Chapter 18: The Mountain God
When Zhang Bufan dragged Zhou Shen down from the Lingzhou together, the Lingzhou was about to sail out of the range of the thundercloud, and He Liuyun and the others must have successfully escaped the attack of the thunderbird.
According to the speed of the spirit boat, He Liuyun and the others should have arrived at the Chiyao tribe a few days ago.
Could it be that they experienced a thundercloud catastrophe, gave up the trial task, and went back to the sect directly?
The Four Peaks Sword Test is coming, and they will not give up this seemingly undifficult trial task.
But Kuixi said that he had never seen an immortal master from the Hidden Sword Sect other than Zhang Bufan.
Looking at Zhang Bufan's calm face, Kuixi and Kui Man's father and son secretly exchanged glances.
Afterwards, Quixi laughed and arranged a place for Zhang Bufan and the galloping horse caravan to let them rest first.
Zhang Bufan nodded, living alone in a stone house, there are some bronze utensils in the house, all of which are some daily necessities, in addition to a set of silver kettles and cups, this stone room should be the best room in the Chiyao tribe.
Late at night, Zhang Bufan heard footsteps coming from outside the stone room from time to time, although the footsteps were extremely soft, but his hearing was far beyond ordinary people, and these footsteps were clearly the people sent by Quixi to monitor him.
Chiyao tribe, there is a problem!
Zhang Bufan decided to stay still and see what the hell this group of people were going to do, I am afraid that the disappearance of He Liuyun and others will have nothing to do with the people of this tribe.
In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Bufan was alarmed by the noise in the tribe.
It turned out that several members of the Chiyao tribe had returned from hunting and brought back rich booty, but one of the clansmen had his arm bitten off while fighting with a beast.
Zhang Bufan looked at the pile of beasts piled up on the ground, and when he saw the corpse of a saber-toothed tiger among them, his heart sank.
The saber-toothed tiger is not an ordinary fierce beast, but a low-level demon beast.
These hunters of the Chiyao tribe are ordinary mortals, how can they kill demon beasts?
What shocked Zhang Bufan even more was that after seeing that the clansman's arm was broken, the people of the Chiyao tribe did not look for the clan doctor, but went to the square of the Chiyao tribe under the leadership of Kuixi.
Zhang Bufan followed in the crowd, wanting to see what was going on.
I saw that all the people of the Chiyao tribe gathered in the square to form a circle, and the clansman who had lost an arm was placed in front of the statue of the mountain god.
When the people of the Chiyao tribe sacrificed to the mountain god, one of the furry livestock was selected to attack, a pig was buried in the ground together, and then a piece of jade and a piece of jade were selected and thrown into the mountain together.
One hundred and eight people from the Chiyao tribe stood behind the one hundred and eight drums in the square, their hands beating, but the sound of the drums was clear and pleasant, like the singing of a young girl.
Zhang Bufan and the people of the galloping horse caravan all had different expressions on their faces, these drums were so extraordinary.
As if seeing through Zhang Bufan's thoughts, Kuixi introduced with a proud face: "These holy drums are all given to us by the mountain gods. ”
"The mountain god is merciful, not only willing to lead my Chiyao girl into the immortal path and enjoy glory and wealth, but also give these holy drums with divine power to eliminate disasters and solve problems for us. ”
"As long as there are these holy drums, under the baptism of drums, our Chiyao people will live a long and healthy life!"
After Quisi finished speaking, he raised his arms towards the statue of the mountain god, knelt on the ground reverently, and prayed deeply.
The tribesmen of the Chiyao tribe also bowed down to the mountain god in unison, praying that the mountain god would restore the broken arm of their people.
Even the men of the galloping horse caravan bowed down together, hoping to be tainted with a little blessing from the mountain god.
Only Zhang Bufan stood there straight, not kneeling or bowing.
After listening to Kuixi's introduction, Zhang Bufan noticed that although there were thousands of clansmen in the Chiyao tribe, there were very few women, and there were almost no young girls.
Presumably, the young girls in those clans were all sacrificed to the mountain gods by them.
It's a joke that the sound of drums alone can bring people back to life. Human beings have a limited ability to regenerate, and even if they take elixir, it is impossible to be reborn with a broken arm.
Even if Zhang Bufan's own body is different from ordinary people, he only recovers quickly from his injuries, and if he really lacks arms and legs, he can't grow new ones.
However, under the prayers and bows of the Chiyao tribesmen and the galloping horse caravans, the drumming of the one hundred and eight holy maidens became clearer and clearer, as if hundreds of young girls were chanting in unison.
The stone statue of the mountain god exuded a little yellow light in the drum sound that resounded throughout the tribe, and behind the head without facial features, a multicolored circle of light appeared, and a divine power filled the entire square.
All the people of the Chiyao tribe showed ecstasy on their faces when they saw these divine lights. They were bathed in the divine light, their faces were ruddy, those men became stronger under the divine light, the old man had fewer wrinkles under the divine light, and even Zhang Bufan found that his white hair had also decreased a little, and his longevity had increased because of bathing in the divine light of this mountain god.
Even more astonishing, flesh and blood were wriggling from the wound on the Broken Arm's shoulder, and a new arm was growing.
Zhang Bufan looked at the holy light of the statue of the mountain god, his heart suddenly moved, the mountains and seas in his mind spread out, the pages of the book turned by themselves, and stopped when they reached one page.
"The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Three Classics of the Recitation": "Four hundred miles to the north, it is said that the mountain of lonely shrubs has no grass and trees. It is a mountain, too, and there is snow in winter and summer. ”
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"Where there are seventeen mountains, five thousand six hundred and ninety miles, their gods are all snakes and human faces......"
Seeing this text, Zhang Bufan's heart was shocked, the records in the Book of Mountains and Seas are exactly the same as the mountain gods of this Guguan Mountain!
When he looked at the stone statue of the mountain god with a human face and a snake body, Zhang Bufan no longer doubted that there really was a mountain god in this world.
Only the mountain god can have such a strong vitality and regenerative power.
And the stone statue of the mountain god, when the mountains and seas moved, the face without facial features appeared a charming goddess face, bowed slightly at Zhang Bufan, smiled compassionately, and then disappeared.
The sacred smile of the mountain god set off a storm in Zhang Bufan's heart, and the last bit of doubt about the legend of the mountain god of Guguan Mountain was gone.
After this short sacrifice, it simply refreshed Zhang Bufan's perception of the world.
The mountain gods actually exist! The strange beasts and geography recorded in the Mountains and Seas have all appeared one by one, and the Zhangwei Continent is magical.
And Kuixi also directly told Zhang Bufan at this time that the Chiyao tribe was now blessed by the mountain god, so he decided to no longer rely on the Hidden Sword Sect.
Regarding the choice of the Chiyao tribe, Zhang Bufan had a guess in his heart the moment he saw the mountain god appearing, and he was not surprised at all by Kuixi's answer.
Originally, this trial had already ended here, and Zhang Bufan planned to return to the Hidden Sword Sect and report what happened here to the sect. But the people of the Chiyao tribe enthusiastically kept him and left in a few days.
Because, in a few days, they will offer a new saint to the mountain god and invite Zhang Bufan to witness that great and sacred moment together.