Chapter 301: Heaven Earth Sovereign Kin Teacher

Zisheng sought the status of Baifeng Tribe members for his own clansmen; from then on, the Zisheng Tribe no longer existed, just like the former Yishang Tribe and the Stone Tribe, all eventually merging completely into the Baifeng Tribe to become members of the Baifeng Tribe.

Having successfully won over the Zisheng Tribe, Baifeng would subsequently organize a specialized Navy, with the people of the Zisheng Tribe as the main force; Baifeng did not need them to farm or work, only to secure the waters.

All the preliminary preparations were without issue, and then Baifeng prepared for the founding and enthronement the next day; to tell the truth, Baifeng's heart was nervous, although he had been the Tribal Chief for so long and had always been the highest leader, now he was just changing a name, so why was he so excited? Could the temptation of a title really be this great?

At night, Baifeng basically did not sleep well, but his two wives slept soundly; for the two of them, as long as Baifeng was there, there were no major issues; the things they worried about most were the future of their children and their own status, which did not seem to be anything to care about.

Early the next morning, before the sky was bright, Baifeng called his two wives up; mainly because they had to prepare now, his Coronation Robes needed his wife's help to be put on, and then Sui's outfit also had to be put on; Chinv had none, although she had been given the title of Concubine, in such a grand sacrificial scene, she was not qualified to go up, and even women from other tribes, regardless of their status, could not participate in the sacrifice; in the Baifeng Tribe, the greatest degree of gender equality for this era had actually been achieved.

Baifeng took the Jade Axe that symbolized his status, and then went out the door when the first ray of sunlight rose; the other clansmen were also already prepared, and whether they were awake or not, they had to get up to participate in this most solemn sacrifice.

Chinv pulled the two sleepy-eyed children behind her; although they could not ascend the high platform, there was an independent spot for them to watch.

All those who were already Baifeng's Subjects wore grand clothing, waiting for Baifeng to begin the sacrifice.

In their hands, they held a narrow wooden board; in Baifeng's words, this thing was called a Court Tablet, meaning that when discussing major affairs, one would write down what one needed to do and what one wanted to say on it, so that when it was one's turn, one would not forget; a notebook would also work, but on such an occasion, flipping through a notebook indeed did not look very proper.

Xiong and the others had already used the greatest function of the Court Tablet this time: taking notes; they were afraid of forgetting the procedure at this grand ceremony and making a fool of themselves, angering the Heavens and bringing down punishment, so they used pens to record the procedure in great detail.

After the clansmen beat the Drum, Baifeng held the Jade Axe in one hand and held Chinv's hand with the other, walking onto the path paved with soft pine needles, all the way to the high platform.

Then he placed the Jade Axe on the offering table, picked up his Court Tablet, and chanted toward the "Heaven and Earth" stone: "Reporting to the Heavens, today the Baifeng Tribe wishes to take the tribe and establish a nation, the nation's name is Huaxia, setting this year as Tianyun Huaxia Year One..."

After a period of narration, Baifeng began to tread in steps that the crowd below could not understand, chanting: "Heaven and Earth are Nature. Filth and Qi disperse. Within the cave is profound emptiness. Bright and vast is the Great Origin. The mighty spirits of the eight directions. Make me natural. The talisman command of the spiritual treasure. Proclaim to the Nine Heavens."

Then he knelt down and kowtowed; the people below looked at their Court Tablets and understood that they should also kneel and kowtow, so they knelt down in a swarm; all the onlookers did not know the specific protocol, because this was not something they were supposed to know, but seeing the Tribal Chief kneel, they felt it might not be appropriate not to kneel, so they all knelt down as well.

Afterward, Baifeng rose again, chanted, and kowtowed, and the crowd followed suit; it was just hard on Sui, as the clothes she wore were complicated and the hem was long, making it difficult to kneel, and she could not learn Baifeng's dashing robe-flicking posture; most importantly, with Baifeng sacrificing on the side, she could only stand there awkwardly, unable to do anything; she could feel the burning gazes of the clansmen behind her, and this feeling was truly too agonizing; if she had known this, she would have let Chinv go up; she did not care about being the primary wife or concubine anyway; Baifeng had said that she was his first wife, and Yulong was his future successor.

After Baifeng finished the perfunctory sacrifice, he inserted a few sticks of Incense into the Incense Burner; the current Baifeng Tribe no longer threw cypress branches directly into the fire, but instead ground cypress seeds and some other medicinal herbs into powder, added honey, and finally rolled them into strips, which the Tribal Chief called Incense.

Because the cost was too high, it was usually not used, and only used during such sacrifices; moreover, when the clansmen watched the curling smoke rise to the sky, they would also feel that the spirits must have received the message.

The characters on the "Heaven and Earth Stone" could no longer be seen, because they were originally written with Charcoal, and later written a few times with soot ink, but they would fade or even disappear after rain and snow; even without water, they would fade after a long time, so later Baifeng simply stopped writing them, as long as everyone understood what this stone represented.

However, this time, Baifeng picked up the pen again and wrote the characters "Heaven Earth Sovereign Kin Teacher" on the small stone, then handed it to the Stonemason waiting on the side to carve it on the spot.

The Stonemason was a bit afraid, because this stone represented the spirits, and while the Tribal Chief could treat it casually, he dared not; his hands were trembling, but in the end, Baifeng explained that this was the will of the spirits and told him to carve it boldly without fear.

The Stonemason carved it carefully on the side, and Baifeng and Sui went to complete the final item: enthronement; Baifeng sat down with Sui under the chair on the high platform, and the Shaman, who was staring at his Court Tablet, knew what the next item was, so he shouted: "Kneel and pay homage to our King, may our King live for ten thousand generations!"

The Subjects behind knelt down and shouted in unison, and the clansmen also knelt, but what they were supposed to shout was not heard clearly, and they just shouted randomly; the sound of ten thousand people was still very loud.

Subsequently, Baifeng let everyone rise, and then proclaimed the regulations and welfare benefits after the founding of the nation; after the proclamation ended, the Shaman again took the lead in kneeling and shouted: "Thank you, our King!"

The regulations were very long, and Sui was bored, but also very nervous, not daring to even breathe loudly; she had to face the eyes of ten thousand people, and she did not have Baifeng's strong psychological quality to be able to face so many people and still respond easily.

The Stonemason finished carving the stone, and then Baifeng used the pen to fill in the carved parts again, finally saying to the clansmen: "After the founding of the nation, the spirits are complete; when we were a tribe, we only needed to rely on Heaven and Earth, but after we establish a nation, the spirits of our tribe are 'Heaven Earth Sovereign Kin Teacher!'"