Xu Feng placed the strip of cloth on the offering table.
Then he hesitated.
He knew the rules, but how was he supposed to deliver this thing?
The simplest methods were to burn it aboveground or bury it below.
When making offerings to a great mountain god, people generally buried part of the sacrifice, because the mountain god was beneath the earth.
That was why the ancient practice of the "Living Sacrifice Pillar" inspired such disgust and fear.
Whether it worked or not, the reasoning behind it held together.
Bury someone alive to make an offering to a demon underground, then pray for peace.
The trouble was, under normal circumstances, no one would choose that method. There were plenty of ways to set a pillar.
Even among the simple methods people could readily use, there was more than one.
Many folk practitioners specialized in this. They might use Bamboo Seal Suppression or Tile House Suppression, or ask a local practitioner to wrap up a seal, drive a nail into the ground, then finish with a string of firecrackers.
That would keep everything in its place.
And if you couldn't find a practitioner, there were methods for that too.
There was certainly no need to bury an actual person.
But normal circumstances implied abnormal ones.
If someone really did stuff a living person in there, that was another matter. The person who performed the ritual could easily end up in prison getting splashed with black dog's blood, and if the Incense Society was involved, things became even more dangerous.
But now...
As Xu Feng saw it, since Earth Uncle could receive incense offerings, burning the cloth should work.
At the same time, Xu Feng hadn't forgotten that another heavyweight was buried on these grounds.
So if he buried the cloth, who