the last priest

The whole altar is three meters high and divided into three floors. The whole shape is trapezoidal. 1 swastika 1

On the lowest altar, there was a bronze tray utensil, about one meter long, with a hollow in the middle, which seemed to be used to hold something. Cha Wenbin stepped on this altar and found the It's dusty, and it looks like no one has used it for a long time.

Climbing up the steps is the second floor, which is the altar in the middle, where a bronze statue about two meters high stands.The protruding eyes, wide earlobes, and big mouth that seems to be smiling but not smiling, are exactly like the man carved on the bronze coffin. I really don’t know if the ancestors here looked like this, or there were others. exaggerated ingredients.The important thing is that the hands of this bronze statue are hugging forward. Cha Wenbin took a closer look. The middle of his two palms should have been holding something, but now it has become hollow.There are some ritual utensils around the portrait, most of which are basin-shaped utensils, and there are more or less black impurities in them. I scraped it carefully with the tip of a knife, and sure enough, it was blood!

It seems that this is the place for the blood sacrifice. There are no more steps going up. On the top floor, a bronze tree about ten meters high stands solemnly and gorgeously in the center.The shape of the tree is very unique. With the trunk as the fulcrum, it is divided into upper, middle and lower sections. Three branches are arranged in sequence on each section. There is a bird perched on each branch, and each bird has a bird in its beak. A brass bell with bare branches and no decoration of leaves.Zha Wenbin compared the tree branches he took from Mochizuki in his hand. Except for the bird and the copper bell on the branch, they were very similar in shape and carved patterns, but they were much smaller in size.The big ones are five or six meters long, and the small ones are two to three meters long, but the one in my hand is a bit nondescript.However, he still knew too little about such things, so he turned around and shouted, "Old Wang, come and have a look."

When Lao Wang climbed the second step with the help of Cha Wenbin, he was deeply shocked by the incomparable bronze tree. He was speechless for a long time, and it took him a long time to hold back two words: "Miracle!"

"Is this what you are looking for? A sacred tree that can open the door to the Three Realms?" Cha Wenbin didn't think that this thing could penetrate the heavens and the earth except for its shape. In his eyes, this might just be the age Just old stuff.

Lao Wang focused his eyes on the bronze statue again, and he also saw the hole. After some gestures, Lao Wang boldly stated his own speculation, and restored the place 3000 years ago one by one.

Lao Wang took the branch in Zha Wenbin's hand, and said with gestures: "There is also a record in the "Shan Hai Jing": "There is a hibiscus in Tanggu, which is bathed for ten days, in the north of Mochi.Living in the water, there is a big tree, which lives in the lower branches for nine days and the upper branches for one day. "It means that in Tanggu, East China Sea, there is a sacred tree named Fusang. There are ten suns living on the tree, and they are carried by three-legged birds on duty every day. When one sun rises, the other nine Resting on the sacred tree, now we only see nine birds, so where is the tenth bird? I am afraid it is the sun wheel in your hand, Brother Wen Bin. Suppose we take the sun wheel as the tenth bird, because Originally, the symbolic meaning of these birds, in addition to the totem of the clan, was to represent the sun, and they climbed up the highest branch in turn to become the sun, so this bronze wheel was both the sun and the incarnation of the bird on duty that day. Then this A tree branch should be the one at the top, which is said to be broken by Houyi.

If we connect the tenth branch and hang the bronze wheel on the top, will it restore the original appearance of this sacred tree? "

For those myths and legends, Cha Wenbin is not particularly cold, but what Lao Wang said does explain the relationship between the tree branch and the sun wheel. The sun wheel is the tenth bird. Without it, the tree would not be complete , then the altar would lose its meaning, and after an epiphany, Cha Wenbin said: "Then what do you think this tree is for?"

Lao Wang looked at the bronze statue and said: "There is only one explanation, here is a miracle, but we seem to be missing one thing, that is the stick that Brother Wen Bin once held in his hand, can you tell me its origin ?"

When Cha Wenbin heard the stick, he thought of the three-legged toad. Is it okay now? "I found it in a cave after I fell down the waterfall. It was a three-legged toad that was guarding it at the time. It was also it that led me to the last cave where the jade coffin was buried. It opened a passage to get there, and I think the staff should be a key, but it seems that the staff has supreme rights to the ancestors here."

"Oh?" Old Wang became interested, "How do you know?"

Zha Wenbin roughly told Lao Wang what happened in the passageway, and also told about the Sheber boat and the golden mask back and forth.

Lao Wang connected these things together, together with the materials they had been studying in their organization and the information obtained by the gray beard, a dynasty 3000 years ago was gradually restored by the two.

The ancient Shu Kingdom more than 3000 years ago was in the legendary post-Yufu era. After the Yufu king passed away, he was buried in a jade coffin in order to be resurrected after death. The method he used was completely different from the former Cancong. The opposite of.

After the kings of all dynasties completed the unification of the country, the pursuit of longevity was the only goal. The most familiar to us is Qin Shihuang who sent Xu Fu to the east to search for medicine, which led to the later Japan.

Cancong, the first king of Shu, combined the magic of Central Plains Taoism. According to Hua Baibeard, earlier, a Central Plains Taoist once came to Qifeng Mountain for a generation of activities. After the operation, he went to the door.It is impossible for the Han people to learn witchcraft from other races, which is absolutely impossible to be approved, but the Taoist priest agreed to help Cancong build a great formation for rebirth based on Fengshui in the middle-earth Taoism, so that he can escape the reincarnation of the three realms and live forever.In exchange, this person also exchanged the theoretical knowledge and essence of Taoism in Middle Earth. Cancong and him went to worship under the Tsing Yi God who is proficient in witchcraft. And the unparalleled technique of gods and ghosts.

This Taoist perfectly combined the literature and martial arts and created a famous sect in the history of Taoism. After his death, he was also among the immortals and became a generation of celestial masters.

But our King Cancong of Shu was full of pursuit of immortality, and he set up such a cumbersome and vicious formation, and ended up with a living dead.This method, King Yufu must have known that it was a failure, so he wanted to use a new method. As their descendant, King Yufu chose the technique of ghosts.By sacrificing one's own descendants and absorbing their spirits to reshape a new self, from both perspectives, the rebirth of the self is based on the sacrifice of the people.

First let the fish grow from the water, and then let the birds eat the big fish, which symbolizes the unity of the heaven and the earth. The blood of the bird already contains both, and then the jade coffin is stained with blood, and the souls are opened, and the ghost energy is condensed into its seven spirits. Soul, because these people are its descendants, and its memory is recorded on every dead soul.And that scepter is the key to the fusion of souls. With it, the dead souls will find their target, and use this unimaginable way to reshape the three souls and seven souls of a person.

These two methods, one is to hide by Taoism, and the other is to hide by gods and ghosts, it can be said that they have brought their respective abilities to the extreme.

The Yufu Kingdom at that time was a society with clans as the unit, and several clans constituted a kingdom as a whole.Each clan is led by a priest, and all the people in the clan obey him.After the death of King Yufu, the entire kingdom was controlled by a high priest. The position of the high priest was equivalent to that of the emperor of the Central Plains at that time. He controlled the power of life and death, economic lifeline and political system of the entire kingdom. He was probably the Xuebai ship For him, rebirth is also very important. He stole the scepter that was originally in the jade coffin and used it as a symbol of power to consolidate his position. , has been unable to be reborn.

But one day, the high priest suddenly died of illness. This news is undoubtedly a bad news for the ancient Shu Kingdom.All of a sudden, the entire kingdom fell into a leaderless situation.In order to prevent foreigners from taking advantage of this opportunity to invade, and to stabilize people's hearts, the most urgent task is to establish a candidate for the high priest.The establishment of the high priest in the ancient Shu Kingdom did not adopt the inheritance system like the Central Plains, but the selection system.This system is similar to our current electoral system for people's congresses, where state leaders are elected by popular vote.However, the right to select the high priest of the ancient Shu Kingdom was concentrated in the hands of a few priests.

On choosing an auspicious day suitable for taking office, on this day, the new leader will lead people to hold a series of ceremonies to announce his inauguration to everyone.So everyone led the people of their own tribe to come here, and a grand ceremony is about to start. . . . . .