"Adults... we protest..." The hubbub of voices rose again, with some shouting and others gasping for breath.

  Protest your mom. Liu Zhen was standing aside with a crooked mouth and slanted eyes.

  The altar's sacrificial call was unmistakable, even the highest authority, the Great Shaman Vian's face had a somewhat solemn expression.

  Prince Li Cha leaned down, close to the great shaman's ear, whispering something, the great shaman nodded slightly, occasionally glancing at Liu Zhen with a sideways glance.

  Liu Zhen suddenly felt a hint of conspiracy.

  "Please, everyone, be quiet!" The Grand Shaman of the Peacekeepers finished his hushed conversation with the prince and smiled cunningly as he looked at Pique: "There will be two options for your trial grounds, my respected Dragon Priest. These two locations are the Southern Cross Star Forest and the Sunset Swamp on the Southwest Border. I will send a flying hawk to inform the local garrison of your arrival."

  The surrounding noise suddenly subsided, and each of the mourners who had just been indignant suddenly stopped muttering, exchanging a look of schadenfreude, staring at Liu Zhen.

  "Whichever is closer, I'll choose that one. The mentor and I want to make the instrument as soon as possible and take it to the seal land. My lord, I will make the demons in that place regret why they were born there." Liu Zhen said with a glance at Hailun, speaking loudly without shame.

  A burst of laughter in the temple, a laugh with ridicule and schadenfreude.

  "Alright then, the recent trial location, you can go to the Southern Cross Star Forest and try your luck, my young friend." Vian, the Great Shaman, clapped his hands in decision, and even gave Liu a thumbs up: "Your courage is indeed worthy of the noble Brave Warrior Dragon Sacrifice identity."

  Liu Zhenhong turned the ring on his thumb, and he increasingly felt a sense of conspiracy and trap floating around.

  Another war drum sounded, and the farce came to an end. The worshipers dispersed with malicious glances.

  Prince Richard walked elegantly to the beautiful snake's side, chatted casually with Helen, and seemed to show affection by stroking the feathers of Helen's beloved pet fish eagle.

  As Liu walked past, he clearly heard Prince Wang inviting Helen to tour the customs and culture of Weishengpang.

  Liu Zhen and Guo stood still, both slanting their eyes to size up the prince, but the prince didn't even glance at them, completely ignoring them as he swung his cloak behind him, kissed the backs of the two ladies' hands, and withdrew with a courteous bow.

  "You see how he walks with his feet turned outward, he must have gotten hernia." Liu Zhenpeng viciously cursed the departing Wang Zi.

  The beauty snake was communicating with Liu Zhen's disciple for the first time, and after hearing this, she was choked for half a day without recovering.

  Cui Peishan thought that if this disciple had two more horns on his head, he would almost not need to put on makeup to be a devil in hell.

  After looking around and making sure no one was watching, the beautiful snake took a deep breath and whispered to the two newly appointed quasi-war sacrifices: "You both come with me."

  Medusa's ancestral bedroom is in the temple, each rod sacrifice has its own exclusive space in the temple, except for the necessary time to wander outside for ascetic practice, the rod sacrifices must serve the war god in the temple for at least two months every year.

  All the way, Cui Peishan didn't say a word, she just quietly walked along the long and quiet corridor, leading two equally silent juniors silently forward.

  Liu Zhen was about to speak several times, trying to ease the atmosphere, but was stopped by Xiao Hu Li's gaze.

  The vaulted ceiling of Cui Peishan's bedroom is also hollow in the middle, with natural lighting, and a ray of sunlight falls comfortably on the bed covered with a round canopy. The intersection of light and darkness is perfect, making this bedroom full of comfort and warmth.

  A faintly sweet and lazy fragrance that seemed to exist yet not exist wafted through the room. This was truly a woman's scent. Liu Zhen was inwardly praising her without end.

  "How lovely it is, teacher!" Helen exclaimed, gazing at the princess bed covered with rush mats and swan's down, her little heart could no longer conceal its emotions.

  "Silly child, the mentor is cold-blooded after all. No matter what time it is, you must be a little warmer." The beautiful snake gently stroked her apprentice's hair, with a soft gaze in her eyes.

  "What if it rains?" Liu Zhenrong looked up at the dome and finally couldn't help but ask. Since entering this damn temple, he had been shrouded in this oppressive atmosphere, which made him very uncomfortable.

  "The dome above is covered with translucent shells, don't worry, even if it rains, it won't leak." The beautiful snake master ancestor invited the two juniors to sit on the bed.

  Liu Zhen and Helen were both entering this sacred hall for the first time. Although Bogu Village Prison also had an altar, compared to any corner of the temple, it was simply a shabby chicken coop in the countryside. The two country bumpkins looked at the facilities in the room with a mixture of shock and amazement, whether it was the huge bookshelf or the massive wardrobe, both left their mouths agape.

  "So many beautiful clothes......" Helen got up from the bed, her fingers lightly sliding over the row of sacrificial robes on the clothes rack, the solemn and mysterious black sacrificial robes were cut into various styles, some were elegant, some were elegant, and the subtle decorations on them also showed the designer's ingenuity.

  "There are so many books..." Liu Zhen also pretended to be refined and stood in front of the bookcase, he knew that many elders liked younger generations who loved reading, although he was completely uninterested in these books, but still pretended to be very enthusiastic, especially studious, pulled out a book with iron plates covering the four corners of the pages, held it in his hand and flipped through it with relish.

  The cover of this book is written in elegant and beautiful Mongolian script with four large characters - "Fengsi Fadian". When he opened the page, the thick and sturdy paper made from Tuhuoluo lantern core grass brought a very comfortable and refreshing feeling to his fingertips.

  Better than Charmin, using it to wipe your butt when going to the bathroom is definitely not bad. Liu Zhen made a very professional evaluation of this high-quality and expensive paper.

  "Teacher, so many beautiful clothes! I've never seen so many nice clothes before!" Helen rushed into her teacher's arms and started acting cute.

  "Helen, the mentor may be a priestess, but she's also a young woman... " Medusa turned back and giggled: "Although you Foxes are the beauties of the Mongol Empire, you have to allow the mentor to have some amateur hobbies..."

  "A woman should be good to herself." Liu Zhen's head shook back and forth as he lifted his head from reading.

  The sentence of nonsense made the beautiful snake look at Liu with a slightly changed gaze.

  "Richard, it seems that your abilities have been underestimated by many people." Cui Peishan got up and took two water-filled horn cups from the desk, placing them on the beak of a bronze firebird on the wall. A gentle stream flowed into the cups, accompanied by rising hot air.

  "Thank you for your praise, Master Cui Peisheng." Liu Zhensheng put down the book in his hand and took over the water that was handed to him.

  The beautiful woman swayed her waist and walked to the desk, opened a drawer, took out a bag made of a wild boar's bladder, and threw it at Liu Zhen.

  "Monster crystal core?" Liu Zhen opened it and was stunned, the bag was full of monster crystal cores the size of pigeon eggs, with six-sided shapes, round shapes, and triangular shapes. Each crystal core jumped with a strange light, and inside the crystal core seemed to contain a group of fog, vaguely hiding an unknown world behind, filled with mysterious power.

  "These are all the crystal nuclei I've hunted down during my years of wandering cultivation, and now I'm giving them all to you two." Cui Peishan sat down on the bed, lifted her sacrificial robes, and gently rubbed her colorful tail.

  This very feminine gesture made Helen, who was standing beside her, feel envious.

  "Then we won't be polite..." Liu Zhen was about to put it away when Helen interrupted him.

  "It's too expensive!" Helen frowned, holding down Liu's shaking hand, and looked at her mentor Cui Peishan in confusion: "Dear mentor, didn't you always teach me that self-cultivation for worship must be bitter, and all rewards must first be paid by oneself? Why are you giving us these magic crystals like a doting elder today?"

  "Foolish child..." The beautiful snake woman pursed her lips, a bitter smile: "I just don't want you two to lose face for nothing!"

  "A loss of face?" Liu Zhen was somewhat perplexed, "Why would I lose face?"

  "In the northeastern province of Wysteria, the city of Fox Tribe is not only where our Wysterian Temple's rituals are held, but also where all the kingdom's rituals take place. Whether it's the Soul Ritual to collect magical pets or the War Ritual to hunt for crystal cores to make instruments, none have ever left the vast wilderness of Dunuo. They're all held in the bordering Wolf Tribe's jurisdiction, in the Florento Salt Swamp Forest. Even the knights' promotions are held there." Lady Choi looked at the two juniors with a warm gaze: "Do you know what level of ritual trial the Southern Cross Star Forest and the Sunset Marsh are?"

  The two people shook their heads in unison, both looking bewildered.

  "It's all my fault, I was so focused on letting you cultivate yourself that I forgot the basic duties of a mentor." Cui Peishan shook her head slightly in self-reproach and beckoned Helen to sit down beside her.

  "Dear Helen......" The beautiful snake gently stroked the little fox's face: "The Southern Cross Star Forest is also called the Death Forest, and the Sunset Swamp is also known as the Bottomless Demon Abyss. Those are all trial grounds for the War Sacrifice Advancement Rod! Even the demons of those two places have been invading the kingdom's heartland, the Wolf Clan, the Pail Army, and the Swan people of the Sma tribe, they are stationed there, not just to defend against the potential threats of the giant tribes, the elf tribe, and the Druid Kingdom in the Southern Cross Star Forest, but mainly to prevent the demons from entering the lives of ordinary people in Bimon."

  "Is this the promotion trial grounds for Soul Requiem?" Liu Zhen's mouth was agape, and it took him half a day to react: "Aubrey! We're the ones who are supposed to be in the Soul Requiem Promotion War! Isn't this skipping levels?!"

  "It's just that your performance today was too eye-catching!" Cui Peishan's face didn't show any anger, but she was clearly a bit upset: "Today, you made the two esteemed Rod of Authority priests lose so much face. Think about it, if Wei An Da Shaman hadn't taken some balancing actions, the priests would have been furious! If you were really the Dragon Priest, that would be one thing, but you've already lost your dragon beast! How can these proud priests swallow this?"

  Swallow it after cooking it well. Liu Zhen said.

  "Don't be so disheartened, my young friend." The beautiful snake smiled lightly: "You may not know yet, but the rights of the Rod of Sacrifice are enormous. The number of sacrifices in the kingdom has always been at a low ebb, and it's not just us, including the entire human nation, due to the decline of large-scale elemental tides, the number of magicians and sacrifices is already incomparable to that of the Hailar War a thousand years ago. The Rod of Sacrifice can be said to have reached the pinnacle of the golden tower of sacrifices, except for the Great Shaman of Weian, the Twelve Main Sacrifices, and the Red-robed High Priest, the Rod of Sacrifice is the highest level of sacrifice. Many ordinary people in the kingdom, throughout their lives, may not even have the honor of seeing them once."

  "Is it that exaggerated?" Liu Zhen looked at Helen, and Helen nodded affirmatively towards him.

  "Not at all." Cui Peishan smiled and said, "The power-holding families of the Wu Zei almost all have real power in their own families. Think about it, even a warlord can have fiefs and titles, let alone a power-holding family? The two Wolf gentlemen you offended today, one of whom is Lord Redeknap, are even hot candidates for the next wolf tribe leader. The Fox clan in the Northeast Province has always been under the nose of the Wolf tribe. As a vassal of the Fox tribe, offending a superior noble can imagine the subtlety of this relationship? Mr. Qidan's approach is actually largely taken care of me, and he is deliberately biased towards you."

  "Is it that complicated?" Helen's eyes shone brightly as she stared at her mentor, unwavering.

  "Dear Helen, being a priestess is far more than just learning to chant battle hymns." Medusa gazed at her beloved disciple: "I've kept you away from these things all along because I was afraid that these filthy and disgusting things would tarnish your beautiful soul. But unfortunately, your progress has far exceeded my expectations. I thought it would take you at least another year to reach the level of war priestess, but unexpectedly, you have undergone 'natural evolution' so quickly. Praise the gods, this time's events can only be said to be an accident."

  "It's all about power and intrigue again..." Liu Zhen felt a bit disheartened, really hadn't expected that even among beastmen, there existed similarly complex webs of power and the same right and wrong in officialdom.

  Damn it! This must be the doing of that Prince Wangzi! Liu Zhen thought of that Li Cha, the Lion Tiger Prince and the mysterious whispers with Da Sa Man.

  Obis Laqi! This matter is far from over. Liu Zhen was secretly furious.

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  Today's update took a bit more time ~~ Sorry ~~ Made everyone wait for a long time ~

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