This damned sacrifice!
It had cost so many lives and made him lose so much face!
"Everything the Moon Goddess does is for the people of Shenzhou!" the priestess shouted in defense. "Every grain of rice you eat and every drop of water you drink has been purified by the Moon Goddess with her divine power!"
Even at this critical moment, this woman was still stubborn. Yaohua frowned tightly. She almost wanted to step in to help her Sixth Brother.
However, the false god hadn't shown up yet, so she couldn't act impulsively.
Seeing that some people below were beginning to waver again, Mo Qing quickly asked Rong Chu to come forward.
As soon as Rong Chu appeared, some people recognized him.
"Master Rong? You're still alive?"
"It's really Master Rong!"
Yaohua was a bit surprised. She didn't expect so many people to know Rong Chu!
Fortunately, Rong Chu could testify. Otherwise, it would have been really difficult to convince these people.
"No, I'm already dead." Rong Chu shook his head at that person.
After he said this, the person who had been a bit happy immediately showed a look of fear. "So you're a ghost?"
Rong Chu didn't say any more. He raised his hand, and the dagger in the priestess's hand fell uncontrollably into his palm.
"Most of you must be familiar with my identity. And you should know even better about my character," he said. With Yaohua's deliberate spellcasting, his voice resounded throughout the drill ground.
The priestess tried to interrupt him, but Mo Qing beside him defused her attack.
Rong Chu just stood there and told everything he knew from beginning to end without any omission.
"Thanks to the rescue of the Phoenix God, I have this chance to tell the truth," he said.
Rong Chu's words were like a drop of water falling into a pan of boiling oil.
"What Master Rong said can't be true, right?"
"Actually, I've wanted to say for a long time that every time I got close to that altar, my heart would tremble constantly!"
"Except for the priestess and those black-clothed divine envoys, no one dared to stand on it at all!"
"What Rong Chu said is probably true!"
"But Rong Chu is already dead! Can we believe the words of a ghost?"
Hearing someone's doubt, Mo Qing quickly said, "Do you still want to send your fellow villagers to that sacrificial altar to be disemboweled?"
"The Moon Goddess is a true god!" the priestess immediately raised her voice. "Even a true god needs spiritual power to cast spells! There are so many acres of land and so many people in Henan Prefecture. The true god is unable to do everything, so she has to ask you to offer human sacrifices. Otherwise, how could the Moon Goddess bear to let you suffer?"
"What the priestess said seems to make sense..."
"Yeah, didn't we try before? As soon as we stopped the human sacrifices, all the crops withered..."
"Other places are short of food and water, and people even exchange children to eat. We still have something to eat in Henan Prefecture, all thanks to the Moon Goddess!"
Yaohua carefully distinguished the voices below. When she heard these words, she paid special attention to the people who said them. She found that these people had the same aura and their actions when speaking were extremely similar.
Her eyelids twitched, and she immediately wanted to capture these people.
Unfortunately, she had consumed too much spiritual power to save her Sixth Brother just now. At this moment, she really didn't have the strength to make a move.
"Master, there's something wrong with those people," she pointed out the people. "Master, can you help me catch them?"
As soon as Chongming made a move, those people suddenly disappeared into the crowd.
At the same time, the Phoenix Fire had burned all the sacrifices on the altar clean. He still wanted to destroy the stone pillar and the formation on it, but unexpectedly, his spiritual power backfired, and he almost burned his own feathers.
"Phoenix God, how could you destroy the sacrificial altar!"
Mo Qing was speechless. "Should we keep this harmful thing?"
"But if we destroy it, who will give us food?"
"Yeah, without spiritual power from the Moon Goddess, we'll starve to death!"
"Previously, when the Moon Goddess lost her spiritual power, after sacrificing several people, our crops came back to life. This time, since the Phoenix God has damaged the sacrificial altar, let the Phoenix God take their place. He's a god, so he must be able to last a long time!"
What? Yaohua couldn't help clenching her fists. "What are these people talking about?"
Weren't these people clear just now?
It was the false god that was harming people!
Her Sixth Brother was a young god of the Phoenix Clan!
How dare they even have ideas about a god?
Anger welled up in Yaohua's heart. These people must be related to the previous ones!
Thinking like this, she frowned and looked around, trying to find those people who were fanning the flames, but for some reason, she just couldn't find them.
At this moment, the crowd surged.
"Phoenixes are most afraid of dirty things. Let's quickly catch him and offer him to the Moon Goddess!"
"These people are really crazy!" Yaohua couldn't help scolding.
They had come to help them kindly, but instead, these people wanted to use her Sixth Brother as a sacrifice!
Just after she scolded, she felt something was wrong.
"Some people were still speaking fairly just now. How could they all change in such a short time?" she hesitated and looked at her master. "Is someone causing trouble?"
Chongming nodded appreciatively.
"It must be those people just now!"
Yaohua gritted her teeth in hatred. But since things had come to this, she could only ask Mo Qing to come back first.
This place was really strange. Who knew if these people would try to catch her Sixth Brother again.
Mo Qing flapped his wings angrily. He really wanted to burn all these stupid guys with a single fire.
Forget it. This god won't argue with these fools!
He rolled up a ball of fire and ran away with Rong Chu.
Yaohua and Chongming joined them. The few of them looked at each other, all feeling a bit frustrated.
"It's okay. Anyway, we've saved one person tonight," Yaohua encouraged everyone. "If necessary, we'll cause a ruckus like this every night. We're not afraid they'll harm people again."
"Why don't these people understand human language!" Mo Qing was really angry. "Rong Chu had explained everything clearly. Don't they have their own brains?"
"Just now, Master and I were watching from the side and found that there were several people in the crowd who were acting strangely," Yaohua pursed her lips. "But just as we were about to make a move, those people disappeared. Then these people all said in unison that they wanted to find you to be a sacrifice."
Mo Qing clenched his fists. "It seems that I've been targeted!"
Yaohua shook her head. "I'm afraid it's more than that. Those people had the same aura and seemed to come from the same source. They might be the clones of the same person. I suspect that's the false god who has never shown up."
Mo Qing was stunned. "I should have really set them on fire just now."
"Then I'll be able to see you on the Immortal Execution Platform tomorrow," Yaohua grabbed his wrist and said seriously. "Sixth Brother, you're my only Sixth Brother. You can't act on impulse."
She couldn't let her Sixth Brother really kill people. The punishments in the Heavenly Realm were unbearable, and her Sixth Brother definitely couldn't endure them.
Mo Qing felt happy inside. His sister really valued him!
"Now your identity has been completely exposed, Sixth Brother. Just in case, it's best that we don't show up in our current forms," Yaohua pursed her lips. "But we can't show up with strange faces either."