Dahuangshi Village, located in the Cangmang Mountains, is surrounded by high peaks and ravines, and the vast mountains are majestic.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, the entire stone village is dyed with a layer of pale golden brilliance, and the apes and tigers roar in the distance, but the large stone houses here are as sacred and peaceful as ancient temples.

The stone village is not very large, there are more than 300 men, women and children combined, the houses are made of huge stones, simple and natural, at this moment, everyone in the village gathered in front of an ancient altar, and a sacred sacrifice is being carried out.

Under the leadership of the patriarch Shi Yunfeng, the villagers who returned from hunting put all the fierce beasts they had hunted on the altar.

The altar was made of huge stones, and it was very open, and it was built next to an old broken willow tree, which was evidently the object of their sacrifice, and which was now piled up like a hill of wild beasts.

The bright red beast blood stained the boulder platform red, flowing along the carved diagram on the stone surface, red and gorgeous, coupled with the thick and long animal hair of the giant beast, the scales of the cold light flashing and the hideous giant horns, etc., it was shocking, and there was a tragic flood and desolation atmosphere.

Led by the old patriarch, the men, women, and children of Ishimura prayed together and asked for the protection of the willows, a solemn ritual that was performed every time they returned from a hunt.

The charred tree was as silent as ever, and there was no reaction, just as in the past when no sacrifice had been taken, but many villagers knew that he had a spirit!

After a while, when the sacrifice was over, the people breathed a sigh of relief, resurfaced their smiles of joy, and began to move the carcasses of these beasts, ready to be bled and cut.

"For many years, the sacrifice spirit has not touched an offering once, do you still need to perform a sacrifice every time?"

A young man couldn't help but mumble quietly, which suddenly provoked his father to be furious, glared at the copper bell with big eyes, and picked up the big hand of the pu fan to beat him: "Stinky boy, what are you talking nonsense!"

Fortunately, the old patriarch was on his side, he waved his hand to stop the domestic violence, and explained to the young man: "The sacrificial spirit is the spirit of our sacrifice and offering, you are sincere, we treat him sincerely, and he will protect and bless our village." ”

The young man's face turned red, and he hurriedly said, "Patriarch, it's not that I'm insincere, but I just feel that the sacrifice spirit doesn't seem to need these sacrifices, because he has never used them. ”

"Whether you need it or not, it's good that your heart arrives. ”

The old patriarch patted him on the shoulder and explained heartily.

The sacrificial spirit, also known as the "spirit of sacrifice", is the abbreviation of the "spirit of sacrifice and offering" of a tribe, which guards the village and deters the fierce beasts in the wilderness.

The elders of the clan remembered that this was not the case with another sacrifice spirit from decades ago, which was a strange stone, and every time a sacrifice was offered, it would lose most of its essence and blood and be absorbed by it.

Until late one night, when the old willow tree came, the strange stone chose to flee away, and everything changed.

Thinking of that rainy night back then, the old patriarch was a little dazed, when he was still a teenager, and he had witnessed that shocking and terrible picture with his own eyes.

In the middle of that night, lightning and thunder roared, heavy rain was majestic, the storm was violent to the extreme, the mountains were all thundered and lightning collapsed, the mountain torrent was like the sea, the fierce beasts were running wildly, and the scene was terrifying.

It was at that time that a large willow tree that reached the sky appeared in the clouds, bathed in the sea of thunder, and the lightning that swirled around the mountains was thick, and thousands of willows turned into a blazing divine chain, piercing the entire heavenly dome, as if fighting with something.

Eventually, the great willow tree snapped, blackened, and shrunk to its present size, and fell down to root in the stone village, while the lightning vanished, the downpour receded, and the strange stone that had been sacrificed and offered to the village that night was gone.

Although a long time has passed, every time he thinks of this matter, the old patriarch will unconsciously feel a trembling heart, the old willow tree is not from other big tribes or mountains and rivers, but from the sky dome, encountered endless thunder and lightning and was damaged, few people in the village know.

For the first few decades, it was charred and black, without any life, as if it was completely dead, until a new green shoot was pulled out more than a decade ago, and then it did not change.

"The sacrifice is over, let's start bloodletting, in addition to the blood essence, those tendons and veins and some bones are also extremely precious, don't lose the essence. ”

The old patriarch Shi Yunfeng seemed to be reluctant to mention the matter of sacrificing spirits, so he quickly diverted the topic.

"Patriarch, don't worry!"

The young man in the clan sharpened his knife and began to cut the giant beast, making a sonorous sound from time to time, sparks splashed everywhere, and the bones of the giant beast were amazingly hard.

Someone had already prepared a large pottery jar to receive the blood essence that was kept in the special parts of the beast's body, which was an excellent blood tonic medicine, very rare.

Just when everyone was busy, a little bit quietly left the crowd and ran into the door of a stone house not far away, looking at the baby in the cradle in the house with a curious face.

A baby of unknown origin, who looked to be only a few months old, had his eyes closed, as if he was asleep, but he never showed the slightest sign of waking up.

"It's been more than ten days, why haven't you woken up yet?"

Xiao Budian was none other than Shi Hao, he tilted his head to look at the baby for a while, but just as he was about to continue to get closer, suddenly, a breath spread silently, forming a faint coercion, the closer he got, the greater the coercion, making him unable to take a step again.

More than ten days ago, when he and his friends in the village brought the baby back, there was no such breath, but as time went by, although the baby did not eat or drink, and had been sleeping, it gradually exuded a breath, and it became stronger and stronger, which made him have a premonition in his heart, this baby is afraid that he is going to wake up.

In order to verify his conjecture, Shi Hao would come to visit the baby every day, but more than ten days have passed, and the baby has never shown signs of waking up, and it seems to be the same today, which makes him a little disappointed, however, just when he was about to leave, he never thought that at this moment, he suddenly saw that in the cradle, the baby's eyelashes seemed to understand.

"This .........."

Although it was only a slight movement, it still startled Shi Hao's children's shoes, he subconsciously took a few steps back, and when he calmed down, he took a closer look, but found that the baby seemed to be the same as before, without the slightest sign of waking up.

"Am I mistaken?"

Shi Haotong was a little suspicious in his heart, but he never thought about it, and at this time, a shout came: "Little bit, what are you doing, didn't I tell you, don't get close to this child easily?"

When the cheers came, the old patriarch Shi Yunfeng came over, and he reprimanded Shi Hao a little seriously, not that he was making a fuss, but that he was really afraid of the baby in the cradle.

At the beginning, it was he who saw Shi Hao and Shi Dazhuang bring the baby back to the village, and it was he who placed the baby in this stone house and let the people in the village take care of it, but the baby did not wake up after sleeping for more than ten days, and did not eat or drink, but the breath became stronger and stronger, all these signs show that this baby has an extraordinary background.

"I know, Grandpa Patriarch, but ........."

Seeing Shi Yunfeng's serious face, Shi Hao seemed to be a little in awe, and at the same time a little aggrieved, he stretched out his little hand, pointed to the baby in the cradle and said, "I seem to have seen him move ......... just now."

"What?!"

Shi Yunfeng was taken aback, he hurriedly walked to the cradle, and did not stop until he felt the coercion, his face tightened, staring intently at the baby in the cradle, but after half a sound, he didn't notice it at all, which made him can't help but turn his head to look at Shi Hao with some suspicion: "Little bit, did he really move just now?"

"This?"

Shi Hao bit his finger and hesitated for a while before he pouted: "I'm not sure, maybe I'm really wrong........."

However, just as he was halfway through his words, the baby in the cradle suddenly moved, first his eyelashes trembled slightly, and then he slowly opened his eyes, as if he was a little confused, curious, and looked at the world in front of him in a daze, and finally landed on Shi Yunfeng and Shi Hao, he opened his small mouth, and then let out an amazing .........

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