Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 2469 Sacrifice

Li Ji's entire body seemed to be struck by lightning.

"What...are you...saying?"

Li Ji couldn't help but take a step back.

Lin Wangong was standing right in front of him, but every word he said seemed to be far away from Li Ji.

It is only natural for Da Siming to investigate the cause of Shao Siming's death, but why would he investigate his life experience?

A terrible guess expanded infinitely in Li Ji's mind.

Is Shao Siming’s death related to him?

"You really didn't guess it?"

Lin Wangong looked at Li Ji coldly, "Baoyue died eight years ago. At that time, she was a goddess of the second rank. No one in the entire cultivation world could defeat her except my sister. She was so powerful, even if someone plotted against her, who could really kill her? And without my sister noticing?"

Yes, Lin Wangong is absolutely right.

Li Ji took another step back, with big beads of cold sweat oozing out of his forehead. "The night she left the forest, someone tampered with my memory. Could it be that..."

But he remembered very clearly that although he broke his oath to Lin Baoyue and ran away from the courtyard, he had never attacked Ying Baoyue.

  Is there something wrong with his memory?

"It wasn't eight years ago," Lin Wangong looked at Li Ji, whose expression changed drastically, with complicated eyes. "Things that shouldn't have happened had already happened since the year you ran into the Cloud Forest."

Li Ji took another step back and said, "I accidentally entered the Cloud Forest. Was it planned by someone?"

"Someone set a trap for her, that's right," Lin Wangong took a deep breath, "but she could have avoided it."

Lin Wangong still remembers the last time he saw Lin Shubai seven years ago, and the regret and helplessness on Lin Shubai's face when he talked about the cause of Lin Baoyue's death.

Lin Wangong knew in his heart that he shouldn't blame Li Ji for what happened nine years ago.

Li Ji was just a child who had been imprisoned for many years at the time. At most, he was being used by others. The person who made the decision was Lin Baoyue.

It was when he saw him again many years later that he got angry when he saw that this guy knew nothing about what happened back then and looked like a fool.

"If Baoyue hadn't met you nine years ago," Lin Wangong looked at Li Ji quietly, "she would probably not have been harmed by the thieves."

"Don't you want to know why you can live past the age of fifteen?"

"What do you think is the reason?"

Faced with Lin Wangong's questioning, Li Ji could not help but take another step back.

But every time he took a step back, Lin Wangong took a step forward.

"You are already a heavenly cultivator. Tell me, how can you keep a child who is being parasitized by a divine spirit and is about to die of starvation alive?"

Li Ji stopped retreating, his throat was extremely hoarse, "We can only seal the gods."

This was also the question he originally wanted to ask Lin Wangong.

Has anyone ever sealed the existence in his body?

Now this question has an answer.

Li Ji stood rooted to the sand, "Someone has sealed the spirit in me."

He raised his head and looked at Lin Wangong with empty eyes, "Who is it?"

"Who do you think it is?" Lin Wangong looked at the man who was deceiving himself. "Who else in the world can do such a thing?"

"Even if it is extremely weak, it is still a god."

The Azure Dragon God is one of the four highest-ranking heavenly spirits among the Eight Beast Gods. A lean camel is bigger than a horse. Even human gods may not dare to attempt to seal a god.

This is not only a matter of whether it can be done, but the power of practitioners comes from the Eight Beast Gods. Using the power from the Beast Gods to seal the Beast God is not only against the Way of Heaven, it is the most heinous thing in the world!

That madman...

"Seal the gods, this will definitely bring punishment from the gods!"

Lin Wangong's eyes were red and his voice was heartbreaking.

"Among those who can do it, what fool would take such a big risk for a child he has never met?" The Juque sword in Li Ji's hand fell to the ground with a snap, smashing a deep pit in the desert.

He stumbled back a few steps, then slid down to sit on the ground, leaning against a rock.

Lin Wangong looked down at the man on the ground. "You should know everything now, right? Who is it?"

is her.

It turns out it was all her.

Li Ji reached out to grab the Juque on the ground, but he couldn't stop his fingers from trembling. He simply gave up and grabbed a handful of sand on the ground and held it in his palm.

"How much did it cost her?"

"At least half of your power, soul, and blood essence are all damaged," Lin Wangong stared at Li Ji, "If I'm not mistaken, you should still have some of her soul in your body now."

"Inside my body?" Li Ji touched his chest and looked up in disbelief.

"This is just my sister and I's guess, but..."

Lin Wangong frowned, "Is there any connection between you and her? If so, it's probably the power of that part of the soul."

The formation that Lin Baoyue used to seal the Azure Dragon God was created by herself. Even Lin Shubai was unable to completely crack it back then. In a sense, while she was sealing the Azure Dragon God, she also formed an indescribable connection with him.

"Between me and Baoyue?"

Li Ji's eyes were dazed, and countless images flashed through his mind.

"These are all what my sister deduced from the clues left by Baoyue, but how she sealed the Azure Dragon God and what the negative effects were, only she knows."

But one thing is certain.

Shao Siming was extremely powerful back then. It was impossible to defeat her from the outside. The only thing to do was to wait for her to weaken her own strength.

And Li Ji was the culprit who caused Lin Baoyue to weaken himself.

Li Ji looked at the blood-stained sand between his fingers and murmured, "Why did she do this?"

"I don't know about that," Lin Wangong said calmly, "I can only ask her herself."

Li Ji, or Zhao Ji, was originally a sacrifice chosen by the Azure Dragon God.

Although his life story was pitiful, the royal family of Dongwu had been blessed by the Azure Dragon God for many years, so there was nothing wrong with offering a descendant to the god as a sacrifice.

Even the royal family of Dongwu and the Azure Dragon God's son Dongfang Yi did not raise any objections at that time.

Otherwise, King Dongwu and Dongfang Yi could have reported the matter to Emperor Taizu and asked Lin Shubai to solve the problem, and perhaps save Li Ji's life.

But the King of Eastern Wu did not.

Li Ji's biological father accepted this fate and chose to conceal the existence of his son and kept him in the palace, leaving him alone, allowing the Azure Dragon God to devour the sacrifice and successfully reincarnate.

In other words, he was willing to offer his son to the Azure Dragon God.

He sounds like a cruel father, but we have to admit that he is a benevolent king.

If we trace back to the source, the Azure Dragon God was seriously injured and almost died in order to protect the people of the world from the evil god.

If the Azure Dragon God really disappeared, the people of Dongwu would inevitably suffer even greater disasters.

Sacrifice a child in exchange for world peace.

This is the choice made by the King of Eastern Wu, which can be described as wise.

All the people in Dongwu had this attitude, but Lin Baoyue, as an outsider, chose to stop it.

Isn't this matter her responsibility?

If Li Ji successfully grew up and cultivated to become a heavenly-level practitioner, out of his instinct for survival, he would most likely prevent the Azure Dragon God from reincarnating.

  If the Azure Dragon God fails to reincarnate successfully and is trapped in Li Ji's body, or dies together with him, who can bear the consequences?

What was Lin Baoyue thinking at the moment of sealing the Azure Dragon God?