My sister is Luna

After searching the entire bookshelf, Cain couldn't find what he was looking for; it seemed to be hidden in an extremely secret place.

Just when Cain was at his wit's end, he suddenly discovered a new clue.

"Huh? What's this?" Cain noticed a small, inconspicuous gap in the lower left corner of the bookshelf.

With a try-it-out mentality, Cain gently touched the small notch and applied a little force.

Suddenly, the gap emitted a faint white light, then caved inward, causing the entire bookshelf to tremble. A crack suddenly appeared in the center of the bookshelf, which then moved to the left and right, revealing a small space right in front of Cain.

In this tiny space of only five cubic decimeters, there were just three books stacked together, but that was exactly what Cain wanted.

Cain was pleasantly surprised to bring out the three books: "The Moon Family Tree", "Analysis of the Inheritance Ritual", and "The Arcana of the Moon".

Cain casually flipped through the family tree a few times, paying attention to a few places, and then reached for the "Analysis of the Inheritance Ceremony".

Kain opened "An Analysis of the Inheritance Ritual" and read it word by word...

Not long after, Cain closed the book, cold sweat dripping down his forehead. He took a deep breath, his eyes filled with disbelief and shock. For the first time, he had a complete understanding of this so-called inheritance ceremony. Although the last two pages had been torn out, he could only describe it with two words—inhuman and disgusting!

The Inheritance Ceremony is a ritual that paves the way to godhood. It is centered around a fragment of miracles, combined with a large amount of magical technology and some mechanical arts. It is like a living thing, constantly devouring and merging with the participants in the Inheritance.

The text describes in detail how each piece of flesh and blood merges and coexists, how each thought merges, and even how cells kill and devour each other to become a new cell. Kane forced himself to read it while suppressing his nausea. It can be said that everyone who participates will endure unparalleled pain and madness, and the newborn "person" will possess all the wisdom and strength of those participants, and then integrate all thoughts to give birth to a completely new and perfect personality. This is a true fragment of a miracle.

Simply put, it involves tearing apart the flesh and blood of the participants, then stitching and compressing it together, forcibly connecting the various brain nerves, and then squeezing and sticking them together. Using magical mechanical technology, starting from the smallest unit of cells, a painful and cruel war of devouring and fusion is launched, and in this way, a new "person" is born.

The participants were essentially sacrifices for the birth of a new "person"! Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say they were nourishment, and this "person," according to the ritual, was the prototype of a god.

However, due to the immense power of the Miracle Fragments, the accompanying divine curse, and the incompatibility of the participants' bodies, the lifespan of these "humans" is much shorter than that of ordinary people. According to calculations, they can only live for a maximum of forty years. After forty, their bodily functions decline, and they will experience strong fusion rejection symptoms, turning into mindless, twisted monsters within a month. However, there was one exceptional case who actually lived for more than a year.

Moreover, once the participants in the inheritance ceremony are confirmed, they cannot be changed. Even if you give up and try to escape, it will be useless. From the day the inheritance ceremony begins in the form of a martial arts selection until its end, you cannot escape it at all. You will eventually become a part of "him" as long as you still have the bloodline of the Moon Family.

So, are those participants dead or alive? Their thoughts have been completely devoured, and their souls have become part of the "new soul" or rather, an organ. They are already dead beyond any possibility. Even if there is such a thing as "reincarnation," it cannot save them. Of course, you could say that you are living in another way, but is that really considered living?

Because it was a combination of pictures and text, Cain only knew that they would merge into one, but every detail of the process was revealed to him, making his stomach churn. He couldn't imagine how cruel it was that the family would continue to pass it down.

At the same time, he looked at "The Arcana of the Moon," which recorded the past history of the Moon family. Other Arcana families had a similar book. When Cain combined the three books, he found that the Moon family was wildly wrong and was going further and further astray.

According to the ritual, this is the path to godhood, and this "god" refers to the beings who betrayed eleven families—the goddess Athena—and became such an individual.

The gods of the King's World are, to be precise, super-intelligent life forms. They are powerful individuals created by a super-Earth civilization that once traversed the universe. They are the crystallization of technology. Such beings are not created by miracles, but by their technology. Becoming a god is one technology, and miracles are another. The Moon Family has confused the two and has been on the wrong path from the very beginning.

The ancestors of the Moon Clan became heroes for rebelling against the gods, but also sinned for dabbling in miracles. This group of ignorant people fantasized about becoming super-intelligent life forms, believing that miracles or even fragments could make them gods. They obtained fragments and messed around with them. For thousands of years, countless members of the Moon Clan have needlessly lost their lives because of this mistake. In order to maintain the purity of their bloodline, inbreeding was popular within the clan, and they were extremely xenophobic. The birth of deformed children was a curse, and they took pride in participating in the rituals. They attributed all harm to the curse of the gods. They were fanatical and irrational in their pursuit of becoming gods.

From the very first person in the ceremony, the family began to undergo a qualitative change. The blood of the next generation intertwined, and fragments of miracles branched out like leaves. Every member of the family carries this abnormal gene, and they remain inseparable from it to this day.

Kain's worldview has been completely shaken. He has realized once again that the world of King of Glory is not as wonderful as he imagined. There are still too many unknowns hidden in the world of King of Glory. Where there is light, there is darkness. The brighter the light, the deeper the darkness. This is the balance and law of the world, and no one can change it.

"Little Cain, what are you doing? Is it beautiful?" Cain heard the chieftain's kind voice. The chieftain was standing behind him without him noticing.

!!!

Cain was stiff, completely lost in shock and had no idea what time it was. He hadn't heard any footsteps and had no chance to hide!

Having been caught red-handed, and with no way to get away with it, Cain had no choice but to go all out and lay his cards on the table!

Cain slowly turned around. The patriarch's tall figure loomed over him like a shadow, but Cain was fearless.

“I know everything now. The so-called inheritance ceremony is not a glorious and respectable event at all. It was a murder. The living ‘person’ was nothing but a deformed monster, and so were you!”

"Hehehe..." The chieftain chuckled kindly. He reached out to pat Cain's head, but Cain slapped his hand away in disgust. Then, unperturbed, he said with a smile:

"This is the ritual to become a god! How can it not be glorious that our family members have been so eager to challenge this path to godhood? This successor is the prototype of our great god!"

"This is not becoming a god, it's becoming a monster, it's a pointless sacrifice, it's using those ignorant clansmen who participated as offerings!"

Cain felt that discussing this with an heir like the patriarch was a waste of time.

"Kain, you're still young, so it's understandable that you don't know the greatness of becoming a god. To become a god, our Moon Clan will overcome countless difficulties, and besides, they all did it voluntarily; they are all great," the clan leader said calmly, his tone as if he were simply stating a fact.

"Ridiculous. Can one really become a god? In a thousand years, has there been a single god? You've only deceived them. If the truth about the inheritance ceremony were revealed, how many people would still participate?" Cain mocked.

"..." The clan leader fell silent, acknowledging a fact—there had indeed been no one who had become a god since the inception of the ritual.

"This is a ritual created since our ancestors. The ancestral laws cannot be changed. Its reason for existence is to allow the family to master the power of the fragments of miracles and become gods. The Moon Family was born because of it. This is also our family's long-cherished wish and the place where our family stands in the Sunset Sea!"

The clan chief spoke somewhat illogically, the door tightly shut, with only a few rays of light barely illuminating the room through the cracks in the window, but this still couldn't stop the eerie atmosphere from spreading.

"A miracle, a masterpiece of the gods, a manifestation of the origin of the demonic path. Even its fragments possess immense power. The entire family will be elevated to a new level because of it, and will possess vast power, perhaps even achieving godhood and gaining eternal life!"

For the first time, Cain felt an emotion in the chieftain's eyes—longing and desire.

Cain's heart sank. There was no way to communicate with such a person. As the biggest beneficiary of the ritual, how could he possibly give up?

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