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Chapter 259: Sacrifice and [Lingering Golden Fruit]

By the time Ye Yiyi changed into the newly acquired magic of the kings and returned from the holy monument, Bai Yu and Nivea had already set up the altar in front of the fairy chapel.

The altar was very simple, so simple that Ye Yiyi stared at the Fairy Chapel for a long time before realizing that the two long white candles standing next to the chapel were the altar itself.

"That'll be fine?"

He asked with a confused expression, thinking that how could the sacrificial ceremony be a ceremony to worship the lingering vine veins? Instead of bathing, burning incense, offering three kinds of meat and fruits, or dancing and playing music, isn't it too disrespectful to only have two candles?

"Of course, Bai Yu is the only spectator of this sacrifice, so there's no need to make it so exaggerated."

Nivea flapped her wings and descended from the sky, landing on Ye Yiyi's shoulder, with her hands on her hips.

"Hero, are you ready? If all is well, the ceremony will begin~"

After meeting Bai Yu's gaze, who had taken off his mask and nodded at him, Ye Yiyi raised his left hand, which was wearing the Birth of the Messiah, and nodded to Nivea.

"I'm ready, you can host it."

"Okay, then please stand here, hero. Don't worry, I've cast some fairy magic, and now the remnants of all living things won't have any effect."

After taking off the bird-beak mask and sniffing the inexplicably fresh air outside, Ye Yiyi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

No wonder Bai Yu also took off his mask.

"If you have this ability, why didn't you use it earlier?"

Muttering softly, he stood in front of the Fairy Chapel, with the Remnants of All Life and the Ashes of Evil placed on either side of him.

"Cough cough."

Nivea flew to the top of the chapel and landed. She coughed twice and then spoke loudly under the gaze of the many little fairies on the vines behind her.

"Then, the 82nd Lingering Vein Sacrifice Ceremony begins now."

Following her command, the goblins cheered and turned into light, merging into the spiral vines.

"Pengtong!"

A deep and long earthquake sound suddenly rang in the ears of Ye Yiyi and Bai Yu.

"Is this... the sound of a beating heart?"

Ye Yiyi covered his left chest, feeling slightly shocked. He felt that the vibration seemed to be synchronized with his heartbeat.

"Pengtong!"

Another loud bang was heard, and the winding vines in front of him seemed to come to life, emitting a faint light with the sound of the beating heart.

Bai Yu also pressed his left chest and looked nervously at Ye Yiyi, who was glowing all over like Tengmai.

"Yi Yi has truly resonated with the earth's ley lines! The ritual is about to begin!"

Nivea glanced down and nodded with satisfaction.

Then she raised her hand, and colorful stars sprinkled from her fingertips.

"With the residue of all living things, we pay tribute to the reincarnation of all things and the selfless reproduction."

Then the wooden barrel containing the sticky filth quietly floated up.

Under the illumination of the winding vines, all the filth within turned into floating light spots and condensed into various strange creatures in the air.

Ye Yiyi looked up in a trance and saw green grass and big trees, flying birds and swimming fish, all kinds of sub-human and non-human creatures with strange appearances, hideous-looking demons, and finally humans.

Those wonderful creatures that turned into light and floated up were either growing and sprouting in the air, or running, or flying and swimming, presenting a magnificent and natural scene of life in front of Ye Yiyi.

If Ye Yiyi hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would have been hard for him to believe that these lifelike creatures had just been emitting foul odors.

Finally they fell quietly and rotated around the leaves one by one.

At this moment, he suddenly realized that perhaps to some extent, although excrement is dirty, smelly and disgusting, if there is no excrement, then life that only takes in but not out will have no giving, only taking.

As an important metabolic product of nature, feces is naturally part of this natural cycle.

They are the remnants left behind by the growth and reproduction of life, or proof of its existence.

And the unsung heroes who can no longer defecate... perhaps they are the product of going against nature?

"Using the ashes of the most evil, I pay tribute to the chaos of life and the end of the end."

Nivea waved her hand again, and the transparent urn floated up. The ashes in it turned into a dark red light and fell, landing on the many lives beside Ye Yiyi.

So all living things that were originally unrelated and growing freely began to intersect at this moment.

The beasts lowered their heads and ate the green leaves and grass.

Birds swooped down from the sky to hunt fish in the water.

Many races looked at each other, raised their weapons and began to fight.

Humans took a piece of wood, drilled fire from it, and started the war.

Many lives surround Ye Yiyi. They compete in nature. The weak are eliminated and the strong participate in the next round of more intense competition.

Thus, civilization emerged in the midst of competition. Cities sprang up on the vast plains, and the sky and the sea were no longer occupied solely by birds and fish.

Intelligent and intellectual races, they stand at the top of nature.

They betrayed, fought, and quarreled, leaving corpses all over the earth in their endless competition.

So Nivea raised her hands, closed her eyes and chanted softly in an ethereal voice.

"Once again, with pure chanting, we praise vitality and hope, the beginning of all things and the rebirth of the future."

Ye Yi subconsciously raised his left hand and activated Hua Yue Yonghui's magic of the kings.

【Pure Resonance Hymn】

His body slowly rose from the ground, emitting a pure and flawless light like glass, and the living beings around him rose with him.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, opened his mouth involuntarily, and hummed a light tune softly driven by some inexplicable force.

In that gentle and soothing chant, the wars that had lasted for years among many races came to a halt beside him.

They dropped their weapons and covered the hands that had just been their enemies.

The competition based on force has ended, and the races are moving forward hand in hand, no longer distinguishable from each other.

Until one day, an old man holding a hammer and a book stood up from the lights and shadows.

He raised the book in his hand, raised the hammer high, and then the hammer fell heavily, and a brand new era came with that hammer.

"Your Majesty, the Heavenly Creator..."

Bai Yu, who was watching this scene quietly from the side, had burst into tears without knowing when.

One after another, tall figures stood up from different races, including men and women of different ethnicities.

Ye Yiyi had already closed her eyes, and the song she sang became louder and louder.

Finally, 12 tall figures surrounded Ye Yiyi. They looked up and gazed at the spiral vine together, bowing at the same time.

Their tall figures turned into points of light and dissipated, eventually merging into the earth veins.

Ye Yiyi's body slowly fell from the air. After he sang the last note, the light on his body gradually dimmed and he returned to calm.

He slowly opened his eyes and looked up thoughtfully.

There was a peaceful atmosphere in the air, the surface of the winding vine veins glowed faintly, and the surging heartbeat had become softer, but still strong and powerful.

"Clap clap clap!"

Suddenly, applause rang out beside him, and then turned into a fierce wave like a tsunami.

Ye Yiyi withdrew her gaze in confusion, only to find that her body was covered with colorful little fairies. Their eyes were red, and they were clapping their hands vigorously, praising loudly with tears in their voices!

"It's so beautiful! Woohoo~ Hero-sama sings so beautifully!"

"Wow, wow, wow, I've never heard such a beautiful hymn! Wow! It's over! My heart is going to be occupied by the hero! Wow~"

"I will always love Hero-sama and his singing voice. It's just heavenly music!!"

"Woo woo woo woo~~"

"This..." Ye Yiyi's expression was bewildered, and all she could hear was the little goblin's tearful voice of praise.

He stood there in a daze, not daring to move, for fear that he would accidentally knock away some small thing that had disappeared somewhere.

But then he felt something was wrong, and with a dark face he rummaged into his crotch, and finally pulled out a little goblin with blue wings, wearing a white gauze dress and golden hair.

"you again?!"

Ye Yiyi's face was filled with black lines. "You're the one who gets into my crotch every time. This is the third time!"

"Woooooooo~"

But the little goblin just rubbed his eyes and cried. When he saw that it was Ye Yiyi who caught him, he cried even louder and flapped his wings, and flew to his face with a "pop".

"Wuwu~ Hero-sama! Melody hasn't heard this pure chant for over ten thousand years. Wuwu, Melody, wuwu... I have to thank you, Hero-sama!"

"what……"

Ye Yiyi glanced at the little goblin who was crying loudly on his face, and his expression finally softened.

"Thank you, hero!"

Melody's words of thanks seemed to trigger a chain reaction, and for a moment his ears were filled with words of thanks one after another.

"Okay, it's okay. I'll sing it to you again in the future," he said softly.

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!"

The goblins became even more excited upon hearing the sound, and tried to get into his clothes like crazy.

Fortunately, Ye Yiyi reacted in time and reached out to press her private parts, preventing these crazy little guys from breaking through her defense.

After a while, every part of his body was filled with a large group of goblins.

"By the way, why are you crying too?"

He turned his head and found that Bai Yu was also wiping tears not far away.

"Maybe it's because I was moved, and also because Yi Yi, you sang really well, even as well as His Royal Highness the Prince of Philanthropy."

"Really?" Ye Yiyi widened her eyes.

The King of Philanthropy is the king, aren't you exaggerating too much?

"I won't lie!"

The female knight rubbed her eyes and couldn't help but apologize again.

"I'm sorry for letting you see my ugly side again..."

"You started again." Ye Yi kept rolling his eyes.

"Ah, I shouldn't have apologized, sorry..."

“…” Ye Yiyi was speechless.

"Where's Nivea?"

He looked around but couldn't find Nivea, who was presiding over the ceremony.

Bai Yu, wiping his red cheeks, pointed with his finger. Ye Yiyi reached out and touched it, only to find a pink-haired little elf with tearful eyes on his forehead.

"Why are you crying too?"

Hearing this, Nivea quickly wiped away her tears, raised her head and glared at him fiercely.

"The ritual is over! You can go back and destroy the Cursed Death Tower!"

The little goblin said this angrily, broke free from his hand again, and flapped its wings to grab his forehead.

"?"

Are you angry or not?

After finally persuading the little goblins to leave, Ye Yiyi and Bai Yu went directly to the ground through the Yinghui Temple.

It seems that due to the sacrificial ceremony, the road that was originally blocked by the lingering vines has now been opened.

Not only could Ye Yiyi go directly to the ground, but he also found a holy monument in the opened room.

After returning to the surface from underground, the two walked out of the towering tree amidst the bewildered expressions of the church hunters, and then subconsciously looked up at the shining sky.