Therefore, we can only let it play with its applause, use it as it comes, and always be on guard against the danger lurking in the shadows.
The ghost mother-in-law thought to no avail, so she had to give up the pursuit for the time being and continued: "As for the ritual in your dream, if I guessed correctly, it should be the so-called Silkworm God's Rebirth Sacrifice. The Silkworm God, also known as the Gu God, is a belief of the evil witch sect.
The supreme god in the system has the same status as the trinity of Moon God and Hades."
According to Granny Gu’s explanation, I learned that although this evil witch sect was born out of the royal sacrifices of the ancient Dali Kingdom, the gods it believed in were not the common totem symbols of the earth, such as the emperor, heaven and queen, or the sun, thunder and lightning, which represent positive power.
On the contrary, because they needed to communicate with their ancestors and the spirits of the underworld to perform various sacrifices, Nuo dances and prophecy activities, they believed more in the sources of various negative powers, such as the moon, the underworld, wind or water, etc. Later they lived among the people.
When he started to practice Gu, he took the Gu God, a golden silkworm in legend, as his main object of belief.
In the folk beliefs of southern Xinjiang, there are many myths about worshiping the moon, or legends about certain insects. The Xiewu Cult co-ordinated them and developed them into a unique system, which regards the moon, Gu, and the underworld as
The three sides of one god, with human life and soul as the highest sacrifice.
The sacrifice to the Silkworm God that I saw in my dream was to use eight kinds of highly poisonous poisonous insects and feed them specially pickled poisonous flowers to stimulate the most powerful toxicity and torture effects in the body.
The human beings who are sacrificed need to undergo special training, and even have certain physical requirements. You can't just pull them in casually.
The reason is that this sacrifice is not only about sacrificing life, but also about pursuing the kind of pain when a person is poisoned by poison. Only the more torture you suffer and the more painful it is, the more loyal you are to the poison god, and offering this sacrifice is a sign of loyalty to the poison.
Those who perform ritual sacrifices can obtain the supreme power bestowed by the Gu God.
Therefore, at least there must be a sacrifice that can withstand eight kinds of poisons without dying, which can be regarded as a preliminary success. However, most people will probably die from the burning poison of the first type of colorful centipede. The Langya spider can survive the third level.
There are already very few people, let alone those who can persist until all eight types are incarnated.
Therefore, those who hold sacrifices will consciously select those who are born with anti-toxic constitutions, train those who have a higher affinity to toxins and are less likely to die, and gradually feed them small amounts of toxins to let their bodies gradually get used to this feeling.
And a certain amount of antibodies are produced so that the patient will not die suddenly.
The process of fighting antibodies and toxicity in the body is extremely painful, and this is one of the key points that can be used to enhance the effectiveness of the ritual.
However, these eight kinds of poisons are too powerful. If you take any one of them, you can kill people invisible. Even after strict training and adaptation, it is rare to be able to carry out half of the sacrifice. Even if the body itself can withstand the poison, but the physical body
The torture he endured was enough to gradually drive a person crazy.
The girl in my memory was tortured to the point of losing her mind by poison and stood up to resist. These sacrifices have received uniform training and training since childhood. They are very firm in their belief in the Silkworm God and in their obedience to the person who presided over the ceremony. Under normal circumstances, it is absolutely impossible.
Engage in disobedient behavior.
But driven by the fierce poison and the desire to survive, she gave up all her beliefs and codes. In order to get rid of this pain and continue to survive, she was willing to disobey the supreme Silkworm God and kill the person who raised her with her own hands.
old man.
"So, since the evil witch sect has been passed down to this day, has there really been anyone who can withstand the test of eight poisons?" I asked with some disbelief, "The people in this cave have just passed the third level.
There's only one left, and the old man probably hasn't seen many sacrifices that can survive the next few levels in his life."
"Yes, generally speaking, even if you prepare for decades, you may not be able to have a sacrifice that survives to the end. However, with a huge base, there have always been successful cases. Those who are lucky enough to survive the eight trials without dying.
Stupid sacrifices are eligible to directly become the chief saint of the evil witch religion, and the supporters who offer this sacrifice can be promoted to the chief protector or even the high priest, which can be said to be the supreme glory." Ghost Granny
After a pause, he seemed a little hesitant, but he continued:
"There is another special case, that is, each generation of evil witch cult leaders need to pass three major trials before they are qualified to succeed as the leader, one of which is the sacrifice of the silkworm god. However, because of the blood of the leader's family passed down from generation to generation,
It has its own unique characteristics, plus it has received special training in adapting to various poisons and poisons since childhood, so the probability of successfully passing it is not low, with an average of about one-third."
"Only one-third? Assuming that each potential successor is a descendant of the current leader, doesn't that mean that on average, two children will die in each generation?!"
"Yes, so being the young master of the evil witch sect is not something to be thankful for. Passing the trial is just a hard test. There are factional power struggles within the sect, as well as overt and covert struggles with other external sects. What's more,
It's because of the many crises that your friend chose to leave his hometown." The mother-in-law sighed:
"We should hurry up. I don't think the other party will send people to capture your friend for no reason. After so many years of not looking for her, we are taking her away now. I'm afraid it's because the other successors failed to pass the test smoothly.
So I had to find her to go back and get tested."
Granny Ghost's words made me feel nervous. Accept the trial? Doesn't that mean that Wanlin will also have to endure the same torture as in my previous dream? No, it should be several times more than that, and failure means death. If
If she succeeds, she will be even more unable to leave this prison.
Seeing my very stiff expression, my mother-in-law thought she had guessed my mood, and her tone seemed to be slightly softer: "You don't need to worry too much now. This kind of test at the leader candidate level cannot be carried out hastily. It will definitely be done in
Large-scale celebrations such as the Moon Worship, the Gu God Festival, and the Hungry Ghost Festival are held in public, so we still have time now."
"Besides, I also have a debt to settle with them. Humph, Manchurian flower. They really do have Manjushuahua. Back then, they actually said that Manjushuahua was extinct and that there were no more two flowers in the world. It was all lies!"
My mother-in-law's tone was very angry, but if I listened carefully, I found that there was a little surprise mixed in. I thought that the flower of the other side carved on the brocade box might be what she had been looking for.