Yu Yi felt strange, so he followed the witch and walked from the west side of the village. Not long after, Yu Yi found a corpse outside a ruined temple. The corpse had a hat on its head, and then The clothes on his body had long since disappeared, leaving only a pile of bones. The bones held a snake-shaped object in their hands. Yuyi didn't know what it was for. The witch stood there and didn't move anymore. .
"Is this what you were like when you were alive?"
Yuyi pointed to the corpse and said to the witch.
"Yes, young man, I was originally a witch in this village. My name is Lingzhu."
The witch looked at the corpse in a trance, as if she had returned to a long, long time ago.
"Then why can you?"
Yu Yi suddenly stopped mid-sentence, but Lingzhu had already figured out what he meant, because his current state was almost that of a soul.
"Hey, I didn't know I existed for a long time. Your appearance is a kind of fate. Go and see."
The witch Wan'er smiled, and then she nodded on Yu Yi's head, and the scenery around Yu Yi immediately changed.
The desertification situation around us has reversed, presenting a beautiful scenery, surrounded by green plants, a vibrant scene. There is a tree where Yuyi appears. This tree is in the middle of the village. Yuyi Yi easily judged that this was the iconic thing that everyone saw when they came in before.
Under that tree, there was an old man enjoying the most beautiful melody of nature. Suddenly a woman came out of the village. She reported the good news to the old man, saying that a new witch was born.
Yuyi then followed the old man to see the newly born witch, and from some things, he understood a tradition in the village, that is, the entire village was engaged in totem worship, and the content of the worship was snakes, but what appeared at that time The snakes were relatively small, incomparable to the ones Yu Yi encountered now. At that time, almost every household would offer a snake as an offering or keep one in captivity. They also did not raise poultry.
The witch is an intermediary representing God and the representative of the snake god. After each witch dies, the snake god will point in a direction. When a girl is born, many snakes will gather around the family, and the spirit will Zhu was also born at that time and became the successor of the shrine maiden.
The old man should be the village chief. After the witch was born, she lost her freedom in life and was enshrined in a temple every day. Someone would bring her food on time every day. This was her fate.
Yuyi walked up to the little girl. He felt that she was very pitiful and wanted to touch her face, but he couldn't.
The girl is not a person who is content with the status quo. Every time the village chief and everyone come to worship, she will make a request to leave the temple, and the village chief will explain that she is a witch chosen by the snake god and has not changed. In addition, she is also their important belief. In an ancient book in the village, it is recorded that the witch must remain a virgin and cannot be emotional, otherwise Cobra Village will be destroyed.
The village organized witches to learn these things, but as an ordinary person, she was always fighting against fate. She believed that her life should not end like this.
Later, a young man unexpectedly came to the village. This young man was very handsome. He had slender limbs, handsome features, and a calm and gentle demeanor. At first glance, he looked like a scholar who had read poetry and books, without the slightest bit of a arrogant martial artist. His eyes were clear and bright.
Many women in the village were fascinated by his temperament. He went to Beijing to take the exam and accidentally entered the Snake Village. As the villagers of the Snake Village, they are also very hospitable. He stayed in the Snake Village for a few days and saw many villagers raising cobras. , but he was not afraid at all. On the day he left, he went to the temple by accident.
At this time, the shrine maiden Lingzhu has grown up, and this is the first time she has seen such a man. She is attracted by this man's talent, slowly develops a liking for him, and finally falls hopelessly in love with this man.
For the sake of the Lingzhu, the man also gave up his studies and stopped taking exams. Instead, he chose to live in Snake Village for a long time.
In order to be able to see the Lingzhu every day, he would secretly approach the temple before dawn every day. Then the two of them would relieve the pain of missing each other, and finally slowly leave. As time goes by, the relationship between the two will gradually change. After all, he didn't hide it and was discovered by the village chief.
This directly aroused his anger. As a witch designated by the snake god, she would actually fall in love with a mortal. This was the greatest blasphemy to the snake god of Cobra Village. He added a few more controls to the witch, and then punished the man as well. The capital punishment was to be burned directly in front of the statue of the snake god.
Yu Yi also came to the scene of the burning. He originally thought that only foreign Chinese religions would use this cruel punishment, but he did not expect that it would appear at any time in ancient Chinese villages.
I originally thought that the man would protest loudly and then scream when he was burned. However, the man looked in the direction of closing the spirit bead the whole time and did not scream. In the end, the man turned into ashes in the fire.
In order to make the witch Lingzhu give up, the village chief ordered the man's ashes to be sent to her, hoping that she would remember her mission in the future and teach her a lesson.
Lingzhu was heartbroken when she found out that her beloved man died. She didn't eat for several days. She was very pitiful. Yuyi couldn't stand it anymore. He couldn't understand what kind of thing this snake god was, and what kind of person he was. The villagers believed so fervently.
From then on, Lingzhu seemed to be a different person. She hadn't smiled for many years. Moreover, she practiced some of the witch's spells according to the ancient books. She chose the bloodiest spell among them to practice. , He will not hesitate to lose his Yangshou.
Yu Yi took a quick look at it. This spell was used to reshape the body. He quickly understood the witch's intention. He wanted to use this, combined with his impression of the man, to reshape his body.
In the process of practice, the witch secretly killed many snakes and used their blood for sacrifice. Sometimes there were dark clouds in the sky, and the clouds were so thick that the sun could not be seen by the human eye. However, the sun's rays radiating in the black clouds passed through the black clouds and set a luminous golden edge on the black clouds. Later, the sun slowly broke out of the encirclement and appeared in the sky, even dyeing the black clouds purple or red.
Between the sky and the earth, this kind of black cloud phenomenon appeared frequently. The villagers slowly began to notice it and told the village chief one after another. After investigation, it was found that the place with the densest black clouds was the temple where the witch spirit beads were closed.
When people opened the keyhole in front of the temple door again to see the condition of the witch Lingzhu, the Lingzhu had already changed its appearance. Her hair was disheveled and her face was ferocious.
