Chapter 362: Chapter 255: Lily’s Clever Use (6k)_2
[Whenever someone needs it, Lily can appear in any story, in any historical fragment — "Lily’s Wild History"]
After Zhang Ze’s exhilarating storytelling, Wooden Fish Taoist’s eyes turned green with envy. He didn’t expect that a few words adding up to less than twenty characters could be interpreted in this way, feeling as if he’d lived in vain.
The canon appeared much weightier in his eyes now, and he suddenly had a vague sense of enlightenment, feeling as if every word in the book held hidden mysteries.
He planned to go back and write an annotation titled "New Canon in Canon".
The great double entendre.
After making up his mind, he displayed the ’Immortal Technique’ or rather the ’Miracle’ of the Great Mother Goddess in front of Zhang Ze.
Wooden Fish Taoist took back the Redwood Vine Staff, dipped it into the pool on the altar, and then the pool water turned blood-red. Wooden Fish Taoist reached into the pool, smeared some red liquid on his face.
After preparing himself, he knelt before the furnace.
In the empty furnace, suddenly a flame appeared. In the chanting of Wooden Fish Taoist, the opening of the Mother Goddess statue opened again, and a humanoid mud figure fell out.
The mud figure was placed into the water by Wooden Fish Taoist and then lifted out, turning into a huge stone slab.
The kind that can be broken.
Wooden Fish Taoist carried the stone slab on his head and joyfully left the sacrificial site.
Zhang Ze watched Wooden Fish Taoist’s departing figure for a while, then clapped his hands, signaling the surrounding assistant priests to look at him.
"The Main Priest was enlightened by the Great Mother Goddess today; inspiration flowed to his heart. He needs to retreat for introspection, and the assembly line is not yet complete, but today’s sacrifice cannot stop. Let’s start as we discussed."
The assistant priests exchanged looks but obediently descended from the altar, standing in order on the empty ground below, gripping wooden sticks embedded with black lenses, and began to strike each other...
The Great Mother Goddess’s requirements were vague, so in addition to the traditional rituals of the Mother Goddess’s childbirth and mud figure reincarnation, many other entertainment activities became necessary rituals to please the Great Mother Goddess, as explained by Zhang Ze.
For example.
Blood sacrifice to the Mother Goddess, skull offering...
Zhang Ze sat at the edge of the altar, secretly signaled to the surrounding air, and the invisible Profound Identification Treasure Mirror understood immediately, flying quietly to the poolside, collecting some red liquid.
After waiting a while and seeing nothing happen, it flew to the unextinguished furnace, took a small sphere of fire, and hid it away.
After everything was ready, it flew back to Zhang Ze, found a good position to start recording the Nascent Soul battle below.
Or rather, a brawl among ruffians.
The Nascent Soul Ancestors trapped here, at this moment, were like the visual effects of a low-budget domestic fantasy drama, using primitive combat techniques even cruder than those of Dou Qi horse forming, engaging in passionate brawling.
Picking noses, pulling hair, thunderous hugs leading to crotch-slam dunks, heavy blows to the tailbone.
They all forgot about their cultivation techniques and heritage. Plus, since this place couldn’t be damaged, without special effects and references, Nascent Soul brawling was no different from gang fights in the village.
Soon, the first unlucky one appeared.
He was pinned to the ground by four or five people, then lifted high like a bowling ball being thrown into the wall. Before he could figure out what happened, two large sticks struck at his head.
Skull shattered, but no blood was seen.
The body of the unlucky one cracked like a mud figure, breaking from the head down, turning into a pile of fragments.
The two who made the first strike, as if they hadn’t noticed, continued their brawling.
The brawl continued for a while, and when the tenth unlucky one was knocked down, the group of lunatics finally stopped.
Then, as if nothing had happened, they left the sacrificial site in order, as pre-arranged by Zhang Ze.
Zhang Ze also turned off the Floating Life Technique on the altar, confirming some matters.
That is, none of these people were alive; although they had rich emotions, they were no different from those slaves used as sacrifices.
What was shattered were just mud figures.
So where did the real Wooden Fish Sect cultivators go?
Zhang Ze thought about it for a while but then ignored it, as he still had another matter to confirm.
He took out the Lily’s limited edition assembly line from the Spatial Magical Artifact, made some simple adjustments and modifications, and combined them all.
Ensuring Lily hadn’t left anything else on there.
Like doggerel or drawn stick figures...
Once everything was ready, Zhang Ze personally collected some of the broken mud figures and threw them at the start of the assembly line.
As he activated his Spiritual Qi, the assembly line started moving.
The fully automatic Merit Machine installed at the starting point also emitted Tang’s deliberately modulated voice.
The immortal song senior Tang began chanting the Great Mother Goddess’s benediction.
Skipping the shattering step since they were already fragments, the pieces were thrown into the furnace, then disappeared into thin air. After a long time, five mud figures dropped from the statue’s entrance into the pool.
When they climbed out of the water, they returned to their previous appearances, paid respects to Zhang Ze one by one, and left the sacrificial site as if nothing had happened.
Once they left, Zhang Ze did nothing further until the next day or, rather, the moment the so-called cycle of reincarnation in this place entered a new phase.
The remaining five fragments of mud figures that were not sent into the furnace also disappeared.
No ceremony, yet five mud figures still fell from the Mother Goddess statue’s exit, reverting to their priestly forms. They paid their respects to Zhang Ze and left the sacrificial site.