New concept of the mysterious way to ascend to immortality

Chapter 2 Reverse Pinxixi Amateur Sacrifice Conference
[The cultivation database is severely damaged, unable to load related modules, self-rescue failed.]

Clearly understood! Everything is as expected. [Great Wilderness Immortal Scripture], just garbage.

Yuan Zhu, who chose to lie flat, remained calm, unsurprised by the utterly ineffective performance of the Immortal Scripture. Ever since he'd woken up, the wretch had been bludgeoned to death. He desperately wanted to find the mute function in his head and block out the endless, frustrating mental attacks.

[The hidden database has been contaminated and tampered with, partially unsealed, data lost... Data has been distorted to unknown sources. Contamination has increased dramatically by 11.2%↑, irreversible. Unable to detect spiritual energy resources, please act quickly... Contamination has increased by 13.8%↑...]

As expected! As expected.

[The hidden boss template has undergone an unknown distortion. The distorted spiritual root resonates with the unknown soul pollution, forcibly intervening and absorbing it. The soul firewall has been reactivated, the pollution level is 17.6% → (constant), the shield is successful, and the soul erosion has stopped...]

Yuan Zhu was shocked: Huh? What happened?
[Host, do you want to load the distorted spiritual root, temporarily absorb polluted energy to replace spiritual energy, and continue on the path of alien cultivation? This situation is urgent. Please make a choice as soon as possible. Self-destruction countdown is 100 seconds... 99 seconds.]

? ? ? !
At this moment, Yuan Zhu was completely stunned. This piece of junk...

So, because it couldn't gather spiritual energy resources and couldn't defeat the local pollution, the [Great Wilderness Immortal Scripture] chose to join in? Going along with the pollution, polluting the cultivation of immortality? Is the bottom line so flexible?

What does this "self-destruct" mean? Does it mean the system will self-destruct and initiate uninstallation, giving me back my freedom? Or does it mean it will destroy my soul so I can take over the next host?
Seeing the countdown tick by, what else could this poor, weak, and helpless man do? He could only focus all his attention on that option and forcefully slam it: [Confirm!]

[The customer has confirmed an abnormal cultivation mode, and the user agreement has taken effect. Special welfare compensation is now being provided, and the hidden boss template is now open and loaded: Demon. Mountain King (Deformed Spiritual Root)]

[The distorted spiritual root has been activated and has begun to absorb and store special (contaminated) spiritual energy. It is to be named.]

[Boss template: Deformed Tiger Demon. Loading completed, ability list (expandable).]

[Ding Dong! The exclusive game wizard is online. Do you want to start the tutorial?]

[Host has been detected to have escaped near-death. A large amount of special spiritual energy (to be named) has been detected. The BOSS template will be forcibly activated to collect and store it. Automatic health recovery is in effect, with health points +1, +1... Expected recovery in 10 minutes.]

Another string of messages flooded the screen, but Yuan Zhu, lying flat on his back, was completely unmoved, indifferent, even a little bored. Because all of this was automatically refreshing, there was no sense of interactive participation. He was just a vegetable, enjoying a paralyzed life.

Physically, he still didn't feel much of a change; the same refreshing coolness continued to seep into his limbs and bones. As for the "deformed spiritual root" and the [Great Wilderness Immortal Scripture], they seemed like hallucinations from a near-death state.

Instead, a new panel appeared before his eyes, helping him while he lay down:
【Tiger.Tiger Demon: Monster, BOSS Template】

[Life: 3.7%↑ (Recovering)]

[Mana: ? ? ↑ (saving)]

[Ability 1: Pollution Remediation in Progress...]

Ability 2: Ghost

[Ability 3: Claw? ? Pollution repair in progress...]

[Ability 4: Breathe the Wind. Pollution repair in progress...]

[Ability (Secret) 5: Secrets within the Belly? Data is abnormally disordered, and template matching is incorrect!]

[Ability (Secret) 6: Tiger Domain/Ghost Den? ? Pollution repair in progress...]

Seeing that the data representing [Health Points] was recovering faster and faster, Yuan Zhu suddenly opened his eyes, sat up in shock from his dying illness, and returned to the world in a trance.

He is alive again!

At this moment, Yuan Zhu's body was surging with power, and he could hear faint, noisy and numerous mutterings in his ears... They were all greedy prayers of men and women with different demands, as well as the crazy obsessions in their hearts.

These voices were like invisible threads connecting him to his body, coming not only from these crazy evil believers in front of him, but also from the distant other side beyond this space.

I am like an anchor, connecting dozens or hundreds of spiritual signal sources of different sizes.

What's going on here? Is this the price of a sacrifice? Has it become some kind of shared spiritual radio station?

The dark golden feline eyes opened, and his gaze penetrated the veil in front of him, allowing him to see everything around him clearly.

This is a closed and dim indoor hall, surrounded by blood-red candles and strange sacrificial offerings.

Under the eerie crimson candlelight, a headless frog, a deer head with its eyes sewn shut, a crow with its wings detached from its body, the heart of an unknown creature, bundles of long, multicolored feathers, and a large, iridescent mushroom sprouting limbs... To his left and right, corpses with their chests ripped open, heads severed, and limbs pierced through were placed as offerings. Blood splattered the ground, drowning the densely packed rune arrays.

Including myself, there were seven sacrifices, all killed in different ways. My death was the mildest, with only slashed arteries in my limbs and a dagger lodged in my heart. Again, I wasn't the center of attention, but the second one to the right, playing a minor role, a rather banal death.

...

“It has come! It has come! My Lord, please grant me a young body and abundant vitality!”

In front, outside the tributes, a hunched figure in a black cloak quickly rushed forward, stretched out his shriveled arms, anxiously grabbed at where Yuan Zhu was, and asked in an urgent tone.

Immediately afterwards, more believers wearing cloaks to hide their faces waved incomprehensible amulets in their hands and urgently shouted out their needs.

There are all kinds of things, such as restoring youth, making the body stronger, seeking beauty and charm, curing terminal illnesses, cursing biological fathers, paying a large sum of money to have children... Each one exudes an atmosphere of greed.

The anxious and impatient attitude of these believers, completely devoid of the humility of praying to God, was more like the anxious orders and coercion of someone who was afraid of missing out on discounted eggs at the supermarket. That commanding attitude of a slave irritated him greatly.

Are these people forcing themselves to fulfill unrealistic wishes? They rely on the talismanic objects in their hands. Can those objects really control themselves?

Yuan Zhu's mind was now clear and working quickly. Everything in the dim light was clearly visible. His brain analyzed the current situation in an instant and blocked out the dense noise and voices in his mind.

First, he could confirm that he had no sensitivity to those 'talismans', nor was he able to control them, so he could completely ignore them. Then, his eyes saw an even more bizarre scene in a vision that ordinary human eyes could not capture.

The entire sacrificial hall is filled with strange and diverse energies that are invisible to the naked eye. It is difficult to describe in words and is more abstract than infrared vision and thermal vision. It can only be described by feeling.

Some of the energy matter resembled a cloud of suspended blue mist, some felt like a viscous, flowing yellow-green vortex, and some looked like a tangled ball of purple-red thread...

Each energy exudes unique properties, symbolizing a certain concept, such as "deer," "frog," and "fog." Their slow transformation and flow, like a conscious life form, exudes a deadly aura of danger, and from a higher dimensional perspective, they coldly overlook this ceremony.

These energy sources seemed to be the "strange pollution sources" from the outside world described in the Great Wilderness Immortal Scripture. There were actually more than one, but more than ten.

Each one is not very strong. They are using the tributes as a medium, like a slightly opened faucet, accumulating and gathering their unique polluting energy bit by bit in the bodies of headless frogs and broken-winged crows.

Some of the polluted energy penetrated the burning blood-red candles, making the scarlet flames even more dazzling and brilliant. Wherever the red light enveloped, space began to distort, but the believers engulfed by the candlelight were unaware.

Some unknown pollutants swirled in the air, wandering back and forth; some simply took over the other six corpses around them and came back to life.

Besides the premonition of extreme danger, Yuan Zhu also felt that they were all eyeing him covetously. As they poured money into the market, they stared at him and sized him up. He felt like a piece of meat on a chopping board, being observed by a dozen or so clients, whispering and asking for prices.

Among this vast variety of unknown pollution, there is only one that he feels close to, and he accepts it from the bottom of his heart, without any rejection or disgust.

The source of this energy is hidden in the shadows beneath him, forming a mysterious connection with this body and even the [Great Wilderness Immortal Scripture], continuously supplying 'special spiritual energy' to the [Deformed Spiritual Root], allowing [Health] to recover while [Mana] is slowly accumulated.

As his mana (demon energy?) slowly increased, he was able to grasp more and more information. A lot of unfamiliar sacrificial knowledge also flowed into his mind along with the cool spiritual energy, giving him seemingly plausible insights.

...

At this moment, Yuan Zhu felt like a super signal receiver. Not only was he connected to all the believers present, receiving their prayers and wishes, but he could also reversely observe higher-dimensional evil god signals (the source of pollution) and become a container for that source of pollution.

In fact, the [Great Wilderness Immortal Scripture] has already accepted the energy in the shadow and forcibly named it "Special Aura", which is used to drive the so-called soul firewall and load the [Boss Template] into the body.

The various 'talismans' held by the believers also correspond to other suspected sources of pollution from evil gods.

Therefore, he boldly speculated that this was an extremely chaotic and random amateur sacrifice.

Perhaps because the success rate was too low, or the ritual cost too high, this group of believers resorted to a cheap sacrifice model similar to Pinduoduo, using a small group of sacrifices (seven people) to simultaneously offer sacrifices to more than a dozen objects of worship (evil gods).

Translated into Earth language, a certain cultist maliciously bound (forced) a group of evil gods to jointly kill the seven sacrifices. If any one of them responded, the ritual could continue.

Faced with this useless thing, based on the basic principle of "since we're already here", the evil gods will invest a small amount of power, pay attention to this sacrifice, gamble for fun, and try their luck. What if they win?
If one of them is truly hungry, they might even take the initiative to bid against other evil gods, adding more power to the battle for the sacrifice. In the end, this group of believers will always catch a target to satisfy their wish and ensure the success of the sacrifice.

This kind of rogue ritualistic tactic of sacrificing innocents and trolling a bunch of evil gods for a fight, aside from the suspicion of blasphemy and the inevitable disaster, is indeed quite creative. He's a real genius!
Are the believers in this world so brave? Not only are they devoid of piety, but they also commit wholesale fraud against evil gods, and then take advantage of them for free.

(End of this chapter)