Zhou You stared blankly at the heads around the square and couldn't help but think of three words.
Head sacrifice!
He came to the center of the square, where there was an altar that had been abandoned for a long time.
This altar is also made of countless human skulls piled up into an extremely weird shape, which is primitive, bloody, and evil.
However, there was a lot of dust accumulated on the altar, and it seemed that it had not been used for a long time.
"Which evil cultivator is so rampant that he dares to use human heads to sacrifice to the evil god here!"
There is anger in the wandering gaze.
This head sacrifice is a ritual specially used by evil cultivators to sacrifice evil gods and external demons. It is bloody, barbaric, and inhumane!
In order to combat evil cultivators, once discovered by the Demon Slayer, they will pursue them relentlessly, regardless of the cost.
The evil cultivators were therefore wary of it. Even if they engaged in such extremely bloody rituals, they would always go to some remote places to conduct them secretly.
But this is the central region, and there are evil cultivators who dare to perform head sacrifices here?
And looking around at this posture, it must have been worshiped more than once...
"A human head sacrifice costs at least 100,000 lives... It has been carried out here at least three or four times... Why didn't the Demon Slayer Headquarters find out?"
Zhou You frowned slightly.
There is no state-level exorcism department in the central region, and the headquarters of the exorcism department is generally responsible.
At this moment, he seemed to understand why Taoist Tianzhang told him this before he died.
"It seems...the water here is very deep..."
"Once I get involved, I'm afraid it will be an irreversible end..."
Wandering around talking to himself.
To be able to hide this from the Demon Slayer Division would probably require huge amounts of government power.
In the worst case scenario, even the Demon Slayer Headquarters is involved.
Taoist Tianzhang, this is a naked conspiracy.
As long as Zhou You pretends that he has never seen this inhumane human head sacrifice, he can escape directly and it will not have any impact on him.
But Taoist Tianzhang is sure that Zhou You will be nosy, and once the investigation continues, even Zhou You may not be able to escape unscathed.
For a time, Zhou You thought about a lot.
He echoed the words that his master once taught: To be a human being, you must stand upright and have a clear conscience.
"With no regrets...Master, do you know how difficult this sentence is?"
Zhou You smiled bitterly, but as if he had made up his mind, he turned around and walked out of the Head Sacrifice Square.
.......
Two days later, he returned to the headquarters of the Demon Slayer Department, submitted the task of killing Taoist Tianzhang, and received 4,000 contribution points.
Without thinking, he directly consumed 4,000 contribution points to exchange for two days of stone chamber meditation time.
Inside Stone No. 1.
Zhou You looked at the golden feathers inside the jade and fell into deep realization again.
The boundless and deep starry sky appeared again.
A brilliant golden star seemed to be the center of the universe, with all the stars rotating around it.
Traveling around and comprehending this and that golden star, the Jiuyao Tianyang Heart Sutra is rising like a rocket.
And the golden star was beating more and more intensively, as if something was about to be born.
Two days later, I came to the end of the tour and got some insights.
The Jiuyao Tianyang Heart Sutra has been upgraded to the ninth level (53%)
However, Zhou You's face still didn't show much happiness.
He always felt like he was missing something.
"In addition to the artistic conception of destruction and high temperature, this golden star seems to contain other artistic conceptions, but it is a pity that I failed to realize it."
Zhou You shook his head, turned around and left the stone room.
He was not familiar with the Demon Slayer Headquarters, so he asked several people before finding the data room, but was told that he was from the Demon Slayer Division in Huangzhou and did not have the authority to access the information from the Demon Slayer Headquarters.
Zhou You had no choice but to return to the dormitory area of the special training camp and wanted to find Song Feifei for help. After all, she was originally affiliated with the Demon Slayer Headquarters.
It's not that I didn't expect that the attack was in vain. Song Feifei also went on a mission to eliminate demons and has not returned yet.
Finally, there is only one option left for traveling around.
Dong Dong~
He came to a courtyard and gently knocked on the door.
Creak.
The wooden door slowly opened.
"Zhou You? What do you want from me?"
Lin Jianming asked a little strangely.
"Do me a favor." Zhou You said in a deep voice.
Two hours later.
The canteen of the Demon Slayer Headquarters.
Zhou You and Lin Jianming sat facing each other.
"The information you wanted me to check was not found." Lin Jianming said calmly.
Zhou You frowned slightly: "No clues at all?"
"I've checked not only Guyue City, but also the nearby counties. Except for a few low-level incidents and hundreds of casualties, everything has been fine." Lin Jianming answered truthfully.
Although he was curious as to why Zhou You asked him to look up information in this area, he still agreed.
"It shouldn't be..."
Wandering around talking to myself.
Those hundreds of thousands of people sacrificed were definitely from nearby people. It was absolutely impossible to plunder them from remote mountainous areas and then send them to caves.
Because there are so many, it is absolutely impossible to hide them.
But now so many people have died and there is no record at all?
Either the government didn't report it, or someone at the Demon Slayer Headquarters deleted these records.
Two thoughts came to Zhou You's mind.
He prefers the former.
"What's the problem?" Lin Jianming asked softly.
He is a typical cold-faced and warm-hearted person. He knew that something must have happened if Zhou You came to him for help.
"It's okay." Zhou You shook his head slightly.
It's not that he doesn't trust Lin Jianming, it's just that it's taboo to talk to someone in a casual way.
What's more, the water here is so deep that even Zhou You doesn't know what to do, so he doesn't even think about dragging people into the water.
Lin Jianming looked at him deeply: "If anything happens, I can help you."
"Don't worry, I will definitely find you when the time comes." Zhou You chuckled.
The two stopped talking and began to destroy the food on the table.
After they had had enough wine and food, they left.
"When I left Guyue City before, I secretly entered the government office's data room, but I didn't find any relevant records."
"There isn't even a demon slayer now..."
"Hundreds of thousands of people... died like this... without even causing a splash. It was as if these people had never come to this world."
On the way back, Zhou You looked gloomy.
He looked up at the starry sky.
The sky was dark, covered with clouds, and there was no starlight.
As if being covered by an invisible black hand.
The gloomy and dark sky seemed to be pressing down on Zhou You's head, and his heart was extremely depressed.
"God knows what you did...."
"Don't let me find you, otherwise you will die miserably."
Zhou You murmured to himself.
At present, all clues have been interrupted. He plans to put this matter in his heart and devote himself to cultivation.
Now he is only one step away from the innate realm.
As long as he can enter the Xiantian realm, he will have more capital to compete with the mastermind behind the scenes.