the last priest

Cha Wenbin looked down at his left hand and said, "But I really haven't practiced the way of ghosts, which is what you call witchcraft. Are you sure my hand is the backlash of witchcraft?"

"Yes, I can feel the aura of my family's witchcraft on your body. Although it is still very weak, it has already begun to eat away at your body."

"Is this witchcraft only known to your high priests?"

"We have guarded the sacred mountain behind us for generations. It is said that a tribe escaped from here a long time ago. They took away some things belonging to the Qiang people and the patriarch who was still in their infancy. So now we have no As for the patriarch, I, the high priest, will act as the interim patriarch."

Then they were taken out of the tent, and a sumptuous dinner had been prepared for them outside.

The Qiang people are very hospitable, and they prepared good wine, a kind of local wine made from highland barley.On the fire, the fragrant and golden fat sheep dripping with oil are roasting.

Priest Yun arranged for Zha Wenbin to sit with him, while the others surrounded the city in a circle around the fire.

Many teenagers and girls danced the most primitive dance around them wearing masks woven with feathers, and sang beautiful and high-pitched melodies with the unique voice of the plateau.They use animal tendons to make strings, large chunks of cowhide to make drums, and hold various animal bones in their hands to bump against each other as the accompaniment of the banquet.

Although they don't understand their language, wine is the best communication tool between men.The fleshy face is not only good in skill and strength, but its drinking capacity is not limited. The man who was knocked to the ground by him during the day and him were still fighting at the wine table. The two directly confronted each other with a somewhat crude clay pot When I woke up, I felt a bit like seeing each other late.

On the contrary, Lao Dao and the others just raised the bowl symbolically. As an excellent soldier, the most important thing is to keep a clear mind at all times.

Zha Wenbin and Priest Yun clarified his purpose of coming here. He came here to find an ancient relic, and now it seems that it is roughly the so-called sacred mountain.

Priest Yun said that as long as they could go in, he would not stop them, just like their ancestors let the person surnamed Chang go in. They believed that this sacred mountain would only allow those who were destined to come out alive.

Another thing has always been Cha Wenbin's heart disease. Taking this opportunity, he said: "Today I found that there is a kind of character engraved on the waist plate of that strong man. I want to ask the high priest Yun. This is used by the clan." Word?"

After receiving the affirmative answer from Priest Yun, Zha Wenbin was a little overjoyed. He immediately spread out a piece of paper, dipped it in red cinnabar, and copied the 72 characters that had already been printed in his brain verbatim. The handwriting basically refers to the original manuscript, and then it is presented to the high priest.

The high priest took a look, squinted his eyes by the firelight, and immediately asked, "Where did you get this thing?"

Zha Wenbin described to the high priest the fact that this thing came from the General Temple, and the old man was a little inconceivable after listening to the story, and then he was surprised: "The people in the Central Plains have used witchcraft to such a superb level. , that person was able to walk out alive is really a blessing."

Priest Yun took Zha Wenbin back to his room in a hurry, and he translated the text in the manuscript verbatim into Hanzi and wrote it on the parchment and handed it to Zha Wenbin.

High Priest Yun said a little excitedly: "Every generation of our high priests has been reading these Taoist knowledge handed down from the Central Plains to cleanse their eroded souls, but no one has ever thought of combining this witchcraft with Taoism. People did it, no wonder he was able to walk out alive."

Zha Wenbin took the sheepskin scroll and looked at it. There are many Taoist cultivation methods that he is familiar with in the full text, and there are some that he has never seen before. A profound interpretation of ghost seal characters.

That night, the two sat at the table and talked, and a priest who was proficient in witchcraft and a generation of Taoist teachers finally completely unlocked the true text of the "Ruyi Book".

On the desk of Priest Yun, there are many books on Taoism in the Central Plains, including Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, and the great book about all the theoretical knowledge of Taoism later, which is known as "the head of all the classics and the source of the Dao." The Book of Changes.

As early as 5000 years ago, Fuxi drew the eight trigrams and created 64 hexagrams.Fuxi drew the gossip according to the phenomena of nature.At that time, Fuxi discovered many mysteries of the universe, but they were lost without written records.In the time of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty, the mystery discovered by Fuxi was exposed by King Wen. After reading through the mysteries of gossip, King Wen discovered that it contained the mysteries of the universe, and at the same time contained all the principles and principles related to life.Later, King Wen made changes, using the hexagrams and lines of the 64 hexagrams to record the 64 principles of the universe and pass them on to later generations.

The other one is Lao Tzu. This true god known as the Supreme Lord in Taoism is said to be a descendant of Peng Zu.

According to the deduction of the two of them, if the Kunlun gods and men are taken as the origin of everything, then this is the birthplace of the first generation of Chinese mythological figures, which was about five years ago.

Then 3000 years ago, a tribe migrated from here, and finally reached the Sichuan Plain, forming a new ethnic group. This ethnic group was the ancient Shu Kingdom established by Cancong and Yufu King. Since then, the Shu Mountain lineage has opened up China. The second chapter of the history of mythology, and there will be no blowout legends again, because this country was finally destroyed by Qin in the Warring States Period.

And Pengzu is the great-great-grandson of Zhuanxu, one of the five ancient emperors. According to legend, he lived for 800 years and was listed as a fairy by Taoism.And Emperor Zhuanxu unified the Qiangdi that moved out, and King Cancong and King Yufu were also his descendants, which means that Emperor Zhuanxu was most likely the patriarch who was taken away from here.

Taoism is based on the "Book of Changes" and Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching" as its theoretical basis. It absorbs Taoist thought, but it is different. In the end, this religion built on the basis of Taoist thought is called for Taoism,

But Cha Wenbin called him Taoism in its most primitive form, because Taoism at that time was still a religion that propagated ideas based on theoretical knowledge, and did not evolve the various spells, methods, and formations that appeared at that time. It should not have the ability to communicate with the gods.

And in that age of mythology, the only one with the ability to use supernatural powers was the witchcraft of the Qiang people!

According to Priest Yun's explanation, their witchcraft mainly has the following things:

The first is qi and blood: it can make injured people recover as soon as possible within a period of time. It is mainly used to treat diseases and disabilities. This is vividly reflected in the three-legged toad. Heals in a short time.

Priest Yun said that according to records, there used to be a kind of beast on this mountain that could have such abilities, but it was said that it was taken away by people in the tribal branch at that time, and now it seems that it was taken to Mount Qifeng!

The second is Linghui: In ancient times, the combination of strength and wisdom could control the fate of others. Linghui was also the high priest. His wisdom was supreme, he could call the wind and rain, and he had a leading position in the tribe.

Here the high priest is the cloud opposite Cha Wenbin, while in Sichuan it is the golden mask!

In this regard, Priest Yun is different from that golden mask. Perhaps they are the origin of the gods here, and there are enough animals to perform priests by themselves, while the branch far away in Sichuan has to force the people of their own tribe to feel the gods. Sacrifice their gods at the cost of their lives.

The third is prediction: use the best men or women of the clan as seedlings, and train their premonition ability, a bit like a prophet, to judge the future direction, mainly the weather, harvest and so on.

The last one is soul-hunting: it is similar to Taoist priests like Cha Wenbin and the others, except that they are good at performing death techniques, such as the technique of bringing people back from the dead, and the undead witchcraft of making people live forever.But every time the soul-hunting technique is performed, the high priest needs to pay an extremely painful price, and the immortality he obtains is nothing more than living longer.

Cha Wenbin said that these witchcrafts are very close to the Taoism he is learning now, because Taoism and Taoism respectively correspond to the use of spells to cure diseases, that is, to exorcise evil spirits, and then to pray for rain and blessings. , and the other one is fortune-telling, divination and fortune-telling. Although Cha Wenbin dare not say that he can bring people back to life, another skill of Taoist priests is to deal with invisible things.

The two of them suddenly discovered that this ancient witchcraft was the embryonic form of Taoism used by Cha Wenbin now.It's just that Taoism has a more complete theoretical thought and academic system.

Zha Wenbin showed Priest Yun some of his frequently used spells, many of which even Zha Wenbin himself could not understand were proved to come from this ancient Qiang culture.

At this point, a true source of Taoism has been fully revealed in front of them.

According to their calculations, the person surnamed Chang came here two years, 500 to 3000 years ago. He brought a lot of Middle-earth Taoist thoughts and classics. In exchange, the high priest here taught him the ancient The witchcraft of the Qiang nationality allowed him to successfully walk out of the birthplace of the first generation of myths.

Afterwards, this person with the surname Chang began to try to use this combination of witchcraft and Taoism to gradually give Taoism the most primitive form: at this time, Taoism had its own theoretical system and corresponding cultivation methods.

But because the patriarch here, that is, the king of the tribe, has left, some higher witchcraft in the hands of the king has not been handed down. It was not until many years later that a celestial wizard came to Qifeng Mountain.

The migrated tribes found that they could not achieve rebirth and immortality only with witchcraft, so a disciple of Taoism rudimentary used five elements, yin and yang and gossip to help them fulfill this wish, and should have acquired a more advanced witchcraft method , thus creating the real "Wishful Book" that is now in front of their eyes.

There are seventy two characters in a line, and the things contained in it seem to have contained everything in the whole world. The translated text alone may take Cha Wenbin a lifetime to decipher!