"It's been taken care of. The clan members have all gone to the sacrificial building." Tai'an added.

"Um."

The old patriarch looked at his son and continued to nod numbly.

All the clan members went to the sacrificial building.

Maybe many people went there voluntarily.

But there will always be people who are unwilling, and there will always be people who don't want to die.

And the fate of "unwillingness" is already very clear——

The old patriarch looked at the head in his son's hand.

The face that was familiar in the past is now pale and unfamiliar, and the outline of the facial features is covered by haze. Only the unclosed eyes on the head can be seen wide open. It is unclear whether the last emotion left in the eyes is fear or resentment.

"Father," Tsuchimikado Tai'an called, and then he knelt down on the ground and kowtowed heavily, "Tai'an is leaving first."

"Um."

The old head of the Tsuchimikado family fell into a trance. When his eyes focused again, his son had already left the study.

Through the open door, you can see the faint light of fire moving in the direction of the sacrificial building in the darkness.

"The last resort."

The old man shook his head and stood up from the desk.

This is the fate of the Tsuchimikado clan.

He has stayed in the Qingshui Mountain area for generations, guarding the gap leading to the Amado Rock. He acted as the executioner, presided over the bloody witchcraft ceremony, and used human life to fill the cracks in the gap, so that the God of Underworld on the other side would not wake up and let the night stand.

It will not come to the human world.

And if the Amado Shaman Festival fails completely, Yakko's aura will leak out.

Then, the ancestor who developed the witch sacrificial ritual thousands of years ago also left the last remedy to future generations.

There is no other way——

The direct descendants of the Tsuchimikado family, those spiritual onmyoji, will use their lives and their blood to fill the sacrificial tower deep in the mansion.

The Tendo Shaman Festival has been going on at Tsuchimikado for nearly a thousand years.

Such a long sacrifice, the blood shed by the Tsuchimikado clan has long been associated with the Amado Shimon.

When Ye Ke is no longer able to stop it and pours out, the entire Tsuchimikado clan will be sacrificed alive. Through the last ceremony, the breath of Ye Ke can be suppressed as much as possible, and the entire village that has begun to be affected by Ye Ke will be suppressed.

They were all sent to a place similar to Amado Rock.

Not in the ordinary world, nor in the void of this world.

Tsuchimikado Yasifuku performed the last rites alone outside the memorial building.

After taking care of everything, he raised his hands and slowly straightened out the wrinkles on his clothes, straightened his waist as much as possible, and then walked towards the door of the memorial building.

"Only the last step is left."

Inside the pavilion, blood was flowing everywhere, and it was sticky and seemed to be warm.

The old master slowly walked up to the second floor and walked into the room where the Amado Bronze Mirror was once enshrined.

The smell of blood is strong here, and the corpses of clan members have piled up in mountains.

Tsuchimikado Taifuku saw his children also lying in a pool of blood, and they were also here...

Of course.

The old head of the family couldn't keep his eyes on his children, and finally just cast his eyes on the blood-stained straight sword blade on the ground.

It was white and bloody.

Taifu stepped forward, knelt down in front of the piles of corpses, and sat down on the ground.

When he looked up again, his hanging white hair was stained with blood and stuck to his wrinkled face.

Taifuku Tsuchimikado tidied up his clothes one last time, then picked up the straight sword that belonged to his youngest son and put it against his neck.

Since it is a sacrifice for the entire clan.

So as the head of the family with the strongest spiritual power, how could he be exempted?

"...Taifu is incompetent."

Tsuchimikado Yaifuku raised his chin slightly.

so--

Can people be treated and used like objects?

Can a person's destiny be arranged step by step, even life and death?

Tsuchimikado Yasifuku thinks this is okay.

Whether it is the life of his tribe, the life of his children, or even his own life, it is all OK.

This is sad.

But the people of the Tsuchimikado family are born with such a fate.

"What will happen next?"

Before slitting his own throat with the sword blade, Tsuchimikado Yasifuku asked himself this.

Suppose the thing inside Amado Rock is a time bomb that cannot be defused.

Then the people of the Tsuchimikado family have been guarding the bomb for generations, and every fixed time, they will hold the Tento Shaman Festival to delay the explosion of the bomb, so as to survive.

But when there is no other way, when the last ceremony must be held...

This bomb seemed to have been adjusted to a "random explosion" state, and then buried in a corner that no one knew about.

The only thing that is certain is that this bomb will explode, maybe decades later, maybe hundreds of years later.

Because no one can guard it anymore.

There is no Tsuchimikado family, and there is no shaman festival. In the void of Amado Rock, the Yakaki aura that the Tsuchimikado tribe suppressed with the lives of the entire clan will eventually continue to accumulate, and the God of Underworld will slowly wake up.

As long as the Yin Shen revives and breaks through the void with the breath of night, it will not be difficult.

It will be done sooner or later.

So, what will happen in the future?

Will someone come to save this place?

How to save it?

Tsuchimikado Yasifuku really doesn’t know.

And the thing in front of him was the last thing he could do.

"Maybe this is a relief?"

The blade of the straight sword passed across the neck without hesitation.

The old figure slumped down, and the warm blood spilled out, and merged with the blood on the ground...

The Tsuchimikado lineage is the direct descendant of the Great Onmyoji Abe Seimei.

After the Heian period, the fifth generation grandson of Seimei learned the "Amado Shaman Festival" and felt ashamed of his ancestors, so he stopped using the surname "Abe" and changed the family name to "Tsuchimikado".

Thousands of years later, in the generation of Tsuchimikado Yasifuku, the whole family died in the Yokotsu disaster due to the failure of the witchcraft festival.
Chapter completed!