Chapter 40 The Oracle (Part 2)
It was not until the high priest finally finished his meditation and got up and walked over that the three great elders ended their discussions about the lifelong affairs of their children. Although they were repeatedly mentioned and praised, Ji Honglian was not as embarrassed and blushed as an ordinary girl. She seemed to have been used to this kind of thing, and she had no reaction from beginning to end, and her expression was extremely calm.
After the high priest sat down, he looked at the three elders and suddenly sighed, saying, "When did you last meet? Why do you think you are a little older?"
Ji Hou laughed and said, "It was the high sacrifice of the God Cult two years ago. Have you forgotten?"
The high priest said "Oh", looking a little moved, and said, "Is it two years in a blink of an eye? Time flies so fast."
Longquan, who was sitting next to the season, smiled and said, "The main reason is that you often go to meditation, otherwise you will serve the gods and ignore us ordinary people. However, looking at your complexion, it has not changed much from before. I guess your body must be very healthy, maybe it is better than us."
As he said that, he started to laugh, and Ji Hou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan next to him also smiled and nodded.
The high priest looked at them lightly, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth; only Ji Honglian, who was sitting beside him, frowned slightly, and looked at the high priest with some concern.
The high priest waited for a while and said to the three elders sitting in front of him: "You three are all very busy people, and there are many things in the secular world, so I will just talk about it. Calling you three here today is actually just for one thing."
Hearing the high priest say this, Ji Hou and the other three put away their smiles and said solemnly: "Please say it."
The high priest said: "Since ancient times, all the civil affairs and power inside and outside the holy city have been transferred to the Presbyterian Church, and the Divine Cult has not interfered with all the Divine Cult. However, the inner ring of the inner ring has built the Divine Road to heaven, so the presidency has joined the Divine Cult. Because it involves too much, I also entrusted you to help build it. Is that right?"
Ji Hou and the other three looked at each other and nodded, "That's true. I don't know what the high priest has to say about this, but it's okay."
"The construction speed of Tongtian Divine Road is too slow!" The high priest stopped beating around the bush and said directly to the three of them, "I have only cultivated a few dozen miles in decades. If I continue to cultivate this way, when will I reach the foot of the sacred mountain? When will we climb the sacred mountain and find the secret that the saint said?"
The three elders looked at each other.
After a while, Elder Longquan coughed and whispered: "The High Priest is to calm down for the time being. There are two reasons for this. The most important reasons are: First, it is difficult to find and dig green jade from the eighteen divine rivers outside, and the output is reduced; second, a very serious monster killing incident occurred in the inner ring. The workers and soldiers we sent in were seriously injured and injured, so the construction period had to be delayed."
The high priest looked calm, and he didn't seem to let go of his feelings because of the explanation from Elder Longquan. He just said lightly: "I know all these things, but even so, the progress of the Godly Road to Heaven cannot be stopped."
Ji Hou smiled bitterly and said, "We understand your mood, but this incident has really scared many people below. Originally, there were not enough people. Now many people want to leave. People are in panic and need to be comforted. I beg you to give us some more time to solve it."
A dark and deep light flashed quietly in the high priest's eyes. After a while, he heard him say in a deep voice: "I called you here recently, just for this."
The three elders were shocked and were puzzled. The high priest slowly stood up, raised his hands, bowed to the sky three times, and then said to them seriously: "I sat quietly and prayed while serving the gods a few days ago. Suddenly, miracles came from heaven, and the sound of nature echoed into my ears, and only one thing was said."
Ji Hou and others suddenly changed their faces and stood up together, and everyone showed a look of awe. You know, it has been many years since there has never been a miracle. I didn’t expect that I would actually hear this news today, which is really overwhelming.
Ji Hou was meticulous and looked out of the corner of his eyes. He glanced at Ji Honglian, who was sitting beside him, but suddenly he was stunned. He saw that his daughter was full of surprise and looked at the high priest with an incredible look on her face, as if she was shocked by the news of this miracle.
Ji Hou's heart moved slightly, but then he withdrew his gaze and gave a respectful gift to the high priest like the other two people next to him, and then said in unison: "Congratulations to the high priest."
The high priest waved his hand, his face cold, as if he was not at all concerned about the compliments of these three supreme powers in the world. He just spoke, "I have received the revelation of the gods, and I will tell you that there are two main wills of the gods: First, the construction of the divine road to heaven must be accelerated and no delays must be delayed."
"Yes!" Ji Hou and the other three agreed in unison.
"Second," the high priest took a deep breath, stared at the three elders, and said, "The god clearly stated that although we are not in sufficient personnel in humans now, when building the Heavenly Road, we can drive the people of the Wilderness into the inner ring to work and do things!"
"What?" Ji Hou and the three elders were shocked again. They seemed to be very unexpected, and they were stunned and speechless for a moment.
After a while, Xiahou Yuan seemed to be the first to react and quickly said to the high priest: "High priest, but in the past few hundred years, no member of the wilderness has ever entered the inner ring. No matter which wilderness tribe in the Great Wilderness, they have always been very respectful of the sacred mountain and dared not get close to it."
The high priest looked cold and said coldly: "I knew about this too, but the oracle is here, and I just told you the truth."
"This..." Ji Hou and the other three looked at each other, not knowing what to say for a moment.
After a while, Ji Hou tried to persuade the high priest in more tactful words: "That's right, the high priest, who has the blessing of the gods in the sky and the saints of our clan. Now that our human tribe is in full swing, most of the surrounding wild tribes have surrendered to us, but in the end, they are just tribute to buy peace, and we cannot really send troops to wipe out them one by one. After all, the wild tribe is strong, and the number of people is ten times that of us. If we really fight to the death, our human tribe will suffer."
Longquan next to him said: "What Elder Ji said is very much, high priest, if you follow the road construction method you mentioned before, a little bit of the wild tribe members is not enough. A large number of people, even thousands of wild tribe members, must enter the inner ring to build roads before they can be able to build to the foot of the sacred mountain in a few years, and this is under no accident in the middle."
"But where do so many people from the Wilderness?" Xiahou Yuan next to him smiled bitterly and said, "The big tribe may have nearly a thousand people, while the smaller tribes are only dozens or hundreds of people. If you really want to find so many Wilderness people to work in the inner ring, I am afraid that the Wilderness tribes on the Great Wilderness will be exploded."
"It's so difficult, high priest." These are the three elders who have the greatest secular power in the Holy City. They rarely speak unanimously to the high priest.
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The high priest looked at them, his eyes flashing and his face was gloomy.
After a while, he heard him say lightly: "This is an oracle. It doesn't matter whether you want it or not, it doesn't matter whether it's difficult or not. You have to do it."
He stood up, waving his sleeves, turned around and walked away, and at the same time he heard his voice floating over, like a nail that penetrated into the bluestone of the temple, word by word, no room for flexibility, and as if he was firm: "Go to find a thousand members of the Wilderness, rush into the inner ring, regardless of life or death."
"Go to build the road!"
Chapter completed!