Chapter 169: The Shrine

"That shrine has been handed down from our ancestors, so remember to keep it properly. www.biquge.info When it was time to go out, the old patriarch still took Jia Daniu's hand and told him repeatedly. After this side was done, the group turned back to the east.

Li Chen said that he had a little understanding of the sacrificial things, but he didn't just talk about it, when he was in the Li family in Qingyuan, he did read books on this subject, although it was only roughly turned aside at that time, but now he has cut off the mortal dust, achieved the innate and soul fire, and the first gold, and has long had the ability to never forget, and even the books that were only a general impression in the past have become clear.

When they arrived at the ancestral shrine in the east of the village, Li Chen commanded the group of people to clean up a place, and then let them hold a simple worship and spirit invitation ceremony to inform the ancestors of the migration, and then start cleaning up the main hall. The ancestral shrine is mainly the ancestral tablet and some sacrificial items, and then there is the hanging eulogy about the merits of the ancestors.

Li Chen's role is to command them to put things in different categories, and he doesn't need to handle the specific work. He didn't interfere indiscriminately, and seemed to stand there casually, but in fact, his divine consciousness had already been fully unfolded.

He came here twice, and he was no stranger to this place, but he didn't pay attention to these tablet shrines at the time, but now when he looked closely, he found that some of these dense tablets were really old. The ancestor at the top turned out to be the sixteenth year of King Kang of the Great Zhou, but this can be connected to the memory inheritance of the previous land brother, it should be from that time period, this village has been connected with the previous land.

Because there are many tablets, they need to be brought down one by one and placed neatly in order, so the sorting work is not fast. The shrine is in the innermost, and there is no way to invite it down for a while, so the group can only clean it layer by layer. Li Chen slowly surrounded the shrine in the middle with his divine thoughts, and carefully inspected it.

Suddenly, his expression moved, and then he had a rough guess in his heart.

The shrine was made of ordinary spruce wood, but the anti-corrosion measures were well done, and it was heavily painted, and judging by the situation, it should be repainted every few years, so on the surface, there was no abnormality in it. But Li Chen's divine sense is now strong, and he soon discovered something different, inside this shrine, there is actually a hidden statue of a god that has been covered with paint and has no traces at all.

The waist is tied with the seal of the land, the back is a broad-backed long knife, the body is high, and the hands are standing, from the point of view of the body, it is no different from the statue in the temple of the broken land. It's just that the statue of the land god that Li Chen saw was dilapidated, and he couldn't see the outline on his face, but the statue of the land god here was relatively clear and well-preserved, and it could be seen that he was a rather handsome and sunny middle-aged uncle.

And under the statue of the god, there is a square seal, on which are written eight small characters with ancient and vicissitudes of life: The Division of the Earth, Inheriting the Heavens!

It is clearly the seal of the land seal in his arms!

This Jiajia Village and the former land lord seem to have a deep fate, is it possible that there is any other story in this?

Seeing that Jia Daniu and the others had already started to tidy up according to their own instructions, and they didn't have time to take care of themselves, Li Chen walked out of the ancestral hall of the Jia family, found a high place outside, and looked around. Although the astrological part of the medicine and divination was only briefly looked at and did not study it in depth, the superficial study of feng shui is not a problem.

Although the terrain here is gentle, the mountains and rivers are back, and it is suitable for settlement, it is not a great feng shui treasure. Obviously, there was nothing unusual about the ancestor of the Jia family who settled here back then, so how did he get the seal of the father-in-law of the land?

That seal was apparently imprinted with mana, thus becoming the hub between the land seal and the link here. Obviously, the former land lord relied on this idol and seal to bear the incense sacrifices of this place, and also to protect the people here.

Because this place is quite remote, the situation of their sacrifice is relatively hidden, thus successfully avoiding the blockade of land sacrifice by the Great Zhou court. Later, although the former land prince Xianyuan was exhausted and finally fell, the descendants of Jiajia Village, who lost the protection of the land, gradually forgot to sacrifice and support the land father.

However, due to the fact that this idol and seal occupy the central god position, the incense power in the land seal cannot help but slowly dissipate, but slowly accumulates into the land seal, so that the power of the land seal does not decrease but increases, and the connection with this place has not been severed. With the devotion of his ancestors, he had a sudden sense the day before yesterday, and the spark rushed to help. It's really a drink and a peck, cause and effect follow each other, at this moment, Li Chen suddenly blessed his soul and had a deeper understanding of the way he inherited the Houtu.

The shrine is a shrine for the former land lord to collect incense and wish to enjoy the sacrifices of the villagers, and it is also a means to avoid the blockade of the imperial court and protect the villagers. As for how the former land lord at that time made these villagers believe in him and passed it down from generation to generation, it is no longer verifiable.

With this kind of speculation, there was no need for Li Chen to stay here, and seeing that there was no one around, he directly connected to the next point of light, and his figure disappeared in place for a moment. When Jia Daniu and the others came out after they were busy and searched, where could they still see his shadow. Seeing that he couldn't find it, Jia Daniu thought that Li Chen was still leaving, so he beckoned a few young people to rush back to the village. Another headache has not been solved, and the problem of the relocation of his old mother and the rest of the elderly is still difficult, so he naturally has no energy to pay attention to an occasional stranger.

Most of the remaining light spots have been emptied, and the entire village has been reduced to ruins, and even the ancestral shrine has not had time to be taken care of. Some ancestral shrines have been cleaned up, leaving only the shrine left alone, I don't know if the later people forgot the instructions of their ancestors, or if the people who knew about it were killed in the attack of foreign beasts.

Without the source of incense, this shrine is left here, and I am afraid that it will not be long before the divine power on the seal on it will dissipate and completely lose its effect. After thinking about it, Li Chen tightened the shrine in his land seal.

Li Chen has not yet figured out these methods that can hook up land seals and collect villagers' incense wishes. This thing is simply a coordinate flight flag, maybe it will come in handy that day in the future, and besides, even if it is brought back for research, it is better than throwing it here and abandoning it.

After Li Chen finished surveying these points of light one by one, he still knew in his heart that the points of light in his land seal were the positioning of these shrines. There are a total of twenty-one places, spread over a radius of 300 miles around, that is to say, if you understand the means of the former land lord to collect incense and wish power and protect the people, he will soon be able to grasp the control of this land in his hands and become a real land lord.

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