Dan, talisman, weapon, array.
These four skills are relatively common.
According to records in relevant classics.
Most of the practitioners in the ancient spiritual world had mastered one or more skills.
They even make a living directly from their skills to earn resources for practice.
Compared to going out on adventures and fighting, refining weapons and elixirs is obviously safer.
This is also the choice of most ordinary practitioners.
It's a pity that any skill takes a lot of time to practice.
And if you want to practice extremely profoundly, in addition to a strong realm of strength, you often also need unique talents.
Among these four skills, the talent requirement for Fu Zhuan is the lowest.
As long as you are willing to work hard and practice a lot, it is not difficult to master the drawing method of several talismans and seals.
Of course, although Fu Zhuan is easy to get started with, it is not that easy to master it.
Especially for high-level talisman seals, practicing them not only requires a lot of energy, but also requires a massive investment of resources.
Take the third-grade talisman as an example. Usually, the skin or spiritual material of the same level is used as the carrier of the talisman.
These are still ordinary talismans.
If the talisman seal can be used multiple times, it often requires more precious materials to carry it.
For example: Fuyu.
Talisman jade is a precious jade stone that is specially refined and used to draw and carve talisman seals.
Generally speaking, those who use talisman jade are often fourth-grade talisman seals, which can exert power comparable to that of a mage after being activated.
For many mages who have never gotten a magic weapon in their hands, only the talisman made of talisman jade can catch their eyes.
Although the number of uses of talismans is limited, they are not as durable as magic weapons.
However, because the talismans are all kinds of strange and have countless functions, the power of the talismans is often unpredictable and difficult to predict.
It often plays a special role in battle.
Sometimes even a mage holding a magic weapon may stumble if he is not careful for a moment.
Looking at the three precious talismans at this moment, Su Mo showed a rare smile on his face.
Fuyu is not something that can be obtained easily.
In comparison, even the two top-level magic weapons harvested earlier are probably not as valuable as these three jade talismans.
After all, talisman jade can imprint fourth-grade talismans and seals, exerting the power of the mage realm.
Even if the number of times is limited, it is still difficult to block the top-level magic weapon.
In addition, what particularly concerned Su Mo was how did Chen Chuyan get the talisman?
Before the three major families came into contact with the God of Agriculture, they were just ordinary farmers in the village.
Maybe the Chen family can be called a big family, but it is only a big family in the countryside and has no access to such treasures.
As a result, Chen Chuyan now has three pieces of talisman here, which is really unimaginable.
Su Mo shook his head, putting the problem behind him for the time being, and turned to look at the remaining jade plate.
The jade plate is only the size of a palm, with fine spiritual patterns painted and carved on it.
There are several breakpoints in the middle, which makes it look like it is running out of energy.
He could tell that it was a formation.
It’s just that the formation above was not drawn successfully.
With his knowledge, he could not tell the effectiveness of this formation for the time being.
If the hand girl were here, it would be possible to complete it on the spot.
"Forget it, let's take it back and show it to Hand Girl, maybe it's a good thing."
Su Mo muttered and put everything away.
After searching the treasure place, he came to the desk again.
When he was scanning the house with his mental power just now, he noticed two anomalies in total.
Not to mention the inside of the bed legs, there are also subtleties here on the desk.
Su Mo looked at a pen holder on the table, and his eyes quickly fell on a brown-yellow brush on the far right.
When he concentrated his mental power on the brush and activated it.
The next second, the brush flew out of the pen holder as if it was spiritual, and started writing quickly on the desk in front of him.
Soon, rows of small and exquisite ancient seal scripts appeared in front of Su Mo.
Su Mo immediately realized that this was a low-level magic weapon that had already been set up.
When someone comes into contact with it, it will render itself the last recorded information.
Knowing this, Su Mo couldn't help but look at the content written on it.
After studying various ancient books during this period, he has become very familiar with ancient seal scripts and has no difficulty in reading them.
And after he read what was written with the brush, there was a hint of surprise and realization in his eyes.
The short article written on the table was not some secret technique, but a suicide note.
The writer is none other than the high priest Chen Chuyan.
According to the suicide note, Chen Chuyan planned to do the next irreversible thing.
He wants to destroy the festival.
He wants to...kill gods!
That's right, he was going to rebel at the ceremony and kill the God of Agriculture that the three major families had worshiped for generations!
For this reason, he was ready to die together.
As for the reason behind this, in addition to the restraint of the God of Agriculture on the Chen family, he focused on his daughter, Chen Wanying.
In his opinion, Chen Wanying died because of the God of Agriculture.
So even the gods will have to pay the price for this!
But killing gods is by no means a simple matter.
Chen Chuyan prepared carefully for a long time.
He invested countless resources in killing gods.
Including those precious talismans, he also secretly exchanged them from the Chen family's treasury.
However, out of four pieces of talisman jade, he only found someone to carve one successfully.
Fortunately, he also made many other preparations.
According to what he said in his suicide note, if all these methods are used up, even a true mage will most likely perish.
Not to mention the long-dormant god of agriculture.
Judging from the aftermath, Chen Chuyan's revenge, which he carefully planned for many years, was probably successful.
Even if the god of agriculture did not die, he would probably have been severely damaged.
It’s just that the cost here is far beyond imagination.
I'm afraid Chen Chuyan never thought that his revenge would bring disaster to the entire Chenjia Village.
Tens of thousands of people died as a result.
"Maybe even if he knew, he wouldn't necessarily care."
Su Mo thought secretly.
It can be seen from the death wish revealed in this suicide note that he has put his own life aside.
Under such circumstances, for him to worry about other people's life and death safety can only be said to be thinking too much.
The process of killing gods is destined to cause a large number of casualties, and he would never have imagined it.
But he no longer cares.
Su Mo glanced at the handwriting that turned into smoke and disappeared.
It also records the treasures left behind by Chen Chuyan, which are exactly the ones he found from the bed legs earlier.
Those were all treasures that he had not been able to use, so he wrote them down here and left them to future generations.
This stay spanned hundreds of years.
Su Mo shook his head, picked up the brush and put it away.
After scanning around again to confirm that nothing was left behind, he left the house.
When we came to the hall to join everyone, we could clearly see the expressions on many people's faces were beaming, and everyone had obviously gained something.
While they were chatting, a loud shout suddenly came from the other side:
"Do you think what I found?" Along with this shout, a figure rushed in, and it was Xue Lansu who had returned late.
She held a jade slip in her hand.
Seeing the jade slip, everyone's eyes suddenly lit up.
Su Mo immediately asked:
"what?"
Xue Lansu smiled slightly, and did not hide anything, and said straight away:
"I found out some secrets of the Chen family."
"secret?"
Hearing this, everyone gathered around curiously.
Xue Lansu immediately explained:
"This jade slip was left by the first ancestor of the Chen family and is enshrined in the ancestral temple.
The first ancestor here is not the first generation ancestor of the Chen family.
It was the ancestor who first met the God of Agriculture and made the Chen family rise again.
His tablet was erected above everyone, and he was respected by the entire Chen family as the first ancestor.
When the first ancestor died, he left this jade slip as a legacy.
There are some commandments mentioned in the legacy, as well as some past events between the Chen family and the God of Agriculture. "
"According to the description on the jade slip, the people who saw the God of Agriculture were young men from the Han, Liu, and Chen families.
At that time, they had not yet become the patriarchs of their respective families, they were just like-minded playmates.
Even the Han family and Liu family were just two ordinary farmers at that time.
There were some brothers and sisters at home, but that was about it.
And they accidentally entered the domain of the God of Agriculture during an unexpected trip.
After having a conversation with the God of Agriculture in the God’s Domain.
They each made a wish to the god of agriculture.
That wish then came true.
Not only does it make them stronger.
Even the fields are getting bumper harvests, and the family business is booming.
From then on, they began to worship the God of Agriculture and determined the responsibilities of the three people.
The Chen family produces high priests from generation to generation, the Liu family produces saints from generation to generation, and the Han family produces human talismans from generation to generation.
Only in terms of status and perspective, the high priest is better than the saint, and the saint is better than the human talisman.
But they did not regret their choice.
Because each choice corresponds to a different god.
It also corresponds to different costs.
The price of a human talisman is the lightest.
The high priest paid the heaviest price.
Even though they knew this, the first ancestor of the Chen family still chose the position of high priest.
The first ancestor of the Liu family and the first ancestor of the Han family did not fight with him.
In this way, the responsibilities of the three families were successfully determined. "
"After that, relying on the status of the high priest and the divine support, the Chen family was able to expand rapidly and became the well-deserved leader of the entire Chenjia Village.
But beneath the colorful exterior, there is a lingering shadow.
That's the price of a high priest.
In exchange for producing high priests from generation to generation, the Chen family needs to host the Saturnalia and offer holy wine at the Saturnalia.
The so-called holy cup is the cup used to hold the holy wine during the ceremony.
Although the actual ceremony is held only once every ten years.
But brewing holy wine is not easy.
It needs to be refined with the direct bloodline of the Chen family and the corresponding runes and spells before it can be obtained!
In other words, one of the direct descendants of the Chen family must die at least every ten years! "
“In the eyes of the first ancestor of the Chen family, this is not a big problem at all.
It's just some of the descendants who died. At worst, they would marry more wives and have more children.
Always meet the requirements of the god of agriculture.
In contrast, the gifts received from the God of Agriculture are unimaginable to ordinary people.
It’s simply a huge profit!
In his legacy, he requested that every child of the Chen family must marry more wives, have more children, and work hard to spread their branches.
Let the status of the Chen family continue forever! "
Listening to Xue Lansu's narration, everyone also read the contents of the jade slips one after another, and they were generally no different from what she said.
Yao Wenkai suddenly showed a look of realization on his face and said:
"No wonder the prescription record says it will be useful if you keep it."
"what?"
Chen Yuan asked with curiosity on his face.
Everyone around him also looked over.
Yao Wenkai immediately explained:
“Previously we found some medicine records in a wing on the east side.
One of the medicine books wrote that the Chen family had a large number of people, and sometimes children with congenital problems would be born.
For example, children with dementia and children with disabilities, etc.
If left in an ordinary family, such a child would have been thrown into the river and drowned.
But the Chen family sent people to take good care of them.
Now it seems that they should be used as sacrifices.
Anyway, as long as the sacrifice is a direct bloodline of the Chen family, it probably doesn't matter whether it is demented or incomplete.
The Chen family used this small trick to avoid the possibility of direct descendants suffering to a certain extent.
It can be considered that there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. "
When everyone heard this, they all nodded slightly, understanding what he said.
Song Ruyuan glanced at the dilapidated hall and said with emotion:
"The Chen family really doesn't take human life seriously."
"So they got their comeuppance."
Su Mo replied with a calm expression.
People around him couldn't help but look at him.
Su Mo then handed over the suicide note he had seen previously from the high priest Chen Chuyan.
He told everyone everything he discovered when he first entered the small courtyard.
After learning the origin of this catastrophe in the secret realm.
Everyone's mood was quite complicated.
There is no doubt that this is pure revenge.
It's just that no one thought about the scope of the situation.
Maybe the Chen family could have saved everything if they had chosen someone else to be the sacrifice.
It's a pity that Chen Chuyan's generation probably didn't have any problem babies.
On the contrary, his daughter was seriously ill and was not going to die soon, so she was more suitable to be used as a sacrifice in the discussion among the clan elders.
Even he, the high priest, has no power to stop the family's decision.
Intellectually speaking, there is nothing wrong with this decision.
Giving up a dying person in exchange for the life of a direct descendant can be described as a good deal.
But from Chen Chuyan's personal perspective, that was too cruel.
Even if his daughter only has the last few days of life left.
He would never let her die in the well prematurely.
Not to mention that there might still be a possibility of curing her serious illness.
Therefore, in Chen Chuyan's view, the entire Chen family was forcing his daughter to die.
Fortunately, he also knew that the source of the problem was not the clan elders.
The root cause of this tragedy is the god of agriculture whom they have worshiped for generations.
That's why he decided to kill God!
That's why this secret place full of sneaks came into being.
After understanding all this, everyone had complicated expressions, and the atmosphere in the room was silent for a long time.
After a while, Su Mo said:
"Okay, now that everything here has been settled, it's time for us to start the final stage of the ceremony."
"It's time to go to the shrine."
"Go and witness the climax of this past festival and let it come to its due end!"
(End of chapter)
