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“These are Capachelli feathers!” Aru exclaimed with delight, but then shook his head.

“Aru does not have Capachelli’s feathers.”

"All right......"

Jiang Bai didn't want to ask about the feathers, but that thing was indescribable anyway.

After setting up the perch, the group followed Aru to Chibi Island.

Jiang Bai finally saw what the inside of the mountain looked like.

Jiang Bai initially thought the hollow mountain might be hollowed out inside, but the outer shell was still intact. However, after flying up and taking a look, he discovered that the mountain was just a straight cylinder with no top.

It looks like it was blasted down from the sky by something and plunged straight into the ground, which is why it looks like this.

"Aryu, are all three mountains like this?"

Aryu nodded.

Jiang Bai seemed to be deep in thought.

It seems that the celestial stars depicted in the murals were indeed the spikes from Sky Isle, and the civilization there built ruins underground out of fear.

But Jiang Bai couldn't understand why Sky Island would send down spikes to destroy civilization.

Touching the perch, Jiang Bai followed the feathers and explored downwards into the mountain, trying to find the fallen sky nail.

Unfortunately, there were no sky nails below, but instead they found an entrance to a ruin that connected to the ruin they had visited before.

Without further exploration, the three returned to the ground to purify the perch.

"Now everything should be finished. Let's go to the festival."

"Brother and sister, you go ahead. Aryu wants to stay here a little longer."

"But we don't know where we are, and we might get lost in the fog. What if we miss the festival?" Jiang Bai pleaded pitifully.

“Okay, Aryu will go with her older brothers and sisters.”

After a long and arduous journey, they returned to the sacrificial site at an unknown time.

The sacrificial site was crowded with people, who retained their appearance from when they were alive, but were unable to communicate or interact with each other.

The head of the sacrificial altar was an old man with graying hair. Beside him were knives, ropes, and containers.

The old man's gaze fell on an hourglass placed in his hand. In Jiang Bai's eyes, this hourglass was unusually magnificent and eye-catching in the otherwise primitive and simple sacrificial site.

It looks like it was made with the finest craftsmanship and the most beautiful amber here.

Similar to it, and equally exquisitely crafted, is a cup placed next to it.

"The time is almost up," the old man murmured.

"Father...Grandpa, I'm back!" Aryu called out a title subconsciously, but quickly corrected herself.

"Aru, why are you back..." The old man looked at Aru, his eyes filled with sorrow and reluctance.

Aryu smiled faintly; he had repeated this process countless times.

"Grandpa, let's get started! I'm determined to make Kapachiri happy!"

Thunderbirds flew across the sky, their thunderous roar cutting through the heavens. The old man, knife in hand, wept.

The three people standing by watched this scene like outsiders. When they realized something was about to happen, Yi Dou gritted his teeth and couldn't help but rush forward.

Jiang Bai pressed him down, "This is just an impression from the past, don't rush."

To find out what exactly happened on the island, you have to watch the whole thing, no matter how bloody or cruel it may be.

"Imperial decree: Seal the gates!"

Seeing that Aru was about to walk into the knife, Kurumi raised her hand and froze him in place, unable to speak or move.

On the high platform, there seemed to be invisible figures waiting for the impending sacrifice.

Chapter 559 I'm so angry! I'm so angry!

The priest held a magnificent vessel filled with blood and shouted towards the sky.

"Lord Thunderbird, this is a sacrifice from lowly humans! We beg you to cast your gaze upon us and protect us as always!"

People cheered and played their wooden reed flutes, hoping that the Thunderbird would accept the sacred offerings and, as in previous years, sing out divine pronouncements.

The resounding wooden reed flute attracted the Thunderbird's attention, and it flapped its wings and flew over. Jiang Bai finally saw the Thunderbird's appearance clearly in the mist.

It was a huge bird, its entire body enveloped in purple lightning.

Its eyes are like the brightest lights in the fog, and its flapping wings produce a sharp thunderous sound.

It came following the sound, but what it saw before it made its eyes widen in horror.

Its friend, the child who named it, became a corpse.

That head, which was alive and well not long ago, is now placed on the altar as a sacrifice offered to it by these foolish humans.

Anger, endless anger.

The sky turned crimson, and anger transformed into endless thunder that destroyed this place and submerged the entire Heguan.

Aryu watched all of this. He couldn't move or speak, but his gaze conveyed anger.

The thunder continued to fall, and all the panicked people in the sacrificial site disappeared, leaving only the various gray artifacts and Aryu.

"Now I understand why this place has become like this," Jiang Bai sighed.

After seeing everything, Ichidou felt a surge of anger rising from the bottom of his heart, and he urgently needed to vent it.

"Hey kid, don't you know they're going to kill you! You're going to go up to them, are you looking for death?!" He yelled at Aru, no longer even calling her by her name.

The person who started this is long dead and can't be taught a lesson, so he can only teach a lesson to this person who can be taught a lesson.

Hu Tao reached out and removed his seal.

"Why did you ruin the festival? I thought we were friends. Waaah, I don't want to see you anymore!" Aryu covered her face, her voice trembling with tears, and turned to leave.

Yi Dou took a big step, grabbed his collar, lifted him up, and was so angry that his hair was about to explode.

This must be the most infuriating thing that has ever happened to him.

"Do you even know what you're doing?!"

Aryu didn't understand why he was angry at all, and just kept crying.

"Waaaah! You ruined the festival, and now you're bullying me..."

Seeing Aryu crying, Ichito had no choice but to put him down and sulk.

What kind of situation is this? When you're about to die, this outsider gets angry at you instead.

He vented his anger by destroying everything around him, which was unpleasant to watch.

If those people weren't just illusions, he would have beaten them all up!

Jiang Bai squatted down, patted his head, and sighed, "Have you ever thought that blood sacrifice is wrong? Is it really because they killed you that Capachelli is angry?"

"How could that be? This has always been the way sacrifices have been done since ancient times. Besides, I am special. How could Capachiri be angry about that?"

Aru simply couldn't believe that this was the reason. He had grown up surrounded by festivals and had no concept that festivals were wrong.

In his mind, if they offered sacrifices and completed the ritual, Capachiri would protect them.

Jiang Bai patiently asked him, "Then let me ask you, are you friends with Capachelli?"

"Of course we're friends."

"Would you be happy if I killed your friend and then gave you his body?"

"this......"

Aryu hesitated.

It seems like I really won't be happy.

"But...but...it's always been like this, nothing's ever gone wrong at the festival before...If it weren't for you, I'm sure I could have completed the festival this time..."

Aryu covered her face, and tears streamed down her face.

"Something went wrong during that festival. Everything was going smoothly until I woke up and found that Heguan had become like this. Everyone was acting strangely. They couldn't see me or hear me."

"Then, after a while, there will be thunder on the island, which will be terrifying. After the thunder stops, things will go back to normal, I will wake up again, and everyone will be doing the same thing again."

"Moreover, Capachelli is also missing, and Suganayama can't find it either."

"I've prepared the festival again and again, but the result is always the same, so I want to seek help from outsiders..."

“If the festival goes well, then Capachiri will be satisfied, and then everyone will be happy.”

“In the past, Kapachiri always looked down on me during festivals. But I’m different from others. If I’m used as a sacrifice, she’ll definitely be satisfied!”

"Therefore, I must ensure the festival proceeds smoothly, so that everyone can return to normal and continue their lives..."

After listening, Jiang Bai sighed.

The Crane View has been uninhabited for two thousand years, which means that Aru has been repeating this ritual for two thousand years.

They kept preparing and kept sacrificing themselves.

He never even considered whether the problem lay with the sacrifice itself; he simply felt that he must have done something wrong.

Such a long process would drive a normal person crazy, right?

Jiang Bai felt a tightness in his chest, which made him feel particularly uncomfortable.

"In other words, you've been repeating the festival for all these years, yet you've never calmed Capachelli's anger. Have you ever considered that this was wrong from the very beginning?"

"Just because it has always been this way doesn't mean it's correct," Hu Tao shook her head.

Even though she had witnessed too many joys and sorrows, she still couldn't let go of what was happening in front of her.

Ichito poked his head with his fingertip, exasperated. "So, do you understand now? Your friend Capachelli is so angry because you're dead!"

He's so angry at this brat!

Aryu looked confused and hugged her knees helplessly.

"But what else can I do? Even though I didn't sacrifice myself, Capachiri's anger hasn't subsided..."

Hu Tao rested her chin on her hand, lost in thought.

They just stopped Aru's actions, but nothing seems to have changed, so what exactly is the key point?

Is this to appease Thunderbird's anger?

But how do we quell this?

“Let’s find somewhere nearby to take shelter from the thunderstorm, and then tell us in detail how and where you met Capachelli.”

Aru nodded and led them to Mount Sugana.

Chapter 560 I thought he had long forgotten

Leading them through the cave into Mount Sugana, Aru gave them a special instruction:

"This is a sacred place, so be careful not to offend Capachelli."

Jiang Bai glanced around and immediately noticed the simple sculpture in the distance. "It's just like the altar outside, with statues made of stone."

Looking up again, Jiang Bai saw a huge, withered tree stump in the lightning.

It's hard to imagine how big this tree was when it was alive; the stump alone was a whole size bigger than the sacred cherry tree at Narukami Shrine.

Just like Mount Sugana, this tree was destroyed by a celestial star falling from the sky, leaving only an empty shell.

However, on this empty shell, a branch grew out, gradually growing over a long period of time until it was covered with a tree full of purple leaves.

"Could this tree be the ancient, silvery-white tree?"

Hu Tao immediately thought of the ancient, silvery-white tree that was smashed in the story of the snow mountain.

Jiang Bai reached out and touched the tree trunk, sensing its movement. "Perhaps. I can feel a faint connection between this tree and the earth's veins. Other perched trees also have this connection. It's just that this tree is stronger, and the earth's veins here are extremely disordered..."

Although chaotic, it is still relatively safe. Although Mount Sugana is empty, its high rock walls can still block a lot of thunderstorms.

"It's relatively safe here, Aryu, you can go ahead and tell me."