Body 99

Li Xu was originally drinking tea with Yan Hokusai at the headquarters of the Shennong Group, and after seeing the photo of the Soul Chaser Scepter, even a person like him who is skilled in Taoist cultivation can't help but feel a burst of spiritual agitation. He didn't bother to explain what was going on with Yan Hokusai, and left in a hurry, "Sheshan, there is a bit of trouble in your villa." With Li Xu's ability, this kind of rush in a hurry will naturally not be limited by vehicles, and in front of Yan Beizhai, he directly used the ground shrinking technique and rushed to Sheshan Villa.

Originally, it was not a serious matter, but Yan Hokusai was bluffed by Li Xu. He immediately called Jin Xiaohua and asked Jin Xiaohua to rush to Sheshan Villa, and let a few bodyguards around him go to Yan Yingxue's side. Subsequently, he himself drove to Sheshan Villa.

When Li Xu rushed to the vicinity of the villa, he released his qi machine to sense the formation he had laid out. Although it was stirred by the powerful energy fluctuations of the Soul Chaser Scepter, the formation was still intact, and although the enchantment spells set by Wulin were not strong, they also partially offset the interference of energy on the formation. However, the strength of the Soul Chaser Scepter still made Li Xu secretly speechless. Li Xu hadn't seen this thing with his own eyes, but he had only seen an explanation of the Soul Chasing Scepter from the elders of the sect. Several elders in his sect had dealt with several grandmaster-level figures of the Shamanic Sect, and one of them had seen the Soul Chaser Scepter with his own eyes in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. Although realistic sketches were not in vogue at the time, and there were no cameras or the like, the senior Ya Danqing still left a white-style illustration and some explanatory text to illustrate the great significance of this magic weapon for shamanism. But shamanism is a very cohesive community, and after the scepter passed into the hands of the shaman, no one knows what happened to him. Li Xu, a guy who likes to travel around, has been extremely interested in all kinds of adventures since he was a child, and he has studied such notes from his elders very seriously. It is precisely because of this that this disciple, who was criticized by his elders when he was young, was inattentive, but when his peers encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation, he easily crossed several hurdles with his rich experience and broad vision, far ahead of his peers. He had also been in the north for a long time, and he had some understanding of shamanism, so when he saw the rebirth of the Soul Chasing Scepter, he would naturally be able to perceive its significance.

"Where did you get this thing......" Li Xu walked into the utility room, and couldn't help but be stunned when he saw the windless automatic soul chasing scepter and the full set of clothes spread on the ground.

Li Xu had seen Cheng Chi, and he also knew what Cheng Chi did from Zuo Lin's mouth, and after thinking about it for a while, he understood how things came about. However, no one said that there was such a batch of magic weapons in Shanghai recently?

"A gang of grave robbers got this stuff. Then they were hijacked by an antiquities smuggling syndicate, and then they were hijacked by us. Cheng Chi hurriedly stood up, bowed deeply to Li Xu, and explained the whole thing.

When Li Xu heard this, he was also a little happy. But when you think about it, there's something wrong with that. After pondering for a moment, he said, "I don't know how the tomb robbers got these things out, but since I know who they are, I can just arrest them and ask them." I'll let Yu Hai do this, you don't have to worry about it, just listen to the results of the interrogation when the time comes. However, the birth of the Soul Chaser Scepter is a big deal, and I would like to ask, Cheng Chi, are you still planning to give these things to your buyer? I'm almost sure that the Chinese buyer you mentioned is in the know. He must have known about the Scepter of Soul Chasing. I don't care if I'm Chinese or not, now that I know about this, you can beat me and take things away, otherwise don't even think about it. ”

Cheng Chi glanced at Zuo Lin aggrievedly, and hurriedly explained: "How dare I." When I saw something, I knew something was wrong, and this thing wasn't something that could be sold casually. However, what are the seniors going to do with these things? Besides, why is it called the Soul Chaser Scepter? The energy of this big thread feels very decent. ”

Li Xu hesitated for a moment and said, "These things, report them to the Special Affairs Bureau and explain the origin." According to the principle of priority of the rightful possessor, it will remain in your hands. As for what you do, I don't care, but there is one thing, be sure to keep the Soul Chaser Scepter in a dismantled state, or keep it in a formation or enchantment that can isolate the outside world. For the two of you now, you can't control the Soul Chaser Scepter, and now, I don't know any powerful shaman who can control it. The Scepter isn't just what you see, in fact, it has two very different forms. ”

Zuo Lin and Cheng Chi both listened with relish, and Li Xu sighed again and said, "The matter will start with the maker of the Soul Chaser Scepter. It is difficult to say exactly when the maker of the Soul Chaser Scepter, a great shaman of the steppe a long time ago, was exactly, because this great shaman of the steppe named Zasa once wanted to do something very remarkable: to unify the basic teachings of shamanism. It must have been around the time of the Mongol expedition to the west, and there were several large armies that showed signs of converting to Islam. Zasa realized that shamanism without a unified doctrine could not compete with the more complete formal religions, especially since the transmission of shamans depended heavily on the conversion of each shaman and the traditions of their own tribes, which was difficult to preserve in the face of great wars and exchanges. He traveled all over the northern kingdom, studying the different teachings of various tribes, and at the same time accumulating mana and accumulating various magic weapons. Later, he proposed the original hierarchical system of shamanic totem beliefs, with natural totems such as heaven and earth, sun and moon, stars, water and fire as the first level of totems, and wolves, bears, leopards, tigers, foxes, Eagles and other predators as the second-level totem, and then weaker natural objects as the third and fourth level totems, but also combined with the traditions of different tribes at that time, put forward a shamanic unification conference according to the strength of the tribe, one-time unified distribution of totems at all levels, clear shamanic beliefs and tribal affiliation and so on the idea of the idea. It's just that this ambition never had a chance to be realized. ”

The idea of the great shaman of Zasa was so grand that if he had succeeded at that time, it is very likely that there would be a great religion and a system of practice that can be compared to Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. However, Zasa's vision involved many peoples, even those who were at war or in dispute at the time, and several countries were involved, and in the end, Zasa had to abandon the idea of unifying shamanism at once and instead established his own nomadic sect to spread throughout the northern kingdom.

The birth of the Zasa sect is the product of the thinking of a part of the shamanic people who understand the world, but also understand the development of the times. When Zasa spread such a strict set of shamanism, it unexpectedly failed. And the main reason is that the fanatics, shamanism that began with primitive totem worship, has never lacked fanatics, they are firm in their beliefs, and they are never afraid to practice their beliefs. They were born and raised in the harsh northern realm, with grasslands, deserts, snow, mountains, and enemies from all directions. Zealots arm themselves with faith and thus become fearless, and they never care if their faith is blind or not. But when an advanced shamanic system was in front of them, a religious system with rich layers and strong self-adaptability, the original zealots were at a loss. If it weren't for the fact that Zasa was really a great shaman with too much power and prestige, he might have been torn apart by the fanatics who were asked to change their original tribal totemic beliefs when they preached.

Zasa is a zealot himself, but his loyalty is not to a single totem, but to a system of power, mystery, and blood. When he, as a calm and profound fanatic, was unable to convince other fanatics, his frustration was understandable. Zasa finally died on the grassland, passing on his clothes to his disciples, but his disciples put them all into Zasa's grave, along with the scepter of soul chasing.

The basis for Zassa's desire to establish a unified shamanism is that through cultivation and thinking, he attributes the source of shamanism's power to the "soul of the ancestors". And the best example of his practice of this idea is this "soul chasing scepter". The normal form of the Soul Chaser Scepter, known as the Soul of Blessing, is used to raise the black scepter and travel through the grasslands and forests, and the spiritual power left behind by the devout fanatics will gather in the flags and bless the shamanic warriors through the flags. When someone challenges the authority of shamanism, as long as the banner is soaked in blood, the Soul Chaser Scepter enters another state - the cursed soul, which allows the wielder to summon the power of the deceased to punish the enemy with tooth for tooth and blood for blood. Arguably, the Soul Chaser Staff represents two sides of Zasa as a shamanic fanatic—gentle and forgiving, but at the same time majestic and angry.

"I don't know what kind of power system and cultivation method the so-called ancestral soul is," Li Xu shrugged his shoulders and said, "Shamanism is mysterious even to us cultivators. The problem is that shamanism is so much like to go to extremes, so it seems that the vast majority of the monks in Middle-earth regard shamanism as a cult and an abyss of sin. It's not entirely because you're afraid of someone robbing you, but in fact, the shamanic gang of madmen, although extreme, are not bad at heart, and they are not complicated. I'm afraid that the group of guardians who have eaten enough and have nothing to do will come to kill the demons and destroy the only witness of a legend. ”

Listening to Li Xu's merciless evaluation, Zuo Lin scratched his head and said, "I knew it was so troublesome, so I wouldn't have brought this thing back." What now? Find a bank vault and lock up this pile? And then what?"

Li Xu looked at Zuo Lin with disdain and said, "You find out your master, he can use this set of things." Moreover, he also has a way to get this set into the right hands. ”