Shi Qingyun obediently followed the clan leader and other clan elders. Behind him, followed the younger generation of Shicun.
Everyone started from the patriarch's courtyard, followed the village road, and finally arrived at the center of the village.
There is an old locust tree here that makes everyone look up to it. It is as thick as a dozen people's arms, and its vigorous trunk winds up. Under the old locust tree, there is a dark and strange whirlpool...
In this abrupt whirlpool that is incompatible with the environment of Shicun,
The sacrificial spirits of Seok Village live there.
thump!
The clan leader and other clan elders knelt in front of the whirlpool,
"Shi Puyi, the seventy-eighth generation leader of the Shi clan, respectfully invites Master Sacrifice Spirit to appear!"
Only the clan elders were kneeling in front, because there is a strange saying in Shicun that young people cannot kneel. After kneeling, they will easily weaken their own energy and will not be able to stand up to the sky and the earth in the future.
At this time, all the young people in Shicun, including Shi Qingyun, were quietly looking at the whirlpool under the old locust tree and the somewhat stooped backs of the clan elders.
Soon, the whirlpool slowly began to rotate, and soon, with a hoarse cry, a short being wearing a set of purple armor slowly appeared from the whirlpool.
Its body structure is undoubtedly the same as that of everyone in Shicun, except that its facial features are slightly rougher and its skin is bluish, making it look extremely weird.
It is the sacrifice spirit of Shicun.
At this time, it was sitting in front of the whirlpool with its eyes tightly closed.
Seeing the sacrificial spirit appear, the patriarch Shi Puyi hurriedly waved to the rear.
Seeing this, the young people from Shicun picked up the prey one after another and walked towards the spirit sacrifice step by step.
These prey include not only the fresh beasts that were just obtained from the deep forest today, but also the precious beasts that the people of Shicun have obtained from hunting many times in the past ten years.
There are huge wild bears, strange birds one foot wide, huge tigers with teeth... These beasts are not the ferocious beasts in the wilderness. They all relied on Shicun's superb hunting skills and paid a huge price to save them.
be hunted.
These beasts were preserved by the clan leader with special techniques for this important sacrifice.
The younger generation in Stone Village placed all their prey in front of the sacrificial spirit and then stood aside.
The sacrifice spirit suddenly opened his eyes at this moment.
Everyone suddenly felt frightened, and a cold air rose behind them, as if they were being targeted by a fierce beast.
"Lord Sacrificial Spirit..." Shi Puyi raised his arms and said, "The seventy-eighth generation leader of the Shi clan has something to ask for!"
The sacrificial spirit glanced at the people of Shicun standing in front of them and the rich sacrifices in front of them, and slowly said: "Chief of Shicun, if you have any requests, please tell me."
When Shi Puyi heard this, he turned back excitedly and said to Shi Qingyun: "Qingyun, come here!"
Hearing this, Shi Qingyun nodded solemnly and walked to the patriarch Shi Puyi.
Shi Puyi said to Ji Ling: "Master Ji Ling, this is the most talented young man of the younger generation of the Shi family, named Shi Qingyun."
"And with such a talent, if you spend your whole life in the wilderness, it would be really wasted..."
"I beg you, Lord Sacrificial Spirit... to give this son the power of sacrificial spirit and start his path of cultivation!"
After saying this, everyone in the younger generation of the Shi family looked at Li Qingyun, who was standing next to the clan leader, with deep shock and envy in their eyes.
There are only a handful of people in the history of Shicun who prayed to sacrifice spirits to open up the path to spiritual practice. But these people, on May Day, walked out of the wilderness and became respectable monks!
"Oh?" The sacrificial spirit said softly and turned his gaze to Shi Qingyun.
In an instant, Shi Qingyun felt as if his whole body was transparent, being seen through by the sacrificial spirit.
However, when the sacrificer's eyes touched the small green sword tied with a rope between his neck,
Li Qingyun only felt a chill spreading from the small sword, and then his whole body trembled.
But the sacrifice spirit nodded gently as if he didn't notice anything strange: "It is indeed rare for such a bone to appear in the Shi family."
"Hey hey hey..."
But suddenly, the sacrificer grinned: "It's just that this time is different from the previous times. It's time to increase the price..."
Team leader Shi Puyi looked at the sacrifice spirit in fear. At this moment, the sacrifice spirit's face was full of cruelty and evil: "Master sacrifice spirit, what do you... mean by this?"
The sacrifice spirit chuckled and said: "In the history of the Shi clan, I have initiated five initiations for humans like you, and sent five people to enter the path of cultivation..."
"Five times, I have devoted a lot of cultivation to you, but I can only get tribute from these beasts that are not even monsters. To be honest, I am already a little impatient."
Shi Puyi looked pale and said: "But... this is already the most precious prey that our Shi clan can hunt. It is impossible for us to catch the legendary monster..."
"Haha..." The sacrificial spirit sneered and said to Shi Puyi: "So, I will show you a clear path."
"What clear path?"
The sacrificial spirit slowly swept over the younger generation of Stone Village, turned its gaze to the stone house and stone courtyard in the distance, and slowly uttered three words: "Bring a living person to sacrifice."
"What...what?" Shi Puyi looked at the spirit sacrifice in disbelief.
The sacrificial spirit looked at Shi Puyi and said coldly: "I told you to use living people as sacrifices, whether they are men, women, children, or dying old people..."
Shi Puyi's face turned pale, and his whole body was trembling violently. The family tree kept warning him that Lord Sacrifice Spirit was probably a demon-like existence. He descended on this large locust tree that had lived for an unknown number of years nearly a thousand years ago.
Became the sacrifice spirit of Shicun...
In the past thousand years, although the vitality of the large locust tree has been shrinking, Shicun has also been able to obtain some benefits from the sacrifice of prey to the spirits.
Thinking of this, Shi Puyi opened his fearful eyes and looked up at the huge locust tree above...
Sure enough, the entire tree had withered, not even a single remaining leaf was left. It seemed that in a few days, this large locust tree that used to have spiritual energy would completely become a dead tree.
Without its use value, will this devil show its fangs?
But... so what...
Without the spirit sacrifice, how can Shicun survive in the wilderness full of wild beasts...
"Have you considered it?" The voice of worshiping the spirit came from Shi Puyi's head again.
Shi Puyi raised his head, looked at the sneer on the cyan face of the sacrifice spirit, and clenched his fists fiercely.
He took a deep breath and prepared to say something,
But suddenly,
"Don't think about it, I say for the clan leader, we will never allow you to kill any clan member!"
A clear voice suddenly came.
Shi Puyi raised his head in astonishment and looked at Shi Qingyun who was standing next to him. He felt that something had changed in Shi Qingyun. He suddenly felt that he didn't recognize him: "Qingyun, you..."
The sacrificial spirit looked at Shi Qingyun with a joking face and said, "Aren't you willing to use some useless tribesmen in exchange for your path as a monk?"
"Haha... If you miss today's opportunity, no matter how much you Shi Shi pays, I will never help you again."
"No one is born to be a victim of other people."
Suddenly, Shi Qingyun looked cold and spat out such words from his mouth.
boom!
There was a roar in the mind of the sacrificial spirit. At this moment, behind this human youth, it saw a proud and erect cyan figure...
"Yue Yan, suffer death!"
The human youth grinned at him, and a green long sword appeared in his hand.
Cut it off with one sword!
Yue Yan!? At this moment, there was lightning and thunder in the mind of the sacrifice spirit, and all the memories were remembered instantly.
The sword falls!
boom!
"impossible……"
Yue Yan's eyes were full of horror. The body he had transformed into to sacrifice himself in this life was shattered inch by inch!
"Why are you so much faster than me this time..."
Li Qingyun smiled and said: "Perhaps I am more suitable to be a good person?"