Volume 1 Breaking the Cocoon Chapter 2 The Altar
At night, Jiang Xing lay on the bed tossing and turning, always remembering the altar in the village. He was thinking that the reason why he had crossed into this world was definitely related to the fact that he was looking at that white stone together!
Since he can appear on this altar, then this altar must have some connection with the mysterious white stone that is being viewed together!
During the day, he panicked because of his sudden appearance in this strange world, and only cared about looking everywhere for the cars and cement that could be found everywhere in the Pleiades, and he did not even think about whether the altar in the village that had allowed him to appear in this strange world out of thin air would also allow him to go back.
Now that I have calmed down, I am a little impatient to figure out the altar in the village.
After all, since the altar in the village can bring him to this world, it is very likely that it will also allow him to return to the Pleiades from this strange world.
He's a little reluctant to go far.
"It seems that after dawn, we must go to the village altar. Jiang Xing thought of this, and fell into a deep sleep.
"Village Chief, I want to go and see the sacrificial stone in the village, is that okay?"
As soon as dawn, Jiang Xing walked out of his room, came to the door of the village chief's room, and knocked on the village chief's door.
"Okay, old man, I'll take Fairchild over and have a look. Inside the house, there was the voice of the old village chief, and the sound of getting up and dressing, and soon, the door creaked open, and Village Chief Li appeared at the door, and when he saw Jiang Xing, he bowed respectfully.
"Grandpa, please don't give a big salute again, the kid doesn't dare to be it!"
Jiang Xing hurriedly supported the old village chief.
After the old village chief was helped up by Jiang Xing, he said to Jiang Xing: "Lord Xiantong, the altar is the most sacred place in our village, please wait for a while, and immediately take Xiantong to the altar after bathing and changing." ”
Jiang Xing nodded, then found a chair in the house and sat down, waiting for the old village chief to bathe. The old village chief went to the kitchen in the back room to get hot water for a bath.
"What do you want to do? Let my grandfather take a bath early in the morning?"
As soon as Jiang Xing sat down, he saw Li Jiao, the granddaughter of the old village chief, walking out of the kitchen with a gloomy face and saying to him.
"Go to the altar. Jiang Xing said lightly.
As soon as Li Jiao heard about the altar, the gloomy color on her face immediately disappeared, and she snorted lightly and walked into her boudoir.
"Fairchild-sama, it's time to go. ”
Half an hour later, the old village chief finished washing and dressing, and then took Jiang Xing to the village altar.
The two of them came to the village altar, a simple round altar paved with large bluestone of about 100 square meters, located on a field of weeds.
Jiang Xing raised his legs and walked up to the altar, and the big bluestone under his feet had been corroded by the years, and there were many cracks.
"Look! that's the sacrificial stone of our village!"
Following the direction pointed by the old village chief, Jiang Xing saw a flat white boulder as big as a desk lying flat in the middle of the altar, lying there quietly and ordinarily, without the slightest white light appearing, no different from an ordinary white boulder.
As soon as Jiang Xing saw this boulder, he recognized the material of this boulder, which was the same kind of stone as the one he was looking at.
"Village Chief, is this the sacrificial stone? Jiang Xing deliberately pretended not to understand and asked.
"The sacred stone usually looks like an ordinary stone, but when it comes to the sacrifice, when we bow down and recite the sacrifice, it will emit a dazzling white light. In the past six months of sacrifice, the Divine Stone seems to be different from the past, and a mysterious rune has appeared inside it!" "When Village Chief Li talked about the mysterious rune inside the Divine Stone, his face was excited, and he also looked at Jiang Xing as he spoke.
"Mystic runes?"
Jiang Xing's heart was shocked, and he faintly felt that the mysterious rune should be the fundamental reason why he appeared in this world.
After all, this mysterious rune appeared six times, and the divine stone that was being viewed was also lit up six times, so there must be some connection between this!
It's just that there is a question that makes him a little confused, such as what Village Chief Li said is true, the mysterious runes inside the divine stones in the village appear once a month, while the divine stones that are being viewed are emitted once a year, which is not right at all in terms of time. Therefore, the glow of the sacred stone that is being viewed is very likely to have nothing to do with the sacrifices in the village.
If you insist on linking the two, the only explanation is that the time of Pleiades and this world is not synchronized, maybe Pleiades is a year, here is only a little more than a month!
Thinking of this, Jiang Xing said:
"Do you have to recite the sacrificial text, will the Divine Stone shine?"
The old village chief frowned and said: "It's not like that, just reciting the sacrificial text, the divine stone will not light up, only the villagers sincerely pray, and then cooperate with the sacrificial text, the divine stone will shine." However, when there is enough power of faith stored in the Divine Stone of Faith, even if you don't have to pray sincerely, the Divine Stone will shine by reciting the ritual text! Our ancestors once told us that holding a large-scale sacrifice of hundreds of people, the power of faith obtained can make the Divine Stone shine without kneeling and praying twice, and just reciting the ritual text can make it shine!"
"The power of faith, what is this?" Jiang Xing looked puzzled, but in his heart, he faintly had some eyebrows about himself crossing into this world. He estimated that the reason why he appeared in this world was most likely because of the so-called power of faith.
After all, all strange things must be driven by a mysterious force, and his appearance in this world is very likely to be caused by the so-called power of faith.
Moreover, when it comes to faith, the Zhengyi view with a long history and the peak of incense, and the power of faith accumulated over time is definitely an extremely terrifying amount!
With such a huge power of faith, it is not surprising that he appeared in this world.
Jiang Xing suddenly slapped his leg, and suddenly thought of something very important, which was very likely to be the key to his appearance in this world!
Oration!
If the sacrifices in the village are really related to the glow of the sacred stones that are being contemplated, then it is very likely that the sacrifice text is the key to activating the power of these beliefs!
Moreover, Jiang Xing remembered that in the past six years, the incense of Zhengyiguan can be said to be at its peak, and tens of thousands of tourists come to worship every day, and it is very likely that the power of faith of Zhengyiguan has accumulated to the extent of triggering the sacrifice of Qingshui Village six years ago, so that the divine stones of the two worlds have some kind of connection!
Therefore, in the past six years, the statue of the nameless Taoist who is contemplating it will shine on its own!
It must be so! Only then can we explain why he is in this world!
The old village chief looked at Jiang Xing with a puzzled expression, and from the question Jiang Xing asked him, he noticed that Jiang Xing seemed to understand nothing about everything about the Divine Stone.
He had thought that after listening to their prayers, the fairy child who came out of the sacrificial divine stone should know everything about the power of the sacrificial divine stone, but Jiang Xing acted as if he didn't know anything about the belief in the divine stone.
But he still answered Jiang Xing's question.
"In fact, the old man doesn't understand what the power of faith is, but our ancestors once said that the power of faith is composed of the power of countless people's good thoughts, hearts, wishes, wills, and other complex emotions or wishes. This power is pure and pure, it can purify evil and bring good luck! This is also the reason why we worship the Divine Stone!"
"Can you show me your sacrificial text?" Jiang Xing already had a plan in his heart, at this time, he was very sure, as long as he mastered the sacrificial text, he would definitely be able to return to the Thousand Nights Kingdom!
"Yes, this sacrificial text is a scroll of mantra animal skins handed down from the ancestors of our village, which is said to be a secret method of using the power of faith, although no one in the village can understand these incantations on the animal skins, but our village has been passed down from generation to generation, and the tone of these incantations has been passed down from generation to generation. ”
A bolt from the blue!
As soon as he heard the old village chief say that none of them knew these curses for a long time, Jiang Xing's heart fell to the bottom, and when he returned to the heart of the Thousand Nights Kingdom, he suddenly cooled by half!
This is very bad news.
Back in Qingshui Village, Village Chief Li took out the scroll from a box with three locks and handed it to Jiang Xing, it was made of a gray and yellow unknown animal skin, according to Village Chief Li, this scroll could not be burned by fire, and the knife could not be broken.
Jiang Xing looked at it again and again, the words on it were like tadpoles, and Jiang Xing didn't know a word. Jiang Xing tried to go to the nearby villages and towns to find some old scholars, but no one knew these characters, but said that this was the writing of the Four Heavenly Palaces 10,000 years ago.
Jiang Xing, who couldn't return to the Thousand Nights Kingdom, could only live in the village, and before he knew it, Jiang Xing had already been in Qingshui Village for more than half a year.
In the past six months, under the guidance of Jiang Xing, the carpenter made a large wheel that rotates with the flowing water, and the bamboo pipe on the big wheel continues to pour water into the ditch dug on the bank with the rotation of the big wheel, watering and moistening the crops that were originally short of water. Later, Jiang Xing got some black soil and started a fire out of nowhere, which helped the villagers survive the cold winter.
The villagers recognize this kind of soil, as if there are a lot of them on the hillside in the village. And in this year, because the crops in Qingshui Village were watered with sufficient water, there was a bumper harvest, which made Village Chief Li and the villagers think that Jiang Xing was the fairy child they prayed for from heaven.
Although Jiang Xing knows a lot, he currently lacks tools and raw materials, and there is only so much that can be made, but this is simply incredible in the eyes of the villagers.
The news of the bumper harvest in Qingshui Village was spread, and Village Chief Li began to become anxious when he heard this, and often sighed alone. Jiang Xing was curious, and asked Village Chief Li several times, and Village Chief Li told Jiang Xing the reason.
Village Chief Li told Jiang Xing that the nearby villages had to pay money to the mountain bandits in Heifeng Mountain every month, and if they resisted a little, they would be cut down by the mountain bandits, so every time the mountain bandits came, several villagers would be killed or injured. In villages where they can't afford to pay their money, the bandits will snatch the grain, the girl, and the daughter-in-law. And this bumper harvest in Qingshui Village will definitely attract mountain bandits, and it is inevitable to collect additional money, if you can't pay it, a big disaster will definitely come.
This Black Wind Mountain was originally not called Black Wind Mountain, but it was renamed Black Wind Mountain after it was occupied by mountain bandits. It is said that the leader of the mountain bandits is strong in martial arts and cruel in killing, especially in recent years, he has become more murderous and cruel. Every time the government sent troops to attack, they were either defeated by the mountain bandits who took advantage of the terrain of the mountains and forests, or they hid in the mountains, and after a few months they reappeared, and after being attacked by the government, the mountain bandits became even more ferocious, and the villagers were miserable, and the talk about the bandits changed color.
A year and a half ago, several people in Pingshu Village rebelled against the bandits, and the entire village was killed by the bandits. For this reason, the festival held in Shimizu Village last year was the most solemn in history, hoping to avoid evil and good fortune.
"Please also ask the fairy child to cast a spell to solve this trouble for us!"
After Village Chief Li told Jiang Xing about the Black Wind Bandit, he pleaded with Jiang Xing with tears in his eyes.
When Jiang Xing heard this, he was silent for a long time, he knew that Village Chief Li was very worried that the mountain bandits would come to burn and rob, and he also had a beautiful granddaughter, if he was seen by the mountain bandits, he would be harmed. But Jiang Xing knew that he was just an ordinary person who was powerless, and he was not an immortal in the eyes of the villagers, so he couldn't change anything.
Jiang Xing thought about it and decided not to tell Village Chief Li the truth, he was afraid that once he said that he was just an ordinary mortal, he would most likely be driven out of the village by the villagers who could not accept the news, and cut off his opportunity to study the Divine Stone of Faith. So, he just said that he couldn't make a move on mortals, but he could help find a way to deal with the mountain bandits.
Village Chief Li looked disappointed and looked at Jiang Xing with a begging gaze, which made Jiang Xing feel guilty.
Half a month passed in the blink of an eye, and a mountain bandit flew over the treetops, landed at the entrance of Qingshui Village, and loudly informed Village Chief Li that the money for this month had risen to one hundred taels of silver.
Village Chief Li, who was originally smiling and currying favor with the mountain bandits, couldn't help but turn gray all of a sudden when he heard one hundred taels.
No matter how good the harvest is, it will not be worth a hundred taels of silver! This is simply forcing people to death!
After the mountain bandit left, Jiang Xing saw that this mountain bandit was a hundred meters away, and immediately understood that this world was completely different from the Pleiades, this was a high-martial world. And the most important thing in the world of high martial arts is chivalry.
Jiang Xing felt that he might be able to help, but he didn't know much about the world, so in order to be sure, Jiang Xing asked Village Chief Li to tell him a lot about this world.
From the mouth of Village Chief Li, Jiang Xing knew that Qingshui Village belonged to a small remote village in the Dongyue Kingdom. The Dongyue Kingdom, on the other hand, is only a small country in the eastern part of the vast Tiannan Continent.
Dongyue is a weak and small country, and it has been coerced and bullied by its neighbors all the year round, resulting in most of the army defending the frontier and being unable to suppress the mountain bandits at home.
Moreover, the domestic economy in East Vietnam was sluggish, and many people had no food to eat, resulting in a situation in which many people went to the mountains to become bandits.
The reason why such a turbulent Dongyue did not lose the country is said to be due to the extremely powerful cultivation of the national teacher of Dongyue to shock the Zhou State, which made other countries extremely jealous and did not dare to force Dongyue to provoke the great killing god of the national teacher.
Dongyue Guoshi was born in Taichumen, and was an envoy sent by Taichumen to guard the mortal realm. It is specially responsible for solving some monks and demons who do evil in the mortal world, and secondly, it is necessary to select some children with excellent qualifications for the sect in the mortal world and enter the sect.
There are three thousand mortal kingdoms under the jurisdiction of Taichumen, and the Dongyue Kingdom is only one of them, and its location is on the border between the east and south of the Tiannan Continent.
Since the eastern part of the Tiannan Continent is the boundary of the Taichumen, while the southern part is the boundary of the Danqi Sect, Dongyue, which is sandwiched between the two, has become the best place for the two sects to wrestle secretly.
Because of this geographical reason, Dongyue and the neighboring countries belong to the mortal kingdom of Dongyan under the jurisdiction of the Danqi Sect, and they are at war all year round.
Although the mortal realms under the jurisdiction of the two sects were at war with each other, the Taichumen and the Danqi Sect rarely fought each other. This is mainly due to an agreement between the two cases.
In order not to let the battle of the mortal kingdom cause the war between the two sects, the battle between the mortal kingdoms, the people in the immortal gate are not allowed to make a move, and the victory or defeat depends on the fate of the mortal kingdom itself.
If you win, you can win one more country, and you can get more children with extraordinary qualifications from one country as a source of disciples, so that you can make your own family stronger.
If you lose, you will lose a country, and there will be fewer disciples with extraordinary qualifications to choose in the future, and your strength will gradually weaken over the winning side over time.
It was precisely because of this decision that East Vietnam suffered from the flames of war.
"Taichumen will recruit disciples in Dongyue? Why have I never heard of it in the more than half a year since I came?"
When Jiang Xing heard that the Taichu Sect would recruit disciples in Dongyue, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and as soon as Village Chief Li finished speaking, he asked impatiently.
"The Taichu Sect selects disciples once every five years, so you naturally don't know. At this time, hundreds of thousands of children between the ages of five and eight in Dongyue were sent thousands of miles by their parents to the city and gathered in the city of Shengxian. In their hearts, as long as they are chosen, they will soar to the sky from now on, and glorify their ancestors!"
When the village chief said this, he couldn't help but recall the scene when he sent Li Jiao to participate in the selection of Shengxian City. That year, it was the first time he saw the appearance of an immortal!
At that time, the national teacher was holding the fairy mirror, and a hazy white light shrouded the entire Ascension Immortal City, and hundreds of children with qualified spiritual root strength were sensed by the fairy mirror, and their bodies were held up by a white light out of thin air, and slowly flew towards the Ascension Immortal Terrace, of course, there was no Li Jiao among them.
The children who were not selected were sent home crying, and the selected children would participate in a trial to weed out a group of children with poor minds or the least qualifications, and the rest would be officially selected. Hundreds of people are often selected, and often only twenty or thirty people can stay!
"Grandpa, did you say that Taichumen will admit children who are older than the age?" Jiang Xing was not disappointed when he heard that one of the conditions for Taichumen to select disciples turned out to be children between five and eight years old. He is already fourteen years old, and before he knows it, he is no longer among them.
"In most cases, it won't!, unless you are a peerless spiritual root like a Heavenly Spirit Root, which is rare in a hundred years, even if you are much older than that, as long as it is detected, you will be scrambling to be accepted as a disciple by all the immortal sects. ”
After Jiang Xing heard this, his heart was half cold, he knew that he was a rare peerless spiritual root like the Heavenly Spirit Root, and the probability was almost zero.
However, although the chances of cultivating immortals are so slim, they can't extinguish the hearts of countless people who have become strong!
After being eliminated, many people joined the Jianghu sect. For them, even if they can't cultivate immortals, in this turbulent and precarious Dongyue, they must also learn martial arts that can protect themselves.
Therefore, many children from wealthy families who were not selected have worshiped the most famous Jianghu sects in Dongyue Kingdom, such as the Xuanfeng Sword Sect in Qingyuan City, the Iron Spear Society in Liangzhou City, the Tiandaomen in Suyue City and the Dachan Temple in Qingguang City.
Other children from more relaxed families can only worship the small sect like a crucian carp crossing the river, like a cow's hair.
The children of poor families can only be farmers for the rest of their lives because they can't afford to pay the entrance fee.
Jiang Xing was a little annoyed that he hadn't crossed over a few years earlier, and maybe he would be able to participate in the Immortal Ascension Conference at that time.
Moreover, now he has no clue to solve the hidden dangers caused by the mountain bandits, and he also begins to feel faintly uneasy and guilty.
The sky was getting dark, Jiang Xing returned to the room with a stomach full of troubles and lay on the bed, but he couldn't sleep, and he fell asleep when it was almost dawn.