Chapter 117: Summoning

Unfortunately, the master did not explain what the stone was. We had already seen an unusually “horrible” scene unfold before our eyes.

It was the green-robed cultivators who were being ‘extracted’ at a speed visible to the naked eye. The difference was that these green-robed cultivators did not have the slightest bit of panic on their faces, but instead, a kind of fanaticism that only believers would have.

I thought of the children who were deliberately cultivated in the holy village or town…

“Extract the fortune, longevity, happiness, and luck that they can absorb… and even their soul power… and then the rest is merged into the river of fate above. With the power of the array, it is then given as a gift to believers who do things for them. This god really ignores any life.” Master commented on the god’s actions like this.

The rune? Wasn’t the rune destroyed? I just added an extra rune and destroyed it myself.

I was a little overwhelmed and asked, “Master, don’t you want to stop it?”

After all, this scene is cruel in my eyes. People whose luck has been taken away have an indescribable feeling of weakness, and they look even more haggard than someone who is seriously ill. Not only that, but this god doesn’t waste anything at all. He will also take away these people’s life force, causing them to age at a rate visible to the naked eye… In the end, at a certain point, the entire soul will be taken away… What he can’t use will be absorbed into the river of fate in the sky.

In the end, when the remaining body falls, only a little bit of the soul remains in the body, along with some remaining soul power.

This feeling is even crueler than being swallowed alive, because even if you are swallowed by a beast, at most, you will lose your physical body in this life, but this god’s method is to squeeze out everything from a person’s past lives.

As for why there is a little residue left at the end, I don’t understand what the god meant by this.

So, as I watched these people in green robes, who were originally my enemies, fall one by one, I could only ask my master subconsciously, “Shouldn’t we stop them?”

“Chengyi, what is the most terrifying power in the world? It is to make a person lose the ability to think, leaving only fanaticism! Do you think such a being is still human? If it can be reversed, there is still room for rescue. If it cannot, it will be an extremely terrible scourge. Have you noticed their expressions? Chengyi,” Master’s answer was decisive and resolute.

I naturally noticed the expressions on these people’s faces. When they were being oppressed like this, they all had a willing, inexplicably excited and fanatical expression. In fact, this expression is the most sigh-worthy part… Looking at it gives me a feeling of coldness in my heart.

But… I couldn’t help but sigh, and it was inexplicably mixed with my master’s sigh. He suddenly said to me, “Chengyi, destroying that stone and destroying this god is the root of stopping everything. Don’t let this happen again.”

“Master, are we just going to do nothing?” I felt inexplicably nervous, because I saw that the god was sitting on the platform, and as the men in blue robes fell one by one, a strange radiance appeared on his face. This feeling made people think that he was invincible and extremely powerful.

“Who says we’ve done nothing? We’re just waiting for your Uncle Wang.” The master looked at the god sitting there and said this to me.

Uncle Wang? I suddenly snapped back to reality. He had been drawing the array patterns, but I didn’t know what he was doing. Could it be that he was preparing for this moment? Thinking this way, I couldn’t help but turn around and take a look at Uncle Wang. Just at that moment, Uncle Wang also looked up, and our eyes met.

It was still the same expression of distress, but from the dim and unlit yet exceptionally focused eyes, I could tell that Uncle Wang was already immersed in a certain realm.

“For two years, I have been thinking hard about this failed formation, and this time it should be successful.” Uncle Wang didn’t know who he was talking to, but Master nodded inexplicably and said to Uncle Wang, “There is no chance of failure this time.”

Hearing this, Uncle Wang’s face showed an inexplicable smile, and then he buried his head and immersed himself in describing the formation.

I took a look at the formation that Uncle Wang was drawing. At first glance, it seemed to be made up of many simple formations, but when I looked more closely, I found myself in a situation like being stuck in an extremely complicated math problem, needing countless overlapping formulas to solve it, but I still had no idea how to solve it…

“Don’t look, you’ll lose your concentration.” It was Master who pulled me back from this confusion.

When I came to my senses, I still saw my master’s back. He was so calm in the face of the powerful god not far away. If it were me, I would be extremely anxious to stop the god at this moment, but because my master was there, I was at ease and trusted that my master must have his reasons for not moving at this moment.

Everything was in a strange state of tension, the god was drawing power, and we were silent.

If there was one person in the middle who was the only lively person, it would be Lin Xiaohua. She was bored, sitting with her arms folded on a high stool that I didn’t know who had given her. Her feet were dangling, and she was winking at me from time to time.

Several times, the master turned his head suspiciously and asked me, “Are you sure you and that girl don’t have the slightest ‘affair’?”

This question made me break into a cold sweat. How should I tell my master so that he would believe me? After all, when he first appeared, he saw Lin Xiaohua and me in that situation. How could I explain it clearly?

In this embarrassing situation, I had overlooked one detail, and that was that Master had never mentioned Ruoxue… Why was that?

Or, was the timing wrong? Had he not had time to ask me anything?

In the midst of my rambling thoughts, I heard a loud coughing sound behind me. I turned around and saw that Uncle Wang had just spat out a mouthful of blood… This made my heart tighten. It wasn’t a serious matter, but it was clearly a sign of over-exertion.

But at this time, I couldn’t interrupt. If I interrupted, it would be no different from forcibly stopping the technique.

I turned around and saw that Master was looking back at Wang Shu with concern. Wu Liyu said, “Lao Jiang, I’m afraid it’s almost over.”

“Wait a little longer.” My master’s face was calm, but I saw his hands clasped behind his back, his fingers clenched into fists, and his body trembling slightly. He was obviously under tremendous pressure.

Wu Liyu seemed to be very convinced by my master. When my master said this, he actually stepped back in silence.

At this time, the starry sky returned to its previous state of surging power. The only difference was that in this power, the river made up of the flow of fate became clearer and clearer, so clear that I could see different fates colliding and combining, creating huge waves of terror…

And in the middle, there was a constant flow of water surging towards the god. He was greedily absorbing it, and the “flow of water” was nourishing him at a speed that was visible to the naked eye, strengthening him.

This situation made me panic, and I couldn’t help but cry out, “Master…”

Master naturally understood what I meant. He didn’t turn around, but whispered to me, “Have you seen those corpse cultivators? Instead of stopping him from doing what he’s doing, it’s better to buy ourselves some time. Because… it takes time to break through those corpse cultivators to stop him, so it’s better to be prepared to take them all out at once.”

This was the original plan of the master?

I forced myself to suppress the panic in my heart, but at this time, a strange rhythm of drumming sounded from below the platform. Standing on the platform, I couldn’t see where the drumming was coming from, but as the drumming continued, Master’s face became more and more ugly.

I knew that Master must have known something. Looking at Master’s face, I couldn’t help but feel irritated and asked, “Master, what does the drum sound mean?”

What does it mean? It means summoning the ‘helpers’ here. This god really wants to wipe us out. Isn’t the ‘benefit’ ready to be divided among those who exist? Master simply explained.

Then he looked at me, his eyes suddenly softening, and said to me, “Chengyi, are you afraid?”

“No.” I looked at the master, inexplicably at ease, and then couldn’t help but say, “Master, in the years you were gone, I faced death and life countless times. I…”

“I know, you are my disciple! I know everything!” The master’s hand rested on my shoulder, and his eyes revealed a hint of pain.

At this moment, the earth began to shake inexplicably… What appeared?