Wei Yuan looked at the bronze artifact in his hand, with surprise and astonishment in his eyes.
Is this, resonance?
He tried to call the Shang King Bronze Jue, but got no response.
This also proved the unexpected situation now.
The consciousness of the Shang King Bronze Jue would fall into a deep sleep every time it resonated.
At this moment, the ancient patterns on the bronze jue slowly lit up, and the trajectory of the Chaoge City map reappeared, and the other two bronze artifacts also began to glow. Wei Yuan did not expect that these three bronze artifacts would resonate like this.
Especially Su Yuer, who was the "key", and the bronze dagger were not here.
According to the original inference, without Su Yuer and the sword, it would be impossible for the bronze artifact to react. Could it be that there was something wrong and hidden that was not seen clearly last time?
Wei Yuan pondered for a while and entered the quiet room with the three bronze artifacts.
He raised his hand and laid down the talisman to cover the aura.
It seems that because the aura itself was confined in this small room, the aura between the three bronzes became more and more intense, and the ancient patterns on them lit up, and the aura of the blue and green escaped, hitting the wall, and was rebounded by the talisman.
The auras overlapped continuously, and finally even had a vast and majestic taste, as if it turned into waves.
Wei Yuan stood in the blue and green waves, and finally felt where the thing that caused the resonance of the bronze came from. He stretched out his hand, and the bead transformed by Sakurajima's divinity emerged, swept by the ripples of the bronze, and a flame like steel appeared, burning slowly, and the overflow made the resonance of the bronze more intense.
Is it divinity?
Wei Yuan thought, although this thing came from the geisha doll, it was indeed a divinity that had gone through two thousand years. After erasing the spirituality, what was left was a small but pure divinity.
So, in order to promote the resonance of bronze, you need to burn the god as firewood?
It is indeed the Shang Dynasty style of worshipping ghosts and gods.
Wei Yuan quickly thought of the reason-
These bronzes were cast in the late Shang Dynasty, and in the Shang Dynasty, ghosts and ancestors were worshipped.
The highest god in the Shang Dynasty was called "God", which was the soul of the dead Shang king, and the one who was still alive was called "Xia Di". In that era, the gods of the Kunlun line had long disappeared from the world and did not communicate with people.
It was normal that the things cast by the Shang king, who was called "Xia Di" at that time, could be opened with the power of ghosts and gods. Of course, this was obviously not a normal way to open it, but a tricky method, so it required a huge price of completely burning the divinity.
It was like... a catalyst.
Wei Yuan stretched out his hand and crushed the bead transformed by the divinity of Sakurajima.
The divinity turned into light dust and flew into the divinity of the bronze flame, stimulating the three bronzes to start vibrating violently, as if something was about to appear from nothingness, and Wei Yuan thought of the last time Su Yuer had dripped her blood into it, and her blood made the bronzes resonate to a very high degree.
So, can we speculate that Su Yuer's body is sleeping with a high-level divinity from Shenzhou?
Wei Yuan's expression moved slightly, and at the cost of completely burning Sakurajima's divinity, the bronze ripples suddenly converged, and the three bronzes were suspended in the air. The patterns on them seemed to have become real, emitting a mixture of bronze and gold light. The bronze plate was suspended in the center, and water emerged from it.
Then, a picture suddenly appeared on the water.
It was still the same towering altar that I saw last time, but this time there was no one wearing simple clothes, praying and dancing on the steps, which made the altar look a bit lonely. Because the people who prayed before were not there, the cracks on the altar could be seen, and it was guessed that it must be very old and had experienced too many years.
Then, Wei Yuan saw a person staggering on the altar.
He was a man at least in his forties, with a strong and tall figure, obviously full of powerful muscles, black hair standing up, wearing a robe that represented a wizard, but he was now distracted. He came to the altar, suddenly knelt down, put his palms up on the ground, kowtowed, and his face was full of pain:
"Gods, if you really exist,"
"Then show up quickly, the people of Shang can no longer hold on..."
"The exiled mountain and sea beasts appear more and more frequently."
"But they are getting farther and farther away from the human world."
He kept kowtowed, and the language he used was the kind commonly used in Shenzhou before the Western Zhou Dynasty. Wei Yuan could barely understand it, and his expression was slightly moved. He could confirm that the people living here were indeed the people of Yin Shang, but what he didn't expect was that the beasts in the Classic of Mountains and Seas appeared frequently in the place where the remnants of Yin Shang lived.
Is it because they are also far away from the human world?
Emperor Xin tried to send Chaoge City out of the human world, but he was close to the world of strange beasts in the mountains and seas?
At this time, the man kowtowed heavily, clenched his hands tightly, and said in a choked voice: "Does it really mean that we must start blood sacrifice and human sacrifice again, and sacrifice with our own lives, before you will respond?"
Start blood sacrifice and human sacrifice again, that is to say, even in a closed place. Did the remnants of the Shang Dynasty still abolish that barbaric way of sacrifice and multiply until now? Wei Yuan captured the key information in this sentence. He wanted to help, but relying on this bronze plate alone did not seem to help them.
No, maybe you can try it.
At least to prevent the tragedy of blood sacrifice from happening again.
After thinking about it, Wei Yuan stretched out his hand and tried to touch the bronze plate.
......
Half a day ago.
In Chaoge City.
"What did you say?!"
Wu Yu glared at his best friend. He couldn't believe that the words came from his best friend. The man in armor and holding a spear was silent, but said calmly: "That's it."
"I propose to reopen the ancient way of sacrifice, blood sacrifice."
Wu Yu said: "Why?!"
Fei Yu replied: "You know."
He stared at Wu Yu and said slowly: "In the past few hundred years, the strange beasts in the Shanhaijing have appeared more and more frequently. Their power has not weakened at all, and they are still so powerful, but what about us? Think about it, what about us?!"
Fei Yu answered himself: "Weaker and weaker."
"Who else can practice to a high level in these years?"
"We can't open the underground palace left by our ancestors. The qualifications and progress of practice of each generation are constantly weakening. Even if we use us to hunt strange beasts and use their blood for sacrifice, The response we got was getting worse and worse. It was obvious that the ghosts and gods were abandoning us. "
"If this goes on, one day, we will not be able to kill even the weakest beasts. At that time, it will not be a group that dies, but all of them will be killed. Instead of that, it is better to abandon some people, sacrifice blood to the ghosts and gods, and then exchange for the survival of another part of the people, in exchange for the reproduction of the entire Chaoge."
Wu Yu said: "Abandon some people, and then exchange for the survival of another part of the people? ! "
"Who will die? ! Who will be the sacrifice? ! "
"Do you want us to let Chaoge fall into the day of fighting each other? Propose this method and force others to die? This will cause chaos in the entire Chaoge city. I would rather die with everyone and fight with the beasts of the mountains and seas than..."
Fei Yu replied: "I will go."
Wu Yu's words suddenly choked.
The tall Fei Yu said with a relaxed expression: "We have discussed it. We proposed it, so we will be the first batch of sacrifices to restart the blood sacrifice of two thousand years ago to worship the ghosts and gods."
"Perhaps you will feel that it is selfish and cruel to survive in this way, and it is better for everyone to die in battle together in an upright manner. Maybe it is true."
"But the survival of civilization is above all this."
"Beyond cruelty, selfishness, and even above so-called human nature."
"If the current situation continues, Chaoge will be in a hundred years at most. It has become a dead city. If our attempt is effective, at least in the future, our descendants will be able to judge us as cruel, barbaric, and selfish, and they may even be able to return to Shenzhou. "This is more important." ......
Watching his friend leave calmly, knowing that in another month, it would be the time of ancient ghost and god sacrifices recorded in ancient books, Wu Yu was powerless, because what Fei Yu said was true, and the methods they passed down from generation to generation were based on ghost and god sacrifices, and ghost and god sacrifices must be blood sacrifices.
With great pain in his heart, Wu Yu came to the original sacrifice place in confusion.
He had long passed the age of believing that the upper and lower gods still existed, but now he couldn't help but pray to ghosts and gods, because he could do nothing but all this, and sure enough, the legendary ghosts and gods did not give any feedback.
Wu Yu looked up at the altar that had been passed down from generation to generation with hope.
All he saw was lifeless stone carvings.
He was silent for a long time, laughed at himself, turned around and staggered away.
He seemed to have aged too much in this moment.
And at this moment——
A crisp sound, like the sound of fingers hitting a jade chime, slowly spread from the highest point of the altar behind him.