The movements of the three people from Hong Can were very jerky, and they did not fully understand the meaning of Zhang Ke's words.
But they felt an unprecedented respect from Zhang Ke's actions, a feeling they had never experienced even in their clan.
The three of them were attentive, with solemn expressions, and meticulously imitated Zhang Ke's way of saluting.
At this moment, Zhang Ke suddenly had a new understanding of ‘ritual’.
Communication, respect, civilization!
The ancients said, "The most important thing for the country is to sacrifice and serve as soldiers!"
The "sacrifice" in this is also a kind of "ritual".
The greatest function of etiquette is not to offer sacrifices, but to restrain people. It completely distinguishes humans from beasts.
What can be done and what cannot be done, through different "rituals", make human behavior follow, inherit and pass on.
Filial piety, loyalty, propriety, justice, integrity and shame!
Just eight words can explain the word "ritual" thoroughly and clearly.
Zhang Ke's expression became dazed. He seemed to be able to see through the long river of time that the world in front of him was developing step by step from the era of ignorance to civilization.
The five thousand years of history in the dream overlapped with the world in front of us at this moment.
Only in this era when human beings have not yet developed civilization, a simple etiquette can have the greatest impact on people's hearts.
The gift given by Zhang Ke and Hong Can was like humans from countless years later and humans from the primitive era looking at each other across time and space.
As time intersects, civilization and its origins come into contact.
This is an unprecedented experience, a baptism that sublimates the soul deep within.
Zhang Ke fell into an epiphany.
After Hong Can and the other three people saw the ceremony, they found that Zhang Ke had started to feel dazed for no reason.
I wanted to ask, but I was a little hesitant. I always felt that I shouldn't interrupt at this moment.
While he was struggling, he suddenly felt that the stranger in front of him exuded a strange charm.
Their poor imagination and knowledge prevented them from describing it.
But it gave them the feeling that the person in front of them seemed to have existed for countless years, like an eternal boulder in the mountains, which had experienced countless years of wind, frost, snow and rain, and was full of traces of the passage of time.
This is a process rather than a result.
Just like a flower, a grass, a life, from birth to growth, to maturity, to withering, and then to resurrection.
Over and over again, endless cycle.
More than 30 indigenous people did not understand what happened to Zhang Ke.
But secretly, they always felt that the changes that had taken place in Zhang Ke were very beneficial to them.
Each one held his breath and quietly observed every tiny change on his body.
As time passed, everyone forgot everything and just stared at everything in front of them obsessively.
There was silence, everyone stood silently like statues.
until...
"boom--!"
Suddenly there was a thunder from the sky, waking everyone up instantly.
Everyone is still confused, and they wake up from this special magnetic field with a sense of disappointment.
"Alas~!"
For some reason, everyone including Zhang Ke couldn't help but let out a sigh of unknown meaning.
Everyone looked up at the sky, but found no sign of dark clouds gathering.
Zhang Ke's mind moved, and he guessed that the sound might be related to the practitioners who came here with him.
His spiritual thoughts spread eight hundred miles away in an instant.
This can't help but make Zhang Ke slightly surprised. You must know that due to the suppression of this realm before, his spiritual will can only explore four hundred miles.
Could it be that this epiphany alone brought about such a big change?
Immediately, he couldn't care about anything else and concentrated on carefully exploring his situation.
At this time, Zhang Kecai discovered that his soul had actually grown tremendously.
This growth is not like water being filled up in a bottle, but like fruit being fermented and transformed into wine, and this wine has been stored for countless years and is filled with the purity of precipitation.
This is a transformation of the soul, and Zhang Ke can clearly feel the change of the soul.
Steel comes from gravel, but they are by no means the same substance.
Zhang Ke raised his hand, straightened his index finger, and an idea burst out from his fingertips, flashing with dazzling platinum light.
Then he saw his fingertips hook a bit of transparent vitality, and with a thought, the vitality turned from transparent to colorful.
This is an image of countless condensed vitality.
The colorful colors do not include all the colors in the world, but they represent the extreme colors in the world.
It is not unusual for Zhang Ke to be able to do this. The "Innate Hunyuan Yiqi" technique he derived has the wonderful effect of deriving vitality.
What's strange is Zhang Ke's subsequent actions.
I saw the colorful aura on his fingertips changing back and forth between red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple according to his thoughts.
But soon, the seven colors turned into six colors, and then the seven colors merged and turned into six colors according to Zhang Ke's mind, and then from six colors to five colors, changing little by little, until finally manifested at Zhang Ke's fingertips
For a trace of translucent vitality.
Zhang Ke looked at the transparency on his fingertips with fascination.
The secret of 'vital energy transformation' that has not been solved for hundreds of years can be easily completed at this time.
You must know that in the past hundreds of years, the ultimate he could achieve was to separate a certain kind of vitality from the endless vitality.
It is simply impossible to be able to make the vitality of heaven and earth change according to one's own wishes like now.
With another thought in his mind, the translucent ray of vitality instantly turned into blue and gathered into a ball.
Next, Red Silkworm and others were stunned to see the wisp of green on Zhang Ke's fingertips sprouting like a seed, branching out, scattering leaves, and forming ears.
A thought blooms, something comes out of nothing!
The method that could only be used by Tao Zun and Tian Zun was now inadvertently used by Zhang Ke using what he had just gained from his enlightenment.
It's a pity that this is just a flash in the pan.
In the years that followed, Zhang Ke tried to recreate the wonder of this moment countless times, but never succeeded.
It wasn't until his practice reached that state many years later that he finally got what he wanted.
At this time, this is like a dream, it has passed, and it has passed.
But since he has achieved success at this moment, it means that he has inadvertently touched a certain threshold.
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It's like a person living in the south who has never seen what snow looks like.
All concepts about "snow" come from imagination, but as long as you go to the north once and really see what "snow" looks like, you will really understand what "snow" is.
Imagination and reality are like objects reflected in a mirror. They can only appear if they exist.
Zhang Ke looked at the white jade millet in his hand, studied it for a moment, and then handed it to the red silkworm.
Red Silkworm knelt down on one knee devoutly, lowered her head, raised her palms, and respectfully took the ear of millet with both hands.
miracle!
Only these two words can describe this feeling and scene.
Millet represents food and is the basic guarantee for survival.
Perhaps Zhang Ke just acted on a whim and unconsciously, but in the hearts of others, this is a kind of inheritance, symbolizing the continuation of life and containing unique meaning.
At some point, the other thirty or so people also knelt down and lay prone on the ground.
They learned this from the beasts in nature. When the beasts are completely tamed, they will expose their weaknesses to show their obedience.
Among the more than thirty people, a teenager who was only a teenager couldn't help but quietly raised his head after prostrating himself in reverence.
The scene of Zhang Ke handing the millet to the red silkworm was permanently imprinted in his mind.
Later, the young man carved this scene on the stone wall where he lived to witness history.
Time flies, and in later literature, this moment is called the beginning of the civilization era.
...
This realm is huge, and Zhang Ke doesn't know its true size due to the limitations of his spiritual thoughts.
From the scale and half of a claw seen in the air at that time, it can be seen that it is not much smaller than the Azure World.
The land of inlets.
The name comes from the surrounding environment and actually represents two regions.
A large river with a width of a hundred feet cuts the land from west to east. The south side of the water is slightly higher and is called "Shangwan", while the north side of the water is slightly shorter and is called "Xiawan".
The ethnic group that Hong Can and others belong to live in ‘Xiawan’.
It's just that when speaking to others, the name "Land of Water Bay" will be reported as a foil and compliment.
‘Xiawan’ is shaped like a triangle, with five mountains standing next to the water, scattered and scattered, and the terrain is high in front and low in back.
It covers an area of dozens of square meters, but the number of people is less than a thousand.
In addition, there are no houses in this "Xiawan", and all the residents live in caves in the mountain peaks.
Occasionally, you can see vines hooked into net-like pockets on tall and straight trees.
Some people moved quickly and nimbly in the trees, looking in all directions from time to time. They were obviously sentinels among the group.
Zhang Ke entered the "Xiawan" surrounded by more than 30 people including Hongcan.
Along the way, Zhang Ke discovered that the people here were not unprepared to deal with danger.
As he walked, nine-foot bushes covered with thorns connected to each other like walls.
Zhang Ke had never seen such a tall bush. It was densely covered with sharp thorns, which were longer than fingers. From the slightly purple gleaming thorn tips, it could be seen that these bushes were definitely very lethal.
The bushes are very densely distributed, almost every few dozen feet.
Perhaps for safety reasons, the distribution of these bushes has no pattern at all. It is obviously only a few hundred feet away from the cave in front of them, but Zhang Ke, Hong Can and others went around for a while before they arrived.
If a wild animal breaks into it, it will be impossible to let go and run.
Red Silkworm respectfully led the way and dispersed one by one the many five-foot-tall children who had gathered around out of curiosity.
At the core of the thousand-foot-sized camp is a piece of flattened land, with an earthy yellow color that contrasts sharply with the surrounding green grass.
Some old, weak and disabled indigenous people were hunched over and cutting wild animals with stones on the surrounding land, while some female indigenous people were sorting shimmering elixirs and spiritual plants.
Different from these indigenous people are some young indigenous people. They do not work, but fight and wrestle together.
No one cares about the blood and feces of wild beasts on the ground.
Surrounding them were some young indigenous women who were clapping and shouting, screaming and laughing.
Stimulated by the shouts of the female indigenous people, the young indigenous people who were struggling were even more excited.
A halo of light spread over everyone's body.
When they saw Zhang Ke approaching, who was wearing a white gold robe, all the natives gradually stopped what they were doing and looked at Zhang Ke's clothes with envy.
Many people rushed towards Zhang Ke without hesitation, but were immediately shouted back by Shi Xiong and others who were guarding him.
Zhang Ke observed everything around him as he walked.
Primitive, crude, ignorant, barbaric!
This was the only impression in his mind at the moment.
More than 30 people stopped in front of the largest diameter among the five peaks of 'Xiawan'.
The entrance to the cave is extremely high and wide. Even if a nine-foot-tall native stands upright, it is only half the height of the entrance.
Around the entrance of the cave, there were more than a dozen tall and burly natives squatting or standing guarding it.
Seeing Red Silkworm approaching with Zhang Ke, they all came around with a huff.
These guards were dressed differently from Hong Can and others. They were not grass skirts but short skirts made of animal skins. The weapons in their hands shone with metallic light.
Zhang Ke couldn't help but secretly wonder why Hong Silkworm and others only fought with animal bone wooden spears since they had metal weapons.
Once the 'Language Understanding' magic circle is set up, it cannot be moved, otherwise it will lose its effect. Therefore, Zhang Ke, Hong Can and others are no longer able to communicate at this time.
He only saw Hong Silkworm gesticulating with several guards, speaking words that he could not understand at all.
Zhang Ke tried to use his spiritual thoughts to explore inside the cave, but found that the cave was shrouded in fog and it was impossible to explore at all.
At this time, several guards looked at Zhang Ke's platinum robe and couldn't help but look coveted. They muttered a few words to each other and walked towards Zhang Ke.
There was still two feet away, and a big man in front of him said nothing and reached out to grab Zhang Ke's collar as he walked.
The thirty or so people who had been surrounding Zhang Ke, including Stone Bear and Fire Snake, suddenly stopped.
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There was a look of contempt in the big man's eyes, a purple halo of light beat in his heart, and a ferocious purple ape head appeared on his chest.
The outstretched arm suddenly made a "crack" sound, stretched out four feet, and continued to grab Zhang Ke's collar.
Zhang Ke's white misty eyes narrowed, and with a flick of his right hand, a bit of platinum light shot out like lightning and hit the big man's forehead.
‘Peng~!’
A bit of white light exploded and suddenly dispersed into a cloud of white light, and water spread all over the body from head to toes.
As the white light quickly penetrated into the big man's body, his entire body was also shrinking.
In the blink of an eye, a nine-foot tall man became only one foot in size.
This time, Zhang Ke did not perform the complete "wishful transformation" technique. He did not turn it into any animal, but only reduced it in proportion.
But he saw that the partner he lived with every day suddenly turned into a little kid.
The other big men who were walking towards Zhang Ke immediately flashed back as if they were bitten by snakes and scorpions, and let out screams of extreme fear.
This strange magic was completely beyond their imagination.
Even Shi Xiong and the others couldn't help being frightened and backed away from Zhang Ke.
This scene happened too fast. Hong Can was still entangled with several other big men, but something big had already happened here.
In an instant, dozens of people heard the shouts and rushed out from the depths of the cave, each holding weapons and glaring at Zhang Ke.
A halo of various colors bloomed at the entrance of the cave in an instant, and the sound of roaring tigers and apes could be heard endlessly.
Zhang Ke turned a blind eye to the threats from these people and just looked at the dumbfounded Red Silkworm.
After a while, Red Silkworm reacted.
He shouted loudly in indigenous language and scolded the people who gathered around him.
Red Silkworm's prestige in this tribe is obviously not low. After being scolded by him, half of the people immediately stepped back, while the other half showed hesitation.
Just looking at the reduced companions in front of them, they knew that this stranger was extremely powerful, and they were worried that they would be turned into villains if they took action.
But if you ignore it but it seems unjustifiable, you will be in a dilemma for a while.
The aboriginal who had been reduced to a small size had a look of fear on his face and shouted like crazy.
In his eyes, everything around him became extremely tall, and he was in danger of being trampled to death if anyone walked around.
An indigenous man saw the stalemate in front of him and quietly escaped into the cave.
His behavior did not escape the eyes of everyone present, but someone needed to make a decision at this moment, so everyone just pretended not to see it and continued to stand a few feet away from each other.
Not long after, the native emerged from the cave again, holding up a triangular animal skin with strange runes in his left hand.
When he came to the entrance of the cave, he waved the animal skin in his hand and shouted something from the locals present.
Zhang Ke guessed the content of what he said from the slightly relieved expressions of many natives.
As expected, Red Silkworm made a few gestures towards Zhang Ke with a smile on her face, made an invitation gesture, and took the lead to walk towards the cave.
Zhang Ke followed closely behind, surrounded by Stone Bear, Fire Snake and others.
And around the crowd, there were dozens of strong indigenous men who were confronting each other. Each of them held their weapons tightly and stared at Zhang Ke for a moment.
The interior of the cave is extremely spacious, with the top being more than ten feet high from the ground.
The drooping bell stone shone brightly under the light of the burning torch set up on the mountain wall, which was much brighter than Zhang Ke had imagined.
There are natural caves of different sizes everywhere in the cave, and indigenous residents come in and out of the caves from time to time.
After passing through several lanes, a huge cave was revealed in front of us.
This cave is round in shape, with a diameter of more than sixty feet. The top of the cave is inlaid with a night-glow pearl the size of a head, which glows softly under the reflection of the fire, making the cave look like daylight.
Zhang Ke suddenly discovered that the ground in the cave was actually paved with flat bluestones.
The center of the cave is sunken, and an unknown wood is burning in a fire pit, with a faint fragrance coming out, reaching straight into the heart and spleen.
A few feet behind the fire pit, a two-foot square ten thousand-year warm jade is embedded in the ground. On top of the warm jade is laid a huge beast skin.
At this time, there was a giant man with a height of two feet sitting on the animal skin with his head lowered.
The giant man looks like a giant bear, with his upper body naked and holding a gray four-foot stone awl in his right hand.
Around it, there are more than a dozen strong natives who are more than one foot tall standing upright.
All of them were actually wearing heavy armor made of metal, and they all held sharp weapons that shone with cold light in their hands.
The giant man slowly raised his head after Zhang Ke entered the cave.
A pair of purple eyes stared intently at Zhang Ke's face, with a hint of a ferocious smile on his lips.
"Haha, the cultivator from the outside world has been waiting for you for a long time!"