red dust robbery

When Jiang Ping received the letter and got up, Zhan Ji and Bai Yunrui had already rushed all the way to the boundary of Yueyang. Due to frequent floods, they traveled all the way, but they saw beyond the embankment, thousands of hectares of green waves rising in Dongting, along the official road, full of The ragged refugees finally settled in a small town on the edge of Dongting. The formerly prosperous villages and towns have become depressed and devastated.

It is rare to see mature men along the street. Occasionally, pedestrians pass by, and they are also frail, old and weak women and children. There are only a few shops on the street, and there are very few houses.

Bai Yunrui held the sword and frowned: "This place is so desolate, I'm afraid it will not be easy to find a place to stay tonight."

"The young and strong must have fled the famine, and the only ones left are these old and weak women and children who can't run." Zhan Ji looked at the mess in front of him, and couldn't help but feel bleak. The woman ran over staggeringly with a girl in her arms, and fell at his feet within a few steps. The gentle and elegant young man in black leaned over to help her up, and was about to speak, but a group of people chased her in front of her.

"Stop, don't let them get away!"

The old woman was so frightened that she stood up all over, but her legs and feet were really weak, but she hugged the girl in her arms even tighter.

Bai Yunrui frowned, took a step forward, and swung his plain sword to block the approaching person: "Stop, what are you doing!"

"Are you foreigners?" The leading man in his 50s and [-]s took a look at him. Seeing that the two of them were well-dressed, he frowned and calmed down: "This is a matter of our town, don't worry about it."

"No!" The old woman was like a drowning person grabbing the last straw, and simply hid behind the two of them: "Young master, please help me, don't let my granddaughter sacrifice to the Dragon King!"

Another little old man wearing Taoist robes on the opposite side immediately yelled hoarsely: "Oh, Mrs. Chen, you are so kind, you can save a whole county of us if you give up your granddaughter!"

Zhan Ji's heart moved when he heard it: "What do you mean, what is the sacrifice to the Dragon King?"

The old woman hugged her granddaughter in one hand, pulled his clothes with the other, and burst into tears: "This guy is the priest of our local Dragon King Temple. Ten days ago, he said that he got the Dragon King's dream, and said that people in our area had committed sins, so he came down." When the flood came, it was said that nine virgins had to be offered as sacrifices to move the heavens and calm the flood... They have already recruited eight girls, and there is only one left... Poor my son and daughter-in-law were washed away by the flood, and this is the only one left granddaughter……"

"Absurd!" Zhan Ji sternly said, "The Dragon King is the lord of the rivers and lakes, and it is his duty to spread the clouds and rain to keep one side safe and sound. How can there be any reason to ask for human sacrifices?"

"You foreigners, how do you understand the suffering of our floods?" The leader looked solemn, "If there is a glimmer of hope, you must try it!"

He glanced left and right, and several middle-aged men came up to snatch the girl in the woman's arms. The girl seemed to be only four or five years old, and she seemed to feel the fear of the unknown, and began to cry loudly.

Bai Yunrui couldn't bear it any longer, before drawing his sword out of its sheath, he just waved his sword a few times, and knocked those people to the ground.

"You..." The man in the lead unexpectedly had such an accident, he was frightened and angry for a moment, "You are disrespecting the gods, and the Dragon God has condemned you, do you take it seriously?"

"Pretending to be fools and fooling the people, aren't you afraid of being investigated by the government?" Zhan Ji watched coldly, seeing the righteous indignation on the man's face, and then slowly said a word.

"Government?" The other party gave a cold note, "There have been several waves of officers and soldiers before and after, what's the use of it!"

Before the words fell, there were several echoes from the surroundings.

Zhan Ji looked at Yun Rui with some surprise, and then thought that the flood has been going on for more than a month, and Yue Yang Ling is helpless, so it's no wonder that these people are resentful.

"Even if the government is incompetent, and everyone suffers from the flood, compare your hearts to each other. If your flesh and blood are robbed as human sacrifices, how can you bear it?"

"Looking at the clothes of the two of you, they must be from wealthy families." The other party glanced at him, with a slight sarcasm on his lips, "I must have never heard of it. In this world, every time there is a famine, people are extremely hungry and eat their own children." This kind of thing is not uncommon, let alone... I also know how innocent these girls are, but since the Dragon God has an oracle, how can he ignore the lives of everyone in this area just because of the lives of these girls?"

"You—" Hearing what he said, Bai Yunrui was speechless for a moment, and only held the hilt of his sword firmly, ready to strike.

Zhan Ji was silent for a long time, before he sighed, pressed Bai Yunrui's sword hand, pressed it down slowly, motioned him to put it away, and then said to the opposite side: "Since that's the case, I won't interfere, please do it!"

The other party didn't expect them to be so talkative, he was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that several people rushed forward to snatch the girl from the old woman's hands.

The girl screamed in the chaos, and the old woman grabbed her skirt tightly and refused to let go, but after all, she was old and weak, unable to withstand the strength of a few men, and watched the girl being carried on her shoulders and swung away. , Knelt down on the ground in despair, crying.

Bai Yunrui's youthful spirit, he had already seen his blood rushing, and his sword was about to be unsheathed, but was stopped by Zhan Ji, and after those people had gone away, he said angrily: "Brother Ji, you are..."

"Didn't you listen to what they said just now?" Zhan Ji asked instead, "Since they are so obsessed with sacrificing the Dragon King alive, even if we can save this girl, they will go back and look for another one. Can we manage it? As they wished, they gathered all nine virgins, and they will definitely go to the Dragon God to make an offering tonight, and we can take this opportunity to find out who the Holy God is!"

Seeing Bai Yunrui's suddenly realized expression, Zhan Ji nodded, then squatted down, and asked the old woman in a gentle voice: "Old woman, do you know where the Dragon King Temple is?"

The Dragon King Temple is located in the southern outskirts of the city, only a few miles away from Dongting Lake. Naturally, the local Dongting Dragon King is enshrined. The temple is not big, but the local people believe in the Dragon God. The sacrifices are very grand every year, and the weather has been good for decades. , It is even more convinced that this is the result of the blessing of the Dragon King.

It’s just that this year, for some reason, there are frequent floods, and hundreds of miles around are unavoidable. It is unavoidable that people are confused. Therefore, the temple priests of the Dragon King Temple claim that the dragon god entrusts a dream with a virgin, and many people believe it.

When Zhan Ji and his wife arrived at the Dragon King Temple, the sacrificial ceremony had already ended, the sky was getting late, and the twilight was like the sea. In the dark, only the shadow of a brick-red temple was left, and it stopped several miles away from the temple gate. Zhan Ji looked up at the somewhat gloomy gate, and frowned.

When he was young, he had also been to famous mountains and ancient temples in various places. Those temples with high incense and incense had their own peaceful atmosphere, but the Dragon King Temple in front of him was solemn and solemn, but why did it add a bit of eerie feeling, not to mention the If there is any evil spirit?

"Brother Ji?" Seeing him frowning, Bai Yunrui gave him a questioning look.

"The taste is wrong." Zhan Ji didn't want to say it clearly, so he just said in a low voice, "Yun Rui, after entering, don't act rashly."

"Oh, Brother Ji, you're really slower than my mother!" Bai Yunrui was full of youthful spirit, a bit like his father's youthful temper, and couldn't hold back any longer, and jumped up the mountain gate as soon as he turned over.

"Hey—" Zhan Ji yelled inwardly, so he jumped up and hurriedly followed.

The lightness kung fu of the two is very good, within a few vertical jumps they reached the main hall, attached to the beam and peeped down, but saw that the incense candles in the main hall were not burned out, and the girl was lying on the altar with her hands and feet tied, sobbing uncontrollably Trembling, it looked extraordinarily bleak in this empty temple.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew up at the entrance of the hall, with a turbulent damp breath, rushed in, the candle flames went out, and there was darkness in front of my eyes.

The girl was so frightened that she screamed immediately, but her clothes rustled because of the trembling.

Zhan Ji and the two were also taken aback. After their eyes adjusted to the faint skylight, they heard the sound of heavy footsteps coming from far and near, and a black shadow had unknowingly arrived at the door.

Gray gown, light armor, hair covering the face, can't see the face clearly, only a pair of eyes are deep and black, revealing a strange color.

The man slowly entered the main hall. His tall figure was elongated by the slanting moonlight. He looked down at the girl who was already shivering and unable to make a sound. There was a sense of oppression all over his body, making the surrounding air cold. stand up.

The girl trembled even more violently, panic quickly filled her eyes, and suddenly she passed out

Zhan Ji almost felt suffocated, and then looked at Bai Yunrui, barely leaning on the beam, fine beads of sweat already dripping from his forehead.

This is--

He took a breath, and finally understood where the monstrous and treacherous aura of this temple came from.

After the gentleman dressed in white enlightened him to open his eyes when he was young, he was able to skillfully distinguish all kinds of phenomena in the Three Realms except humans. Qian, either staying in the mountains and forests, or turning into a human form and wandering in the market, as long as the heart is simple and does not hurt ordinary people, it will be harmless. However, he also knows that there is another group of monsters. The deeper it is, the greater the danger.

And in front of him, it was the second kind of monster.

Zhan Ji couldn't help biting his lips, and when he looked again, the man in the hall had raised his hand, waved his sleeves, and a purple demonic light flashed in between, and there were eight more girls in the hall, including the girl who had just been sent. , Gathered nine people together, and fell to the ground with the momentum of the Nine Palaces.

Bai Yunrui was so startled by this strange magic-like scene that he almost cried out, and almost fell off the beam, but thanks to Zhan Ji's quick eyesight, he caught him.

Seeing that person raised his head, he could vaguely see the contours of his face, his facial features were quite handsome, but it was a pity that his expression was too surly and ferocious, which made people fearful.

Zhan Ji tried to open his eyes secretly, just as he was about to take a look at the prototype of this person, but the other party had already started to do something, a huge round bead floated from his sleeve into mid-air, his whole body was like a moonlight The bright light spread across the entire hall, covering the nine girls in the Nine Palaces Formation under it.

"What are you doing?" Bai Yunrui felt that he had been frightened today, and his lowered voice couldn't hide a little bit of panic.

Zhan Ji didn't speak, he saw that the girls who were in a coma had already started to twitch, showing pained expressions, but he heard a woman's shout: "Monster, give me back my Soul Gathering Orb!".

One of the girls, whose immature and weak body grew up suddenly, turned into the figure of a girl, wearing a yellow shirt with flying skirts, her face was exquisite but chilling, and a long sword in her hand burst into dazzling light, directly hitting the gray Pao people come.

The man seemed to be taken aback, and stopped suddenly. When he raised his hand, there was already a crescent shovel in his palm, a cold light flashed, and the huge momentum forced the girl back ten steps away.

The girl missed a blow, her silver teeth clenched tightly, and the edge of her sword flicked, but it was only a feint. She jumped up and went straight to the bright pearl in mid-air, but the opponent had already seen through her intentions, and her figure changed slightly. Quickly, the gray shadow retracted the beads into his sleeves in a flash, and the whole hall suddenly dimmed.The man turned his head and stood still, fixed his eyes on the girl who had not been attacked, but laughed: "I didn't expect it to be the little dragon girl from Dongting Lake. My original intention was to ask nine human girls to reshape my wife's human form. The body of a real dragon, very good! Very good!"

"Monster, you occupy my Dongting Dragon Lord Dojo, take away my Dragon Palace's treasure, and dare to speak wild words!"

The girl's cheeks were sullenly flushed, her yellow shirt fluttered, her long sword was like a rainbow, and she went straight to the opponent, but the latter was not in a hurry, holding the crescent shovel in her hand to hold the Lingling sword, all of a sudden, The cold light of the weapons scattered, and the dust piled up.

Zhanji and Bai Yunrui exchanged glances, looking thrillingly.

With his heavenly eyes, Zhan Ji could clearly see the girl's real body, with horns on her head and four claws on her body, resembling a legendary dragon's body, and the gray robe——

The hair feathers are covered with brocade, the body is full of flocks, the toes are as sharp as hooks, and the eight heads are ringed together, it is impossible to see where they came from.

The only thing that is certain is that although this dragon girl was born with the body of a real dragon, her cultivation is still shallow. After a hundred moves, she can only parry under the hands of this monster.

Accidentally, the monster picked up the sword in his hand and kicked it in the chest, his body flew dozens of steps, and fell to the ground staggeringly.

The monster didn't let it go, it immediately flew up, hung its body in the air, stretched out its five fingers, and hung them like hooks on the girl's chest, emitting an oppressive purple demon light.

The girl couldn't move her whole body, her pretty face tried her best to suppress the painful expression, as the severe pain hit her limbs and bones, a pure white jade bead was sucked out from her body.

In the girl's autumn-like eyes, there was finally an aura of despair.

For the Dragon Clan, this Dragon Ball is their lifeblood. If the Dragon Ball is destroyed, even the real dragon will die.

The man showed a gratified smile, and was about to continue casting spells and took out the dragon ball completely, but he heard a roar in the air, and an epee pierced straight down from the sky!

He was taken aback, but he didn't notice that there were other creatures here, but he could only see that it was just a mortal weapon, he was just contemptuous in his heart, he didn't accept it, he just waved his sleeves, intending to bounce it back.

It's just that this sword is named Juque, although it is only a famous weapon in the mortal world, it also has aura over time. In addition, the three ancient gods have stayed in the scabbard for decades, and they have been contaminated with some fairy power, which actually tore his robe. Sleeve, staggered and fell into the corner of the hall.

The man was taken aback, and hurriedly withdrew the law in a panic, looked up vigilantly: "Who dares to spoil my good deed!"

Before he finished speaking, a black shadow descended from the sky, and before he could see his figure clearly, he saw a dazzling silver light burst out from between his brows, covering the sky and covering the earth, approaching the door.

This is—the eye of the sky?

Before the opponent had time to react, he was rushed out of the hall by the huge impact of Tianyan, fell heavily on the ground, struggled to sit up, and was a little shocked: "Tianyan, could it be—"

☆、Chapter 48