2. The Gift of the Harlequin (1)
The flowing seal characters on the ancient scroll made Zilan, who was born very intelligent, suddenly wake up to her grandmother's gradually cold body temperature, why did her grandmother just now recite the blessing on the altar with tears in her eyes, because today is her first birthday, and it is also the day when she arrives at the limit of the yang world, although the people often say that life is rare for seventy years, but the people of Chu are not without people who live to seventy, most of those who refine Qi and cultivate immortals can live forever, and their young faces will stay forever, and even become immortals, fly to heaven, immortality is the greatest desire in the hearts of mortals, otherwise for thousands of years, refining Qi and cultivating immortals will not be so popular in the world, and the palace of Chu will not come and go in and out of so many alchemy alchemy alchemy monks every day, refining the elixir of immortality for the king of Chu for many years, but for thousands of years, the people of the wizard clan have been forbidden to refine Qi and cultivate immortals in private since the day of birth, and the offender will be immediately sacrificed on the altar with the gift of a harlequin, the terrible Zilan of the gift of the harlequin had witnessed it with her own eyes when she was a child, it was a sorceress in the family who secretly stole the life-prolonging medicine pill that the King of Chu rewarded her with the lifeless Qi, although she did not know that the king of Chu was cultivating immortals with these medicinal pills at that time, but she was still decided by the clan to sacrifice as a harlequin。
The sacrificial ceremony of the gift of the harlequin Zilan has been seen on an ancient picture scroll treasured in the family since childhood, according to legend, the witchcraft of the Jiuli tribe was prevalent in ancient times, and all the clansmen have to go to Jiuli Mountain to ask for rain under the leadership of the sorcerer of the tribe on the third day of March every year, and before asking for rain, it is necessary to offer the harlequin sacrifice that has been prepared in advance to the god in charge of rain in the sky according to the clan rules, and then the rain ceremony can be carried out smoothly.
In the tribe, many years ago, on the third day of the third month of the third month of the third month, the shaman would gather all the women in the tribe who had just given birth to a baby, each of these women was holding a little baby that he had conceived in October, and the shaman would use divination to select a baby to be used as a harlequin ritual, this baby must be a girl, and good looking, perfect body, and then the sorceress would bring the baby to raise herself, and raise it until she was about four or five years old and then locked up in a mud house without windows, and then fed with rice boiled in blood every day, feeding to about ten years old can be pulled to the altar on the third day of the third month of the second year of the third month of the second year to be covered with sulfur, and then two highly poisonous centipedes from the girl's mouth poured in, the centipede in the girl's body to swim and bite, and finally burst out of the eyes, at this time the girl is already dying, just break the girl's belly, and then the two centipedes are coated with gunpowder, put into the girl's belly, the medicine and the girl's sulfur will burn by itself after combining, after the burning, the rain ceremony can be held smoothly......
If the chosen girl failed to burn on her own in the harlequin sacrifice, the girl's mother would be thrown into the well and executed, such a cruel ritual has been passed down from ancient times to the Yin Shang era, and was later abolished by the king of Zhou, the original harlequin ceremony was used to worship the rain god Ping Ping in ancient times, and the rain god Ping Ping is not a vein of the East Emperor, but since eight hundred years ago, the ancestors of the King of Chu built a nine-story Yaotai to worship the East Emperor a line, and announced that the world will all the gods in the world under the jurisdiction of the East Emperor, the ancestors of the wizard family in order to please the King of Chu, naturally will not object to the Ping Ping to be counted as the East Emperor's subordinates, and strictly ordered the clansmen to privately refine Qi and cultivate immortalsSince it is a sacrifice, it is naturally like a sacrifice to the sacrificial hall of the mortal family, and it is only enough for mortals to maintain the body for sixty years, Most mortals are sixty years old just when they are at the end of their lives, if they want to break this limit, they can only refine Qi and cultivate immortals, but the wizard clan as a sacrifice, at the age of sixty, they must die at the age of sixty, so the wizard clan is strictly forbidden to practice Qi and cultivate immortals in private, once it is discovered, it will be immediately sent to the altar in the name of trespassing to sacrifice the gift of the harlequin, after all, the wizard clan where Zilan is located was originally the descendants of the branch of the Jiuli clan, and the sacrifice ceremony of the gift of the harlequin, all the men, women and children of the clan are the most familiar with it。
Maybe there have been many clansmen who have been dragged to the altar to be sacrificed as a harlequin because of refining Qi and cultivating immortals in private, so even if grandma prays in her heart to be able to live a few more days in the Yang world, she definitely doesn't dare to refine Qi and cultivate immortals in private, her only hope is to be able to get the favor of the great priest on the nine-layer Yaotai when the time comes, and give her the grace to live a few more days in the yang world, but unfortunately, as the great priest who is in charge of the life and death of all things, she still can't destroy the ruthless eternal standards of the Heavenly Dao for her grandmother alone, but Zilan has never known in her heart, if the Heavenly Dao guidelines really can't be destroyed, how did the daughter of the great priest come about?
In fact, about the origin of the young Si Ming in the Forget Worry Palace, although there is no word in this ancient scroll on the grandmother's body, but the people of Chu have come to rumor that this young Si Ming was born in the Great Si Ming and the demon clan, and then for his own innocent reputation and ruthlessly killed the young Si Ming's biological mother, this young Si Ming was born only to know that his father was the Great Si Ming, but he never knew who his biological mother was, presumably since she was a child, she was coaxed by the Great Si Ming, saying that she was created by the Da Si Ming with divine power, and was born to protect the children of the world from dying easily due to typhoid fever, but she never thought about why she herself was only born to protect those young children who should have died at an early age because they could escape death and grow up safely, wouldn't the Emperor Dongyue and the Emperor Xudu in the Nether Realm be cut face every day, she just relied on the daughter of the Great Priest to be so wanton in the Three Realms that she was overflowing with love and doing whatever she wanted, and the wizard clan was against the sky because they were the sacrifice of the gods of the Eastern Emperor's lineage, and even survived in this world for one more day。
Zi Lan felt that this kind of obedience to the mandate of heaven was really unfair to the wizard clan, those foolish village women who could only live a life in the world because they were born stupid and didn't know how to refine Qi and cultivate immortals naturally had nothing to sigh about, but the wizard clan knew best how to refine Qi and cultivate immortals, but because they were sacrificial gods, they couldn't ask for the way of immortal cultivation and immortality, and they couldn't reach it, all of this should have been the fault of the ruthless god of the Eastern Emperor Taiyi, if one day the Eastern Emperor was removed from the heavenly court, or even killed, it would be the time when the people of the wizard clan were completely given the gift of freedom。