"What? Can the sword throwing game help us open the mechanism of Bazu Temple?"
"what happened?"
Everyone asked Jiang Zhonglou curiously.
"This sword throwing game reminds me of what Professor Zelan told me about the origin legend of the White Tiger's Bas..."
Jiang Chonglou recalled: "According to the "Book of the Later Han·Biographies of Nanman and Southwest Yi", the five surnames of the Ba people all come from Wuluo Zhongli Mountain, which has red and black holes...
The son of the Ba family was born in a red cave, and the sons of the remaining four surnames were all born in a black cave. They did not have a king, and they were all ghosts. They threw swords at the stone cave together, and the one who could hit the target was regarded as the king...
Ba's son-in-law was the only one to win, and everyone sighed...
He also ordered everyone to ride on an earthen boat, and the one who can float should be regarded as the king...
The Yu surname is Shen, but the affairs are floating. Because they are established together, they are the Lord of Lin...
Then we took an earthen boat and traveled from Yishui to Yanyang. There was a goddess in Yanyang who said to Mr. Lin, ‘This is a vast place where fish and salt come from. I would like to stay and live together’...
Lin Jun forbids it. The salt god comes to stay at dusk and turns into a snake...
After more than ten days, Lin Jun waited for him to do whatever he wanted, but because he shot him...
Lin Jun then ruled over Yicheng, and all four surnames were subject to him...
After the death of Mr. Lin, his soul remained as a white tiger, and Ba Shi used the tiger to drink human blood, so he was worshiped as a human being."
"Um...you've been talking for a long time, why can't I understand a word?" Sanya asked curiously.
"This is an ancient article, which talks about the historical origin of the White Tiger Ba clan..."
Jiang Chonglou explained: "In translation, it means that in ancient times, there was a Ba tribe consisting of five surnames, living in a place called Zhongli Mountain...
There is a red cave and a black cave on Zhongli Mountain...
The family named Ba lives in a red cave, and the families with the other four surnames live in a black cave...
At first they had no leader and all worshiped ghosts. They agreed to throw swords into a small cave and whoever could hit the target would be the leader of the tribe...
As a result, only a man named Wu Xiang from the Ba family threw his sword and hit the small cave..."
"Oh, this is how the sword-throwing game came about!" Sanya listened with interest, "Then did this man named Wu Xiang later become the leader of the Ba tribe?"
"The Ba people refused to believe in the service minister based on the sword throwing game alone, so they agreed to build a boat with mud together. Whoever builds a boat that can't sink will be made the leader of the tribe..."
Jiang Zhonglou continued: "As a result, everyone's mud boats sank. Only the Wu Xiang's boat did not sink. Then everyone supported him as the leader of the tribe, known as Linjun."
"Wow... a boat made of mud will melt even if it doesn't sink in the water. Why doesn't the mud boat of the Prime Minister sink?" Sanya asked curiously.
"The Minister should be a ship made of a material similar to cement..." Yajma thought, "People nowadays have been able to build ships with cement for a long time. It is not surprising at all."
"Under the leadership and governance of Lin Jun, the tribe quickly developed and expanded, and the resources of Zhongli Mountain could not support too many people..."
Jiang Chonglou continued to explain: "So, Lin Jun took his tribe and left Zhongli Mountain, took an earthen boat, and came from Yishui to a salt lake in Yanyang...
There is also a Ba tribe near the Salt Lake. The leader is a woman named Salt God...
The Salt God fell in love with Mr. Lin and said that there was salt in the salt lake and there were many fish. He asked Mr. Lin to stay with his followers and multiply together...
Unexpectedly, Lin Jun disliked the Salt God and rejected her advances...
The Salt God quietly came to Lin Jun's residence every night in the middle of the night, used magic to control Lin Jun, had sex with him, and turned into a snake in the morning and left..."
"Let me go, this salt god actually used magic to force Lin Jun. She must be extremely ugly. No wonder later people called the ugly and weird woman the girl without salt!"
Guapi smiled and said: "Is there any connection between the salt goddess and the salt-free girl?"
"There may be a connection..."
Jiang Zhonglou thought: "The so-called Wuyan Girl refers to Zhong Lichun, the queen of King Qi Xuan during the Warring States Period. She was born in Wuyan, so she was called Wuyan Girl, and also called Zhong Wuyan...
Although she is ugly, she is extremely powerful, has great martial arts skills, and is said to have the ability to become invisible...
King Qi made her his queen because he wanted Zhong Lichun to help him fight...
The name of the mountain where Lin Jun and his friends lived back then was called Zhongli Mountain, and later they met the Salt Goddess. Therefore, this Zhongli Wuyan might have some connection with the people of Upper Cuba...
Otherwise, how could she be so powerful and invisible?"
"Yes, Not Bad!"
Everyone nodded.
"Tell me the story of Lin Jun. What happened to him later? Did he marry that ugly salt goddess?" Sanya asked.
"Of course not..."
Jiang Chonglou sighed: "Lin Jun was insulted by the Salt Goddess for more than ten days, and finally found an opportunity to kill the Salt Goddess with a bow and arrow..."
"Wow! Isn't this too cruel? The Salt Goddess just wants to marry Lin Jun, how can Lin Jun kill her?" Sanya said angrily.
"Forehead..."
Everyone was speechless and didn't know how to answer Sanya.
"These are all legends. I guess the real situation is that Lin Jun's tribe's population was increasing, so he led his tribe by boat from Zhongli Mountain and migrated along the waterway to the Salt Lake..."
Jiang Zhonglou thought: "The Salt God tribe by the salt lake did not allow the Linjun tribe to thrive by the salt lake. The two tribes fought for the resources of the salt lake...
Finally, the Linjun tribe killed the female leader of the Salt God tribe, annexed her tribe, and occupied the salt lake where they can both dry salt and fish...
In order to make their tribal war just, the Linjun tribe made up the story of the Salt Goddess bullying Linjun."
"Well, it's very possible that history is always a little girl who can be dressed up by others!" Yajma said with a smile.
"What happened next?" Sanya asked again.
"Later, Lin Jun built a castle in Salt Lake, conquered several surrounding Ba tribes, and established a political power..."
Jiang Chonglou said: "After Lin Jun's death, it is said that his soul was reincarnated as a white tiger for generations. His tribe used the white tiger as a tribal totem, and it was called the White Tiger's Bas."
"Oh, so that's it!"
Sanya patted Oga on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that you White Tiger Zhiba actually has such a nice story!"
But Oga frowned and said: "Uncle Jiang, you have been talking for a long time, but you have not said how to open the mechanism of Bazu Temple. What does the legend of our White Tiger Ancestor God have to do with opening the mechanism?"
"This starts from the last sentence of "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Biography of the Southern Barbarians and the Southwest Barbarians", 'Ba Shi drank human blood with tigers, and then used human beings to worship him'..."
Jiang Zhonglou paused and said: "The translation of this is that because the white tiger likes to drink human blood, the white tiger's body uses people to sacrifice to the ancestor of the white tiger, Lord Lin!"
"Wow...are they going to kill people to sacrifice to that white tiger statue?" Sanya exclaimed in surprise.
"We didn't kill anyone. We use the blood of three animals to sacrifice the White Tiger Ancestor God every year!" Oga said.
"Then how do you perform sacrifices? Is there any special ceremony?" Jiang Zhonglou asked.
"There's nothing special about it, just mix the blood of the three animals and pour it into the white tiger's mouth, let it drink it, and then it's over..." Aoga recalled the sacrificial ceremony.
"That's the crux of the matter!"
Jiang Chonglou said: "The ancient books record that Ba of the White Tiger sacrificed people to Lord Lin, and you used the blood of three animals to sacrifice to the White Tiger Ancestor God. The Red Ax War God also said that your blood can open the mechanism of Baziying...
So I guess sacrificing your blood to the statue of the White Tiger Ancestor God will open the mechanism!"