Gu Fengchun thought for a long time, but still couldn't think of a reason. Since he couldn't think of it, he didn't think about it anymore. He found that his reaction to the scepter came from his own feelings. He had always been afraid of danger.
The feeling was very strong, but he didn't know when his uncontrollable sixth sense started to become interested in a scepter. "There may be something special about this scepter." Gu Fengchun thought to himself.
. He has obtained the crystal head on the scepter, so he naturally knows the mystery of the crystal head. What will happen if the crystal head is placed on the scepter? Gu Fengchun is very interested.
These eleven priests in white seemed to be discussing something. Gu Fengchun just approached him and left without listening carefully to their conversation. After he calmed down, Gu Fengchun gave Luo Xiaodan a look and pulled up.
After seeing Luo Xiaodan, he joined the crowd.
Gu Fengchun discovered a very interesting phenomenon, that is, although he could see these people, he could not touch them. However, when he wanted to touch them, it seemed as if they were blocked by something, and he could not really get close at all.
Of course, they had not seen these people at all when they appeared here. At this point, Gu Fengchun was even more certain that they were in different time and space.
Seeing Gu Fengchun's mysterious movements, Luo Xiaodan frowned and asked, "Fengchun, what are you doing?"
Gu Fengchun smiled and said: "I am testing some of my thoughts to see if we are in an intertwined time and space with these people."
Luo Xiaodan nodded, but her eyes were full of confusion. She didn't know whether Gu Fengchun could really verify something effectively by doing this.
The two of them were only one or two meters away from these people in white, and they could clearly hear their exchanges. But what made Gu Fengchun depressed was that he couldn't understand the content of these people's conversations at all. Even he
It is impossible to analyze from the accents of these people what language family their words belong to. Gu Fengchun, an expert on ancient writing, seems a bit embarrassed. He is quite outstanding in the study of ancient writing and has also done some research on the national languages of some ethnic groups, but here, he
That little bit of research is of no use at all.
Luo Xiaodan also listened to the conversations of these people. The voices of the people in white were very loud and full of energy, but each person's voice had a tone of compassion in it. As a girl, Luo Xiaodan was more likely to listen and speak out.
These priests seemed to be arguing about something.
Gu Fengchun couldn't understand what they said, so he stopped listening to their conversation. He turned his attention to these people in white clothes. He found that these people in white clothes were headed by people wearing gold and silver gold foil masks, and they were on the left and right.
There were five people standing. In addition to the man in the gold and silver mask holding a scepter in his hand, there were several other people holding different things in their hands. The most eye-catching ones for Gu Fengchun were the two people close to the gold and silver mask.
, one of them was holding a piece of tortoise shell in his hand, and the other was holding a handful of grass, which were used by the ancients for divination.
And Gu Fengchun also gradually discovered that the people divided into two sides were each led by one of them. The leader in the gold and silver mask did not speak, as if he was listening to the debate between them before making a decision. After a while, the leader
After holding the scepter in his hand, everyone immediately stopped talking, as if he had made a decision.
Luo Xiaodan saw this scene and said to Gu Fengchun: "Can you understand what they are saying?"
Gu Fengchun shook his head and said: "I don't understand at all, but I can guess what they are arguing about."
"Huh?" Luo Xiaodan was greatly surprised and asked quickly: "Why were they quarreling?"
"For divination." Gu Fengchun pointed to the people on the left and right sides of the leader and said; "Look at their hands, one is holding a tortoise shell, and the other is holding yarrow. They are both used for divination. Obviously these
The two groups are engaged in a debate to strive for their own methods of divination."
Luo Xiaodan couldn't help but nodded, but she was a little puzzled: "What's so noisy about this? It's enough to use both of them together, isn't it?"
Gu Fengchun shook his head and said: "What you said violates the taboo of divination. The ancients had to bathe, change clothes, and fast for several days to perform sacred rituals for divination. There can only be one divination method chosen at a time, and there are very few.
People will choose to use two methods together for fear of completely different results, and then they will not know how to choose the result of divination."
After listening to Gu Fengchun's explanation, Luo Xiaodan suddenly realized. But before she could say the words "I understand", she saw the leader motioning for people on both sides to perform divination at the same time. She looked at Gu Fengchun with a puzzled look.
, the expression is filled with the expression "Are you lying to me?"
Gu Fengchun was also shocked. This kind of phenomenon is really rare, but he happened to encounter it, and he said it so fullly. "What's going on?" Gu Fengchun murmured. He didn't know who this leader was.
Why is he so crazy that he would choose two divination methods at the same time? If the opposite results happen to occur, how can he choose between them?
"Come and take a look." Gu Fengchun ignored the doubts in his heart. After seeing the priest holding yarrow, he raised his hands and bowed to the sky, and murmured something. Everyone else immediately knelt down, including the leader.
A priest with a tortoise shell in his hand knelt down, immediately stood up, walked to a burning fire nearby, walked around the fire three times to the left, and then three times to the right.
, he kept mumbling to himself. After a while, he put the tortoise shell into the fire. Luo Xiaodan almost screamed when she saw this scene. Because she clearly saw that the priest and herself
His hands were put into the blazing fire. However, the priest did not show any pain, but looked very peaceful and calm.
Luo Xiaodan murmured to himself: "The power of faith is really scary." Gu Fengchun nodded in agreement with her statement. But a moment later, the two of them saw the priest holding yarrow holding a sharp knife.
He pierced his heart, and the blood immediately dyed his white linen clothes red. Luo Xiaodan was so frightened that he screamed. When he saw this scene, Gu Fengchun couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
Although he didn't know the meaning of it, he knew very well that this was definitely the highest-level divination ceremony among all the sacrifices. What made the people of this tribe use such bloody divination? What happened to their tribe?
What kind of dilemma? These questions flashed through Gu Fengchun's mind quickly.
Gu Fengchun said softly to Luo Xiaodan: "Don't panic." She reached out and held Luo Xiaodan's hand. Gu Fengchun nodded with a pale face. But she did not dare to look at the blood on the priest's chest, and turned to look at the man who was putting his hand on the fire.
The priest looked at the roasting priest in the pile. But the smell of burning came to her face immediately, and she suddenly felt like vomiting. After taking a deep breath, she did not dare to continue looking.
Gu Fengchun watched with great interest. He saw the priest holding the yarrow quickly wiping the yarrow on his chest, letting the yarrow be covered with his blood, and then quickly took out one, and the rest was all at once
He sprinkled it on the sacrificial altar. Then he handed the piece of grass he took out to the leader. After doing this, his hands and feet became less agile. Gu Fengchun was already thinking about the miracle in his heart.
If an ordinary person suffered such a blow to the heart, he would have died a long time ago. However, the priest was still able to hold on and perform divination, which was really beyond his expectation.
When Gu Fengchun saw his divination method, he immediately thought of the divination method in the Zhouyi. When divination with yarrow was used in the Zhouyi, fifty yarrows were used. First, one was taken out and left unused, which represented the beginning of all things.
"One", and then divide the remaining yarrow into two parts, symbolizing the two poles of heaven and earth, and then pick up a bunch at random and perform a series of operations in the fingers, and then get the final result. The movements of this priest are ancient and pure.
It reminds me of "The Book of Changes".
However, the priest was not as good as Gu Fengchun imagined. The yarrow in his hand was obviously larger than the number fifty. He managed to support his body, and then divided the yarrow into three parts with great effort. Gu Fengchun saw
This scene immediately made him dumbfounded. His research on the Book of Changes was somewhat advanced, but this was the first time he had seen this method of divination.
After the priest made three piles of yarrow, the leader quickly stood up and gently tapped the leftmost handful of yarrow with the staff in his hand. Seeing this, the priest immediately grabbed the handful of yarrow.
, the two priests next to them also stood up quickly, each took a handful, and then threw it over their heads. However, after a while, the yarrows fell on the altar one after another, and none of them fell outside.
After the two priests finished all this, the priest in charge spit out a mouthful of blood, dyeing the entire altar red. Then he threw the yarrow in his hand in front of him, covering it sparsely.
Gu Fengchun frowned when he saw the other yarrows. He couldn't understand the mess at all.
After doing all this, the priest suddenly trembled and stumbled back, as if the result of the occupation was not good.
At the same time, the priest who had put his hand into the fire let out a mournful cry. Gu Fengchun and Luo Xiaodan quickly turned around and saw the priest slowly putting his hand into the fire.
He pulled it out. The tortoise shell in his hand was gone.
When the leader saw that the priest had only one blackened hand bone left, he spat out a mouthful of blood. His body swayed and he almost fell down. Seeing this, Gu Fengchun muttered in his heart: "This leader's mental quality is too low."
Come on, isn't it just that the results of the divination are a little bad?" Gu Fengchun knew that the piece of tortoise shell exploded in the fire, leaving nothing behind. This situation rarely happens, but the result is also very bad.
Yes, that means that the consequences of their divination are the most serious.
The leader's free hand reached towards the mask on his face tremblingly, and slowly took off the mask from his face.
Gu Fengchun was very curious when he saw the leader taking off his mask, so he watched intently to see what the leader looked like. But after the leader took off the mask on his head, Gu Fengchun had an expectant expression on his face.