Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 356 All Beings Unite to Offer Sacrifice to Heaven and Earth

The moment I finished speaking

The guiding lamp in Pu Liang's hand shone a light, spreading out beneath everyone's feet.

The group stepped forward, entered the pillar of light, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Pu Liang stood there, gazing up at the sky, his face filled with envy and loneliness; his glory had long since faded.

The pillar of light guided everyone through the realms of Yin God and Gods, and they stood atop the giant tree canopy of the Dragon Kingdom.

The branches and leaves stretched out and intertwined to form a ladder to the sky, lifting everyone straight to the top.

The light and shadows shifted, and when they opened their eyes again, they found themselves in a plaza.

Li Wushou looked around and saw that, apart from the seventy-two people from the Jinjing River water vein, all the people from the other eleven water veins were present. They stood in the square in a circle according to the direction of the water veins.

Looking down, the square resembles a giant tortoise shell, and the people's positions resemble the patterns on the tortoise shell.

Right in the center of the crowd stood a giant tortoise statue.

This stone statue was the same one Li Wushou had seen when he entered the capital. It was very similar to the one in the Xuandu Divine Palace, except that the other one had a tail like a giant dragon.

The one in Xuandu Divine Palace is coiled around the shrine in Xuandu, while the one in the square is coiled around the sacrificial temple directly north of the square.

Li Wushou gazed at the temple, and to his surprise, he did not find Canglan's shrine. In the center of the main hall of the temple, there was only a stone tablet bathed in incense smoke.

The two characters "天地" (Heaven and Earth) on the inscription are vigorous and powerful, shining brightly.

This made Li Wushou even more restless!
In the realm of gods, offering sacrifices to Canglan is, in a sense, equivalent to offering sacrifices to Heaven and Earth, but offering sacrifices to Heaven and Earth does not necessarily mean offering sacrifices to Canglan.

As expected, the other party wanted to break free from the shackles between Canglan and the God Realm in that life and be reborn!

Just then, a dragon's roar resounded, and the entire square trembled slightly.

The Yin spirits of the Twelve Water Vein Dragon Kings hovered above the plaza, and the Dao bell rang within the Canglan Imperial Palace, causing the Yin spirits of the Dragon Kings to tremble.

Li Wushou sensed Chi Xiu's emotions; the other seemed to be unable to control himself and was struggling to manage his own situation.

Then the dragon leaped and bounded, and the Dragon King's Yin Spirit attached itself to the turtle's back.

Unlike before, when the dragon's head faced the protrusion in the center of the tortoise's back, this time the dragon's head was outward, gazing at everyone with its head held high.

The dragon's tail was entangled in black incense chains and merged into the central protrusion.

This is not as simple as just turning around.

It should be noted that the Yin spirits of the Twelve Dragon Kings have long since merged into the water veins in which they reside.

With the help of the many deities of the Jinjing River, Li Wushou could vaguely sense that just now, with the reversal of the Dragon King's Yin God, the water of the twelve water veins also flowed backward.

The surging river flowed back into the abyss, and the capital of Canglan rose from the ground, getting closer and closer to the sky.

This scene was unprecedented in previous grand festivals!

Even though he knew this grand ceremony would be different, Li Wushou couldn't help but exclaim: What a grand gesture!
Apart from Li Wushou, who seemed to have a sense of unease, the others appeared somewhat fearful and bewildered.

"Buzz!"

A buzzing sound echoed in the void, and the sun, moon, and stars appeared in the sky.

This was far more lively than the scene described by Pu Liang, where the sun and moon were in the same sky.

The sun hangs in the east, the moon hangs in the west, and the stars twinkle in the south, as three celestial figures emerge.

Judging from the illusory figures alone, the three celestial beings are all in human form, except that each of them has a large mouth that spans across their abdominal cavity, which is probably what is used for divine burial.

The moment the phantom stood still, it bowed slightly to the due north direction. The air above the palace behind the temple was filled with billowing smoke, and the incense smoke quietly gathered in the void to condense into a magnificent throne.

A majestic figure sat upright on it.

The brilliant sunlight coalesced into a golden crown, while the flowing moonlight transformed into a deep blue imperial robe. This figure was none other than the King of Canglan, or perhaps the incarnation of the True God of Canglan.

Li Wushou was certain of this as soon as he entered the palace square.

The reason is simple: the aura of the "disaster star" filled the surroundings and was extremely compatible with the Yin spirit of the other party. Although there were slight differences between the two, they came from the same source.

This not only confirmed to Li Wushou that the other party was the incarnation of Canglan, but also confirmed that the calamity star was not Wu Zhuangyuan's backup plan, but that the other party was indeed Canglan's way out!

This undoubtedly added considerable difficulty to the operation.

Li Wushou also put in his best effort.

The moment the King of Canglan appeared, the palace bells rang nine times, echoing throughout the capital.

The spirits and deities all knelt on the ground, shouting, "May the ruler prosper forever!"

The King of Canglan looked down at the plaza and spoke with a majestic voice:
"For four thousand years, the world has been in flux, rising and falling between heaven and earth. May all living beings unite their wishes and offer sacrifices to heaven and earth!"

Upon hearing this, the spirits and deities in the capital sat amidst the dark clouds and mountain peaks, silently reciting the scriptures for the grand sacrifice.

The crowd in the square inexplicably felt their bodies sink, and then they all sat cross-legged on the ground. Li Wushou's mind stirred, and he felt countless wishes and power constantly gathering from all directions onto Shui Sheng's body, gradually making Shui Sheng's flesh seem to be coated with a layer of gold paint.

The same applies to the rest of the people, a point that has never appeared in the descriptions of Pu Liang and other Yin gods!
Li Wushou connected with the Di Jiao God's senses and discovered that the entire Di waterway had fallen into silence, with countless water people kneeling on the ground, constantly kowtowing and silently reciting the great sacrificial scriptures.

This incense offering and prayers inexplicably converged through the recommendation of prestigious individuals from various branch waterways.

The incense offerings and prayers of all the people of the main water vein, including the seventy-two branch deities, all converged into the Dragon King's Yin God.

As he watched the people of the waters fall to the ground one by one in his mind, and even the other deities and spirits controlled by Li Wushou, such as the Di Jiao God, dissipated one after another, Li Wushou finally understood that the so-called "collective wish of all beings" was actually to harvest all the beings and incense offerings of the twelve water veins!

As expected, the other party was willing to abandon the world and seek another way to make a living, but the other party was much more ruthless than Li Wushou had imagined.

This is even more ruthless than Li Wushou's previous harvesting methods. This is not only killing chickens, but also demolishing the chicken coops!

After a moment of reflection, Li Wushou remained calm.

No matter what the other party's plans were, the incense offerings from the Jinjing River were already in Li Wushou's hands, and he could mobilize and collect them at any time.

The opponent's method of harvesting was more thorough, which was also a good thing for Li Wushou!

This scene lasted for a full quarter of an hour. All the Yin spirits and deities manipulated by Li Wushou in the Jinjing River dissipated, and the entire Jinjing River was turned upside down with raging floods. It is not hard to imagine that the entire Canglan Kingdom was in the same state.

A large amount of river water poured into the abyss, and the capital of Canglan rose higher and higher, eventually bursting out of the abyss and soaring into the sky.

The sun, moon, and stars seem so close!

Just as the Yin spirits, including Pu Liang, controlled by Li Wushou began to dissipate, the three Heavenly Gods standing in the sky suddenly opened their enormous horizontal mouths.

A suction force appeared above the plaza, and the people sitting cross-legged in the plaza were evenly divided into three groups, and according to different purification methods, they fell into the mouths of the three gods.

Li Wushou, riding on his invisible golden core, stood beneath the giant tortoise, swallowing Shui Sheng's physical body along with him.

After swallowing everyone's flesh, there will obviously be no more Yin spirit transformations this time. The prestigious figures in each waterway will merely be used as anchors to harvest incense offerings.

At this moment, swallowing everyone is equivalent to swallowing the incense offerings from all the waterways!
The three illusory images of celestial beings burst forth with golden light and gradually solidified.

The three of them stood in the void, and three life stars above their heads suddenly fell and entered their mouths.

The incense that had just been swallowed by the three people flowed into their destiny stars, causing the destiny stars of the three celestial gods to flourish greatly, and the clouds in the sky began to dissipate.

In no time at all, the clouds and mist in the sky completely dissipated.

A terrifying shadow emerged behind the sun and moon. Li Wushou stared intently and thought to himself, "Just as I thought!"
The shadow materialized into a ferocious beast, its appearance identical to the giant tortoise atop Li Wushou's head.

The sun and moon in the sky are embedded in the head of the ferocious beast, serving as its pupils.

His earlier guess was correct; the Canglan Divine Realm was indeed on the back of a giant tortoise.

The central protrusion on the turtle's back is the Great Abyss, and the crisscrossing patterns on its back are the twelve water veins. The ferocious beast twists its neck and looks back, its eyes representing the sun and moon, opening and closing as it surveys the heavens and the earth.

This scene was exactly the same as the ferocious beast statues that Li Wushou had seen twice before.

When they first met at the Xuandu Divine Palace, Li Wushou was merely guessing.

But when Li Wushou arrived at the Great Abyss and saw the Yin spirits of the Twelve Water Dragon Kings locked on the back of a tortoise on the sixth floor of the capital, he guessed that the structure of this world must be on the back of the giant tortoise.

It's even highly possible that Canglan himself is this ferocious beast.

Now it seems that this is indeed the case!
So the so-called Eyes of the Azure Ocean must be the sun and moon in the sky, right?

When Li Wushou deduced the structure of the world, he had already thought of this point. However, while he understood it, taking away the Eye of Azure Waves would not be easy.

Li Wushou looked up and around, a murmur echoing in his mind:
"Now that things have come to this, shouldn't both Scholar Wu and Canglan make their move?"

No sooner had Li Wushou uttered those words than he saw the King of Canglan suddenly rise from his throne. The king surveyed the heavens and earth with a solemn expression and proclaimed:
"Heaven and Earth Sacrifice!"

The divine sound resounded throughout heaven and earth, and the twelve dragon kings, bound to the back of the tortoise, suddenly opened their mouths and spat out incense and golden beads.

Incense smoke billowed from the golden beads, resembling golden tendrils.

The tentacles intertwined, and in the blink of an eye, the incense smoke flowed, coalescing into a golden mirror.

The sun and moon in the sky are reflected in the mirror. As the incense offerings increase, the moon's reflection in the mirror gradually becomes clearer, while the sun and moon in the sky gradually dim.

Li Wushou stared intently at the sun and moon reflected in the incense mirror. This scene seemed like a theft of the sun and moon, as if they had been directly plucked from the sky.

Is this the method used to remove the Eye of Azure?
What were Wu Zhuangyuan's methods?

Li Wushou was concentrating when he suddenly felt a familiar Yin energy fluctuation. A pure incense energy suddenly burst forth from the bodies of Chi Xiu and the others who were bound to the turtle's back.

The power of incense offerings here is completely different from the power of incense offerings in the divine realm.

The two forces of will clashed violently the moment they came into contact, and cracking sounds rang out. Chi Xiu's mind finally broke free, and Li Wushou finally learned of Wu Zhuangyuan's methods.

Chi Xiu and the others received guidance at the same time, manipulating the incense power of the Fubo Domain and gathering it in mid-air.

A golden hand slowly emerged and gently scooped up the incense mirror!
(End of this chapter)