Chapter 13

His exclamation was loud, but at this moment, no one cared.

Almost everyone raised their heads and looked at the rapidly dimming sky. In the pupils of the people of the empire, countless flying scrolls and gathered dark clouds were reflected.

Clouds came from all directions and in a few breaths, they piled up over Kyoto.

The last second was still clear.

In a blink of an eye, the sky was covered with dark clouds.

How could this make people not shocked or afraid?

“Roar!!”

At the moment when countless exclamations of surprise rang out, a roar that seemed to originate from the stars emerged without warning.

The voice was heavy and majestic.

At this moment, it covered 300,000 square kilometers of the mainland.

Not only Kyoto, the entire empire, countless cities, counties, and millions of people were all stirred by this strange noise at this moment.

They raised their heads and looked up at the sky with uncertainty.

In some other areas, people had personally witnessed the wonders of dark clouds in the sky suddenly rolling towards the center of the country.

“What happened?”

“The clouds are moving far away!”

Countless people were puzzled, but no one could give a proper answer.

In contrast, at the source of the roar, the vast Kyoto clearly perceives the terrifying majesty contained in it.

At this moment, in all of Kyoto, countless soldiers and civilians stopped their movements.

In the streets and alleys, people who walked stopped one after another, and in the inns and houses, there were also surprised faces.

Taochuan River.

A well-dressed dancer held the empty flower basket, raised her face, and looked at the sky that was darkened in an instant. The countless thick clouds that rolled up caused her pupils to be filled with shock.

Patter

Suddenly, her head became slightly wet and she raised her hand in amazement to touch. She whispered, “It’s raining…?”

The clouds that were forcibly restrained by Lin Tuo gathered in one place, dark and heavy, and thick steam was brewing immediately, and there were sporadic raindrops falling.

There were endless ripples on the Taochuan River.

…

‘It seems my rain is too heavy.’ Lin Tuo stood beside the sand table, looking at the black cloud in front of him, he couldn’t help but think.

‘Alright, I won’t make heavy rain. The emperor and his officals might move away.’ Muttering in his heart, Lin Tuo quickly retracted his arms and waved away a part of the cloud, letting the torrential rain disappear.

Then he turned his attention back to the Memorial Ceremony.

…

In the West Garden.

In the sky, after Lin Tuo’s rain fell, the rumbling noise increased.

Although the heaviest part of the rain hadn’t set, the dark sky still flashed with lightning.

Immediately, there was continuous thunder.

The dense light rain fell down and wind blew across the entire garden. The trees swayed, the flags fluttered, and there was a dead silence. No one spoke, the air still filled with an undispersed majestical aura.

“Look! The fire is going out!”

In the silent atmosphere, someone suddenly pointed to the altar and shouted in horror.

People immediately looked at it and saw that inside the bronze cauldron, the burning flame weakened in the dense rain and then went out.

In a blink of an eye, only wisps of black smoke floated.

Dead silence.

No matter how you looked at it, the great cauldron of worshipping the gods went out in the rain.

Especially, combined with this sudden change in the sky…

“Could it be…God is angry?”

This thought arose in everyone’s hearts, and everyone’s complexion became extremely bad.

Suddenly, a ceremonial priest shouted, then knelt to the ground, shivering.

The rest of the ministers and the tens of thousands of people around him woke up from shock and then they fell to the ground. It was a magnificent sight.

Even the emperor was no exception.

In their opinion, the scene before them was really difficult to explain with coincidence, the only possibility was that they have offended God.

However, compared to the frightened courtiers, the young emperor in the center of the altar raised his head first after kneeling and looking up into the sky with a fearful and determined expression:

“I don’t know what I did to anger you, please answer, God!”

In truth, he was puzzled!

Since he was enthroned, he wasn’t a particularly notable emperor, but he could also be regarded as a textbook example for diligence, reforms, and class. Although there he had made no great achievements, his career wasn’t shameful.

He didn’t understand why God would lower His might.

His voice was not loud, and in the wind and rain, he couldn’t spread too far. In fact, even if Lin Tuo listened carefully, he couldn’t hear what the emperor was saying.

Fortunately, as a “god”, Lin Tuo didn’t need to listen.

…

Lin Tuo didn’t even look at the altar at the moment. Instead, he put down his head and stared at the cumulonimbus cloud without saying a word. After a while, he raised his hand and pinched a brush he had prepared in advance.

After touching the ink, he immediately spread his left hand and slowly wrote a few characters in the palm of his hand.

Of course, he wrote it in the language of the Chi Dynasty.

The Universal Language Technique not only helped him quickly master the spoken language of this sandbox country, but he also learned the words.

Lin Tuo’s handwriting was not excellent, but among ordinary people, it was considered above average.

This was because handwriting was something that his grandpa forced him to practice when he was young.

After a short while, Lin Tuo collected his pen, gently dried the ink stains, and then looked towards the sandbox.

‘My limbs are not visible in the sandbox. But, handwriting can show up, right?’

As he thought this, he raised his hand and pressed against the dark clouds that enveloped Kyoto.

…

At the same time.

On the Memorial Ceremony altar, wind and rain from all directions struck each other. The rain wet the dragon robe of Emperor Chi. However, his gaze was still firm while gazing at God.

Even the countless thunders in the thick cloud seemed to be unstoppable.

He was puzzled.

“Your Majesty… You…” Below, an elderly official finally couldn’t help but try to speak.

However, before he could utter his words, he heard countless exclamations!

“Ah! Look!”

“What is that?!”

“The manifestation of God! It is the manifestation of God!”

The cries were used from all over the garden, and in the blink of an eye, the otherwise dead crowd boiled.

“What?”

Hundreds of people looked up in amazement and looked towards the sky. In the next second, everyone, regardless of their official position and age, without exception, opened their mouths. Their eyes widened, and they couldn’t utter a word.

They saw that the rolling thick clouds suddenly became disturbed, like water boiling. Then rays of dazzling golden light broke through the clouds, illuminating the earth.

The golden light was not blazing, but it outlined a huge and weird outline.

And within that light, there was actually four extremely huge words that seemed to be visible to the whole world.

…

Taochuan River.

The sun piercing the clouds shone across the banks.

The strong wind blew the peach blossoms all over the sky.

However, no one could appreciate that.

Everyone stared at the sky in a daze, the incomparably huge words as if they were written by a fairy, shocked everyone inexplicably.

Many people fell on their knees in the street and bowed down.

“What is written?” Some people who didn’t recognize the words looked around blankly and tried to ask.

Immediately, the people heard someone startled in a tone of voice:

“Saint! To! South! East!”

When those words were heard, Kyoto was in an uproar.

…

“Saint to the southeast!”

Memorial Ceremony.

When Lin Tuo’s palm fell, the mouth of the elderly civil servant also said these four words tremblingly, and his gray beard was chaotic like weeds in the wind.

His old eyes released a bright light of excitement.

“Saint from the southeast!” The ceremonial officer in charge of the sacrificial ritual also read aloud the four characters across the sky.

“Saint out of the southeast!” Another minister could not hide his excitement, and he looked at the emperor excitedly as if he had been greatly stimulated:

“Your Majesty! This… is not the anger of God! It is the enlightenment! It is the enlightenment given to us by God!”

The center of the altar.

Emperor Chi also stared blankly at the beautiful and bright words in the sky, inside he was shocked.

The sacrificial document was burned to pray to God. They wished for God to give enlightenment and instruct the world.

The meaning of the four words “Saint To South East” was very clear.

“God’s decree, heaven descends from a saint! In the last century of Chi…Was there a saint?” Chi Di muttered, his body trembling uncontrollably.

The ancients said:

“Whenever there’s a catastrophe, there must also be a saint.”

Chi Dynasty had been in peace for a hundred years and there was no disaster. At this moment, God was giving orders. Is it possible this was to usher in a flourishing age of prosperity?

Thinking of this, Chi Di couldn’t calm down anymore. He suddenly got up and looked to the southeast. His eyes were piercing and he couldn’t hide his excitement.

“God has descended with His decree! God has blessed the country! The Royal Army must obey the order! Be prepared, march southeast and seek the saint!”

“Yes!”

For a time, soldiers and officials alike felt like they were part of something huge now. Their bodies pumping.

No one noticed a young man with a smile in the ocean of people under the altar.

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Run log:

[Chi Dynasty, spring of the 561st year, a ceremony to worship God. God manifested himself as the wind and clouds and passed down His decree.]

[The next day, the emperor passed the decree and the world shook.]

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