"It's the same as what Uncle Wu Mifeng said, in addition to this doorway, there are probably other grottoes or crevices in Fengqiu Mountain, which can enter the air from other places, so that so many bats can get in, let's be careful not to be bitten when we go, these wild bats may be poisonous in their mouths."

Yue Guanchao put the torch in the doorway, and saw the situation inside clearly, the main thing was to observe whether there was still gas flow in the altar, if so, at least people could leave, so as to avoid fainting from lack of oxygen immediately when people walked in because of too little fresh breath.

Even so, according to Umiphon's words, the altar has been closed for at least a thousand years, and it is still not possible to enter rashly, at least wait for an hour or two for the air to circulate completely before entering.

"Right now, we can only wait two hours for the gas to circulate completely before entering the altar."

Time passed minute by minute while waiting, and with the disturbance of this torch, the bat in the altar seemed to be frightened, and kept fleeing from the mouth of the cave, and when it came to the end, even the shadow of the bat was gone, and an hour had passed.

Yue Guanchao stood forward, took Song Siyuan and them with torches, and gradually walked into the altar, behind them, the guards surrounded them at all times, protecting their safety.

When they first entered the bronze door of the altar, Yue Guanchao lit the torch and carefully observed the world behind the door, and as Song Siyuan said, they saw a circular pit winding downward, with stone slabs, carved railings, tung trees, and colorful silk in the pit, like a spiral down the mountain road, extending all the way down until the torch was bright and could no longer see clearly, and completely blended into the darkness.

With a bang, the bronze tree suddenly burst into flames, burning like a ghost fire, and the oily green flames licked the lamp head, instantly burning away the spider silk and withered grass wrapped around it, and the air began to fill the air with the smell of burnt hair, choking people to hold their breath.

Everyone was going to go down, but this strange movement made them stunned in place, and their faces were soaked in green and fire, and they were even more like ghosts, and their eyes were evil.

Song Siyuan was afraid that there was a problem, so she put out the torch and turned on the flashlight, and walked into the railing to look at the source of the ghost fire.

These bronze trees are located on the edge of the pit stone road, acting as the support column of the railing, about half a person as tall, as thick as the mouth of a bowl, the whole body is real, like a luxuriant ancient locust tree, stretching the crown of the lush branches, the lamp head is located at the top of the canopy, is a lamp stand made of phoenix flowers, it can be seen that the oil paste inside is plump, and the green fire spreads.

These lamps are set every five meters, and between the lamps are built with five-colored stone pillars full of mysterious patterns, and between the pillars are woven with hemp rope and hung with colorful silk, which spreads downward, and looks down from the highest railing, like a necklace spiraling down.

"Is this human oil?"

It's not that Song Siyuan hasn't seen green fire, green fire is mostly formed by spontaneous combustion of phosphorus in human bones, but I don't know what this bright cream is, according to the previous experience in altar buildings, it is probably refined from some kind of animal or human body

"To be precise, it's Gu people's oil."

"You still make people Gu?"

Wu Xuanyu's words made Song Siyuan take a few steps back, and the little witch deliberately explained in detail: "Don't think this is any kind of punishment, only the most devout Gu people are qualified to be Gu people, and it is a good thing to worship the witch god." ”

"Is it a good thing to be made into corpse oil? Isn't this a place where death has no place to be buried? You didn't go into the earth for peace. ”

Yue Ercang's words made Wu Xuanyu feel energetic, and reluctantly explained: "The Gu people are not all of the same race, the funeral customs of each ethnic group are indeed different, and it is possible to bury in earth, water, cave, tree and even Xuan coffin after death, and the most special is the tribute burial, which is the situation we see now." ”

What is a tribute burial?

Offering one's dead body to the gods as a tribute, and boiling the body into grease and offering it to the shrine or temple, is called a tribute burial.

Since it is to worship a god, not everyone has the opportunity and qualifications to bury a certain god with a corpse, and it must be the most devout believer among the Gu people, and at the same time, it also needs to be unmarried and childless, and be the most admired in the tribe or village, or the person with the highest status.

With these screening conditions, basically all Gu people are excluded, and the eight adults have been screened out just because they are unmarried and have no children, and the identities of the remaining two adults can basically only be chosen among the high priests, tribal priests, ordinary priests, and children and boys.

Only these people are qualified to worship the gods with their dead bodies.

In the thousand-year-old rule, the corpses of the high priests of the Witch God Kingdom and the priestesses of the tribes were the most devout, and they would be enshrined at the altar of the witch god first, followed by virgins and boys.

Most of these boys and girls were young and young children, and they were unmarried and had no children, and their souls were pure, and they were most suitable to worship the witch gods with their bodies.

"Then, you can't just burn it, right? How did these corpses become Gu people? ”

Song Siyuan was very interested in the religious sacrifices of the Witch God Kingdom, and urged Wu Xuanyu to continue.

"The oil woman Gu used to make Gu people, this kind of Gu uses the larvae of stealing oil women, and after it is determined that they are worshipping Gu people, they will plant oil women Gu on their corpses, this kind of Gu can completely absorb the oil in the body, without a trace of impurities......"

After being chosen to serve the witch god, the people in the tribe will take out all kinds of flowers and plants, hang the Gu people in the dark room and burn them for smoke, and when the aroma of the plants is all baked on the body, it will be regarded as officially becoming a Gu person.

Subsequently, the Witch God Kingdom High Matchmaker Mother Temple will collect the corpses of all Gu people, and inject the oil Po Gu seedlings into the body, these Gu worms will continue to grow under the impetus of flesh and blood, and the process of growing up is also the process of absorbing body oil, because the corpse will rot and deteriorate after a long time, these Gu worms only stay in the body for seven days in order to absorb the purest oil.

As soon as the seven days are up, they will run out of their bodies under the expulsion of the Gu aphrodisiac and be collected into a cylinder, and when all the Gu worms run into the mouth of the tank, this jar will be sealed by Gu medicine, until the oil Po Gu spits out all the fat and dies, and this Gu altar will be opened again. m.

At this point, the oil Po Gu in the jar has basically become a dry worm, and the most in the jar is clear and yellowish human oil, due to the timely consumption of oil by the oil Po Gu, these oils have not yet rotted and smelly, and there is still the fragrance of herbs and flowers that have been smoked out of the human body.

After this step, the corpses of those Gu people will basically become dried corpses that have been sucked clean of grease, and these dried corpses will continue to be baked, and when they can no longer be dried, they will be ground into powder, mixed with many spices, phosphorus powder, and herbs, mixed with human oil, stirred, dried and solidified, making a yellowish paste similar to translucent.

These things are the real Gu Ren oil, also called tribute oil, and when it is time to make offerings, as long as you put the ointment into the lamp head, you can smell the fragrant and strong smell of medicine after lighting it.

"So, what's the deal with spontaneous combustion without ignition?"

Some people died, but not completely......