Chapter 19: Opening Galaxy

Barça's speech was not in imperial Chinese, so Xinghe couldn't understand what he said, but from the excited looks of those Mao Wen in the holy land, it could be seen that the words must be very exciting. After a burst of collective cheers from the Mao Wens, the so-called dinner party began.

Two teams of female Mao Wen pushed carts full of food into the holy place from the other direction. When the cart passed by, the Mao Wen people who attended the meeting took the barbecue meat with blood and water from it and feasted on it. Thankfully, the food delivered to the guest table is not the same and has been well handled, otherwise Galaxy can't guarantee that it will be able to eat it when facing those half-baked meats.

The guest seats they were in were in a corner of the Holy Land, clearly separated from the Mao Wen who participated in the Great Hunt. The demon spirits sitting in the guest seat are only sixteen in total, counting Rong Ruo and Sophia, and a large group of people in Xinghe followed Rong Ruo into here is a bit eye-catching, but those noble demon spirits are not bad, and they have not expressed any opinion on the existence of their group of people.

These spirits eat gracefully, occasionally raising their glasses to give their own opinions on the hunt. In such a conversation, Xinghe and they couldn't interject at all, and they all silently struggled with the dinner in front of them.

Fortunately, the focus of tonight is not this dinner, but Mao Wen's big hunt. So after being bored for a while, the main play finally began. A special waiter came to the guest table, took away the plates, and the demons in the room wiped their mouths with napkins, and then set their eyes on the center of the holy place.

Barcelona walked to the center of the holy place again with a cane, and eleven other Mao Wen, who were also wearing gray robes, followed his footsteps and came to the center of the holy place with a quaint and old stone basin.

When the stone basin appeared, the Mao Wen in the holy place let out a violent cheer. Barcelona held up a hand and signaled for everyone to be quiet. When the Holy Land was quiet again, Barça and eleven other gray-robed men stood around the stone basin with solemn expressions.

Suddenly, Barça pulled a stone dagger out of his bosom and slashed through his palm, allowing blood to flow down the tip of his claws into the stone basin, as he handed it to another gray-robed man beside him, who had done the same thing as him.

"Isn't this very similar?" Xinghe asked Anton and Lanyue in a low voice as he looked at the ritual in progress.

"It's a lot like that, indeed. Lan Yue nodded.

"Like what?" asked Shigego, puzzled.

Xinghe looked at the ritual that was still going on in the center of the Holy Land in distraction, and did not hear Chongwu's question, Mao Wenmen's actions reminded him of the ritual that the Holy Saint did with the Silver Moon Altar when he was in Lloyd's hands, whether it was the steps of the ceremony or the props used, there were many similarities between the two.

In the center of the Holy Land, the stone dagger was passed around among the twelve gray robes and then returned to Barcelona's hand, and at this time a small pool of blood had accumulated in the stone basin. The grey-robed men took out the white cloth they had prepared from their bosoms and bandaged their wounds, and then put their hands together and chanted some kind of obscure incantation under the leadership of Barcelona.

Accompanied by the incantations of the gray robes, some magic gathered on the stone basin, which was inconspicuous at first, but after only a moment, it became like an ocean, giving people a huge sense of oppression. The chanting of Barcelona and the other grey-robed men did not stop, but increased the tempo.

Suddenly, a huge tide of magic spread around the stone basin, almost knocking the galaxy to the ground, and when he stabilized his footsteps and raised his head again, he actually found a large number of translucent beasts emitting blue light coming out of the stone basin and fleeing in all directions in the holy land.

What shocked him even more was that a stag actually ran towards him, the hooves almost stepped towards his head, and Xinghe subconsciously stretched out his arms to protect him.

However, the expected impact did not come, only Anton's question came, "Xinghe, what's wrong with you?"

Xinghe lowered his arms that were hidden in front of him, and found that the buck had already run into the distance, and did not really step on him, to be exact, it should have passed through his body, because he saw a goshawk pass through the body of a Mao Wen without any obstacles.

However, to his surprise, no one in the Holy Land did not dodge at all, because they had known that those animals would not be equipped with them, or was it?

Xinghe turned his head and asked, "Didn't you see anything?"

"See what?" Anton scratched his head.

"Don't you see the animals that came out of the stone basin?"

"See, what's wrong?" Rong Ruo replied with a tilted head, not knowing when a sparrow flew out of the stone basin was standing on the table in front of her, and she and Pixar were staring at it.

"Animals ran out of the stone basin?" Anton looked dazed, not only him, Chongwu, Lan Yue, Xiaoxin, and Xiaorou also had expressions on their faces, and they didn't see anything.

"Those animals are 'spirits of nature'. A man came behind them at some point, "Sorry for eavesdropping on your conversation, my name is Andrei." ”

There shouldn't be two Andrei here, Xinghe affirmed the identity of the other party, "Your Highness Andre." ”

The prince of the empire has no shelf, he looks amiable, and he has no temper, even Rong Ruo just smiled when he lay on the table and glanced at him, "The Mao Wen inherit an ancient magic, this magic depends on their bloodline, and through special rituals, they can summon the 'spirit of nature', the so-called big hunt is actually the coming-of-age ceremony of the Mao Wens, and they want to hunt their own 'spirit of nature' in the process and gain great power." ”

"But those Mao Wen don't seem to be able to see those spirits, so how can they hunt the spirits of nature?" Xinghe asked.

"The ceremony isn't over yet. André pointed to the center of the Holy Land.

On the edge of the stone basin there, the young and strong Mao Wen walked to the edge of the stone basin in turn, and the twelve gray robes led by Barcelona wiped the blood in the stone basin on their eyes with their claws, and then those young and strong Mao Wen turned around and walked towards the outside of the holy place, and from their eyes, Xinghe could feel that they had found their goal.

"But I didn't accept that ritual, why can I see the spirit of nature too?" Xinghe asked, looking back.

"Some people are born with the ability to see the spirit of nature, which is a rare gift. Andrei looked at him.

Xinghe laughed dryly, he didn't know what his talent was, the reason why he could have such a special ability, all he could think of was the bloodline of the two kings that Sheng had said, but this couldn't be said.

The ritual in the center of the Holy Land has come to an end, and all the nature spirits in the Holy Land have already run out, and there are not many Mao Wen left who have not yet accepted the ceremony, "What kind of power does the hunting nature spirit gain?"

Xinghe was just curious, he had seen what the Holy had done with the Silver Moon Altar, similar stone basins and similar rituals, so if their effects were also similar?

"Foreigners can't participate in the Great Hunt, right?" Xiaoxin asked rhetorically.

Andre nodded, "Mao Wen doesn't impose rituals on foreign races, but you don't need their rituals to see the spirits of nature. ”

Xinghe felt as if he had heard a hint of encouragement from Andre's words, but he didn't think it was a good idea to do so, especially since they were in the heart of the mist, and if they did something that would anger Mao Wen, nothing would come of it.

It's just that although he resisted the temptation, Rong Ruo became eager to try it, and made a proposal to everyone, "Why don't we try it?"

Fortunately, Sophia stopped her and didn't really let her mess around. The ritual in the Holy Land soon came to an end, and after all the young hunters who participated in the Great Hunt had left the Holy Land, someone from the guest side also came to lead the guests away.

The torches outside the holy place were still burning and bright, but there was no trace of Mao Wen and the spirits of nature, and I didn't know where they were hunting. Mao Wen, who led their group, did not intend to let them stay for a long time, and led them all the way towards the residential area.

His Highness André seemed to have been in the Holy Land on a whim, and after that, he had no contact with them again, and went straight back to his residence. However, Xinghe didn't want to have much to do with him.

The first day of their group in the Heart of the Mist was over, and after several people returned to their residences, they all went back to their rooms, and Xinghe still took out his notebook and began to record what he had just seen and heard in the Holy Land, but he didn't know what the power that Mao Wen had gained from this grand event, but Batu said that he would come back to them tomorrow morning, and he would take them to visit the inner city at that time, and maybe ask him then.