In the face of this strange and terrifying howl.
Of all the saints present, only the white-haired priest was able to maintain his composure.
Her tone was even calm. "Ba Zhi, bring Xiang Shou's head to me. It's in my cultivation room, and I've already paid respects to it. "
Qing Ba Zhi gritted his teeth and left without a word.
This was tradition.
This was tradition … …
Qing Qi Shu and Qing Jiuye remained silent, their faces filled with shame.
"Young man from a foreign land." The priest looked at Jiang Wang. "Didn't you ask me what the predicament of the Blessed Land was? Our Sacred Clan had no choice but to let the young warriors of our clan kill each other, and then the warrior who died from Xiang Shou … … must bring his head. This is the predicament we are facing. "
"What is the cause of this predicament?" Jiang Wang was affected by this oppressive atmosphere, his voice faintly hoarse. "That howl just now?"
The old priest looked at him and told him this story.
A long time ago.
A tailless swallow came to the door and spoke in human language. "Good people, my stomach is rumbling and I'm about to starve to death. Can you give me something to eat?"
A kind-hearted Sacred Clan girl brought over some fruit.
The tailless swallow said, "No, I don't eat this."
The Sacred Clan girl brought it a bowl of rice and a bowl of water.
The tailless swallow said, "How can these things fill my stomach?"
The Sacred Clan girl became angry. "What do you want to eat?"
The tailless swallow revealed a ferocious expression. "Only your head can quench my hunger."
After saying this, it pounced on the Sacred Clan girl.
This scene was seen by a sacred warrior. The sacred warrior raised his bow and shot the swallow to death with a single arrow.
But the terrifying thing was that the tailless swallow appeared again the next day.
It was exactly the same, not a single feather was harmed.
It even used the exact same tone to plead. "Good people, my stomach is rumbling and I'm about to starve to death. Can you give me something to eat?"
Everyone already knew its ferocious appearance, so no one answered. The brave Sacred Clan warrior immediately shot it to death. In order to prevent this strange Tailless Swallow from reviving again, the Sacred Warriors burned its body to ashes.
But on the third day, the tailless swallow appeared again.
This time, it cried, "I'm starving to death, please give me a head to eat."
Of course, no one would agree.
The Sacred Race warriors killed it again, but in the process of killing it, the Sacred Race warriors discovered that it was much stronger and more agile than before. Killing it was no longer as easy as before.
The fourth day …
The fifth day …
Every time the Tailless Swallow was killed, it would reappear the next day in perfect condition. And it was even stronger than the day before.
No matter how its corpse was treated, whether it was buried, chopped up, or even roasted by warriors … it would always come back to life.
Finally, one day, the Sacred Warriors were no longer a match for it and were killed in a fight.
The Tailless Swallow pecked off the head of the poor Holy Race warrior and ate it in a few bites.
Then, he happily said to the people, "This is the hundredth head I've eaten. Kind people, thank you! I'm full! See you in a year! "
With that, it flew away.
And sure enough, it didn't appear again until a year later …
When the Tailless Swallow reappeared, the Sacred Race warriors had already prepared for an entire year, setting up a trap and working together to kill it. They used chains to bind its body, put it inside a wooden coffin made of Divine Dragon Wood, and buried the coffin in front of the Tree Altar, hoping to borrow divine power to suppress the evil entity.
But to their despair, the Tailless Swallow revived the next day.
And just like before, it became even stronger.
In a great battle, it killed 17 Sacred Race warriors and ate the head of one of them.
When it left, it said, "I'm full, thank you for your hospitality! See you in a year! "
A year later, when the Tailless Swallow reappeared, everyone had different opinions. Some people trained their skills to fight against the Tailless Swallow again, while others tried to use new methods to stop the Tailless Swallow from reviving.
At this time, a Sacred Race warrior stood up and said: "It only needs to eat one head, why do we have to sacrifice so many people?"
This warrior committed suicide in front of the Tailless Swallow, offering his head as a sacrifice.
After the Tailless Swallow ate the head, it left without harming anyone else.
This "sacrifice" continued to this day, which was the predecessor of the Sacred Race's "Mutual Hunt" tradition.
This story wasn't long, but it was exceptionally dark and despairing.
A monster that could never be completely killed, and only grew stronger the more they fought against it, turned something as shocking as eating human heads into a habit.
People feared it, but also got used to it.
The white-haired old woman finished telling this story.
Jiang Wang and the others fell silent.
The Sacred Race's "Mutual Hunt" tradition was a great sacrifice.
But from another point of view, wasn't this the history of the Tailless Swallow taming the so-called "Sacred Race"?
"I have a question" Wu Quji directly asked: "Since that Tailless Swallow only needs to eat one head a year, why don't you send the Sacred Race instead? Why don't you send the elderly or children who can't work, instead of sending the young warriors of your race to their deaths? In terms of value, it's not appropriate. Young warriors should be the guarantee of the race's survival, right? "
The old shaman looked at him deeply: "The elderly are history, the children are the future. Losing history, losing honor. Losing the future, losing everything. We don't have a tradition of sending the elderly and children to their deaths. "
Qing Jiuye glared at Wu Quji: "Although the Sacred Race had no choice but to submit, our backbone hasn't been broken!"
At this moment, Jiang Wang asked: "Is that Tailless Swallow Yan Xiao?"
Before entering the Divine Shadow Land, Qing Qishu had mentioned this taboo name, which had left a deep impression on him.
"Yan Xiao?" Before the old shaman could nod, Su Qi was the first to speak out of curiosity.
When the old shaman was telling the story of the Tailless Swallow, Su Qi had been thinking about something.
"Young man, you know of Yan Xiao?" The old shaman looked at Su Qi with his turbid eyes.
"I once flipped through an ancient text, and there was a passage that recorded Yan Xiao," Su Qi said hesitantly.
Jiang Wang's heart skipped a beat. An ancient text in the Modern Realm that recorded the Tailless Swallow of the Forest Sea Origin Realm?
This matter was becoming more and more mysterious.
Everyone looked at Su Qi inquisitively.
He thought for a moment, then declared: "I'm not sure if it's true or not, I'll only say that I saw it."
"There's no harm in saying it."
Su Qi organized his words and said: "According to the records of that ancient text …"
"Swallows are good birds, while owls are evil birds.
In ancient times, people hated owls.
They beheaded the owls and hung them on trees for public display.
This was the origin of 'beheading in public display'.
This became a punishment that the human race still uses to this day. People would often cut off the heads of the victims and hang them on trees for public display.
It was said that after the owls died, their evil thoughts would not disappear. Out of a hundred thousand owls that were hung for public display, only one bird of extreme evil would be born from the head.
Its name was Yan Xiao.
It was said that this was the evil thoughts of the owls. Because they hated birds, humans loved swallows, but hated owls so much that they took the form of a swallow. It wanted to use its swallow form to kill. It used the form that humans "loved" to kill humans.
Because it was born from a head, it was born with a head but no tail. Therefore, the biggest difference between Yan Xiao and swallows was that Yan Xiao had no tail.
Yan Xiao was the most evil of owls. It was born cruel and fed on the heads of living beings. "
At the end, Su Qi's voice even trembled slightly.
"When Yan Xiao cries, it will eat a hundred heads!"
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