Chapter 115: The Price
Early in the morning, not long after Xu Yang got up, he received a message from the elder from the messenger, telling him to hurry to the meeting room and have important matters to discuss with him.
Although there are a lot of troublesome things this time, Xu Yang has always insisted on going to bed early and getting up early, and not staying up late to work, so he is in a very good spirit at this time, since the elders have sent someone to find him, there must be something important to discuss, so without saying a word, he followed and tried to come to the house where the elders usually live and are used for sacrifices.
The last time they came here, a lot of props were put back in the empty hall, and I don't know if they didn't want Xu Yang to know about the removal of the props, or if they were going to do something with these props.
"Are you here?"
The blue-robed elder who was placing props on the side saw that Xu Yang had come, glanced in his direction with his eyes, and did not stop the work in his hands. However, the red-robed elder hurriedly put down the things in his hand and came over to greet Xu Yang.
The blue-robed elder's actions made Xu Yang not know what to do, although the relationship between the two has always been bad, but he would not put this kind of unfriendliness on the surface before, but now this blue-robed elder doesn't know what's going on, and he actually began to blatantly not give Xu Yang face.
But fortunately, the red-robed elder still gave him face, and Xu Yang walked in from the door after promising his life and sat on the chair closest to him. The blue-robed elder didn't say anything, and continued to fiddle with the props at hand, and the red-robed elder naturally came over to help him, so Xu Yang was left hanging there.
After a long while, the props seemed to have been arranged, and the two elders came over and sat down on their chairs.
"I don't know ......"
"It's time for the ceremony."
Xu Yanggang wanted to ask them what was the matter with finding him, but he didn't expect the elder to block his words all of a sudden. After listening to the words of the blue-robed elder, Xu Yang felt inexplicable, didn't this ceremony be held not long ago? And because of the appearance of that monster, it failed, what kind of ritual do these two elders want to perform at this time? So he couldn't help asking:
"What consciousness? Isn't the ritual of suppressing the soul of injustice already ......"
"Oh, that ritual did fail, but we're going to have something else."
The blue-robed elder was unimpressed by Xu Yang's doubts, and then took out a picture from the pocket of his clothes and spread it out on the table in front of them.
"We've been thinking about what to do with that monster, and we actually have hole cards, but I really don't want to use them unless I have to, and now it seems like it's the last resort."
"Hole cards?"
Xu Yang was taken aback, he didn't expect these two elders to still have hole cards in their hands, so in fact, they have always been sure that they can defeat that monster, but they don't really want to make their hole cards public? After figuring this out, Xu Yang immediately began to scold himself in his heart, he was stupid to discuss with Bai Cocoon before, in fact, isn't there no need to worry about it at all?
"That's right, hole cards, but we don't really want to use this hole card, because the use of killer cards always has to sacrifice something, which is an eternal truth!"
The blue-robed elder seemed to sigh very sadly, but in fact, he was sneering in his heart. The red-robed elder still had that faint look, and nothing seemed to surprise him in particular.
Xu Yang was stunned after hearing this, could it be that this hole card has to pay the corresponding price to be able to use it? But this is the moment of life and death for Jian Yi Village, and he hurriedly asked:
"What price does it take to defeat that monster?"
He couldn't read the diagram on the table anyway, and he wasn't in the mood to study this thing at this time, but it was the words of the blue-robed elder that attracted his attention even more. However, the blue-robed elder did not directly answer Xu Yang's question, but sold a pass, and first began to explain his so-called hole cards:
"What we are about to launch is a peerless weapon that has been sealed in this village since ancient times, as long as we have this weapon, let alone that monster, even if we can directly dominate the whole world! However, in the spirit of peace, we don't like to do this kind of thing that causes strife, and this weapon is just a measure we use to deter the outside world, otherwise why do you think Jian Yi Village has not perished to this day? ”
Xu Yang thought deeply about the words of the blue-robed elder, and he had always wondered why Jian Yi Village had been able to exist so well until now, although they had a holy stone, but there was no one in the entire village who could take the initiative to use its power, not only that, but the barrier that protected the village was also very weak, if there would be people from the outside world breaking in, no matter how he thought about it, he would not think how safe this village would be.
But since Jian Yi Village has existed for so long, Xu Yang believes that there must be some reason for this, and today he finally knows what this reason is.
"This weapon is very powerful, it is not easy to find someone who can use it, if you find someone who is not strong enough to control it, it is likely to bring disaster to the world, but fortunately, after years of retreat, our Great Elder is already confident that he can control that weapon!"
The blue-robed elder saw that Xu Yang had been frightened by his words, so he continued to flicker. Xu Yang was stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect that the Great Elder who had not been seen for many years would actually go into retreat, let alone that he was already strong enough to be able to control a very powerful weapon.
Looking at the appearance of the blue-robed elder, it is estimated that he just learned about this matter not long ago, which also explains why he was so anxious before, and now he suddenly said that he had found a way, and it can also explain the change in his attitude towards Xu Yang before and after. After all, if such a powerful Great Elder existed, Xu Yang would really be nothing in this village!
"So, did the Great Elder promise to help us deal with that monster?"
As soon as he asked this, Xu Yang felt that his question was like an idiot, the Great Elder was also a person from this village, so it was naturally impossible for him to sit back and watch the village be destroyed by an unknown monster! Sure enough, after hearing Xu Yang's question, the blue-robed elder glared at him fiercely and said:
"The Great Elder is concerned about the safety of Jian Yi Village, and without saying a word, he plans to go out of the mountain to protect the village, but the weapon to be used to deal with that monster is a bit troublesome......
"What, is there any specific condition that that powerful weapon needs to be used?"
Xu Yang doesn't have much doubt about this, there is no free lunch in the world, let alone this kind of weapon that can influence the situation of the war, it is normal to have a condition for use, but I don't know what this condition is, whether it is difficult to do.
The blue-robed elder didn't follow Xu Yang's ink anymore, and went directly to the topic:
"Actually, this weapon is now in a state of sleep, and if you want to activate it, you need to carry out a ritual, but the executor of this ritual must be a person with strong spiritual power, if ordinary people do this, not to mention that the weapon can't be activated, even they will be in danger!"
"Someone with strong spiritual power to activate?"
Xu Yang was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself that the Great Elder's spiritual power was not strong enough, and he needed to find someone else to perform the ceremony? The blue-robed elder saw through Xu Yang's thoughts at a glance, so he explained:
"As for the Great Elder, he must recuperate to deal with that monster, naturally he can't consume his spiritual power to activate that weapon, so we must find another person with very strong spiritual power to perform this ritual!"
"But, where is this spiritually powerful person going to find it!"
Xu Yang was immediately deflated, this person with strong spiritual power is not something that can be found by looking for it, not to mention that it takes a huge amount of time to verify, Jian Yi Village is so small, it is very likely that even if you search the whole village, you will not be able to find such a person!
"Actually, we have already selected people, but this has to be approved by the village chief!"
This time it was the red-robed elder who spoke, he spread his hands, looking helpless, Xu Yang was stunned, thinking that since you have already chosen someone, why don't you just go to that person to discuss? Why bother to ask for the opinion of him, the village chief who exists in name only?
"These are your two daughters!"
"What?"
It's just that after the red-robed elder personally said this candidate, Xu Yang was still frightened, he never thought that his daughter would be selected as the executor of this ceremony! But he was more happy than surprised, because this was a very honorable thing, and when the time came, his daughter would be a meritorious person who saved the whole village!
"Maybe the village chief also knows that Jian Yi Village is actually cursed, and it is impossible to give birth to twins forever."
"That's right, I do know this, but my pair of daughters are an exception, and your explanation before is that because Xidie is not from the village, she is not affected by the village's curse!"
"Actually, that's a lie we told to cover up, because we don't want this pair of twins to cause a huge stir in the village!"
As soon as the blue-robed elder said this, Xu Yang understood what he wanted to express even if he was stupid, he had been the village chief for a long time, and he usually followed the two elders to do something, so he was still more familiar with curses, spiritual power, and the like, and now he understood at once that since his two daughters could be born beyond the curse, they must have huge spiritual power!
"In that case, I'm going to call them here?"
Xu Yang was very excited, thinking about quickly calling his two daughters over, firstly to verify whether they really had powerful spiritual power, and also to let the two elders quickly implement this matter. The two elders naturally have no opinion on this, the steps of the ritual are still relatively complicated, and it is not a matter of time and a half to learn love and pity, so the sooner you start learning, the better!
Soon, Xu Yang reappeared in the council hall with his two daughters. Because of what happened before, Mercy didn't have a good impression of the Elders, and now he looked at them quite hostilely, and the attitude of Pity was much better, although he looked a little scared, but it was more of a respect for the Elders.
The ritual of verifying spiritual power does not require much preparation, the two elders have been prepared during the time that Xu Yang left, and the result of the verification is also consistent with the prediction of the two elders, love and pity really have spiritual power far beyond ordinary people.
Xu Yang was very happy, but the two elders looked as usual, they had actually done this test with them when they were just born, and they were already happy because of this result at that time, so naturally they would not be too excited at this time.
However, the blue-robed elder still pretended to congratulate:
"Great, village chief, so that we can start preparing for the ritual of awakening the weapon, and this village is saved!"
"That's great, but this ritual shouldn't have any side effects on love and pity, right?"
Although Xu Yang was very excited, he still attached great importance to the safety of his two daughters, and if the price of saving the village was his daughter's life, then he would not have agreed so simply.
The blue-robed elder smiled slightly after hearing Xu Yang's concern, and then said:
"Naturally, there are side effects, after the ritual, love and pity will lose this powerful spiritual power, turn back into ordinary people, and even become a little weak, but it is still within the range of normal people!"
Hearing this, Xu Yang was completely relieved, if the elder said that there were no side effects at all, he would have wondered if he had been fooled, but when the elder said this, he felt that it was true.
Anyway, the problem will be solved by then, even if his daughter is a little weak, but after all, it is still within the range of normal people, and he is not very worried. So Xu Yang happily let his daughter stay, and then left by himself. He knew very well that the content of the ritual should be top secret, and he, as an outsider, was not qualified to snoop on this secret.
Walking outside the house, Xu Yang felt that the air outside had become exceptionally fresh. He didn't seem to be busy before, but he had been worrying about that monster, and now the worry has finally been solved!
Suddenly, he remembered the white cocoon, so he raised his steps and went to Xidie's house and walked into the basement. Hearing the sound outside, the white callus quickly put the notepad that was put aside into his clothes, and then stared nervously at the door.
"What are you doing? A hellish look? ”
As soon as Xu Yang entered the door, he saw the white cocoon looking like he was facing a great enemy, and asked with a speechless frown. When Bai Cocoon saw that the person who came in was Xu Yang, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that those elders would suddenly run in, and as for the others, he was really not afraid.
"Why are you here again? Didn't I say I'd wait until I'm done healing? ”