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The red sun sets in the west, in the afterglow of the setting sun, the whole stone village is dyed with a layer of pale golden brilliance, the ape roars in the distance, and the large stone houses here are as sacred and peaceful as ancient temples.

The stone village is not very large, there are more than 300 men, women and children combined, the houses are made of huge stones, simple and natural, at this moment, everyone in the village gathered in front of an ancient altar, and a sacred sacrifice is being carried out.

Under the leadership of the patriarch Shi Yunfeng, the villagers who returned from hunting put all the fierce beasts they had hunted on the altar.

The altar was made of huge stones, and it was very open, and it was built next to an old broken willow tree, which was evidently the object of their sacrifice, and which was now piled up like a hill of wild beasts.

The bright red beast blood stained the boulder platform red, flowing along the carved diagram on the stone surface, red and gorgeous, coupled with the thick and long animal hair of the giant beast, the scales of the cold light flashing and the hideous giant horns, etc., it was shocking, and there was a tragic flood and desolation atmosphere.

Led by the old patriarch, the men, women, and children of Ishimura prayed together and asked for the protection of the willows, a solemn ritual that was performed every time they returned from a hunt.

The charred tree was as silent as ever, and there was no reaction, as if no sacrifice had been taken before, but many villagers knew that it had a spirit!

Finally, when the sacrifice was over, the people breathed a sigh of relief, resurfaced with joyful smiles, and began to move the carcasses of these beasts, ready to be bled and cut.

"It's been many years, and the sacrifice spirit hasn't touched an offering once, do you still need to perform a sacrifice every time?" a young man muttered uncontrollably.

"What are you talking about, stinky boy!" his father glared at Brass Bell with wide eyes, and picked up his fan-sized hand to beat him.

The old patriarch waved his hand, stopped, and said softly: "The spirit of sacrifice is the spirit of our sacrifice and offering, it is important to be sincere, we treat it religiously, it will protect and bless our village." ”

The young man's face turned red, and he hurriedly said: "Patriarch, I'm not insincere, I just feel that the sacrifice spirit doesn't seem to need these sacrifices, and I have never used them. ”

"It's good that my mind arrives. Shi Yunfeng patted him on the shoulder and explained attentively.

The sacrificial spirit, also known as the "spirit of sacrifice", is the abbreviation of the "spirit of sacrifice and offering" of a tribe, which guards the village and deters the fierce beasts in the wilderness.

The elders of the clan remembered that this was not the case with another sacrifice spirit from decades ago, it was a strange stone, and every time a sacrifice was offered, it would lose most of its essence blood and be absorbed by it.

Until late one night, the old willow tree came, and the strange stone chose to go away. That's how things change.

Thinking of that rainy night back then, the old patriarch was in a trance, when he was still a teenager, and he had witnessed that shocking and terrible picture with his own eyes.

In the middle of that night, lightning and thunder roared, heavy rain was majestic, the storm was violent to the extreme, the mountains were all thundered and lightning collapsed, the mountain torrent was like the sea, the fierce beasts were running wildly, and the scene was terrifying.

It was at that time that a large willow tree that reached the sky appeared in the clouds, bathed in the sea of thunder, and the lightning that swirled around the mountains was thick, and thousands of willows turned into a blazing divine chain, piercing the entire heavenly dome, as if fighting with something.

Eventually, the big willow tree snapped, blackened, and shrunk to its current size, and fell down and took root in the stone village, as the lightning disappeared and the downpour receded. That night, the strange stone that had been sacrificed and offered in the village left.

Every time he thought of it, the old patriarch's heart trembled, the old willow tree did not move its roots from other big tribes or mountains and rivers, but fell from the sky dome, and was damaged by endless thunder and lightning, and few people in the village knew.

For the first few decades, it was charred and black, without any life, as if it was completely dead, and it was not until more than a decade ago that a new green branch was extracted, and then it did not change.

"The sacrifice is over, let's start bloodletting, in addition to the blood essence, those tendons and veins and some bones are also extremely precious, don't lose the essence. ”

The old patriarch Shi Yunfeng seemed to be reluctant to mention the matter of sacrificing spirits, so he quickly diverted the topic.

"Patriarch, don't worry!"

The young man in the clan sharpened his knife and began to cut the giant beast, making a sonorous sound from time to time, sparks splashed everywhere, and the bones of the giant beast were amazingly hard.

Someone had already prepared a large pottery jar to receive the blood essence that was kept in the special parts of the beast's body, which was an excellent blood tonic medicine, very rare.

Just when everyone was busy, Xiao Budian quietly left the crowd and ran into the door of a stone house not far away, looking at the people lying on the bed in the house with a curious face.

A person of unknown origin, life and death, who looks like a young man of twenty-five or sixteen years old, with half-blind eyes, faintly revealing the vicissitudes of life that have gone through thousands of lifetimes.

"It's been more than a month, why haven't you woken up yet?"

Xiao Budian tilted his head, and just as he was about to continue to approach, a faint coercion came to him, and the closer he got, the greater the coercion, making him unable to take a step again.

More than a month ago, when he and his friends in the village carried this mysterious young man back, although this coercion was there before, it was not as obvious as it is now, and it seemed that with the passage of time, this coercion became more and more intense, which gave him a premonition in his heart that the mysterious young man was about to wake up!

In order to verify his conjecture, Xiao Budian will come to visit the mysterious young man every day. For more than a month, the mysterious young man never woke up, and it seems to be the same today, Xiao Budian was a little disappointed, however, just when he was about to leave, he never thought:

"He's moving!"

Suddenly, Xiao Budian subconsciously retreated backwards, because, just now, he suddenly saw that the mysterious young man's fingers had moved.

However, when he took a closer look, he found that the mysterious young man seemed to be the same as before, and there was no trace of movement.

"Little one, what are you doing, didn't you tell you, don't get close to this person easily?"

At this time, the patriarch Shi Yunfeng came over, and he gave a serious reprimand, not that he deliberately made a big fuss, but that he really had a great fear of the mysterious young man on the bed!

Although, at the beginning, he saw a group of bear children bring this mysterious young man into the village, and he also placed the mysterious young man in this stone house, but from beginning to end, he couldn't figure out the details of this mysterious young man, he didn't know where the other party came from, he didn't know the strength of the other party, and he didn't even know whether the other party was alive or dead. Even so, he has never underestimated the mysterious young man, and has always been vigilant enough to dare not be careless at all.

"I know, Grandpa Patriarch, but ........"

Seeing the serious appearance of the patriarch Shi Yunfeng, Xiao Budian seemed to be a little in awe, and at the same time had some grievances: "I seem to have seen him move .......... just now."

"What?!"

Hearing this, patriarch Shi Yunfeng couldn't help but be taken aback, and hurriedly approached the bed, until he felt the coercion approaching, he stopped, and looked at the corpse intently, but after half a sound, he didn't find anything.

"Did he really move? You couldn't have read it wrong, right?"

Shi Yunfeng looked at Xiao Budian with some suspicion, not that he didn't believe Xiao Budian's words, but that he had secretly used all his means, but he still didn't notice even the slightest abnormality.

"This ........"

Xiao Budian bit his finger and hesitated for a while before he pouted and responded: ?" I'm not sure, maybe I'm wrong......"

"Whew!"

Unexpectedly, Shi Yunfeng breathed a sigh of relief when he heard a little words, because, he really didn't know that if the mysterious young man in front of him really woke up, it would be a good thing or a bad thing for Shi Village, many times, the unknown, is always the most terrifying existence.

Therefore, rather than predicting the good or bad of the mysterious young man after he wakes up, he prefers to maintain the status quo.

However, just as he picked up Xiao Budian and turned around to leave, the mysterious young man on the bed suddenly moved, first his fingers moved slightly, and then his eyelids began to tremble, and then, the half-blind eyes slowly opened, and the boundless gold, condensed two beams of light, and suddenly rushed into the sky.

"Really...... Awake?!"

The sudden shocking change was unacceptable, dumbfounded, Shi Yunfeng's face was full of disbelief, and he looked at the mysterious young man on the bed who slowly woke up and sat up............