Big Bodhi [The Great Enlightenment] - Chapter 874

[Chapter 842 Lingyue Heavenly Palace]

Beside the eaves, there are more than a dozen strong wooden frames made of mountain trunks standing beside the river.

There are hemp ropes that are several fingers thick hanging on these wooden frames. The originally brown rope body is faintly glowing with a heart-stopping dark red color, which is the color formed after years of blood watering and completely drying up.

There are so many people under the majestic high platform that you can’t see the edge at a glance. At a rough look, there are at least tens of thousands of people in the densely packed area. They rise from the wooden frames and high platforms on the riverside and extend to the cities and villages in the distance, and even Even the roads leading here from all directions are full of people.

So many people gathered in one place, but it was extremely quiet by the Yanhe River. You could hear a needle drop. Almost all eyes were looking at the sinister old man in priest’s robes on the towering platform, with fear in his eyes. , piety, panic, worry, joy and many other extremely complex emotions.

Although their eyes were looking at the old priest, their emotions were directed at the eaves.

“The Yanhe River is adjacent to the sea and is the largest tributary of Canghai. The river has been rising continuously in recent days and the flood season is approaching. It is time for us Tushan people to pay tribute to the river god again.” The old priest leaned on the snake-headed staff in his hand and sighed

. He took a breath. Although the sound was not loud, in this extremely quiet environment, it still spread very clearly far away.

Many villagers looked at the roaring Yan River, and saw the roaring water of the river. From time to time, bad waves surged in, soaking the cloth shoes worn by many villagers, causing them to retreat continuously.

The old priest turned his head and said to his side: “Chief Wang, are all the tributes ready this time?”

Chief Wang nodded slightly and said in a deep voice: “The arrangements were made a few days ago, old priest. , thank you for your hard work.”

The old priest’s gloomy face showed a hint of compassion, and said: “I just hope that the river god will accept the tribute, the floods will no longer harm the people of Tushan, and my old bones will die too. I have no regrets, I just feel sorry for these children…”

As he was talking, some strong villagers holding swords and escorting more than a dozen children of about seven or eight years old came from a distance. Wherever they passed, everyone The villagers silently moved out of the way, and at the same time, the helpless cries of these children rang out from the riverside that had been silent just now.

The old priest glanced far away under the high platform, shook his head and said: “What’s wrong with this, Wang Lizhang, if the river god is disturbed, I’m afraid…”

Wang Lizhang’s face was slightly cold, and he gestured towards the villagers beside him. With a wink, these villagers understood and hurriedly separated from the crowd and walked towards the knife-wielding villagers who were escorting the children.

Soon, strips of cloth were stuffed into the mouths of these children. Their faces turned red, and their tearful eyes were full of despair.

Many villagers who were watching could not bear it, and turned their heads sideways, not daring to look any further.

“My child! Lord Priest, please let her go!” The

heartbreaking cry spread throughout the countryside, and many villagers looked around. Under the high platform, they saw a person of about twenty people. The 20-year-old young woman knelt on the hard stone floor and kept kowtowing to the priest on the stage. Her face was covered with tears, blood and soil, and her original appearance could no longer be seen clearly.

The prince’s face darkened, and he was about to order the villagers beside him to carry the young woman away, but the old priest waved his hand to stop him.

“Go and support her first.”

The old priest ordered, and then leaning on the snake-head crutch, he turned around and walked tremblingly down the stone steps towards the high platform.

Wang Lichang hurriedly stepped forward to help the old priest. With a signal from his eyes, several villagers quickly walked down the platform and helped the young woman up, whose face was covered with blood.

The bank of the Yan River became silent again, and all the villagers looked towards this place.

The old priest stepped down from the high platform, walked up to the young woman, and asked gently: “Where are you from?” The young

woman stretched out her patched cloth sleeves and wiped her face. The wound on her forehead was still healing. There was blood oozing from his nose, tears streaming down his face, and he cried: “Master Priest, my family is in Liujia Village at the foot of Tushan Mountain. The child has lost his father since he was born. Over the years, I have worked three jobs every day, one I’ll stretch her out with shit and pee. If she dies, I won’t be able to live anymore!” The

villager next to her handed over a towel soaked in water and wiped the young woman’s face, revealing her slender face caused by hunger. Starved and slightly yellow cheeks.

The many villagers who were escorting the children were able to walk under the high platform. At this time, they all stood still and looked here.

The old priest sighed and said, “Do you know which of these is your child?” The

young woman turned her head, looked closely, ran to a girl in three steps, then hugged her and howled. burst into tears.

Seeing her crying so sadly, the surrounding villagers couldn’t bear it, but no one spoke a word from the beginning to the end.

“Take out the strip of cloth from the child’s mouth,”

the old priest said.

The king hesitated for a moment and said: “Priest, it’s getting late…” The

old priest waved his hand.

When Wang Lichang saw this, he stopped talking and gave instructions to the villagers beside him. At that moment, someone stepped forward and pulled the cloth from the girl’s mouth.

“Mother!”

“My son!”

The girl and the young woman hugged each other, tears streaming down their faces. They cried until the sky was dark for a while, making those who heard it cry and those who saw it hurt.

When they had almost finished crying, the old priest walked forward with a snake-head crutch, looked at the girl’s big black eyes, and said gently: “But are you hungry?” The girl

shrank back with some fear, and nestled in In the young woman’s arms, she dared not speak.

The young woman held her head and comforted her softly: “The priest is the eldest person in Tushan. He is not a bad person.” The

girl shook her head vigorously and said in a clear voice: “He is an old bad person! He wants to send us away Go to the river!”

After saying this, many villagers showed a look of fear on their faces, and the unbearable meaning in their eyes had also dissipated a lot.

The king even scolded: “How dare you be disrespectful to the priest! Don’t talk nonsense here!” The

old priest waved his hand, turned to the young woman and said: “Every twenty years, the Yanhe River Do you know about this during the flood season?”

The young woman hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, “The village woman knows.”

The old priest pointed to the villages and towns in Tushanjie behind him, and said, “Twenty years ago, we waited I couldn’t find a child at the right time, and I didn’t offer a tribute to the river god in the end. Do you know what happened next?” The

young woman’s face gradually turned pale, and after a long silence, she said: “That year I was… When I was nine years old, I vaguely remembered that the river was furious and the floods flooded dozens of villages and towns in Tushan.” The

old priest nodded and said, “In that single flood, countless people drowned. My fellow villagers, their crops and fields were destroyed. The villagers gnawed tree barks and ate grass roots. Even half of the old trees in the mountains were cut down. Many people starved to death. Only then did they survive such a difficult twenty years. Year.”

Upon hearing this, the young woman’s lips trembled and lost color, and she was speechless.

The old priest looked at the girl in her arms again, sighed, and said: “These children are carefully selected according to the time. If one is missing, the tragedy of twenty years ago will probably happen again. Although you She is a village woman, but she looks like she is knowledgeable. You should know whether this child’s life is more important or the people of Tushan who are all over the mountains and plains.” After saying this, his old arm pointed at the dense crowds in all directions

. The villagers continued, “Nearly every household here has children, and there are countless children as big as this girl. If the river god is angry and the river floods again, do you think the children of these villagers can survive? How many?”

After hearing this, many villagers clenched their fists with complicated expressions and remained silent.

The young woman pursed her lips, but could not say a word. She just held the girl tightly and cried. After a while, the tears flowed all over the floor and soaked her clothes.

The next moment, the young woman suddenly let go of her hands. Her expression was full of despair. She didn’t know where she got the strength. She rushed out and slammed into the stone base at the bottom of the high platform!

Boom!

The bright red blood splashed everywhere, the skull was cracked, and there was a bit of white turbidity in the bones, which was scattered on the clothes of the nearby villagers!

“Mom!”

The girl’s fair little face, which was mixed with tears and mud, happened to be splashed with a warm, wet, white turbid substance mixed with bloodshot eyes. Her pupils shrank sharply, and she let out a sharp scream. His little face wrinkled up, the whites of his eyes rolled up, and he fainted.

“Why is this necessary…”

“Alas…”

Seeing this scene, a very brief burst of noise suddenly broke out among many villagers, but it calmed down again in the blink of an eye.

“Old priest, the time is coming.”

Wang Lichang looked up at the sky, looking a little anxious.

The old priest had a sinister look on his face. He glanced at the lifeless body of the young woman on the ground, shook his head and said, “Tie all the tributes to the wooden frame.”

Wang Lichang breathed a sigh of relief and quickly ordered the people beside him. The villagers rushed forward and tied the children to wooden frames beside the eaves and tied them tightly with thick hemp ropes, making it impossible for them to break free.

The water waves roared and rolled up, surging up from time to time, soaking the children’s shoes and socks, making the look of fear and despair in their eyes even worse. However, no matter how they twisted, they could never break free from the tight and thick ties. hemp rope.

“Everyone, step back.”

The old priest, leaning on a snake-head crutch, also raised his head and squinted at the sky, “Wang Lichang, let’s do it.”

Villagers from all directions retreated behind the high platform like a tide. Only Wang Lichang and the sturdy villagers holding swords quickly stepped forward and dispersed, and everyone walked towards a wooden frame with children tied up.

“The time has come.”

The old priest sighed.

Wang Lichang looked coldly and said: “Do it!”

Those strong villagers were obviously prepared. They all took out a piece of black cloth and covered their faces. Then they raised the sharp blades in their hands and slashed at the children. Tender neck!

Blood splattered everywhere!

More than a dozen young heads fell in response, and bright red blood gushed out from their severed necks. Due to the cloth stuffed in their mouths, these children did not even make a sound until they died.

The head of the girl just now rolled to the edge of the eaves river, and soon her hair was wet by the water waves. Her eyes were wide open, and her black and white pupils were soaked with scarlet blood, as if they were looking coldly. Looking at these villagers in Tushan Realm.

boom!

Suddenly, an evil wave rises!

The churning water waves gradually turned into a whirlpool of water, exuding an indescribable terrifying aura!

The next moment, a bright divine voice roared down from the river, and a light bloomed. A staff-holding god wearing a cloud-patterned black robe and a crown of hanging beads appeared in the center of the vortex. In the majestic light, A pair of eyes filled with divine light quietly looked down at the Tushan people who were kneeling on the ground.

“Your Majesty, the River God, may I, the people of Tushan, not suffer from floods and be healthy forever!” The

old priest put down his snake-head crutch and knelt down tremblingly.

The river god with the divine light paid no attention to him, but glanced at the heads of more than ten children below. His robe sleeves were turned up, and the rolling evil waves rolled over, and he took the picture directly over him. His mouth opened to the extreme in an instant, Swallowed it all in one mouthful.

“It’s really delicious, but the skulls are a bit hard, so just chew them up and swallow them.” The

river god with wide robes and long sleeves looked majestic. He chewed up the heads of more than ten children and swallowed them in a few times, and then He burped unconsciously, and the remaining bloody breath seeped out from his lips, making him lick his lips unconsciously.

The old priest raised his head and looked up at the Yanhe Spirit and prayed: “God above, can you collect your magical power first? If this continues, I’m afraid floods will come soon!” Many villagers also looked desperate and kowtowed in prayer

.

The River God was startled for a moment, then subconsciously looked back, his pupils shrinking slightly.

Not only did the whirlpool of vast water where he appeared just now not disappear, it actually became larger now!

“I have obviously lost my magical power of manifestation, how is this possible?!”

The River God flicked the sleeves of his mysterious clothes and walked on the waves to the vortex that had expanded to a radius of dozens of feet. His expression became even more horrified!

As the whirlpool of the Hanshui grew rapidly, the water of the Yanhe River below also surged and roared. In just a few breaths, dozens of villagers who were getting closer had been sucked in!

boom!

After a few breaths, under the horrified gaze of the River God, the whirlpool of the vast water finally stopped growing and instead exploded!

Countless water splashes flew all over the sky and fell into the river. The crazily rolling water of the Eaves River below also gradually stopped and slowly faded back.

“Brother Chaoyin, if it weren’t for the wave of teleportation magical power happening here, we would have had to spend a lot of time trying to pass through the boundary wall of this vast world.” The water waves dispersed, and two figures emerged from the

transparent The state gradually solidified and emerged.

Among them, the handsome young man in black robes smiled, opened his arms, and looked up at the blue sky, “Such a cheerful vitality, such a fragrant breath, and there is no life lock… I have not had it since the birth of the destiny world. In thousands of years, I have never experienced such a comfortable feeling…”

Beside him, the beautiful young man wearing a gold-threaded white robe had dark eyes, and ignored him, but looked straight at him. The Xuanyi River God in the wide robe and long sleeves changed his expression slightly and said: “The guardian spirit of the mountains, rivers and land shouldn’t be like this…” The

Xuanyi River God, who was just arrogant, was glanced at by the white-robed young man. , couldn’t help but shiver all over, feeling that the meager divine power in his body was moving crazily, and was even on the verge of collapse!

The figure of the white-robed boy suddenly disappeared, and the next moment he appeared directly beside Xuanyi River God. He stretched out his palm and placed it on Xuanyi River God’s trembling arm, not paying attention to the pale-faced Xuanyi River God at all.

After a moment of exploration, his brows furrowed even more tightly, and he murmured: “Have even the rules of heaven and earth been changed…”

Xuanyi River God almost burst into tears, and said in a trembling voice: “God, spare my life! I I am the righteous god of Yanhe who has received the decree. Without the decree of going to court, the god will never kill me!” “

Going to court?!”

After hearing these two words, Ji Yuenian’s eyes were slightly cold, “This world There are Pilinzhou, Cangliuzhou, and Lingyuezhou. Which continent is this?”

Xuanyi River God calmed down and said: “This is the Tushan boundary on the edge of Pilinzhou, adjacent to Canghai. Is it possible? Do the gods really not know?”

The Lost Soul Taoist walked closer, glanced at the river god with wide robes and long sleeves, and said, “Brother Chaoyin, how are you doing now?” The

tens of thousands of Tushan people below had already been shocked by many changes. After being frightened several times, he had already dispersed far away, looking towards this place with great fear.

Ji Yuenian did not speak, but said coldly to Xuanyi River God: “How old is Shangting?”

Xuanyi River God noticed the coldness in his tone and shuddered. , said: “According to records, there should be thirty Yuanhui…”

“That’s so outrageous!”

Ji Yuenian’s eyes became colder, and while his heart was burning, the water of the Yanhe River behind him roared up, and it turned out to be The roar surged up into the sky, and countless huge water splashes exploded in an instant!

Lost Soul Taoist realized that this matter was strange, and his expression became much more solemn, saying: “Brother Chaoyin, what on earth is going on?!”

Ji Yuenian raised his head, looked at the vast sky that was out of reach, and said: “There are three continents and two seas in this world. Its size is about the same as the Dongsheng Divine Continent in Zhoutian. Above the three continents and two seas, the Taiyin Goddess I personally used the power of the state’s sky and moon wheel to reflect here, and then refined the nine-layer heavenly palace with many precious materials from the Milky Way, calling it the ‘Lingyue Heavenly Palace’.” “This ‘Lingyue Heavenly Palace’ is the Taiyin Goddess who entered this world for me

. What I have left behind is that now I see that this heaven has been occupied by the doves of this world, taking it as their own, and even treating themselves as the master of this world.” After hearing this, the Lost Soul Taoist said in confusion: “That’s the way it is said

. Come on, the creatures in this world really deserve to die, but didn’t Her Highness the Taiyin Goddess think of this change when she first appeared in the Lingyue Heavenly Court?” Ji Yuenian’s

expression was a little solemn, and he said: “This is what surprises me. According to the estimation of Her Majesty the Goddess, since the opening of this world, the time in its own world should only be about ten Yuanhui. However, according to what the river god said, this world has already spent dozens of Yuanhui. For a long time. Some unknown things should have happened, which caused the speed of time in this world to accelerate, so that the creatures in it became successful in their cultivation and became aware of the existence of the Ninth Level Sky Tower, the Lingyue Heavenly Court. Once they occupy the Lingyue Heavenly Court, they will The co-lord of heaven and earth in this world can control or even change the rules of this world.”

Lost Soul Taoist clicked his tongue: “No wonder Her Highness the Goddess of Nazhoutian is not aware of the situation in this world. It turns out that there is such a reason.”

Ji Yuenian looked back from high in the sky and said: “He who can control Lingyue Heavenly Court has at least the sixth realm of cultivation. Coupled with the rules of this world and the blessing of the co-lord of heaven and earth, he can even be regarded as a deity.” Detached state. Based on this calculation, Lingyue Heavenly Court must have installed countless immortals and gods’ followers. We still need to take a long-term approach.”

Xuanyi River God stood aside and said all these beheading words. Hearing this, he said with a mournful face: “God, please kill me quickly. If the High Court knew that I, a little ant god, heard these rebellious words, I’m afraid I would be thrown into the eighteenth level of hell. , I will never be able to stand up again!”

The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. As his thoughts were flowing, Ji Yuenian’s expression moved slightly and he said: “Is there a hell in this world? Her Highness the Goddess has never mentioned this matter.

” Yihe Shen vaguely noticed a glimmer of hope and quickly said: “Yes! Yes!”

Taoist Lost Soul glanced at Ji Yuenian, and the two of them understood each other. Knowing that this might be a way to break the situation, he immediately He stepped forward and grabbed the collar of Xuanyi River God’s broad robe, and said fiercely: “Why don’t you lead Taoist Master there quickly!” (End of Chapter)