Chapter 66, the Thunder God Sacrifice
After Zhu Xingchen waited for Tao Zhouhe and his disciple to leave the library pavilion, he took out the "Seven Evil Thunder Formulas", copied them according to the gourd drawing, and copied a total of seven or eight pages, and then put the "Seven Evil Thunder Formulas" back in its original place, turned back to Xingchen and asked, "How is it, do I look like it?"
Xingchen nodded and said, "Well, it's good, it's really good! I look very similar, ** not far from ten, you must be able to get past the green scales." ”
The two of them hid the traces they had left in the library and left the library full of joy.
The next day, Zhu Xingchen came to the bamboo forest next to the front yard with Xingchen early in the morning, waiting to exchange the spring palace map with the green scales.
As expected, Qing Liang came as promised, and after a wisp of green smoke dissipated, it appeared in front of the two of them, she smiled at Zhu Xingchen and said, "Didn't you say that you couldn't find the scraps I wanted, why did you bring them so quickly today." ”
Zhu Xingchen laughed and said: "In order to find this fragment, our brothers haven't slept all night, you see that we have already put this thing over in a dozen, and now you can give us those albums?"
"Take it," Qing Liang took out the Spring Palace map from his arms and handed it to Zhu Xingchen, exchanged the fragments that Zhu Xingchen had copied with Zhu Xingchen, and then looked around carefully, and when he saw that there was no one, he said: "You have to be careful, don't let others find out, I'll go first." With that, it turned into a cloud of smoke and disappeared into the morning light.
Zhu Xingchen flipped through the pictures of the Spring Palace, as many of them as there were no wisps of them, naked beauties and copulation pictures, smiled from ear to ear, and asked Xingchen again: "Do you want to take a look?
Xingchen waved his hand, shook his head and said, "I don't look at these things, we have to focus on cultivation, don't miss the future because of these things." ”
Zhu Xingchen didn't care about him, he took it in his hand and admired it with interest.
"You go back and close the door and watch quietly, be careful of being discovered here!" Xingchen reminded kindly, Zhu Xingchen put away the Spring Palace Map and went back with him.
As soon as the two of them walked to the front yard, they saw an acquaintance disciple and greeted him: "Why are you two still here, today is the Thunder God Festival, and many disciples are in the square to see the excitement!
When Zhu Xingchen and Xingchen heard this, they ran towards the square of the Bright Thunder Domain together.
When they came to the square, the square was already crowded with people, the crowd was surging, Zhu Xingchen just squeezed in, and he ran into Tao Zhou and his followers standing by the vermilion lacquer pillar next to the platform in the square to watch, it was really a narrow road.
A high platform was erected in the middle of the square, and dozens of offering tables were placed on it, and the offering tables were full of melons and fruits, domestic ducks, roast pigs, and all kinds of sacrifices for the gods, but these were death sacrifices, and the real sacrifices were living sacrifices, sacrificed with fresh demon blood.
I only saw that on the stage, the domain master of the Bright Thunder Domain, the Thunder Daoist, was dressed in a golden robe, holding a Xuantie hammer and a Xuantie chisel, and a Lingshen, flying to the high platform.
In the center of the platform, there is a statue of a god more than ten feet high, and the statue is also golden-eyed and red-haired, very powerful.
The thunder Dao people exerted their strength, and the gods gathered in Tianyuan, and slammed the Heavenly Hammer and the Thorn Nail in their hands together, only to see the vast blue sky, a thunder cut through the blue sky, descended vertically, and directly hit the statue of the thunder god, the statue was surrounded by a purple light in the middle, which made people feel amazing, and all the disciples on the stage cheered.
"What kind of ritual did this just now?" Xingchen had never seen this face, and asked Zhu Xingchen.
Zhu Xingchen explained: "This is the first ritual of the Thunder God Sacrifice, which is called the Thunder God. Drawing thunder from the sky is regarded as the meaning of leading the soul of the thunder god to the world. ”
At this time, ten more tall, dark-skinned, muscular, shirtless men came to the stage, and ten of them surrounded the idol in the middle, and then with a loud shout, two palms were discharged, and lightning struck out from their palms, and struck the idol in the middle, and after the idol was attacked by their thunder and lightning, the light was even stronger, and the faces of all the people in the audience were reflected in the thunder white, and their eyes did not dare to look directly at the statue.
After a while, the idol counterattacked the ten men who were besieging them, and all ten of them were knocked to the ground, and the light of the statue disappeared, and more than twenty of the disciples came to the stage and carried all the fallen men down.
"Are these men dead?" Xingchen asked Zhu Xingchen as he looked at the man who had been struck by lightning and turned very black.
Zhu Xingchen smiled and said: "How can they die, this is the second ceremony, called Thunder God Returning Strength, these men are all selected from among the disciples to come to power, and after this ceremony, they will have to increase their cultivation for at least five years." ”
Xingchen sighed and sighed: "This is too powerful, then they are also too lucky, they knew that I would also go up to join in the fun." ”
"You can't do it, we can't do it, we can't go up, we can't withstand the lightning strike, and we're just going to die!" Zhu Xingchen shook his head and sighed.
Zhu Xingchen looked at the lookout platform, and dozens of new disciples walked to the stage, so he said to Xingchen: "This ceremony is the ceremony of new disciples, in fact, you and I can participate, it is called the blood dripping ceremony, and the new disciples have to offer the first drop of blood to the thunder god, do you want to go up and have a look!"
Xingchen saw that the disciple walked up to the stage, cut a knife between his fingers, dripped blood in front of the statue of the god of thunder, and then walked off the stage in order, Xingchen shook his head and said, "It's better to be exempt!"
When Xingchen looked at the stage again, a group of paper men and paper horses carrying some paper people representing the god of thunder began to wander around on the stage, and some people behind them were holding silver snakes tied with paper around in the sky, probably representing lightning, and the drum music below also began to play in unison, and the whole scene was jubilant and lively again.
"Is it going to end now?" Xingchen turned back to Zhu Xingchen and asked, he was offstage, and his feet were all standing on wood.
"Not yet!" Zhu Xingchen shook his head and said: "There is also a 'Demon Blood Sacrifice' below, which is necessary every year, a few days before this, those master-level cultivators went out to catch demons, for this sacrifice!"
Sure enough, after a while, I saw a few great priests escorting all kinds of monsters to the stage, those monsters were chained, and a spirit rune was pasted, which could not be broken, and the dust was counted, and the large and small monsters added up to a total of ten, what goat demons, goat demons, hippo demons...... , all kinds of youkai have.
"Huh," Xingchen suddenly exclaimed, "Isn't that Qingscale, how did she get caught?"
Zhu Xingchen fixed his eyes and saw that it was indeed a girl with green scales, she was a snake spirit, and on this sacrifice day, she would not run away, no wonder she would be caught, since she was caught, no one here could save her, and she would not escape death.
Zhu Xingchen closed his eyes, he didn't want to see Qing Liang die, but she was a demon after all, how could the demon and the Tao be harmonious in this world, but Zhu Xingchen was not worried about this, he was worried about the fragments of the "Seven Evil Thunder Formula", if they searched out of Qing Scale, and Qing Liang confessed that he gave it, then he would die.
I saw more than a dozen lightning flashes, and those monsters all turned into their original forms, and the demon blood splashed in front of the statue of the god of thunder, and all the disciples stepped forward to bow to the statue and offer incense. This thunder god festival is also over.
In fact, the more Zhu Xingchen worries, the more likely it is to happen.
Zhu Xingchen accidentally bumped into Tao Zhou's guy when the Thunder God Festival ended, and what was even more unfortunate was that the Spring Palace picture on his body fell to the ground and was seen by Tao Zhou, Zhu Xingchen saw that Tao Zhou's eyes were wrong, and he knew that he would definitely sue.
I don't know if Tao Zhou went to beat him for a small report, but as soon as Zhu Xingchen returned to the front yard, a disciple came to summon him to the True Shinto Man.
When Zhu Xingchen rushed to the True Thunder Dao Man, what the True Thunder Dao Man was holding in his hand was the fragment of Zhu Xingchen's copy of the "Seven Evil Thunder Techniques", only to see the True Thunder Dao Man frown and said to Zhu Xingchen: "Do you regard me as my master, you all know the rules of our Thunder Domain, and you knowingly commit it, this is also the rhythm of looking for death!"
Zhu Xingchen was so stiff that he didn't dare to squeak, but fortunately, this real Lei Dao person didn't mention the matter of the Spring Palace Map.
The True Thunder Daoist sighed and said: "I know this matter, you are a disciple of my sect, I can still forgive you, if you let the domain master Thunder Daoist know about this matter, then I'm afraid you will only have a dead end." ”
Zhu Xingchen was frightened into a cold sweat, it turned out that this True Thunder Dao person actually didn't pursue this matter, it was really lucky, he nodded, and said to the True Thunder Dao person: "Thank you, Master, for not punishing you." ”
"Bang!" I heard someone knock over something in the room and run out of the room.
"Who?" the True Thunder Daoist shouted, and the room became extremely quiet again, and no one answered.
"It's over, this matter has been overheard by outsiders, and now the teacher can't help you, so you can quickly escape with your luggage! You are not the only one involved in this matter, and the one who woke up the dust, you also call him and let him go with you." The True Thunder Daoist waved his hand.
Zhu Xingchen went back and told Xingchen about it, and the two packed their luggage and prepared to leave the Bright Thunder Domain, when they heard two black-armored deacons coming in outside, and they said to Zhu Xingchen and Xingchen: "Let's go, come with us."
Helplessly, the two of them were escorted to the hall of the domain lord Thunder Daoren.
The Thunder Daoist looked at the two of them and said, "Someone accused you of fornicating with the goblins and exchanging the secret painting and the goblin for the Spring Palace map, but is there such a thing?"
"No, there is absolutely no such thing, I can guarantee it!" Zhu Xingchen still wanted to quibble.
"The evidence is all here!" The thunderbolt put the spring palace map on the table: "There are also witnesses, call the witnesses out." ”
Zhu Xingchen looked into the inner hall, and saw Tao Zhou walking forward with a wicked smile, it turned out that Tao Zhou had betrayed them.
The Thunder Daoist said: "Originally, the secret book of this sect was leaked, and the rule was that the crime should be punished by death, but you are a first-time offender, so you will be punished lightly and exiled to Evil Thunder Island." ”