Chapter 23: Witchcraft
"In the primeval period, the environment was harsh and strange and evil were rampant, and it was difficult for human beings to move forward. The ancestors took pity on human beings, gave them the six arts of witchcraft, cultivated them to dispel terror, protect the common people, and respected them as witches. The old man sipped his wine as if he was lost in thought.
"The ancestors gave the art of qi and blood, so that people can strengthen their strength in the face of danger;"
"The ancestors gave the art of wisdom, so that people can regulate their behavior when they live and work;"
"The ancestors gave the art of forethought, in order to make people struggle to survive when they can drive away good fortune and avoid evil;"
"The ancestors gave the art of the dementor, so that people can be fearless and dangerous when they are on the road;"
"Our ancestors gave us the art of mediumship, so that people could rest in peace when they passed away;"
"The ancestors gave Sichen the art to keep hope in times of adversity in order to make people feel good. ”
"Guest, now do you know what witches are, and what are the witch cultivators?" said the old man softly.
Kua Fatherli suddenly laughed and scolded: "Old Batou, are you really not afraid of being beaten? The son who received the fire order last year, but it was because you talked about witch cultivation that he beat your ......."
Lao Ge stopped Kuafuli from talking, got up and bowed to Lao Batou and said, "Thank you for your advice!"
The old man smiled silently, took a sip of wine again, and said, "The current witch is pursuing powerful witch power. In order to obtain powerful magical powers, they modified the six arts of witchcraft inherited by the ancient witches beyond recognition. The spells and spells they are cultivating now have completely become the techniques of killing people and harming people, is this still the Six Arts?"
Long Ge pondered for a moment and said, "However, there is nothing wrong with pursuing strength and innovation? If it remains unchanged, how can it progress? How can it make the people live a better life?"
The old man smiled and said, "What the guest said is also reasonable. It's just that their innovative witchcraft and innovative magic methods are only passed on to the children of their own clan, and they cherish the broom outside the clan, how can this be explained?
Kua Fuli interjected: "Other people's own witch tricks and spells are not passed on to the outside world, they are other people's business, how can they be forced?"
Long Ge also smiled: "That's right." I have also heard a great man say that the Tao should not be lightly preached, and the Dharma should not be taught lightly. In fact, what this great power said also makes sense. What Long Ge said was actually the sentence of the Buddha in the later "Journey to the West" that "the scriptures cannot be passed on lightly, nor can they be taken empty". There is a sense of ridicule in "Journey to the West", why do you want the Bodhisattva to go all the way to find someone to learn the scriptures? However, Long Ge later checked it, and there are similar sentences in the Buddhist "Lotus Sutra", and what the scriptures say is actually very reasonable.
The old man grinned and said, "How can we innovate if we don't spread the word? That is, the progress that the guests say? If the primeval wizards don't pass on the witch tricks, how can the current witch cultivators have witch tricks to innovate?"
Long Ge also smiled: "Indeed, but as Father Kua said, this is really something that cannot be forced." ”
Lao Batou said: "In fact, it doesn't matter if it is passed on or not, the witch tricks and spells they cherish are blindly pursuing the power of witchcraft, and blindly enhancing the power of killing people and harming people, and they have long lost the original flavor of the six arts of witchcraft, so don't pass it on." And many of the so-called innovations are even more ridiculous, just the ancient wizards think that they will harm the living people and list the forbidden methods, and transform them into harmful spells. Is this witchcraft, which has lost its function of guiding the people, still witchcraft? Are the witches who practice these witchcrafts still witchcraft? In addition to asking for tribute from the people, how can these witches ever do a thing to guide the people to a better life? Are they still witches?"
The tribute service Long Ge didn't know, because of the existence of the Red Tiger Storm in Chihu Village, the tribute to be handed over was very low, so no one had heard of it. In fact, each village has to pay tribute to the lord of Ying, and then the lord of Ying is handed over to the lord of the town, the lord of the town is handed over to the lord, the lord is handed over to the lord, the lord is handed over to the lord of the country, and the lord of the country also needs to pay tribute to the witch hall. Because of the interception of each level, this tribute is not low.
Long Ge pondered and said, "I passed through several villages, and the things that the witch elders in the village did were all guiding the people, they should be witches, right?"
The old man smiled contemptuously and said, "You mean those abandoned sons thrown out by the Witch Palace, those wastes who have no future in cultivation? Witch Palace, Witch Palace, that's the biggest joke?"
Kua's father slapped the case and shouted: "Old batou shut up! slander the witch hall, do you want to die?"
Long Ge was also taken aback, old batou, do you really dare to say it? Don't mention the witch hall, how dare you say that the witch in the village is a waste? No matter how low the witch power is, it is still a witch cultivator. You, an ordinary person with no magical powers, dare to say this, no wonder you were beaten half to death by that son who led the fire order?
The old man smiled: "You see, even the ancestors' rule that witches are not allowed to harm the living people has been distorted beyond recognition by them?"
Long Ge smiled bitterly and said, "Boss, don't say it, there are some things you dare to say, but we don't dare to listen." It is right for the witch hall to pay tribute to the ancestors, and if you don't pay tribute to the ancestors, you can still be considered a human being to pay tribute to those messy things? Not to mention that the witch hall doesn't give the witch cultivator the power of the witch ancestor back?"
Lao Batou drank the remnants of the wine in the bowl in one gulp, and said, "How can you use the power of Wu Zu to borrow it?" With that, he turned and left.
Long Ge looked at the back of the old man, and suddenly his heart moved, and asked, "Why did the old man tell me this?"
The old man slowed down and said quietly: "When the depression between your eyebrows dissipates, you will understand why you came?"
Long Ge was taken aback, and the meaning of these words was very deep, like this old man knew something, but is this possible? Suddenly coming to this world made him very depressed, but the depression between his eyebrows? Long Ge touched his eyebrows, is there it?
Without waiting for Long Ge to think about it, Kua's father said loudly: "This old man really dares to say it today! As far as his words are concerned, according to the rules of the Witch Palace, it is enough to take them and hand them over to the lord's mansion for death." ”
Ji Li Gang raised the wine bowl and said: "It's not once or twice that he talks nonsense, drinking and drinking, and I haven't heard what he says when I patronize and drink." ”
Kuafuli smiled and said, "Yes, I didn't hear what he said when I patronized and drank." ”
After a few jars of wine, the atmosphere gradually became warmer. A brother said with a lewd smile: "I'm almost done eating, should we go to Rouge Street to drink wine?"
Ji Li Gang also said with a lewd face: "Brother Long Ge, do you want to go and see it? I know that there are even beast girls in a family." ”
Long Ge said strangely: "Beast girl?"
Ji Li Gang smiled and said, "Some high-level spirit beasts or demon beasts are born from the combination of humans, and the half-orcs are more interesting than humans. ”
Long Ge smiled: "Is it a bunny girl, a cat girl or something?"
Everyone smiled lewdly, and Ji Li Gang said: "Brother Longge is really also a person in this way, do you want to see it?"
Long Ge laughed and said, "Okay! All the drinks are included, and the night expenses are taken care of." ”
Everyone laughed and got up, and Long Ge went to settle the bill with Lao Batou, and explained that he would send a cart of good wine to the team barracks. Anyway, Long Ge also saw that this leader had no military discipline at all, so there was no defeat or defeat.
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The chapter took seven or eight hours to write, but I was still not satisfied. There will be more in the future.