It wasn't until the high priest had finally finished meditating and walked over that the three high elders had put an end to their discussions about the life-long events of their children. In the middle, although she was repeatedly mentioned and praised, Ji Honglian was not embarrassed and blushing like an ordinary girl, she seemed to be used to this kind of thing for a long time, she didn't have any reaction from beginning to end, and her expression was extremely calm.

After the high priest sat down, he looked at the three great elders, and suddenly sighed, "When was the last time we met, why do you think that you guys seem to be a little old again." ”

Ji Hou smiled and said, "It was the Great Sacrifice of the Divine Sect two years ago, have you forgotten?"

The high priest let out an "oh", looked a little emotional, and said, "It's been two years in the blink of an eye, time flies so fast." ”

Long Quan, who was sitting next to Ji Hou, said with a smile: "The main reason is that you are mostly meditating on weekdays, otherwise you are serving the gods and ignoring us laymen." But looking at your complexion, it hasn't changed much from before, and you must be very healthy, maybe better than a few of us. ”

As he spoke, he laughed, and Ji Hou and Xiahou Yuan next to him also smiled and nodded.

The High Priest glanced at them lightly, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, only Ji Honglian, who was sitting on the side, frowned slightly, and looked at the High Priest with some concern.

The high priest waited for a while, and then said to the three elders sitting in front of him, "The three of you are very busy people, and there are many things in the world, so I will just talk about the matter." The three of you are summoned here today for one thing. ”

Hearing the high priest say this, Ji Hou and the other three all put away their smiles and said solemnly: "Please speak." ”

The high priest said: "Since ancient times, the power of secular affairs inside and outside the holy city has been vested in the Presbyterian Church, and the Divine Religion has not interfered at all, and the Inner Ring Land has built the Heavenly Divine Road, and the presiding officer has been attributed to the Divine Religion, and because there are too many involved, I have entrusted you to help build it, right?"

Ji Hou and the other three glanced at each other, and said, "That's right." I don't know what the high priest thinks about this, but it doesn't hurt. ”

"The construction speed of the Heavenly Divine Road is too slow!" the high priest said bluntly to the three of them, "In the past few decades, we have only built a few dozen miles of land, and if we continue to build like this, what year and month will it be able to reach the foot of the sacred mountain? When will we be able to climb the sacred mountain and find the secret that the saint said?"

The three elders looked at each other.

After a while, Elder Longquan coughed and said in a low voice: "High Priest is temporarily angry, this matter is really for a reason, and there are two most important reasons: first, it has become more difficult to find and excavate blue jade stones from the eighteen divine rivers in the outside world, and the output has decreased; ”

The High Priest's expression was indifferent, and he didn't seem to be relieved by Elder Longquan's explanation, but just said lightly: "I know all these things, but even so, I can't let the progress of the Heavenly Divine Path come to a standstill." ”

Ji Hou smiled bitterly and said: "We understand your feelings, but this matter really frightened many people below, there were not enough people, and now there are still many people who want to leave, people are panicked, and they need to be appeased, I beg you to give us a little more time to solve it." ”

A dark and deep light passed through the high priest's eyes, and after a moment, he was heard to say in a deep voice, "I have called you here for this purpose. ”

The three elders were taken aback, and were puzzled, when they saw the high priest slowly get up, raise his hands, and bow to the heavens three times, and then Zhengse said to them: "I was sitting and praying while serving the gods a few days ago, and suddenly a miracle came from heaven, and the sound of heaven echoed in my ears, and I only said one thing. ”

Ji Hou and the others suddenly changed their faces and stood up together, and everyone showed a look of awe. You know, I don't know how many years, there has never been a miracle, I can't imagine that today to learn this news, it is really unexpected.

Ji Hou was careful, and in the ecstasy, the corner of his eyes did not forget to sweep over his daughter Ji Honglian, who was sitting on the side, but suddenly he was stunned, only to see that his daughter was full of surprise, and seemed to look at the high priest with an unbelievable look, as if she was also shocked and shocked by the news of this miracle.

Ji Hou's heart moved slightly, but then he withdrew his gaze, and like the other two people next to him, he made a big bow to the high priest with a respectful face, and then said in unison: "Congratulations to the high priest." ”

The high priest waved his hand, his face was indifferent, and he seemed not to care at all about receiving the compliments of these three worldly supreme powers, but said: "I have been inspired by the gods to convey to you that there are two main wills of the gods: first, the construction of the road to heaven must be accelerated without delay. ”

"Yes!" Ji Hou and the other three agreed in unison.

"Second," the High Priest said as he took a deep breath and stared at the three elders tightly, "the gods have made it clear that although we Terrans are short of manpower now, when we build the Heavenly Path, we can drive the Desolate Race into the Inner Ring to work and do things!"

"What?" Ji Hou and the other three elders were all taken aback again, and they seemed to be greatly unexpected, and they were all speechless for a while.

After a while, Xiahou Yuan seemed to be the first to react, and hurriedly said to the high priest: "High priest, but in the past few hundred years, there has never been a desolate tribe who will enter the inner ring land, no matter which desolate tribe on the Great Wasteland, they have always been in awe of the Divine Mountain, and they dare not approach there at all. ”

The high priest's face was cold, and he just said coldly: "I also knew about this matter, but the oracle is here, and I just told it truthfully." ”

"This ......" Ji Hou and the other three looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a while.

After a while, Ji Hou tried to persuade the high priest in more tactful words: "That's the case, high priest, thanks to the blessings of the heavenly gods and the saints of our race, now that our human race is prosperous, most of the surrounding desolate tribes have surrendered to us, but in the final analysis, they are just paying tribute to buy peace, and we can't really send troops to exterminate them one by one." After all, the Desolate Race is strong, and the number of people is ten times that of us, so if we really have to fight to the death, it is our human race that suffers. ”

Next to him, Long Quan said: "What Elder Ji said is extremely true, High Priest, if you follow the road construction method you mentioned before, a little bit of Desolate Clan people is not even enough, and a large number of people or even maybe thousands of Desolate Clan people must all enter the Inner Ring Land to build roads, so that it is possible to build to the foot of the Divine Mountain in a few years, and this is still under the condition that there are no accidents in the middle." ”

"But where did so many desolate tribesmen come from?" Xiahou Yuan next to him smiled bitterly and said, "The big tribe may have close to a thousand people, and the smaller tribe will have dozens or hundreds of people. If you really want to find so many desolate people to work in the inner ring, I'm afraid that the desolate tribes in the Great Wasteland will be blown up. ”

"It's too hard, High Priest. These were the three elders who were in charge of the worldly power in the Holy City, and it was rare for them to speak to the high priest in unison.

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The high priest looked at them with a twinkling gaze and a gloomy expression.

After a while, I only heard him say lightly: "This is an oracle, it doesn't matter if you want it or not, it doesn't matter if it's difficult or not, you have to do it." ”

He stood up, waved his robe, and turned to walk, and at the same time heard his voice float over, like a nail driven into the bluestone of the temple, word by word, without any flexibility, as if it were cut to the ground: "Go find a thousand desolate people, and drive them into the inner ring, whether they live or die." ”

"Go build roads!"