"My young friend, as long as there are intelligent beings in this world, intrigue and politics will forever be unavoidable." The beautiful snake advised gently: "Since they cannot be avoided, we can only adapt to them."

  "Is Cui Peisheng also involved in this matter, Prince Richard?" Liu Zhen asked with a hint of slyness, glancing at the beautiful snake master with the corner of his eye.

  "The Lion Tiger clan is the temple of the war god Qin Dian's 'Eternal Guardian', so you don't have to worry too much, the Rhein tribe has a natural gene for good color in their blood vessels, they all react like this when they see beautiful women, it's not targeting Helen." The beautiful snake comforted Liu Zhen: "Sensitive little guy, even if he is the king, he doesn't have the right to force a priestess who serves the war god to do something she doesn't want to do. Letting you take the trial by exception is just Lord Qi Dan trying to appease the anger of other powerful priestesses."

  Haha, the more you try to cover it up, the more obvious it becomes. Lions and tigers are attracted to beauty, why haven't I seen him coming after you? You're also very beautiful, said Liu Zhen.

  "Haha... I was just being paranoid!" Liu Zhenhong pretended to laugh it off with a carefree smile.

  He's a dead pig not afraid of boiling water, what comes will come. Whether it's the prince or the temple, if he really gets angry, he'll just tear off his disguise and show his true face. Once the four golden men make a move, even the toilet lid will be lifted for you.

  "Mentor, doesn't our trip to the Southern Cross Star Forest this time count as going to our deaths?" Helen asked her mentor with a naive expression.

  "My little girl..." Cui Peishan giggled, her chest heaving with the effort, "Your 'cautiousness' is truly worthy of Fox's traditional style..."

  Liu Zhen was pretending to drink water, using a cow horn cup to block half of his vision, and suddenly he couldn't help but take a closer look.

  "Helen, you also know that although the Fox clan has a high proportion of sacrificial priests, most of them have already been sent to other provinces by the Main Temple to take on important positions. In fact, our Northeast Province is one of the weaker ones among the five major Main Temples in the kingdom. How could we possibly send you two to your deaths? Don't think that the temple is too evil." The beautiful snake put down her colorful long tail from the bed, "If it were to send you to your deaths, High Shaman Vian would definitely have sent you to the Takragoma Great Desert, where the twelve main sacrifices and High Shaman Vian's promotion trials are held, which is also an ideal place to send people to their deaths."

  "What does it mean that he's sending us to the Southern Cross Star Forest and Sunset Swamp?" Helen still didn't quite understand.

  "The main point is that he wants you to suffer a bit. On the other hand, he has also informed the local garrison, and the military will protect your safety when necessary. As long as you two return with your tails between your legs and let those arrogant priests vent their anger, his goal will be achieved. You don't know that originally, the Haos tribe's priest, Puyoer, was scheduled to lead the Northeast Province team in next spring's 'National Priest Olympic Games', and his Lava Sculpted Beast had a good chance of winning a prize. However, due to your meddling, it's uncertain whether his beast can recover from its injuries by next spring. Adding to that, there's also Lord Redeknap's matter; if you two don't suffer a setback, the priests in the temple will definitely have opinions." Cui Peishan said: "The danger of the Southern Cross Star Forest is unimaginable to you two, and I'm worried that you'll encounter some powerful magical beasts. After all, both the Southern Cross Star Forest and the Sunset Swamp have 'Time-Space Rifts', and if you really encounter some powerful interdimensional magical beasts, even with military protection, something might go wrong. I couldn't bear for my only Natural Evolution War Song disciple and Dragon Priest grandson to suffer any misfortune, so I secretly gave you a bag of Magical Beast Cores. Go take a stroll in the Southern Cross Star Forest, but don't go too deep; then return with a miserable expression, and everyone's face will be saved."

  Liu Zhen and Helen were both a little moved by this dear teacher's motherly care.

  "Haha... old Jianghu..." Liu Zhenhong said with a faint smile.

  "Mentor! We appreciate your kindness. Let's still accept the trial arranged by the Temple, if we obtain the title of War Sacrifice under your protection, this behavior that is close to cheating, really can't bear my pride and self-esteem." Helen bit her lip and looked at Liu Zhen, saying: "Right? Dear Li Cha?"

  "Of course! This doesn't suit our style." Liu Zhenhong could only respond this way, but in his heart he was very unwilling.

  At the riverside, eating to one's heart's content; clear and bright, starving to the point of breaking one's back! Our Helen is a little fool. Liu Da Guan Ren secretly lamented in his heart for the lost magic crystal that had slipped through his fingers.

  "Two stubborn little kids." The beautiful woman, who was actually not that old, raised an eyebrow and sold the old look, but it could be seen that she felt quite proud and relieved by the two juniors' response.

  "Richard is a wonderful dragon worshiper! I have faith in him!" Helen hugged Liu Zhen's arm, with a sweet face.

  Actually, there were several times when she wanted to tell her mentor about Richard's mysterious and abnormal battle song, the four major cloud Qin Zong Jin Ren, and the double Xiu boundary together. Richard's strong and unparalleled strength made her have an irrepressible desire to show off, but the words reached the tip of her tongue and were still endured.

  Because she felt that everything that happened today made her re-recognize and re-examine this temple, Fox's usual caution and prudence were perfectly embodied in Helen at this moment.

  "Just for that sentence, I'd go to the Taimu Laya Snow Mountain to hunt dragons with you!" Liu was suddenly filled with a sense of grandeur and magnanimity. The moved GengGeng and the little fox exchanged a smile, and everything was understood without needing to be said.

  Cui Peishan looked at the two intimate lovers and opened her mouth to speak, but then swallowed her words.

  "Shall I tell you two about my past?" Cui Peishan hesitated for a moment and changed her tone.

  "Really?!" Helen jumped up excitedly: "The mentor never told me about your past!"

  "I also want to know." Liu Zhenhong habitually touched his own big nose, "I heard that the Medusa clan had long disappeared in the dust of history, I'm also curious, why did you, Master..."

  "This story is a bit long....." Choi Bae-ji gazed into the boundless memories, falling into a brief contemplation. After a while, she finally spoke up: "My mentor, one of the twelve main priests of Wang Guo, the genius priest of the Smai Tian'e tribe, Muriniō-sama. During his travels and training, he discovered an egg with a pale white color in the forest of Nan Xīzǐ Star. At first, Muriniō-sama thought it was an egg of some magical beast, out of curiosity, he brought this egg back to his territory..."

  "Is that Lord Muriyno?! The mentor's mentor is actually Lord Muriyno?!" Hellen's face immediately flushed with excitement, her eyes shining with infatuation: "I heard that Lord Muriyno became the Rod of Worship at the age of 20! And I've also heard that he's the number one handsome man in the kingdom, and his pair of wings on his back make him look like an angel to many foolish humans when he travels through human lands!"

  "When can I meet your mentor's mentor?" Helen pouted, pulling on the beautiful snake's arm, pleading.

  "There will be a chance to meet, your coronation ceremony, I'll make sure he rushes over. After all, the 15-year-old war sacrifice, even in the kingdom, has surpassed the highest record holder, Lord Muri?o!" Cui Peishan lovingly hugged Hailun.

  "Mentor, I want to continue listening to the story." Liu Zhen was on the side, fiercely pursing his lips, with a completely unrelated expression, and his face almost had the words "sour grapes" written on it.

  "Hehe...... I'll continue, Helen, you can't interrupt me again." The beautiful snake gave a seductive glance at Helen and Liu Zhen, then continued: "Lord Mourinho was only twenty years old back then, already an official war priest of the kingdom. That time he picked up the egg was during his trial journey to upgrade from war priest to rod priest."

  "What's next?" The little fox looked up with an expectant face.

  "This egg was incubated by Lord Murini using fire, guess what hatched out of it?" The beautiful snake smiled at the little fox.

  "Lord Muri?o is a Fire Phoenix that can rival the Dragon's length, one-of-a-kind in the kingdom. I think it's a Flame Phoenix egg." The little fox had a look of satisfaction and fantasy on his face.

  "I guess......" Liu Zhen's words were astonishing: "I guess what hatched from this egg is you, Master!"

  The little fox was suddenly frightened by this sentence, looking at Liu Zhen in shock and bewilderment, then turning his head to look at his mentor.

  The beautiful snake looked at Liu Zhen in surprise, nodded her head, "Not bad, the egg that hatched was indeed me, how did you know? Li Cha?"

  "I'm guessing." Liu Zhen said frankly.

  It's not like it's easy to pick up a phoenix egg, is it? Liu Zhen had never even picked up a chicken egg before.

  "Helen, don't be surprised. Not every descendant of Bimon is born alive. The descendants of the Model Tribe and the Swan Tribe are all hatched from eggs, and we Medusas are no exception." said the beautiful snake.

  "Helen told me that the Medusa clan had disappeared from the kingdom for a long time, why did you... " Liu Zhen was a bit confused, he suddenly remembered what Helen and he said in front of the War God's Magic Beast Statue before entering the Temple.

  "Honestly, I've been confused for a long time too..." Helen innocently shrugged her fragrant shoulders and made a cute face.

  "In the annals of history, many a tribe has vanished into dust, and not just Medusa's. In the great war between gods and demons thousands of years ago, the Bimon tribe lost nearly 80% of its population in resisting the brutal invasion of the demonic army. The once-mighty Bimon Kingdom on the Aegean continent began to decline from that time on." The beautiful snake pointed at Liu's "Ritual Classic" and said: "The classic records it, although most of the data is incomplete, but one can still see the tragic situation back then."

  "Eighty percent?" Liu's eyes widened in shock.

  "Don't you believe it?" Cui Peishan sighed: "Among the insect tribes that were most devastated in the God-Demon War, the only remaining Green Party mantis is now on the verge of extinction. Last year's census showed that there were less than 100 people left in the entire country, and extinction is only a matter of time. Perhaps some remnants of the insect tribe may still be thriving in remote mountains, but it's impossible to restore the former glory of the species. It's not just the insect tribe, the devastating war has brought irreparable harm to Bimeng, which I can enumerate at will. Two thousand years ago, during the "Marine-Land War", Bimeng's aquatic tribe was almost wiped out. One thousand years ago, in the "Haijia War", our Bimeng's Boduo tribe (PS: Boduo tribe is the bird tribe) was almost completely annihilated in the "Tennessee Air Battle" against human dragon knights and griffin cavalry units. Now only two branches of the Boduo tribe, the Swan tribe and the Ostrich tribe, which have lost their ability to fly in the air, are left to maintain Bimeng's honor in the sky."

  "Many small ethnic groups are also disappearing gradually in the wind because they have lost their competitive edge to survive." Helen took a deep breath and let out a long sigh.

  "Like that snail man we met at the gate of Withered Thorn City?" Liu Zhen also felt a sudden pang in his heart.

  "We, the Medusa clan, suddenly disappeared in Bimon after the Great War of Gods and Demons. The specific reason is not recorded in the 'Ritual Canon', and it has always been an unsolved mystery. So when I was born, it caused a great stir in the Kingdom of Bimon, and my baptism ceremony was even personally supported by the Red-robed High Priest at that time."

  Chui Pei-xian's face is full of sweet memories: "And I, this abandoned child who appeared in the forest, showed exceptional talent in ritual songs from a young age. At the age of 20, I officially became a War Ritualist, only one rank lower than my mentor, Mu-rini-o. So to say, our lineage has always had the possibility of producing geniuses, and now it's even more incredible - not only did we produce a naturally talented War Song Ritualist, but also a Dragon Ritualist born with a soul song! Tsk tsk..."

  "Director Cui Peishan, don't make fun of me..." Liu Zhen was made a bit uncomfortable by her words. His thick skin was still thick, but being teased by a beauty was a different matter altogether.

  "This isn't praise for you, I've seen from Helen's gaze that you have many secrets, not just this astonishing Snow Leopard Beast. The beautiful snake stroked the head of Guo Guo who was still on Liu Zhen's shoulder, and the little thing let out a comfortable hum, gradually becoming less restrained, jumping onto the bed and running wildly."

  "It's nothing, I'm just a bored Mick." Liu Zhen looked at Guo Guo jumping on the bed with a pillow, making several eye contacts.

  "Prying into others' secrets is not a virtue, only boring human shepherds would do that." The beautiful snake smiled faintly: "My mentor and I shocked the kingdom of Bimong, but it wasn't because of our accomplishments in battle songs. Back then, we did something that shocked His Majesty the King and the Council of Elders!"

  Liu Zhen and Helen held their breaths, waiting for what earth-shattering event would happen.

  "We fell in love, and it's hard to part with each other." The beautiful snake woman's words were indeed shocking. Liu Zhen and Hailun stared at each other foolishly, both of them stunned, never having dreamed that it would be such a big deal.

  "The swans of the Smai tribe are known for their strict family values, and the beautiful women of the Smai tribe are as famous as those of the Fox tribe. Lord Muliniao was admired by countless young swan maidens due to his youthful success, and even the proud beauties of the Smai tribe would write love poems on water lily leaves every day and send them to him. So, you can imagine how huge a sensation our love caused among the Smai people at that time!" The beautiful snake's eyes flashed with a hint of nostalgia: "Lord Muliniao remained unmarried, using his research on war songs as an excuse to deceive his family for many years, but when this was exposed, the elders of the Swan tribe were thoroughly enraged. For the Swan tribe had always considered intermarriage with other tribes to be a serious crime, second only to mating with beasts, and punishable by family law, which even the king could not intervene."

  "What about later on? Did the king intervene? He's also intermarried with foreigners, he should be able to understand you." Helen said anxiously.

  "It was no use to intervene, the Elder's Hall also intervened under pressure from the Temple, but the Swan Tribe and Foxes were hereditary nobles, and no one could shake the determination of the then Swan Tribe leader. In the end, the pressure from the royal family and the Elder's Hall could only save our lives, and we were still forced to separate, I was transferred away from the Southwest Province Temple and sent to the Northeast Province. And Lord Murrini was also forced to marry Miss Milani, the most noble beauty of the Sma? tribe."

  "It's so touching! It's just like the first love of the war god Kampas! Didn't the legend of Mont say that after the war god died in battle with Medusa, he suddenly felt himself falling in love with this beautiful snake maiden? So touching!" Helen's tears welled up in her beautiful blue eyes.

  "Love and legend are forever different, Helen." The beautiful snake said seriously: "We are not kings, nor are we gods of war, so our love is an illicit affair. Do you two understand?"

  Liu Zhen suddenly realized what this beautiful snake instructor wanted to say.

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