Double penetration: This Three Kingdoms has dragon energy

Chapter 171 The Celestial Fox's Secret Records and the Grand Sacrifice to Heaven

The Battle of Foxear City has ended.

Next, it's time to clean up the battlefield and tally up the spoils.

These two tasks were assigned to Xun You, and it took him about three hours to complete them.

Three hours later, Xun You ran back to report: "My lord, this battle was a great victory. We killed 521 fox demons, rescued 32,467 fox people, seized 3,256 demon artifacts of various kinds, and obtained the Heavenly Fox Secret Record and the sacrificial offering to Heaven!"

The entire Fox Clan has only three thousand fox demons, while Fox Ear City has more than five hundred fox demons.

This is because Fox Ear City is a border city of the Fox Clan, and it needs to be heavily guarded.

Now all of these fox demons have been killed.

This will severely damage the fox tribe.

The strategic objective of this battle has been achieved.

Once the Fox tribe suffers losses in this battle, they will definitely seek help from the Eagle tribe immediately.

The time for the Eagle Tribe and the Wolf Tribe to go to war is not far off.

As for the fox people, they are the human race ruled by the fox tribe.

The total number is approximately 200,000.

Nearly 40,000 people live in Fox Ear City.

The entire Fox Ear City can actually be divided into upper and lower districts.

The fox spirits live a life of luxury in the upper city and control all the power in Fox Ear City.

The fox people live in the lower city, struggling to make ends meet, and undertaking the lowest, most dangerous, and most basic jobs in Fox Ear City.

Without the permission of the fox spirits in the upper city, the fox spirits in the lower city cannot leave the lower city, much less enter the upper city.

The fox spirits from the upper city will not come to the lower city unless they are collecting taxes or selecting women of marriageable age.

When Ji Qiu previously bombarded Fox Ear City with rocket artillery, he deliberately avoided the lower city and focused on bombarding the upper city.

When the expeditionary force subsequently launched its encirclement and suppression campaign, it primarily targeted the upper city area.

This is because he had made contact with the fox people in the lower city through the fox princess in advance, and the two sides reached an agreement that they would surrender after Ji Qiu eliminated the fox demons in the upper city!
Ji Qiu valued the fox people quite a bit.

First, they possess human identity and a sense of belonging to the human race, and as long as they enter the Nine Provinces Barrier, they can also provide dragon energy.

This is human resources that have been recognized by the Kyushu Barrier.

Ji Qiu would certainly not waste it.

Secondly, the Izumo human race is mostly female, and most of them are quite beautiful.

This would make it easier for Ji Qiu to integrate them with his own forces.

All he had to do was order his soldiers to take the Izumo humans as concubines.

Although most of these Izumo humans possess demonic characteristics, they face a certain degree of discrimination.

But with Ji Qiu vouching for her, and given her good looks, those ruffians under Ji Qiu's command probably wouldn't refuse!
Third, they were all rescued from dire straits by Ji Qiu, and they would have no one to rely on under Ji Qiu's rule in the future.

Therefore, the vast majority of them will become Ji Qiu's most steadfast supporters.

If nothing unexpected happens, they will become the backbone of the Ji Qiu believers in the future!
He would naturally not let such excellent subjects go to waste.

For the three reasons mentioned above, Ji Qiu had long ago decided to implement a policy of winning over and rescuing the Izumo human race.

And the fox people in the present are the first group of Izumo humans he rescued and won over!
Demon weapons are the weapons and equipment of the demon race, similar to dragon weapons.

However, it is restricted to only demons.

For Ji Qiu, at least for now, it has little value.

He collected these demonic artifacts simply because he didn't want to leave them to the Fox Clan.

The Celestial Fox Secret Records and the Grand Sacrifice to Heaven are two very special items.

The former is a secret manual of demonic arts practiced by fox spirits, while the latter is the method for using the bronze altar.

The human race of the Nine Provinces has the extraordinary system of Dragon Qi Secret Techniques, and the demon race naturally has its own extraordinary system as well.

This system is sorcery.

By consuming the demonic power within the body, one can perform demonic arts.

Different demon races need to cultivate different demon arts, and the demon arts suitable for fox demons are their secret Heavenly Fox Manual.

The latter refers to the method of using the bronze altar.

The demon race uses bronze altars to perform sacrificial rites to the heavens, offering sacrifices to the human race in order to obtain their fortune.

However, the bronze altar was not only for sacrificial rites to the heavens, nor were sacrificial rites to the heavens only for offering sacrifices to humans.

In fact, the history of the bronze altar is much older than that of the demon race.

It is said that the history of the bronze altar can be traced back to the time when the dragon, phoenix, and qilin were vying for supremacy at the beginning of the world.

At that time, the three races each built bronze altars and tried to obtain the fortune of the other two races by sacrificing their own people, attempting to unify the world for their own race.

Unfortunately, it ended in a lose-lose situation for all three parties.

In the subsequent war between the Lich King and the Demon King, just like the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans, they sacrificed members of each other's clans through a ritual to worship the heavens.

In the end, both sides suffered heavy losses, and the newly born human race took the protagonist's position.

Then it turned into the two races using sacrificial rites to deal with the human race.

The human race, on the other hand, could not use the bronze altar to deal with the witches and demons because the witches and demons were no longer the main forces in the world.

Because the bronze altar is a supernatural structure specifically designed for the main beings of heaven and earth, it can be used by other living beings, but its cost-effectiveness is very low.

Ji Qiu accepted the Heavenly Fox Secret Record and the sacrificial offering, and carefully examined its contents.

Three demonic arts were discovered recorded in the Celestial Fox's Secret Records.

One of them is the Heavenly Fox Dharma Body.

This is a demonic technique that can enhance one's internal demonic power and movement speed.

When used, nine silver-white streams of light will rise around the fox demon, each carrying the power of ancient wind spirits.

The fox's tail left afterimages in the air, and in an instant it could traverse hundreds of miles of mountains and rivers, and the demonic power within its body surged like a turbulent tide.

Legend has it that a fox demon who has cultivated to the highest level can instantly condense thousands of fox shadows, and wherever it passes, the wind howls and the grass and trees turn into phantoms.

The second is the Heavenly Fox Claw.

This is a sorcery technique that enhances physical attacks.

When used, the fox demon's fingertips will emit a blood-red cold light, and its five sharp claws will be wrapped with black lightning patterns.

As it swung its claws at the mountains, the void instantly cracked open with spiderweb-like fissures, and the rubble turned to dust under the fierce claw wind.

A fox clan elder once used this technique to tear apart the sky, causing countless stars to fall, demonstrating its astonishing destructive power.

Thirdly, there is the Spirit Pearl.

This is a fox demon's magical attack method.

The fox demon exhaled its life essence, which condensed in its palm into a glass bead shimmering with seven-colored light.

Ancient incantations appeared on the surface of the bead, and as demonic power was injected, it instantly unleashed a world-destroying spell.

If activated by water-based demonic power, the pearl can summon towering waves that blot out the sky.

If it is fire-based, it will transform into a karmic red lotus that incinerates all things, extinguishing all life wherever it goes.

Hmm, as expected of the exclusive cultivation method inherited by the Fox Clan, it truly possesses a systematic set of demonic arts and secret techniques.

The three sorcery techniques are one used to enhance oneself, one to strengthen physical attacks, and one to strengthen magical attacks.

Although few in number, these three demonic arts cover the main directions of cultivation, and if cultivated to their highest level, they would all be incredibly powerful, in no way inferior to a top-tier first-grade dragon energy secret technique activated by the new type of dragon energy!

Unfortunately, these demonic arts are restricted to fox demons only.

Although Ji Qiu longed for it, she could only give up helplessly.

Looking again at the grand ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, I was once again shocked.

He already knew that the bronze altar could be used not only to sacrifice humans, but also to sacrifice other races.

However, sacrificing any race requires a unique method of sacrifice.

He had no idea where to find other races' methods of sacrifice.

I thought it would take a long time to get this information.

But to everyone's surprise, the Fox Clan actually recorded this information so openly in the sacrificial ceremony.

If it only records the methods of sacrificing to the witch clan and the immortal clan, then that's fine.

Although the demon race is hostile to the human race, it also has poor relations with the witch and immortal races; they are all hostile races.

But they even recorded the methods of sacrificing demons in it.

Is this without any cuts or omissions?
Aren't you afraid that this will backfire on you?
Ji Qiu was puzzled, and then watched even more intently.

Only after he finished watching the entire sacrificial ceremony did he understand why.

As mentioned earlier, the sacrificial rites at the bronze altar were primarily for the main figures of heaven and earth.

Only by sacrificing to the main characters of heaven and earth can one obtain a large amount of fortune.

While sacrificing other races has its benefits, it is not cost-effective.

However, the low cost-performance ratio does not mean it has no cost-performance ratio at all.

Sacrificing a non-protagonist race may not yield much luck, but it can bring other equally valuable things.

For example, bloodline and ability.

The demon race is not at peace; on Izumo Island alone, there are thirty-six demon tribes fighting each other.

If we expand this to the entire demon race, which comprises tens of thousands of internal races, the internal strife becomes even more severe.

By sacrificing others, one can seize their bloodline and abilities to enhance oneself.

This is a very important method of using war to sustain war, and many demon races would never give it up.

Of course, using this method to sustain internal warfare through internal conflict will inevitably lead to enormous internal losses.

Many insightful members of the demon race also recognized the harm involved and proposed a complete ban on this sacrificial practice.

However, while it may not have any effect at all, it is close to having no effect.

Just because you don't use it doesn't mean other races don't use it.

In times of great contention, progress is never guaranteed; rather, progress is often regressed.

Furthermore, the external witch and immortal clans would not stand idly by and watch the demon clan suppress this matter.

They kept sending people over to spread the word.

The end result is that now, all the demon tribes have included the method of sacrificing their own kind in their basic cultivation textbooks.

For Ji Qiu personally, he didn't really care much about the bloodline and abilities he had plundered.

Because the power was too small, it could not provide him with any help at all.

However, if this power is used to help the more than 30,000 fox people that Steel obtained, it can create a magical power to turn decay into wonder.

These 30,000-plus fox-humans already possess extremely powerful fox demon genes.

The power of its fox demon genes is so great that they are about to overwhelm human genes.

This was originally a bad thing, because it caused a conflict between the two genes, making these fox people unable to cultivate either dragon energy secret techniques or demonic arts.

They can only become natural-born useless people.

However, if the fox demon bloodline and power obtained through sacrifice at the bronze altar could be used to harmonize the chaotic genes of the two races within them, then they could be turned from waste into treasure.

From then on, they not only gained the ability to cultivate both dragon energy secret arts and demon arts, but they also all had good aptitude.

In terms of Dragon Qi Secret Techniques, he can at least cultivate to the intermediate level!
"This is truly a stroke of luck! In this way, the value of these Izumo humans will be greatly increased!" Ji Qiu thought to himself.

As mentioned before, the Izumo humans will become his staunch supporters in the future.

And since they are staunch supporters, the stronger they are, the better, and the greater their potential, the better!
Ji Qiu immediately ordered the entire army to return to the bronze altar to perform the sacrificial ceremony to Heaven!

Returning once again to the bronze altar where I first arrived on Izumo Island.

It is still a dense forest of ancient trees, their branches twisted like the dance of ghosts and gods, their canopies intertwined to form an impenetrable "sky".

Bronze altars are not numerous on Izumo Island, but they are not few either.

There are exactly 108 seats.

This doesn't mean that the demon race didn't have enough materials to build bronze altars.

The bronze altar did not require high-quality building materials; it was just ordinary bronze.

However, bronze altars have rather strict requirements regarding their construction location.

Only seven types of terrain are suitable for building bronze altars.

One is the terrain of a solitary peak with the sky bowing down.

It is necessary to choose a place with a high altitude and a solitary peak that stands tall against the sky, with the summit shrouded in clouds and mist all year round, as if it were connected to the sky.

The mountain cliffs need to be steep and sheer, with only hidden stone steps or natural cracks leading to the top, creating a sense of isolation that is "difficult for mortals to reach but accessible to the divine."

Secondly, it is a geomantically locked spirit, with a ring-shaped canyon terrain.

The core area of ​​the altar must be located in the center of a circular canyon, surrounded by semi-circular or circular mountain walls, forming a "Mother Earth's embrace" pattern.

The bottom of the canyon must be flat and smooth, and the natural rock strata must contain veins of copper or iron in color, with a metallic luster visible to the naked eye penetrating between the cracks in the rocks.

Thirdly, it is a landscape of mirror-like reflections and mysterious, deep pools.

The altar must be adjacent to a deep, bottomless pool with water that is cold and clear as a mirror all year round, and the bottom of the pool must be visible with natural "divine patterns" formed by dark green sedimentary rocks or dead wood.

The pool water needs to be connected to an underground river, and the sound of the flowing water is like the low murmur of ghosts and gods, adding to the solemnity of the sacrifice.

Fourthly, there is the Stone Forest Rune Array and the Mysterious Rock Maze terrain.

The altar must be surrounded by a natural stone forest composed of giant black rocks, the surface of which is covered with weathered ravines, and the patterns must closely resemble ancient demon runes or star maps.

The layout of the stone forest must contain the principles of Qimen Dunjia (a form of divination), otherwise those who do not possess sacrificial implements will lose their way.

Fifthly, it features a landscape of countless trees paying homage to the sacred, secluded and spiritual forests.

The area where the altar is located must be surrounded by an ancient forest, and the trees must be black camphor, ancient cypress or vine that are over a thousand years old.

The branches twist and turn like the dance of ghosts and gods, and the intertwined canopies form an impenetrable "skylight", leaving only a circular gap directly above the altar so that moonlight or sunlight can shine directly on the altar.

The sixth is the Yin Yin Abyss, a valley of eternal night.

One side of the altar must border a deep valley shrouded in darkness all year round. The valley is perpetually shrouded in darkness, filled with a chilling aura. At the bottom of the valley flows the River Styx, which glows with a ghostly blue light. Along the riverbank grows the "Ghost Cry Vine," a pale white plant devoid of leaves and flowers.

The valley walls are covered with ice crystal-like "Yin Po Stones," which emit a cold, eerie light in the darkness.

The seventh is the Yangyang Blazing Cliff, a terrain of blazing cliffs.

On the other side of the altar, there must stand a steep, blood-red cliff face, its surface covered with ravines from which lava flows, forming flame-like patterns as the lava cools.

Fiery red lightning often strikes from the cliff top, the air is filled with the pungent smell of sulfur, and the temperature is extremely high, feeling scorching when you get close.

(End of this chapter)