Guagua, carrying the powerful fan, turned it around and aimed it at the priest.
The priest's eyes flickered, his gaze sweeping back and forth between the two snakes.
A giant snake that can speak human language is clearly no ordinary creature. If we capture it and refine it...
One hand stroked the snake head on the cane, while the other hand behind his back moved, and two small creatures flew out.
whoosh whoosh~~~
The priest's frail body swayed precariously in the strong wind, and his serpent staff slammed into the ground with a thud before he could barely steady himself.
Her silvery-white hair was blown into a mess, and she no longer had the ethereal beauty she had when she first arrived at the mountain.
Immortal?
Pah!
You immortal, you're one of them.
But this thing really has a rosy complexion, and her skin is smooth and plump as if she's had it done, full of collagen. How did she do that?
Could it be?
Guagua thought of a possibility, and even the iron lump got goosebumps.
Ugh, disgusting.
The moment the priest came up, the little master kept a close eye on his movements, from every angle, and naturally caught the two little insects he released.
The young master immediately used his mental power to control them to fall to the ground, stomped on them until they were smashed to pieces, and directly crushed and decomposed them.
Pfft~~
The priestess spat out a mouthful of blood in disbelief, clearly sensing that her most prized creation, which she had just released, had lost contact with her.
She knew that the two giant snakes were no ordinary creatures, and that ordinary Gu worms could not contend with them. So she released her life's work, the Soul-Controlling Gu.
Soul-Controlling Gu, as the name suggests, controls the soul, turning the other person into a puppet.
As long as the two giant snakes are controlled, their blood can be extracted and refined to be used for one's own purposes.
She made up all the mountain gods, just so she could legitimately extract the heart's blood of pure young girls to concoct a medicine that would make her young again.
The reason he looks so young despite his advanced age is because of these insidious methods.
The girls to be sacrificed were all tested beforehand; only those whose blood matched hers were chosen.
She's quite old, and raising Gu poison depletes her blood; the annual sacrifice is a way for her to replenish her blood.
The snake woman gloated, "Oh dear, they said you were a priest, but it seems you're nothing special. You vomited blood after just climbing a mountain. How pathetic."
"Can such a weak priest really serve the mountain god? Obviously not, which is why only young girls are sacrificed, and no men are sacrificed."
"Alright, since the priest is useless, then I, the god, will choose myself. I choose him."
The second child's tail twitched, pointing towards Xiao Cui's father.
"Guards, whoever ties him up and throws him off the cliff will be released by this mountain god. Otherwise, everyone will be buried with him, and this mountain god will make you all perish at the bottom of the cliff."
The village chief's heart was pounding as he was being pulled along. "Mountain God, don't shake me! Tighten up! Don't drop me!"
"No." That was Xiao Cui's father's voice of resistance.
"No!" This was Xiaocui's terrified objection.
"I'll tie him up and beg the mountain god to release me." This was the suggestion that the villagers agreed with.
"Me too."
“Very well, I’ll choose one too. Hmm… I want her. A middle-aged woman is just right for warming the bed. Whoever throws her off the cliff can also come down the mountain.”
The eldest brother's tail points towards Xiao Cui Niang.
Those two bastards, they'd even sacrifice their own daughter, they don't deserve to be parents, but at least they can be taken for a walk.
"Xiao Cui, I heard they are your parents. I'll give you a chance. If you plead for them, I can spare your mother."
How could anyone miss out on such fun activities? Shishi joined in too.
“Yes, Xiao Cui, you can plead for them. You can choose to keep one of your father and mother and sacrifice the other.”
"Alright, tie these two up first, then four people tie them up. Whoever participates will live."
The choice between two options to survive was the ultimate test of human nature, and the villagers scrambled to get their hands on the prize.
"Xiao Cui, choose your dad! Choose your dad! Dad has always been so good to you!" Xiao Cui's dad was pushed down and was so scared that he quickly tried to establish his fatherly persona.
What great fatherly love! He personally escorted his daughter up the mountain.
"No, Xiao Cui, choose your mother. I am your own mother. You can't just watch me die."
Xiao Cui Niang was terrified. Faced with her life, men were no longer her everything, but rather a stumbling block to her survival.
Before Xiao Cui could even speak, the couple had already started arguing. She asked sarcastically, "So you knew perfectly well that the sacrifice was meant to kill me, yet you pushed me out without hesitation, is that right?"
“Last year it was the second sister, the year before it was the eldest sister. You didn’t hesitate at all when you pushed her out, just to get a few more mouthfuls of food.”
"Now it's your turn. You've finally realized you're scared? But I'm scared too, and I believe my eldest and second eldest sisters are scared as well."
"But you are so righteous, always saying it's for the good of the village and for the good of your families."
“I escaped, but you all caught me and locked me in that dark room. Do you know how desperate I was when the village chief pushed me down there just now?”
Speaking of her two pitiful older sisters, Gu Xiaocui felt a pang of pain in her heart.
The feeling of having your life in someone else's hands is truly unbearable.
How many girls in the village have been cruelly harmed, and how many parents have suffered heartbreak?
They were all so cold-blooded it was appalling.
Refusing to accept her fate, she escaped with the help of her friends, naively hoping to save the girl who could become the next sacrifice at any moment.
As a result, the people who came to her rescue were knocked down by the priest, and she was also captured by her own mother.
Mountain gods and those ridiculous rituals are utterly foolish and outdated practices.
Just now, she saw bones scattered all over the ground at the bottom of the cliff, and tattered rags and limbs hanging from the branches.
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