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Sure enough, although the landscape was different, it was all engulfed in darkness and lifeless.

Soon, they arrived at the bottom layer, which was the first world, the ground world mentioned by Kagutsuchi.

Now the center of the underground world is the body of his [mother] from another world, the former god of the earth's core. Her light illuminates the First Night Kingdom, and then passes the light through the hollowed-out part of the First Night Kingdom to the next Night Kingdom, to illuminate the next night, to bring vitality to the next world.

But for the other side of the Night Kingdom, the twelve-layer world, it might not be enough. At best, they are just pillars of light rushing straight into the sky. Because of the characteristics of the positive and negative worlds, the light emitted by the Earth Core God will not even spread to the surroundings.

But the ground of the first world has its own way to get through the darkness, which is countless little suns.

With the help of the chickens' shared vision, Blaze looked at the little suns that illuminated the first world.

Those little suns looked very familiar, and were almost the same as the little suns that provided light to the cocoa trees in the Kulene cocoa orchard.

Actually, he wanted to ask what that thing was at that time, but considering Kurene's way of talking in a roundabout way and the number of times she used the "good cop and bad cop" roles that day, he probably couldn't ask. So he simply didn't ask, wanting to gamble whether Kurene would not be able to help herself and show off to him.

The result was, of course, a failure, and then Amaterasu's excited reaction made him lose interest in it.

But he remembered what it was, a glowing scale. The first world was now illuminated by this scale sun.

There is no need to guess, it must be the product of a sun god.

The reason Kagutsuchi gave for the defilement ceremony was that every time the underground gods destroyed the world, they would choose a new sun god.

Among other mythological totems, the sun is unique. Even if the sun is not the most important, it cannot be easily changed. Life always revolves around the sun.

[Butterfly] has been changed four times, and it is planned to continue changing. This is probably because each exchange is based on the complete destruction of the world.

Blaze was very suspicious, as Kullene had said that one of the reasons she had offended the underground gods was because she had stolen a piece of the scaly sun.

He could even guess what Kullene was thinking at the time. There were simply so many scales, it wouldn't matter if he took one or two.

Of course, this wasn't Blaze's idea, but rather one of the stupid teammates that the stranger complained about. They thought they'd just take one, but ended up killing their teammates along the way, and those who were lucky enough didn't even die in the end.

Speaking of teammates, Blaze glanced at the Night Leopard who was wrapped in thick smoke and looked like he was flying in the clouds not far away. This was a good teammate who rescued him from the ancient dragon world.

"So you were once a member of the Sun God as well? Or something else?"

The Night Leopard simply uttered two mocking gasps and then disappeared in the thick smoke. Its appearance this time seemed to be to correct a mistake, and after correcting it, it patted its butt and walked away, being extremely casual.

Blaze had an inexplicable guess that Night Leopard might not be here to rescue him, but to rescue those ancient dragons.

"never mind."

Blaze was too lazy to think about the background stories. The chicken landed smoothly on the ground and Blaze jumped off the chicken. He was surrounded by a hot and dense forest environment similar to the Amazon rainforest.

If possible, he hoped to land around the traces of human civilization, but those scaly suns formed a natural shield, and neither the chicken's eyes nor his eyes could penetrate them, so they could only choose a place to land at random.

After looking around, Blazer first confirmed whether his skills were normal. He was shocked that he could not enter the shadow world when he was in the ancient dragon world.

Fortunately, in this first level of the world, he was not affected at all, and the shadow world was also normal.

"Okay, let me see where to start."

Blaze had just taken a full step when a noise came from afar, and an ancient human language was heard.

He listened carefully, and his translation skills brought him the meaning of the words.

"Evil... thief... solar scales... eliminate..." Blaze frowned and barely captured a few key words from the chaotic voice.

It sounds like they are here to catch a thief.

Blaze relaxed his frown and sighed.

The strangers would occasionally joke that before they came, the world was peaceful, but once they arrived, anything would happen, from petty theft to the destruction of the world, just to drag them into the big crisis known as the main plot.

He didn't believe it before, but he does now. However, he will definitely not be involved in it. A gentleman is open and honest.

It might be an opportunity. As long as he caught the thief and took back the crucial sun scale, he would be able to gain recognition from the people here. Then, he could wear the rabbit mask under the attention of everyone, and the rabbit mask would no longer be a symbol of shame.

"Very good, I want to join in and catch ..."

Blaze raised his fist and just as he set his target, a familiar scale was handed to him from behind.

This seems, may, seems, probably... it must be the sun scales that are shining on this earth and that people are shouting about not far away.

Blaze turned around with a stiff expression, and it was Amaterasu who handed the sun scale to him.

Although Amaterasu's eyes were still red, it did not prevent her from thinking that this was a good thing and wanting to pick one for Blaze.

Judging from the results, it seems terrible.

"This, this..."

"Is it too late to go back?"

It was obviously too late, Blaze immediately took the sun scale, and then immediately asked Amaterasu and Chicken to hide.

Not long after this was done, a group of people wearing various beast skin suits came out from all directions, pointing their weapons at Blaze.

"It's a thief, he has the sun scale in his hand!"

"How despicable! I didn't expect there would be another thief so bold!"

"That's great! The punishment we specially designed for such a heinous act has finally come in handy." One of them gritted his teeth and thrust the spear towards Blaze.

"We will imprint the mark of shame on your face forever, and make you live in shame forever!"

Blaze's expression was a little stiff. He was 100% sure that he was tricked by Kullene.

"Put a bunny headband on this shameful thief!"

"…Hey! You can insult me, but you can't insult rabbits!"

Chapter 1336 The Sinner Must Wear a Rabbit Head

"Wow...that guy is wearing a bunny headgear."

"What crime did he commit to deserve to be labeled with a rabbit headgear?"

"That's horrible. I will never become someone like that when I grow up."

Blaze could hear the quiet discussions around him. Led by warriors wearing beast skins, he came to the human gathering place in the eleventh world.

The architectural style here is relatively primitive, close to the early goblin villages, but compared to the goblin villages that were built with wood and could only provide small houses for living, the humans here built quite spectacular buildings with stone.

He succeeded in his goal and crossed paths with the local population, but unfortunately in the worst way.

Blaze sighed heavily. He became a heinous criminal who stole the sun scales.

Judging from discussions among the beast-skin warriors, this crime, which could be described as stealing the sun, was so evil that it had only happened twice in thousands of years.

For such a bold and reckless person, the criminal must be punished alive.

The punishment is to wear a rabbit mask.

How should I put it? It might be a cultural conflict. When these beast-skin warriors put a rabbit headgear on him, he didn't react at all. He even felt that the rabbit headgear was well-made and quite comfortable. Then the beast warriors became fussful and turned pale.

Most of the reactions were exaggerated, such as "Ah! What a horrible and shameful look!" and "If I wore this, I would definitely chop my head off!"

Even because he was wearing a rabbit mask, the beast-hide warriors didn't even plan to tie him up.

However, this rabbit headgear does have a hidden secret.

[Rabbit Head of Sin/Curse]

[Once you put it on, you can't take it off. It's a very powerful curse item. You can't take it off until you are forgiven and pay off your sins. ]

It was really a punishment. Blaze pulled the rabbit headgear and it really stuck firmly to his head, making it basically impossible to take it off.

No wonder the people around, even the beast-skin warriors, were so terrified. According to their customs, this cursed rabbit mask was indeed a mark of eternal sin.

Blaze followed the beast-fur warriors. They said they would take him to the high priest for judgment, so he could observe his surroundings more.

The power structure here is as expected, for example, the leader of the beast-fur warriors is covered in tiger fur, while the other beast-fur warriors are all covered in beast furs inferior to tiger fur.

The warriors covered in the furs of dangerous beasts are like knights on the ground. They have noble status and can receive cheers of heroes returning just by walking on the street, and many beautiful girls will flirt with them.

Of course, the beautiful girls also have to wear the fur of some pretty powerful beasts, otherwise the warriors won't respond at all.

People who don't wear fur coats can't be said to have no human rights, they just have no human rights at all. Only children who don't look like adults don't wear animal fur, and other than that, everyone at least has some fur on their bodies.

This civilization structure that uses the fur of wild animals to determine who is superior and who is inferior is, in a sense, a law of the jungle. Wearing fur is not only an honor, but also a symbol of proof of one's own strength.

After a simple observation, Blaze found that the ranking of the beasts' furs was in the order of pig first, bear second, tiger third.

The tiger-fur warrior who caught him respectfully reported the situation to the black-bear-fur warrior. Judging from the content of the conversation, the black-bear-fur warrior was the tribal leader here, and the high priest who was responsible for judging him had a higher status than the tribal leader. He wore a wild boar head fur decorated with many colorful feathers on his head.

The high priest was the only one who was not afraid when he saw the rabbit mask. He sat calmly on the high seat, looking down at Blaze.

"You...are from the outside world."

"That's right." Blaze nodded. It shouldn't be difficult to see this.

The locals were terrified when they saw the rabbit mask and said they would chop off their own heads if they wore it, but he was extremely calm.

The high priest nodded and waved the warriors away, leaving him and Blaze alone.

After the warriors retreated, the high priest slowly stood up, his huge body casting a huge shadow.

Blazer raised his eyebrows at the size of the person. It was the first time he had seen a human other than the Giens with such a large body. However, the person in front of him should be considered a human from the Age of Gods, and perhaps his structure was different from that of humans on the ground.

The high priest came before Blaze, knelt down on the ground with a bang, and saluted with great piety.

Blaze was startled.

"God, you have finally returned from the East."

"God?" Blaze's eyelids jumped. This god was most likely not referring to him, the God of Darkness, but Amaterasu behind him. It was only because Amaterasu was hiding in his body that the high priest mistakenly thought he was it.

Such a simple sentence basically confirmed Kagutsuchi's words that Amaterasu was indeed the reincarnation of one of the underground gods.

But he still asked without giving up.

"Is there any misunderstanding here?"

"I will not misunderstand." The high priest looked at the sun scales in Blaze's hand, "These are the scales of the sun, the little suns that you peeled off from your great body. Maybe someone can take them away, but only its former owner can extinguish them."

Blaze opened his hands, and the palm-sized scales felt cold to the touch. If he had not seen the appearance of solar scales when he fell from the sky, he would have thought they were just the scales of some giant snake.

As he passed the sun scale, he felt its heat, but Amaterasu easily removed it and let its heat dissipate.

Blaze looked up at the huge mural behind the seat where the high priest was sitting. It was a huge winged snake painted with simple colors, and it looked almost the same as the Yamata no Orochi after it absorbed the power of Amaterasu and was reborn.

Seeing Blaze looking at the mural, the high priest slowly stood up, humbly stood behind Blaze, and explained in a low voice.

“God, when you left you prophesied your return, and you promised that your return would bring prosperity and peace.”

"..." Blaze was silent for a moment, his voice a little hoarse, "Sacrifice... are you still doing it?"

"Of course." The high priest said as a matter of course, his words filled with pride.

"This is something we will never stop, not only to transform into butterflies in the next life and become the supreme twin gods, but our bodies themselves will also become fuel for the sun's scales to illuminate this world."

Chapter 1337 Sacrifice

Blaze didn't know what to do and stared at the sun scales in the sky in a daze.

The high priest answered all his questions and told him everything about this world. The things about the underground gods were almost the same as what Kagutsuchi had said.

The gods fell from the sky on the day of the earth-shaking event, and darkness engulfed them. After the world fell into darkness, the gods lit a brazier and discussed the method of the fifth creation in the dim light.

The method they came up with was to let humans with noble spirits jump into the fire basin, transform into butterflies and repair the world on the thirteenth floor.

The thirteenth world was called the "Double Gods Heaven" by the high priest. Perhaps as the surface of the thirteenth world, it also has important significance other than recording mythological totems.

But repairing the thirteenth world is a long process, and the gods who are losing their powers cannot stay in the darkness for long, so the giant feathered serpent that once turned into the sun peeled off its scales, and danced while waving the scales, bringing light to the only remaining first world.

But even the great Quetzalcoatl cannot illuminate the entire world, so how can its scales replace the sun? The sun scales that are separated from the Quetzalcoatl lose their brightness and heat soon, so sacrifices are needed to replenish the heat of the sun scales.

The great warrior's body will be reduced to charcoal in the flames, and the heat will rush to the sky, continuously igniting the sun scales.

This bloody sacrifice has continued from countless years ago to the present. The only thing that makes Blaze feel a little comforted is that human sacrifices are not carried out all the time.

The sun scales fill the world from the eleventh level to the first level. If every sun scale needed to be sacrificed every day, the humans here would have died out long ago.

Instead, there are beast monsters.

The humans here will hunt wild beasts and monsters. The wild beasts and monsters will turn into dust the moment of death and float towards the sun scales in the sky, becoming fuel for the sun scales.

The more powerful the monster, the better it is as fuel.

This is why warriors wearing the skins of wild beasts have a high status, they are literally fighting to keep the world alive.

But human sacrifices will continue, because it is always humans who can transform into butterflies in the afterlife to repair the thirteenth world, not to mention that humans who can hunt powerful beasts are also powerful beasts.