Immortality Through Array Formations

Chapter 2927: Chapter 168: The Divine Priest Era

After that, the grand ritual of divine worship officially commenced.

Atop the most ancient divine altar on Vermilion Bird Mountain, all the tribes across the Mountain Realm swore their allegiance to the Divine Lord, to Mo Hua, who served as the ”Divine Blessing.”

Mid and low-level Barbarian Cultivators merely needed to worship and perform rituals to maintain their faith.

But it was different for the tribe leaders.

Whether from large tribes or small tribe leaders, their cultivation was higher, their strength greater, and their influence more significant.

More importantly, they were in high positions, closest to ”power.”

Power is something that breeds greed, desire, and tyranny in people’s hearts.

If a person is without power or influence, he might not have thoughts of abusing power or indulgence.

But once he is in a high position, wielding authority, he naturally becomes corrupted by power, changing internally without even realizing it.

This has nothing to do with specific individuals, but with power itself.

The individuals who are able to remain unchanged at heart and resist the temptation of power, regardless of their cultivation, are as rare as the phoenix’s feathers throughout the entire Cultivation World.

Ironically, such people often don’t gain favor and find it difficult to rise to high positions.

Therefore, Mo Hua would not gamble on the hearts of these tribe leaders, whether they would betray their faith and stray from their original intentions.

Mo Hua was also unwilling to gamble.

Amidst great calamity, what he needed was the strong authority of unified faith.

Thus, the most important thing Mo Hua did during the grand ritual was to have these tribe leaders swear a ”blood oath” of allegiance to the Divine Lord atop the divine altar.

On the altar stood a giant stele at this moment.

Mo Hua directed Iron Skill Bone to craft this stele, known as the ”Divine Blessing Stele.”

All the tribe leaders had to kneel before the stele, swear allegiance to the Divine Lord, and assure the firmness of their faith and their unwavering devotion.

They vowed that their lives would be dedicated to the welfare of the Great Wilderness’s people, sparing no effort until death.

They pledged never to seek personal gain, never to abuse power, and never to betray.

Afterwards, they needed to cut their fingers and write their names in blood on the ”Divine Blessing Stele.”

When writing their names, they had to imbue them with their faith.

Under the supreme and commanding presence of Mo Hua, who sat on the divine throne in flesh and blood, capable of making Holy Beasts submit and monster kings bow down.

The Danque Tribe, Shugubu, Flame Wing Tribe, Red Simurgh Tribe, Fire Eagle Tribe, Bi Fang Tribe, and other major tribes of Vermilion Bird Mountain, along with some Chieftains and Elders of the Wujiu Tribe who had changed their faith, all complied.

They cut their fingers, leaving their blood and names on the Divine Blessing Stele, also leaving the ”mark” of their bloodline.

They offered their faith, equivalent to entrusting a part of their ”Divine Soul” to the stele.

After the ritual ended, all the tribe leaders resonated with the Divine Blessing Stele.

They could feel a subtle connection seemed to have formed between themselves and the ”Divine Lord.”

The Divine Lord was watching over them, ”blessing” them.

At that moment, all the Great Chiefs, Chief Elders, and Barbarian Generals were deeply shaken, their awe for the Divine Lord deepening.

What they didn’t know was that the ”Divine Lord” had not only blessed them but also grasped their ”Life Soul,” controlling their life and death.

This is one of the powers of the Great Wilderness Evil God and the ancient altar:

Through the names of the blood oath on the altar, controlling the souls of believers.

This was also a method Mo Hua learned while contending with the Great Wilderness Evil God at the Qian Learning State Boundary.

In the Qian Learning State Boundary, Mr. Tu secretly laid out plans, raised henchmen, organized rituals, and built a massive evil god power.

The core henchmen of the evil god needed to swear a blood oath to the evil god.

Their blood, along with a wisp of their Life Soul, was offered to the evil god, placed upon the altar at the Mistwater River, Dragon King Temple.

Their names were also engraved on a list.

Boss Jiang was the holder of the list.

Fire Buddha was the head of the evil god’s sacrificial henchmen.

Water Yama was the intermediary connecting the evil god with the powerful.

Mr. Tu was the mastermind behind the scenes, the creator of the evil god’s power, the First Shaman of the Great Wilderness Evil God.

Mo Hua engaged in a prolonged confrontation with these various figures at the Qian Learning State Boundary.

And the entire setup of the ”evil god” was completely ”learned” by him and applied to these leaders of the Barbaric Tribes.

Now, Mo Hua is both the holder of the ”evil god’s sacrificial” list and the head of the evil god’s henchmen, the intermediary connecting the evil god with the powerful, and also the creator of the evil god’s power, the mastermind, the First Shaman under the evil god.

He is both ”Boss Jiang,” ”Fire Buddha,” ”Water Yama,” and even more the ”Mr. Tu” of the Barbaric Wilderness.

Indeed, he himself is the ”Great Wilderness Evil God.”

Mo Hua serves multiple roles, almost single-handedly constructing a complete Divine Way system in the Barbaric Wilderness.

Through the faith of the Divine Way, he achieved tribal unification among the mid and low levels of the Barbaric Wilderness.

Through the rituals of the Divine Way, he achieved Life Soul control over the upper levels of the Barbaric Wilderness.

The entire power of the Divine Way fell entirely into Mo Hua’s grasp.

To this point, a vast, unified Divine Way power structured around the ”Great Wilderness Evil God System” was completely formed.

In the final moment of the ritual, Mo Hua instructed Dan Zhu to write his name at the top of the Divine Blessing Stele.

The towering Divine Blessing Stele, among the Late Golden Core Stage Great Chiefs and Chief Elders, had the name ”Dan Zhu” in the first position.

This was enough to show the Divine Lord’s favor towards this Young Master of the Danque Tribe, and also to show Divine Blessing’s expectation and regard for his ”Disciple.”