My enemies became my companions

Chapter 91: Unhealthy Sacrifice
When Chen Yi brought Lin Wanheng, whose face was flushed with shame, back to the tomb, Queen An stood up suddenly.

She saw Lin Wanheng limping as he walked, and her eyes were full of admiration for Chen Yi's masterpiece.

"Look, look, I'm stronger now,"

Queen An smiled and asked:

"Yi Er, are you very proud?"

"…fine."

Somehow, facing the current situation, Chen Yizhen felt a little awkward as if facing his parents. Sometimes, he didn't know what to say.

But he is not Qi after all, and Queen An is not Tushan.

"Let's go, my lady."

Chen Yi said softly.

Stepping out of the tomb, Chen Yi once again saw the nun who had been waiting for a long time. She was now standing calmly, her face clear and pure without a speck of dust.

"Keep going?" Chen Yi asked.

The nun smiled and nodded, then followed Chen Yi.

"You don't seem angry."

Chen Yi smiled.

"Not pleased, not to have compassion."

The Goddess Taihua seemed to see what Chen Yi was thinking and asked:

"I let it go, but you can't?"

If that’s the case, then all the grudges between her and me are settled like this?

Chen Yi narrowed his eyes and looked at her, then said:

"I still prefer the old Yin Weiying."

The Goddess Taihua smiled and then said:
"I'm sorry for offending you in the past. I'll pay you back when I become an immortal."

Chen Yi listened to her apology without replying.
Although she spoke sincerely, Chen Yi always felt that her apology was a bit frivolous and condescending.

This made Chen Yi feel a little...uncomfortable.

However, Chen Yi didn't say anything.

In the team of four, Lin Wanheng walked at the end, wishing to stay as far away from Chen Yi as possible. The nun was neither far nor close to Chen Yi. As for Queen An, she almost walked side by side with Chen Yi.

An Hou followed, still talking incessantly.
"It's the second half of the month. According to the rules, you have to kill ten people and ten pigs to offer sacrifice to the heavens. Three young men and seven old men. Oh, you took a concubine. You have to divine before offering sacrifice to the heavens. Find three to kill first to see what the heavens think of your concubine. If not, just depose her and make her a slave..."

Chen Yi listened with some annoyance, humming once or twice from time to time. The young lady from the Lin family behind him heard the words about human sacrifice and offering sacrifice to heaven, and her face turned pale as paper with fright, but she did not dare to escape and could only follow behind him silently.

Queen An obviously sensed Chen Yi's annoyance, and she said little at the end. She just muttered to herself from time to time and glanced at Chen Yi once or twice to see if her son was interested in what she said and whether he would pay attention to her.

As he went deeper into the underground palace, Chen Yi inexplicably felt a sense of chaos.

It was as if there was some obsessive ghost haunting me.

"God is not at peace, and sacrifices are not going to be made. Hou Qi, kill her to make up for the way of heaven!"

"Nuwa repaired the sky, and the stone fell on Tushan. She was just a stubborn stone left over from the repair. You have obtained Jiubian Jiuge, so you should kill her."

"If you don't kill her, and the gates of heaven split open and floods come again, do you have the virtues of your father? Do you have the talents of your father? You have already killed Bo Yi, why don't you kill her too?"

…For some reason, the words in the nightmare lingered in his mind. Chen Yi pressed his forehead, and the scene in front of him gradually became unclear.

There were more and more bronze fragments scattered on both sides, and the corridor they were walking through was getting wider and wider. It seemed that something was waiting for them ahead. Bronze square lamps appeared one after another on the road.

The lights were burning, emitting a faint blue color.

An Hou behind him, at some point, had a dazed look in her eyes and began to murmur in small voices.
"It's here... it's here, the Temple of Heaven, the Temple of Heaven, Yi'er, that's where you dismembered mother..."

Chen Yi's breathing became increasingly rapid, and the voices behind him were like death warrants. The eyes of the nun gradually brightened, and she seemed to sense something.

Lin Wanheng didn't understand anything and followed them in a daze.

There was a half-painted pattern of a big-eyed taotie on the wall, and some inscriptions, half a sentence in gold inscription that read "God is uneasy", followed by a pattern of two real dragons pulling a bronze dragon chariot.

Looking at the pattern, Chen Yi couldn't help but stop, and then he suddenly realized that he had walked into a vast space without knowing when. He stepped on something and took a closer look. It was a huge and ancient turquoise dragon, with white jade-like eyes in the shape of spindles, a large and curved body, and its simplicity and majesty carried the wildness of ancient ancestors.

The ground was littered with broken bronze artifacts and the skeletons of the living dead half-buried in the soil. The skin of each of these skeletons was intact and had not been corroded for thousands of years.

On the wall deep inside, there is a mural of a pair of dragons pulling a bronze dragon chariot. It is ancient, magnificent and magical. The giant green dragon hangs on the wall like a cold corpse, and the carved scales are still shiny. Under the dragon chariot, eight golden characters slowly emerge like auspicious symbols, "God is not at peace, and sacrifices are not healthy"!
Queen An seemed to have lost her soul and suddenly started crying:
"Why did you kill me? Why did you kill my people? Yi'er, I am in so much pain. Will you kill me again in the future?! Will you?!"

Along with this wailing, the eight-character golden inscription suddenly fell like shackles, and Yasheng De'an's face became hideous and distorted, and the entire Temple of Heaven was shaking.

..............................

The one-armed woman closed her eyes, as if using some kind of magical power, and watched from afar as Chen Yi and his group walked into the Temple of Heaven.

Yin Tingxue stood beside her and heard a sentence,
"They're in."

"Where? The Temple of Heaven you're talking about?"

"good."

Jian Jia was always very brief when answering unimportant questions. Yin Tingxue raised her eyebrows, thinking of something.
"Xia Qi killed his mother and beheaded the corpse, so you set up a trap to make... the demon queen treat Chen Yi as her son, so that he can kill the corpse. Is that right?"

"Ah."

Zhou Yitang was not surprised that Yin Tingxue could guess part of the specific plan.

After Chen Yi kills the Queen Mother, he will chop off the middle corpse. In this way, only the lower corpse, which is easiest to chop off, will be left.

"Killing the Demon Queen will put an end to everything, but...what if the Demon Queen is also a woman that Chen Yi cares about?"

Yin Tingxue was a little curious.

Jianjia turned his head and took a quick glance.

Yin Tingxue shivered and dared not say a word.

"Not really dead,"

After a while, Zhou Yitang said calmly:
“But I’ll be heartbroken.”

With a sword piercing her heart, she no longer considered him her son, and this also ended a bad fate.

He killed her and everything would go back to the way it was.

Yin Tingxue heard the hidden meaning. She had always felt that she could hear more than others since she was a child. After hesitating for a moment, she asked in a low voice:
"What if Chen Yi didn't kill her?"

"I have predicted that he will kill the corpse."

Zhou Yitang said slowly:

"So, she will be killed."

Yin Tingxue asked:
"What is the hexagram?"

Jian Jia did not answer.

Yin Tingxue tilted her head and asked in a low voice:
"What if he really didn't kill the demon queen? After all, divination is not always right."

Zhou Yitang slowly turned his head and stared at the girl with his extremely cold eyes.

Yin Tingxue asked in a different way:
"I don't doubt that Jian Jia's Dao is boundless and has made no mistakes, but...if there is a chance, will the demon queen recover her memory after leaving the underground palace?"

"Yes,"

Zhou Yitang paused.

“And it will struggle and twist.”

"what?"

"I will go crazy and want to kill him, but I will look back frequently on the way to kill him..."

Yin Tingxue noticed that the one-armed woman's eyes were lost in thought, as if she was lost in memories.
"Every move he made would make her angry, but at the same time, every move he made would make her worried.

In the end, she might even want to use extreme methods to break off the relationship.”

Was she talking about the Queen Mother, or Jian Jia herself? Or maybe both... Yin Tingxue couldn't tell.

Yin Tingxue looked at Zhou Yitang and asked softly:
"Extreme methods?"

Logically, she shouldn't ask further, but she always felt that Zhou Yitang would answer her.

Being with Jianjia is much better than being with Chen Yi. Although Jianjia has a strange personality, he will not hurt her or harm her, and will occasionally tell her a word or two from his heart.

"What method is that?"

Yin Tingxue asked.

"When Yu Shun went out, he served his lord; when he came in, he..."

Zhou Yitang did not speak directly.

"I am his mother."

Yin Tingxue was stunned for a moment

That's what Han Feizi said. It's in the miscellaneous books that Chen Yi bought. "Be a subject to your ruler, and let the ruler become a subject; be a concubine to your mother, and let her become a..."

Yin Tingxue shuddered.

Jian Jia's words meant that the Demon Queen would force Chen Yi to do the same thing she did to me?!

Zhou Yitang saw her panic and smiled, which was unusual for her.
"It won't come to that."

He will kill, there is no way he won't kill.

She still remembered how he had committed many murders as he wandered around the world after he broke her sword.

He deserved death for his matricide, just like... when he broke his own sword.

Zhou Yitang turned his eyes away and recalled the hexagram that he had not told the daughter of King Xiang.

Use nine to see a group of dragons without a leader, which is auspicious.

(End of this chapter)