Chapter 330: Spiritual Sacrifice
New World, somewhere in a forest.
Under the gray sky, white mist diffused among the woods. In the quiet forest, there was peace and silence. In this faint mist, two figures wandered between them.
They were all young men with brown skin. One of them had loose black hair and was wearing a messy outfit made of animal skins and thick cloth. The headband on his head had eagle feathers on the edge and his face was simply painted. This was Capac of the Tupa tribe.
Next to him was a young man of the same age as him. The difference was that he was not wearing a headdress, his hair was much shorter, and he wore a necklace made of animal fangs on his chest.
The two young men walked forward together on the thick fallen leaves in the forest. The one next to Capac, who was older than him, looked around a few times, then turned to Capac and spoke.
"Capak, after your spiritual sacrifice this time, the spiritual energy you have accumulated is close to the level of being able to be promoted. After a few more soul visions, you will also be able to see the spirit and Lord Black Hoof."
Listening to the older youth's words, Capac smiled slightly, and then continued speaking with a respectful tone.
"To be honest, my dear brother Banu, after the last spiritual sacrifice, my spirituality has been advanced enough. Just the day before yesterday, Teacher Uta held a ceremony for me, allowing me to officially become a psychic. I think when the spiritual sacrifice is held this day ago, I will be able to truly meet Lord Black Hoof. I have been waiting for this day for a long time."
Kapak smiled and said to the man named Banu beside him. Banu was slightly startled after hearing Kapak's words. He was stunned for a while before speaking in a stunned tone.
"You have been promoted to a psychic now? That's amazing! Kapak, if I remember correctly, it has only been more than a month since Lord Uta of your tribe accepted you as his apprentice. You have been promoted already? This is much faster than I was at the beginning! How did you do it?"
Looking at Kapak, Banu said with surprise and astonishment, while Kapak smiled and answered modestly.
"It's nothing. It's all thanks to your recent care, Brother Banu, that I became familiar with the spiritual sacrifice ceremony, and my first attempt was a success."
"Spiritual sacrifice? Brother Kapak, don't be ridiculous. The spiritual energy you have accumulated from this spiritual sacrifice is definitely not enough to be promoted to a psychic. Tell me the truth, did Lord Uta know about the other wilderness spirits? Did you participate in the ceremonies of other wilderness spirits recently? Did you gain spiritual energy from them?"
“No, no…”
Banu continued to question Capac. Capac just responded to Banu with a noncommittal tone. Listening to Capac's tone, Banu also determined that this kid must have performed spiritual sacrifices with several wilderness spirits at the same time and had his own unknown spiritual source.
"Hey, Brother Capac, your spiritual power is accumulating so quickly. It must be that Lord Uta told you the location of the new wilderness spirit. Previously, I led you to hold a spiritual ceremony. Now you should lead me to find the location of other wilderness spirits. Could it be that Lord Uta asked you to tell others?"
Banu asked Capac in an anxious tone, and Capac explained the answer.
"It's not what you think, Brother Banu. The only wilderness spirit around our tribe is Lord Black Hoof. Teacher Uta and I don't know if there are other wilderness spirits nearby. The reason why I accumulate spirituality quickly is because I have a high affinity for spirits. When I meditate in the wilderness, it is easier to attract spirits to resonate with me. The reason why my spirituality can accumulate quickly is largely thanks to the spirits."
Kapak explained to Banu, who nodded silently and then spoke.
"Is that so... I've heard from my teacher before that some people are born with a stronger affinity for spirits and cannot quickly accumulate spirituality, but I've never seen this before. I didn't expect that you, Brother Capac, are this kind of person. Today I finally saw you. I'm so envious."
Thinking about it, Banu said this to Kapak, and Kapak responded with a smile.
"It's nothing. It's thanks to the help of Teacher Uta and Brother Banu that I was able to be promoted so smoothly..."
In this way, Kapak and Banu talked as they walked forward, toward the place where they usually held spiritual sacrifices.
Ever since the last "exorcism" incident, Kapak was accepted as a disciple by the old shaman Uta in the tribe, who formally taught him shamanism. During this period of time, Uta taught Kapak the traditional spiritual accumulation method and spiritualism of the shaman.
The so-called spiritualism is a method of accumulating "silent" spirituality by communicating with spirits and resonating with them. This usually requires offerings to the spirits. After pleasing the spirits, one can then resonate with the spirits that have consumed the offerings while meditating, and while resonating, let the spirituality contained in the spirits flow to oneself.
In the wilderness of the New World, many people and animals do not disappear immediately after death, but instead transform into spirits and wander in the wilderness. A shaman who wants to accumulate spirituality needs to carry tributes, go to the wilderness at night, set up an altar facing the spirits, use tributes to attract the spirits, and chirp with them while they enjoy the food, gaining spirituality from the chirping.
This is the primary application of the spiritual method, that is, to make sounds to the spirits to gain spirituality, but the spirituality gained in this way is not much. Therefore, on this basis, there is a more advanced application, which is to pray to the wilderness spirits to make sounds to gain more spirituality.
Wilderness spirits are actually more powerful and more advanced spirits. In the New World, when a creature that is powerful enough dies, if its soul becomes a spirit, it is a wilderness spirit. The spirit of a wilderness spirit is much stronger than an ordinary spirit. Under the selection of the environment, they merge with the environment and become the guardians and spokespersons of nature. In a sense, they can be said to be the soul of the land.
Shamans can communicate with spirits, and of course they can also communicate with wilderness spirits. The ritual of requesting spirituality from wilderness spirits is called "spiritual sacrifice" by the shamans. From wilderness spirits, shamans and their followers can gain more spirituality than ordinary spirits.
After Kapak became a shaman apprentice, Uta taught him how to use spiritualism, and then let him begin to accumulate spirituality. In addition to letting Kapak go out into the wilderness to communicate with spirits, Uta also introduced him to the shaman apprentice of a neighboring tribe, namely Banu, and asked Banu to take Kapak to communicate with the spirits of the wilderness and perform spiritual sacrifices.
Logically speaking, it has only been a month since Capac acquired the spiritual power, and he has only performed spiritual sacrifices once, so the accumulated "silent" spiritual power is not enough for him to be promoted. However, in addition to the spiritual power, Capac has another way to accumulate spiritual power, which is to pray to the mysterious spirit named Aka, through which he can get extra spiritual power.
Through the magical picture book given by Akha, Capac was able to communicate with a fellow Akha believer in the distant horizon. The scholar would occasionally use the picture book to give him some poisonous spirits that would make him dizzy. After reading this knowledge, the scholar asked Capac to pray to Akha, and then the poison would be extracted as spirituality.
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