In the dim Dharma Hall, the old man with a thick white beard took his hands out of the wide armholes of his robe. The dim light coming from the window looked so weak in the light from the luminous pearl hanging high on the top of the Dharma Hall.
It can only occasionally rely on the vague shadows left by a few swimming fish to declare its existence.
On the ground in front of the old man was a silver ring inlaid under the moiré stone floor, which was two or three feet square. A large black spheroid was embedded in the silver ring. The light and shadow inside changed, reflecting a turbulent sea surface glowing with blue light.
.Amidst the huge waves, a wooden warship that had begun to leak and collapse was like a dead leaf in the torrent, unable to escape from the huge whirlpools under the water that were gradually tearing it to pieces.
"Master Suiya, do you think the student's breathing this time is still not perfect? After all, it will take some time to drown."
A middle-aged man next to the old man bowed to him respectfully.
"No need to be too polite, you have done quite well. When I was your age, I had just become a chief priest, let alone a high priest with the power of life and death. As for those people -
—Those ignorant sinners on the land, no matter what method is used to take their lives, it is a punishment from heaven, and it all comes from the forgiveness and redemption of the gods."
The old man lightly pressed his webbed palm against the man's forehead as a sign of encouragement. His entire mouth was covered by a thick beard, and you couldn't see the movement between his lips and teeth when he spoke. Only a strong nasal voice could be heard.
Human voices echoed under the tall dome.
"I would also like to thank my master for his cultivation. When my students return, they will study all kinds of magic techniques diligently, hoping to completely eliminate those ignorant land people and pave the way for our clan to return to the homeland of our ancestors."
Chief Priest Feng Weishu still stood there with his body bowed humbly, but his tone revealed incomparable determination.
"Haha, it seems that I really did not promote the wrong person. I hope that - my old bones can still live to see the day when my people set foot on land again - I can use them to restore their normal bodies."
Suiya responded with a smile, but there was still a hint of melancholy on his face. As he spoke, he withdrew the hand that was stroking the other person's forehead, and subconsciously touched the two lines hidden behind his ears.
Cheek clefts that keep opening and closing while breathing, "I have almost forgotten what it feels like to breathe land air..."
The chief priest watched as the old man rowed his weakening arms and slowly swam towards the thousands of lights in the city outside the court. He finally straightened his back and returned to the spherical black crystal on the ground.
In the spherical crystal, there was only the last blurry image left at this moment. The ship on the sea had long been broken into two pieces. In the sea full of broken wood and various debris, Feng Weishu suddenly saw a person curled up into a body.
The silhouette of the boy in the group is still struggling in the water as if unwilling to admit defeat.
"Were you killing people just now?"
Suddenly, a clear female voice rang out from the Dharma hall. The chief priest was startled and trembled slightly. The waving sleeves of his robe rolled up a blister all over his body, and the image in the crystal disappeared. Then he quickly recognized it.
The visitor's voice quickly calmed down his emotions and scolded him in an extremely stern tone:
"Yue'er! You are so brave, how on earth did you sneak in!"
"No one saw me when I came in, so why should father make such a fuss?"
The girl's figure flashed out from behind a pillar, but she kept a considerable distance from the man she called her father. Her long coral-like red hair was not tied back as per her father's request.
Instead, let it dance freely in the water, like a flame that can never be extinguished.
"What are you making all this fuss about? You are not even qualified to serve as an acolyte now. Don't you know the rules of the clan and you are not allowed to enter and exit the hall at will?!" The chief priest's tone became more severe and he moved closer to his daughter.
Unexpectedly, instead of admitting her mistake, the girl in front of her stepped back a lot and confronted her father: "Of course I know. But I still came and saw what you did!"
"How presumptuous! Although I am related to you by blood, I am still the chief priest of the clan! How many of the spells I used just now have you secretly learned?"
"I don't even hesitate to learn your murderous skills, why do I need to steal from you?"
"Yue'er, how do those people on land deserve your sympathy? They are all damned remnants!"
"Does the remnant deserve to die? Our family offended the gods because of the greed and ignorance of our ancestors, so we were punished and became what we are now! My daughter dares to ask her father if we are also the remnant in the eyes of others?"
The red-haired girl spoke righteously. Feng Weishu was so angry that his whole body trembled, and he immediately refuted sharply:
"Nonsense! Thousands of ancestors in the clan have gone through countless hardships, and finally found a way to survive in the sea to continue their bloodline, changed their bodies, and finally survived the catastrophe thousands of years ago. We are the ones who are truly affected by this.
People who are favored by the gods! And those ignorant remnants on the land who are still lingering and surviving to this day, actually took the opportunity to occupy everything that should belong to us. Shouldn't they die!"
"Father, did you hear what you just said? When there were rumors among our ancestors that you were a murderous demon, I didn't want to believe it for a while. Now it seems that those rumors are probably all true!
"
"Where did you hear these ridiculous fallacies? You actually let them blind your eyes and confuse your mind?! You-could it be that you got involved with the rebels in the city who have abandoned the will of our ancestors?
Bar?"
Hearing what his daughter said, the chief priest's expression suddenly changed. He rushed forward and grabbed her arm, and then opened his mouth to call the guards outside the door:
"Come on, this woman has trespassed into the forbidden area. Take her to the stone room next to Ganyuan and confine her there. She is not allowed to go out without my order!"
"Father, let me go! Let me go quickly!"
The girl's arm was tightly grasped, but she could not break free no matter what. There was a crisp "snap" sound, and the red coral bracelet on her wrist was broken by the brute force during the resistance, and it was dangling.
fell to the ground.
"Grand Priest, this - this is your only flesh and blood. There is no sunshine all day long in Gan Yuan, there is only a large thorn forest. Send the lady there, in case something unexpected happens -"
The two guards who entered the Dharma Hall had never seen the usually easy-going and humble chief priest be so furious. I didn’t know what to do for a while, but they still helped restrain the seemingly delicate and savage man in the other party’s arms.
A willful young lady.
"You don't need to tell me what the scene in Ganyuan is like. But the ancestors set strict clan rules back then, and they were not just for show! Even if I make a mistake, I must be punished, let alone mine.
Daughter! If a commoner enters the Dharma hall without permission, her eyes should be gouged out and her tongue cut out according to the law. Now just to imprison her in the abyss is to open a wide net!"
Seeing that the chief priest was really angry, the guards did not dare to risk any more advice, so they had to escort the red-haired girl from the left and right to leave the hall.
However, only half an hour had passed, and the chief priest, who had finally fallen into meditation in the Dharma hall, was disturbed by a burst of noise outside the door.
He pushed open the door with some annoyance, only to see his married wife, accompanied by her father, who was also his master, Sui Ya, standing on the square outside the Dharma Hall door with red eyes.
"Feng Weishu! What exactly are you planning to do to our daughter? Well, why did you suddenly send Yue'er to Gan Yuan's stone chamber for house arrest? Aren't you afraid that something might happen to her there?"
The woman in front of him also had coral-colored red hair. As soon as she opened her mouth, the high priest realized that something was wrong. He suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and asked the guard who was at a loss at the side:
"Did something happen to Yue'er?"
"Excuse me, Chief Priest. Half an hour ago, we were ordered to escort the young lady to Gan Yuan. We didn't dare to let down our guard for a moment. But I didn't expect her to suddenly disappear out of thin air!"
The guard explained in a panic.
"Disappeared out of thin air? Was there anything strange in the sea at that time?"
"I'm not sure exactly when I started to notice that the seawater near Ganyuan became turbid. As I continued to move forward, a dazzling white ball of light suddenly burst out in front of me, and then Miss
She took the opportunity to break away. The two of us clearly saw the white light sucking the lady in, and we wanted to follow, but we were still a step too late."
"It's a water-hiding curse! The map was also leaked by one of our own people back then - it seems that there are indeed some remnants of the rebels who have not yet been wiped out, hiding in the city, working against the entire Cangyu clan!"
After hearing this, the chief priest's first reaction was not to worry about his daughter's whereabouts, but to nervously rub his forehead repeatedly with his hands.
"You lost your daughter, why are you still worried about rebelling against the party?!"
The woman standing aside couldn't hold it back after all, and shouted sternly. The tears in the corners of her eyes came out like a string of crystal clear pearls, swirling and floating towards the sea.
When the old man saw this, he quickly comforted her with a few words, and ordered his attendants to escort the woman home to take good care of her. Then he walked up to the chief priest with a straight face:
"You, you. At times like this, you have to act on your own initiative. Yue'er is still underage, so she will inevitably do something outrageous. But if this results in greater right and wrong, it will be detrimental to you and our entire clan.
, will bring immeasurable influence! After all, she is the only one in the whole family who has inherited the blood of the high priest!"
"Teacher taught me that the students did not consider this matter. But please relax, the students will definitely handle the matter properly. Now that the rebels have taken away Yue'er, the spells they cast will definitely remain in the sea.
There are traces that are difficult to cover up. If you follow the traces, you may be able to find their hiding place!"
The high priest leaned forward and hid his face in the deep blue shadow of the water. After a long time, he took the coral bracelet that he had been holding tightly in his hand and caressing from just now, which was broken into two pieces.
He quietly hid it in his pocket, gritted his teeth and said decisively:
"This time, we must eradicate those hidden people!"