The altar of the sacrificial rite is decorated with an atmosphere like a dead man's mourning hall, which adds a bit of chill and horror to the already extremely yin nest.

Suddenly, the spirit woman standing in the center of the desk, after yelling, stopped the movement of her hand and recited a few incantations.

I saw a door open in the dark of the nest, and the old people in the nest knew about its existence, and it was called the door of the nest, which had not been opened for a long time.

Outside the door is the nest, but inside the door is another scene, in the words of the nest, the outside of the door is not the place of the nest, but the territory of the nest.

Of course, outside the territory of this relic, there is a more accurate name, which is called the relict nest tree hole.

As the name suggests, the tree cave is a place worth entrusting, because the mystery here makes this place more and more mysterious, and it is this mystery that makes the unknown things of the nest more and more confusing.

The Ghost Head personally held the dark lamp and carefully entered the tree hole first, although he was wearing a mask and did not see his true face, but he could see that he cared for the dark lamp.

Followed by Lai Changqing, what Lai Changqing is most concerned about at the moment is whether the sacrificial gift can resurrect the dark lamp, once the resurrection fails, then the order of the nest that has been established with great difficulty, and it can even be said that the nest kingdom, will no longer exist.

And the power he had cultivated in the nest for many years would also be burned, which made his heart extremely uneasy, more angry, and angry at Liu Wusheng's impulse.

Of course, Liu Wusheng, who had been controlled, was also taken into the tree hole.

Although Liu Wusheng's behavior was too reckless, it also brought an unnecessary disaster between people and ghosts.

But for the ghost head who has endured for many years, it is not a bad thing, he has been lying on his back and has endured humiliation for many years, and has been suppressed by humans in this limited place of the nest, and he has long thought about leading the nest to resist, but the division is unknown, and he has not found a reason to go to war.

At the beginning, the truce agreement between humans and ghosts was started because of the dark lamp, and it was the dark lamp that allowed the nest and humans to have this so-called defense line between humans and ghosts.

However, in the eyes of the Ghost Head, it is an unfair agreement for the evil spirits and evil spirits who have no way to heaven and no door to hell to roam this desolate place, and besides, the existing order of the nest is forced by the so-called righteous path of the world.

Tearing up the agreement,It was born when the Ghost Head took over the Nest.,And after sitting on the Lord of the Nest,This idea became more and more intense.,And now the Nest is full of sorrows.,The people's resentment is boiling.,Completely inspired the Ghost Head to rise up and resist.。

As the master of the nest, he is the owner of the nest, and he does not want to be a puppet of the nest, so he should naturally ask for the lives of these unjust souls who are wandering in the nest, and he is the master in the true sense.

Liu Wusheng's move gave Lord Ghost Head a chance to become famous, which was the reason why Lord Ghost Head failed to punish Liu Wusheng immediately.

But he can't show too much, and now that Lingpo is present, she can't help but give face.

In addition, the power of the war-stopping faction led by Lai Changqing is spread all over the nest, which cannot be underestimated.

In the calculation of the ghost head, he can only lie dormant patiently, wait for the resurrection of the dark lamp, and then make the next step.

After Lai Changqing and Liu Wusheng both entered the tree hole, they had already prepared the embers of the sacrifice and were carried into the tree hole by several ghosts.

In front of a cauldron that was blazing, the embers were put down, and the flames were shining and crackling, illuminating the otherwise dark tree holes.

The cauldron is boiling with boiling red oil, and the constant tumbling is accompanied by a gurgling sound, which makes people shudder, like someone is about to be put into the oil pot.

On the left and right sides of the oil pot, there is a big knife with the back down and the blade up, and the two big knives are shining with white light, setting off an increasingly terrifying atmosphere.

Fear and insecurity attacked Ember lying on the desk, and if it was an inner monologue in the face of death, Ember felt the moment so close to death for the first time.

Obviously, this oil pot and the big knife are coming at themselves, which is the first step of the sacrificial ceremony, and the sword mountain and the sea of fire symbolize the courage to face death.

Sacrifice means sacrifice to the Dark Lamp, and the Dark Lantern is naturally the host who chooses to face death bravely, and the ember must survive this first hurdle.

Ember did not regret it, let alone resist, and behaved very calmly, which made the spirit woman who was going to cast the spell next very satisfied.

I saw that the spirit woman walked into the tree hole lightly on her tiptoes, only to see her come to the front of the ember, tapped the ember's forehead with her finger, turned to face the crowd, and shouted hysterically: "Light the sky lantern, light the sky lantern, light the sky lantern." ”

shouted three sentences in succession, and saw that the originally dark tree holes, one by one, the candles were lit up in an instant as if by magic.

The process of lighting the candle is like a long and narrow time and space tunnel, from the bottom to the top, just like the towering tree, standing under this vast and boundless sky, crossing the sky, beautiful.

It is said that the beautiful scenery is only known and appreciated by passers-by, but behind this beauty, the person concerned has suffered and suffered, and the next thing that Ember will face is the pain and torment caused by the sacrificial gift.

Lighting a sky lantern was a horrific torture in the old days, but compared to torture, lighting a sky lantern in a lair will become more desperate.

The so-called lighting of the sky lantern is to separate the body and soul of the embers, and the stripped flesh is wrapped with gold leaf, which is very similar to the method of making mummies in the Western world, but it has a unique name in the nest, called 'Golden Body and Meat Buddha'.

This method pastes gold leaf on the body, supplemented by charcoal, sandalwood, phoenix wood and other materials, accompanied by it, the purpose is that after the soul is out of the body, the body will not rot, and it can play a good role in preserving the corpse.

After letting the out-of-body soul step on two large knives, put the soul head down and feet up, put it in the oil pot, and light a fire at the position of the foot, so that he can burn from the foot to the head until the whole oil pot is ignited, and it is called 'lighting the sky lantern'.

The intention of lighting the sky lantern is to use the human soul as bait, as the wick of the oil pot, to lead the fire to the oil pot, and let the oil pot light up, the fire is shining, just like this sky lantern.

The sky lantern, also known as the wishing and praying lantern, no one can control the direction of its drift, which means "resigned to fate", so the first level of the sacrificial ceremony is this resigned to fate.

Ember is a human being, not a ghost, whether the soul can withstand such torment, is nothing more than his desire to survive, although the body has the golden Buddha body, but the soul out of the body is already very human can bear, not to mention to withstand the torture and scorching of the sword mountain and the sea of fire.

But Ember survived, and when the lamp burned out, Ember finally passed the first level of the sacrifice safely.

Ember's soul returned to the body from the torment, but in fact, the spirit woman did not tell Ember that if he couldn't survive the oil lamp burned out, there was only one result waiting for him, that is, the soul would never return to the body.

The reason why Lingpo didn't tell Ember about the consequences of lighting the sky lantern was selfish, if she told Ember about the risk, it would inevitably cause a psychological burden on Ember, and instead of telling Emblem, it gave Ember the confidence to travel lightly.

It turned out that the spirit woman was right, and the embers awakened after the soul returned to the body, so that the stone in the hearts of everyone present was finally put down.

Some people hope that Ember can survive this first hurdle, but some people hope to see Ember lying here, and never wake up.

But the course of events does not change the course of the sacrificial rite because someone wants to die in the fire.

The next sacrificial ritual has entered the second level, the first level is a test of courage, and the second level naturally has to examine the ember's loyalty to the dark lamp.

In the old days, sacrifices were often used to sacrifice some or all of one's belongings to show feelings of loyalty, gratitude, repentance, and trust to God, and to pray for God to fulfill certain desires.

Offering sacrifices to the lamp is not to sacrifice some items to show loyalty to the gods, but to sacrifice oneself and make due sacrifices to the lamp.

The most primitive belief of human beings, one is to heaven and earth, the other is to the ancestors, is the worship and respect for nature and history, so there are all kinds of sacrificial activities, and the belief of the dark lamp as a vein of sewing corpses came into being.

The early dark lamp was just a magic weapon used by the ancestors of the past generations to drive away ghosts and eliminate evil, because dark ghosts are afraid of light, and the dark lamp is the best prop to exorcise ghosts.

However, as time passed, it has been passed down from generation to generation, and some improvements have been made to the value and significance of the Dark Lamp, and it even played an indispensable role in the popularity of the last armistice between humans and ghosts.

Because of this, there is a saying that the dark lamp leads the way, but this statement has formed two extremes, the dark lamp can guide the ghosts wandering in the world and return to the nest, but the same dark lamp can guide the ghosts of the nest, break free from the ghost gate, and appear in the world.

It is conceivable that the significance of the dark lamp is that it is its existence that has made people truce with ghosts so far, but the dark lamp has been extinguished, and a few hours later, the ghost door is wide open, and the consequences can be imagined.

And sacrificing the lamp is the only way to stop this catastrophe.

In an instant, I saw that Lingpo ordered someone to bring out a bowl of blood-red blood, and a piece of fresh and oozing flesh, and put it in front of Yu Huo.

If it weren't for the fact that this scene was in the nest, these two things, Ember would not hesitate to think that this was a bowl of freshly baked duck blood and fresh pork.

But this is the Nest, and we should not think about everything in the way of human thinking, but in the way of thinking that the Nest should have.

Then the bowl of blood and this piece of fresh meat in front of you are most likely from humans, not animals.

Sure enough, in addition to the embers speculating, the spirit woman had an evil smile written on her face, vicious like an old witch, and her low voice made people extremely uncomfortable, and said: "Sacrifice is atonement, use your body to atone for the sin, atone for the fall of the lamp, atone for the light, drink human blood, eat human flesh, eat, sacrifice for your loyalty." ”

The same people, how can the embers drink human blood and eat human flesh, once they take this mouthful, what is the difference between them and evil spirits? Once you take this bite, you will be completely hostile to humanity.

As a sewing corpse, he should have exorcised ghosts and eliminated evil, but he didn't want to fall into walking with ghosts and colluding with him, isn't this a deception and extermination?

This time, once the ember fire is done, it will not only become the public enemy of mankind, but also be ashamed of sewing corpses, and need to face verbal criticism from the master.

Ember Huo's hesitation and torment were vividly manifested at this moment, on the one hand, the rules of sewing corpses, and on the other hand, the coercion and temptation of the spirit woman, which made Ember completely entangled, and even a little desperate.

To eat or not to eat is a multiple-choice question, and it is a difficult choice problem for people and ghosts who are absolutely standing, although they are entangled, the arrow is on the verge of triggering, and Ember has to make a choice.

Ember eventually made a difficult choice.