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Chapter 953: Fu Wei Shang Xiang
Human sacrifices have been divided into two parts throughout history.

One is to worship ancestors, the other is to worship heaven.

Among them, ancestor worship, as the name suggests, naturally refers to Xuanyou.

Although the Human Emperor was offering sacrifices to the ancestor of mankind instead of Xuanyou, it is understandable. Even though it caused waves in the hearts of the people before, it was not considered an usurpation of power after all.

As the Emperor of Mankind, offering sacrifices to the ancestors of mankind can barely be considered within the scope of etiquette.

But the "heaven" in "sacrifice to heaven" cannot be changed even by the Human Emperor.

This day, before the ancient emperor Xuanyou left, represented all the ancient heavenly ways of Wanggu.

After he left Wanggu, he received a message from the heavens that starting from Dongsheng, heaven would become a holy place.

Not only the human race, but all the ethnic groups without gods in the ancient continent are within this destiny outside the sky.

When they offer sacrifices to heaven, they also go to the holy places where their bloodlines are related.

If they do not worship, they are considered rebellious, and such groups will often perish due to various accidents in the years to come.

Although holy places rarely appear in Wanggu, they are located outside the sky, high above. Relying on some special means, they still control the hearts of all the tribes in Wanggu.

Therefore, the rituals of offering sacrifices to heaven by emperors of all dynasties were sacrifices to the holy land.

Today, the empress seems to be no exception.

She stood on the Temple of Heaven, her tall figure like a mountain, as if she could become a piece of heaven and earth, protecting all living beings.

Luck surrounds him on both sides, and he is wearing an imperial robe. He also has an imperial crown that shines with brilliant light.

While his expression was confident and calm, his sharp eyes seemed to be able to penetrate the sky and gaze at the holy land above it.

The well-defined face showed great determination at this moment.

This scene made all the ministers feel uneasy. For them, the events of this day were like half their lives.

What happened was too subversive.

And everyone has a vague feeling... this sacrifice, up to now, is just the beginning.

The scenes that follow may bring an even bigger storm.

They couldn't guess what the storm was, because no one could figure out what this empress was thinking over the years.

I'm afraid only she herself knows the love-hate relationship between her and Xuan Zhan, how she ascended the throne, and how many hardships and tribulations she went through.

What everyone can see is that she obviously never bowed to fate.

With her wisdom and courage, she has written a legend of her own among the human race over the years.

Although she was a woman and did not have royal blood, all the princes and ministers inside and outside the Ancient Emperor Star were deeply impressed.

So at this moment, everything inside and outside the Ancient Emperor Star was silent.

Xu Qing also had a lot of thoughts in his mind. Recalling everything that had happened before, it was obvious that his actions were also within the range of this empress.

"She may have known my purpose on the first day I arrived in the imperial capital."

Xu Qing murmured inwardly.

In this way, time passed breath by breath, until the moment when the forty-ninth breath arrived, the old eunuch beside the Human Emperor suddenly raised his head, a sharp light flashed in his eyes, his expression was extremely solemn, and the sound of singing and bowing during the previous ancestor worship was heard.

"The ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven is the prosperity of the human race. The number of people offering sacrifices to heaven is reduced by one year, so forty-nine is the limit!"

"First gift... please give the human race's battle flag!"

As soon as these words were spoken, heaven and earth churned, and the mist transformed by the luck in the sky bloomed like a blooming flower, rumbling back in all directions. At the same time, streaks of blood shot up into the sky from the Ancient Emperor Star.

One after another.

There were a total of forty-nine rays of blood, all gathered at one point on the sky, where they seemed to be the creation of the world, tearing apart the void, tearing apart fate, and drawing out a huge flag that had been nurtured in time.

The next moment, the flag appeared.

The flags spread out, covering the sky, becoming the sky, dancing like waves, with unparalleled momentum!

The earth darkened, but there were flames of life forming inside the Ancient Imperial Star, outside the Ancient Imperial Star, and in the Imperial Capital.

From every human race!
Because this flag is the battle flag of the human race!

It represents the will of the human race, the fighting spirit of the ethnic group, and the dignity of all people.

Even though this flag is not the oldest one, its significance is still unparalleled.

As for the oldest human war flag, it was created by the ancient emperor Xuanyou. The complete set consists of a main flag and 360 secondary flags, which accompanied him in unifying the ancient world.

After Emperor Xuanyou left Wanggu, the battle flag was also taken away by him.

Therefore, the human race at that time decided to use countless natural treasures to rebuild a complete set of human battle flags.

This battle flag of the post-Xuanyou era accompanied the Emperor of Dongsheng on the battlefield and absorbed the blood of countless foreign races.

In the end, the Emperor of Dongsheng was defeated. Although the main flag remained standing, too many secondary flags collapsed and shattered, and ended up on the Wanggu Continent.

Even though they are incomplete, they still have a certain power.

As a result, some of these broken flags disappeared into the sky, some were collected by foreign races, and some were obtained by human cultivators. It was too difficult to recover them all.

For the human race, it is better to rebuild it than to spend effort to collect it.

So after trying to collect the data without success, the human race gave up on collecting.

It was then recreated, and then in the hands of other human emperors, it appeared in every major battle.

For countless years, this flag has become the symbol of the human race.

It was filled with the blood of alien races. The moment it was revealed, as the blood rose in this world, the human race's will also instantly erupted.

It mobilized the blood power of all human beings and formed a response.

Xu Qing was the same. He looked at the human race’s battle flag in the sky, and the flag in the Seven Blood Pupils that year emerged in his mind.

Although he didn't know much about the main flag and the secondary flag, Xu Qing could still see that the materials of the two flags were similar, and they must have been from the same origin. As for their power, it was naturally like the bright moon and firefly.

Just as Xu Qing was observing the human race's war flag, the old eunuch's voice echoed again.

"The battle flag is out, the sacrificial flag is raised!"

"Everywhere and every party, open the prison!"

"Sacrifice our human race's battle flag!"

As soon as the old eunuch spoke, the sky and the earth roared, and thunder moved inside and outside the human race's battle flag. The sound was earth-shaking. The next moment, the five tribes of Shangxuan in the imperial capital each opened their sky prisons.

Teams of human monks, escorting countless alien captives, headed straight for the human battle flag in the sky.

The number is no less than tens of millions.

At this moment, all the cultivators in the Imperial Capital looked up and gazed, and the same was true in the Ancient Imperial Star.

Xu Qing glanced over and froze.

At the same time, the teleportation array in the imperial capital was also erupting, and at the other end of the teleportation array, the various legions of the human race in the vast domain also received the decree at this moment.

They opened the garrison's prison and escorted out the prisoners.

If one had a pair of eyes that could overlook the entire imperial capital, then one should be able to roughly calculate that the number of prisoners being escorted at this moment is as high as 50 to 60 million.

These are all the captured foreign monks since the reign of this generation of Human Emperor, most of whom are the result of the war that occurred when the Sun of Dawn appeared.

At this moment, a calm word was uttered by the Human Emperor.

"cut!"

In an instant, the millions of captives in the sky began to tremble violently. As the human monks behind them swung their swords, they let out sharp screams that shook the heavens and the earth.

Millions of heads flew up, millions of corpses fell, and countless amounts of blood flowed like rain.

But these did not fall to the human world. The next moment, as the human race’s battle flag covering the sky formed traction and turned into a whirlpool, all the corpses and blood were drawn away and rolled back towards the battle flag.

At the same time, the eight-direction teleportation array also exploded, sending the corpses of prisoners of war killed from all over the place.

The moment they appeared, they were pulled into the air and merged into the human race's battle flag.

In an instant, the human race’s battle flag turned extremely red, which was shocking to look at!
This scene was extremely bloody, and it showed the cruelty among the Wanggu tribes.

This is not only true for the human race, but also for the sacrificial activities of other ethnic groups. The four words "survival of the fittest" are the supreme law in ancient times.

After absorbing so much flesh and blood, the human race's battle flag remained red, but it vaguely lacked some agility, so... the second step of sacrificing the battle flag appeared.

That is, soul sacrifice.

The next moment, the souls of these tens of millions of dead alien captives, as they were locked in reincarnation and unable to ascend to heaven, could only appear in this world.

Tens of millions of alien souls roamed in the sky, like ghosts descending to the earth.

But the human world is not weak, and sometimes the ghost den not only makes sharp sounds, but also shrill wailing sounds.

So in an instant, as the vortex of the human race's war flag rumbled and turned, these tens of millions of alien ghosts were all swallowed up and rolled into the human race's war flag.

With a whistling sound, all of it was submerged and absorbed into the battle flag as nutrients!

Until this moment, the old eunuch's voice became excited.

"After the clan flags are sacrificed, it is time to worship our emperor!"

The empress had a blank expression on her face. She raised her right hand and grabbed towards the sky.

With this grab, the sky roared, twisted, and tilted towards the empress. Finally, the human war flag that covered the sky headed straight for the empress.

The next moment, he was taken down from the sky by the empress!

She grabbed the flagpole of the human race's war flag and after holding the entire flag in her hand, she waved the flag violently towards the reappearing sky.

The big flag was waving, and the flag was like waves, spreading in the sky over the entire imperial capital. After waving in a circle, a red vortex was formed in the sky.

It’s not over yet. The empress raised her hand and waved the battle flag again.

Suddenly the blood vortex became more violent.

After nine circles, the vortex formed turned into a blood-red storm like a tornado, with tremendous force and the power to shatter nothingness, violently tearing the sky in all directions.

It seems like a gap is about to open!
But looking up at the sky of the ancient continent, there is a seal. It can be opened from the outside to the inside, but if it is opened from the inside to the outside, the price to pay is extremely shocking.

Xu Qing and Erniu were able to accomplish this task back then only by relying on the power of the divine realm.

Now, seeing the empress's actions, Xu Qing's pupils shrank slightly.

The next moment, a deafening sound echoed, the Ancient Emperor Star shook, and the human race's destiny was like a dragon, soaring into the sky and slamming hard into the center of the vortex!
From afar, this dragon of luck was roaring, with its whole body shaking violently, as if it was moving forward unstoppably!

At the same time, an even more terrifying wave emanated from the Ancient Emperor Star. To be precise... it emanated from the golden divine fire burning on the Ancient Emperor Star.

Although this fire was not completely completed, it now possessed the aura of a god. As the Ancient Emperor Star roared, it was pulled into the sky and headed straight for the blood-red storm in the sky.

The momentum is shocking, like an eternal rainbow, burning everything!
It didn’t end there. The next moment, the empress raised her hand, swung it violently, and used the human battle flag in her hand as a spear, shooting it towards the sky.

The gun of the battle flag is devastating and unstoppable, as if all obstacles in front of it will be broken, and all barriers will be torn apart by the unwilling will of the human race's destiny contained in it.

At the same time, her body also took a step down towards the sky, and appeared at the top of the sky. She became the destiny and will of the human race. With her position as the emperor of mankind and her courage, she clenched her right fist and punched towards the sky...!
Gather everyone and break this sky!

This is exactly using the flag wind as the vortex, its will as the guide, the luck as the dragon, the battle flag as the gun, and the divine fire as the power, combined with the power of dominating the peak, it can open up the sky and create the earth!
The sky roared and crackling sounds echoed.

The sky is cracked!
A huge crack appeared on the sky with a loud bang.

The starry sky outside was revealed, as well as a beam of silver light.

This beam of light is huge, and the area it covers is just outside the sky above the human race’s imperial capital. One end is here, and the other end... is spreading out in the starry sky.

In the invisible starry sky, there is a sacred silver star!
That star is naturally not as big as Wanggu, but it is also vast enough. If you look closely, it is actually very similar to the Ancient Emperor Star.

It is... the Xuanyou Holy Land that was opened up by the ancient Xuanyou Emperor!
As for this huge silver beam of light, it looks like a passage!

And at this moment, the passage is revealed!

The empress was outside the passage, her eyes revealing determination and her voice echoing.

"Look at the ancient human race, the present human emperor."

"Now, with the nourishment of the human race's luck, forty-nine imperial seals are presented as tribute to the Xuanyou Holy Land."

As she spoke, the empress raised her hand and waved. Suddenly, jade seals shining with crystal light flew into the sky from the human race's destiny on the Ancient Emperor Star.

Each of these jade seals gives people a sense of being a treasure. They contain a strong destiny of the human race and sufficient will of the human race. Moreover, because the human race has been rising in recent years, the crystal-clear feeling is even greater than before.

There was even a sense of faith emanating from it.

At this moment, they all took off into the air, and were personally sent off by the Human Emperor to pay tribute to the holy land.

Soon, under the gazes of all the human beings on earth and as the Human Emperor bowed his head, the forty-nine imperial seals of the human race flew out of the cracks and into the silver channel of light.

Follow the passage and go upwards.

This is the complete ceremony of offering sacrifice to heaven.

Every time a sacrifice was made to the heaven, tribute had to be paid to the holy land. Although the tribute in the past was also the imperial seal transformed from destiny, the quantity was not large and it did not tear the sky like this.

Instead, it was accomplished using some ancient method passed down from the holy land.

Only this time, it's different.

What was even more different was that the forty-nine imperial seals, at the moment they were rapidly flying towards the holy land within the silver beam, shone with silver light and actually showed a sense of rejection.

There were also waves that swept rapidly within the silver light, as if exploring. The moment it touched the forty-nine imperial seals, the forty-nine imperial seals shook in unison.

The next moment, a scene that shocked all the human cultivators appeared.

As tribute, the forty-nine imperial seals that were speeding in the silver light beam trembled and their outer shells shattered, revealing the objects hidden inside.

Those are forty-nine sun-like beings.

There were forty-nine balls of infernal flame.

That's forty-nine, the Sun of Dawn!!

"Please enjoy the holy land."

"I hope you enjoy the meal!"

The empress raised her head and spoke softly.
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