Chapter 143: Blood Test
As soon as the afternoon training began, Zhao Yan, who was dressed as an old woman, brought two live chickens.
"Gu Gongzi, according to the custom of our side, you must slaughter these two chickens and sacrifice them to heaven and earth with blood before you can be regarded as entering our door."
"Master, why is that?"
"Childe doesn't know, warriors walk the rivers and lakes, fight and compete, swords face each other, life and death are only in an instant, it is about the strength of martial arts, and the fighting spirit is high. If you have a benevolent heart and hesitate, even if the advantage is great, it is easy to be overturned by one move.
By killing chickens, it is not only to exercise the courage and bloodiness of the son, but also to hope that the son can remember that the rivers and lakes are sinister, and everyone is like a chicken to be slaughtered, and may die at the hands of others at any time.
Although benevolence, righteousness and morality can be reasonable to gentlemen, they cannot prevent villains and villains. ”
Faced with Gu Shun's questioning, the old woman finally made up a reasonable reason.
In fact, killing chickens is a new disciple of the Ancient God Sect, and a necessary process for apprenticeship and martial arts, which is called "seeing blood" in the Ancient God Sect.
To exercise one's guts by seeing blood, in addition to chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows, and even people.
If you are afraid to kill a chicken, let alone fight with others in the future.
The purpose of the training is to eliminate the innate cowardice and hypocrisy and benevolence in human nature, so as to truly become a cold-blooded and cruel disciple of the Ancient God Sect.
Although this training may seem simple, not everyone can hold a knife and slaughter the livestock in front of them without blinking an eye.
On the wall next to the training courtyard, Chu Xiuru stepped on a wooden box, stood on tiptoe on the wooden box, her face was rarely nervous, and she kept looking into the courtyard.
Beside her, Qiu Shi also jumped up and down to prop up the wall with his hands, and looked inside from time to time.
The blood test is considered a more important ritual of the Ancient God Sect, and Chu Xiuru wanted to see her son's performance with her own eyes, so after eating at noon, she did not leave, but hid outside with Qiu Shi.
"Miss, do you think the young shopkeeper can complete the "seeing blood" test? Qiu Shi asked quietly.
"Shun'er is only six years old, and for a six-year-old, this test is indeed too cruel, even if it is not completed, it does not matter."
Hearing the cruel word that the sect leader said from his mouth, Qiu Shi couldn't help but shudder.
When you are outside the gates, let alone a six-year-old.
If they were elected to the Cult of the Ancient Gods, some children of three or four years old would inevitably be whipped and punished if they did not pass the blood.
Qiu Shi still vividly remembers that when she first joined the Old God Sect when she was five years old, the sect steward in charge of life gave each of them a puppy that had just reached the full moon and asked them to raise them separately.
Since everyone is new to the church, they are not familiar with each other, and they are not familiar with each other, and they have a dog as a playmate, and almost everyone takes good care of the puppy they receive, and gradually has a deep affection.
But a few months later, the steward gave each of them a knife and a bowl, and told them to kill the dog with whom they were spending their day and night, and each of them filled the big bowl in front of him with dog blood, and when to kill the dog and when to eat.
They were all stupefied when they heard this order, and some of them even hugged the dog they had worked so hard to raise and cried.
Only one person killed the dog he had raised that day and had dinner. The rest were starved all night.
The next day, a few people who were really hungry and crazy exchanged their dogs with their companions and slaughtered them in exchange for food.
Instead of eating, those who refused to do so were flogged.
On the third day, Qiu Shi, who couldn't hold it anymore, still reluctantly killed the dog, and when she was eating, she was teary-eyed, and she still doesn't know how she finished the meal at that time.
Since then, Akimi has never had a dog again, and every time she thinks about the experience at that time, although she thinks it is ridiculous, she also feels that from then on, she is no longer a sentimental little girl, but a member of the ancient god cult.
The reason why the Ancient God Sect was able to dominate outside the gate and make a comeback was not unrelated to this harsh and distorted cultivation method.
The disciples of the Ancient God Sect never paid attention to the so-called martial virtues and benevolence of the Central Plains Martial Arts, they only obeyed the orders of their superiors and sect masters.
They are not only the cruel and bloodthirsty killing weapons of the Ancient God Cult, but also the tools and parts of the Cult.
In the sight of Chu Xiuru and Qiu Shi, Gu Shun walked to the two big cocks whose legs were tied.
'Do you see blood' Gu Shun thought secretly in his heart, he knew about the test of seeing blood in the Ancient God Sect from the voice of the black and white heart.
It is no wonder that the Church of the Ancient Gods is called a demon sect, and the apprentices have to kill the disciples to erase the nature of their disciples.
Over time, all the disciples became so numb to killing and death that they were not surprised, and naturally no one had a sense of awe and fear of death.
Killing chickens and dogs is still like this, but what is the difference between killing people.
The advantage of this is that he is not afraid of death in battle, and his combat effectiveness is extremely brave.
However, it is also easy for people to completely get lost in the pleasure of killing, and their character is seriously distorted and they lose their humanity.
All of the above is to look at this matter from the perspective of a decent family.
However, for the ancient god sect and the current people of the Central Plains, being expelled from the Central Plains by the martial arts and being bullied and oppressed by the Hulu court will be a dead end if they do not resist.
At this existential juncture, if I don't kill you, you will kill me, and there is no choice but to live.
"Gu Gongzi, according to the rules of our apprenticeship over there, no matter what method is used, we must do two things, see the blood and let the prey in our hands die.
However, Gu Gongzi is young after all, and Gongzi only needs to let these two chickens lose their breath. ”
The old woman's meaning is very simple, considering that Gu Shun is young, she doesn't need to go out to see the red, whatever Gu Shun finds, poisoning, drowning, or suffocating to death can be, and she doesn't have to see blood.
This is also the old woman's doting on Gu Shun and deliberately reducing the difficulty for him.
Gu Shun nodded clearly, "Master, don't be so troublesome. ”
As soon as the words fell, two bright silver needles suddenly appeared between Gu Shun's index finger and middle finger, and the silver needles burst out in the next second.
"Hiss~" The old woman and the old man both gasped, and couldn't help but praise in their hearts, "What a fast needle, worthy of the young sect master, although he has just learned the needle method, he is already so familiar with it." ’
Two silver needles slashed through the air with two sharp cold rays, and in an instant, they shot into the feet of the two roosters.
To the surprise of everyone present, the rooster was not shot by the silver needle.
Instead, the silver needle tore off the rope tied to the chicken's feet, and the rooster suddenly flew out tremblingly.
Looking at the silver needle stuck obliquely on the ground, both black and white were puzzled.
The angle of the young sect master's stitching just now was very tricky, and the silver needle could pass through the two chickens lying on their stomachs, and accurately break the hemp rope tied to the chickens' feet.
But according to the needle method just now, as long as the angle of the flying needle is deflected upward, the two chickens can definitely be shot, why didn't the young sect leader do this, but took great pains to untie the rope that bound the chickens.
The two roosters gradually ran away, but Gu Shun did not continue to attack.
On the wall, Qiu Shi was also puzzled: "The young shopkeeper's flying needle just now is really powerful, but why didn't the young shopkeeper continue to attack." ”
Chu Xiuru, who was observing worriedly on the side, unconsciously clenched her palms, seeing that the blood was killing the prey, but Gu Shun just let go of the chicken, and then stopped shooting.
Could it be that Shun'er couldn't bear to kill the chicken, so she released the chicken with a needle. ’
"Shun'er is kind-hearted, and his nature is like this, but he looks like his father." Chu Xiuru comforted herself.
Qiu Shi secretly sighed, in the eyes of the sect leader, what the young sect leader did was right. This is probably the relationship between mother and son. The sect leader left all his gentleness to the young sect leader, which is enviable.
At this moment, where I saw two roosters walking, a few drops of blood suddenly appeared.
Chu Xiuru, Qiu Shi and the others, who were secretly observing, didn't care at first, thinking that when they had just broken the rope, the silver needle accidentally injured them.
Gradually, however, more and more blood flowed from the two roosters, and bloodstained paw prints were clearly left on the ground.
The rooster also howled and screamed.
Within three minutes, the two roosters fell to the ground one after the other, and there was no movement.