Yuzai did not fall asleep. He was not far from the fire, and Wu had good hearing. Of course, thanks to the silence at night, there was no noise.
The old patriarch was telling stories to the five children, and when Yu Pan saw Yu Zai, he stood up immediately.
"witch!"
The five children all stood up straight. The old patriarch turned his head and nodded to Sun Zai.
"Wu, why aren't you sleeping yet?"
Yu Zai said: "The story from fifty years ago was about Dayi shooting the sun?"
The old patriarch smiled: "Yes, it is that hero. He is the most respected person in the world, and he is also the hero of all tribes in the world."
"I didn't expect that the witch actually knew this story. It was the old witch who told you."
Yu Zai nodded. Of course, in fact, the old witch did have it in his inherited memory. Coupled with the legend of shooting the sun that has been passed down for thousands of years in later generations, Yu Zai was shocked when he encountered the real scene of shooting the sun. One can imagine.
"Ten days together, we go out. The crops are burned, the vegetation is killed, and the people have nothing to eat."
"The 茰貐, Chisel Teeth, Jiu Ying, Gale Feng, Feng Xi, and Xiu Snake are all harmful to the people."
"Tao Tang then sent Yi to kill the nine infants in the fields of Chouhua, kill the nine infants on the ferocious water, and send the strong wind to the Qingqiu swamp. He shot up for ten days and went down to kill the squid, cut off the snakes and repaired them in the cave, and captured Feng. He grew up in the mulberry forest. All the people were happy and made Tao Tang the emperor."
The story of Dayi happened decades ago, and he obviously didn't finish it in a year and a half by killing so many strange beasts.
The earliest legend about dynasties is that it was started by Yao. He gathered many tribes, and Dayi conquered all directions on his behalf, repelling those extremely powerful mountain and sea beasts.
Chi Fan'er's eyes shone with longing.
Renxiong! The great hero of the Central Plains!
"Where are the ten suns?"
He pursued and asked, and the old patriarch smiled: "Nine of the ten suns were shot down. In fact, those ten suns were all golden crows in the sky. The last one was so frightened that it ran back to the sky. Dongfang fled and never appeared again, but everyone thought it was the sun hanging in the sky."
"How is this possible? The sun in the sky has existed forever, and the one who escaped is just a flying bird."
Yuzai responded with a smile: "It is said that it is the Fuso Golden Crow from Dongfang Tang Valley. If you ask the Siyue clan, Chengshan clan, and Kusaka clan for this kind of thing, you should be able to get the answer."
The old patriarch laughed: "The Rixia clan could see Tanggu, but there was nothing they could do. After being expelled on the tenth day, Tao Tangcai ordered the Xi clan and the He clan to send people out, so Xizhong went to Dongfang Tanggu and lived in the ancient area of Heyi. Yushan, looking eastward under the hibiscus trees, observing the movement of celestial phenomena, this is the day of spring."
The Rixia clan is a clan that is located in the Four Wildernesses and far to the east.
The old patriarch continued to say to the children: "The remaining nine suns were all shot down, but no one knows where the nine golden crows fell after they were shot down."
"Before Yi shot the sun, he traveled ten days. In the vast wilderness of the west, there was a mountain called Chengdu Carrying the Sky. The Kuafu family lived in it. When they saw the sun setting in the west, they wanted to catch it, so there was a story that your fathers heard when they were young. story.”
"Kuafu dies day by day."
For young people, Dayi and Kuafu are heroes who only exist in fantasy, but many people in the world know them because they have done earth-shattering things.
The old patriarch said: "The westward sun scorched the vegetation on Chengdu's Zaitian Mountain, which made the Kuafu family furious..."
These are all familiar ancient stories, but they reflect the spirit of struggle of people who do not surrender to mountains and seas. When I was studying in the past, I did not have too deep feelings, but until now...
He was deeply shocked by the spirit of Dayi, Kuafu and others.
The flames crackled, and Yu Zai took out the extinguished fire of the tribe. It was a stone, which was the broken fragments of the original fire stone. Bit by bit, it showed a charred charcoal structure.
It looks a bit like coal ore, but the internal structure is slightly different.
Yuzai threw the stone into the bonfire.
As expected, ordinary flames cannot make any changes to this stone.
The young people looked at the stone, and the old patriarch said: "These are the fragments of the fire. When it burns again, the wood will sprout, and you will be able to truly imitate the totem and become a great warrior."
Ruanzai stared at the fire stone in the flame, and his spiritual will seemed to be drawn into it.
...
The old patriarch's voice became weaker and weaker, and the young people's questioning voices gradually became inaudible.
Everything was silent.
Ruanzai raised his head. At this moment, it seemed that the fire was extinguished and the tribe disappeared. He was sitting alone on the stone pier, and the lush forest between heaven and earth also turned into desolation.
He saw a huge sun at the end of the wilderness in the distance.
The vast winds stretched endlessly, sweeping in from afar. Sunzai's hair was blown up, and the robe made of hemp could not stop rustling, as if it would be torn to pieces at any time.
"This is what happens when a witch pays attention to fire."
Yu Zai didn't feel scared or confused. This was already recorded in the old witch's inherited memory.
Inherited memory is really a good thing. It integrates the memories of one generation and then passes them on to the next shaman.
Yuzai cupped her hands into fists and gradually closed the distance between her arms.
"This is the gesture of blessing."
Blessing is an act often mentioned by witches. It means both blessing and prayer, and of course it can also be used as a "curse".
For example, among the ten witches in Lingshan, Wu Xian was famous for his medical skills. Later, the inheritance of the ten witches was scattered. Wu Xian's profession as a medical clinic was preserved until the time of Emperor Yao. This Wu Xian used Hongshu as Yao's doctor, and he could bless people with good fortune and heal people. Of course, when it comes to human diseases, he also has a method of "unfortunately urging", wishing trees to wither and birds to fall.
This kind of wizard has broken away from the ranks of witches and great witches and can be called divine witches.
The sun in the distance represents Yuzai's own witchcraft, and this desolate world is the stone on which the fire is placed.
Such desolation means that the fire is dead.
Yu Zai did not try to save the fire, because as long as the tribe could not regain its vitality, the fire would always be in this dead state. In the final analysis, people rely on fire, and fire also relies on people.
Yuzai sought strength from the sun.
This was also the first time he had a conversation with his own witchcraft.
"I thought I could see the copper-uranium mica pit, but I didn't. Who are you? Could it be that if I really awakened the power of the sun, wouldn't I also be a golden crow?"
"Fusion reaction...."
Yuzai sent a message to the sun, and the vast winds sweeping around the sun brought its voice back.
The scorching light and heat poured into Yu Zai's body, answering his prayer!
Yuzai opened his mouth and heard those voices. The next thing he had to do was recite:
"Weiyue descends upon the gods, and the sky hangs down its image, like the sun rising!"
Like the vast sky falling down!
