The torch on the sacrificial platform will only be lit during sacrifices. It is the most mysterious place in the entire palace.
For King K's royal family, the status of the sacrificial altar is very important, and many of the royal family's descendants know this very well.
This torch will only be lit when the crown prince or the new king is chosen to take the throne. If it does not involve divination of the national destiny, it will not be lit easily.
But now, it is not any important period, but it is lit after dark.
The count's clan members who were originally staying in the guest hall all looked in the direction of the sacrificial altar.
Now that the torch is lit, I'm afraid something big is going to happen.
Hatas and his party hurried to the open space in front of the altar. As soon as they looked up, they saw two teenagers running out of the back hall of the altar.
Behind the two men were a group of guards holding heavy weapons, chasing them as if they were going to fight or kill them.
"Sister Su!!" Lu Min shouted hurriedly when he saw the person.
Xia Chen's voice was urgent, "We can't find the boss!!"
These words made Yin Sa and Lu Zhizhou's expressions change. No matter where Wen Li was, Lu Min and Xia Chen were always with him.
Now these two people say they can't find Wen Li. What kind of joke is this
"The pointer shows right here, there will definitely be no problem." Su Jingjing said, patting the instrument in her hand.
There is no doubt that people are in this place.
"What do you mean you can't find it?" Yin Sa looked at the two teenagers.
These two people are very skilled and always come and go without a trace. How could they be chased by others
Sure enough, Su Jingjing looked at the sweat on their foreheads and grabbed the person's hand.
Lu Zhizhou also stepped forward to support Xia Chen.
"Drugged?"
Xia Chen nodded and his breathing was hollow. The gap was so great that they took the antidote given by the boss after being drugged.
However, it takes time for the antidote to take effect after being taken. Neither of them had much strength left. Cold sweat dripped down their foreheads, making people tremble with fear.
"Don't worry about us yet. Madam was taken away by Lu Zhizhou's father." Lu Min was supported by Dong Qing, and he looked so weak.
After hearing this, Hatas and his personal guards walked forward quickly, leaving several people behind.
"Why did my father arrest Wen Li?" Lu Zhizhou followed the others in confusion.
"The signal disappeared." Su Jingjing put away the instrument.
But no one can find it for sure whether the person is here, above ground or underground.
Lu Min stood next to Su Jingjing with his chest held up, his face extremely pale, "It's useless. There seems to be a special magnetic field intervention here. All electronic equipment is useless after entering."
The other party must have been fully prepared.
Hatas led people through the four doors and steps, and was stopped when he approached the small courtyard in the middle hall.
"Your Majesty, you cannot pass."
Yin Sa recognized this person. He was the person following Prince Pei and the person in charge of the sacrificial platform.
"Get out of the way!" Hatas looked gloomy.
The man showed no signs of cowardice, and his posture was generous and steady. "Successive kings could only enter the sacrificial altar at fixed times. I'm afraid you have lost your mind."
This man said this, but he had no intention of getting out of the way.
"Take it."
Following Hatas's order, Yun Mu had already started to lift the people away, and anyone who blocked him was tied up.
Not to mention that these accompanying soldiers were scared, even the old man who had lived in the palace and was responsible for guarding the altar for so many years was frightened.
The successive kings of K country worshiped the sacrificial altar, and always treated the high priest with courtesy, and never interfered with the affairs of the sacrificial altar at will.
In order to prevent accidents at the sacrificial altar, the royal family also arranged for royal family members other than direct royal family members to take care of it.
In the eyes of many people, the sacrificial altar is a very sacred place in the eyes of the royal family, and it can be described with the word faith.
But now His Majesty the King sent people to surround the entire sacrificial altar without any warning. This meant something serious had happened.
Moreover, His Majesty the King looked very angry, which meant he was angry.
Hatas led his people directly into the palace where Prince Pei lived behind the altar. Standing in the courtyard, everyone could vaguely feel the chill and cold air permeating the air.
"Search!"
Following Hatas's order, Yun Mu led the team into countless small teams and spread out in the palace.
"His Majesty."
A man in sacrificial attire walked out of the main hall and walked directly in front of Hatas, with an attitude that was neither humble nor arrogant.
"Prince Pei asked me to wait here just to wait for His Majesty and tell His Majesty something."
Hatas looked at the person in front of him without saying a word.
"You already made mistakes back then. Don't make mistakes again and again. Don't forget the mission and responsibility you bear. You are the king of K country. You are different from ordinary people. Now Prince Pei is making up for your mistakes back then. If you can't be so cruel, you will be a sinner to the entire K country and will be infamous for thousands of years, so please take your people back to rest first."
Hatas did not listen to such earnest persuasion.
Su Jingjing returned with Xia Chen and Lu Min. Although they were confused, they could still identify their direction.
"Can you two tell me what happened just now?" Hatas looked at the two teenagers.
Xia Chen pointed to the opposite side, "We saw with our own eyes that the boss was taken into the underground palace by Prince Pei, but we just went there and couldn't find the door. The door was mysteriously missing."
The door was obviously seen by both of them, but when they looked for it, it disappeared without a trace. If Lu Min wasn't following him, Xia Chen would have doubted whether there was something wrong with his eyes.
After listening to what they said, Dong Qing took people over to look around and confirmed that it was just a wall.
"Tear down this wall." Yin Sa ordered.
Dong Qing and his men started to move quickly, and after a while of operation, it was proved that this was really just a wall.
Not any door to the underground palace, nor any entrance.
"Did you remember it wrong?" Lu Zhizhou asked.
A perfectly good door wouldn't disappear so strangely.
"This place is sealed by a barrier, and that door is not an ordinary door. It will not be found so casually." Gu Ningxi said.
Su Jingjing turned around and realized, wasn't this little ancestor still with her? Why had she forgotten this person
"Boundary?" Hatas looked at Gu Ningxi and repeated this sentence.
"And the magic and spiritual power used in this barrier are the strongest. They should have been planted a hundred years ago. They should be doing something very important and are afraid of being disturbed." Gu Ningxi raised her head. Look at the sky.
Even if the people around her couldn't notice it, she could clearly see the huge ball of light that enveloped the entire altar.
It was like a huge cover covering the entire altar.
The torches lit on the stage suddenly became brighter, causing everyone to look back suddenly. Sparks danced in the air, like bright stars in the dark night sky.
"What method can be used to rescue Wen Li?" Hatas pushed aside the people around him and looked at the little girl in front of him.
Gu Ningxi looked at Hatas for a while. The worry in the old man's eyes was not a lie.
"Although I don't know what kind of ceremony is going on here, it seems that the ceremony has begun. The barrier should be opened after the ceremony is over. If you want to break in by force, there is a way."
After listening to Gu Ningxi's words, Hatas hurriedly asked, "Any way, no matter what."
Su Jingjing patted her shoulder, "Stop being scary, just tell me whether you can open this barrier."
Although he didn't know what was going on here, Prince Pei went to such great lengths to deceive Wen Li, which made Hatas confused. It can't be a good thing. By the time it's over, this person will probably feel cold.
"There is a way, but it will take some time. I'm already making preparations." Gu Ningxi said.
Her brother had already reminded her when he came here last time. In order to prevent her from slipping up at the critical moment, he had planted spells on the entire palace. It was not too difficult to find Sister Wen Li.
"You are the king, can I borrow some of your blood?"
As soon as Gu Ningxi finished speaking, Hatas had already taken a dagger and cut his wrist.
…
In the underground palace, Wen Li, who was forced off the ground, hung in mid-air. The blood dripping from her fingers suddenly accelerated and gathered on the ground.
Looking from top to bottom, she realized that the place where she was standing was in the middle of a huge stone formation.
The ground is a whole piece of marble, but it is carved with particularly strange patterns. A strange pattern is formed under the large and small sizes.
There is a sentence written in ancient writing on the very edge.
The blood dripping from her fingertips fell in the middle of the pattern, spread forward along the carved ravines, and soon filled the entire pattern.
The black energy that continuously emerged from the crystal enveloped her whole body, and finally turned into a humanoid skeleton facing her eyes.
"Fallen Angel!" The high priest stopped dancing, knelt on the ground, looked up at the sky, and shouted respectfully at the people.
"Are you going to sacrifice me to this kind of thing?" Wen Li looked at the skull in front of him coldly.
It does look like something that can scare people to tears. If a timid person saw such a non-human and ghost thing, he would probably be scared to death.
"Now I offer the sacrifice as promised. I hope the Fallen Angel will accept it, take back the divine punishment, and protect our Kingdom of K from a hundred years of prosperity." Prince Pei had already bent down and saluted.
The black mist turned into a hand and stretched out in Wen Li's direction.
Before she could touch Wen Li, a burst of purple light suddenly appeared on her hand, transforming into a sharp blade and breaking through the black mist in an instant.
"what happened???!!"
Seeing this, the high priest yelled crazily, but it still didn't help. He watched helplessly as the purple energy chased the fallen angel in their eyes, forcefully forcing him back into the crystal.
Without the support of that force, Wen Li fell from the air. Before she landed, a force supported her to stand firmly.
With their limbs landing firmly on the ground, Prince Pei and the high priest looked at the girl who suddenly appeared next to Wen Li.
Wearing a green dress, she has a beautiful face, snow-white skin, a slim waist, and a hint of charm in her raised eyes. The strength that supports Wen Li's body comes from her hands.
"Isn't it too late for me to come?" the girl asked Wen Li.
After standing still on the ground, Wen Li glanced at the crystal stone behind her and laughed softly, "Just right."
"Who are you?!" Prince Pei looked at the uninvited guest in front of him.
Although they have no special powers and cannot control very powerful forces like those people, all the crystals here are extraordinary.
According to all the classics collected on the sacrificial altar, once the sacrifice begins and the outer boundary is opened by the crystal stone, no one can stop it.
The sacrifice has been going on for so many years, and no one has ever broken in midway, but today, this woman broke in easily.
"What should we do now? This crystal seems to have blocked something. It does act as a seal." She raised her head and scanned all the crystals in her eyes.
When she rushed over from there, she was more or less hindered, but luckily she caught up.
"If the sacrifice is stopped, will the seal collapse?" Wen Li looked at the person in front of him.
The girl turned around and glanced, "Since it is a blood contract, something must be paid, there will be gains and losses. This is a contract they signed themselves, and they must pay a price."
Prince Pei looked at the person who suddenly appeared, heard her words clearly, and quickly refuted them.
"Since you also said that every gain must come with a loss, why are you still trying to stop our sacrifice? You are from over there, and you did it on purpose!"
She admitted this, "This is indeed a blood contract that cannot be avoided, but she did not sign this contract. If you decide the fate of others at your own discretion, I can control it."
On the Wuzhou Continent, there is indeed a saying that after a blood contract is formed, one cannot escape. Only when the contract is released can one be freed from the shackles.
It's just that the people here were able to sign a contract with the Fallen Angel, and were able to find such power as a backer to seal the entire entrance and exit.
He also used this method to maintain the peace here, but unfortunately, after signing a contract with the Fallen Angel, there is always only compensation and no gain.
"Your affairs have nothing to do with me. I don't care even if the people you sacrifice today are members of your entire dynasty, but this person can't do it. I have to take this person away. I'm sorry."
These words have already shown his attitude.
"No, you can't take her away! Absolutely not!!" The high priest suddenly rushed over, "If she doesn't sacrifice and angers the gods, the entire K country will suffer!! Everyone will die and blood will flow all over the ground. , the corpses piled up and turned into white bones!! She can’t leave, no way!!!”
She was chosen by the Fallen Angel after Le Jia, which proved that the Fallen Angel had forgiven Le Jia for his deception. Even with the forgiveness of the gods, she could not do it a second time.
A white light flashed, and Gu Ningxi led several people to stand between Prince Pei and Wen Li.
The strong smell of blood that hit their faces was frightening. Hatas and Yin Sa were the first to react, and at the same time they saw the pale girl standing there.
"Wen Li!!"
Yin Sa rushed over and hugged her. After checking her body up and down to make sure that she was still fine, Yin Sa breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's okay, uncle is here, uncle is here." He hugged Wen Li and murmured comfort, "Uncle will not let anyone hurt you, absolutely not."
After Su Jingjing saw the scene in front of her clearly, she raised her hand and rubbed Gu Ningxi's head, "Okay, little girl, you're pretty awesome."
It took only a moment to find Wen Li, what a surprising child.
"It's okay." Gu Ningxi looked at the woman next to Wen Li.
Who is she? There is something so familiar about her.
"Father, what on earth do you want to do to Wen Li!" Lu Zhizhou stepped in front of Prince Pei in two steps.
But the man did not reply to him, and looked up at Hatas opposite.
"Is Your Majesty planning to make the same mistake again and again?"
Hatas stood beside Yin Sa and Wen Li. After being quiet for a long time, he told Yin Sa, "You take Wen Li away first."
There are some things that cannot be escaped, especially for him, and he is not allowed the opportunity to escape.
"Disasters have occurred frequently this year, such as tsunamis, droughts, floods, and earthquakes. The whole country is filled with mourning. Hasn't it made you sober up? You have survived a princess, but you have to have many people buried with you. Do you really not regret it? Have you forgotten that you will inherit the future? Did you make the oath you swore when you took the throne?"
Prince Pei's words, every word, pierced into Hatas's heart.
It was like telling him that he was not a good father or a good king.
It is ridiculous to sit in this position if you can't protect your children, protect the country, let alone protect all people.
"Pei, anyone can do it, but not her."
"Why?" Prince Pei was stunned, "You used a trick to send Princess Lejia away, because you knew that Princess Lejia would sacrifice without hesitation. She is the princess of K country, and she has had this honorable appearance since she was born. This is the price she is destined to pay, and now that this child is Le Jia’s biological daughter, her fate is doomed!!”
She must sacrifice for the country.
Hatas took a step forward and looked level with Prince Pei, "She was born among the people. She has never enjoyed the glory and respect of a princess for a moment. She has not been bowed down by all the people. She has not eaten a millet of K country. The water and soil here have never raised her. The people here have never raised her. We have never treated her well, so why should we let her make the same choice as Le Jia?"
Since ancient times, people who hold high positions have always had to pay a corresponding price, bearing the same price as their lives, in order to sit safely in that position.
"She only lived for twenty years, and half of her life was painful. We are not qualified to ask her to sacrifice."
Prince Pei clearly saw the redness and pain in Hatas's eyes, and was unable to say anything for a moment.
"I was indeed wrong. I was selfish for the sake of my daughter. I thought it would be enough to send her far away so that she could live well, but I ignored that there are always people in the world who can still find her, too. I am selfish, always thinking that it would be good to keep Wen Li by my side for a few more days."
"Although I am not a competent king, you can rest assured that I will definitely take responsibility. But before that, there is only one thing: don't touch this child."
He had already failed to save his daughter, and he could no longer fail to save this child.
At least let him come down there in the future and be able to talk to Le Jia with peace of mind...
(End of chapter)