Chapter 254: God, or Monster
“Little Eight, I seem to feel witchcraft being used on the snake’s body.” Nan Xun said.
“No wonder this grandpa feels the sword was really evil but without the slightest supernatural power, as if that sword was bound with a very intense evil spirit.” Little Eight reminded her out of his conscience and professional ethics, “Nan Xun, the big boss isn’t so simple ah, you have to be careful in the future.”
Nan Xun pouted her lips: Is there a need for you to say that? Which world’s big boss she doesn’t need to be careful with?
Gong Moran took the sword in Nan Xun’s hands and raised it to the sky, the tip of the sword drew a graceful arc in the air, along with that white sleeve of his.
Nan Xun was so close that she could even hear the rustle of the robe rubbing against the air.
The common people who looked from a distance was really excited.
The three kingdoms’ envoys all stared at the strangely-behaving Nanyun’s State Teacher, only Qi Hengqing’s pair of eyes were fixed on Nan Xun for a long time, his gaze was filled with unknown meaning.
“Presenting sacrifices.” Gong Moran raised his sword.
He obviously only moved his lips slightly, his voice flat and cold, but it was more than that; the voice he uttered seemed to be amplified, reverberating throughout the entire drill ground.
As his voice fell, a path was opened from amongst the crowd, nine Imperial Guards each escorted a man wearing black clothes over.
These must be assassins who survived that day.
They were escorted until they arrived in front of State Teacher, lined up one by one.
The assassins gazed at the man in front of them, looking at them with indifferent eyes, their hearts were overflowing with dread.
A sneer suddenly appeared on Gong Moran’s lips, his deathly still eyes served as a foil and made this smile eerily terrifying, it was an indescribable odd feeling.
All of a sudden, he lifted the serpent sword a little bit, pointing it at the first person’s chest.
The assassins didn’t even hope to live as they were prepared to bite their tongues to commit suicide, but as their jaws were broken, they were unable to do it.
The assassin watched as the beautiful cold man in front of him pierced that long sword…into his chest.
His eyes widened at the next second, he was seized with terror.
Why, why did he hear sound like something was sucking his blood?
It was the sword, the serpent wrapped around the sword was actually sucking his blood!
What kind of god this person before him? He’s clearly… a monster.
He wanted to speak, wanted to shout, but he couldn’t even utter a word out.
With a ripping sound, Gong Moran drew out the sword expressionlessly.
That person had his eyes wide opened right until he died, as if he had been scared to death.
Blood that soaked the sword pooled together into the snake’s mouth.
Not long after, the snake turned into a light red color, its luster flowing smoothly, extremely abnormal.
There was no drip of blood left as the sword returned as clean as before.
Gong Moran stretched out his hand that held the sword and looked down at the light red snake, his whole body was leaking with some kind of strange aura.
Nan Xun stared at him intently, the knit on her brows seemed to be getting even tighter.
Little Eight screamed ‘f*ck’ and said, “The big boss right now looks so scary and perverted ah! Sob sob~”
Nan Xun expressed her agreement expressionlessly, “I think so too.”
When big boss killed the last assassin, the snake coiling on the long sword had turned completely blood red.
Those blood flowed through the snake’s body, and it seemed to be coming alive.
The princes and ministers who sat close already felt sweat covering their foreheads.
The sacrifice this time was different from previous ones, it made people felt a sense of horror for no reason.
Gong Moran returned to the altar with the serpent sword in his hand.
With a gesture from him, Gong Da presented a pre-drawn talisman paper while Gong Liu inserted a thick incense stick into the cauldron.
After that, the two people retired respectfully.
Gong Moran flicked his long sleeve, and the incense lit up immediately.
With the smoke curling up, a sandalwood scent spread immediately after.
The comforting fragrance dispelled the creepy and strange feeling in everyone’s heart just now.
“Sacrifice to the sky.” Gong Moran said.
In a split second, all officials looked over without blinking their eyes, one of the envoys from three kingdoms already forgotten himself as he extended his neck to have clearer look.
Gong Moran pointed the long sword in his hand at the great cauldron, the snake head was aimed at the sand inside.
Then, a strange scene appeared.
The blood-red snake opened its mouth wide, spraying a mist of blood.
The brown sand in the cauldron was shrouded in that mist, quickly changing its color to red.
And that curling up fragrant smoke from the incense stick also slowly reeked with bloody smell.
Little Eight was dumbfounded, he asked Nan Xun, “Aren’t you very proficient in witchcraft and gu? What’s the big boss doing?”
Nan Xun said indifferently, “Offering sacrifice to heaven and praying for good fortune ah, didn’t I say it before?”
Little Eight: …
“To hell with it, is there such a ‘offering sacrifice to heaven and praying for good fortune’ ceremony that can make one’s flesh creep like this?”
Nan Xun pursed her mouth and said with lowered eyes, “I f*cking want to blow his head open, using forbidden arts at every turn like this, does he think that even dying by ten thousand arrows still won’t be enough?!”
Little Eight: …
Under the crowd’s attention, Gong Moran raised his sword, “Heaven above, presenting the blood of sinners today, may heaven turn sins into blessings and benefit thousands of people in Nanyun Kingdom.”
The sound resounded through the sky like a bell, spreading to all directions.
The people have all knelt on the ground in awe.
The incense mist gathered into a huge spirit gathering array mid-air, Gong Moran then burned the first piece of talisman.
Suddenly, the clear and cloudless sunny sky was shrouded with dark clouds.
As the second talisman was burned, a thick divine thunder descended from the sky, allegedly, it was called the ‘Nine Gods’ Thunder’ and that it can exterminate all evil in the world.
The wind blew violently, lightning and thunder roared about.
By this time, even Qi Hengqing that never believed in any supernatural thing was extremely shocked.
The third piece of talisman was burned, and torrential rain poured from the sky.
What was even more bizarre was that the heavy rain actually avoided the drill ground, only pouring down outside the circle.
The people were instantly drenched, but they were so excited that they couldn’t control themselves.
“It’s the blessing that was asked by State Teacher to the heaven, this rain is a blessing ah!” said a citizen.
The crowd directly raised their heads and drank the rainwater into their stomach. Some smart people had even prepared jars beforehand, right now, they were holding those jars to collect water.
When Gong Moran raised the sword in a beautiful radian, the heavy rain actually stopped.
The man in white nodded to the old monarch and said, “Emperor, this minister has completed the ceremony of ‘offering sacrifice to heaven and praying for blessing’, and the blessing have come to all the territories of Nanyun Kingdom, favorable weather, prosperity and peace will inevitably grace Nanyun Kingdom this year.”
The old monarch strokes his beard and gave a loud shout, “Good, very good!”
The emperor was in a great mood, and the officials shouted, “Long live the emperor, long live State Teacher—”
At the end of the ceremony, Nanyun Kingdom’s old monarch took the lead of leaving the place with his dragon palanquin, while State Teacher got on his luxurious white palanquin, surrounded by several disciples of Moran Hall.
Envoys from three kingdoms and hundreds of officials followed to leave the place.
Different thoughts were swimming inside the mind of each of the envoy after that strange ceremony.
Qi Hengqing’s gaze fell on the woman in white standing on the white palanquin’s side, moving ever so slowly.
He didn’t expect that miss Qiangwei actually became Moran Hall’s disciple.
It seems that he has to change his strategy.
TL NOTE:
Panda after reading this chapter: cults... |ω･`) scary...