The process of concluding the pact went smoothly. The five major ministries of Jiuli jointly swore an oath to respect the Chinese Son of Heaven, and they were willing to accept the canonization of the Chinese Son of Heaven in the future. This was not only a nominal submission, but also a substantive covenant, first of all, placing the Chinese Son of Heaven in the position of arbiter of conflicts among the ministries, with the authority to arbitrate.

The parties also have an obligation to jointly defend themselves against foreign enemies. For example, if the five major tribes of Jiuli are invaded by foreign enemies, the Son of Heaven will gather all the ministries in the world to help. On the other hand, if someone offends the majesty of the Chinese Son of Heaven and infringes on the various subordinate departments and countries of China, the five major ministries of Jiuli are also obliged to obey the call and contribute people to help the conquest.

On the basis of the conclusion of the contract, Danzhu promised to send people to go deep into the wilderness to kill the demons and evil at the request of the five tribes of Jiuli, which was a specific act of fulfilling the covenant. Nominally, everyone respects the Son of China, but the people who signed the contract with the five divisions of Jiuli are Danzhu and others, and the people who swore together are also all present, which is actually equivalent to the alliance between the five major departments of Jiuli and Danzhu and others, with Danzhu as the leader of the alliance.

On the other hand, there are also interest negotiations within the five ministries. For example, after all the demons and evil spirits are killed or driven, how to demarcate and distribute various territories and resources needs to be discussed, and Danzhu plays the role of the arbitrator.

The five major ministries also agreed that starting next year, they will take turns to preside over the Gu God Festival, which is also a symbol of the joint covenant. Gu Li was noncommittal about this, of course the three tribes of Mu Li, Qi Li, and Shan Li couldn't ask for it, but the Great Wu Gong of the Fei Li Department himself was probably reluctant in his heart.

In the past, the Gu God Festival was only a matter of Fei Li and Gu Li, and the Fei Li Department was in charge. But this time it is not only their alliance with Danzhu, but also the alliance within the five major departments of Jiuli, and the judge and witness are still Danzhu.

On the surface, it seemed that the three major ministries such as Qi Li exerted pressure with the help of Danzhu's authority and took turns to take charge of the Gu God Festival; But I also had to say yes. But Tiger Baby always feels that things are not so simple.

Even if Danzhu doesn't exclude, he shouldn't take the initiative to "assist" these five major departments to complete the integration of the Gu God Festival. These five departments are indeed united to form an alliance with Danzhu, but in fact, on the other hand, someone used the influence of Danzhu's southern tour to "unite" these five major departments under the command of Gu God.

Behind the scenes of the five major Wugongs of Jiuli, I am afraid that there are still people secretly plotting. Even if Fei Lichi himself is dissatisfied. But he also had to obey such a will, but on the surface, it seemed that the other three were oppressive by the power of Danzhu.

The covenant was made, of course, not after these people had discussed it in the big tent, but also a public ceremony. The Gu God Festival is a very good opportunity, because the leaders of each village have arrived, they can announce the relevant matters and let the leaders of each village swear an oath together.

After the business was over, it was inevitable to drink and celebrate with a banquet, and Hou Gang was still present. The tiger baby saw it "with her own eyes". Dan Zhu ordered Chonghua to privately give each of the five Great Witches a gift, which seemed to be the most ordinary spatial artifact. I don't know what's inside, but looking at the expressions of the five great witches, they were all pleasantly surprised.

It was a matter of business to make a covenant, and the five great witches also received enough benefits from Danzhu. The timing of the gift is also delicate, if given in advance, it becomes a bribe and an inducement, and if the covenant is made, it is an attitude of reward and encouragement. And even more pleasantly surprised.

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The next day was the official day of the Gu God Festival. This year, it is still the Feili Ministry's Great Witch Princess Festival, with the participation of Feili and Gu Li. But the other three Great Wugongs, as well as Danzhu, Boyi, Hou Gang, and Chonghua were all present to watch the ceremony.

Before the official ceremony, the five great witches led their respective attachés and the people present to hold a ceremony to make a covenant. They first bowed to the Chinese angel Danzhu and symbolically worshiped the Chinese Son of Heaven. This etiquette is absolutely unavoidable, and it is normal in other subject countries and tribes, but it is the first time that the local Jiuli people have experienced it.

All the Ministries thought it was strange. They have always worshiped witch gods or Gu gods, how can they worship Danzhu and the Chinese Son of Heaven today? Many witch lords did not know whose orders they had received in advance, and explained to everyone in private that since it happened at the Gu God Festival, this is also the meaning of the Gu God. And so they did.

All the great witches jointly announced that the five tribes of Jiuli formed an alliance to take turns to take charge of the Gu God Festival, and officially became a subordinate department to the Son of China, and the Son of Heaven would send someone to kill the demons and demons of the Southern Wilderness. The people present cheered in unison, thanking the Chinese Son of Heaven, the Emperor Danzhu, the Chinese distinguished guests, and the Gu God for blessings.

After the ceremony of making the covenant, the Gu God Festival officially began. Danzhu and the others did not stay on the hill where the altar was located, but returned to the high slope of another adjacent mountain to watch the ceremony. Hou Gang and the guards were also in the crowd watching the ceremony from a distance, but Taiyi was with the people of Yangcao Village, and Huwa was with the children specially selected by the villages.

The first ritual of the festival is the offering of offerings from each village. Three years ago, these sacrifices were all treasures collected through various means, including all kinds of heavenly and earthly treasures, magic weapons and even artifact fragments on the ancient battlefield, the most precious medicinal materials, and so on. They will all disappear on the altar, which means that they have been taken over by the Gu God.

However, in the past few years, the Gu God no longer accepts sacrifices, nor does he give other treasures. So the ritual was more symbolic, and the offerings were replaced with ordinary things. Huwa found that Hou Gang asked Taiyi to give those things to the villages of the Gu Li Department, and the clansmen selected the most precious ones and offered them to the Gu God, and he couldn't cry or laugh.

The Great Witch Gong of the Feili Department sang a sacrificial song, and the Wu Gong of each village on the platform beat the drum in unison. Their drums are also ritual instruments, with maple wood for the body and cowhide for the drum face.

The sacrificial song sung by the Great Witch Gong is also an epic that has been passed down orally from generation to generation, telling the myth of Jiuli, if all the relevant content is sung, I am afraid that it will not be sung in a day and a night, so it is only a few of the passages that are sung at the festival.

At this moment, since it is the Gu God Festival, and the Gu God is the legendary butterfly, the festival song starts with the butterfly flying out of the heart of the maple tree. It gave birth to eleven eggs, and the eggs hatched from the ancestors Jiang Yang and all kinds of people in the world. And Jiang Yang subdued the birds and beasts, defeated the demons and monsters, and led the people of Li to live and work in peace and contentment.

The ancient and desolate sacrificial song seems to have a strange power, singing and singing, everyone seems to have entered a state of concentration and piety, and the fluctuation of divine energy seems to have produced a mystical resonance, and the song entrusts their yearning and good wishes.

This ritual is to pray for the protection of the Gu God. I hope that there will be a good harvest in the fields, there will be no disasters between heaven and earth, more prey can be obtained in the mountains and wilderness, and the tribesmen will be free from disease and disaster. When the first ritual was over, the pious and mysterious atmosphere reached its peak, and then the most important Gu God blessing ceremony was next.

Xiao Xiang and the other boy were taken to the two most important platforms next to the main altar. Tiger baby and more than 200 other teenagers. He stood in a half circle around the main altar, slightly lower than Xiao Xiang and the others.

As the cowhide maple drum sounded again, Fei Lichi's voice was low and melodious, and he and the witch princes sang another sacrificial song. Someone brought up a bowl of soup and medicine, and the tiger baby and other children knelt on the ground and drank all the soup in the bowl.

As long as you have heard of Jiuli's strange witchcraft, and then look at the black, steaming, and blue light decoction in the bowl, who would dare to drink it! Who knows what poisonous insects are used to refine it. Even if you pinch your nose and try to pour it down, you will be extremely uneasy in your heart, and you will not be able to calmly integrate into this festival.

This bowl of soup is very testing of people's hearts, if there are outsiders with ill intentions who have mixed into the ceremony, they don't dare to really drink it, even if they drink it, they will be shocked, then in this ceremony, don't think about getting the blessing of the Gu God. I am afraid that the decoction has really become a deadly poison. Only those Li people who have lived in the Jiuli tribe since childhood and devoutly worship the Gu gods will take it very calmly.

The tiger baby didn't have any apprehension. He drank the potion down, respectfully placing the bowl in front of him like everyone else, and then intently sensing its effect.

At this time, except for Fei Lichi, who was standing in the middle of the front, all the people at the festival knelt down, and there was only the sound of drums and fluttering sacrificial songs in heaven and earth. The pronunciation of this song is so strange that only those who can sing it will understand its meaning. It is to pray for the Gu God to give him firm faith and magical power.

The tiger baby felt hot all over, and her consciousness also entered a dream-like state, if she was not a clear person, she would have fallen into a unique psychedelic state at this moment. The medicine he took was violent, and it could also be said to be poisonous. It can strongly stimulate people's senses, as if the ears and eyes are all-encompassing, and the facial features become extremely sharp.

The facial features become sharper, which means that the originally weak stimulation inside and outside the body will become extremely intense, which is usually unbearable for ordinary people. But the effect of the medicine paralyzed people's whole body, and they couldn't move when they knelt on the spot, they couldn't make a sound when they wanted to shout, and it was even difficult to breathe, so they could only pray for the Gu God to give them strength.

In this state, consciousness also becomes unconscious, and the feeling of a phantom becomes a help. The ethereal sound of the sacrificial song echoed in the heavens and the earth, as if it came from far away, and it seemed to be coming out in the mind, as long as you understood its meaning, it seemed that you could really see the Gu God.

I don't know how many ingredients are mixed into this decoction, which can not only stimulate people's sensory potential, but also make people fall into paralysis, and at the same time have hallucinogenic effects. The purpose of this ritual is to devote oneself to the prayer to the Gu God, to let the Heart God believe in it without reservation, and to have such a belief in oneself.

Tiger Baby should be the only one of all the teenagers present who didn't do this, even though Hua Cub had already reminded him that he had to do it.

Huwa once presided over the national sacrifice ceremony on Ba Yuan, ran the Tongtian Jianmu Array left by Emperor Tai Hao, and felt the thoughts of all the people in Ba Yuan, and saw a lot of the world compared to this Gu God Festival. The altar on this hillside, which is like layers of petals and half-unfolded, is a strange magic circle, and the power to operate it comes from the worship and prayer of the witch princes and the people of all tribes.

Xiao Xiang and another boy are on the side of the formation pivot, while the semi-circular platform where the tiger baby and the other two hundred teenagers are located is clustered around the formation pivot. If you drink that bowl of soup and medicine, under normal circumstances, at least two-thirds of the teenagers present will be buried. This is not to say that they will die on the spot, but that they will die in various premature deaths in the years to come.

Only those who are born with a great constitution and who are truly able to enter the festival and reach a state of complete devotion and concentration will gain the so-called witchcraft power and thus enter the primordial realm. This elimination and selection process is too cruel!

The tiger baby already knows very well and clearly that in fact, it doesn't matter if there is a Gu God or not, as long as she has an innate excellent physique and can perceive the subtle realm, she can enter the initial realm through this ritual. But for the people here, praying to the Gu God is the way they know it.

Tiger Baby finally has the opportunity to do some personal verification. Feel how the potion works and how this special ritual affects people. This Immortal Yang God incarnation had also entered the Primal Realm, and by the time the ritual was over, he had already completed the Nine Transformations of the Primordial Realm.

Suppose the witches present learned that there was a child at the ceremony who did not see the Gu God in the hazy illusion and prayed to him, but instead saw through the appearance of all this, and understood the origin of the Great Dao behind the prayer ceremony. Thus mastering the power of so-called witchcraft. There will be people who are shocked and uneasy, others who will want to know the reason, and some people would rather regard the tiger baby as a demon.

The tiger baby was secretly looking for the Gu God, but he did not "see" the Gu God, and the Gu God may not have appeared in this ceremony. When she entered the initial realm, her senses became extremely acute, and the tiger baby was also paying attention to any subtle movements around her. There was no interference from outside great mana, and all the results came from the ritual itself, indicating that the Gu God at least did not show up to intervene.

Taiyi also unfolded the Yuan Shen at this moment. Mixed in the grass village clan quietly cast spells. The tiger baby gave him the Langji branch and a five-colored divine lotus in advance, and his first task was to protect Xiaoxiang.

The decoction that Xiaoxiang and the other boy took was different from other children such as Huwa, completely clear and transparent, like a bowl of water. Huwa knew that it was the pure essence extracted from all the decoctions, and it was also the most violent and pure spiritual effect or toxicity.

Taiyi silently operated his supernatural powers, eliminating the excessively violent sensory stimulation and body paralysis for Xiaoxiang, protecting the mind and detoxifying. The Langji branch and the five-colored divine lotus were used successively. With his transformation realm cultivation as relying on these two artifacts, of course, there is no problem in saving Xiao Xiang's life. It can even make her a blessing in disguise, but the elixir essence that the Jiuli Wugong worked so hard to refine is also equivalent to a waste.

Since Taiyi has already made a move, he also took care of the other two hundred or so teenagers by the way. He couldn't treat everyone like he did to Xiao Xiang, just using the Essence Essence to replenish his vitality as much as possible, and it didn't affect the effect of the decoction and ritual. But it can make them leave as few hidden dangers as possible. With such a large scope and so many people, Taiyi can only do his best.

But there is another person that Taiyi can't take care of. Taiyi's spell casting mainly protects Xiao Xiang, a young man in another position in the formation pivot across the shroud of the formation hub. There was nothing he could do. The tiger baby was not far from the boy, and she sensed it very clearly, and the boy was as hot as a coal, but he could only twitch slightly and couldn't move.

He knelt there and died on the spot, and the most direct cause of death was respiratory failure caused by paralysis of the whole body. But before he could die, he was completely unconscious, his face was strangely flushed, and there were no wounds visible all over his body, and the others at the ceremony didn't even realize that he was dead.

Although the tiger baby arranged for Taiyi to make a secret move, she still couldn't protect this strange teenager. The boy should have known that he might have such an end, but he still came here, it was the people who asked him to come, and he himself wanted to come, which was a great honor in the tribe.

It is difficult to describe how Huwa feels at this moment, is it cold-eyed detachment or compassion and sadness in the calm? If it is compassion, it is not just a teenager who he is sorry for, but all the Li people present.

At least for now, Huwa can't stop this festival, this is a choice made by all the clans of the Jiuli tribes, and openly destroying it means making enemies with the Jiuli tribes. And even if he forcibly stopped the festival, he wouldn't be able to stop it from happening, unless people change their minds, as is the case with so many other things going on in the world.

Looking at the death of this boy, Huwa also knew in her heart that despite Taiyi's secret spell help, half of the children here would also die in the future. And they are all the best teenagers carefully selected by each village, and only the rest of them may become the elite of each ministry in the future.

Is this the blessing of the so-called Gu God? Perhaps, because many people have indeed mastered the power of so-called witchcraft in this way. But that Gu God didn't appear, and he didn't give the so-called blessing, as long as he passed such a ritual, whether the Gu God was there or not, whether it was a Gu God or not, the result was actually pretty much the same.

What people should really realize is why all this is happening, and that's exactly what Tiger Baby is doing.

Huwa couldn't help but think of Emperor Zhuan's decree of "Peerless Heaven and Earth", so that everyone in the world can understand the mystery of the avenue, it is almost impossible, and can only try to guide, and make choices and change certain habits in the world, so that people can gradually understand.

On the high slope of another mountain peak in the distance, Bo Yi and Dan Zhu stood side by side. Bo Yi kept staring in the direction of the main altar with a divine thought, and said secretly with a divine thought: "Chonghua suggested that you not come to this sacrifice, but you still came. It was indeed the best opportunity to make a covenant on such occasions, but it also made sense.

There's a child over there who is dead, but the legendary Gu God hasn't moved. At the slightest movement of it, I can detect its movements. If there really is such a Gu god who tries to use us to gather the people of all tribes to drive him, as long as I detect it, I will definitely find his heels and shoot him, so as not to have such a cruel thing again. (To be continued.) )