Chapter 506 Sacrifices
At night, the Tianyi River quietly went through the center of the city. The painted pleasure boats with red lanterns hanging on floated on the river.
Followed by two entourages, Yi Wenying clasped his hands behind the back and embarked on the biggest painted pleasure boat adroitly. The beautiful barge-woman immediately greeted him with a sweet and flattering voice.
“Holy boy Wenying, I haven’t seen you for a long time. Huan often talks about you.”
“Recently, I have been busy with affairs of the sect. It indeed has been a long since I came here last time.”
Yi Wenying glanced at the barge-woman’s b.r.e.a.s.t.s, and asked with a smile, “Where is Huan?”
“She’s dressing up!”
The barge-women ogled at him, “Since chosen by you, Huan has never contacted with other guests. She misses you every day, and waits for getting your s.e.xual favors.”
“Ha-ha, good!”
Yi Wenying laughed. He asked the two entourages to follow the barge-women to leave, while he hurried to go to the room of Huan.
Creak—
“Childe, I miss you so much.”
As he waved his hand to open the door, he was surrounded by delicate arms around his neck. The fragrance of orchids enveloped his face, “Childe, you must be tired. Come in and have a rest.”
The expression of fascination flashed in Yi Wenying’s eyes. He immediately grabbed Huan in front of him with two hands and closed the door while Huan screamed bashfully. Soon, a repressed gasp quickly sounded in the room.
Gui Buyin stood in front of the door. Among many barge-women pa.s.sing by, none of them noticed his presence.
A ball of white light in his hand gradually turned black, and finally turned transparent color. After Yi Wenying’s face appeared on it, he immediately turned around, hunched over and whispered, “Master, it’s done.”
Su Li nodded slightly and took the ball of light, which disappeared in her palm.
At this moment, footsteps came outside of the boat, and mixed with a conversation with faint anger.
“Lanting Painted Pleasure Boat is the favorite place for Junior Fellow Apprentice Wenying to come. I heard that he keeps a prost.i.tute here. Although the prost.i.tute is a virgin…”
“b.a.s.t.a.r.d! A dignified holy boy should linger in the brothel. It really loses the face of our tribe.”
“Senior Fellow Apprentice, all the prost.i.tutes in Lanting Painted Pleasure Boat are carefully prepared for the pract.i.tioners. It’s not a big deal that the junior fellow apprentice come here…”
“What are you talking about? The sacrificial activity is coming soon. We’ve been very busy with it, while he indulges in dissipation here!”
At this point, Su Li saw several disciples wearing the costume of Tianyin Tribe step on the boat. One of them coldly pushed the barge-woman out of the way who was going to greet him. Then he walked in directly and kicked Yi Wenying’s door open.
Boom!
A loud noise scared Yi Wenying, who was working hard to make out, and almost let him e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.e. He turned his head abruptly, and the anger in his heart was extinguished by a bucket of cold water. He said in a panic, “Senior Fellow Apprentice, you… Why are you here!”
The leader, a long-faced young man, could not help goggling at such a tempting scene. Then he directly picked up Yi Wenying and dragged him out, “Junior Fellow Apprentice, do you want to p.i.s.s our master off?! You are so important for the sacrificial activity, while you don’t keep your body clean, and come to the dirty place. If elders in the Tribe got to know…”
Yi Wenying certainly knew the consequences. But he couldn’t control his lower body. Now that he was discovered by his senior fellow apprentice, he was relieved instead. He hurried to beg for mercy, “Eldest Senior Fellow Apprentice, it is my fault. You must help me to conceal it! I will treat every senior fellow apprentice well later…”
The long-faced young man coughed drily when he heard those words. With his expression relaxed slightly, he put down Yi Wenying, and said sternly, “Hurry up to put on your clothes!”
He didn’t mean to involve in the trivial matter, but just to extort some cultivation resources from Yi Wenying. Now that his purpose had achieved, he certainly wouldn’t take off the gloves anymore.
After a while, Yi Wenying dealt with the inexplicable smell of his body. He followed the long-faced young man and others to leave quickly. But he had a lot of doubts in his heart.
He came to the painted pleasure boat on the spur of the moment. Who tipped them off?
Feeling puzzled, he didn’t notice the shadow behind him move in a flash and then recovered calm.
Standing on the same spot, Gui Buyin immediately changed his appearance and came to the teleporting matrix after he saw them go far away. He handed a large number of spiritual stones to the guard of the matrix, and said in a deep voice, “The fastest teleporting matrix. Send me to the Jiuzhou Region!”
The guard took the spiritual stones and overjoyed. So, he opened all the complicated matrix patterns quickly.
“Boom!!”
The teleporting matrix worked suddenly. The figure of Gui Buyin disappeared in situ instantly.
At the same time, Yi Wenying followed his senior fellow apprentices to go through the tribal tactical matrix, which fluctuated and soon returned to calm.
“Junior Fellow Apprentice, why are you always in a daze?”
The long-faced young man asked suddenly. Yi Wenying, who was distracted, was startled by him. He gave a strained smile and said, “Senior Fellow Apprentice, I’m fine, but just feel weird, as if something terrifying is staring at me secretly.”
“What?”
The long-faced young man showed a weird face, “Junior Fellow Apprentice, there are some things you can’t just say. No one has invaded the tribal tactical matrix successfully for thousands of years. Even the Junior Emperor is kept out. You said you feel that you are watched. Will you…want to bilk me?”
Upon hearing this, Yi Wenying waved his hand quickly, “No, no. How do I dare to cheat you? I will order my people to send gifts to you later.”
Yi Wenying smiled, but felt aggrieved in his heart. He put the slightest uncomfortable feeling behind himself.
“You just practice two hundred years more than me, but you bully me like this actually. I will revenge on you after my cultivation level surpa.s.ses yours!”
He was full of resentment. But on the surface, he just put it away and followed the long-faced young man step by step. Soon they reached an extremely s.p.a.cious square on the hilltop.
Looking at the spa.r.s.e disciples of Tianyin Tribe on the square, another person who followed the long-faced young man said, “The sacrificial activity for the Mirage Immortal will begin in a few hours. Senior Fellow Apprentice, let’s find a place to wait.”
The long-faced young man nodded, and found a futon to sit down. Yi Wenying and others sat behind him. They all waited quietly.
As soon as Yi Wenying sat down, the shadow behind him distorted in a flash again. Then the figure of Su Li, who wore the costume of Tianyin Tribe, slowly appeared behind Yi Wenying.
Yi Wenying and others didn’t notice her. Su Li glanced at the unlit spiritual wood piled up in the center of the square. Then she turned around and walked to a corner to sit down.
The Tianyin Tribe had been pa.s.sed down for thousands of years and had many lineages. The disciples of different lineages were unfamiliar, and even never met before. The surrounding disciples of the Tribe turned their heads to glance at Su Li, and then ignored her. They did not suspect the ident.i.ty of Su Li at all.
As time pa.s.sed by, there were more and more people on the square, sitting on futons densely like locusts. The administrators, the disciples of immortal and the elders in charge of the sacrificial activity also came successively. The atmosphere became more and more enthusiastic.
“Boom!”
When the last ray of light on the sky disappeared, the fire was ejected from the elders and fell on the spiritual wood. In an instant, it flamed out, and shone upon everyone’s face.
Su Li looked up at the fire. A young man with a pale face suddenly sat down next to her, whose clothes were far less flashy than other disciples, crumpled, and even faded.
“Alas…”
With a sigh, he turned his head and saw the childish face of Su Li. He said with a bitter expression, “Sister, have you offended the elders in the Tribe and been forced to be a sacrifice?”
Sacrifice?
Su Li’s eyes flashed. She thought for an instant, and answered with a bewildered look on her face, “My elder sister only asked me to join in the fun. She said that I would reap benefits. Isn’t it?”
The pale-faced young man goggled his eyes slightly, and blurted out, “What?! Don’t you know?”
“What?”
Su Li seemed to be fl.u.s.tered when she heard his words, “Brother, have I…been deceived?”
“Be quiet!!”
Suddenly, a solemn voice sounded in the void. The noisy square became silent immediately.
The young man opened his mouth, but did not dare to speak. He could only swallow his tongue back.
With low cultivation level, he even couldn’t transmit the sound in silence.
A black light flashed in Su Li’s eyes, and the last hesitation also disappeared.
Based on her experience, she could also guess a little, even if the man didn’t say anything.
“In this life, I haven’t done many murders, and I don’t want to kill innocent people because I have been at ease for a long time. But…”
Su Li narrowed her eyes and looked at the complete stranger, “Great Holy Boy, Yi Mo”, who walked up to the high platform slowly.
“In the cultivation circle, there are no innocent people…”
“Wors.h.i.+p the ancestors to attract the Mirage Immortal. We, disciples of the Tianyin Tribe…”
At the same time, the elders far away in the hall were looking at everything happened on the square through the water mirror. When they saw the “Great Holy Boy, Yi Mo” in a purple and gold robe calmly reading the elegiac address, all the elders praised with smiles,
“The great holy boy, with a striking appearance, will be a mainstay of our Tianyin Tribe in the future!”
“Good. Since he absorbed the soul of the evil creature, the great holy boy has promoted his cultivation quickly, and his state of mind has also grown rapidly. It will probably not take long before he can regain his real name.”
“It won’t take long? I think he could do it now!”
Hearing it, the patriarch of Tianyin Tribe, who sat in the middle of the throne, beamed with smiles. Seeing that everyone was almost overpraising, he waved his head and said, “Okay, if you said more, the guy would get carried away. It will take him a hundred years to integrate the soul of that evil creature. The regain of real name will be talked later, when he is integrated with the soul completely.”
As he said, he looked at the white-haired old man sitting on the right, and asked in a low voice, “First Elder, how is the plan of cultivating talents going?”
The white-haired old man nodded with a smile, “With the help of the envoy of the Fate Ancestor, it progresses smoothly. Yin Xue’s soul has been divided into thousands of parts. Except for a few disciples who rejected them, more than 800 people have integrated successfully and wait to make a great coup after absorption. In addition, the soul fragments rejected by the great holy boy are also given to the inferior holy boys to try to absorb them. Many of them have succeeded!”
The elders couldn’t help exclaiming.
“It is…a sign of great prosperity!”
“I didn’t expect the Fate Ancestor has such a magical power!”
“Fate Ancestor is really the leader of our Qingshui Circle!”
“We will endure for hundreds of years, and then the future must be our Tribe’s world!”
“…”
The smile on the face of the patriarch of Tianyin Tribe faded a bit. But he didn’t get angry, and the expression of contemplation flashed in his eyes.
Although the most profitable person was his son after the implementation of this matter, he always felt that the Fate Ancestor was not as kind as he looked, and even made him feel frightened. But it was related to the Fate Ancestor, he could not divine and see the future.
He thought for a moment. The great holy boy in the water mirror had almost finished the elegiac address.
“The ritual is finished. Offer sacrifices!”