Gold and crimson light surged through the second-floor hall.
The cultivators below Transcendent Grade were still wondering why Ancestor Lü Yan had lost his composure so badly, while the Transcendent Grade ancestors all stared in shock. Not only did they understand Lü Yan perfectly, even Ye Yunchi rose to her feet, wanting to join him in a heart-wrenching howl.
After all, none of the cultivators present had seen the mask in the box, but anyone who walked the path of cultivation would certainly have seen an image of a figure with a bird's head and a human body.
It was normally enshrined in the ancestral halls of the Blessing and Sacrifice Faction and the Gu Poison Sect, but many tribes in Western Rong, the Grasslands, and other regions also worshipped it. Even the Human Emperor's shrine had a statue.
This person's name was Zhu Man, one of the Ten Ancestral Witches. Common folk revered him as the god of fire who presided over the south. He had once sat at the same table as the Human Emperor, chatting and laughing freely, and was also the Gu Poison Sect's Founder.
The Zhu Man Sacrificial Witch Scripture compiled by the Corpse Ancestor was named after this very Grandmaster.
Witch Ancestor Zhu Man was of the Human Race and could not possibly have had a bird's head. His portraits all depicted him with a Bird Head and Human Body, and later generations also wore bird-head masks when performing spirit dances. Clearly, this was because Witch Ancestor Zhu Man had worn a bird-head mask himself.
With the mask off, a mortal; with the mask on, a Fire God Possession. This object could be called the dream artifact of every fire cultivator under heaven, the ultimate goal Lü Yan did not dare aspire to even