The royal court discussed the matter of the salt pond, and it dragged on until midnight. When Yu Yu walked out of the palace, she was already hungry. But she didn't care about eating and drinking at all, so she hurried to the Yongle Hall of the Spirit Palace to report the latest situation to Ji Le.

At this moment, there was laughter and laughter in the Yongle Palace. Ji Le is setting up a banquet to invite Feng'e to be a guest here. Under his teasing, Feng'e came down from the audience, laughing constantly, and had already forgotten about the frustration in Nanyu Mountain.

Yu Yu walked in quietly and saw a few pinches of salt in front of Ji Le.

Ji Le smiled and asked Feng'e: "Your Highness, our Xia Kingdom knows too little about the salt ceremony, I don't know what precautions are here?"

Feng'e took a sip of osmanthus tea: "The salt ritual sacrifice is the saying of the Xia Kingdom. In Tumu, it is called "Father's Day", in Toya it is called "Holy Salt Day", and in Bardo it is called "Bakra". It is a festival that affects the entire continent and worships many gods headed by the Kami-king. Over the years, there have been dozens of kingdoms that have been destroyed by the gods because of a mistake in this kind of sacrifice. ”

"So serious?" Ji Le pretended to be surprised: "Then you should ask about the taboo in this regard." But Your Highness, do the gods really need such a thing as 'salt'?"

"Salt is a clean thing, it drives away evil spirits. It's a good offering. ”

"Exorcism?" Ji Le's expression was strange.

Salt can ward off evil spirits, and this custom was also found in ancient China. What is "salt tea and grains to dispel evil spirits" and "salt rice town house to sweep away yin qi"...... Such superstitious sayings are widely spread in the land of China. Even several neighboring countries have the custom of using salt to drive away evil spirits.

But in the age of mythology, how can there still be such a saying? Is there really any magic in the so-called table salt?

Feng'e walked over, her fingers moved the salt pile in front of Ji Le, and she shook her head slightly: "No, your quality is too poor." If you want to make an offering, the purity is simply not enough. As she spoke, a ray of light shone on the salt pile from her fingertips. The pile of salt grains made by the power of magic gradually condensed into a twelve-sided crystal the size of a mung bean. However, the crystals are cloudy and appear grayish-white.

"You see, there are too few salt crystals refined. And the purity is also poor. The real high quality must have 36 sides, crystal clear. ”

"This salt crystal—" Ji Le could feel some kind of mysterious power from this salt crystal.

"The greatest use of the gods in collecting clean salt is to refine this salt crystal. In addition to storing divine power, this kind of thing can also be used to ward off evil spirits and purify filth. In addition, it is crystal clear and has a beautiful appearance, and it is also a high-priced product among the gods. ”

Did the gods collect salt to make salt crystals?

Ji Le took the salt crystal in his hand and carefully sensed the power inside the salt crystal. This force had a vague familiarity to him.

"Where do you think you've seen it?" but when I think about it, I can't remember it.

"Your Highness, can you make a few more salt crystals?" Ji Le hurriedly asked Feng'e to refine the other two pinches of salt into salt crystals.

Feng'e stretched out her hand again, and her slender palm gently brushed on the salt pile, and the breeze brought up a cyan divine power, condensing the salt pile into vigilance.

It's just that these two crystals are also not thirty-six. The crystal on the left has thirteen sides, and the one on the right has eighteen sides, and it is slightly larger and brighter.

The young man watched the whole process from the side, staring at the crystal on the left side and thinking: "Is there such a big gap between artificial salt and natural mining?"

The salt on the left side is condensed by Shi Huang's magic power of words and extracting the free vitality power between heaven and earth. The salt on the right is the inventory of the Yongle Palace, which purifies the processed refined salt from the salt pond.

In contrast, the refined salt mined in Congyan Pond has better crystals purified.

Let's look at Shi Huang's crystal, as well as the crystal that he purified......

Ji Le's heart moved, and he suddenly understood the difference between the three types of salt.

"I embodied table salt with 'magical powers', and I used the salt of the earth as a sample. The old man used the daily salt of Xia Kingdom as a sample, which was theoretically modeled after the refined salt purified by the salt pond. Both of these are the energy that is extracted from the heaven and the earth and shaped into the form of table salt, which is a means of creation. The purified crystals are more like the condensation of the vitality of heaven and earth. The salt stored in the Xia Kingdom was extracted and purified from the salt ponds. Its higher quality indicates that there is much more of that mysterious power in the salt mines of the earth than in the air. ”

"So, what the gods want is probably not salt, but some mysterious power hidden in salt?"

This mysterious substance exists in the Earth's Salt Pool, and can be transformed with Heaven and Earth Vitality. Illustrated, is it a special kind of energy?

His Royal Highness Feng'e pointed to the three crystals and said, "The quality of this crystal on the far right is still good, but the size is a little small. The salt offering to His Majesty must be purified at the very least, a crystal the size of a human head. If you can't do it, then ......"

God condemned sin, and even Feng'e couldn't do anything.

"And the Lord God and other great gods. Everyone is very demanding, if you don't prepare a warehouse of clean salt, I'm afraid it won't be enough for the sacrifice at all!"

A warehouse?

The young man and Yu Yuan, who was observing, tightened their hearts.

Now that the salt in the treasury of the Xia Kingdom is simply not enough, where can I squeeze out so much for the gods?

"Don't worry, we're measured in this matter. Ji Le responded with a smile, and after a while, he sent someone to send Feng'e away.

As soon as the goddess left, the young man immediately said, "Ji Le, depending on the situation, even if we take out all the inventory, it may not be enough!"

There are so many gods, and the great gods ask for too much salt, Xia Guo can't afford it at all!

Yu Yuan: "Counting the expenses of these days, we will move out all the salt stored in the national treasury, but it will be enough." Moreover, it may also have to be levied from the private sector. ”

After all, every year, Xia Guo can't save too much clean salt at all, and can only be harvested by the gods every year. According to the plan a month ago, as long as the storage on the other side of the salt pond is transported, it should be able to survive this festival.

Ji Le turned his pen and thought: "For the time being, it should be able to use the treasury." As for the people, they use our artificially made salt. Rest assured, the essence of this salt is the aura of heaven and earth, and it will not harm people. ”

"Yu Yuan, you go back and mobilize everyone in the Spirit Palace, everyone acts together, and it is not difficult to make table salt. After Ji Le finished speaking, he seemed to remember something, and said with emotion: "It's still the old man's Wendao luck." With this opportunity, it is just to promote the whole people to learn the magic power of words and accelerate the promotion. ”

"Of course, this is just a last resort. The immediate priority is to find new sources of salt. When the Xia Kingdom destroyed so many countries, there must have been a record. Go back and send someone to search for information, and be sure to find other salt mines nearby. ”

After a pause, Ji Le said again: "You have all heard the words of His Highness Fang Cai. Salt crystals have other uses, and the best way is to purify them from the salt mines of the earth. I suspect that the disappearance of the salt pond in the Xia Kingdom may be related to the gods. ”

Youth: "Is it a certain god who has made a move? But what's the benefit of stopping us from participating in the salt ceremony? Could it be Nan Yushan again?"

"By the way, Your Highness, can you please find someone?" Yu Yu hurriedly asked Ji Le to search for Xun An's whereabouts.

"Xun An, Xun Ningyuan?" Ji Le closed his eyes and sensed Xun An's whereabouts from afar.

Suddenly, he pointed to the northeast: "There, I can feel that there are other people besides him. There are quite a few of them, but all of them are currently asleep. ”

In the end, Ji Le suddenly got up, as if he felt some threat, and hurriedly said: "Hurry up and let Yang Ke go and save people, I feel that the situation is a little bad!"

Emptying the entire salt pond, no matter how you think about it, there is a big problem behind this. In Ji Le's perception, that mysterious existence is probably going to kill people!