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As the sound spread, quite a few people headed toward the slave traders selling slaves.

Yu Chen watched the scene before him. The fingers hidden within his sleeve twitched, but in the end, he did not make a move. Looking at Tongming, he said, "As I recall, using people as sacrifices has already become a vile custom, hasn't it? What, is Dark Bird still accepting blood sacrifices from the human race?"

Hearing this, Tongming looked at Yu Chen as though gauging his thoughts. After a moment of silence, he said, "Though human sacrifice gradually became a vile custom as human wisdom awakened, among all offerings, humans are still among the best. Even if many great gods no longer favor them, many earth deities, ghosts, and gods still enjoy bloody offerings. Those people may not necessarily be taken back to sacrifice to Lord Dark Bird. They may instead be offered to ghosts and gods who shelter a region or a family, or even to ancestors."

Yu Chen fell silent as well. Only after he and Tongming had walked some distance away did he softly say, "Back then, when humans used human blood to sacrifice to gods and totems, it was to better protect their fellow clansmen within the tribe. They offered their own lives to the gods and totems as the stakes for forging a covenant. Now, they have become food to please ghosts and gods. How tragic, how laughable, how infuriating!"

Tongming closed his eyes at those words and said nothing.

Though human sacrifice was still exceedingly common in this era.

At its root, however, when humans first chose their own kind as sacrificial offerings, it was to better protect their tribes.

In the era when humanity had only just been born, grand martial contests would be held in every