From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 120 Di La Sun Festival
On May 5th, Yu Shuyang was notified two days in advance that he must go to Lingtian to participate in this year's La Festival ceremony.

So he went out early, and before leaving, he specifically told his junior brother Li Taiping to stay at Mohechi honestly.

After all, Shinto monks are not mentally normal, especially those who come from the Divine Sect and the Demon Sect. After dealing with Mr. Gu once, he could sense the dangerous aura of incense poison.

At the Zhitian Lingcha Garden, there is not a single shrimp soldier left. They all followed Lao Moji to the twenty acres of spiritual fields of Fish Father and Fish Mother.

As mentioned before, the twenty acres of spiritual fields are planted with dragon beard grass. On the Dragon Boat Festival, sacrifices are made to the dragon god to guide the dragon god's evil spirits from the sky.

By using the evil spirit of the dragon god to interact with the dragon beard grass, he hoped to cultivate it into a fifth-grade precious medicine and transform it into a dragon grass - dragon grass.

Yu Shuyang has already discussed with Lao Moji that after they finish cutting the dragon beard grass, they will find the people in Xiliangyuan to exchange for the spiritual field.

It is connected to the 300-acre spiritual field, firstly to facilitate unified cultivation, and secondly, the 20-acre spiritual field is used to grow dragon beard grass, which does not have the conditions for cultivating dragon fodder.

He first looked around the cat-tiger god stone pillar.

This thing is a square stone pillar made of white marble. It looks like a horse post and has a squatting stone statue of a cat and tiger on it.

If you use the method of sitting and observing the spirits, you can see that there are spirits staying in it. To put it simply, it has been blessed, and it is guaranteed that burning incense and making wishes will work.

Of course, Yu Shuyang would not be too idle to burn incense and worship. After all, there are two spirits of the gods stored in the body of the candle spirit Wanjia.

If anyone wants to worship, they can let their own family come first, after all, they are more familiar with each other, not to mention that he has always kept his distance from gods.

The La Day sacrifice at the La Temple began not long after.

Mr. Gu was accompanied by two cat-headed warriors and followed by sixteen carp spirits. They should all be students of the academy.

At the beginning of the ceremony, Mr. Gu brought sixteen carp spirits to dance and offer sacrifices. Their movements were very simple and you could tell at a glance that they were about farming.

The dance is called "Ploughing the Fields" and consists of six parts: clearing the wasteland, planting, tilling the land, driving away the sparrows, harvesting, and threshing.

It was obvious that the fish spirit who was temporarily caught in the academy to cooperate was not skilled in the movements, made many mistakes, and even couldn't keep up with the rhythm.

This kind of sacrificial ceremony is mostly a formality, similar to an appetizer. Sometimes this unfamiliar scene can actually attract more attention from the crowd.

Yu Shuyang had seen Mr. Yu perform Nuo masks to invite the gods, and had a different understanding of the dance and sacrificial ceremony, unlike the other monsters who were watching.

The purpose of offering sacrifices on the Earth La Day is to ward off insect disasters and appease the earth's energy. This is different from offering sacrifices to ancestors and ghosts and gods. There is no bloody food or offering of wine.

The eight gods of agriculture all belong to the category of millet gods, which is one of the four categories of earth gods, mountain gods, river gods and grain gods.

According to the rules of Di Shi, the gods of mountains and rivers are invisible, and the gods of the country have no form. After all, mountains and plains have their own appearances, and their appearances cannot be changed by setting up statues. The gods of land and agriculture exist in every place, and it is impossible for them to have the same appearance.

Therefore, when worshipping the earth god, no altars or statues are set up, and no sacrificial animals, blood, food, or wine are offered. Instead, there is only singing and dancing.

After the plowing dance, the joy, satisfaction, anticipation and other emotions of the onlookers were transformed by Mr. Gu into incense and offered to the land beneath his feet.

Then came the drum music of two cat warriors, one playing the bass drum and the other the snare drum. The two coordinated very well, moving one after another as if they were hunting.

In fact, they were indeed hunting. As the drums sounded, the earth energy in the spiritual fields gathered and transformed into servant ghosts, some of whom set up nets, some took up wooden pitchforks, and some took hoes.

They are the manifestation of God's will through the earth's energy. Only those with divine eyes and Dharma eyes can see them. They run in the spiritual field to drive away pests, and move back and forth like the wind, without any notice from the fish monsters and shrimp soldiers.

The fish spirits who had performed the plowing dance before each took a brazier, and lit a brazier with mugwort, calamus, peach branches, willow branches, reed ropes, or coal.

Then, demonic spirits, manifested from the earth's energy, cast the expelled pests into the brazier, instantly burning to death as soon as they came into contact with even a tiny bit of the flame. Yu Shuyang used the Qi-gathering technique to investigate, but could not discern what these pests were: they were neither flesh nor blood, nor were they spirits.

But he also got a clue: the drumbeats were called the Four Seasons Hunt.

There is a rule: hunting in spring is for searching, hunting in summer is for hunting seedlings, hunting in autumn is for hunting, and hunting in winter is for hunting.

The La Day sacrifice coincides with the protection of crops in summer. By offering sacrifices to the God of Agriculture, the earth's energy is manifested to drive away all kinds of pests.

After the drum music was played, all the spiritual fields in Dongtian were swept back and forth three times by the earth-spirit ghosts, and the pests were naturally eliminated.

After the singing and dancing ceremony, it is time for the final prayer. According to previous rules, wax statues of cats and tigers need to be taken out.

The "La" in La Festival has multiple meanings. When offering sacrifices to the eight La gods, "La" means "together", and the eight agricultural gods are offered together.

"La" means hunting, and in order to protect the harvest from farming, hunting must be carried out all year round.

When praying for the La sacrifice, La refers to the wax of candles, which means the wax statue of the god, and people pray and burn incense to it in order to seek protection and blessings.

The wax sacrifice presided over by Mr. Gu also followed the steps of wax, hunting, and wax, but now it was different from the past. He had already erected a stone pile of the statue.

Therefore, he led two cat warriors and sixteen carp spirits and slowly walked towards Yu Shuyang's spiritual field, and a group of onlookers followed.

The cat-tiger statue is the stone pillar, built according to the rules of the land. The god of the country has no form, so Mr. Gu built it according to his own wishes.

Yu Shuyang watched as a group of monsters surrounded him. After all, it was his first time to participate in the La Festival, so he felt a little excited and nervous for a moment.

Then I saw Mr. Gu come to the stone pillar and start to chant. His voice was high-pitched and difficult to pronounce, even worse than the one Mr. Yu sang when he performed the Nuo mask to invite the gods last time.

It's as if two ducks and two geese are quacking together. Just listen to the sound, it's so eye-catching.

Although I couldn't understand long sections of the recitation, Yu Shuyang could understand them.

Every pause in a sentence is a node, and the stone pillar will fluctuate accordingly. Each wave of fluctuation is sorting out the earth's energy.

From time to time, there would be sounds of cats meowing and tigers roaring among the stone piles, mixed in with the waves, repeatedly like a gust of wind, blowing back and forth in the earth veins.

As the saying goes: Dragons come from clouds and tigers come from wind. Using the roars of cats and tigers to transform into wind and soothe the earth's energy is really a brilliant method.

Yu Shuyang practiced the Heavenly Wind Method, mastered eight kinds of mantras, and even perfected the Heng and Ha mantras. In theory, he was the ancestor of the wind.

He had never thought of this method. If he were asked to sort out the earth's energy, the only method he could think of was the Wuzhi Yaocao Sword.

Previously, when he was in Danhuang Cave Heaven, he transplanted the black iron spirit plum tree for Yu Bajie. He used the Wuzhi Yaocao Sword to sense the yin and yang of the earth, gather the earth veins and activate the treasure cave.

In comparison, his method involved a lot of fuss and was far less simple and convenient than Mr. Gu's method.

After praying for about an hour and a half, Yu Shuyang saw that most of the blessed land had been sorted out, and the earth's energy spread around like a melon.

It is indeed as Mr. Gu said, erecting statues of cats and tigers is a win-win situation. The energy of the Zhitian and Lingcha gardens instantly became ten times richer.

Yu Shuyang silently sensed Zhixian and found that there were faint signs of transformation. It seemed that the boy holding the sword was not far away from him.

　I'm so tired of updating this. I checked three books during the wax festival. It was really annoying. Fortunately, the author didn't stare at the screen until he got dizzy this time. Everyone, take a look. Is it particularly boring? This kind of long narrative content makes the author write it very heavy. How did you read it? Leave a message and I'll consider it next time.

　　
　
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