Chapter 16: Making a Sacrificial Vessel
The water trumpet is a moving, aqua-blue giant trumpet flower that grows only during the rainy season.
They will continue to swallow the rain that falls from the sky, growing bigger and bigger, until the end of the rainy season, when the dry season comes, they wilt overnight, leaving only paper-thin dead flowers and leaves in place.
It has a stout root system with rounded tips and no fine roots, and looks similar to an enlarged version of the yam, but it is darker, dark brown, and rich in salt.
But perhaps because it grew up in the rainy season and has been soaked in floods, the fact that the root of the water trumpet is salty has not been discovered by the orcs.
Wash and shred the roots of the trumpet, put them in a pot and boil until the dark brown roots are boiled to a snow-white color, remove the roots, and only keep the water in which the roots have been boiled.
The salt at the root of the water trumpet is almost all left in the soup.
After that, it is repeatedly boiled with water until the snow-white refined salt is precipitated.
When Mu Kui was collecting, he secretly pulled out a lot of water horns, and now he boiled them together, and finally harvested a stone jar full of salt.
Mu Zhao tasted it, and after finding that it tasted the same as the previous refined salt, he cheered.
"Great, I don't have to worry about salt in the future."
Mu Kui also laughed, and said secretly in his heart: Salt is just a small meaning, brother, you will find out later that seasonings are not only salt.
With tree meal, a lot of meat can be saved, made into jerky, bacon, etc., and stored to cope with the tide of animals after 12 days.
Among the meat distributed were a pair of heart and lungs, eight kidneys, and six livers.
I was a little tired of cooking food for the orphans in the orphan hole, so Mu Kui didn't make it directly, but washed it and salted it.
In the future, when it is well dried, it can be used directly when stir-frying.
The same is true for animal meat, most of which is marinated and smoked to make bacon.
The rest is made into foods such as glutinous rice balls, glutinous rice balls, and tree flour cakes.
The dishes are similar to last night's, except that the fillings of the dumplings and glutinous rice balls have a little more numbness.
This is because Mu Kui added a needle core to it.
"It's delicious, it's a little different from yesterday's, but it's even tastier."
Just a little more numbness, Mu Zhao ate a surprise from inside.
"You'll find that the food is getting better and better in the future."
Mu Kui pushed Mu Zhao a twelve-inch milky tree flour cake as a dessert after dinner.
The oven was large enough, and Mu Kui roasted not only two twelve-inch ones, but also four sixteen-inch ones, as a snack to eat after the work was done.
Meal.
While there was still time, the two dug out the kitchen.
The fool jumped on the rabbit, and Mu Kui also made a cage for it and raised it.
For a period of time in the future, the family's dairy products will depend on it.
It's night.
Mu Kui took a few beast bones that he had specially picked up that could be used to make bone knives, and wondered how to get them.
There are four bones in total, two short fan bones that can be used as kitchen knives, and two long ones that can be used as weapons.
The kitchen knives at home are made of grinding stones, which are actually not very easy to use.
A stone is just a stone after all, and it is a stone that can be easily cut open with the claws of an orc.
The strength is too low, and neither is the sharpness.
A large part of the meat distributed today was removed from a one-horned rhinoceros, and the grinding stone kitchen knife went down, and the meat was fine, but the knife edge was broken out of the gap.
The one-horned rhinoceros is a large creature with a body length of five meters, which is not only thick, but also difficult to break defenses.
Even the meat quality is denser, tougher, and chewier than ordinary meat.
This kind of meat, which is placed on the earth and may not be able to bite without cooking, is very popular in the beast world.
The orcs have good teeth, and nibbling on one-horned rhinoceros meat is the same as eating beef jerky, which is energetic and relaxed.
The short fan bone is naturally fan-shaped, and it doesn't look like it can be made into a kitchen knife, but Mu Kui has his own way.
Mu Aoi's fingertips pop out the sharp and sharp long nails that can only be found when the beast is formed, and the heart is concentrated on it, and on a short fan bone, a sacrificial pattern representing deformation is carved.
Mental power is the power cultivated by sacrifices and witch sacrifices.
Its essence is the materialization of the power of the mind, and with this it can do many idealistic things.
And this is also the reason why sacrifices and witch sacrifices can be used for divination, and when a sacrifice is held, it can call for wind and rain, and even perform abilities such as curses, seals, and group amplification.
In fact, the ritual can do some unreasonable things with the heart, and the witch doctor can also refine magical witch potions with the power of rules, such as bad luck elixirs, through various plants, ores, and certain parts of the animal's body.
But an external force is an external force after all.
It is not a problem for witch doctors to refine some witch potions with weak rule power, but in order to refine witch potions with strong rule power, it is either a cumbersome process or a painful price to practice.
Income is not proportional to expenditure, let alone talk about whether to compete or not.
This is also the main reason for the huge disparity in the status of witch doctors and sacrifices, and the huge difference in ability.
Witch sacrifice is a combination of witch doctors and sacrifices, which can be used to assist in refining witch medicine, and many witch doctors need to pay a lot of money to do it.
Strictly speaking, if a witch sacrifice is also quite proficient in the way of sacrifice, in the same realm, the sacrifice and the witch sacrifice will be suppressed in all directions.
"Sister, what are you doing?"
Seeing his sister fiddling with a bone, Mu Zhao asked curiously.
"Carved sacrificial patterns." Mu Kui explained: "I want to use this to make two kitchen knives, and two more long knives, after changing into a beast shape, it can also be integrated into the claws, the kind that directly improves the strength." ”
The use of tools is one of the distinguishing features of intelligent life.
With the same strength, the fight between the one with the knife and the one with the bare hands must have the advantage of the knife.
The orcs in the tribe who have the conditions will bring a sacrificial weapon such as a sword, gun, stick or fist glove when they go out to hunt to strengthen themselves.
His own brother can't be left behind.
Moreover, with a knife to defend himself, Mu Zhao went out hunting, and Mu Kui was also relieved.
Animal fur and bones are excellent carriers for conducting heart force.
Mu Kui plans to make a leather armor for Mu Zhao in the future, and arm his brother to the teeth as much as possible.
"Sacrificial vessels!" Mu Zhao was a little surprised, "Isn't this something that can only be done by sacrifices?" Sister, why would you too? ”
"It's not just a witch doctor." Mu Kui winked mischievously at his brother. "I'm a witch priest now, and you can understand that someone who has both witch doctor and sacrificial powers."
"Witch sacrifice?" Mu Zhao had an unreal feeling: "Then sister, aren't you like Tsubaki, you can also hold sacrifices and pray for the blessings of the tribe?" ”
"Hmm." Mu Kui nodded: "However, it's not as simple as you think." ”
"Tsubaki is now the Great Sacrifice, and I'm just an official witch priest of the Transformation Realm."
"The official witch sacrifice is divided into three small realms: Qi Tian, Huawen and Shenling, and above is the level of the great sacrifice and the great witch sacrifice."
"Now I can't compete with Tsubaki, and showing my witch sacrifice abilities will only be targeted. So...... This sacrificial vessel has to be done quietly, not quietly. ”
Mu Aoi reached out and made a shushing gesture.
Mu Zhao suddenly said: "Sister, I know, I won't say it." ”
"Hmm." Mu Kui's face is teachable.
It has been more than a hundred years since Tsubaki took over the sacrifice, but there has never been a sacrificial apprentice in the tribe.
This is clearly abnormal.
Jumping out before you have enough power to resist Tsubaki is purely an act of looking for death.
The transformation of the pattern is the process of first engraving the sacrificial pattern on the object with mental effort, and then through the accumulation of blessings, that is, the process of constantly washing the utensils with the intention to completely integrate the rules of the sacrificial pattern into it.
Then, the sacrificial vessel will possess strange abilities such as sharpness, transformation, storage, etc.
Putting effort into this foundation is to amplify the effect of the power of the rules represented by the sacrificial pattern.
The same steps are concocted.
Mu Aoi quickly carved a deformation pattern on the remaining short fan bone and fine-tuned its shape to the shape of a kitchen knife.
On the top of the two long handfuls, a sacrificial pattern representing sharpness is engraved.
In addition, Mu Kui also plans to make two food cans that can compress the space, but the materials for making them need to be found separately.
Tube trees and ordinary stones have poor mental conductivity, and even if they are engraved with sacrificial patterns, the effect will be greatly reduced, and they will not be able to draw.