Chapter 279 Altar
After listening to Renxin Huadao's explanation, the players from other teams started to talk nonsense with laughter: "We will remember your dedication! You can go on your journey with peace of mind!"
"To thank Hua Dao for his contribution, I decided to celebrate by eating fried chicken tonight!"
"Brother Fu, I'm 50 years old. I'm Qin Shi Huang!"
"I am the Jade Emperor!"
"The Jade Emperor is in Chang'an, and our noble spirit will live forever. Wake up!"
As he was talking nonsense, another team's voice came from the group microphone: "Captain! We found an altar!"
"altar?"
Nietzsche was stunned for a moment, and everyone else looked at the jade-carved stone platform under their feet - it really looked like an altar.
"It should be an altar. There is a glowing circle in the middle of the altar that looks like a teleportation array. There is a box in the circle—"
Nietzsche continued, "It says 'give you eternal life'?"
"Yes, yes, yes! Captain, how did you know?"
"We encountered that, too," Nietzsche asked again, "Have you encountered any strange things, monsters, bosses, or something like that, like people without heads?"
"Yes! There are a lot of them! But they are stupid, they can only bump into people and then passively take the beating. And like the Infernal Corpses, they are afraid of thunder and fire. Just use some talismans and they can be destroyed! They just look scary!"
Another team leader also joined the discussion: "We also encountered headless people! But we haven't passed the altar yet. Since you said these monsters are afraid of fire and thunder, then it's easy to deal with!"
“You have an altar there, too?”
"It's just a huge stone platform, or maybe a jade platform? Anyway, it looks like an altar!"
Nietzsche said, "That's it! Take a screenshot and zoom in to see if there is a small box in the middle of the altar!"
"Let me see... Holy shit! It really is there!"
Ren Xinhuadao, who was bored in the small dark room waiting for the resurrection CD, listened to the discussion of several people and analyzed: "So, there may be an altar in each of the four directions, and there is a small box on each altar...hiss...isn't this a cultivation game? Why did you start playing puzzles?! Bad review!"
One player complained to Renxinhuadao: "You guys are such a loser! They all died in a neat row, and there's no way to verify it. I always feel like there must be something fishy going on between these four altars!"
"What do you say? How about we send a few people to go and take a look at Huadao?"
"Forget it. Let's wait for them to revive. Our current team is a perfect match and it's not easy to break it up."
Nietzsche also said: "Let's explore around and wait for them to be enlightened!"
…
Compared to the players who were confused, Fang Xianyu, who had already played a round in Guixu Realm, knew everything clearly.
To be precise, this ruins is not the "Yinglong's ruins" but the "remains of the resurrected Yinglong."
In ancient times, immortals and gods were everywhere, and Mahayana were as numerous as dogs. Yinglong was one of the ancient gods.
After several catastrophes, many ancient gods disappeared. At that time, many intelligent races could not accept the death of the ancient gods, so they tried every means to "resurrect" the ancient gods.
As a great ancient god who named an entire race, Yinglong was naturally given many opportunities to be "resurrected" by his descendants.
Although according to legends and scattered records from various sects, the ancient god Yinglong has not been resurrected, the various small worlds of caves and heavens that were opened up in order to revive it have been left behind.
The small cave world in front of him, which Fang Xianyu initially mistook for an abandoned mansion, was actually an abandoned relic where the resurrection of Yinglong failed.
Of course, strictly speaking, it is not wrong to call it Yinglong's Mansion.
The towering buildings with broken walls and ruins that one sees in the ruins are the palaces and residences prepared by the group of people (or perhaps not people) who resurrected Yinglong. The altars in the four directions are a resurrection sacrificial formation.
As for those headless people, they were the sacrifices at that time.
That’s right, in ancient times, immortals and gods were everywhere and Mahayana monks were as numerous as dogs. Another way to say this is that ordinary mortals were all animals.
It was an extremely cruel and bloody period. Although there were many monks with mental problems who valued the past over the present and praised the ancient times, saying that at that time there were many wise men and everyone was a moral role model, etc., in fact, it was just a lie fabricated by a group of people who were extremely disappointed with reality.
While the players were exploring, Fang Xianyu also took a quick stroll and observed many places. She roughly determined that in the entire mansion, all living things were only plants - or, in other words, those plants that had been "demonized".
For example, the forest that Nietzsche and his team encountered at the beginning was actually a tree. This tree had been transformed into a demon due to its long stay in this nearly closed abandoned mansion and various other reasons.
The so-called "demonization" is actually a name for a special change in an individual. Whether it is a plant or an animal, or even a monk or a mortal, after being demonized, they will lose their self-awareness and become a strange existence with only some instincts.
This instinct is not necessarily an instinct that the individual had before he became a demon, but rather a strong desire for something.
For example, the demonized tree has a strong desire for headless corpses. It drags strange birds and headless people underground, inserts its roots into their flesh, absorbs a special power, and then feeds back the demonic energy to maintain their "survival".
I understand sustainable development...
Fang Xianyu, who had roughly figured out the situation, couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart.
However, what really concerned her was the small box in the altar.
The words "grant you eternal life" were not unfamiliar to her.
The mortals in Guixu Realm originally desired to practice cultivation, including the current cultivators, who desired to become immortals and attain enlightenment. Ultimately, it was all for two words: immortality.
In ancient times, many ancient gods recruited believers under the name of granting mortals "eternal life".
At that time, believers did not play a big role. At least the ancient gods did not need any incense. They simply recruited believers to use them and support themselves.
Build palaces, construct temples, or even raise them for food.
In addition to recruiting some mortals who are descendants of fallen ancient gods, some ancient gods would "create" mortals themselves, which is one of the main origins of the current human race.
The mortals "created" by the ancient gods do not need to cultivate immortality, so they are all "natural disabilities" whose path to immortality is cut off. This is also the reason why there are so many mortals now, but only a few can embark on the path to immortality.
Then, it is easy to guess the identities of the headless corpses around the altar in this abandoned mansion. They are probably the consumables used for blood sacrifice by the monks or other beings who tried to "resurrect" Yinglong.
Thousands of sacrifices.
Fang Xianyu took a deep breath and clenched his fists.
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