Giant of Light: I am the Old Ones

Chapter 502: 33 Days of Secret, Human Sacrifice
Amanda, who only rested for two hours last night, got up to wash up. Perhaps it was because the omega in his mind had been active for a long time, and his own mental state was also very good, so he couldn't see the damage to his body caused by staying up late.

Omega collected information about the 33 days. After a night of calculation, he only got one clue about Jue Tian Di Tong, the First Emperor's military talisman.

This made Amanda very strange. He thought that at least the traditional jade seal made by He Shibi could be called an object with weird properties, comparable to things like the Origin Wall Block.

I didn't expect it to be such a thing.

After the death of Qin II, the people's resentment accumulated for many years caused all the heroes to join forces. By the time Chu and Han fought for hegemony, it had nothing to do with the Qin Dynasty's own military power.

So how important can the First Emperor's military talisman be?
The jade seal passed down from the country can also prove that the latecomers took over and carried the destiny, but the military talisman of the previous dynasty had a hammer.

Can he still command the armies of subsequent dynasties?

Amanda waited for Omega to come out of the calculation state. Taking this destiny calculator out to play tricks, it might be able to deceive many foolish kings from ancient dynasties.

"Another army, used to deal with an existing army."

Omega's words were concise and concise, which made Amanda think of another army of the Qin Dynasty, the army buried underground and made of pottery figurines, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses.

"Isn't that the funeral for the dead? Before the Qin Dynasty, there were examples of burials with living people in various vassal states. Before the Zhou Dynasty, the Yin and Shang Dynasties even killed a few people and buried them for sacrifices and divination of geomantic omen. Wait—"

Amanda was talking to herself, and suddenly regained her composure, and asked, "Omega, what do you mean, that army has other meanings?"

Omega nodded slowly and said: "Before Jue Tian Di Tong, at least because of the scarcity of heaven and earth spiritual energy, and before the large-scale appearance of Pre-Qin Qi Refiners, there was something that made the gods afraid, and they had to Jue Tian Di Tong to cut off the power of that thing. . But after that thing loses the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and weakens, it still needs some kind of power to conquer it. The army of the First Emperor is prepared to conquer this existence. "

Amanda found paper and pen and wrote down the dynasties according to her memory, Xia, Shang, Western Zhou, Eastern Zhou (Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States), and Qin.

"Why not bury a living person with you? Or should you say you can't bury a living person with you?"

Amanda was very curious about the existence that caused the immortals and gods to be afraid of the world and cut off the connection between heaven and earth. The gods and gods all ran away in the end. The unnecessary action to cut off the connection between heaven and earth was not just an attempt to isolate pollution.

The purpose is so clear to prevent the so-called spiritual energy of heaven and earth from circulating in the human world. There must be other reasons.

The existence that Omega speculated may be related to levels beyond the physical body.

So in the era when the First Emperor was so powerful, why not be buried alive?The emperor was so cruel that he suddenly opened his eyes to show mercy to the people and buried them with pottery figurines instead.

That means we can't deal with that existence by burying people alive.

Amanda made a mark behind "Qin" and continued to push forward. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty was too chaotic. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the master clearly mentioned the suggestion of avoiding the use of living people for burial after the death of various scholar-bureaucrats. It was just the influence at that time. Not big.

It can be seen that the burial of living people did not put much psychological pressure on the nobles, and the behavior of the First Emperor made people even more suspicious of its additional purpose.

Before the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Amanda didn't remember much about it. Even the textbooks from her previous life only mentioned it briefly. At most, they introduced the enfeoffment system of the Zhou Dynasty and the pyramid-shaped power structure of the Zhou emperor, various princes and even the scholar-bureaucrat class.

As for the Shang and Xia dynasties, historical records are no different from myths and legends. Only oracle bone inscriptions and bronze wares are well-known representatives of characters and smelting levels.

For the people of these two older dynasties, living burials were even more commonplace. At that time, slavery was still in place, and slaves were not treated as the same kind. They were slaughtered like livestock.

No, no, there must be something I overlooked.

Omega slowly said: "Sacrifice, the method of burying people with living people is not just burial, but also means sacrifice."

Flesh sacrifice.

The Shang Dynasty was the dynasty that placed the greatest emphasis on sacrifice.

It is easy to infer that the existence that the immortals and gods escaped was the object of the early flesh and blood sacrifices.

After the Zhou Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty, Zhou Gongdan erased all records of human sacrifice in the Shang Dynasty. People only knew that there was such a thing, but they no longer knew how to do it.

It is interesting to say that the last emperor of the Shang Dynasty, Di Xin, also known as King Zhou, tried to abolish the system of living sacrifices, but was considered by the crusaders as not following the ancestral system, and was listed as one of the reasons for the crusade .

After the Zhou Dynasty replaced them, they only banned the use of human sacrifices. Later vassal states only retained the surname of human burial and completely forgot that human burial was for sacrifice.

If there had been no effective human sacrifice during the Zhou Dynasty that lasted for 800 years, then that existence would have been extremely weak.By the time of the Qin Dynasty, the First Emperor must have realized something and built an army of terracotta warriors and horses to prepare for the final blow to that being.

Regardless of whether it was successful or not, at least Amanda did not see anything wrong in the subsequent more than 2000 years of history.

It's like the ignorant and bloody experience in the pre-Qin period was cut off in the Qin Dynasty.

So, is that existence still alive today?
Amanda concentrated her mind and went to collect more books to judge the information that Omega had guessed.

If the first emperor's soldier talisman is the focus, that army may not have fully completed its mission, and that existence is still alive and has not been crusaded.

The people in the college library were very cooperative with Amanda's request and specially found historical works about the early 33rd Days. Several professors who went on a business trip to the 33rd Days and participated in the joint archeology were also cleared.

The archeology professors at the college are always traveling around the world, because the two largest countries in the Americas, one in the south and the other in the north, have very shallow histories. If you dig into the ground, you will find things that were originally indigenous to the local area.

"Xu Sizi Ding, a bronze vessel unearthed from a tomb in the Zhou Dynasty. There are three floors in total, and there are 72 burials inside, ranging from young children to 40-year-old 'old men'. The deceased on the highest floor is the owner of the tomb, Xu Sizi , uh, they were just killed in the pit. All the burial victims were descendants of their families, and they were buried with the currency equivalents and jade stones of the time before their death. "

A professor directed the forklift to stop. Inside was a large cauldron, which was engraved with the reward given by King Shang to the ancestors of the Xu Sizi family on a certain day in a certain year.The cauldron recording this incident was regarded as a treasure inherited by the family. After it was dug out, a replica was made by the college.

"Actually, we should have brought the real thing back, but those 33 Days people were so tough and good at drinking. They got us all drunk. When we woke up, the things were already protected. ." The professor looked a little unwilling, and Amanda was expressionless. She chuckled a few times and concentrated on summarizing all the information.

King Zhou wanted to abolish human sacrifice, but instead sacrificed a middle-class noble.

Zhou wanted to maintain the ancestral system, but Duke Zhou erased all records of human sacrifice.

Really fun.

The autopsy report at that time made it very clear that the noble family was killed and buried immediately. The head of the family, Xu Sizi, was the last one to be executed. All the corpses were placed on the corresponding floors in the prescribed order.

Each layer of the ground is paved with red sand, and various ritual vessels for sacrifices are placed.The executioner who was responsible for placing the corpse had to be very skilled, leaving no unnecessary traces of dragging the body after death, and completed the sacrifice step by step.

Heh, Shang is already going to attack the middle-class nobles. It's no wonder that the princes of all places don't turn back.

Maybe what Zhou meant by abiding by the ancestral system was that slaves and commoners could offer sacrifices at will, but they, the aristocratic Dingshi family, should not do anything.

However, after the Zhou Dynasty replaced the Shang Dynasty, Duke Zhou must have discovered something was wrong. Since then, the records of human sacrifices have been erased. Burying living people after death has become a simple custom. With the development of the productivity of the times, people's need for land development has , was abolished.

Therefore, it was first during the late Shang Dynasty that both the Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty realized that there was a problem with the existence corresponding to human sacrifice.The Shang Dynasty may have discovered that there was a problem with the blessings obtained through human sacrifice for a long time, and could no longer rely on this power to suppress the princes everywhere.

After the Zhou Dynasty took over, it must have inherited the sacrificial knowledge of the Shang Dynasty, but after reading or even trying this knowledge, the Duke of Zhou realized the problem and banned the sacrifice of living people.

The other princes did not know this secret, but they were accustomed to burying the living for the dead of the nobles, and did not use the method of sacrifice, thus weakening the existence.

Until the Spring and Autumn Period, the Confucius respected Zhou rites and realized that even if there were no sacrifices, living people would still be buried with them, which might indirectly maintain the power of that existence. Only by completely abandoning the system of burial with living people could that existence be obliterated. .

However, the Master obviously did not tell this matter. The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were originally a period of weakness of the Zhou Dynasty, and various princes and states were competing for hegemony.If they knew that human sacrifice could communicate with a certain existence and even gain the power to suppress the world, human sacrifice would definitely rise again.

So the Master just made some comments at the right time and avoided talking about that existence.

As the saying goes: You don’t talk about strange powers and confuse gods, but you respect ghosts and gods and keep them at a distance.

It was not until the end of the Warring States Period that the First Emperor knew about that existence.The monarchs of the Five Dynasties of Qin State made a lot of preparations for prosperity, and collected many alchemists and Qi practitioners. There would always be one or two smart enough to tell the monarchs of Qin State that there was a power of human sacrifice that could help Qin State suppress the world.

So the thing that killed the most people before the unification of Qin was that Bai Qi killed Zhao Jun in a trap.

Amanda raised her eyebrows. She shouldn't have. At that time, it was only a matter of time before the power developed by the Qin State unified the six countries, and there was no need to rely on the power of human sacrifice.

Continuing to infer, Emperor Shihuang must have realized that that existence was dangerous after his unification.It has not been supplemented by sacrifices for nearly 800 years, and its decline has reached the extreme.

If that existence could be wiped out in one fell swoop, the Qin Dynasty would have nothing to worry about.

The abolition of the feudal system prevented princes from reappearing in the Warring States Period, and the introduction of the county system ensured that local power belonged directly to the central dynasty.

Finally, build an underground palace, create an army of pottery figurines, and conquer that being after death.Even if someone later obtained the method of human sacrifice, they would no longer have the power to overthrow the Qin Dynasty.

This may be what the First Emperor really thought.

The so-called burning of books and entrapment of Confucians meant that what was burned was not only some secrets about Penglai, but also the secret of human sacrifice that can be inferred throughout the ages.

However, the First Emperor apparently did not realize what peasant uprising and class struggle were.

Qin, which unified the six countries, existed for only more than twenty years before it was overthrown.

The good news is that later monarchs seemed to have no knowledge of human sacrifice. On the contrary, they felt that the First Emperor's actions of refining elixirs and seeking immortals were very suitable, and several emperors who cultivated immortals were born.

In this way, another 2000 years have passed, and the object of human sacrifice has still not been supplemented.There has not even been a large-scale burial of living people. Even if that existence is not dead yet, it should be almost cold.

So the question remains the same, why are the immortals afraid of this existence? This is not normal at all.

As long as they show themselves to the mortals, explain the benefits and harms, and don't use human sacrifices, they can starve that guy to death.

Think about what restrictions there are.

According to the routine, that existence was probably the opposite of the immortals and gods, or simply the evil thoughts of the immortals and gods, or the innate gods and demons before the immortals and gods established the heaven. Human sacrifice was the right way in the world at that time. .

It's all in the novels.

Amanda rubbed her forehead. There was only so much she could infer at the moment. She would take time to go to 33 Days later to see if she could find the First Emperor's military talisman.

Buster said sullenly: "Isn't it just a human animal in the period of civilization and ignorance? The ancients didn't regard slaves as the same kind, and sacrificed them like livestock. It's not normal."

Little Amanda corrected her: "In the sacrificial pit discovered by the college's archeology, the people who died were nobles, or nobles with some status."

"It can't be that noble who angered King Zhou, meow. Didn't you say that King Zhou was cruel in this novel? Also, according to the book and the remake of the TV series in Amanda's memory, the Heavenly Court was even opened after King Zhou died. Established. So when exactly the Jue Tian Di Tong actually began remains to be discussed.”

Buster's head was spinning and scratching, and what he said made Amanda's head spin again.

Heaven only appeared after the death of King Zhou and the end of the canonization of gods.

Alas, I don’t know whether the immortals and gods in this world are the ancient heaven or the heaven of the gods. It’s a headache.

Obviously the focus is only on the First Emperor's military talisman and the corresponding army that conquered that existence. Now that it has expanded, all kinds of messy problems have cropped up.

"Pack it up and leave for the 33rd day tomorrow. It's best to deal with these hidden dangers in advance. I don't want the trump cards left by the unworthy gods of various civilizations to come out one by one to stab me in the back when we finally fight Gatan."

(End of this chapter)