Chapter Seventy: The Insidious Blood Sacrifice

After taking out all the grain, Su Zhenzhen stopped worrying about it. The rest would naturally be arranged by Hensheng and Chunzhi. She was still more interested in this so-called Celestial Master.

With Chunzhi's permission, Su Zhenzhen went to the command platform.

The Heavenly Master had been bound for an unknown amount of time; his lips were chapped, and he looked listless, yet his eyes shone with an unusual brightness.

"Did you give him water?" Su Zhenzhen asked a random soldier.

"The commander said that the evil Taoist was not worthy of drinking water. He had been captured for about a month without food or water. It's strange that he is still alive."

Su Zhenzhen nodded, indicating that she understood. Then she looked the Celestial Master up and down. He was just an ordinary person with no cultivation whatsoever.

Even if you've consumed the gene-optimized liquid, you can eat less but you can't stop eating altogether, because the body's organs need to consume energy to function.

He can survive for about a month without food or water. Could this guy be a little monster like Jiang Sijin?

"Now I'm going to ask you a few questions. If it's yes, nod; if it's no, shake your head. Do you understand? If you understand, nod."

The Celestial Master neither nodded nor shook his head; his eyes shone with an alarming intensity as he stared intently at Su Zhenzhen.

"Oh ho, quite the temper." Su Zhenzhen, of course, wouldn't tolerate it and released all eight ghosts directly from the storage compartment.

The eight ghosts each had their own unique ugliness, which terrified the soldiers nearby.

Su Zhenzhen looked at them reassuringly, "Don't panic, they are generals under General Huo, who were responsible for guarding Shanxian County twenty years ago."

That's why they say that only the best survive the test of time. The soldiers who are still alive are all highly skilled in various aspects. They are well aware of the Huo family army's reputation, and having witnessed General Huo's ghost last night, they are not so panicked now that they know these eight ghosts are his subordinates.

The Celestial Master's face contorted as he watched Su Zhenzhen summon eight evil spirits out of thin air. He opened his mouth, desperately trying to say something, but could only utter some faint sounds from his throat.

"Ah...hoo..."

Su Zhenzhen crossed her arms and looked nonchalant. "Are you willing to cooperate now? If you don't, I'll kill you and make you a slave in my hands."

Of course, these words were purely a threat; if Su Zhenzhen were to commit murder, she would bear the consequences.

The Celestial Master clearly took it seriously. After all, he had been surrounded by ordinary people before, but now he had met someone who was knowledgeable in Taoism and seemed to have considerable abilities. He quickly nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

"Alright, now I'll ask you, can sacrificing General Huo's remains and blood really quell the war?"

Without hesitation, the Celestial Master nodded immediately.

Su Zhenzhen narrowed her eyes. "Then can we use living people as sacrifices?"

The Celestial Master nodded again.

Su Zhenzhen then asked, "Is it some kind of evil magic?"

The Celestial Master nodded, then shook his head.

Su Zhenzhen lowered her eyes. She had never seen such a sinister method in any ancient book. As for evil magic, she was not sure about it based on the Taoist priest's reaction.

But I do know a way that can turn the tide of the battle and decide the outcome in one fell swoop.

"You're saying that using General Huo's remains and blood as a sacrifice is actually forcing him to become a demon, isn't it?"

The Taoist priest stared wide-eyed and nodded frantically.

Su Zhenzhen thought to herself, "Just as I thought. This method can not only lead to a great victory at the front, but also slaughter all the barbarians. However..."

Huo Yi asked, puzzled, "What do you mean by forcing General Huo to become a demon?"

"Simply put, it's the highest level of ghost. General Huo was a righteous man who protected his country and its people during his lifetime. Countless barbarians died at his hands, which in itself brought with it a malevolent aura. Moreover, he died on the battlefield, unable to protect the country before his death, which added a trace of resentment. If his remains can be used for a blood sacrifice, his ghost can be summoned and refined into a fierce demon."

Su Zhenzhen sneered, "The Fiend has no consciousness and is the greatest weapon in the world. At that time, let alone winning the front-line battle, it would be easy to drive it to wipe out all the barbarians. However, this action violates the laws of heaven and earth. The Fiend will suffer the ultimate heavenly lightning and will have to endure eighty-one strikes before its soul is destroyed."

Huo Yi to Huo Ba all looked at the Celestial Master with angry expressions. If they had the ability to touch the living body, they would have already swung their fists and punched him.

"It's fortunate that General Huo's body was never found, otherwise you might have succeeded."

Su Zhenzhen felt a chill run down her spine. Refining evil spirits was no simple matter, especially when it involved refining the Ghost General into a malevolent spirit. Once the malevolent spirit manifested in the world, it would kill more and more people and might not be able to be controlled by its master. It was only a matter of time before countless lives were lost. That's why the Heavenly Dao sent down heavenly lightning, not only to remove evil spirits but also to cleanse the world.

I'm lucky I live in a hellish place, otherwise I would have been sent back to the 906th century as soon as I was sent here.

Moreover, blood sacrifice is not just a figure of speech. The various organs of a normal human body need energy to function, and evil spirits also need nutritional support, and the source of this nutrition is human blood. That's why it's called blood sacrifice.

They used the blood of all living beings to sacrifice to evil spirits, creating dark weapons to kill the gods of the world.

Although the last sentence is a bit of an exaggeration, it still means that the evil spirit is an extremely powerful weapon, and its production process is very insidious.

Su Zhenzhen knew this only because it was recorded in books, but there were no successful cases before, after all, not just any ghost could be transformed into a malevolent spirit. It required the deceased to have possessed murderous aura in life, had countless lives on their hands, and not have died of old age.

General Huo was the only choice.

"What about human sacrifice? Is it burning a person to death to make them suffer injustice? Is it arousing their fear, anger, and other negative emotions, and finally injecting power into the ghost so that it can do evil?" Su Zhenzhen deduced what human sacrifice was all about based on the known information.

As expected, the Celestial Master nodded.

Su Zhenzhen didn't quite understand the definition of evil magic in this world. In the 906 world, it would definitely be considered a violation of human ethics and would get her arrested. Of course, no one would be so foolish as to become an evil magician. After all, ordinary people can at least survive by begging, but going astray would make them like rats crossing the street, starving and freezing.

Why is this sorcerer nodding and shaking his head? Could these insidious methods be part of his sect's tradition? Are they within the rules here?

"Do you have a master? Did your master teach you these skills?"

"Ah... Roar..." The Celestial Master hurriedly and frantically tried to speak, but only managed to utter a few broken sounds.

Su Zhenzhen had a bit of a headache. The system store did have an abdominal voice generator. By placing the device on a person's abdomen, a mute person could be made to speak—the vibration of the abdomen would be converted into audio and emitted from the device.

But it's a bit expensive.