Yingzhou, Heian-kyo.

The battlefield outside Heian-kyo was littered with corpses, and a large number of low-level ghosts were roaming the battlefield searching for corpses. The practitioners on the human side also formed teams to deal with the ghosts on the battlefield that were not completely dead.

An invisible line divides the battlefield, with a clear distinction between the two sides.

When the war broke out ten days ago, the power gap between Huangquan and Takama-ga-hara was not that big.

Except for the initial period when the Hades army arrived and made the Takama-ga-hara gods exhausted to deal with, the gods were able to hold on by relying on the geographical advantages of Takama-ga-hara.

This kind of battlefield lasted for several days, and as the projection of the Yellow Spring tributary that covered the entire battlefield suddenly disappeared, the situation on the battlefield changed again.

The several Hedao ghosts in the underworld were unable to figure out what had happened in the underworld Hirasaka, so they had to temporarily give up the idea of ​​attacking Heian-kyo and retreat most of their troops to several ghost towns outside Heian-kyo.

Heian-kyo finally got a chance to catch its breath, and under the propaganda of major shrines, many people regarded the temporary withdrawal of the underworld ghosts as an unprecedented victory.

But in Takama-ga-hara, the kingdom of the gods above Heian-kyo, Izanagi and Izanami were not in a very good mood.

"What on earth are those idiots in Huang Quan doing?"

Inside the main temple, Izanagi roared angrily and paced back and forth.

Inside the entire temple, there was only Izanagi and another goddess dressed in black who was as gloomy as the long night. She was Izanami.

Facing Izanagi's angry questioning, Izanami said indifferently:

"Not only Yomi Hirasaka, but also major cities outside of Heian-kyo have been invaded by Yomi's army.

However, many practitioners broke through the realm of spirit refining with the help of the Supreme Taoist, and several gods traveled back and forth between the battlefields to suppress the Ghost King, thus blocking the first wave of offensive of the Yellow Springs army.

Afterwards, the Supreme Daoist took action himself and once again destroyed the Yellow Springs ghosts in hundreds of battlefields. Except for Heian-kyo, there were no Yellow Springs ghosts in the entire Yingzhou. "

“The disappearance of Huang Quan’s projection on the battlefield of Heian-kyō was most likely the work of that Supreme Taoist.

He took advantage of the fact that all the ghosts in the underworld were coming out and had already stepped into the underworld of Hirasaka, hoping to end this war once and for all."

Izanagi's eyes narrowed, and he refuted without hesitation:

"impossible!"

“According to the news sent back last time, there are four ghost fairies in Yomi Hirasaka, and the Judge of Life and Death is about to arrive.

"Four ghost immortals and one celestial immortal, this strength is enough to overwhelm Takama-ga-hara at its peak. How can the Supreme Daoist, who is only at the Refining Void Realm, fight against them?"

Izanami frowned slightly. She didn't quite believe that Shen Yuan had such strength, but judging from the various layouts of the many cities outside Yingzhou, this guess was closer to the truth.

"It's a pity that the Ten Kings of Hell don't trust us and have blocked most of the news. Only the Judge of Life and Death knows our specific information.

If those ghost immortals and the Dao-combined ghost gods knew our identities, they wouldn’t have made such a blunder.”

"No matter what the truth is, the Supreme Daoist is ultimately an unexpected factor that cannot be ignored. This war without any signs is proof of that. We must make plans early."

The two distinguished Takamagahara main gods looked at each other, and finally it was Izanami who spoke:

"Start early!"

Izanagi's eyes flashed with hesitation, and he did not immediately refute, but only asked:

"The planned blood sacrifice did not occur. Would it have any impact if he was born earlier?"

There was finally a change on Izanami's indifferent expression. Her purple lips gently curled up in an enchanting arc, and a dangerous light flashed in her beautiful eyes.

"As our believers, it is time to dedicate ourselves to the gods!"

A secret decree quietly came down from the main temple. In the cover of night, tens of millions of believers in Heian-kyo heard the decree from God.

They walked out of their homes and gathered at shrines.

Among them are poor people who are barely able to survive, princes and nobles of noble birth, and practitioners with extraordinary strength.

No matter what their identities were, at that moment in the shrine, they all looked fanatically at the statue being worshipped by the priests.

Izanami, the lord of Yomihirasaka and the main god in charge of death!

In a shrine, many priests looked down arrogantly at the common people, princes and nobles below, with undisguised contempt in their eyes.

"They are like pigs in a pen!"

A priest suddenly spoke in a low voice, which immediately caused the other priests to laugh softly.

No one thought there was anything wrong with what the priest said. In their eyes, ordinary people who needed the protection of the gods and the priests who were close servants of the gods were two different classes of people.

"After the underworld is pacified, we will ascend to Takamagahara and always be with the gods. These pigs are only worthy of being our slaves."

"Our descendants will also rule over these pigs!"

The young priests began to discuss. The great victory of the gods of Takama-ga-hara this time had made the priests begin to imagine the future.

Only a few senior priests looked at the increasing number of believers below with doubts, and couldn't help wondering:

"The Lord Izanagi gave an oracle late at night to start the sacrifice, and the object of the sacrifice was actually the Lord Izanami, which seemed to be inconsistent with the past sacrifices."

"We just need to obey the oracle of the Lord God."

"Perhaps today's sacrifice is to prepare for the suppression of the Yellow Springs Disaster. After all, many cities around Heian-kyō have already completely solved the Yellow Springs Disaster, and it is time for Heian-kyō to do so."

Amidst the discussions, red rays of light quietly descended from the sky and landed on the statues of the major shrines in Heian-kyo.

The closed eyes of the Izanami statue slowly opened, and the whole statue seemed to come alive.

Such a scene immediately shocked all the priests. They immediately knelt down on the steps and shouted in unison:

"Welcome the Lord God Izanami!"

Izanami glanced at the dozen or so priests present, and her faint voice rang out in the empty night sky.

"I am going to hold a grand sacrifice, and I need the most devout believers to offer everything. Are you my believers?"

Many priests immediately showed surprise on their faces and said:

"Your Excellency Izanami, we are all your most devout believers!"

"Good!" A voice of praise came from Izanami's mouth, and her enchanting eyes, like the deep night sky, swept across the priests.

"You guys kill yourself!"

The priests' surprised smiles froze on their faces.

They stared at Izanami blankly, wondering if they had heard the oracle wrongly.

Yingzhou has experienced several changes of power since the spiritual energy tide began. With the awakening of the gods, the power originally held by the royal family and the dignitaries was transferred to the priests and priestesses.

The people present said they were believers of gods, but in essence they were just another vested interest class replacing the royal family and the powerful.

Even most of the priests are old-established nobles of Yingzhou, they are just covered with a layer of theocracy.

Perhaps there were devout believers in Yingzhou who were willing to sacrifice their lives for the gods, but the emerging aristocracy clearly did not have such awareness.

The senior high priest wanted to open his mouth to refute, but the next moment Izanami's gaze fell on him.

"Aren't you willing to sacrifice everything for your faith?

Now you are hesitating, don't tell me you are not sincere in your faith in me?"

The gentle words fell silently into everyone's hearts like drizzles, and crazy thoughts suddenly arose from the priest's heart.

"Dedicate your loyalty to Izanami!"

A priest let out a crazy roar, took out a dagger from his arms and cut his throat.

Blood sprayed on the faces of several priests beside him, but these priests also revealed strange smiles, took out daggers and shouted loudly.

"Dedicate your loyalty to Izanami!"

These priests, who viewed ordinary poor people as pigs, slit their own throats as Izanami watched, and their corpses were piled up around the altar.

This happened not only in one shrine, but also in hundreds of shrines throughout Heian-kyo. All the priests and shrine maidens died in this sacrifice.

A little bit of blood dyed the statue's exquisite long dress red, and the beautiful goddess' smile became more enchanting.

Without anyone noticing, the originally flat belly of the Izanami statue gradually began to bulge out.

When the Bull Head hiding in the dark noticed something unusual in Heian-kyo, a full hour had passed.

He was ordered by Shen Yuan to monitor the movements of Izanagi and Izanami. If they were in a chaotic battlefield, he could naturally hide at will with the help of the breath of the underworld ghosts.

However, Niutou was caught off guard by the Yellow Springs ghost's voluntary withdrawal. Without the cover of the Yellow Springs ghost, if he got too close to Heian-kyo, he would likely be discovered by Izanagi.

So he stayed outside Heian-kyo and watched the movements of the gods in Takama-ga-hara.

He also noticed the large-scale descent of Izanami, but he was unclear about its purpose and it was difficult for him to rashly investigate deep into Heian-kyo.

It was not until he noticed a large-scale blood sacrifice in Heian-kyo that Gyuto realized that Izanagi and Izanami had finally decided to take action.

When things developed to this point, the Bull Head naturally decided not to hide anymore. A tall god with a bull's head and a human body appeared outside Heian-kyo.

He strode into Heian-kyo, trying to stop the ongoing blood sacrifice.

“This road is blocked!”

A majestic voice sounded, and divine light fell like a world barrier, blocking Niu Tou's way forward.

High in the sky, Izanagi, wearing divine clothes, looked down at the Bull-Headed God. Around Izanagi, dozens of refining gods were looking at the Bull-Headed God in full readiness.

Niu Tou frowned slightly: "What do you mean?"

Izanagi said calmly, "Heian-kyo is the place ruled by Takama-ga-hara. Please leave for now, God."

"Is the so-called rule of Takamagahara a blood sacrifice for all living beings?"

"This is my private matter. I'm afraid the gods have no right to interfere."

Not only Izanagi, but even the dozens of gods behind Izanagi turned a blind eye to this blood sacrifice.

These gods did not know that Izanagi and Izanami had long been connected with the underworld ghosts. They supported Izanagi and Izanami and simply thought that humans were pigs raised by the gods, whose life and death were at the will of the gods.

Although the so-called blood sacrifice is against the harmony of nature, it is also the gods exercising their authority and outsiders are not allowed to interfere.

“How arrogant!”

Niu Tou had an angry look on his face, and hundreds of miles away, three figures slowly walked out of the void.

Leopard Tail, Black and White Impermanence, the three gods of the Six Heavens of Luofeng, had secretly reunited with Niutou when they were pacifying the unrest in the outer cities of Yingzhou.

The Qi throughout the body is connected, and the netherworld unfolds around the four Luofeng Six Heavenly Gods.

Leopard Tail, Black and White Impermanence broke into the realm of Hedao, and Niutou had already broken through Hedao, but now he has lost the Yellow Spring tributary to conceal the secrets, making it impossible for him to take a further step into the realm of Ghost Immortal, and he can only stay at the peak of Hedao.

"I have long wanted to experience the magical powers of the gods of Takamagahara."

The sky collapsed, and thunder, fire, and storms evolved into endless natural disasters pouring out.

Above the earth, the four gods of the Six Heavens of Luofeng formed seals with their hands, and a magnificent city descended here across hundreds of thousands of miles.

There were three large characters written on the plaque above the city gate.

Fengdu City!

The deafening roar spread throughout Heian-kyo, but the city did not react at all. Everyone gathered around hundreds of shrines and stared at the statue of Izanami.

Inside Takama-ga-hara, Izanami quietly left the temple and slowly walked towards the core area of ​​Takama-ga-hara.

At this moment, her lower abdomen was bulging, just like the strange statue in Heian-kyo.

Izanami stroked her belly gently, a maternal glow appeared on her face as she whispered softly:

"Don't worry, we'll be there soon."

After passing through one luxurious palace after another, Izanami finally arrived in front of Amaterasu Shrine. This huge palace accommodated half of the sacred tree and was of an extremely grand scale.

This is the shrine where Amaterasu lives, and it is also the core area of ​​the entire Takama-ga-hara.

The moment Izanami approached, golden light rose up around the palace and evolved into countless dazzling divine symbols, as if the light of the sun was blocking her outside the palace.

However, Izanami simply stroked her bulging belly, and the divine words disappeared in an instant.

Without any hindrance, Izanami slowly stepped into the seat of the shrine.

The first thing Izanami saw when entering Amaterasu Shrine was a throne woven with vines of a sacred tree at the top of the temple. It was made of gold and exuded a heart-pounding Taoist aura.

Around the throne, some old utensils are stored.

Sickles, hoes, and even a dilapidated wooden house that seemed out of place with the entire temple.

Without even lingering on those instruments, Izanami looked up at the dome of the shrine.

The trunk of the sacred tree supports the entire Amaterasu Shrine. The lush branches of the tree spread like a spider web to every corner of the dome, and the leaves all over the dome cast the light of the stars in the sky.

Only on one of the inconspicuous branches, there are two inconspicuous fruits hanging.

An orange star like the rising sun.

One is as icy blue as a full moon.