Section 8 Sacrifice to the heavens and ask for rain

In the world of going back and forth, I went to practice witchcraft in one life, teaching the tribesmen to calculate bad fortune and predict all things with hexagrams, and then to practice magic in one life, teaching tribal leaders to practice talisman and chanting spells, which was the beginning of witchcraft, teaching them to explore the heavens with hexagrams, and the beginning of gossip. After that, the ten leaders of the tribe and nine witches, in order to facilitate understanding and learning, the leader of later generations, Fuxi, was reduced to gossip, which was passed down through the ages for Fuxi gossip.

I don't know how many years have been in a dream, the vicissitudes of life and the earth have changed several times, the mountains have changed into fields, the water has become rivers, and the cycle of life and death has been in an instant.

Compared to my long wanderings in the Black Swamp, my years on earth were so short. When I woke up again, the world was a different place!

Under the influence of the witch civilization, human beings have become prosperous, major tribes are spread to the ends of the earth, and the era of wild beasts is gone forever. For the sake of land and population, there are constant wars between various tribes, and the tribes of the world are divided and merged, merged, and divided, and the law of survival in the current human world is the law of survival of the jungle.

Today, as the co-lord of the world, the Shennong clan (the descendants of the Nuwa clan) has declined, and the tribes crusade against each other and tyrannize the people, and the Shennong clan is powerless to control it!

The tribes allied with each other in order to protect themselves, and finally it became a three-point situation: the Yellow Emperor and the Xiong tribal alliance in the north, the Lieshan tribal alliance of the Yan Emperor in the west, and the Jiuli Chiyou tribal alliance in the east.

Wars between tribal alliances occurred from time to time, and the Chiyou tribe defeated Emperor Yan one after another and occupied countless lands, directly threatening the Yellow Emperor's tribal alliance! In the face of the powerful Chiyou tribe, it was only a matter of time before the two major alliances of Yan and Huang put down their fighting and joined forces to form an alliance.

And my fourth reincarnation as a human was in this era of war.

My name is Grain, I was born in a small tribe of the Lieshan clan, our ancestor is the Suiren Tizi clan, and the legend says that she is the Nine Heavens Xuannu of the Holy Mother of Tizi!

My name was personally given to Emperor Yan, the great leader of our Lieshan clan, and this kind of honor is not something that everyone can come across. That's because before I was born, Emperor Yan made a hexagram, and the hexagram indicated that there would be a saint born on the west side, which could help the emperor conquer all the tribes of the world, and ensure that all the people had grain to eat and never starve! So Emperor Yan traveled west overnight, found me according to the hexagram, and named me grain! Grain is a kind of grain in the field, and the metaphor is that I have grain for all the people!

My father was honored and promoted, and followed Emperor Yan to attack Chiyou, but unfortunately died by the river! Not long after, my mother died of illness, so I was an orphan at a very young age.

Later, Emperor Yan sent someone to take me to the headquarters of the Lieshan clan and handed me over to the tribal wizard to take care of, so I became the only apprentice of the tribal wizard!

My master's name is Ying, he is the most respected great wizard of our Lieshan clan, his status in the Lieshan clan is second only to Emperor Yan, and he is the irreplaceable spiritual leader of our Lieshan clan.

Because of the great responsibility on the shoulders of the Master, he is strict with everything and does not allow the slightest mistake. So since I was a child, I have been trained by Master strictly, and once I found out that my mantra was out of tune, I was punished to kneel for several hours, and I still had no food!

In this way, I grew up under the frequent punishment of my master, and became the most rigorous and potential great wizard heir of our Lieshan clan. With Master's prestige, I am highly respected by everyone in the tribe, but I will occasionally get into trouble if I am ignorant!

Ji is a beautiful tribal girl, and she has been very nice to me since I was a child. Whenever I was punished by Master for kneeling and not allowed to eat, she would always secretly bring me food, and to me she was the most considerate person in the world.

But once I did something very sorry for her, and secretly took her to play in the woods! When we were eating wild fruits on the ground, we happened to be discovered by a passing tribesmen! This incident was soon known by the Master, and when I went back, the Master whipped me with a whip and blossomed, and the blood flowed all over my body!

Ji's parents were also very angry when they heard about this, and soon came to our house to ask the teacher!

But when I saw me lying on the ground, I was drenched in blood, and my whole body was shaking with pain! Ji's mother and father relented and persuaded the master: "Great wizard, you should be lighter, children are just ignorant, there is no need to be so serious!"

The master was angry, pointed at me with a whip and asked, "Tell me honestly, what have you done to other people!"

I lay on the ground in pain, the pain made me unspeakable, and at that moment I had the heart to die.

Who knew that Ji suddenly cried and said, "Didn't we just go to the forest and pick some fruit to eat, what's the big deal!"

Ji's innocence and purity, the elders looked at her in a daze, and they didn't know what to say for a while.

After a while, Ji's mother spoke: "Our Jiaji never lies, our own children know best, and if she says no, it must be gone! This matter ends here, the children are not sensible, and they don't have to worry too much! How can it be like this, poor child!"

After saying that, Ji's mother shed tears, turned around and left silently with Ji and her father.

After the family left, the master continued to question me and said, "I am asking you to remember this lesson today, as wizards, we must not make any mistakes, otherwise we will be ashamed of Emperor Yan and our ancestors!"

Wronged, I retorted to the master for the first time and said, "But I didn't tell me that I couldn't take Ji to play in the forest!"

Master was stunned for a moment, and hesitated for a long time before sighing and saying, "Master usually focuses on teaching you witchcraft, maybe he forgot to talk about these things, hey!"

Then Master gently pulled me to lie down on my side, carefully cleaned my wounds, and applied medicine. Then he made me a bowl of chicken soup and fed it to me, patiently telling me about the customs and rules of the tribe.

At that moment, I felt his fatherly warmth for the first time, and it turned out that Master still loved me as a disciple very much in his heart.

Since then, I have become much more cheerful, and I have become more serious when I learn Master's witchcraft!

Once, when I was groping for rain, I reminded the Master, "Every time I finish praying for rain, I don't see rain immediately, isn't this witchcraft not very effective?"

"Nonsense!", the master reproached me and said, "How can the witchcraft left by the ancestors be fake, it's just that we are not good at learning, so we must practice diligently!"

I spread out the ancient scroll and asked Master, "Master, look at the annotation behind the incantation, the annotated runes represent heaven and earth, as well as rivers and mountains!

Master looked at me stunned and asked in confusion, "What do you mean? Do you mean divination first?"

I recalled the sorcery theory that Master gave me: "Everything in the world is surrounded by aura, yin and yang are intertwined and change according to the times.

The master smiled happily and said, "If the divination calculates that there is rain, then you have to sacrifice to the sky and ask for rain, wouldn't this practice deceive others!"

I replied disagreeing, "Not necessarily, you have to know divination and calculate the timing of the rain!"

"Okay!", Master said with a smile, "Now that the weather has been dry for a long time, some tribesmen have already come to beg me to give me rain. This time, Master will give you a chance to make a sacrifice, if you can't ask for rain, it will be self-defeating, and then don't blame Master for whipping you again!"

Originally, I was just discussing with him, but I didn't expect him to let me go to the sacrifice so soon, which made me feel at a loss for a while, and I was shocked into a cold sweat!

Master is a man of his word, and since he said let me go, I can't refuse!

For the rest of the day, I would divinate every day, and although sometimes the hexagram indicated that there would be rain, I saw that the sky was clear during the day and the stars were shining at night, and there was no sign of rain at all!

One day I did a rainy day again, and at night I saw fog and confusion between the stars, and I knew that it would rain soon!

So I started to act that night, opening the altar under the tribal totem to worship the sky, and all the tribesmen gathered around, singing and dancing together!

Early the next morning, several tribesmen rushed into the house and woke me up, pointed to the rain outside the window, and said happily: "Grain, you are really our saint!

After saying that, these tribesmen immediately knelt on the ground and kept bowing to me.

Master also walked into my room when he heard the voice, smiled at the tribesmen on the ground, and left without saying a word.

With such a rain, my name soon spread to more than a thousand tribes of our Lieshan clan, and people who came to ask for rain crowded the front of the house, which made me extremely embarrassed.

The master was very calm about this matter, he looked at the crowds of tribesmen outside the door, and said with emotion: "This witchcraft doesn't work, we wizards are very faceless! It's troublesome to ask for rain, so many tribes don't know where to go to sacrifice for them!"

Where should I go? I don't want to go anywhere! How can it be so easy to ask for rain, this is to watch the sky and eat, and it really should be the rain I begged for!