"Li Mo, I found out that saintesses cannot be used to threaten the Great Elder." Yun Ruoyan said.
"How do you say that?" Li Mo asked with a frown.
So Yun Ruoyan told Li Mo the ins and outs of the matter.
"If we want to threaten the Great Elder, we can make a fuss about that Yin Xiao." Yun Ruoyan said: "Next, I will win over the saint. With her help, it should not be difficult to catch Yin Xiao."
"Okay." Li Mo thought for a while and said, "I will inform the demon spirits about this and let them prepare."
After Yun Ruoyan finished talking about herself, she asked Li Mo.
"What have you discovered these days?"
Li Mo looked at Yun Ruoyan word by word and said, "I found the trace of your father, Long Yin."
Yun Ruoyan's eyes immediately lit up when he heard this, and he even clenched Li Mo's hand a little bit.
"Where is my father now?" Yun Ruoyan asked tremblingly.
"In a secret prison in Longbao." Li Mo patted Yun Ruoyan's hand, and said, "I haven't figured out the exact location of this prison, I will continue to investigate."
"Li Mo, you have to pay attention to safety." Yun Ruoyan said a little worriedly. Anything related to secrets must be connected with danger. in danger.
"Yan'er, I will be careful." Li Mo looked at Yun Ruoyan's still flat belly under his big hand, his hand had never left there, and he warned: "It's you instead, you are not alone now, Don't do anything dangerous, remember everything is up to me, you know?"
"I know." Yun Ruoyan nodded with a smile. Although they have been husband and wife for many years, the warmth of mutual care and mutual cuddling has never changed.
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On this day, Yun Ruoyan accompanied the saint in the hall to entertain her boredom as usual. During this time, she taught the saint how to play chess and dice, and the two of them would play these to pass the time when they had nothing to do.
The saint seemed to be in a very bad mood, as if she was worried about something, Yun Ruoyan asked her, but she said nothing was wrong. However, Yun Ruoyan clearly heard her muttering to herself that it's time again, and then she let out a long sigh.
"General." Yun Ruoyan said with a smile: "Saint, you lost, the agreed one hundred high-grade crystal spirit stones, don't play tricks."
"Hey! Lost again, no more games." The saint said without interest.
At this time, the Great Elder suddenly came without warning.
When the maids outside shouted for the Great Elder to arrive, the expressions of both Yun Ruoyan and the Holy Maiden changed at the same time. Yun Ruoyan was shocked faster than the saint. She pulled the saint and whispered, "Let's go pick her up."
Yun Ruoyan was a little surprised when she saw the panicked appearance of the saint. According to her time with the saint, Yun Ruoyan felt that the saint was not a cowardly person. When he acted so terrified.
"Greetings to the Great Elder." The saint saluted the Great Elder, and Yun Ruoyan followed behind her, bowing her head and saluting. Her voice was very low, and she completely concealed her own aura of cultivation. My own sense of existence has been reduced to a minimum.
"Get up." The Great Elder said calmly, his eyes also swept across Yun Ruoyan's body, "I heard from Yin Xiao that you changed your maid again?"
The saint obviously didn't expect that the elder would suddenly ask such a trivial matter, she was taken aback for a moment and said, "Yes, yes. Xiaoyun, come and pay respects to the elder."
The saint said to Yun Ruoyan, Yun Ruoyan could only go forward to pay respects to the Great Elder again.
"Raise your head." The elder's voice sounded above Yun Ruoyan's head, Yun Ruoyan held her breath, and slowly raised her head to look at the elder Yinlong.
This was the first time that Yun Ruoyan saw him so closely. In the past, Yun Ruoyan had only seen the Great Elder from a distance through the image of the sky-turning mirror. He is tall and thin, looks like a middle-aged man, with long silver hair draped over his shoulders, his expression is rigid as if carved by a knife, and the two nasolabial folds on his face make him look more serious . The whole person gives people a feeling of icy chill.
Seeing Yun Ruoyan looking at him quietly, the Great Elder twitched his silver eyebrows and said, "This maid is really different." All the maids in the Dragon Castle can look straight at him like Yun Ruoyan. Among his people, besides his own precious son, Yun Ruoyan was the first one.
When Yun Ruoyan heard this, she immediately seemed to have been awakened by a start, her legs softened and she knelt down in front of the First Elder, her whole body prostrated on the ground and trembling.
"Grand Elder, my maidservant is not so smart and flexible. I must have been shocked by your majesty when I first saw you just now. Now I reacted and was frightened." The saint said quickly.
The Great Elder turned his eyes away from Yun Ruoyan, and finally stopped paying attention to her.
"Saint, what do you like to do on weekdays, the deity has never intervened too much, but don't forget the day of sacrifice." The elder said.
"Don't dare, the day after tomorrow is the day of sacrifice, I will never forget it." The saint replied respectfully, but for some reason, Yun Ruoyan clearly heard the meaning of resistance from her tone.
"That's good." The Great Elder turned and left, his voice sounded again: "Don't forget that is the meaning of your existence."
When the figure of the Great Elder disappeared at the gate of the palace, the saint's legs gave way and she almost sat on the ground. At this time, Yun Ruoyan, who had already stood up, supported her.
"Saint, are you okay?" Yun Ruoyan helped her to a chair and sat down, "Is sacrifice a terrible thing? Why are you so afraid."
Yun Ruoyan didn't dare to pay too much attention to the First Elder in case he would find out, but she focused all her attention on the Saintess. She obviously became nervous after the great elder raised the matter of sacrifice.
The saint grabbed Yun Ruoyan's hand immediately, and said in a low and trembling voice, "Sacrificing is a very terrible thing, and it is my worst nightmare since I was a saint."
"What nightmare, what's going on?" Yun Ruoyan asked.
But the saint kept shaking her head and stopped talking. After a while, she suddenly looked at Yun Ruoyan and said, "The sacrifice will be the day after tomorrow, can you accompany me?"
"Yes, I'm your personal maid. As long as you allow me to accompany you, the servant will naturally be willing to accompany you." Yun Ruoyan said without hesitation. She realized that this sacrifice is definitely not a sacrifice in the simple sense, but something went wrong. There must be a monster, but she wanted to see what kind of monster could scare the saint like this.
"Xiaoyun." The saint looked at Yun Ruoyan gratefully and said, "I don't want to lie to you, sacrifice is really a terrible thing. In the past, I had three very bold maidservants to participate in the sacrifice with me, but they all If you are frightened, you can go back on your word if you are frightened.”
The saint's words aroused Yun Ruoyan's curiosity even more, but she suddenly hesitated when she heard the child in her womb, "Holy maiden, the cultivation level of a servant is shallow, if you encounter any danger, I can't protect you , will you hold me back if you take me with you?"
"This is not the case. We will be very closely protected and will not be harmed by the outside world."
With the affirmation of the saint, Yun Ruoyan felt relieved, "Since there is no danger, the servant will accompany the saint, there is nothing to be afraid of."
Although Yun Ruoyan is almost the mother of two children, she is only in her early twenties, and the saint is at least nearly a hundred years old, but at this moment she is like a weak sister relying on Yun Ruoyan's protection.
Yun Ruoyan told Li Mo about the sacrifice, and Li Mo also heard about it, saying that he was trying to find a way to become a guard during the sacrifice. In this way, Yun Ruoyan no longer has any worries.
Soon it was the day of offering sacrifices. On this day, both the saint and Yun Ruoyan put on holy silver robes, and then led them to the temple under the leadership of several women who also wore silver robes.
The sacrificial ceremony here was not done with much fanfare, and Yun Ruoyan felt a bit like a small sacrificial event. She accompanied the saint and completed all the sacrificial procedures step by step, and when the people present also left one after another, Yun Ruoyan Ruoyan began to have some doubts.
"Saint, is this the end of the sacrifice, is there nothing to be afraid of?" Yun Ruoyan asked in a low voice.
"It's just begun." The saint replied with a small trembling voice. Yun Ruoyan couldn't help but glanced sideways at the saint, but seeing that her complexion was abnormally pale, she knew that the terrible thing she said was about to come.
Everyone left the sacrificial hall, but the saint and Yun Ruoyan were asked to stay. It turned out that the Silver Dragon Clan still had a rule that after the sacrifice, the saintess had to pray for the ancestors in the hall all night, and Yun Ruoyan, as the saintess' personal maid, was allowed to accompany her.
Yun Ruoyan saw Li Mo during the sacrifice, but he had to retreat with the crowd, and soon only the saint and Yun Ruoyan were left in the huge hall.
Night soon fell, and the saint became more and more nervous, but no matter how Yun Ruoyan asked her what would happen next, why she was so afraid of this, the saint was unwilling to say, it was not her He didn't want to tell Yun Ruoyan, but simply didn't want to describe it to Yun Ruoyan.
"Xiaoyun, stop asking. You'll know after a while." The saint said.
When night completely enveloped the hall, the ever-burning lamps in the hall lit up one by one, illuminating the entire space as bright as day. Although there are many ancestral tablets and some vivid silver dragon sculptures in front of the main hall, these don't make Yun Ruoyan feel terrible.
"It's time." Yun Ruoyan heard the saint say, and then she stood up from the futon, and Yun Ruoyan also stood up with her. At this moment, the Saintess can no longer see the slightest expression of fear. I don't know if she is pretending or for some other reason. In short, she is cold and numb, without the slightest expression of nervousness and fear before, as if she has suddenly changed into a different person. generally.