Volume 8: Future · Gap 4 · Competitive Games Chapter 121: The Gun in Act 1
Just as Gourd Taoist and others collected the magic weapons and were preparing to leave the cave.
On the other side, on the hillside of Chengtian Mountain, there was a large palace with a large number of temple priests arranged in formation, with golden light shining on them.
As the shaking subsided, many temple officials breathed a sigh of relief.
As the day of sacrifice approaches, the blood cocoon that seals the source of annihilation has reached a certain limit, so the source of annihilation will continue to impact the entire Sky-Supporting Mountain.
Before, the blood cocoon would pulsate from time to time. The mountain that supports the sky is of utmost importance. Once the mountain collapses due to the impact of this pulsation, the world will fall into a disaster of destruction.
They performed sacrifices on the one hand to cooperate with the mountain god to suppress this pulse, and on the other hand to obtain the mountain god's gifts in the process.
The pulsation had clearly stopped before, but suddenly another wave of pulsation came, catching them off guard.
But fortunately, they still suppressed it.
After people become temple priests, they will be exposed to this kind of knowledge.
And in these palaces, there are special murals describing these contents.
Of course, there are also many beautified places, the purpose of which is to strengthen the ruling status of the temple priests.
All I can say is that the temple keepers were, in the beginning, indeed a group of good people who followed the mountain god and aimed to save the world.
But it has been too long.
The sinking of the sky caused the world to lack natural power. Although the gods in the mountains transformed into Tianshan Mountain and made up for it to a certain extent, disasters still continued in various parts of the world.
This makes many people unable to survive, and to those who cannot survive, you cannot explain the greatness of the mountain god to them.
Just like a person who has been hungry for a long time, if he suddenly gets food, he will just eat himself to death.
The same is true for the disaster-stricken people. When they can no longer survive, they can only choose to start a riot and forcibly take the nutrients they need to survive from those who can still survive.
It was from that time that temple keepers changed from being clergymen serving mountain gods to an upper class with lofty status and great powers who managed various places.
Various means used to stabilize the world have, over time, become tactics to consolidate their ruling position.
Especially in recent years, the communication between mountain gods and temple priests has become less and less.
Regarding theocracy, there is a sense that it has evolved from "I annotate the Six Classics" to "The Six Classics annotate me".
Almost all the people from aristocratic families mingled among this group of temple priests.
Thanks to the special status of temple keeper, although they also have to be busy with sacrificial ceremonies, it is easy for them to get the secrets of this world.
When several leaders of the aristocratic families got together, they analyzed the intelligence clearly in a few seconds.
“Hahaha, didn’t those people always use the greater good to pressure us in the past?” A fat man in temple robes, his round face full of smiles at the moment, said, “They said we only cared about our own petty gains and ignored the greater good of humanity.”
"Now we can also use this to disgust them. If they don't want the world to be destroyed, they will have to choose to bow their heads and admit defeat."
"They value justice, right? Now justice is in our hands!"
"That's right!" Next to the fat man was a middle-aged man with a goatee. He stroked his beard and smiled: "It seems that this Tomb of Blood and Tears really cares more about bloodline."
"The ancestors buried here have all sensed our blood, so we have such a great advantage in this competition."
"Don't be too careless." Liudao Huantian was not blinded by this advantage.
As soon as they arrived, they mastered the power bestowed on the temple keeper by the mountain god, and at the same time were able to obtain a lot of intelligence in the identity of temple keeper.
Although their movements were restricted due to the sacrifice, they were still able to make many arrangements.
This is indeed an advantage, but along with this advantage there are also many challenges.
"Simply ensuring the smooth progress of the sacrificial ceremony will probably not be enough to achieve complete victory." Six rings appeared around Liudao Huantian and kept rotating around him.
After mastering the power bestowed by the mountain god, he quickly created his own weapons.
In some places, he and Lu Bai share the same ideas, that is, combining skills and weapons.
Created a special ability that is both a skill and a weapon.
The six rings were spinning rapidly, and the gazes of the Six Paths Ringing the Sky became deeper.
"According to the current intelligence, the situation of the mountain god is constantly deteriorating."
Hundreds of years ago, the pulsation coming from the blood cocoon was not as high in frequency, and its intensity was not as great as it is now.
At that time, it was far from being necessary to summon most of the temple priests to complete the suppression as it is now.
From this we can know that either the source of annihilation is gradually getting stronger, or the mountain god who suppresses everything is getting weaker.
"If this trial is a story, then the story must not have a dull ending."
"There has to be some kind of challenge that hasn't been there before, so that it fits the story."
After all, in a play, if there is a description of a gun in the first act, then the gun will definitely go off in the third act.
Otherwise, this kind of deliberate description is actually unnecessary.
From the moment one enters this illusion and begins the trial, the world-destroying disaster becomes an extremely important factor.
If they had simply overpowered the punitive force and then sacrificed the one hundred sacrifices normally, everything would have been accomplished.
Then the world-destroying disaster does not actually need to exist.
There is no need to use this as the background for the entire trial.
"So there is a high chance that even if we complete the sacrifice normally, the sealed source of annihilation will still erupt."
"So in addition to facing the rising human forces mixed in with the expedition team, we also need to face the hidden dangers that may erupt."
"We cannot rely on those one hundred sacrifices for everything. We need other methods to deal with this so-called source of annihilation."
It has to be said that Liudao Huantian is worthy of being the elite heir trained by a noble family.
His ability is indeed strong enough.
In addition, the aristocratic families also possess many secret skills and intelligence, which will become their foundation.
When they are needed, they will inevitably have advantages that others can hardly imagine.
Therefore, as long as people from aristocratic families have certain abilities, it is relatively easy for them to achieve success.
Take Lu Bai for example. The reason why he can be so successful now is because he relied on the Ring of Life and Death to gain a lot of advanced knowledge from the underworld.
This kind of cognition allows him to obtain information that others are not aware of in some matters first, and then use this information gap to achieve success.
For example, Louis’ previous performance in real life.
However, aristocratic families do have this advantage, but this advantage can sometimes also be a trap.
They saw some silver bugs spreading in places they couldn't see.
