Baby Invasion: Mummy, This Demon Lord Wants To Marry You - Chapter 7
Chapter 7: Worshiping in the Spiritual Hall
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Hahaha, that’s right. It’s impossible for anyone to break through my mystical realm. The people I’ve trapped inside haven’t even made it out alive yet.” The Heavenly God had already calmed down in the blink of an eye, and was now beaming.
The wizard thought to himself, ‘The Heavenly God is really unpredictable. He has a temper like a child.’
Seeing this, the priest also brought up his own matters in a low voice, “Heavenly God, Tianlong is currently developing according to our arrangements. Everything is going well, but…”
The Blood Pupil in the mirror was pleased to hear the sorcerer’s words. “But what?”
The old priest exchanged a look with the sorcerer and coughed. “Now that the former Emperor is gone, we need to choose a new emperor. The new Emperor…”
The Heavenly God’s tone became slightly irritated. “You need me to help you with this matter?! Are you pigs? I don’t care if your emperor is a human or a ghost. I only care about one thing: The citizens’ offerings and sacrifices to me must not be lacking in anything! All of them must be sent to my mystical realm!”
“Yes, yes! I understand!” The old priest knelt down and cupped his hands. “However, if we want to convince the masses, we need to vastly increase our powers. Otherwise, the citizens will definitely not trust the new Emperor. This will affect the memorial sand offerings!”
The Blood Pupil in the arc mirror blinked and immediately said, “Yes, that makes sense. If anything happens, my ascension will be delayed! Old Priest, haven’t you been in the middle stage of the Foundation Building realm for a long time?”
That was exactly what the priest was waiting for. Ever since the day he had met the Heavenly God, he had directly advanced through the seven levels of the Aura Refining realm. Following that, he had slowly received the Heavenly God’s spiritual power to get to where he was today.
It was just that it had suddenly become very difficult for him to advance his skills and powers. He had already been stuck at the middle Foundation Building realm for a long time.
However, even so, he was still the most powerful cultivator in all of Tianlong.
The old priest’s turbid eyes were even slightly bloodshot. He choked on his words and said, “Yes, Heavenly God. I have many disciples. The most powerful among them is the Second Miss of the Imperial Preceptor’s family, Xia He. She recently advanced to the third level of Aura Refinement.
It took less than three months for her to advance to the third level of the Aura Refining Realm. That’s much shorter than what I took to get there. I think it won’t be long before she catches up to me. I really can’t stand my ground anymore, so I’m requesting your help.”
The priest continued, “As long as I have greater powers and my cultivation level improves, I will be able to better convince the masses, be it in Tianlong Temple or Tianlong Kingdom. I will be able to make all the citizens serve you, Heavenly God!”
The sorcerer at the side also spoke up, “That’s right, Heavenly God, it’s been a long time since you gave us spiritual force. Can you give us a little more? This way, we can better choose a suitable soul to offer as a sacrifice to you!”
The Heavenly God blinked its blood-red eyes and said, “I won’t treat you unfairly since you two have been working for me. However, I’ve been working hard on my ascension recently. I’ll bestow spirit energy to you after my ascension.”
The sorcerer and the old priest looked at each other subconsciously, at a loss for words. After all, they would only end up dead if they dared to argue against the decisions the Heavenly God had made.
They then stood up and cupped their hands. “Alright, Heavenly God, we’ll take our leave first.”
“Alright, you may leave.”
“Oh right, what should we do about the people in the mystical realm?”
The Heavenly God’s blood-red eyes instantly widened. “I’ve said before that no one shall be able to leave my mystical realm alive unless they stay in the Four-Walled Hell where I have no authority over. I can’t observe them there. However, even if they remain there, they will only be waiting for death. There are no other doors there, only entrances to the mystical realm. If they want to leave the cave, their only way is to leave the mystical realm. ”
“I understand. In that case, we will take our leave to handle the matter of choosing the next Emperor.”
“Alright, don’t forget the sacrifice next month,” the Heavenly God commanded.
Following which, the imperial study fell into silence, and the arc mirror returned to being an ordinary mirror.
The two men left the study, each lost in their own thoughts. The moment they closed the door to the imperial study, they glanced around to see if there was anything that looked like a mirror. Only then did they let out a sigh.
The sorcerer’s face was filled with murderous intent. “What kind of Heavenly King is he? We’re working for him, yet he doesn’t even want to give us spiritual power! Yet, we can’t do anything to him! In these past few years, we’ve sacrificed so many fresh livestock for him in the mystical realm. There’s even a thousand-year-old giant ape. We only managed to get that in exchange for the lives of many of your disciples! But livestock wasn’t enough for that b*stard and he even absorbed humans. We even had to create that battle so that the souls of the Tianlong warriors could be used for his cultivation!”
The old priest’s face was dark, and his voice slightly hoarse. “Bear with it for a while more. After all, we only managed to get to where we are today after absorbing his spirit energy several times. Only if we are stronger than him can we have a way to become a Heavenly God ourselves.”
The sorcerer scowled. “Hmph! Let’s go. Let’s choose a puppet emperor from the Imperial Preceptor’s family first.”
In the Grand Tutor’s residence.
The Grand Tutor, Xia Guoyong, wore a white headscarf and white mourning clothes. He was standing in front of the mourning hall with a tired expression. Behind him stood dozens of beloved wives and their children.
They were also wearing white mourning clothes. However, the expressions on their faces were unexpectedly relaxed and happy, without the slightest bit of sadness.
Xia Guoyong folded his hands and held onto the incense as he looked at his ancestors’ plaques with a worried expression.
“Your Majesty, please accept the bow of a loyal subject! If not for anything else, I just hope for a ceremony to speak to you. I hope that you’ll forgive me for sacrificing myself for the greater good. For the safety of the people of the country and the prosperity of the kingdom, sacrificing the life of a child doesn’t mean much! Even though she is your biological daughter, she lived with me for 18 years. I treated her as my own daughter. Her death pained me very much too! I hope that you’ll forgive me for my decision, Your Majesty. Thank you for your kindness!”
Xia Guoyong then knelt down and bowed three times with incense in his hands.
The woman closest to Xia Guoyong was Lady Wang. She was thin and turned her gaze to a memorial tablet in the mourning hall with a sad expression.
Following that, the countless wives, concubines, and children also paid their respects absent-mindedly.
The voices of the concubines and children spread throughout the entire mourning hall.
Lady Wang felt a pang in her heart. She was already sobbing uncontrollably.
Scenes of Mu Yao’s chubby face and big eyes when she was three years old flashed through her mind. As the young girl had become sensible, she had constantly questioned her, “Mother, Father’s surname is Xia, but why is my surname ‘Mu’?”
She would always tell Mu Yao, “Because you’re unique.”
Mu Yao, who was young and naive, had believed those words since she was little and never questioned her.
Unexpectedly, the unique Mu Yao had died miserably at the hands of the Xia family..
