Ji Yunxi stood in the center of the sacrificial altar, looking down at the guilty crowd below with a sneer on her lips.
The wizard in charge of the sacrifice walked forward with a gloomy face, thinking that he had to do this immoral thing.
He took out a curved knife and walked towards Ji Yunxi. Seeing this, Feng Xingzhi immediately wanted to step forward to stop him, but the villagers who had been guarding them would not let him succeed. They immediately surrounded them.
Ji Yunxi looked at them from afar and said, "Tell your people to stay away from mine, or I'll kill myself right away. We'll all die together if necessary!"
Her desperate words filled those around her with fear. They could only retreat obediently and dared not continue to surround Feng Xingzhi. However, Ji Yuchen and his younger brother also stopped him. "Don't be impulsive!"
Fearing something might go wrong, the prefect immediately signaled two guards to step forward and hold her down. The wizard pursed his lips and stepped forward, slashing her palm with the knife. Blood gushed out.
Ji Yunxi slightly raised her eyes and glanced at him. It seemed as if the gates of hell had opened. The wizard was so frightened that after collecting half a small bowl of blood, he quickly stepped back. He even stuffed a cloth into Ji Yunxi's wound to stop the bleeding.
Right in front of everyone's eyes, the wizard mumbled something incoherently and walked in a strange way. Then he splashed the blood directly onto the stone stele.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Ji Yunxi immediately began to quietly mobilize the divine power within her body.
She recalled how she had controlled the divine power when she was Feng Yunxi. However, this couldn't be done immediately. She tried several times when they weren't paying attention, but the divine power showed no reaction.
Could it be that neither of these two strands of divine power belonged to her?
Why couldn't she use it?!
If so, wouldn't they all be doomed?!
The more she thought about it, the more anxious she became. Perhaps her eagerness finally broke through the last restriction. A surge of divine power instantly swept through her whole body. At that moment of complete comfort, the power also rushed out of her body towards the sky.
So everyone watched as dark clouds suddenly covered the sky and thunder rumbled. One of the brightest bolts of lightning struck straight down, splitting the stone stele in two.
The wizard who was closest was directly hit by the flying stones and fainted.
Feng Xingzhi shook off everyone's pulling and rushed forward to protect Ji Yunxi in his arms, fearing that the gravel might hurt her.
"Ah!" Screams rang out one after another. Everyone present was terribly frightened.
Naturally, the villagers thought that the mountain god was angry. They quickly knelt down and begged the mountain god to calm down.
"Please calm down, mountain god!"
"Please calm down, mountain god. Protect us from disasters!"
Many people were in tears, obviously having been severely affected by these natural and man - made disasters.
The guards were just ordinary people. When had they ever seen such a scene? They were immediately flustered. After letting go of Ji Yunxi, they knelt down.
Seeing that Li Jiuge and the others were all focused on Ji Yunxi, Yue Hongshan didn't care about the ropes on her body. The situation was so chaotic now. Who would pay attention to her?
So she crawled and ran towards the prefect's wife.
"Shan'er!"
"Mother, untie me quickly!"
Her act of running away was insignificant in this chaos. Ji Yuchen and the others all came to Ji Yunxi's side.
"Yunxi!"
"Big brother, second brother."
Ji Yunxi could hardly hide her joy. It was the divine power! She never thought that not only had Qing Xuan not abandoned her, but the divine power had also remained with her.
Feng Xingzhi's face was full of worry and anger. Ji Yunxi could only tug at his sleeve. "Don't be angry. Look, I'm fine. And the divine power makes me feel so comfortable."
After confirming that Ji Yunxi's complexion was better than before, Feng Xingzhi could only reluctantly nod.
But he still refused to forgive Ji Yunxi for her impulsiveness. "Got it."
His refusal to say more made Ji Yunxi feel a bit wronged. After all, the situation was urgent. Why was Azhi always so nit - picky with her?
She called out to her big brother somewhat aggrievedly, hoping that Ji Yuchen would discipline Feng Xingzhi. Who knew that this time, her big brother didn't side with her either. "We won't talk about you for now. You should apologize to the prince properly later."
"Okay..."
Li Jiuge didn't have time to worry about all this. Looking at the chaotic crowd below, she immediately pointed to a gap. "Let's take advantage of the chaos and quickly go down the mountain. There must be few people guarding the mountain now."
The others came to their senses. They exchanged a look and then all ran towards the gap.
On the other side, with such a big commotion on the mountaintop, Jiang Yaoji at the halfway up the mountain didn't hesitate for a moment and rushed up the mountain.
Coincidentally, the two groups happened to meet. Jiang Yaoji led the disciples of Moon - Gazing Pavilion and blocked Ji Yunxi and the others who were trying to leave during the chaos.
Jiang Yaoji thought it was the help of heaven. With a sneer, she said, "Where do you think you're going?"
Ji Yunxi immediately protected the others behind her. Now that she was empowered by the divine power, she didn't care about Jiang Yaoji's threat at all. "You and your few subordinates won't be able to stop me. Get out of the way."
Jiang Yaoji tilted her head and saw the chaotic crowd behind Ji Yunxi. She cursed secretly in her heart. They were all useless people. They couldn't even handle a sacrifice properly!
"Capture them alive!" Jiang Yaoji waved her hand. Without wasting any more words with Ji Yunxi, she immediately ordered the guards to capture them alive.
She had brought quite a few people. Feng Xingzhi and the others' attention was immediately attracted by the guards, leaving only Ji Yunxi to fight against Jiang Yaoji.
Ji Yunxi thought that if she used her divine power, she might directly kill Jiang Yaoji. However, this woman had caused them so much trouble. She really didn't want to see her again in this lifetime.
Determined to kill her, Ji Yunxi began to mobilize the divine power in her body. However, before she could gather it in her hand, she suddenly saw a light condensing in Jiang Yaoji's palm.
She was instantly shocked. This light was very strange. There was a restriction on Guangwu Mountain, and ordinary spiritual power couldn't be used. That meant...
Jiang Yaoji actually also had divine power?!
This realization almost made Ji Yunxi panic. She staggered and almost fell.
Jiang Yaoji sneered. "Is this how you talk tough to me? Ji Yunxi, there's a restriction on Guangwu Mountain. You're doomed."
Ji Yunxi was even more certain that what Jiang Yaoji had in her hand was divine power. She clearly knew there was a restriction on Guangwu Mountain, yet she still dared to say such tough words to her.
Immediately, her face darkened. It seemed that she had to quickly gather her divine power to fight against Jiang Yaoji.
However, at this moment, a person suddenly fluttered down from the sky. The person was dressed in white robes and looked like someone from the upper realm.
This person didn't even look at Ji Yunxi. He went straight to Jiang Yaoji and whispered a few words in her ear.
"What?!" She looked at the person in disbelief. Then, with a look of extreme reluctance and unwillingness, she glared at Ji Yunxi again.
"Everyone, retreat!"
Her words stunned everyone. They didn't expect that she would do nothing and just turn around and leave.
Ji Yunyi came to Ji Yunxi's side and whispered, "What does she mean? She brought people to fight with us, and now she's leaving without saying a word?"
Ji Yunxi didn't understand either. She just stood there and watched as the disciples of Moon - Gazing Pavilion quickly retreated. In a short while, only they were left.