Hundreds of years ago, a sorcerer came to Loulan Kingdom.

This sorcerer, handsome, powerful, and ageless, won the trust and love of the king of Loulan Kingdom.

The sorcerer was originally only a sacrificial sorcerer in the Loulan Kingdom.

Every year during the Blessing Festival, pray for the blessing of the aura of Loulan Kingdom.

At that time, the country of Loulan was smooth in wind and rain, the country was peaceful and peaceful, the national strength was strong, and it was brilliant for a while.

Because of the excellent performance of the sacrificial sorcerer, the king of the Loulan Kingdom made him the great master of the Loulan Kingdom and had the supreme right.

"Pray for Reiki?" Hua Weiyang chuckled in his heart, feeling that this matter sounded a little familiar.

She suddenly remembered, isn't there also a Great Xia Kingdom, the Aura Blessing Conference?

I wonder if there is a relationship between the aura prayer meeting of the Great Xia Kingdom and the aura prayer of the Loulan Kingdom hundreds of years ago?

There seemed to be something in her heart that was about to come out, but she couldn't say why.

Hua Weiyang thought for a while and said: "There is also a Great Xia Kingdom, and the Aura Blessing Meeting, I don't know if it is the same compared to Loulan Kingdom?" "

Nayi is a member of the royal family of Loulan Kingdom in the end, and she is well-informed.

She explained: "Every country, on a large festival or sacrifice day, there will be blessings or sacrifices. "

Then, Nayi gave Hua Weiyang a detailed explanation.

Originally, the Blessing Conference was also known as the Reiki Blessing Festival, or the Sacrifice Festival, or the Sacrifice Day, or the Blessing Festival, or the Ancestor Worship Festival.

Different countries have different names, and the basic process is complicated or simple, but the purpose is similar.

That is, worship heaven and earth, pray for the blessing of the people, and hope that the gods will bless their country, and the coming year will be smooth, the country will be rich and the people will be safe, and the royal family will be brilliant.

Generally speaking, the stronger the nation, the more complicated the ritual process becomes, and the more items are sacrificed.

The weaker the state, the simpler the sacrificial process.

There are also some countries that separate blessings from sacrifices, such as the Great Xia Kingdom.

The complex sacrifice is divided into nine rituals, namely, welcoming the gods, laying jade silks, entering the ceremony, first offering, sub-offering, final offering, withdrawing food, sending the gods, and looking at the fire.

For each ritual, the lord of the kingdom must bow three times and bow nine times to the upright position, each with the matching position, and each subordinate position.

From welcoming the gods to sending them off, they have to kneel more than 70 times and kowtow more than 200 times, which lasts for two hours.

In addition to this, the sacrifice also needs to be prepared, and many sacrifices are made.

The first type is the "six animals" sacrifice, mainly horses, cattle, sheep, chickens, dogs, pigs and other livestock as sacrificial offerings.

The second category is jade silk, including all kinds of jade ritual utensils and leather silks, grain, wine, etc.

The third type is human sacrifice, in which captives, women, or children captured in war are sacrificed.

Human sacrifice also took the form of fire, drowning, burying alive, piercing the throat and draining blood, cutting off heads, and even chopping people into flesh and steaming them into meat soup to sacrifice to the gods.

In some countries, living sacrifices are used, and the number of them even reaches thousands at a time.

Hua Weiyang shuddered when he heard this, and exclaimed, "Human sacrifice? That's cruel, isn't it? "

Nayi said faintly: "The phenomenon of human sacrifice is very normal, and most of the prisoners captured in the war, especially the old, weak, sick and disabled, children and women, will be used as sacrificial sacrifices. "

Nayi told this story, and her tone was normal, like talking about kittens and puppies, without any fuss about Hua Weiyang.

Hua Weiyang sighed: "However, they are also human!" Even if the war is lost, they are innocent victims, and these people are so pitiful. "

Nayi said faintly: "Who said it wasn't, becoming a king and defeating a thief, it has been like this since ancient times." When the country perishes, the people will surely suffer, and it is inevitable. "

Hua Weiyang argued: "But, what did the people do wrong? Why should they be sacrificed as sacrifices if they are defeated and caught? It's also so unfair. "

Nayi helped Hua Weiyang scrub her hair and said, "Yes, that's why Loulan wants to become stronger, and she must not let her people become sacrifices from other countries." "

Hua Weiyang blew the cat's mustache and was speechless for a while: "......"

Nayi said, "Where did you just go?" That's right, the great power of Loulan ......"

Since the country of Loulan has a great division, the country of Loulan has begun to become brilliant and prosperous.

The national teacher of Loulan Country is very powerful, he can not only mobilize the aura of heaven and earth at will, but also make the grasslands around Loulan Kingdom grow luxuriantly, the wind and rain are smooth, and the herdsmen are healthy.

Moreover, the great master is also very good at the art of fire attack.

It is said that he can wield earth fire at will, which can be used as a powerful weapon to attack the enemy.

During the heyday of the Loulan Kingdom, under the guidance of the great power division, the method of fire attack was adopted, and many small countries around it, such as Zihe, Puli, Yinai, Xiye and other countries, were subdued one by one.

Every year, there are hundreds of prisoners of war for the sacrifice of Loulan State.

At that time, the Loulan Empire was brilliant, prosperous, and vast, known as the Pearl of the Western Wilderness, which was the road of the Silk Road after all.

Trade revenues alone have always filled the treasury.

During the strong period of the Loulan Empire, because it was replenished every year, a large number of prisoners of war were added to the population, so there was no need to worry about the number of subjects at all.

Even if the population changes due to some anomalies, it will not attract the attention of the Loulan Empire.

However, the great power division casually quoted the earth fire, which eventually led to disaster.

At that time, when the Loulan Empire was attacking a country called Jingjue, the national teacher once again used earth fire to attack.

As a result, the earth fire was once again drawn out of the ground, and the Absolute Nation was reduced to ashes almost overnight.

In the area of dozens of kilometers of the Exquisite Country, magma erupted, and the earth fire was raging, never extinguished, and gradually formed a flame mountain that was blazing into the sky.

The land around the Flaming Mountain was depleted of grass, and within a few years, it turned into a desert.

Moreover, the area of deserts is expanding year by year.

Loulan Kingdom once again returned with a great victory, and the whole country celebrated and worshiped the national teacher as a god.

However, Loulan Kingdom soon tasted the evil fruits of what he had planted.

Year after year, the flames of the mountain are endless.

The scorching temperature burned the sky red, like hell.

The Flaming Mountains are adjacent to an area of hundreds of miles, and the climate is gradually deteriorating.

First of all, the area of desertification in the grasslands around the Flaming Mountains is expanding year by year.

Vast expanses of forest, patches of scorching air, ignited, burned and disappeared.

The climate on the steppe became more and more abnormal, and the rain gradually decreased, eventually disappearing.

This was followed by the drying up of many rivers.

Even in the vast Lop Nur, the water area is shrinking year by year.

At this time, Loulan Guo realized the seriousness of the situation.

However, at this time, the king of Loulan Kingdom obeyed the words of the national teacher and had absolute trust, and he couldn't listen to anyone's opinions at all.

At this time in Loulan Kingdom, a warrior named Ta Dan appeared.

This warrior once followed a mysterious master, learned occult arts, and was strong in skills, and could see things that others could not see.

After Tadan returned from his studies, he also went to participate in the Reiki Prayer Ceremony, that is, the ceremony of sacrificing to the heavens.

As soon as he participated, he discovered the clues of aura prayer.

It turned out that the national teacher used the aura to pray for blessings and secretly sucked the Yuanyang of the prisoners of war, using it as a tonic to improve mana.

In fact, those prisoners in the war, before they were sacrificed as sacrifices, had been sucked up by the national teacher and turned into the living dead at the mercy of others.

The Tadan warrior was shocked and decided to secretly investigate the national teacher.

As soon as the Tadan warriors investigated, they discovered something else. After the formation of the Flaming Mountain, few people went nearby.

However, in the steppe, there are often herdsmen or caravans close to the edge of the Flaming Mountains, who disappear for no reason.

It stands to reason that those herdsmen or caravans, even if they die, can find the corpses.

However, they were born and could not see the body, nor the body of the dead, nor their whereabouts, as if they had evaporated from the earth.

Hua Weiyang exclaimed: "My God, after the Great Xia Kingdom Spiritual Qi Blessing Meeting, many people have become the living dead, and some have become zombies, which is so scary." "

Nayi asked in surprise, "Could it be that the national teacher of the Great Xia Kingdom is also a demon?" "

"The national teacher of the Great Xia Kingdom?" Hua Weiyang shook the cat's head and denied: "Impossible, he is the head of the Shushan Immortal Gate, Feng Wuchen." "

"Shushan Immortal Gate represents justice, how can it be possible to do such an evil thing?"

Na chimed and said, "Oh, I heard that Feng Wuchen is very handsome, and he is a rare beautiful man in this world." "

"Its mana is quite powerful, going to heaven and earth, stepping through the void, it is a god-like existence in this world."

"Moreover, I have heard that he is about to ascend to become an immortal."

"The aura prayer meeting of the Great Xia Kingdom, I really want to go and see it in person, but it's a pity that Brother Angui didn't take me there. Have you ever seen the handsome Feng Wuchen? "

"I've seen him, is he handsome?" Hua Weiyang looked up at the cat's head, thought about it, and said, "Handsome is still quite handsome." "

In Hua Weiyang's mind, the most handsome man in the world should be Bailichuan.

Compared to her brother Lechuan, Feng Wuchen is of course far behind, and it can't be compared.

One person and one cat, eagerly discussed for a while, and the world admired Feng Wuchen.

Hua Weiyang then asked, "You just talked about the Tadan warriors, what happened later?" "

Nayi said, "Later, ......"

Later, the Tadan warrior secretly found the king of Loulan and told him the secret he had discovered.

The father of the Tadan warrior was an important official of the Loulan Kingdom.

His father once advised him not to provoke the national teacher easily, because after hundreds of years of operation, the national teacher's position in the Loulan country cannot be easily shaken.

However, the Tadan warriors saw that the situation in the Loulan Kingdom was becoming more and more severe under the influence of the Flame Mountain, and it had long since lost its former glory.

In the long run, Loulan is in danger.

Considering the people of Loulan, the Tadan warriors decided to take the risk and tried their best to persuade the king of Loulan.

The king of Loulan really couldn't listen to any of Tadan's opinions, and said disapprovingly:

"Those captives, anyway, are sacrifices, what does it matter if they are not sucked by the primordial gods? They can become the tonic of the national teacher, and they should be proud to die well. "

The Tadan warrior continued to admonish: "Your Majesty, the National Teacher led out the earth fire and formed a flaming mountain, causing the environment of Loulan Kingdom to deteriorate. "

"The area of Lop Nur has been greatly reduced, the grasslands have become desertified, and many herders have disappeared for no reason. If this person is not removed, Loulan Kingdom will be in danger. "

However, no matter how the Tadan warriors persuaded him, the king of Loulan couldn't listen to it at all, and he felt that Tadan was worried about the sky and misled the people.

When the national teacher heard that the Tadan warriors had found the king and wanted to get rid of him, he was immediately annoyed and angry.

So, he found an opportunity for Tadan to investigate the Flaming Mountain and rob and kill the Tadan warriors halfway.

I don't know what secret the Tadan warrior discovered in the Flaming Mountain, he once went deep into the Flaming Mountain and was seriously injured.

This incident made the national teacher angry and decided to get rid of the Tadan warriors.

At that time, the queen of Loulan Kingdom, the current queen mother, was the sister of the Tadan warriors.

The Queen Mother was shocked to hear about this and secretly told her brother Tadan.

The Tadan warrior said to the queen at the time: "If I defeat the national teacher, it will be enough. If I die at the hands of the national teacher, you must tell the world that there is a shocking secret under the Flame Mountain......"

So, the Tadan warriors and the national teachers fought for three days and three nights near the Flaming Mountain.

The sand and rocks are flying near the Flaming Mountain, and the sun and moon are not shining.

The national teacher guided the sky and the earth to fly wildly, and half of the sky was burned red.

However, the National Teacher still underestimated the mana of the Tadan warriors.

In the end, the national teacher was injured by the Tadan warriors.

Hua Weiyang hurriedly asked, "What happened to the Tadan warriors in the end?" His Royal Highness An Gui said that the national teacher was defeated in the end? "

Nayi sighed, "How can it be so simple? Although the national teacher was injured, the Tadan warrior was missing. "

Hua Weiyang exclaimed: "The Tadan warrior is missing? "

Nayi nodded: "The queen at that time, that is, the current queen mother, saw the defeat of the Tadan warriors, so she decided to tell the world the secret that Tadan said. However, at the court meeting that day, just as she was about to tell the secret, she suddenly went insane, and the palace began to be haunted. Then, the National Teacher was nowhere to be found......"