Sota smiled, but the smile quickly disappeared. He stared at the picture of Kairan Shrine hanging on the wall and said softly, "But after that incident, the people of Luming County began to fear this evil body."

"They didn't dare to put the body of the evil god, who had suffered so much for their ugly wishes, on the mountain shrine after the fire because it was too close. This frightened them, but they were unwilling to give up the annual evil god festival, so they built a huge ship-shaped shrine and moved the evil god's body and the original Luna Shrine to the sea far away from Luna County."

Xiao Kui laughed sarcastically: "It turns out that these people risked their lives to get closer to God, and now they risk their lives to get farther away from God."

"Yes." Cang Tai lowered his head and looked at his bloody knuckles. "Later, in order to prevent the sacrifices from rebelling together during training, they separated the sacrifices and trained them individually. That's how the Chamber of Suffering was built."

"Every year during the Evil God Festival, the selected sacrifices will be taken on a small boat, led by the servants of the eight great families and other villagers of Luming County who have made wishes to the Sea Shrine, where they will be offered as sacrifices."

"We are taken aboard every year, but we are taken back again if the sacrifice fails." Xiao Kui shrugged nonchalantly, "Bai Liu is the same."

After a moment's hesitation, Cang Tai finally said in a low voice, "Our failure in offering sacrifices is not the same as Master Bai Liu's, right?"

"We were unable to awaken the Evil God because we were not in enough pain, but Bai Liusama was the one who suffered the most among us."

Sota paused and said, "I heard from other servants that the Yuchuan family wants to sacrifice Master Bai Liu every year because Master Bai Liu is the most painful sacrifice in history. But even if the Yuchuan family's servants grabbed Master Bai Liu's hair and forced him to be sacrificed in front of the evil god, the evil god was obviously awakened by Master Bai Liu's pain, but he just didn't want to open his eyes..."

Xiao Kui fell silent. She turned her back to Sota and said in a muffled voice, "Because if he opens his eyes, Bai Liu might be sacrificed."

"These two people..." Xiao Kui muttered softly, "It's really a coincidence."

"At first, Bai Liu was guarding the evil god outside the shrine every night, and he just refused to speak. Now it is the evil god's turn at the sea shrine. He can only see Bai Liu once a year, but he cannot open his eyes to see his only lover."

"What kind of fairy tale is this..."

Sota was also silent: "Although the Yufune family said that the evil god was placed in the sea shrine, but every year when we went to offer sacrifices, we never saw the evil god's entity, we only saw an empty shrine in the sea shrine."

"It is said that only those who can awaken the evil god with their own pain can see the evil god."

Sota frowned with some worry: "But you and I have been to the Sea Shrine so many times, and we have secretly searched other places, but we still can't find the Evil God. I don't know where the Evil God has been hidden by the Yufu family."

“The Yu Chuan family are a bunch of beasts.” Xiao Kui clenched her fists and pounded the ground, cursing, “When the evil god was killing people five years ago, the Yu Chuan family was about to commit suicide under the influence of the evil god’s corpse. But then the real evil god appeared in their dreams and forced them to interrupt their suicide process, allowing these rampant dogs to live to this day!”

Sota looked out the window at the rain and wind, muttering to himself, "I wonder if I can have a smooth summer festival this year."

Summer Festival at the seaside venue in heavy rain.

The crowds who were attending the sacrifice fled in all directions, holding umbrellas. The small stalls that had been set up along the coast now had large umbrellas to protect them from the rain. The vendors were busy packing up their wares while complaining about the hateful weather:

"What's wrong with this year's summer festival? It never rains in previous years..."

"Tonight's fireworks display will also be postponed."

"The rehearsal for the ritual dance is tonight, right? It's raining so hard, are you still going to dance?"

Standing on the high platform and looking down at all this, the head of the Yuchuan family had a gloomy face and stood with his hands behind his back. He looked just like he did five years ago, with a haze in his eyes. Next to him, a servant bowed his head respectfully and reported in a low voice:

"Lord Yuchuan, it's raining heavily. Do you think it's appropriate to cancel or postpone some of the sacrificial activities?"

Yu Chuan narrowed his eyes and said, "The fireworks show will be postponed, but other events will not be cancelled and will be held on schedule."

The servant hesitated for a moment and said, "But Lord Yuchuan, according to tradition, the eight great families have always offered sacrifices in advance, which means they will set off to the Sea Shrine by boat tonight. Now the wind and waves are a bit strong, so won't this be cancelled?"

"You can ask them about this. If they are willing to cancel, they can cancel. If they are not willing to cancel, they can sail on their own." Yuchuan's loose face trembled, revealing a slightly weird smile, "But no matter whether they cancel or not, Yuchuan will not cancel tonight."

"Bring the offerings, Bai Liu and his attendants, and we will sail to the sea shrine tonight to offer sacrifices."

The servant suddenly raised his head and asked in surprise, "Bai Liu again?"

Yu Chuan glanced at the servant and asked, "Why, do you have any opinion?"

"I dare not!" The servant quickly lowered his head. After a long time, he dared to raise his head timidly and asked carefully, "But Master Yuchuan, hasn't Bai Liu been privately sacrificed by us for nearly twenty times without success?"

"Isn't it for this reason that you chose Bai Liu as the successor of the evil god and asked him to dance for the evil god?"

The smile on Yu Chuan's face became more and more strange: "Yes."

"It is for this reason that I insist on bringing Bai Liu to sacrifice. He is a sacrifice in such pain that even the evil god is unwilling to open his eyes and look at him."

The servant raised his head in confusion. "But Master Yusen, no matter how much pain Bai Liu is in, if the evil god is unwilling to look at him, the sacrifice will not be successful. Why should we bring such an unsuccessful sacrifice to the shrine?"

Yu Chuan looked at the surging waves with his cloudy eyes. The smile on his face became more and more strange. He opened his mouth but answered something irrelevant: "I had a dream last night."

"The real evil god in my dream told me that I could offer the most painful sacrifice in the entire world tonight and usher in the new evil god."

On the coast, the undulating waves beat against the rocks, creating layers of waves.

There were two small boats on the waves, rising and falling with the waves. The two boats were very far apart, and in this rainy night, it was impossible to see the existence of the other boat.

On each of the two boats stood a boatman wearing a straw raincoat and a rain hat.

"Master Bai Liu." The servant of the boatman Yu, wearing a translucent raincoat, bowed and led the way. He led Bai Liu to one of the small boats and raised his hand to make a respectful gesture of invitation, "Please get on board."

Bai Liu held a paper umbrella in his left hand. He was dressed up in a complete set of ritual clothes, with a white inner shirt, red hakama, and a thin, semi-transparent outer shirt with large sleeves embroidered with gold-thread crane feathers. In his right hand, he gently held a Kagura bell.

In such a heavy rain, the gauze was soaked with water, and her long hair fell on her shoulders and stuck to the wet gauze, winding down from her fair neck and falling into her inner lining. There was a light dot of red rouge in the center of her lips, which he spread with his own pursed hands, making her look even more vivid in the dark rain.

Bai Liu slowly raised his umbrella, his eyes dark as he calmly looked at the boatman who led him on board through the edge of the paper umbrella that was like a pearl curtain falling into the water, as if he had already guessed where he was going to take him.

The servant was dazed for a moment when he was looked at by Bai Liu.

No wonder Master Yusen said that this man is the evil god...

Bai Liu asked in a calm and clear voice, "You dressed me up like this, aren't you going to make me dance for God? Where are we going?"

The servant quickly came back to his senses. He lowered his head and dared not look at Bai Liu's inexplicably charming eyes. "Master Bai Liu, it's like this. It rained heavily this year, so the Shinto dance will no longer be held on the shore. It will be held at the Shrine on the Sea."

"This year is the grand festival that takes place once every ten years, and it rained heavily, so Lord Yuchuan issued an order, saying that in order to thank Lord Evil for his contribution to Luming County over the past ten years, you only need to dance for Lord Evil this year, and you don't need to dance for the villagers of Luming County anymore."

"Please." The servant stepped aside. "The rain is a bit heavy. To ensure your safety, please take a boat alone to the Sea Shrine. Your attendant will come over in another boat later."

Bai Liu glanced at him and jumped onto the boat.

The boat shook, and the boatman looked up to ask the boatman's servant to confirm that Bai Liu was on board. He rowed the oars and headed towards the maritime shrine that was swaying in the waves.

At the moment the ship started, Bai Liu saw the system panel:

[System prompt: Congratulations to player Bai Liu for opening the final scene map of "Evil God Festival·Boathouse" and opening the final node plot. ]

Meanwhile, another ship.

Spade stared at the boatman in front of him and expressed his needs expressionlessly: "I want to go to the shrine on the sea."

The servant looked at the whip in Heitao's hand, trembling and curled up into a ball, wanting to cry but unable to: "But, but you are not Master Bai Liu's servant! Please wait a moment!"

"If you want to go to the Sea Shrine, you can wait for the other servants' boat tomorrow..."

"No." As soon as Hei Tao finished speaking, he jumped onto the boat and whipped the screaming boatman to the shore. Then he turned around and said coldly, "You let them wait, I'm in a hurry."

After saying that, Spade raised his hands and swung the whip left and right on the sea. Because the slashing speed was extremely fast, it strangely produced an effect like rowing an oar. Spade's boat flew away from the shore like an arrow and headed towards the Sea Shrine.

The servant and boatman who stayed on the shore were stunned: "..."

Meanwhile, viewing pool.

Mu Sicheng looked at Hei Tao on the big screen, his face was so dark that it looked like water was dripping out. He grimaced and shook his legs, "What kind of shitty live broadcast is this? This bastard is watching the whole game. Where's Bai Liu? Why don't they broadcast Bai Liu's situation?"

"It's already halfway through the game and I saw Bai Liu starting to practice dancing. I cut to Bai Liu and she's still practicing dancing."

"Hey, I don't fucking believe it!" Mu Sicheng slapped his thigh in anger, "I don't believe Bai Liu would practice some dance moves during the competition!"

"Is there something fishy going on in the system? Why did Bai Liu only broadcast so little footage? Did the system make malicious edits?"

"Stop swearing. There are kids here." Although Tang Erda said this, his brows were furrowed and his face was gloomy. He looked at the Spades who had just jumped onto the boat on the big screen. "But there is indeed a big problem with this broadcast. Bai Liu only cut the beginning and a small section of the game. The rest of the time was all Spades. This is not a normal league game broadcast at all."

Mu Ke's face was not very good: "Is it possible that the footage from Bai Liu cannot be shown?"

"What can't be released?" Mu Sicheng turned his head and looked over immediately.

Liu Jiayi stared at the big screen: "Just like the situation in the five-story building last time."

Tang Erda looked at Liu Jiayi suddenly: "You mean..."

Before Tang Erda could finish his words, Wang Shun interrupted him with a voice so excited that it broke: "Cut to Bai Liu's scene!"

Almost everyone looked up at the big screen.

In the rainy night, Bai Liu, who was almost soaked, held an umbrella, lifted her cumbersome hakama with her right hand, and stepped onto the steps of the Maritime Shrine from a small boat. At the same time, in the left corner of the big screen, Mu Sicheng could clearly see Hei Tao also jumping from a small boat and directly jumping onto the floor of the Maritime Shrine.

The ship-shaped shrine swayed a bit due to Kuroo's jump, and the two people who landed from both sides of the shrine looked up at the same time and saw each other.

Mu Sicheng couldn't help but yelled angrily, and clenched his fist to hit Tang Erda's leg next to him: "What a shitty system, it didn't broadcast for a long time, and once it did, it made such a big deal!"

Tang Erda: "..."

The author has something to say:

Now let's interview the two players about their psychological activities.

I would like to ask the two players, in this tense and ready-to-go battle situation, what is the first thought that comes to your mind when you see the other party? (Raise the microphone)

White Willow: Fight to the Death

Spade: He is so good looking