The Ancestor of All Demons

Chapter 495: Sacrificial 404_2


This thing was not concocted during the Yellow Emperor's time, it had existed for ten thousand years prior, discovered by them and placed in the tomb, with each containing a ten-thousand-year lamp. Now, there was still more than half of the lamp oil remaining, the flame was even and steady, a silent foot-tall flame, continuously burning quietly, not even the fierce duel just now could shake the flame in the slightest.

The oil was very clear, and Shi Feiyang had long planned to use this oil for the sacrificial refinement of the Purple and Blue Duoluo Fire.

There was another source of oil, located within the ancient tomb of the Wuhua Family; in front of the father and son's mausoleum there were also two large oil vats, though not as big as those in the Holy Mausoleum. The oil inside was pitch black and was three-thousand-year Divine Oil. Counted from their era, it had been three thousand years, but by the time of the Ming Dynasty, it had already been over seven thousand years, all classified as "Eternal Divine Oil," just that the ten-thousand-year Divine Oil within the Yellow Emperor's tomb was of better quality.

Having snatched the Heavenly Treasure Mirror and driven away Xin Ru and Master Ren, the Divine Oil here naturally belonged to Shi Feiyang. The Xie Family basically had no chance of getting the Divine Oil from here again, and could only go to retrieve the two vats of three-thousand-year oil from the Wuhua Family's ancient tomb.

Although Shi Feiyang had achieved victory, he could not leave immediately, or else others would take advantage of the situation. That's why he had sent for Deng Yin.

This matter was indeed related to Deng Yin's life and death. Deng Yin knew that the dispersing lamp was his bane, and if he obtained the three-thousand-year Divine Oil, its power would surge, which would be extremely unfavorable for his future. Therefore, he rushed over at top speed, intending to seize the two vats of oil before anyone else, or simply destroy them!

After he left, Shi Feiyang did not immediately take the Nine Suspicions Tripod. Instead, he knelt and prayed in front of the nine tripods, facing Emperor Xuanyuan, the cultural ancestor of the Huaxia people, to express his gratitude for his contributions to later generations as well as the benefits to himself. Although the Yellow Emperor inherited traditions from even older ancestors, he greatly promoted the Dao of Zhonghua, observing the sky and measuring the earth, establishing rites and laws, inventing and innovating... in various aspects. He was a very important node in Chinese civilization. Starting with him, the population proliferated in great numbers, and life quickly entered a more advanced state. After the five emperors, there came the foundation of the three dynasties, starting with Xia Qi.

He was of the Shi clan from Shandong, with ancestry in Henan, originated from the Zi surname, derived from Shang Tang, the ancestors of the people of the Shang Dynasty were one of the Five Emperors, Emperor Ku, tracing back further, it reaches the Yellow Emperor.

At the same time, since Shi Feiyang came to this world, he had also received great grace from the Yellow Emperor. It started when he obtained the Circulation Golden Talisman at Dinghu Peak, and Guang Chengzi's Heavenly Book was also left by the Yellow Emperor. He combined the Yi Shu mysticism he learned from later generations with it, and commenced his own journey of enlightenment. Now, having obtained both the Heavenly Mirror and the Nine Suspicions Tripod, he had become a true inheritor of the Three Emperors Dao. The Yellow Emperor was both his ancestor and his teacher.

After the prayers were finished, Shi Feiyang first cleaned up the sleeping chamber, removed all the destroyed pottery and tile ware, and took them up to the surface. He then started a new burial hole on the mountain and buried them, before using a Flying Sword Transmission to inform his disciples from every location. By then, the treasure-seeking in Yuan River had ended. Jiang Shu, Ling Hun, Cang Lingzi, and all the other disciples, including Shi Feiyang's own, rushed to Qiao Mountain.

Following Shi Feiyang's commands, they all brought items for sacrificial rituals.

First came a large quantity of porcelain, jade, silk, with complete sets of season-engraved goose-neck vases, Chenghua Doucai pots representing the twelve zodiac signs, and a set of nine blue and white dragon porcelain jars, along with jade cong, jade bi, jade figures, jade horses, Sichuan-embroidered flower pictures, Cantonese-embroidered beast paintings, Hunan-embroidered mountain and river maps, and Suzhou-embroidered double-sided phoenix pictures...

There were also gold, silver, copper, iron, and tin items, separately fashioned into various pavilions, towers, Fortune Ships, spinning machines, jacquard machines, large waterwheels, Compound Cannons, and other models.

Particularly precise were the models for measuring astronomy, with the simple instruments such as the sighting tube, plumb rule, gnomon, and sighting talisman, with every component, like the Hundred-Grain Ring, Four Movement Rings, Polar Ring, and lamp leak, each being accurately scaled. Though called models, they could actually be used, and Shi Feiyang even had the disciples recreate models of the self-striking clock and the hydraulically-powered armillary sphere, as well as various things that were destroyed in later generations. All the miniaturized models were brought to the Yellow Emperor's tomb and placed throughout the sleeping chamber.

He didn't care for the specific rituals of worship, nor did he concern himself with what objects were or weren't suitable to bring into the grave. Instead, it was the inventions and creations of later descendants, from the Four Treasures of the Study used for writing to the plows and sickles for farming, to the adze, planers, files, and saws of carpenters, along with representative works and books from every dynasty… all brought in.

Following that, he specifically chose an auspicious day according to the Yellow Path, leading his disciples through purification and fasting, changing into new white garments, to formally enter the Emperor's Mausoleum for worship.

He was the main officiant; Zhu Zaiyu and Zhu Changyuan assisted in the offerings, Jiang Shu and Ling Hun accompanied in the rites, Cang Lingzi, Cui Wugu behind them, followed by the congregation of disciples, Lin Han with Shi Sheng, Xiong Man with Deng Bagu, Yuan Hua with Huo Wuhai, Long Meng with Wu Qingyang, Li Zhenchuan with Bai Qi, Mo Zhui with Mo Xiang, Mo Ying with Ganoderma Immortal, and Bai Guanhong with Shi Longgu.

All direct disciples of Jiang Shu from the Qingcheng Sect were present, as well as male and female disciples from the Snow Mountain Sect like Liu Quan and Zhao Guangdou, along with Shi Wengong from the Qinghai Sect and the reborn Xiong Xue'er.

There were also Yu Xiao, Huo Renyu, etc. from the Kunlun Sect, the Wudang Seven Maidens, Lei Qilong with Bo Tiantong, Ling Weisou with Wu Qingyang, etc. All had taken part in the grand battle to protect the Mingyu Immortal Market from attacks by Demon Humans. When they learned that Shi Feiyang planned to hold a sacrificial rite to the Human Emperor ancestors at Qiao Mountain, they prepared offerings and rushed to the site as instructed by Shi Feiyang.

Among them, there were many otherworldly beings like Long Meng, Wu Qingyang, etc. However, Shi Feiyang, a soul of Human birth shuttling between two worlds, possessing the flesh of a Xuan Dragon, was a successor to both the Yellow Emperor's lineage and his master-disciple heritage. Though they were not descendants of the Yellow Emperor, they were indeed his students.

Youths and elders, totalling over a hundred Sword Immortals, paired up, each holding offerings as they entered the resting chamber in sequence, paying respects and offering sacrifices to the Yellow Emperor, and finally, Shi Feiyang read aloud the eulogy he had written. After burning it, he led everyone in another round of devout worship.

After the worship was complete, Shi Feiyang lectured on the Three Emperors Dao in front of the Yellow Emperor's tomb. Having truly seen the "Dao," his understanding eclipsed that of everyone present by at least one level. As he began his lecture, even Ling Hun hurried to commit it to memory, pondering deeply, and the almost-Heavenly Immortal Cang Lingzi had a realization, his face bright with surprise.

It was only after he finished speaking that they began to attempt to retrieve the Nine Doubts Cauldron.

The Nine Doubts Cauldron was situated behind the fifth large cauldron, containing a Chaos Core within, heavier than the combined weight of the Five Mountains, impossible for anyone to lift. The only way was the Heavenly Mirror.

Once Shi Feiyang requested the Ding Cover to be opened, it activated immediately, emitting streams of light and Mars in an attempt to draw all within the chamber into itself. Shi Feiyang aimed the Heavenly Mirror inward without delay, its Mirror Light penetrating the endless darkness and instantly negating its suction, revealing a Chaos Core the size of a hen's egg, large at one end and small at the other, with evolving mountains, rivers, wind, rain, thunder, and lightning within.

He cast spells to secure the Nine Doubts Cauldron, then requested lamp oil.

He had previously cast two glass lamps with Five Elements Divine Sand, stored Sun Essence within the lamps, and lit two sprouts of Sun Divine Flames.

These lamps could burn for a cycle of sixty years, during which anyone entering would be scorched by the True Sun Fire emitted from the two lamps. After one cycle, Shi Feiyang would personally return to refill the lamp oil. In the event of his absence from this world, he would arrange for disciples to replenish the oil.

Besides the two lamps, there was also a bowl of True Water, three jugs of Five Elements Essence, all arranged on the desk, before they finally drew a vial of Ancient Divine Oil from each of the two large oil cauldrons.

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