Supreme Golden Palace

Chapter 78 Yinshan Rage

It was after witnessing Lu Shang's inhuman strength that Tieshan lamented that he had committed no crime. But before Tieshan could lament any further, a steel whip had already struck his skull, with a loud bang, and his skull instantly shattered.

Lü Shang reined in his horse, and dark red blood beads snaked down the lines of his steel whip. This single whip extinguished the last bit of courage in the Turks. The surrounding Turkic cavalrymen, their eyes filled with terror, cried out in fear, "Manggusi!"

Manggusi, a fierce demon from Turkic mythology, possessed ninety-five heads in a human body, possessed boundless magical powers, and could devour the heavens and earth. In the eyes of these Turks, Lü Shang was no different from the ninety-five-headed demon.

Lü Shang listened to the Turks' cries, frowned slightly, raised his steel whip high, and shouted, "Kill them all! Leave no one alive!"

The Turkic cavalry, who had been terrified by Lu Shang's brutal force, became meat on the chopping board under the attack of Shang Silang, Xin Yongfeng and Wei Cheng. The shouts and screams were intertwined and echoed in the sky above Wugongba.

It was a bloody battle, with corpses strewn all over the ground. The sand of Centipede Dam was soaked with blood, and the mud and water splashed by horses' hooves were thick and blood-red.

The Sui army officers and soldiers were also blood-thirsty, and their clothes and armor were dripping with blood.

Until the shouting and screaming around gradually subsided, only the whistling sound of the wind blowing through the mountains could be heard.

Lu Shang dismounted, his eyes cold as he said, "Clear the battlefield and count the casualties."

Shang Silang, Xin Yongfeng, and Wei Cheng took their orders and left, while the Sui soldiers began to clear the battlefield. Lü Shang stood alone on a high point, gazing north toward the Yin Mountains, as if lost in thought.

Shang Silang walked up to Lu Shang and whispered, "General, after we annihilated this group of Turkic cavalry, there shouldn't be any more Hu soldiers coming after us, right?"

Lu Shang nodded slightly, his gaze still fixed on the north of the Yin Mountains. He said in a deep voice, "Don't be careless. This cavalry is very powerful. The Hu general leading them is quite powerful. He must be a well-known figure in the Turkic world."

Thinking of Bayegu's military prowess, Shang Silang nodded and said, "The Turks admire the strong the most. With his strength, he must be a high-ranking official among the Turkic tribes."

Lu Shang was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke: "Now that he's dead in our hands, how do you think the Western Turks will react?"

"Just wait and see, maybe this is just the beginning, the road ahead won't be easy!"

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Yinshan, the Western Turkic tent,

Kokozhen stared blankly at the bone tablets in front of the shrine, and murmured, "Bayegu,"

"My child, my Bayegu!" His body trembled, and his palm gently stroked the broken card.

This domino was made by Kokozhen himself for Bayegu. Like the Taoist life lamp and the Buddhist heart lamp, it has the function of concentrating the soul and nourishing the spirit.

However, these soul-soothing and spirit-strengthening items are often connected to the life of their owners. If the owner dies, the items will destroy themselves.

So after seeing the dominoes break, even though Koko really didn't want to believe that Bayegu was dead, he had to face this reality.

He thought the ambush and killing that was a sure thing would actually result in the death of his most valued disciple.

"Sui people,"

Kuokuozhen suddenly grasped the dominoes in his palm, the sharp bone shards pierced into his palm, and blood slowly flowed down through his fingers.

"Bayegu's blood will not be shed in vain. Blood for blood, life for life. I will make you pay with your lives!"

He suppressed his grief and anger and said, "Come here,"

The servant outside the tent, upon hearing Kuokuozhen's call, hurried into the tent and said respectfully, "Master,"

Kokozhen said to his servant, "Prepare the altar."

The servant lowered his head and replied, "Yes." Kuo Kuo Zhen's eyes flickered as he looked towards the Centipede Dam and gritted his teeth, "Blood debt can only be repaid with blood. No matter what the price, you must pay with your lives."

The servant hurried out of the tent, and in a moment, he returned with several slaves and began to set up the altar in the big tent.

What Kuokuozhen called the altar was actually just a pottery jar, a bone knife, a human skin drum, a human fat candle, a tortoise shell, and a handful of yarrow, only these six items.

The slaves bent down and placed the pottery jar in the most conspicuous place in the tent. They also placed the bone knife next to the jar and the human skin drum leaning against the jar. The human fat candles were carefully placed on special candlesticks.

Kuokuozhen walked forward, picked up the turtle shell in one hand and the yarrow in the other, gently stroking the stems with his dry fingers.

People all say that the Tibetan Bon religion is fierce and overbearing, and that its ritual instruments, such as the human bone flute, bone beads, flesh lotus, damaru, human skin drum, human bone trumpet, and skull bowl, are all sinister and vicious things.

But compared with the Tibetan Bon religion and the witch religion, it is far inferior.

Witchcraft worships heaven and gods, regards heaven as father and earth as mother, and advocates blood sacrifice and human sacrifice. Every sacrifice must include human sacrifice, which is regarded as a ritual.

It is said that during the Shang Dynasty, shamanism flourished, with everyone from the highest dignitaries to the common people practicing human sacrifice. Over the six hundred years of the Shang Dynasty, the practice evolved to encompass 1,200 methods, including beheading, beheading, burning, drowning, disembowelment, and evisceration. Among these were stories of the Jiuhou (Jiuhou) being pickled in vinegar, the Ehou (Ehou) being dried, and the dismemberment of Bigan.

The so-called "醯九侯" means making Jiuhou into meat sauce, "腹醯Ｅ侯" means making Ehou into dried meat, and "别比赣" means cutting open Bigan's chest and taking out his heart.

Looking at the flame of the human fat candle dancing gently, Kuo Kuozhen placed a piece of yarrow on the fire. The yarrow was quickly ignited, and the dark green flame spread upward along the stem.

Then, Kuokuozhen suddenly threw the burning yarrow towards the pottery jar. With a puff, a cloud of black smoke instantly rose from the pottery jar.

Seeing the black fog rising, Kuo Kuo Zhen looked solemn and threw another yarrow into the jar.

"Sui people,"

His voice was low and fierce. The black mist in the pottery jar became thicker and thicker, and a faint whimpering sound could be heard from it.

He threw the yarrow in his hand into the jar one by one, and the color of the flame gradually changed from dark green to deep red, and finally to purple.

Lu Shang, who had led his troops out of Wugongba and was about to enter Baidao, suddenly reined in his horse and stared towards the north of Yinshan Mountain.

"I knew it wouldn't be peaceful,"

Glancing at the gloomy sky, Lu Shang sighed.

A faint, scorching scent quietly permeated the air. Then, dense, extremely fine threads of fire, like cow hair, slowly drifted down, leaving faint trails in the air before landing on the ground, emitting tiny sparks.

"fire?"

Wei Cheng stretched out his hand in surprise and looked at the fire thread floating into his palm. As soon as the fire thread touched his skin, a burnt smell immediately appeared.

"This, isn't it?"

Shang Silang and Xin Yongfeng, who sensed something was wrong, looked at the gloomy sky and the falling flames.

"It's a rain of fire, it's a rain of fire," Wei Cheng, who had already reacted, shouted.

His shouting caused a commotion among the soldiers, and they all looked up.

When the soldiers saw the extremely dangerous rain of fire as thin as cow hair, the expressions on their faces changed from initial confusion to fear.

(End of this chapter)