him up, follow me closely, be careful to get lost, it's very dangerous in this mountain when it's dark."

Di Qing agreed, and suddenly felt Liang Rou's body trembling, Di Qing quickly grabbed Liang Rou's little hand and followed behind Yuan Yuan, Liang Rou blushed, and did not resist, but just pinched Di Qing shyly.

Di Qing didn't hurt either, just smirked there, pointed to Yuan Yuan who was leading the way in front, and signaled Liang Rou not to make a sound, and be careful of being discovered.

Grabbed by Di Qing's hand, Liang Rou also felt much better, nodded, Yuan Yuan suddenly said in front: "Don't think I don't know, I have eyes behind me, why are you sneaky?"

As soon as these words came out, the two of them blushed, and Liang Rou wanted to withdraw his hand, but was caught by Di Qing, which caused Liang Rou to complain for a while.

In fact, where is Yuan Yuan's eyes growing behind him, but Yuan Yuan's divine sense has also been released, and he has been paying attention to the movements around him, and of course he has also noticed the small movements of the two.

Yuan Yuan was originally a wood attribute aura, and with the natal magic weapon of Xiaodouzi, as long as there are plants, he is particularly sensitive to the things around him.

The three of them walked in the mountain for half an hour, and finally came to a huge karst cave under the leadership of Yuan Yuan.

It's just that the place where they are is on the top of the cave, there is a very inconspicuous cave entrance, which leads from the mountainside to here, which was discovered by Yuan Yuan's divine consciousness after it was dispersed.

The cave is large enough to accommodate thousands of people, and stalactites grow like bamboo shoots on the top of the cave, and the inside is very damp and looks very strange in the light of torches.

Half of the cave was land, the ground was covered with moss and reflective, and those people were standing on it cautiously, and there was a three-zhang statue near the end of the land.

This statue is actually carved from a piece of jade, and the incense in front is prosperous, the tribute is abundant, pigs, horses, cattle and sheep, melons, fruits, incense and candles are everything.

The other half of the cave is a pool of calm lake water, which has no bottom in sight and stretches out of the mountain, which is the direction of the Yingchuan River.

Yuan Yuan and the others happened to be on the top of the land side, facing the people who were sacrificing, and directly above the statue, they couldn't see the appearance of the statue clearly.

A dozen people with chicken feathers on their heads and makeup on their faces danced around a bonfire in front of the statue, chanting words in their mouths.

These are the people who sacrificed, and not far behind them, all of them were the people of the eight cities of Yingchuan, some of them were old men, and some were nobles in brocade clothes.

There are both men and women, but there are no children, and there are no young people, so this kind of sacrifice is not allowed to be attended by people who have not yet had a family.

Eight pairs of swaddling babies were enshrined in front of the statue, and the sound of the children's cries was drowned out by the singing and dancing of the sacrificers, which aroused the pity of many people, but no one came out to stop them.

Yuan Yuan saw the situation clearly, and whispered dissatisfiedly: "It's really noisy, what kind of bullshit river god is this, and he actually did so many tricks"

Di Qing was sandwiched between Yuan Yuan and Liang Rou, he couldn't cling to Yuan Yuan, he could only support it with his hands, the walls on both sides of the cave were very slippery, and all the weight of Liang Rou behind him was pressed on Di Qing, and now there was suffering.

Yuan Yuan saw that Di Qing and Liang Rou didn't speak, and when he looked back at them, he found that Di Qing was flushed, his body was only three inches away from Yuan Yuan, and his hands were supporting his body.

Liang Rou whispered: "Think of a way, otherwise we will fall"

Yuan Yuan tapped his finger on the wall of the cave, and a trace of aura also entered the rock, and soon many branches grew around the three of them, locking the three of them firmly.

Yuan Yuan also changed to a relaxed posture, lying directly on the branch, leisurely watching the sacrificial activities below, Di Qing breathed a sigh of relief and moved his body.

Yuan Yuan asked slowly: "What do you think this statue looks like, why are these people so pious, willing to use their children to sacrifice this bullshit river god?"

"Look at that jade statue, it must be that bullshit river god, I really want to see what this river god looks like, but it's a pity that we can't see it clearly on the back"

Di Qing shook his head, and Liang Rou replied: "It must be a person who is extremely vicious and ugly, even if the statue is good-looking, he also looks like a hypocrite."

Yuan Yuan nodded and agreed, and the sacrifice continued below, and everyone knelt on the ground and began to pray to the statue.

Yuan Yuan let go of his divine sense, wanting to look for the anomalies in it and see if he could find demonic energy, demonic energy, or ghost energy.

But the cave is too big, and Yuan Yuan's divine consciousness can spread out for thirty zhang, and he can't even cover the statue, and he can't cover the entire cave at all.

The three of them hung on the branches of the tree and looked down, and they didn't notice the existence of the three of them at all, not only the light was dim, but also blocked by stalactites, which was really an excellent hiding place.

The sacrifice lasted for an hour, and it was nearing the end, and the babies were still crying, and no one came forward to look at them, and they really took those children as sacrifices.

The distance was getting closer and closer, and after a group of shamans knelt on the ground and chanted indiscriminately, the cave finally fell silent.

Then the crowd began to get up, and each of them took a gourd from his bosom, filled it with water at the water's edge, and left happily.

Half an hour later, the hour had arrived, and all that was left in the cave was the sound of children's cries, a blazing bonfire, and exuberant incense, and nothing else.

Yuan Yuan kept staring at the sixteen swaddling babies and muttered in a low voice: "The time has come, why hasn't the river god come out yet?"

"Also, where have the master and the little uncle gone, it's been so long, and a mountain has been turned over, if you don't come here to gather, will you get lost?"

Di Qing and Liang Rou also held their breath and kept staring at the movement below, just like that, half an hour passed, and there was still no movement in the cave.

Yuan Yuan was anxious and wanted to go down to take a look, the crying of those babies was really distressing, but he was stopped by Di Qing, Di Qing whispered: "Don't startle the snake, wait"

Yuan Yuan had no choice but to lie on the branches, waiting for something to happen very leisurely, and the true qi in his whole body was also constricted, for fear of scaring away the river god.

A quarter of an hour passed, Yuan Yuan's eyes suddenly lit up, and the originally calm pool of water rolled up, as if something was about to come out, and he was a little excited.

But after thinking about it, what if this river god's cultivation was too high and he was not an opponent, he was excited and apprehensive in his heart, and the branches under him began to shake.

Di Qing hurriedly pressed Yuan Yuan's shoulder, signaling her not to get excited, Yuan Yuan calmed down, stabilized the branches under him, and stared at the tumbling pool.

I saw that where the pool water was rolling, a black shadow the size of one zhang appeared, and Yuan Yuan and the three of them were nervous for a while, and they could finally see the true face of this river god.

But what happened surprised the three of them, the black shadow was actually composed of thousands of water rats, and as soon as they came out of the water, those water rats spun around, some flocked to the outside of the mountain, and some flocked to the statue.

In an instant, the entire cave was full of water rats, and the squeaky sound was very noisy, Yuan Yuan exhaled and whispered: "I thought it was something, it turned out to be a group of rats."

Di Qing whispered back: "No, look at these mice"

Only then did Yuan Yuan realize that no matter where the rats were, they were crawling on the ground, their heads facing the water, their eyes staring, and they moved.

Yuan Yuan was stunned for a moment, straightened his waist and stared at the water, and a black shadow appeared, much smaller than the previous one, and slowly surfaced.