At the same moment when Yuan Futong took the oath, a grand sacrifice began in the distant Chongcheng.
In memory, the last time Baiyao performed a pre-war sacrifice was in the third year of Emperor Yi when he invaded the wilderness and fought a decisive battle with the remnants of Jiuli.
The entire altar is made of bronze. Thousands of building-block-shaped parts fit together to form a square, flat altar with a length of 500 meters, a width of 500 meters, and a height of 15 meters.
The four corners of the altar are carved with hieroglyphs representing the sun, moon, river and wind.
Further inside are circles after circles, each with a finger-width distance between them, engraved with stars imagined by merchants and people.
In the center circle, a hieroglyph written in bronze was cast - Emperor.
It looks like lines coming from all directions converge and become the center between heaven and earth. And like a man tied to a tree, being sacrificed alive to the gods.
Five-fifths of it is gold and one is tin, which is called the balance of ax and catty.
The altar is a round and thick green-gold color, which represents war in terms of texture.
Baiyao put on the sacrificial clothes, stepped onto the stars of different shapes in the bronze star sea, and walked solemnly and solemnly towards the center of the altar.
The altar comes from the bronze cast community of the Xia Dynasty.
The Xia Dynasty was not a unified political power, but was actually composed of many ethnic groups. The most powerful among them was the Zhutong ethnic group.
They have great autonomy, and the fortress they built is even stronger than the royal palace. They are responsible for their own defense. While recognizing the authority of the royal family, they do not allow the royal power to interfere in the management of the ethnic group.
When Xia Jie ascended the throne, the centuries-old conflict between the bronze clan and the royal family had reached an irreversible point.
The Tongtong Clan secretly contacted the Shang Clan, who had a similar culture and were also keen on human sacrifice, and provided advanced weapons and war resources to help the Shang Clan overthrow the Xia Dynasty royal family.
The ancestor Chengtang agreed to the deal and united the major tribes to attack the Xia capital in one fell swoop, completing the change of dynasty.
The copper-casting tribe then cast this altar and dedicated it to the Shang tribe to demonstrate the Shang tribe’s strength and respect for the Shang tribe’s beliefs.
Then the first Da Zhu waited for fifty years until the Shang clan absorbed their exquisite copper casting skills and sacrificed them all alive to the gods.
This altar is currently the highest level altar and is only used for sacrifices before the war and for national sacrifices once every ten years.
The name is Dachenxu.
The altar was disassembled in Chaoge and transported to Chongcheng for assembly. Only the strongest slaves and prisoners of war were qualified to die on it.
View the earth from the sky.
Outside the altar, hundreds of thousands of troops gathered, divided into square formations one after another, and knelt around the altar.
No one spoke a word, and there was only the howling of the strong winds between heaven and earth.
The soldiers looked at the altar devoutly, with their weapons at their sides, waiting for the sacrifice to begin.
Baiyao came to the middle of Dachenxu, Daji stood on the outermost edge, and the Zhen people also entered their respective positions.
"Bring sacrifices——"
As Zhenren's voice echoed, the 600,000-strong army, which had been replenished, kowtowed in unison.
Human sacrifices were brought to the altar, most of them were rebel princes, and there were also some enemy generals who were very brave on the battlefield.
The ones responsible for killing were the ancestral temple Xiaoqi and the eldest prince Yin Jiao who came on behalf of Emperor Xin.
The boy looked to be no more than seventeen or eighteen years old. He looked a lot like Di Xin, and his youthful face was a bit nervous.
As a member of the royal family, it was definitely not killing people that made him nervous.
Yin Jiao held the ax in his hand, swallowed, looked at the white figure in the center of the altar, and kept repeating the sacrificial ritual in his mind:
"The order of killing is Sun Moon River Wind. Then when Wu Zhu steps on the star engraved with the black bird, I will straighten my back and take a step, walk over and chop off the head of the sacrifice..."
Yin Jiao memorized the whole process for a long time. It was the highest honor for him to perform sacrifices on his father's behalf. When he ascended the throne in the future, historians would definitely write about this incident.
Seeing that everyone was here, Baiyao folded his sleeves and nodded to Zhenren next to the big clock.
"Dong——"
The virgin rings the bell.
Then the bronze instruments under the altar played.
The grand music seemed to open the ancient door, and the wind and snow carried the weight of time and hit everyone's heart.
Daji rolled up her sleeves and her slender eyelashes trembled slightly, like a light elf dancing to the music.
But the little fox was already panicking inside.
She had never actually performed a sacrificial dance at a sacrifice, and she was afraid that if she made a mistake in a sacrifice of this level, she would be skinned alive by Baiyao.
Little did she know that Baiyao only asked her to perform the ritual dance because he didn't want blood to get on his clothes.
At this moment, Baiyao folded his sleeves with his hands and lowered his eyebrows, searching for economical and affordable miracles in the system, waiting to be used later.
Daji came to "Sun".
The owl knight, whose face was covered with tattoos, began to sacrifice humans and animals.
In order to ensure that the ceremony would not be interrupted, the sacrifices' hand tendons and hamstrings were cut off in advance, and several iron needles were inserted into their spines. While their whole bodies were paralyzed, they were supported by wooden frames.
And before going on stage, they were all given a secret medicine, which stimulated their vitality and enabled them to clearly feel their own death.
This is the punishment for rebellion.
Xiaoqi held a "T" shaped copper knife, as if he was doing needlework, with his eyes focused, drilling, cutting, and scraping along the head of the sacrifice.
Before here, the owl knights had practiced many times, and the light vehicles skillfully pried open the skulls of the sacrifices.
The red and white brain was exposed to the cold, and the colon-like milky white tissue trembled visibly.
Some of the sacrifices were already dead when their skulls were opened, and some had bloodshot eyeballs and slightly twitching faces, suffering indescribable pain.
The saints held fire oil religiously and sprinkled some on the heads of each sacrifice.
Finally light it with a torch.
The "sizzling" sound of burning was covered by music, and the silent sacrifices were sacrificed to the sun god in the blazing flames.
Daji jumped to the "moon".
This batch is relatively simple.
Several owl riders kowtowed to the word "moon" to pray for wisdom and strength, then chopped off the head of the sacrifice and threw it into a boiling cauldron for cooking.
Sichuan.
After peeling off the skin and scraping the bones, the human bones were piled into a hill. The Zhen people held cinnabar in their hands and blew on the mountain of bones, and a red rain fell on the mountain, which means mountains and rivers.
wind.
Compared with the first three, which are the embodiment of natural phenomena, the natural concept of the wind god has been stripped away and given personality in the perennial worship.
He is the "Emperor", an official of the Supreme God.
In this sacrifice, He supervises the ceremony on behalf of the "Emperor".
So you need to be fierce before Him.
The sacrifices were piled up together, surrounded by expressionless owl riders, and chopped into bloody pieces of meat with giant axes.
It was quick to describe, but the massacre took a full hour.
Only after the sacrifice ceremony of one god is completed can the next god be sacrificed.
After Daji finished dancing, she stepped on the largest black bird star, her little feet were red.
"Dong——"
The bell rang again.
Everyone on the altar, except for Yin Jiao, knelt down to Baiyao.
Yin Jiao took a deep breath and walked towards Baiyao with firm steps.
The two rebel princes had their leg bones broken and knelt in front of Baiyao.
With their status, they cannot become the highest level sacrifices.
For this reason, Yin Jiao needs to make some preparations before beheading.
I saw him holding a bronze ax in one hand, holding the ax blade in the other hand and slashing hard, and the blood couldn't stop flowing.
He dropped the blood of the royal family on the heads of the rebellious princes, and used part of himself as a sacrifice.
The ax swept across, and two heads rose into the sky.
Baiyao looked solemn, took out the dagger from his sleeve, and cut his palm open as well.
The most noble blood of the royal family dripped on the word "Emperor".
The next moment, the entire Great Chenxu trembled violently, and the words "Riyuechuanfeng" lit up with dazzling light.
A shocking scene appears.
Above the nine heavens, there are four majestic lights and shadows, pushing aside the clouds and overlooking the world.
[Sacrifice to the Great Shang God System, national luck +500 points]
[National Games-200 points]
[Miracle: God comes to earth
After consuming 200 points of national luck, the phantoms of the four gods, sun, moon, river, wind, will briefly come to the world]
