The owner of Yaowang Valley is a patient with depression

After hearing Zu Qingmei's words, Yu Yao became even more determined to save this girl.

"Yes, she has indeed admired the River God for a long time and came to this village specifically for this purpose." An Ziyou walked out from the shadows with a calm expression.

Everyone was a little suspicious, as they knew very well that although it sounded like marrying the river god, it was actually a sacrifice.

"What is your purpose?" The village chief was not so easily fooled. The woman in front of him was too strange.

"My purpose is not important. What's important is that someone can marry the River God, isn't it?" Yu Yao said.

"Village leader, you can't do that. If this woman makes a big fuss in the black culvert and angers the river god, it will bring disaster to the entire village." The old man stepped forward quickly.

"Elder, please let my daughter go!" An old woman with disheveled hair and staggering steps was seen running from a distance.

"Mom, why are you here!" Zu Qingmei looked worried and ran forward. The old woman threw herself into Zu Qingmei's arms and said, "Child, I don't want you to go. I don't want you to go. You've already gone out, why are you coming back? Mom has one foot in the ground. This is how my life is. I accept it, but you are still young. You don't have to... you don't have to..."

The old woman burst into tears and then crawled to the old man beside her: "Elder, elder, please let my daughter go."

"You have to know that this honor originally belonged to your daughter." Although the elder had some reluctance in his eyes, he still suppressed it.

The old woman was stunned for a moment, then looked at Zu Qingmei with tears in her eyes, and felt more and more distressed for this sensible daughter.

Zu Qingmei walked forward and squatted, pulled her mother's hand down from the old man's trouser leg, held it in her hand, and then hugged her mother. Silent sobs seemed to echo through the air.

"Mom, I'm sorry, child!" the old woman burst into tears.

Everyone was silent at this moment. Even those who had just accused Zu Qingmei turned their heads away reluctantly. They didn't want to do that. If they were not cruel, they would be the ones who were so heartbroken at this moment.

"Do you think that now that Zu Qingmei is gone, your children and relatives will be safe?" Yu Yao looked at everyone.

"Stranger, shut up. Leave quickly, or don't blame us for being rude to you." When the elder heard Yu Yao's words, he felt as if his tail was stepped on and shouted loudly.

"Elder, right? Do you have a bloodline that meets the requirements? I don't think so, do you? You just want to use these children in exchange for a stable life. If you had a granddaughter who was in her prime and innocent, but she was sent to the black culvert and her life or death was unknown, would you still have the same attitude as now?"

Yuyao looked at the elder, and every word she said was heart-piercing. And Yuyao's words also changed the faces of everyone present.

"But are you going to keep going like this? Several girls a year, how many years can the girls in your village help you? If the girls are gone, will you bear the wrath of this so-called river god, or go and capture girls from outside the village? Become scum and villain?" Yu Yao's words were like heavy hammers, hitting everyone's hearts hard.

"But what can we do? We just want to live a peaceful life." The village chief seemed to have aged a lot, his face full of fatigue.

The flickering firelight reflected on the bright red word "囍", and the originally festive color became so dazzling, like a sharp thorn, piercing deeply into people's hearts.

"Then let me meet this river god." Yu Yao's confident face shone brightly under the light.

"Girl, you..." The village chief looked at Yu Yao with some complex feelings: "It's not that I look down on you, but this is related to the fate of the entire village. If we anger the river god, our village will be destroyed overnight."

"I can burn all the evil things in the world. Believe me." Yu Yao said confidently. There is nothing in the world that can withstand her flames.

"You really should believe her. She is the head of the Feather Clan and also a master of alchemy. Her flames are not something that ordinary creatures can withstand." An Ziyou said. He also wanted to see what kind of monster this so-called river god is.

The Feather Clan...the Alchemy Master!

"The Alchemy Master!" Everyone gasped.

"How is it possible for such a young alchemy master?"

"That's right. Although you mean well, you can't brag so much." Everyone was talking about it, but without the strong malice as before.

The elder made a gesture and everyone quieted down.

The elder looked at Yu Yao excitedly: "Are you Yu Yao? The Yu Yao who killed the Eastern Saint of the Fire God Temple?"

Yu Yao touched her nose. She didn't expect that she would become famous in this way.

"Great, you can definitely help us. I was rude just now, I hope Saint Master can forgive me." The elder said respectfully.

"Saint Master Yuyao, please help us. We will always remember your great kindness!" The village chief followed closely and hurried forward.

The confused crowd immediately reacted and realized that the woman in front of them was indeed extraordinary. They were saved.

"Saint Master, you don't know that we did resist before, but the people in our village have very low cultivation bases, and we don't have any backing, so we couldn't resist. We had no choice but to do this." The village chief sighed, "We could only invite some independent cultivators with higher cultivation bases, but we spent all our money and only killed people. Those who left never showed up again. And our village was also retaliated against. One day, almost all the young men disappeared, and no one was seen alive or dead."

"You have never seen the true face of this river god? Is he a human or an animal?" Yu Yao asked.

"This... is really hard to say. If you say he is a beast, he can speak human language. If you say he is a human, someone once caught a glimpse of him and said he was a dark, skinny creature." said the elder.

"It doesn't matter. No matter if they are human or beast, they are all scum in her hands." An Ziyou pulled a chair and sat down without knowing when.

"It's almost time, take me to the black culvert." Yu Yao said.

Then she casually put on the bright red wedding dress that Zu Qingmei had changed out of, covered her head with a red veil, and followed the village chief and the elders to the side.

I don’t know how long I walked before I came to a narrow cave that could only accommodate one person.

"We can't go in." said the village chief.

"You guys go back." After Yu Yao said that, she lifted up a little bit of her veil and walked towards the black culvert.

"Be careful." The elder couldn't help but whisper a reminder.

The elders and the village chief stood at the entrance of the cave for a long time before going back.

Let's take a gamble this time...