Chapter 054 The truth is false
The Nanzhou Palace is vast.
Pavilions, towers, carved beams and painted buildings were submerged in rain and fog.
Wen Shu stepped into the library cautiously, holding two cups of bubble milk tea given to her by her fellow villagers out of friendship.
The books in the library are piled up in a mess, with all kinds of books.
There was no one inside.
The wind blew and a page of paper turned over, making a sound.
Wen Shu followed the sound and went to see.
Large areas of pictures and formations in the book caught her eyes.
She put down the milk tea and looked down.
"Sacrifice?"
Wen Shu couldn't help but think of the many events she encountered along the way. The most recent one was the "Sacrifice of Danniao Village". She had heard the outline of the story from Sui Niang. In order to achieve eternal life and nirvana, those newborn babies had to be treated as three thousand strands of worries and burned.
The book says that only "sacrifice" can pry open the hearts of gods and make the gods who truly sit in the sky cast their gaze upon the world.
The lowest level is to use dead objects as an inducement and real blood as a sacrifice.
The next level up is to use blood as a sacrifice, plus the lives of living creatures, supplemented by rituals, to please the gods.
The last gear?
I was reading the book and flipping through the pages, and found some debris on the spine that had not been torn off.
"Slurp~"
"You're looking for me?"
Wen Shu shuddered all over.
The bubble milk tea he brought had been unsealed at some point, and his majesty was sucking the bubble milk tea with a straw.
Seeing Wen Shu looking over, the child raised his eyebrows and smiled wantonly: "Don't tell me this isn't a gift for me!"
The young emperor was very familiar with the situation. He rushed to the side of the book, glanced at the title, glanced at the paragraph, and swallowed the pearls in his mouth: "Sacrifice? Are you interested in this? Although those obscure expressions are difficult to understand, the meaning is actually very simple. In plain words, the more precious the sacrifice is, and the larger the scale, the higher its value as a bargaining chip to impress the gods, and the more likely the gods will favor you."
"If you perform the rituals designated by the gods, then the gods will definitely look upon you. This is why so many evil cults are so eager to offer sacrifices."
The young emperor held his chin in his hand and said, "Who wouldn't like to go from an ordinary person to a master in an instant? I also like to gain something without any effort!"
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——"He's not lying to you."
Wang Yu walked forward and reached out to help up the delicate and pretentious fox scholar.
Is he the source of this infection?
Wang Yu thought so.
The fox scholar's smile deepened. He moved closer and blew a long breath under the swordsman's cold gaze: "Thank you very much, benefactor."
"As I said before, I have to repay my benefactor!"
"Bing you!"
"Master Hua said to stay away from Young Master Yu!"
The Jinyiwei interrupted repeatedly.
The fox scholar glanced sideways, his loose hair falling down slightly: "Ah, there is a little fox here, so cute."
He approached Wang Yu as if by accident: "What is the relationship between the benefactor and this person?"
"Brother," Wang Yu raised the scabbard and placed it between the two of them.
"Oh, we're just brothers!" The fox scholar narrowed his eyes slightly and chuckled, "You two really don't look alike at all."
The swordsman pursed his lips and passed by. The fox scholar stuck out his red tongue, his eyes curved like crescent moons, a greedy look flashed across his face, and he couldn't help licking his lips.
He followed with a smile, not disguising his fox tail as he swept it lightly over the grass: "Wait for me, benefactor!"
Youzhagui got goosebumps all over his body: "Wait for me, how can this fox say that!"
Bai Tanggao wagged his tail, but Shutong couldn't help but follow the figure of the fox scholar.
“Hmm.”
Hua Tuo frowned, grabbed the Jinyiwei's Feiyu uniform with his two claws, and his ears drooped in anger.
"Master Hua said that I seemed to have seen this ghost somewhere."
Jinyiwei repeated, but soon he became confused again and tried to mutter to Hua Tuo: "Haven't I seen it before? I am still a Jiazi Jinyiwei? Can it be that only the Yaozi card can see it? Such a fierce ghost?"
Hua Tuo shook her head with a complicated expression: "Hmm."
"Not really, but I was in the hospital at the time?" The half-human, half-fox Jinyiwei was slightly stunned: "Yes, I seem to have had a very serious illness before."
"Brother Hua has seen it? Wait...a fox?"
Youzhagui's eyes suddenly widened. "I remember a long time ago, there was a fox ghost that caused a lot of trouble. He kidnapped everyone in the state and held a moon worship ceremony, trying to gain attention, transform into a ghost, and gain great power. Once he succeeded, he would destroy all living things and leave no grass growing in the land for thousands of miles."
"Hmm." Hua Tuo said in a deep voice.
"Lord Hua said that he failed to succeed. After being discovered in advance, he was surrounded and attacked by five Buddhist monks. His nine tails were cut off and he was almost dead. But please note that this word is almost."
Bai Tanggao replied: "Bing, ing."
His alienation was becoming increasingly serious. In the blink of an eye, his face looked like a flat fox face rather than a human face, revealing a somewhat inhuman and terrifying feeling.
Jinyiwei glanced at Baitanggao worriedly and said, "Master Bai, is this fox ghost the same one as before?"
Youzhagui turned his head hesitantly: "Hey! Are you really mute? Can't speak?"
He reached out his hand again to buff the white sugar cake and said anxiously, "I have maintained your status once before, why did the alienation become worse? This shouldn't be the case. I was able to stop the alienation process every time before."
Bai Tang Gao said in a soothing voice: "Hmm."
The Jinyiwei's expression changed now: "Master Bai said, the worst that can happen is death, Master Bai! This is not a good thing to die!"
"Hmm?"
Hua Tuo began to think.
Even with the power of Fried Dough Donut, he still couldn't maintain the balance between the human and fox forms?
This shouldn't be the case. Every time a ghost's ability was altered, the ability of the fried dough sticks could always contain the deformity. Why couldn't it be done this time? Instead, the situation was changing at an accelerated pace?
Could it be that this time the infection was not caused by alienation? Nor was it some new term, ghost plague?
The fox scholar was leading the swordsman in front. He turned his head and looked back. There seemed to be a dangerous red light flashing in his narrow fox eyes.
"Come on."
The four of them looked at each other, and the Jinyiwei grasped the long hook in his sleeve.
The darker it is in the dense forest.
The plants grow more vigorously.
All kinds of weird and deformed vegetation grow freely, and the shadows cast on the ground are particularly strange.
From those dark corners, as they approached.
“Hmm.”
A strange fox cry was heard, and the sound of branches being crushed and leaves shaking came from the surrounding area.
"Snap——" the fox scholar unfolded his folding fan.
The four of them looked around in panic, and all around them was heavy darkness.
It took the five great Buddhas of Buddhism to suppress the fox ghost successfully. Although the result was good, the process was not entirely easy. If it was not handled properly, most of the Southern Dynasty might have been destroyed. The decades of hard work of the people of the Southern Dynasty, the roads that had been repaired, and the surviving population were all blown out in an instant like a candle flame swaying in the wind.
It was only because someone knew in advance that the fox ghost was going to worship the moon and the news leaked out, so the fox ghost was caught off guard and had all nine tails cut off.
In the ritual of a ghost transforming into a ghost, the power gained by those with witnesses and those without witnesses is completely different.
Therefore, some ghosts will prepare rituals and seek the attention of external gods when they are about to transform into ghosts.
The fox scholar laughed muffledly.
"Hey, don't be so nervous, isn't it normal for some animals in the woods to exist?"
Wang Yu's emotions did not fluctuate.
After all, he had a point.
Among the bushes, a ray of snow-white skin flashed by, without any hair and with a little reflection.
"I used to think that I should look up and forward. The scenery under my feet does not require me to stop too much. I should keep moving forward and not look back."
The fox scholar sighed slightly.
His brown fox tail was sweeping the ground, and he seemed a little depressed.
"But, who knew that life would teach me a big lesson: you can't look straight ahead, you have to look down."
Wang Yu held the sword.
"Why?"
He turned his head and glanced at the four people behind him. They were not too far away, and from their bodies he could tell that they were in a tense posture at the moment.
He turned around and glanced at the fox scholar who had a smile on his face.
If a fight came to pass, he trusted his companions.
He sometimes worries too much and easily misses important things.
"Those pebbles and grass piles on the roadside, and those annoying mosquitoes, can easily cause people to fall!"
The fox scholar said meaningfully.
"It's very difficult to clean it up." The brown fox tail swept the surrounding grass. The fox scholar looked down and said regretfully, "It's easy to get dusty. I can only look down a bit."
Wang Yu pursed his lips slightly.
"I am really kind!" The fox scholar blinked, with a charming look in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.
The noises around are getting louder and louder, but not obvious, like the buzzing of mosquitoes around your ears, making you feel annoyed.
Wang Yu seemed to vaguely see something constantly running past him.
The fox scholar used his slender hands to push aside the intertwined branches.
"I have had a question in my mind for a long time."
Her red lips curled up: "I remember someone once told me something. Humans, the most intelligent creatures in the world, were once animals. It was only over thousands of years that they gradually changed into their current appearance."
“Humans and animals all have limbs, fur, and eyes.”
"Oh, what a great discovery this is."
The fox scholar sighed.
He pushed aside the obstacles, and a huge cave appeared in front of everyone. The cave was like a beehive. The largest cave was about three people tall, and countless small caves surrounded the largest cave, so densely packed that it was frightening.
The fox scholar was tall and slender, with furrowed brows, and his beautiful face seemed like a fragile jade.
"Then are humans and animals no different? Why do animals live in the shadows while humans can live openly on the ground?"
Wang Yu slowly turned his head and glanced at the forest that was shaking around him, his expression slightly changed.
White, brown, yellow-brown, all kinds of naked colors are exposed in the forest.
A long, drawn-out fox cry came from the woods, and a pair of muddy hands reached out from the woods and landed on the ground.
The fox scholar laughed softly, and a deep red color dyed his eyes, diffusing light in the darkness.
The pervasive negative energy spread out from around the fox scholar in an instant, like a huge dark cloud, covering everyone's sight!
Only the fox's frivolous voice continued.
"I also think that I have reached the level of benefiting the world, and I am not greedy. If humans can live in the light, then foxes should be able to do the same, right? Otherwise, wouldn't it be a waste of my cultivation?"
Pairs of hands and feet climbed out from the woods and caves, some white, some gray, some rough, some delicate.
Like an incoming tide, it makes people tremble.
The owners of those hands and feet shed their warm fur, but still crawled on the ground like wild beasts. They arched their naked bodies, and under the protection of the big ghost, they suddenly bared their teeth, living the appearance of wild beasts in a human manner.
Their skin is incompatible with their soul, just like ill-fitting clothes put on them.
Under the shocked gaze, the fox people gathered around the fox scholar step by step.
Suddenly, a younger child rubbed the fox scholar's calf affectionately and dependently, but he kicked it away with a smile.
A chilly wind blew, and the fox ghost's jet-black hair fluttered. He tilted his head slightly, and his folding fan half-covered his fox face. A lingering crimson in the corner of his eye outlined a strange look, and he laughed faintly.
"This world is always dominated by humans, so why don't we just become humans?"
"This is my way of repaying you. This is the truth behind the fox transformation."
It was not a plague, nor was it a disease. No wonder it could not be cured even with priceless medicinal herbs.
To put it more accurately, this was a theft, a large-scale theft show.
The fox stole the man's skin and took over the magpie's nest.
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