The longevity of the heavens begins with Mingyu Gong

Chapter 284 The Golden Sacred Tree
The black carriage opened, and Song Xing got off the carriage.

When they arrived at Longquan City, which was the site of Baiziting, tens of miles away from Longquan, Baiziting arranged for his men to hurry back to the city and put on the most solemn etiquette to welcome Song Xing into the city.

Inside the city lord's mansion, the lights were brightly lit, and on the magnificently decorated main hall, there were countless men, women, old and young people standing in two rows. They were all famous people from all over Longquan, but at this moment they were all kneeling quietly and solemnly in front of the hall.

In the middle of the main hall, Bai Ziting sat on it, with a calm demeanor, exuding a kind of majesty.

Facing Bai Ziting's thanks again, Song Xing held up the wine glass in front of him, and looked at the strange flowers carved on the golden wine glass with great interest:

"I came to Longquan only to find the historical sites left by the descendants of the Yufu family. You have lived in Longquan for so many years, so I think I am more familiar with the surrounding terrain than a newcomer like me."

Although he was very eager to grab Song Xing's life-saving straw, Bai Ziting still did not hesitate to agree, but asked solemnly, "Dare to ask you, what are the characteristics of this Yufu clan?"

After Xi Yao roughly described the situation of the Yufu clan, Bai Ziting sent someone to find the most knowledgeable shaman in Longquan and asked about the records of the Yufu clan.

Shamanism worships nature, worships totems, worships nature, and believes that everything is animistic and the soul is immortal.It is believed that the world is divided into three realms: "heaven" is the upper realm, where the gods live; the ground is the middle realm, where humans live; "hell" is the lower realm, where ghosts and ancestor souls live.

In Longquan City, Su Mohe also believed in shamanism. Whenever he encountered unresolved matters, the great shaman would consult his ancestors, divination and ask spirits.

Faced with Bai Ziting's question about the Yufu clan this time, this old shaman with white beard and hair, after thinking for a long time, really provided a useful clue.

Before Shamanism ruled this grassland, hundreds of years ago, there was an extremely powerful sect that believed in the golden sacred tree, lived on the top of the snow-capped mountains, and ruled the world high above.

But on a certain day, when the end came, the snow mountain collapsed, burying that sect in the snow mountain forever, and because of this, Shamanism was able to develop step by step and become a new belief of the grassland people.

"Golden God Tree?"

Song Xing and Xi Yao looked at each other, and asked Bai Ziting: "May the patriarch ask, what does the golden sacred tree that this sect believes in look like?"

Bai Ziting nodded, and quickly communicated with the old shaman with millet. The old shaman was old and his thinking was slow, but he could speak clearly. The sect in the middle, the golden sacred tree of belief roughly looks like.

"Although it's not a golden mask, it's quite similar to using a golden object as a totem."

Song Xing communicated with Xi Yao, and handed to the old shaman the golden artifact of the Sun God Bird of the Shang Dynasty that Xi Yao found.

The old shaman opened his eyes wide, looked at the gold vessel carefully, muttered in his mouth, and returned the gold vessel to Song Xing after a long time, uttering a series of words.

Bai Ziting translated next to him: "The great shaman said that this divine bird is more similar to the totem of the Snow Mountain Sect in the Shamanism records. On the golden sacred tree that the Snow Mountain Sect believed in back then, there was a golden divine bird perched on it. It symbolizes the sun that shines on all things."

Hearing this, Xi Yao showed joy: "Then dare to ask the city lord, where is the snow mountain where the Snow Mountain Sect is buried?"

Bai Ziting asked the great shaman again in Sumo language, and the answer he got was that the snow mountain is just a few miles north of Longquan City, and it is also the birthplace of Longquan City, Longquan Mountain.

Longquan Mountain is one of the holy places of the Sumo people.

Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a large tribe here in Longquan Mountain, but for some reason, it suddenly split into today's Sumo Ten Clans.

Although the ten tribes are independent, they all regard this towering mountain as the most mysterious mountain in their hearts.

It represents holiness, bravery, and strength, and it symbolizes the glory and hope of the Sumo people, so the Sumo people call this peak "Longquan".

But when it came to Longquan Mountain, both Song Xing and Xi Yao keenly noticed a trace of unnaturalness flashing in Bai Ziting's eyes.

"Isn't it convenient to go to Longquan Mountain?"

Faced with Xi Yao's question, Bai Ziting did not hide it: "Don't dare to lie to the nobleman. Although Longquan Mountain is a sacred mountain of the Sumo clan, for a hundred years, no one has dared to go up that mountain."

"Why?"

"It is rumored that in order to enter the holy mountain to find the remains of the Snow Mountain Sect, the Turks sent a team of thousands of people into the mountain. As a result, none of these soldiers came out alive."

Bai Ziting's face was a bit ugly, "Because of this, besides being a holy place, Longquan Mountain is also known as a thousand-year-old tomb. The surrounding trees are dense, dark and humid. Except for a few wild wolves passing by occasionally, you can't see them anymore." Figures of other animals."

"In addition, the Snow Mountain Sect will be destroyed in one day, so in the hearts of ordinary grassland people, Longquan Mountain is an unknown place, and strangers should not approach it."

Regarding ghosts and gods, Song Xing and Xi Yao didn't believe it: "It's okay, we wait for the warriors to have strong blood, even if there are evil spirits, we can't get close."

Seeing that Song Xing had made up his mind, Bai Ziting stopped talking and said instead: "In this case, tomorrow I will arrange soldiers to go to Longquan Mountain to explore the way for the nobles. After all, Longquan Mountain covers a vast area. We can find the Snow Mountain Sect ruins sooner.”

Song Xing nodded: "In that case, it's time to work."

In the next few days, the three of Song Xing settled down in Longquan City, and Bai Ziting arranged hundreds of young men to head towards Longquan Mountain.

Longquan Mountain covers an area of ​​thousands of miles. Naturally, it is impossible to find the Yufu ruins directly based on rumors. We can only choose a direction to start digging within the approximate area delineated by Xi Yao and the few words passed down from the shamanism.

At the same time, Bai Ziting was also recruiting troops in the city, dispatching troops and dispatching generals, in order to cope with the war that may occur in the future.

During this period, Baiziting sent another book of animal skins that recorded the deeds that happened near Longquan before the Sumo Mohe tribe and Longquan City were founded.

Although the Sumo tribe did not have their own civilization, they also had simple characters, and would engrave some important deeds in Sumo language on stone tablets or record them on animal skins.

In this animal skin book called the Salmonella Sutra, Song Xing learned many deeds recorded by the Sumo tribe.

In this way, a few days later, Longquan got the news that the East Turkic Jieli Khan personally led an army of [-] to attack Longquan, intending to destroy Longquan City in one fell swoop.

And the number of battleable soldiers and horses in Bai Ziting's hands, including the old and the weak, is only ten thousand.

What makes Longquan even more desperate is that this time, in order to completely destroy Longquan and not establish a country for Longquan, Xieli paid a huge price and personally led the Golden Wolf Army to conquer Longquan in order to completely destroy Longquan.

But at this moment, the Lord of Longquan, Bai Ziting, and Song Xing had already penetrated into the snow-capped mountains outside Longquan City.

(End of this chapter)