Chapter 9, Sacrifice

Three days later, the ancestral hall of Sifang Village.

There is a big banyan tree in front of the ancestral hall, one on the left and one on the left, three big banyan trees are in the three directions of the ancestral hall, behind the ancestral hall is a pond, the water in the pond is flowing down the mountain, there are many fish in the water, but the people in the village do not catch the fish in the pond.

In front of the ancestral hall in the village, there are many square tables in front of the ancestral hall, on which are orderly placed the livestock that each family has just caught in the past few days, as well as fruits, incense, candles, a total of 174 tables.

Everyone in the village gathers here. There are three other large tables in front of the table, each of which has a large incense burner, and the villagers each hold a long incense stick in their hands and kneel down in front of the incense burner, chanting a word, and then stand up and insert the long incense in their hands on the incense burners on both sides, and then stand neatly behind the village chief.

The incense burner is filled with long incense just lit by the villagers, the long incense burns slowly, and the white smoke fills the air, and the whole ancestral hall seems to have a different charm at this time.

This is a regular ritual activity for the villagers, and the villagers feel that the more devout they are, the more they will be favored by the heavens.

The village chief reverently knelt in front of the spiritual seat and recited the words in his mouth, not knowing what he was reading, and then said loudly

"The ancestors of the Zhang family are on top, and the fifteenth generation of village head Zhang Yingtian held a sacrifice here today. Sifang Village, where we have lived for generations, is here today to send the descendants of my village to the Blue Lotus Sect to learn supreme magic. May the ancestors bless the future generations of my village,"

"Bow down to your fathers and fathers"

When the villagers heard the village chief's words, they all knelt down.

There is a big banyan tree in front of the ancestral hall, and under the big banyan tree stand the four members of the Qinglian Sect who came to test their talents this time.

"Uncle Shi, what do you see this group of people doing," the black-faced man Ouyang Qi asked with a smile.

However, his uncle ignored him, but watched the sacrifice in front of him proceed in an orderly manner, and he seemed to feel the special nature of this sacrifice.

"Can you understand this ancestral hall?" asked Ji An's mother. There is a big banyan tree on the left side of the ancestral hall, and under the big banyan tree stands Ji An's father and mother, and of course, little Ji An. They did not participate in the sacrifice. Instead, they watched under the tree.

"I can't read it, but I can feel the special place here. Such a simple arrangement can have such a powerful effect. Ji An's father opened his mouth and said, "Is this the reason why more and more children in Zhangjia Village have been selected by the Qinglian Sect over the years?"

"This ancestral hall is more than what you see," Ji An's mother said lightly.

"Do you see something," Ji An's father asked.

"I'm not sure if my inference is correct. It may be some kind of faith power, or some kind of totemic power, I can't say for sure," Ji An's mother said, touching the thick trunk of the big banyan tree.

"When we took An'er to pass by here, you saw this ancestral hall, so you decided to settle here, did you see anything back then. Ji An's father recalled.

At this time, Ji An's mother did not answer his question, but continued to look at the big banyan tree in front of him, the trunk of the big banyan tree can only be so thick by five or six adults, and there are strange textures on the trunk, Ji An's mother looked at these textures and seemed to want to see the year of the big banyan tree from these textures, but she didn't see it. It can only be seen that these big banyan trees are also very old.

"Do you say that this ancestral hall was deliberately left by the ancestors of the Zhang family, or was it deliberately arranged by the latecomers?" Ji An's father seemed to be very interested in the topic.

"Forget it, the things here are not something we can intervene in, there are powerful people who are laid out here, so we don't want to intervene, just borrow light," Ji An's mother said lightly. Hearing Ji An's mother's answer, Ji An's father was very surprised, and he remembered that it was the first time he had heard his wife say such a thing.

"Kill the livestock" at this time the sacrifice came to an end, the villagers in the village chief order, cut off the neck of the cattle with brushes, blood flowed down the hands of the villagers to the ground, the blood on the ground flowed together, to the end of the ground on a layer of blood, at this time the rising white smoke mixed with a faint red light. However, the blood on the ground quickly dried up for some reason, but the red glow mixed in the white smoke had not disappeared.

"What is this," the black-faced man Ouyang Qi asked, the white smoke mixed with red made them very uncomfortable.

Ouyang Mu, the old man who was staring at the sacrifice, noticed that the three of them were the same, and with a wave of his left sleeve, the white smoke drifted away, and then turned to look at the three of them, their faces were already flushed, and their breathing was not very smooth.

"Adjust your breathing and eliminate distracting thoughts," the old man Ouyang Mu reminded. Then the three of them began to breathe regularly, and after a while, the red tide on their faces receded, and they already knew the strangeness of this ancestral hall, but they didn't dare to speak at this time. The old man was still staring at the sacrificial process.

A puff of white smoke drifted towards the children, and several children, including Ji An, were surrounded by this puff of white smoke.

"There is a rhyme to appear"

Ji An's mother looked ahead in surprise, her pupils widened, she didn't expect that this simple sacrificial activity would have a Dao rhyme, if those big sects knew, it would not be peaceful here.

But soon, Ji An's mother returned to normal, and then surprised.

It seems that Ji An has a great opportunity this time, I don't know how many of this silk rhyme will be able to discover in the future, and the effect of this rhyme will not be discovered if it is not at that level. It's this silk rhyme, even the Qinglian Sect can't take it out.

"Those disciples of the Blue Lotus Sect seem to be feeling unwell," Ji An's father said with a smile. He looked at the disciples of the Blue Lotus Sect who were meditating and breathing.

"They should have seen this for the first time," Ann's mother began.

Somehow, the white smoke didn't drift to the sides.

"The end of the sacrifice" fell with the village chief's voice, and the red glow mixed with the white smoke around also disappeared, and the white smoke floated disorderly, and the trace of Dao rhyme did not appear again.

Then the villagers took their sacrifices home, and the whole process was very religious.

Only the thirteen selected children were left in front of the ancestral hall, and Xiao Ji An was among them at this time.

The four members of the Qinglian Sect also walked in front of the village chief.

"Elder Ouyang, this is the thirteen children in our village who were selected by the Qinglian Sect this time, and they will be handed over to the elders in the future, please take care of them more. If they are disobedient, ask Elder Ouyang to discipline them on their behalf. ”

"Well, these children are also related to the old man, I don't know if they have a relationship with the Qinglian Sect. Elder Ouyang spoke.

"You will follow Elder Ouyang today, follow Elder Ouyang's orders along the way, and study hard after arriving at the Blue Lotus Sect, don't let down the expectations of the people in the village for you, do you hear?" the village chief turned to the children and said.

"I hear you," the children replied in unison.

"Alright, let's go"

"Farewell, Village Chief Zhang," Elder Ouyang said

"Farewell, Elder Ouyang, if you are passing by our Sifang Village down the mountain, please come and have a glass of wine," the village chief said with squinted eyes.

"It's easy to say, the next time I come here may be three years away," Elder Ouyang said.

In this way, the children of the Sifang Village were selected into the Blue Lotus Sect and left the village to pursue the supreme immortal arts. Little Ji An left their parents and began his own spiritual path.

"Do you have any plans for the future?" the village chief asked Ji An's father and mother

"Since An'er has been admitted to the Qinglian Sect to study, then we are also relieved for the time being, we will leave the village for a while, we still have our own things to deal with, and of course our own cultivation cannot be left behind," Ji An's mother spoke.

Hearing this, a gleam flashed in the village chief's eyes. He had never been able to see through the two people in front of him, and Xiu Wei was obviously similar to what he saw, but the village chief could always feel an extremely dangerous aura on the two of them.

"It's a pity, you have helped our village so much" The village chief still regretted that with these two people, their village would be a little more secure.

"Of course, I'll still go into the mountains to hunt some prey before we leave, haha, and I'll be a coolie for you," Ji An's father said with a smile.

Ji An's father and mother looked at the backs of the four members of the Blue Lotus Sect, and then looked at the little Ji An who was following them. Then their gaze was withdrawn, and they glanced at each other, and they saw firmness in each other's eyes.