Mythology Returns! Starting with Folklore and Strange Tales

Chapter 104 Nuo Ritual - Kui Xing

With the method given by the old woman, all the women successfully expelled their worm embryos and were taken to the nearest hospital for treatment.

Faced with the actual footage, the villagers who had been pretending to be crazy and trying to use this as leverage could no longer hold back and confessed everything, explaining the whole story of the Golden Silk Grass incident.

Not long after the silhouette of the "Red and White Collision" was incorporated into the secular world.

A saccharin demon came over and secretly seduced several young girls, making love to them.

Originally, the adults in the family were anxious and even consulted divination masters. In the end, they found a sorceress. Although the sorceress did not have a way to get rid of the worm in the stomach, she had a folk method to draw out the worm.

However, after taking out the queen insect, the sorceress did not burn it. Instead, she found a dark corner and collected all the segments of these small sacs.

The villagers were curious when they saw this, and casually asked a question. The sorceress didn't think much of it and just casually told them that the worm could sever its legs to survive when it was in danger, and that the severed limbs could quickly grow back.

While ordinary pouches may have miraculous effects, they only benefit the user. Only pouches that have attained enlightenment and become demonic pouches possess the ability to heal and benefit others.

But she couldn't solve the problem of the Nang Nang Demon, so she had to settle for second best.

These little insects, nourished by the essence of the demon and the innate qualities of humans, have also absorbed some of the demon's effects. They cannot regenerate severed limbs, but they can treat some complex bone and muscle diseases. Coincidentally, her granddaughter had recently bumped into something, and with these materials, she could make a prescription to help the child recover faster.

He does not mean that.

Although the sorceress later taught them that the demon was powerful and ordinary unorthodox practitioners couldn't handle it, they had to seek help from the weather inspector.

But the villagers, already blinded by greed, wouldn't listen to any of this.

Afterwards, instead of appealing to have the bag demon subdued, they started trading in the bag demon's insects, calling them Golden Silk Grass!

The rest is self-explanatory.

In the village, a profitable business couldn't be kept secret. Anhe Village, having escaped the invasion of the Yingzhou people, maintained its clan system along with several nearby villages. Later, the business grew larger and more profitable...

Until today, Zhang Wei broke in and saw through everything.

While the rules of the secular world are based on the present world, they are even more stringent.

Colluding with demons and worshipping evil gods, regardless of whether one is the master or a servant, is a capital offense. Moreover, using demons to harm people is an even more serious crime punishable by death.

However, before they died, they had one last purpose to warn the world, but that had nothing to do with Zhang Wei and his group.

In just half a day, the bustling village became completely desolate. The only house with candlelight and people cooking and chatting was a patrol house left behind by the Yunfu (a government agency) to hunt down the monsters.

Night fell.

Zhang Wei rode the Blood Fiend soaring into the sky. Under the dim night sky, a large amount of Blood Fiend spread from the heavens, resembling an inverted bowl, sparsely covering the sky above several nearby villages.

After completing these defensive arrangements, Zhang Wei looked down.

The real stars of the night are those standing under the big locust tree at the village entrance.

An Yixi, dressed in theatrical costume as a military general and wielding a steel axe as tall as a person, is sitting on a protruding tree trunk.

Not far in front of him was an incense table, with many offerings and incense and candles on it, but the incense was not lit.

Not far from the incense table, in a corner of the wall, several people wearing red and white doll masks and dressed as soldiers were leaning against the wall, their hands hanging down, holding gongs, drums, wooden fish and other musical instruments.

This is a Nuo ritual.

However, it is not the most complete Nuo ritual, and it is even slightly inferior in scale to the Nuo rituals held in modern villages.

Not to mention the original version, an ancient sacrificial ceremony used to pray for the Zhou emperor and to exorcise evil spirits from the world.

However, Nuo rituals are not prevalent in the Taihang region. Their most intensive traditions are still in the southwest. Not to mention the tight schedule, even if one were to fly from the present world to the Taihang Mountains and then from Yunfu, it would be too late.

Relying solely on the Yunfu government, it would be difficult to gather enough manpower in a short time to cooperate with An Yixi in holding a grand ceremony.

However, the four simplest assistant priests were just right for An Yixi, a "newbie" who had only recently entered the industry, to preside over such an introductory ceremony.

Having been a mere spectator for so long, this time, with ample time to prepare, he also wanted to show Zhang Wei his skills.

wait.

The wait has been long.

It wasn't until An Yixi's passion gradually subsided, and the mask in her hand changed from Kaishan to Zhong Kui, and then to Kui Xing, that some unusual sounds finally came from the quiet village near midnight.

Outside the village, near the riverbank, in a ditch overgrown with weeds, a pair of feet, gleaming golden even in the moonlight, pushed aside the soil and emerged from the ground.

Two long, spear-like tentacles swayed back and forth in the outside world, as if on guard and searching.

But in reality, this is just the demon judging the popularity of people so that it can determine which family does not have the aura of its offspring, so that it can replenish that fresh body later.

Within seconds, the tentacles on the monster's head turned toward Anhe Village.

Immediately afterwards, a huge cyst worm, three zhang long and more than two meters wide, darted out from the riverbank. Hundreds of golden legs swayed like waves, and its huge body resembled a dragon flying close to the ground. In the blink of an eye, it had darted dozens of meters away.

Standing in the sky, looking at the flowing golden light on the ground, Zhang Wei narrowed his eyes slightly.

Seeing the sac demons, who had even forgotten the cautious instincts of insects, swaggering and eagerly rushing into the village, he felt a surge of anger rising within him.

The villagers' consistent feeding over the years has made this wild monster lazy.

Just like animals in a zoo that go to work and eat on time, it completely disregards whether there are tourists watching it while it is eating or sleeping.

However, animals eat vegetables, fruits, poultry, and meat, while the monsters eat people's vital energy, also known as Yin energy, and will leave behind seeds of "repayment" for the villagers.

Of course, this so-called repayment is more likely to be the natural instinct of insects and demons.

I like to eat well!

I hope you enjoy tonight's feast and eat every last drop!

Watching the giant golden worm rapidly darting towards the village, Zhang Wei dialed his cell phone.

Meanwhile, watching her phone screen suddenly light up and then go out again, An Yixi, who had been waiting for a long time, smiled silently and covered her face with the Kui Xing mask in her hand.

rustle!

rustle!

The former is the sound of countless insect legs falling on the bluestone at the village entrance.

The latter refers to the sound of incense being lit and inserted into the incense burner.

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