Chapter 4: Witches
"What happened in those days? What was the place of Shenzhou? What role did those so-called gods and immortals play? And who was on the other side of that war?"
Lieshan's heart suddenly pounded, and an inexplicable emotion made him a little excited, and he could feel that this vast world was about to unveil that mysterious veil in front of him.
And he, a small tribe from the 8,000-mile mountain, the most talented and youngest witch in the history of the Lianshan clan, will soon know the secrets that have been hidden in the long river of time, and even he will take on the responsibility of preserving the fire of the Lianshan clan, and take the Lianshan clan to the vast world outside!
The feeling of excitement, curiosity, and anticipation diluted the pain and the confusion of the unknown road ahead for a while, and he had never longed for the world outside the mountains as much as he did now.
He asked the doubts in his heart, his eyes swirling on the body of the Great Witch and Mu Xiang, he didn't know how long the Great Witch had lived, even the people in the tribe didn't know. But even the wood that waits for the Great Witch has lived for more than two hundred years.
Most of the inheritance in the tribes of the Great Wilderness can only be passed on by word of mouth by these old people.
Their wisdom and experience are the history books of the Great Wilderness!
Mu looked away from the eyes that seemed to be burning flames, and fell on the old man who was closing his eyes to recuperate, and lowered his head humbly, "Wu, you should tell him these things!"
The old man opened his eyes and waved his hand at Mu Xiang, "Xiang, how long have you been by my side?"
"Two hundred and thirty-two years. Mu Xiang was a little emotional, he touched his bald head, "I'm so old, your appearance hasn't changed!"
"It's been more than two hundred years!" the old man's gaze didn't know where to look, and it took a while to fall on Mu Xiang's body, he looked at Mu Xiang's wrinkled face, and sighed, "I almost forgot, you are still a two-hundred-year-old little guy." I'm the only one left of those old fellows back then!"
Bub?
Lieshan's gaze kept rolling on the two old men, and even glanced at Gongliang next to him from time to time, but he found that he was the only one who made a fuss.
"Well, when the time comes, you can go with them. ”
Mu Xiang raised his head suddenly, "Wu, I won't leave." ”
The old man didn't persuade again, just waved his hand, and his gaze became ethereal again, as if he was rummaging through those memories that had been buried in the long river of time.
After a while, the old man's voice finally sounded in the stone house, "Legend has it that when the heavens and the earth were not opened, chaos was like a chicken, and then the chaos was divided into yin and yang, and yin and yang blended and evolved heaven and earth, and heaven and earth gave birth to all creatures.
Some of these powerful beings who have attained the Tao by chance call themselves gods, and some of them have professed to be demons after being born from mortal wombs, and there are countless of those xenomorphic beasts.
Among all kinds of living beings, except for those who are ignorant and muddy, among the intelligent beings, we human beings are the weakest, and there is no one. ”
"Great Wu, is this 'god' a god on the Divine Continent?" Lieshan asked.
"Nope. The old man shook his head, "The gods on the Divine Continent have some similarities with the totems worshiped by some tribes of our Wu Clan, and the gods in the Great Wilderness are the real gods." ”
"A true god?"
"Yes, those true gods are the darlings of heaven and earth, not so much that they are living beings, but that they are the Tao!" finally had an expression on the old man's indifferent face, which was somewhat complicated and subtle, "They are the manifestation of the Tao, but the embodiment of the Tao. They are immortal and immortal!"
As soon as these words came out, whether it was Lieshan, Mu Xiang, or the disheartened Gongliang, their eyes widened in shock, curiosity, and yearning!
"Whether it's gods, demons, or ferocious beasts, or even mountain spirits and monsters, they are far more powerful than us.
For us human beings, not only do we have to face the threat of these powerful creatures, but there are also countless dangers in this vast world, floods, winds, miasma, diseases, etc., all of which are a catastrophe for us.
Later, human beings began to consciously come together, help each other, face those disasters together, we hunted, gathered, fished together, and people died every day, but we still struggled, gritted our teeth, clenched our fists, and struggled to survive!"
The old man closed his eyes, perhaps trying to hide his emotions, or maybe he was just too tired.
"What happened later?" asked Lieshan softly, as if he was afraid of disturbing the old man.
"Later?" the old man laughed, full of bitterness, "and then the human race slowly gathered more and more, and became a tribe. ”
Lieshan said, "Isn't that great? ”
"No! this is the beginning of another nightmare. We fought against the heavens to survive. It's too late to rejoice, because we don't know if we'll survive the next day.
Sure enough, disaster befell us once again. In this reckless wilderness, those talented fierce beasts and monsters are the protagonists, and when humans gather more and more together, they naturally attract their attention. ”
The old man's voice was heavy and muffled, "To them, we are just food. In those days, people were dying every day, hundreds, thousands, thousands, even hundreds of thousands, millions!"
"What about the witches and warriors of the tribe?"
"You haven't seen real beasts, real xenomorphs, or demons, so you won't know what kind of power they have!"
Gongliang clenched his teeth and clenched his fists tightly.
"And," the old man's voice paused, "in that era, there were no witches. ”
"No witch?" the three of them were surprised.
"Yes and no. The old man said, "We are constantly struggling under the mouth of the natural calamity, just to survive. Xiang is not wrong, during that time, the human race was on the verge of extinction. ”
"Until one day, we stumbled upon the corpse of a ferocious xenomorph, and we wanted to eat it, but we found something unusual. ”
"What's that?"
"Lines. That's what heaven and earth give them, that's the manifestation of the Tao rhyme, we began to observe, explore, and gradually we found that not only these fierce beasts and different species, but all things in heaven and earth have a unique pattern of their own, that is the language of the Tao, we communicate with the Tao through these things, resonate with heaven and earth, and we begin to be able to borrow the power of heaven and earth!"
"Those people are the first group of witches in this heaven and earth!"
"They are the source of witches, so later people call them ancestral witches, and our human race also calls ourselves witches!"