The bright moon hung high, and the vast valley lay silent and cold.
Moonlight spilled down, shining pure white on the vegetation across the mountains, yet the clear radiance falling into the valley turned an eerie blood-red.
The once-hollowed valley had long since been filled in. Now, altar after altar built from earth mixed with flesh covered its level interior. They seemed to faintly draw in the moonlight, strands of bloody light spreading outward.
Many altars were broken, seemingly having burst apart for some reason. A strange figure covered in blood walked among them, digging up earth and waving a hand to produce clumps of flesh, repairing the altars one by one.
Tap, tap-
The ground suddenly began to tremble rhythmically. Blood Man finished shaping the last altar and finally stopped what he was doing, raising his head to look into the boundless darkness.
"The second upheaval is imminent, yet you really do have time to spare. For a mere believer in the divine beings to draw several of you into action-what an honor. Heh."
His voice sounded like chalk scraping a wall, or an old vacuum tube receiving a weak signal. It was grating.
The roar of a vast army soon drowned him out. Beneath the night sky, the Yin Sha legion surged forth like a pitch-black tide sweeping across the earth, surrounding the entire Divine Spirit Valley in the blink of an eye.
Then Jiang Chen, Shenji, and Jing Shou emerged. The twenty Reincarnators stayed a little farther away, all hovering high in the sky and looking down over the valley. At the sight of the densely packed altars of earth and flesh, they instinctively frowned.
"Sacrificing living people violates heaven's principles and human morality! Zhang Daoyi, today we execute you!" Shenji shouted, his voice shaking the surrounding