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After the Great Sage King finished speaking, everyone in the audience fell silent. Jiang Ling looked at A-Ka and asked in a low voice:

"What's going on? Didn't you say that everyone is very pious? Why didn't anyone respond to the great holy king?"

A-Ka looked at Jiang Ling, hesitated to speak, then sighed softly:

"The five ritual tools need to be made from the flesh and blood of devout believers, especially young boys and girls. Believers need to be willing to dedicate their children, use their skulls to make magic hats, human skin to make magic drums, and arms to make magic staffs , the leg bones are made into dharma names, the knuckles are made into dharma beads, and then they are soaked with the blood of devotees for 81 days until they are scarlet red, then they are wrapped in human skin and presented to the great sage king to celebrate his birthday."

"What!!!!" Jiang Ling yelled in shock, causing some people to look towards them. Aka stopped him quickly, and everyone didn't care, and turned back to continue to look at the Great Sage King.

"You great holy kings, are you really gods? Why do you sound like evil gods?" Lu Qing said softly.

Aka looked at Lu Qing and replied:

"It wasn't like this in the past. It's just that after the Great Sage Heavenly King succeeded to the throne, he forced believers to offer magic artifacts on their birthdays every year on the grounds that the first generation of Great Sage Heavenly Kings voluntarily made five magical artifacts to protect everyone after their death. If no one contributes, five boys and girls will be selected on the spot to make the magic weapon on the spot."

"It's so cruel." Li Zhenwu said in disbelief.

"He wants to imprison the people with his thoughts, lure greed with money, threaten new students with death, completely destroy the will of the Moro people, and make the people willing to become his puppets for generations, let him manipulate, and dare not Raise the heart of resistance." Tang Qingfeng said slowly.

Aka looked at Tang Qingfeng and nodded slightly.

While the few people were talking, several pious believers in the crowd successively presented holy objects.A-Ka watched the five holy objects being presented, sighed softly and said:

"This time it's finally complete."

"What? From what you said, it seems that there is still some incomplete time?" Jiang Ling asked.

"In the first few years when the Great Sage Heavenly King took the throne, there was a lack of several magical artifacts every year. Therefore, they ordered people on the spot to make the magical artifacts. After doing this several times, they were never missing again." Aka said sadly.

The big birthday in front of him brought back memories of his past.Lively young boys and girls were disemboweled in front of everyone, and they were made into living instruments and enshrined in front of the Great Sage King.

"Aka, why don't you resist?" Li Zhenwu asked softly.

"The Great Sage Heavenly King is a man bestowed by heaven. Being able to offer his flesh and blood to enshrine him is a blessing from God. He is a man of great blessing. When he dies in the future, he will surely reach bliss. Believers may not give up their own flesh and blood, but they have no complaints about it." Akadao.

"But, people are dead, so why talk about the afterlife?" Jiang Ling said.

"One's life is to practice hard and sharpen oneself. However, they should not be used by them to become a thoughtless money-making slave and live in the world." Aka said.

"A-Ka, you..." Jiang Ling looked at A-Ka, speechless for a while.

Tang Qingfeng looked at a few people and said, "The big birthday has begun."

Everyone stopped talking and looked towards the stage.

I saw a young girl slowly walking to the front of the stage, looking devoutly at the Great Sage King, and knelt down in front of him.The Great Sage Heavenly King put the bone bowl in front of the girl, pulled out a bone dagger from his body, and waved it lightly on the girl's neck, blood immediately gushed out and fell into the scarlet bone bowl .

Several people were shocked when they saw this, and wanted to go forward to stop them, but Aka stopped them and said:

"You can't save her."

Several people just watched the girl who fell to the ground, struggling feebly in the pool of blood, and finally lost her life.

"Aka, you already knew that, right?" Tang Qingfeng asked calmly, looking at the calm expressions of Aka and the crowd.

"Yes." Aka admitted.

"Since you know, why didn't you say it earlier, maybe we..." Jiang Ling said angrily.

"You can't save her, and I won't let you ruin our plan." Aka said indifferently.

Jiang Ling was about to reason with him, but saw the Great Sage King on the stage, took the girl's blood, and swallowed it in one gulp in front of a generation of Great Sage Kings.

A-Ka stared at the Great Saint Heavenly King who drank the blood, and saw that he suddenly squatted down, and spat out the blood from his mouth with a puff.Seeing this, the crowd looked at the Great Sage Heavenly King in amazement, and the guardian next to the Great Sage Heavenly King rushed to inquire about the situation.

"It's started!" Aka said with cold eyes.

As his words fell, more than a dozen people with big knives rushed out of the crowd, and they raised their big knives and slashed at the great sage king.

Seeing this, the crowd screamed and backed away, scattered and fled the square.

Tang Qingfeng gave Li Zhenwu and Jiang Ling a look, and then rushed towards the Great Sage King with Aka.

After Li Zhenwu and Jiang Ling met, they immediately went to carry out their tasks according to the plan.

Entering the main hall, Jiang Ling and Lu Qing rushed towards the treasure house, while Li Zhenwu took the blueprints and went to look for Prince Cidan. They met at the parting place after a stick of incense, and fled together with the prince and Shenbingpu. out of the temple.

Jiang Ling and Lu Qing rushed towards the treasure house quickly, they knocked out the guards and entered the treasure house.I saw that inside the treasury, gold and silver were piled up on the corners of the wall, and next to the gold and silver was a three-story wooden frame. On the wooden frame, countless human bones, magical artifacts, and human skin products were neatly arranged.In the cave behind the wooden frame, among the many parchment scrolls, there is an exquisitely carved ebony wood box. The box is locked with a golden ciphertext lock. This lock is the same as the lock on the ciphertext box. From the hands of the Mohists.

Seeing this, the two immediately walked into the cave and reached for the box. At this moment, a sudden gust of palm came from the side, and Jiang Ling immediately pulled Lu Qing up, backed away and dodged, but saw a man in white gauze , picked up the box and rushed out the door.

Seeing this, Lu Qing and Jiang Ling immediately went after him, but they were blocked by Zhan Yi who suddenly appeared.

"Zhan Yi!" Jiang Ling said in surprise.

Jiang Ling looked at Zhan Yi, and saw that behind him, the person in white gauze handed the box to the person who was walking slowly, and then she took off the white gauze, revealing her face.

"Wu Yue! Liu Ruyan!" Jiang Ling said angrily, "Why are you here?!"

"Jiang Ling, I thought you were a smart person, but I didn't expect you to be so stupid." Wu Yue laughed.

"What did you say?!" Jiang Ling shouted angrily.

"I said, you're stupid!" Wu Yue glanced at Jiang Ling and said, "If it wasn't for the magic weapon, why would I come to this wild place?"

"I don't care what you're doing, hand over the magic weapon book!" Jiang Ling said loudly.

"Jiang Ling, you are so arrogant. Just because of you alone, you want me to hand over the magic weapon book? It's just a dream." Wu Yue said, glanced at Zhan Yi, Zhan Yi raised the long knife, and pointed at Jiang Ling cut to.

Seeing this, Jiang Ling pushed Lu Qing away, and caught Zhan Yi's long knife head-on. With a crisp clang, the long knife slashed on the glove, and the two of them withdrew one after another, stepping back.

Jiang Ling stood firm, and punched Zhan Yi's head with a punch. Zhan Yi ducked and dodged. Jiang Ling's fist slammed hard on the stone pillar beside him, and the stone pillar shattered instantly.

At this time, Zhan Yi was raising his long knife and slashing towards Jiang Ling's back.Seeing Jiang Ling, he put his hands on the ground, turned over and kicked Zhan Yi.Seeing him attacking, Zhan Yi turned back his saber to block, and with a bang, the two of them retreated a few feet away.

Because the place was too narrow, neither of them dared to use their full strength. At this time, Wu Yue had already opened the box and got the magic weapon book. He glanced at Jiang Ling, and then said to Zhan Yi:

"Stop fighting, let's go."

Zhan Yi seemed to have more to say, but he still chose to obey his words.Wu Yue took the two of them and quickly withdrew outside the temple.

Seeing this, Jiang Ling hurriedly chased after him with Lu Qing.

On Li Zhenwu's side, he took the map and stunned dozens of guards along the way, and finally came to the prince's room.

He opened the door and entered, only to see that the prince was drinking and chasing and playing with a group of scantily clad female believers, and the scene was all obscene.

Seeing Li Zhenwu breaking in, the prince was shocked and shouted:

"Guards! Guards!! Come here! Where did they all die?!"

"Stop shouting, everyone was knocked out by me." Li Zhenwu said.

The prince looked at Li Zhenwu in fear and asked, "Who are you?! What do you want to do?!"

Li Zhenwu looked at the prince and said, "I am Aka's friend, and he asked me to save you."

"Aka?" The prince looked at Li Zhenwu hesitantly and said, "I won't go, you let Aka come."

"A-Ka has something to do. If you can't come, you follow me." Li Zhenwu said.

"No, I won't go." Saying that, the prince hid among a group of female believers.

Seeing this, Li Zhenwu frowned slightly, and quickly rushed towards the prince, pulled him out of the crowd of women, and forcibly led him out.

"You traitor, if you dare to arrest me, the Great Sage and Heavenly King will not let you go." The prince said.

Li Zhenwu ignored his words, and pulled him straight to the direction agreed with Jiang Ling.Just as he was approaching the agreed place, he saw Wu Yue walking towards here with Zhan Yi and Liu Ruyan, and Wu Yue was still holding an old sheepskin book in his hand.Jiang Ling and Lu Qing are following closely behind, chasing after them.

Seeing Li Zhenwu coming out, Jiang Ling hurriedly shouted:

"Brother Li, stop them, they have stolen the magic weapon book!"

"Spiritual Soldier!" Li Zhenwu glanced at the three people who were flying towards him, quickly tapped the prince's acupoints, pushed him aside, and swung his sword, a blood-red sword qi slashed at Wu Yue and the others. go.

When Zhan Yi saw it, he swung a knife. The black blade blocked the flying sword energy. The blades collided in the air and exploded. Wu Yue and others took the opportunity to retreat. Li Zhenwu just wanted to chase, but heard Wu Yue smiled and said:

"Instead of chasing us and returning in vain, you might as well go and see Tang Qingfeng, maybe you can save his life."

"What?!" Hearing Wu Yue's words, Li Zhenwu stopped chasing in shock.

"Brother Li, why don't you chase after him?" Jiang Ling asked.

"Brother Jiang, take the prince away first. Brother Tang is in danger. I'm going to take a look." Li Zhenwu said and handed the map to Jiangling, then ran towards the bronze statue of the Great Sage Heavenly King outside the hall.

"Brother Li!" Before Jiang Ling could ask clearly, Li Zhenwu's figure had disappeared into the hall.

"Jiangling, forget it, let's take the prince away first." Lu Qing said.

"Okay." Jiang Ling looked at the direction of Li Zhenwu's departure, picked up the prince next to him, and the two followed the map and led the prince out of the temple.