Crystal Lake Mountain, Southern Border
Arrogant mountain's peak greeted us with bitter cold wind however with cruel sound of metal against flesh of arrogant one we completed our preparation.
There pyre with marking of Crow Spreading it's Wings was set up, all remain is to carve wood till our hand bleed since I already worked on gathering, this task fell upon my master.
'I have never seen her this focused, hmmm unlike other things it's seems like this actually holds value in her eyers'
Our eyes met for for second and as understanding what I wanting to convey her crazy silver eyes focused on me
"This ritual holds a place close to heart for my kind in home world, when a master takes a disciple they need to perform this sacred ritual to prove their resolve as well as gratitude to the one who gave us life and meaning."
"To the crow?"
"No, we perform this ritual in memory of third disciple of Enlightened One.
But we also need to ask permission of guardian deity like the [ Illuminating Crown ] they are most merciful among three and their ritual is most simple, you just need to produce light and pay respect to their symbol.
"There are more than one gaurdian deity?"
"Yes, the second one [Thousand Mouth Devouring Serpent] and third one is [Four-winged Butterfly]
"To properly perform ritual of [ Illuminating Crown ] you need understand one of their nick name [ The one who laughs from golden seat ] our entire existence is nothing more than a joke to them, so when a joke becomes unfunny?
"When one accept our nature as joke, then it would be nothing more than tragedy?"
"Yes, to perform this ritual master and discipline need produce light so [ Their eyes ] can see us after offering proper respect and prayer, master and disciple pair need to consume hallucinogens until they get in trance and after that, you dance until your feet bleed, dance like a fool you are in [their eyes].
When you can't dance, just drop and if flames die your ritual is completed but if they not then you just made one of three gaurdian supereme impressed with your theatrical performance."
"Is it not just throwing a dance party?"
"Does it matter even you chant their name for thousands year, you are same fool in their eyes so why make things hard for yourself?
"...."
"But if you like abuse other two guardian deity should fill you up...
For [Thousand Eyes Devouring Serpent] you need to go on a fast before ritual, disciple are encouraged to maintain their fast longer than master, after reaching your limit, master and disciple pair need to consume food, emotions, knowledge, evrything and anything and lastly consume each other in a place 'devoid of light'.
"That just..
"Retardation at best ? Yes but their reason for that where [ Illuminating Crown ] only be impressed at best, here both master and disciple will recieve Reverend Supereme's grace and get to enter their realm where other lunatics like them are and this is real I met these lunatics"
"What about third one ?"
"He...how should I say this, when performing his ritual you need to perform mutilation on eachother yet remain fully conscious until one of the participant is killed, while consuming the flesh and blood in their image one has to commit the sin within a split second or else ritual will waste away"
"There is a saying that you should not utter their symbol let alone their title or true name im single day, no one is ever recorded to successfully perform this ritual and if they did they better to shoot down their delusion"
"These three are gaurdian deity ?
"Don't judge other cultures when you have pedo regarded as lion in your home world"
"..."
"Now listen,
With conclusion of Primordial accession, what remain in it's wake was nothing but stagnation and despair.....
Disciples of Enlightened One not only brought knowledge and wisdom to masses but also meaning and heart,
So it was no suprise to anyone that first to meet their demise among disciples was third heavenly lord, she spent her life not only to advancement of mortal kind but also giving the tools to them to search for meaning....for love
In utter defiance to cruel fate, third heavenly lord carved a fragrant of true meaning from blue primordial and set her self in flame to imprint it onto heaven and earth, it is mentioned that scene was so heart wrenching that even Enlightened One shed tears.
One of the core teaching of Third Heavenly lord was to live without fear and hate, so by performing this sacred ritual not only teacher shows respect to the one who sacrificed herself for us but also gives a core teaching that in path of cultivation you should not have meaningless fear or shallow hate in your heart"
"You come from very rich culture....unlike mine"
"I understood that, the moment you told me about hidden dragon of your world"
"Hmmmm, not my world just my back ally shit water home planet"
"..."
"Go get some rest, we will start the ritual well rested"
"Well I should also prepare some dinner for you master"
"Wait here first refine this Heart Eyes Gu it will serve as scouting but it's backdraw is that you will be affected by strong emotions of your victim but you posses void heart seed gu so that only be boon."
"I will treasure this gift master"
'With a slight bow I directly look down at her, even my hight has changed so now I at 6'5, a single thought croses my mind: this righteous master is more than insane'
"This rank 2 heart eyes gu serve two function i.e to detect emotions in area of 100 metres and to also store very strong emotions of victims in user mind.
This gu will feed on emotion water also you can add strong liquor to reduce amount of feed required, it will take form of nictitating membrane so place them on your eyes...in whatever you have in your sockets.
After some time, I observe this gu it looked like a small head of fox with two eyes in it's mouth but in it's sockets pink vine grow covering rest of face like bandages.
'She left....What a intresting culture and this gu well it's for the best to have a scouting gu and pyre well It should be annoying to see your work being burn down but it feels liberating....master said that the reason mortal suffer to even utter primordial name is due to wisdom, imagine to directly gaze on their true form but to carve their true meaning on oneself and then to jump in fire where you won't die until meaning is consumed by heaven and earth. What a dumb yet compassionate being'
After beautiful veil of starlight covered the night sky, a heavy mist spread surrounding us and hiding crackling of fire burning in middle.
Amber dressed in pristine white clothes with her pale blue hair tied looked like an actual priest reciting prayer gave signal to drink so like fish in water we drank while brother Zhu protecting us we passed out, dead drunk.
I shifted opened my eyes from pyre is still burning,
"I really worked hard, hmmm yesterday for the first time I felt some peace"
Northern winds blew carrying embers of the flame, indifferent to fates of mortals yet they performed their duty with zealous.
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Inspiration: Qala movie ( On Netflix )
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