Folklore Horror: It Begins with the Blood God of Xiangxi
Chapter 444

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The Oracle Bone Script farther on gave him some answers.

Whenever these people performed their worship, three oracle bone characters appeared over and over.

They represented the objects of worship.

Of all their sacrificial offerings, Niu appeared most frequently.

There were also large quantities of bronze vessels.

Apart from those, there were no Human Sacrifice.

Each of these characters represented an entity.

The tree-like character had appeared consistently, from the Bird Script through to the Oracle Bone Script.

It had always been an object of worship.

This was one of the treasures brought back by the Queen Mother of the West's migrating tribe. It had remained with them all along, until almost the Yin-Shang period.

That was Lin Feng's guess.

Another oracle bone character looked like a pool of water beside a Shi platform.

It probably represented the Jade Pool and the platform before it.

This platform was extraordinarily ancient.

And from this, he could deduce something terrifying: the Jade Pool was a structure, a pool of water, and very likely a place of worship.

After migrants such as the Queen Mother of the West's people left their homeland and traveled far from the Kunlun Ruins, the first structure they needed to build would inevitably be something that could unite them.

Something like the Jade Pool!

The original Jade Pool must have occupied an extraordinary position within the Kunlun Ruins.

Much like a Totem.

With the Jade Pool, these people who had left their homeland would have something to bind them together.

Only a place of worship like this would continue to be built wherever they went.

The remaining character depicted a man and a woman.

He knew what the character represented.

But he did not know what it was called.

The man stood on the left and the woman

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