Chapter 482: A Cruel Sacrifice in the Pursuit of Immortality
The majestic palace instantly transformed into an open space, and many shirtless craftsmen were wielding hammers and struggling to forge something, and the sparks were splashing around, and that sense of reality made Nan Zuisheng and the others involuntarily dodge backwards.
When the sparks gradually disappeared, I saw the solemn and magnificent bronze platform rising from the ground, the four bronze pillars were carved with dense ancient spells, and the emperor wearing a gorgeous crown tapped his chin with satisfaction after his inspection, and then made a look at the soldiers who followed him.
The soldiers drew their sharp blades with cold expressions, and slaughtered the craftsmen who had worked hard to cast the bronze sacrificial platform day and night, and they placed the bodies of these innocent craftsmen on the bronze platform in an orderly manner under the orders of the emperor, and then cut a deep wound on the carotid artery of the corpse, as well as on the wrist and ankle.
Scarlet blood rushed out of the wound, and if the flow of blood slowed down, or if it coagulated after prolonged exposure to the air, the soldiers would continue to make up for it until the blood in the corpses of the craftsmen dried up.
The surface of the bronze platform was also carved with intricate and dense ancient incantations, and when the scarlet warm blood slowly spread and flowed along the grooves of the incantation, all over the surface of the entire bronze altar, the black-robed man who had been following the emperor's side took a few steps forward with his eyes, and while chanting words in his mouth, he took out a piece of white as jade from his bosom, and regularly knocked on the edges and corners of the bronze altar.
With the sound of the black-robed man chanting the incantation, the scarlet blood soaked in the grooves of the spells on the bronze altar gradually boiled, and then I saw that these scarlet blood seemed to be gradually absorbed by this altar, and it gradually penetrated into the bronze grooves of these ancient spells, without leaving a trace of blood.
The black-robed man laughed fiercely when he saw the situation, and after he carefully took the white jade object back into his arms, he bowed down and retreated to the emperor's side and said a few words, which caused the emperor to laugh, and then Nan Zuisheng and the others saw many people tied up by the soldiers in armor, they were all ragged and skinny, staring at the emperor and the black-robed man with hatred.
Immediately afterward, the sound of the blade breaking through the air sounded, and these withered, yellow-faced and thin-skinned people were mercilessly hacked to death, and the terrible screams containing pain reverberated back and forth. After the soldiers hacked these people to death, they dragged the corpses and placed them on the bronze platform according to the emperor's orders, and then an extremely bloody and cruel scene began.
They disemboweled, skinned, and disemboweled, scarlet blood splattered and stained the silver armor worn by the soldiers.
The emperor led everyone to kneel on their knees, gazing at the sky with a respectful and reverent expression, and regarded the bloody and cruel scene in front of him as a grand and gorgeous ceremony, which could mercilessly push many innocent people into the endless abyss and suffer for his own selfish desires.
The corpse that was skinned and dismantled quickly became cold, how could such a bloody and cruel human sacrifice move the heavens, so the heavens did not reply as expected, nor did they descend the immortality that the emperor was looking forward to, but these fresh blood and souls summoned an evil god according to the wishes of the black-robed man.
The beast totem on the carved bronze platform gradually transformed into flesh and blood, and the whole body was covered with fur, they opened countless pairs of scarlet and ugly eyes, condensed on the bronze platform, and howled excitedly and pounced on the mountain of corpses, the fragmented flesh and blood organs were greedily devoured by them, and the bones were abandoned like shoes, and were refined into evil magic weapons by the black-robed man.
The evil god possessed his mind into the bodies of these tall and mighty beasts, and made some kind of agreement with the emperor and the black-robed man. Every once in a while, the emperor would send his soldiers to slaughter slaves and commoners, offering their flesh and soul to the god in order to fulfill his wish for immortality.
In the face of such a horrific and brutal slaughter and sacrifice, civilians and slaves began to riot and resist, but the emperor and the black-robed man had already prepared, and arranged for the soldiers to shoot the rioting people mercilessly, and then sacrifice the flesh and blood of these rebels to the beasts on the bronze sacrifice platform.
But the evil god's greed never ends, and gradually, it began to ask the emperor for more flesh and blood. In order to be able to live forever, the emperor can be said to gladly agree, he and the black-robed man committed countless evil deeds, when the number of commoners and slaves is decreasing, the royal family and nobles also feel precarious.
They can no longer stand idly by, because the emperor has completely degenerated into the evil ghost who has fallen into the abyss for his own selfish desires, and his arrogant and wanton wreckage of the people, abusing and killing slaves, has already caused unrest among all the people in this country, so the royal family and nobles sent their subordinates to quietly guide, planning to set up a new lord after killing the king.
Killing the monarch is not an easy thing, and after planning for the past few years, everyone can hardly hide their horror to find one thing--- that is, the so-called immortality has really become a reality.
After nearly ten years of erosion, the emperor's appearance has not changed in the slightest, and he has become more and more plump and handsome, but the royal children of the same age as him have gradually grown gorgeous and old.
Immortality, what a tempting prayer.
The magnates who knew the inside of the sacrificial ceremony were crazy to help the emperor to torture and kill civilians and slaves, just so that they could also get the protection and favor of the evil gods, even if they were eroded by the passage of time, they could still live like emperors, until everyone around them was dying of old age and full of hair, they were still in their prime.
The bloody and cruel sacrifice was followed in this way, Nan Zuisheng and the others watched as those innocent and emaciated civilian slaves were skinned and dismantled, and placed on the bronze high platform, scarlet blood stained the entire sacrificial high platform, and the appearance of the gluttonous beasts feasting can be described as flesh and blood.
When there was a large-scale rebellion in the country, even the emperor could not continue to suppress it, even if he fulfilled half of his immortal prayer, but in the face of the fierce resistance of his subjects, those soldiers gradually betrayed him, and when the soldiers approached the city, a general seized the opportunity to pierce the emperor's chest with the sharp blade in his hand.
And the black-robed man who was the high priest had a smug smile on his face, his eyes were happy and cruel to look at the soft fallen imperial corpse, and just as the handsome imperial corpse gradually became cold, wrinkles and gorgeous hair gradually climbed up the sideburns and face of the corpse.
Before I could see the final ending, I saw that the old kingdom began to collapse, and natural and man-made disasters came unexpectedly, sweeping the prosperous and magnificent palaces with unstoppable power, destroying the magnificent and vast mountains and rivers, and the hot magma erupted and flowed, and those who could not escape in the future swept through it, burning into ashes that left no trace.
The cultivated fertile land gradually turned into a dark and rancid swamp, on which rancid and evil flowers appeared, and the rotten smell emitted by the flowers was extremely corrosive, but anyone who was contaminated with this smell would gradually festered and died.
Landslides and ground cracks, volcanic eruptions, ground subsidence tsunamis, floods and droughts.
Countless disasters befell this ancient country, instantly destroying those bloody and cruel human sacrifices, until a new kingdom was built again, and a seed of the Bodhi tree actually flowed next to this bronze altar, this seed was buried in the soil, and the scarlet blood flowing from the tragic corpse penetrated it, instead of raining the Bodhi.
Bodhi was originally a sacred ancient tree in Buddhism, but after the irrigation of blood and the resentment of the dead soul, the originally holy Bodhi tree was gradually contaminated with an evil and cold atmosphere. When this Bodhi tree has not opened its mind, devouring flesh and soul has become the only obsession.
Because of this evil obsession, when the Bodhi tree, which was still ignorant and did not distinguish between good and evil, was discovered by the people and enshrined, they began to convey their wishes with their minds.
The people who had experienced natural and man-made disasters were unwilling to continue to live in exile and hardship, so they reported the wishes of the Bodhi tree to the emperor after the change of dynasty, and the emperor learned of this and recast a new bronze altar, but he did not carry out cruel and bloody tyranny, but instead fed the Bodhi tree with blood, and raised a large number of slaves as blood donors.
In this way, the Bodhi tree sucks the blood and shelters the people of this country, and whenever there is a natural or man-made disaster, the emperor will offer fresh blood to eliminate the disaster. In order to avoid natural disasters and wars, the people also imitated the emperor's sacrificial behavior, often knelt under this Bodhi tree and cut their arms, and offered their fresh blood to the Bodhi tree to suck.
Although it was very cruel to raise slaves as blood donors, it was mild compared to the previous sacrifice of skinning and removing bones and directly using living people as gluttonous beasts. What's more, this is not only carrying the prayer of the emperor, but also the prayer of all the people of this country.
The Bodhi tree began to grow rapidly by sucking the blood, and as the blood it sucked and the souls it devoured accumulated to a certain extent, the surrounding plants began to wither, and even the land began to become barren.
Gradually, thousands of acres of fertile land were affected by the evil consciousness of the Bodhi tree, and then withered and withered, and the people had no harvest, thinking that the fresh blood offered to this Bodhi tree would eliminate the calamity in front of them, but they did not think that the Bodhi tree was impregnated with the soul and blood, and had already distorted the original intention to protect them.
That's right, the Bodhi Tree can no longer suppress its violent will to devour flesh and souls, and the rapidly growing lush branches and leaves have become the sickle of death to harvest life, adhering to the idea of the Bodhi Tree, arrogantly and wantonly harvesting fresh life, stacking the corpses of the people under the canopy, and the twisted roots of the branches penetrate these corpses to parasitize them, greedily sucking fresh flesh and blood.
This anomaly aroused the alarm of the emperor and the common people, and in order to protect themselves, they decided to eradicate the Bodhi tree.
The picture began to switch again, Nan Zuisheng and others saw that the Bodhi tree was chopped and broken by the terrifying generals with all their might under the emperor's wave order, this kind of disrespectful behavior angered the Bodhi tree, because it sucked enough flesh and blood and souls, the Bodhi tree no longer suppressed the evil consciousness that had long been demonized, and shook the branches and leaves to slaughter all the people who offended it.
The piles of white bones under the canopy of the trees are the bones of the people who were victimized thousands of years ago.
How can mortals fight against this Bodhi tree, under the demonic power of the Bodhi tree, the lush branches and leaves turned into the scythe of death and harvested batch after batch of lives, and the terrible howls and resentment of the unjust souls finally alarmed the heavens, so the heavens sent down nine thunderbolts, splitting the Bodhi tree until it turned into soot.
However, this kind of heavenly punishment is just another sense of rebirth for the Bodhi tree.
For thousands of years, the sacrifice of flesh and blood of living people and the nourishment of the power of unjust souls, this Bodhi tree has long fallen into the demon path.