Chapter 402 Blood Sacrifice of the Gods

Yingzhou, Ping'an Jing.

The battlefield outside Heian Jing was littered with corpses. A large number of low-level ghosts roamed the battlefield in search of corpses. Practitioners from the human race also formed small teams to deal with ghosts that were not completely dead on the battlefield.

An invisible line divides the battlefield, and there is a clear distinction between the two sides.

In the war that broke out ten days ago, the strength gap between Huang Quan and Gao Tianyuan was not large.

Except for the initial period when the underworld army came and the gods of Takamagahara were struggling to cope with it, for the rest of the time the gods were able to barely persevere with the help of the geographical advantages of Takamagahara.

This battlefield lasted for several days, and as the projection of the Huangquan tributary that enveloped the entire battlefield suddenly disappeared, the battle situation changed again.

The several Aido ghosts and gods in the underworld were unable to figure out what was going on in the underworld Hirazan, so they had to temporarily give up the idea of ​​attacking Heian-kyo and retreated most of their troops to several ghost towns outside Heian-kyo.

Heian Kyoya finally had a chance to breathe, and under the publicity of major shrines, many people regarded the temporary withdrawal of the underworld ghosts as an unprecedented victory.

But in Takamagahara, the Kingdom of the Gods above Heian Kyo, Izanagi and Izanami were not in a very good mood.

"What are those idiots in Huangquan doing?"

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

In the entire temple, there were only Izanagi and another goddess dressed in black, as quiet as the long night. She was Izanami.

Facing Izanagi's angry questioning, Izanami said with an indifferent expression:

“Not only Yomi Hirazan, but also the major cities outside of Heian Kyo were invaded by Yomi’s army.

However, many practitioners broke through the realm of refining gods with the help of the supreme Taoist, and several gods traveled to various battlefields to suppress the ghost king, blocking the first wave of the underworld army's offensive.

Later, Supreme Daozi personally took action and once again destroyed the underworld ghosts on hundreds of battlefields. Except for Ping'an Jing, there were no underworld ghosts in the entire Yingzhou. "

"The disappearance of Huangquan's projection on the Heianjing battlefield was most likely the work of the supreme Taoist.

He took advantage of the underworld ghosts to come out and set foot in the underworld Hirazan, hoping to end this war once and for all. "

Izanagi's eyes narrowed and he retorted without hesitation:

"impossible!"

"According to the last news sent back, there are four ghosts and immortals sitting in Hirazan, and the judge of life and death is about to arrive.

Four ghost immortals and one heavenly immortal were powerful enough to overtake Gao Tianyuan at his peak. The Supreme Taoist could not reach the realm of refining the void, so how could he fight against them? "

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

“It’s a shame that Yama of the Tenth Palace is not at ease with us and has blocked most of the news. Only the judge of life and death knows our specific information.

If those ghosts, immortals, and Taoist ghosts and gods also knew our identities, they wouldn't have caused this misfortune. "

"No matter what the truth of this matter is, Supreme Daozi is an unexpected factor that cannot be ignored after all. This war without any warning is proof of it. We must make plans in advance."

The two noble gods of Gaotian looked at each other, and finally Izanami spoke:

"Start early!"

A trace of hesitation flashed in Izanagi's eyes, and he did not immediately refute, but just asked:

"The planned blood sacrifice did not appear. Will it have any impact if he was born early?"

Izanami's always indifferent face finally changed. Her purple lips gently curved into a strange arc, and her beautiful eyes flashed with dangerous light.

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

The secret order came down quietly from the main temple. In this night, tens of millions of believers in Heianjing all heard the order from God.

They walked out of their homes and gathered in shrines.

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

No matter what their identities were, in the shrine at this time, they all looked feverishly at the statue worshiped by the priests.

The Lord of Hirazan and the God of Death - Izanami!

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

"They look like pigs in captivity!"

A priest suddenly spoke softly, which immediately aroused low laughter from all the priests.

No one thought there was anything wrong with the priest's speech. In their eyes, these ordinary people who needed the protection of the gods and the priests who were servants of the gods were already in two different classes.

"After the underworld is calmed down, we will fly into the Gaotian Plains and always be with the gods. These pigs are only worthy of becoming our slaves."

"Our descendants will also rule these pigs!"

Discussions among the young priests rang out. This great victory of the gods in Gaotian Yuan had already made the priests start to think about the future.

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

"The Lord God Izanagi issued an oracle late at night to start the sacrifice, but the object of the sacrifice was actually the Lord God Izanami. This seems to be somewhat inconsistent with past sacrifices."

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

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

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

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

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

"Welcome the Lord Izanami to come!"

Izanami's eyes swept over the more than ten priests present, and a faint voice sounded 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:

"Report to Izanami, we are all your most devout believers!"

"Good!" The voice of praise came from Izanami's mouth, and the pair of enchanting eyes that looked like the deep night sky swept over the priests.

"You can kill yourself!"

The priests' surprised smiles froze on their faces.

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

Since the spiritual tide, Yingzhou has experienced several power changes. The power originally held by the royal family and the dignitaries has been transferred to the priests and priestesses with the awakening of the gods.

The people present said that they were believers of the gods, but their essence was just another vested interest class that replaced the royal family and the dignitaries.

Even most of the priests were old-fashioned nobles in Yingzhou, but they were just covered with a layer of divine power.

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

"My Lord, we..."

The senior high priest wanted to refute, but the next moment Izanami's eyes fell on him.

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

Now you are hesitating, are you not devout to my faith?"

The gentle words fell silently on everyone's hearts like drizzle, and crazy thoughts suddenly rose from the priest's heart.

"Offer 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 showed strange smiles, took out daggers and shouted loudly.

"Offer loyalty to Izanami!"

These priests who regarded ordinary poor people as pigs cut their throats under the gaze of Izanami, and their corpses were piled around the altar.

This happened not only in one shrine, but in hundreds of shrines throughout Heian-kyō, all the priests and priestesses died in this sacrifice.

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

And without anyone noticing, the originally flat belly of Izanami's statue gradually bulged a little.

When the hidden Niutou noticed the abnormality in Heian-kyō, a full hour had passed.

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

But the active withdrawal of the Yellow Springs ghost caught Niutou off guard. Without the cover of the Yellow Springs ghost, if he got too close to Heian-kyō, he would probably be discovered by Izanagi.

So he stayed outside Heian-kyō, watching the movements of the gods in Takamagahara.

He also noticed the large-scale descent of Izanami, but he didn't know its purpose and couldn't go deep into Heian-kyō to investigate rashly.

It wasn't until he noticed the large-scale blood sacrifice in Heian-kyō that Gyu-tou realized that Izanagi and Izanami had finally decided to take action.

At this point, Gyu-tou decided not to hide anymore. A tall god with a bull's head and a human body appeared outside Heian-kyō.

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

"This road is blocked!"

A majestic voice sounded, and the divine light fell like a world barrier that blocked Gyu-tou's way forward.

In the sky, Izanagi, wearing a divine robe, looked down at Gyu-tou. Around Izanagi, dozens of refined gods looked at Gyu-tou in a state of alert.

Niutou frowned slightly: "What do you mean?"

Izanagi said calmly: "Heian-kyō is the place where I rule Takamagahara. Please leave for now, God."

"The so-called rule of Takamagahara, is it a blood sacrifice for the common people?"

"This is my private matter in Yingzhou. I'm afraid God has 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 already been connected with the ghosts of the underworld. They supported Izanagi and Izanami, and they just thought that humans were pigs raised by the gods, and their life and death were left to the will of the gods.

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

"Extremely arrogant!"

Niutou was furious, and three figures slowly walked out of the void hundreds of miles away.

The three gods of the six heavens of Luofeng, Leopard Tail, Black and White Impermanence, had secretly joined forces with Niutou when they were pacifying the unrest in the cities outside Yingzhou.

The qi of their bodies was connected, and the netherworld was spread out around the four gods of the six heavens of Luofeng.

Leopard Tail, Black and White Impermanence broke into the state of Hedao, and Niu Tou had already broken through Hedao, but now he lost the Yellow Spring tributary to cover up the secrets of heaven, so he could not go further into the ghost fairy, and could only stay at the peak of Hedao.

"I have long wanted to experience the magical powers of the gods of Takama-ga-hara."

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

Above the earth, the four gods of Luofeng Six Heavens pinched the seal, and a magnificent city came here across hundreds of thousands of miles.

The plaque above the city gate had three big characters written on it.

Fengdu City!

The deafening roar spread throughout Heian-kyō, but the city had no reaction. Everyone gathered around hundreds of shrines and stared at the statue of Izanami.

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

At this moment, her belly was already bulging, just like the strange statue in Heian-kyō.

Izanami stroked her belly gently, with a maternal glow on her face, and whispered softly:

"Don't worry, we're almost there."

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 its scale was extremely magnificent.

This is the shrine where Amaterasu lives, and it is also the core of the entire Takamagahara.

As soon as Izanami approached, golden light rose around the palace and evolved into countless dazzling divine texts, as if the sun's radiance blocked her outside the palace.

However, Izanami just stroked her bulging belly, and those divine texts retreated in an instant.

Without any obstacles, Izanami slowly stepped into the shrine.

The first thing Izanami saw when she entered Amaterasu Shrine was a throne woven with vines of a sacred tree at the top of the temple. It was made of gold and had a frightening aura.

Around the throne, some old tools were stored.

Scythes, hoes, and even a dilapidated cabin that seemed to be out of place in the entire temple.

Without stopping at those tools, Izanami looked up at the dome of the shrine.

The trunk of the sacred tree supported the entire Amaterasu Shrine. The lush branches of the tree spread like spider webs to every corner of the dome, and the leaves all over the dome sprinkled the light of the stars.

Only on one of the inconspicuous branches were two inconspicuous fruits hanging.

One was orange like the morning sun.

The other was ice blue like a full moon. (End of this chapter)