Chapter 220

Bailin Kingdom, Guangyang Prefecture, Guangyang City.

Just yesterday.

Li Qi stood on an altar.

After more than eighty days, preparations for the big ceremony were finally completed.

A day before, there were village shamans, elders and other figures in each village, preaching to every household that everyone should turn off the lights and go to bed early to avoid disturbing the rats. They also scattered some rice grains and cakes in the corners of the houses as offerings. Eating rats is called "rat cents", which means sharing a year's harvest with rats, so that you can be blessed.

Originally, doing this would definitely not gain everyone’s consent.

Because, over the past eighty days, almost all the crops in Guangyang have begun to slowly wither.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this year's harvest in Guangyang will probably be... a failure.

There is no food to eat.

Therefore, if there is no food in the first place, how can it be distributed to rats?

However, these days, almost all people in Guangyang who cannot afford to eat have rats coming to deliver food to their homes.

Rats with golden and silver fur carried food from unknown sources to one family after another.

Every household received food from these rats.

At the same time, as early as more than a month ago, there were many Jianghu people, carrying wooden boxes on their backs, walking through the streets and alleys. There were rat boxes in the boxes, and a small painted wooden stage was built on the box. Artists sang slang songs. , beating gongs and drums, directing the mice to perform.

Each rat performs a show in the box of these charlatan buskers. The rat tricks of "rat grinding mill" and "rat swinging on a swing" make people laugh and forget to leave.

Not all Jianghu people are heroes who can kill one person in ten steps and leave no trace behind for thousands of miles.

On the contrary, most of the real Jianghu people are buskers, medicine sellers, thieves, swindlers, wandering sorcerers and the like at the bottom of society.

These people have no fixed residence or fixed assets, so they can only wander around and use various means to make a living, so they call themselves "people of the rivers and lakes". Some people laugh at themselves and say, "Everyone in the rivers and lakes is a miserable person."

But it is this group of people who know the grassroots people best.

Zhang Lan called on the Jianghu green forest forces in Guangyang, brought together almost all the Jianghu buskers, and jointly directed such a drama with Shutangfen.

Let the jugglers and Shuangfen join forces to transport food from wealthy families, such as the Zhang family in Guangyang.

They hoarded a huge amount of food, enough to feed everyone in Guangyang for more than two years.

In this way, as long as the landscape and atmosphere are restored, there should be no problem in persisting until next autumn's harvest.

But this year’s harvest is certain, so people’s panic needs to be calmed.

To this end, Wang Baiyan called on some fellow tribesmen and asked them to promote "mouse sharing", and then performed various tricks and tricks that they could not usually see to make them feel calm.

Rats kept bringing food to the house, and influential clan elders were promoting the idea that rats were not scary. Coupled with various cultural and entertainment performances, the first wave of food panic was overshadowed.

This is Li Qi’s firsthand experience.

The Rat Tombs were also happy to help, because it meant they were participating in the great sacrifice.

The first part of the great sacrifice was benefited by the Rat Tomb. Although the original blood sacrifice was interrupted, causing them to fail in transforming into gods, they now have a chance to make up for it.

Li Qi also needed their help.

There are tens of millions of little mice in the Rat Tomb, tens of thousands of ninth-grade rats, a dozen eighth-grade rats, and seventh-grade rat kings. Such power, with the cooperation of the government, can penetrate into every household. .

Then, through this, we can preach the things needed for other sacrifices at a deeper level.

All the landscape gods in Guangyang were already dead. At this moment, the thousands of ninth-level figures from the Rat Tomb can be filled in and become new landscape gods.

In this way, the road to becoming a god in Rat Tomb can be completely realized.

After all, the purpose of the Rat Tomb is only one from beginning to end, and that is to get rid of demons and become gods.

This is the moment when they are most likely to achieve their goal.

In this way, the two sides hit it off immediately.

With the help of Shuangfen and Jianghu people, whatever rituals a certain village should do can be well communicated and implemented.

These rats didn't even care about Zhang Lan's killing of their people. They wholeheartedly cooperated with the Jianghu people called by Zhang Lan and began to convey Li Qi's meaning.

In a small mountain village in Guangyang.

I saw an elder with a gray beard nodded to a few mice, then turned his head and coughed twice at the people waiting behind him: "Ahem, the mountain god said it!"

"Listen up, everyone! Tomorrow is the day when the stars descend to the next world! As long as we pray for blessings, the Star Lord will bless us. The dead crops will not grow back. That is the matter of the Earth Mother, and the Star Lord has nothing to do with it. But the Star Lord You can give us food to survive until next year!”

The clan elder's words made the villagers and women behind them look hopeful.

The clan elder paused his crutch and shouted sternly: "Listen up! No one is allowed to make any mistakes. If something goes wrong and we run out of food, just kneel down and die in the ancestral hall!"

The village men and women nodded repeatedly, but they did not dare to answer the question and just swallowed nervously.

Then, the clan elder began to preach what should be done tomorrow.

First, a small lamp should be made and burned, which is called Shunxing, also known as "sacrifice to the star" or "receive the star".

The two sacred codes used for the sacrifice have been prepared. The first one is printed with Xingke, and the second one is printed with a big golden mouse. They are put together, clamped on the sacred paper clip, and placed in the middle of the back of the courtyard. This position is enshrined.

In front of the god code, you need to place yellow and white lamp paper twisted with fragrant oil, put it in a "lamp bowl" with a diameter of about an inch, and need to use 49 lamps and light it.

Then offer cooked grain and tea.

After dusk, sacrifice with the stars as the target. After the sacrifice, when the remaining lights are about to go out, burn the god code, incense roots, sesame straw, pine and cypress branches together, so that the sacrifice is completed.

The villagers don't know what this ceremony represents, but they all remember how to do it.

After all, this is about the food supply for the next year.

In fact, this is to use human popularity as a sacrifice, borrow the power of the stars in the sky, and inject it into the mountain god transformed by the rat soil tomb, so that the mountain god has the ability to regulate the basic mountains and waters.

As for the cooked grain offered, it is actually just a carrier of human popularity, not the main body of the sacrifice.

This is actually the principle of "suburban sacrifice is nothing more than cocoons and chestnuts, and zhong tasting is nothing more than grasping".

The horns of the sacrifices used in the suburban sacrifices are no larger than cocoons or chestnuts; the horns of the sacrifices used in the ceremonial sacrifices are no longer than a handful.

The reason for using such small items is that the gods are the ones who come to the people with their spirits, so they ask for prepared things, not abundant things.

The essence of the sacrifices is not to eat your food or livestock. In fact, they are just a carrier. It is enough to have all the sacrifices, and there is no requirement for a large number.

But the people don’t need to remember these. They are all arranged and thought out by Li Qi bit by bit, and then distributed.

Even the mountain gods don’t know why they do this, they are just executing Li Qi’s orders.

The village here is the place for worshiping the stars.

This is Li County, and the 43 villages are all responsible for following the stars and guiding the power of the stars in the sky.

Other counties also have their own tasks.

For example, Qinghe County in the east is responsible for guiding chickens.

In the far east of the world, there is a place called "Tanggu", where the sun rises every day. There is a huge tree in the sea, named "Fusang", which is unknown how high and how thick it is.

There is a white jade chicken on the tree, which is the heavenly chicken. When the sun is about to rise, the heavenly chicken crows to announce the dawn, and all the chickens in the world crow in response, spreading the news of the rising sun to all directions, which is called "the world is bright when the rooster crows".

In addition to guiding the power of the sun, it can also regulate the entire grand sacrifice. As the saying goes, "The chicken is a check, and it can check the time", people use the crowing of the chicken as the dividing line between night and day.

Qinghe County attracts chickens, which can not only guide the power of the sun to descend, but also have the effect of regulating the scale of the formation.

In this way, more than 20 counties in Guangyang Prefecture have different responsibilities, various rituals and methods, symbolizing different powers, and also bringing different effects.

The entire grand sacrifice is a combination of small sacrifices made up bit by bit by tens of millions of people in Guangyang.

Li Qi racked his brains, searched through countless books, and borrowed countless forces, and finally planned such a usable grand sacrifice rule.

Arrange all the itineraries of tens of millions of people in one day, arrange tens of thousands of ceremonies, create tens of thousands of different effects, and they cannot conflict with each other. Finally, they are combined together to revive the land power of the entire Guangyang.

Just thinking about it will show the difficulty.

However, with the help of Shen Shuibi, Li Qi spent more than 80 days and finally completed this miracle for him.

Tens of millions of people will benefit from this, which can save the lives of millions of people, and can also get the gratitude of thousands of mountain and water gods, and form a solid alliance with the rat soil tomb.

He even had a vague premonition.

If he successfully completed the grand sacrifice, he might be promoted directly to the eighth rank.

Everything was going according to plan.

Li Qi stood on the altar, his clothes were clean and he was refreshed, but although he had rested, he couldn't get rid of the fatigue on his face.

In fact, he had rested for a long time, and his body had fully recovered, but he was still tired.

Shen Shuibi went to sleep, and she was probably tired too.

Preparing for the grand sacrifice is really a very difficult thing.

I completely underestimated the difficulty of this matter.

It can be said that Shen Shuibi alone took on more than 70% of the workload to complete the preparations for this grand ceremony. She worked much faster than Li Qi.

Most of the data calculations and information coordination were handed over to her by Li Qi, and Li Qi was only responsible for the design of the general framework.

Boyue was also responsible for a part, but he also had his own things to do, so he just took the time to help Li Qi process some data, which probably accounted for half of the workload.

After presiding over a complete landscape formation, Boyue's foundation was enough, and he was also preparing to be promoted to the eighth rank, so now he was busy with his own things and couldn't help Li Qi too much.

The landscape formation is essentially the same as the grand ceremony presided over by Li Qi, both of which are huge and complex systems covering a state.

It's just that Boyue is much luckier than Li Qi.

The landscape formation presided over by Boyue was already made by others, and he just learned after presiding over it.

If Li Qi wants to get the same effect, he has to design it from scratch and then preside over it.

It can only be said that people are indeed different.

As the sons of Wushen Mountain, the luck of the two people is indeed a bit different.

However, after so much preparation and mobilizing so many people, it is finally about to begin.

This grand sacrifice has reached its opening time.

The sacrificial animals have been prepared, millet has been offered, the altar has been cleaned, the sacrificial clothes have been solemnly put on, and the sweet wine has been filtered.

This is the one pure, two refined, three animals, four grains, five colors, six rhythms, seven things, eight sounds, nine sacrifices, ten days, and twelve zodiac signs. The people, thousands of officials, tens of millions of ugly people, and millions of people have all entered the ditch to worship it.

One pure heart, two refined jade and silk, three animals of cattle, sheep, and pigs, grains produced in four seasons, five colors, six rhythms, seven sacrificial things, eight sounds of gold and stone, nine sacrificial methods, adjusted stem and branch scales and all the people and sacrificial officials.

Mingde to show it, harmony to listen to it, to tell everyone.

Everything is complete.

The time has come.

Li Qi stepped onto the altar solemnly.

This is the seventh-grade altar forged by Guangyang Sikong. It can be large or small. You can look up to the sky, watch people in the middle, and connect to the ground below.

This is exactly what Li Qi is going to do now.

This is a sacrifice that is hundreds of times grander than the river opening ceremony!

It is a grand sacrifice that mobilizes tens of millions of people!

At this moment, there are tens of thousands of rituals similar to the "first and second" of the boat trackers, all over Guangyang!

He carries the heaven, follows the people, and caresses the earth.

He is the center of the whole Guangyang.

He is the bridge of communication between heaven, earth, people, gods, and ghosts.

All the qi passes through his altar, and as a fair and solemn blessing, he will uphold justice and righteousness to maintain such a balance and lasting existence.

With the blessing of the whole Guangyang, he is like...something nobler than the gods.

The altar is very high, and countless people in Guangyang are looking here. Everyone knows that there is a grand ceremony to be held here, so while they are busy, they are all paying attention to this place.

The qi is like dignity, like the nobility of thousands of chariots, surrounded by a large group, and like the wealth of ten thousand gold.

However, these are not enough to describe Li Qi's appearance at this moment.

At this moment, he seems to have extraordinary wisdom, and the surging power makes the altar vibrate amazingly!

As a protector, Le Ya stood on a tall building not far away, staring at Li Qi over there.

A sentence popped up in his mind.

"In ancient times, the people were smart and did not hold two sides, and they were able to be solemn and upright. Their intelligence was able to compare righteousness, their holiness was able to shine far and wide, their brightness was able to illuminate, and their intelligence was able to listen thoroughly. If so, the bright gods would descend upon them."

"Those who have proper etiquette, dignified manners, noble appearance, and loyal qualities are called 'zhu'."

This is the real witch, the real Zhu.

It should be so heroic and so grand.

Only such a person can be called the son of Wushen Mountain.

The fifth-rank witch of Wushen Mountain sighed.

What a pity.

If nothing unexpected happens, Gongzi Qi should be able to be promoted to the eighth rank.

Of course, the premise is... if nothing unexpected happens.

He thought so, and then flew up, and arranged a circle of defenses near Guangyang City.

In fact, it had been arranged a long time ago.

He just wanted to add a little more.

If there can be a little, then it is a little.

Uh… the classical Chinese in the first two chapters is not to show off my knowledge, but it is a very important plot. The reason for using this expression is to fit the characters. It is not appropriate for both sides to speak in vernacular in this situation…