Under One Person: Starting from the Inheritance of Gods

Chapter 69 Sacrifice (Seeking collection, monthly ticket, and recommendation ticket)
Back at the 139th Division, Meng Fan couldn't help but feel a headache when he looked at the Danzhu documents that were traded from the five great immortals.

The stuff is genuine, but this is the "original" version, the kind that is completely incomprehensible!
The Danzhu document is actually just a cover made of red fox fur, and what is wrapped inside is the real book of inheritance.

This book is not a paper book, but five pieces of bronze engravings, corroded by green copper rust, and covered with extremely ancient cloud and thunder patterns, wave patterns, sacred mountain patterns, etc. Even the words on it are oracle bone inscriptions.

It can be said that the inherited skills of the five great immortals were all comprehended from these five bronze engravings and have been passed down orally.

This is completely different from the immortal inheritance that Meng Fan expected!

What he wanted was something that could be used right away, not a "master copy" that required him to analyze and study each word by himself, and even spend a lot of time verifying his understanding of each word.

You have to know that the meaning of ancient characters is different from that of modern ones. This is equivalent to throwing a huge compressed package at Meng Fan.

What made Meng Fan even more embarrassed was that the writing style of the characters on each of the five bronze engravings was different, which was equivalent to five different languages.

“Are the test results out yet?”

Meng Fan looked at Gao Dazhuang who had just walked into the office and asked.

Gao Dazhuang held a test report and said with some embarrassment: "It is true, but it is somewhat beyond our understanding."

"What's wrong?" Meng Fan asked with a frown.

"You better take a look!"

Gao Dazhuang handed a test report to Meng Fan and said, "According to the test results, these five bronze carvings should have been cast around 2,200 BC."

"But that time point was before the Xia Dynasty. This is incredible!"

"Before the Xia Dynasty?"

"That is to say, during the time of Tang Yao and Yu Shun!"

Meng Fan looked at the test report, but he didn't look surprised. The world under One Person was not simple to begin with, and the ancient times were even more fascinating. It was understandable that any strange things appeared.

Even in Meng Fan’s previous life, wasn’t there someone who had understood the things in Sanxingdui?
"Has there been any progress in text analysis?"

Gao Dazhuang shook his head: "No, according to our guess, the immortal family may have relevant information, but I called to inquire, and Grandma Hu San was also unable to help."

"It said that these five bronze engravings have been passed down in the fox tribe since it could remember, and the immortal family's inheritance did indeed originate from here."

"However, as the traditions were passed down from generation to generation, there were no more foxes that could decipher these carvings. All that was passed down were some residual techniques passed down orally."

"Later, after the continuous exploration of the fox clan ancestors, the current immortal family inheritance was continuously supplemented and formed the respective skills of the five families."

Meng Fan sneered: "So, they tricked us?"

Gao Dazhuang also had an unpleasant look on his face. It was not difficult to see that he had just hit a snag. That group of immortals actually said that we have handed over the most fundamental inheritance. If you can't understand it, it's your own business and has nothing to do with them.

Meng Fan suppressed his anger and didn't want to bother with them for the time being. He looked at the five bronze engravings and touched them with his own hands.

Suddenly, Meng Fan smiled strangely: "Okay, don't be angry, those immortals want to plot against us, but who knows if they are just throwing away the watermelon to pick up sesame seeds?"

"Tian Gong, you mean...?"

Gao Dazhuang asked with an inquiring look.

Meng Fan interrupted Gao Dazhuang and waved his hand: "You go out first. I will study these five bronze carvings by myself."

After Gao Dazhuang left, Meng Fan couldn't help but reveal a happy smile. Just now, the "Golden Finger" that had been silent for a long time finally sent a message again.

[Detected that the opportunity inheritance has lost the Dao essence, should I consume energy and return it to its original form? 】

"Yes!"

Meng Fan muttered to himself.

Then, a purple light overflowed from the birthmark on Meng Fan's arm, wrapping the five bronze carvings. After a moment, the light dissipated.

Five golden carvings were revealed.

The natural color of bronze is golden yellow. In ancient times, copper was also called "gold" and the words engraved on bronze ware were called "gold inscriptions".

When bronze ware is corroded, verdigris will appear on the surface, making it appear green, so it is also called bronze ware.

I saw that after the time and space energy in Meng Fan's birthmark returned to its origin, the rust on the five golden copper carvings had completely disappeared. They were emitting golden light, solemn and majestic, like sacrificial vessels.

Every word is filled with a mysterious charm, as if narrating the ultimate truth between heaven and earth.

Meng Fan touched the five bronze engravings again, and just as Meng Fan expected, five pieces of information rushed directly into Meng Fan's mind.

Meng Fan had come into contact with the beast-head jade token left by Mo Lishou once before, so he was well prepared.

[Sacrifice to the heaven! Sacrifice to the earth! Feast on the gods! Summon the spirits! Sorrow the ghosts…]

Meng Fan slowly opened his eyes, revealing a gleam of light. It turned out that the engravings recorded a sacrificial tradition from ancient times.

Since ancient times, the objects of worship have mostly been divided into three categories: gods of heaven, gods of earth, and gods of man; among them, gods of heaven are called sacrifices, gods of earth are called sacrifices, and ancestral temples are called banquets.

In the ancient Chinese land, "the gods would not accept sacrifices from those who were not of the same kind, and the people would not worship those who were not of the same clan." Sacrifices had a strict hierarchy: the monarch offered sacrifices to the gods of heaven and earth, the princes and ministers offered sacrifices to the mountains and rivers, and the common people offered sacrifices to their ancestors and the kitchen god.

This tradition is about worshipping five things: heaven, earth, gods, spirits, and ghosts.

The so-called sacrifice to heaven and earth is not a sacrifice to a certain thing, but a concept. In primitive society, there was no scientific concept.

So how do they perceive other things?

There is only one way to humanize it.

This is the origin of mythology and the origin of natural gods. These concepts existed before humans and are called innate concepts. These existences are not affected by humans and are objective.

Entities such as the sun, moon, mountains, nature, thunderstorms, earthquakes, earth, lakes, etc.

Virtual entities, such as rules, nature, life, death, creation, time, space, speed, mass, matter, spirit, etc.

Humans discovered them, anthropomorphized them, and gave them names.

The sun gods include Dijun, Taiyi, and Zhuzhao; the moon gods include Changxi, Wangshu, and Youying...

Or the mountain god, sea god, lake god, thunder god, creator, mother of nature, mother of earth, etc.

People give these things personality, on the one hand, in order to understand them in this way, regarding the changes in nature as human joy, anger, sorrow and happiness. On the other hand, it is to try to communicate with them.

The ritual of communication is called sacrifice!

(End of this chapter)