"Host, aren't you angry? You helped the Crown Prince force the emperor to abdicate and drive out Emperor Liang, but they repaid kindness with enmity and instead cooperated with the Grand Preceptor of Yan to kill you."
The system transformed into a small, silvery-white sprite and landed on the chessboard. Tiny specks of light spilled from its translucent wings, casting dappled shadows on the jade chessboard.
Yu Luo chuckled, her wide, snow-white sleeves brushing across the chessboard as she placed another jade chess piece: "What's there to be angry about? It's just a matter of each getting what they need. There was never any intention to put the Crown Prince in that position; they are merely pawns on this chessboard."
The system, suspended in mid-air, tilted its little head, its silver wings fluttering gently. It felt that its host had become even more mysterious, as if it had grown up in just one winter.
The system was deep in thought, and Yu Luo lost interest in playing chess. She picked up a chess piece with her slender fingers, the jade bracelet on her wrist clinking gently with the movement.
The chess piece was thrown into the jade-like lake, and the splashing water refracted seven colors in the sunlight.
The splashes of water scattered and transformed into countless crystal-clear mythical beasts, which, stepping on the foam and following the golden sunlight, raced towards the temple not far away.
In front of the mountain god temple, those palm-sized transparent beasts came to the steps and knelt down like the most devout believers, before slowly disappearing with the bubbles.
These are all mythical beasts conjured by Yu Luo. Most of them are mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and some are spiritual creatures she created out of thin air.
Even at this point, she was not entirely satisfied and decided to upgrade her enlightenment ability again.
If she blesses another batch of people this month, she will be able to collect twenty draws and use them all to obtain the Enlightenment Ability!
That will be the time to truly make her move; she is determined to create real creatures from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and even the legendary trees within them!
Yu Luo looked into the distance. The distant mountains were layered upon layered, and most of the snow covering the peaks had melted, revealing the dark blue-green ridges below.
"The heavy snow has only just stopped, and the snow on the mountain is almost melting. It seems that a new natural disaster is about to strike."
"Qingluan, go and tell the believers in the village to prepare. We'll begin the blessing now!"
As soon as the words were spoken, the blue phoenix perched on the paulownia tree took flight. Its magnificent tail feathers swept past the bronze lamps hanging under the eaves, creating a clear, ringing sound.
Today, four villages have been built on the barren mountain, scattered in the valley surrounded by mountains.
Besides Linjia Village, which was the first to be established, Zhangjia Village also has two other villages. One of them is Shicun, which was built by the workers, because there is a blue stone tablet in front of the village.
The other village is the Flower Planting Village, which was established by the transmigrators. The transmigrators who were in the village before, as well as the more than 30 transmigrators who were later rescued, all chose to live here and formed a village.
Although there are many more people, the few small villages, against the backdrop of the barren mountains, are like a few pebbles in the mountains, inconspicuous.
The blue phoenix took flight and landed in the middle of these villages. As soon as its claws touched the ground, it proudly raised its head.
"Come out quickly, come out quickly, we have something important to tell you!"
"If you don't come out soon, I'm going to grab the megaphone!"
Not long ago, one of the time travelers invented a trumpet, which made Qingluan extremely happy. She held it in her hands and loved it so much that she even secretly took one away to educate other awakened intelligent beasts.
For the villagers, this was a bolt from the blue.
Because this guy's voice is so loud, if he were to use a megaphone, it would shake a group of people so much they would question their existence.
"Xiao Qing, stop fooling around!" Xia Yan was setting up a teleportation array at the village entrance. She was wearing simple short clothes, and a brocade pouch full of magic stones hung from her waist.
Nowadays, teleportation arrays exist in every major state, all set up by Xia Yan and Wang Wan together, to facilitate villagers traveling to more distant places to spread the word about the Mountain Goddess and build more Mountain God Temples.
After all, there are very few believers with teleportation abilities; so far, there are only Liang Shu and Zhang Jing, and it takes time to get to those places!
Why not just build a teleportation array? In the future, we can simply open the teleportation array, put in these stones infused with spiritual energy or magic, and instantly travel to other continents.
"No, I received a decree from the Mountain Goddess. She wants you all to go to the Mountain God Temple to offer sacrifices in advance!"
"How could someone as handsome as me be fooling around?"
Xia Yan was speechless. This narcissistic Qingluan made it impossible for her to look at those mythical beasts the same way again!
"The Mountain Goddess asked us to perform the sacrifice ahead of schedule?" Old Lady Gongsun walked briskly over, leaning on her cane, her deep purple auspicious cloud-patterned jacket and skirt almost flying up.
"Quickly, everyone get ready, we're going to the mountain god temple right away!"
This is the first time in so long that the Mountain Goddess has asked for an earlier date; something big must be happening!
No one dared to delay. They immediately put down what they were doing and ran off. Those with wings took to the air and went to various places to summon believers.
Before long, a group of people gathered together and, led by Old Lady Gongsun, headed to the Mountain God Temple.
“This early sacrifice is probably because the Mountain Goddess foresaw something important again.” Wang Wan followed behind, her snow-white dress fluttering in the wind.
"It's probably related to a natural disaster." Xia Yan, who was standing next to her, was also very worried. If it were a man-made disaster, it would be easier to solve, but some natural disasters are really beyond our control!
Even a powerful mountain goddess could only give them advance warnings so they could make some preparations.
"Don't worry, the barren mountain will be fine!" Wang Wan was very certain of this.
No matter what natural disaster strikes, it will not happen in the barren mountains, because the Mountain Goddess is here to protect them!
A group of people quickly arrived at the mountain god temple, placed the sacrificial grains, lit incense sticks, and then respectfully knelt down to worship the god.
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