Chapter 2: Reverse Pinduoduo Amateur Sacrifice Conference
[Cultivation Database severely damaged, unable to load related modules, self-rescue failed.]
Understood! Everything is as expected. [Great Desolation Immortal Scripture], garbage indeed.
Yuan Zhu, who chose to lie flat, was calm at this moment, not surprised at all by the poor performance shown by the [Immortal Scripture]. From the moment he woke up, this broken thing had been getting beaten in all sorts of ways while crying daddy and shouting mommy. He really wanted to find a mute option in his head and block out this endless disappointing mental attack.
[Hidden Database suffered pollution tampering, partially unsealed, data lost… Data suffered unknown distortion. Pollution Degree sharply increased by 11.2%↑, irreversible. Unable to detect spiritual energy resources, please hurry… Pollution Degree 13.8%↑…]
As expected! Just as expected.
[Hidden Boss Template underwent unknown mutation. Mutated Spiritual Root resonated with unknown soul pollution, forcibly intervening and absorbing it for use. Soul Firewall restarted, Pollution Degree 17.6%→(Constant), shielding successful, soul erosion stopped…]
Yuan Zhu was startled in his heart: Hmm? What happened?
[Host, load Mutated Spiritual Root, temporarily absorb polluting energy to substitute for spiritual energy, and continue on the path of variant cultivation? Situation critical, please choose quickly, self-destruct countdown 100 seconds… 99 seconds]
???!
At this moment, Yuan Zhu’s mind was filled with a big capital “confused”. This broken thing…
So, because it couldn’t gather spiritual energy resources and couldn’t beat the native pollution, the [Great Desolation Immortal Scripture] chose to join them? Going along with the corruption, pollution cultivation? Are the bottom lines this flexible?
And what does this “self-destruct” mean? Does it mean the system self-destructs and uninstalls, giving me back my freedom? Or destroy my soul and then possess the next host?
Seeing the countdown ticking away second by second, what else could pitiful, weak, and helpless he do? So he could only focus all his attention and fiercely select that option: [Confirm!]
[Client confirmed anomalous cultivation mode, user agreement activated. Now providing special welfare compensation, opening and loading hidden Boss Template: Demonic Monster. Mountain Lord (Mutated Spiritual Root)]
[Mutated Spiritual Root activated, beginning to absorb and store special (polluting) spiritual energy, awaiting naming.]
[Boss Template: Mutated Tiger Demon. Loading complete, ability list (expandable).]
[Ding dong! Exclusive Game Sprite online, open guidance tutorial?]
[Detected host escaped near-death state, detected large amount of special spiritual energy (awaiting naming) resources. Will forcibly activate BOSS Template for collection and storage. Automatic health recovery activated, Health Points +1, +1… Estimated 10 minutes to full health recovery.]
Another string of messages flooded the screen, but Yuan Zhu, lying flat, was unmoved and indifferent, even a bit bored. Because these were all auto-refreshing with no interactivity, he was just a plant person, enjoying his paralyzed life.
Physically, he still didn’t feel much change, just that refreshing cool sensation continuously seeping into his limbs and bones. As for the “Mutated Spiritual Root” and [Great Desolation Immortal Scripture], they seemed like hallucinations in the near-death state.
Instead, a new panel appeared before his eyes, helping him pass the time while lying flat:
[Mountain Lord. Tiger Demon: Demonic Monster, BOSS Template]
[Health: 3.7%↑ (recovering)]
[Magic Power: ??↑ (storing)]
[Ability 1: ??? Pollution repairing…]
[Ability 2: Ghost Companion]
[Ability 3: Claw ?? Pollution repairing…]
[Ability 4: Summon Wind. Pollution repairing…]
[Ability (Ultimate Skill) 5: Universe Within The Belly ??? Data chaotic anomaly, template mismatch error!]
[Ability (Ultimate Skill) 6: Mountain Lord’s Domain/Ghost Realm ?? Pollution repairing…]
Seeing the [Health Points] data recovering faster and faster, Yuan Zhu suddenly opened his eyes, sitting up in shock from his deathbed, dazedly returning to the human world.
He came back to life again!
At this moment, Yuan Zhu had surging power within his body, and in his ears, he heard faint, noisy, and vast murmurs… all greedy prayers from men and women with different desires, as well as mad obsession voices.
These heart voices connected to him like invisible threads, not only from the frenzied evil believers before him, but also from distant places beyond this space.
He was like an anchor point, linking dozens or hundreds of mental signal sources of varying sizes.
What the hell is this situation? Could it be the price of the sacrifice? Turned into some kind of shared mental radio station?
Dark Gold feline beast pupils opened, his gaze piercing through the cloth covering his eyes, seeing everything around him clearly.
This was a closed, dim indoor hall, surrounded by blood red candles and all sorts of strange sacrificial tributes.
Under the scarlet, eerie candlelight, there were headless frogs, deer heads with sewn-shut eyes, crows with wings separated from bodies, unknown creature hearts, bundles of colorful long feathers, colorful mushrooms with long limbs…
On his left and right sides were corpse sacrifices with chests cut open, heads severed, limbs nailed through. The ground was flooded with blood, submerging dense rune magic arrays.
Including himself, there were seven sacrifices in total, each dying differently. Comparatively, his death was the lightest, merely having his limb arteries cut and a dagger stabbed into his heart. He wasn’t even in the C position, but the 2nd on the right side, playing a background role, dying so ordinarily.
…
“Descended! Descended! My Lord, grant me youthful flesh and abundant vitality!”
In front, beyond the outer tributes, a hunched figure in a black cloak quickly lunged forward, extending withered arms, anxiously clawing toward Yuan Zhu’s position, demanding urgently in tone.
Immediately after, more believers hiding their faces under cloaks waved incomprehensible talisman items in their hands, eagerly shouting their respective demands.
Things like restoring youth, making the body get stronger, seeking beauty and charm, curing terminal illnesses, cursing birth fathers, paying heavily for a child… all sorts, everything imaginable, each emanating greed.
These cultists’ anxious and urgent attitudes had none of the humility of praying to gods or Buddhas, more like the frantic commands and coercion of fearing to miss out on discounted eggs at the supermarket. That attitude of commanding servants made him very displeased.
Were these people forcing him to fulfill those unrealistic wishes? Relying on the talisman-like objects in their hands—could those things really control him?
Yuan Zhu’s mind was clear and racing at this moment; in the dimness, everything was crystal clear down to the finest detail. His brain instantly analyzed the situation and conveniently blocked the dense miscellaneous heart voices in his mind.
First, it could be confirmed that he had no reaction to those “talismans” and wasn’t controlled by them, so they could be completely ignored. Next, his pupils saw an even stranger scene in the visual field beyond ordinary human eyesight.
The entire Sacrifice Hall was filled with bizarre, varied forms of energy invisible to the naked eye, indescribable in words, more abstract than infrared vision or thermal vision, only perceivable by sensation.
Some energy substances resembled a mass of blue floating mist, some gave him the sensation of viscous flowing yellow-green three-dimensional vortices, others like chaotic purple-red thread clusters…
Each type of energy emitted unique properties, symbolizing certain concepts, such as [Deer], [Frog], [Mist]. They slowly transformed and flowed, like a mass of conscious life, emanating a deadly dangerous aura, coldly overlooking this ritual from a higher dimensional perspective.
The sources of these energies seemed to be the “strange pollution sources” from the outside world as described in the Great Desolation Immortal Scripture. Surprisingly, there was not just one, but over a dozen kinds.
None of them were particularly strong; they were using those tributes as mediums, like slightly opened faucets, accumulating and gathering their respective unique polluting energies bit by bit within the headless frogs and wing-broken crows.
Some polluting energies burrowed into those lit blood-red candles, making the scarlet candlelight even more dazzling and beautiful. Wherever the red light enveloped, space twisted along with it, but the believers shrouded in the candlelight were completely unaware.
Some unknown pollution hovered and wandered back and forth in the air; others simply occupied the remaining six corpses nearby, using the
Besides the extremely dangerous premonition, Yuan Zhu also felt that they were all eyeing him covetously. Investing capital to enter on one side, while staring at him and sizing him up on the other. He was like a piece of meat on the chopping board, being scrutinized back and forth by over a dozen clients, whispering to each other to inquire about the price.
Among these numerous types of unknown pollution, there was only one that made him feel exceptionally close, one that he accepted and acknowledged from the bottom of his heart, without the slightest rejection or disgust.
This stream of energy’s source is hiding in the shadow beneath the body, forming a mysterious connection with this body and even the Great Desolation Immortal Scripture, continuously delivering special spiritual energy to the mutated spiritual root, allowing health points to recover while mana points slowly accumulate.
As the magic power (demonic energy?) in his body slowly increased, the information he could capture also grew more abundant. Much unfamiliar sacrifice knowledge also followed the cool spiritual energy into his mind, giving him seemingly true yet false inspirations.
…
At this moment, Yuan Zhu felt like he was a super signal receiver. Not only connected to all the believers on site, receiving their prayers and wishes; but also able to inversely observe the higher-dimensional evil god signal (pollution source), and become a container to contain a certain pollution source.
In fact, the Great Desolation Immortal Scripture has already accepted the energy in the shadow, forcibly named it ‘Special Spiritual Energy’, used it to drive the so-called Soul Firewall, and loaded the Boss Template into the body.
The various talismans held by those believers similarly correspond to other suspected pollution sources of evil gods.
Therefore, he boldly guessed that this was an extremely chaotic and random amateur sacrifice activity.
Perhaps because the success rate is too low, or the ritual cost is too high, this group of believers simply turned it into a Pinduoduo cheap sacrifice mode. Using a small batch of sacrifices (7 people), they simultaneously offer sacrifices to more than a dozen sacrifice targets (Evil Gods).
Translated into Earth language, a very creative believer maliciously bound (Forced Confrontation) a group of Evil Gods to jointly chop this sacrifice (seven people). As long as one of them responded, this ritual could continue.
Facing this chicken rib, following the basic principle of ‘since we’re already here’, the evil gods would more or less invest a small portion of power to pay attention to this sacrifice, gambling for fun, betting on probability—what if they themselves win the prize?
In case one of them is really hungry, it might even take the initiative to join the bidding, competing with other evil gods by adding more power to vie for the ownership of the sacrifice. In the end, this group of believers can always hook one, to fulfill their own wishes and ensure the sacrifice succeeds.
This rogue sacrifice playstyle of using innocents as sacrifices, scamming a bunch of evil gods for a single slash, apart from having suspicion of blasphemy + bound to cause trouble sooner or later, is indeed quite ingenious. Damn, what a little genius!
Are the believers in this world so bold? Not only do they lack any piety, but they also mass-scam the Evil God and reverse freebie him.
