"I always thought you were a special case before, but I didn't expect that everyone in your Xian Sheng Clan is just like you, with the same arrogance, rudeness, prejudice, and self-righteousness!" Lin Zhiming said to Su Lie with emotion as he walked.
"This..." Su Lie had an embarrassed expression on his face.
"The people here have accepted the idea that all non-human beings are ants since they were young. Whether you are young or old, in their eyes, outsiders like you are just ordinary beings waiting for their salvation. They call themselves saints.
, since he is a saint, he is naturally arrogant, rude, arrogant, prejudiced, and self-righteous." Su Qing said lightly.
"Master's explanation is good." Lin Zhiming nodded.
"I told you, don't call me Mistress..." Su Qing looked at Lin Zhiming sadly.
"Master's Wife, when we cut off the water, you cleared me out of the house. You and I both know why. Now that there are no outsiders here, there is no need to draw a clear line." Lin Zhiming said.
"Hey!" Su Qing sighed and said, "With your identity, I am no different to you than an ant. Why should you cling to your past identity?"
"Once a master, always a father, you are my master's companion, and of course you will always be my master's wife." Lin Zhiming said.
"Old Xu has been doing nothing for most of his life. I didn't expect that before he left, he took on a good apprentice. Come on, come and sit at my place." Su Qing said with emotion.
"Okay!" Lin Zhiming nodded.
Afterwards, Su Qing took Lin Zhiming and others out of the dark palace and walked out from the edge of the dark palace. After walking for about five minutes, a small courtyard appeared in front of everyone.
Su Qing led everyone into the courtyard.
The yard is not big and there is nothing. In front of the yard is a small wooden house. The small wooden house has three rooms on the left, middle and right. Su Qing led everyone to the middle room and opened the door.
The room was a little dark. Su Qing walked aside and turned on the light, and the room became brighter.
Lin Zhiming looked at the front of the room, where there was a black and white photo, and the person in the photo was Xu Bing.
Lin Zhiming looked stern, walked to the black and white photo, picked up three sticks of incense, lit it, bowed three times to the black and white photo, and then inserted the three sticks of incense on the incense burner.
"Sit down, I usually don't have many guests here, so I don't have anyone to prepare tea. I'll pour you a few glasses of water," Su Qing said.
"Mom, leave this matter to me." Xu Wenwen said.
"You sit down too." Su Qing shook her head, then walked aside, picked up a thermos bottle and poured three cups of hot water.
"I know my fate. In fact, there is nothing interesting about the Xian Sheng Clan. It is just a dark palace and a few forbidden areas. And with your identity, you can't enter the forbidden areas. You just saw the dark palace again. If nothing happens, you can come in a while.
We can go back after having a meal." Su Qing said as she put the water glass in front of Lin Zhiming.
"Mom, it took us a whole day to get here, how could you rush us to leave in such a hurry!" Xu Wenwen said dissatisfied.
Su Qing took another glass of water, walked up to Xu Wenwen, put the water down and said, "The Xiansheng tribe and their apostles regard this place as a holy place. For outsiders, it is boring, boring, depressing and has no fun at all.
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"Is that why you had to leave here with my dad?" Xu Wenwen asked.
"That's not true. We are used to this kind of life, so we won't feel bored. The reason why we had to leave here with your dad in the first place was just because we liked him." Su Qing said with a smile.
"In this day and age, love has been free for a long time, why do they still stop you? Besides, you are still a woman, and family inheritance has nothing to do with you. You will have to get married sooner or later, right?" Xu Wenwen asked doubtfully.
Su Qing smiled and shook her head, as if she didn't want to say anything more.
"Your mother is different from others, Wenwen." Su Lie said.
"Why is it different?" Xu Wenwen asked.
"When your mother was young, she was the genius of our Xiansheng clan. My father once regarded her as his future successor. If your mother hadn't eloped with someone, then the saint of our Xiansheng clan in this era would not be me.
It's your mother." Su Lie explained.
"Mom, are you so powerful?" Xu Wenwen asked in surprise.
"How can I be so powerful? Look at me now, am I just an ordinary old woman?" Su Qing said with a smile.
"That's because you missed the best opportunity to open your spiritual orifice. Your spiritual orifice has not been opened and you will never be able to awaken your sensory qualities. That's why you disappeared from everyone. My father has been angry for a long time because of this." Su Lie said.
"Opening the spiritual orifice? What is that?" Lin Zhiming asked curiously.
"This is a unique ritual for our Xiansheng tribe. The reason why our Xiansheng tribe can sense awakening more easily than you outsiders is because we must go through two rituals before we reach adulthood. One is baptism at birth, and the other is ten years old.
The spiritual awakening at the age of eight." Su Lie said.
"Oh? Really? So what is baptism? What is spiritual enlightenment?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Baptism can wash away all impurities in our bloodline and stimulate the talents of the Xiansheng tribe. Why do I say that Wenwen is not from the Xiansheng tribe? It's because she has not been baptized and her blood is impure, so she cannot inspire the Xiansheng tribe.
Talent." Su Lie said.
"What about opening the spiritual orifice?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"The spiritual orifice is opened on the day when one reaches adulthood at the age of eighteen, with the help of some external forces in the forbidden area, the ability to perceive dark energy is opened. Only after experiencing baptism and spiritual orifice opening can we awaken the perceptual qualities. The spiritual orifice has
Nine doors, the stronger the talent, the higher the spiritual aperture. Back then, your wife had a great chance to open the seven spiritual apertures and become a figure alongside the ancient saints. However, she ruined it all because of her affair with a mortal. For this reason
My father was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot, that's why he was so indifferent to Wenwen today, because when he saw you, he thought of your father," Su Lie said.
"That's it! Mom, were you so powerful back then?" Xu Wenwen said in surprise.
"It's not as powerful as your uncle said. The seven spiritual apertures are just what they think. They may not be able to open the seven spiritual apertures." Su Qing shook her head.
"When you were born, you were baptized by seven drops of extremely cold ice springs. It was destined that you would be able to open seven spiritual orifices at the age of eighteen. There is no doubt about this. Otherwise, your father would not value you so much.
You regard it as the future of our Xian Sheng Clan." Su Lie said.
"Extremely cold ice spring? What is that?" Lin Zhiming asked curiously.
"That is the holy spring of our Xian Sheng Clan. All members of the Xian Sheng Clan must be baptized by the holy spring after birth," Su Lie said.
Just as Su Lie finished speaking, a low trumpet sound suddenly came from a distance.
"What is this sound?" Xu Wenwen asked in surprise.
"A newborn is about to be baptized. Every time a newborn is baptized, the whole clan will go to watch the ceremony. You are so lucky. The extremely cold ice spring will only be fully opened when someone is baptized. Everyone will
You can go to watch the ceremony. If you are interested, you can go and see it now!" Su Lie said.
"I'm very interested. Come on, take me to see it!" Lin Zhiming said.
To be honest, Lin Zhiming's biggest purpose in coming to the Xiansheng Clan this time was to get in touch with and understand the strange customs of the Xiansheng Clan, and see if he could find some help from them.
"Then come with me!" Su Lie said.
"I won't go. I'll cook here and wait for you to come back." Su Qing said.
"Master, let's go!" Lin Zhiming said.
"Drink the water first, it's cold outside." Su Qing said.
Lin Zhiming nodded, picked up the hot water and drank it, and then left Su Qing's residence with Xu Wenwen and Su Lie.
Under the leadership of Su Lie, everyone walked all the way south.
On the way, Lin Zhiming saw many members of the Xiansheng tribe. According to Su Lie, baptism is a big event, and basically everyone in the tribe will attend the ceremony.
"The one being baptized this time, if I guessed correctly, should be my second uncle's great-great-grandson. When I left after New Year's Day, my second uncle's granddaughter-in-law was already close to giving birth. She should have given birth a few days ago, so she would be baptized at this time.
, the time is just right!" Su Lie said as he walked.
"Your second uncle's granddaughter-in-law should be from outside, right?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Generally, they are members of the apostles' clans. For the apostles, it is an honor to be able to send their clansmen to our Xiansheng clan to become the wives of our Xiansheng clan men." Su Lie said.
"I see, can you find a wife by yourself? For example, if you are walking outside and see a woman you like, can you marry her?" Lin Zhiming asked.
"Okay." Su Lie nodded.
"Then why can't my wife find a man outside?" Lin Zhiming asked with a frown.
"First, there are differences between men and women. Even if we look for women from outside, the impact will not be great after the bloodline is passed on. After baptism, we can almost pass on the bloodline completely, but women cannot. Our clan's
Women must marry members of the apostle's tribe, so that after giving birth to a baby, the bloodline will be minimally affected. Moreover, your master's wife was originally trained by your father as a saint who would come down the mountain in the future. It is even more impossible for your father to let her have sex with men from the outside world.
Together." Su Lie explained.
"That's it!" Lin Zhiming suddenly realized.
"Hurry up, we're just ahead, it should start!" Su Lie said.
Lin Zhiming nodded and quickened his pace.
Not long after, the two came to a huge cave.
The diameter of the cave is about ten meters, and it is very quiet inside.
"This is our forbidden area. Except for our main lineage, no one else can come here on weekdays." Su Lie said as he walked into the cave.
Lin Zhiming followed him into the cave. After twists and turns in the cave, he finally came to a hollow space.
Many people gathered in this space.
"That's the extremely cold ice spring." Su Lie pointed forward and said.