Return of the King (1)

On this night, all the high-ranking officials in the Wolf Clan's capital were all present on order. Even the two patients who had been bedridden for a long time were carried to the hall by soft couches.

The civil and military officials stood in order, although they were whispering, the palace was also in order.

At the end of the temple was a high platform. On the high platform, a man and a woman sat still, the man was only seven or eight years old, and he was the only son of the wolf king Ning Yingtian. The woman is a middle-aged beauty, but she is the queen.

Behind the two of them, there are two statues that are more than ten feet high. One is majestic, at first glance he knows that he is a martial artist, and the other is polite, but he is dressed as a scholar.

However, at this time, the eyes of everyone in the hall were not on these two imposing statues. It turned out that in the center of the hall, someone had placed something at some point.

It was no more than five feet tall, but it was covered with a black cloth. Everyone pointed and looked at it more or less, all focused on this thing.

Suddenly, a voice sounded from outside the hall: "Report - the hour has arrived!"

Suddenly, in response, all the officials looked at the mother and son on the high platform for a while.

"Queen," said one of the officials, "the hour has come, please make a decree." ”

The queen bowed slightly, lightly opened her lips and said, "I invite the high priest." ”

"Yes. Lang Guan bowed and replied, and then straightened his chest and belly, and preached loudly: "The queen has a decree, and she has invited the high priest." ”

In a moment, a figure outside the main hall flashed, and a person wrapped tightly in a black robe walked in slowly. In both hands he held a rectangular box that was also dark and dull.

The black-robed man walked to the black cloth in the middle, left the black box with both hands, and let it float out of thin air, only pulling the cloak slightly, and finally revealing an old face.

This person is none other than Duan Buji, the high priest of the wolf clan.

Duan Buji lightly arched his hand on the high platform. "Queen, is this the beginning?"

The queen nodded and saluted, "Today there will be a great priest Lao." ”

Duan Buji took a few steps back, put his hands flat on his chest, and raised them slightly upward, suddenly. The black cloth was windless and automatic, and it swelled up for a while, and then fluttered upward, finally revealing a black crystal ball that happened to be held by one person under the black cloth.

This crystal ball stood on a dark and heavy support, said to be a sphere, but it was incomplete, and the south, east, west, and northwest were recessed into a palm-sized piece, and at the top, there was also a deep groove in the shape of a hexagon.

And so it goes. This black crystal ball, at first glance, is very pitted and very weird.

Duan Buji was not in a hurry, took the black box, patted it gently, and with a soft "bang", the lid of the box bounced up, and suddenly. The lights in the hall seemed to be dim. No, of course, it can't be said that the lights are dimmed, but in fact, the contents of this box are too dazzling. Thus all the light of the lamp and candle was taken away.

"Living Crystals!" Several people in the hall exclaimed in a low voice, "There are as many as four pieces!". Although everyone knew that the box must be this thing, but they really saw it with their own eyes, and it was four pieces, and there were still people among the people who couldn't hold it and couldn't help but cry out.

But seeing Duan Buji raise his hand and point lightly, a living crystal in the box slowly rose. Following the direction he guided, it turned out to be slowly flying towards the black crystal ball.

Eventually, the Creature Crystal slowly fell from the eastward position on the crystal sphere, and finally fell into the depression.

Everyone only felt a flower in front of them, a piece of living crystal that was not square or round in shape. Once it falls into the depression, it suddenly becomes soft, like mercury leaking to the ground, and the depression is filled in an instant, without spilling even a trace of it.

The section was not concocted in the same way, and within a few moments, the surface of the sphere was leveled one by one in the order of southeast, northwest and northwest. At this point, Duan Buji gently waved the sleeves of his robe, and the black box closed and slid to the side.

"Queen," Duan Buji looked up at the high platform and said slowly, "Then please give me the Broken Life Stone." ”

Suddenly, there was silence in the hall.

The queen took a deep look at her beloved son, beckoned lightly, and the maid next to her brought over a beautiful gold-inlaid jade box.

The jade box was opened, but inside was a prosaic long stone. This stone is hexagonal, so it can be said that if such a stone is thrown next to the same pile of stones, no one will take a second look at it.

At this moment, the queen trembled her hands, carefully picked up the stone, which was only a foot long, and rubbed it carefully for a moment, then sighed softly and said, "Take it." ”

The stone flew smoothly towards Duan Buji, who rolled up his sleeve robe, rolled up the stone steadily, and inserted it directly into the groove at the top of the black crystal ball until the stone was completely submerged, and finally filled the groove.

The queen's heart was completely hung on the stone that had left her hand, her face was as calm as water, but in her heart it was like boiling hot soup.

It turned out that this stone was actually King Ning's natal stone. According to the habits of the wolf clan, this stone has always been selected by the little prince in grasping Zhou Shi, and from then until he reaches the age of 20, he must be nourished by his own essence and blood every year.

In this way, if you refine it with secret arts, it can be turned into a natal stone. It can be said that in the ancient era of flood and famine, the wolf clan was just an inconspicuous small group in the vast Western Regions, facing extinction at any time.

And the wolf king, as the leader of the wolf clan, is even more personally and the first to take the lead, and the probability of his death will be far greater than that of ordinary clansmen.

In order to ensure the cohesion of the race, the clan naturally cannot be without a king for a day. Therefore, when the wolf king goes out on the expedition, the queen will personally take charge of this stone, and with the black crystal ball, you can determine the life and death of the wolf king when necessary, so as to decide whether to choose another king.

It can be said that this ancient ritual has ensured the orderly inheritance of the wolf king for many years, and also ensured the loyalty of the clan to the race. Therefore, I don't know how many years later, even when the wolf clan rose in the Western Regions and there was no need for the wolf king to charge into battle himself, this ritual was still preserved year after year.

To this day, it is used again.

Duan Buji saw that all the elements had been returned to their positions, and his palms were slowly lifted, as if he was caressing the ball, and as if he was drawing circles of similar size with his palms.

suddenly, I saw that he pressed his palms, and he was already clinging to the ball.

With this press, after a while, there was a change in the crystal ball. At first, wisps of silver rose very slowly on the sphere, like smoke and mist, and it was difficult to see, and then, these silver-white mist slowly converged about three feet above the sphere, and lasted for a long time.

Gradually, everyone could see that in these silver-white smokes, groups of pictures faintly appeared.

It's just that these pictures are tumbling fast, and this one has been replaced by another one before it can be looked at closely. For a while, everyone in the hall widened their eyes, lest they miss something, but only Duan Buji closed his eyes slightly.

"See, see?" someone whispered eagerly to the people around him.

"Don't speak, I'm looking through. The person asked was unhappy.

Gradually, among the people present, those who had advanced cultivation had already seen that the picture that appeared in this smoke was actually ghostly, but it was the Yin Si Realm. (To be continued.) )