Chapter 444 : Buddha Light
So the feelings she felt when she went through the barrier was not an illusion. It was a magic array!
She could not help but turn back and walk toward the door. She touched the door carefully but could not feel anything wrong with it. She even tried to go inside again, but she could no longer feel the restriction.
Did she accidentally break the magic array?
Why does it seems like a soap bubble? It is so brittle and weak.
Wait a moment! Since she already broke the array and escaped, then wouldn't he feel this and realize what just happened?
He told her to wait obediently inside the array.
She and little qilin looked at each other.
“Master, are we still going?”
Ning Xuemo said determinedly, “Let’s go!”
……
The sacrificial temple that was positioned near the ancestral shrine was crafted and built with white onyx stones, making it shine majestically.
Below the sacrificial temple, Emperor Le Xuan ordered both the civil and military officials to separate. Surrounding the civil and military officials were a group of soldiers whose purpose was to protect them and also prevent the citizens from entering the temple.
What a crowd!
Almost all the citizens showed up to watch the grandest sacrificial event.
Maybe it is due to having order maintained well that within 3 feet of the sacrificial temple, it was not particularly noisy, since almost all held their breaths when they looked toward the man on the temple platform.
Han Shanyue covered his body with a snow white robe. His clothes flapped and danced, looking as if he was one with the wind.
At the side of the platform, 18 daoists were being positioned at their respective spots to create a formation. They wore deep blue gowns while holding dusters in their hands. All of them had attractive and respectful appearances. If one were to look down from the sky, they would be able to see that the formation looked like a hexagonal snowflake with Han Shanyue standing at the core.
As it got closer to the afternoon, the sun slowly moved toward the middle of the sky as it shined above Han Shanyue's head.
Even though Han Shanyue was standing under the hot sun, his surroundings seemed as if there was wind swirling around causing his white robe to flutter. In fact, he was accumulating a huge energy pressure.
Below the temple platform, the people inexplicably wished to serve and worship him after witnessing what was happening……
He moved in a peculiar rhythm with a calm and graceful posture, as if he was preparing for some kind of ritual.
Many of the women that were surrounding the temple could not help but stare at white robed man. They were even reluctant to blink their eyes as they witnessed the process.
Even though no one was able to clearly see the daoist's appearance, several dazzling movements were enough to make everyone become submerged willingly into the ritual.
In the afternoon.
Suddenly, the sky seemed to darken, causing the surroundings to be pitch black. Only the temple was shining brightly with a glint of golden light.
Everyone below the temple platform held their breaths when they witnessed what happened. They began to kneel down as if they just saw a god.
The condensed golden light gave off an impression of Buddha light*. In a flash, it spread out to the surroundings……
Wherever the Buddha light passed, the people felt a warm light shining on them causing them to feel very comfortable. They felt peace and harmony in their hearts.
Within the Buddha light, there were signs of snowflakes which made it incredibly dazzling. This lead people to think that they entered into the sweetest dream of their lives.
Excitement! Happiness! Peacefulness!
Those who were touched by the Buddha light all started to cheer out from happiness. The cheers got louder when the Buddha light spread outwards. When it was fully dispersed, the cheers became so loud that they sounded almost like a landslide, causing the ground below them to tremble.
* Basically, in a lot of Buddha paintings and depictions, there's a glow around Buddha. That's what the author is implying here.
Can you just imagine everyone bowing down towards the great god, Han Shanyue? Only privately, what no one except Ning Xuemo knows is that he’s a jerk…
Chapter 445 : The Zither String That Controls People
Han Shanyue stood on the temple platform, motionless, while waiting for the sound of the cheers to reach its peak volume before clasping his palms together.
The cheers of the crowd seemed to combine into a single voice that soared through the heavens.
……
Somewhere in the Heavenly Book Mountains.
A red-clothed man was seated in a dull and dark hall, playing a melody with his ice blue zither.
Surrounding him were 8 young ladies who are wearing red dresses. Although their appearance differed from each other, they all had a pair of dainty and delicate hands. Just by the appearance one would know they were the kind of hands that is used to play
zither. Such tender and delicate hands.
Regardless of what status they had, they all had a similarity : they were all zither experts! These zither experts were in fact the 8 missing females which had caused the city to be in a chaos.
They were all currently seated in 8 different locations. They sat as if they were playing the zither, even though there was no zither on their knees.
However, even though they were not playing any zithers, it seemed as though there was a soft and gentle zither qi coming out from them. The qi twirled through the air as it flowed towards the red-clothed man's ice blue zither.
The zither contained 7 chords. No one knows what material was used to made the zither's sky-blue strings that shone with a brilliant light.
Among the 7 chords, one of the strings was obviously darker and seemed as if it was lacking energy and spirit.
The soft and gentle zither qi coming from the 8 females were all flowing towards the dark colored string.
As the eight girls continued to pour in their zither qi, the dark colored string slowly started to regain its former brilliance.
While doing so, the eight females seemed as if their spiritual essence had been drained away as their faces kept getting paler.
They all looked dull and lifeless; obviously, they were all being controlled by the melody of the red-clothed man's zither. Their fingers kept moving as if they were playing a real zither. Their eyes were fearful as they could no longer control themselves.
As their spiritual essence were slowly taken away by the zither, their once black hair started to become dry and gray, gradually becoming white. Their skin, which was gentle and soft, also started to turned wrinkly and old. All of these transformation could be seen by the naked eye.
While absorbing the spiritual essence from the females, the once dark looking string started to light up again. With the current speed, within 30 minutes, the zither string would be able to fully recover.
The red-clothed man forehead started to sweat. His eyes fixated on the zither string before releasing a warm smile.
Finally, it is going to recover!
A pleased and satisfied look appeared in his eyes.
He just needed to persist for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes it will fully recover!
Outside the cave a strand of white light flashed. All of a sudden, the sound of a landslide drowned out the melody of the zither!
Not only was the sound loud, but it also contains vigorous yang qi. The yang qi rushed in like a dragon, causing the whole cave to light up. It seemed as if someone had just put an extremely bright light in the cave, making it so that no one could open their eyes to see what was going on.
All the girls inside the cave suddenly started, as if woken up from a deep sleep. Their bodies trembled before their fingers stopped moving.
“Bang!” The almost recovered zither string broke once again. The string bounced back into the red-clothed man's hand and disappeared.
The red-clothed man sat there as he stared blankly at the back of his hand. A stream of blood started to flow slowly out of the wounded hand.
“Hey! Why am I here?”
“Ah! What is this place?”
“Oh my god! Who are you, so ugly!”
“……”
Hm… looks like a certain someone is back…
If anyone is up to doing a drawing of Han Shanyue as a fat white sheep, send them to ! I would love to see some fan art, and I'm sure Han Shanyue would "love it" too~
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