Qi Xuansu was dressed in an ordinary Taoist robe, with a sword hanging on the left side of his outer belt, and a fire gun hanging on the right side, which reminded Qi Xuansu of the days when he was a seven-rank Taoist priest.

Once upon a time, he still used firearms, but now they are called heavy artillery.

Qi Xuansu has been to Cusco before, and there are still many similarities between New Paittiti and Cusco, but New Paititi is larger than Cusco, which is one of the main reasons for the construction of New Paititi. Cusco is enough as the capital of a backward agricultural country, but it is a bit inadequate as the capital of a fledgling industrial country.

The steam revolution of the Westerners made the West rise and sweep the world, and the Orientals followed closely and found another way to develop creation projects. The new continent, which has never changed, is on the verge of extinction.

As the so-called shame and courage, the Tawantine Empire had to change, and no ancient traditions were worth mentioning in the face of the problems of life and death and the continuation of the race, and they could not stop the general trend of change.

As a result, Xidaomen successfully launched an all-round integration and transformation of Tawanting, and gradually obtained the supreme power of Tawantin in the process.

Of course, Xidaomen alone could not complete such a huge project, there must be enough resources, and after the Westerners made a major breakthrough, they chose to plunder the outside world, and Xidaomen, in addition to other necessary measures, also chose a tricky path to strive for external financial input, and this "outside" is Daomen.

Daomen launched large-scale assistance to Xidaomen, and at the same time cultivated a large number of pro-Taoist sects within Xidaomen, or returnees, that is, the factions that advocated the return of Xidaomen to Daomen, and compared it to the return of wanderers to the Daomen family, which made Daomen have great influence within Xidaomen, and Daomen could indirectly influence Tawanting by influencing Xidaomen.

Strictly speaking, there is no real anti-Daoist sect within the West Daomen, only the anti-returnees, so the internal struggle within the West Daomen seems to be contradictory, with both disagreements and disputes, and they are in step on the issue of winning the support of the Daomen and paying attention to the views of the Daomen.

Returning to the transformation of Tawantine by Xidaomen, the first step was to abandon Cusco and build New Paittiti, which built a large number of workshops.

Looking at the various forces, the most successful transformation by Xidaomen is the army, which is also the core need for security considerations. When it comes to the army, we have to mention armaments, once a large-scale war is to be launched, the Daomen are thousands of miles away from the ocean, and it is unrealistic to rely entirely on the support of the Daomen.

Because the form of war has undergone a fundamental change, it is no longer the era of cold weapons, it is not enough to feed the mouth, with the large-scale application of artillery firearms, the demand for ammunition has increased greatly, relying only on the support of the Daomen

Aid, maybe after one or two large-scale battles, the ammunition runs out, and the guns become scrap metal.

This requires Xidaomen to establish its own production system, and Daomen only supports high-end weapons, so the first to start is a variety of military-related military industries.

The progress and development of the military industry has also placed higher demands on those who work in the industry, and they need to learn continuously, including the samurai who operate these firearms.

Tawantine does not have this relevant knowledge, and must learn from the outside, because the West is an enemy, and cannot learn, but can only learn from the East. Learning begins with writing, which is the foundation and core of civilization, and Oriental writing contains the oriental way of thinking and inherent concepts, so while learning oriental knowledge, it will gradually be assimilated by the orient. And because of Mu Qiang's psychology, he will also imitate the various behaviors and habits of the learning object.

This is exactly why Zhang Yuelu doesn't like Western culture. Western studies are prevalent, and although they have learned the strengths of the West, the dross of many Westerners has also entered the Central Plains, and even many people's way of thinking has begun to Westernize. That is, today's East is not weaker than the West, and it can resist this erosion. Once the East weakens, there will inevitably be voices of total Westernization to erase its own civilization.

Therefore, the centralization of the Tawantin army is inevitable. With the army as the center, other strata have also been more or less Central Plains in different degrees. Only the priestly class was the most conservative and Tawanting, and the other classes, including the royal family, were a little less Tawanting.

Because of this special reason, there is a style of neo-Pajtiti

Oddly enough, the style of Cusco is still maintained in general, especially in the temple area, which is a tradition within a tradition.

But in other places, there are many traces of Central Plains in this Cusco style.

For example, in various decorative sculptures, the Central Plains style Pixiu, 梼杌, and unicorn suddenly appear, and for example, the Central Plains bell is hung under the eaves of the temple, and for example, not far from the statue of Kukulkan is the statue of Taishang Daozu. Maybe the locals are used to it and don't think so, but in the eyes of Qi Xuansu, a pure Central Plains person, it is very discordant, the painting style is fragmented, and it is indescribably weird.

Just as Qi Xuansu was about to find a place to stay, a bloody aura suddenly came from the direction of the temple area.

This aura is not a real smell, but an invisible aura similar to murderous aura.

Qi Xuansu was a little surprised, and walked in the direction of the temple area with the flow of people.

Proficient here

There are not a few people who speak the original official language, Qi Xuansu casually asked someone on the road, and then he learned that it was the temple area that held a blood sacrifice.

Blood sacrifice was once popular in the era of ancient witchcraft, after the Daomen defeated the witchcraft, the blood sacrifice was abolished, in the Central Plains, any blood sacrifice behavior, will be regarded as a cult.

However, the Southern Continent still maintained such barbaric methods, and even the Western Daomen failed to abolish them, because the driving force behind the blood sacrifice was the ancient gods.

Qi Xuansu walked with the flow of people and came to the square of a pyramid and saw the blood sacrifice ceremony that was about to be held.

The temple is located at the top of the pyramid and is connected to the square in front of the pyramid by a long staircase, where onlookers gather, and in the middle of the steps there is a platform that protrudes outward, which is the place of the usual blood sacrifice - the highest level of blood sacrifice needs to enter the temple.

At this time, on the platform stood priests and temple warriors wearing turquoise masks, green feathered crowns, obsidian weapons, and prisoners tied up with flowers.

Below the platform, there were already several corpses piled up, like a mountain of corpses. However, the blood ritual did not stop.

The drummers around the platform beat the drum with their hands to a strange rhythm and rhyme, and their mouths shouted the song of the sacrifice, which sounded like some kind of howl to those who did not know its meaning.

Qi Xuansu stood in the crowd and fell into deep thought, "Are these ancient gods already so weak? It's not enough to just harvest the incense and wish power, but also to use blood sacrifices to speed up your recovery."

This reminded Qi Xuansu of Yan Dazhenren's Western Regions Experience, when the seven Gu Immortals had just been resurrected and were still very weak, and some Gu Immortals led by Wu Luo began to make a big blood sacrifice. However, except for Wu Luo, who is an ancient witch, who is more familiar with the blood sacrifice and more tolerant, and resists the backlash of the blood sacrifice, the rest of the Gu Immortals who carried out the blood sacrifice have fallen one after another. Although the Blood Sacrifice was not the only reason for their fall, there was also the purging of the Dao Sect and the infighting of the Gu Immortals, but it was difficult to say that it had nothing to do with the Blood Sacrifice.

After all, blood sacrifice is tantamount to drinking water to quench thirst.

The Taiyin True Monarch and the Purple Light True Monarch, who did not carry out the blood sacrifice, ushered in the dawn of detachment.

In addition, Si Ming Zhenjun is another way, he is not a direct blood sacrifice, but provokes wars, spreads curses, and then harvests the soul, which is considered an indirect blood sacrifice, so he did not fall.

From this point of view, the situation of these ancient gods is not optimistic.

Soon, a batch of "sacrifices" was slaughtered, and the temple warriors took more than a dozen "sacrifices" in shackles to the platform.

During this interval, the priests began to pray and dance in the local language, which Qi Xuansu did not understand.

The faces of these "sacrifices" were painted with various oil paints, like the faces of a play, and they could not be seen as they were.

The samurai brought these "sacrifices" to the center of the platform, forcing them to kneel, and then the priests began to circle around them, dance, chant, and pray.

The sound of ancient musical instruments echoed all around.

In another moment, thousands of people watching also prayed in unison.

Qi Xuansu could feel that the souls of those "sacrifices" were actually in a very dazed state, confused, lost and depressed, and he didn't know what kind of situation he was in

Middle.

After about half an hour, the priests finished their ritual, took out the sharp blades that had been prepared, and cut out their hearts with great skill.

During the whole process, the "sacrifices" did not resist at all, just like cattle and sheep waiting to be slaughtered, and did not even make any sound.

Instead, the crowd cheered.

The priests then pushed the corpse off the platform and landed on the mountain of corpses below. Only then did Qi Xuansu notice that there was actually a blood trough in the square, and the blood flowing from the corpse gathered along the blood trough into a pool of blood, and then quickly disappeared.

Qi Xuansu can also see many scenes that ordinary people can't see.

Illusory souls are being devoured by a mysterious force, and the blood that flows is rapidly losing all spirituality and vitality, turning into dirty blood.

The gods do not just feed on the incense wishing power, the incense wish power comes from people, so the human soul is also the food of the immortals, similar to the relationship between eggs and hens. Because of the long flow of water, few immortals will fish with all their might. In this regard, both the Holy Court and the Buddhist Sect are experts, and they can even establish a long-term system of mutual benefit and healthy development between the gods and believers. And those barbaric ancient gods usually cause a lot of damage, and from this point of view, the Holy See still has merit.

Qi Xuansu has no intention of saving people, the blood sacrifice involves the ancient gods, and the West Daomen can't change it, and he can't change it, cutting off his life, but it's a great feud of life and death. Even if he wants to change, he has to do it slowly, and it is not a good thing to expose his intentions too early.

Then Qi Xuansu shifted his gaze again

When it comes to the bodies of those temple priests, they also have a surge of divine power, most of which are from the gifts of the ancient gods, but it is not much, it seems that the landlord's family has no surplus food.

Qi Xuansu didn't wait for the entire blood sacrifice ceremony to end, and turned around and left in advance.

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