Chapter 114: Restoration
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Lao Wang and Cha Wenbin restored this grand sacrifice 3,000 years ago as much as possible:
Three thousand years ago, when the wind blew through Qifeng Mountain, the people of the whole kingdom could listen to the music played by the swaying and clashing of metal, and the crisp sound proved that a great Bronze Age had reached its peak in this small corner of the heart of Sichuan.
The lower level was used for the ceremonies of the priests, and in the recess of the table in front of the altar was a scepter covered in gold. The scepter is very delicately made, and the skin is wrapped in a gold skin, which is carved with fish, birds, arrows, etc. Fish and birds are the totems of the fish era, arrows represent might, people from the tribe kneel in the square below, worship to the top of the sacred tree, ancient songs in the accompaniment of copper bells one after another, several sacrifices around the altar, waiting for the sacred moment.
When the auspicious time came, several priests came to the altar one after another, wearing flower crowns and robes, holding the prayer in their hands and reciting words in their mouths. After the time had passed, the priests closed the inscription in their hands and placed it on the altar. Immediately afterward, the attendants handed over the masks and brass bells worn by the priests to the priests.
The masks, all made of gold, have a full nose, broad lips, two large ears that spread outward, out of proportion to the entire mask, and the nose and mouth painted in black oil. The priests who wore masks danced while shaking the brass bells in their hands, and sang the song of sacrifice in their mouths. To the rhythm of the song, they neatly change the various dance movements. After a series of sacrificial dances, the new clan leader began to lead the people under the altar to bow six times and bow to the earth. At the end of the ceremony, the eldest of the clan chiefs removed the staff from the altar and handed it to the new head of state, who took the golden scepter representing kingship and divine power in both hands and held it high above his head.
The people of the entire square suddenly boiled, and in the midst of the earth-shattering shouts, the next generation of high priests was born as scheduled, and they longed for him to lead the tribe to the next peak. In the post-Fish King era, the most powerful man was the high priest and the most knowledgeable person in the clan. His role in the clan is not only that of a person who rehearses demons, but also a representative of the communication between heaven and earth.
Similarly, the role of the high priest is multiple: when someone in the clan is sick, he acts as a healer to heal the person; When there is a natural disaster** and it is necessary to sacrifice, he represents the god who communicates heaven and earth; When it came time to predict disasters, he became a soothsayer. To treat people, one must be proficient in medical knowledge; To communicate heaven and earth and predict disasters, we must have astronomical knowledge. Of course, in the eyes of the people of the time, it was taken for granted that the gods had given him energy, so the priest undoubtedly became the most respected and powerful person in the clan.
Since the Fuso Divine Tree can communicate with heaven and earth, then the high priest has become the only person who can communicate with it, so the former high priest is the bronze man in front of him, but he never expected that the real scepter had already been brought into the snow cedar ship carefully prepared by the previous high priest, and what was left to him was just a beautiful but powerless fake.
Finally, when the descendants of this kingdom gathered together, the Di people surrounded them with various weapons, and the Qiang people took up the weapons in their hands and resisted vigorously, killing both sides. Because of their rough skin and thick flesh, and strong force, the Di people gradually won the upper hand in this tribal war in the post-Yuyu era, and all the Qiang people began to retreat to this square, and the high priest they relied on the most opened all the supreme scepters in their hands to open the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, but found that the scepter that could call the wind and rain in the past was like a wooden stick at the moment.
The young high priest would never have thought that the real scepter had already been dropped, and that he could only break the kettle for now. If it is said that the reason why the ancient Shu Kingdom can stand on this is that they have created the silk civilization and the fishing and hunting civilization successively, then there is a more important one is the art of gods and ghosts.
The young high priest used the witchcraft of the earth-shattering ghosts and gods, and finally temporarily repelled the frenzied attack of the Di people, and there were few remaining people. Under serious injuries. The young high priest summoned the most respected men of the tribe and gave the kingdom one last command, which was to guard the path into the mountain, waiting for the day when the rebirth of the Fish-King could be reopened.
With the instructions of the high priest, this elder led the few remaining people in the clan out of Qifeng Mountain, and then settled in the village where he had lived for generations outside, guarding the secret of Qifeng Mountain for generations, and constantly looking for a way to open the road of resurrection again, among which the most recognized by them was to get the tenth bird and reopen the Three Realms Passage of the Fusang Sacred Tree, that is, the sun wheel that was rumored to be brought into the jade coffin by Yu Yan. This search continued for three thousand years, until Mochizuki's grandfather broke the tranquility of the place again.
When all the people had left, the young high priest stood on the second staircase, covered in blood, leaning against the statue of the previous high priest, and a great ghost magic was performed here. With the help of the remnants of the divine tree, he sealed the entire Qifeng Mountain forever in a cloud and mist, and made a certain taboo, so that the Di people can only live in the depths of the ground, and can never step out of this mountain for half a step.
This stalemate lasted until the arrival of Grandfather Mochizuki, whose arrival broke a small part of the taboo, allowing the Di people to once again approach the Qiang's original territory and be hunted down. Cha Wenbin doesn't know if they have been here, it's just the task of resurrecting the king, and it is very likely that Cha Wenbin has already completed it.
At this point, Cha Wenbin can more or less guess the origin of the "Ruyi Book", those insect-like symbols in the general temple are the ancient Shu script, and the text should be recorded in those witchcraft, but with the combination of witchcraft and Taoist theory, there have been ancestors in history to prove that it is indeed feasible.
It is very likely that the Egg Monk was also one of the treasure hunters, who entered the Qifeng Mountain and established the leader of the Bashu apes. The Bashu apes are the real owners of this place, and they know all the secrets of this mountain. Under the leadership of the ape, he obtained the magic of gods and ghosts that belonged to the great priest of the Qiang people thousands of years ago, and called it the "Book of Ruyi", and after painstaking research, he cracked the translation of it, and thus became a generation of grandmasters.
At this point, Cha Wenbin and Lao Wang have solved too many doubts in their hearts, at least this whole line can be completely established for them, and the next thing in front of them is whether to restore this legendary Tongtian Divine Tree again.
At this time, in addition to the horizontal face of taking care of Mochizuki, Chaozi and Leng Yiran have already reached the second level, Zhuo Xiong should be the last patriarch of this ancient clan, according to the rules, he should be the last high priest, so Cha Wenbin called him up, although at this time Zhuo Xiong was not interested in the things left by these ancestors at all.
With the help of several people, Cha Wenbin took the lead in climbing the top steps, and a glance at the mountains is no longer suitable to describe the vision at this time. The village, which could not be seen from any angle, is already in full view from here. However, this bronze sacred tree, no matter which angle you stand on, the branches always cover each other, but you can see more clearly when you are not below.
Cha Wenbin tried to climb, using both hands and feet, shuttling back and forth on the trunk full of bronze branches, the ingenuity of the design of this sacred tree is also that still depends on how hard you work, there is always a way to be blocked by the branches above, that is to say, if you want to climb, you have to step on the tips of the branches outside, Cha Wenbin tried a few times, had to give up, back to the ground again.
On the tip of the branch, there are birds and brass bells, and the tip is extremely sharp, like a dagger, and it is really not ordinary to get from this periphery. He was even more worried that it was the copper bell, the last time the bell rang, all the ghosts came out, the copper bell here seems to have the effect of conjuring spirits, if you accidentally touch it, God knows what will be called. But since it has reached this point, I have to try it anyway, because Cha Wenbin also has his own selfishness, if this divine tree can really connect the Three Realms, then Yang Tongyuan will definitely be able to reach it!
Taking a deep breath, under the gaze of everyone, Cha Wenbin carefully followed the outermost branch and began to slowly climb up......
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