Su Wu's eyes flashed, and he followed him into the crowd.
As soon as the Gechang tribe members gathered around met Su Wu and his party, they seemed to be pushed by an invisible force and moved out of the way, making way for Su Wu and his party to pass directly to the center of the altar.
Regarding this so-called ‘sacrifice of humans and gods’, Su Wu was also interested in exploring something.
Now that there is an opportunity, he will naturally not let it go.
During the Shang Dynasty, in the cultivation of human gods and human kings, most tribal officials and sons used incense offerings and life sacrifices to cultivate themselves into human gods.
After becoming a human god, Fang Bo can protect the tribe from the invasion of monsters.
This kind of sacrifice of human lives and incense offerings should be very different from the sacrifices hosted by Nuo masters. After all, the main object of sacrifice of this kind of "sacrificial offerings of humans and gods" is not the gods in the temple, but the tribal leaders.
Uncle Fang, sons.
After all, the tribal chiefs and uncles are not gods in the temple, nor are they monsters outside the temple. They are originally just mortals. With mortal bodies, how can they accept the sacrifice of other people's lives and offerings of incense?
Su Wu and Qu then squeezed into the center of the altar.
In the central area of the altar, a six-story platform was built with stones and soil.
A tall and strong man, but with an old look on his face, stood on the six-story platform. Around the old man, several people built four walls of wood and stone on the spot, with layers of masonry.
They were piled up layer by layer, gradually surrounding the old man inside the wall and sealing him inside.
Looking at the old man who was gradually blocked inside by four doorless stone walls, Qu explained to Su Wu: "That old man is Uncle Fang of our Gechang tribe. His name is 'Xiong'."
At this time, most of the Gechang tribe members gathered under the high platform looked solemn and solemn, and they were silent. They were not as noisy and noisy as the tribesmen near the outside. Most of the tribesmen on the outside stretched their necks.
Treat the current sacrifice as a lively event.
In front of Fang Boxiong of the Gechang tribe, the bricks and stones piled up gradually covered his shoulders.
He looked around and spoke slowly: "Qu, on my orders, performed sacrifices in the 'Wild of Qushui' to prepare for me to become a human god."
When Uncle Fang called his name, he looked ashamed.
He did not complete this crucial sacrifice.
He thought about the past for a moment, and couldn't help but cast an angry look at Sui, who looked at him with the same angry expression.
But Xiong on the high platform was still speaking slowly: "But he failed.
The king issued a decree prohibiting human sacrifice, which also cut off the possibility of me becoming a human god. All the officials secretly performed human sacrifice in private. In order to become a human god and protect the clan, I also secretly sent people to sacrifice within the clan.
He came to perform sacrifices in an inconspicuous canal, hoping to complete the final preparations before becoming a human god.
But the king sent someone to cut off Ge Changbu's sacrifice, and he got into a fight with the king's soldiers, and his whereabouts were unknown in the end - this was the result of the divination by the priest "Sanyang".
Because of this matter, the king will definitely send troops to attack Ge Chang within the next day or two.
The king is ruthless in his actions. If he sends troops to attack Ge Chang, he will definitely not leave any way for us to survive. In order to be able to fight against the king's army and to protect Ge Chang, before that, I must become a human god!
Only by becoming a human god can I lead everyone to fight against the Great Shang, and then have the opportunity to escape from death, go west, and join the "Zhou people"!
Now his sacrifice failed, and all the slaves were scattered by the king's soldiers.
There is no one left in the clan to die.
He did not completely commit human sacrifice to the "sacrifice of bribing heaven", so "heaven" would not turn a blind eye to me becoming a human god, and would definitely bring various disasters.
But we have no retreat, we can only try our best.
I will use the ‘Sacrifice of the Fire Stove’ to gather everyone’s ‘primordial roots’ in me, and use this method to achieve ‘man-god’!
Therefore, I need three hundred tribesmen who are sincerely willing to sacrifice themselves to accomplish this ‘Fire Stove Sacrifice’ for me!
If you are not willing, please don’t make it difficult—among the three hundred sacrifices, as long as there is one who is not willing to sacrifice sincerely, this fire stove sacrifice will fail!"
The eloquent words are simple, but have their own appeal.
After he finished speaking, everyone on the altar fell silent.
In such solemn silence, someone soon spoke out tragically, indicating that they were willing to sacrifice themselves for Ge Chang, hoping to use their own lives to help Xiong Lai become a human god.
There are tens of thousands of Gechang tribe members. It is not difficult to gather three hundred tribesmen who are willing to sacrifice themselves. However, after a moment or two, the six-story high platform is already filled with Gechang tribesmen who are willing to sacrifice themselves. Su
Wu knew with just one look that the number of these people was definitely more than three hundred.
While people were speaking out to Xiong one after another to express their feelings, he asked Qu who was standing aside with a nervous expression on his face, as if his heart was clenched: "What is the 'sacrifice of bribing heaven'?
What is the ‘Sacrifice of the Fire Stove’?
Are these two kinds of sacrifices also included in the five categories of sacrifices?"
At this time, his mind was completely focused on the safety of his clan members. In fact, he had no intention of answering Su Wu's question. But as Su Wu asked him, his mind strangely calmed down and he sorted out his thoughts.
He replied to Su Wu: "The sacrifice of bribing heaven is counted among the five types of sacrifices, and any of the five types of sacrifices can be used to perform the 'sacrifice of bribing heaven'.
It is through the sacrifice of a large number of people that the gods in the temple will no longer monitor the next actions of themselves and the people in their tribe.
‘Cultivation of Humans and Gods’ can be regarded as a necessary act of ‘bribing heaven’s sacrifice’.
God does not want people to become gods.
The ancestors of the Great Shang Dynasty were the first to inaugurate the "Sacrifice to Bribe Heaven", using grand sacrifices to confuse the heavens so that they could successfully become human gods and avoid disasters.
The sacrifice of the fire stove is not actually a kind of sacrifice.
Sacrifice is to please the gods, but in the fire stove sacrifice, there is no god to please. It is just that everyone sacrifices voluntarily and puts their own "primary roots" through this sacrifice, just like the flames gathering in the stove, gathering the roots
On someone’s body.”
Qu spoke quickly and explained to Su Wu the specific rituals of the two 'sacrifice'. At this time, Fang Boxiong, the head of Ge Department, had been completely sealed within the four walls. Someone brought the stone slabs and pressed them against the four walls. , so that the male inside the high platform is completely in a closed space.
Then, the craftsmen of Ge Changbu dug four holes at the bottom of the four walls and filled the four holes with bundles of firewood.
If the firewood in the cave were lit at this time, it would be like a four-burner stove.
"The wishes of tribesmen who are willing to sacrifice themselves will light up the firewood in the stove." Qu explained to Su Wu.
Su Wu frowned secretly when he heard this.
Can firewood be ignited with just a wish?
What is the difference between today's businessmen and the modern people of later generations? No one in later generations can make grass and trees burn spontaneously without fire just by relying on their own will!
He was confused about this in his heart. He was originally ready to interrupt this 'Fire Stove Sacrifice', but he stopped temporarily to see if the situation was as he said. As long as people are sincerely willing to sacrifice themselves, Can his wish ignite the firewood in the stove?
Maybe there is something extraordinary about this fire stove built on the altar?
Or maybe there is something extraordinary about the male inside, and the combination of all these factors finally led to the spontaneous combustion of firewood without fire?
Just as Su Wu's inner thoughts were whirling, a Ge Chang tribesman climbed onto the high platform with a solemn and solemn expression. In front of the stove, he grabbed a piece of firewood from the stove hole and made no other movements. On the grass, a bright white flame suddenly burned!
Su Wu was shocked when he saw this, and he immediately opened his eyebrows and began to worship——
Under Gu Shi's eyes, he saw the humanoid shadow sitting in the middle of the flesh and blood spirit of the Ge Chang tribesman - the existence called Yuan Gen suddenly expanded and imbued the Ge Chang tribesman's spirit. , after combining with his mind, it suddenly turned into a flame. This flame swam out along his arm and ignited the firewood!
As the firewood burned, the fire in the Ge Chang tribe's body also changed from strong to weak.
Its roots are gradually becoming damaged and damaged!
Yuan Gen!
It was the function of Yuan Gen that ignited the flesh and blood of the Ge Chang tribe people - and the bright white flame that burned like this was so similar to the 'fire' that Su Wuchu obtained during his practice!
The two are exactly the same!
People in future generations cannot be like today's people, who can light firewood with just their wishes. The root cause should be above the "primary root".
Perhaps the Yuan roots in the bodies of later generations are already very thin, no more so than today, when civilization has just begun. At this time, people are actually still separated by history from that great and invisible existence - the 'Yuan Emperor'. Not that long ago.
Therefore, the roots in their bodies are intact and they can have such different appearances.
Later generations are completely different!
As Heaven's erosion of human beings deepens day by day, the deprivation of the original roots in the human body becomes deeper and deeper. Perhaps in future generations, most of the time, not even one original root will remain in the human body!
Now that he knew the inside story, Su Wu had no need to continue this terminal sacrifice.
He turned to look at the anxious-looking Qu and said to him: "Are you going to sit here and watch your people die one after another?
You have seen the god in my body take action, and you should understand that if the King of Shang really came to destroy Ge Chang, even if Ge Chang used his human life to build a human god, it would be difficult to compete with the Shang Dynasty in Dayi."
"Then what should I do?" he asked in panic and confusion.
"Go and blow out the flames on that man, and tell everyone that you have a way to resist Dashang's next crusade," Su Wu said.
"good!"
Qu didn't hesitate at all. He nodded decisively and agreed. Without asking Su Wu if there was any way to resist the great merchants, he strode directly onto the six-story high platform. There were many people in the Ge Chang tribe, and among them he knew the last sacrifice.
There are not many others.
Therefore, everyone thought he was going to be the second self-sacrifice on stage.
But he didn't expect that when he approached the 'first tribesman' with the burning firewood in his hand, he opened his mouth and blew - directly blowing out the flame in that tribesman's hand!
The tribesmen were stunned when they saw this.
He was even more stunned!
Only then did he realize that once such self-sacrifice ignited the firewood, there was no possibility of it being blown out. But now he listened to King Wu and just opened his mouth and blew a breath, which really set the pale light on fire.
Blow out!
"You, you, you -" The tribe member lit the flame, and then it was suddenly blown out by the uninvited guest in front of him. He looked at him in shock, but could not say anything to accuse the other person - he had died once, and now he was alive again.
Coming over, he suddenly felt that there might be other solutions to the current problem, and he was reluctant to die again.
Therefore, he was now full of gratitude to him and naturally could not say anything to criticize him.
But the people under the high platform had already been aroused by Xiong's words. When they saw him appear on the high platform, he blew out the flames in one breath, and the crowd was immediately furious!
"what are you doing!"
"Who is this person? Is he from our tribe?!"
"He is he, Priest He, I know him!"
"Yes! It was him who fought against the king's soldiers without authorization, so we, Ge Changdu, had to fight against the great merchant!"
"Qu, how dare you come back, how dare you ruin Uncle Fang's stove sacrifice - you deserve to die, Qu!"
When the crowd was excited, the priests who were guarding under the high platform led their soldiers to the high platform, surrounded him, and wanted to kill the traitor Ge Changbu who wanted to destroy the Huozhao Festival!
At this time, Qu turned his attention to the audience, looking at Su Wu in the crowd, he immediately raised his voice and said: "I have a way! I have a way to resist Dashang's crusade!
You believe me, you believe me!"
He had just ruined Uncle Fang's sacrifice, and now he was returning to the clan as a loser. How many people would believe his words?!
Therefore, these words did not have any effect.
The priests and soldiers pressed forward step by step, and the situation became increasingly tense——
At this moment, Qu had an idea, suddenly looked frightened, stretched out his hand and pointed into the distance, shouting: "The army of Dashang is coming, right behind you!
They are coming to attack us!"
As soon as he said this, the whole place was completely silent!
After a short period of silence, the scene suddenly became commotion!
The cries of the coward resounded!
The several priests and many soldiers who surrounded him all had stiff expressions and slowly looked back. They were standing on a high platform, so they could see beyond the low buildings of Ge Changbu.
The scene further away, and just when they turned their heads, there were waves of drum beats that made the earth tremble, and the sound of footsteps also pressed into the altar overwhelmingly!
distance!
The four giant spirits had sores all over their bodies, venomous snakes wrapped around their ears, and wet intestines tied around their waists. They walked on the earth, leaving huge bloody footprints on the earth!
It may have the head of an ox, or the wings of a bird, or it may be the sheep-faced Nuo who controls the dark clouds, hovering in the sky, followed by the four giant spirits, and presses on the Ge Chang tribe!
Under these Nuo gods, countless chariots were driven, and soldiers wearing armor were as numerous as raindrops!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The sound of war drums makes the sky shake and the earth tremble!
The originally cloudless sky turned pitch black in an instant!