Chapter 216: Bad Food

Forty-six days.

A full forty-six days had passed.

Li Qi had traveled through every inch of Guangyang.

Since then, he had been busy sorting out and pondering all the procedures for building a grand sacrifice.

This was a very, very difficult thing.

His hair was now messy and his eyes were full of bloodshot, but he still looked bright and energetic. His face was a little tired, but his movements were still swift and his reactions were not affected.

He buried his head in countless files, carving out everything that should be done for this sacrifice bit by bit.

Sacrifice to the sky with firewood, sacrifice to the earth with burials, sacrifice to the time with calves, sacrifice to the cold and heat altars, sacrifice to the sun and the palace, sacrifice to the moon and the night, sacrifice to the stars and the clan, sacrifice to the flood and drought, sacrifice to the four seasons and the four altars, and sacrifice to the gods of the world.

This is called sacrifice.

If the law is applied to the people, then sacrifice it; if you die for your hard work, then sacrifice it; if you work hard to stabilize the country, then sacrifice it; if you can resist the great disaster, then sacrifice it; if you can defend against the great disaster, then sacrifice it; the mountains and rivers of the heavens and the earth, in season.

This is called sacrifice.

Distinguish these differences, and then arrange different sizes according to the specific situation. A big sacrifice needs to be pieced together with countless small sacrifices, and all parties must follow certain specifications to complete the ceremony together, which is quite complicated.

When Li Qi was in Lizhou City, the annual river opening ceremony was actually a regular sacrifice.

The whole city, millions of people were mobilized, everyone had their own duties, what everyone did, what each gang did, what time to do, all had arrangements.

Even what to eat on that day was stipulated by customs.

In this way, the river opening ceremony can be achieved to this extent, which can benefit both the Lishui God and the Lizhou Governor. The people below, such as Li Qi, can also share some benefits, get rewards and meat.

It's like a festival like Ghost Festival. The whole world will perform the ceremony at the same time on that day, and everyone will burn paper, worship their ancestors, and offer offerings.

This kind of grand sacrifice, which involves countless people at the same time, is extremely complicated. Even according to different regions and countries, the rituals of people in each place are different, but this difference is exactly what the whole grand sacrifice needs.

Just think about it, mobilizing people from all over the world to do one thing at the same time, and everyone's division of labor is different, and all this is solidified...

I don't know how it was popularized to the whole world... Anyway, it has become a "custom".

What Li Qi has to do now is the same thing, but on a smaller scale.

Wushen Mountain promotes the Ghost Festival to the whole world.

Li Qi wants to plan everything that tens of millions of people in Guangyang do in one day.

On that day, everyone must obey his arrangements, perform various rituals, produce different effects, and create different qi.

These qi will be dispatched by Li Qi and gathered at the main altar in the center, and then the different qi will produce subtle reactions, and finally achieve the results he wants.

Just listening to it, you can know how complicated it is, and the calculations required are too numerous to count.

What kind of ritual will produce what kind of qi.

The generated air, what air will meet, what reaction can be produced, and what effect will be produced after the reaction.

This chain reaction that spreads infinitely has hundreds of millions of nodes, each of which will have different effects, and then will be linked with other nodes.

It is really difficult to do it without any omissions just by reading, and it is necessary to try it on a small scale bit by bit.

Li Qi organized this knowledge, and then arranged it step by step according to the actual situation in Guangyang, even down to a certain village, a certain block in the county town.

In fact, it should not be so detailed, too detailed is prone to errors, but Li Qi can only be lenient, first detailed, determine the effect, and then slowly modify it to improve the fault tolerance rate.

This increased his workload by more than ten times, but it can effectively reduce the risk.

But the consequence of this is that he must hurry.

It has been more than 40 days.

If it really takes a year to complete this design work, the number of people who starve to death will not be 100,000.

Moreover, after the design is completed, it must be implemented, and it will take more time at that time.

It must be done as soon as possible. When everyone is dead, everything before will be a joke.

So apart from the necessary eating and resting, Li Qi devoted almost all his time to this.

Just when Li Qi was working seriously, there was a knock on the door.

"Mr. Li... It's time for lunch." A maid came in with some broth and meat patties.

These things are too simple for lunch and do not fit Li Qi's identity at all.

But this is Li Qi's special request. If every meal is prepared according to normal specifications, it will take too much time to eat.

Meat patties, broth, and some vegetables in it. It only takes two or three bites to solve a meal. It is very efficient.

"Oh, thank you." Li Qi raised his head from reading the endless documents and took the food with a smile.

Li Qi has been buried here for more than a month.

But during this long time, Li Qi spent all his time sitting here reading materials from all sides except for eating.

These materials not only include the book "Zhu", but also some documents and ancient books that he asked Senior Le Ya to collect, including some secret materials inside Wushen Mountain, including some sacrificial points, arrangement methods and various experiences written by the Great Zhu himself.

This is the advantage of a big force.

Just these books, even a few words in them, are enough to cause a bloody storm if placed outside.

For such a precious thing, Li Qi could look through it at will and even pick and choose.

There was much more information than he thought. There were about one to two hundred million words, and every word was exquisite. They were all extremely refined words. Each of them had to be carefully chewed and tasted before they could be understood. It could not be read at a glance.

Some even come with pictures and videos, and some even have holographic illusion explanations that play the situation directly in your mind for real-life demonstrations, which is very advanced.

But this is even more of a waste of time.

He had to find the key part as soon as possible, and he couldn't delay.

So, just like now, except when eating, Li Qi spent all the rest of the time reading these materials without sleep, not daring to miss a word.

Even when eating, I eat and watch at the same time.

He tore the meatloaf casually and swallowed it whole with the soup. It was all done in just over a minute, so it was considered a meal.

The maid next to her looked at Li Qi with some worry: "Mr. Li... you are still trying too hard. Why don't you take a rest?"

"Don't worry, just go down." Li Qi shook his head and replied casually.

"Yes." The maid did not dare to say anything more and exited the room.

Outside the room, Shen Shuibi was sitting next to the stone table in the courtyard.

Seeing the maid come out, she turned around and asked, "Still the same answer?"

"It's still the same, sir...I'm afraid you still have to persuade him personally." The maid replied in fear.

"No need to persuade, what are you trying to do with this?" Shen Shuibi tilted her head: "You go ahead, you don't have to come here anymore, just leave it to me."

"Yes." The maid nodded, then backed away in fear.

It would be best if you don't come here.

I heard that Young Master Li was a person who did great things. Every time I stayed around him, I felt a pressure. Every time he spoke, my heart would pound.

She was very nervous. Although she would feel a little disappointed if she didn't come again, she would be able to relax a lot.

However... I heard from many people that Mr. Li was a saint-like person, so he would not be killed because he made a mistake.

I heard that he is so busy now because of the whole of Guangyang.

But she didn't quite believe it.

The whole Guangyang... is so big, what can one person do?

The maid withdrew with full of questions.

On the other side, Shen Shuibi tidied up and pushed the door open.

Li Qi frowned and didn't raise his head: "What's the matter? If there's nothing urgent, except for two meals a day, it's best not to come in."

However, it was not the maid's voice that answered Li Qi, but Shen Shuibi.

"It's me," she said.

"Ah?" Li Qi stopped what he was doing and looked up at Shen Shuibi: "Ah, Miss Shen, why are you here?"

Shen Shuibi walked to Li Qi, moved a stool, sat next to him, and picked up a book: "Let me help you."

Li Qi laughed dumbly and shook his head: "You don't know how to..."

"So you have to teach me, I learn very quickly." Shen Shuibi replied matter-of-factly, and then opened the book.

Li Qi immediately realized that Shen Shuibi was serious.

He immediately said: "This is the secret of Wushen Mountain. These books are-"

However, before he could finish speaking, Shen Shuibi had already tapped his forehead with one finger.

Suddenly, an inheritance divine message appeared directly in his mind, but he had no time to read the content and could only recognize the five words on the cover.

"Chenji Golden Pill Method"

This is... the fundamental method of Luofu Mountain? !

It's been said before.

There is a Chenji in the sky, which is the center of the sky and remains motionless forever. The stars rotate around it. Each rotation is called a "circle of the sky".

Luofu Mountain uses Chenji as a metaphor for golden elixir. You are the center of the universe, and everything revolves around you.

Pay attention to the perfection of self-refinement. If you don't move when you see the form, if you don't move the heart, you can practice yourself. You should practice yourself as the "Chen Ji" of all things.

this--

While Li Qi was stunned, Shen Shuibi spoke:

"This is the fundamental method of Luofu Mountain. In this case, Da Zhu and Da Divination should have nothing to say."

Hearing this, Li Qi was speechless, not knowing what to say.

He had nothing to say.

Shen Shuibi didn't care about that, but opened the book and started studying it.

Even if she starts from scratch, she feels that she will definitely be faster than Li Qi.

Li Qize took a deep breath.

Shen Shuibi has already made it this far, so there is no need to say anything else, just hurry up.

In the study room late at night, there were only the sounds of the two of them reading and studying.

Occasionally, there would be Shen Shuibi's voice asking questions.

"Where is the sacrificial animal?"

"Sacrifice is added to lifting."

"oh."

Time passed bit by bit.

Another month has passed.

In the process of getting along, Li Qi really felt how...smart Shen Shuibi was.

Her ability in this area is unbelievable.

Everything can be mastered with just a little bit.

It is easy to draw inferences from one instance. Most situations can be studied in depth simply by reading books. Among hundreds of thousands of choices, the correct answer can be 'guessed' purely by guesswork and deduction.

Li Qi couldn't even remember how many situations she had predicted. She predicted the occurrence of many mistakes purely by relying on mathematical deductions, and helped Li Qishao take countless wrong paths.

Here, everything is so stable.

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Twenty days have passed.

However, things are a little bit tricky on Le Ya's side.

This fifth-grade wizard who came from Wushen Mountain is tasked with being Boyue's protector.

Of course, because he wrongly blamed Li Qi, he made a promise to Li Qi to help him complete this grand ceremony.

Originally, he thought this should not be a problem. What he had to do was to let this very ambitious young master complete his work wholeheartedly, a grand ceremony that could be considered the ultimate among the nine grades.

This result would probably get full marks on Wushen Mountain.

He would provide whatever help and information this young master needed.

Le Ya believed that his strength could easily protect the other party to complete this grand ceremony.

He could prevent all external factors from interfering here.

Like the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Nest, the National War, etc., if anyone dared to interfere with the grand ceremony at this moment, he would take off the other party's head to set an example.

With his strength, it was not difficult.

The strength of the Devouring Heaven Demon Lord is not inferior to his, but if the other party is in a normal state, he would not come here at this time.

As for the so-called "kings" of Baiyue, they are just chickens and dogs.

But the problem is that the premise of all this is based on "normal circumstances".

The current situation is a bit difficult to deal with.

Shen Shuibi from Luofu Mountain... actually handed over the Chenji Golden Pill Method.

What is this?

Headache.

Wushen Mountain will not lower its face to ask a young man to donate his private property, that would be too embarrassing.

It's like a child at home who earns two hundred yuan in pocket money outside. Any parents with a little face will not ask the child for these two hundred yuan.

Even if the Chenji Golden Pill Method is the method to activate the Sun and Moon True Lead Cauldron, it doesn't matter.

The Sun and Moon True Lead Cauldron is a second-grade magic weapon in the hands of Luofu Niangniang, but the witches are only insidious when doing things, but they are still very upright when they are human beings, and they will not take advantage of others' dangers to forcibly rob them.

In short, whether it is the private property of the young master or the Empress Luofu, Wushen Mountain will definitely not move.

But the problem is... Tang Kingdom is not necessarily the same.

There is a secret hidden in the Sun and Moon True Lead Cauldron. Le Ya does not know what it is. He only knows that it is the fundamental reason for the destruction of Luofu Mountain and the reason why Tang Kingdom is determined to destroy Luofu Mountain.

Now, the Chenji Golden Pill Method has been leaked, and Wushen Mountain already has a way to activate the Sun and Moon True Lead Cauldron.

Needless to say, with the means of the Tang Kingdom Sitianjian, it must have known about this from the cause and effect.

If this happened in the mountain gate, everything would be easy to say. At most, it would be a complete fall-out. Can it still be fought to Wushen Mountain?

But now, it happened in Baiyue...

Le Ya covered his face in pain.

He has already reported to the mountain gate.

What happens next is no longer something he can decide.

As for the young master's grand sacrifice...

Let fate take its course.