"These people seem to be low-level cultivators or people with Spiritual Roots!" Jiao Shiliu said.
"That's true!
Do you mean that we should disguise ourselves as low-level cultivators and get teleported in? "Jiao Jiu asked.
"That's right. With our cultivation, it shouldn't be a problem for us to deceive everyone," Han Li replied.
"The place where we are teleported to might be related to Gongshu Hong. Should we inform Jiao Ba and the others?" Jiao Shiliu asked hesitantly.
"We are just trying to sneak in. Let's talk about it when we find something," Jiao Jiu replied indifferently.
With that, he raised his hand and gently tapped his forehead. An invisible ripple immediately rippled out from his body.
Although his face did not change, his aura changed rapidly. In the blink of an eye, he reached the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Upon seeing this, Han Li and Liu Qiyue also followed suit, adjusting their auras to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Then, the three of them focused and waited for the red light to rise from beneath their feet.
However, after a few minutes, there were red pillars of light that lit up around them. However, none of them were below their feet.
"Why isn't there a teleportation?
Could it be that you made a mistake and that the Heaven's Choice is random? "Jiao Jiu asked hesitantly.
"Don't worry, let's wait.
If the Sixty-Year Heavenly Selection concludes and none of us are teleported away, we can use our spiritual sense to survey a small area, "Han Li replied after a moment of thought.
After Jiao Jiu heard this, he did not say anything else. He only carefully looked around.
At this moment, a ray of light suddenly lit up under his feet. A red light suddenly rose up and enveloped him. The eyes of the people around him also instantly turned to look at him.
Before he could react, the light disappeared and his body disappeared.
The people around him began to discuss and admire him. Their mouths were filled with envy and regret.
However, before they could finish speaking, two more beams of red light suddenly lit up beside them. With a flash, the two of them were taken away from where they were standing.
These two people were Han Li and Jiao Shiwu.
Han Li only felt the surrounding light and shadow spin, his body involuntarily swayed in the void, and then he landed on the ground again.
He looked around and found that there were still many people around him. Jiao Sixteen was standing not far from him with a puzzled look on his face, and Jiao Nine was nowhere to be seen.
At this moment, they were actually in an incomparably wide and huge underground palace. There were people in all directions, and they could not see the walls of the underground palace at all. They could only see the roof above their heads and the thick stone pillars standing nearby.
All of them had huge braziers hanging above them. It was unknown what was burning inside, but there was no smoke, only scarlet flames that were constantly moving.
At the same time, more and more red lights lit up in the surroundings. One after another, mortals and low-level cultivators were sent here.
Compared to the solemn atmosphere in the square, this place was much more noisy. All of the people who were sent here seemed to be unable to contain their excitement. Their shoulders were shaking, and they stood on their tiptoes to look around.
Other than a few Foundation Establishment and Qi Refinement Stage cultivators, most of the people around Han Li were mortals. When they were suddenly sent here, they felt that it was a miracle, and they all began to sincerely chant prayers in a low voice.
All sorts of sounds fused together and reverberated throughout the entire underground palace, buzzing non-stop.
When Han Li heard these voices, he did not know why, but he felt a little depressed.
However, this feeling did not last for long, and it quickly disappeared. The surrounding air was somewhat turbid, and there was a faint smell of blood lingering around.
He wrinkled his nose slightly and lowered his head to look at his feet. He discovered that the bluestone slabs on the ground had a slightly dark red color. It looked like it had been soaked in blood for a long period of time and formed this color.
Seeing this, Han Li could not help but think of the Yin soil that he found under the stone slabs in the underground palace of Red Moon City in Lan Province. He could not help but frown.
At this moment, Jiao Sixteen squeezed through the crowd with difficulty. When he reached Liu Ming's side, he lowered his voice and asked,
"How is it? Did you find anything?"
"There seems to be some clues, but I can't be sure. Let's find fellow cultivator Jiao Nine first." Han Li shook his head.
After saying this, he sent a voice transmission to Jiao Nine, asking him where he was.
After a series of messages, he found out that Jiao Nine had been sent to a place some distance away from them. He was near the center of the underground palace.
Thus, the two of them quietly moved towards the center of the crowd amidst the noise. Naturally, they attracted complaints and reprimands along the way.
The closer they got to the center of the underground palace, the stronger the smell of blood that Han Li could smell, and the darker the color of the floor beneath his feet became.
When they were near the center of the underground palace, the color of the stone slabs on the ground had become almost purplish black.
Han Li raised his head and saw a statue that was more than ten feet tall. It was the Lord of Red Moon Island, Gongshu Hong.
Near the statue, there was a stone platform with a radius of ten feet. It was slightly higher than the ground, and there was no one on it. There was only a short man who was not very tall, but had a strong physique.
He wore a purple robe, and there was also a blood moon embroidered on his chest.
His eyes were half-closed, and most of the light in his eyes was hidden. His aura was calm and restrained. He was an Itinerant Celestial.
Han Li and Jiao Sixteen walked to the edge of the empty area and stopped. After looking at the Itinerant Celestial for a while, they looked behind the statue.
In the crowd, there was a person who squeezed forward, revealing half of his body. It was Jiao Nine.
He naturally saw Han Li and Jiao Sixteen. Just as he was about to move towards them, the Itinerant Celestial suddenly raised his head and looked around.
After a while, the short man retracted his gaze and looked straight ahead.
He said, "Everyone …"
As soon as he spoke, all the noise in the surroundings came to an abrupt halt. The entire underground palace immediately became extremely quiet, and everyone's gazes were directed towards this person.
The atmosphere suddenly became a little heavy.
Jiao Nine saw this and stopped. He also looked towards the Itinerant Celestial.
"The Chosen One Ceremony has ended. Everyone here sincerely believes in the Holy Lord and is favored by the Holy Lord. That is why you are able to receive this glory," the short man said loudly.
Hearing this, everyone was overjoyed and could not help but cheer.
Han Li looked around and found that there were no more red lights in the underground palace, and no more people were being teleported in.
The short man raised his hands and pressed them in front of him a few times. The cheers gradually died down, and the underground palace became quiet again.
He continued to speak.
"The Holy Lord is benevolent and is willing to open the Gate of Immortality. He has decided to choose those among you with outstanding talent and deep affinity with Immortality. He will teach them the secret arts of Immortal cultivation and keep them by his side.
All of you must sincerely pray for the Divine Lord to descend. "
When the people in the hall heard this, they all clasped their hands in front of them and closed their eyes, immediately praying.
Hearing this, Jiao Shiliu revealed a happy expression and sent a voice transmission to Han Li and Xiao Luo.
"Fellow Daoists, since we know that Gongshu Hong is coming here, should we immediately inform Lord Jiao and the others?"
When Han Li heard this, he looked at Jiao Jiu, who was standing opposite him. However, he saw that Jiao Jiu was deep in thought.
At this moment, the statue in the middle of the underground palace suddenly trembled, and two blood-red rays of light lit up in its eyes.
Seeing this, Han Li and the others also looked towards the statue.
"Welcome, Saint Lord."
The sturdy short man turned around and bowed to the statue. He said with incomparable respect.
When the others saw this, they immediately bowed to the statue and said, "Welcome, Saint Lord."
Han Li also slightly bent down, his gaze sizing up the statue and the short man with an unremarkable appearance.
He saw that the short man was making hand seals in front of him, and his lips kept moving as if he was silently chanting something.
Suddenly, the eyes of the statue behind him flashed with blood-red light, and it turned into two red beams of light that shot forward.
Ka ka ka!
As the statue slowly turned, the two red beams of light swept past the crowd.
When it swept past Han Li, he could clearly feel a Divine Sense lingering on him for a while before it moved to the side.
What puzzled him was that the source of the Divine Sense did not seem to be the statue, but the purple-robed short man.
At this moment, Jiao Jiu's voice transmission sounded in Han Li's mind.
"What the hell is this person doing? How is there any Saint Lord descending?
It's clearly just him releasing his Divine Sense! "
"It seems that he is just using the name of the Saint Lord to carry out the ceremony. I'm afraid Gongshu Hong will not descend here," Han Li replied after thinking for a while.
Just as he finished speaking, the two red beams of light that swept past the crowd stopped and landed on two men who looked like Youth.
The two of them were instantly surprised. They quickly moved towards the center under the Itinerant Immortal's command, attracting many envious gazes along the way.
Han Li glanced at the two of them and immediately realized that although they were only at the Foundation Establishment Stage, their Spiritual Roots and physiques were not bad.
Then, the two beams of light began to move through the crowd again.
After a while, they stopped on a skinny young man and a pretty young girl.
Han Li looked at them and realized that although they were not cultivators, their cultivation potential was excellent.
Then, as the red beams of light moved and stopped, the young men and women were chosen one after another.
Under the guidance of the Itinerant Immortal, they all moved towards the high platform in the middle of the statue.
In a short while, there were more than two hundred people gathered there.
From Han Li's point of view, if one did not look at their cultivation base and only looked at their cultivation potential, they were all the best among the tens of thousands of people in the underground palace.
Seeing this, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He seemed to have figured out something and quickly sent a voice transmission to Jiao Jiu and Jiao Jiu.
"My two friends, I'm afraid something is wrong.
I'm afraid this is not a place to meet the Saint Lord, but a place for blood sacrifice in Red Moon Island. "