Xu Xiake clearly remembered that they were still some distance away from the lamp, and when they couldn't get close, the lamp didn't ignite spontaneously, which really made him strange.

Wu Xuanyu explained: "It is phosphorus powder, phosphorus powder is added to the cream, as long as there is fire in the air, or the temperature rises, the phosphorus powder will not ignite spontaneous combustion, and the wick in the paste will be ignited, forming an oily green flame." ”

"But what's the use of all this? Is it just for the light? ”

The Taoism that Xu Xiake believes in has never advocated sacrificing to the living, and if someone dares to use a person's corpse to worship God, this is a great disrespect, and it will be attacked as an evil demon Tao.

"It's not lighting, it's an offering."

Wu Xuanyu emphasized again: "The belief in the Witch God Kingdom is completely based on the Witch God and the twelve gods, these twelve gods are mountains and rivers, the sun, the moon and the stars, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, that is to say, the Wu people worship the gods of nature, not the gods of order in your Han land." ”

"The gods of order become gods because of incense and merit, and enjoy the faith of all people, but also because people are the source of faith, they must be responsible for their own believers, and it is easy not to use killing human sacrifices, otherwise it is destroying the foundation of faith, and even after some believers of the god of order disappear, some gods cannot maintain their form, and can only disappear with faith and annihilate the void."

"The gods of nature are different."

She glanced at the people around her, and explained: "The generation of natural gods has nothing to do with the worship of incense merits, in the mythology of the witch god country, the gods are born by sensing the way of heaven, whether it is mountains and rivers, the sun, moon and stars, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, flowers, trees, stones, flying insects, they will not become powerful because of the worship of believers, nor will they gradually fade away from the godhead and fall to the altar because of the lack of believers." ”

"All in all, the worship of believers is dispensable for them, and the purpose of the existence of these natural gods is not to maintain the right path or light, or even to benefit mankind, but because they are part of the Heavenly Dao, and as long as the Heavenly Dao is immortal, it will always exist."

"And what do your gods do?"

Xu Xiake didn't particularly understand, his eyes were full of questions, the Taoist gods must benefit mankind, otherwise there would be no meaning to exist.

Wu Xuanyu thought for a moment, his eyes lit up and continued: "Do nothing, the river god is every drop of water, the mountain god is every mountain, the tree god is every tree, they are the gods, and the gods are also them, living and intermingling with human beings and neighboring each other, sometimes they will manifest spirits, some times they will make trouble, and some times they will be angry or kind. ”

"They are not high, as if they live in the fields, houses and alleys, you can see them everywhere, it is this characteristic that the country of witches will form the cultural ideas of the gods everywhere, and the gods are all spiritual, and there are gods everywhere, since the gods of nature are not rare for human beings to worship at all, then human worship is just self-inflicted."

"The witch gods and the twelve gods we are talking about are more like the meaning that we witches are giving to these nature gods, and in this case, the worship of the gods is more because we need the gods to maintain our faith, rather than the gods that require us to accumulate merit."

Speaking of this, Wu Xuanyu paused, his tone became mysterious and said: "Since the gods don't need us, the things that humans worship are dispensable, and people can only get a short response from the gods if they offer their most precious things to the gods on high." ”

"Think about it, what is the most precious thing about man?"

"Yuan Datoubei."

Before Yue Erpao's words fell, Wu Xuanyu's bright eyes were slightly helpless, and he glanced at him and corrected: "At least for the people of the Witch God Kingdom, the most precious thing is their pure and pious body and soul. ”

"It is precisely because of this that the people will be willing to become Gu people after death, offering their own flesh and blood to the gods, in your opinion, it is indeed an obscene wild sacrifice, but for the witch people, it is the most precious thing they sacrificed."

Wu Xuanyu continued to lower his voice and said: "After that, the souls of these Gu people will accompany the gods for a long time, and at the same time, they will also become the new gods of the people of the Witch God Kingdom, this kind of worship ceremony, on the one hand, is to express piety, on the other hand, it is also to canonize the new gods, so that these Gu people can bless the future high priests of the Witch God Kingdom, and can get more god notices, these cultural factors and concepts are mixed with each other, which also causes the sacrifice ceremony to be extremely noble, but the people cannot participate in it at will." ”

"Have you seen all of these things?"

The pregnant peacock was quite worried about this, after all, she was likely to be the high priest of the witch god clan in the future, which meant that the corpse after death was likely to be beaten like this.

Wu Xuanyu shook his head and retorted: "How old have I lived, how could I have seen it, but I heard Eminem say that in the past, when the altar of the witch god was not closed, every year there were priests who would be sent to the altar to offer funeral ghee, and after these people were sent to the altar, their statues and shrines would also be placed near the lamp." ”

"Since the altar of the witch god was closed, few high priests in the witch god country have the opportunity to carry out tribute burials, at most the corpse is refined into oil and enshrined in the witch god palace, which is not inferior to the witch god, and the people also climb the witch god altar to restart." m.

Song Siyuan heard that now, she basically determined the origin of these oils, the gods of the Witch God Kingdom are indeed different from the gods of the Han Dynasty, which she probably learned from Xiangxi mythology before, and now she has listened to Wu Xuanyu's explanation in a little more detail, which can be regarded as a supplement to the information about the belief in the witch god.

"Let's go, as long as there's no poison gas in there."

Yue Guanchao led them down the stairs and walked down the stone-lacquered slab road, and when they walked, they could really see a stone-lacquered and iron-cast statue near the bronze locust tree.

These statues are the same size as life-size, each wearing the costume of the priest of the Witch God Kingdom, gorgeous and mysterious, heavy and noble, the body is carved full and true, the eyebrows and eyes are lifelike, and the eyes are peaceful and serious, and the slightly narrowed eyes have a touch of mystery.

There are many god tablets at the foot of the statues, and the seals are engraved with the identities of these gods before their deaths and their titles after death, so as to canonize all kinds of priests who have become Gu people.

Song Siyuan walked near one of the statues, pulled the cobwebs on the statues, cleaned up the guano bat soil, the ancient pigments faded and oxidized slightly, fading the flashiness of the color, and it was extraordinarily thick and majestic.

This god's eyes are deep and mysterious, as if he is talking to her for thousands of years!

She picked up the flashlight and looked at the god tablet and explained: "According to the time when the altar of the witch god was built, there are at least 5,000 priests on the funeral board road here, who have become the guardian spirits of the altar of the god god, and almost completely occupy the board road that extends downward. ”

Some people died, but not completely......