The deep, echoing voice of the Skeleton Male was long and profound.

In a trance, Longjing Tea seemed to see some kind of hallucination......

His old, rusted armor looked so consistent with the surrounding tombs. It was as if He was supposed to be here—in the tomb of an ancient dynasty that had been gone for nearly a thousand years.

His voice didn't seem to come from everyone's eyes.

It is like standing in the lost past and whispering to the people of the future.

- At this moment, Annan is watching all this through the eyes of Longjing tea.

Unsurprisingly, there are signs of being affected by something sacred—it's just that players can't see it.

[You have received the new marker "Low Influence: Ancient Whispers"]

[If you don't remove it in time, you will fall into a random nightmare with the keyword "moth" after 7 days (difficulty: hard)】

...... Ancient Whispers.

Annan frowned slightly.

It's a low-ranking influence that isn't commonly used in rituals, but it's a little cherished because it's not easy to obtain.

This effect is obtained by an elderly person who is "more than twice his maximum lifespan" and who tells "secrets that happened before the listener was born and who have not yet known them".

In other words, it requires an Ancient Transcendent or Ritualist who has used multiple Life Renewal Rituals and has completely depleted twice their original lifespan to trigger.

This is not the influence of the "bones" and "betrayal" realms that the Skeleton Master has mastered.

And only from His age......

Since Annan's side can also gain influence, it means that even Annan doesn't know the secret that the skeleton is about to tell.

He listened intently to the secrets told in the underground nearly 2,000 kilometers away—

I saw the skeleton walking alone in front of him, reaching out from time to time to touch a certain tomb on the side of the road. Even if the tombs do not indicate the names of the "residents" who died there, this does not prevent the bones from identifying them.

Long Jing Cha and the two companions walked side by side with their shining hands, so nervous that they glanced at each other from time to time to confirm that the people around them were indeed still there. It's as if they're going to disappear in the next second.

An extremely faint light, burning quietly in the completely dim underground...... The cloak of the skeleton in front of him casts a deep shadow.

As far as the eye can see, all you can see is huge stone pillars and stone tombs the size of garages.

Other than that, there is nothing else.

Players are transcendent, and even one of them is a ghost himself - they are not afraid of ghosts.

But the ancient, dead history itself has created a great sense of oppression.

So much so that the players didn't even dare to say a word.

They didn't even chat privately on their friends page, and they didn't even think about the live broadcast...... Just hold your breath, try to keep your steps as light as possible, and follow quietly behind the skeleton male.

Suddenly, without warning, the Skeleton Male's footsteps stopped.

For He was so tall that he completely obscured the road ahead. For a while, Longjing Tea couldn't see what was in front of the skeleton.

But Dove saw it.

She reacted immediately, posted a screenshot of it to the forum, and immediately started the live broadcast.

Because she realized in an instant that the situation in front of her might be so important that it had to be recorded—

It was a tomb that didn't look much different from the surrounding "garage".

But what makes it peculiar is that...... In front of it stands a stone statue.

This is the first and only thing Dove has seen "beyond the tomb"—

The stone statue is not very high, less than two meters even with the addition of a half-meter-high pedestal. Because the person carved by the stone statue itself is quite short.

It was an old woman with a kind face and a compassionate smile, a thin and short figure, slightly bowed and squinting. Her appearance was quite ordinary, her face was full of wrinkles, like a grumpy old woman who gave candy to her children.

But even the skeleton has to bow his head to her.

- Then her identity is self-evident.

This old woman, whose appearance and figure are closest to ordinary people, and have no peculiarities at all, is the head of the twelve righteous gods.

She is the god of the Duchy of Mourning, the "bone picker", "the god of the living", "the god of silence", "the mother of embers and charcoal", the god of death and the earth - also known as the buried mother-in-law.

The boneless is the protector of all who are not buried...... She would gently bury all the dead bodies deep in the earth and rebury them. Only the dying could see her.

At the same time, the mother-in-law is also the one who dislikes to respond to high-level rituals the most...... With the exception of requiem rituals and bone-burying ceremonies, almost all rituals related to bone-burying mother-in-law are difficult to get a response.

Her silent personality is comparable to that of the Silent Lady.

This is understood by the ritual masters to be due to the "stability of the earth" and the "irreversibility of death". For "the earth and the dead are silent."

However, although the mother-in-law is very silent, compared with the righteous gods such as the Red Knight, the Old Grandmother, and the Suifui Father, the mother-in-law has a better temper - probably on the same level as the cup bearer and Miss Good Luck, and she has almost never seen anger.

In other words, in the history since the Tertiary Period, the mother-in-law has indeed never been angry. In her two thousand years of history, she has not actively attacked any mortals or transcendents...... Even the extremely rare "offending death" is usually left unattended.

Especially after the birth of the bell ringer, she cares less about those who "come back from the dead".

Even when the ritual masters prepare for the ritual, they usually do not take into account the "ingredients to prevent angering a certain god".

- When people ask for power in the fields of fire and light, war and veto, they will be very careful about whether their rituals are set up correctly and whether there are any materials in the rituals that violate taboos.

For example, the flint hated water—whether in a cup, in a well, in a swamp, or on his body.

Therefore, after calling on the power of the Flint Father, He will always dry the ritualist...... However, if the ritual field is too wet (for example, in a swamp), it will not only be impossible to borrow the power of the Flint Father, but it may also attract the attack of the Flint Father.

Mr. Yao, on the other hand, will have requirements for the nature of the ritualist. Because He is the god of purification, if the ritualist's mind is disturbed, and he is riddled with distracting and evil thoughts, the residual influence of his departure will naturally remove it.

But on the other hand, if the ritual master is truly wicked and unrepentant – then the Light will burn him to death.

It's the ritual of burying the bones, it's very simple.

The bone-burying ceremony used by the delicious wind goose with the assistance of stray children before, strictly speaking, did not even set up the sacrifices, and the ritual field was directly dug up in an instant with extraordinary ability, which was not solemn or serious at all.

But they still borrowed power, and they didn't discount it at all.

Longjing Tea thought to herself, if the mother-in-law is not so good-tempered.

Then the act of worshipping in front of her may appear to him on the spot and fight him......

- Yes, the bones are worshiped in front of the idol of the bone-buried mother-in-law.

And the process is quite formal.

I saw the skeleton man kneeling on one knee in front of the buried mother-in-law.

His left hand droops straight down, meaning to pay homage to the earth; And touch your forehead, eyes, ears, and lips with your right hand, and then press it on your heart.

This understanding means taking an oath not to think, not to see, not to hear, not to speak, not to live—these are the five rules of the dead.

If the deceased violates any of these guidelines, they will be judged as anomalous.

And the Skeleton Male, he is undoubtedly an anomaly of anomalies.

Behold, the corpse speaks......

"Death will be faced."

The skeleton man said calmly in front of the statue of the buried mother-in-law.

Although he did not look back and did not name names.

But Longjing Tea was still the first to react - he was talking to himself.

So he boldly asked, "Then ...... you?"

"—therefore."

The skeleton made a low, hoarse, old voice.

"Resistance to death is the greatest betrayal a person can make."