Mu Wanqing sneered, "It seems you've made this plan a thousand years from now?"
Lin Caogen chuckled awkwardly and said, "If I can truly cultivate to the level of Immortal King or Immortal Emperor, I might give it a try!"
Fang Xiaoru couldn't help but burst out laughing!
Mu Wanqing then kicked Lin Caogen in the buttocks, sending him flying into the crowd.
"What are you doing, young man? Getting jostled around like that!"
An old man angrily rebuked Lin Caogen!
Lin Caogen was speechless. He asked the old man in the crowd, "Sir, what crime did the girl on the boat commit that warrants her to be burned to death?"
The old man said, "Were you just born? Don't you even know the rules for offering sacrifices to the gods?"
At this moment, Mu Wanqing and Fang Xiaoru also arrived at Lin Caogen's side.
Upon hearing the words "worshiping the heavenly god," Lin Caogen immediately sensed something was wrong, thinking to himself, "The local inhabitants here are probably just another group of ignorant fools!"
Fang Xiaoru couldn't help but ask, "What is the meaning of offering sacrifices to the gods of heaven?"
The old man glanced at Lin Caogen, Fang Xiaoru, and Mu Wanqing, and suddenly said, "You three are from the jungle, aren't you? It's not surprising that you don't know our sea people's sacrificial god."
Lin Caogen suddenly realized that the center of this fragmented continent was the sea, surrounded by mountains and forests. The terrain was high on the surrounding areas and low in the center. Based on the terrain, the indigenous people were probably divided into jungle people and sea people.
He immediately nodded and said, "That's right! Sir, we have indeed come from the distant jungle."
The old man said, "No wonder! For thousands of years, we have had the custom of offering sacrifices to the gods, and every year we need to choose an eighteen-year-old girl to be burned at sea! This is to appease the wrath of the gods!"
Mu Wanqing asked doubtfully, "The wrath of the gods? What does the wrath of the gods look like?"
The old man said speechlessly, "What did it look like? It was like being struck by lightning everywhere, with thousands of people being struck down!"
Lin Caogen was speechless!
He had a vague feeling that this heavenly lightning might be destined for him.
Fang Xiaoru asked, "I see a gentle breeze and bright sunshine here, with rosy clouds filling the sky. How can there be any talk of being struck by lightning?"
The old man said helplessly, "January 10th every year is the day of heavenly thunder! You'll see when the sun sets! If we don't appease the wrath of the gods, we fishermen will all be struck dead! Only by burning eighteen-year-old girls born on January 10th can we appease the gods' anger. This year, it's the Bai family's turn to be unlucky; they've drawn the lot, so what can we do?"
Lin Caogen looked at the girl in the white dress on the boat and asked, "Old man, what's that girl's name?"
The old man sighed and said, "Bai Su, she is the most talented young person in the Bai family, with one Heaven-rank Immortal Root and eight Earth-rank Immortal Roots!"
Mu Wanqing exclaimed in surprise, "What?"
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