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Chapter 55 [True·Playing tricks]

"Now we offer cattle, goats, and other animals, abundant offerings of clean food, young boys and girls, dressed in brocade and wearing flowers, and gold, pearls, jade, and silk to fill the courtyard and rooms.

May the gods take note of this, calm the waves, allow the fields to be cultivated again, and eliminate the plague.

If the gods are still not satisfied, then the elderly, the weak, women and children will be allowed to be chosen by the gods, and all the food in the granaries and government treasuries will be offered to the gods.

I only hope that the divine power will forever calm this water, and the divine grace will be great to benefit all living beings.

I’m here to tell you.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the disciples of the temple opened the fence and drove the screaming pigs, cows, sheep and other animals into the river.

The boys and girls on the platform were also dragged by the temple people and forced onto the raft.

Seeing that the sacrifice was about to begin, the cries of the people that had stopped before immediately rang out again. A few families even wanted to rush out to get their children back, but they were beaten by the surrounding troops.

After all, the families whose children were sacrificed were a minority. Most of them just spent money, and even if they had to eat coarse food in the future, they could still barely make ends meet. They would not and dared not do it.

Therefore, those weak resistances were quickly suppressed.

The boys and girls were eventually tied onto a raft and floated downstream in the cold wind and rain.

Dark clouds cover the sky!

It's stormy and dark!

The crying is so sad!

Just as the loose ropes binding the raft were about to be washed away by the surging river, a hole suddenly appeared in the dark sky above Pingxiang County.

A golden beam of light shone down from the clouds, covering the yellow and turbid river surface.

"Evil creature, you took advantage of me playing chess with the Immortal of the South Pole to secretly escape to the lower realm and stir up trouble. Do you know your crime?"

This scene stunned the crowd along the Fuyang River.

Whether it was the nobles on the high platform or the timid people below, at this moment they all looked up at the clouds.

Then he saw in the eye socket a huge figure surrounded by auspicious clouds, covered in golden light, with an immortal look and an angry face, sitting quietly on the cloud.

Seen from the ground, this person seemed to occupy the entire world.

In an instant, the people became noisy like a pot of boiling water.

"Mom, look, there are fairies in the sky. We have seen gods!"

"Is this an immortal? Could it be the river god appearing in the world?"

"Didn't you just hear what the immortal said? He's here to take away the evil beasts. How could he be a river god?"

"If living in heaven doesn't make you an immortal, then who is?"

……

Only the nobles on the high platform looked at each other in bewilderment.

The so-called sacrifice to the Fuyang River God is nothing more than a trick for them to make money. What is going on with this scene before our eyes?

Before the astonished dignitaries could react, the immortal in the clouds threw out a flower basket and shouted like thunder.

"Evil beast, you have been stealing the throne of the Fuyang River God for many years. I wonder how much disaster you have caused in the human world? Why don't you return quickly!"

The flower basket continued to grow larger as it fell, and when it approached the ground, it had turned into a behemoth about six or seven feet in size.

Boom!

As the flower basket fell into the water, huge waves immediately arose on the Fuyang River, and a more turbid undercurrent began to surge beneath the waves, as if a fierce battle was taking place.

After a while, when the flower basket broke through the water.

Through the thick gaps in the bamboo basket, the people clearly saw a strange dragon with two dragon claws struggling in it.

"The immortal took the river god away."

Someone shouted loudly, but the people along the river immediately knelt down in large numbers.

"He's an immortal. He must be a true immortal to be able to subdue an evil god like the River God."

"My son is still on the river, my son is still on the river, please bring him back." "Please, my son, please don't let the Fuyang River flood again, we can't live like this anymore."

For a while, the sounds of crying and praying were endless.

The immortal in the clouds took back the flower basket. After hearing the sound, a trace of compassion flashed across his face, and he stretched out his hand and pointed downwards.

Wherever his fingertip pointed, the rafts floating in the river that were about to fall apart immediately blossomed and grew leaves, and a dense root system grew underneath, winding for a distance of seven or eight feet and deeply embedded in the riverbed.

At the same time, vines grew above the raft, connecting and weaving together, and finally forming a long vine bridge that grew to the shore.

As soon as the bridge was completed, people rushed onto it frantically to look for their children.

As for the powerful troops guarding the periphery, they were so shocked by the scene before them that they were at a loss and no one tried to stop it.

"A day in heaven is a year on earth.

I just wanted to play chess with a friend for half a day, but I allowed this beast to cause trouble in the world for nearly a year. I feel so ashamed.

To compensate the people of Pingxiang County, I have specially passed down the three volumes of "Taiping Yaoshu" to educate the people and spread the way of peace.

Having said this, the immortal suddenly looked up and gazed towards the east.

"I see a Zhang Family Fort a hundred miles to the east. The fort's leader possesses both the talent and the innate nature to become an immortal. He also has the luck to become one.

You should pass on my "Taiping Essential Techniques" to educate the people, benefit the world, and repay the karma for your master."

As the immortal sound fell, a golden light immediately flew out from the immortal's sleeve, flew towards the east and disappeared.

The next moment, the skylight dissipated and the fairy figure disappeared.

The sky over Pingxiang County was still covered with dark clouds, and the Fuyang River was still rolling with turbid waves, as if nothing had happened.

But the people here know that everything is different now.

After finishing a big drama directed and acted by himself, Chen Sheng, who was hiding at the bottom of Fuyang River, opened his tired eyes, showed a sneer, and swam towards his homeward way.

[Illusion]: A technique that deceives people's five senses. Beginners can only create auditory hallucinations in other people's ears, while beginners can go further and create illusions in other people's eyes.

When one practices to a high level, one can also add phantom smell, phantom taste, and phantom touch to the illusion play in turn to captivate the five senses, making it difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

When used on multiple targets, it can even create large-scale group illusions.

……

The sacrifice during the day could not continue after all.

After the immortal disappeared, the county magistrate ordered the boys and girls to return home. After saying a few polite words, he took the patriarchs of the three powerful families back to the county.

"Do you think what happened today is true?"

The county magistrate sat in the main seat, his expression showing no emotion.

The one sitting at the bottom was the head of the Huang family, and he was the first to speak.

"Of course it's fake. When the immortal descended, the Fuyang River was turbid and the waves surged onto the shore. But after the immortal left, I found that the shore three feet away from the water was dry.

The villagers are ignorant and believe in ghosts and gods. We must not follow the crowd.

What happened during the day might have fooled us into believing some special martial arts skill."

"How do we explain the vines growing on the raft? We've touched those plants, and they're real.

Is it also a special martial art?"

“That’s really possible.

Two months ago, when I went to Zhangjiabao to buy some strengthening pills, I saw with my own eyes a peach tree growing lush and green in the cold winter.

Zhang Shou might have mastered a martial art that allows him to nurture plants."

The people in the hall were talking about it and soon guessed most of Chen Sheng's methods.

In this world where warriors in the Qi Transformation Realm can mow down enemies without rival, the talk of immortals can only be used to fool ordinary people.

Anyone who has achieved something in martial arts would not believe this...

(End of this chapter)