Chapter 903: Blood Moon Secret Ritual, Nine Great Taboos

As shocking to the heart as the holy light had been before, at this moment, the evil spirits turning their heads in unison were just as terrifying and eerie.

The priests and nuns, who had always been solemn and serious but possessed firm determination, suddenly became flustered.

They turned their heads one after another to look at the Archbishop. The nuns, who had not wavered in the slightest when facing the cruelty and power of Viscount Akado, exclaimed in shock and retreated repeatedly, disrupting the formation.

Surrounded by dozens of evil spirits and hundreds of citizens who were confused by the holy light and had forgotten their injuries and pain.

The three black-robed figures standing in a triangle, surrounding Qian Chen, suddenly raised their heads from beneath their hoods...

"The time has come!"

Qian Chen said suddenly.

The Wisdom Clock pointed to 12:10:50.

Gable focused slightly and looked up at the blood moon overhead. At this moment, the moonlight finally turned completely blood-colored. All the colors around, the semi-coagulated fresh blood on the ground lost its purple-red, and the light of the Holy Church lost its gold-red.

The colored gemstones embedded in the Wisdom Clock.

The stained glass composing the clock face.

The bright clothes worn by the citizens, the red lace underwear, the bright green and blue T-shirts and hoodies of the teenagers.

Even some bright jewelry of the ladies.

At this moment, they all faded in color.

And it was bit by bit, first purple, then cyan-green, then yellow-orange.

In the end, only the brightest red remained, incomparably conspicuous amidst the black and white, and then even the red faded away!

As if it had merged into the blood-red moon in the sky.

"Do you know? Actually, the moon does not emit light; it only reflects the radiance of the sun. Therefore, in the sects in the East that worship the Three Creations, although He is called the Bright Lord, meaning the Lord of the Sun and Moon, only the sun is used as the symbol. Only the sun can purely represent the Lamp Father. The moon is actually the common symbol of the lamp and the mirror—it is the Mirror Moon!"

"Therefore, there was originally a huge mirror in the sky. It reflects the radiance of the lamp at night, shining upon us."

"Have you thought of it?"

"That is a natural secret ritual for walking in the spirit world. But why has no one ever observed the Mirror Moon and had their spirit leave their body?" Qian Chen scanned everyone slowly. His voice was not loud, but it reached their ears clearly.

At this moment, even Gregory couldn't help but prick up his ears.

This was the most terrifying secret!

Gable couldn't help but ask: "What exactly is it? Sect Leader!"

"The taboos of the secret ritual for walking in the spirit world—"

"First, one must not place a cup in front of a mirror!"

"Second, it must be secret but also known to others!"

"Third, one must not perform the secret ritual in an empty and open place!"

"Fourth, the mirror must not face downward!"

"Fifth, the lamp and candle must not be extinguished!"

"Sixth, the spirit needs to be in a sober state, not confused or dreaming!"

"Seventh, one must not chant the name of a god, and one must not look directly at a god!"

"Eighth, one must not let the power of any Hour other than the Yu Sansheng enter the ritual!"

"Ninth, Li Er is forbidden from holding the secret ritual!"

Qian Chen said word by word the most ancient and basic secret ritual that had been popular for countless years among the occult circles and transcendentals—the secret ritual for entering the spirit world.

And these taboos, after the flow of countless eras and the changes in the development of worldly occultism, had been continuously added to and deleted, but they had never exceeded the few points Qian Chen mentioned.

Even the occult circles had tacitly used these taboos to test whether they were people in this circle.

These were the 'secrets' that everyone initially accepted!

Things they were accustomed to, but also inadvertently ignored...

The first taboo represented the Original Sin Path and the Blood Cup Path; the second taboo represented the first principle of transcendence—'Secrecy'.

They did not yet know the third taboo.

The fourth taboo involved the Abyss and Reality, because a mirror facing downward represented entering the 'Abyss', the True Realm!

The fifth taboo would lead to getting lost on the path of the spirit world, but it also contained the secret of entering the Secret Beginning.

The sixth taboo represented the secrets of the Dream Spirit Realm, the Undead Realm, and the Illusion Spirit Realm.

The seventh taboo was the path of ascension, the secret of becoming a god.

The eighth taboo was the mystery of the Hours.

The ninth taboo was specifically set for Qian Chen. In everyone's ears, the name Li Er was shrouded in a mystery that could not be perceived or recognized. They couldn't understand it at all, but this sign itself represented a supreme 'secret'!

Archbishop Gregory suddenly understood. He looked up at the blood moon overhead and said solemnly: "The Mirror Moon is in the sky, reflecting all living beings. No wonder the Abyss Sect worships the moon as sacred. So, the moon is a huge secret ritual that has fallen into the Abyss!"

"Not only that!"

Qian Chen revealed a faint smile: "Above the moon, there is the Mother Tree of Flesh and Blood, or rather, the Cup of Flesh used by the Cup Mother to create all living beings. And transcendentals of the Blood Moon path can refine the Blood of Original Sin."

He raised his hand slightly, and the entire Kafas City was projected before him. The locations that had undergone blood sacrifice were all reflected one by one.

A huge tree penetrated all the nodes of the blood sacrifice, and the blood flowed toward a point at the roots of the tree. And that point was here!

Qian Chen looked around the square below this Wisdom Tower.

Barely supporting her body with her greatsword, her hands and feet weak, the Princess walked step by step, with difficulty, to Qian Chen. Anderson pointed his gun at Qian Chen—it was less of a coercion and more of a powerlessness.

He stared at that Blood Osmanthus Tree and muttered: "Slaughtering Blood Cup transcendentals, condensing the Blood of Original Sin..."

Qian Chen nodded: "Then... fill the cup with blood!"

In the side quest issued by the Lord of Reincarnation in his mind, "Fill the cup with blood" lit up slightly, but in the end, it did not fade away completely, indicating that the quest had not been completed.

"Using the Blood Cup Path, gather the Blood of Original Sin, offer it to the moon, and fill the cup with blood!"

Anderson was finally completely shocked. He shouted out the fact that he had suspected but ultimately could not believe.

"The Blood Moon, you summoned it!"

The Princess trembled all over, and Gregory also revealed horror.

This Blood Moon transcendent grand event, which shrouded the entire Western Continent and shocked countless transcendentals as if the era were ending, actually originated from a small city that was isolated from the Western Continent and built solely around a university.

Although it had some influence, it was only caused by a small sect that had killed dozens of Blood Cup transcendentals, launched a small sacrifice, had influence limited to Kafas, and had only three or four members!

This truly interpreted that transcendence does not lie in powerful strength, nor in how much spirituality one has.

One only needs secrecy, reality, spirituality, and magic medicine. If any one of the four reaches the extreme, one can stir up earth-shattering events!

What Qian Chen did was the extreme of secret knowledge.

"Although only dozens of Blood Cup path transcendentals were blood-sacrificed, it thereby dripped the first Blood of Original Sin into the Cup of Flesh on the moon. The ritual does not lie in how much power there is, but only in the presence of key symbols."

"Therefore, as long as the correct ritual is performed, a single drop of blood can summon the Blood Moon."

"Of course, if someone were to slaughter the entire continent's Blood Cup path, use the Western Continent as a mirror, hold a Blood Osmanthus ritual, and fill the Cup of Flesh with a large amount of Blood of Original Sin, then the power of the Blood Moon would not just be limited to this place as it is now, but would be able to truly shroud the entire present world!"

Qian Chen spoke of this secret, which used the entire world as a stage, with extreme ease. At this moment, all transcendentals and mysterious people were frantically memorizing his every word.

At the same time, they also had an extremely strong desire to kill everyone present.

This was a secret ritual that could open the Blood Moon!

Although they didn't know what the Blood Moon could do yet, just looking at its performance, there were already signs of something incomparably terrifying.

"The reason I limited this blood sacrifice to Kafas is because it is not the correct time yet." Qian Chen explained with a smile: "Actually, the Twelve Hours and the Ten Secret Paths dominate the timing on a larger scale. In the East, it is called the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. Its method of calculating years and timing is—Jiazi! A Jiazi that cycles every sixty years!"

"It is still one year away from the correct Jiazi. Next year's Mid-Autumn Festival, at 12:10:50, is that correct time!"

At this moment, everyone knew why Qian Chen had revealed this ultimate secret.

Because he wanted the Blood Cup transcendentals to actively carry out a massive blood sacrifice involving the entire Western Continent. As long as they performed the ritual slaughter in the correct place and offered the Blood of Original Sin to the Mother Tree on the moon, they could summon the Blood Moon.

Once this secret was made public, everyone who wanted to summon the Blood Moon would become Qian Chen's helpers.

Even the people who most wanted to summon the Blood Moon were the transcendentals of the Blood Cup path.

Who knows the Blood Cup better than the Blood Cup?

Next Mid-Autumn Festival, the Western Continent would be very lively...

"Using the moon as a mirror, reflecting the light of the Lamp Father, filling the cup with blood, this is the Blood Moon Secret Ritual!" Qian Chen chanted calmly. Tonight's story would become a top-tier secret transmission that the Holy Church would try its best to erase, but which the occult circles and transcendentals would frantically pursue.

From these secret transmissions, one could obtain a secret ritual that could influence the entire world—the Blood Moon!

At this time, Gregory suddenly realized: "The second taboo, it must be secret but also known to others!" He said solemnly: "You are deliberately violating the second secret ritual, telling everyone the secret of the Blood Moon, which is also part of the ritual. Even if this news is covered up by the Holy Church with all its might, it will spread frantically in the coming year. At least at this moment, it is not a 'secret'!"

The Princess hesitated: "Third, one must not perform the secret ritual in an empty and open place!"

Everyone looked around. There was no place more empty than here! The future Blood Moon secret ritual, using the entire Western Continent as a stage, would also completely violate this rule.

The fourth taboo, the mirror must not face downward!

The Blood Moon was right above their heads. It would be hard for it not to face downward.

Fifth, the lamp and candle must not be extinguished!

It was not the correct time yet. The correct time Qian Chen spoke of was the night of the Blood Moon, the moment of the lunar eclipse!

Sixth, the spirit needs to be in a sober state, not confused or dreaming!

Everyone didn't know about this point yet, but under the Blood Moon, there would always be violators. Right now, there was no telling how many people had entered the path in Kafas.

Seventh, one must not chant the name of a god, and one must not look directly at a god!

This point was too easy to violate!

Eighth, one must not let the power of any Hour other than the Yu Sansheng enter the ritual!

Ninth, Li Er is forbidden from holding the secret ritual!

Except for the ninth taboo, everyone didn't know what exactly was forbidden from holding the secret ritual.

After all, that name was almost equivalent to the secret itself, but the eighth taboo...

Having seized back the sect-protecting secret canon from the secret library and fled in panic after being frightened by the crazy librarian in the library, the three crows, for some reason, circled back to the square. When the three of them broke in holding the "Secret Scripture of Seven Chapters of Xuanjun", they only saw corpses everywhere, and injured and dead citizens all over the ground.

Dozens of corpses possessed by evil spirits stood under the moonlight, with four mysterious people in their midst.

And a team of Night Watchers had suffered heavy casualties and retreated to the right side beneath the clock tower, while a group of priests stood on the left side, at a loss, led by an archbishop.

Clearly both sides were strong and powerful, but they were as if surrounded and blocked there by four mysterious people.

Crow broke into the square and saw such a strange scene.

When Qian Chen saw him, he reached out his hand in a friendly manner and smiled: "Give the book to me!"

Those who know the times are heroes!

Crow handed over the "Secret Scripture of Seven Chapters of Xuanjun" in his arms readily. His two little brothers had questions in their eyes, but he glared them back—this was the Young Sect Leader!

What's wrong with giving him the secret canon?

Beneath the hood where it was dark to others, the mysterious face was clearly illuminated by the moonlight in Crow's eyes. Who else could it be but Young Sect Leader Li Er?

Now it seemed that the Young Sect Leader was indeed ruthless, had heaven-reaching means, committed all kinds of evil, was cruel and fierce, had calculated against the Night Watchers, the Holy Church, and them as cannon fodder, preparing to do some big thing!

Such a terrifying Young Sect Leader, that was the future Sect Leader!

No... that was the Sect Leader.

Crow's eyes suddenly became firm. With his two little brothers, like loyal subordinates, he knelt down to the Sect Leader and then retreated behind Gable and the others.

Gable was stunned—who are you guys again?

Also fellow sect members?

The Princess finally realized at this moment: "So you are people of the Xuanzhen Sect!"

Qian Chen shook his head slowly. He opened the "Secret Scripture of Seven Chapters of Xuanjun" in his hand and said: "We are the Original Sin Sect, we are also the Xuanzhen Sect, and we are even the Holy Church, the Yu Sansheng Path, the Bright Lord Sect... but these are not important. We are merely a secret sect that believes in the Original Yu Sansheng and masters reality and truth!"

The "Secret Scripture of Seven Chapters of Xuanjun" was flipped to the two chapters of the "Record of Ascending Spirits in the Illusion Realm" and the "Record of the Great Destruction of the True Realm".

Now, even the eighth taboo, not letting the power of any Hour other than the Yu Sansheng enter the ritual, had been successfully violated!

The Princess, Anderson, and Archbishop Gregory, all the transcendentals present, looked at Qian Chen flipping open the scripture and chanting the secret spell, and all felt chilled to the bone.

The Blood Moon secret ritual, which violated all taboos, used the moon as a mirror, reflected the light of the Lamp Father, and filled the cup with blood.

It was about to lift its veil and reveal its truth... ===== CHAPTER 904 =====