"Rustle, rustle, rustle."
Willow Deity saw endless stars lighting up one after another. The Great Dao thundered ceaselessly in her ears; the voices of heaven and earth rang out, and the Great Dao chanted. True Immortals expounded the Dao, and Immortal Kings debated its laws. She herself began to glow faintly as countless fragments of memory awakened. Things she had forgotten gradually returned to her-far too many memories, and countless cycles of nirvana rebirth.
She was the Ancestral Sacrificial Spirit. She had once pioneered the cultivation method of an Era Calendar: the Sacrificial Spirit method.
Even after endless ages, after blue seas became mulberry fields, heaven and earth grew old, oceans dried up and stones crumbled, and everything and everyone had changed, living beings still remembered her, praying and offering sacrifices.
A mysterious power blessed the sacred materials prepared for the baptism. Both the venerable divine essence and the medicinal essence of the Sacred Fruit glowed faintly, enveloped in a shimmering, multicolored radiance.
Willow Deity was intensely curious. She had already refined all these materials through sacrificial rites. They contained boundless fortune without harming anyone's foundations, yet unexpectedly, they could be enhanced again this time.
In fact, the War Goddess and Xiao Xun'er had both used similar treasures consecrated through sacrifice. In principle, activating them a third time would damage some of their innate potential, but wasn't Willow Deity here?
Since they had already thickened their skins and troubled Willow Deity once, they might as well make the most of the benefits. With her administering their baptism, she certainly would not let such a thing happen.
Once the changes subsided, Willow Deity acted directly, extending five willow branches to draw out the various essences for each of them.
The various essences hung from the willow branches like vast oceans, turning