Infinite Mask Game.

Chapter 361 Living Sacrifice
Kou Yu had prepared all the necessary items for the ceremony a few days earlier with Yan Ziqi's help.

It must be said that the player who played Yan Ziqi is quite skilled; they must be on a path related to the spiritual realm, such as illusion magic and seductive arts.

Under the spell of the crowd, the mortals lay obediently paralyzed in the basement, letting him do as he pleased.

But in terms of importance, he is the core of this operation.

With a thought, a pair of jet-black wings parted the strips of cloth and emerged from behind him.

This is his distorted entry, "Wings of Faith," which is a sub-section.

Wings of Faith

Part: Back and wings
Additional skills:

1. Magic Center (Passive): Can store a certain amount of magic power, or convert energy into magic power.

2. Vessel of Faith (Passive): Can receive pure faith power and digest it.

3. Cursed Field (Active): Consumes mana to release an invisible field that covers a 100-meter radius around the caster. Simultaneously assesses the resistance of enemies within the field. If an enemy fails the resistance assessment, they will be cursed, with their energy recovery rate reduced by 10% and energy intensity reduced by 5%. Mana consumption depends on the duration of the curse and the number of enemies.

4. One-Winged Angel (Active): You can stack two wings. At this time, your magic concentration increases by 10%. Maintaining the one-winged state requires magic and stamina.

Evaluation: The core organ upon which all angels depend for survival, regardless of whether they are black or white.

The reason it's called "magic power" instead of "holy power" is because this term was obtained in a dungeon related to Hell.

Correspondingly, the identity marker he received was [Fallen Angel Lak].

But he believes his greatest gain was acquiring and applying the power of faith.

The angel race, or rather the Heavenly Kingdom faction, are born with the ability to wield the power of faith.

The power of faith is of an extremely high rank in the void, almost omnipotent, and can be converted into many types of lower-level energy.

Aside from the angels, the power of faith is very difficult to obtain.

For example, an ordinary person might proclaim himself a god and gain a group of devout followers through deception and fraud. Even if these followers pray to him daily with hymns of praise, this ordinary person will not gain any spiritual strength from the faith.

This involves some fundamental rules of the void, which Kou Yu wasn't entirely clear about. He only knew that anyone outside the angel race who wanted to acquire and utilize the power of faith had to truly reach the level of "god."

That was an extremely tall and majestic existence, far beyond the reach of a nobody like him.

He had sensed an exceptionally powerful aura in that hellish dungeon. It wasn't exactly a god, but that one trace was enough to cause him to explode and die, ending his stay in the dungeon.

The statue of Fu'an Gong in front of us contains the "power of faith".

Kou Yu himself is not yet able to bear the power of faith, or rather, he does not yet have the ability to filter out the impurities of faith.

He's not qualified.

The power of faith generated by mortals is of very poor quality and cannot be called the power of faith; it can only be barely referred to as a spiritual aggregate.

His ability to create the Duke of Fu'an was entirely due to chance.

The conditions required to obtain the power of faith are extremely complex.

First, the person being worshipped must have sufficient status.

The concept of position encompasses too many aspects and does not only represent strength.

Coincidentally, his collaborator, Lu Kaiyi, possessed a treasure: the Nine Dragon Jade Seal.

It once suppressed the fortune of a nation, and was itself a symbol of the nation's destiny. It actually meets the lowest level of rank requirements.

Secondly, channels for collecting the power of faith must be provided. In other words, believers must be able to generate the power of faith, and this power must flow to Fu'an Gong.

Simple prayer cannot generate the power of faith, just as simple meditation cannot complete the visualized idol.

A revered name, a clearly directed prayer, a focused and devout heart, and a person of sufficient standing to be believed in... all of these are indispensable.

Prayer can be viewed as a ritual in which believers connect with the worshipped through names and prayers, offering their devotion.

Fortunately, none of these tasks were difficult for Kou Yu to complete.

He personally sculpted the original statue of Duke Fu'an using the evil methods of a fallen angel. The clay used for the firing came from the bottom of the moat. The statue was covered with human skin, filled with blood and flesh, and mixed with his bird feathers. At the very center was buried the Nine Dragon Jade Seal.

The mud of the moat represents this protected capital city, human skin and flesh represent the people, bird feathers are for attracting the power of faith, and the Nine Dragon Jade Seal supports the status.

Many ritual objects carry symbolic meaning; under the rules, symbolism is connection.

The most important aspect of a ritual is connection. Whether it's a sacrifice or a gesture of gratitude, it requires the establishment and maintenance of that connection.

Many ritual masters who tragically die do so because the connection at some point is broken, causing the ritual to go out of control and affecting themselves.

The final step is to spread the venerable name of Fu'an Gong, make it deeply rooted in people's hearts, and extract faith from it.

These beliefs were stored within the original statue of Fu'an Gong.

Now, Kou Yu believes the time is right.

He was a fairly skilled ritual master who, while disguised as a fallen angel, learned about some rituals that seemed evil but were actually extremely evil.

But he didn't expect that Lu Kaiyi also had some understanding of rituals, and helped him complete a ritual specifically for martial artists in this world, using his life force and potential as a price to carry the power of faith and forcibly elevate his own realm.

It's like a last gasp before death; once the window of opportunity is over, this person is practically finished.

Kou Yu stood before the statue, spread his wings, clasped his hands, closed his eyes, and said, "I hereby offer my respects to you, the great Duke of Fu'an! You turn the shadow of death into the dawn, and the day into the night. The sun will turn to darkness, and the moon into blood..."

A complex, blood-red array appeared beneath his feet, accompanied by eerie murmurs.

The Fallen Angel's identification item allows him to weave magical arrays during rituals, making it quick and easy.

The array gradually expanded, covering the entire master bedroom.

The outer ring is a typical double-lined circular structure, while the inner ring is an octagon, symbolizing rhythm, growth, and evolution.

The pattern inside the octagon resembles a thorny thorn composed of rhombuses, with serpentine patterns and numerous seemingly chaotic "?" marks.

In the basement, the listless slaves suddenly let out a shrill, hoarse wail, but they were unable to move.

Their bodies rapidly emaciated, and the flesh beneath their skin inexplicably evaporated, turning into invisible energy that gathered upwards.

The suffering of being sacrificed alive is beyond the endurance of ordinary people.

Within seconds, they fell silent, their bodies withered into nothing but skin. Even that skin was grayish-white and wrinkled, utterly lifeless.

His excessively ferocious face revealed an unquenchable resentment.

Above, Kou Yu continued reciting the sacrificial text with a blank expression.

He was performing a sacrificial ritual.

The slaves in the basement were used as sacrifices to Fu'an Gong, in order to draw upon His faith and infuse it into Xie Jingming.