Chapter 361: Thousand-Year Sacrifice
Chang Shan came out, and the yellow-robed old man's eyes once again showed a look of surprise, but this time, he didn't say anything that would affect Chang Shan's cultivation confidence, opened the teleportation array, and sent Chang Shan back to the Sand Land Palace.
Before Chang Shan entered the Star Array to cultivate, Chang Xiaoxi was given two tasks, one task was to refine the three-headed black phoenix soul into a soul soldier, and the other task was to deduce a very simple Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array.
Chang Xiaoxi refined the soul of the three-headed black phoenix into a soul soldier, and she didn't deduce the simple Five Elements Gathering Spirit Array.
Chang Shan didn't blame her, and accompanied her to play in Gluttonous City for another seven days, and then directly teleported from Gluttonous City to the Savage Holy City through the Holy Hall Teleportation Array.
Out of the teleportation array, Chang Shan glanced around, and these two words appeared in his mind, ancient city.
Among the cities that Changshan has visited, Qingcheng, Tianfeng City, and Lingao City also have a history of hundreds of thousands of years, but they have never given Changshan the feeling that this is an ancient city.
The Wild Holy City, the overall color is dark, giving people a desolate feeling, and the various buildings are not mottled, but they give people an ancient feeling, which is very weird.
Under normal circumstances, with Chang Shan by her side, Chang Xiaoxi always behaves very lively, but at this time, she was pulled by Chang Shan, but there was a rare solemn look on her face.
The streets are not deserted, but they are not noisy either. The pedestrians on the street are dressed in a variety of styles, but they are all modest and polite.
Everything on the street seemed to be harmonious, but Chang Shan and the three of them were a little uncomfortable.
Chang Shan and the three of them had no intention of shopping, walked briskly, walked for about a quarter of an hour, and came to the mansion of the Yun family, one of the seven major families in the Savage Holy City.
The Zhu family, the Yun family, the Shan family, the Tang family, the Sha family, the Mu family, and the Ying family, the seven families of the Savage Holy City, not only control the Barbarian Temple and the Barbarian Holy City, but also control the entire Barbarian Holy City.
As one of the Seven Great Families, the Yun Family's mansion in the Savage Holy City was naturally extremely magnificent.
The gate of Yunfu is not too tall, but the entire Yunfu looks bigger than the Tianli Imperial Palace where Chang Shan has been.
"It seems that no matter where you are, the size of the mansion is regarded as one of the signs of the strength of the family, this is the so-called interracial acquaintance!"
Chang Shan thought for a moment, and when a few guards in front of the Yunfu Gate were about to ask the three of them, he took out the token of the Temple God General.
Several guards checked Chang Shan's token, first saluted Chang Shan, and then asked Chang Shan's intention.
"Yunlin Daoyou can be in the house?"
"Yes, General, wait a minute!"
The guard who asked Chang Shan about his intentions replied, and walked briskly towards the Yun Mansion.
After a while, Yun Lin walked out with the guard who went in to report.
Yun Lin cultivated the ghost path from a wisp of remnant soul, and it only took two years to cultivate to the green pill stage and condense the ghost body, which was of course due to the great power of the Yun family, but it also required Yun Lin to have enough cultivation talent for him to cultivate so quickly.
After a few polite words, Yun Lin took Chang Shan and the three of them to Yunfu.
Entering the Yun Mansion, Chang Shan saw the essence of the Yun family and even the entire Wild Holy City from the patches of white bone bamboos, the forests of fragrant cedars, and the flocks of white foxes.
"A lot of things take time to accumulate. ”
Chang Shan chatted with Yun Lin while observing the various rare treasures around him.
Yun Lin took Chang Shan to meet the head of the Yun family, and then, in the courtyard where he lived, he found some children of the Yun family who were close to him and held a reception banquet for Chang Shan.
After the reception, Yun Lin chatted with Chang Shan all night and told Chang Shan a lot of things, so that Chang Shan could understand why his Soul Suppression Tower could evolve into an artifact.
At that time, there was a change in the general's tomb, and all the ghost cultivators in the general's tomb and above the green pill stage escaped, but almost none of the yin ghosts below the green pill stage escaped.
After absorbing the evil qi and turning into evil spirits, these yin ghosts are almost immortal.
Over the course of a long period of time, some evil spirits evolved into the existence of the Blue Dan Stage and rushed into the last layer of the General's Tomb.
The evil qi that will turn the ghost cultivator into an evil spirit, for the evil spirit, is the spiritual power that can allow them to evolve, and the place under the altar in the center of the soul hall is the place where the evil qi is the strongest.
Therefore, when these powerful evil spirits entered the Soul Temple, they all burrowed into the altar.
After some serendipity, those evil spirits fused into one evil spirit.
Back then, after Yun Lin's body was destroyed by that evil spirit, he was determined to die together, and turned the soul bead into a soul fire and burned it to that evil spirit.
Who knows, Yun Lin did not kill that evil spirit, but instead merged with that evil spirit.
After Chang Shan snatched the spirit flag, the evil spirit, who subconsciously regarded the spirit flag as his most important thing, rushed into Chang Shan's body desperately, wanting to kill Chang Shan and recapture the spirit flag.
As a result, the evil spirit failed to kill Chang Shan, but because he lost the source of his power, he was scattered by Chang Shan, and then refined by Chang Shan into the Soul Suppression Tower.
The more than sixty black lights refined by Changshan's Soul Suppression Tower, each black light contained no less soul power than ordinary Blue Dan Stage cultivators, and it was purer than the Yuan Shen Power of ordinary Blue Dan Stage cultivators.
More than sixty soul beads of a cultivator in the Blue Dan Stage were enough to make a lower-grade Soul Suppression Pagoda evolve into a Top-grade Immortal Artifact-level Soul Suppression Tower, and it was also enough to make the Soul Suppression Tower, which was about to advance to the Upper Grade Immortal Weapon level, evolve into an artifact.
"What is the intention of Daoyou to let Chang Mou refine the Soul Suppression Tower with soul fire?"
"The connection between the five elements inherent in the human soul contains some of the most mysterious ways of the five elements between heaven and earth, and Yun asked the general to refine the soul tower with soul fire, which is to let the inherent five elements of the soul guide the formation in the soul tower to produce some beneficial evolutions. ”
Chang Shan nodded, thought carefully for a while, and arched his hand to Yun Lin: "Daoyou's words, Chang has benefited a lot, thank you." ”
"You're welcome! This is a far cry from the general's life-saving grace. ”
Yun Lin replied with a smile, glanced outside, and said with a smile: "Does the general need to rest?" If you don't need it, Yun will be the guide and take you to see the eight magnificent scenes of the Holy City. ”
Before Chang Shan could reply, Chang Xiaoxi, who was in another room, opened the door and walked out.
"People who like to play around are here, how dare Chang rest?"
"Haha!"
Yun Lin laughed and said, "You brothers and sisters will talk for a while, and Yun will go and prepare a little morning tea for you." ”
In the following months, every day, Chang Shan played during the day, and discussed the cultivation path with Yun Lin at night, and lived a very leisurely and fulfilling life, and time had passed, and he forgot where he was, until the number of pedestrians on the street suddenly increased.
The sacrifice to the gods held once in a thousand years is the first event of the wilderness, and the masters of various dynasties and the Nanban who have traveled abroad will come to the holy city to participate in this grand event.
The day before the ritual, the Snake Emperor arrived in the Holy City with a pair of guards.
As a member of the Heterogeneous Alliance, when the Snake Emperor arrived, Chang Shan certainly needed to visit him as soon as possible.
Chang Shan's wild trip this time can be said to have overfulfilled the task, and when the Snake Emperor saw Chang Shan, he naturally had some words of encouragement.
The next day, the once-in-a-millennium festival was held as scheduled.
If there is any unified belief among the cultivators of the Seven States, then they believe in the law of the jungle.
The savage Nanban who lives in the wilderness, they believe in fighting the heavens and the earth, and fighting for their lives with the sky. The gods worshipped in the thousand-year-old sacrificial activities are the heroes who fought with heaven and earth in ancient times and led their four barbarian tribes to gain a foothold in the dangerous wilderness.
The festival begins with the worship of the gods.
The entire Holy City, including the high priest of the Temple, bowed three times and bowed nine times to the four tall stone statues standing above the temple as a sign of respect for them.
The Snake Emperor and Chang Shan and other people from the Heterogeneous Alliance, following the customs of the locals, also followed the four tall stone statues and made a big salute.
The most important rituals of the festival are the worship of the gods, but the performances that take up the longest time are the performances that show Nanban's courage to fight against heaven and earth and conquer various difficulties.
There are performances of rolling naked above the forest of knives, performances of swallowing stones and eating gold, performances of walking in the flames, and performances that make people creepy out of the belly of snakes.
Chang Shan has a strong heart, although he feels that some performances are too infiltrating, but he can also watch it without blinking. Chang Xiaoxi didn't have this heart, and after seeing the performance of making the scorpion crawl all over her body, she closed her eyes.
"I knew these performances were so scary, so I didn't take her to see them. ”
Chang Shan stroked Chang Xiaoxi's head lightly, and then glanced at the teenage boys in the crowd, and said secretly: "If those rare people in Qingzhou see this, even if they don't faint in fright, they will definitely not have excitement on their faces." ”
After a variety of performances that inspire the courage of the Nanban, it is an epic performance.
This epic performance is to show some heroic events in history to inspire the loyalty and benevolence of the Nanban.
Chang Shan is not a Nanban, but some heroic events also moved him.
The main body of the heroic deeds shown in this epic performance are some heroes who are familiar to the wilderness. On this special day, on this special occasion, these heroic deeds can especially move those Nanban. Chang Shan swept his gaze casually, and among the ten people he swept, at least seven or eight of them had tears in their eyes, obviously moved in their hearts.
"The inheritance of the Nanban can continue from ancient times to the present, and it has continued for thousands of years, and the power of example has contributed to it. ”
After the epic performance, the temple began to publicly reward some of the heroes who had appeared in the wilderness for thousands of years.
The merit of the General's Tomb made Yunlin one of the seven Nanban who were rewarded. Chang Shan retrieved the Soul Banner from the General's Tomb, which was also a great achievement, but he was not a Southern Barbarian, so he was naturally not qualified to become a hero of the wilderness.
From this, Chang Shan understood that the Nanban was also a xenophobic ethnic group.
After the sacrificial activities were over, Chang Shan said goodbye to Yunlin and left the Savage Holy City with the Snake Emperor.