"Based on the clues we got at the Jade Mountain Altar, I think the general sequence of things should be as follows. The priest first brought the slave as a sacrifice to the altar at the waist of Yushan Mountain, and killed him in a cruel and bloody way. Use this to charge the Muchen Beads, and at the end of the sacrifice, remove the eyes of the sacrifice as a sacrifice in the subsequent sacrifice ceremony."
Shirley Yang ignored the frustrated Wang Kaixuan and slowly expressed her reasoning.
But after finishing speaking, Shirley Yang's frowning eyebrows did not relax. Instead, she said with some confusion: "But looking at it this way, there is a contradiction, which I can't figure out."
Chen Ziyan thought about Shirley Yang's words for a while, then he roughly understood and asked: "What you can't figure out is that the Muchen Bead has been charged before, so why do you need eyes as a sacrifice here?"
"Yes, there is part of the reason, but what I don't understand is why the eyes of the sacrifices are reused." Shirley Yang nodded first, and then expressed her real doubts.
"Huh? Repeated use?" Chen Ziyan hesitated slightly, he really didn't think about it.
He thought it was a common sense issue due to cultural differences between East and West.
You must know that even though she was brought along by Partridge Whistle since she was a child, the environment in which she grew up is. Shirley Yang’s thinking mode is different from theirs. This can be seen from her daily conversations. More importantly, , the thousands of years of inheritance of the Bishan lineage are complicated and majestic, Partridge Whistle needs to teach her too many things, and it is inevitable that she will be neglected in the most basic popular culture.
This is also the fundamental reason why some things that ordinary people take for granted, such as the secrets of the world, allusions to legends, and slang, are vividly explained by Shirley Yang.
"Yes, repeated use. This is usually not allowed in sacrificial rituals, right?" Shirley Yang mentioned this word again. Obviously this was the most difficult point for her to understand.
"That's true, but... this is a snowy land, and the customs and funerals here are different from those in the Central Plains. Especially since the Demon Kingdom was still a long time ago, it is not incomprehensible to have some special changes." Chen Ziyan thought about it. After thinking about it, he said.
"Is it possible that this is just a formalism, which is why such waste utilization occurs?" Hu Bayi interjected at this time.
He guessed that the stone facility housing the eyes probably had no practical function.
"It would be great if that was the case." Wang Kaixuan's eyes couldn't help but light up when he heard what he said.
If this stone facility that requires a lot of eyes is really just a silver gun candle holder, that's a great thing for them.
Chen Ziyan also nodded slightly. If this is really the case, it would be the best.
This will not only remove an obstacle, but also give everyone a little more confidence.
You must know that although this journey has been relatively smooth, it has encountered constant twists and turns. Now that such a situation has occurred again, it is necessary to improve morale.
In fact, Chen Ziyan has another guess about this, that is, the sacrificial ritual here requires eyes as a starting prop, which can also explain why there is still no response after placing the Muchen Bead on the stone pillar.
But what Chen Ziyan didn't expect was that as soon as he had this idea, he saw from the corner of his eye that Muchen Zhu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly reacted.
After turning around, he saw that the Muchen Bead, which had been quietly sitting on the stone pillar vessel, was now emitting a faint red fluorescence from the inside out.
Chen Ziyan's actions attracted the attention of others. When they looked over, Muchen Bead and Shizhu showed new changes at the same time.
The light emitted by Muchen Bead gradually became thicker, and the flame-like light converged into lines, and began to flow from top to bottom along the grooves on the stone pillars, like a solid liquid.
Under the gaze of everyone, the flaming light began to disperse after falling, and soon spread to the entire stone platform.
But after it spread to the entire stone platform, it didn't end there. Instead, it began to crawl toward the surrounding stone walls in violation of gravity.
After seeing this scene, Chen Ziyan slowly narrowed his eyes, and then he saw that the lines on the wall were no longer disordered, but were instead outlined by the light from Muchen Bead.
Just like the pictures that appeared in the pool at the Jade Mountain Altar in front, the pictures on the surrounding walls also have similar content, except that the location inside is changed to where they are now.
No one spoke, no matter whether they could understand or not, everyone's attention was attracted by the sudden appearance of murals.
The content of these murals is still about sacrifices, but the rituals here are more hidden and mysterious than those at the Yushan Altar.
Except for the young woman whose specific appearance is not described in the mural, the only person who appears is a priest responsible for presiding over the ceremony.
The priest who presided over the sacrificial ceremony was also a woman. It could be seen from her more gorgeous clothes that her status in the Demon Kingdom should be very high.
The sacrificial ceremony was not much different from what Chen Ziyan and the others had guessed. The female priest first spread her eyeballs all over the bottom of the stone facility, and then asked a girl who covered her eyes with a cloth to lie down in another one with nothing. inside the stone facility.
After both sides were in place, the female priest in the picture began to pray in front of the stone pillar. The following picture did not describe the process of sacrifice, but jumped directly to the scene of the success of the ceremony.
When the girl who successfully completed the ceremony came out of the stone facility, the female priest waiting outside respectfully helped the girl put on a robe. Then the girl waved her hand to summon a giant python, stepped on its head and left the altar.
On the last mural, the girl had already sat on the throne. The giant python that she had summoned before was quietly entrenched around the throne. Below her were figures kneeling down and worshiping devoutly.
"It seems that this sacrificial ceremony does require eyeballs." Hu Bayi's eyes were fixed on the scene of the sacrificial ceremony, looking at the eyeballs covering the grooves used.
If you mean it, it's not hard to hear a hint of frustration in his tone.
Although they knew the specific process of the sacrificial ceremony, it also meant that they had no way to continue. Just like Wang Kaixuan said, where could they get so many eyeballs.
Not to mention that they were cursed in more than one person. If the slowed eyeballs were only enough for one person, it would not be as simple as doubling the number.
"This is the inheritance ceremony of the ghost mother." Chen Ziyan did not answer Hu Bayi's words, but directly changed the topic.
Shirley Yang nodded lightly: "According to the description on this mural, the girl after the sacrifice will indeed become the new ghost mother. The method of summoning the giant python out of thin air, if it is not deliberately deified, should be the communication of imaginary numbers. space."
"I was just thinking about what would be a better way to lift the curse." Chen Ziyan nodded lightly, and then suddenly asked such a question.
What exactly should be done to lift the curse?
Everyone, including Shirley Yang, was stumped by his question.
The purpose of their trip is to lift the curse, but there is actually a prerequisite before lifting the curse, which is to find a way to lift the curse.
Now it seems that if nothing unexpected happens, this should be the end of the trip. There is indeed a way to use the Muchen Beads here, but there is actually no way to lift the curse.
If you follow the method on the mural, no one can guarantee that the curse will be lifted.
"Master Chen, what do you mean?" Hu Bayi gradually came to his senses.
"What I mean is very simple. We don't need eyeballs to start the ceremony, because this is not what we want. We took the Muchen Bead and worked hard to find it here. The only thing we want is to relieve you. curse instead of repeating the inheritance ceremony of the ghost mother." Chen Ziyan said.
It was only after he noticed the frustration in Hu Bayi's words that he realized that their thinking seemed to have gone into a misunderstanding again.
After being reminded, Shirley Yang also thought of this and said in surprise: "We seem to be in the same situation as we were at the Yushan Altar again?"
"Maybe it is, maybe it's not." Chen Ziyan didn't finish his words.
Because he is not sure now whether he and others are concerned about chaos, or whether they are affected by external forces.
He looked at the silent blue-robed Tibetan and asked, "Friends of Kangbalo, I have a question to ask."
The blue-robed Tibetan said, "Please tell me."
"Does the King of Hell you Kang Balo guard have any relationship with the Demon Kingdom?" Chen Ziyan asked the doubt in his heart.
This question really came to his mind on the spur of the moment, because if the Kangbalo clan and the Demon Kingdom were not related to each other by ancestors, they would be the type of people who could not be fought with even a single pole.
But after experiencing the previous situation at the Yushan Altar here again, Chen Ziyan suddenly felt blessed and thought of a possibility, that is, whether there is a connection between the King of Hell and the Demon Kingdom.
"The specific deeds are difficult to ascertain, but according to the records within our clan, the true form of the King of Hell should be the last king of the Demon Kingdom." The blue-robed Tibetan hesitated for a moment before giving the answer.
He didn't know if it was his misunderstanding. He always felt that Chen Ziyan seemed to know many secrets, so he didn't intend to lie about such things.
"The last king of the Demon Kingdom?" Chen Ziyan heard this answer and subconsciously asked: "The last ghost mother of the Demon Kingdom?"
If he remembered correctly, the last ghost mother in the Demon Kingdom should be buried in the Great Phoenix Temple, right?
Why did he suddenly become the King of Hell now?
"No, the last king of the Demon Kingdom is not the Ghost Mother." The blue-robed Tibetan shook his head slightly, and then he told a secret that may only be known to the Kangbalo people now.
The time has long been unknown. It is said that during that period, the Demonic Kingdom did not have a ghost mother for decades. This caused panic in the entire country. Coupled with the rebellion of the surrounding clans, they had to start looking for a new way out.
At this time, an amazing and talented figure appeared. He used the treasures in the Demon Kingdom's treasure house to successfully give himself powerful abilities, and helped the Demon Kingdom survive those turbulent days, and finally became the reality of the Demon Kingdom. The person in control is the King of Hell.
"Wait! You said the King of Hell is a human being?" Wang Kaixuan asked with a look of disbelief after hearing this.
As if he had known he would react this way, the blue-robed Tibetan nodded calmly: "Yes, the essence of the King of Hell is actually a human being."
"That's right, have you ever seen someone who can seize control of a corpse? And according to what you said before, after completing the final transformation, the King of Hell is as tall as several floors. How can this damn thing be... People?" Wang Kaixuan blurted out a series of questions.
It's not that he doubts what the blue-robed Tibetan said, but that this statement seems too bizarre and nonsense to him.
Even if the King of Hell turns into a rice dumpling after death, he cannot become as tall as several floors.
If mutations would occur when turning into rice dumplings, then there would be no robbers in the world. Who dares to touch the tiger's beard of such a terrifying thing would be just seeking death.
Even Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang, who have relatively strong acceptance ability, shook their heads at this time. They couldn't accept this fact.
Chen Ziyan was not too surprised. Although the body shape changes of the King of Hell were indeed a bit exaggerated, similar situations were not unheard of. Moreover, people who took the road of immortality, such as the King of Hell or the King of Wannu, would not look like anything in the end. It will make those in the know wonder.
Black Glasses had been paying attention to Chen Ziyan's expression, and now he could not help but feel surprised when he saw that he showed a trace of normalcy.
He is not unfamiliar with the situation of the King of Hell, because he has been exposed to it before, and his unique ability can be activated because of his experience.
But what he didn't expect was that the young man Chen Ziyan also looked like he knew what was going on.
Although everyone seems to be of the same age, Black Glasses can clearly tell his age, and his family background also played a big role in it.
You can tell this by looking at the Jiumen. With the four tomb robber sects disappearing one after another, the Jiumen has almost taken over the entire Tao Dou industry, but there are only a few people inside who know the relevant things.
Even Zhang Dafoye, who seems to be the master of all things now, only knew of the existence of those places in recent years, which is enough to show how secretive this kind of thing is.
But now Chen Ziyan, a young man in his early twenties, actually showed an expression of "I knew it a long time ago". How could he not surprise Black Glasses.
Is it the inheritance of Xiling?
Black Glasses quickly thought of Chen Ziyan's identity, but he couldn't think of any other possibility.
However, it is possible that the Xiling inheritance has been recorded. After all, this is an organization that has been passed down for thousands of years, and many royal tombs have been excavated. It is not surprising to know some secrets.
Chen Ziyan felt the gaze of black eyes, but he didn't care. He actually did it deliberately now.
After all, some words were clearly inappropriate but had to be said, so he planned to use the black glasses to help him send a message to the outside world, which would save him a lot of unnecessary trouble after leaving Kunlun.
(End of chapter)
