Chapter 865 (1/2)

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at 6th of April 2019 10:00:07 AM

Chapter 865

The chanting from West-Hill had died out, however the people from the strange group were still chanting . Judging from their bamboo hats and the smell of the sea on their bodies, the head of Revelation Inst.i.tute had finally figured out their origins . His face turned pale and without any hesitation, he shouted with blood dripping out of his lips, ”Upon my word! Cease!”

This was the first sentence from the Anthem of Genesis . He had incorporated his Knowing Destiny state cultivation with his experience from decades of chanting, making his order extraordinary .

The chanting finally came to an end . However, what alarmed the head was that the chanting of these people did not stop immediately after his order . Instead, they gradually stopped with a long sacred resonating sound, like a fisherman's song .

”It has been six hundred years . ” The pale head of Revelation Inst.i.tute looked at the people in front of the altar and continued, ”Six hundred years have already pa.s.sed, why do you still want to come back?”

The elderly male standing in front had very dark and wrinkled skin, with a short and spa.r.s.e beard . His calm eyes looked as though it had seen all the good and bad in the world . He looked just like an old fisherman because of the faint smell of the sea on him .

The elder answered, ”We belong to the same school . Why can't we come back to the Divine Halls of West-Hill?”

After a moment of silence, the head of Revelation Inst.i.tute asked, ”What is your Taoist name?”

”Zhao Nanhai from the South Sea . ” The elderly looked at him and stated . ”A Rite to Light at the Peach Mountain should have been hosted by the head of Divine Hall of Light, not someone from the Revelation Inst.i.tute . My South Sea School is a direct branch of the Divine Hall of Light . Since there's no one in charge of the Divine Hall of Light, I had to come back to take charge . ”

The guests at the rite were either powerful cultivators or n.o.ble commoners . All of them were more or less familiar with the secret history of Taoism . At this moment, most of them had already realized the origins of these people .  They were shocked . Are they really the descendants of the Great Divine Priest of South Sea?

The Divine Halls of West-Hill were the core of the Taoism world . Led by the Hierarch, there were three Great Divine Priests in charge of the Light, Revelation and Judgement Departments . The Hierarch ran the governing body . The Great Divine Priest of Revelation was in charge of taking orders from Haotian and cultivating divine priests . The Great Divine Priest of Judgment oversaw the order and executed the punishments of Taoism, sentencing rebellions and cultivators from the Devil's Doctrine . Both were powerful and respected . Only the Great Divine Priest of Light did not have any specific responsibility, yet it still held the most divine position .

The Great Divine Priest of Light was viewed as the being closest to Haotian . He ranked first among the three Great Divine Priests, and was respected almost as much as the Hierarch . It was said that over three thousand years ago, before the first year of Dazhi, the position of Hierarch did not exist in West-Hill . The Hierarch's position was later created to balance the power from the Light .

For the past thousand years, the three greatest figures of West-Hill were all from the Divine Hall of Light . The first one was the Great Divine Priest of Light who sailed to the Wilderness with the Bright Volume of the Tomes of Arcane, and consequently established the Devil's Doctrine . The latest one was Wei Guangming who, after a decade of imprisonment in the Secluded Pavilion, had come out but perished together with Yan Se .

The second and final one was the master of the Divine Hall of Light six hundred years ago . That Great Divine Priest of Light had studied in the West-Hill since childhood and was widely respected . He was introduced to the three Tomes of Arcane in Zhishou Abbey and was once believed to be the next Abbey Dean . However, no one would have predicted that after reading some of the Buddha's teaching, he was enlightened and started to amend the teachings of West-Hill .

That was an impossible mission, and was furthermore, unacceptable in Taoism . These were Haotian's teachings . How dare he amend them? At that time, both the Great Divine Priests of Judgement and Revelation did not approve his behavior . They decided that he had gone on a wrong path and their disagreements with his teaching eventually turned into a battle for power .

That Great Divine Priest of Light had reached a state that no one could compete with no matter in cultivation or debating . Even the Hierarch together with the other two Great Divine Priests could not defeat him . Therefore, there had been fierce conflicts within the Divine Halls .

When Wei Guangming fled from the Secluded Pavilion, many were sacrificed at the Peach Mountain . Prior to that, the internal turmoil six hundred years ago was the most horrifying event throughout the history of the West-Hill .

That turmoil was so destructive that it even affected Taoism's control over the human world and forced the secluded Zhishou Abbey to take a stand . But even the Abbey Dean and those most powerful figures were unable tell who was in the right . They could only make a decision based on their knowledge at that time .

They banned him from making further amendments to West-Hill's teachings and expelled him together with his followers from the Peach Mountain . But they still recognized them as a branch of the West-Hill .

That Great Divine Priest of Light had thus drifted away from the Peach Mountain and carried out his teaching in the South Sea thereafter . He swore that he would never come back again unless Haotian displayed his divine magic or the West-Hill apologized .

Ever since then, news came from the South Sea that the priest and his followers had travelled from island to island cultivating the barbarians . He was so devout that people began calling him the Great Divine Priest of South Sea . He died decades after his expulsion .

The West-Hill had always been aware of who this Great Divine Priest of South Sea was . When he died, they placed a name board for him .

That was where this Great Divine Priest of South Sea came from .

Not much was heard after his pa.s.sing . The West-Hill had thought his followers were also gone, and that after six hundred years, there was no longer such a branch in the South Sea .

Who would have expected the Great Divine Priest of South Sea to have descendants, and that they would have travelled all the way back to the Peach Mountain?

People around the altar were all shocked, especially those divine priests and deacons who knew this story . They were back after six hundred years!

Not everyone was kept from this secret that the Great Divine Priest of South Sea did have descendants . Ye Hongyu was aware that Chen Pipi's mother was a direct descendant of this Great Divine Priest . The Hierarch knew this as well .

Up in the sacred sedan covered by floating gauze, the Hierarch moved a bit forward under the radiating lights . He did not speak, nor look at this group . He just looked at Chen Pipi calmly .

Chen Pipi was half from the South Sea branch . Had they therefore come all the way to save him from being burnt as a sacrifice?