Cheeky and I had already thought about this, but hearing Tian Muqing say it himself made us feel creepy.
Tian Muqing told us in detail what she had remembered.
The ancestors of the Nuo people once accidentally picked up four rectangular bronze ghost masks in a big mountain.
The original shape was that the bronze mask was later destroyed during a sacrifice, and was replaced by a bark mask, which was passed down to later generations.
Most of the shaman and Nuo masks outside Yidi Village are made of camphor wood.
Since the Han Dynasty, this village under Cao Xie Ling has preserved the oldest bloodline of Nuo gods.
In Nuo religion, the Nuo king is the leader, but above the Nuo king, there is also a living god.
Each generation is a young woman, and the village has the same clan. of There are four families, and the heads of the four families are all elders of the Nuo religion.
Every generation of living gods comes from these four families.
Every ten or twenty years, the village will hold a large Nuo sacrifice cave ceremony.
According to legend, the ghost is The name of an ancient country, the four This bronze mask is the sacrificial vessel of the ancient Guifang country.
Because the language and rituals of Guifang are incompatible with later generations, it can only be called the ancient Guifang country with the square pattern of ghost faces, just like the "Hu Fang, Snake Fang" and other ancient countries in the Xia and Shang dynasties.
They are all named after the shape of the totem.
According to legend, thousands of years ago, there was civil strife in Guifang, and seventy-eight out of ten people died.
The surviving Guifang people fled to Mobei and never returned to the Central Plains.
Later, Emperor Zhou sent troops to conquer Guifang.
The ancient country was thus extinct.
It is said that the bronze mask contains the soul of Guifang shaman, and the sacrificial pit under the village can lead to Guifang in Nuo legends, because at that time most people thought that the ancient country of Guifang had disappeared.
In fact, the ancestors of Nuo religion only came from The ghost mask learned that there is such a sacrificial pit here.
Whenever the black dog eats the moon, a blood sacrifice will be held in the village to send the evil spirits who cannot be converted into it.
Although the living gods of Qiangu Yidi Village have a higher status than the Nuo king, they are just sacrifices sent to the slaughtering platform.
When a living god dies, the next living god will appear among the four families.
Once selected, He will be sent to live in a Nuo temple immediately and will no longer have contact with ordinary villagers.
The dead body is just a shell.
After the blood sacrifice, the living god will be reincarnated again.
The women from the four families will find a new body and wait for the next blood sacrifice.
The cycle repeats. .
Whoever is chosen by the living god to become a body will have a crescent-shaped blood mark on his forehead.
It is said that there was a great plague that year.
The ancient Nuo religion used a bronze mask to ask the god to drive away the plague.
As a result, all four bronze masks were damaged, and the Nuo god stayed here from then on.
There is no escape from the four people.
Those four people are the ancestors of the four families in the village.
I saw that there was a very shallow and thin blood mark on Tian Muqing's forehead, like a birthmark.
It was not eye-catching, but no one else had it.
Presumably the female corpse in the ebony coffin was also the living god in this village, Huang Foye and his gang of bandits.
I met Tian Muqing, and when the woman's corpse was uncovered, The people standing in front of the coffin all had a look of astonishment on their faces.
They must have seen the same mark as Tian Muqing on the forehead of the female corpse.
When Dayan Die'er and I saw the female corpse in the tomb passage, the body showed signs of decay.
His face was like withered wax, and the blood stain on his forehead could no longer be seen.
Tian Muqing told us that in the first year of Tianbao in the Tang Dynasty, the Nuo women incited the villagers to rebel.
Those people wanted to worship Tu Longzi as their god.
In order to prevent the Nuo ceremony that sent Tu Longzi to the ghost side, they rushed into the Nuo temple and stuffed them with human skin. life or death God, although all the rebellious people were killed soon after, the door to the ghost side in the sacrificial pit has been opened, but there is no living god in the village.
King Nuo had to follow the previous method and place the dead living god first.
In the coffin, at the head of the ebony scented coffin, there is a small copper door for the souls to enter and exit.
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This is prepared for the living god.
When the next living god is identified, the dead body will be sent to the tomb in the lower level of the underground palace for burial. , Nuo The king asked the four families to flee out of the mountain to preserve the blood of the ancient gods, while the remaining villagers all wore bark masks to pray to the gods and held a cave ceremony, plunging the village into chaos and blocking the path to the ghosts.
's door.
The four families who escaped from the village were located in various places.
They kept sending living gods into the village, hoping to complete the blood sacrifice and make the door to the ghost side disappear.
How could they know that the souls of the Nuo Po and others who died tragically remained and turned into flesh?
Qiu, wandering around the village in a daze, but did not forget to protect Tu Longzi's body.
After that, all the people who entered the village and walked in the direction of Shinto were eaten by this monster.
Due to the age and the passage of time, the number of people in the four families has become smaller and smaller, and they have all forgotten what happened in the village.
Tian Muqing had no idea before, and only after arriving here did she gradually remember that she was the fifty-third A living god who entered the village.
Those in front of him had not completed the ritual, so to speak.
Fortunately, I accidentally bumped into the palace gate and cut off the head of the Nuo woman from the flesh mound.
Otherwise, we would all have died in the Nuo King's palace for no reason.
Now she wants to complete the blood sacrifice and let the village and the sacrificial pit.
From then on, she disappeared.
When she said this, a layer of black energy appeared on her face, and her expression became very strange
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