Monster Rush

Chapter 172
The next day, after all the materials were sorted out, the time of departure was also put on the agenda.

Firstly, it is not advisable to stay here for too long, so as not to encounter the pursuers from the Scarab Empire in advance;
Secondly, it is the information sent by the scouts. The giant army is only three days away from here. If you don't hurry, you will be dumped by the other party.

In the end, the elders unanimously decided to set off early the next morning.

All that needs to be done before departure is to perform a soul-calling ceremony for the soldiers who died in battle.

This is a necessary ceremony after each battle of the human tribe after being promoted to the big tribe.Now an alliance has been formed, large and small tribes are condensed into a whole, and they are also divided by the majority.

War: Battle of Iron Hung Pass
Warring parties: Kigal Insect Kingdom, Scarab Empire, Star Compass Terran Alliance
Number of armies at war: more than 20 worms and [-] humans (only counting the number of people participating in the battle)

Engagement time: seven hours

Winner: Star Compass Terran Alliance

Results: more than [-] beheaded

Our losses: 1088 dead and 2766 injured.

Every warrior is the mainstay of each tribe, and it will take at least ten years to train an excellent warrior.

Such a huge loss is already traumatic for the alliance. Without the addition of fresh blood, it will take at least four or fifty years to recover from the damage.

In the past few days, the bones of all the soldiers who died have been buried, and tonight, a soul-calling ceremony will be held for them.

The concept of life and death of the human race in this world is still at a relatively primitive stage.Man is made up of body and soul.The body can act because of the possession of the soul, and the soul can exist because of the possession of the body.Death is to completely separate the two, the body loses its soul and gradually rots, and the soul separates from the body and gradually dissipates.

But in this world, there will be birth, old age, sickness and death, so it cannot be forced.But there are always some people who can't die, so for this kind of people, it is necessary to call the soul.

The so-called soul-calling process is to call back the souls of those who died due to various accidents, enshrine them on the spirit cards, accept the incense sacrifices of the posterity, and complete the last journey of life that only has souls.

These sacrificial souls are almost all soldiers who died on the battlefield. People guide these dead souls home by means of evocation, enshrine them on the spirit cards in the tribe's Hall of Valor, and accept incense sacrifices.

Some powerful souls will maintain their existence through sacrifices, and survive in an incomprehensible way for ordinary people, and guard the tribe. Therefore, they are also the guardians of the tribe and are named "heroic souls".

But those who can become heroic souls must be powerful warriors during their lifetime, or they must be objects of fanatical belief.

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Soon, the golden sun sank, the twilight gradually dispersed, and the night fell in the blink of an eye, covering the earth, showing the world a bright and psychedelic starry sky, as well as the high-hanging rainbow July.

Inside Tiexiong Pass, a raging fire ignited.

Bunches of bonfires were lined up neatly on both sides of the street, and the fires illuminated the solemn faces of the clansmen who were also standing here.

clatter!clatter!clatter!
A desolate horn sounded, and a group of people, wearing white robes and pale masks, danced and sang ancient songs:

"The soul is coming back, no hesitation, going to the king's constant work, what is the four directions? Go back to the hometown! Go back to the hometown! There is no way to go to the four directions..."

They are soul callers, singing soul songs, waving soul streamers, and guiding the direction of returning home for the souls of soldiers.

Countless people followed behind them, each holding a spirit card with the names of the war dead engraved on it, and the jars containing their ashes.

This is one of the ceremonies of summoning souls, and it is usually held by the closest person of the war dead. With their familiar aura, it attracts those confused souls wandering between heaven and earth.

Lei Chuan watched this scene silently, and suddenly there was a line in front of his eyes, and dense data appeared in his pupils.

Under his vision, strands of strange energy flowed into the tokens one after another. Accompanied by the song of the soul, the tokens burst into bright red beams of light one after another, straight into the sky.

The heights are uneven, the high ones can reach three to forty meters, and the low ones are only five or six meters.

These should be the souls of people!
As soon as they saw the beam of light bursting from the token in their hands, the relatives of the war dead all wept with joy, expressing their excitement by crying and laughing loudly.

There are more than 100 tokens that have been successfully evoked, which only account for one-tenth of the total, but it is already a remarkable number in the big tribe.

Among them, as long as the beam of light exceeds 30 meters, there are five. These are the existences that are qualified to grow into "heroic souls"!

At the end of the ceremony, under the leadership of the spirit summoner, everyone, no matter whether the spirit summoning succeeds or fails, must place tokens and ashes in the Alliance's Hall of Valor.

This was the first time Lei Chuan had seen the Temple of Valor.

The so-called Hall of Valor is just a huge stone tablet, the color of bones, with countless names engraved densely on it, and a few dozens of names on the top are bright red.

The soul-caller first went forward to kneel down to the stone tablet, kowtowed three times and kowtowed nine times, still singing songs, then took out jars of ashes and smashed them directly on the stone tablet.

This made Lei Chuan feel terrified, and almost wanted to go forward and grab those soul callers as their assistants.

Then, something magical happened.

The ashes flowed to the stele as if they had come to life, clinging to its shell, making the stele paler again.The name on the spirit card was brightly colored and appeared on the stone tablet in an inconceivable way, and then the spirit card made a crackling sound and turned into fragments all over the ground.

Until now, the ritual of summoning souls is truly complete.Next, the family members of the war dead came forward to express their condolences, and immediately put out the incense sticks that had been prepared for offering.

"I didn't expect it, this is summoning souls!"

Lei Chuan was filled with emotions. Without the concept of hell, reincarnation, ascension to heaven and becoming a Buddha, it was an eye-opener for the human race to treat the dead in this way.

Looking at the energy fluctuations revealed on the stone tablet, Lei Chuan knew that the soul-calling ceremony was not a simple funeral ceremony, but could really call back the souls of the dead, allowing them to continue to exist in the world in an incomprehensible way. In the world, guarding this tribe.

It is said that in large tribes with more than 5 people, their soul shrines can already enshrine heroic soul warriors in a cohesive form, turning them into guardians against foreign enemies. If the alliance wants to reach that level, there is still a long way to go.

In addition to the war dead, the spirit summoners also tried to summon the souls of the martyrs who died at Tiexiongguan 3000 years ago, but sure enough, it didn't work. Such a long time has passed, how could there be souls still alive Between heaven and earth, under disappointment, the soul caller also sprinkled the ashes of the martyrs on the stone tablet, which can be regarded as respect for them!

After the ceremony, everyone dispersed, and the migration would begin tomorrow morning.

(End of this chapter)