12dz Chapter 979 A Miracle Revealed
Chapter 979 A Miracle Revealed
Chapter 979: A Miracle Revealed
The jade tablet emitted a spherical light shield that enveloped Xiao Han, leaving him in a void.
When the view cleared again, Xiao Han found herself under a blue sky and white clouds.
The mountains below are undulating and misty.
The ball of light carried her down slowly, floating above a small mountain village.
When Xiao Han finally saw the dilapidated thatched huts in the small mountain village, and the farmers and women in the fields wearing coarse linen clothes, their hair tied up with wooden hairpins, their faces full of sorrow, her deepest, hidden expectations were completely dashed.
This is not the kind of scene that China should have in the 21st century.
After deciding to take on this mission, she wondered if the mortal realm of this mission might be Earth.
If she could go to Earth and be the land goddess of China for a hundred years, she definitely wouldn't complain about how hard life was.
But now it seems she was too presumptuous.
After all, the flow of time on Earth is vastly different from that in the cultivation world. More likely, Earth has been forgotten by these "gods."
Throughout the myriad realms, no one knows which realm the mortal world of this mission actually refers to.
However, Xiao Han suddenly thought that perhaps he was at a certain point in the river of time, and this was an ancient time point in the Chinese nation on Earth?
With that in mind, she decided to look around first and explore the entire interface.
She randomly chose a direction to fly away, and the next moment, she froze.
She had only flown about a hundred miles when she seemed to encounter an invisible wall, or as if she had sunk into a sticky swamp, making it difficult to move forward.
After flying around for a while, Xiao Han quickly came to a conclusion: she was trapped in a space with a radius of about 100 miles.
Looking at the mission jade token in her hand, Xiao Han understood. Her area of jurisdiction as the local earth god was only within a hundred miles.
Then she couldn't get out of that area either.
No wonder the divine lords and cultivators in the divine palace would rather spend money to hire others to do tasks than descend to the mortal realm to become immortals themselves.
What's the difference between this and going to jail?
If being a god is like this, I doubt any cultivator would want to truly become a god.
Fine, since I've accepted this mission, I have to complete it even if it means going to jail.
After all, even if she wanted to back out, she couldn't leave this place and return to the realm of gods.
Xiao Han finally recognized reality and began to pay attention to the ground beneath her feet.
It was only then that she noticed the wheat seedlings in the fields below were wilted, the soil was dry, and the leaves on the trees on the mountain were listless.
No wonder these farmers looked so distressed.
Xiao Han then remembered what the priest Zhou had said: the mission jade tablet should be placed in the local temple for a hundred years, so she searched everywhere for her place of residence.
Following the guidance of the quest jade tablet, she found the already pitifully small and collapsed earth temple at the eastern end of the village where she was standing.
This earth god temple is only three or four feet high and five feet wide. It is built with irregular stones and covered with stone slabs. Inside are clay sculptures of the earth god and earth goddess.
Now, however, the earth god temple is in a state of partial collapse. The stone slabs are broken, one wall has collapsed, and the earth god inside is only half a body left. The earth goddess's head is also missing a piece.
How can she possibly place the mission jade tablet in this terrible state?
It seems she'll have to resort to some divine intervention.
Zhao Qingshan, the village head of Xialing Village, was sitting with several respected elders in the village, discussing the matter of praying for rain.
The group finally reached a consensus: the village would pool its money the next day to buy sacrificial offerings, and the village chief would lead the entire village, young and old, in a prayer for rain.
In the middle of the night, Zhao Qingshan, who was fast asleep, was suddenly awakened.
He opened his eyes and saw a great golden light shining in the bedroom, with two old men floating in front of him.
These two people look very familiar.
Suddenly, Zhao Qingshan's eyes widened. He remembered—weren't these two the Earth God and Earth Goddess?
The emperor before him, Emperor Zhao, did not abdicate in favor of another minister, but instead passed the throne to his son. As a result, the succeeding Emperor Yongjia was an ambitious but incompetent ruler who indulged in pleasure, plunging the country into chaos and causing widespread suffering among the people.
During this period, a woman who called herself the Heavenly Saintess led a rebellion, attempting to overthrow the rule of Emperor Yongjia.
This Heavenly Saintess claimed to be a celestial being descended to earth and instructed every village to worship her and not to worship any other deities.
Unfortunately, the Heavenly Goddess's rebellion was ultimately suppressed by the imperial army.
Although she failed to ascend the throne, Emperor Yongjia's rule was overthrown, and he was forced by other officials to abdicate in favor of the powerful prime minister.
The Heavenly Saint Goddess failed, and naturally all her temples were demolished.
Because of this whole ordeal, the earth god temple, which already had little presence and only had a small hut, fell into disrepair and collapsed, and no one paid any attention to it.
Village chief Zhao Qingshan never expected that the local earth gods and goddesses would visit his house in the middle of the night.
Just then, a voice, neither male nor female, rang out, “The local earth god cannot bear to see the people under his rule suffer from drought. Tomorrow, you should lead all the villagers to pray in front of my temple. I will petition the heavens to send down rain.”
Zhao Qingshan wanted to get up and kowtow, and ask how to pray, but he could neither speak nor move.
Only when the golden light disappeared and the room became pitch black again did he realize that he could move again.
For a moment, Zhao Qingshan didn't know whether what had just happened was real or a dream.
The next morning, Zhao Qingshan got up early and knocked on the doors of the families who had discussed praying for rain the day before.
One of the old men said, "Didn't we agree on this yesterday? What do we need to discuss today?"
Zhao Qingshan said in a daze, "Come quickly, something big has happened."
After the group reunited at his house, Zhao Qingshan recounted how the local earth god and earth goddess had appeared before him the previous night and asked them to pray for rain at the earth god temple.
Someone laughed and said, "Qingshan, are you mistaken? You should ask the Dragon King for rain. What's the use of praying to the Earth God?"
The others echoed this sentiment, believing that seeking rain from the local earth god was unreliable.
Thinking of the earth god and earth goddess appearing in his form, which he didn't know was real or not, Zhao Qingshan finally said, "How about this, let's go to the earth god temple and pray once. If that doesn't work, then we'll go and pray to the Dragon King."
Someone hesitated and said, "But the local temple has collapsed, and even the statue of the Earth God is damaged. How can we pray to him now?"
Zhao Qingshan said, "Quickly arrange for people to repair the land temple, reshape the land god and land goddess statues, and then gather people to worship and pray together."
Although everyone felt that this whole ordeal was unnecessary, praying to another deity always meant more hope, so they followed the village chief's instructions.
Meanwhile, Xiao Han, watching the villagers busily repairing his small, dilapidated temple, was preparing to unleash his "divine power" when he suddenly realized he didn't even know what dynasty this was.
She needs to take a good look to see if there are any educated people in this village, and then go to talk to them in the evening to understand her current situation.