Chapter 381

"Two tents, you mean..."

Miss Feilian looked at her two students, her expression becoming rich at this moment, no longer that kind of terrible numbness.

Xia De looked at Miss Feilian's face; even though her lips were pale and her complexion was terrible at this moment, that unique charm was something ordinary people could never possess.

"In my era, I paid a bottle of merman's immortality elixir, found the Light-Guiding Hidden Cult, and then obtained incomplete ritual materials. This is an extremely dangerous God-Calling Ritual. You forgot one thing; in fact, the ritual has already begun."

The firelight illuminated the faces of the four "people", and Xia De's slow, deep voice continued to question. The crackling bonfire made everyone's shadows sway. The four people were in four directions, and three pitch-black shadows extended into the distance; only the shadow of the Giant Tree Witch under the tree was projected onto the trunk of the tall ancient tree:

"Miss Feilian, you said you lost a large batch of ritual materials, so can you confirm that the materials were lost, rather than already consumed?"

The witch could not answer; her memory here had also begun to become chaotic.

"Miss Feilian, you said the ritual requires the participation of witches with natural, time, and space powers. You prepared powerful relics to replace the witches, but the power of the relics was absorbed by the forest. May I ask, are you sure the power of the relics was absorbed, rather than the ritual having already begun?"

They still could not answer.

"Who is it?"

Miss Feilian's lips moved.

"It certainly isn't you; you are a real person, there is no doubt about that. I once suspected this lady."

Xia De pointed to the Moon Witch, who looked at him with slight confusion.

It was as if Xia De's arrival had brought new power to the witches; with his words, the numb souls were regaining their vitality.

"Suspecting you was because the ritual requires a witch with natural power; the existence of the Giant Tree Witch is reasonable. But later I asked... about a matter, and she told me that the position of the original librarian was, like us, the moon... From your era to our era, most librarians have been the moon."

Xia De looked at the Giant Tree Witch; she sat under the tree trunk, looking at Xia De with a tranquil smile.

Xia De lowered his head slightly to show respect:

"The ritual is divided into two parts. The first part accounts for eighty percent, using the ritual to call the god. If you only want to meet the god and have no other purpose, the ritual only proceeds to this point, and then you can send the god away."

Miss Feilian and the Moon Witch looked together at the "witch" under the tree. She gently took off her hood. Her long, slightly green hair drifted slightly with the night wind in the forest. There were some golden scars on her hair, and those marks were exceptionally bright.

"The ritual - Contact 【Yaobian Doorway】 is to call the god directly; there is no need to prepare a human body as a vessel for the saint. This leads to the fact that if you forget to send the god away, end the first step, and also do not continue to the second step of the ritual, it will lead to terrible things."

It was not that the god could not leave on its own, but the particularity of this ritual. If a mortal calls a Great One, they must send the Great One away; this is the most basic contract of this ritual. Only by performing the second stage of the ritual can the entire ritual be completed, allowing the god to stay and leave at will.

He nodded to the "Giant Tree Witch" again:

"Good evening, Giant Tree Witch, or should I say, Princess Tavier, or... the Old God - Yaobian Doorway."

Her current form of existence was very special. The reason why she did not harm mortals because of his appearance was that the true god was not the witch image in front of him, but the giant tree behind her, or inside that tree.

This point could be understood from "The Tree's Kiss".

Miss Feilian and her party actually only consisted of her and the Moon Witch. They broke into the Forest of a Thousand Trees and held the ritual, but after calling the god, because of this forest, they forgot what they had done.

The god accompanied them under this tree, beside this bonfire, and used its body to open up this clearing in the forest. It did not remind them of what had already happened, but silently helped them survive in a dangerous place. This might be because the god should have been like this, or... it just wanted to find some fun.

If the human image the god transformed into wasn't so beautiful, this would actually count as a horror story.

But this also explained Xia De's other doubts, such as the Giant Tree Witch almost never speaking and rarely participating in conversations. And before he left last time, the three witches told him the story of the god through chanting, which directly allowed him to obtain the Miracle 【Key of the Door】.

This was completely unreasonable; no matter how powerful the witches were, they were only witches. Even if they held relics, there was no reason to directly grant Xia De power. Xia De originally thought it was his good luck and that he was sensitive to the power of 【Yaobian Doorway】. Now that he thought about it, the real reason was actually that the god had told its own story.

This was just like the original 【Innocent Creator】, who allowed Xia De to obtain the Miracle 【False Immortality】 by telling its own story.

"Good evening, man from the future."

The god responded softly. As the golden light marks appeared on her slightly green hair, Xia De could no longer look directly at her.

However, he was very glad that this time he was not called "child from the future".

"So everything is clear. Miss Feilian, you have already completed the first part of the ritual, and now the second part is still missing."

Xia De shook the "Complete Collection of Ancient Deraerion Fairy Tales" in his hand:

"'The Tree's Kiss', the second step of the ritual is this."

The Moon Witch felt terrified that a god was sitting opposite her, and she stood there at a loss. Miss Feilian, like Xia De, greeted the god respectfully and then quietly moved closer to her student.

Xia De opened the book and turned to the chapter of "The Tree's Kiss":

"My version of the story is very interesting: Princess Tavier coexists with the ancient tree, finally enters the doorway on the tree trunk, and obtains the power of the ancient tree. The ritual is already very clear; we need to let the princess enter this big tree to complete the final God-Calling Ritual."

"Yes, that is so."

Miss Feilian said hesitantly; she seemed to have recalled something.

"But I am very curious, sorry, Old God, may I ask, if the story of 'The Tree's Kiss' is the ritual, then is it also the story you experienced? Is the ancient tree in the story that gave Princess Tavier power... the Father of the Infinite Tree?"

Xia De maintained a puzzled expression. The god looked at him with a smile, the wind blew across the clearing, and the canopy rustled overhead. It was extremely quiet here, so much so that when the "witch" under the tree spoke, that calm voice almost blended into the quiet night:

"Your real question should be whether I am a mortal who became a god."

She looked at him, he looked at her, she looked at her, and she looked at him.

The Moon Witch looked at Xia De in shock, Miss Feilian shook her head and closed her eyes, Xia De did not get an answer from the expression of the Academy's founder, and the god watched all of this.

The witch's singing seemed to still be echoing here.

【Please whisper our names, please ask your doubts~】

It was she who was singing softly in his ear.