Yang Ke ordered someone to bring a pure white cow to use as a prison. But about the snake spirit, he still pushed it to the spirit platform to prepare for bloodletting.

When Sima Jingwen saw this scene, he didn't say much, but with the support of Yu Yuan, he came to Ji Le and Shi Huang's place to salute.

"Confucian scholar Sima Yuanzhao has seen His Royal Highness the National Spirit and visited Emperor Shi. ”

"Get up. Ji Le replied casually, staring at the Lingtai. Under the chanting of the ten shrine maidens, the snake spirit had no room for resistance. A shaman stepped forward and raised his sword in his hand, and the gurgling blood left the altar and filled the grooves in the ground.

"Your Highness is curious, why is the monarch still preparing to let the blood snake spirit?" Although Sima Jingwen scolded Yang Ke in public, he was deeply responsible, and it was precisely because he had great expectations for Yang Ke that he did not want Yang Ke to act in an orderly manner. often reprimands and abuses, in the hope that Yang Ke can really work hard and become a generation of saint kings.

And in front of Ji Le, Sima Jingwen had to explain to Yang Ke and resolve the misunderstanding between the two of them.

"Curious indeed. Since you don't use snake spirits to worship ancestors, what is this for?"

"The evil snake is the spirit of a country in the end, carrying the rise and fall of the country's fortunes, how can it be killed? And the 'Lingtai bloodletting', one weakens the strength of the evil spirits, and the other selects suitable labor to remove the sick and disabled. ”

The Spirit Palace has a three-fold main hall, a nine-fold pavilion and dozens of spiritual platforms.

The place where the blood snake spirit is now bred is a spiritual platform in the southeast. With the loss of blood, there was a change in the Bonggong Palace southeast of Los Angeles.

Not long after the captured people of Tolei were sent to Fenggong, many old people and wounded died one by one due to fatigue from the journey.

Several officers guarding the palace were not surprised by this, and ordered the corpses to be carried away and the remaining numbers counted.

"With such a large-scale death, the old, weak, sick and disabled will be eliminated in one go, and it should be that the Spirit Palace has started the god suppression ceremony again. ”

"Well, as long as the town gods go well, the national spirit roots that bind these slaves will no longer worry about them resisting. ”

The spirit of the nation and the people are closely related.

After the death of the people, the wounds were immediately reflected on the national spirit. But on the contrary, when there is a problem with the national spirit, it will not be so quick and direct to give back to the country. Instead, it is a mysterious change of fate that indirectly affects the fortunes of the country.

For example, on the day Ji Le fell, causing a house to collapse. If he really vomited blood and was injured, then the cause of death was the death of the "house collapse".

In the same way, killing a national spirit will not cause all citizens to die in an instant. Rather, from the point of view of fate, the result of the inevitable demise of the country is determined.

Because the national spirit is gone, the national honor of this country will also end.

But how it ends and how it disappears will be rationalized by various natural factors. For example, there is an earthquake in the country, which causes the city to collapse and the people to disappear. Or the earth loses its life, and a famine breaks out, starving all the people to death. even used a plague to take the lives of the people.

The death of the national spirit is only destined to be the result, and he doesn't care about the process.

Therefore, after the bloodletting of the snake spirit, among the captured citizens, the seriously injured and powerless people used various diseases as the cause of death, thus losing their lives and completing the selection of slaves in Jiugong City.

"Hiss-hiss-" The mass death of the people immediately made the Great Snake feel something, and it struggled to resist, but was suppressed by the witches with spiritual power.

Ji Le looked coldly at the bloodletting snake on the altar, and his right hand hidden in his sleeve was clenched into a fist, suppressing all kinds of emotions tumbling in his heart.

This is the fate of a national spirit! If one day, I am imprisoned or even bloodletted and suppressed, will these Han people around me also suffer this kind of crime?

"Victory, victory after victory must be achieved in this age of barbarism. Not only for myself, but also for my kind. ”

Only victory can have continuation, and only the rise of Zhuxia.

The snake spirit continued to struggle on the altar, but every resistance was suppressed by the shrine maidens. Eventually, he collapsed on the altar from exhaustion.

A middle-aged witch dressed in red stepped forward and took out the gossip treasure mirror and shook it at the snake spirit: "Seal!"

The golden light rises, the spiritual platform rumbles, and a Chinese watch slowly rises under the three-zhang square platform. The whole body is white, more than a foot high, shining with five-color divine light, showing the divine majesty.

"Huan Biao?" the young man said in surprise, "What is this for?" He turned his head to look at Ji Le, but Ji Le's expression was grim, and Shi Huang was also stunned.

Do they still have such means?

After the watch was raised, the snake spirit showed a look of fear, lowered its snake head, and kept wailing. Gradually, its figure dissipated into white mist, which was absorbed by the white Huabiao and became a relief sculpture of the pillar watch.

Ji Le suddenly looked back and looked at the other spirit platforms in the Spirit Palace. Although there were no Chinese tables erected on those spiritual platforms, Ji Le could feel that there were seal marks and faint fluctuations of divine power under most of the spiritual platforms.

He smiled reluctantly: "It seems that this is the way the Spirit Palace Witch sealed the earth?"

"Of course—" After Yang Ke supervised the snake spirit being sealed, he walked over again: "The Spirit Palace has a whole set of procedures for the town god. If you meet a god of disobedience, seal it directly—"

Yu Yu slapped him hard in the back and interrupted him. She stepped forward quickly and explained to Ji Le: "My lord, my Spirit Palace has suppressed the Great Spirit of the Earth for more than thirty years. It can only suppress the level of the Great Spirit, and the demigods are not bound by the Spirit Platform. And the reason why the gods were suppressed, to put it bluntly, was to take these national spirits and gods as hostages to ensure that the slaves could not start a rebellion. ”

The destruction of a country is not just about destroying cities and killing the lord of the country through physical means. It is even more necessary to exterminate a country's civilization spiritually and ideologically.

And this is a long process. It is destined to take several generations before the descendants of those who have lost their country will gradually forget their country and honestly become slaves of the Xia Kingdom. At that time, it can also be absorbed into the same clan and included in the Zhuxia lineage.

But now, in order to prevent the slaves from still having trouble after work, they are trying to restore the country. Suppress all the national spirits and ethnic gods they believe in as hostages. As long as there are slaves who rebel, they will really kill their national spirits, promote the death of all citizens, and put an end to rebellion in the first place.

Cruel and ruthless, but this is the mainstream of the Savage Age. Behind every powerful country, thousands of lives have been piled up into a sea of bones and blood.

Looking at the Huabiao slowly sinking into the spiritual platform, Ji Le was silent for a long time.

Cangjie said in a deep voice: "Lord Guoling! Our prosperity is trampled on the bones of countless losers. Since ancient times, how can there be a crown that is not stained with blood?"

"It's because we're strong that we survive. The Zhuxia civilization has come step by step, and the blood and cruelty behind the glory are also the history that we have been carrying. ”

"Only by facing history squarely and carrying history on our backs can we leapfrog the present and move towards a more distant future. ”

In Cangjie's eyes, the destruction of a Tuolei City is nothing at all. In the Yanhuang era and the Yaoshun era, what is the difference between the annexation and destruction of the tribes and the current Tolei country?

What we see today is just a microcosm of the barbaric era.

But he was worried about Ji Le's psychological condition.

Cangjie knew that it was true that Ji Le's inheritance came to this world to incarnate as a national spirit, but in the original world, he was just an ordinary person. He was afraid that Ji Le would not be able to bear the blood and darkness between countries.

"Old man, are you worried that I will be soft-hearted to these slaves?" Ji Le withdrew his gaze from Huabiao.

"Well, you're taking me too seriously. ”

Ji Le held his head high and said proudly: "From the first day I became a national spirit, I knew it clearly. Glory or shame, I should bear all of this. ”

"I am the kingdom, and everything in the kingdom, whether good or evil, whether it is successful or bad, is my mission. ”

"How can I resent my people for their cruelty because my own family is doing something to another country in order to survive?"

"How could I, for the sake of some mercy, protect the barbarian foreigners, but harm my fellow tribes?"

Ji Le does have the heart to break away from the concept of the national spirit and return to a pure person. However, he also deeply understood that when he became a national spirit, he must fulfill the mission of the national spirit.

Everything that happens in this country, whether it is the land or the people, their rise and fall constitute their own life and make their own history. And when I am the spirit of the country, I have the obligation to repay all this.

"This era of wilderness, the world of great strife. If our nation wants to prosper and survive forever, how can it rely on one person to be brave? A country and a country can have a country, and only a country can have a home, and only a family can have a country. I only hope that you will work together with me to glorify the righteousness of Zhuxia. ”

"Well said!" the young man looked excited, and couldn't help but clap his hands on the side: "What a great righteousness of Zhuxia." Yes, I'm about to prosper, so I'm afraid of a different worldly wilderness?"

Ji Le's words have reached the hearts of young people.

Thinking back then, he led a large army to fight against foreign enemies, wasn't it for the rise of the nation and the prosperity of Zhuxia?

Yu Yuan and the others next to him felt the momentum emerging from Ji Le's body, and their hearts swayed.

The witch looked at Ji Le in a daze, and sighed with emotion in her heart: "My national spirit, in the end, is not ordinary!" Among the many national spirits suppressed by the Spirit Palace, none of them can compare to their own national spirits!

Liu Sheng nodded frequently: "It seems that our family is quite sensible." In the end, it is a humanoid national spirit, that is, it is smarter than the beast national spirit, and those half-human wrenches. ”

Yang Ke's expression was a little complicated, although Ji Le's words were very appealing to him. For example, Daxing Guozuo or something, this is also his ideal. However, there is a sentence "How can you rely on one person to be brave", which is an allusion to yourself?

"This guy, if you don't taunt me a few words, won't he feel uncomfortable?"

Ji Le took a deep breath, pretended to be relaxed, and smiled: "Don't worry, old man, I can see all this." It's just that I don't understand, why do we have to suppress and bind these national spirits, instead of using them as our combat strength?"

He pointed to the spiritual platforms in the distance: "There are so many great spirits in the earth. If we use secret techniques to control and force them to fight for us, wouldn't that be a lot more powerful than that? With these national spirit clan gods here, it shouldn't be a problem to encircle and suppress Nanyu Mountain, right?"