Chapter 50: The Sacrifice

"Shou'er, are you awake?" At this time, a gentle female voice came from outside the palace, followed by a beautiful woman dressed luxuriously, wearing a treasure hairpin and wearing silk.

Before Ying Si could react, his body was uncontrollable and he was the first to speak. "Don't worry, the queen mother, Shou'er is fine. ”

It turned out that this woman was none other than the wife of the lord of Yin and the queen of Yin. And should think about the role he plays now, the child who is called Shou'er is the prince Shou of the Yin Kingdom.

The queen sat down beside Ying Siliang, touched his head, and sighed: "It's all your father's fault, I have to take you to the mountains to hunt, but I didn't hunt a few prey, and it caused you to be infected by evil qi and be in a coma for so long." ”

"The queen mother, it's not my father's fault, it's the son's own carelessness. Ying Si said as he thought about his own calculations in his heart. "I'm coming to what the system calls the Dream Trial, which is equivalent to a role-playing puzzle game I played in my previous life, and if I guess correctly, I need to complete the specified tasks and collect special items to be able to clear the level. It's just that the system doesn't give me any hints right now, so how do I proceed next?"

The queen gently patted Ying Siliang's head, and couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "Xiaoshou, you know how to exonerate your father." Forget it, forget it, go to your father. Today, but it is a holy day, and it is time for us to sacrifice to the immortals. ”

"Sacrifice immortals?" Ying Si heard this term, and instantly thought of a lot. In this world, as long as you reach the Jindan stage and condense the Huachi in your body into a Jindan, you can become a half-immortal, or a fake immortal. When you reach the primordial god stage, you can combine the spiritual power in your body with the spirit, and the soul, and you can condense into a doppelganger composed of spiritual power - the primordial spirit. To this extent, it can really be called, immortals. "In this world, monsters and monks can become immortals. I don't know, is the immortal in the mouth of Queen Yin a monster or a monk of various schools? What does an immortal need to sacrifice, is it melon, fruit, ripe meat, or something else?"

Ying Si Si followed the queen to the center of the palace complex, where there was a huge altar. The altar is divided into three tiers, the top one is for the king to worship, and it is carved with auspicious clouds, golden dragons, and fire phoenixes. The middle floor is where the princes and ministers are located, and it depicts a tiger descending from a mountain and an eagle striking the sky. On the lower floor is the place where some literati, merchants, farmers, and representatives of skilled craftsmen kneel and worship, and the pictures above are green oxen ploughing the land, golden roosters reporting the dawn, and yellow dogs guarding their homes. In the center of the highest level of the altar, there is a golden statue in the shape of a Taoist priest, with long hair and beard, and fairy wind bones, which is quite non-angry and self-threatening.

"Shou'er, are you awake? Come on, worship the immortals with your father, and pray that the immortals will bring us good weather in the country, abundant grains, and peace in the country. In the center of the altar, a middle-aged man wearing a silver-white dragon-patterned robe and a white and gold beaded curtain crown fell to his knees respectfully.

should think about it and guess that this middle-aged man is likely to be the king of Yin Kingdom, the father who played a role in his dreams. Thinking of this, Ying Sili hurriedly stepped forward and knelt beside him.

The middle-aged man's name is Zixian, also known as Emperor Yi, is the thirty-second generation lord of the Yin Kingdom, and what he sacrifices is the guardian immortal of the Yin State - Xuanyou Zhenjun.

Di Yi took the three lit deer incense sticks from the servant's hands, and respectfully inserted them into the three-legged bronze tripod in front of him. Legend has it that gluttony is one of the four fierce beasts of the primeval world, especially delicious, and can devour all things in the world. Therefore, people cast gluttony on bronze, which expresses the meaning of auspiciousness and good luck, and full food in a good year. The standing ear ornament on both sides of the tripod is commonly known as the tiger bite head pattern, this kind of ornament is made in the shape of a tiger on the left and right of the ear, the tiger head goes around the upper part of the ear and opens its mouth to face each other, there is a human head in the middle of the tiger head, as if it is about to be swallowed by the tiger head, and there are two fish shapes on the top of the ear pattern. This tripod is square outside and round inside, and the tripod is filled with precious purple gold fragrant lingsha, and it is also engraved with the four words of Si Ming Shuntian.

In the smoke of the swirling smoke, Di Yi began his own appeal. "Lord Shangxian," today's floods are raging, earthquakes are frequent, the people of Yin country, the victims are scattered, and the people are struggling to make a living. In Xia Di Yi, as the monarch of the Yin State, he was powerless to turn the tide, and he couldn't bear the people to suffer this catastrophe. Therefore, the mortal Emperor Yi hereby prays to the Xuanyu Immortal Lord to please exert your unparalleled power and the power of turning the clouds and rain to save the lives of us mortals who are as lowly as grass. We, the Yin Kingdom, are willing to offer a hundred pairs of boys and girls, ninety foreign captives, eighty chickens, fifty pigs, thirty white sheep, ten ploughing oxen, two pairs of rhino horns, and one pair of tusks. I hope that Lord Shangxian will accept it. ”

Between the words, two or three hundred sturdy men had already carried wooden boxes, bamboo baskets, and carts containing sacrifices to the altar and sacrificial place.

The bamboo baskets were filled with babies who had not yet been weaned, the children of slaves, and their status was as low as dung. The babies left their parents, and one by one they were terrified, shivering, dripping and urinating, and the sound of wah-wow cries filled the entire altar. On the cart, there were tightly bound orcs, all of them dressed in rudimentary animal skins, full of fangs, beast heads and human bodies, and their vicious aura was not weakened in the slightest because they were captured. However, their bodies were scarred, their breath was dying, and some of them even lacked arms and legs, and it looked like they had experienced an unusually tragic battle, and there was a strong smell of blood.

On the other side, there are sacrificial poultry and livestock, colored feather chickens, white-skinned pigs, yellow cattle and white sheep. The poultry and livestock were also alive, bound with straw ropes to their thighs and wings, and could only cry out in despair.

Ying Si saw this, and recalled the memory of this body, and was a little embarrassed: "Father, this year's year is not good, the people have no harvest, they are displaced, these are already sixty percent of the things in our treasury. Do you really want to sacrifice all of them to the Immortals?"

Di Yi raised his head, and after thinking about it, he realized that Di Yi was already in his thirties, and he was already silver-haired, and wrinkles slowly climbed on his heroic face.

Di Yi's face was solemn, and he admonished: "Zishou, as the prince of a country and the future lord of a country, how can you ask such a question? Although we are a royal family, we are also the people of the Yin country, if the people all die because of the disaster, what is the meaning of the existence of our royal family?"

"No, Father, I didn't mean that. Ying pondered and waved his hand again and again, and explained: "Why do we have to sacrifice so many sacrifices to the gods and pray to him to help us solve the problem? Why can't we solve the problem ourselves? Isn't it the best of both worlds for us to open up waterways and build great canals to connect excess water to places where water is scarce? Besides, these sacrifices are so expensive that our treasury is empty, and wouldn't it be better if we exchanged food with other dynasties?" Finally, Father, according to your cultivation, it is also comparable to the strength of a fake immortal. If my father can recruit monks from all over the world and work together, he will be able to solve these disasters, right?"

Of course, these words are not said by Ying Si, but by the identity he plays. This kind of dream trial is really interesting, and you should think that although you can empathize with the character you play, you can't control a large part of the time. Only when you need to choose, you should think about it in order to truly control your body. Other times, similar to offline hosting, you should think about watching the plot develop freely like watching a movie.

Listening to Ying Si's words, Di Yi took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart. He raised his right hand, but slowly lowered it, and now the sacrifice was taking place, and the subjects of the whole country were concerned about it, and it was not appropriate to be angry.

"Son, say it quickly, who taught you these words?, how dare you think like this?" Di Yi scolded angrily in a low voice.

"Lord Xuanyou Zhenjun is the protector of our Yin Kingdom, and the reason why we have such a beautiful life is because of the gifts given by our adults. If there were no adults, our Yin Kingdom would no longer exist, and even we, the royal family, would not exist. You dare not sacrifice to the Immortal Lord and solve the problem yourself. You're just trespassing!"

Ying Siliang sneered in his heart: "What kind of sacrifice to Xuanyou True Monarch, hehe, isn't it a way to maintain the rule?"

In fact, these so-called disasters such as floods and earthquakes are also very easy to solve. This kind of calamity, which is limited to the mortal level, is really nothing in the eyes of the monks. This is not the earth, the body of the earthlings is extremely fragile, a wooden thorn can stab the skin, a sharpened bamboo chopsticks can solve a life, and even, if you do something wrong, you will die without a place to be buried. And the monks of this world can use spiritual power and master all kinds of strange abilities such as wind, rain, thunder and lightning. Don't say anything about disaster relief and rescue, as long as the strength is enough, even burning the mountains and cooking the sea is just a piece of cake.

The solution to Yin's current problem is very simple, as long as he does not sacrifice and pile up the lives of monks, sooner or later he will be able to fill the gap caused by these disasters.

However, this approach is really not feasible. The main reason, on the one hand, is that the people who can become monks in this country are all nobles and princely ministers, and they have hundreds of mortals under their hands. Isn't the life of these nobles more valuable than that of mortals whose fate is like a mustard? Moreover, it is the mortals who suffer the most in this regard, and the nobles and princes and ministers have their own unique means to deal with disasters, and they will not be affected at all. Since these disasters are not painful for themselves, then according to the matter of not caring for themselves, why should the nobles use their precious lives to achieve the happy life of these lowly mortals and slaves? On the other hand, as the king of Yin, Di Yi needs to strengthen his control over the country. Because as a leader, as a ruler, you have to have abilities that others don't have, you have to be better than everybody. In this way, you can make people surrender and strengthen your position. Obviously, being able to communicate with Xuanyou True Monarch Immortal, which is unique to the royal family, is one of the ways that Emperor Yi can enhance his control over the country.