Woohoo—
An ancient horn sounded.
The high priest, staff in hand, completed the final ritual, and a thick flame shot into the sky from the altar.
There are grooves around the altar, in which red liquid flows slowly, forming a Bagua (eight trigrams) pattern.
The red liquid in the groove is actually the blood used for sacrifice; it's not animal blood, but human blood!
And it's the blood of young boys and girls!
To guide the spirits of fallen heroes back to their homeland, young boys and girls are needed to lead the way. Only a group of madmen from the upper echelons of Japan could do something so cruel!
This ritual, like their ideology, was destined to be built on bloodshed and brutality!
The grand formation slowly activated.
A huge hole appeared in the sky, facing west, and kept sucking in air.
Strands of white vapor surged from the direction of Daxia.
The High Priest was extremely excited, "It has begun! The fortune of the Great Xia Dynasty is heading towards our Japan!"
"However, this speed is too slow! The Great Xia Dynasty is simply too vast, with an exceptionally rich foundation. At this rate, it's like an ant trying to swallow an elephant. Fortunately, the Grand Consort obtained the Dragon-Subduing Wood!"
The high priest's eyes widened, and he shouted, "Quickly, summon the Dragon-Subduing Wood!"
A priest quickly handed over the dark stick.
The high priest took it, chanting incantations while performing a ghostly dance. One moment he resembled a toad, the next a giant turtle; these were all traditional Japanese ritual dances, which had already been showcased at the Olympics.
However, as he jumped, it actually had some effect, and the Dragon Subduing Wood gradually began to glow.
"O Amaterasu, please grant the Japanese people supreme light, and we will forever be bathed in your holy light!"
Whoosh!
Finally, the high priest thrust the dragon-taming wood into the incense burner.
Boom!
At that moment, the entire sky flashed, as if struck by lightning, and a huge bolt of lightning descended from the sky.
Bang!
The enormous incense burner was blown apart, and incense ash instantly covered the high priest's body.
Everyone stared in disbelief.
What's going on?
Could it be that Amaterasu Omikami has manifested herself?
The high priest wiped his face, equally bewildered. Logically, the Dragon-Subduing Wood should have helped attract good fortune, so why was it summoning lightning?
Could it be that I opened it incorrectly?
"吆西密西!"
The elderly man in imperial robes at the shrine, always eager for a good show, thought it was a divine manifestation and was beaming with joy.
The high priest's expression twitched; he was now in a difficult position and could only continue to preside over the formation.
Fortunately, the lightning strike did not have a significant impact.
However, what they didn't know was...
It was in the Great Xia Dynasty, a thousand miles away.
Countless dark clouds are rapidly gathering, forming a huge cloud mass in the Central Plains region in just half a day.
At this moment, the weather map on the weather app shows that the area where the dark clouds are located actually forms a regular circle!
Within a radius of a thousand miles shrouded in dark clouds, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and the clouds were thick and heavy.
However, no torrential rain or strong winds came down.
Until all the dark clouds accumulate to a certain critical point, like a balloon, they suddenly burst.
Waaah!
In an instant, a fierce wind swept up dark clouds and surged towards the East China Sea.
Not long after, at the Japanese shrine, everyone saw a dark, ominous cloud approaching the Japanese island.
The Japanese present were excited.
"Is this the destiny of the Great Xia Dynasty?"
"Haha, so dense! God bless my Japanese islands!"
"With this good fortune, our Japanese islands can enjoy a century of peace!"
"The day when we conquer the Great Xia is not far off!"
Laughter and cheers filled the air, and some people even started dancing the Awa Oni Dance.
I was so happy I couldn't even express it.
Only the high priest's expression remained twitching.
What kind of luck is this?
This is so dark and gloomy, it's more like bad luck!
He didn't know which part of the process had gone wrong, but he couldn't let things continue like this. He immediately shouted, "Something's wrong! Stop the ritual!!"
The priests who were participating in the ritual stopped. In fact, they had also noticed that something was wrong, and everyone looked at the high priest.
The high priest, on the other hand, carefully recalled every step of the ritual.
Everything seemed to be fine until...
His eyes suddenly turned to the Dragon-Subduing Wood standing in the incense ash, and his eyes flashed. He quickly went over to pull the Dragon-Subduing Wood out.
Unexpectedly, just as my hands grasped the Dragon-Subduing Wood, crack!
A bolt from the blue struck suddenly.
The next second, the high priest's body stiffened, his mouth and eyes became crooked, and then his whole body began to tremble, like a small electric motor.
The other priests were all startled when they saw this and rushed over to try to pull him away.
As a result, they were all sucked in, one after another, and they all started to shake in place.
Inside the shrine, the members of the royal family were also stunned by what they saw.
"High Priest, what kind of dance is this? I don't think I've ever seen it before?"
"Looks pretty exciting!"
"Haha, let's shake it too, maybe we can receive Amaterasu's blessings!"
Now, everyone started shaking, as if they had suffered a stroke.
Meanwhile, dark clouds in the distance had already reached the skies above the Japanese islands.
Crack!
Boom!
Suddenly, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and a fierce wind arose.
Immediately afterwards, a torrential downpour began!
Now, everyone finally realized that something was wrong.
Shouldn't this have brought good fortune? How did it turn into a raging storm?
Rumble rumble rumble!
The lightning in the sky was almost as loud as the flashes from police cars, stretching out continuously without stopping, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier, as if the Milky Way had fallen from the sky.
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