Aztec Eternals

The sky is bright, the sun sets from the wasteland and rises from the plateau. The confrontations and plots of various parts of the Northeast are hidden in the endless swamp. The capital city in the lake, in the center of the world, has just completed its New Year's ceremony. The blood of the Mixtec descendants has completely dyed the 60 to 70-meter-high Great Temple Pyramid red.

Amid the cheers of hundreds of thousands of people in the capital, the high priest of Uger sat peacefully in the great temple like a wooden statue. The priests and elders of the three sects, the Lord God, the God of War, and the God of the Sun, were secretly fighting with each other. Under the turbulent undercurrents under the pale red Lake Texcoco, no one could gain the upper hand.

In the Kalmykak University in the capital city of the lake, there are stone tablets of Ali Sutra and teachings everywhere. This alliance's priestly university, under the suggestion of Shulot and the request of the God King, is continuously cultivating priests of the main **** who are proficient in writing and calculation. The female snake Gillim took charge of the alliance's government affairs, organized a large number of civilian priests into the war priest group, and then sent out logistics to transport food and grass to the three-way alliance army marching south.

The purpose of the Divine War's southern conquest of the people in the clouds was not to make the Mixtecs and Zapotecs surrender, but to go for the complete conquest of the country through sacrifice, conversion, and enfeoffment of the royal bloodline. The three armies' crusade met with desperate resistance from the people of the clouds. The fighting was so cruel that not even a city-state of the descendants of the cloud gods surrendered.

The storm of the times has been triggered by the Mexican conquest, and the violent collision has impacted the entire world. Shulot spreads new ideas, rewards civilian warriors for their military exploits, promotes talented low-level priests, and constantly breaks down class barriers. The heroes of the era are coming one after another, emerging and growing, and this is the time of great struggle in the Central American world!

Follow the militia team struggling to transport food all the way south, along the widest plateau valley, passing the almost abandoned holy city of Cholula, and then three hundred miles southeast, you will find the main force of the east road led by the God King, Mis Shenshi City, the northern ancestral land of the Turk Alliance. This important town of the Mixtecs on the plateau has now set up the banner of the Lord God and the Alliance. And the traces of conquests on the city wall, including axes and knives, arrows inserted, stone bullets deeply dented, and even a section of the wall destroyed, all silently told the story of the blood and cruelty of the recent siege of the city.

Not far to the east from the city wall of Shenshi City, there are two large and small tombs with newly dug soil and a faint red color. The scale of the large burial mound was huge, probably tens of thousands of people could be buried there, but the mound was almost completely clean, with only the wooden emblem of the main **** erected on it. There are probably thousands of people in the small tomb mound. There are wooden statues of many gods erected on the mound, with the image of the main **** being the most common, followed by the black wolf of the **** of death. Among the abstract and strange wood carvings, there are many Mexica-style wooden charms, bone charms, and even obsidian ornaments of nobles and priests, commemorating the noble dead.

The long wind blew, bringing a touch of blood. The bones of those killed in battle were buried in the soil, but the sacrifices were exposed on the pyramid. A few miles away from the two tombs is the Mixtec people's sacred place for rain, the Pyramid Temple in the Clouds, which is more than 30 meters high!

At this moment, the golden statue of the Rain God in the Yunzhong Temple has been torn down, and the new statue of the main **** has not yet been completed. It is only replaced by the golden emblem of the main god. From the highest temple down, the entire pyramid glows with a deep dark red, waiting for the heavy rains in the rainy season to wash away all traces of sacrifice.

In front of the temple gate, at the highest point of the pyramid, hundreds of heads of the descendants of the cloud gods were built into a spectacle for public display, shocking the hearts of every Mixtec tribesman. These are not ordinary tribesmen or warriors, but they are all descendants of the gods in the clouds, nobles who have ruled for generations! Normally, everyone has to kneel down and worship every one they see, but now they all die here, in the Rain Temple that is supposed to protect the descendants of the gods...

The blood and fire of war, the blood and skulls of sacrifices, seem to be the background of the Mexica people. A few miles further north from the Yunzhong Temple is the company camp of the Mexica East Road Army. Tens of thousands of warriors and more militiamen were scattered among the companies and camps for more than ten or twenty miles, with various flags flying. From a distance, it looks like a creeping long-haired beast that has just had a feast and is preparing to "pounce" for the next hunt.

In the most open center of the company camp is the main tent of the God King of Mexica, and another smaller tent next to it. There are four flags erected on the main tent of the God King, namely: the main god's flag with the statue of the god, the alliance flag with a snake ring, the commander's flag of the skeleton warrior, and the divine king's flag of blood and sun. .

On the smaller king's tent next to it, there are only two flags: one is the black wolf **** of death with a **** tongue, and the other is extremely complicated, looks very divine, and is very scary!

The center of the flag is the mysterious inner circle of black and white Pisces, followed by the first circle of eight mysterious words and strange runes in all directions that are extremely difficult to understand, and then the second circle of traditional Sacrificial Mexica graphics and characters, "Tianze Fire Thunder" "Earth, mountains, rivers and wind" can be understood by most nobles and priests. The last one is something that no one can understand. There are sixty-four densely packed small runes in the third circle!

This strange and regular flag, with mysterious divinity and seemingly hidden mysteries but which is always difficult to understand, made the Mexica nobles who were devout in gods shocked and awed when they saw it. If you look at it for a long time, you will even feel dizzy, as if it has great power and can **** souls into the kingdom of God in the sky! And what’s even more frightening is…

"The sun of the Lord God is watching us! The Lord God's divine war will conquer the land in the clouds! All nobles and warriors will fight for the Lord God, and they will ascend to the Kingdom of God after death! And those who dare to flee in fear and cannot fight to the end , we must accept the Lord God’s judgment and seek a glimmer of life from the Lord God’s mercy from the doomed death!…”

The **** king Avit wore bronze armor on the inside and royal robe on the outside, standing expressionlessly on the altar. Three thousand cut-haired guards, all wearing armor and holding spears, surrounded the periphery of the altar for worshiping the gods. Hundreds of Mexican nobles and warrior battalion commanders who led troops gathered under the altar with serious expressions, respectfully listening to the divine king's will.

The army on the east route is about to go south again, along the narrow Yunzhong Valley, to conquer the more solid and dangerous southern Mixtec ancestral land, Yunshan City blessed by the gods. And in the days before the expedition, the God King summoned the generals and set up this kind of array to worship the gods... The generals all guessed the reason, and their hearts suddenly shivered, and they even lowered their heads in awe.

"Witness the Lord God! Come, bring all the generals who are having trouble attacking the city!"

Following God King Avit's sharp shout, a group of twenty cut-haired guards with indifferent expressions brought up eight unarmed military nobles of the alliance. When they saw the formation in front of the altar clearly, these eight military nobles were shocked, with obvious shame and fear on their faces.

"Ah! Dear God King, please give us another chance to make meritorious deeds..."

God King Avit waved his hand, but did not give these nobles a chance to speak and defend themselves. He turned his head majestically, looked at Shulot, who was wearing a priest's attire and carrying a basket of sunflower stalks under the altar, and ordered in a deep voice.

"The Lord God judges everything! The chief priest of the Shulot Sect performs divination and judgment, asks the Lord God for his decree, and determines their life and death!..."

"I obey you, God King!"

"The Lord God bless you! Burn the God's smoke and pray, and ask the Lord God to pay attention to what you see!..."

Shulot nodded respectfully, and then with a solemn expression, he climbed onto the small altar next to him. He first lit the sacred smoke and prayed to the Lord God. Then, he took out the carefully painted, mysterious and scary "Tai Chi Liang Yi Xiantian Bagua and Sixty-Four Hexagrams", unfolded it and hung it high on the altar, so that all the Mexica nobles could see it.

"The Lord God bless you! Give me divine pictures and hexagrams to foretell the future of people and events!..."

Shulot prayed twice, then turned his head and glanced at the eight pale-faced military nobles. He sighed secretly in his heart. He actually recognized all these eight people. Five of them were from various city-state legions and three were from the royal legion. They were all alliance nobles who were brave and capable of fighting.

However, as the northern ancestral land of the Mixtec people, the Holy Stone City was built quite solidly, and the Yunzhong Divine Descendants and warriors in the city also defended extremely resolutely, and almost all of them fought to the death. The Alliance army besieged Shenshi City for several months, and repeatedly failed to attack it. More than 4,000 Alliance warriors were killed in the battle, and the number of militiamen who filled the trenches was even more difficult to estimate! It wasn't until the kingdom's thunder cannons destroyed the city wall, and Admiral Avit cut off his imperial guards to hold down the front line, that the city was defeated in one fell swoop!

As for these eight military nobles, it was during the previous attacks that they brought their respective tribes to the city and suffered heavy losses before they could no longer hold on and retreated. God King Avit sent out guards to hold these defeated nobles in his hands, and took them all out before heading south again. At this moment, it is time to sacrifice these nobles to the flag in front of the three armies. So that when the army attacks Yunshan City next, the nobles and warriors of all tribes will try their best, and even if they die on the top of the attacking city, they will not be able to retreat at all!

"Fight for the city, kill the city full of people! Completely destroy the descendants of the Cloud Gods, wipe out the upper echelons of Mixtec and Zapotec rule, wash all the ministries into a blank sheet, and then force tens of millions of clouds to rely on them. The Central Tribe was forced to convert to the Lord God, and finally allowed the Mexica royal family and nobles to take over the Clouds... This war of conquest in the Land of the Clouds was much more brutal and difficult than the historical southern expedition of Avit collecting vassals and paying tribute, and even more brutal than the The Spanish conquest would be even more difficult! If it weren’t for the alliance’s extraordinarily powerful force, and if it weren’t for the destruction of the city by the Thunder God’s mortars, we wouldn’t even be able to think about this kind of unified conquest that would wipe out the nobles, centralize power and convert people to believers!…”

Thinking of this, Shulot lowered his eyes slightly and glanced at the two large tombs in the distance. He actually knew in his heart that the reason why this southern expedition was so cruel was precisely because he told Avitt about the concept of centralization, which made the God King know in his heart what a truly stable and long-term conquest looks like!

This war of conquest by the **** king is not just as simple as asking the other city-state to pay tribute, hand over protons and sacrifices, burn down the old temple and convert! Instead, we must completely erase the ruling bodies and legal traditions of the descendants of the gods, turn all stubborn nobles and warriors into sacrifices and corpses of the old era, destroy the faith of the lower-class tribesmen, and re-brand the mark of the Lord God! Only in this way can we fight for a long time and allow the Mexica nobles to move in and assimilate these long-standing, conservative and stubborn southern tribes...

"The Lord God bless me! Give me sunflower grass and divination to get the Lord God's will!"

Shulot prayed three times, took off the straw basket behind his back, and took out the 50 sunflower stalks inside.

In the Nahua language, the sunflower chasing the sun is also called "" and is regarded as the "long grass with the divinity of the sun". This herbaceous crop cultivated in Mesoamerica was still very small at this time and was very similar to the yarrow used for divination in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. And they were originally cultivated, and they indeed had important religious symbolic significance, and were used in Aztec medicine to treat fever, "absorbing excess solar heat." There is no doubt that using this religious plant as a tool for divination can better express the sacredness of divination and "communicate with the sun god"!

"Take one if you don't need it, and offer it to the sun god! Hold the left and right hands separately, with the left hand as the sky and the right hand as the earth. Take one from the earth to bear witness to your life..."

Under the awe-inspiring gaze of hundreds of Mexica nobles, Hulot muttered words that no one could understand, while playing with the "Sunflower Grass" on his hand. He first took out an empty one, and then randomly divided the remaining 49 into two groups and held them in his left and right hands. Then, he took out another one from his right hand and sandwiched it between his little finger and ring finger, symbolizing a person's destiny.

After this set of actions, which had a sense of ritual and looked very "divine", "high-end" and "bluffing", he paused for a moment, thought of eight divination times, and decided to use simplified yarrow divination. .

"Eight roots...eight roots..."

Shulot used his right hand to count the sunflower stalks in his left hand, and took out every eight stalks, until only three stalks remained. Then, he handed the remaining three sticks to his right hand and combined them with the stick on his little finger to get the divination result, "four".

"The Lord God bless you! The divination shows that the number is four! Zhen Gua!"

With a solemn look on his face, Shulot held the four sunflower seeds that were the result of his first divination and showed them first to the God King and then to many Mexica nobles. The God King nodded slightly, and many Mexica nobles took a breath of air. Everyone stared intently at the patterns and words on the "Bagua Shen Flag" and saw that "four" corresponded to the "Zhen Gua", and the traditional sacrificial graphics and text carved on the back turned out to be a ball of twisted thunder and lightning.

"The Sun of the Lord God gives His will!"

On the altar, God King Avit had an expressionless face, waved his hand again, and declared in a low voice.

"Come here! Give him a thunderbolt! Send him to the Kingdom of God to purify all sins and enjoy the beauty of peace forever!..."

"Yes! God King!"

"ah!…"

The first military nobleman to be tried was about thirty years old, with gorgeous uniforms, and was obviously from a hereditary noble background. Seeing the results of the divination, his face instantly turned pale, his knees suddenly softened, and he fell to his knees on the ground. But as a Mexica noble who devoutly believed in the gods, faced with such a sacred and mysterious set of priestly rituals, and faced with this solemnly divined "divine will", he had no fighting spirit in his heart, even more so than when faced with severe You must obey the strict military laws.

"O Lord God! Will you use the thunder of the sky to lead my soul to the kingdom of the Lord God?... Praise my god... Huitziloppo..."

At this moment, the middle-aged military noble just knelt on the ground blankly, muttering something in his mouth. Then without any struggle, he was dragged to a squatting tiger cannon by two cut-haired guards. Then, many nobles lowered their heads in fear and heard a "bang" of cannons! The Lord God's thunderous punishment came, but there was no sound anymore at the place of execution...