I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself

The blaze of red fire surged wildly, tearing incessantly at Yann Wanyun's spirit and will. If he ever slackened, he would be completely devoured by the two other heads, turning him into a mere puppet.

This situation had been escalating ever since he advanced to the Divine Treasure.

At the moment of his ascension to the Divine Treasure, he felt like a ripe fruit on a tree, ready to be picked.

However, the entity behind the scenes wanting to consume his Human Soul was still lacking a bit.

A hundred years ago, Yanran was just a small tribe in the northwest of Ji Land, facing harassment from the Xiaoyang Mu Kang Branch.

Finally, during one of Xiaoyang's southern expeditions, the Yanran Division couldn't withstand them, and Yann Wanyun was naturally captured as a Xiaoyang prisoner, witnessing his parents' brutal death right before his eyes.

Like many captured members of the Human Race, he was transported to the Mu Kang Race Territory of the Xiaoyang branch, intended to be used as a sacrificial offering during the Great Sacrifice.

It was luck that during his confinement, turmoil arose in the Mu Kang Branch's race territory.

The powerful combatants' clashes destroyed numerous houses and incidentally shattered the place where the Human Race prisoners were held.

Amidst the chaos, many of the captured Human Race began to flee.

This was in the Mu Kang Branch's race territory, and even with the sudden emergence of a powerful figure causing chaos, it wasn't easy for those imprisoned from the Human Race to escape.

Unlike most who fled outward, Yann Wanyun ran inward.

He traversed the Mu Kang Race Territory, heading straight for the Ancestral Temple, and hid in the burial grounds beyond the temple.

It was within the Mu Kang ancestral tomb that he discovered a carving of a three-headed solitary creature.

At the time, this object lay buried within the tomb, suddenly breaking through the earth on a late night, emanating a mysterious light.

It was fortunate Yann Wanyun spotted it while hiding, and before being detected by the Xiaoyang of the Mu Kang Branch, he had retrieved it.

The carving was bizarre, and after retrieving it, the three-headed creature imprinted itself on him, transforming into a black tattoo.

From then on, Yann Wanyun's cultivation experienced a monumental change, and his cultivation talent soared dramatically.

Especially after reaching the Celestial Vein Realm, whenever blood energy circulated through his body, the tattoo of the three heads would glow, devouring his blood energy.

Devouring blood energy was a minor issue, but the truly terrifying part was the bloodthirsty impulse it triggered, and the eerie whispers that often echoed near his ears.

For a century, as his cultivation advanced, Yann Wanyun continually speculated about the tattoo's origins, focusing his attention on the Muo Yan Vein Master of Xiaoyang.

In the vast expanse of Ji Land over the past few centuries, the most formidable being was none other than Muo Xiao, the Muo Yan Vein Master.

Even though this figure was adversarial to the Human Race, his methods were indeed formidable; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to suppress the Human Race so effectively.

Before Muo Xiao became the Muo Yan Lineage's Vein Master, the overall strength of the Muo Yan Lineage was comparable to that of the Qiu Yin and Mu Kang branches.

The three major branches were located in the northeast of Ji Land, with limited connections with other Xiaoyang branches in the northwest of Ji Land.

Although the Xiaoyang branches were dispersed, and even the Royal Race's Xiao Clan bloodline had become mixed, above all the Xiaoyang branches, there actually exists the Xiaoyang Ancestral Temple.

While Gufu Mountain was flattened 8,000 years ago, and the Ancestral Temple was gone, its rituals persisted, as did the inheriting Great Witch Priest and a group of old entities.

These old entities relocated the new Ancestral Temple to a place called Yueshi Mountain, with the various branches paying little attention to it as before, providing some tributes to the Ancestral Temple.

As for the Great Witch Priest meddling in branch affairs, too bad, you might be a fraudulent Great Witch Priest.

Thus, a tacit understanding formed between the Great Witch Priest of the Ancestral Temple and various branches: as long as annual tributes were made, ensuring the ancestors were not starved, no issues would arise.

If anyone could storm into Gufu Mountain, they'd relocate back.

Such a situation, however, faced a hiccup a century after Muo Xiao became the Vein Master of the Muo Yan Lineage.

The old entities of the Ancestral Temple split, with one of the Ancestral Temple Clan Elders leading a part of the sacrality eastward into the Muo Yan Clan Land.

Upon arriving at the Muo Yan Branch, this Clan Elder built a new Ancestral Temple, self-styling as the Great Witch Priest, and commandeered the sacrificial rites of the Muo Yan Lineage.

In the ensuing days, supported by the Muo Yan Lineage, this Great Witch Priest, under the guise of ancestral worship, recruited Clan Elders from the Mu Kang and Qiu Yin branches into the Ancestral Temple, and consequently took over the rites of the Mu Kang and Qiu Yin branches as well.

This was the reason the Three Xiaoyang in the Northeast of Ji Land united to take action.

This was just the internal shift within Xiaoyang; external changes were most evident in the fissure in the younger generation of the Jishan Bo Division.

In Ji Land, many Human Race Blood Witches and Blood Warriors were secretly controlled by the Muo Yan, using blood witch curses and Blood Warrior assassinations, and by the time the Jishan Bo Division reacted, it was too late.

Reflecting on the Muo Yan Vein Master's ambition to unify the three Muo Yan branches, along with his fortuitous gain inside the Mu Kang ancestral tomb, Yann Wanyun had to suspect the Muo Yan Vein Master.

Of course, he also suspected that the three-headed tattoo landing on him was a mere coincidence.

The target of the three-headed tattoo mural might have been a particular Xiaoyang from the Mu Kang branch, but it fortuitously ended up on him.

With events developing to this stage, there's no use in regrets; Yanran's rise due to this, whether part of the Muo Yan Vein Master's scheme or not, he must face it head-on.

In the crypt, blood energy surged around Yann Wanyun, and as soon as beads of sweat the size of beans rolled out, they were rapidly evaporated away.

His features twisted in agony due to the other two heads tugging at his Human Soul.

If his will slackened even for a moment, all his resistance would be like a river flowing away, with no chance of recovery.