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I Can Recognize Everything, But the Information is Wrong-Chapter 270 - 234: Inviting God is Easy, Sending God Away is Hard
The sound of suona played, and the strong men of Yu Family Village hurried towards a nearby valley under the guidance of the Village Chief.
Tian Lin and Elder Ran mingled with the boys from Yu Family Village, following behind the group of adults as they entered the valley.
There was a stream in the valley, which flowed out from a cave deep within the valley.
Tian Lin noticed that from the entrance of the valley, broken iron chains continuously stretched out from the stone walls, hanging between the two sides of the valley.
These iron chains had array patterns engraved on them.
Perhaps a long time ago, the entire valley was set up as a large formation.
But this formation was later destroyed by someone, causing the iron chains to break.
What was the reason for establishing this formation, and who destroyed it?
When the group reached the entrance of the cave, the villagers of Yu Family Village divided into two lines guarding the entrance, leaving only the Village Chief and eight Foundation Establishment Cultivators to enter the cave.
Not long after, the voice of the Village Chief echoed from the cave: "Summon Lady Qianshi!"
Tian Lin's Spiritual Sense probed inside, and saw in the pitch-dark cave, eight thick iron chains directly linked to the cave were fiercely pulled in eight different directions by eight old men.
As the iron chains tensed, a red coffin-like palanquin was pulled up from the ancient pond.
Following the sound of rushing water, the sealed palanquin finally emerged dehydrated.
Moss had spread all over the exquisite carvings of the palanquin, which were covered with green plants.
The eight Foundation Establishment Cultivators, while struggling to pull the iron chains, took out large iron columns from their Storage Bags and set them up in a 'well' formation under the coffin-like palanquin.
The eight men carried the sealed palanquin, and following the Village Chief's shout of "Play music", all carried the palanquin out of the cave.
This time, no suona sounded, but drums were played at the entrance.
Leading the way were suona and drum teams, with eight villagers carrying Lady Qianshi's large palanquin in the middle.
And lastly, Tian Lin and other children from Yu Family Village followed.
The procession left the valley, banging gongs and drums towards Yu Family Village.
However, midway, the group from Yu Family Village unexpectedly encountered an Undead carrying a coffin.
Elder Ran and Tian Lin exchanged glances, both somewhat surprised.
Within a few short days, they had encountered Undead carrying coffins twice.
Although this occurred every year in the land of mass burial, it had never been so frequent.
An Undead carrying a coffin, the deceased was at least a Golden Core powerhouse during their lifetime.
And it must be from a major clan of the land of mass burial to afford such a procession of a hundred corpses.
"It's the Hu family!"
One of the villagers from Yu Family Village said: "What should we do, the old ancestor of the Hu family has died, should we give way to them?"
The Village Chief of Yu Family Village shook his head: "Although our Yu family cannot compare to the Hu family, there's no reason for Lady Qianshi to make way for the Hu family. Keep moving."
After he spoke, he still instructed the band to continue moving forward.
As the people of Yu Family Village advanced, the Undead carrying the Red Coffin stepped back.
Finally, after covering a bit more than a mile, when the villagers carrying the palanquin reached Yu Family Village, the Undead procession of the Hu family could continue on their way.
Tian Lin understood in his heart, the Undead had no consciousness, how could they possibly make way for the villagers of Yu Family Village?
It must be Lady Qianshi inside the palanquin, forcing those Undead and the Walking Corpse inside the Red Coffin to unavoidably make way.
If he could possess such a divine effigy, wouldn't he roam the land of mass burial as if it were uninhabited?
Thinking this way, Tian Lin followed Elder Ran to the Goddess Temple of Lady Qianshi in Yu Family Village.
Summoning Lady Qianshi back to the village from the ancient cave, though they encountered the coffin-carrying Undead on the way, fortunately, there were no mishaps.
The ritual of worshipping the deity had thus proceeded through half its course.
The Village Chief breathed a sigh of relief and with a smile said to the people: "Now it's time to invite Lady Qianshi to descend from the palanquin, let everyone line up in two rows to offer incense to Lady Qianshi."
An old villager began arranging people to line up according to age, naturally excluding Tian Lin and Elder Ran, the outsiders.
Thus, they watched the eight men who carried the palanquin place it on a stone platform.
One of the old men massaged his sore shoulders and said looking at the large palanquin: "It's strange, the palanquin was only in the water pond for less than two days, yet it's covered with so much green vegetation and moss.
Moreover, the weight seems not quite right."
The smile on the Village Chief froze, he also sensed something was amiss.
Then an old villager took out a wooden knife from his Storage Bag and gently scraped off the green vegetation and moss from the large palanquin, revealing an ancient wooden palanquin.
The wooden palanquin was certainly not ordinary wood, but the patterns on it had rotted away.
The structure of this large palanquin was the same as that of Lady Qianshi's, but the patterns on it were completely different.
Tian Lin and Elder Ran approached, and after a quarter of an hour's effort, the villagers finally cleaned up the green plants and moss on the sedan.
On the sedan, apart from the strange markings, there were also images of toddlers.
"This, this seems to be the large sedan from the Chaotic Burial Forest!"
After a village elder said this, he looked uncertainly at the Village Chief and asked, "Clan Leader, do you remember the Chaotic Burial Forest we visited when we were young?"
The Village Chief's face turned rather grim as he said, "How could I forget? If I remember correctly, the forest used to be a village which faced our Yu Family Village from east and west.
And this sedan, it was the main sedan of that old village. The god idols inside the sedan were also their Tribute deities.
Unfortunately, later on, the people of that village all died, turning the village into the Chaotic Burial Forest. The sedan was left behind in the village, and no one maintained the god idols."
After saying this, he further questioned, "But why on earth would the sedan from the Chaotic Burial Forest appear in Lady Qianshi's cave mansion?"
He swept his gaze over the crowd, but no one present could answer his question.
The Village Chief made a decisive decision, saying, "Lift the sedan, and send it away."
Following the Chief's order, the eight elderly men who had yet to rest had no choice but to kneel and move their shoulders under the four iron pillars.
But even with all their strength, the eight men couldn't straighten their bodies or lift the sedan at all.
The four large iron pillars were bent by them, yet the sedan remained motionless on the stone platform.
The Village Chief's face became even uglier, and he personally took action, gathering his True Qi to lift one end of the sedan.
However, even with his Golden Core Cultivation, he couldn't move the sedan at all.
The sedan, simple as it appeared, felt like a massive mountain pressing down on everyone's hearts.
Elder Ran looked towards Tian Lin and whispered, "Could we be this unlucky? I finally got a chance to see Lady Qianshi, and then this mess happens."
Tian Lin shook his head and whispered back, "We probably shouldn't stay here for long. Let's find an opportunity to bid farewell to your uncle."
"Who is it? Who is trying to harm the people of Yu Family Village?"
The Village Chief, seeing that he couldn't move the sedan, could only grimly give up.
He once again scanned the crowd and said:
"This sedan was in the Chaotic Burial Forest but couldn't have moved to Lady Qianshi's ancient pond without reason. There must be someone bearing a grudge against our Yu Family Village, who secretly switched the deities and hid this god in Lady Qianshi's ancient pond to mislead us."
Strictly speaking, the Village Chief himself bore some responsibility for this situation.
If they had carefully inspected the sedan when lifting it, they might have noticed something unusual about it.
But they were so accustomed to conducting these divine ceremonies annually that they merely went through the 'motions' without due diligence.
Ironically, along the way, they were obstructed by an Undead from the Hu family, which diverted the attention of the villagers and those carrying the sedan.
Now that the sedan was already in the village, the deity inside refused to leave. The crowd realized the situation was amiss, but it was already too late to regret.
"There's a saying, 'It's easy to invite gods but hard to send them off.' Now that we have invited this deity, and it refuses to leave, the Village Chief needs to think of a solution soon."
A village elder gave a reminder, and the Village Chief promptly decided, "Let's leave the sedan here. Everyone else, follow me back to the ancient pond to invite Lady Qianshi back."
"Then, is Lady Qianshi's sedan still in the ancient pond?"
Someone asked this question, to which the Village Chief replied:
"Lady Qianshi is different from this unknown deity. She has been worshipped by our Yu Family for a thousand years, and it's very difficult for someone not from our village to take her away from the ancient pond."
Seeing this, the men had no choice but to blow their suonas and head towards a distant valley outside the village. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
But this time, Tian Lin and Elder Ran did not accompany them; as the sky was getting dark, Tian Lin did not plan to stay overnight in Yu Family Village.
Moreover, the appearance of this unknown deity was extremely odd, just as the Village Chief said, surely someone was plotting against their Yu Family Village.
It would indeed be rare to witness two deities fighting once Lady Qianshi was invited back.
But when gods fight, mortals suffer; Tian Lin didn't dare risk watching such a spectacle.
He and his companion hastily took their leave from Elder Ran's aunt, then quickly headed back to Huilong Village before it got dark.
Zhou Jin, hearing about Tian Lin's experiences, couldn't help but exclaim how thrilling it was, regretting not having joined Tian Lin in this adventure.
Zhou Mengjiao felt somewhat regretful for Tian Lin, saying, "That ginseng soup must have been quite extraordinary; it's a pity Tian didn't have a sip, wasting such an opportunity."
She changed the topic and asked Tian Lin, "But what Secret Technique are you cultivating that prevents you from eating meat?"
Tian Lin found it difficult to explain why he didn't drink the ginseng soup, especially with Elder Ran still by his side.
He could only give an evasive response, "If you're interested in this Secret Technique, Senior Sister Zhou, we can discuss it more after we return to our sect."
Zhou Mengjiao's expression turned cold, thinking Tian Lin wanted to use this as an excuse to spend time alone with her, and she turned her head, no longer inquiring further.
On the other hand, Zhang Rou, who didn't care what Secret Technique Tian Lin was practicing, couldn't help saying:
"It's strange, who would have invited that unknown deity out from the Chaotic Burial Forest and placed it in the ancient pond?
Inviting a stone deity isn't something that can be done just by saying so. The person who switched them must be extraordinarily powerful."