Chapter 352 | Sequence: Sacrifice

"Fa..."

Before he could even finish, Qin Ye's palm suddenly exerted force, crushing him instantly. The umbilical cord connecting the two quickly withered and died.

"Ye'er, do not blame me. I am doing this for the sake of our Qin family."

As he spoke, the golden light within his body resonated with the array on the ground.

"Life only comes once. The risk of using my true body for the experiment was far too great."

"It took me a very long time to find this Soul-Splitting Method."

"However, a split soul is too weak. It might even fail when competing for a body against the soul of an ordinary adult, let alone a Demigod of the same bloodline."

"That is why I raised you. I had you take the Thief pathway so you would eventually surrender your body to me!"

"In this way, your body became the perfect experimental subject!"

"Once I succeed, the bloodline seal of my Qin family will be broken. When that time comes, you will become a monument in the history of our family!"

As he spoke, the umbilical cord completely dried up and fell away, plummeting toward the earth.

'Qin Ye' remained expressionless, but his thoughts drifted back to the past.

The son he had once praised as having the look of a wise monarch had knelt before him with a fanatical expression.

"Father! I am willing to bear any infamy, as long as it restores the glory of our Qin family!"

"Even if it requires great sacrifice, are you still willing?"

"I am!"

"Good! Truly my son. In that case, I need you to infiltrate the Shadow Lotus Church and obtain the Marquis of Theft Fetus!"

"The Marquis of Theft Fetus?"

"Yes. Let me tell you my plan."

In the plan Qin Qian had described, his soul would temporarily reside within Qin Ye's body to be nurtured while the plan was executed.

When the array was activated, he would enter the mummified doll and connect to Qin Ye via the umbilical cord, thereby granting the doll the Qin family bloodline.

Then, through the doll, he would manipulate the array to replace the doll's components with the Qin family bloodline and transcendent internal organs.

If it succeeded, it would prove the path was viable, and Qin Qian would then take over the doll's body!

If it failed, his soul would perish along with the doll. At that point, Qin Ye would become the new Monarch of Great Wei!

But what Qin Qian never told Qin Ye was that he would use the 'Soul-Splitting Method'!

The soul intended to possess the doll was never Qin Qian's complete soul. Even if it were destroyed, Qin Qian's true body would not die, and naturally, it would never be Qin Ye's turn to be the monarch.

Furthermore, the doll was never meant to control the array.

From the very beginning, Qin Qian's true target had always been Qin Ye's body!

The Marquis of Theft Fetus was merely a means to keep Qin Ye compliant.

"A general's success is built on ten thousand rotting bones. I taught you that."

The golden array on the ground grew increasingly dazzling. Qin Ye spread his arms in a wide embrace.

Rumble—

The buildings within the city began to collapse. In the five directions of east, west, south, north, and center, five pillars rose into the air.

Inside the Command Center, the City Lord suddenly looked up, his face turning ashen.

"What is going on with this array? Who set it up? What are they trying to do?"

The room was silent; no one could give him an answer.

He gritted his teeth and asked, "What about our array?"

"It's charging! We still need two minutes!"

Hearing this, the City Lord clenched his fists tightly.

"Life is something I desire; righteousness is also something I desire."

"If I cannot have both, I shall forsake life and choose righteousness!"

"Come! Let these Great Qi scumbags see the pride of the people of Great Wei!"

Hearing these words, not a single person in the Command Center flinched.

Or rather, when the civilians were evacuated, those who feared death had already left.

The reason the Great Wei dynasty had endured to this day was because of the people who remained.

...

At the city gate, Yin Yang, who had already activated the Traveler's Badge, paused in his tracks.

He had originally intended to collect the heroic spirits at the gate and then flee to Central City.

After all, based on the clues he currently had, he believed there was a high probability that his kidney was in the hands of the royal family.

But right now, right here, he sensed the aura of his kidney with absolute clarity!

It was right there, in the direction of the North Gate where he stood!

Yin Yang's breathing became heavy. He pressed his hand against his lower abdomen, feeling the rough, centipede-like scar.

"So, he brought my internal organ here."

"In that case, I really can't run away."

As he spoke, the figures of the Five Ghosts faintly emerged behind him.

Yin Yang took a deep breath and extended his right hand. A black jar appeared in his grip. If one were to look at it upside down, it clearly resembled a withered human head.

This was the trophy he had obtained from the Li family.

"Commence the Rite!"

As he spoke, the Lantern-carrying ghost twisted the Hidden Vault key beside him, and an altar with a diameter of over fifty meters appeared out of thin air.

Yin Yang stepped onto the altar, the red and black light behind him flickering and weaving into a sacrificial robe.

He bit his finger and used the blood to draw ritual face paint on his face. A Nuo opera mask slowly formed.

He walked to the center of the array, holding the black jar high with his left hand.

The blade-wielding ghost held the zhanmadao, setting up a barrier around the perimeter and preparing the energy core according to Yin Yang's instructions.

The Lantern-carrying ghost opened its umbrella, taking responsibility for Yin Yang's safety.

The Headless Ghost entered 'Juicing' mode.

It flew into the air, grabbing the infected flying heads and slamming its hands together with immense force, crushing them into meat paste.

Streams of black-red liquid were drawn by a mysterious force, flowing into the human head jar.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The flying heads exploded like fireworks. The black blood poured into the jar, but the jar seemed like a bottomless pit; no matter how much black blood flowed in, it could not be filled.

While Yin Yang was collecting the black blood, the five golden pillars split open like petals, revealing the items within.

It was a complete set of five internal organs!

The Heart!

The Liver!

The Spleen!

The Lung!

The Kidney!

And the kidney in the north was unmistakably Yin Yang's kidney!

This person had actually collected a full set of natural transcendent internal organs!

Seeing this, Yin Yang clenched his fists so hard they trembled!

He felt a profound sense of empathy for his own kind.

Natural transcendents were rare to begin with, and the parts they awakened varied.

Many only awakened a hand, a foot, or an eye or ear.

Those who awakened internal organs were a minority, and someone like Yin Yang, whose entire set of internal organs was naturally transcendent, was one in ten thousand even among that minority.

He could sense that those organs belonged to different people.

But unlike him, those people were likely dead. After all, not everyone had the chance to return from the dead.

Holding the jar in his left hand, Yin Yang reached in with his right, grabbing a handful of 'black blood' and scattering it outward while he began to dance.