Chen Zhi asked Chunsheng to describe the whole process of the sacrifice in detail, these monsters first tied the child to the shore, enclosed the child with a kind of red clay, and used this red clay to pour a complex pattern around the child, and finally hung a statue of the god in the west, in one night, these monsters will not appear, and in the early morning of the next day, these monsters will follow the Nine Mother-in-law out, and then the Nine Mother-in-law will shoot the child with the Seven Treasures Red Gold Arrow, and then share the food. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Although this series of ritual rituals was very vaguely described by Chunsheng, it still reminded Chen Zhi of a shadow in his mind, which was a very ancient deity, which the Chinese have kept secretive about for generations, it is the god that represents death, the Emperor Xudu.

Before the Zhou Dynasty, China had been following the worship and sacrifice of the Emperor Xudu, and there was infinite worship of the god of death, which came from fear, and the ritual of sacrifice was also very cruel, so it was abolished as early as the slave society. The record that Chen Zhi saw about the sacrifice to the god of death was in a yellow brocade silk book in the Spring and Autumn Period.

The silk book says: "The Great Yin Law Cao, the burden of the calculation, in addition to the calculation of the subtraction of the year, after the calculation, summon the earth yin god, and summon the earth house, collect the remains, and test its soul god."

It is described as a sacrifice to one of the ancient giant gods, Emperor Xudu. Emperor Xudu, also known as the Emperor of Beiyin, is the highest deity of the underworld, the god of death in ancient mythology, the god of death in charge of the world of death, the folk called the king of Hades, and then the folk legends are diverse, gradually blurring the origin of the original god of death.

In fact, Emperor Xudu is very ancient, with the same life as heaven and earth, and unlike other gods, it is the god of the ghost country. There is a record about the ancient ghost country in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", there is a big peach tree on the Shuo Mountain, and the three thousand miles out of the flag are the ghost gate, and the people of the ghost country are ghosts and ghosts, wandering under the Yellow Spring, ruling the capital of Xu, and being the place where ten thousand ghosts enter and exit.

Xudu is the legendary hell, that is, the place where the great treacherous and evil people will be locked up after death, once they enter the hell, they will never be able to live beyond life, the scene of the legendary Xudu Hell is extremely terrifying, and the ghosts and ghosts are concentrated there to eat and torture the souls of human beings.

To sacrifice the Emperor of Xudu is to sacrifice the flesh and blood of the boy, take the fire and soil as the trace, paint the totem of the rebirth of the fire phoenix, shoot the boy with an artifact, and burn all things on the earth, which is the ritual of sacrifice.

This is very similar to what Chunsheng described, if this sacrificial ritual is really a sacrifice to the god of death, then it is even more certain that these monsters are ghosts and ghosts from the underworld, and the fact that the nine mothers are indifferent monks. But the only thing that doesn't make sense is that the indifferent monk who is originally a human being, what kind of ability did he use to drive these powerful ghosts and ghosts of the underworld to submit to him?

Now it's dark, according to Chunsheng's previous experience, if you can't save Ya Zi tonight, then the child won't survive tomorrow morning, so saving the child quickly is the primary problem, and other things will come back to talk about it.

The first thing they had to solve was the problem of the Five Organs Temple, Chen Zhi and Fat Wei were both hungry, because they were in a hurry, they only brought some dry buns with them, and the number was very small. Chunsheng was afraid that the fire would smoke and the cave would be discovered by monsters, so he didn't dare to hunt prey to eat, but there was a wild fruit on this mountain, as big as a pomegranate, red, huge and delicious, and the taste was very delicious.

Chen Zhi and Fat Wei ate dry food and wild fruits, mixed with half full, and then prepared to set off.

When they came out, they didn't make much preparation, they only brought two pistols and small daggers, and there were no extra bullets, but fortunately, their respective stone control knives were on their backs, they tied the long knives on their backs, and left the cave with Chunsheng.

When they returned to the ground, they first passed through the stone forest above, and then entered the woods, and they did not dare to make much movement, but walked cautiously in sections to guard against an ambush ahead. When they reached the edge of the forest, they climbed a tall tree, hid it with leaves, and looked ahead with binoculars.

I saw that the lights were bright on the bank of the river, and there were several large bonfires, and Ya Zi was tied to a stone on the bank, staring at everything around him with big eyes and horror, so frightened that he couldn't cry, and his face was no longer bloody. Around him was a circle of red clay, which converged into a complex pattern that looked like a bird from a distance. To the west of the laterite circle, there is a wooden stand, at least ten meters high, on which hangs a portrait of a painted gold color, shining in the firelight.

Chen Zhi recognized the kind of red clay, which was a flammable mineral powder, the composition was similar to sulfur, and it burned when it caught fire. And the hideous face on that portrait, Chen Zhi recognized it at a glance, it was the legendary god of death - Emperor Xudu.

The Emperor of Xudu on the painting, wearing a colorful battle robe, majestic, holding a sword and halberd, green fangs, angry eyes, very hideous.

The goblins with bull heads and human bodies bowed down very respectfully in front of the idols, and after a while, they saw the nine grandmothers come out of the tower, holding a pure gold box full of precious stones in their hands and placing them in front of the idols.

Then he took out a golden bow with a golden glitter behind him, and put on a golden arrow studded with precious stones, and drew the arrow, symbolizing that the bow was drawn in the direction of the child. At this time, all the goblins screamed excitedly, roared loudly, and then continued to worship the portrait, and the devotion was indescribable.

"It's that arrow, that's the Seven Treasure Red Gold Arrow I picked up," Chunsheng said softly to Chen Zhi and Fat Wei.

Chen Zhi motioned to Chunsheng not to speak and continued to observe the situation on the shore.

This monotonous worship ritual lasted for a long time, and at this time it was already in the second half of the night, and the cold wind in the mountains blew, and these monsters did not mean to enter the tower, but all prostrate in front of the statue, like a rockery in the dark, silent, and this state lasted for a long time.

Chen Zhi and the others had been waiting on the tree for more than 7 hours at this time, Chen Zhi looked at his watch, it was already more than 2 o'clock in the morning, the morning dawned in the mountains, and in more than two hours, the sun was about to come out.

"Chunsheng, you remember correctly, right? It's almost dawn, why haven't they gone in yet? ”

Chunsheng was also a little dazed, he frowned and thought for a while, "That's right, they all went back to the tower at night before, and they never missed it." If you want to say the difference, this year's festival seems to be a little earlier than in previous years, but I can't remember the exact time, so let's wait! They should be going back soon. ”

As they were saying this, they saw that all the ghosts and the Nine Mother-in-law stood up in unison, and began to quietly withdraw into the ancient tower, and the Nine Mother-in-law had been holding the golden box full of precious stones tightly, as if it contained something extremely precious.

Fat Wei and Chunsheng were already waiting on the tree, and when they saw all the monsters retreating into the tower, they were so happy that they were about to get off the tree.

But Chen Zhi stopped them, I don't know why, he just felt that something was not quite right with the sacrificial ceremony, but it was not clear what was wrong, he wanted everyone to wait a little longer and see the situation.

But Fat Wei and Chunsheng couldn't wait, Chunsheng whispered to Chen Zhi, "Don't worry! Those goblins won't be out this night, so let's go! As long as the sky is bright, these monsters will rush out, and we will not be able to save people at that time. ”。

As soon as Fat Wei heard what Chunsheng said, he didn't think much about it, so he pulled Chen Zhi and slid down from the tree and rushed to the shore. (To be continued.) )