Chapter 439 Yan Xiao Yiming

  Faced with this weird and terrifying howl.

  In the presence of the holy race, almost only the gray-haired priest remained calm.

  Her tone was even calm: "Bazhi, you send Xiangshou's head over. It is in my repair room. I have paid homage to it."

   Qing Bazhi gritted his teeth and left without saying a word.

  This is tradition.

  This is tradition...

  Qing Qishu and Qing Jiuye were silent, showing shame on their faces.

"The young man in a foreign land." The priest looked at Jiang Wang, "Didn't you ask me what the dilemma of the land of the shadow of the gods is? Our saints have to let the young and strong warriors fight each other, and then they will die by the samurai of Xiangshou ... presenting his head, this is the dilemma we face."

   "What is the reason for this dilemma?" Jiang Wang was infected by this depressed atmosphere, and his voice was faintly dumb: "That call just now?"

  The old priest looked at him and told a story like this--

a long time ago.

  A swallow without a tail came to the door, vomiting, and said: "Good-hearted man, I am hungry and I am about to starve to death. Can you give me something to eat?"

  A kind saint girl brought some fruits.

  The tailless swallow said: "No, I won't eat this."

  The saint girl brought it a bowl of rice and a bowl of water.

  The tail swallow said: "How can these things fill my stomach?"

  The saint girl became angry and said, "What are you going to eat?"

  The tail swallow showed a hideous face. It said: "Only your head can stop me from hunger."

  After speaking, it pounced on the saint girl.

  This scene was seen by a saint warrior. The saint warrior raised his bow and shot the tailless swallow to death with one arrow.

  But the scary thing is that the next day, the tailless swallow appeared again.

   is exactly the same, Kataba is not injured.

  It even pleaded with people in exactly the same tone: "Good-hearted man, I am hungry and I am about to starve to death. Can you give me something to eat?"

  People already know its hideous features, so no one will answer. The brave saint warrior shot it to death the first time. In order to prevent the strange tailless swallow from resurrecting again, the saint warrior burned its corpse to ashes.

  But on the third day, the tail swallow appeared again.

   This time it cried: "I'm going to starve to death, please give me a head to eat."

  Of course no one will agree.

  The saint warrior killed it again, but in the process of killing it, the saint warrior found that it was much more powerful and sensitive than last time, and killing it was no longer so easy.

  Fourth day...

  Fifth day...

Every time the   Swiftlet is killed, it will reappear intact the next day. And it's stronger than the day before.

  No matter how you treat its corpse, whether it is buried, chopped, or even roasted and eaten by a samurai... it can always be resurrected.

   Finally, one day, the saint warrior is no longer its opponent, and was killed by it in the fight.

  The tailless swallow pecked the head of the poor saint warrior and ate it in a few bites.

   Then happily said to people: "This is the hundredth head I have eaten, kindhearted people, thank you! I'm full! See you in a year!"

  After speaking, it flew away from here.

  And sure enough, it never reappeared until a year later...

When   The tail swallow appeared again, the saints’ warriors had been preparing for a whole year, set a trap, and worked together to kill it. Trap its corpse with chains, put it in a wooden coffin made of Shenlong wood, and bury the wooden coffin in front of the tree altar, hoping to suppress evil things with the help of divine power.

  But desperately, the tailless swallow came back to life again the next day.

  And as before, it becomes more powerful.

  In a great battle, it killed seventeen saint warriors and pecked the head of one of them.

When    left, it said: "I'm full, thank you for the hospitality! See you in a year!"

  One year later, when faced with the re-visit of the tail swallow, people had different opinions. Some people cultivated their combat skills and wanted to fight with the tailed swallows again, and some tried new methods to prevent them from resurrecting.

  At this time, a saint warrior stood up and said: "It only needs to eat a human head. Why do we die so many people?"

  This samurai committed suicide in front of the tail swallows and contributed his head.

  After the tailless swallow pecked at the head, it left without hurting others.

  This kind of “head offering” continues to this day, and it is the predecessor of the “xiangshou” tradition of the holy race.

  This story is not long, but it is extremely dark and desperate.

  A monster that can never be completely killed, the more powerful it is against, the horrible thing of devouring human heads has become a habit.

  People fear it and are used to it.

  The old white-haired woman finished telling the story.

  Jiang Wang and the three of them were silent.

  The sage "xiangshou" tradition is a great history of sacrifice.

   But from another perspective, is this not the history of the tame of the so-called "holy family" by a tailless swallow?

"I have a question." Wu Quji asked bluntly: "Since that tailless swallow can eat one head a year. Why don't you send the elderly or children who are unable to work, but let the young warriors of the clan What about dying? In terms of value selection, it is not appropriate. The young and strong warrior should be the guarantee for the survival of the ethnic group?"

  The old priest gave him a deep look: "The old man is history, and the child is the future. Lost history, lose honor. Lost the future, lose everything. We have no tradition of letting the elderly and children die."

  Qing Jiuye glared at Wu Quji: "Although my holy race has had to surrender, our backbone is not broken!"

  At this time, Jiang Wang asked, "Is that tailless swallow a Yanxiao?"

  Before entering the land of the shadow of the gods, Qing Qishu mentioned this seemingly taboo name, which impressed him deeply.

   "Yan Xiao?" Before the priest nodded, Su Qi next to him said curiously.

  When the priest told the story of the tail swallow, he was always thinking, as if he was thinking of something.

  "Young man, do you know Yan Xiao?" The old priest looked at Su Qi with muddy eyes.

   "I once turned to an ancient book with a paragraph in it that recorded Yan Xiao." Su Qi hesitated.

   Jiang Wang's heart moved. The ancient books that exist in this world record the monster tailless swallow in the source world of Senhai?

  This matter has become more and more mysterious.

  Everyone looked at Su Qi inquiringly.

  He thought for a while, and first declared: "I'm not sure of the authenticity, I only say that I have seen it."

   "But it's okay to say."

  Su Qi organized a language and said: "According to the record in that ancient book..."

  "The swallow is a good bird, and the owl is a bad bird.

  People in ancient times hated Xiao Xiao very much.

  Cut off the head of the owl bird and hang it on the tree to show the public.

  This is the origin of "Xiao's first show to the public".

  This has also become a punishment that the human race still uses today. People often cut off the victim’s head and hang it on a wood for public display.

  It is said that after the death of the owl, the evil thoughts are endless. Only one hundred thousand owls whose heads were hung in public will have a very evil bird bred from the owl's head.

   is named Yan Xiao.

  According to legend, this thing is the evil thought of the owl, because hatred is the same as the bird. People love the yan so much, but they are so hostile to the owl, so it turns into a swallow shape. It is to kill in a swallow shape. Harm the Terran as if it "likes" it.

  Because it was conceived from the surrender level, it was born with a head and no tail, so the biggest difference between the appearance of the Yan Owl and the Swallow is that the Yan Owl has no tail.

  Yanxiao is the most evil in the owl, born cruel, and feeds on the first level of creatures. "

  At the end, Su Qi's voice even trembled--

   "When Yan Xiao cries, he must eat a hundred poems!"

  　The legend is actually one of the cornerstones of the real world. A nation without legends is incomplete.

  　　

  　

  (End of this chapter)