Chapter 817: Holy Prayer
Wanjiang Village is located in the south-southeast of Chaos State, composed of countless rivers and villages, and it is an extremely strange place above this territory. Over the years, countless people have come to Wanjiang Village, including weak human cultivators, strong beast clans, and even many Saint Realm powerhouses have come here.
But for many years, Wanjiang Village has been peaceful here, and everyone who came here to make trouble was forcibly driven out by the people in the village, even the powerhouses of the Holy Realm!
Walking along the river into the village, Zhang Yan kept looking around, simple houses, men and women in plain clothes, cheerful and lively children, all of them were busy with their hands, bursts of laughter, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.
With a smile on his face all the time, his eyes swept over the people in the village one by one, and the villagers all smiled at him, looking at him with a soft gaze, and then continued to busy their own work.
There are many cultivators like Zhang Yan who come to Wanjiang Village, so there are inns and inns in each village to facilitate the accommodation of those strange cultivators. However, most of the traveling cultivators who come here will only stop for one night, and they will leave the next day!
Looking at the group of children running and playing on the village road, the smile on Zhang Yan's face gradually became a little thicker, he really couldn't imagine who could cast such a powerful divine array, be able to perfectly combine illusion and reality, hide from the eyes of the world, even those Saint Realm powerhouses couldn't see through it.
Suddenly, a little boy who looked like he was about four years old tripped over a rock under his feet and fell to the ground, startling the rest of the children around him.
"Xiao Yu'er, are you okay, have you fallen somewhere? Let my sister see if she is injured!" A petite and cute little girl looks slightly older than the little boy, and the two are slightly similar in appearance, thinking that it should be a sister and brother relationship.
The little boy sniffled slightly, as if he was about to cry, but when he heard the laughter of the children around him, he instantly stabilized the tears in his eyes.
"Xiao Yu'er, this is the eighth time you have tripped over a stone today, you better go back to your father, don't play with us!"
The little boy called Xiao Yu'er pouted and said unwillingly: "I won't trip over a stone again today, hum!"
At this time, the little girl's jade hand crossed her waist, and a little anger appeared on Xiao Yu's face: "You are not allowed to bully my brother, otherwise I won't play with you anymore, hum!"
Seeing the little girl's angry appearance, the other slightly older boy said to the other children beside him: "You are not allowed to bully Xiaoyuer and Xiaoyu in the future, otherwise you will look good!"
"Got it. A group of children replied with a smile, then laughed and ran out of the village, where they disappeared in a moment.
When he withdrew his gaze from the entrance of the village and looked at the ground again, his eyes suddenly froze, and he found that the place where the little fish tripped was only a cloud of powder made of rocks, and there were no stones in sight!
"It seems that this Wanjiang Village is even more mysterious than imagined!" Zhang Yan said with a smile in his heart, and then walked slowly towards the village, gradually approaching the center of Wanjiang Village.
Along the way, he found that all the villages did not have stone monuments, and one village was next to another, and everyone was dressed similarly, as if they came from the same sect!
"Qing'er, what did you sense?"
Zhang Yan came to the outside of a seven-story ancient pagoda in the village, many figures were blocked by the guardrail, and looking at his eyes, they were all foreign cultivators, and it seemed that he could not get close to the ancient pagoda. Glancing around at the crowd of people coming and going, he heard the lively discussions, and found that the ancient pagoda in front of him was used by the people of the village to pray for blessings, and outsiders could only watch outside.
Looking up, Zhang Yan's eyes suddenly narrowed, at this moment, it was the position where the sun rose to the top of the tower, and it happened to be facing his figure.
The sunlight seemed to be absorbed by the top of the tower, and then released, extremely dazzling, even Zhang Yan couldn't help but close his eyes, he could feel an extremely faint divine aura from the sun's light, faintly giving him a sense of déjà vu.
Regarding Zhang Yan's question, Qing'er and the others remained silent, as if they were still exploring the strange Wanjiang Village domain.
With a smile on his face, Zhang Yan asked a middle-aged man beside him kindly, "This eldest brother, what are these people in the village doing?
Hearing Zhang Yan's question, the middle-aged man first glanced at him, and when he saw the kind smile on his face, he replied in a flat tone, "You only came to the village recently?"
"Hmm!" Zhang Yan nodded with a kind smile and said, "I came out for a trip and came here unintentionally, and I came here all the way!"
The man's face did not change, and there was a look of envy in his eyes as he looked at the top of the ancient tower.
"I heard that there is a holy prayer every ten years in Wanjiang Village, so that a man and a woman in the village can achieve the holy position, and this is the so-called 'holy prayer' in front of us, such a sacred scene, so everyone gathers here! For us, if we can understand a little inspiration from it, it will also be useful for life!" The more the middle-aged man spoke, the stronger the reverence revealed in his pupils.
"Big brother, the man and the woman in the village must be geniuses with extremely high talents, right?" Zhang Yan said, his tone also faintly revealing a strong sense of envy. If you want to talk to someone, then the first thing is to put your own state of mind in the other person's position!
"To be able to become a Venerable Sage, isn't that day's empowerment high? Anyway, you and I can't compare to these people, their current realm is already something we can only look up to, and being able to observe this holy prayer is already a godsend for us!"
"What the eldest brother said is very true, I don't know when the holy prayer will begin, and it would be good for us to be able to take advantage of it!" Zhang Yan said with a smile.
"The Holy Prayer has been prepared for twenty-seven days, and there are still three days to go, so let's wait here quietly for these three days!"
"Big brother, the younger brother's name is Lei Yan, I don't know the name of the eldest brother, can you tell me, if the younger brother encounters any problems, you have to ask the eldest brother for a question or two!" Zhang Yan hugged the middle-aged man quite politely.
Turning around, the middle-aged man glanced at Zhang Yan and saw that the latter's strength was not weak, so he nodded and said, "Fang Ju, you can call me Brother Fang!"
"Brother Fang!"
Suppressing all his strength, Zhang Yan only had the strength of the early stage of the Xuanhuang Realm in the induction of others, but within the scope of ordinary cultivators, it was not weak!
"Little Brother Lei Yan, at your voice Brother Fang, I'll tell you a secret!" Fang Ju said in a low voice, and then gestured slightly to Zhang Yan.
Zhang Yan understood, so he put his ear in front of Fang Ju, only to hear the latter say: "I heard that Wanjiang Village is a hidden super power, and there are countless saints here!"
Hearing this, Zhang Yan pretended to be frightened, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
"Shhh, don't spread this matter, otherwise you and I won't be able to kill ourselves!" Fang Ju said in a low voice.
Zhang Yan nodded, and then was silent for a while, looking stunned by fright.
Minutes and seconds passed, but the position of the sun did not move at all, and it stayed at the top of the tower.
The chaotic qi in the pupils condensed, and layers of complex spatial enchantments appeared in Zhang Yan's field of vision, not that the sun did not move, but that a super powerful and powerful person forcibly condensed a golden-red ball of light like a small sun.
The chaotic aura dissipated, and Zhang Yan's curiosity about Wanjiang Village became more and more intense, he really wanted to see what the 'Holy Prayer' was all about, and what kind of demonic existence the man and woman who were baptized by the 'Holy Prayer' were!
In front of the ancient tower, there were more and more people gathering, and the noise gradually reached a peak level, but on the second day, the whole world suddenly quieted down, so people's eyes all looked at the top of the tower, concentrated, and did not dare to be distracted!
At the end of the second day, the third day came quietly, and the quiet scene lasted for a whole day and a night!
Suddenly, the sun's rays gathered at the top of the tower suddenly became stronger, and everyone who was stabbed closed their eyes, but Zhang Yan was the only one who was still staring at the top of the tower!
When the sun's rays faded, the people of the village, men and women, old and young, were all dressed in the same clothes and used for prayer.
The people of the village knelt down in front of the ancient pagoda, babbling about voices that outsiders could not understand. Zhang Yan frowned slightly, he had learned countless languages, the divine language of the Age of the Gods, the ancient language, and even the most basic beast language of the beast clan, but he didn't hear a word of what the people in the village were reading, let alone understand what it meant!
At this time, Fang Ju suddenly grabbed Zhang Yan's hand and pulled it down, motioning for him to sit down.
"Sit down, it's the rules of the village!"
Zhang Yan didn't resist, so he sat down on the ground with Fang Ju, looked around, and found that everyone was either kneeling on the ground or sitting on the ground, and many of them were pinching the cultivation seal knot in their hands and entering the cultivation state.
There is a good way to learn, Zhang Yan also pinched the cultivation seal of Tianyuanlu in his hand, but he did not urge Tianyuanlu in his body, otherwise he would attract everyone's attention.
But instead of closing his eyes like the others, he stared at the top of the tower with wide eyes, and he wanted to take a good look at what this so-called 'holy prayer' that would enable people to attain the throne in one fell swoop!
After about an hour of quiet time, the space above the ancient pagoda suddenly fluctuated with an extremely slight fluctuation, a spatial fluctuation that ordinary cultivators could not match at all.
Immediately afterward, an old man and an old woman appeared above the ancient tower. Looking at the two elderly people, Zhang Yan's eyes froze, and he felt a strong holy power from the two white-haired old men, at least the powerhouses of the fifth-order Xuan Saint Realm.