Chapter 249: The Religion of One

The little girl watched from afar as the settlement migrated east, and she decided to answer the call of darkness all the way west.

Zhou Ze shook his head secretly in the void, and the little girl's sense became more and more obvious.

What the little girl called for was a small section of Zhou's scales, which turned into a boulder here.

But Zhou clearly remembered that his scales had been fully integrated into the world of Torrell.

Thinking about it secretly, in the end, I can only attribute the reason to the ghost of the Torrell world.

The world was so alive that the gods were so noisy, jumping up and down like a bunch of short-lived ghosts.

The origin strange objects that inexplicably appeared and disappeared in the previous Crown War are probably also small actions of Torrell's world consciousness.

Zhou could see clearly that the trace of origin had been absorbed by the Torreel world itself, and the elven kingdom and the gods behind it could not get anything.

There is an elven goddess in this war who is very jumpy, and Corellon will not let her go in the future.

Now that the world of Torreel is a spark of childbirth again, and it is forcing out some of his scales, Zhou even feels that the world is alive......

"I hope you'll be so active in District 3." Zhou continued to stare at the little girl while thinking about the various abnormalities in Torrell's world.

To reach the boulder, the little girl had to continue west from the northwest corner of the Hazur Mountains and into the Chult jungle to reach the desolate mountainous area that later generations called the 'Flame Peak'.

The whole journey is about 800 kilometers.

And the little girl only had a barely covered animal skin clothes.

But the little girl did not even return to the cave where she had rested, and set off straight west.

In fact, the road is relatively easy, poisonous insects and beasts can be found and avoided by her from a long distance, and some wild fruits can also be found along the way.

It was autumn, and although it was the month of decay, many fruits were ripe at this time.

At the beginning, the little girl could only travel more than 30 kilometers a day, and the obstacles of nature, the food she needed every day, and the place to rest at night had to be carefully weighed.

After walking more than 200 kilometers like this, one morning, the little girl was about to set off, but she found that a heavy rainstorm suddenly fell outside the tree hole.

In desperation, the little girl hugged herself in the hollow of the tree and watched the rain outside.

Just looking at it, the little girl reached out of the hole and felt the rain fall on the palm of her hand.

After receiving the rain for a while, the little girl bent down slightly, got out of the hole in the tree, and began to walk in the rain.

It is naturally difficult to walk a lot on rainy days, and the little girl has been walking until the evening, which is only more than ten kilometers.

At night, the little girl stood still outside a cave, and as usual, she should have gone in to rest.

But the little girl didn't know what to think, so she didn't go in, turned around and went into the depths of the jungle to continue on her way.

The next day the little girl passed by a fruit tree, and she stopped again, but did not reach for it, but only looked at it, and continued on her way.

That evening, the little girl saw a tiger in the distance, and as usual, she should have avoided it.

But this time she walked straight ahead, not changing her direction at all, but when she passed in front of the tiger, the tiger even took a few steps back.

From this day on, the little girl did not drink, eat, sleep, press insects and snakes, or hide from wild beasts.

Drawing a straight line on the map as shown in the map, the little girl can travel more than 100 kilometers a day.

And the last 300 kilometers were completed by the little girl in one day.

In the end, the little girl walked for thirteen days, crossed 800 kilometers, and stood in front of a black stone the size of the little girl's original settlement warehouse.

At this moment, Zhou felt that his mood was a little nervous. The little girl's abnormality had already made her start to stimulate her own talents.

At this time, the little girl's spark may be ignited at any time, it depends on what she does.

The little girl ran to the boulder at sunrise and stood still until sunset, and the little girl finally had the action of staring at the boulder.

She approached the boulder, pressed her body as close as she could, tilted her head sideways, and listened.

This action lasted for three days, and the little girl changed.

She turned her head towards the boulder, lay down, and fell asleep. This made Zhou breathe a sigh of relief, and the spark was not ignited, but stabilized.

The next day, with the sunrise, the little girl woke up and glanced at the location of the outer circumference.

But she couldn't see anything.

Retracting her gaze from the sky, the little girl continued to stare at the boulder in front of her, and she didn't know what to do.

This time, the little girl watched it for a month before she reacted.

That morning, she took a few steps back and began to bow down to the boulder. Just like the original original settlement, the sacrifice knelt down to worship the thunder fire.

Kneeling ninety-nine times, the little girl stood up, walked to the boulder, touched the boulder with her hand, and circled the boulder three times from west to east.

After doing this, the little girl leaned her back against the boulder and began to meditate.

At noon, the little girl returns to the morning kneeling position, prostrates ninety-nine times again, and then returns to the meditation position to continue meditating.

At sunset, the little girl returned to the place where she knelt and bowed ninety-nine times, and then approached the boulder and circled the stone three times from east to west.

Then return to the meditation position and meditate.

In this way, the little girl's life became mechanically regular, one at sunrise, one at noon, and one at sunset.

Thirty years later, at noon that day, the little girl did not get up after kneeling ninety-nine times, but continued to bend down and prepare to kneel.

It wasn't until her head was about to touch the ground that the little girl reacted, and got up like an electric shock, her eyes full of horror.

"I don't know what I'm afraid of." Zhou secretly thought and continued to stare at the little girl.

The horror in the little girl's eyes receded, and confusion welled up. After hesitating for a moment, she turned and walked into the jungle in the distance, and after a while, there was a simple hemp rope in her hand.

Back at the edge of the jungle, looking at the boulder from afar, she climbed a tree, tied her feet with hemp rope, and hung herself upside down from the tree.

Three days later, she laid herself down, knelt down as usual, and sat down in front of the boulder.

Looking away from the boulder, the little girl examined herself. Decades have passed, and the little girl's animal skin clothes have long since been tattered.

Aside from the clothes, the only thing that has changed is the hair, which is now about shoulder length.

She simply took it off and returned to naked. He found a sharper stone and cut his hair short.

After that, the little girl's kneeling etiquette became more complicated. There are three different sets of movements when kneeling in the morning, noon and evening, and the pace should be exactly the same when going around the stone.

Sometimes she didn't grasp it well, one more or one less step, and she hung herself for a day.

Another change was that after another ten years, the little girl could no longer go wrong walking around the rock, and she designed a set of movements for any of her idle hands.

This kind of life is boring even for Zhou himself, and he is even a little more irritable in his heart.

Zhou knew that the little girl was caught in some kind of plot similar to religion.

In primitive religions, when encountering some unknown strange objects or mysterious phenomena, it is possible to give birth to a kind of worship mentality, and make actions that would never be done on a daily basis, such as kneeling.

That primitive tribe would bow down when gathering and hunting? Maybe there will be some unusual actions when the clansmen die in battle.

That's the kind of psychology of the little girl when she came here, she didn't know anything, but she worshipped the stone.

Sometimes Zhou also wonders if the little girl's fall caused by kneeling half a little more was caused by her deliberately kneeling more.

Zhou Neng sensed that at that time, the little girl already felt that her kneeling was useless.

Later, the little girl introduced upside down hanging, and introduced stricter kneeling and stone rituals, which should also be expected to be rewarding.

This is actually the same as the second stage of religion, through a stricter and more systematic ritual, to conform one's words and deeds to the so-called teachings of God, so as to achieve the purpose of communicating with the gods.

At this stage, it has nothing to do with the so-called miracles and holy relics, and it is purely based on the doctrine of rituals.

In Torrell, because of the presence of the gods, the teachings are clear and the rituals are clear.

In those worlds without gods, this set of things must be endlessly complicated, until no one abides by it.

In fact, it was they who abolished their own gods.

As for the little girl, because of this stone, the set of things she created herself is still deeply involved with the broken stone, and even if the ritual is strengthened several times, it does not form a pure ritual and teaching.