But suddenly, a little white light suddenly appeared in the dark night sky.
The white light just appeared in Sahara Masahiro's sight, and in just a few seconds, it turned into a line from a point to a circle... and turned into an ever-increasing ball of white light.
Whatever it was, it was clearly approaching the valley at an alarming rate.
At this moment, Sahara Masahiro was also stunned. He was just stuck on the spot, completely unaware that if the thing in the white light really fell nearby, it would probably kill him.
It wasn't until the object was only a few hundred meters away from the surface, and Sahara Masahiro could see with the naked eye that the object was larger than a pagoda, that he realized that it was a bit dangerous to stand here, but now he wanted to run away It's too late.
Almost in the blink of an eye, this huge, white-light-emitting object landed on the ground.
But the strange thing is that when the object hit the ground, it did not make the expected loud noise, nor did it create a huge crater on the ground or cause an earthquake.
It did not slow down the moment before it fell, but the moment it touched the ground, it instantly changed from the first cosmic speed to a stationary state, and the movement it made was just like a drop of ink being poured on On paper, it's very light.
The shrine that originally stood there was crushed and covered by this giant thing, turning into a pile of ruins that were twisted together with the broken ice underneath, but for some reason these ruins made no sound when they collapsed.
As for Masahiro Sahara, who was standing in front of the shrine, he just missed being hit by the giant object. The edge of the object was pressed two meters away in front of him. Even at such a close distance, he could not even feel the slightest vibration or wind pressure. Didn't feel it.
However, there was one thing that he quickly felt...
That's "temperature".
The huge amount of heat quickly radiated from the giant object made Masahiro Sahara feel as if he had suddenly entered midsummer from the harsh winter. After a few dozen seconds, he began to sweat.
After dozens of seconds, the white light emitted by the giant object gradually dimmed. At this time, Masahiro Sahara could see clearly that the "object falling from the sky" in front of him... was actually a living thing.
This kind of creature was naturally not among Masahiro Sahara's cognition, so when Masahiro Sahara later recorded this incident, he used the words "as big as a mountain peak, with a body as color as paint, with smooth but not shiny skin, rich but not solid muscles, like a dragon" Not a dragon, like an insect but not an insect, fish gills and bird wings, animal claws and snake scales, bones growing out of the skin, internal organs between the flesh, many eyes and difficult to recognize, standing as if looking at a human being" and a series of other ways of describing it compared with other common things , giving an imprecise and difficult-to-imagine description of it.
In any case, Masahiro Sahara, who saw such strange phenomena at that time, undoubtedly regarded this creature as some kind of "god" that came after hearing his prayers.
Therefore, he immediately offered his youngest son as a sacrifice as agreed...
What's even more mind-numbing is that this creature seems to be indeed intelligent. It actually understood Masahiro Sahara's behavior and accepted this "sacrifice."
What Masahiro Sahara did that night was later called the "First Festival".
And this first sacrifice also kicked off a horrific custom that lasted for 540 years.
Since then, this method of worshiping "gods" has evolved to a certain extent and has become a secret technique known only to people of the Sahara clan.
The truth about the "god"'s arrival, as well as the many records of the Sahara family's subsequent research and use of it... have become secrets within the Sahara family, and only the family heads of the past generations are qualified to access it.
As for the people of Sawara, they only need to know the existence of "gods" and that the Sawara clan is the "people chosen by gods", and then feel admiration, loyalty and gratitude to both...that is enough.
On the second day of the first festival, due to the appearance of "gods", the climate in Sawara changed drastically overnight. The entrance to the domain, which had been closed for more than a month, was reopened in just half a day. In the nearby domain, The transportation team that had been waiting for many days rushed back after receiving the news, and delivered the food to the people of Sawara that afternoon.
The people were no longer hungry or cold, and order within the domain was naturally restored. How the Sahara family then led the people to collect the dead and recuperate was not a problem.
Sahara Masahiro succeeded in saving his vassal country, and the first thing he did next was to blockade the "Valley on the Lake", classify it as a forbidden area, and began to compile a very decent-sounding story to This is to explain and claim credit to the people under his rule.
On the other hand, he has also begun to prepare for the next sacrifice twelve years later...
Since then, a full five hundred and forty years have passed.
The weather in Sawara has been smooth for most of the time since then. Not only has it not suffered any serious natural disasters, but even minor earthquakes rarely occur.
Until...the second year of Yuanhe.
This year is the "Year of Sacrifice", and it is also another year when Japan's Warring States Period enters its intense stage.
The current lord of Sawara Kingdom is named Sawara Soga, and he is the man who presented the Dragon Bi to the "god" at the beginning of this volume.
In recent years, Soga has led his troops to resist the attacks of the Hexagon Army and the Hojo Army several times. Relying on the home field and terrain advantages, plus the fact that the opponent's opponent is not a major force... Soga has successfully repelled each time. enemy.
But he won, but Soga didn't feel like a winner. On the contrary, he fell into fear, because after these few battles, Soga felt deeply that Sahara's military strength was really too weak. .
Compared with the troops from the outside world that have been baptized by many years of war, these soldiers of Sawara can only be described as immature; if Sawara's geographical location did not prevent the attacking artillery team and cavalry from being able to perform, I am afraid that Sawara's army would have been beaten in less than half a day. The army was defeated.
Even in a pure infantry battle, most of the Sawara people, whose weapons, armor and physical fitness are no worse than those of the outside world or even superior, cannot defeat the attacking soldiers in one-on-one situations. When many versus many, the gap is still small. will intensify.
To put it bluntly, in war, the "elite" thing is never trained, but fought. It is irrigated and passed down with countless blood and lives... and then slowly forged.
On weekdays, it would be no problem for the Sawara Army to guard against the small number of bandits, bandits, and mobs. But for a pair of regular armies, even their "Second Army" and "Third Army" are a bit stretched.
I also understand that with Zuo Yuanzong, with Zuo Yuan's current strength, it should be the limit to survive this year.
When this winter is over and the war breaks out next spring, as long as a certain daimyo or the shogunate army sends a slightly stronger force to invade, I'm afraid Sahara will be destroyed.
The inheritance passed down by ancestors for hundreds of years was about to end in his hands. The pressure was obviously no less than what Masahiro Sahara had endured back then.
Therefore, earlier this year, Sahara Zongga also followed the old path of his ancestors - he began to read those ancient documents, hoping to find ways to continue the country other than normal means.
This search really made him discover some clues...
It turns out that Sawara had encountered a similar crisis during the "Bunji" years hundreds of years ago; it seems that at that time, the "gods" had always "only guarded against natural disasters and ignored man-made disasters."
But the feudal lord at that time simply went to the "gods" for help, and finally succeeded in reaching some kind of deal with them.
But the result of that transaction was not good. The "Amancong Yun Sword Fragments" that the feudal lord found and presented had some problems for some reason, which aroused the anger of the "gods".
This eventually led to an incident known as the "Tide", and the record of this incident only had this code name and the result that "more than half of the residents died in the incident", and there were no other details.
But in any case, after the "Yai Tide" incident, Sawara's foreign enemies also retreated for unknown reasons, and even after that, it was never attacked by any force for more than ten years.
For the current Sahara Zongga, this is all he can see in his eyes... As for the "秧头", he believes that as long as he is careful and does not make the same mistakes as his ancestors in transactions, he must can be avoided.
In this way, after some operations, there was the scene where he presented the Dragon Bi about a month ago.
Of course, if nothing else happens, there will be an accident next.
Sahara Zong, I would never have thought that someone would come to recover an antique that came from Dazu and ended up in his small and remote vassal country after many twists and turns.
And those two comers have enough power to subvert the entire Zuo Yuan.
