The immortals of the two worlds started from farming and refining pills.

Chapter 76 Awakening Ceremony, Incense of Gods (1000 additional chapters)
With the ringing of the bells, Lettuce Island ushered in another New Year.

Ryan and his son personally used the fire rune to stage a fireworks show, which was a feast for the eyes for the islanders.

After a sumptuous New Year's dinner, the awakening ceremony on Lettuce Island, which had been suspended for more than ten years, was finally held again.

In the middle of the square in front of Hongya Castle, on a marble platform, a bonfire was burning, and five large silver plates inlaid with various gems were lined up.

The silver plates were filled with Qingling bamboo leaves, golden glutinous rice, Hongya rice, Qingzhu rice, and Pingyang mushrooms, all of which were witchcraft (spiritual plants) harvested on the island this year.

Surrounding the bonfire and the magic potion are groups of intricate patterns, arranged in an orderly manner according to mysterious trajectories.

Ryan brought the two brothers, Rick and Leir, and stood on the platform in the middle of winter, with their chests and abdomens exposed, grass skirts around their waists, and feather crowns on their heads.

Below the platform, seventeen young men and women who were taking part in the awakening ceremony were wearing thin linen clothes and shivering, but they looked at the three people expectantly.

Further out, villagers and serfs alike formed circles in an orderly manner, all of them cheered up and had hope in their eyes.

"Islanders of Lettuce Island, in the past year, we have welcomed the harvest of five kinds of witchcraft medicines, including rainbow rice, Qingling bamboo, Pingyang mushroom, etc...."

Ryan's deep and majestic voice echoed over Rainbow Cliff Castle.

Li Qing stood on the top of a barren mountain, looking towards Hongya Castle from afar. His true energy flowed into his eyes, and everything became clear to him.

Li Qing had heard Ryan introduce the awakening ceremony many times. It was roughly divided into three steps.

First, the lord announced the harvest of witchcraft medicine, and led the people to sing and dance, celebrating the harvest, praying for good weather in the new year, flourishing witchcraft medicine, and a better harvest.

The lord then led the rune warriors to hold a ceremony, activating the power of runes, infusing them into the array patterns that had been drawn in advance, and communicating with a mysterious existence in the dark.

Finally, the witch medicine is offered as a sacrifice to this mysterious being and receives blessings.

Compared with the various complicated rituals in the world of cultivation, this awakening ceremony is extremely simple. The only element of mysticism contained in it is the array pattern for communication and sacrifice.

But Li Qing couldn't comprehend this array pattern at all. He didn't know what it meant, nor did he understand its meaning. It was like a black box that could be used without opening it.

Li Qing politely declined this "mysterious existence" for fear of being noticed by it, so he stayed far away and looked inward, ready to activate the phantom of the "Gate of Heaven" at any time.

Finally, Ryan's harvest declaration came to an end. He turned around solemnly and raised his hands high.

"Boom! Boom!"

Several villagers who were related to Rapunzel's family beat a few drums vigorously, and then everyone started dancing exaggeratedly to the beat of the drums.

"Ulaso! Amido! Leon Lunache..." Everyone sang the ancient aria whose meaning was long unknown.

As the ceremony continued, the disorganized dance steps and the out-of-tune chorus gradually became more uniform.

Li Qing's consciousness was suddenly touched. He keenly discovered that everyone's dance steps, as if influenced by some mysterious force, gradually became in perfect sync with the drum beats.

A vast and lofty wave descended from the sky, like a pair of indifferent eyes, quietly watching all this.

Li Qing couldn't help but tremble in his heart. He was about to activate the "Gate of Tianwei", but the map of Taihao Palace in his spiritual platform trembled slightly.

In an instant, the sense of crisis of being watched disappeared, Li Qing calmed down and gave up the idea of ​​escaping.

Finally, when the drum beats reached their highest peak, all the singing and dancing came to an abrupt end.

Ryan was sweating all over, and walked to the campfire with the brothers Rick and Leir with a burning gaze. "Let's start!" Ryan knelt in front of the campfire, pressing two array patterns with his hands, and the fire runes in his body gushed out and poured into it continuously.

Rick and Leir did not dare to delay and knelt down. The fire runes and the ice runes restored by fighting spirit were also poured into the formation.

Li Qing couldn't help but feel worried: He wondered if his modified Taoist military techniques and fighting techniques would be recognized by the ceremony?

After learning about this step, Li Qing thought about giving up the awakening ceremony.

After all, with his modified practice method, if he doesn't consider future potential, he can still form a team of extraordinary people with some effort.

But he was deeply touched by the earnest looks of the Ryan family.

——This is the historical turning point for Lettuce Island to revive after more than a decade of decline. They want to use such a traditional ceremony to comfort their deceased ancestors.

Li Qing didn't quite understand, but he showed respect. After he sent the pregnant Anna and Kailin to a nearby deserted island.

If something goes wrong, it means our fate has ended.

Li Qing had lived for sixty years and had experienced so many separations and deaths that he had long since become indifferent to them. After all, there were still three hundred years to come, and who knew how many more people would have to leave?

Fortunately, the awakening ceremony was flawless. After the array absorbed the rune power of Ryan and his son, it suddenly bloomed with an indescribable brilliance, dazzling people.

The islanders had been instructed in advance, and they all knelt down in fear and trepidation, pressing their foreheads to the cold ground, not daring to spy at all.

Only Li Qing turned his head away. Although he did not look directly at it, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the light that contained infinite mysteries from the corner of his eye.

Fortunately, the Taihao Palace map trembled again.

The half of the green wall condensed by Li Qing and the piece of golden tile on it emitted a faint green-gold light, isolating the influence of the brilliance of the formation pattern.

Li Qing was in a trance, as if he "saw" the indifferent existence in the sky, and lowered his own will, and the bonfire on the high platform suddenly rose up.

"Sacrifice..." A majestic voice sounded in everyone's mind.

Ryan and the other two were shocked as if struck by lightning, and hurriedly poured the silver plates containing the spiritual plants into the campfire one by one.

"boom--"

The lightest and most refreshing bamboo leaves quickly burned out, and a cool fragrance, accompanied by wisps of green smoke, rose towards the sky.

Next came the Hongya Rice and Pingyang Mushroom. The fire element and yang energy contained in them made them burn fiercely.

The light red smoke, with a warm fragrance, rises up in a lingering manner, swirling around to catch up with the green smoke and go straight up to the sky.

Golden glutinous rice and green pearl rice burn very slowly, and the smoke they emit is green and yellow in color, turning into a cloud-like shape and slowly floating into the sky.

"Why does this look a bit like the gods enjoying the incense?" Li Qing suddenly had an idea in his mind.

"However, this god does not seem to absorb the wishes of the islanders. Instead, he seems to be simply enjoying the fireworks produced by the burning of spiritual plants..."

Finally, all five plates of spiritual plants were burned out, and there was a loud "boom" from the sky, and thunder struck the bonfire.

"Bless, seven times!" The indifferent voice seemed a little satisfied. When it echoed in everyone's mind, it did not make people feel uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)