Chapter 557 - Oblation to The Heaven and Earth (1/2)

"Xin Huo, will your sacrificial array formation be seen through by her?", Zhong Yue watched as the altars were activated and his heart tensed up in anxiousness.

Xin Huo laughed and comforted, "Don't worry, definitely not! This sacrificial array formation is not a simple one. It has a name, it's called the [Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art]. When conventionally used, it will extract the energy in the heaven and earth and sacrifice the energy to remedy the wounds or help in increasing the cultivation base. While when used inversely, it is the energy of the user that will be extracted out, which means, whoever is in the array formation, they will be sacrificed to the heaven and earth!"

Zhong Yue nodded softly, his goal was to let Mother Da Zhen place the array formation and sacrifice herself!

Although Mother Da Zhen was just a step away from death, she was way too cautious. Even still able to think of testing our the array formation before she enters it.

The [Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art] was cast to the end by Mother Da Zhen. The energy of the heaven and earth has funneled down in the center and lightened up the totem patterns carved on the altars.

The altars glimmered brighter. Suddenly, the totem patterns engraved on the altars hovered into mid-air and flashed toward the center faster than lightnings!

In the center, the pity native creature that was thrown in here by Mother Da Zhen crawled on the ground. Its huge tail curled around the body while the totem patterns surged right into its body.

The creature was engulfed in great terror but its body was growing at an incredible rate. The muscles were bulging out and its psyche was also growing at an amazing speed!

Monstrous Qi started to burgeon within its body. In just the drop of a hat, it has turned into a monster beast and was advancing into becoming a monster cultivator!

Not long after, the native creature was already over forty feet tall; huge like a small hill while suffused with the monster Qi!

Mother Da Zhen was shocked and overjoyed at the same time. While even Zhong Yue was also filled with surprise, he mumbled, "Xin Huo, your this [Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art] is really amazing. With this array formation, wouldn't one be able to easily ascend into deityhood!"

Xin Huo shook his head and laughed in answer, "How can it be so easy? This art doesn't borrow the power from the heaven and earth, it steals. There is a huge difference between the two, what's borrowed needed to be returned, but what's stole will be yours forever. It may sounds real tempting now, but when the consequences comes right after, you will be stormed by the raging nature. Unless you can pull it through, else you'd die for sure."

"Steal the power of heaven and earth? Consequences?", Zhong Yue startled and asked, "What consequences?"

As he finished his words, a flash of lightning made a beautiful arc across the sky and within a split second, struck right on the creature's head. A wave of smoke rose from the center of the altars while a charred object was left on the ground!

"That's the consequences, it's call the Karmic Retributions.", Xin Huo explains, "Steal the power from the heaven and earth, and you will have to face with the Karmic Retributions. Even if you can escape it now, you still have to face it in the future. Sometimes, it comes at the most unexpected timing and ways. It might not even happen on you personally, but your family and those who you cared for.

"The creator of this [Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art] has been evading the Karmic Retributions for all his life. He was a true talent, quite the brightest star among his peers and he has many strong and amazing means up in his sleeves. Yet, his friends and families have all died in all kinds of horrible ways. Until the later days in his life, his last wife has give birth to a son. In order to protect his last son, he reversed the art and sacrificed himself to the heaven and earth. It was only because of that his son was able to grow peacefully."

Zhong Yue suddenly thought of something and beseeched in great fear, "But the Qi Practitioners have cultivated the energy of heaven and earth into their cultivation base, that is also stealing. Would it bring the Karmic Retributions to us?"

Xin Huo shook back placidly, "The Qi Practitioners can be said as stealing but also borrowing at the same time. Cultivation is on a different category as the stealing arts like [Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art]. The Qi Practitioners have a limited lifespan on them, even if they have ascend into the deityhood, they would still die eventually. While after their deaths, their cultivation base will dispersed away into the heaven and earth, thus returning what's borrowed. But that'll be different if you are asking for eternity, the consequences that follows will even kill the Heavenly Monarchs."

Zhong Yue nodded softly, "If the mother god has recovered to the peak state, she might be able to evade the Karmic Retributions for some time now. It's still better we reverse the array formation and sacrifice her right away!"

While Mother Da Zhen was in great joy, she blew the charred creature into ashes and she stood at the center herself.  The lamp god is not lying to me. This array of altars can really recover my wounds to the peak state! However, what's with that sudden flash of lightning?

That flash of lightning was so quick that even she couldn't see where it came from. And the fact that the lightning strike was directed on the creature has gave rise to a little discomfort in her.

Nevertheless, Mother Da Zhen had let go of her suspicions and activated the altars again. Zhong Yue's heart tensed in anxiousness.

The altars brightened up in rays and the energy of the heaven and earth has funnelled down on the altars. Totem patterns glimmered and swarmed into the body of the mother god.

This time, it was at a larger scale. The energy of heaven and earth from a few tens of thousand miles were dragged over and turned into a huge swirl above the altars. The energies were compressed to near solid form and cascaded down on the mother god!

Mother Da Zhen felt an endless wave of energy surging into her body. It was so pure, so abundant and was entering her body so quickly!

The lamp god wasn't lying! Not only that he didn't lie to me, he just imparted me with a quick way to get strong!

The mother god was in joy and shock, she let out a shrill whistle out of extreme happiness,  With this art, I will have no fear against the Ancestral Star gods! Soon, I will be able to return to my peak state and even breakthrough to become the new mother queen!

As she was just thinking about it, the copper lamp's lamp lid has opened. Zhong Yue flashed out and stamped his hands on the floor. Immediately, totem patterns crawled out on the floor like spiderwebs. They were weaving together and paved all across the altars in just seconds, forming a new array formation above the altars!

"Reverse!", Zhong Yue yelled loudly. The totem patterns that covered the altars started glimmering in rays and reversed the altars' totem patterns. The array formation he just placed was imparted to him by Xin Huo, it exactly used to reverse the [Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art]!

Xin Huo has left out a crucial part in the [Heaven and Earth Sacrificial Art] that was imparted to Mother Da Zhen, all just for this moment!

At the instant the totem patterns array formation placed by Zhong Yue was activated. The totem patterns engraved on the altars started to correspond to them as well. The flow of energy that was cascading down from the sky stalled for a second and moved in the opposite direction right after!