In the main hall, the ceremony has begun.
The girl knelt on the futon, kowtowed gently, and muttered something.
At the door of the main hall, a middle-aged man in a white robe walked in.
"Greetings to the Prime Minister."
The men and women standing on both sides saluted in unison.
Shen Xiang is the strongest person in this city apart from the king.
He looked at the girl kneeling in front of the futon and said straight to the point: "Your mother hanged herself."
"What?!" The girl stood up in shock: "Mother... what's wrong with mother? I want to go see her!"
"Stop, kneel down!" Shen Xiang shouted angrily.
His words were like a spell. As soon as he shouted out in surprise, the girl was immediately so shocked that she knelt down again, leaning her head on her head, wringing her hands behind her and saying nothing.
The prime minister said coldly: "Don't you know why your mother hanged herself?"
The girl knew, she knew better than anyone else, that she was not her father's daughter at all, but was conceived by her mother with a general before she married into the royal family. Fortunately, she was pregnant early at that time, and she soon became pregnant with her father. , plus he was very smart after he was born, so no one doubted him.
At first, she didn't know it either.
It was not until later that she discovered some differences between herself and other descendants of the royal family, and secretly told her mother about this.
That day, she watched her mother cry into tears in front of her. The last trace of luck in her mother's heart was gone. After crying, she told herself about it. At that time, she felt that the whole world was like a He collapsed and burst into tears.
They know better than anyone what crime it is to deceive the king in Duanjie City.
That is a capital crime of being sent to a ghost prison, tortured inhumanely for seven days, and then cut into pieces by a thousand cuts!
At that time, she was about to take part in the first assessment for a descendant of the royal family. At that time, she cried for days and nights, almost going blind from crying. In the end, she used various means, crying and making trouble, cheating, and finally stumbled to live to the age of seventeen. Although some people had doubts during this period, fortunately, her father still loved her mother and herself, and every descendant of the royal family , are all warriors who can fight against the alien species outside the city wall in the future and plant the Blue Moon Flag of the Boundary City further away.
But she doesn't have royal blood at all.
Many of the talents she has shown over the years are actually the result of hard practice behind the scenes. For example, she practiced an ordinary fire-making method every day and night for half a year, and combined it with the royal family's innate ability to control fire. You can use the art of pretending to be real, or feeding the cat in the palace every day, communicating with it for more than a year, and then pretending to understand the language of other creatures, so that it can follow your instructions...
For all her actions, she just wants to be praised as God rewards those who work hard.
But no matter what she did, she could not escape the call of the gods at the age of seventeen.
The opposite bank of this palace is said to be connected to a forbidden land called Time Abyss, and the blood of each royal descendant can summon an extremely powerful spirit from the Time Abyss after the ceremony is started, and the royal family who summoned them can Descendants can make a blood-blood contract through rituals and control this spirit.
She originally wanted to carry some of the blood of the royal family's descendants with her and use it secretly when the ceremony was initiated.
But before each ceremony, there is a dedicated person responsible for bathing and changing clothes, and the summoned spirit is only compatible with the blood cutter. It is only a matter of time before her identity is exposed.
When she heard that her mother had hanged herself, she didn't feel sad at all. She had hated her mother all these years. If she hadn't been for the quick pleasure, how could she have lived such a life for so many years. If she hadn't been strong in her heart, she might have lost her hair now. All gone.
My mother has enjoyed a good life for seventeen years, and is almost old. Now she cannot withstand the pressure, so she abandons herself and leaves...
One less inmate...
Alas, I am probably not far from death either.
"Mom... Mom is fine, why... I... I don't know." The girl suddenly raised her head, her eyes filled with tears, still pretending to be stupid.
Shen Xiang stared at her coldly and said: "It's just a commoner woman who died. It's not surprising. Summoning spirits is the top priority and cannot be delayed. Now there is a shortage of people in Yuan Xing. If you can summon spirits Success is the beginning of glory.”
The girl nodded weakly and said: "Yes, Master Shenxiang, but my mother died today, and in my heart..."
The prime minister interrupted her and said, "The ceremony will continue, and I will preside over it myself."
As he spoke, Shenxiang walked to the stone door, took the scripture from the woman in white robe, and recited it deeply.
The girl clasped her hands tremblingly, thinking about countermeasures in her mind, but now that the counselor is in front of her, if she dares to run away directly, she will definitely be caught and thrown into the ghost prison. When she thinks of the horrifying scene in the ghost prison, her Her shoulders couldn't help but tremble, and tears flowed down, pretending to miss her biological mother.
And these words also aroused turmoil in the hearts of others.
Could it be that... she is not the king's daughter
this…
The girl is quite famous among the royal family. When she appears on some big occasions, she can hold onto the noble airs of the royal family very well and is quiet and elegant.
Her swordsmanship is also very extraordinary. During the previous few times she went out to hunt demons in the city, she performed admirably and even received a commendation from the king. Many people regarded her as an excellent inheritor, so the whole city respected her. There are also many admirers, but the status of the royal family is so high that most people can only look at it from afar in their lives.
But if it's all fake...
Everyone looked at the sobbing little girl with different thoughts.
The ceremony was held as usual.
After Shen Xiang finished reciting the scriptures, the stone door lit up in the girl's trembling eyes.
In the center of the stone door, there seemed to be a heart beating, and then the light crimson spiritual energy began to flow along the lines of the stone door like blood. In a short period of time, the crimson spiritual energy flowed throughout the entire door, and the ancient totem was covered by the stone door. After filling, it emits a dazzling light.
A rumble sounded in the hall.
The stone door slowly opened.
Everyone's eyes were attracted.
Even if it was not the first time for those present to see it, they were still attracted by the scene behind the stone gate.
It was a circular, inward-collapsed plane. The plane seemed to be made up of countless straight lines. They were moving at an extremely fast speed, but it was impossible to tell whether they were going inward or outward, facing their deep cave. It's like a pair of eyes, and its pupils are buried in incomparable depths. The whites of its eyes are gray that is close to nothingness, and behind them there are faint white spots of light, like in the stream. There were swimming fish, and behind the light spot, there was a gray-white moon... The moon moved slowly towards them from far to near.
This is a huge abyss approaching.
As soon as it was opened, a sense of oppression descended on the palace. Everyone couldn't help but close their eyes after staring and silently recited the scripture of pure heart.
If Ning Chang was present, he would find that the appearance of this abyss is almost exactly the same as that in the Southern Wasteland.
Likewise, everyone here, even the king, will be sent back to the starting point if they walk into the abyss.
It admits no one.
The girl was also trembling in front of this abyss.
She felt that the abyss was looking at her, seeing through all her disguises.
All living beings in the mortal world are like humble ant colonies in front of it. It is so eternal, just like the end of the ruins outside the city that can never be reached.
"The aura lights up the lamp, the king's blood summons the soul, sees the destiny of life, and answers the call of the Lord..."
Shen Xiang recited in a low voice.
He took the dagger from the woman behind him, gently pulled it out, and handed it to the crying girl.
She listened to the dagger blade rubbing against the wooden sheath, as if something was cutting through her heart.
The girl took the dagger tremblingly, knowing that all her cleverness was useless.
She wished she could stab a knife directly into her heart.
But she was afraid of death.
She picked up the knife, cut her palm, and kept praying in her heart.
"Daddy God, please save me... You don't have to be a summoning spirit. I am willing to be a cow or a horse for you. I will obey your words, give you the best treatment in the city, and support you like an ancestor... Please come out... "
she cried, then placed her hands on the concave surface of the abyss.
Blood flowed in.
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In the desert, the fighting gradually came to an end.
Lord Xueyu and the Spirit of the Sword Scripture sang together and kept cheering Ning Changjiu up. One said how good Zhao Xiang'er was and the other said how good Lu Wenwen was. They hoped that he would be thinking about his two wives and avoid losing his resistance. courage.
Ning Jiujiu had a splitting headache after hearing this. If such a broken sword hadn't been valuable, he would have buried it in the sand.
The moon sets.
When viewed from a distance, the moon was still glowing with grayish white light, but when it sank to the level of the horizon, the entire moon also became dark, with only the edge still glowing with a light silver light.
The ancient tree was in the distance, keeping a distance from Ning for a long time, fearful and afraid to move forward.
The rest of the surviving souls are also confronting each other, launching tentative attacks from time to time, but most of them have some wisdom and cherish their lives. Every attack is not to kill the other party, but to make themselves arrive faster. Where the moon sets.
Ning Jiujiu cut his finger again and used blood as bait, causing those souls who were trying to stay rational to fall into a massacre.
But blood is not for everyone.
Jiuying's hatred for him actually exceeded the level of blood.
At this moment, after experiencing countless battles, its soul also had countless scars, and the tumors on it were also chipped away with an axe.
It swam towards itself.
Ning Jiujiu did not give in this time.
His hatred for Jiu Ying is even higher than Jiu Ying's hatred for himself.
When it first appeared, he had the urge to kill it to pieces, but reason stopped him.
At this moment, the other large and small souls have been waiting for several hours
Almost all of them were killed or injured in the melee.
The moment of decisive battle has finally arrived.
Jiuying was like a violent chariot, coming at lightning speed.
Ning held the broken sword for a long time, and the spiritual power in his body surged endlessly.
"Sword Spirit!" Ning Jiujiu shouted.
The Spirit of the Sword Scripture witnessed these hours of fighting and was equally happy, "Okay, shopkeeper."
Ning Jiujiu's pupils suddenly dilated.
Before Jiuying pounced, Ning Changjiu also jumped up high.
In the darkness, the two figures passed by each other silently.
Jiuying's collision was in vain.
Ning Jiujiu arrived on top of Jiu Ying's head in the blink of an eye.
The sword struck, and with the sound of soul scales shattering, the sword edge penetrated deeply into Jiu Ying's soul.
The soul-like whistling sound appeared white and continued to spread out in circles after circles.
Ning stood on Jiuying's forehead for a long time, dragging his sword and running forward. The sword tore through the soul scale, cut along the central axis of its head, and cut out from its upper jaw.
Jiuying kept roaring and opened his chopped mouth, trying to swallow Ning Changjiu in one gulp.
Ning Jiujiu reached out and grabbed its strongest tooth, kicked off his foot, and rushed forward. The sword in front of him cut into Jiuying's mouth, and then he ran all the way, splitting its body from the center. , cut into two pieces!
Jiuying's soul was shattered.
Ning Jiujiu's pupils regained focus.
The moon sets and stops.
He held the sword and ran away wildly. Along the way, souls splashed out like water.
The moon is approaching.
The moment he jumped up, something like a sickle suddenly stabbed him at his feet.
That is the demon scorpion lurking in the sand.
Lord Xueyu made a quick decision and flew out of his sword, spraying it with a burst of real fire.
It will not have time to long-term credit to Ning.
The black moon came, and his body rushed into the seemingly eternal darkness.
After an unknown amount of time, his body slowly landed on the ground.
Ning Jiujiu did not come to the previous space as he imagined.
This is a brand new place, a world of connected caves, extending in all directions like a honeycomb, and each cave is filled with white-gray light.
"What is this?" The Spirit of Sword Scripture asked.
"I don't know." Ning Jiujiu replied.
"How to get out?"
"have no idea."
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"Take her away and put her in a ghost prison."
Shen Xiang glanced at the hourglass held by the man in black.
The hourglass has run out.
But behind the stone gate, there was no movement at all.
Everyone in the hall fell into silence, and the eyes they looked at the girl were no longer gentle, but cold, like looking at a corpse with numerous wounds.
"No! Don't take me away! There must be some misunderstanding... Wait a minute, Mr. Counselor... Wait a minute..." The girl kept pleading, knocking down the stone door repeatedly, hoping for a miracle to happen.
Shen Xiang's face was extremely cold. He looked at the girl and had already thought about how to explain to the king after her death.
"Master Shenxiang, please wait a little longer... My god may be missing arms and legs, so he walks slower. You... you give him a chance..." The girl kept wiping her tears, feeling desperate.
On both sides, men and women in black and white clothes came out, took the girl's arms, picked her up, and walked out.
"Master Shenxiang, please spare me, don't take me to the prison... kill me now, use the knife now, please..."
"Uuuuuuuuah, let me go..."
The girl's hands were tightly grasped and she was dragged mercilessly out of the palace.
A shameful and despicable illegitimate daughter dares to step into the solemn and sacred palace of the royal family. This in itself is blasphemy to the gods.
Her fate was sealed.
The girl was dragged out of the door.
The reversal of her status when she entered and when she left was a world of difference.
She was so heartbroken that she was shackled and dragged down the steps.
"etc."
Behind him, Shen Xiang's voice suddenly sounded.
The girl was startled and turned her head suddenly. She found that everyone was looking in the direction of the stone gate.
Her heart was in her throat, and she kept wiping her face. In her blurred vision, she didn't know if it was an illusion - there was light shining in the abyss behind the stone door.
Her mouth was half open and she couldn't make a sound. She just kept wiping her eyes with more and more tears.
She stared intently at the seemingly ordinary white light.
It was the brightest and most dazzling light of miracle she had ever seen in her life, and it would be forever imprinted on her life.