Chapter 252 Ancient People

"Sacrifice to the sacred tree?"

The moment the old woman appeared, Feng Zining subconsciously wanted to chop her to death.

She was really used to chopping people here.

Fortunately, after hearing the new lines, Feng Zining finally controlled herself.

Tonight, it was indeed different from before!

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"Yes, tonight is the day to sacrifice to the sacred tree!"

"Legend has it that the sacred tree was born on a full moon night!"

"So every three months, when the moon is full, the villagers of our Changshou Village will gather together to celebrate the birthday of the sacred tree."

"Outsider, you are lucky to see the sacred tree with your own eyes."

"If you can offer enough sacrifices, the sacred tree will definitely give you the opportunity of eternal life!"

When talking about the sacred tree, the old woman's face was full of yearning and longing.

This made Feng Zining very curious. What exactly is the sacred tree?

Since she came to this strange longevity village, Feng Zining can hear the sacred tree almost every day, and her ears are almost worn out.

Since she has the opportunity to see it in person today, she will naturally not miss it.

Led by the old woman, Feng Zining walked towards the ancestral hall in the center of the village.

There lived the oldest village chief and elders in the village.

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"Hehe!"

"Sacred tree, sacred tree!"

"Birthday, birthday!"

Like Feng Zining, there were many villagers rushing to the ancestral hall.

But unlike the old woman who led the way, the rest of the villagers were younger than each other.

Even in the old woman's mouth, several villagers who had lived for 800 years were little naughty children.

And when Feng Zining saw the village chief and several elders, it was even more exaggerated.

On the altar, a young woman was holding a baby. This baby who seemed to be still breastfeeding was the village chief of this longevity village.

Although this was indeed very strange, Feng Zining, who had experienced many cycles, had not seen the village chief and several elders for the first time.

When she massacred the village for the first time, she hesitated for a long time.

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“It’s almost time. Are all the people here?”

The village chief, who had just finished feeding, seemed to have finally gathered enough strength.

He spoke in a babbling voice, looking completely without dignity.

But the moment he spoke, the originally lively ancestral hall suddenly became silent.

“Village chief, 39 and 45 seem to have gone out to play and have not returned yet.”

“But I brought that outsider here. With her here, there are enough people for the sacrifice!”

The youngest old woman spoke tremblingly.

Feng Zining finally understood why she was here. It turned out that she was here to make up the numbers.

But can she really get out of here?

How did 39 and 45 get out?

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The so-called 39 and 45 are the rankings of the villagers here according to their age.

It seems that these guys are too old and have been confused to remember who they are.

So they are now completely called by digital codes. The village chief’s number is 001.

And the youngest old woman is 241.

So if Feng Zining is included, there are a total of 240 people in the ancestral hall.

"Tonight is the birthday of the sacred tree, and those two guys dared to go out and play!"

"The great sacred tree is kind, but those two bastards must pay the price."

"When they come back, give them to this outsider in front of you to eat!"

The village chief smacked his lips and made a cruel decision.

The 239 people present nodded in agreement, only Feng Zining did not express anything.

She would not eat anything here.

But her silence did not attract anyone's attention, because with the arrival of a full moon, the sacrifice officially began.

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"See? The sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the moon is the great sacred tree."

"The fragrance of the sacred tree is the world's top longevity medicine!"

"Taking the herbal elixir can only extend our lifespan by a hundred years. After that, we need to continue to inhale its fragrance to make us immortal."

"The village chief is over 1,000 years old this year, but he is just an ordinary person!"

After the full moon came, the old woman began to chatter again, promoting the benefits of taking herbal elixir to Feng Zining's ears.

Feng Zining stared at the full moon, lost in thought, and ignored the old woman's words.

In her eyes, the so-called bright moon did not exist at all.

The thing emitting bright moonlight was just a mass of wriggling flesh and blood.

But the incredible thing was that every cell that made up that mass of flesh and blood was shining, just like the most perfect pearl in the world.

The so-called shadow of the osmanthus tree in the bright moon was just the meridians contained in the flesh and blood.

Is this thing the sacred tree? Or is it part of the sacred tree?

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“Great sacred tree, thank you for giving me immortality!”

“I dedicate my heart to you, hoping that sooner or later I can embark on the path of immortality and enjoy immortality!”

After the sacrifice began, the villagers walked to the full moon, took out some of their organs and put them into the bright moon.

Then the sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the bright moon would give back some fragrance for them to inhale.

After inhaling the fragrance, the villagers not only looked dazed and ecstatic, but also the organs they had lost before began to grow rapidly.

“Is this the so-called sacrifice?”

Feng Zining frowned as she watched. Unlike the beautiful scene in the eyes of the villagers, what she saw was too weird.

The moment the villagers cut open the body, it was empty except for a small ball of glowing flesh and blood.

That small ball of flesh and blood was exactly the same as the flesh and blood that made up Mingyue, except that the glow was a little dimmer.

When the villagers offered the flesh and blood to Mingyue, the latter immediately devoured it greedily.

Feng Zining didn't understand what the fragrance emitted by Mingyue was, but it should be some kind of extremely special spiritual energy.

It was under the effect of this special spiritual energy that the villagers, who were extremely weak after sacrificing their own flesh and blood, could barely recover to normal.

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"This is not a sacrifice at all, it's clearly a harvest!"

"After taking the Cao Huan Dan, these villagers should have been parasitized by something in their bodies."

"Then, using the human body as a breeding ground, they continuously nurtured special flesh and blood for harvesting."

Feng Zining was at least a true disciple of the Tianwu Curse Academy, and she had seen too many weird things.

To be honest, the weirdness of the sacrifice scene in front of her really didn't rank among the events she had seen.

If the so-called sacred tree is just like this, it is too low.

However, the reality is so slapping, and the scene that happened next directly shattered Feng Zining's three views.

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"Hahaha, I did it, I succeeded!"

"I finally succeeded in building the foundation, and I can go to the fairyland to cultivate immortality!"

Unlike ordinary villagers, they need to sacrifice their own flesh and blood to absorb the fragrance.

The village chief and several elders enjoyed special treatment at the beginning of the sacrifice, and they could absorb the fragrance at will.

Incredibly strange, after the village chief absorbed enough fragrance, his whole body glowed and turned into a small bright moon.

"This, this is actually spiritual awakening, and it is spiritual awakening naturally?"

"How is this possible?"

As a true disciple who has touched the power of authority, Feng Zining saw through the truth of the village chief's glowing body at a glance.

"The whole body glows, as bright as the moon, and the empty room is white!"

This is the description of spiritual natural awakeners in ancient books, and the current village chief fully meets the requirements.

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“Could it be that the spiritual awakening of this old man is completely due to his age?”

“If he really lived for more than 1,000 years in the form of an ordinary person, it is really possible that he would awaken spiritually.”

“But the premise is that his cells must still be active, otherwise it cannot support the consumption of spiritual awakening.”

“But now the village chief looks like a baby who is breastfeeding. It is entirely possible that he awakens spiritually in the form of a baby.”

“All this is definitely not a coincidence, but a clever design!”

“Even ordinary people don’t need to live to 1,000 years old, they only need to live to 800 years old to have a natural spiritual awakening.”

“After all, the human race There is a group of [Ancient People] in the group, who can easily live to 800 years old and then awaken their spirituality on their own. "

"Unfortunately, after the old days, [Ancient People] have become legends and have never appeared in the new calendar era."

"This damned sacred tree is obviously based on this legend, relying on its own power of longevity to create the longevity village in front of it."

"Its purpose is not to harvest that little bit of flesh and blood, that is just a dessert for a tooth-satisfying meal."

"The village chief, who awakens his spirituality on his own, is the food it truly cultivates."

Feng Zining, who finally figured out everything, instantly felt endless chill.

They actually treated humans as crops, no, they treated humans as ginseng for cultivation.

Such evil means are simply intolerable.

This damned Ascension Island is indeed evil and weird.

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"Hahaha, everyone, I'm going to embark on the immortal path and pursue eternal life."

"Thank you all for your company for hundreds of years. You have to work hard too!"

"I'll go first and wait for you in the fairyland!"

After spiritual awakening, although the village chief was still just a child, he was even more imposing.

After making a farewell speech, he jumped directly into the bright moon.

In the eyes of all the villagers, the village chief had entered the fairyland and went to cultivate immortality first.

However, in Feng Zining's eyes, the village chief was directly devoured by the strange flesh and blood and completely merged with it.

Inexplicably, the figure of the village chief appeared under the osmanthus tree in the full moon.

All the villagers who witnessed this scene went crazy instantly.

This group of people had been brainwashed for at least hundreds of years in a long-term closed environment.

At this time, seeing that someone had finally achieved the long-standing goal, how could they not be excited to tears?

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After the village chief ascended, the sacrifice continued.

Soon, it was Feng Zining's turn.

She was the last person to perform the sacrifice, and all the villagers who had completed the sacrifice before stared at her.

Without hesitation, Feng Zining walked in front of Mingyue, peeled off her body, and threw her heart in.

The next moment, the fragrance poured in, and Feng Zining greedily inhaled everything.

"Good, very good!"

"The sacred tree is very satisfied with your sacrifice!"

"After that, as long as you eat the grass elixir, you will be one of us."

002, who had just replaced the position of village chief, appeared in front of Feng Zining and looked at her with great appreciation.

As if to reward her for her sacrifice, 002 handed her a bark book for her to read.

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"The Chronicle of the Heavenly Tree Sect"

This is the name of the book that looks like a bark book, but is actually a human skin book.

Feng Zining flipped through the book without hesitation, and then came to a conclusion in an instant, "It's all fabricated nonsense!"

The book records the development history of the Tianshu Sect, a giant sect that has been passed down for more than 100,000 years. The exaggerated deeds can almost rewrite all the history books of mankind.

Feng Zining seriously suspected that the guy who made up this book must have written a novel before.

Anyway, according to the book, in order to save the fate of mankind, the great Tianshu Sect fought a life-and-death battle with the gods at the end of the old days.

As a result, although mankind was saved, the Tianshu Sect was completely destroyed, and only one inheritance seed fell on the fairy island.

After thousands of years, absorbing the infinite essence of the sun and the moon, this seed finally sprouted on a full moon night and grew into a divine tree again.

After the birth of the divine tree, the inheritance plan of the Tianshu Sect began to be implemented.

Among ordinary humans, if someone has a fairy fate, he will enter the inside of the divine tree and "build a foundation".

Once the foundation is successfully built, he can enter the fairyland and inherit the fairy method of the Tianshu Sect.

Feng Zining didn't believe a word of what was recorded in this book.

She was not one of those ignorant ordinary people who had no knowledge of the inner world and the Ascension Island.

This "Chronicle of the Heavenly Tree Sect" was obviously deliberately fabricated by some evil beings to deceive ordinary people.

The purpose was to make them honestly be leeks and honestly "cultivate immortals".

Although Feng Zining didn't believe it, all the villagers around her believed it.

What's more, the village chief had just successfully built his foundation, and the example of success was right in front of them, so they were more confident now.

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"I didn't expect this to be the inner space of the sacred tree!"

"I'm not an ordinary person at all, and I don't meet the selection criteria of the sacred tree at all."

"So my appearance was an accident caused by the turbulence of the space? Or was it that some beings deliberately set up a trap to trap me here."

"If there was no system task, I would believe it was just an accident."

"But now, I think it must be some guys who deliberately made trouble and sent me here."

"No, I must get out as soon as possible!"

After realizing her situation, Feng Zining wanted to leave here more urgently.

If it weren't for the flesh and blood that turned into the bright moon that made her extremely afraid, Feng Zining really wanted to massacre the village now to try what would happen.

Through the contact just now, Feng Zining judged that the flesh and blood seemed to have only instincts and no thoughts.

Once she killed its sacrifice, it would most likely go berserk.

After some evaluation, Feng Zining gave up the idea of ​​committing suicide.

Her current means could not kill the flesh and blood, and it was in someone else's body, so she should stabilize it first.

At worst, she could wait for the next sacrifice in 3 months.

And it was precisely because she couldn't kill the flesh and blood that Feng Zining had to "compromise" and perform the sacrifice.

At that time, Feng Zining felt that the flesh and blood had already set its sights on her. If she didn't try to appease it, it would definitely attack.

It was just a heart, which was not a big loss for her.

Sure enough, after swallowing her heart, the flesh and blood stopped being restless.

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After the sacrifice was completed, strangely, the people in Changshou Village actually remained "awake".

But before the three days were up, Feng Zining could not be sure whether everything would happen again.

Out of curiosity, Feng Zining did not restart the "massacre of the village". Although she would miss the contact with Caroline, the current situation was more worth observing.

As time passed, on the fourth day, the state of the villagers in Changshou Village became "confused". It seemed that it would not take long for them to become the same as before.

But Feng Zining finally confirmed that there was indeed something controlling these villagers in Changshou Village to "target themselves".

It was just that the "sacrifice" interrupted this process, but I believe that everything will be restored in a few days.

And on the fourth day after the sacrifice, a plate of fresh Cao Huandan was brought to Feng Zining by the old woman.

"This is No. 35 and No. 49. Eat them and you will be ours!"

"This is what the village chief promised you before he ascended."

Feng Zining was going to refuse as usual, but she suddenly sensed a familiar breath from the two Cao Huandan.

That was Caroline's exclusive spell.

"Hahaha, good, very good!"

"I've finally waited for it!"

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Caroline and the others had been struggling for 5 days in front of the tree hole.

Unfortunately, the power of space was too advanced and they could not spy on it at all.

All the detection methods they carefully designed completely failed after entering the tree hole.

It seemed that they had no other way except to enter in person.

The contact with the senior sister was still lost. Although they tried their best to prevent the spread of the news, gradually, the people on the Sea Kite became unstable.

Just when Caroline was about to break into the "tree hole" alone, the Sea Kite actually caught the trace of one of the two Grass Returning Pills again.

Effortlessly, Caroline and the others caught the Grass Returning Pill again.

But what was extremely strange was that the moment the Grass Returning Pill fell into Caroline's hands, it spit out a heart covered with spells.

The heart was extremely dry, as if it had completely lost its life.

But after sensing the familiar breath of Senior Sister Feng in the heart, Caroline was so excited that she almost cried.

And at the moment the heart was spit out, the Grass Pill completely turned into ashes.

Almost at the same time, the Sea Kite actually contacted Senior Sister Feng again.

Then Chen Qi received the call from the Sea Kite, and all the remaining candidates received the order at the same time.

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"Life replacement array, Senior Sister Caroline actually called all of us to rush to build such an array."

"Judging from her words, she will definitely not be able to shirk this time!"

"What a pity, I am only 9,000 points away from 100,000 points now, and I can only think of a way after entering the second ring."

In an abandoned laboratory of an unknown force, Chen Qi slowly closed the black book in front of him.

This is the last laboratory he could find after searching the entire outer ring area.

Unfortunately, it is still a little short of 100,000 points.

But there is no way, after all, more than 30 laboratories have been cleared by others.

Chen Qi naturally cannot get points.

The laboratory in front of him is not marked on the map, and it does not belong to the Jidao organization.

As for which force built it, Chen Qi did not get an answer after exploring it.

That black book was Chen Qi's biggest gain here.

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On the cover of the black book, there were three golden characters "Xun Xian Ji".

And on the back, there was a picture!

It was an ancient sailing ship sailing on the sea. On the bow, a white-haired old man held something in his hands and knelt on the ground with great piety.

And that thing was a bronze object with a regular 20-sided face.

But because of the long time, the lines on it had become blurred and it was impossible to tell what it was.