Chapter 35, the first mention of sacrifice
Because Lan Ruo was actually a little late when she arrived here, she only saw the scene where Wu Qi waved her sword and thundered to kill the ghost car bird, and did not see the scene of Wu Qi's sacrifice, so she was a little puzzled by Wu Qi's move of bringing her to the altar. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"What we need to do now is how to deal with the demons who are about to follow me, what are you going to do with me on the altar? ”
"Who said I don't prepare. Wu Qi looked at Lan Ruo strangely.
"Since you're preparing, what are you doing now?" Lan Ruo heard Wu Qi's words, and lowered his eyes to look at the altar below. The meaning is obvious, that is, aren't you just not doing your right thing now?
Wu Qi was almost amused by her actions.
"Have you forgotten my identity? I'm a witch zhu, and the matter of sacrificing is not only Wu Zhu's vocation, but also Wu Zhu's most powerful means of attack. Naturally, I want to take you to the altar to hold a sacrifice. ”
After being said by Wu Qi, Lan Ruo came back to his senses, and he was still a little confused, a Wu Zhu stood on the altar and naturally wanted to gather to worship, but Lan Ruo looked around but didn't find where the sacrifice was at all.
"If you want to hold a sacrifice, you need a sacrifice, right? But there are no sacrifices at all!"
"Sacrifices do need sacrifices, but there is no place for us to find any sacrifices, so we can't sacrifice you or me or any of them alive. Moreover, even if we were willing to do such a living sacrifice, the one we were to sacrifice would not accept it. After all, Lan Ruo still needed to cooperate with the next sacrifice, so Wu Qi had to patiently give her some explanations.
"Then what should I do?" Lan Ruo was a little anxious, after all, she was not a great virtue who saw through everything, and she was still a little anxious about her own life.
"Don't worry, this sacrifice is never done when we need help. Don't forget, there are countless sacrifices every year, and the objects of worship are different, some are gods, some are ancestors.
If this is compared to a sale, then those sacrifices can be equated with paying for the goods in advance, and now it is time to receive them. ”
Wu Qi's explanation made Lan Ruo's concept of sacrifice a little broken, and the act of sacrifice was a transaction, which was really a little unacceptable to her.
Seeing Lan Ruo's expression, Wu Qi probably knew that her words made her not very acceptable.
Although the sacrifice is often carried out with reverence and sacredness, if you look a little deeper, you will see that it is actually a transaction.
From the very beginning, we sacrificed to the gods of heaven and earth to pray for the blessing of our better reproduction, wasn't it a transaction? Faith and offerings are our coins, and blessings are the goods we wish to receive. ”
Wu Qi's explanation made Lan Ruo understand some of the truth, but she was still a little uncomfortable with Wu Qi's statement for a while.
"I can probably understand what you mean, but I'm still a little uncomfortable with your view of sacrifices. Facing Wu Qi, Lan Ruo nodded first, and then shook his head.
"In that case, then I ask you. I remember that you are the mountain ghost of Wofeng Mountain, and you are also the mountain god of Wofeng Mountain, there is nothing wrong with it. Although he said that he was asking, Wu Qi actually didn't have any appearance to make Lan Ruo nod and confirm.
"That's right, I am indeed the mountain ghost and mountain god of Wofeng Mountain, what are you asking for?" Lan Ruo was a little curious, how could Wu Qi suddenly think of this.
"Then you should also remember that every time there is a festival at the foot of the mountain, in the mountain village at the foot of the mountain, those villagers will sacrifice you, and they have specially set a day to let go of other things to worship you. Wu Qi also talked about what the villagers at the foot of Wofeng Mountain do every year.
"Hmm. Lan Ruo nodded.
"Then I ask you, when they sacrifice to you, they are all asking you to bless them, or fulfill some of their wishes. Although it was a question, Wu Qi was very sure. After all, all the people in the world who pray to God and worship Buddha and make incense sacrifices are all painted and prayed.
"Yes, but that's different. The thing that each of them prayed for was ......" Lan Ruo rushed to say, but she was interrupted by Wu Qi before she could finish speaking.
"I know you're trying to say that the things those people pray for are very simple and easy. It's like blessing hunters who enter the mountains can get out of the mountains safely, and sick people can get better quickly. But the essence of this kind of thing is to desire you to respond to their worship and sacrifice.
Even if they don't always have you to respond to their prayers, when they make that prayer, they are already eager for something in return after completing the effort, and this back and forth is a kind of transaction. ”
Lan Ruo was speechless when Wu Qi said this, although she didn't want to agree with Wu Qi's words, but she couldn't find anything to refute. Moreover, the person in front of him is a witch wish, even though he is a god who accepts offerings from others, but he really doesn't know as much about such things as sacrifices. After all, the witches have been presiding over the sacrifice since the appearance of the human race.
Seeing Lan Ruo's speechless appearance when she was refuted, Wu Qi also knew that Lan Ruo accepted her statement, but this was not the main thing Wu Qi wanted to tell her.
"Let me ask you again, if one day a person who has been sacrificed to you all the year round is suddenly in danger or something, he prays to you for protection or asks you for help. But if he can't make an offering to you at that time, will you not respond to his prayer because he can't make an offering to you in that situation?"
Lan Ruo thought about the situation described by Wu Qi, and then she shook her head with great certainty.
"I can't stop answering his prayer because he can't make an offering, after all, I've already received his offerings many times. Is it ......?"
Hearing Lan Ruo's answer, Wu Qi nodded.
"That's right, that's it. You will not refuse that person's prayer, then the one we are going to sacrifice will not refuse my request, you must know that the sacrifice and worship of that person in our Wuzhu lineage is not comparable to the sacrifice of an ordinary person to you in his life, and now when we need to use the power of that person, even if there is no sacrifice in him, he will respond to my request. Wu Qi spoke with confidence that the being he was about to sacrifice would respond to his request.
But think about it, you must know that Wu Zhu has existed for a long, long time, to the point that it runs through the history of the entire human race. In the years that have grown to the present that have run through the entire human race from its appearance to the present, even if the witches have not been sacrificing and offering every year, but after such a long time, that being has received an unknown number of offerings.
In other words, it means that I don't know how many favors have been signed. After all, witches are not like ordinary people, a god can owe ordinary people a favor, at most he can show a little insignificant thing to himself when he pays it back.
But Wu Zhu is a group of beings with strong strength, and the favor owed to them is not something that can be repaid by a little insignificant, so it is naturally impossible not to repay.