Tian Wen trembled slightly and turned away, as if he did not dare to face Ye Xiaochuan's eyes.
She said: "Why can't I understand what you said?"
Ye Xiaochuan said: "You understand."
Tianwen saw that Ye Xiaochuan already knew about it, so he didn't want to hide it anymore.
Said: "Xiaochuan, I don't want to hide it from you. This matter has nothing to do with you, so don't ask anymore."
Ye Xiaochuan frowned and said: "Tianwen, you told me that you and the Qin brothers came out of a small dark room. If it weren't for the chicken legs that my mother gave you back then, you wouldn't be living like you are now.
In this way, it will become an emotionless killing machine.
The little black room's cultivation-like selection method is not only cruel, but also violates human ethics.
As far as I know, the people who enter the dark room are no more than thirteen years old, which is a critical moment when their outlook on life is taking shape.
In a dark little room, for a sip of food, a sip of water, and to survive, these children can only kill each other, even eat human flesh to satisfy their hunger, and use human blood to quench their thirst.
The good in their hearts will be completely lost in the long darkness, leaving only the evil in their hearts.
The small dark room is not only cruel to the children who die in it, but also cruel to those who come out alive.
Over the thousands of years of the Holy Religion, almost every child who has survived from a small dark room became famous as a youngster. His cultivation was unparalleled in the world when he was young. However, after middle age, he became very miserable, and almost no one died a good death.
When you and the Qin brothers came out, you met my mother, which rekindled the good that was about to disappear in your hearts.
But what about other people, can they be influenced by kindness like you?"
"Xiaochuan, you have to say it again!"
Tianwen suddenly squatted down and covered his ears. His body was trembling slightly, and his eyes were full of fear.
Tianwen's actions shocked Ye Xiaochuan.
Tianwen's current Taoist practice has already reached the level of heaven and man. Even Wanyan Wulei did not have such a high level of Taoist practice when she was her age.
Who would have thought that Fairy Tianwen, who had been so high and mighty for ten years, would now look like a seven or eight-year-old girl in extreme fear.
Her fear was not an act, but came from the deepest part of her heart.
The small dark room was her eternal nightmare, which was because Ye Xiaochuan was in her heart. This nightmare was gradually suppressed by the love and longing in her heart, but it never disappeared.
Before meeting Ye Xiaochuan for the first time in Langya Mountain, Tianwen didn't dare to sleep. He would wake up in his sleep every time, just like now, curled up at the foot of the bed and shivering.
Ye Xiaochuan's tone just now reminded Tianwen of the situation in the small dark room when she was young, awakening her nightmare that had been buried for many years.
Seeing Tianwen's fearful and helpless look, Ye Xiaochuan's angry mood was gradually covered up by a sense of tenderness.
Ye Xiaochuan can understand Tianwen.
The experience in the small dark room was Tian Wen’s inner demon.
And Ye Xiaochuan is the person who has the most say in dealing with inner demons.
He suddenly realized that Tianwen, like himself, had been living in pain all these years.
He knelt down and gently hugged the trembling Tian Wen.
He said softly: "Tianwen, everything has passed, don't be afraid, I am here."
Tianwen felt the warmth from Ye Xiaochuan, and her body gradually stopped shaking.
She leaned in Ye Xiaochuan's strong and warm embrace and choked with sobs: "No, there is no past. For me, it will never be possible to move past it.
Xiaochuan, I don’t want to do this either. I also hate the dark room, but... there are many things that I cannot control alone.
The catastrophe has come, and the world has changed greatly. For the foundation of the holy religion...don't blame me, and don't blame Qiu'er..." Ye Xiaochuan shook his head gently and said: "You and Qiu'er are both kind-hearted women, I know this.
It has nothing to do with you.
Tianwen, I don’t want to force you, I just don’t want to see this kind of human tragedy.
Everyone has the right to survive and the right to choose their own life. As a superior, you cannot deprive a person of the most basic means of survival.
Tell me, how many rounds did you select?"
Tianwen struggled to get up from Ye Xiaochuan's arms, hesitated for a moment, and then slowly told the secrets that only a few high-level officials in the holy sect knew.
The black chamber selection of disciples exists in many sects within the Holy Religion, but the sect leaders of the Demon Religion are not extremely vicious and do not dare to use this method often.
For example, the Heavenly Demon Sect, Shura Sect and other sects are only able to activate once every one or two hundred years.
As for the ghost cultivating sects, such as the Yinling Sect and the Blood Soul Sect, it has been more than 800 years since their establishment. However, the founder of the Ghost Sect, Ghost King Ye Cha, once ordered the black chamber to be abolished forever, so almost no one in the Ghost Sect dared to touch this taboo.
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In the face of the catastrophe in the world, the Demon Cult has no choice but to restart the small black room.
But this kind of semi-public restart needs to be carried out through official channels and in the Savage Temple.
This requires the nod of consent from Tianwen and Zuo Qiu, who are the two envoys on the left and right.
According to Tianwen's story, as early as ten years ago, before Huangfu passed away, Zhang Yunchen proposed to spend six years conducting twenty rounds of black room selections.
The purpose is to cultivate young talents for the Temple and the Five Elements Banner, so that the Temple and the Five Elements Banner will not decline after suffering a major blow during the catastrophe.
This project was launched and put on hold until four years ago when it was finally launched.
In the next two years, the Five Elements Banner of the Temple secretly selected 633 boys and girls aged eight to twelve and conducted six black room selections in the temple.
In every black room selection, the number of survivors ranges from one to three.
After six selections, a total of thirteen people survived, eight men and four women.
In other words, all the remaining 620 children died in the dark room.
According to the original plan, there would be fourteen rounds of black room selection, but because it was too cruel, Tian Wen, Zuo Qiu, the Qin brothers and others strongly opposed it, so this Gu-raising style selection plan was suspended two years ago.
Already.
The people who were practicing in the Xuanhuo Altar just now were the first two survivors to come out alive from the small dark room five years ago.
These thirteen boys and girls will be the Thirteen Evils of Underworld in the Three Realms of Madness in the future.
Of course, this is all a story for later.
Ye Xiaochuan's heart sank to the bottom as he listened to Tian Wen's story.
For the sake of thirteen people, more than six hundred children were killed.
And this was only six rounds.
If twenty rounds of selection were conducted as planned, at least two thousand innocent children would have to be sacrificed.
Ye Xiaochuan was silent for a long time and said: "Are these thirteen survivors the same as the two teenagers just now, with the smell of death inside and out?"
Tian Wen nodded gently and said: "There is nothing we can do about it. The aura coming out of the small dark room is all this kind of aura. When their cultivation becomes stronger in the future, the aura of death will gradually be covered up."
Ye Xiaochuan said: "God asks, where are these thirteen people now?"
Tian asked: "They are all in the temple, and the true Dharma is taught by the senior elders of the Five Elements Banner.
Xiaosheng and Xiaoquan are the first batch of survivors. In the past five years, their cultivation has improved rapidly and they have reached the state of leaving the body. Recently, they were arranged to study the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book in Xuanhuo Altar."
Ye Xiaochuan said: "Tianwen, I have a request. I want these thirteen people."