Chapter 20: Raw Earth
Xiao Ruyun guessed a lot about the failure of the sacrifice, and the obvious reason was that the thunder tribulation had changed the mountains and water veins of Shuanghe County, but as far as she knew, the changes in the topography of the mountains and rivers could indeed affect the operation of the surrounding spirits and true qi, but they could not change the ancient rituals, let alone the mountains and rivers outside the scope of influence. In Shuanghe www.biquge.info, where she hadn't sacrificed to the four mountains for a long time, she might have encountered some unfriendly challenges, and she had made sufficient preparations for this, just like when she faced the river demon, but she didn't encounter anything, nothing appeared, and the mountains and rivers were silent like mortals sacrificing.
Is her magical abilities obscured or is her status as an immortal official unrecognized?
The river demon responded to her call and gave her the right answer. In many places, river demons are known for their unruly manners, often demanding that locals sacrifice a considerable number of virgins for no apparent reason, or the state or county will be flooded. In the records of the Xiao family, there are many records of suppressing the river demon, so Xiao Ruyun was ready to fight when she summoned the river demon, but the mountain god was not. They seldom get angry, and even if a mortal makes the wrong sacrifice, they don't take it seriously, unlike the volatile river demons, the mountain gods are very indifferent to time and the outside world, and the relationship between the immortal officials and the mountain gods is not cordial, but the battle with the mountain gods is ...... It has never happened, at least as far as Xiao Ruyun can see.
On this thorny issue, she thought of another possibility, whether the record of the county government would be wrong?
In each state and county that has been opened up, the first immortal officials must hold sacrifices on the four mountain ranges in the southeast, northwest, and northwest of their territory under the guidance of the true immortals, and they will carefully select sacrifices according to the location and preferences of the mountain gods until the mountain god sacrifice ceremony is completed, and the subsequent immortal officials only need to offer sacrifices as well. In the archives of Shuanghe, Xiao Ruyun should offer black dogs to Beishan, black chickens to Dongshan, white dolphins to Nanshan, and white fish to Xishan, each sacrifice needs to be pure and flawless, without limb mutilation and infection of any diseases, age within three years old, the poems and incantations sung during the sacrifice are all Xiao Ruyun has studied, these things are all recorded in the oldest archives of Shuanghe County when the city was founded, the paper is broken and yellowed, and it looks like a pure antique.
And now that I think about it, this kind of immortal family's classics are actually recorded on such an ordinary paper, which itself shows a bad omen. Xiao Ruyun didn't know whose hands and feet this matter might have passed, but the way everyone on the dock greeted her couldn't be said to be kind and kind.
Their malice is palpable.
If the county town was still full of malicious humans, the people in the countryside on all sides showed faint signs of mixing with wild beasts, and the immortal temples set up in the villages were either deserted or reduced to places for dice rolling and some worse things. The wealthy villagers sent their children to school just to write accounts, ignorant of the most basic immortal laws, and they were more interested in sticks than history, as if they could defeat everything with their fists.
Oh, in the past hundred years, they have indeed been able to defeat everything with their fists, the immortal officials have not arrived, and the Yiren have long avoided the mountains, only in some of the most remote frontline villages there are still legends of scaring children, and others think that Shuanghe has been the homeland of the immortal family since ancient times, and they have forgotten the past of the Jade Belt Country. Year after year of peace, the white-haired old man by the roadside recounted the absurd love of the immortals, fantasizing about a fairy falling from the sky, restoring his youth and strength, and giving him wealth or more. The same old man who thinks he can restrain the fairy is sincerely afraid when facing the lowest-level official, as if he thinks that the little official can be counted in front of the immortal family......
Shuanghe County has been abandoned by the Xianjia family for too long! Xiao Ruyun once thought that what she was going to take over was a barren thin field, and what she needed was more water and fertilizer, but she found that the field was not only barren, but also full of years of thorns, hard as raw soil, and had to be ploughed with fire.
This is probably also the Xiao family's test for her?
She won't throw in the towel!
As soon as she thought of this, she took out a white translucent cloud-shaped sideburns from her ear, and at a glance, it seemed that this sideburns were made of the same grass as the jewelry worn by the poor women at the North Gate, but the grass worn by the women was often made of peach, apricot, willow, chrysanthemum, begonia and other color patterns, and this sideburns were made in the shape of a cloud, which was just attached to her sideburns. Only Xiao Ruyun's eyes could see that its surface was engraved with fine runes, and under the Xiao family's magic seal, a round of golden sun was hidden in the layers of golden cloud patterns.
She aimed at the sideburns in her hand and blew softly.
A thick white mist poured out from all around her in an instant, rolling like a wave, and she lost her trace in the thick fog.
Before she realizes the reason for everything, she will never show her face in front of everyone again - some people may mistakenly think that she is not interested in the politics of Shuanghe County because she has not participated in the governance during this time, which is very wrong, if it is possible, of course she will immediately abandon everything here and return to the Xiao family to cultivate, and knowing that being an immortal official is the last chance given to her by the Xiao family, she will let everything happen in Shuanghe County go unchecked, so why should she come to Shuanghe? With her immortal bones, Qiyun Peak is afraid that she will not be able to find someone to take her in?
Therefore, she will not be dishonored in this trip!
Knowing that there would be no response to the sacrifice again, she casts a spell to hide her appearance, hoping to obtain clues to her evil deeds.
Then, annihilate them in one fell swoop!