In the face of this weird, terrifying howl.

Of the Holy Clans present, almost only the gray-haired priests remained calm.

Her tone was even calm: "Hachieda, you send the head of Aigari over." It is in my ashram, and I have paid homage. ”

Qing Bazhi gritted his teeth and left without saying a word.

It's tradition.

That's tradition......

Qing Qishu and Qing Jiuye were silent, their faces ashamed.

"A young man in a foreign land. The priest looked at Jiang Wang: "Didn't you ask me what the predicament of the Divine Shade Land is......? Offering his head, that's the dilemma we face. ”

"What is the reason for this predicament?" Jiang Wang was infected by this oppressive atmosphere, and his voice was faintly hoarse: "That voice just now?"

The old priest looked at him and told a story like this—

A long time ago.

A swallow without a tail came to the door and said, "Good Samaritan, I am hungry and dying, can you give me something to eat?"

A kind-hearted Holy Clan girl brought some fruit.

The tailless swallow said, "No, I don't eat this. ”

The Holy Clan girl brought it a bowl of rice and a bowl of water.

The tailless swallow said, "How can these things fill my belly?"

The Holy Clan girl got angry and said, "What do you want to eat?"

The tailless swallow then showed a hideous face, and said, "Only your head can stop my hunger for a while." ”

With that, it pounced on the Holy Clansman girl.

This scene was seen by a Holy Warrior, who raised his bow and shot the tailless swallow to death with a single arrow.

But the horror is that the next day, the tailless swallow reappeared.

It's exactly the same, and the feathers are unharmed.

It even pleaded with the people in exactly the same tone: "Good Samaritan, I am hungry and dying, can you give me something to eat?"

People already know its hideous face, so no one will answer. The brave Holy Warrior shot it to death in the first place. In order to prevent this strange tailless swallow from being resurrected again, the Holy Clan warriors also burned its body to ashes.

But on the third day, the tailless swallow reappeared.

This time it cried: "I am dying of hunger, please give me a head to eat." ”

Of course, no one will agree.

The Holy Warrior killed it again, but in the process of killing it, the Holy Warrior found that it was much more powerful and agile than the last time, and it was no longer so easy to kill it.

Day 4......

Day 5......

Every time a tailless swallow is killed, it will reappear intact the next day. And stronger than the day before.

No matter how its corpse was treated, whether it was buried, chopped up, or even roasted and eaten by samurai...... It always comes back to life.

Finally, one day, the Holy Warrior was no longer its opponent, and was killed by it in a fight.

The tailless swallow pecked at the poor Holy Clan's samurai's head and ate it in a few bites.

Then he said to the people, "This is the hundredth head I have eaten, thank you, good Samaritan! I am full! See you in a year!"

With that, it flew away.

And sure enough, it didn't reappear until a year later......

When the tailless swallow reappeared, the warriors of the Holy Clan had been preparing for a whole year, setting a trap and working together to kill it. Trap its corpse in chains, place it in a coffin made of dragon wood, and bury it in front of the altar of the tree, hoping to suppress the evil with the help of divine powers.

But to the despair, the next day the tailless swallow was resurrected again.

And as before, it has become stronger.

In a great battle, it killed seventeen Holy Clan warriors and pecked at the head of one of them.

When it left, it said, "I'm full, thank you for your hospitality! See you in a year!"

A year later, when faced with the return of the tailless swallow, there were different opinions. Some people practice their fighting skills to fight the tailless swallow again, and some people try to use new methods to prevent the tailless swallow from resurrecting.

At this time, a Holy Clan warrior stood up and said, "It only needs to eat one human head, why do we want so many people to die?"

The samurai committed suicide in front of the tailless swallow and contributed his head.

After the tailless swallow pecked and ate the head, it really left and did not hurt anyone else.

This kind of "head sacrifice" continues to this day, which is the predecessor of the "hunting" tradition of the holy family.

The story is not long, but unusually dark and hopeless.

A monster that can never be completely killed, and the more you fight, the more powerful it becomes, and the horrific thing of devouring human heads has become a habit.

People fear it and get used to it.

The white-haired old woman finished telling the story.

Jiang Wang and the three of them were silent.

The tradition of the Holy Family's "hunting" is a great history of sacrifice.

But from another point of view, isn't this a history of tailless swallow's taming of the so-called "holy clan"?

"I have a question. Wu Qujian asked bluntly: "Since that tailless swallow can eat one human head a year." Why don't you send the old people or children who can't afford to work, and let the young warriors of the clan die? Young warriors should be the guarantee of the survival of the race, right?"

The old priest looked at him deeply: "The old man is history, and the child is the future. Loss of history, loss of honor. Lose the future, lose everything. We don't have a tradition of sending the elderly and children to their deaths. ”

Qing Jiuye glared at Wu Quji: "Although my Holy Clan has no choice but to succumb, our backbone is not broken!"

At this time, Jiang Wang asked, "That tailless swallow, is it a swallow?"

Before entering the Land of Divine Shade, Qing Qishu had mentioned this seemingly taboo name, which impressed him deeply.

"Yan Xiao?" Before the priest nodded, it was Su Qi next to him who spoke curiously.

When the priest told the story of the tailless swallow, he had been thinking about it, as if he had thought of something.

"Young man, do you know Yan Xiao?" the old priest looked at Su Qi with cloudy eyes.

"I once turned to an ancient book with a passage on it that recorded Yan Xiao. Suki hesitated.

Jiang Wang's heart moved. The ancient books that exist in the present world record the monster of the Senhai Source Realm, the Tailless Swallow?

This matter is becoming more and more mysterious.

Everyone looked at Suki inquiringly.

He thought for a moment and first stated: "I'm not sure if it's true or not, I'll only say I've seen it." ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say that. ”

Su Qi organized the language and said, "According to the record of that ancient book......

"A swallow is a good bird, and a owl is an evil bird.

Ancient people hated owls very much.

Cut off the head of the owl bird and hang it on a tree for public display.

This is the origin of the "owl to show the public".

This has become a punishment that is still used by the Terrans, and the heads of the victims are often cut off and hung on wood for public display.

It is said that after the death of the owl, evil thoughts continued. Among the 100,000 owls that are hung in the public, there will be an extremely evil bird bred from the head of the owl.

It's called Yan Xiao.

Legend has it that this thing is the evil idea of the owl, because of the hatred of the same birds, people love the swallow so much, but so hostile to the owl, so it turns into a swallow shape. It is to kill in the shape of a swallow. In the way that the Terrans "liked", they mutilated the Terrans.

Because it was conceived and born from the first level, it was born with a head and no tail, so the biggest difference between the appearance of the swallow owl and the swallow is that the swallow owl has no tail.

The swallow owl is the most evil among the owls, born cruel, and feeds on the heads of living beings. ”

In the end, Su Qi's voice even trembled a little-

"As soon as the swallow owl sings, it will eat a hundred songs!"