There is a mountain to the west of the village, named Xiangshan, and the shaman in the village lives on the top of Xiangshan.
There is a long mountain road to walk from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. This mountain road circles around Xiangshan Mountain and reaches the top of the mountain, leading to a pillar.
An ordinary stone pillar, but after countless years, the stone pillar is full of cracks.
Wu stood under the stone pillar, looking at the strange cracks on the pillar in trance, waiting for Wu Sheng's visit.
"Young traveler, I know you will come to me. If you have any questions, just ask them."
A strange feeling flashed in Wu Sheng's heart, and he felt familiar with this way of speaking. He pondered for a moment, decided to overturn the words he had considered on the way, and got straight to the point: "Why Dan?"
Wu was a little surprised: "I thought you knew."
Wu Sheng thought for a while and said, "I don't know."
Wu said: "Sheng, although you have only appeared for a few days, I have already noticed you. You are very inquisitive and know more about the wilderness than you think. It's not that you don't know that Dan is a sacrifice.
You just don’t want to accept it.”
Wu Sheng said: "Dan is very talented in cultivation and has learned Taoism very well. It is unreasonable to sacrifice her. Wu, you are punishing a child who works hard."
The witch shook his head: "If the Taoism is not perfect, the mountain god will not be happy."
Wu Sheng asked: "Everyone is dead, so how can we talk about preferences?"
Wu sighed: "If I say that sacrifice is the worst way to learn Taoism, then all the children will know that sacrifice is not a good thing."
Wu Sheng was stunned by Wu Sheng's sudden frankness, and said, "You also know that sacrificing a living person is not a good thing?"
The wizard said: "What can we do? The village is so big. If the mountain god is angry, the village will cease to exist."
Wu Sheng decided to imitate Ximen Bao verbally, so he said: "Children are innocent, and twelve years old is the cutest age. Don't you think it's cruel? If you want to sacrifice, it would be better to start with you or Bu, and then Granny Yue.
Village chief and several village elders, after all, you are more familiar with the mountain god, and serving him will satisfy the mountain god more."
Wu asked: "Sheng, do you want to rely on your own cultivation to change the fate of the children?"
Wu Sheng said firmly: "I know that your realm is higher than mine, but for the sake of the children and Dan, I am willing to give it a try, and I am very confident. If you must sacrifice, start with you. If you don't
If you are willing to go, I will tie you up and go."
The people Wu Sheng mentioned were all at the peak of the Qi Refining Realm. This was the realm shown in the Great Wilderness. If they left here, they would directly rise to two realms. Wu Sheng had no way of guessing. In a small village,
Almost half of them have cultivation base, which is quite rare.
Although his realm was severely suppressed, he was confident that he could defeat all the unbeatable opponents in the village. Having been trapped in this small world for decades or hundreds of years, his fighting skills were self-evident.
He showed a threat, but Wu was not angry, but nodded: "If I can satisfy the mountain god, I am willing to go without you being tied up. Sheng, you can ask for divination again and see what she says."
Wu Sheng agreed: "I will go, but I heard that she is hidden in the sea and needs your compass to find her."
Wu took a compass from the ledge and gave it to Wu Sheng: "The handle points to Yingshan Mountain on the sea. You can go, Dan's boat can reach it."
Dan's fishing boat is very sophisticated. It sails on the sea and can gather the wind from all directions when the sail is raised. It is a very high-end large-scale magic weapon.
This was Wu Sheng's second time riding the boat. He was still fascinated by Dan's maneuvers. Dan's movements were so smooth and smooth that it was hard to imagine that this was a twelve-year-old girl. Wu Sheng didn't dare to think about how she was doing it.
When a person grows up alone, there must be too much bitterness and tears, which is unbearable.
"Sheng, do you want to ask Bu for directions home? Are you leaving?"
"Do you want to leave with me?"
"What's out there?"
"With a wider world and more people, we can see more scenery and experience more things."
"Can you find my mother?"
"...I also hope to find..."
"If I leave, will the village be punished by the mountain god?"
"I also want to know this question, so I'm here to ask."
Following the direction guided by the compass, the fishing boat suddenly entered a quiet sea. It was so quiet that it seemed to be frozen. There was no wind or waves on the sea surface, just like a blue crystal mirror.
The fishing boat got into the thick fog ahead. This was not miasma, but sea fog containing spiritual power. In the sea fog, a corner of the mountain shape was gradually exposed, but the mountain was no longer visible. The mountain was wrapped by dense palaces.
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Magnificent palaces and pavilions, exquisite waterside gardens, smart waterfalls and streams, such a fairyland, but there is only one person, the highest level of divination in the village, her realm is to refine the gods.
Wu Sheng thought that this fortune teller was an old man like Granny Yue, but he turned out to be a beautiful woman wearing a floor-length skirt with wide sleeves and a hanging bun. She had a clear jade ornament hanging from her forehead. She looked like a goddess, luxurious and elegant.
In front of Bu, Wu Sheng showed great respect. Under the suppression of such a powerful realm, Bu still maintained his spiritual cultivation. If he were placed outside, he would at least be a high-level cultivator of void refining.
Bu said to Wu Sheng: "Sixty-three years ago, Wu went to Liangjie Mountain and wanted to sacrifice himself to Zhishan God. However, doing so aroused the anger of the mountain god. On that day, Liangjie Mountain was shaken, and the snake
Beasts swarmed in, and more than half of the villagers were killed or injured... Forty-one years ago, Yue Yuan sacrificed his body to the God of Zhishan on behalf of his grandson, but the result was the same. An ancestral tiger appeared in Liangjie Mountain, and twenty-five villagers were killed or injured. Sheng, you
What should be done to avoid having to perform sacrifices?"
Wu Sheng was silent for a moment and asked: "Go to Zhi and Rongtian, have they appeared before?"
Bu shook his head: "No one has seen it, but the miracle is undeniable. Without the protection of the mountain gods of the two realms, monsters would be rampant in the wilderness, and the villagers would not be able to survive."
Bu stretched out his hand and stroked Dan's cheek beside him, and said: "Sheng, if you want to take Dan away, I don't object, but I need you to think clearly about whether you can really leave, or whether you are taking Dan on a path."
The road of no return? Once you leave, the village will choose a new sacrificer."
Dan shook his head: "No, let me go. Shu, Bamboo, Qiu and the others, I don't want them to die."
Wu Sheng took Dan on the boat and left. He looked at the deserted palace mountain and was speechless for a long time. He suddenly saw Dan sitting on the bow of the boat, hugging her knees and sobbing silently. He walked over and caressed her thin shoulders.
Dan cried: "I don't want to die, I miss my mother..."
Wu Sheng nodded: "I'll think of a way."
The fishing boat docked, and Dan insisted on accompanying Wu Sheng to Liangjie Mountain: "I want to choose a good place. Grandma Yue and Wu said that I can choose."
So Wu Sheng took her hand and headed towards the two sacred mountains in the distance.
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