Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Conferring the Gods

The moonlight on August 15th is the best of the year. The square on the top of Lingjiu Mountain is like mercury splashing on the ground, illuminating the white clothes of every believer to shimmer; the holy lake not far away reflects the moonlight, Bright and crystal clear.All the Lunatic believers prostrated themselves on the ground, countless white clothes were spread beside the temple like a snowfall, and the sound of blessings was as long as the tide. All the elders of the Moon Worship Sect have arrived, knelt in front of the statue, and looked up at the white-clothed priest in front of the god.Yun Xi held the white jade bowl and knelt in front of thousands of lights, waiting for the formal start of the ceremony.

The slender fingers reached into the jade bowl, slightly dipped in a little gold powder, and gently pressed on the woman's nephrite-like cheeks. "It's really beautiful. Why did you send you away fifteen years ago?" The priest in white on the opposite side smiled, and a satisfied expression flashed in his dark green eyes. He raised his hand to support her face.She closed her eyes, and felt the cool fingers pause slightly, and wiped across her left cheek, leaving a pale golden crescent mark. It was a mark that could not be erased until death - the mark of the leader of the Moon Worship Sect.

"Son of the Moon God, Sha Manhua, the new leader!" High Priest Feng Ya took her hand, and shouted to the countless believers outside the temple.The moonlight shot down through the special hole on the roof, and just shone on the crescent moon, emitting a bright golden light-the congregation below boiled, and cheers resounded through the sky. "Where is the mother-in-law?" Amidst the cheers of the crowd, the new leader stood still in surprise, refusing to go out with the high priest to accept the worship of the believers, turned his head and asked in a low voice, "I have already promised, you..."

"If I delay saving her until now, I'm afraid I will have the ability to bring the dead back to life." A smile appeared on the corner of Priest Feng Ya's mouth, and he took her hand and walked out, "Miaoshui is already fine. You can see Here she is." The moonlight poured down the moment they stepped out of the temple side by side, so bright and clear, it dazzled her for a moment.Priest Feng Ya held her back, raised her hand, and pointed to the front—over the tens of thousands of white-clothed congregants, she saw the last familiar and loving face in the crowd.Standing behind the crowd, looking at the reborn woman on the high platform, the expression on the old man's face was sad.

"Let my master go." Through the pure gold veil, Shamanhua stared at the old man in the distance. Feng Ya smiled slightly, and nodded as if he didn't mind: "Okay, just let it go—but don't forget that since I can save her, I can also turn back and take her life. No matter where she goes it's the same." "You... have you cast a spell on your mother-in-law?" Sha Manhua was startled, and suddenly called out, "Did you cast a spell on her?" Her exclamation was suppressed in her throat, and she couldn't spit it out at all.The priest in white suppressed all her movements with just one hand, and she was dragged out of the temple involuntarily, with no way to resist——in the face of such a domineering force that can overlook the world, everyone is like nothing!She struggled desperately, but with her little spiritual power, how could she compete with the High Priest?

When the believers outside saw the new leader and the priest stepping out of the temple side by side and came under the moon, they cheered again. "Let me go! Let me go!" She wanted to yell but couldn't make a sound, and the person next to her still just smiled indifferently as if nothing had happened—she resisted with all her strength time and time again, but the pressure of suppression increased every time.Seeming to be a little struggling, the high priest's face became serious, no longer smiling. The ceremony proceeded in an orderly manner and came to a perfect conclusion.After everything was over, the high priest and the new leader walked down the altar slowly, walked through the shrine full of manjusawa, and walked towards the white stone masonry room.All the believers prostrated themselves on the ground to watch them off.

Sha Manhua was pulled involuntarily and did everything like a puppet.When the ceremony was completed, the moon had already set in the west, and they passed by the manjushahua bushes side by side.Priest Feng Ya let go of the hand that had been pressing on her wrist, and Sha Manhua was free. At that moment, anger and unwillingness erupted from his heart like a volcano. She felt her strength regained all over her body, she took two steps back with her hand, glared at the man fiercely, and blurted out: "No wonder Yi Xiang wanted to kill you! Anyone like you would hate you to death!" Under the moonlit night, the white clothes were calm and automatic, and the high priest Feng Ya's eyes slowly gathered, and fell on the new leader who was dressed in beautiful clothes. The smile on the corner of his mouth was as stiff as a knife: "Oh? You want to kill me too? Learn from Yi Xiang." It's so fast... It's only been a day since you became the sect leader, let's wait until your wings grow stronger. Before that, you'd better behave yourself."

He slowly clenched his hands, then slowly loosened them, and walked away along the flower path. Sha Manhua stood under the blooming red flowers, watching Priest Feng Ya go away—but at that moment, she saw the white dress fall silently into the flowers. "Priest? High Priest Feng Ya?" Sha Manhua was taken aback and asked cautiously, but the man didn't answer. How did that happen?Ever since I was a child, I have never seen such a situation with the priest in my memory. —what happened to him? It wasn't until the moon rose on the second night that she heard the answer—"You think Yixiang tried her best, but she didn't hurt me at all? Thanks to her, I can't use my spirit for at least three months." force."

In the empty and tidy white stone room, the dark green eyes opened, and the red gemstone on the forehead reflected the moonlight outside, which seemed to cast a layer of blood on the pale face.High Priest Feng Ya stood up, took a deep breath, turned to look at the moonlight outside the window, and said, "Why don't you kill me? Like that Yi Xiang? Kill me, and you can be with your mother-in-law." Leave the Moon Worship Sect and go to the place you want to go. Or, you can also be the supreme Moon Worship Sect Master and truly dominate the southern border." Sha Manhua did not answer.After a long time, twisting her hair with her fingers, she replied in a low voice: "Master Priest, after all, you have the grace of nurturing me."

"Oh?" Feng Ya raised his long eyebrows, smiled suddenly, and his face suddenly became gentle, "It's rare that you still remember the kindness of your childhood upbringing—many people have long forgotten it. But fortunately, you didn't have any evil intentions. Otherwise, he would have been dead on the spot right now." As if remembering something, he stretched out his hand to compare: "When you and Yi Xiang were selected into the Moon Palace together, you were only that small." A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth again, and the expression of the priest in white changed at that moment. The score is extremely gentle: "It's really cute...People are the cutest when they are young when they don't understand anything-once they grow up, demons will be born."

"Yi Xiang has always admired the priest!" Suddenly feeling annoyed, Sha Manhua, who had been timid in front of Priest Feng Ya, raised his head and blurted out, "You must treat her like a child and manipulate her everywhere! No one can bear this, so of course Yi Xiang hates you to death." After a pause, she lowered her head again: "But...it's wrong for her to kill you for this." Priest Feng Ya didn't answer, but just looked sideways at her. "The one who still looks like a child should be you? Sha Manhua." He suddenly smiled, "You don't know anything, so you come to blame me?" As if returning to the time when the two goddesses were raised more than ten years ago, the priest sat down in front of her and explained one by one with great patience: "Yixiang is very ambitious, you know? She not only wants to overthrow me and control the Moon Worship Sect , and even wanted to meddle in the competition in the Central Plains! ——I broke off diplomatic relations with the Mingjiao, just to prevent the Mingjiao from being involved in the vortex, so that the people of the Mingjiao could live in peace in southern Xinjiang. But Yixiang felt that it was not enough... She even sent envoys privately, I want to show my friendship to Ding Jianhou, the current overlord in the Central Plains, and I want to support Ding Jianhou in his plot to seize Dayin first, and then join him in the southern expedition to Miaojiang!" "Really?" Shamanhua blurted out in surprise. "But Ding Jianhou didn't respond to her request for some reason, so Yi Xiang couldn't wait. She did it herself first," Priest Feng Ya closed his eyes slightly, and let out a sigh of relief, "She united with the teaching center A few elders want to take advantage of the night of the lunar eclipse to summon all the poisonous insects in southern Xinjiang to refine the Gu King, and kill me in one fell swoop—then...then... use the secret method taught to eat my body, so that they can inherit all my powers !" "What!" Shamanhua exclaimed, "She wants to eat you? How is that possible! Is she crazy?" "Only you still remember the grace of nurturing. Many people have already forgotten." Priest Feng Ya smiled, and the moonlight shone on his face that was still young and handsome as before, with a jade-like cold light, "In the long In their eyes, I'm nothing more than a frightening but helpless monster. They always think that I don't give them enough and get in their way." "Master Priest..." Sha Manhua was stunned, and looked up at High Priest Feng Ya—this extremely powerful and overriding person in his childhood memory, unexpectedly spit out such words from his mouth. "How many children have I brought up? I don't remember for a long time, and I was just looking for something to do—I don't expect you to be really grateful." Priest Feng Ya looked up at the moonlight outside, and suddenly smiled, "Back then I really shouldn't send you away. Why did I always think you were stupid and indecisive? Or, the old man Ming taught Horn to be better than me, so he taught you to be such a good boy?" "The leader doesn't care about me—he only believes in Susan and Menia." Sha Manhua curled her lips. Obviously, the years in the Daguang Palace were not pleasant for her, and soon she changed the topic and begged , "Only my mother-in-law is good to me. Priest, you detoxify my mother-in-law's poison and let her go! I have promised you to stay here as the leader of the sect. I will keep my word and never regret it." "Such loyalty? - You really have grown up." Priest Feng Ya smiled, turned around and put his hands on her shoulders, staring carefully at the girl who had timidly held her skirt by the moonlight , couldn't help but nodded slightly, and suddenly smiled, "Who said I used Gu on her? Priests of the Moon Worship Sect don't practice Gu, have you forgotten?" "Yes!" Sha Manhua jumped up suddenly, suddenly realized, "You were scaring me just now, weren't you?" "It's just you scaring yourself." Feng Ya shook his head and stopped talking to her, "I believe that my good boy Sha Manhua keeps his word - tomorrow you can go to see that Miao Shui, you have to leave If you want to stay, it’s up to you to decide.” On August 15th, the moon is full in southern Xinjiang, shining on the dusty travelers. The snakes were still rushing towards one direction one after another, black torrents squirmed in the surrounding fields, withered vegetation and stench everywhere they went.However, above the ten thousand kinds of poisonous insects, there is a white clothed treetop branches and leaves, chasing the poisonous stream like the wind, rushing towards the direction of the moonrise. He has chased these horrible poisonous insects across mountains and rivers.The white clothes are already in tatters, and the person who was originally as handsome as a jade tree is also covered with wind and dust—however, this person who followed the poisonous current to chase the moon in the world has no intention of stopping. During the ups and downs along the way, the slightly weaker poisonous insects have already died, and the leading poisonous insects have been fighting and biting each other, and they have already changed several times—so, is this how the Moon Worship Sect recruits and selects poisonous insects? ?What happened in the Moon Palace? He ran without direction.I just feel that the mountains are getting higher and higher, and the vegetation is getting denser. However, something jumped out of the dense green and exploded into his eyes—the whole body of the rushing person was shocked and stopped, turning his head to look at the flame-like flowers growing under the shrubs in the shade of the mountain.Those wild flowers bloom in the shade of the mountain, in clusters, like red flames dancing all over the mountain—exactly the same as the ones she described to him when she was in Kunlun Mountains in the past. Manzhushahua?Manzhushahua!Is this manjusawa all over the mountains and plains? Those are her flowers, blooming in her native land.And it was the first time for him, who grew up in the Western Regions, to see it. "Shu Ye! Shu Ye!" In the fiery redness, it seemed as if he saw the girl in white with a silver bow running towards him through the flowers all over the mountains, calling his name—at that moment, tears blurred out of his eyes. How many years have passed?ten years?fifteen years?Time and fate have separated them for too long, and he can't even remember the face of the teenage girl back then, and he doesn't know how she has changed today—as if he has struggled and mediated in conspiracy all these years. Both Mo Xiang and Mo Xiang have undergone a great transformation.However, the only thing that remained was the persistent obsession in his heart—he had to let go of everything to pursue that dream, otherwise, he really didn't know how to spend the rest of his life. In the ups and downs of the past thirty years, he has already tasted all the tastes of the world's heyday; he has also experienced hellish sufferings. Up to now, sensuality has no taste, and power and money are like dung—— The turbulent world is like a hammer, smashing everything into pieces; if you don't hold on, what is your existence?