Chapter 180: The Bronze Snake Tree
The millions of evil spirits have now been divided into two routes, all the way to Nanyang to help Cao Cao recover the lost territory, and the remaining one is led by Miss Suppression to guard Xichuan, and there are still five or six hundred thousand evil spirits in Xichuan.
Zhuge Liang breathed a sigh of relief, the current plan to retreat from the army is only temporarily relieving the pressure of the evil spirit army, and Miss Suppression is determined to succeed, she is continuing to resurrect the evil spirit in Xichuan.
Nanzhong had long been lost, and Meng Shu led the army to resist for a while, but the Evil Spirit Legion was too strong, so he had to lead the rest of the troops into the primeval jungle and hide.
Miss Yu has named Meng Chi as the king of Nanzhong, and Meng Chi led the Wu Gu army to occupy most of the land in Nanzhong, and all the remnants of the old party returned to Meng Chi.
Since ancient times, Nanzhong has been as mysterious as the ancient Shu Kingdom thousands of years ago, because it is far from the Central Plains and has a wide area of forests, and the people here are more worshipping in the gods.
As we all know, there were several Dian kings who believed in evil gods in Nanzhong, so Meng Chi was naturally no exception, so to speak, he was a typical example.
Before, Meng Chi was just a disciple of the Medicine King, and later became the head of the Medicine King Sect, and now with the help of Miss Suppression's evil spirit, he has become the king of Nanzhong.
After becoming the king of Nanzhong, Meng Chi carried out several major sacrificial activities, of course, the serpentine net sacrificial vessel is indispensable.
He summoned all the disciples of the Witch Gu Master and the Medicine King Sect, as well as some disciples who believed in evil gods, to hold a grand enthronement ceremony in Nanzhong, and the enthronement ceremony was indispensable for sacrificial activities.
A huge serpentine mesh was standing in a clearing, the largest serpentine mesh in a long time, like the skeleton of a dinosaur, about twenty meters high, about ten meters wide at the mouth, and the whole looked like a giant snake circling around.
The head of the snake is high, the eyes are round, the teeth are open, the fierce face is exposed, the snake's abdomen is bent, and the snake's tail is cocked to form a primordial hammer; The recess of the snake's abdomen is welded with a giant net pocket.
The teeth of the serpent's head, like large serrations, are symmetrical above and below, and are all made of sharp blades.
It is about 50 meters away from the giant serpentine mesh, it is a building similar to a pyramid, about 40 meters high, with a sitting area of about 500 square meters, and on the spire is a copper tree that is high and upward, just like the sacred tree unearthed in the Sanxing Mawangdui, but this copper tree is very different from the cultural relics unearthed in the Sanxing Mawangdui. The vertical trunk in the middle of the copper tree is not smooth, but has scales like a snake, and the bronze sacred tree unearthed from the three-star Mawangdui is different, the bronze sacred tree of Mawangdui, the trunk is 384 cm high, and the height is 396 cm, which is composed of two parts: the tree base and the trunk. The tree base is slightly conical, the base is circular, and the cloud pattern is decorated on it, and the base is connected by three mountains, and there are also cloud patterns on the mountain. The trunk of the tree is cast in the middle of the mountaintop, the trunk is straight, and the roots of the tree are exposed. There are three layers of branches on the trunk, each layer is three branches, and the end of the branch has a fruit, one fruit branch rises, and a bird stands on the fruit, and two fruit branches droop. There are fire wheels cast under the tree branches and fruit trays. On one side of the tree, a dragon descends from the tree, with a braided horse-faced head and sword-like wings. Judging from the shape, the bronze sacred tree should be the sacred tree "Fusang" representing the East.
And the sacred tree standing on the pyramid building is not called a sacred tree, but a sacred snake, because at the top of the bronze sacred tree, it is actually a hideous snake head.
There are nine layers of branches on the trunk of the sacred tree, and at the end of the branch is a small snake rising in the air, and the small snake sits cross-legged at the end after work, and there is a small flower bud under the end.
At the beginning of the ritual, Meng Chi stood on a wide stone platform in front of the pyramid building.
Several people wearing snake-shaped masks appeared under the stage, and in the middle of them was a large black wooden box, which could probably hold an adult.
At this moment, in front of the pyramid building, many people wearing various animal and ghost masks appeared, and they stood in two groups, and the two people next to the stone platform each held a long horn of an animal in their hands.
When the sun moved to nine o'clock, there was a large stone slab with a diameter of about two meters in the middle, and in the middle of the stone slab there was an upright copper rod, and the shadow of the copper rod also moved to the direction of nine o'clock, and the two people with trumpets began to puff out their cheeks and blow the trumpets vigorously.
The horn was made by an unknown animal, it was bigger than the horns of a bull, and it sounded as if hundreds of horns were blowing together.
The sound of the trumpet is like a call, a wail.
A few people under the stone platform lifted the black wooden box, walked up to the stone platform, and walked to Meng Chi, one of Meng Chi's subordinates handed a black cloth bag to him, Meng Chi reached out and grabbed a black snake in the cloth bag, the snake was a highly poisonous snake.
Meng Chi pinched the head of the snake, and pushed the snake's head from the tail of the snake with his right hand, the snake opened its mouth and bared its fangs, and there was a feeling of pain.
Then, blood flowed out of the mouth of the poisonous snake and dripped on the black wooden box, and after the blood of the poisonous snake was cleaned, it was killed, and Meng Chi threw the dead poisonous snake underneath, and several people carried the black wooden box towards the pyramid building.
Enter the pyramid building, go up a stone staircase to the base of the bronze snake tree, and open the large wooden box.
There was a person huddled in the wooden box, wearing the clothes of a Shu soldier, it turned out that this was a prisoner of war.
The two dragged the prisoner out, the prisoner trembled, his face was pale, he was desperate, no one would come to save him, this is Nanzhong, not Xichuan, no matter how capable Zhuge Liang is, it is impossible to insert a pair of wings and fly over.
Several people lifted the prisoner of war and placed it under the base of the bronze snake tree, there was a funnel-like bronze vessel at the base, which was connected with the bronze snake tree, and the head of the prisoner of war was placed on top of the funnel-shaped vessel, and then one person drew a knife from his waist and wiped it on the neck of the prisoner of war, the prisoner of war was like a lamb to be slaughtered, his legs twitched, and his neck made a sound of empty tube ventilation, and after that, the blood gurgled into the bronze vessel of the funnel.
One of the prisoners grabbed the prisoner's legs and lifted them up, and the blood flowed into the container.
Strangely, the bronze snake tree suddenly changed from the bottom, slowly turning from bronze to bright red, and the blood seemed to start from the base and flow all the way up through the trunk, or the small snake at the end of the nine-layer leaf was sucking blood.
Could it be that it is a physical phenomenon where blood is stressed and then goes upwards despite gravity......
From the bottom to the top, the bronze snake tree gradually turned dark red, leading to the top of the snake head, which turned into a red snake head because it absorbed fresh blood.
When the bronze snake tree turned dark red, the horn sounded again, and a group of people came out of the pyramid building with a snakeskin drum wrapped around their waists, which was made of a very thick python skin, which could make a snake-like sound when struck.