Han Fei seemed to have fallen into the water, and was almost exhausted. She struggled desperately, but to no avail.
The next second, another hand reached out from beside her, but this time, no extra hand appeared.
Someone exclaimed in horror, "She...they were in the lava, how could they still be alive?"
Those who saw the bodies of the Han family members floating on the water after their deaths immediately recalled how those people looked when they died.
A chill ran through me.
"Could it be... could this be why, even though they drowned, it looks like they died of thirst?"
Meng Wanwan suddenly realized: "This...this is also a sacrificial site?"
Chi Yun glared angrily: "What do you mean?"
Many of his disciples fell into this pool, and now they haven't even struggled; it's safe to say they're dead. Not only did they gain nothing from entering this dilapidated secret realm, but they also lost many men.
How could he not be irritable?
He now hates not only the Meng family, but also the Han family.
What the hell are they doing?
What is he doing here?
"What Miss Meng means is that this place is the same as the water sacrificial site you saw before entering the cave." The voice, tinged with laughter, slowly grew louder.
A figure gradually appeared beside the lava pool.
Chi Yun frowned and said, "It's you? That old nanny from the Han family? Where's Han Chao? Was that Han Fei who was just inside?"
Granny Han looked up at him and smiled very dignifiedly: "Yes, didn't Hall Master Chiyun just see that? That was Han Fei."
"As for North and South Korea..."
Her gaze lingered on the lava pool, and she said with a smile, "You saw it too, it was in there."
Almost everyone present felt a chill run through them.
Even Meng Wanwan and the well-informed Helian Xiao looked at her in disbelief.
"You sacrificed them?"
Shangguan Liuyue scoffed, "It's less of a sacrifice and more of a...refinement."
Granny Han bowed slightly to them and said, "This was originally just an internal matter of the Han family, but I didn't expect you to be able to barge in. Alas, now that you've all discovered us, things are going to get complicated."
Helian Xiao asked her, "Where are the Helian family members? Where did you send them all?"
Granny Han smiled and said, "Young Master Helian, there's no need to worry. This old servant simply put them to sleep. As I said, this is originally a matter for the Han family, and it's not convenient for others to know. Since the Helian family members accidentally came with me, I naturally wanted to put them in a safe place."
"I just didn't expect everyone here..."
Chi Yun said coldly, "What? You still want to kill me to silence me?"
Granny Han smiled and shook her head: "It's not that bad. We Han family members don't need to explain to others what we use Han family members for. However, we'll have to trouble you all to wait a little longer."
"The promises and tangible assets of the Han family and its various branches will be fulfilled one by one."
After saying that, everyone saw Granny Han take out a small porcelain bottle from her bosom. Her eyes watched as the two figures struggling in the molten lava gradually sank down, and only then did a satisfied smile gradually appear on her face.
Then she opened the porcelain bottle, and saw a silver ball of light, which she slowly poured into the molten lava.
Niannian: "Warning! Master, the one poured into the molten lava by Granny Han is Xun Lingsu's primordial spirit. Xun Lingsu is the person in that stone statue, and also the daughter of the Xun family in the painting."
"What?" Meng Wanwan was truly shocked and couldn't help but exclaim.
Meng Xiuyi quickly asked her, "What's wrong?"
Meng Wanwan stared intently at the silver ball of light floating into the lava: "Father, what is that...?"
Before Meng Wanwan could give her answer, Shangguan Liuyue lightly tapped her fan, freezing the ball of light in mid-air.
"If I'm not mistaken, this should be a primordial spirit, and at least the primordial spirit of someone at the Nascent Soul stage or above."
His voice was deep and unusually solemn.
His words surprised everyone.
"Primordial spirit? This, not only do they use living people to refine something, but they even need the primordial spirit of someone at the Nascent Soul stage or higher?"
However, to their surprise, Granny Han made no attempt to hide this fact.
She smiled and said, "Young Master Shangguan has a good eye. This is a primordial spirit at the Mahayana stage. However, because her primordial spirit was damaged before her death, it is not a complete primordial spirit."
Meng Wanwan heard herself gasp for breath. Mahayana?
Mahayana?
"My goodness!" Meng Wanwan counted on her fingers, secretly calculating how far she was from reaching the Mahayana stage.
Shangguan Liuyue then asked, "May I ask which Mahayana stage senior you are?"
Granny Han smiled and said, "Xun Lingsu."
Apart from Meng Wanwan, almost no one realized who Xun Lingsu was.
Granny Han carefully explained to everyone: "Oh... it's what Elder Han Chao mentioned before, the so-called ancestor of our Han family."
Helian Xiao suddenly remembered and exclaimed, "It's...it's that Venerable Lingsu?"
Granny Han smiled: "Yes, that's what we called her back then. Venerable Lingsu once stood at the highest position in Linggu Sect, so it's only reasonable for her soul to return here now."
Helian Xiao immediately flew into a rage: "To hell with your so-called reasonableness! What kind of strange things are you making by taking the primordial spirits of living people and Mahayana cultivators? You call that reasonable? What exactly is your Han family up to?"
At this point, the people in the mirage actually felt that the Meng family was not so bad after all; on the contrary, it was this Granny Han who was terrifying.
Chi Yun: "The Han family had better give us an explanation. You tricked us into coming here and have deceived us time and time again. Are you going to forget your ancestors?"
Granny Han continued with a laugh, "Xun Lingsu is not some kind of ancestor of the Han family. That was just something the head of the family used to deceive Han Fei and Han Chao. She is nothing more than a despicable woman who tries to use what she has to climb up the social ladder to the Han family."
"The reason I invited you all here was simply to hope that each sect and family could find a way to open the sacrificial site. This place is recorded in the Han family, but it has always been sealed. Our Han family does not have the ability to break the seal."
"I never expected that there would actually be someone among you who can break the seal."
"This is our Lady Tsukihime's good fortune."
After she finished speaking, she even bowed to everyone.
It was truly disgusting.
She continued, "Originally, I planned to use your help to find this place and then do my own thing. If you couldn't find it and left empty-handed, our Han family would still give you what we promised. I didn't expect you to actually come in."
She gently pressed her hand down, and the silver orb floating on the molten lava was directly pressed into the lava.
"Then please wait for me for a while. Once I have refined what we need, we can all leave together."
Should we leave together?
It's probably to prevent them from leaving first and revealing what the Han family has done, right?
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