Chapter 191: Call me by my name (thanks for the funny reward)
A crisp voice seemed to sound from the bottom of my heart.
Wu Yu's steps suddenly stopped.
The voice in his ears slowly dispersed, with a lingering aftertaste. He almost thought it was his hallucination. He held his breath and slowly turned his head. His breathing suddenly became heavy, and then he saw that the people of the Yin and Shang dynasties passed down the legend from generation to generation.
On the ancient altar, a figure shrouded in light appeared.
I saw that he had a simple bronze knight and an ancient tripod with a red bird pattern in his hand. Waves of flames with the color of bronze were burning around him, exuding an ancient aura like a god. At least the burning light was like a ghost.
Perhaps this change was too much beyond his expectation. Wu Yu was a little distracted for a moment. The disbelief at the moment even exceeded the ecstasy. After several breaths, he murmured:
"Are you the 'Emperor'?"
Wei Yuan barely understood what he said, shook his head, did not hide anything on this point, and explained in a calm and calm tone:
"I am not the emperor you believe in."
"I'm just, um, a human being who likes to collect antiquities and stories. To you, I'm just a passerby. I contacted you by chance, that's all..."
Not an emperor?
The hope in Wu Yu's heart was uncontrollably depressed. He looked at the radiant figure, the power similar to the aura of ghosts and gods in the records, and the bronze sacrificial vessels described in the classics passed down from generation to generation.
There is suspicion.
Wei Yuan did not delve too deeply into the issue of identity.
He also did not say that he was from China. He had not been able to confirm the attitude of these Yin Shang survivors towards the people in China. Some things must be kept secret. He paused and spoke in the language he knew.
Smiled and said: "I just heard you talk about a topic that I am very interested in."
"You want to restart the blood sacrifice?"
Wei Yuan is now very fortunate that the language of the late Shang Dynasty is not much different from that of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors where he lived, and he can still communicate with Wu Yu. Otherwise, I am afraid no one in this era will be able to communicate with these Yin and Shang remnants.
Of course, the charming women who have lived for who knows how many years are definitely not included in this list.
Blood sacrifice, I am very interested in it.
Wu Yu's heart sank when he heard this, and his brain was a little confused. After a long time, he said: "Yes... Emperor, no, are you really only interested in blood sacrifices?" He thought of questioning the emperor, but what his friend said was unclear.
His mind was spiraling, but Wu Yu finally lowered his head and said with difficulty: "Then, we will sacrifice our blood to you and beg for your response."
No, I want to stop this nonsense. Wei Yuan looked calm and calm and said: "No, I am not interested in blood sacrifice. I want to stop you and... solve your problems." His voice paused and asked.
He asked a question that he had always wondered: "What exactly did Di Xin do back then?"
"What trouble did you encounter again?"
Di Xin...
Call him by his first name?
Wu Yu slowly exhaled, sorted out his stiff thoughts, and after a long time, replied:
"That was a long time ago."
"At that time, Shang was in trouble both internally and externally. Ji Fa's army was approaching Chaoge City. There were ghosts and gods in their army. The king decided to preserve the flames of Shang, so he opened the forbidden underground palace and used the method created by King Yu.
Try to send the real Chaoge City out of the human world to wait for future generations to come again."
"But the king did not leave together. He chose to break up the rear with General Erai and resisted Ji Fa's army. The ancestors waited for nine days and nine nights, but the king did not return. So we know that the king and the general have fulfilled their duties.
, died in the battle, so we have no choice but to keep Chaoge City away from the human world at this moment and avoid the flames of war."
"We must inherit the destiny of our ancestors, cultivate our moral character, and wait until one day to return to the human world."
"At the beginning, we made decades of preparations and even saved some money. It was possible that the stored things could last for a hundred years. But a hundred years have passed and we have not been able to find a way to return to the human world.
At this time, we knew we had a bigger problem."
Wu Yu's tone was painful, while Wei Yuan inferred from their current situation what they probably encountered back then, and sighed secretly in his heart.
As expected, Wu Yu reluctantly collected his emotions and whispered:
"We have lost our way and our direction."
"The most important thing is that food and water are no longer enough, so we have to look outside. Finally, with the efforts of the ghosts and gods, after two hundred years of hard work, we finally made Chaoge City able to communicate with other 'land'
Bordering, we have found land and water sources and can make a living on them."
"But soon, the vicious beast from the Classic of Mountains and Seas appeared."
"Only then did we know that we had arrived at the place where King Yu had been exiled to the world of mountains and seas. It was a barbaric era, and there were even monsters as powerful as ghosts and gods. We are the descendants of those who exiled them. They have no influence on us.
We are filled with hatred."
"We fought and built barriers, and finally managed to gain a foothold."
Wu Yu had a sad and helpless look on his face and said:
"But at that time, another contradiction became more and more prominent. Sacrifice required blood sacrifices. The tradition at the beginning was to use slaves and defeated prisoners of war to please the ghosts and gods. But when the king sent us out, all the merchants were left behind.
How can you use your own compatriots as a blood sacrifice?"
"At that time, everyone was divided into two tribes. One part supported the continuation of blood sacrifice for reproduction, and the other part decided to support each other and abolish the barbaric method of blood sacrifice. The two sides experienced a long battle, and finally abolished it completely two thousand years ago.
A blood sacrifice."
"The ancestors of the past generations continued to improve the rituals of sacrifices, and finally they were able to perform blood sacrifices with the slain beasts of the mountains and seas. They were also able to please the ghosts and gods and receive blessings. We were finally able to live here. But later, we began to find that something was wrong. The ghosts and gods
The granting effect is getting weaker and weaker."
"Even if you continue to exercise, the results of practice cannot be compared with the original results. These changes cannot be seen in one or ten years, but in the past one thousand or two thousand years, they have become more and more clear, especially
In the past hundred years, for some reason, those ferocious beasts from the mountains and seas have become more and more violent, while we have become weaker and weaker."
"Not to mention being comparable to our ancestors in ancient times, we are now incomparable to people three generations ago. Before, we could rely on bronze machine beasts and mountain and sea beasts to compete. Now the ferocious beasts are getting stronger and stronger, and our goods are getting more and more.
If there are not enough sacrifices, the quality will become worse and worse. If there are not enough sacrifices, it will be even less able to please the ghosts and gods, causing the qualifications of the next generation to become worse and worse."
"If this continues from generation to generation, we businessmen may be extinct within a hundred years."
Wu Yu's face was full of pain and unwillingness, and Wei Yuan finally understood why they chose blood sacrifice.
This was the last attempt that had to be made after being forced into a desperate situation.
Wei Yuan frowned slightly and analyzed the reason for this situation. After several lifetimes, he had dabbled in and understood the methods of the pre-Qin Dynasty and the original Taoism. In addition, the Tianshi Mansion now has released many classics.
He is in an open state, so he can now be said to be absolutely profound at the level of cognition.
Of course, the most important reason may be that too much has been done to cut down mountains and destroy temples.
The person who knows you best is definitely your enemy.
The same goes for vice versa.
Those evil gods and obscene sacrifices all imitated the ghost and god sacrifices of Shang Dynasty.
Through cruel methods such as living sacrifices and blood sacrifices, the ghosts and gods are pleased, and then part of the power of the sacrifice is transferred to the person who presides over the sacrifice as a reward, while the other part is swallowed by the ghosts and gods as the cornerstone of their existence.
Those rewards may be Qi and blood, or they may be cultivation.
This may be one of the reasons why prisoners of war were used as sacrifices.
Those are the elites on the battlefield, and their energy and strength must have reached a certain level. After the sacrifice, part of the energy and blood is transferred to the host, which can greatly help the latter to grow in cultivation. If analyzed according to this logic, then
The decline of Yin Shang immigrants is very clear.
They cut off the blood sacrifice, which is equivalent to causing the ghosts and gods to lose the cornerstone of their existence.
If there is no sacrifice and nourishment for a long time, no matter how powerful the ghosts and gods are, they will gradually become weak and eventually dissipate between heaven and earth.
Wei Yuan could even tell that the ghosts and gods of the Yin and Shang Dynasties must have dispersed now.
Wu Yu just said that after continuous exploration by his ancestors, he was able to complete the blood sacrifice with strange beasts from the mountains and seas. Judging according to the current logic, this is probably a method that does not require ghosts and gods to preside over, but simply uses Qi and blood to strengthen human body functions and
Qualification ritual, but without the guidance of ghosts and gods, the transformation efficiency of this ritual will inevitably be very low.
It was just because there were still strong people in the human race at that time who could kill powerful beasts. The strength of those beasts made up for this, but as generations continued, each generation was weaker than the previous generation, and it was difficult to kill powerful beasts.
Fierce beasts. Failure to refine them with powerful ferocious beasts will result in the next generation being weaker, creating a vicious cycle.
Until now, the riot of alien beasts has completely forced them into a desperate situation.
Wei Yuan pondered slightly, and suddenly thought of a possibility
The riots of strange beasts in the mountains and seas also happened within a hundred years.
The revival of spiritual energy also takes hundreds of years.
Is there a relationship between these two things?
Wu Yu could hardly contain the sorrow and weakness in his heart, and with a painful expression on his face, he said: "Whether you are the emperor or not, please help me. Once the blood sacrifice begins, we will be reduced to having to kill each other to survive.
Times?"
Wei Yuan thought silently, since the lack of Yin and Shang rituals was due to the lack of someone to preside over the rituals.
Then you just need to find a way to replace the role of ghosts and gods.
He thought for a while and asked: "In Chaoge City, are there any mountains and rivers that have been worshiped by generations?"
In the Shang Dynasty, there is a record of "Four kinds of gods, lusting after the six sects, looking at the mountains and rivers, and pervading the gods".
Therefore, under normal circumstances, their sacrifices could not lack mountains, but the current situation was special after all, so Wei Yuan still asked.
Wu Yu hurriedly said: "Yes, there is an ancestral lineage that has been worshiped from generation to generation since the Shang Tang Dynasty."
At this moment, Sakurajima's divinity was about to be completely burned out. After Wei Yuan received Wu Yu's answer, he relaxed, no longer hesitated, and pointed his finger at the bronze plate. He concentrated slightly and wrote the edict he had created.
Write it out in one breath, then open your palm slightly, the seal emerges, and slowly make a mark on it.
There was a stream of light on the edict.
Then, this was extremely extravagant, directly consuming the edict drawn by the divinity and passing through the bronze plate.
Emerged directly on the altar.
Wei Yuan felt that the power in the seal was being greatly consumed, and Sakurajima's divinity was being consumed even more rapidly, and even he himself felt a kind of fatigue, while Wu Yu saw on the altar, a line that he had never seen before.
The edict appeared, with an aura as thick as a mountain and as distant as the wind, and then slowly fell on the palm of his hand.
His breath was almost stagnant, and he held the edict carefully. The scene on the altar slowly began to disappear, and Wu Yu heard the voice:
"During the sacrifice before the blood sacrifice, place this order between the thrones of the emperors above and below, and then..."
The voice paused slightly and said calmly:
"Then, recite my name."
"deep."
PS: The second update today...3,400 words, thanks for the funny reward, thank you~
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