Apocalypse: My Sweetie Is Tough but Cute
Chapter 479 - Chapter 479 Chapter 469 Giant Python Appears

Chapter 479: Chapter 469: Giant Python Appears Chapter 479: Chapter 469: Giant Python Appears The Taoist had barely finished speaking when many people were already tempted. The ancients held deep belief in such mystical beings, feeling that witnessing one was a tremendous stroke of fortune. Thus, the General promised on the spot that, if the Taoist could make the millennia-old Giant Python appear, he would be rewarded handsomely!

If there was a way to subdue the creature and bring it back to the Capital City as an offering to the Emperor, he would establish a school in his name and make his fame known throughout the world.

To make the Giant Python appear, the Taoist calculated the time. He estimated it would be within the next seven or eight days. Roaming around Ghost Valley Ridge for the past two days, he became even more certain that the Python’s tribulation was near.

At this time, the ten children the Taoist had brought from outside became useful.

Sacrifice has always been the most effective way for the common folk to communicate with the heavens.

The accompanying Imperial Physician, upon hearing that the Taoist intended to use living children as a sacrifice to summon the Giant Python, felt a surge of pity, deeming the method too cruel. He spoke out to dissuade him, but the General’s mind was made up and would not be changed.

The local guide who led the way was completely dumbfounded at the time. As a local, he felt that the Taoist knew more than the old people in their village. He had never heard of any millennia-old Giant Python in Peng Mountain, let alone seen it.

The Taoist picked a date and, along with the General and everyone else, found a suitable place to begin the sacrifice.

Nobody understood the rites of the sacrifice, but no one dared to interrupt. If there was another person versed in the mystical arts among the crowd at that time, perhaps they would have intervened, preventing the disaster that later ensued.

But because no one understood, no one stopped the Taoist’s actions.

Five boys and five girls were tied to ten trees, blindfolded. Their skin was cut to open a wound, and their blood was drawn separately, mixed together, and placed on the altar.

The Taoist began his ritual, attempting to establish contact with the millennia-old Giant Python hidden deep in Peng Mountain.

The children’s cries of terror and their sobbing every time blood was taken startled many birds and beasts in the forest, yet there was no sign of the Giant Python.

The Taoist wasn’t in a hurry. He kept offering bowls of Yin Yang Blood, watching some of the children go into shock from excessive blood loss. The struggling villagers of Peng Village who could not bear it any longer fell to their knees one after another, knocking their heads on the ground, begging the General and the Taoist to spare the young children.

Spare them? How could he? The Taoist was determined to summon the Giant Python.

He refused to believe that the Yin Yang Blood held no allure for the Python. If one bowl didn’t work, he would discard it and start again!

After a long time, when everyone thought that nothing would happen, suddenly the sky burst into colors of the setting sun, turning everything between heaven and earth a fiery red.

Everyone shielded their eyes to look up, only to hear a thunderous boom. Countless birds took flight as the ground beneath their feet shook violently, causing everyone to run in search of trees to cling to for their lives.

Amidst the chaos, a few village men rushed forward to try and rescue the ten children tied to the trees.

But unexpectedly, a mountain split open between them, blocking their path, and right before their eyes, the ground where the children were collapsed with a thunderous crash.

In such a dire moment, the Taoist was overjoyed and did not stop his ritual, his mind set on summoning the Giant Python that was said to have lived for tens of thousands of years.

The fissure in the mountain grew larger, and as everyone was dizzied by the earthquake, a streak of flame suddenly shot up from the crevice, piercing the sky!