Xue Huan was shocked when she saw this. "Are they really going to sacrifice the girl to the river god?"
I've never heard of such a bad habit in Fengchi before.
But she was obviously overthinking it. The priestess was not tied up. After reaching the middle of the river, she threw the offerings on the bamboo raft into the river one by one, and then began to dance.
Xue Huan wanted to say that throwing those offerings into the river would breed a lot of bacteria...
Of course, she saw all this through her spiritual sense, as her eyesight could not see that far.
The priestess was dancing on a bamboo raft in the river, and there was also a group of people dancing on the stage on the shore. They were wearing clothes similar to those of a shaman, with hideous masks on their faces, and they were holding bells in their hands and shaking them constantly, muttering to themselves.
But the riverbank was crowded with so many people watching the fun that she couldn't hear what they were saying.
In short, she probably watched this sacrificial ceremony in vain, as her eyes and ears were filled with heads and voices of people.
"Hey, look! The bamboo raft has floated back by itself!"
"The river god has become a spirit?!"
"The River God has appeared!"
On the shore, people kept kneeling down towards the river, kowtowed devoutly once, twice, three times...
Xue Huan: “…”
Compared to the people around them, the Xue family members who were still standing looked very out of place and even received condemnation from the people around them. Their eyes seemed to be asking, "Why don't you kneel down? What if the river god blames you?"
Xue Huan wanted to say, how could that be the River God appearing? It was clearly a man-made trick!
The reason why the bamboo raft floated back automatically was because there was someone underneath holding the raft up and swimming back. However, people on the shore could not see the person under the raft. Seeing the raft float back automatically, coupled with this special day and this special occasion, people naturally associated it with supernatural forces and thought it was the appearance of the river god.
Xue Huan thought that the government probably did this to reassure the people, to tell them that the gods had received their sacrifices and felt the people's sincere wishes, so they showed their spirits to let the people know that the gods were with them.
After returning to the shore, the priestess was no longer the original priestess, but had become a god·priestess·spirit, that is, the god spirit possessed the priestess' body.
"I have enjoyed your offerings and should return some of them. Therefore, I have specially sent down an avatar to temporarily reside within the body of the female priestess. Next, I will select some believers and grant them blessings."
The priestess's ethereal and peaceful voice rang out. Although it was not loud, it spread throughout the river bank. Everyone unconsciously quieted down. The originally noisy river bank became so noisy that you could hear a pin drop.
The priestess was seen sitting on a sedan chair, carried by eight sedan bearers as she walked among the crowd. She had her eyes closed, and an indescribable divinity emanated from her body, which made people subconsciously hold their breath and concentrate, not daring to make a sound to disturb her.
Wherever she went, people would avoid her for fear of offending the gods.
"Come here." The priestess suddenly pointed at someone. There stood a woman wearing a veil, with a maid on each side, and several servants around her. It was obvious that she was not from an ordinary family.
The woman was a little surprised, and walked towards the priestess under the envious gazes of everyone.
"Take off your veil."
Although the woman still had doubts about the god in front of her, she took off her veil because she thought the god could not do anything to her in front of everyone.
A beautiful young face was revealed, it was Ye Fu.
The priestess motioned Ye Fu to come closer. Ye Fu walked forward hesitantly. The priestess raised her hand and gently pressed it on Ye Fu's head. The jade pendant on her wrist happened to be against Ye Fu's forehead.
The jade beads emitted a burst of emerald green light, which was fresh and full of vitality.
"hiss!"
Everyone around gasped and became even more convinced of the miracle.
Even the person involved, Ye Fu, couldn't help but waver. Could it be that the priestess in front of her was really the incarnation of the river god?
I'm afraid Xue Huan was the only one at the scene who knew what happened.
The jade pendant on the wrist of the priestess is clearly a spiritual jade. As the name suggests, it is used to test people's spiritual roots.
However, what can truly measure spiritual roots is not the jade pendant, but the Tai Chi Five Elements Formation engraved on it.
Tai Chi is chaos, it is one, it is the origin of everything.
One gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, three gives birth to all things, and all things are made up of the five elements.
No matter what kind of spiritual roots, they can be manifested in this formation.
If it is a gold spiritual root, the jade pendant will emit white light, and if it is a wood spiritual root, it will emit green light...
The purer the spiritual root, the stronger the light and the wider the range it covers.
Xue Huan originally thought that the government was doing this to promote the idea of "the gods are with me" to reassure the people, but now she found that this was not the case. The government was looking for people with spiritual roots under the guise of miracles.
What does the government want to do?
Xue Huan observed the actions of the priestess and found that although she seemed casual, the people she "blessed" were actually all young and beautiful women. However, after "blessed" more than a dozen people in a row, it was only Ye Fu at the beginning that made the Jade Jue glow. When it came to other people, the Jade Jue had no reaction.
This is normal. After all, not everyone has spiritual roots. Even in the era when cultivation of immortals was popular thousands of years ago, the probability of having spiritual roots was only about one in ten thousand, which means that only one person in ten thousand has spiritual roots.
Nowadays, the practice of cultivating immortals has declined, and the probability of possessing spiritual roots is even lower.
Xue Huan guessed that the Ye family might have been a family of immortal cultivators a long time ago. The soul-refining stone that the Ye family gave her before was one of the evidences. Now that Ye Fu was found to have spiritual roots, it was another thing.
While she was thinking, the priestess actually came in front of her.
The five people on Xue Huan's side are much more beautiful than ordinary people. They stand out among the crowd. How could the priestess not notice them?
The priestess waved to Xue Huan, motioning her to come over. Although Xue Huan knew her purpose, she could not refuse in front of so many people. After all, what normal person would refuse the blessing of the gods?
To be honest, she was quite curious about her spiritual roots. Although she had embarked on the path of cultivation very early, she had never tested her spiritual roots. At the time, she hadn't thought about it at all and just practiced according to the method.
Now is a good time to test it.
As for what consequences will be brought about after the test -
When water comes from the mountains, block it; when water comes from the soil, cover it.
Xue Huan walked forward, and when the jade pendant touched her forehead, a dazzling light burst out, and white, green, black, red, and yellow colorless lights appeared at the same time, reflecting each other. It turned out that the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth were all present!
The five kinds of light were evenly distributed and shining brightly, comparable to the radiance of a natural spiritual root. What did this mean? It meant that she didn't just have the five spiritual roots, but the legendary five chaotic spiritual roots!
This kind of spiritual root is equivalent to a person possessing five different attributes of spiritual roots at the same time. No wonder her cultivation speed is so fast.
In her life as the Five Elements Immortal, she also had five spiritual roots, but her potential values were uneven, so her cultivation was particularly slow.
Just as everyone was amazed by the strange sight on Xue Huan's side, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared under the surface of the wide Bailong River.
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