The uncle borrowed some merits, and the princess drew the talisman fiercely

"No, I really don't like Miss Lu!"

Dai Xu couldn't help but yell out loudly.

Marquis Runan slapped him on the back of the head.

"Asshole! Why do you look down on Miss Lu?"

Dai Xu's eyes widened, "No, Dad?"

"Do you dare to say that you don't like Miss Lu? Do you dare to like her? Is it your turn to decide whether you like her or not?"

"Dad, stop for a moment."

Dai Xu hugged his head and said, "My head is all twisted!"

"I just went to watch the fun last night..." Dai Xu quickly recounted everything that happened yesterday.

Upon hearing that their son had a near-death experience last night, the Runan Marquis and his wife were terrified.

"Miss Lu said she would only charge me 20,000 taels." Dai Xu's voice became softer.

"Only twenty thousand taels?"

The Marquis’s wife wiped away her tears in an instant.

She clasped her hands together and said with emotion, "Ms. Lu is such a good person."

Marquis of Runan: “…”

He suddenly felt that the emperor might be wrong.

This Miss Lu is definitely the best candidate for Princess Jin. Prince Jin has really chosen a good princess this time.

But does he dare to remind the emperor?

Prince Jin and Miss Lu saved his son, but he only accepted 20,000 taels of silver. This was already giving them too much face.

Think about Qing Fuhou.

It's more than just a matter of 100,000 taels, that would lead to the destruction of a family.

"Wait for Miss Lu to return to the city and send it to her immediately! Also, we have to repay that Ma Xiaoliu you mentioned!"

"Dad, I know this. Lu Anrong saved me, and I will repay him, not to mention the people around Miss Lu."

Let’s not talk about how the Marquis’ Mansion was discussing how to thank Lu Zhaoling and Prince Jin and give them money.

In the manor, Lord Chen and Lord Lin also saw the leopard brought by Lu Zhaoling and his men.

Qinglin led his men to make a large bamboo cage, put the leopard in it, and when they were about to return to the city, they covered the cage with cloth so as not to scare the people.

Lu Zhaoling rested for a while and then took Yin Yunting to Lishan.

Zhou Shiyue must have followed.

After entering Lishan and arriving at the forest that Lu Zhaoling had looked at from a high place yesterday, they saw several stone statues on the ground.

The stone statue was half buried in the soil, covered with moss, and had traces of wind, frost, rain and snow, and did not look like it had been newly buried.

"These are legendary beasts," Zhou Shiyue said. "People in the previous dynasty believed in these beasts very much. They thought they were raised by gods and could suppress evil spirits, drive away foul air, and bring peace."

"Why haven't I seen you before in the capital?"

Lu Zhaoling looked at these stone statues of strange beasts and felt that they looked familiar to her, but she was sure that she had never seen them before.

Even in the Shan Hai Jing, I have never seen anything similar.

"The reason why the late emperor overthrew the previous dynasty and established the Great Zhou was because the previous dynasty believed in these strange beasts too much, almost to the point of being obsessed."

Zhou Shiyue looked a little solemn.

"I heard that at the end of the previous dynasty, altars were built everywhere. Each altar had to be built extremely grand and luxurious, which was a waste of money and labor. Moreover, after these altars were built, sacrifices had to be selected every month to be offered to these strange beasts."

Lu Zhaoling's heart skipped a beat. "You're not saying that the sacrifice is a human?"

"Yes." Zhou Shiyue nodded.

Lu Zhaoling and Yin Yunting looked at each other.

In ancient times, once these beliefs were combined, the things that could be done would be horrifying.

"If anyone shows any dissent towards the strange beasts and the altar, they will be arrested and sent to be sacrificed immediately. However, some people use the names of the strange beasts and the altar to make money, arrest people, take women, and plunder the people, doing all kinds of bad things."

"Later, there was a sect, I don't know what it was called, people from that sect came out and said that strange beasts were pure fiction and didn't exist at all in the world. They called on everyone to overthrow the altar and stop worshipping strange beasts."

Hearing this, Lu Zhaoling suddenly remembered what Sheng Wang said last night.

That sect...

"The First Mysterious Gate?"

Zhou Shiyue said, "I don't know what it was called. That was nearly a hundred years ago. Anyway, the previous dynasty became more and more chaotic, and there were more and more voices against worshipping exotic beasts. The people also became more and more dissatisfied with the royal family of the previous dynasty."

"It was at that time that the late emperor started the rebellion."

"Originally, the Zhou family was also an aristocratic family. They didn't care about worldly affairs, but they still had some reputation in the world. Many people came to them when they had nowhere else to go. As the number of people grew, they kept pushing the Zhou family to revolt. Later, it succeeded."

The Great Zhou was established naturally.

"After that, the late emperor ordered all altars to be demolished and all stone statues of strange beasts to be removed. That's why you haven't seen what these strange beasts look like."

"When you go back, find me all the books that record these things," said Lu Zhaoling.

She is quite interested in this matter.

"So, there must have been remnants of the previous dynasty who fled into Lishan. They brought these heavy stone statues with them, which shows that they were fanatical believers."

“Then, the people who want to destroy the dragon veins and stability of the Great Zhou are most likely them.” Zhou Shiyue said.

"Yes."

"That First Xuan Sect must have also contributed a lot back then." Yin Yunting suddenly said, "So, they were retaliated against and the entire sect was sacrificed."

Sheng Wangcai would only mention the First Xuanmen, but it was destroyed silently.

He felt a little uncomfortable.

Lu Zhaoling also fell silent.

Zhou Shiyue reached out and patted her on the back.

"I'll have someone investigate this First Mysterious Gate when I get back."

Could it be that Lu Yiyi and his sect are related to this First Mysterious Sect?

If this is the case, then it is not surprising that their sect keeps a low profile. They must be afraid that they might accidentally follow in the footsteps of the First Xuanmen.

"These stone statues are actually quite sinister," Lu Zhaoling said suddenly. "They transported the stone statues here and buried them here to suppress the dragon energy in the capital."

"Is this what made those animals crazy?" Zhou Shiyue asked.

"Yes. So we have to deal with this place, and nothing will happen to Lishan again. Sheng Wang and the others must have done something to activate this formation, and I destroyed it."

Lu Zhaoling took out a dagger.

It was the one Zhou Shiyue gave her, no, it was borrowed.

"To destroy it, it's very simple. First, use the talisman to suppress it, and then cut the stone statue."

While Lu Zhaoling and Yin Yunting were busy, Zhou Shiyue stood aside and watched.

What did Lu Yiyi say to Sheng Wang last night?

Dare you steal my first-grade golden talisman?

So, the two golden talismans that almost took them away were hers?

Where did the other party steal her talisman?

"Senior Sister, this dagger is a magical weapon. It can cut through iron like mud." Yin Yunting clapped his hands and looked at the dagger in Lu Zhaoling's hand.

"Where did you buy it?"

"I lent it to her." Zhou Shiyue came back to his senses and responded.

Yin Yunting almost wanted to laugh.

In the past, many people wanted to give gifts to the senior sister, and some even begged her to accept them. Now, I met someone who borrowed her gifts.