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"Xu Ming, look at that!"

Haruyuki Arita, who was walking at the front, suddenly stopped and pointed ahead with a nervous expression.

Xu Ming looked in the direction he was pointing, and his heart skipped a beat.

A humanoid figure wrapped in white gauze hung silently from the top of the passageway.

From a distance, it looks like a large silkworm cocoon.

He had read the records of the Yukinoshita clan and knew what this thing was.

The most crucial step in the Flamefall Sacrifice is to bind the maiden alive with white gauze, leaving her to die quietly without being able to move.

What if the gods are not satisfied with the offerings?

If the quality is insufficient, make up for it with quantity.

Therefore, many sacrificial rituals often involve preparing multiple offerings.

The sacrificial ceremony of the Yukinoshita clan must be the same. In addition to the most important sacrificial maiden and the slightly less important assistant maiden, they also prepared a lot of cannon fodder.

Vigilante justice, mass sacrifices, bloody rituals... The Yukinoshita clan, who once lived on this island, were savage and cruel to an appalling degree.

Xu Ming suppressed his discomfort and led the group forward, deliberately avoiding the corpse that resembled a cicada pupa.

As Xu Ming and his companions gradually disappeared into the distance, the underground passage returned to silence.

Just then, a slight, unusual sound came from inside.

rustle……

It felt as if fabric was gently rubbing against it.

Then, white threads kept falling from the 'cocoon' in mid-air...

Xu Ming and his group continued forward, and the number of 'silkworm pupae' they encountered gradually increased.

At first, you would only encounter one body after a long distance.

Then the distance between the 'silkworm pupae' kept decreasing, while their number kept increasing.

When they arrived at a huge cave.

Xu Ming subconsciously looked up and immediately gasped.

The ceiling of the cave was densely covered with 'silkworm cocoons', and a rough count revealed that there were more than a hundred of them!

"Xu Ming!"

As Xu Ming was still in surprise, Haruyuki Arita, with a sob in her voice, suddenly grabbed Xu Ming's arm.

Xu Ming couldn't help but frown.

A ghost being afraid of other ghosts? Who would believe that?

I thought that letting him act alone this time would at least test his courage.

As expected, a dog can't stop eating shit, and a pig can't stop spewing filth.

Seeing him clutching his hand, trembling like a leaf, Xu Ming had no choice but to comfort him:

"What are you afraid of? These are all remains, they won't move..."

As soon as Xu Ming finished speaking...

A rustling sound came from the 'silkworm pupae', as if they were spinning silk, with white threads constantly falling from their bodies.

Pfft!Pfft!

The silkworm cocoons fell one after another from the top, splashing water into the puddles on the ground.

The 'silkworm pupa' that fell to the ground began to slowly wriggle, just like a real silkworm.

The white veils covering them kept slipping off, revealing the dried remains underneath.

Upon witnessing such a horrific scene, Haruyuki Arita trembled even more violently.

He was not only trembling, but his legs seemed to have gone weak, and he almost hung directly on Xu Ming.

At that moment, Xu Ming really wanted to slap Haruyuki Arita on the back of the head.

I'll teach you to jinx it!

Why not hit yourself?

If Haruyuki Arita hadn't been timid and needed comforting, would he have stood there raising a flag on the spot?

So, is there anything wrong with Haruyuki Arita getting beaten up?!

Of course, that makes sense, bro!

The above was just a joke.

Xu Ming's face quickly turned serious.

"Prepare for battle!"

"Hi!"

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Yukino Yukinoshita suddenly sat up from the cold floor.

She clutched her chest tightly, her heart pounding.

Before this, she felt as if she had fallen into a nightmare from which she could not wake up.

Although she has forgotten the details of the nightmare, the loneliness, helplessness, and despair it brought her still clung tightly to her heart.

Yukino Yukinoshita pressed her hand to her temples and rubbed her throbbing head vigorously.

"You're finally awake, Yukino~"

A familiar, slightly flippant voice came from the side.

Yukino Yukinoshita turned her head to look in surprise.

Yang Nai, the older sister, was fiddling with something in her hands while giving her a strange look.

"Yukinoshita? Where is this? What are you doing here?"

Seeing her older sister appear out of nowhere, Yukino Yukinoshita frowned. She vaguely remembered being captured by a terrifying shrine maiden, and then…

Yukino Yukinoshita suddenly sighed.

"So you still won't call me 'sister'~"

Then she suddenly blurted out something very strange.

"Forget it, it'll end today anyway."

Yukino Yukinoshita looked at her with a puzzled expression.

What are you saying...?

She was only halfway through her question when a flood of unfamiliar, never-before-seen images suddenly rushed into her mind—

Long ago, on this small island far from the mainland, two sisters were born.

The older sister is three years older than the younger sister.

Because of her outstanding talent, the elder sister was quickly selected by the priests of the Dark Flame Palace as a candidate for the priestess.

According to past practice, the older sister should have been taken away from a young age and no longer had contact with the villagers except for the priests. Instead, she would have been raised and taught by the priests and priestesses of the Dark Flame Palace to become a qualified priestess.

However, firstly, the sisters' father is the god master of the Dark Flame Palace, and secondly, the younger sister is also very talented and has a high probability of being selected as a priestess in the future.

So, as arranged by their father, the two sisters lived and grew up together in the Dark Flame Palace deep in the Yanluo Mountains.

They played together and learned the tedious sacrificial rituals together from a young age.

At that time, their two young hearts naively believed that they only had each other in this world.

Time flies, and my sister is already sixteen years old.

This year, it was my elder sister's turn to become the 'gift maiden' of the Flamefall Festival.

The two sisters had no resistance to their future fate.

Because that's how they were raised.

Everything they have, including their lives and souls, is for the purpose of pleasing the gods who dwell in Yanluo Mountain.

The elder sister has simply gone ahead of her younger sister to the seat of the gods; the younger sister will arrive soon.

By then, they will never be separated.

Chapter 393 The Truth Behind the Disaster (Bonus Chapter)

However, fate seemed to play a cruel joke on them.

Two months before the ceremony was to take place, a young folklorist accidentally wandered onto Starfall Island.

This erudite and eloquent young scholar quickly won the favor of the deity.

The sisters' father even invited him to visit the Palace of Dark Flame and witness the Flamefall Festival afterwards.

By chance, the scholar met her sister, who had been chosen as the sacrificial maiden for this festival.

The two seemed to be under a spell, falling in love at first sight.

The scholar described the colorful world outside to his sister.

The older sister recounted her fate as a sacrificial offering to the scholar.

My sister longed to see the colorful world outside.

The scholars felt even more pity for her because of the tragic fate that was about to befall her.

Gradually, the two fell deeply in love and couldn't extricate themselves, even tasting the forbidden fruit.

Ultimately, the scholars made an incredibly bold decision.

He wanted to leave this barbaric and cruel island with the woman he loved on the eve of the festival.

But how could a scholar who couldn't even kill a chicken and a frail priestess who had never traveled far from home possibly escape?

They were quickly captured by the angry villagers.