Immortal Heaven, as the supreme god of shamanism, this belief has long prevailed among the nomadic peoples in northern China, in a period of time, almost monopolized the ancient altars of various ethnic groups, its influence is deep-rooted, until now, the Northeast dance of the great god, shaman dance, please God, and a series of so on belong to the shamanic form of sacrifice.

Shamanism believes that the universe is divided into three realms, the upper realm is the heavenly realm, where the gods of all walks of life live, which are divided into many levels, such as 9 heavens, 33 heavens, and the highest 99 heavens. The middle realm is the human realm, and it is a place where humans and various animals and plants live together. The lower realm is the netherworld, where all kinds of demons and monsters inhabit, and where the soul of a person returns after death.

And the immortal heaven dwells above these 99 heavens.

In the past, shamans and wizards had the saying of breaking through the "nine passes", kicking the knife ladder and piercing the fire pool, which symbolized that the shaman could go up to the nine heavens and the nine netherworlds, and had the ability to communicate between the two worlds.

These are some of my knowledge of shamanism and immortality, although I am not usually particularly interested in these, but since I was a child, I have been exposed to it in the big temple, and I still know a little bit about various religious sects and some basic things.

Standing in front of this ancient door, looking at the high dome inside, the dim lanterns, and the faintly visible few thick stone pillars, I suddenly felt as if I had come to a secret place beyond human beings, which was a solemn and sacred, ancient and mysterious, and made people involuntarily feel worshipped.

The few of us finally walked in, and several flashlights intertwined with each other, allowing us to see the scene in front of us clearly.

This is a circular stone room, about the size of a basketball court, in fact, it is not big, but the high dome is more than ten meters, and when you can't see the outline of the surroundings, it seems that this stone room is extremely vast.

In the middle of the stone chamber, opposite us, is an altar about two meters high, surrounded on all sides by a parapet made of stones, and the four walls below the altar seem to be carved with vague figures. On each side of the altar, there are four huge stone pillars, about three meters high, plus the one behind the altar, a total of nine stone pillars, which are also faintly carved with some strange symbols.

We stood at the entrance, and did not dare to go deeper, until we observed for a while, and we were sure that there was indeed no one here, and judging from the traces on the ground and around it, no one had been here for a long time.

I was secretly relieved, and at the same time a little disappointed, the one in this stone room is very simple, obviously, this is just an altar, maybe it is used to sacrifice the Immortal Heaven, but the Immortal Heaven definitely does not live here.

We moved forward cautiously, and came to the stone pillars, only to find that there was a black thing hanging on the top of the stone pillars, which looked like a human shape, but it was not very similar, Da Kui used a flashlight for a long time, and we saw clearly, the hanging on the stone pillar, should be a shriveled human head.

It's just that there is a long list of inexplicable objects hanging under the head, which looks dry, black, and a little disgusting, and we looked at it in confusion for a long time, but we didn't recognize what it was, Ansari looked up at the thing with an expressionless face, and said to us: "Don't guess, it's a pair of human internal organs, connected to the skin." ”

"Viscera, internal organs?" I was amazed and asked, "Why do you want to hang up the internal organs of people and sacrifice them to the heavens?" ”

Ansari stared at the stone pillar and nodded slowly: "That's right, human viscera. Their hearts, livers, intestines, stomachs, trachea, and skulls were dug out alive, and then their skin was peeled off with extremely sharp knives, and hung on this stone pillar together, which is the highest level of ritual in shamanism to sacrifice to the immortal heavens. ”

When he said this, his tone was extremely calm and calm, as if he was telling us something else that had nothing to do with us.

But my chest tightened, and I felt that the things in my stomach were churning up in an instant, and then I looked at the nine stone pillars hanging on them, all of which were this kind of thing, and I couldn't help but rush to the stone door and retched.

It was so horrible and weird, and it was so disgusting that I vomited so darkly and my head was dizzy, but we hadn't eaten anything all day, and all I vomited was some sour water in my stomach, and some thin paste, and I was even more disgusted when I looked at it, and I vomited wildly.

Because that mushy thing used to be called compressed biscuits.

After vomiting for a while, I eased up a little, but I heard a similar sound next to me, I held on to the stone door and looked up, it turned out that Da Kui also rushed over, doing the same action as me.

But he was a little better than me, and only retched for a while, and did not vomit out of the stone door, and I looked at him a little weakly and said, "What a coincidence, you vomited too." ”

Da Kui didn't speak, his throat made a swallowing motion, and squeezed out a few words from his throat: "It's okay, swallow ......"

I was immediately retching again, this guy is just disgusting......

It took us a long time to recover, and we returned to the stone pillar, and we were a little afraid to look up, but those people didn't seem to react, but no one said anything, Lao Pan patted me on the shoulder, expressed comfort, and then raised the flashlight and began to observe the stone pillar.

But this time it's not to observe the sacrificial thing, every stone pillar here is engraved with some strange symbols, a bit like hieroglyphics in ancient times, but we looked at it for a long time, and none of them recognized what it was, looking at Ansari's reaction, he also frowned, with a stern face, and slowly shook his head when he saw us looking at him.

It seems that even he doesn't know what this is, we looked around a few stone pillars for a long time, and the ones were densely packed with this kind of symbol, although they didn't know it, but they also summarized some rules.

Most of the symbols carved on these pillars are in the shape of a similar "%", and there are many arrows and some curves that do not make out the meaning, which are carved all over the stone pillars.

The most are these three symbols, Ansari looked at it for a while, and suddenly said: "This seems to be a bit similar to a soul-calming talisman that my grandmother drew for me when I was sick when I was a child." ”

"Soul Charm? What is that? I asked, and Ansari thought for a moment and said, "If I'm not mistaken, my grandmother must have told me a little bit, this kind of arrow symbol represents the bow and arrow, the curve represents the fire, the bow and the arrow and the fire represent the symbol of strength, and those symbols like '%' are always below the arrow and the curve, and my grandmother once said that this kind of '%' symbol, in shamanism, represents the human soul." Do you think this symbol looks a lot like a blister? ”

When he said this, I also noticed that this "%" did look a bit like a blister, and Ansari stared at the symbols and said to us, "In shamanism, it is believed that people have three souls, life souls, reincarnation souls, and floating souls. Among them, floating spirits are the most active, do not live completely dependent on the subject, and can temporarily wander outside the subject, and their expression in shamanism is this shape similar to water bubbles, or water droplets. ”

Ansari's voice was ethereal and slow, as if telling an ancient and mysterious legend, and it was the most time he had spoken since we met him.

He told us that in shamanic legends, this drop of water is full of soul, and after it leaves the main body, it floats in the universe, some can turn into wings to fly, some can float with the help of the hairspring of spiders, or float helplessly between heaven and earth, they will fall on the young leaves of wild grass, on the branches of trees, or be attracted by women and some kind of magnetism, and they will become life, and everything on the earth is born from this floating spirit.

If a person who is good and upright, suddenly inexplicably frightened, mentally depressed, or has been ill for a long time, it is generally considered to be a floating soul, and if a person becomes demented, numb, and like a fool, it is caused by the floating soul leaving the body.

At this time, shamanic sorcerers are needed to use soul restraint or soul dementorship to retrieve floating souls.

I listened to Ansari's words, suddenly understood something, and asked him: "So, that soulless Ah Li in the Shenlong Village can only be cured by using this soul-arresting technique to retrieve the floating soul?" ”

Ansari didn't make a sound, looked up at the stone pillar, his eyes showed a complicated look, and said to us: "The Great Elder in the Shenlong Village is a shaman, but he can't recover Ah Li's floating soul. ”

"That'...... I remember that both you and Su He once said that only in this place can you find a way to save Ah Li, so what? ”

"I don't know, perhaps, this qiē has already been in the arrangement of the Immortal Heaven."

Ansari shook her head, turned around, and looked at the altar behind us.

Does he mean that he has to find the Immortal Heaven in order to save Ah Li?

So Lao Pan, these people, and Uncle Lu Feng, what are they trying to find the Immortal Heaven for?

I looked at him, and my mind was confused again......