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Amaterasu looked at the gods in front of her and understood.

The world only remembers Quetzalcoatl.

"I see, that's what's going on?"

"What's wrong?" Quetzalcoatl looked at Amaterasu who suddenly made a sound. He thought Amaterasu was nervous.

"Didn't you notice? That's right, you wouldn't think so." Amaterasu raised her eyebrows, leaned back against Vidoflnir, crossed her legs, and raised her chin towards the gods.

"Nothing, I just figured out one thing."

Chapter 1361 Like a Ghoul

Amaterasu held her chin and listened to the conversation between the gods represented by the left hummingbird and the feathered serpent. There was only one word in her mind, that is, "old antiques with their own thoughts."

[Butterfly] is worthy of being an ancient mythological totem that can predict the future through calculations. They vaguely guessed that the end of the gods would be subversive, and even vaguely perceived the concept of [Totem].

Totems are records of the earth and are extremely important to the gods, but even an omniscient and omnipotent being can only realize the existence of totems when the world is turned upside down and the totems are torn apart.

This is not surprising. Even gods find it difficult to perceive things that are extremely important to them but take their existence for granted.

Therefore, the gods prepared underground shelters for themselves, namely the twelve layers of the underworld. They loudly announced the ownership of each layer and divided the world of each layer, thinking that they could sleep soundly in this way.

In this link, the bottom layer of human survival is extremely important. The gods need human praise and faith, and they need the earth to tell their stories.

Nothing can make humans remember the existence of gods better than the sacrifice of their own kind. But not everything can be done by humans. Civilization is needed.

The humans created in the First Sun Era were giants that ate acorns, but they were as incomplete as the smoke mirror that turned into a black sun in the sky. Not to mention building a civilization, they couldn't even recognize the existence of the gods, and they had no feelings when their companions died.

The humans in the second and third solar eras were relatively good. They offered sacrifices and worshipped the gods, but unfortunately they were not strong enough.

In the devastation of the rain of fire and flood caused by the smoke mirror, they changed their form in order to survive, lost their human appearance, and were no longer qualified.

The humans of the Fourth Sun Era were the most perfect. Quetzalcoatl created humans using corn. They were more emotional and intelligent than the humans of the past three eras, and even had stronger bodies and firmer wills.

Under the care of the Quetzalcoatl, humans rapidly established city-state civilization and even created art to praise the gods.

But among these [Gods] there is only Quetzalcoatl, and even [living sacrifice], a means used to strengthen human faith, has been banned by Quetzalcoatl.

The Fourth Sun Age was a failure, but the humans in it were very good and only needed slight adjustments to be used in the Fifth Sun Age. It’s just that the power of the Quetzalcoatl was too strong.

Unfortunately, before they destroyed the world created by Quetzalcoatl, the thirteenth world of origin was destroyed, and the gods who were unprepared fell with it. Their proud shelters collapsed one after another, and finally fell to the lowest level of the ground world.

As a result, they lingered on in a world where only feathered serpents existed.

But this is not a bad thing. Even if the origin world is destroyed, Quetzalcoatl still possesses great power, and even humans have not changed themselves because of the extinction of the sun.

Their calculations were successful. They could use the faith of the humans in the first layer of the ground world to carve their totems on the earth and restore their divine power.

They can even complete the rebirth of the gods and redefine themselves.

The simplest and most brutal way to strengthen human belief in themselves and leave a record on the earth is disaster. The death of humans in disasters is also a sacrifice to nature.

But the Quetzalcoatl sits at the center of humanity, and with him around, no god except the Smoking Mirror dares to play evil in front of him.

Then it is the old method, sacrifice. Although this is forbidden by Quetzalcoatl, if it is voluntary on the part of humans, and even if it is a great act for the purpose of creating a new world, even Quetzalcoatl cannot refuse it.

What resulted from this was a great sacrifice to repair the world of origin, which was feasible, so Quetzalcoatl could not refuse, but something went wrong.

This was just a minor mistake. A human used the great sacrificial ritual to transform himself into the sun god of the outside world. However, in response to the priests' request, they simply expressed indifference.

Because they know that the end of the gods is not over yet, and the defilers will soon be drawn into it and then destroyed.

The current sacrificial restoration ceremony is still an experiment. Only when the end of the gods is completely over and their power is restored, will the restoration ceremony officially begin.

But this small accident caused Quetzalcoatl to explode. It tore off its scales and turned into countless little suns to illuminate the world. As long as humans opened their eyes, they could realize the greatness of Quetzalcoatl.

The plan failed again...? No, even the Quetzalcoatl cannot illuminate the entire first-layer ground world without the Sun Cloth. The Sun Scales require sacrifices.

The gods only needed to appear in the city of Turan during the period when humans were making large-scale sacrifices for the sun scales, and create various sacrificial rituals based on themselves, so as to subtly let humans know what the sacrifice was for, who they represented, and even who they would go to after death.

Over time, humans will leave traces of the gods on the first level of the ground world.

In Amaterasu's eyes, this was a very despicable and disgusting act, like a group of zombies, but in fact, this was what the gods did.

Zuo Hummingbird is the biggest beneficiary among them. Although he is also one of the four gods created by the God of the Beginning, he is the last one.

He is the god of war and enjoys humans sacrificing warriors or prisoners of war to him in order to win the war. Even human souls need to serve as his servants for four years before turning into butterflies and hummingbirds.

In the doomsday, war becomes more subtle. Humans' fight against the sun-eating monsters can be considered a kind of war. So whenever humans gather together and make large-scale sacrifices, they will pray to the left hummingbird in order to fight against the sun-eating monsters.

So the left hummingbird still has a lot of power.

Now the gods appear here simply after hearing the rumor of the Quetzalcoatl's return. If the Quetzalcoatl really cheers up, then the gods will have no chance.

As for why they came here, it’s hard to say, but it’s definitely not a good thing.

Amaterasu sighed helplessly. The once noble gods had become so depraved just to survive.

She knew everything clearly, let alone Quetzalcoatl.

Quetzalcoatl is not a fool, but his high moral standards do not allow him to make assumptions about others. In addition, he has taken all the responsibility for the loss of the Sun Clothes and the current situation of the Fourth Sun Era on himself, and he has no intention of thinking about the actions of the gods.

The powerful Quetzalcoatl can do everything except become the sun, but becoming the sun is Quetzalcoatl's greatest weakness.

Amaterasu's sigh attracted the attention of the gods.

Finally, after these old guys had spied on Quetzalcoatl endlessly and found that Quetzalcoatl was still the same, they looked at her, the newcomer who was about to take on the mission of becoming the sun god.

Chapter 1362 The Ominous Black

"I don't want a living sacrifice, that's all."

Before Zuo Hummingbird could speak, Amaterasu waved her hand and blocked the road in advance.

Are you kidding? She thought human sacrifice was abominable in the first place, not to mention that these gods were like ghouls, wanting to share the share of human sacrifice.

She glanced at each sacrifice. They were clearly noble sacrifices made by humans to continue the world, but the sacrificial rituals added by the gods looked like a recipe, and she almost vomited.

"If you want humans to believe in you, then work hard for me."

If you want something, you have to pay for it. This is a truth that even children know. Unfortunately, in some ways, the gods are even worse than children, and their fists are particularly big.

"Sacrifice was discovered after countless experiments. It is the easiest way to consolidate the existence of the gods." Zuo Hummingbird's voice was low and full of unquestionable majesty. His eyes were extremely sharp, and the temperature between the entire throne seemed to rise.

"Don't you know? The Age of Gods has ended. Now is the Age of Humans. Even the King of Gods has to line up early in the morning for the medal of the best fruit salesman."

"puff--"

Before the left hummingbird could say anything, Quetzalcoatl laughed.

He lay on the throne, punishing himself for showing such an embarrassing posture in front of the gods, but what Amaterasu said was so funny that he couldn't help laughing out loud during the punishment.

"How could this happen?"

"Yes, that's Blaze's cheap dad. But I can't tell you the name of Blaze's cheap dad, or you'll be prejudiced."

"It can't be Zeus, he looks very similar, especially when it comes to messy relationships with women."

"You figured that out!?"

It was just a small episode, but this small episode was like a gust of wind that took away the temperature between the thrones and brought coolness.

The left hummingbird glanced at Quetzalcoatl, took a deep breath, extinguished the fire in his eyes, and made his tone less condescending.

“Perhaps in your eyes, sacrifice is a barbaric demand we make of mankind, but this is an ancient custom that has existed since the beginning of the world.”

"Quetzalcoatl and Smoke Mirror killed the monster and created this thirteen-layer world, but they only divided the monster into thirteen layers of corpses. It was the gods who irrigated the corpses with their blood and completed this initial sacrifice, and the thirteen-layer world was born. So it is not an exaggeration to call sacrifice the core of our world."

Amaterasu looked at Quetzalcoatl. This was the first time she had heard of it, so she wanted to confirm it.

"Except for the initial sacrifice, he did not lie at all." Quetzalcoatl sat up straight, with his hands on the armrests of the throne, majestically, as if he would not allow himself to show any lack of etiquette when telling the following words.

"The original sacrifice was the left foot of Tezcatlipoca, who sacrificed her own body to lure the monster out of the water."

"Tezka Popopo?" Amaterasu touched the back of her head. Now she was sure that she was definitely not from this mythical totem. The names here were too difficult to pronounce.

Unlike her tongue twister and confusion, the gods except Zuo Hummingbird showed taboo expressions, as if the name was very ominous.

They whispered, and there was no respect for the victim in their words, only fear, suspicion, rejection, and they even blamed the victim for all the bad luck, bad things, and even bad thoughts, as if the sacrifice was just another conspiracy.

"That's the smoke and mirror. It's a great and beautiful sacrifice." Quetzalcoatl explained patiently.

"Oh~" Amaterasu pinched her chin and fell into deep thought.

Quetzalcoatl is just one of the gods who retains power, the other one is the black god SmokyMirror.

She is the exact opposite of Quetzalcoatl. Quetzalcoatl makes the world willing to remember him and the world waits for his return, while the Smoky Mirror is the shadow of the world, all the misfortunes, all the evil and chaos.

He is the only god who is not affected at all even if the world is turned upside down.

The smoke mirror is probably the most perfect state imagined by the gods. Unfortunately, they do not have the power to act recklessly like the smoke mirror, nor do they want to bear such a terrible infamy.

"This world was created because of sacrifice, so we don't have the sun, we only have a sun coat. Even if the sun coat can emit thousands of feet of light, it is just a piece of clothing. It cannot be the source of life, and it cannot change the fact that we don't have a sun god."

“Without sacrifice, humans will one day lose their reverence for the gods. This is only part of the reason. The gods’ sacrifice gave birth to the world, and the sacrifice of living beings maintains the loophole of the world without the sun. This is the real reason.” Zuo Hummingbird said calmly, with his hands folded in front of him.

This is undoubtedly without basis and is just a perverse idea to maintain the custom of living sacrifice.

Amaterasu wanted to refute, but Quetzalcoatl did not refute her, and as an outsider she couldn't say anything. What if there really was such a problem?

All she could do was hum a few words to show that she was a genuine sun god who was born as the sun.

With her in place, the world will truly have the sun, and there will be no need for sacrifices.

But Zuo Hummingbird still has his say.

"You are not the sun god of our world. Your shape is wrong. To this world, you are nothing more than a soul and a body that do not match. It may work in the short term, but over time, abnormalities will inevitably appear."

"That's why we are looking for the Sun Robe. If we put on your world's Sun Robe, we will become the sun of your world."

Amaterasu spread her hands. She thought Left Hummingbird would continue to object, find all kinds of reasons to find fault, and insist on performing a live sacrifice. She was mentally prepared, but who knew that Left Hummingbird nodded.

“That’s right. As long as we have the Sun Robe, these won’t be a problem. We don’t even need you. Kukukanal can awaken the world by putting on the Sun Robe, but you can’t get the Sun Robe.” Left Hummingbird shook his head with regret on his face.

"The Sun Robe is in the hands of Smoke Mirror. Not only does she possess the same power as the Totem before it was destroyed, she also has countless Star Demons surrounding her. There is no way you can get it from this black god."

"What!?" Quetzalcoatl stood up, his face full of disbelief, as if he had just found out about it.

"In these endless dark years, we have also searched for the Sun Robe, and this is the answer we got. It's not an unexpected answer, is it, brother?" Left Hummingbird sighed softly, then turned around and left with the gods.

"You will never get the Sun Robe from her. The only options left for you are to sacrifice lives to continue this dead world, or..."

"Sacrifice a god and let the sun be born in flames, becoming the sun of the Fifth Sun Era [Tonatiuh]."

"How could it be? She wouldn't do such a thing. She did..."

Quetzalcoatl sat back on the throne in a daze, not knowing whether it was because he couldn't retrieve the Sun Robe or because of something else.

Chapter 1363 The Black God's Prophecy

The black hair quietly dissipated, they shrank and turned back into a boyish scarf on the armor.

Blaze dusted himself off. Most of the star demons entered Hela's stomach. It was a rare chance for her to have a full meal.

After eating and drinking her fill, Hela mercifully forgave the servants' recent rebellion and left many star demons behind.

The Star Demon seems to have only hunting instincts, but Hela has ways to deal with it. She calls the Star Demon Balder's new toy.

Even Blaze had to admire Balder's tenacious will. As long as Hela slacked off, this stubborn guy would suddenly raise the temperature and try to destroy the vegetation that had grown with great difficulty in the underworld of Helheim.

But Hela said that it was because the time was short. Balder had only been in her hands for less than half a year, which was shorter than the blink of an eye for a god.

After waiting for a few hundred years, Balder became obedient, but Hela didn't want to see Balder every day, so the Star Demon came in handy. The Star Demon's passive ability could easily weaken Balder's power.

This was also an unexpected surprise, and the price Hela paid to forgive the two servants was that they had to train the Star Demons well.

When Blaze left Helheim, he had a smile on his face, which might be a good sign.

When he looked up, he saw Smoke Mirror picking up the mirror on his chest, as if he was looking in the mirror, or as if he was looking at something through the mirror.

"You're not using your omniscience and omnipotence again, are you?" Blaze sighed. "Could it be that the price of omniscience and omnipotence is that others suffer, and you don't pay any price, so you use it without any concern?"

He just said it casually, and he thought Smoke Mirror wouldn't care, but Smoke Mirror was stunned, and the expression on his face blocked by the mirror changed.

“It doesn’t matter…?” Smoke Mirror looked at the mirror, as if trying to determine his current expression through the mirror, but there was only smoke in it and he couldn’t see anything.

This mirror that can reflect people's hearts is no longer useful.

So, probably it doesn’t matter.

"...Let me tell you a good news." Smoke Mirror put down the mirror, with a charming but weird smile on his face.