Chinese characters have a long history. According to research, it can be traced back to oracle bone writing. And what is the oracle bone inscription, in fact, is the text engraved on the tortoiseshell animal bones. The first place where the oracle bone inscription was unearthed was the site of Yin Shang. Later, after the research of countless people, those oracle bone inscriptions were the late Yin Shang period and were the most mature characters. It's just that, before the oracle, there were still words? Maybe there is, maybe not. So far, no definite evidence has been found.

After Gu Yunzhe realized the strangeness of the Chinese characters, he immediately fell into thought.

Suddenly, a colorful voice came out of my mind, "The words of Huaxia actually come from form. Take its form, and give it meaning. The earliest texts should be divided into two kinds. One is the pictographic rune, which is a symbol of all things in nature and a representation of all things in the world. And the other is the apocalypse rune that sacrifices to heaven and earth and asks for luck. This kind of apocalypse rune was obtained by the tribal priests in the early years after countless human array exercises. The shape of the last human array is the gesture used by the people of later generations. And the Apocalypse Rune is a spell or a spell. Add the two, and that's the whole process of running the spell. As for the result of the formation of the spell, it is the power of heaven and earth obtained by sacrificing heaven and earth back then. ”

"You're there!" Gu Yunzhe's spirit perked up, and his consciousness immediately came to the Heavenly Palace, Wucai's side, "I see." In this way, not all words have the strength to condense the spiritual elements of heaven and earth. Only after the original sacrifice to heaven and earth, the rune characters obtained have this effect. Do you remember what the runes are? ”

Wucai sighed lightly, "I can't remember, after becoming a machine spirit, my original memory has been lost a lot. What's more, those rune words are the top secret within each tribe, and they are not passed on to the outside world. Besides, after so many years of evolution, even if some rune characters were circulated among the people, they have lost their original role. If you want to use it, you may be able to find it unless you go through every text. ”

"yes. The world is changing, if you want to find a word with special meaning from thousands of words. On the premise of not knowing the trick, it is indeed not easy! Gu Yunzheba smacked his lips.

Suddenly, another question came to his mind, "By the way, are all the magic techniques the same way those sacrifices were made to obtain the Apocalypse Runes?" They held sacrifices in the form of, do you remember. ”

"I remember a little. I can explain it to you in detail," Wucai replied cheerfully. "The so-called magic trick is that the original tribal ancestors, some priests or wizards passed through the altar, and after the sacrifice, they opened the boundary point of communication between heaven and earth Lingyuan, and then imprinted the shape of this boundary point on the finger to form a finger pinching formula."

"Is that point a spell? It is to use it to gather the spirit elements of heaven and earth," Gu Yunzhe asked.

"Yes, exactly." Wucai replied, "Just a brief outline, the ritual of the sacrifice requires a person who is the chief priest, who presides over the main altar, and several auxiliary priests who cooperate on the altar, and each priest is assisted by several servants of different types of sacrifices, each holding various sacrificial utensils or fruits. In addition, around the altar, there will be countless clansmen, according to the pre-learned body method, holding various ringing instruments in their hands or carrying on their bodies, under the leadership of the person who dances in front of them, in conjunction with the sacrificial ceremony of the altar, gathering the sincere prayers of the people and making a series of movements. In this way, the power of heaven and earth will be opened, and it will be imprinted on the hands of the chief priest through the altar. Then the celebrant will teach the people so that they can learn this skill. However, this kind of sacrifice will not occur very often, because it takes a very long time to prepare, and the things prepared are also very complicated, and the living creatures sacrificed are not ordinary things, they must be spirit animals with abundant spiritual power. The utensils also need to go through the continuous baptism of the spiritual power of heaven and earth, and they can exude a warm luster before they can meet the demand. The most important thing is that the person who presides over the sacrifice needs to communicate with the power of heaven and earth and get a trace of induction before he can perform the sacrifice. ”

Gu Yunzhe frowned, "It's so complicated! ”

Wucai smiled, "This is just a rune to attract sacrifices. If a priest with great mana suddenly gets the idea to assemble runes, he will arrange a larger ritual, often for months or years, until the sacrifice is successful, and that is the origin of the spell. ”

"Ahh Gu Yunzhe was very surprised, "A spell will take several years. But as far as I know, many spells have spells, is that how they all come from? ”

Colorful smiled and shook her head, "Not really. The spells you hear now are actually those of later generations, who deliberately added some prefaces and afterwords in order to perform gestures and change tricks for themselves, and they are just a rune power. If it is really a spell handed down from the ancestors, its power can be called earth-shattering, and the stars are changing. Once you do it, the world in front of you may just collapse. ”

Gu Yunzhe gasped, "Is it so powerful." Have you ever seen someone do it? ”

Wucai nodded, her eyes narrowing slightly, "With that level of spell, no one dares to cast it unless it is absolutely necessary." Although I was fortunate enough to see it once, it was because of that time that I was scattered. Fortunately, thanks to Nuwa Niangniang's rescue, she has survived for so many years. ”

Gu Yunzhe's eyes widened and said, "Do you mean, the battle between heaven and earth back then!" ”

Wucai looked at him, "So you already know about the big battle. Yes, that time. However, casting a spell of that level is not something that can be done by one person, and it requires many strong people with advanced cultivation to perform it together. Legend has it that such a spell was cast several times, and each time it was accompanied by the collapse of the heavens, the furious waves, and the overturning of the people. It can be said that once it is used, the species becomes extinct once. ”

"Once a species goes extinct? Could it be that several mass extinctions on the earth are related to human beings? Gu Yunzhe's eyes were full of doubts.

Wucai smiled, "Didn't you hear the words of the person you caught." He's basically right. However, there was one thing he couldn't guess. Although the origin of human beings is not here, it is inextricably linked with the flowers and plants here, and everything here. ”

Wucai's words made Gu Yunzhe even more confused, "It's not here to originate, but it's connected here?" How to say this. ”

"You don't realize that there are many animals that have similar organs in their bodies that are similar to those of humans, or the other way around. In short, you can think of man as a mixture of all living beings, that is, created by some higher level of spirits. Wucai explained.

"Nuwa creates people!" Gu Yunzhe involuntarily spoke.

Wucai smiled, "Nuwa Niangniang's cultivation is very high, but it is not high enough to create a human being out of thin air. However, Niangniang must have seen the spirit that created man, so she told us that these descendants are made of human bodies. ”

Gu Yunzhe nodded, "Therefore, it just shows that only human beings can rely on sacrificial rituals to gather the aura of heaven and earth, and they can take the initiative to cultivate." It seems that it is not only to follow in the footsteps of the ancestors and achieve the goal of immortality, but also to become the spirit that created itself. My analysis is correct, right. ”

"It's not impossible for you to think so. After all, only with ambition can there be desire, and only with desire can there be motivation. It is not impossible for human beings to think so. Wucai looked at Gu Yunzhe with satisfaction and said with a smile.

"Another thing, when I was in the netherworld, I saw deeper places, there were some bones. It's human, but it's very different. They are very tall, like giants or dwarves, but the facial features on their faces are similar to those of humans. There is one difference, though, that they have a vertical hole in the center of their eyebrows, which appears to be a third eye. Have you ever heard of this place, or have you ever encountered such a human? Gu Yunzhe said what he saw under the netherworld. After all, there is no secret between him and Wucai.

However, Gu Yunzhe was a little disappointed, Wucai frowned, thought for a long time, and finally shook his head, "I really haven't seen a person like this." However, I heard that there is a people who worship the eyes very much, do you think it has something to do with them? ”

"A people who worship the eyes? That people? Gu Yunzhe asked.

"India. Their Buddhists are very respectful of the worship of the eyes. Many of the carved statues of Vajra Arhats have a third eye. As you said, it's at the center of the eyebrows, up and down. Wucai said.

Gu Yunzhe thought about it, it is indeed as Wucai said, many of the Vajra Arhats in the temple have a third eye, in addition, there are even thousand-eyed and thousand-armed Buddhas, which can be called the pinnacle of eye and hand worship. "You're saying that layer may be the remains left by the Buddhists."

Wucai shook her head, "Buddhism is a later title, I only say that it is the predecessor of Buddhism." Buddhists also want to worship the object and aspire to existence. What's more, the Buddhist scriptures and mantras are also written in many hieroglyphs, which cannot be said to be a coincidence. ”

Gu Yunzhe nodded violently, "Yes, I remember that when I suppressed Sun Wukong, I used six-character proverbs, and the Buddha had swastika engraved on his chest. It seems that I am thinking narrowly, not necessarily the formed text, maybe a certain pattern. ”

Wucai nodded, "You've finally got the hang of it." Runic text is a pattern, and later people have incorporated them into text for ease of use. However, that is also a very small part. There are still a lot of runes that can't be put into words at all. They are hidden between heaven and earth, waiting for you to unearth them and carry them forward. ”

Gu Yunzhe bowed to Wucaishen, "Thank you!" I didn't have a clue just now, but now I finally know how to do it. After speaking, he arched his hand again, glanced at the few divine beasts that were still playing in the distance, and turned around and left the Heavenly Palace.

After returning to his body, Gu Yunzhe opened his eyes and looked up at the sky, at this moment there was already a blue light in the east, and under his gaze, it quickly turned into fish belly white, then gradually turned red, and finally became a red glow in the sky.

Looking at the red sun hidden by the red glow, a flash of light flashed in Gu Yunzhe's mind. As the outline of the sun quickly appeared, a disc emitting a golden light rushed out of the clouds and sprinkled sunlight onto the earth. All the objects on the ground were pulled out by the sunlight in an incomparably long shadow.

And what Gu Yunzhe thought of was the disk of the sun, which was a circle. Then I closed my eyes again, and found that the shape of the sun's disk was still clearly visible in front of my eyes, and my whole body was slightly warm, not as if it was full of flames, but like being illuminated by the sun at noon in summer. His body naturally relaxed, and then, according to that feeling, he raised his right hand, stretched out his fingers, and slowly drew in front of him. His hand moved very slowly, and it seemed that there was some kind of powerful power, blocking the front, if he didn't look carefully, he would think that Gu Yunzhe was holding his arm up to practice.

Although Gu Yunzhe's hand was held flat in front of him, he followed that feeling. In his spiritual world, there was a golden disc that appeared in the distance ahead, and the distance was like the two sides of the ocean. At the sight of the disc, his body felt slightly hot again. He ran as fast as he could, but he found that the golden disc, no matter how fast he ran, was always at the same distance from him. Just as he stopped, the disc vanished. The feeling just now was like a loach in the water, fleeting, and never again.

But he was not in a hurry, but waited slowly, he believed that if that feeling could appear once, it could appear a second time, a third time, many times, and it would always let him catch it once. His posture is like a wax figure carved in stone, standing in the rooftop garden. Zhang Jianqiang and the others went to look for him at his house before breakfast, but his parents said they were not in the house. Everyone immediately guessed that it might be in the rooftop garden and immediately looked for it.

Unexpectedly, when they came to the rooftop garden, they happened to see Gu Yunzhe standing on the eaves of the building, closing his eyes and drawing circles. Although I didn't know what he was doing, in order not to disturb him, no one stepped forward to say hello. Instead, they took turns going back down to eat, and then they all came up here. Because he couldn't speak, everyone was here either practicing or playing against him, silently accompanying him.

Gu Yunzhe didn't know the actions of the people around him, he was still immersed in his own world, slowly looking for that familiar feeling. Before he knew it, he had been standing on the roof for almost ten days.

Today is the end of the year, and there are two days to go before the New Year, and everyone can't help but feel a little anxious. Gu Yunzhe still showed no signs of waking up, even the sound of firecrackers sounding from time to time around him made him unmoved. Especially his parents, who wanted to go over and wake up Gu Yunzhe several times, but fortunately they were stopped by Zihe and Zhang Jianqiang and others.

And Gu Yunzhe is becoming more and more comfortable in his spiritual world, and that feeling is getting closer and closer to him.

Suddenly, not far in front of him, a golden disc appeared, and he knew that this was the sun in his heart. Instead of taking a step, he raised his hand slightly, moving forward very slowly. And the disc actually leaned towards him, which made his heart excited. The next moment, his finger was on the sun. The sun seemed to be absorbed by his fingers, rapidly shrinking, and finally merging into his fingers.

At the same time, standing on the eaves of the building, his fingers suddenly lit up with a star, and it became brighter and brighter. And the flowers and plants on the roof behind him, as if spring had come, actually grew new shoots in the horrified eyes of everyone.