This shows how big this place is.

However, they only saw cliff caves used to bury the bones of ordinary people along the way, and never saw a place used to bury the nobles of the Guchi royal family, indicating that there was still a long way to go in the corpse ridge.

Going around and around, boom!

Boom!

In the originally quiet cave, there was a loud noise like the galloping of thousands of horses, and the sound spread far away in the claustrophobic cave environment.

"What sound?"

People on the boat were all surprised and looked ahead, trying to see the source of the sound, but it was too dark ahead and they couldn't see anything.

Only Jin An's expression changed: "It's a waterfall!"

Jin An was no stranger to the sound of underground waterfalls. Whether it was the Tomb of the Dragon King in the Yinyi River or the Tomb of the Mountain God in the Yin Tomb of the Dojo, he always escaped from the underground waterfall in the end.

So whenever he heard the slightest movement, he would immediately recognize what it was.

"Sureti, take a few people and go to the cabin quickly to see if our camels, sheep, supplies and water are securely tied up!"

"Yari, tell everyone to go back to the berth and tie ropes around their waists to secure them to the berth, so as not to cause chaos later and be thrown out of the ship!"

In fact, they could hear the sound of the waterfall, and they were already not far from the waterfall. It didn't take long for anyone, no matter how slow to react, to notice that the speed of the boat was accelerating.

The closer you get, the more deafening the sound of the waterfall becomes.

The cave is filled with water vapor.

The waterfall splashes countless water vapor.

Under the illumination of the torches, a gap appeared in front of their eyes. With a bang, the ship's hull shook violently, and the environment on the ship suddenly became dark. All the torches inserted on the ship's side were knocked down, and the mountain was suddenly so dark that they could not see.

Five fingers.

"Are you okay?"

"Is everyone okay?"

"Taoist Priest Jin'an, Taoist Priest Jin'an..."

"I'm here, I'm fine."

In the chaos and noise, someone touched a torch and lit it, and then counted the number of people. Thanks to Jin An's warning in advance, there were many people. Apart from some bruises and bruises, no one was seriously injured.

As more torches were lit, everyone was able to take stock of the environment in front of them.

Suddenly a horrified scream sounded, and a person paralyzed to the ground with his fingers on top of his head.

This is a huge cave.

Above their heads, there were countless dead people hanging upside down with their faces cut off. Their hands, feet, and torsos were tightly bound, but their bodies showed no signs of mummification or decay.

Especially the black face with no nose and mouth after being cut off, it is indescribably frightening in this dark environment.

Under these hanged people, there is an altar, with a dead giant tree with a human face growing on the altar.

On the bare crown of the dead giant tree with human faces, there are about ten painted clay pots with human faces hanging.

"Why are there so many dead people here!"

"These hanging corpses seem to be women's corpses!"

Ordinary people would never experience this kind of battle in their lifetime. The ship was in chaos, filled with all kinds of panic and frightened sounds.

In the end, it was Yari and Sureti who came forward at the same time to temporarily suppress the noise on the ship.

At this time, Jin An came to the bow of the ship, holding a torch and looking at the strange and huge cave in front of him, his brows furrowed.

Because he noticed a strong aura of resentment on the hanging people above his head. So many people were skinned and executed, causing the Yin Qi here to be deep and lingering for a long time, forming an artificial place where the Yin gathers. The corpses are always in the Yin.

It is moisturized by Qi, so it does not rot for a long time.

"What's the matter with this tree, Taoist Master Jin'an? How can a tree grow clay pots? Also, I don't know why those clay pots on the tree always feel very familiar to me, as if I have seen them somewhere before.

?”

After finally calming down the morale of the team, Yali and Sureti came to Jin An and looked at the huge cave filled with dead people in front of them with chills.

"Because the carving techniques of the human faces on those pottery pots are the same as the human faces on the stone bottles and the human faces on the cliffs that we encountered on the road." Jin An held up a torch and glanced at the team who were still in shock.

He asked Yali and Sureti to use net ropes to fish out several bodies from the water.

The ancient ship crashing down the waterfall made a loud noise just now, causing high water waves and a lot of corpses falling down from the top of the cave.

Thanks to the majesty of the waterfall, the water surface suddenly widened and the water flow became faster. The height of the waterfall itself was not high, so it did not cause much damage to the hull.

This old ship seems to be falling apart at any time, but it can always help them save the day.

The body was recovered successfully, and Jin An conducted an autopsy in public without hesitation.

The autopsy process was very fast. When Jin An stood up again, Yali and Sureti, who couldn't hold back their curiosity, hurriedly asked: "Is there anything weird about these women's corpses? Did Taoist Jin An find anything?"

, why do they need to be dissected and examined?”

"Yes, I did make a lot of discoveries." Jin An nodded.

"These clay pots on the tree are called human-faced clay pots. In the pots, there is a kind of human-faced stink bug that eats human organ sacrifices."

While he calmly looked at the surrounding environment of the cave, he continued to explain: "According to the shape of this cave, this should be a place used for sacrifices at the Guchi Kingdom's Holy Mountain. The people with their faces cut off above their heads are those who were present at the sacrifice ceremony."

After Guchiguo skinned these living people, they hung them alive from the ceiling of the cave and offered them to the worms to eat. By the way, the worms laid eggs in the bodies of living people. Because I just said

When several corpses were dissected, insect eggs were found in their bodies.”

"You don't have to worry. The Guchi Kingdom has been destroyed for thousands of years. These insect eggs are all dead without subsequent sacrifices. There is no need to be afraid of these corpses." Seeing that everyone was frightened, Jin An comforted them.

"According to my speculation, this tree should also be an important part of the sacrifice ceremony of the Guchi country. The steps of the entire sacrifice ceremony should be like this. The people of the Guchi country first kidnap and sell women, then peel off their faces and suffer all kinds of pain.

The more tragic the death, the greater the grievances, the stronger the yin energy of the sacrificed human-faced bugs, and the strongest evil thoughts... After peeling off the skin, the person at this time will scream in pain and resentful curses, taking advantage of the fact that the living people have the heaviest grievances.

At that time, a living person was hung upside down from the ceiling of the cave, and the blood of resentment dripped onto the ground to nourish the giant human-faced tree and become the growth nutrients of the giant human-faced tree. As the ceremony began, the male-faced stink bugs on the giant human-faced tree awakened.

They burrow into the human body through the holes in the mouth and nose after cutting the face, or eat the internal organs of a living person, or lay eggs in the body of a living person... This is an evil sacrificial process, and human life becomes the least valuable sacrifice in this sacrificial ceremony.
Chapter completed!