Chapter 417 - New Sacrificial Ritual
Chapter 417: New Sacrificial Ritual
The grand Dragon City took up over 70% of the area of the settlement.
The Temple of Providence was at the center, and the area was big enough to summon 10,000 people at once. Over a dozen core personnel and heroes stood there opposite one another.
At the center was a nine-level altar that was several meters in diameter. A white stone pendant and a black Soul of Civilization were placed not far from each other.
“Roar!”
A 15-meter yellow five-clawed Dragon of Providence appeared in the air.
Golden light immediately shot out of its eyes and was fixed upon the Water Stopping Stone dropped by the Yuan Northern King and the Extraordinary Level-9 Quasi-Commander Stone of Civilization, which was the prize of completing the A Hundred Vying Barges task.
Hum!
The Special Water Stopping Stone was activated.
Instantly, a trial battlefield appeared overhead.
It was smooth water at the first sight, but at the center of the water stood a petite woman, who was almost naked apart from her private parts. The Water Stopping Stone was hanging around her neck.
It was none other than the Yuan North King, who was the only female king of the four.
She stood on the water barefooted because the seawater beneath her had been frozen by the glowing Water Stopping Stone.
“Master Ji, are you sure that we’re going to summon a Feng Shui expert hero with the Water Stopping Stone?
“This female king is a very capable martial arts practitioner, and her Bone Corroding Soft Palm is a malicious skill. I don’t think a Feng Shui hero would be able to pass the test in a battle environment like this.”
Seeing the trial battlefield that was set in a water area, Qin Yueyu was perplexed.
Yes, Dragon City was going to summon a Feng Shui master with this sacrificial ritual.
They were very confident about what type of hero they were going to summon because once a settlement became Transcendent, the sacrificial ritual would be affected as well. Now, they were able to convey the demand of the settlement to a qualified hero when they used an offering.
For instance, they could ask for a warrior who was an expert in the halberd when they used the Thunder Halberd in the sacrificial or a famous minister good at regulating watercourses when they used the Water Stopping Stone.
Of course, the demand was still quite vague, and they couldn’t name a specific person.
For instance, with the Water Stopping Stone, if Dragon City wanted to specifically summon Boa Hancock from One Piece or Zhao Linger from The Legend of Sword and Fairy, they wouldn’t be able to do it.
Moreover, since it was a “demand” and not a “request”, the heroes could technically ignore it. As long as their level and rarity corresponded with the offering, heroes could choose to answer the summons even if they didn’t fit the demand.
That was to say, even if in a sacrificial ritual, Dragon City stated that a certain Heavenly Spirit shouldn’t answer the call, a certain Liangshan hero could still arrive.
Of course, normally this wouldn’t happen.
After all, all heroes had their pride.
There were many human settlements, and they didn’t have to attach themselves to a single one.
Naturally, when a settlement made the demand, they would take the condition of the offering into consideration as well so that the demand wouldn’t be too unsuitable.
For instance, if they used the Thunder Halberd as an offering but asked for a civil officer, it was possible that no one would respond, which would be a complete waste of the power of providence that was used to activate the offering and the Soul of Civilization.
The Yuan South King was the most capable one of the four and might even be as powerful as the Yuan emperor himself. Moreover, the thunder power was the most overbearing!
Although civil officers could master extraordinary power, in terms of combat experience, they would never be the South King’s match.
Now that the power of providence was self-sufficient, a failed high-level sacrificial ritual would have a bigger impact on the settlement’s development than before!
“So, why are we summoning a Feng Shui master with the Water Stopping Stone?”
That was what confused Qin Yueyu.
Feng Shui.
“Feng” meant wind and “Shui” meaning water.
Naturally, the theory focused on the two elements.
But the offering was something that could stop water, which meant that only wind was left behind for the hero to use. It would be like severing one of his or her arms. How would the person pass the test?”
“There are two reasons for that,” Guo Wei answered Qin Yueyu’s question. “First of all, since the Land of Inheritance allows a settlement to make its demand, it means that both the settlement and the hero are free to choose.
“Dragon City is the first Earth settlement to rise to the Transcendent level and has been growing steadily. When summoning a hero, we can make more requirements than other settlements.
“Secondly, the Soul of Civilization we use has reached Transcendent Level-9 and is supported by the power of the providence of a Transcendent settlement. Compared with Zhao Yun, Li Yuanba, and Zhou Yu, it’s much easier for a hero to win the trial battle.
“We’re using the Water Stopping Stone to increase the difficulty level as our own test for the summoned hero. If they can win the trial battle, they should be as capable as the three heroes I mentioned earlier…”
Guo Wei’s high-tech glasses flickered.
He wasn’t worried about the possibility that no one would respond.
Because the Water Stopping Stone was a Rare offering, which meant that they could choose from all the Transcendent heroes that ever existed in the Chidragon culture. Some of those people had to be interested in Dragon City!
Hum!
Guo Wei was right.
Although the Water Stopping Stone conflicted with the property of a Feng Shui master, but after the trial battlefield appeared, it only took eight or nine seconds before the Soul of Civilization started glowing.
[“Book of Changes says, Xun suggests the idea of Wind. The double Xun shows how, in accordance with it, governmental orders are reiterated. For scattering all things, there is nothing more effective than wind. Wind serves to scatter the genial seeds of all things.”]
Meanwhile, a voice started chanting above the altar.
However, it wasn’t a poem but some kind of theory.
[“Wind is the command of heaven and earth and the command of Yin and Yang. It announces punishment and reports to God.”]
The voice went on chanting.
Although the water area in the trial battlefield didn’t show obvious changes, everyone could feel an invisible power growing.
[“When wind moves, leaves, twigs, and branches move. Leaves will fall, twigs will snap, and branches will break.”]
As the voice went on, the Extraordinary Level-9 Quasi-Commander Soul of Civilization rapidly took shape of a human being as well.
But the last statement didn’t seem to make sense.
Because it mentioned leaves and twigs, but there was only water on this battlefield.
On second thought, it was obviously referring to how trees respond to the wind of different strengths, and trees weren’t the only thing that could reflect that.
Water could do it as well.
Splash!
As soon as the leaves were mentioned, the water around the North King began to ripple slightly.
As the chanting went on, ripples became waves, and it covered a greater and greater area. By the time that statement was finished, an area of 500 square inches was affected.
[“It breaks wood and blows away sand for 500km. It pulls trees out of the ground for 2,500km.”]
With that statement, the wind became even stronger and created tidal waves in the water.
[“When a great wind blows for a day and a night, it travels for 5,000km. For two days and two nights in a row, it travels half the world. For three days, it’s everywhere.”]
When that last statement was chanted, the Soul of Civilization finally formed a human shape. He was a civil officer, who was wearing a uniform of the Tang Dynasty and had an ancient scroll in his hands. The ornaments on him reminded one slightly of Daoism.
The water created by the Water Stopping Stone had been filled by the rampaging blue wind by now. Wherever one turned, they could only see huge waves that could reach the sky!
Several new players were given special permission to watch the ritual. When they saw this, they turned pale, and their legs almost gave out.