021, its ghost is not a god (II)

But nowadays, many tribes still believe in witch gods and will also worship witch gods spontaneously. The people of Rushing Village did not live in this place originally, they fled due to floods and conflicts and moved here, and became slaves in the fiefdom of the Chongchen clan. When he was very young, the tribe had not yet migrated, and he had followed his ancestors to a great festival.

At that time, although the great witch prince of the Benli tribe was not present, but the festival also had more than ten tribes to participate, according to the traditional ceremony, people sacrificed to the witch god and asked for blessings, they also drank a special decoction, which is said to be the secret recipe passed down by the Emperor Shennong. It was during this ceremony that the Rushing Bar received the divine powers bestowed by the witch god, and later his grandfather taught him the witchcraft that had been passed down from his clan.

At that time, the rushing bar was only a teenager, and he was still an ignorant wild boy, even now, he didn't understand many things and couldn't answer Huwa's questions. And these are not a problem in his opinion, the divine power is given by the witch god, and the witchcraft is passed down from the ancestors, it is so simple, so simple that it never needs to be explained and thought.

Worshipping a witch god gives him divine powers, and he believes that the sun rises every day. The clan has its own set of rituals of sacrifice and prayer, as long as it is done with a pious heart, and whether it can succeed depends on whether it can be favored by the witch god.

At the beginning, the Rushing Village clan went to seven children, and only the Rushing Bar was so lucky, so he later became the patriarch. The other six children were unfortunate enough to come back ill, two of whom died soon after.

Hearing this, the baby suddenly interjected: "Were you also sick at that time?"

Rushing Bar wondered, "How do you know?...... Yes, I was also sick and had a high fever for several days after I came back. My grandfather told me that it was a test because the mortal body could not withstand the divine power given by the witch god. As long as you get through the disease, it's fine. In the end, I survived and was lucky enough to master the divine powers. ”

Huwa: "What's that feeling?"

"The first sensation comes when the whole body is hot, and the skin becomes extremely sensitive, and you can distinguish all kinds of fine lines just by touching your hands, as if they appeared in your mind. You can also detect changes in heat and cold, as well as breezes that are imperceptible to ordinary people. After I got sick, this supernatural ability was preserved.

Grandfather said that this is a sign that the body has been opened and can communicate with the inside and outside. I don't understand what it means to communicate inside and out, but I can feel it. There are secret rituals in the clan, and meditating on the witch god in the secret room can detect the flesh and blood in the body, and gradually open up the whole body. My meals are getting bigger and bigger, and I feel hungry every day and have to eat a lot. There is always energy to vent.

I had a lot of troubles, but my strength became stronger and stronger, and for a while I was in severe pain, and I was tortured to the point of madness, but then I still got through. It is still according to the secret rituals of the clan since ancient times, as if it can really communicate inside and outside, and the sense of touch can be extended. Concentrate on touching objects in the air......"

Hearing this, Huwa suddenly asked, "You said that the six children who went with you at the beginning." When they came back, two died, so what about the remaining four?"

Rushing Gang said sadly: "At that time, there were many more clansmen than now, and there were thousands of them in total. We have all been selected to be the strongest and most clever children of the clan, and have hardly ever been sick since childhood. All four of them did not live long. Within a few years, he died for various reasons, and the longest-lived one did not exceed the age of eighteen, and died on the way to the tribal migration. ”

Huwa: "Do you know the recipe for the decoction you drank during the ceremony?"

Rushing Bar shook his head and said, "I don't know the prescription, it's in the Ben Li Department." It is also known only to the Great Witch Prince, and it is a secret that the Great Witch Princesses have mastered in the past generations. When taken at festivals, it can communicate with the god of witches. At the festival I attended, although the great witch of the Benli tribe did not appear, he sent someone to bring the prepared medicine and cook soup and drink it on the spot. ”

The little demon finally couldn't help but interject: "Didn't you just say that the prescription was left by Emperor Shennong? In the era of Emperor Shennong, how could there be any witch gods in the world?"

"That's what I know," Flowbar explained. Maybe it was the witch god who found the secret recipe from the inheritance left by Emperor Shennong, improved it, and then taught it to me to the great witch prince of the Benli Tribe......" Later, his tone was not so sure.

Huwa stretched out her hand and said, "Your short staff is also an ancestral thing, right?" ”

Rushing Bar took out a short staff from his bosom and handed it to Huwa and said, "This is a token of the patriarch of my Rushing Village, which has been passed down from generation to generation." ”

This thing is a short bone cane, about the thickness of a plum, more than a foot long, I don't know how many generations of caressing, the surface is smooth with a layer of natural pulp, the whole body is dark yellow, covered with fine broken lines like cow hair. It has not been refined into a magic weapon that can be integrated with the body and mind, but it has also been refined by mana to some extent, and it can be regarded as a kind of heavenly and earthly treasure, and its physical properties can extend the divine consciousness and make the divine consciousness control more subtle.

Huwa returned the bone staff to the rushing bar and said, "One last question, what is an obedient Gu, why do some people in the village want to use an obedient Gu against us?"

Rushing Bar was shocked and said: "Obedient Gu, how can there be any obedient Gu, it is even more unlikely that anyone here will want to use Gu to deal with your nobles! I don't understand what you mean......

Taiyi opened his mouth to interrupt him and said: "I waited in the middle of the house, and I could also hear the whispers of the villagers, and only then did someone secretly talk about it, mentioning that he wanted to find an opportunity to wait for me to do something obedient, can you, the patriarch, explain?"

Taiyi directly used his divine thoughts to imprint a conversation into everyone's minds, which was the voices of two men. One of them said: "Those few nobles from the upper part, can you help us keep our secrets? Don't let outsiders deceive you! Your mother-in-law has not raised Gu all these years, does she have any obedient Gu in her hands?"

The other lowered his voice in some horror and said, "What nonsense are you talking about, who told you that my mother-in-law can make Gu? What is an obedient Gu, I have never heard of it." ”

"Don't panic, there are no outsiders here. I listened to what my mother-in-law said, your mother-in-law's grandmother married from the south, and she will raise obedient Gu. I also heard that you were willing to come to talk to her back then, just because she was obedient to Gu. ”

"How can you talk nonsense like this, I've never been hit by any Gu!"

"Don't worry, I mean, if your mother-in-law still has the remaining obedient Gu, let the patriarch find a chance to mix in the meal to deal with the few people who came today, won't they be obedient?"

The secret conversation between the two villagers suddenly sounded in his mind, and the father and son of the rushing bar were covered with cold sweat, and quickly knelt down and kowtowed: "Ladies and gentlemen, please don't misunderstand, we don't know about it." This is just the villagers thinking in private, and they are just pondering, and they don't dare to really do it. ”

Huwa said lightly: "I don't blame you, I just want you to tell me, what is an obedient Gu?"

The Ben Li Department has not raised Gu for a long time, or does not make Gu such as "obedient Gu". According to the secret recipe since ancient times, catch all kinds of poisonous insects and put them in urns, devour each other, and the last one left is the so-called Gu. At this time, the Gu has mutated, this way of generating mutation may not be successful, if it is a fluke, it will have a special effect, which can be used to harm people.

These poisonous insects are not chosen at random, they must be found for special varieties, put into the urn according to the secret rituals and matching order, and even have to be cultivated with essence blood to make it possible to raise the required Gu. Using different secret recipes to make different Gu is like a monk refining elixir.

This kind of Gu is also known as the "Gu of Women", it is said that only women can raise Gu and make Gu, and its secret method is only passed on to women and not to men. There is also a legend that this is a method taught by the witch god to the women of the clan to protect themselves, as for the truth, only God knows.

Ben Li does not control Gu now, or once had a history of Gu control, but now it has been lost. However, living in the more southern region, the Shanli tribe, the Feili tribe, and especially the Gu Li tribe, still have the custom of making Gu among the women of the clan, and this kind of thing is carried out in extremely secret circumstances.

Before the village moved here, it had also intermarried with other tribes, and the Gu art may have been brought in by these outside women, and it was only secretly circulated among their own female descendants.

As for the obedient Gu, as the name suggests, it may be that after the Gu is in the middle of the Gu, he will be obedient. I have heard my grandfather occasionally mention that there are women who use obedient Gu, which can confuse men to stay by their side, as for what is going on, they have never seen it.

Huwa waved her hand and said, "Okay, it's okay, you can also go and rest." The father and son bowed backwards to say goodbye, and carefully closed the door, leaving only Huwa and others in the room.

As soon as Taiyi stretched out his hand, a wooden box suddenly flew down from the beam, although there were not too many luxurious ornaments, but it was also very exquisitely built, I don't know when it came with magical powers. He said, "I searched the house, and I found that there was a hut in the courtyard where miscellaneous items were piled up, and a stone slab was buried under the floating soil on the ground, and a large urn was pressed under the stone slab. But there was no Gu in the urn, and it hadn't been opened for several years.

I searched the rest of his house and found the wooden box in a secret place. There are two packets of medicine powder in the box, it should be the Gu they are talking about, but I don't know which pack is the obedient Gu?"

The box opened, and there was hay inside, and two packets of powdered stuff wrapped in leaves with a very special texture. One pack is grayish-white and smells fishy, while the other is pale pink with a slightly eerie aroma.

The tiger baby didn't have magical powers, so she could only observe with the naked eye, and frowned: "Savage tribes, the names given to all kinds of things are very simple, it doesn't matter if they are called 'obedient Gu' or not, just figure out what their utility is." (To be continued.) )