It takes more than a day to travel from the village where Zhao Changhe and his companions fell into the secret realm to the so-called holy mountain.
We set out that afternoon, rested most of the night in the carriage, and arrived in the evening of the next day.
The young couple had not recovered much yet, so they did not urge the driver to go faster. They took their time to recover in the carriage, and even stopped to eat when they came across settlements.
After a rough estimate, the journey was a little over three hundred miles.
From this, we can get a glimpse of the vastness of this secret realm. According to the village being the edge and the holy mountain being the middle, the radius of this secret realm is also three hundred miles.
If we calculate a little more, assuming that the village is not on the edge but is actually quite central, then this secret realm should be more than a thousand miles wide, which is extremely huge.
It is indeed a large-scale group copy, and only a heavenly book can protect a secret realm of this level.
But if the Spirits had the Heavenly Book, how could they be bullied like this? This can only prove that the Heavenly Book is actually in the so-called forbidden area.
It's a bit troublesome.
The blind man put everyone here, probably to give them a buffer. If they were thrown directly to the Holy Mountain, they would not be able to explain it even if they had a hundred mouths. Now that the news was sent back from the surrounding areas, the elders of the spirit tribe had received the report and preconceived that the envoy had arrived, and they did not even have a doubt.
When we arrived at the Holy Mountain, we saw a vast crowd of people kneeling outside. The old man in the lead touched his forehead to the ground and said, "Welcome the Holy Envoy."
Then the mountains and the sea shouted: "Welcome the Holy Envoy."
Yue Hongling opened her mouth. The poor heroine had never seen such a scene before. She felt embarrassed and awkward. Her first reaction was to call for everyone to get up.
Zhao Changhe held her hand and squeezed it gently.
Yue Hongling was speechless. She watched Zhao Changhe walk back and forth in front of the old man with his hands behind his back, without saying a word for a long time.
The crowd was so dense that no one dared to raise their heads. The atmosphere was extremely depressing.
Zhao Changhe finally stopped in front of the old man in the lead and said coldly, "Do you think that I am not as advanced as before, so I don't need to be respected too much?"
The old man hurriedly asked: "Why do you say that? Was it disrespectful to the village before? I will immediately send someone to..."
Zhao Changhe interrupted coldly: "I am talking about you!"
Yue Hongling had a blank expression on her face as she watched Zhao Changhe perform.
She knew what Zhao Changhe meant. He wanted to show an envoy's domineering and bullying. The more domineering he was, the more it looked like the truth. As for claiming that he didn't respect him as much as before, but not saying where the problem was, leaving people to figure it out for themselves, it was because he didn't know what the problem was. Anyway, the other party would find problems for himself if he thought about it.
Yue Hongling suddenly knew what Tang Wanzhuang was thinking... He had that kind of potential.
Sure enough, the old man thought for a long time with sweat dripping down his back, and kowtowed to himself: "The lanterns for the Honorable Envoy Zhang are not as spectacular as before, that's because some trees here have been cut down... uh, there is no reason, please punish me, Honorable Envoy."
Yue Hongling looked at the lantern silks around her and sighed.
Zhao Changhe didn't expect the other party to come up with this reason. It was really a bit ridiculous. It seemed that the specifications were exactly the same. This was strange. He originally thought that when the domineering envoy arrived here, the spirits should give him some treasures. This kind of pretentiousness was tantamount to asking for bribes, but the other party thought about it for a long time and didn't think of giving him treasures. It seemed that there was no such precedent.
Is this envoy from the forbidden land actually so honest? How funny.
He said calmly: "Well, so as to avoid being accused of being domineering."
"I dare not, I dare not..."
"Slap yourself ten times, and don't do it again."
"Thank you for the grace of the Holy Messenger." The old man was overjoyed and actually slapped his mouth hard.
Zhao Changhe walked through the crowd of people kneeling on the ground with his hands behind his back, ignoring everything: "We two don't like noise, let's all go, the banquet and other things should be cleared, and the rewards will be given to you for yourselves. Let's take a bath first, then we can talk."
"Yes, it is ready. Please follow me, Holy Envoy."
Although they were told to disperse, no one dared to leave, and they all knelt there. The old man personally led the two men to the back of the mountain, smiling apologetically, "Holy Envoy, please come this way."
Zhao Changhe followed without saying a word. After a while, they arrived at a quiet bamboo courtyard. He couldn't hold back as soon as he saw it.
It looks like there are two bamboo buildings standing side by side in a courtyard, and there is a row of green bamboo in the middle dividing the courtyard into two halves. It can be regarded as one courtyard or divided into two. If you look carefully, you can find that these are actually two courtyards, and the fence in the middle has been removed and green bamboo has been planted to temporarily separate them.
It can be seen that the spirits took great pains to entertain these "male and female holy envoys". You don't know if they are a couple, and you dare not ask, and you dare not hastily arrange them together. But if they are really a couple, you don't know if separating them will offend, so you just make it like this, and you can explain it in any way.
It's so hard to be a slave.
From this, we can see that in the past, envoys would come alone with several followers, with a clear distinction between the master and the followers, and it was clear how to receive them. There was no such situation where a pair came. But the question is, if a master envoy came, would he ask you for women to serve him
Is it because the envoys never want one that you don't arrange for maids to serve, or is it because the envoys are a pair this time and you don't dare to arrange it
It makes sense that he didn't dare to arrange it, but it would be strange if the envoy didn't want it. It's fine if he didn't ask for bribes, but he doesn't want women either? Is that forbidden area still a Buddhist holy place
These thoughts flashed through Zhao Changhe's mind quickly, and he deliberately said, "Find a few beauties to help me bathe."
Yue Hongling glanced at him, guessed that he was testing her, and said nothing.
The old man also glanced at Yue Hongling, and seeing that she had no reaction at all, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this was the test, these two were not a pair. Well... Although the previous envoys did not ask for women, every envoy is different, and it is normal to want it.
He immediately bowed and said, "It's ready, Holy Envoy, please wait."
Zhao Changhe yawned and waved his hand: "Go ahead."
The old man bowed and left. The maid had not yet arrived, and the bamboo garden was quiet. Yue Hongling crossed her arms with a smile: "I see you are having a hard time holding it in. Why don't you just call their saints to serve you?"
"Sisi wasn't among the people kneeling outside just now. Maybe something important happened outside, so Sisi didn't come in."
"So you really want to!"
“Hey hey hey shit…” Zhao Changhe covered the soft flesh on his waist, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: “My sister Yue, how could you not know what I am doing…” “Hehe.” Yue Hongling naturally knew the answer, but she trusted in her heart that Zhao Changhe would not do anything reckless.
Zhao Changhe whispered, "Did you notice that there were more middle-aged and elderly people welcoming us just now, but not that many young people? Logically speaking, there is no one in the mountain who dares not to welcome the Holy Envoy of the Forbidden Land. They should all be here. The age ratio is wrong."
Yue Hongling said: "This happened in the villages before... Maybe Sisi was taken out?"
"Sisi only took so much out, how could it have such a big impact?"
While the two were discussing, they saw a group of maids walking in, so they stopped talking.
Each of the maids was holding a small bucket of hot water, as if they were going to add water to the bathtub. When they came to the two people, the maids looked at each other carefully, as if they had been assigned tasks in advance. One team went to Yue Hongling's bamboo building, and the other team, who was obviously more beautiful, lowered their heads shyly and went to Zhao Changhe.
Yue Hongling gritted her teeth: "They are not Sisi... If you dare to take this opportunity to bully them, you will be punished."
After saying that, she shook her ponytail and went into her own bamboo house.
Zhao Changhe looked at her back and felt both angry and amused. So what you mean is that Sisi will be fine
He walked leisurely into the bamboo building. The bathtub was already full of water. The maids were wearing thin clothes and standing aside with their heads bowed, their faces showing shame to their necks.
Zhao Changhe said calmly: "They didn't want it before? This actually surprised me..."
The maids looked at each other, and one of them said bravely, "In the past, the envoys never asked for these..."
What Zhao Changhe wanted to ask was what the forbidden land was doing here and what it wanted. Otherwise, if he didn’t know such an important thing, he wouldn’t be able to pretend later... He avoided the old man’s welcoming dinner and ran here to take a shower first, just to find a few young girls who were ignorant of the world to talk to.
Hearing this, he continued to test: "They are diligent and dedicated, can they really just take it and leave?"
The maid bit her lower lip and said, "We are taking someone with us anyway, maybe they will need it on the way..."
Zhao Changhe's mind suddenly exploded and everything became clear.
The forbidden area wants people! Probably boys and girls. No wonder the age ratio here is not right.
Judging from the nature of the elves, and the resurrection of the gods and demons that he knew about, it was most likely a sacrifice of flesh and blood. Those who went there claimed to be serving the gods, but once they went, they could never come back!
The envoys certainly didn't dare to mess around. No matter what they took away, in theory, everyone here was food for a certain god or devil. God knows if the gods or devils know what they did. Of course, they didn't dare to touch anything.
These young girls who are naive to the ways of the world don’t know that some of the brave ones may even want to seduce the messenger to become a phoenix, not knowing that they are about to face a road of no return...
But it is impossible that the top leaders are unaware of this, yet they still donate their flesh and blood every year to feed the unknown demon god!
Sisi must have known it, or had vaguely guessed it, and her resistance was particularly fierce.
Zhao Changhe took a deep breath and said seriously, "Since they are all like this, I can't break the rules. You all go down and I will wash myself."
Some of the maids breathed a sigh of relief, while others looked disappointed, but none of them dared to disobey and bowed obediently and withdrew: "God, rest, and call us anytime."
After they all left, Zhao Changhe took off his clothes and got into the tub, thinking about things while taking a bath.
Fortunately, the corpse demon in the ring couldn’t see what was happening outside, otherwise it would have gone berserk if it knew.
This matter is indeed a bit troublesome... But with the corpse demon here, it should be feasible. We need to make a plan. It would be best if Sisi came and discussed with Sisi how to do this matter. If only Yue Hongling and I were here, our identities would be very awkward and we would not know how to do it properly.
Just as he was thinking this, Longque trembled slightly.
Killing warning.
Zhao Changhe's mind moved, and he saw outside the window behind him. The bamboo forest was swaying, and a graceful figure was hidden in the bamboo shade under the moon. She held a dagger upside down, her eyes fixed on the window, looking for an opportunity to assassinate him.
Sisi is here...
The first thing he did was to assassinate the messenger.
Killing the messenger might force the entire clan to rebel.
Zhao Changhe almost laughed out loud. The maid took after her master, their thinking patterns were so similar... Maybe she was learning from the master's stories
No, she had laid the plan for today as early as the first thing she did when she came out of the mountains was to steal the door.
Zhao Changhe pretended to lean against the bathtub, closed his eyes and dozed off, and even faint snoring could be heard.
“Whoosh!”
A fragrant breeze blew by, and a shadow like wind and fog flashed behind the bathtub.
Zhao Changhe slightly turned sideways, grabbed her wrist with one hand, dragged her, and with a "bang" the little girl fell into the bucket again.
"This has happened so many times." Zhao Changhe picked her up with a smile: "Do you think your fate is to take a bath with the master?"
Sisi's resentment froze on her face, and soon turned into an expression of extreme surprise: "Why is it you?"
Zhao Changhe smiled slightly: "This is destined by heaven."
"Ugh..." In an unknown space, a blind man vomited all over the floor.
But Sisi's peach blossom eyes were shining brightly, and she really felt that this was destined by God.
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