Chapter 770 - Bai

Chapter 770 - Bai

Dong dong dong~ Dun dun dun~ The drum beat rhythmically.

“Mount the Heavenly Disc, and the sky will rotate. Mount the Earthly Disc, and the earth will rotate. A black fish carries the earth while the qi above supports the skies. The black fish supports the moving earth. The qi supports the revolving sky. This was how the stars were arranged.”

Amidst Bai Lingmiao’s drumming, the incense from the house's four corners slowly enveloped the dying baby.

White smoke entered the baby’s orifices. Bai Lingmiao took out a pair of scissors and cut open a small hole in the baby’s left palm.

Bai Lingmiao pressed hard on the baby’s left palm. The white smoke and a dark yellow gelatinous goo were forced out from the small wound.

As she continued to squeeze out the goo, the baby’s face became redder, and he soon started crying.

An old man also began crying when he heard the baby crying. “My son is alive! My family finally has an heir!”

The old man brought his entire family and kneeled on the ground before Bai Lingmiao, “Saintess! Thank you for saving our entire family! For the sake of the White Lotus Sect’s prosperity, we will donate our belongings! From now on, we will devote our everything to the White Lotus Sect!”

Bai Lingmiao walked out of the courtyard. Meanwhile, devotees of the White Lotus Sect marked chests filled with gold and silver with tapes of the sect as they hauled them out from the estate.

“Are we doing the right thing?” Bai Lingmiao asked.

The Second Deity scoffed. “We’re already this late into the game and you still have the time to think whether this is fine? Think about what he had done in the past! If I was the one who made the decision, I would’ve blackmailed him using his son and taken all of his belongings instead!”

Bai Lingmiao remained quiet as she stared at the beggars downing bowls of porridge near a stand.

The world was in chaos, so it wasn’t a time to be considerate to others. This amount of money could be used to save so many more people. The old tycoon would’ve just kept the money in his vault to rot. Money was meant to be spent to maximize its value!

Now that they were at war, there were very few people working in the fields. The cost of food was rising rapidly.

Bai Lingmiao walked out of the city and looked at the devotees working hard in the fields. All of them ran towards her and kneeled the moment they saw her.

“I am Qian Chaoqing. I greet the Saintess.”

“How’s the field?”

They had a wide selection of candidates since they could recruit a lot of people, but they were expanding so fast that they didn't have enough masters to teach the disciples.

Rather than a barrack, the place was more like a mobile temple for the Heavenly Mater. There were altars and drawings of the Heavenly Mater everywhere.

The White Lotus Sect accepted both men and women. All they required was good comprehension. Bai Lingmiao soon saw a familiar face on another stage, Chun Xiaoman.

She was very strict in her teachings. The black hair covering her body scared everyone.

“You are all women! If you want to live you will follow my training! You will not stop until I tell you to stop! If you lose on the battlefield, you will face an ending worse than death! I chose all of you because your family was killed by the Dharma Sect! If you think you can’t endure it anymore, think about how your family was killed by the Dharma Sect! Think about how you swore to kill them for revenge!”

As she shouted, the women started stomping and chanting their sutras. All of them had a red dot on their forehead.

As they chanted, they began walking barefooted onto a large path of burning coal.

Many of them were unharmed when they walked out, but some were less proficient and got burned.

Thankfully, there were people on standby with buckets of sand. The moment any of them burned up, they threw the bucket of sand at them. Whoever had been burned would then be eliminated.

Bai Lingmiao couldn’t stomach it, but she didn’t call for them to stop. If the Dharma Sect won, there would be even more deaths.

Only after taking command did Bai Lingmiao realize there were no perfect plans, only the best ones possible given the circumstances. She could only choose plans that required the least sacrifice.

Bai Lingmiao had thought that her personality wouldn’t allow her to do so, but every time she remembered how the Emperor of Si Qi talked about sacrificing 1,800,000 people for the sake of the world, she steeled herself to prepare for the worst.

She was doing this not only for herself—it was also for the sake of the other members of the White Lotus Sect.

She remembered what she had sworn to do, to prevent the others from losing their family. She didn’t want them to suffer what she had gone through herself.

Bai Lingmiao had been working hard for that.

She was patrolling the area when she saw a paper crane flying down from the air.

She opened the paper crane and thought she had misread it. Xuan Pin was calling for her to discuss something.

1. The Dharma Sect drinks stone water to begin with. I doubt that they would leave the granary unpoisoned. ☜