Chapter XXIII: The Ritual

"Please listen to me finish the rules, and then decide whether to change the choice," Su Mo was preoccupied, but did not show his face, "I will choose another Gandapo, and the two of them will mix the Su Mo wine together under fair conditions, and finally when the Su Mo wine is ready, we will each take a cup, and the two of us will choose the winner together." ”

This is absolutely fair, although the countess doesn't know why Su Mo chose such a strange way of judging, but as long as the countess cheats, the ascetic will fail, so there is no possibility of unfairness.

"I'm going to pick her anyway. ”

Su Mo nodded, and chose another Gandapo dancer, and then naturally there were servants who sent Su Mo grass juice and wine, as well as a wine vat for stirring.

Next is the performance of Gandharva.

It was less like labor, more like a solemn sacrificial ceremony, and the two Gandharva danced with all their might, recreating the sacred scene of the gods and the asuras stirring the sea of milk.

The stone pillar on the hand of Gandharva symbolizes the mandala mountain, and the relief on it is the great snake and snake king, who mix the mixture of fine wine and suma grass juice in an exaggerated and feminine and powerful movement, like a dance, symbolizing the gods who stir the sea of milk and finally enjoy the nectar.

The other Gandharva also played music on the side, solemn and solemn, as if it were a grand sacrifice.

The countess looked at everything in front of her and suddenly felt that this was a sacrifice, but she knew that no one here was qualified to enjoy the sacrifice offered by the goddess Gandharva, presided over by Sumo, and the three supreme gods were not here.

Of course, this does not meet the requirements of the sacrifice, in the body poison, the most important part of sacrificing to the gods is to throw the sacrifice into the fire, which means that the fire god will carry the sacrifice and send it to the gods.

Finally, the suma grass juice and the sake are completely integrated, revealing a clear and vivid color, and the suma is ripe.

Gandharva put down the stone pillar and retreated to rest, and Su Mo raised his wine glass and walked to the wine urn.

This is the good thing that the Fa-rectification has given to God and man, the elixir of forgetting worries. ”

Su Mo picked up another wine glass from the table, lowered his head with his back to the countess, and put the wine glasses in both hands into the two jars of fine wine. Where Helen could not see, the god flashed with a sad look.

"Please taste it. ”

The countess took a sip, and Su Mo drank half of the wine in the glass.

Then the god reached out and swapped the two cups for another sip each.

The countess placed the remaining half of the cup on the table, while on the other side, Su Mo put down the empty cup.

"Please tell me the result. ”

"I won. ”

The countess looked calm, she knew that Su Mo would not object.

Then the god nodded.

"Today's game is exciting, please rest, guests from afar. ”

The countess nodded, and followed a goddess of Gandharva out of the hall.

The outcome of the game was not unexpected by Su Mo, the first time the countess chose the best winemaker, and she did not change her decision in the end.

That didn't matter, although Su Mo was a little strange why the countess could win, but his real purpose had nothing to do with that at all.

"The ceremony is complete, it's time for me to see the truth. ”

Goddess Gandharva gathered in the center of the hall, a bonfire was lit in a golden brazier, scented snow-white wood began to burn, and the smell of spices and suma wine spread everywhere.

The goddesses began to dance.

Su Mo raised the glass that the countess had drunk and walked to the fire in the center of the hall.

He placed the glass squarely in the fire and pulled away.

The flames became blazing.

The wine in the glass is boiling, and the glass seems to be roasted to an extremely high temperature in an instant, emitting a bright red light.

Then suddenly, the sumo wine in the cup burned, the color of the flame was a faint blue, and the flame danced, and then slowly calmed down, forming a picture.

It was a god surrounded by darkness, with the appearance of a beautiful goddess, holding aloft a vajra, and a terrifying thunderbolt flashed from his hand - Indra.

This is what the countess had witnessed, the scene of Indra before his death.

From the very beginning, Su Mo was not in the mood to continue the game with the countess, whether it was Indra's death or the indifference of the three great gods, it made him uneasy, so in order to get the truth about Indra's death, Su Mo planned this festival in the name of the game.

It was an extremely harsh ritual that required a cup of freshly brewed suma wine, and a person took a sip from the cup without finishing it, and then used that cup of suma as a sacrifice, presided over with a powerful divine power, and could summon from the flames the sight that the drinker had witnessed before.

That's what Sumo wanted, he wanted to know how Indra, the mighty king of the gods, had died in an unexpected encounter with Asura.

......

Magellan opened his eyes to the familiar darkness in front of him, a gap between the realms of the gods that had been encroached upon by the asuras.

"Why are we back here?"

"I wouldn't want to come back here if I could," Rahu sighed helplessly, "It's easy to meet the gods here, and that's definitely not what I want to see, especially since you're a guest." ”

"I always thought that this was the territory of the Asura. ”

"Although we have eroded a few gods here, it doesn't mean that we have already occupied this place, you can see this place as a battlefield where the forces of the two sides collide, if it is not for trouble, then no asura wants to come here. ”

Magellan nodded, and then followed Rahu into a gate in the darkness.

"Welcome to the world of Asura. ”

This is a place that amazed Magellan.

Because it's exactly the same as the poison controlled by the gods.

Even the omnipresent supernatural power was the same as the divine power, at least with Magellan's dullness, he couldn't tell the difference between the two.

"It wasn't like that at the beginning. ”

Rahu was glad to finally have a guest to see this world that the Asuras had worked so hard to build, and there were few people like Magellan, who had entered the body poison ruled by the gods and then traveled to the worlds of Mount Meru and the Asuras controlled by the gods, not to mention that he was a noble brahmin who performed ascetic practices for the three great gods.

"We've had a lot of trouble and spent a lot of time building this world, but in the end, we built this world exactly to the liking of the three great gods, and I think you'll love it. ”

Magellan smiled helplessly.

He certainly wouldn't like anything that the three great gods liked, whether it was a bug or a world.

Far away in the sky are towering snow-capped mountains, which, although not as natural as the real Mount Meru, are also magnificent and stunning, and Rahu's territory is at the foot of the snow-capped mountains.

It was a gathering place for Brahmins.