"You're dreaming!"
When it came to Bai Shengyi, Cui Shenshi would never agree.
Donglin Huang frowned, "Cui Shenshi, aren't you going to ask that woman? Since she is your temple's divine maiden, surely she wouldn't heartlessly watch this female slave die?"
She put her arms on her chest and then incited the kneeling female slave, "Don't you think so? You don't want to die, do you?"
The female slave lowered her head and said nothing.
She indeed didn't want to die.
But the one who wanted her dead was never Divine Maiden Bai, but Donglin Huang, and the temple! What could she do?
Cui Shenshi said coldly, "Young Miss Donglin, this Shenshi advises you to put away your thoughts. If you insist on disrupting the temple's Winter Moon Festival, don't blame this Shenshi for being impolite."
What a joke, he wasn't tired of living, why would he go ask the adult?
Donglin Huang was rejected repeatedly, and her face was a little embarrassed. A sentence almost blurted out, "Do you know, I am your true..."
She suddenly remembered that it was just a dream, and she had no evidence. Speaking out would only cause trouble, so she swallowed the rest of her words.
"Forget it, this young lady won't argue with you!"
Donglin Huang angrily kicked the female slave on the ground twice and walked towards her spiritual beast carriage.
"Let's go, let's continue our journey."
Cui Shenshi did not look at the female slave on the ground and ordered everyone to continue their journey.
The female slave silently got up from the ground and returned to the team.
"Liya!" Her friend hugged her tightly, "Thank goodness, I thought you wouldn't be back."
Liya's expression was very calm, or rather, numb.
She said, "It won't happen. There were fewer female slaves in the temple this year than last year. It doesn't matter if I die, but if the sacrifice is burned, Cui Shenshi will have no way to explain to the Central Region Temple."
"Liya..." her friend hesitated, "Don't say that, we will have a chance to survive."
Liya twitched the corner of her mouth, "Minmin, it's been a year, haven't you seen through it yet? Whether we are divine maidens or female slaves, we are all just playthings of the temple. Even the chosen divine maidens..."
She looked at the aloof and unique young girl not far away, and suddenly met the girl's cold and calm gaze, her heart skipped a beat.
"Why is that woman looking at you?" Sui Xing Shen Huo looked around, "Could it be that she wants your help?"
Bai Shengyi shook her head.
Although she was standing far away, she had heard everything the few people had said. If she wanted to seek help, that woman would have followed Donglin Huang's words.
"Then what is she doing?"
"How would I know?"
Bai Shengyi returned to the spiritual beast carriage and replied to Sui Xing Shen Huo in her sea of consciousness, "Can you be quiet? You've been chattering for so long, aren't you tired?"
She really felt that Sui Xing Shen Huo talked too much, as if he hadn't spoken for several hundred years.
"I haven't spoken for hundreds of years either," Sui Xing Shen Huo said aggrievedly, "The last cultivator who found me was six hundred and sixty years ago. Are you already tired of me? As expected, you humans are fickle, woo woo woo..."
Bai Shengyi's head buzzed from the noise, and she held her forehead, her eyes gradually losing their light.
Outside the spiritual beast carriage, a guard reported to Cui Shenshi, "My lord, Young Miss Donglin has sent people to follow our team."
"Don't bother with her," Cui Shenshi asked, "How is the investigation I assigned you to do going?"
"My lord, because the matter happened too long ago, and Divine Envoy Bai meticulously covered it up, our brothers in the temple have not found any evidence for the time being."
What Cui Shenshi asked them to investigate was naturally Donglin Huang's escape from the temple.
Even though Donglin Huang was the daughter of the Lord of Donglin City, she had to abide by the temple's rules for selecting female slaves, because the Winter Moon Festival was a grand event concerning the entire Green Glory Small World, and the sacred majesty of the Winter Moon Festival could not be violated.
Before, he knew that Donglin Huang was let go by Divine Envoy Bai, and he didn't want to get involved in the entanglement between the Divine Master and the Lord of Donglin City.
However, now he felt that Donglin Huang was somewhat strange, and wanted to be safe.
"Continue the investigation. As long as it happened, there will be traces."
...
In the Shenqi World, the barren ice plains of the Southern Wilderness River.
The silent wilderness river welcomed a clamor of voices. Cultivators came and went flying in the air, and on the ground, more and more sects gathered, setting up tents one after another.
"Are Qujing Sect and Xile Sect still not here?"
"Are they too ashamed to come?"
At the outermost perimeter of the sect, a group of idle cultivators gathered to chat.
The female cultivator who asked initially couldn't help but add, "Actually, it's not strange. These two sects are also old major sects. To be attacked by a rising star, they lost all face and dignity. If it were me, I wouldn't dare to come."
"You should have seen Nuigucheng a month ago, that was truly... tsk tsk, exciting!"
"Hey, hey, stop talking, that person is coming." The person next to the female cultivator quickly pulled her.
The female cultivator immediately stopped talking, pretended to look around, as if patrolling the surroundings.
Not far away, a man in fiery red clothes walked out from the center of the sect's encampment and walked straight to the front left without looking sideways.
"Huh, where is Mountain Lord Qin going?" The female cultivator's spirit suddenly soared, she nudged her friend beside her, stretched her neck, "Quick, quick, go and see! It must be people from Qujing Sect who have arrived! I heard they brought Young Master Jinglan with them this time, so there will be a good show to watch."
"Wasn't it because of Young Master Jinglan and that woman named Yun Youyue that Daoist Rong Ku went missing?" Her friend also got excited.
Qin Si didn't know these things.
However, even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
He looked coldly at the sect's team in front of him, a long ice sword suddenly appeared in his hand, and he slashed fiercely towards the center of the team!
"Whoosh!"
The sword light carried an earth-shattering killing intent, stirring up a vast expanse of ice and snow, directly throwing the cultivators of the Qujing Sect about like flying sand and rolling stones!
"Qin Si!" Jing Liusheng, the sect leader of Qujing Sect, was so angry that his nose was about to turn crooked, "Are you going to stop, or not? I've already apologized to your Shenqi Mountain, what else do you want?"
Qin Si remembered that before in Nuigucheng, Jing Liusheng refused to admit that his son was wrong. In the end, under the pressure of the two great forces of Shenqi Mountain and Yueqing Mountain, he casually said "I'm sorry," and his fist became even harder.
"Let Jinglan get out!" His phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, and he pointed his long sword at Qujing Sect, saying not a single unnecessary word, "Otherwise, Qujing Sect will get out of the Southern Wilderness River!"
"You! You're simply unreasonable!" Jing Liusheng cursed in exasperation.
Seeing that the Shenqi Grand Assembly was about to end, and the closing ceremony of the assembly would be held in the Southern Wilderness River, their Qujing Sect had achieved excellent results this year. Now they were being asked to leave the Southern Wilderness River?
How could that be possible!
Jing Liusheng angrily said, "Don't think that our Qujing Sect is afraid of you, Qin Si. Last time it was giving face to Yueqing Mountain. If you insist on acting recklessly today, don't blame me for being impolite!"
Qin Si's expression remained unchanged, and he slightly raised his long sword, pointing coldly at Jing Liusheng.
He didn't say anything, but he had said everything.