Canglan River: Foundation Establishment
Taian Prefecture
The Canglan River.
This is the blessed land that Gao Yunyi chose for Foundation Establishment.
This great river meanders through the land, like a jade belt around the waist, surrounded by mountains, and Spiritual Qi of the dragon vein of heaven and earth.
This is considered an extremely auspicious location in Feng Shui.
All right,
That's all nonsense he's making up.
He knows absolutely nothing about feng shui.
Select here,
Mainly, he was too lazy to look anymore.
The only decent scenery in this area is this large river.
In the game, after a character completes the Foundation Establishment Pill Quest, all they need to do is refine the Foundation Establishment Pill and consume it to directly Foundation Establishment.
But now in reality,
Who knows what will happen during the Foundation Establishment Realm?
This game has been modified far too much.
What if hundreds of bolts of lightning or a meteorite suddenly strike during the Foundation Establishment process?
Just to be on the safe side,
Gao Yunyi still chose to Foundation Establishment in a remote place surrounded by mountains and beneath a large river.
The Foundation Establishment Pill has already been refined.
It looks like a traditional Chinese medicine pill called Liuwei Dihuang Wan.
It was pitch black, with a strange pattern on its surface.
Just one glance is enough to give the impression of kidney yin deficiency, causing lower back and leg weakness.
Right,
That's right.
I'm talking about you guys.
The middle section of the Canglan River is surrounded by mountains and steep cliffs. It is a place with no shops or villages in sight.
Gao Yunyi refused to believe it.
Hidden at the bottom of this secluded river, what kind of trouble could he possibly cause?
Maybach was released.
It hovers above this body of water, monitoring and expelling any unstable entities within a ten-mile radius.
It's a pity that Bai Suzhen can only be tamed after reaching the Foundation Establishment Realm; otherwise, she could be added to the Spirit Pet Slot and taken to this great river.
There are Golden Cranes in the sky.
There is a white snake in the water.
This is true absolute certainty.
Entering the water,
Slightly cool.
A slight ripple appeared on the river's surface, but it was quickly smoothed out by the gentle breeze.
Underwater,
The water was crystal clear and bottomless.
It was even more secluded Gao Yunyi had imagined.
Very good,
He liked it very much.
Actually, he couldn't swim before, nor did he ever think about learning, because he hated the oppressive and suffocating feeling in the water.
But things are different now.
He doesn't need to breathe, nor can he feel the water pressure; even if he can't swim, he can move freely in the water.
A school of fish swam past in front of me.
The water spread across my fingertips.
Like sleeping on a waterbed that covers your whole body.
This feeling,
Free and easy, relaxed and comfortable.
Descent
It grew increasingly profound.
Almost no light could pass through.
The dark and deep underwater world is like a strange and bizarre otherworld.
This water is too deep.
More than a hundred feet,
It resembles a vast ocean.
Gao Yunyi's eyes were deep and penetrating, allowing him to see as clearly as in daylight, even in the dark.
Even in the dim and murky depths of the water, the view is as clear and distinct as in broad daylight, taking in everything.
There seem to be buildings at the bottom of the river.
This was something Gao Yunyi hadn't expected.
Driven by interest
He stopped slowly descending and instead, his body shimmered with light, and his figure appeared on the riverbed the next second.
It really is a building.
It resembles both a village and a small town.
These buildings had been submerged for who knows how many years; the beams were rotten, the bricks and tiles were broken, and they were completely lifeless.
Standing firm at the bottom of this hundred-foot river,
It's like a gloomy and terrifying ghost town.
It must be that this great river suddenly changed course due to some unforeseen circumstances, submerging the original villages and towns, which led to this amazing underwater spectacle.
This scene seems somewhat familiar.
Gao Yunyi seemed to have seen it in that horror novel before.
That novel also seems to feature an underwater ancient city.
It seems to be called...
Baijia Town.
Just as I thought of this,
He looked up and saw an old, dilapidated archway standing before him.
The large characters on the plaque are somewhat blurry.
But it is still faintly recognizable.
[Baijia Town]
Gao Yunyi: "..."
Is it really such a coincidence?!
This actually made him a little scared.
This underwater ancient city,
Could there really be ghosts?
You see, he's terrified of ghosts and such.
Rumble--
A terrifying bolt of lightning descended from the sky, piercing through hundreds of feet of water, and shattered the already decaying archway into pieces.
Alright,
I'm not afraid anymore.
I don't know Lady Baijia in Baijia Town.
Can we withstand one of his thunderbolts?
I took a stroll around the underwater ancient town.
It is a pity,
The Lady Baijia was not found.
There wasn't even a small fish or shrimp.
Gao Yunyi found the best and most spacious house.
He then designated this house and courtyard as the site for his Foundation Establishment.
Actually, if you look at it from another angle,
Isn't this also a blessed land, a secluded and spiritual place?
Sit cross-legged.
He took out the Foundation Establishment Pill.
Swallow directly.
No unusual phenomena occurred.
Only a progress bar appeared below the eyes.
Three text prompts appeared on the progress bar.
[In the process of Foundation Establishment]
That's it?
Gao Yunyi felt somewhat disappointed, as if all his previous preparations had been in vain.
The progress bar during Foundation Establishment is so slow.
Like a crawling snail, it doesn't move an inch for ages.
Gao Yunyi's lips twitched slightly.
I simply stopped thinking randomly, closed my eyes, focused my mind, and concentrated on the One.
I entered Meditative Samadhi state.
A semi-transparent light shield surrounded him, with a faint white halo flowing and dissipating.
Within this dark, ancient city at the bottom of the hundred-zhang river,
Like a bright moon,
Brilliant and dazzling.
Ten days later, in Baijia Town, more than ten miles away,
A grand, solemn, and lively sacrificial ceremony is underway.
The Shaman Priest, with disheveled hair, wore a bronze Nuo mask, a black robe with red patterns, and held a pale white bone staff.
They sang a folk song about River Sacrifice Ballad, and danced the River Nuo Dance.
Rituals for worshipping deities,
It should be sacred and solemn.
But at this moment, it was filled with an eerie and sinister atmosphere.
This is because it is not a traditional God-Sacrificing Ceremony of the Central Plains, but a river worship ceremony unique to Baijia Town.
Baijia Town relies on the Canglan River, where generations have lived for hundreds of years.
They do not worship Orthodox God deities, nor Buddhas or Bodhisattvas.
Rather, it is the River God.
The River God of the Canglan River.
Those Orthodox God deities, Buddhas, and Bodhisattvas might be fake.
However, the River God of the Canglan River is real.
Their original home wasn't actually here; the entire town was moved here because the river changed course a hundred years ago.
If it weren't for the River God's divine decree, their ancestors would have been submerged along with the Baijia Town by the raging flood.
From then on,
The River God of the Canglan River is the only deity worshipped in Baijia Town.
This gradually gave rise to a unique sacrificial culture specific to their Baijia Town.
The River God's Marriage.
They selected a beautiful, unmarried young woman to offer as a wife to the River God, hoping to bless Baijia Town with favorable weather and abundant harvests.
But everyone knows in their hearts,
Ming was getting married.
It was truly a sacrifice.
However, this kind of sacrificial ritual that uses living people as offerings,
The event is held annually in Baijia Town.