Chapter 8: The Blood Jade Altar
At midnight, the bright moon as clear as a jade plate hangs high in the night sky. Except for the guards on duty at night who occasionally patrolled the road in twos and threes, most of the rest of the people had already fallen asleep peacefully.
It was a quiet night that didn't seem anything special. On the altar in the southeast corner of the Lieyang Palace, an untimely figure appeared. The reason why it is out of place is because on weekdays this altar is not allowed to be approached at will, only when the high priest encounters a major event in the clan, he will first inferred the situation according to the astrologer's night observation of the celestial phenomena, and then choose the best time in combination with other factors, and finally go to the altar to open the altar when everything is ready.
If it weren't for the fact that it was the night of the fifteenth full moon today, and the sky was shining brightly, this person's outfit at this time could be very perfectly integrated with the night, even if he was standing in the center of the altar, it would be difficult for people to find it.
This person is the Xuantuo who quietly did his hands and feet in the Cangwu Nian room during the day.
Xuan Tuo stood on the edge of the altar, he looked up at the moon in the sky, and in about a cup of tea, the moon would rise to the highest point of the night.
In the center of the altar was a table made of blood jade, but this blood jade altar was not originally like this.
Since the beginning of heaven and earth, the Asura Dao was born, and the Jialan Sea, which is located in the south of the South China Sea, the boundary of the Eight Desolations and Liuhe, has been the habitat of the Shura tribe. 200,000 years ago, there was a great battle between the Shura Realm and the Heavenly Realm, and in the end, the Shura clan was defeated and retreated to Luoli Island to blockade the Jialan Sea.
At that time, the Shura king Hewena was deeply aware of the importance of peeping into the heavens and grasping the time and place because of this battle, so the Shura king quietly went to the Buzhou Mountain in the far northwest with his own strength, where the snow was covered all year round, the cold was abnormal, and the higher the place, the more dangerous it was.
Buzhou Mountain was originally a pillar between heaven and earth, and it was also the only way from the human world to the heavenly realm, but since the ancient times Buzhou Mountain was broken by Gonggong, there have been abnormal changes between heaven and earth, the sun, moon and stars have changed positions, mountains and rivers have moved, and the Buzhou Mountain, which was originally surrounded by aura, has also become a cold place that is difficult for non-powerful people to approach.
Even in such a harsh environment, there is still a fierce beast guarding it, and this beast is called Qiqi. Legend has it that Qiqi was the resentment of the co-workers who broke the Buzhou Mountain after their deaths. Because it is a fierce beast turned into resentment, this beast has completely inherited the violent and extreme style of Gonggong, and because Gonggong has some inextricable relationship with Buzhou Mountain, the fate of the fierce beast is to wander around this Buzhou Mountain forever, which is both a guard and a suppression.
The Shura King Hewena came to Buzhou Mountain, escaped Qiqi with his strong mana, came to the top of Buzhou Mountain, and found a piece of 10,000-year-old cold jade on the top of the mountain. This jade is transformed by the aura of heaven and earth, and the whole body is white and crystalline. Because jade has had a psychic effect since ancient times, and this piece of cold jade is a treasure condensed by countless years in Buzhou Mountain, and its own psychic power can be imagined.
Although this Hewena mana is strong, but with his own strength, he has to resist the harsh environment around him when he comes to the top of Buzhou Mountain, and no matter how great his ability is, the consumption of mana is not something he can bear.
Just when Hewena got the 10,000-year-old cold jade and was about to withdraw from Buzhou Mountain, he finally leaked his traces due to the lack of follow-up strength, and was detected by the fierce beast Qiqi.
After that, he inevitably had a vicious battle with Qi Qi, and both sides lost the fight, but that Qi Qi was unrelenting, and finally he had to use the forbidden art of the Shura clan "Soul Burning Spell" to forcibly burn his two souls and seven souls, and escaped back to the Jialan Sea with the last wisp of life left in his body.
The moment he launched the forbidden technique, the elders and high priests of the Shura royal clan were already aware of it, so as soon as he appeared in the sea area, he was immediately discovered and brought back to the Burning Sun Palace.
Hewena took out the 10,000-year-old cold jade he had retrieved from the top of Buzhou Mountain and handed it to the high priest of the clan, asking him to make the cold jade into an altar, and find people in the clan who were born with a strong perception of the changes of heaven and earth, so that they could specialize in practicing astrology, so that they could see the opportunities in the wars that might be encountered in the next tens of millions of years, and master the time and place.
At that time, when the high priest of the clan got the piece of 10,000-year-old cold jade, he found that because the cold jade was soaked in the blood of King Shura, the originally white jade body was dyed with a trace of blood. At first, the high priest was a little surprised, not understanding why the divine objects transformed by the aura of heaven and earth were so easily contaminated by foreign objects. Later, he thought about it for a long time, maybe because the living Shura King was not an ordinary person, and he had such an opportunity to find such a divine object, and it was not impossible for this divine object to be stained with his blood.
Hewena used the Soul Burning Spell because of his serious injuries, and the original three souls and seven spirits in his body were almost burned out, leaving only a wisp of living souls. It didn't take long for this wisp of life to slowly dissipate, and in the end, this once-in-a-lifetime hero of the Shura clan still died.
A hundred years after his death, the 10,000-year-old cold jade that he brought back with him was finally refined into an altar with the power of the entire Shura royal family, and some strange runes were carved on the white jade altar with a trace of blood, which were constantly corrected in the hands of later generations of astrologers and high priests, in order to make it exert greater power.
For the past 200,000 years, every Shura king, high priest, great elder, great general, and astrologer would walk to this altar before they felt that they were about to fall, burn their two souls and seven spirits with the Soul Burning Spell, and then leave a wisp of their own essence blood on the white jade altar. Although not everyone's mana was strong enough to make this piece of white jade soak their blood, as time passed, the white jade that was originally only stained with a trace of blood from Heuna, who had fought with the poor and vicious, gradually became stained with wisps of crimson one after another.
Today, the 10,000-year-old cold jade, which was crystal white all over the body, has now become a piece of blood jade with a dazzling red glow, and its psychic power is also more powerful with the condensation of blood.
It's just that everything has a cause and there must be an effect, and there will be a reward for karma, although this 10,000-year-old cold jade is becoming more and more powerful because of the essence of the powerful blood of the Shura royal family, but if the person who uses the altar to use the spell does not have the corresponding strength and qualifications, it will be strongly counterattacked, and the result is likely to be seriously injured or even killed on the spot, which is not known to every member of the Shura royal family, and only the Shura king, high priest, great elder, general king and astrologer have been passed down from generation to generation.