RPAGF Chapter 454 Old-fashioned methods
Chapter 454 Old-fashioned methods
"What did you say?! You're going to use... um!" Inside Dog Fruit's tent, the tall, burly male orc jumped three feet high, almost blurting out the name, when he snapped out of his daze and quickly covered his mouth with his large hand.
Xi Zhao's eyes were filled with unconcealed shock. "You're going to use the Holy Crystal fragment?"
"How do you use it?!"
Looking at his expression, Quan Guo unconsciously furrowed his brow. "How did you know I was going to use the Holy Crystal fragment for sensing?"
He remembered that he had never told Xizhao this.
Xi Zhao scratched his head sheepishly, "I once helped the High Priest interrogate Zhu Bao for a while, so I know a little about this."
"But isn't the Holy Crystal Fragment something that only tribes with bloodline power can use?" Xi Zhao looked at Quan Guo with some confusion. "Could it be that the Holy Crystal Fragment that was found in the Fierce Boar Tribe was something from your Spirit Dog Clan?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Quan Guo froze, staring blankly at the male beastman in front of him.
"What did you just say?" His voice trembled slightly.
Xi Zhao said matter-of-factly, "You probably don't know this, but the Silver Fox Clan, one of the tribes in the City of Ten Thousand Beasts, has been worshipping a fragment of the Holy Crystal for generations. Their precognitive abilities come from the Holy Crystal."
"But after the Holy Crystal Fragment was put into the hands of the Fierce Boar Tribe, no information about bloodline power was found in their tribe."
Xi Zhao leaned closer to his partner and grasped his slightly cold fingers. "But you two possess this power."
"Do you think it's possible that this fragment of the Holy Crystal originally belonged to the Spirit Dog Clan, but was stolen by the Fierce Boar Tribe?" The more Xi Zhao thought about it, the more likely this possibility seemed.
Quan Guo stared blankly up at Xi Zhao, his eyes glazed over.
He had never thought of this aspect before...
However, almost all the older orcs of the Spirit Dog tribe died at the hands of the Fierce Boar tribe. If you think about it carefully, they might have been planning to kill them.
Dog Fruit gave a bitter smile. If that were truly the case, the destruction of the Spirit Dog Clan was solely due to this fragment of the Holy Crystal…
Seeing Quan Guo's dejected look, Xi Zhao couldn't help but feel sorry for him. "Don't be afraid. The people from the Fierce Pig Tribe are all dead. No one can bully the Spirit Dog Clan anymore."
He pulled Quan Guo closer to his chest. "After we go back this time, the Spirit Dog Clan will truly become a member of the City of Ten Thousand Beasts. I will protect them with you."
Hearing him say that, Quan Guo was shaken and remained silent for a long time, only leaning his head closer to Xi Zhao's shoulder.
There was a moment of silence in the tent. Xi Zhao looked down at his partner in his arms and asked, "So what are you going to do?"
"Do you want me to speak to the High Priest for you?"
“Now that the Holy Crystal Fragment is in the High Priest’s hands, it belongs to the City of Ten Thousand Beasts. Even if it really did belong to the Spirit Dog Clan, I don’t want it anymore, let alone just speculation.” Dog Fruit shook his head with a determined look in his eyes.
Xi Zhao thought the same thing. In his view, this thing was simply a menace, and it would be much more reassuring to leave it in the High Priest's hands. Didn't he see how the old priest of the Silver Fox Clan was like a hot potato?
"But how do you intend to use Holy Crystals for perception?"
Speaking of this, a hint of guilt flashed across Inugo's eyes. To be honest, he wasn't really sure either, but a voice inside him told him he could.
But it may come at a great cost.
But it's better not to let Xizhao know for now, lest he get anxious and upset again.
He made up a flimsy excuse, "It's just those sacrificial rituals, I can't really explain it clearly even if you ask me."
Xi Zhao looked at him with some confusion. It was a ritualistic method, but the priest wasn't a member of the Spirit Dog Clan who had been raised from childhood...
"Oh, don't ask anymore. Isn't the high priest here? We'll perform the sacrifice together."
Xi Zhao was slightly relieved after hearing Lin Baiyan's name. After all, Quan Guo was the kind of person who would do big things quietly, and he was not at all at ease letting him do things on his own.
"Innocent"
Xi Zhao overlooked one point: Lin Baiyan, even without Lang Cang watching over him, is also the type to quietly cause trouble!
That evening, Xi Zhao, relying on his superb tea-making skills, simply stayed in Quan Guo's tent.
In the stillness of the night, only the footsteps of the patrol team could be heard in the temporary camp. Xi Zhao had arranged his patrol shift for the night, and after taking a short nap in Quan Guo's tent, he went to take over his shift.
After he left, Quan Guo immediately got up, put on his cloak, pulled the large hood over his head, and quietly left the tent.
He successfully passed the patrolling soldiers' inspection with the token given to him by Lin Baiyan and made his way to the center, in front of Lin Baiyan's tent.
Lin Baiyan had been waiting for a long time. When he came in, she quickly got up to greet him, "You've arrived."
Inugo took off his hood and nodded at him.
"follow me."
Lin Baiyan took a few steps inside and picked up a wooden box from the corner of his bed. Inside the box was another white jade box.
Lin Baiyan took the white jade box out and placed it on the table. He slowly opened it, and inside lay a fragment of a holy crystal.
No, that's not right. There should be two fragments of the Holy Crystal here, but they've just fused together.
Lin Baiyan patted the box. "These are the fragments of the Holy Crystal."
He looked up at Inu no Go. "So, what are you going to do?"
Ever since the Holy Crystal fragment revealed its true form, Inugo's eyes have been somewhat dazed.
Is this the thing?
The culprit that led the Spirit Dog Clan to this state.
"Guo, Guo, what's wrong?"
Quan Guo suddenly came to his senses and saw Lin Baiyan waving his hand in front of his face with a worried expression.
Lin Baiyan asked with concern, "Is there anything wrong with you?"
Quan Guo gently tugged at the corner of his mouth, "High Priest, I'm fine."
"May I touch it?" Inugo asked cautiously.
Lin Baiyan readily agreed, "Of course!"
Inugo reached out and gently touched the Holy Crystal fragment in the box.
The moment he touched the shard, Inugo clearly felt his fingertips being touched, and a strange tremor ran straight into his heart.
Lin Baiyan waited quietly to the side.
After an unknown amount of time, as if he had received some kind of hint, Inu no Kaguya unhesitatingly drew the small bone knife from his waist, cut his finger, and dripped blood onto the Saint Crystal shard.
"Dog Fruit!" Lin Baiyan had no time to stop this scene and could only watch helplessly as he acted.
Quan Guo shook his head at him, then focused intently on watching the blood drip into the Holy Crystal fragment. Later, as if that wasn't enough, he cut his own arm.
Until his face turned pale and he began to sway.
Lin Baiyan waited anxiously for a long time, only to find that the Holy Crystal Fragment had no reaction after absorbing the blood of the Dog Fruit, while the sub-beastman's lips were turning pale.
Just as Quan Guo was about to slash his other wrist, Lin Baiyan rushed over to stop him, "Enough! What are you doing?"
After all that, do we still have to bleed them?
Is there no other way to unlock the Saint Crystal Shard?
It's so bloody every time, it's really disheartening!
“Not enough…” Inu no Go shook his head weakly. “It hasn’t had enough to drink.”