The village, which supervised the slaves' work, drank, ate, and slept as before, knew nothing of the arrival of the evil star, nor of his departure, and of course they knew that half a basket of charcoal was missing, and that a few beautiful agate stones were missing, and even a chicken in the chicken coop was missing, and that these incidents found the slave who volunteered to take responsibility soon after the severe torture, but no one saw the shadow of the one who actually took them, and even less of the fact that the puppets they had enshrined in the fire were wiped clean。

"According to the priest, the disciples who can really get the guidance of the high priest are very few among the priests, and most of them are taught within their own families, and fathers and sons or uncles and nephews are the common way of inheritance," Hua Lin drew circles on the ground while eating roast chicken, and after learning the skills of the Yi cooks a few times, he had a deeper understanding of the phrase "This is a very normal thing in the social level of the Yi people, they are very hostile to each other, and there are not many surplus products, Those who have the ability to send their children to Montenegro through a large and hostile area of savage and danger and pay a large amount of money for worship as tuition are all leaders of the level of Paigang Tusi, which must not be a common phenomenon among the priests of the Yi people, but since the existence in Montenegro has ambitions for this world, it could have paid this price on behalf of those young people. ”

Talent is the most valuable thing for any organization, and Hua Lin is also very aware and recognized of this, when he just left Jiming Village and settled in Pingjiao Alley, he had spent a lot of effort and a huge amount of money at his level to train a few children of the Pingjiao Gang, this investment he thought was very worthwhile, those children who had gone through the initial training, not only at that time, but also later within his control, provided him with a lot of help. They are not even apprentices in the Jialuo world, but they still have eyes, hands, and ears, as long as they are used properly, they can do many things that low-level magic weapons can't do, such as they can use their local indigenous identity to vouch for the non-existent identity of "Hua Ling of Hulu Lane" in front of the people of the whole city, such as they can detect something wrong that Hua Lin himself can't perceive, and only the natives will find wrong, and so on.

But in Montenegro, the high priests worshipped the being who seemed to be unconcerned about this, allowing false spells and forged charms to circulate among the Yi people, without giving instructions for the real priests to recruit gifted young men for intensive training. The promotion of priests is mainly based on their origins, and the ordinary people are even full of people who don't know anything except the name of the Gruul god.

And it could have easily changed all that, with just a few short oracles and some real support, the number of real priests would have increased dramatically, and the people would have been able to take more loot to worship it.

However, the opposite trend is currently emerging, and this sect is in the process of "bad money driving out good money".

The origin of the priests is getting lower and lower, so low that many of the priests are newly freed slaves, these people are not geniuses who can cross the class and rise to the priesthood class by virtue of their ability, and the reason why they are chosen to serve as priests is that the people of noble origin prefer to find low-voiced servants rather than noble priests of the same class who are of the same class as them, and who have the ability to dictate their behavior in the name of the Gruul gods. In this case, these priests, who were still wearing slave shackles just now, were naturally more concerned about not angering their masters than worshiping the Gruul gods.

In several villages, Hua Lin was stunned to find that the faces of the puppets of the god Guru and other attendant gods they worshipped had been carved into the appearance of the owner.

Or, the many gods and goddesses, surrounding the wooden statue of the master, like a servant.

Hua Lin remembered that in the religious classes of the Gara world, the sects that showed this trend were generally not real sects, their gods usually did not respond, and the whole sect was full of liars, both consciously and unconsciously, and their various bloody and evil rituals were not so much pleasing the gods as pleasing the authorities.

This is not the case with the Gruul, there really are people among his priests who can be answered, but he does not punish the liars, nor does he promote the true servants who can convey the voice to him.

Why is all this?

"Maybe it doesn't need that," Xiao Qianqiu said, "and the Death Cult doesn't need the living." ”

"It is true that there are many beings who do not need priesthood and offerings," said Hualin, "and yet it has answered prayers, to desires that seem meaningless to it." ”

"Is it to continue the legacy?"

"No, you don't. Although he didn't want to admit it, Hua Lin still had to admit that the women who threw their own babies into the funeral ditch got nothing but to destroy their own blood, but this did not prevent them from doing so, and this "custom" It has been passed down from generation to generation, so for the lineage of a sect, the liar is enough, and it really doesn't need to respond with strength, but it responds, responds to many prayers that don't actually need to be answered, maybe this matter can be explained simply by the madness and chaos he was exposed to before, but the response to the prayer itself requires a sober will, otherwise, what falls on the priest is not power but a curse, and no matter how pious the sect is, I am afraid it will not be able to bear it a few times, it is better not to give a response, so that the believers will be immersed in the promises of the liar according to their wishes。

"If the land is suitable for cultivation, it should be completely cultivated, and if it is not suitable, then all the grass should be allowed to grow and be used for grazing.

"I think it's to avoid the discovery of the landowner," said Xiao Qianqiu, who had seen similar examples in official texts and replied casually: "But the Yi people are a people of Huawai, they never pay taxes, and as far as you say, they have never believed in gods other than the Guru." ”

"I'm saying what they said to me," Hua Lin tapped the branch in his hand, "The person involved in the transaction usually only knows the part that he knows...... So, have they really been believing in the Guru all along? Or are they believing in something else that only has the word Guru on their name?"