Gu Xu nodded to Chong Li and thanked him for informing him.
Then he followed the call from the sea of consciousness, walked through the narrow passage between the pyres, and walked towards the altar.
The prayers of the Vulcan believers echoed in the cool breeze outside the tower, and they lingered in his heart.
The true energy in his body surged like a tsunami.
The temperature in the temple rose sharply, causing Chongli and other priests to sweat profusely.
The next moment, a bright and bright flame ignited on the pyre.
At first it was just a dim fire, but as Gu Xu got closer and closer to the altar, the flames grew stronger and stronger, and soon they reached the ceiling, and even the masonry of the tower could not stop them. Went outdoors.
They are like a group of carnival dancers, wearing red, orange and yellow veils, spinning and singing around Gu Xu, sometimes twisting and sometimes circling, competing with each other and climbing higher and higher. Glowing ashes also rose from the smoke screen, like thousands of newborn fireflies.
Seeing this scene, the people who were prostrate and praying in the square outside the house opened their eyes wide instantly, and then their faces became joyful, exclaiming "miracle", and thinking in their hearts that it was their piety that moved the great god and made her Appear in the human world.
Chong Li was even more shocked.
After all, a moment ago, he had sworn that the strange guest brought by Zhao Yan had no connection with the "God of Fire" and could not possibly cause the pyre to react.
However, the scene before him clearly slapped him in the face.
The vision caused by Gu Xu in the temple was grander and more spectacular than that of any of the children of the Zhao family.
"Your Excellency Chong Li, what is going on?" Beside him, a young priest asked carefully while wiping his sweat.
Chong Li took a deep breath.
In order to maintain the dignity of the high priest, he did not directly say "I don't know either", but tried hard to maintain an unfathomable expression and said in a mysterious tone:
“The mind of God cannot be fathomed.”
But the scene that surprised him even more was yet to come.
When Gu Xu walked to the altar and reached out to touch the altar, the flames that were waving their wings and roaring like giant beasts immediately became quiet again and bowed their heads obediently in front of him.
Vaguely, High Priest Chong Li seemed to glimpse the flame giants kneeling down humbly in front of the masked young man and swearing allegiance to him.
Immediately afterwards, Chong Li felt that deep in his soul, there seemed to be an invisible shackle "kacha" that cracked into silent fragments. His power, which had been stagnant for many years, suddenly broke through the bottleneck and increased rapidly like a volcano erupting.
Dahuang's practice system is generally unified, but if you look at the specific practice methods, there are many different ways.
One of the methods is to enter the temple of a certain god, become a priest or monk serving the god, and practice under the guidance of the god.
The advantage of this method is that because the gods have already paved a ready-made path, the monks do not need to spend a lot of effort to understand the secrets of the avenue. Under the care of the gods, they can often quickly master some difficult and difficult knowledge through "sudden enlightenment", and even the speed of practice will be accelerated a lot.
But this approach also has flaws. First, he cannot advance to the realm of saint or above for life; second, he must abide by the strict rules set by the gods. For example, the monks of Lingshan Temple are not allowed to eat meat, the monks who serve God are not allowed to get married, and the priests of the Fire Temple must perform killings on schedule and in quantity. Ghost obligations, etc.; thirdly, monks and gods will both prosper and suffer. When the power of the gods weakens, the strength of the monks will also decline.
Like his predecessors in the Fire Temple, Chong Li also chose this practice method from the moment he became a priest.
But over the years, he felt that he didn't have any special advantages compared to other monks. His cultivation speed was mediocre and he did not receive preferential treatment from the God of Fire.
Until this moment.
It was as if a window had suddenly been opened in his confused heart. Sunlight shone in from the outside, making his soul bright and clear. He suddenly understood a lot of knowledge that he had been confused about for a long time.
"I'm going to break through!"
At the same time, the young priest next to Chong Li suddenly exclaimed, then immediately sat cross-legged on the ground and stuffed a prepared elixir into his mouth.
Within a few seconds, his breath was rising steadily. The threshold of the second realm had hindered him for three whole years like a chasm, but now he was able to cross it effortlessly.
It's not just the two of them.
The cultivation levels of almost all the Vulcan priests were greatly improved at this moment.
"Who is this young man wearing a mask?" High Priest Chongli looked at Gu Xu's figure and murmured to himself, "Even Her Highness the Princess, who is the reincarnation of a saint, can't do such a thing. ...This is an authority that can only be possessed by a god...
"Is it possible that he is the messenger sent by the great God of Fire to save us? Or is he the incarnation of the God of Fire walking in the world?"
Thinking of this, Chong Li hurriedly stepped forward, then knelt down respectfully in front of Gu Xu, his forehead touching the dust at Gu Xu's feet.
"Sir, I was blind and did not realize your identity in time," Chong Li said in a pious tone, "On behalf of all the priests of the Fire Temple, I would like to welcome you to Jicheng."
Seeing how the powerful high priest treated Gu Xu with such humility, the other priests present did not dare to show any slights.
They glanced at each other and bowed to where Gu Xu was.
At this time, Gu Xu was still immersed in the world of consciousness and did not notice the actions of the priests.
The moment his fingertips touched the altar, he clearly felt that an invisible chain suddenly appeared, linking the "Hui Lu" rune and the "Fire God" sculpture in his sea of consciousness into a unified one. overall.
The statue of the God of Fire has stood here for hundreds of thousands of years and has been worshiped by generations of believers. It has already accumulated a terrifying amount of power of faith.
And now, these powers are pouring into Gu Xu's body along with this invisible force.
"It turns out that this is the opportunity that the 'Astrolabe' told me." Gu Xu thought silently in his heart.
It stands to reason that with these powers, he can directly walk through "Meng Po Pavilion" and advance to the fifth realm, or even be promoted to the middle or late stage of the fifth realm in an instant.
But since he has not yet found a satisfactory way to break through the situation, he does not intend to use the simple and crude "Severing Seven Emotions".
So he stored the excess power in the "Hui Lu" rune, planning to wait until the mirror was broken before using it.
In addition, he also noticed countless fiery red light spots hidden in the void in all directions through the Vulcan Altar.
His intuition told him that every point of light represented a follower of the God of Fire.
The light spots of ordinary believers are dim and difficult to detect.
The brighter ones are the priests of the Fire Temple and members of the Zhao family with special bloodlines.
The most dazzling thing among them is Zhao Yan's light spot.
Like a flaming phoenix, it spreads its wings and sings loudly.
