We hurriedly extinguished our torches and hid behind the rocks, and sure enough, it didn't take long for a fire to light up in the darkness, and we were getting closer and closer, and under the firelight, a man in a cloak and clothes, and the figure of the man could not be seen in the shadows. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Holding the torch and looking around vigilantly, maybe we made some noise before, alarming the people in the altar of the hidden capital, but judging by this person's reaction, it seems that he did not notice us behind the rock.

The flickering firelight pulled out a long shadow, shrouding the place where we were hiding, and after looking around for a long time, I guess I didn't find anything unusual, and the man turned and left.

Tian Ji slowly took out the dagger from his body, and Ye Jiuqing pressed it on his hand and shook his head until the firelight disappeared in the fork in the road.

"To be able to catch so many people, the Witch Gu King can't do it alone, presumably there are a lot of Witch Gu King's believers gathered here." Ye Jiuqing said in a low voice.

"It's okay, since all the Yin Witches are gathered here, just catch them all." I said coldly.

"Look at the person just now, it doesn't look like a Yin Witch, it should be the Witch Gu King's witch servant, loyal to the Witch Gu King, and he will not leave the guards who protect the Witch Gu King's safety." The High Priest whispered.

"Uncle Ye, one of these miscellaneous deaths is one less, why didn't you let me kill that person just now." Tian Ji asked.

"The terrain of the Youdu Altar is complicated, we can't look for it blindly, let alone act rashly, you didn't hear the high priest say, so many Miao people attacked here back then, even if the guards of the Youdu Altar were weak, but in the end, all the people who attacked here were killed and wounded, and we only had a few people, so we couldn't fight hard." Ye Jiuqing's face was calm.

"Zhiqiu is still in Wen Ru's hands, maybe he should be here, which alarmed others, I'm afraid that Wen Ru's dog will jump off the wall in a hurry." I say.

"No one is more familiar with the terrain here than the Witch Servant, and following that person just now may be able to lead us to the Witch King." Huang Ping said.

Ye Jiuqing nodded, we hurriedly went out, because we were afraid of being detected, and we didn't dare to light the torch, so we walked out of the fork in the road lightly, and the palace lord saw the back of the person holding the torch just now, we followed carefully, always keeping a certain distance from that person, the cave was unusually quiet, the slightest sound could be heard from afar, and every step we took was like walking on thin ice.

The firelight disappeared in another fork in the road, we hid at the entrance and secretly looked inside, and saw that the man opened the iron lock of a cave in the fork in the road, and waited for a long time without seeing anyone come out, I gave Tian Ji a look, let him go over to investigate, Tian Ji moved quickly and flashed to the edge of the cave, the probe looked inside for a long time, and then waved to us to go over.

The brazier in the cave was lit to illuminate this dark place, this cave was different from what we had seen before, in the middle of the cave, there was a stone platform, just the size of a person to lie down, and the stone platform was stained with blood, and the damp breath was filled with heavy blood.

The palace lord found a notch on the stone platform, and the dried blood stains turned black, clearly outlining the pattern of the skeleton unicorn.

"This is the place where the Witch King used to sacrifice." The high priest lowered his voice and said.

The more I looked at this stone platform, the more familiar it felt, and I suddenly remembered that Ye Zhiqiu had brought back a photo of the mural in the ancient tomb of Leishan, and in the photo, the mural recorded a sacrifice that took place in the Demon Kingdom.

And the style and size of the stone used in the sacrifice are exactly the same as the one in front of us, it seems that the Witch Gu King has been imitating the ancestral gods, but after that bloody sacrifice, the bizarre disappearance of the twelve ancestral gods, I only remember another thing when I think of this.

"You are the high priest, in charge of the inheritance of the descendants of Jiuli, has there been a sacrifice in the twin cities of the Demon Kingdom?" I asked, turning around with a serious face.

"There was indeed a sacrifice in the record, and it was also the only sacrifice of the ancestral god in the demon kingdom." The High Priest nodded in reply.

"The ancestral god disappeared after that sacrifice, but I saw in a mural that a new god appeared after the sacrifice." I hurriedly continued to ask. "And the beliefs of the descendants of Jiuli also changed from that time, from believing in the twelve ancestral gods to believing in new gods, who is this god?"

"The ancestors and descendants of Jiuli have never believed in gods other than the ancestral gods, even if the ancestral gods left, their belief in the gods has never wavered, but during the time when the ancestral gods were in the Twin Cities of the Demon Kingdom, the priest was the later witch Gu King, and he did not leave too many records to be passed on by the priests of later generations, so that history is almost blank." The high priest said to me with a humble face. "I only know that the ancestral god held a sacrifice in the Demon Kingdom once, but as for what happened later, I don't know."

"That's not right, no one knows more about Jiuli culture than the priest, why the last time I saw Zhiqiu, she didn't say that." Gong Jue frowned and whispered.

I was also surprised, I remember the last time Ye Zhiqiu brought back the photos of the Leishan Ancient Tomb, he told us that after the sacrifice was over, a new god with facial features and more divinity appeared, and he accepted the high-profile worship of the descendants of Jiuli in the Demon Kingdom.

I never figured out who this new god was, and I thought I could find the answer in the high priest, but I didn't expect that even he didn't know.

In front of the cave is a dark passage, which should lead to the depths of this cell, Tian Ji stood guard by the passage, turned his head and whispered: "It's all now, how can you still not understand such a simple thing." ”

"What didn't I figure out?"

"The priest in the Thunder Mountain Tomb is a monster, have you ever seen a normal person who sewed himself and others together?" Tian Ji sped up and said. "The corpse inside is the same as the Witch Gu King, and it is clear that he is a believer in the Witch Gu King, and it is estimated that he is still a diehard, otherwise the Witch Gu King would not be enshrined in the tomb."

"What the hell are you trying to say?" Gong Jue asked.

"This is not an obvious thing, a madman who believes in the Witch Gu King, where can the murals in the tomb be taken seriously, the Witch Gu King is not stupid, the Jiuli people have believed in the ancestral god for thousands of years, and he can erase the ancestral god with a flip of his mouth?" Tian Ji sighed impatiently and said. "Since he wants to betray the ancestral god, he must have thought about how to convince all the descendants of Jiuli, and what could be better than creating a false god."

"You mean...... The god in the mural is, actually, the Witch King! "I was taken aback.

"What he said is really reasonable, you think about it, what happened in the Demon Kingdom, only the Witch Gu King can touch and witness, that is, once the ancestral god disappears, the Witch Gu King is fully capable of referring to the deer as a horse." Xue Xinrou nodded and said.

"It's really strange when you think about it, since the twelve ancestral gods have existed for thousands of years, how can they disappear for no reason, and create new gods after sacrifice for no reason, this is completely redundant." Ye Jiuqing also agreed with Tian Ji's idea. "What the Twelve Ancestral Gods want is the Nine Dragons Boat of the Moon Palace, and at that time, the Jiuli people were no longer able to find the whereabouts of this ship after completing the process, so the Twelve Ancestral Gods didn't need to strengthen their divinity at all."

"The only one who needs divinity is the Witch Gu King!" Even Huang Ping suddenly realized. "He was a priest at the time, and he was the only way for the Jiuli people to communicate with the gods, and no one would question what he said, so the purpose of the so-called sacrifice made up by the Witch Gu King was to let this new god appear, so that he could naturally inherit the divinity of the ancestral god, so that he would naturally change from a priest to a god."

"Do you all think that the so-called sacrifices and gods with facial features are fake?" I asked, frowning.

"Of course it's fake, to put it simply, if there is really a new god, where is it the turn of the Witch Gu King to make waves, when the Witch Gu King pretends to blaspheme the ancestral gods and bewitches the people by the divine decree, why don't you see any new gods standing up?" The more Tian Ji said, the more anxious he became. "Because there is no one at all, it's just a trick of the Witch Gu King to steal beams and change pillars."

I rubbed my forehead, and I also felt that what Tian Ji said made sense, but when my eyes fell on the stone platform in the cave, I saw the skeleton unicorn pattern engraved on it, and suddenly felt that things were not so simple.

Everything the Witch Gu King did was to emulate the ancestral gods, even the style and size of the stone platform were exactly the same, and the murals in the photos were recorded in great detail, and I still remember them vividly.

The fresco depicts the complete process of the sacrificial ceremony, in which a man lies flat in the middle of a circular stone platform, with slashed wounds on all four limbs, and blood flows from the person's body, along the grooves in the stone platform, into each of the four vessels around it.

Twelve faceless figures stood around the circular stone platform, witnessing the passage of life in the middle.

The person in the middle is used for sacrifice, and the one standing is the twelve ancestral gods, and then in the next picture, there are twelve more human-shaped grooves around the same stone platform, and the ancestral gods are lying in it with their hands crossed on their chests, and their bodies are flooded with blood.

In the final mural, everything disappears, and only one person stands in the middle of the stone platform, and the facial features of this person can be clearly seen, and under the stone platform, tens of thousands of Jiuli ancestors kneel and worship.

This is the new god, according to the inference of Tian Ji and others, all this is the fiction of the Witch Gu King, but there is a detail in this.

"The stone platform where the sacrifice is offered in the mural is also inscribed with a pattern, but it is not a skeletal unicorn, but a golden compass!" I pointed to the stone platform and said seriously.

"So, what does that mean?"

This shows that the Witch Gu King has seen the ancestor of the Ying family and witnessed the encounter in the Demon Kingdom, and it also shows that the sacrifice is real, and the Witch Gu King is imitating the ancestral god in everything, which shows that he simply wants to do things with the gods, has exactly the same process, and also hopes to get the same result.

However, the Witch Gu King did not understand what was really important in this, and it was not until the end that it suddenly dawned on him that the key to all that was brought back by the ancestral god, so he sent his followers to find the person with the feathered dragon.

"Could it be that the ancestral god really completed a sacrifice?!" The palace lord probably also thinks what I said makes sense.

"That's not the point, what really matters is that not only did the sacrifice really be completed, but there was indeed a new god, but this god was not the Witch King." I nodded, took a deep breath and said. "There must have been something we don't know about in the demon kingdom, such as why this god who appeared after the sacrifice never appeared."

Yes......

A woman's painful groan came from the gloomy passage, and we were shocked, I didn't expect that there were still people alive here, I suddenly thought of Ye Zhiqiu, and everyone looked at the passage leading to the depths of the cave in surprise.