After returning from Stone Mountain, Jiang Xuan solemnly carved the totem pattern of the Vine Tribe on a huge stone in front of the bamboo house. He also found some colored stones, smashed them, mixed them with water into paint, and colored the totem pattern.
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Although due to his limited painting skills, the totem pattern looks a bit like a child's graffiti, Jiang Xuan doesn't really care.
The totem pattern is the symbol of the tribe. As long as the tribe develops strong enough in the future, no matter how ugly the totem pattern is, no one will dare to despise it.
For example, some members of large tribes only need to draw the totem patterns of their tribe on their faces or on their belongings. When walking outside, other tribes will not dare to provoke them easily.
After drawing the totem pattern, Jiang Xuan began to prepare for the first sacrifice.
As a new tribe, the first sacrifice is very important. Even if there are only five people, the sacrifice ceremony must be decent.
Because Jiang Xuan knew very well that through a series of rituals such as building altars, offering sacrifices, and painting totem patterns, he could increase the tribe's identification with the tribe and improve the cohesion of the tribe.
Although there are currently only five people in the Teng tribe, Jiang Xuan will still complete this set of rituals.
He took Chi Shao and others to build a round cone-shaped altar with yellow mud at the foot of the stone mountain, with a staircase in front of the altar.
The diameter of the bottom of this altar is about two meters, the height is about one meter, and the diameter of the top is about one and a half meters. It is very small and crude.
But Jiang Xuan still conscientiously carved the totem patterns of the Vine Tribe around the yellow clay altar, including the top.
With the totem pattern, the altar feels a little more sacred.
Afterwards, they began to hunt in the mountains and forests, fish in the streams, and prepare sacrifices for sacrifices.
Three days later, the weather became warmer and warmer, the weeds on the ground began to grow, and the vegetation in the mountains and forests also began to sprout branches and sprouts.
Even the ancient vine has many buds on its branches and looks full of vitality.
The first year of the establishment of the Vine Tribe, January 15th.
The first sacrificial ceremony officially begins.
The yellow clay altar was already dry. Jiang Xuan and the other five people carried the sacrifices, walked up the stairs to the altar, and placed the sacrifices.
The sacrifices were a wild goat, a pheasant, and a large fish weighing more than twenty kilograms, all alive and tied with ropes.
All five of them had taken a shower in advance, put on their best animal skin clothes, and painted the totem patterns of the vine tribe on their faces, and they looked quite presentable.
The sacrificial ceremony actually requires witches to preside over it. It is said that only witches can communicate with the totem gods, and only witches can recite those ancient blessings.
But there are only five people in the Vine tribe, and there is no witchcraft inheritance at all, so Jiang Xuan had to rely on himself to perform.
Jiang Xuan recalled the sacrifice ceremony of the Deer Tribe, and then took a sharpened stone knife and bled the wild goats, pheasants, and fish on the altar.
Blood flowed on the brand new yellow mud altar, soaking part of the totem pattern.
Jiang Xuan walked down from the altar and put away the stone knife. He didn't know the sacrificial blessings at all, so he could only speak a few plain words.
Jiang Xuan faced Gu Teng, thought for a while, and began to say his congratulations:
"After inviting the Vine God to enjoy the sacrifice, he will bless the Vine tribe's livestock and abundant harvests, and the tribe's people will be able to come and go safely..."
Chi Shao and the three teenagers were stunned for a while, because they had never heard many of the words Jiang Xuan said.
In addition, they were making sacrifices, so they subconsciously thought that the God of Vine had appeared, so they worshiped even more devoutly.
"唳!"
At this moment, a bird's song that penetrated the gold and cracked stone sounded over the bamboo forest, startling the birds and beasts in the bamboo forest to hide.
Jiang Xuan looked up and saw a huge, ferocious bird covered in black feathers flying towards this direction. The target seemed to be the sacrifice on the altar.
"Not good!"
Jiang Xuan screamed in horror and subconsciously wanted to run away, because the bird was so big that it looked like a dark cloud when it flew over, which was intimidating.
This is simply not a ferocious bird that they can resist.
"Buzz"
At this moment, the stone mountain suddenly shook slightly.
The ancient vines wrapped around the stone mountain suddenly bloomed with bright green light. A tender vine grew rapidly, growing to hundreds of meters long, and then whipped towards the fierce bird like a whip.
"Pa!"
The ferocious bird was struck, and it let out a shrill scream, with blood falling in the air. It flapped its wings desperately in horror, trying to escape.
However, Gu Teng has no intention of letting it go.
"Pa!"
The hundred-meter-long vine was whipped hard again, and all the bones in the vicious bird were shattered. It was unable to fly anymore and fell crookedly to the ground.
"Bang!"
The huge ferocious bird landed not far from the altar and broke a piece of bamboo. After struggling for a few times, it stopped completely.
Jiang Xuan and the other five were so shocked that they couldn't even speak.
"The vine...the vine...the vine god really showed up."
Chi Shao opened her mouth wide. No one thought that this ancient vine was so terrifying. It could kill a vicious bird in two strokes.
Jiang Xuan was even more frightened. A few days ago, they climbed up the stone mountain along the ancient vine. If the ancient vine had murderous intentions at that time, I am afraid that none of them would survive.
Although he knew from his memory that there were many magical creatures in this world, he had never seen them with his own eyes.
In his memory, when the Deer tribe was exterminated, their totem god didn't take action, so he didn't know what went wrong.
I didn’t expect that an ancient vine would be so powerful. I don’t know if it’s because I really want to be the totem god of the vine tribe, or because the fierce bird wants to snatch its sacrifice.
Jiang Xuan also suddenly understood why not even a single beast could be seen around the bamboo forest. It was probably because he instinctively sensed that there was danger here and did not dare to approach, or maybe he was killed by the ancient vines.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
Suddenly, countless roots emerged from the ground. Some of them extended to the altar, wrapping the sacrifices layer by layer. The other part wrapped around the huge ferocious bird and also wrapped it. p>
Jiang Xuan glanced at those terrifying roots with the corner of his eyes, and felt that his back was wet with cold sweat.
I don’t know if this ancient vine has agreed to be a totem god. If not, will it take action against them?
After all, this ancient vine is too terrifying. If he wants to kill them, Jiang Xuan doesn't think he can run away.
After a long time, the roots retracted to the ground. Jiang Xuan glanced at the altar and saw that the prey had been sucked until only their hair and fresh bones were left.
The same is true for the vicious bird, only its feathers and bones remain.
How terrible!
Jiang Xuan gritted his teeth and continued to wait. He just hoped that this ancient vine would not make things difficult for them for the sake of sacrifice.
At this moment, five tender branches grew rapidly on the ancient vine, and finally extended to the heads of Jiang Xuan and the others.
"Teng...Teng Shen..."
Just when Jiang Xuan thought he was dead, a drop of emerald green liquid dripped from a young leaf at the end of the vine, fell on his head, and directly integrated into his body.
In an instant, Jiang Xuan felt a majestic power pouring into his body, with rich vitality, nourishing his internal organs, flesh, muscles and bones.
He clearly felt that his strength, speed, vision, hearing, etc. were all improving rapidly.
The same goes for Red Peony Root, Uncaria, Stone Loach, and Nan Xing. They also got a drop of green liquid.
After Jiang Xuan reacted, he immediately kowtowed with surprise on his face and said: "Thank you to the God of Vine for the gift!"
Others also thanked the ancient vine one after another. No one thought that a simple sacrifice could gain such benefits.
It seems that Gu Teng is really willing to be the totem god of the Teng tribe.
The five tender branches shrank back again, and the green light on the ancient vine gradually became restrained. The ancient vine was silent again. Apart from being huge, it looked no different from other vines.
If it weren't for the fur and bones of the sacrifices in front of him, I'm afraid Jiang Xuan would have thought it was a dream.
After a long time, Jiang Xuan returned to the bamboo house, still in a dazed state.
This world gave him a big gift for the first time.
With the protection of ancient vines and Jiang Xuan’s knowledge from his previous life, he believes that this small tribe will definitely be able to develop and grow in the future!