Chapter 76: We Are the Descendants of the Gods

"Where did you get this idea from?"

"Do you have any idea how dangerous this way of thinking is?"

As the only friend he had in the Guifang Kingdom, E Tu felt genuine fear for Xuan Hui.

Once this kind of rebellious thinking spread,

Xuan Hui would undoubtedly become a thorn in the side of the Five Directional Gods and be eliminated without hesitation.

"I felt lost a few days ago, so I went to look for clues and traces left behind by the former High Priest."

With a deep gaze fixed on the distant sacrificial platform, Xuan Hui whispered, his expression unchanging.

"You Xiao was once the most outstanding among all the High Priests of the Guifang Kingdom..."

"He even gained the recognition of the other four gods simultaneously, besides the one you serve, through his own strength alone..."

"But his defection was shrouded in mystery, and to this day, no one knows the true reason why he defected."

As Xuan Hui spoke, he reached into his robes and pulled out a scroll that had clearly been repaired.

"I found this at his old residence; it is a book that should have been destroyed."

"Perhaps it was carelessness, or perhaps the searchers back then couldn't bear to destroy this book..."

"In any case, this book eventually fell into my hands, allowing me to see the true nature of the Five Directional Gods."

Upon hearing this, E Tu immediately looked at the book.

Unfortunately, just like that illiterate Xi Luo, E Tu could not read either.

"What is recorded in this book?"

Fortunately, E Tu never hid his curiosity and asked straight to the point.

"This book records a kingdom named 'Great Xia,' a Central Plains nation located ten thousand miles away from the Guifang Kingdom."

"In that Central Plains nation, the Sovereign is the supreme existence."

"Priests, and even gods, must obey the orders of the Sovereign."

"When the Sovereign is unhappy, he commands the priests to chant his achievements day and night, rather than spreading the faith and majesty of the gods."

"This book also says that the gods were originally nothing more than our ancestors..."

"Or rather, we are all descendants of the gods, not lambs raised by them."

After a brief pause in his voice, Xuan Hui spoke again, his tone eerie.

"The book I have now is actually incomplete; much of the latter half has been torn out."

"I suspect that what was recorded there was the 'Method of Becoming a God,' which is also the true reason for You Xiao's mysterious defection."

"He wanted to become a god as a mortal, to become a new Five Directional God..."

"For this, You Xiao even risked the possibility of being abandoned by the Five Directional Gods to forcibly take away the Prison Soul Cauldron."

It was not until Xuan Hui finished speaking that E Tu finally managed to snap out of his daze.

Because the words the other party said and the amount of information revealed completely exceeded the scope of what E Tu's brain could bear or comprehend.

"So... why are you telling me all this?"

Struggling to open his mouth, E Tu could only look at Xuan Hui in astonishment and ask.

"Because I need the help of the 'Red-Haired Ghost,' and you happen to be able to help me."

Without hiding his purpose, Xuan Hui turned around very solemnly, as if the person he was talking to now was not E Tu.

"After the Return of the Howling Sky Clan, an oracle was issued stating that a 'Red-Haired Ghost' had been born in the Hundred Earth Mountains and that we must do our utmost to crusade against it."

"As long as the crusade against the Red-Haired Ghost is successful, the Five Directional Gods might even overlook our sin of losing the Prison Soul Cauldron."

"This is why the Sovereign and the others have become so crazy."

"I don't know why the Five Directional Gods value that Red-Haired Ghost, but I know this is my chance."

His voice gradually became frantic, and the smile on his face grew increasingly unrestrained...

At this moment, Xuan Hui seemed to see the red-haired mad ghost, whose entire body was burning with flames, through E Tu.

"I can tell you where the soul of the Spring Goddess, Nü Man, is located..."

"And what you need to do is simple: help me destroy this increasingly insane sacrificial ritual!"

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The place where Nü Man's soul was located was not actually very secret.

At the very least, for the priests of the Guifang Kingdom, the soul of a god—even the soul of an imprisoned god—was only worthy of being enshrined on the altar of the temple.

The temple altar was located at the very back of the entire sacrificial platform.

That was the original ancestral temple of the Guifang Kingdom, and it was also the shrine where the countless heroic ancestors of the Guifang tribe were worshipped.

It was precisely because of the sacrifices of those heroic ancestors.

That the Guifang Kingdom grew from a small tribe into the regional power it is today.

The Five Directional Gods were enshrined in the central position of this ancestral shrine.

"I can only take you this far; I am not yet qualified to enter the ancestral shrine."

Standing outside the gate of the ancestral shrine, Xuan Hui said in a low voice.

And on Xuan Hui's shoulder, E Tu, who had turned himself into a sleepy bug, nodded, not asking for anything more.

After all, Xuan Hui had already cleared away many guards for him along the way.

Otherwise, even if he had known the location of Nü Man's soul in advance, it would not have been so simple for E Tu to sneak in.

"Then I wish you all the best in advance."

Just like the vast majority of candidate priests.

Xuan Hui merely gazed at the Five Directional Gods in the ancestral shrine from afar before turning and leaving.

Seeing this, the nearby guards just looked at each other and smiled, not taking it to heart at all.

Let alone a candidate priest like Xuan Hui.

Even real priests would come to this ancestral shrine from time to time to admire the demeanor of their predecessors, and the guards were long used to it.

This was the ancestral land of the Guifang Kingdom, and no outsider had ever broken in since it was built.

Buzz, buzz, buzz...

Flying silently into the ancestral shrine, E Tu did not alert anyone throughout the process.

However, it was not until he entered the interior of the ancestral shrine that E Tu realized how large it really was.

Thousands of spirit tablets were placed in the center of the ancestral shrine.

And beneath the tablets were skulls that had clearly been carefully maintained.

This was a custom left over from the tribal era of the Guifang Kingdom.

They believed that the skull was the dwelling place of the ancestor's soul and was a necessary item that had to be worshipped along with their names and deeds.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if thousands of skulls were piled up randomly, they could form a terrifying mountain of bones.

Not to mention being arranged in an orderly and neat fashion beneath the tablets like this.

Just by a simple visual estimate, those skulls occupied one-third of the main hall's area, a full several hundred square meters.

Looking to both sides along the tablets and skulls, what appeared in E Tu's field of vision were the representative objects of the forces, nations, and gods that had once been defeated by the Guifang Kingdom.

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