"Pure nonsense!" The great elder struggled to shout, "Do you really want to return to the perpetual darkness of the ocean depths?"
Ayi fearlessly replied, "We are already at the bottom of the ocean now."
Indeed, they were already taken to the sea bottom by the Giant Turtle. If it refuses to surface, aren’t they living underwater?
"Once we control the Giant Turtle, we can live as we did before." The great elder hurriedly said.
"How do we control it? With the blood of our Yuchen Palace people?" Jade stepped out, hate evident on her face, "Even if we die, we won’t let you use our blood for sacrifice again!"
The second elder beside her beca furious, "Our rfolk Island nurtured you Yuchen Palace people, and this is how you repay us, with ingratitude?"
Jade laughed scornfully, "Nurtured us? Are we really all orphans?"
She threw out a booklet, "This was left by one of your Hidden Guards before he died. His conscience was troubled, so he recorded all the children he went to seize. Most of the Yuchen Palace people were chosen by you and taken from their parents!"
"We were unlawfully taken and separated from our loved ones, only to be controlled by you for life, and eventually to die from blood sacrifice to control the Giant Turtle. Even Agate was seized by you; her parents accidentally discovered you, and you killed them!" Jade shouted loudly, tears already streaming down.
Wenyu had remained silent in a corner of the hall, but his face was now full of astonishnt. He rushed to Jade and snatched the booklet to read through it.
The booklet was old, with ink on paper not newly made, and it was stamped with the seal of the rfolk which couldn’t be replicated by others.
"How could this be? How can you be so heartless!" He shouted at the great elder and the others. His poor Agate gave her life for rfolk Island, yet didn’t know the rfolk were the ones who killed her parents.
If Agate knew the truth, she would definitely die with regrets, wouldn’t she?
"The Four Great Nobles have arrived." Ling Chen saw the shadows of people rushing to the Main Hall and turned to Bai Ruozhu and said.
"Today, anyone who dares to save the elders will be killed without rcy!" Bai Ruozhu squinted her eyes.
Ling Chen glanced at the great elder and sighed, "I helped you once, but with your constant wrongdoing, this is as far as I can assist."
Fo Lanying patted her shoulder, "You’re not blindly loyal, I’m glad to call you a friend."
Ling Chen smiled bitterly; she actually felt bad inside.
Outside, the Four Great Nobles were already shouting, but there were few rfolk, and they didn’t have many soldiers. The guards of the Main Hall had been poisoned and subdued by Bai Ruozhu, and were now also imprisoned, so the ten or so of them couldn’t stir up much trouble.
The most dangerous thing was that the rfolk civilians were glaring at them, as if ready to revolt.
"It was you who colluded with the elders to exploit us and harm our daughters." Ayi shouted first, and those rfolk who had lost daughters followed suit, while families of other saints raised weapons, knowing that if these nobles succeeded, their daughters would be taken back to suffer again.
Hence, they couldn’t retreat; for their children, they fear nothing!
The nobles dared not act rashly for a mont until a figure rushed in, wasting no words and began to fight. Jiang Yichun saw it was his father and hurried to help.
Others wouldn’t stand by idly, so Bai Ruozhu and her group soon subdued the nobles.
Gao Zhou fiercely slapped an old rfolk’s face, "Why could you live to old age? You dared to eat Chushuang’s flesh! I’ll cut your flesh piece by piece, let you taste the pain!"
Bai Ruozhu drew a dagger and handed it over, "Use this. It won’t kill them instantly."
Gao Zhou took the dagger and directly gouged out a chunk of flesh from the old rfolk’s thigh. The old rfolk cried out in agony, scaring many people pale.
But no one had the courage to sympathize with them. Did they ever pity the saints when they cut their flesh?
Their daughters almost beca saints, destined to be cut and eaten soon.
"Just one cut and you can’t endure? How much of her flesh did you gouge out?" Gao Zhou shouted, raising his hand to cut the other leg.
"Stop it, you madman!" A nearby noble shouted, to which Gao Zhou responded coldly, "I’m crazy enough to make sure you live worse than death!"
Bai Ruozhu didn’t watch further, she approached the great elder, "Tell , where is the Dragon Ball? Otherwise, you will be cut like them."
"Will you let go if I tell you?" The great elder sneered.
"No, but if you don’t tell, I’ll ensure you live worse than death." Bai Ruozhu squinted her eyes, already harboring killing intent.
The third elder angrily said, "You Jiuli Clan are determined to be enemies with us rfolk?"
"Enemies? I just want to kill you." She finished and tossed a pill into the great elder’s mouth, not far away Feng Ran’s heart tightened and rushed over.
"What did you feed him? Poison?" Feng Ran asked anxiously.
The great elder felt delighted, "Ah Ran, you still care about , don’t you? You’ve always had feelings for , right?"
Feng Ran’s tears flowed, "Yes, I still care about you, which makes even more pained and remorseful. How can I love soone like you, an executioner?"
The great elder laughed wildly, "It’s enough that you love . I don’t care how others curse ."
But his expression grew blank, slowly becoming motionless. The second elder and others shouted at him, Bai Ruozhu found it too noisy and directly struck their mute points.
"Where is the Dragon Ball hidden?" Bai Ruozhu asked.
"Inside the Xuan Gui, it requires a large amount of fresh blood to be taken out." The great elder replied.
Bai Ruozhu was shocked; they dared to put it inside Xuan Gui, no wonder the turtle grew so large, the Dragon Ball is the essence of a dragon.
"How do we save Chushuang? Is there anything that can restore her body?" Bai Ruozhu asked.
"She’s dying, dicine is useless unless she swallows the Dragon Ball." The great elder answered.
Jiang Yichun walked over and fixed his gaze on the great elder’s eyes, "Is he lying?"
Bai Ruozhu simply gave the remaining two elders pills too, and their answers matched the great elder’s.
This was a deadlock; the Dragon Ball must be returned to the White Dragon to lift the rfolk’s curse. But only the Dragon Ball could save Chushuang, so what to do?
Even without considering the choice, extracting the Dragon Ball was a big problem.
A large amount of blood, either from Yuchen Palace people or rfolk, was needed to take it out, but how exactly to extract it?
For a mont, both Bai Ruozhu and Jiang Yichun fell silent, exchanging glances and seeing hesitation in each other’s eyes.
After the effect wore off, the great elder and others awoke, glaring angrily at Bai Ruozhu, cursing them in various ways, even the entire Jiuli tribe.
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