Chapter 107: Before the Clan Sacrifice
"Go ahead, there are always some choices in life that are full of helplessness, we can only look forward." Jin Jiao Zushu said helplessly, and then he didn't talk about it, it should be persuaded, and the benefits and disadvantages of what should be said were also said, and the rest could only be figured out by Yan Wu himself.
"Give me some time, let me think again." After being silent for a long time, Yan Wu said that although the established facts could not be changed, 1 she was still a little difficult to accept, this was angry and hypocritical, but the impact was too great.
"Go ahead, it's the ancestral sacrifice in a few days, and there's still some time, enough for you to think about it." Jin Jiao Zushu said without flesh, her voice was full of pity and tolerance, and then silently looked at Yan Wu's back, and asked her to keep today's matter secret when she was about to disappear.
What happened in Houshan Jindi did not cause waves in the Yan Xi clan, and the Yan Xi clan entered a busy and tense state.
As soon as dawn arrived, when Yunluo was still cultivating, the top and bottom of the Yan Xi clan began to get busy.
Yan Qing said to Yan Dan next to him over and over again with the clothes he had prepared for the sacrifice: "It seems that I haven't seen the saint since noon yesterday, I don't know what the saint is doing." ”
Yan Dan continued to check the movement of clothes all the time and replied: "The holy woman has always rarely shown up, but the ancestral sacrifice is about to start and has not yet appeared, which is indeed a bit abnormal. ”
Yan Qing quietly looked around, and after finding that there was no one, he secretly said to Yan Dan: "I think it should be related to the guests of the guest house, the saint made a mistake this time, she should be punished by the patriarch, I saw that the saint did not come out after entering the main hall." ”
"Really, the saint was punished, and the saint is also very kind, why doesn't the patriarch know that he feels sorry for the leftover girl." Yan Dan said in surprise.
"Hey, anyway, the saint's approach this time is indeed a bit inappropriate, the patriarch taught the saint a lesson, but also to let the saint do things in the future." Yan Qing said with a sigh.
"That's right, but in the final analysis, the saint is still for the good of the Yan Xi clan, and the situation of our clan is really not very good, otherwise the saint would not have taken such a risk." After Yan Dan finished speaking, both of them fell into silence for a while.
"Hey, don't mention this, it's really silent, let's say it's a little happy, the clan sacrifice is coming, and the elders in the clan should also get out." After a long time, Yan Qing said excitedly, when he was a child, he was always taken care of by those elders, but when his generation grew up, those elders began to retreat, at first there were a few sporadically, and then more and more, and now there are still only two elders who can be seen every day in addition to the patriarch.
"Yes, when I was a child, the elders were there, and every day was lively, and when we grew up, the elders went to retreat, and we could only see each other once a year, which was really unhappy." Yan Dan also complained and said.
"Fortunately, there is a clan sacrifice, otherwise we don't know how long it will take to see the elders." Yan Qing said with a smile, his tone full of anticipation to see his elders.
"Yes, yes, but this year's is just a small sacrifice, and some elders may not come out." Yan Dan said with some regret.
"yes, some of the elders haven't seen each other for more than forty years." Yan Qing said melancholy, although he has grown up, but when he thinks of those kind and loving elders, he still can't avoid the mentality of children.
The family sacrifice of the Yan Xi tribe, when it was spread has been impossible to verify, every year, every ten years, every hundred years, every thousand years, every ten thousand years will be held on a fixed day sacrifice, the annual sacrifice scale is the smallest, it is not mandatory to participate in the sacrifice, the scale of every ten years is slightly larger, except for some people who are closed to death, the rest must all be present, and more than a hundred years of sacrifices, all the people are required to be present.
Every sacrifice of the Yan Xi clan will be baptized, the cultivation has increased, the soul is more stable, and the cultivation has improved a bit, which is also the fundamental reason why the sacrifice of the Yan Xi clan has been handed down, but the reason for this result, no one in the Yan Xi clan knows that the mother tree baptized the entire Yan Xi clan with its own origin.
The Yan Xi clan has always thought that they are grateful for the sacrifice of heaven and earth that touched the rules and received the gift of heaven and earth, so they are more and more attentive when sacrificing. At the beginning of the sacrifice, there was no mature process, but to offer the best things in the clan, put the offering table under the moon, when the moon was shining on the offering platform, kneel and bow, but after several generations, the sacrifice has a perfect process, from the sacrificial clothes to the tribute, from the offering to the sacrificial process, there has been a unified standard.
Because the procedures are becoming more and more cumbersome and the requirements are becoming more and more elaborate, the clan sacrifice now requires five days of preparation for the whole clan.
The sacrificial clothes are specially made of Jiao Ling yarn sacrificial robes, this Jiao Ling yarn is the relics of the deep sea shark people, very precious, Yan Xi people's inventory is only enough for no one to set, because the sacrificial robe is too precious, so only when the sacrifice can be worn, the end of the sacrifice, it will be taken back to the inventory for good preservation, and then the next year's sacrifice will be taken out and sorted out for later use.
As for the sacrificial tribute, the Yan Xi clan used to worship all kinds of top-level heavenly and earthly treasures, and after the decline, although there are not many heavenly materials and earthly treasures in the inventory, there will still be a share of the sacrifice, but under the continuous consumption over the years, the inventory is getting smaller and smaller, and the only remaining heavenly materials and earthly treasures are also some ordinary levels.
The host of the sacrifice is not the patriarch but the elder, but the patriarch must be, and without the patriarch, the effect of the sacrifice will be discounted.
The saint is generally the leader of the sacrificial dance, dancing with some clansmen to pray for blessings, in short, the whole sacrifice, every clansman will participate, no one will be idle, even those elders, will be a line of tasks, may be to deal with tribute, may not know the sacrificial platform, in short, everyone can not be lazy, but no one in the Yanxi tribe has complaints, they regard the sacrifice as a ritual of thanksgiving to heaven and earth, so as long as there is anything related to the sacrifice, they will do it very piously.
"You say, will there be any changes to the sacrificial dance this time?" After a while, after the matter in Yan Dan's hands was almost over, he suddenly thought of the holy woman who had not seen anyone so far, and said.
"No, it's been years, and it's never changed." Yan Qing pursed his lips imperceptibly and said.
Logically speaking, the dances danced by the beauties of the Yan Xi tribe did dance out of the essence of the dance, but no matter how beautiful the dance was, it couldn't bear to watch too many times, and most of the Yan Xi people were already aesthetically tired of the sacrificial dance, so there was Yan Qing's complaint.
"Can't you change it a little, I've watched it so many times, I really don't want to watch it anymore." After listening to Yan Qing's words, Yan Dan said in frustration.
"Virtual." After Yan Qing heard Yan Dan's words, he quickly covered Yan Dan's mouth, looked around carefully, and after finding that there was no one else, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Do you want to be punished, is this kind of thing also casually talked, be careful that the elders hear and punish you for three days and three nights." ”
"I'll just say it casually, but luckily no one is here." Yan Dan also regretted it after speaking, the entire Yan Xi clan knew that the sacrifice had a future, and the dance of the sacrifice was said to be a means of communicating heaven and earth, and his own door was not qualified to put his beak.
"It's good to know, next time I have a snack, thanks to the clan sacrifice, the situation of our Yan Xi clan will not be too difficult." Yan Qing said with a sigh, she was transformed thousands of years earlier than Yan Dan, so she knew a little more things than Yan Dan.
"Why did heaven and earth give us a gift to the Yan Xi clan alone, could it be that the beauty of our Yan Xi clan moved the heaven and the earth." Yan Dan said with his mind open, his tone was full of narcissism, and Yan Qing couldn't help but laugh again and again.
"Don't be so narcissistic, if you want to talk about beauty, the Xuanling clan is no worse than us, why haven't you seen their race get a gift." Yan Qing gently knocked Yan Dan's head with his hand, and then said with a chuckle.
"Hehe, maybe heaven and earth favor us, otherwise there is no way to explain it." Yan Dan said with a smile that didn't care.
"Okay, okay, don't be narcissistic, let's hurry up and do things, and we're still busy, it's better to smoke these clothes with petals again, the elders like the fragrance of flowers." Yan Dan said softly.
"Okay, fortunately, I collected some petals before, and they have been dried, so I can use them now, but I still think these flowers are a little rich and don't smell good." Yan Dan said with a wrinkled nose.
"No way, the elders like it, let's take care of it more, and let them be happy." Yan Dan said patiently, and then pulled Yan Dan to incense his clothes.
Yan Wu Saintess didn't know the discussion behind Yan Dan and the two, she was now wandering aimlessly in the territory, what happened yesterday was too incredible, knowing that now, after the mother tree's painstaking persuasion, she was still a little unacceptable, she couldn't believe that the mother tree that had been good was about to fall, and she couldn't bear that the annual family sacrifice was the mother tree baptizing the entire race with her own origin, and kept shouting in her heart: "It's all fake, it's all fake." "Refusing to accept these realities that broke her down.
Yan Wu wandered in the territory like a walking corpse, looking at the familiar scenery in front of him, but his mind was all about last night, and he was helpless and licking his scars alone like a wounded little beast.
Maybe it was too early, Yan Wu wandered around the territory, and didn't find the clansmen haunting, looking at the starlight looming in the sky, the clouds and mist walked to a remote high mountain, looking into the distance with blank eyes, quietly thinking about what happened last night.
What happened last night had too great an impact on her, so that she didn't ease her mind now, her thoughts were complicated, she couldn't sort out what she was thinking, she kept thinking about what happened last night, her head kept running, Yan Wuyuan's cultivation in infancy, she felt exhausted, and there was a feeling of tiredness in her heart.