Soul-Slaying Girl: All the contracts I contracted are ancient divine weapons.

Chapter 887: The Caravan from Afar

Only a few of Jiang Ziya's disciples in the ancestral temple knew that he had left Xiqi.

Now that Chang Hao and Jiang Ziya are gone, the task of arranging the sacrificial ceremony to the gods falls on Han Zhan.

Fortunately, before leaving, Master Jiang Ziya explained the techniques, content and precautions of the sacrificial ceremony to Han Zhan.

With Han Zhan's comprehension, it is not a difficult task.

One month passed quickly.

During this period, Han Zhan successfully held a ceremony to worship the gods.

As he had expected,
The sacrifice to the gods, which had been transformed by his own art of creation, won the favor of the Sun God, who sent down a second silver starstone statue.

Today, Xiqi already has two Starlight Stone statues, which also means that two-tenths of Xiqi's territory has returned to normal.

Such results once again enabled the Korean War to gain a large amount of public faith and will.

After absorbing them again like a whale and feeding them back into his own path, Han Zhan's cultivation improved a lot.

Although he cannot be compared with senior brother Shen Luo, he has at least surpassed Chang Hao and even reached the same level as third senior sister Bai Shang.

It is no wonder that Chang Hao would take such an unconventional approach and choose a path of no return.

The huge difference in the energy in one's destiny makes the practice of the Great Dao an extremely unfair thing.

Sometimes, even though everyone spends the same amount of time and energy, the rewards they get are very different.

As long as one is a normal person, he or she may have an unbalanced mentality.

But this is the path of practice.

The Tao is not fair and does not treat everyone equally. Some people are the children of the Tao and can gain the favor of the Tao.

Han Zhan's destiny is blessed by the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and other saints, and the competition among the great powers is as easy as sailing with the current, which is really awe-inspiring.

People are more mad than people.

At least that’s what the other brothers and sisters in the ancestral temple thought.

Needless to say, the eldest brother Shen Luo.

He has changed from spending half a day at the Sword-Forging Cliff to spending the whole day bashing against the cliff wall.

I feel that in a few years, Xiqi’s underground world will be even more vast than its surface territory.

Even the second brother Lu Tao, who has always been lazy and Buddhist, has begun to become diligent.

In his own words, in order to not appear to have spent his decades of practice in vain, he could not be overtaken so easily by his fifth junior brother Ji Fa.

Third Senior Sister Bai Shang has given up resisting and chooses to lie down.

After all, she was the one who had been surpassed.

Compared with Han Zhan, all her decades of practice have indeed resulted in nothing but failure.

Especially when Bai Shang found Han Zhan and discovered that he was playing with several children.

"Third Sister? Do you want to come and play with us?"

Han Zhan saw Bai Shang and invited her with a smile.

The game he and Tong Yi, Tong Er, and Xiao Hua were playing was called Cockfighting, a game he often played when he was a child.

"Jifa, you are too idle."

Bai Shang said in a serious tone.

"The master asked you to take charge of Xiqi's affairs, but you are here playing with children."

"But, have I already resolved all the affairs in Xiqi?"

"Then you should practice more, you shouldn't..."

Bai Shang couldn't continue talking here. She seemed to have thought of something and looked like she had lost all hope in life.

Han Zhan looked at Third Senior Sister Bai Shang innocently. She was talking fine, so why did he get upset first? Let's get back to the point.

Bai Shang calmed down and spoke again:

"I came to you for a serious matter."

"Business, what business?"

"The Quanrong caravan will soon arrive in Xiqi, and we need to arrange to receive them."

The Quanrong caravan?
Han Zhan raised his eyebrows but didn't speak immediately.

"In the past, Chang Hao was in charge of this part of the work. His Lishi puppets did the hard work and were very efficient."

Bai Shang continued to explain to Han Zhan.

"Besides, Master is not here now, so it's best not to let the Quanrong think that Xiqi is deserted."

Master Jiang Ziya is not here and senior brother Shen Luo does not show up, so there is no one in Xiqi, right?

No wonder Bai Shang came to find me... Han Zhan nodded and asked curiously:
"Isn't our relationship with the Quanrong bad? Why do you still attach so much importance to them?"

"It is true that because the Quanrong tribe is adjacent to Xiqi, the Quanrong tribe often harasses the border of Xiqi. However, this does not affect the normal trade exchanges on the surface."

Indeed, unless it is a wartime state of devastation, normal trade will still take place occasionally.

"The Quanrong were punished by the [Fire God] and are constantly fighting lava monsters. In such an environment, it is impossible to farm."

"The flesh and blood of the lava beast's corpse contains extremely high temperatures, and ordinary Quanrong people cannot consume it."

"In the past, under the arrangement of the ancestral temple, Xiqi had surplus food every month, which was used to trade with the Quanrong and sold at a good price," Bai Shang explained.

Looking back, when Xiqi was still a granary, the people of Xiqi could only eat charcoal blocks every day, and could only have a good meal when there was a human sacrifice.

But they traded the food to the Quanrong. Was this practice of the ancestral temple inappropriate?
It seemed that he guessed Han Zhan's thoughts, or maybe he heard it through telepathy.

Bai Shang did not wait for Han Zhan to speak, and took the initiative to explain:
"You should know the function of the starlight stone, but in fact, the 'granary' that was originally built, as well as the puppet that can walk under the watchful eyes of the [Sun God], both use another material."

"That is the molten stone that is unique to the Quanrong. As the material at the core of the lava monster, molten stone can withstand higher temperatures and has the property of absorbing heat."

Starstone + Molten Stone, a seemingly simple building structure, but in fact, there are many tricks hidden in it.

After listening to Bai Shang's words, Han Zhan nodded in understanding.

"In that case, I will entertain them."

……

It is a suburb dozens of miles away from Xiqi.

A team of only a dozen people appeared at the end.

The leader was a giant with a burly figure.

His skin was a red color, as if it had been burned by fire.

Exaggerated muscles wrapped around his entire body, and when he walked, every step made the ground tremble slightly.

Behind him were a dozen or so followers of similar size. They walked across the screen and, from a distance, looked like a group of moving flaming mountains.

"Xiqi is just ahead."

"It's an unfortunate time to come now. It seems to be 'daytime' in Xiqi."

"Come on, Rong Lie, it was you who wanted to test the power of [Sun God] last time, but ended up roasting yourself into a human-shaped torch that was almost impossible to extinguish. Have you forgotten everything?"

Facing the complaints from his subordinates, Rong Lie grinned but did not get annoyed.

“No one came to greet us.”

"Xiqi, is this drifting?"

(End of this chapter)