Unparalleled in the world

Chapter 21: Ceremony of Ancestor Worship

The two horses had just rushed out a hundred feet when suddenly a strong wind whistled past them. The two saw a black light rushing straight towards the city gate. The speed of the dry firewood dragon was so fast that they couldn't even see the figure of Ye Xu on the horse's back!

"What a beast that eats beef!"

Zhou Shiwen sighed and hurriedly whipped his horse and rushed out of the city gate. He saw that the dry firewood dragon had already run away without a trace.

Where the horse ran, large pits appeared on the ground, about two feet away. It was the dry firewood dragon's horse hooves that stepped down, and the power was so amazing that the ground soil exploded!

"…Is this a horse or a dragon?"

Zhou Shiwen cursed angrily, patted the head of the charcoal colt, and muttered: "Horses that don't eat grass and only eat veal are strong! I will feed you several hundred kilograms of beef tonight, and try to catch up with that broken horse!"

The charcoal colt understood human nature a little bit, and stopped suddenly after hearing this, almost throwing him out, and snorted in dissatisfaction.

"Dead horse, stinky horse, why don't you hurry up?" Zhou Shiwen shouted angrily, and the charcoal colt became stubborn and refused to move.

Fang Chen laughed loudly, rushed past him, and turned back to say: "Brother Zhou, it seems that you will be the last one!"

Zhou Shiwen was furious, suddenly jumped off the horse, leaned under the horse's belly, and lifted the charcoal colt with both hands. He strode towards Fang Chen and cursed: "...I used to ride you, now it's your turn to ride me!"

The charcoal colt weighed a thousand pounds, but it was as light as a feather in Zhou Shiwen's hands. His pace was as fast as a good horse. People couldn't help but admire his amazing brute force!

Ye Xu sat on the back of Gan Chai Jiao, and the strong wind blew in his face, causing a dull pain. He had to lean over and stick to the horse's back. He saw things passing by on both sides, and he couldn't see clearly with his eyesight. He was surprised and happy in his heart: "You can't judge a person by appearance, and you can't judge a horse by appearance! This horse, which is as thin as a piece of dry firewood, must be a hybrid of a dragon and a horse! The owner of Ma Sanbao is worthy of being a horse expert. It's ridiculous that no one of my Ye family can see the strangeness of this Gan Chai Jiao. They all regard it as an inferior horse and no one is willing to ride it!"

The ancestral temple of Liuzhou is on the left bank of Qingshui River, about six or seven miles away from Liuzhou City. With the strength of Gan Chai Jiao, he arrived near the ancestral temple in a few breaths, which can be called lightning speed!

Ye Xu reined in the horse, asked Gan Chai Jiao to slow down, and took out a piece of veal weighing two or three pounds from the backpack. Gan Chai Jiao immediately grabbed the beef, swallowed it in a few mouthfuls, and waggled his tail docilely.

The young man in blue shirt looked up and saw that the Temple of Heaven for Ancestral Worship was already overcrowded, and people from the three great witch families were everywhere, clearly divided.

Some of these people were descendants of the royal family who participated in the hunting festival, and some were high-ranking officials of the three great families, responsible for presiding over the ancestral worship ceremony. Even the highest authority of the three great families was among them!

The Temple of Heaven for Ancestral Worship in Liuzhou worships the common ancestor of the Miao and Jiuli Miao people, the witch ancestor Chi Qi Great Demon!

According to legend, this Chi Qi Great Demon has four heads and eight arms. He was an unparalleled strong man in the ancient ignorant and wild period, with great magical powers and witchcraft!

Chi Qi Great Demon competed with the then Juntian Emperor for the position of the Emperor of Heaven, was defeated and died, and his corpse turned into towering mountains, his blood turned into rivers, his breath turned into clouds, and his tears turned into rain.

The ancestors of the various tribes of the Jiuli Miao people were born from Chi Qi's corpse, multiplied and became the various tribes of Jiuli today!

Things in ancient times have long been untraceable, so the authenticity of this legend cannot be verified, but the tradition of worshipping the witch ancestor Chi Qi has been passed down in Miaojiang.

Ye Xu drove his horse into the crowd, and countless eyes fell on him, and there were discussions everywhere.

"This waste is here too? Isn't his meridian broken and his cultivation lost?"

"Does he also want to participate in the hunting festival? With his current strength, he can't even beat ordinary people. Going to Baiman Mountain to hunt is to die!"

"Maybe this kid has collapsed, and he doesn't dare to commit suicide, so he has to ask the monster to eat him to avoid embarrassment!"

Ye Xu turned a deaf ear to him, but saw the mansion lord Ye Sidao walking towards this side, and Ma Sanbao followed him closely.

Ye Xu quickly got off the horse and bowed, saying: "Mansion lord!"

Ye Sidao looked him up and down several times, with a look of surprise in his eyes.

Ye Xu felt that his eyes were like torches, as if he could see through his body, his internal organs, and even his inner thoughts!

He could not hide the fact that his injuries had healed and his cultivation had gradually recovered!

"You are very good. I was going to give you something, but now it seems that it is not necessary." Ye Sidao smiled and turned back to the altar.

Ye Xu blinked and wondered, "Did the mansion master come to see me just to praise me? And what did the mansion master want to give me?"

Ye Sidao returned to the altar, as if he had put down a big stone in his heart, with a smile on his face, nodding to everyone, attracting everyone's attention.

"Ye Sidao, this bastard is crazy, he actually smiled at me, is he mocking me for losing to him that year?" An old man in a fiery red robe said in his heart with a flickering look in his eyes.

Another grey-robed old man on the altar blinked and smiled to his attendant: "Ye Sidao always has a blank expression on his face, which made me think he had some strange disease and his facial muscles were stiff! What's wrong with him today? He actually smiled... His smile is so ugly!"

Ye Sidao walked to the seat of the Ye family and sat down, still smiling.

Ma Sanbao stood behind him and whispered: "Why is the master so happy?"

"My Ye family has a successor, so we are naturally happy."

Ye Sidao turned back and glared at him, smiling and saying, "What a Ma Sanbao, you have kept it a secret from me!"

Ma Sanbao was shocked. Ye Sidao said that he undoubtedly regarded Ye Xu as his successor. He smiled bitterly and said, "Seventh Master doesn't allow me to spread it, and the Lord of the Palace didn't ask, so Sanbao naturally didn't dare to mention it. Lord of the Palace, I wonder what you want to give Seventh Master?"

Ye Sidao turned his palm lightly, and a small and exquisite jade box appeared in his palm. He exhaled and said, "It's this thing, but it's useless now."

"This is..."

Ye Sidao said calmly, "Tianxiang Xuming Pill."

Ma Sanbao was shocked and said in a lost voice, "Could it be the Tianxiang Xuming Pill from the Liang Wang Mansion in Qingzhou? Liang Wang regards this elixir as his life, how could it appear in the hands of the Lord of the Palace?"

There are many sorcerers in the Liang Wang Mansion in Qingzhou, and Liang Wang is a famous master of sorcery. I don't know what means Ye Sidao used to get the Tianxiang Xuming Pill from Liang Wang!

Ye Sidao laughed loudly, and suddenly he started to cough violently. His face turned pale for a moment, and then it became rosy again.

"Master, you are injured!" Ma Sanbao was shocked.

Ye Sidao waved his hand and said proudly: "This injury is nothing. I left Liuzhou a few days ago, sneaked into the Liang Wang Mansion, and took the Tianxiang Xuming Pill from the Liang Wang! The Liang Wang of Qingzhou is indeed powerful, but I am not bad either. I was injured, and he is not much better!"

Ma Sanbao was shocked. Ye Sidao had indeed disappeared for a while in the past few days. He didn't expect that he would rush to Qingzhou, thousands of miles away, break into the Liang Wang Mansion, and fight a fierce battle with the Liang Wang!

Ma Sanbao was silent for a moment and said, "Why didn't the mansion master tell the Seventh Master?"

Ye Sidao disagreed: "If his injuries had not healed, I would naturally tell him and use the Tianxiang Xuming Pill to heal him. Now that his injuries have healed, telling him about this would make me look like I'm doing him a favor?"

Ma Sanbao sighed in his heart. Ye Sidao was just like that. He was wholeheartedly for the Ye family, but he didn't want anyone to know.

After Ye Sidao left, Ye Xu felt the strange eyes of the crowd falling on him again, with envy, jealousy, hatred, hostility, and all at the same time.

Ye Xu didn't care. He had experienced ups and downs, and his state of mind had long been honed to be exquisite and thorough. Other people's eyes could not interfere with his state of mind at all.

The ancestral worship ceremony gradually came to an end, and the children of the three major families got on their horses and got ready.

There are a lot of people participating in the hunting festival today. There are more than 40 people from the Ye family, more than 30 people from the Fang family and Zhou family, and the three major families each sent two outer door managers who have reached the innate realm to protect them, totaling 120 people!

After the ancestor worship ceremony, the children of the three major families immediately set off, people like tigers, horses like dragons, roaring towards Baiman Mountain, with great momentum, smoke and dust everywhere where the horses passed!

Ye Xu followed the children of the Ye family slowly, and not far behind him were two outer door managers sent by the Ye Mansion to protect them, and Ye Li was also among them.