Chapter 1061: Wang Village, Offering Ceremony

Chapter 1061: Chapter 1061: Wang Village, Offering Ceremony

Qing Country, wild forest.

Guo Yun, dressed as a hunter, tightly held the bow and arrow in his hand, quietly lurking in the shrubbery.

The lobes of his ears were an inch longer than an average person, almost hanging down to his jaws—this was a unique characteristic of the Long Eared God disciples, granting them extraordinary hearing sensitivity. If he used Divine Power to enhance his ears, he could even hear movements from a hundred miles away.

Due to the constant oppression by the Ear Wisdom God disciples year after year, there were few remaining Long Eared God disciples like him. The remaining thousand or so scattered across the wild forest, surviving by gathering wild fruits and hunting beasts.

Fortunately, thanks to the Divine Power bestowed by the Long Eared God, they were able to avoid venomous snakes and insects, find clean water sources, and enough food to fill their bellies. However, despite this, life was not easy due to the harsh living environment, many perished because of various accidents. Moreover, disciples of the Ear Wisdom God often entered the wild forest to hunt them.

Guo Yun silently praised the Long Eared God in his heart, then held his breath, focusing on listening to the faint beastly roars in the wind and capturing the subtle sounds from the dead leaves and branches in the forest.

"Here they come!"

Guo Yun’s ears twitched slightly as he heard a group of wild boars entering within a five-mile radius from him, rummaging for grass seeds and fruits among the dry branches.

The distance was somewhat far. Without utilizing Divine Power, the arrows he shot would hardly pierce through layers of shrubbery and branches to instantly kill the thick-skinned wild boar—this made Guo Yun hesitant, for every bit of Divine Power within him was hard-earned. When he acquired his first strand of Divine Power, he fell ill and lost a lot of weight. If it weren’t for the careful care from Chief Wang’s daughter Qiuyue, he might have died from illness; now, although he can slowly accumulate Divine Power through cultivation, overusing it would still make him extremely weak, forcing him to quickly replenish his Divine Power to escape the feeble state.

However, thinking that Qiuyue’s family hadn’t tasted any meat for more than two months, Guo Yun decided resolutely to mobilize a strand of Divine Power to imbue into the bow and arrow.

He tightened every muscle in his body, causing a faint gleam to arise from his long earlobes. This gleam seemed to sense Guo Yun’s thoughts, flowing down from his earlobes like mercury, passing through the neck, shoulders, arms, hands, and finally flowing into the bow and arrow held in his hand...

The bow made from the hard wood in the forest was engraved with Divine Runes by Senior Disciples, its bow and arrows adorned with strange patterns, while the string was woven from animal sinew, vine, hemp, and other materials;

Both the hard bow and the arrows strung on it were blessed by the Long Eared God, capable of far exceeding the effects of ordinary bows and arrows!

Swoosh!

Guo Yun released the bone ring.

The arrow sliced through the air, issuing a nearly dragon-like whistling sound, transforming into a streak, shredding all obstructing shrubs and branches, shooting towards the largest wild boar within the herd!

That wild boar instinctively sensed a mortal threat, but it was too late to escape, not even enough time to roar before the arrow penetrated its heart, dropping heavily to the ground, with a gush of fresh blood instantly dyeing its hide and the earth red; the other boars scattered away in terror!

From the feedback of various sounds, Guo Yun confirmed he had shot dead the leader of the boar herd, thinking he could take that wild boar to Qiuyue to boast, a smile of triumph naturally appeared on his face.

He quickly stepped out from the shrubbery, striding towards where the wild boar’s body lay.

However, when he saw the boar’s corpse, the smile on his face instantly froze.

Beside the boar’s corpse, stood a youth and two women silently, each garbed in robe armor and wielding a sharp sword, exuding an extraordinary bearing, clearly not ordinary hunters from the mountains, but rather sons and daughters of the Qing Country’s noble families out for hunting pleasure!

Making Guo Yun secretly anxious was, with his hearing, he hadn’t detected the presence of these three at all, as if they had suddenly dropped from the sky.

"Qing Country soldiers?"

The young man among the three shook his head, smiling.

"Under the Ear Wisdom God?"

"..."

Guo Yun encountered Shen Mo and his companions.

Not long after leaving their simple grass hut, they plunged into the wild forest, searching within the woods for several days before finally finding a hunter suspected of being a Long Eared God disciple, observing him for a long time from above.

From the methods Guo Yun revealed while shooting the wild boar, Shen Mo and his companions finally confirmed his identity, deciding to reveal themselves to meet him.

However, Guo Yun was extremely cautious. After asking a few questions, he immediately abandoned his hard-won prey and turned back to the forest.

Shen Mo used [Riding the Clouds and Mist] Destiny, conjuring clouds, and followed him remotely from the sky.

Guo Yun circled through the mountains and forests several times, ensuring no one was tailing him before fearfully returning to his home, Wang Village.

However, upon reaching the village entrance, he was shocked to find that the three individuals he had encountered earlier had beaten him to it, appearing at the village gates, even bringing along the wild boar corpse he had discarded!

In that instant, Guo Yun felt a chill run from his feet straight up to the top of his skull, but he quickly calmed down, knowing these three were not to be trifled with. If he angered them, none of the hundred or so inhabitants of Wang Village would likely survive.

Bracing himself, Guo Yun approached Shen Mo and his companions, giving a slight bow and asked, "May I know your names?"

...

Shen Mo and his companions entered Wang Village as friends of Guo Yun.

In just a few days, they got acquainted with the young and old in the village, learning that Chief Wang Tie was the only Long Eared God elite disciple within, while ordinary disciples were just a handful like Guo Yun, Wang Qiuyue, and a dozen others, leaving the rest as mere worshipers incapable of cultivating Divine Power.

Upon expressing his desire to become a Long Eared God disciple, Wang Tie was pleased and held a divine offering ceremony for him immediately.

Last time entering the cultivation world, Shen Mo and Chen Mengze witnessed numerous similar ceremonies. If ordinary people could successfully pass the offering ceremony, they could receive a strand of Divine Power from that fake god and become its disciple. Those unable to pass could only remain as worshipers.

All the specific steps of offering ceremonies shared many similarities.

The ceremony Wang Tie held for Shen Mo, ignoring the decorative processes, at its core, required following Chief Wang in chanting praises to the Long Eared God, to perceive the existence of the Long Eared God in a mystical realm, then releasing all mental defenses towards it, sacrificing one’s primal Essence and Qi source!

Shen Mo, a Great Cultivator in the No Phase State, though unable to deploy soul power, remained extremely sensitive to the presence of extraordinary powers, quickly perceiving the Long Eared God through chanting praises... somewhat akin to the "clairvoyant consciousness and situational response" extraordinary methods possessed only by the Formless Realm. However, this world’s fake god was born from the corpse of a Heavenly Immortal, possessing such miraculous abilities was not surprising.

Not long after, Shen Mo felt his entire Essence and Qi vanish out of thin air, while his left earlobe suddenly turned extremely hot.