This was the first time I saw my grandmother when I gradually recovered my past life memories and began to observe this vast wilderness.
Wu Wan only remembered that when he was held in his arms by his grandmother, his grandmother's trembling hands... almost shook him unconscious.
His grandmother loved him very much, and he had the childlike charm of an 'old boy'.
She would fight with her grandson like a child, compete for some children's toys, deliberately make her grandson cry, and talk about grandpa's heroic demeanor without crying.
The most impressive time was when I was seven years old. I was studying the structure of a waterwheel by the lake. My grandmother's frame appeared behind me. This grandmother, who could hardly walk and whose body had shrunk due to old age, deliberately moved it from half a mile.
He jumped off the bicycle frame that was ten feet high, kicked him into the lake, and ran away with his crutches in hand.
Like the wind.
Another time when I was five years old, I stole my grandmother's dentures and smeared them with five-spice powder that Nishino got. My grandmother kindly used a cane and chased him throughout the royal court for a long time.
When witnessing this scene, my father shed two tears with excitement, feeling that my grandmother had new vitality and could live for several more decades.
Looking back on these now, really...
Wu Wan's eyes were a little red and he sniffed hard. Many old people in the tent raised their hands to wipe away tears.
"Young Master, everyone is calling over."
General Xiong San shouted outside the tent, but he did not dare to speak too loudly; after all, the third general's parents and uncles were inside, and they could easily be beaten by the irritated ones.
"Su Qing," Wu Huan looked at Lin Suqing aside, "my grandmother likes to be lively, and there is no such thing as a wake-up call in Beiye customs. Please help me do some customs in the human realm."
Lin Suqing asked solemnly: "Do you want the full set?"
"Try your best to stay with her for me."
After Wu Wang said this, he glanced at his grandmother's remains, lowered his head and walked out of the tent, heading towards the dark night filled with firelight.
As soon as I took two steps, I heard Lin Suqing giving instructions in the tent, calling for a long table, candlesticks, fruit offerings, yellow paper, and paper burning basins...
Turning around, Lin Suqing first took out a peach wood sword from the storage magic weapon and put it in the corner, then took a futon and spread it on the ground. With a solemn face, she said loudly:
"The sky is high and the earth is vast, and the people are born!"
Women are truly heroic, and there are heroes in Beiye!
My relatives have gone on the yellow crane, but the sound of their departure remains, and the building is not empty!"
this?
Qingfeng Wangyue Gate has such an elegant name and its business is so extensive?
Intermittent wailing sounds suddenly came from the big tent, and Wu Wan was in a rather gloomy mood.
In front, a man and a woman wearing sacrificial robes stood with their heads bowed. Their faces were gray, and most of the priests in the first few rows had gray hair.
Wu Wan thought about a lot of things before.
He wanted to start with 'the clan is the place where everyone is born and raised', but also thought of starting with 'which is more important, the respect for the Star God or the lives of the clan members'.
He actually wanted to ask these sacrifices.
If beasts descending from the sky are gifts from the Star God, then why are there no ordinary beasts descending from the sky during the years of famine, when the tribesmen are likely to starve to death in those famine-like years?
Why did he, a young master who was originally determined to live a life of peace, spend several years designing, finding good excuses, and almost all his efforts to establish a grain storage system and enlighten his tribesmen on the concept of animal husbandry?
Just because I saw the tragedy of the famine years when I was three years old.
but……
Look at these people in front of you.
With these figures standing in front of him, between the tents, and on the muddy grass, Wu Wan suddenly fell silent.
All the words rose to the top of his throat, and he swallowed them back.
What else don’t they understand?
They are all older than me, have more experience than me, and know Kitano better than me. In the final analysis, I just lost some courage at noon and had no idea of resistance.
Wu Wan lowered his head slightly, and the light from the torches on both sides illuminated his side face, but there was always a little haze that could not be illuminated.
"Little Lord."
The contemporary chief priest took half a step forward, his eyes full of guilt, "It's us..."
"My grandmother is gone."
The chief priest's body trembled, and the elderly female priest lowered her head and sighed; Wu Wan's grandmother was her teacher and her best friend to this day.
Many of the priests' eyes were red and their faces were filled with deep guilt.
Wu Wan's voice was quite calm and he whispered:
"Today, a total of 2,232 people in the clan lost their lives, and more than 1,600 people were seriously injured. Because this is the royal court, most of the casualties were the elderly and children.
This is because most people walked out of the royal court when the ferocious beast attacked, otherwise the casualties would have been incalculable."
The nearby camps were completely quiet, and occasionally the crackling of torch flames could be heard.
"I am Daihoshi Matsuri."
Wu Wan raised his head slightly, with a somewhat self-deprecating smile on his lips.
"When the vicious beast suddenly attacked, I realized how useless the Great Star Festival was. I couldn't even get its attention."
"Young Master, please don't blame yourself. This is not a force we can fight against."
A female priest with a kind face said in a trembling voice: "This is the blessing of the Star God, a gift from the starry sky, and the will of the Star God."
"Yes, this is a blessing from the Star God, a reward from the Star God to her most diligent believers!"
Wu Wan suddenly raised his head, his expression solemn, his eyes so clear.
"For a long time, Star God's blessings have occurred every one or two hundred years, and the selected clans were all the most powerful clans at that time. We have never asked why.
Have you ever thought about why this is happening?"
The people in the big tent behind him were attracted by him and looked over.
The priests, who originally bowed their heads in silence, now looked up at Wu Wan in somewhat astonishment, looking at the face of their young master that exuded divine light.
What the young master said at this moment was actually... completely different from what they had expected...
"Because the Star God cannot understand us! Just like we cannot understand the Star God!
She guards the endless starry sky, protects the sky in Beiye, rotates through drought and wind and rain, and watches the entire land of Beiye!
It is disrespectful to the Star God to use our self-righteous ideas to speculate on the Star God!
Those thoughts that try to make the Star God look at themselves are the real ignorance!
Star God will not see the life and death of one person, a few people, or thousands of people. What she sees is the peace and survival of countless lives in Beiye!"
In the big tent, Lin Suqing couldn't help but widen her eyes when she heard the words.
What are you talking about, young master?
‘The gods are just creatures that have already taken control of the Tao.’ Isn’t this what the young master said to himself before?
how……
The expressions of the priests had changed from shocked at first to thoughtful at this time.
Wu Wan is still shouting:
"Blessed by the Star God, it is already the weakest beast that the Star God can lower down to the earth and use his divine power to create!
Using the weakest beast to test the strongest clan is the Star God's most gentle blessing to her people.
And us!
But even the weakest beast sent by the Star God is unable to open its body and embrace the true gift of the Star God!
This is a shame!
It’s a disgrace to Beiye, and it’s also a disgrace to my Bear Hug Clan’s priests!”
He said: "If the Star God wants to destroy us, why would he use ferocious beasts? The Star God only needs one thought."
He added: "When blessings come, why should we complain that blessings will choose us?
What we need to reflect on is how to inherit the gifts given by the Star God when blessings come!
Allowing blessings to disappear at the edge of the earth is the greatest insult to the Star God!"
The chief priest's voice trembled slightly: "We...were we thinking wrong all along..."
Wu Wan let out a long sigh: "These words were actually conveyed to me by my grandma, who asked Su Qing to convey them to me. At the last sublime moment of her life, she heard the Star God's somewhat lonely sigh.
We have disappointed the Star God."
Lin Suqing's body suddenly tensed up, and her face was full of seriousness. Although she didn't know what to do, she still stood there and nodded vigorously.
The confusion in the eyes of the priests was even worse.
Wu Wan's voice became calmer:
"It turns out that you have never understood the Star God's will.
Look at the starry sky, think about it carefully, and stand here for two hours."
After saying this, Wu Wang turned around and walked back to the tent, where he knelt down beside his grandmother and Hua Tuan, praying quietly.
Soon, whispers came from outside the tent:
"We have always understood wrongly. We need to take the initiative to receive the Star God's blessing?"
"The Young Master is not only the future leader, the Young Master is also the youngest Star Sacrifice. He will definitely be recognized by the Star God..."
"The Star God's blessing is the Star God's will, but the Star God's will is to give us trials and wealth, not to give us disasters."
"Yes, if the Star God wants to bring disaster, he only needs to bring famine or drought."
The whispers gradually grew louder, the priests were debating and quarreling, each of them looked remorseful and became nagging.
"Priest, let's go take on the trial!"
"Lord Star God protects us, and ferocious beasts are our enemies. How could Lord Star God allow ferocious beasts to become divine envoys!"
"Let's go kill that beast!"
"The star-praying technique we have practiced so hard should be used at this time! Why were we afraid and hesitant before! Our clan members did not die in vain!"
"At that time, we couldn't stop the fireball. We were too far away..."
In the camp, Lin Suqing watched this scene blankly; was this what she had seen before, the priests who kept kneeling before the ferocious beasts?
Wu Wan was a little speechless in his heart, and felt a little more apologetic when he looked at his grandmother's remains.
He had just assumed his grandmother's name, but there was really nothing he could do about it.
The priests' fear and worship of the Star God are deep-rooted. This is the result of repeated prayers and self-hypnosis. If he uses the name of the clan to call on them to fight against the beast, it will ultimately lead to a sense of belonging and belief in the clan.
A strong conflict of belonging.
Maybe some priests will commit suicide because of this.
What other options are there?
Yes, do the opposite.
Use your identity as the youngest star priest to redefine the "Star God's blessing" and integrate their sense of belonging to the clan and the Star God to generate the strongest fighting spirit!
Wu Wan had actually had this idea for a long time, but today, he used his mother's memory to witness the whole process of the Star God and the Star God's blessing, so he put this bold idea into practice.
[God’s right to release].
That is, the authority and power to explain gods and miracles.
The worship of the Star God in Beiye is relatively simple, and they only know how to pray to the Star God. The core of the divine power is the seven-day sacrifice, but the daily sacrifice has separated from the clan and lives on the snowy mountains.
If the Star God cannot manifest her spirit and cannot speak, then she is just a little girl who can be dressed up by others.
Of course, the premise is that the Seven-Day Festival also remains silent.
By the way, Wu Wang had studied some ancient records before and found that after Riji succeeded to the throne, no matter which tribe the Riji came from, he would transform into a human form similar to the human race.
This should be related to the fact that the great goddess Nuwa referred to the innate body when she created the human race.
Back to the current question.
To get rid of this ferocious beast that fell from the sky, there must not be too many casualties, and we must have the help of the clan's sacrifices.
Powerful clans all have mounts that can fly into the sky. If those strong men decide to come to help in the battle, they will arrive one after another at noon.
At this moment, everything is ready.
The priests were already excited. If they had not been stopped by the chief priest, some of them would have been tempted to fight to the death with the ferocious beast.
'It's time to make a plan to kill the beast.'
Wu Wan closed his eyes and used lines to outline the bodies of the ferocious beasts in his mind, trying to recall the changes in various positions of the body when the ferocious beast moved.
Only by finding its weaknesses can you get twice the result with half the effort.
About an hour later.
Woo——
The sound of the horn is a rapid and majestic sound of the horn!
There was a rumbling roar from the earth, as if thousands of troops were galloping across the grassland!
Wu Huan suddenly stood up, with an expression that could not conceal his excitement, and rushed out of the tent quickly.
"The leader is back!"
"The leader and the others are back!"
The originally dull camp suddenly became lively. People rushed out of every tent and looked towards the north where the horn came from.
As Wu Wang walked forward quickly, he was secretly alert in his heart. He seemed to be somewhat dependent on his father.
There is no way, his biological father in this life is powerful and very good to him; his father's strength is different from the power of praying for stars, similar to the physical cultivation in the human realm, but unfortunately it cannot increase his lifespan.
My plan must be understood by my father in the shortest possible time, and then my father must command the powerful people in Kitano who will come to support him...
Eh? That's dad's mount?
In front of the tent, Wu Wang raised his head and looked in the direction where the ferocious beast was trapped. He happened to see a snow-white giant bear with two wings rising into the sky, roaring in the air, and spraying out a huge ball of light from its mouth.
.
A majestic figure jumped down from the bear's back and hit the ferocious beast's bulging back directly!
Wu Wang used the Star Prayer Technique to bless him, and when he looked closely, he could see his father holding the long ax high, his long hair flying freely, the animal skirt and armor on his body making a sound, and his majestic muscles seemed to be burning with flames, and his face was covered with fire.
Full of ferociousness!
"If you dare to touch my people, I will chop you alive! Ah——"
Eh?
Why did you get on it directly?
Hearing a roar, the bulging backs of the giant beasts burst out with dazzling firelight, and a huge fireball shot into the sky, instantly ejecting the figure.
At this time!
唳——
A high-pitched eagle cry suddenly appeared in the night sky, and a strange-looking goshawk descended from the sky and flew quickly towards the camp. When passing by the back of the giant beast, another figure jumped out, holding two sledgehammers, and let out a shocking laughter.
, and punched the beast on its arched back.
"Xiong Han, you loser! If you marry Cang Xue, you will become weak, right?
Hahahaha! I’ve been craving your giant crossbow for a day or two!
The leader of Beiye Dalang Clan is here, I will kill this giant beast for you! Prepare some good wine for me! Hahahaha!"
Then……
The roar started again, and a second fireball rushed into the sky. The charred figure of the strong man with flames drew an elegant arc and landed deep in the grassland.
"Save the leader quickly!"
The chief priest said hello, and the whole camp became noisy; the goshawk quickly turned around and chased in the direction where its leader was shot away.
But before they could rush over, there was another shouting sound from where the two figures landed. The two figures jumped up at the same time, jumping tens of feet high, facing the sudden burst of fire, they raised their heads high.