The patriarch told the story, and all the villagers were very angry.

From their eyes, they had a bone-like hatred towards Nan Yan, otherwise there would not be piles of white bones.

Gu Wanqing asked, "Did you make the bones by the river?"

The patriarch said: "Those who are in the Nanyan sacrificial team. They are guilty and should leave their bodies in this forest forever. So we cut off their limbs and heads, and dried their blood into the river. This is what they should repay for the mountain god."

"Absurd." Gu Wanqing couldn't help laughing.

Five points helplessness, five points contempt.

A villager expressed dissatisfaction and pointed the torch in his hand at Gu Wanqing, "Why are you, Nanyan girl, laughing at?!"

Gu Wanqing hugged the bride tightly and avoided the scorching flames.

I was thinking about how to escape, but I had a lot of words that I couldn't speak up.

She asked instead: "I hate the bride, so I secretly burn the people who attend the sacrifice every year. Is this how you sacrifice?"

The patriarch said: "The mountain god hates the bride, and we also hate it. Only by doing this can we calm the anger of the mountain god. This is what our ancestors told us, we live to protect the mountain god. It is your Nan Yan, whose excessive actions again and again, that has forced us to this desperate situation!"

"If the God of Mountain is really as you said, accepting such a sacrifice, then he is not a god, but a devil!" Gu Wanqing said.

"You have never been our villagers. We are all descendants of the mountain god. Why do you assert? Why do you insult the mountain god?"

"That's right, the people of Nanyan only care about their own glory and wealth. How could they pay attention to the mountain god who blessed them?"

Gu Wanqing raised the volume amid these verbal scoldings, "Aren't you the insulting the mountain god all the time?"

Everyone was shocked. When they saw someone dare to say this for the first time, they all said angrily: "What are you talking nonsense!"

Gu Wanqing said calmly: "I respect your faith. You will regard the first person who built this village as the guardian god of this mountain. For the sake of ancient legends, you will not hesitate to leave your life in the deep mountains. But is the mountain god really willing to see the bones piled up in front of this temple? Those are innocent ordinary people. I think, no matter whether it is a god or a human law, you will not allow you to make mistakes like this!"

The patriarch looked into the night sky and said, "Wrong?...No, we are not wrong. Protecting the mountain god is the mission of our villagers."

Gu Wanqing said: "No matter how sad the legend is, it should not cost the innocent lives now. Your hands that you worship in incense are covered with blood, chopping off the limbs and heads of those people, and burning the girls who play the bride to death. Isn't this a twisted and perverted belief?"

In fact, Gu Wanqing seemed to see how these isolated villagers lived without freedom in order to protect the legends passed down from their ancestors.

They could have ploughed and weaved, and sunrised and sunset. They could have washed and played along the clean river water, guarding the mountain temple to pay the most sincere incense.

But people like this are unwilling to leave the world, but are sealed in the cycle of sin.

Even if Gu Wanqing said this, these villagers still did not agree with her in their eyes.

But some young girls will appear confused.

There was a small voice in their hearts asking themselves whether the girl who spoke wildly in front of them was right?

The patriarch sighed deeply and said, "Miss, you are a warrior. But if you enter the Nanyan sacrificial team, you will never be able to go out in your life. You will be buried here forever. As for whether you are right or wrong, when you meet the mountain god, I think you will naturally know."

"The time has come, take them to the altar." The patriarch waved his hand and looked at Gu Wanqing with a little regretful look. "You regard you as a warrior, so you will say so much to you, and will give you treatment different from others, leaving you a complete bone. Let you sacrifice with the bride in the fire."

"I will not see the mountain god, nor will I let this bride die here with me for no reason."

Gu Wanqing carried the bride on her back and wanted to have a final duel with these people.

The harsh fire in front of her was extremely hot.

There was a duel in front of her, and her chances of winning were slim, but General Wanqing's pre-war declaration never had the word "retreat".

I don’t know who took the first move, but the villagers have already stepped forward together and pulled Gu Wanqing and the bride to the altar.

Gu Wanqing kicked several waves of people, but was afraid that the falling Mars would hit the bride, so she did not dare to use too heavy hands.

A huge burning torch hit her, and Gu Wanqing had no time to hide when she saw it.

She turned her back and wanted to protect her in front of the unconscious bride and endure the flames by herself.

Suddenly, the bride under her stood up.

Gu Wanqing was pulled into a wide embrace. When she looked up again, sparks were all over the ground and wooden sticks fell to the ground.

The bride protected Gu Wanqing with one hand and covered her entire sleeve.

The other hand directly blocked the coming flames and burned a large piece of sleeves.

"Girl... are you awake?" Gu Wanqing was a little stunned. After a while, she remembered her concern for her injuries. "How is it, does it hurt?"

Under the burned sleeves, the skin was burned red.

"Nothing happens."

The bride said gently.

"How come it's okay? It's all burned red!" Gu Wanqing said anxiously.

How can this be good if a girl leaves scars for her?

"General."

"Um?"

The bride suddenly brought the thin Gu Wanqing to her side, stroked her palm to her black hair, protecting her eyes.

Gu Wanqing heard the bride whisper in her ear, "Don't worry, I'm here now."

Her eyes were covered by her palms and she could not see anything.

After a while, the bride hugged Gu Wanqing, and the sound of fists and feet rang rhythmically.

Then there was a wailing sound, and the flames collided with the ground and gradually faded away.

Gu Wanqing didn't know why she was still motionless.

That sentence just now seemed to give her a pill of calming the spirit, but she was not anxious or uneasy.

Moreover, the hand that protects her is very warm and cautious, with both powerful strength and gentleness.

Until the bride took off her hand, Gu Wanqing was shocked by the scene in front of her.

All the attacking villagers fell to the ground and lay down.

"You know martial arts?"

Gu Wanqing was completely stunned.

She couldn't even solve so many people herself, where did this bride come from?

"General! General!"

Xuan Ming's shouts came from afar.

Gu Wanqing thought it was an illusion, but until she saw Xuan Ming leading all the people and horses over, she realized that it was the rescuers who had arrived.
Chapter completed!