Chapter 1009: King of Evil Gods, Sea Demon Dagon

The Tianjingang under the twilight seemed to be stained with blood color, red clouds hung at the edge of the sky, dyeing Zhigu red all over.

Xilin stood on the deck of the foreign warship, reaching out to touch the teak deck.

She took out a surgical scalpel and slashed hard at the thick deck, only to see a trace of blood color suddenly seep out from the wooden board. That layer of teak seemed to have grown together with the steel beneath the deck, and the wood contained some kind of flesh and blood tissue.

"The offspring of the King of the Deep Sea is too dangerous. I never agreed to tribute it to that Chinese Emperor!"

Xilin frowned.

Beside her, the suave, gentlemanly-dressed Kadoorie suddenly spoke: "Alright, madam! Exchanging the offspring of an evil god for land is the Council's decision, and the Royal Navy is powerless to oppose it. We have longed to possess a 'concession' in this great Eastern country for too long!"

"Besides, they invited you here to monitor the state of the evil god's offspring. Even Miskatonic University cannot point fingers at Camelot's overseas affairs."

The two walked off the deck and came to the belly of the warship, into a huge iron warehouse converted from the core cargo hold and ammunition depot.

Here, dozens of priests of the Holy Church were praying without stopping. In dozens of silver lamps, the purest whale oil was burning, illuminating the place brightly.

Dozens of tons of mercury soaked a huge giant beast that looked like a fusion of an octopus, a giant whale, and a starfish, covered in tentacles, but generally very much like a fusion of a catfish and a toad.

Thick glass and mercury, bright lights, and cup-shaped containers.

This formed a sacred Three Saints Ritual here, suppressing most of the evil god's activity.

"Two weeks ago, sailors on the ship began to go missing. Later, investigations revealed they had been transformed into 'Merfolk'!"

Xilin reported matter-of-factly: "This shows that the suppression of the ritual and prayers has begun to be adapted to, and with the change of the moon phase, it will become more and more active, polluting all flesh and blood life that approaches!"

"What a beautiful existence!"

Kadoorie looked at that giant evil god beast, dead or alive, his face full of a strange expression mixed with struggle and longing.

Xilin glanced at him sideways and whispered: "Ordinary people would call it evil, some feel it is strange, some cultists would feel it is 'sacred'. But only one kind of person would feel it is beautiful, and that is those who are addicted to original sin and physical desires."

Kadoorie laughed: "Do you think I am of the Original Sin Sect?"

He laughed and shook his head: "It cannot be denied that the Original Sin Sect's influence on Western occultism is too profound!"

"How many paths have split off from the 'Path of the Blood Cup'? Wizards, knights, demon hunters, and even the Holy Church itself. Our civilization was created by 'original sin', so being influenced by them is too normal!"

Kadoorie explained casually, then said: "Do you know what this thing is called on the Eastern Emperor's list of medicinal materials?"

Xilin shook her head.

"Black Tai Sui!"

Kadoorie said calmly: "Also called laurel, cinnamon! It is the main ingredient of the most orthodox immortality medicine in the East."

"Legend has it that in the past, there was a hero in the East who created the great cause of saving the world! To reward him, the Mirror Master bestowed upon him an immortality medicine. But his wife, by mistake, took the immortality medicine, received a calling from the moon, and then ascended to the moon, where she saw an indescribable 'great tree'."

"The great tree was composed of flesh and blood, symbolizing a certain supreme order of life, and it was also the Mother's Cup of Flesh!"

"The wife merged with the great tree. The hero, who had lost immortality and his wife, angrily raised his bow and shot at the moon, causing the moon to shatter. The tree of flesh and blood fell to the earth along with it and sank into the deep sea!"

"The mother tree of flesh and blood that gestates the flesh of all life became a 'matrix' in the deep sea..."

"Gestating more complex life, even higher than the 'humans' created by the Lamp Father."

"This is the origin of the Deep Sea Evil God!"

"Legend says that the King of Deep Sea Evil Gods, 'Dagon', is the eldest son of the Mother God."

Xilin glared at him: "Why is the Eastern mythology I heard not like this? The scorching immortal bird resides in the sun, and the light in the mirror reflects down layer by layer, causing the human world to fall into eternal daylight, scorched by the immortal bird's flames."

"The great hero found the Yellow Emperor's divine bow and shot at the immortal bird, but failed because the sunlight was too blinding. At the same time, the immortal bird's body was just a mass of inextinguishable fire from destruction, which could not be harmed by divine arrows."

"He requested guidance and bestowal from the Mirror Master and the Cup Mother. The Mirror Master responded to him and bestowed the Cup Mother's immortality medicine."

"The hero was determined to die, but his wife, who loved him deeply, secretly swallowed the immortality medicine. Receiving the calling, she ascended to the moon, used the moon to reflect the sun, illuminated the scorching fire of the immortal bird, and sacrificed herself, using herself to sacrifice to the mother tree of flesh and blood, polluting the immortal bird and causing it to be born with a physical body."

"In the end, the sorrowful hero shot through the immortal bird's body, causing its corpse to fall to the ground."

"In order to save his wife, the hero boldly raised his bow and shot at the mother tree of flesh and blood on the moon, intending to save his wife back, but he shot down the mother tree, causing a huge disaster..."

"They are the children of the Mother God, the gods of the moonfall." Kadoorie still looked obsessively at the huge deep-sea evil god, sighing: "So their bodies are so perfect, and their power is also influenced by the moon phase. It will be a full moon again soon!"

"Cup of blood, flesh, and bone."

"Just a blood cup filled with the blood of original sin gave birth to the Original Sin Sect, the great synthesizer of Western occultism. How could a perfect life gestated by a cup of flesh not have a path leading to heaven?"

"What kind of existence is a perfect body?"

"A perfect one of the Fifth Rank, a complete person—is it really a perfect body?"

Kadoorie sighed: "No, that is merely a perfect human. A perfect body should transcend the concept of 'human'."

"The path of the blood cup—whether it is vampires, werewolves, ghouls, or ghosts, strange creatures, demons—they are all merely one side of human degeneration. Only the deep-sea evil god has truly broken free from the shackles of humans and transformed into a higher type of body."

"Flesh and blood as one, letting the deep-sea evil god serve as the matrix, and the Holy Cup gestate original sin—perhaps it can give birth to an existence closer to the Cup Mother."

Xilin was shocked by Kadoorie's words: "If the Holy Church knew your thoughts, your only way out would be the stake!"

"Haha... those who are addicted to the Lamp Father's spiritual path and despise the body and desires—how can those scholars understand our pursuit of human origins and truth?" Kadoorie said contemptuously.

"I don't know if you have discovered that if the Original Sin Sect represents the path of the blood cup, and the deep-sea evil god represents the child of the flesh cup, then adding the mysterious bone cup sunk in the East, the Cup Mother's holy path is about to be gathered!"

Xilin's body trembled slightly, and she suddenly turned her head to look at Kadoorie.

He spoke as if he had mentioned this topic inadvertently, with a casual and relaxed look on his face, completely as if he did not realize the particularly shocking things in his words.

Xilin recalled some classics of the Original Sin Sect hidden in Miskatonic University and suddenly came to her senses.

"Ritual of Conception!"

"Someone is going to make the Holy Son descend!"

"Bishop Menor's betrayal is very strange. Although it is said that the East is the place where the Holy Church's influence is the shallowest, an Original Sin Bishop who has attained the rank of Cardinal of the Holy Church should never have been exposed because of impacting the perfect rank. The ritual of conception he used gestates the perfect blood of original sin."

"This is the conception of blood!"

"If you add the deep-sea flesh and blood here, giving blood to flesh, combining flesh with bone, then a Cup Mother Holy Son who has transcended the perfect person, possesses the blood of original sin, was conceived by the Mother God, and has shed the primitive bone, will truly be born!"

Xilin figured everything out.

She just wanted to turn around, but she froze in place, because she didn't know who she could tell this speculation to?

Kadoorie said calmly behind her: "It is the Holy Daughter!"

Xilin turned her head in disbelief.

"The Lamp Father is masculine, so His descent is the Holy Son, while the Cup Mother is feminine. Her descent should be the Holy Daughter!"

"The original, fleshly, initial 'Holy Daughter'..."

Menor appeared behind him holding a silver cup. In the entire cabin of the warship, all kinds of steel decorations suddenly dropped their disguises and camouflage. The priests and pastors who were praying devoutly raised their heads, and the black robes could not hide their pale faces.

A huge inverted triangle, the symbol of the Holy Grail, appeared in the cabin hall.

At this moment, Xilin finally understood why she felt the cabin was a bit strange!

Originally, she thought it was modified to accommodate the deep-sea evil god, but now it seems that in this cabin, the container where the deep-sea evil god is stored is a huge inverted triangular pyramid, and the layout of the cabin is like a church surrounding the inverted triangle!

The priests held up silver cups, and someone used a sacrificial knife to slash open their own hands,

collecting blood in the cup!

Xilin was completely desperate. These priests were indeed genuine priests, but they were priests of the blood cup path, the Original Sin Sect.

The thin and pale old priest, who looked like a bitter monk, raised his head, revealing his neck. The wound on his right hand was healing rapidly, and the residual blood seemed to have life as it returned to the blood vessels. The turned-out skin and flesh were closing rapidly.

That was a vampire with at least the rank of Count.

Another tall priest tore open his black robe, revealing a chest full of chest hair. He raised his neck and let out a long howl, and the shadow behind him revealed a long snout.

"Werewolf!"

Xilin gave up. Two races that were mortal enemies lived together so harmoniously on a ship. If it weren't for the Original Sin Sect, others really couldn't do this.

A cold chill came from beside her, and a phantom shadow passed through the corner of her clothes.

A priest smelling of sulfur, stepping on goat hooves, walked over step by step.

Six priests with different expressions held silver cups, surrounding the container soaking the evil god, and Bishop Menor stood in the middle of them.

Xilin managed to show a trace of a smile: "Fortunately, the succubus representing the blood of lust has been extinct in the Church's long pursuit, and the transformation ritual recording the blood of lust has also been lost. You will never be able to gather the Seven Deadly Sins!"

Menor nodded: "Under normal circumstances, we can only give birth to the perfect blood through the conception ritual."

"But lust has not been lost, it's just that its conditions are too harsh..."

Kadoorie looked at her with clear eyes: "The opposite of lust is purity, so pollution does not help in the birth of this original sin. Only by desecrating purity, by desires that come from the heart, can this blood of original sin be born."

"Therefore, it needs a pure virgin, preferably with the bloodline of a witch!"

"The Cup Mother loves purity..."

Menor laughed: "The bottom layer of the blood of lust is indeed the licentious succubus. But to truly complete the conception ritual, become a complete person, and give birth to the perfect blood of original sin, it happens to require purity. Because the birth of the Holy Daughter requires a ritual that the Holy Church calls degeneration, and we call sublimation! Only purity can degenerate, only a virgin can gestate Him!"

Xilin's footsteps kept retreating, but Kadoorie had already blocked her retreat.

"We believe in original sin because we have discovered the secret of human birth. Our souls come from the Lamp Father, and the light of spirituality flows out from the supreme place, stained with all kinds of sins and filth, ultimately making us deviate from the Lamp Father and possess a 'self'."

"And the body originates from the Cup Mother. The blood of original sin is placed in the cup of bone and flesh. On the moon, we are gestated from the Holy Grail."

"Therefore, the cup and the lamp are two opposite paths. They act as barriers to each other, deviate from each other, pull us between the mortal world, and let us live in the cracks between the True Realm and the Spirit Realm."

"Original sin—desire, greed, gluttony, anger—makes our souls have 'differences', makes it far from the Lamp Father, and makes it difficult to fuse into one."

"Reason—wisdom, knowledge, self, faith—makes our bodies have 'barriers', makes it not just simple flesh and blood, and makes us unable to return to the embrace of the Cup Mother."

"Therefore, there are two paths of sublimation: one is 'faith', eliminating the 'differences' of the soul and returning to the light of the Lamp Father."

"One is 'original sin', pursuing the desire of degeneration, collecting the 'differences' of the soul, accepting the calling of the body, and returning to the source of desire!"

The twilight of the port was stained with blood color. Bishop Menor stood in the center of the warship's cabin, the silver holy grail in his hand filled with viscous "blood of original sin".

That blood was as viscous as petroleum. This is the perfect blood after eliminating the barrier of the heart and holding the conception ritual. It fuses the bodies of ten thousand people, achieves the perfection of the body, and symbolizes the descent of the 'Holy Son' of the blood cup.

Similarly, the blood from the surrounding dark creatures was also steaming.

Becoming a strange 'blood medicine'.

The blood of greed, the blood of anger, the blood of jealousy, the blood of gluttony, the blood of arrogance, the blood of sloth—six kinds of blood cup blood medicines collided with Menor's silver cup.

Xilin, who was held by her arms by Kadoorie and pressed onto the ritual platform, raised her head unyieldingly.

But Kadoorie extended the silver knife of the ritual and slowly slashed across her face.

Pure blood dripped down.

"Using the Seven Deadly Sins as a guide, summon the Lord of the Abyss..."

He dipped his fingertips in blood and drew the inverted triangle character pattern recorded in the "Dead Sea Scrolls" on the deck.

The moment the rune pattern was formed, the deep-sea evil god surrounded by them suddenly cracked. Its body suddenly stretched out like a big tree, blood vessels grew like branches in the mercury, bones twisted into a trunk, and skin split open, spreading out like leaves.

Those eyeballs that looked like fruits hung high, and the gullies on the surface of the moon were reflected in the pupils—

There, the root system of a mother tree of flesh and blood was penetrating the lunar soil, spreading toward the ground like blood vessels.

An indescribable mother tree of flesh and blood stood between heaven and earth!

The mother tree formed an inverted triangular shape. The tree body was rapidly covered with flesh and blood, growing, forming a huge meat cup—a uterus.

At this moment, with this warship as the center, everyone was melting.

Flesh and blood seemed to have its own will, rapidly approaching this huge mother tree of flesh and blood.

The roots of the mother tree broke through the bottom deck of the warship and stretched toward the ocean. Xilin watched in a daze as huge schools of fish surged from all directions and merged with the mother tree.

The flesh and blood of all the sailors in the surrounding Western ocean fleet were melting, and even in the near sea near Zhigu, fishermen, sailors, and merchants on the ships were also melting. Horror and fear shrouded Tianjingang, and another huge disaster struck.

If this place hadn't been a secret history that had already been destroyed, it would have been a hell on earth!

The mother tree of flesh and blood grew rapidly like a god, and soon it was so huge that it occupied her entire line of sight.

But at this moment, an incomparably huge evil god, resembling a turtle, a frog, and a fish, suddenly rushed out from the Bohai Sea.

That was the King of Evil Gods who had rushed here from the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean, not knowing how long it had taken—Dagon!

Its body carried incomparable tremors, setting off giant waves hundreds of meters high, swallowing that incomparably evil mother tree in one gulp.

The huge limbs supported the huge body like mountains, and the surging tremors set off the seawater of the entire Bohai Bay, like a giant turtle supporting the sky.

Dagon flicked its giant tail, slapping the giant waves hundreds of meters high toward the shore, its incomparably huge body, which made the warship look like a toy in front of it, headed toward Zhigu City not far away.

The fourth of the Five Gods, the King of Deep Sea Evil Gods, the giant turtle supporting the continent, the symbol of earthquakes and tsunamis—

Sea Demon Dagon, finally descended!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1010 =====