Ah Pin stepped forward, taking his father to one side, "Dad, they are my friends, you can't treat them like this." He hadn't known his father would act this way, or he wouldn't have brought Song Yan Ning and the others back. Now he really felt guilty.
"You don't concern yourself with this." Ah Pin's father said coldly. The reason he had kept Song Yan Ning and the others was actually to use their blood to sacrifice to Shuimu Lake. The ancestral notes stated that once Shuimu Lake absorbed the blood of cultivators, it would undergo a change, potentially allowing the seal at the lake's bottom to be broken and its water supply to become inexhaustible. But he wouldn't tell Ah Pin this.
"Dad!"
Ah Pin's father waved his hand to cut off Ah Pin's next words, "I'm doing this for the good of our village." Having said that, he no longer paid attention to Ah Pin and walked towards Song Yan Ning and her companions.
