[A Tale of a Mad Internal Organ Sacrifice]

[Recorder: Heavy Hammer Vanguard Captain Shen Donglin]

[Record Time: September 2057]

[This is Hammer Vanguard Squad, I am the captain and foreman, Shen Donglin]

[Two months ago, we received a special order to come here for excavation]

[Why special? Because after the excavation, we arrived at this town that shouldn't exist, and were trapped here as a matter of course]

[As for the details in between, there's no need to elaborate too much. I think anyone who sees this text should be able to understand our ordeal. Moreover, with "its" presence, we don't want to leave too much obvious information, so let's get to the point]

[In a 'altar' in this town, our translator deciphered an ancient story, said to be related to the origin of this town]

[The story takes place in a distant ancient time]

[A wise and powerful young man ascended to the throne as King within his tribe, and with diligence and strategy, he created a mighty empire in just a few years]

[Under the young man's rule, the people lived and worked in peace, the empire flourished, showing a vibrant and dynamic scene]

[There were no more hungry stomachs in the world, people did not need to worry about robbers and thieves when going out, and the social system was extremely fair and just]

[No corruption, no decay, no degeneration, no conflict]

[Everything seemed to be developing towards the best possible state]

[But obviously, there is nothing absolutely perfect in this world]

[As time went by, some ailments within the empire began to surface]

[Class stratification, widespread embezzlement, rampant banditry, the smiles on people's faces disappeared, replaced by growing despair and sorrow]

[And the source of all these changes lies with the young man who was the "King"]

[Orgy and indulgence obliterated his former grand ideals. A life of extreme extravagance led him to fall into it. So he began to ignore the world, focusing only on pleasure and enjoyment]

[Thus, some opponents raised the flag of rebellion, seeking to overthrow his empire]

[But the young man was simply too powerful]

[Wearing a leather mask, on the battlefield, he was nearly invincible, capable of overwhelming thousands alone]

[No matter how many rebels there were, none were a match for him]

[From the description in the story, perhaps among those rebels there were ancient Apprentice Death Gods, capable of controlling beasts...]

[But all the rebellions ultimately failed, without exception]

[People didn't understand why the young man couldn't be killed навіть коли його відрубали руку чи пронизували серце довгими списами]

[The young man seemed to have an "Undying Body", any damage he suffered healed instantly and restored him to his original state, sometimes even stronger than before the injury... (Aurora's note: An Undying Body, perhaps a crucial piece of information)]

[Helplessly, people could only seek another way]

[Since the "outside" couldn't be breached, they started from the "inside"]

[With this thought, some opponents considered "poison", the oldest assassination tool]

[But ordinary poison was clearly ineffective against an almost immortal young man]

[Therefore, they found a... presumably a Apprentice Death God with a Doctoral Sequence, who crafted a poison specially targeting the immortal, and successfully had the young man's favorite consort pour the poison into his mouth]

[After that, the young man's flesh began to collapse]

[He took off his mask, and only then did people discover the terrifying truth that during those decades, the young man had never aged, maintaining the appearance he had when he first left the tribe! (Aurora: Wait... Eternal youth?)]

[Then, the young man went mad... killing his own consort with his own hands, executing all the rebels, and even taking down the Doctoral Death God]

[But none of this stopped his collapse]

[In fact, the young man was able to have an undying body and eternal youth because he held "sacrifices" occasionally]

[He would have his subordinates slaughter slaves and consume their internal organs, thereby gaining powerful abilities of immortality and eternal youth through some unknown principle for a period of time (Aurora: Just like the depiction in the tunnel door earlier, could that be the young man's story?)]

[It can be said that the foundation of the young man's rule was based on this sacrifice]

[However, after inadvertently ingesting the poisoned substance, the sacrifice lost its effect... or strictly speaking, its effect weakened greatly]

[No matter how incessantly he consumed internal organs, he could only just sustain his life, but had no way to counteract the deterioration of his flesh]

[Clearly, he didn't want to die, but the situation was no longer under his control]

[In the end, he became a shapeless mass of rotting flesh, completely losing the ability to think, surviving only in pain and regret]

[Thus, the empire naturally collapsed, and the young man himself vanished]

[But to people's surprise, the young man, once hailed both as a "sage king" and a "tyrant", actually did not die]

[His other consort, the first wife who had accompanied him since his rise, quietly left with the rotting flesh and established a town in a remote corner of a secluded world, sealing the young man there]

[Thereafter, the Princess Consort tried every way possible to resurrect the young man and rid him of the poison, to achieve a truly "perfect body"]

[A real perfection free from poison, immune to time, unafflicted by disasters from blades and arrows]

[And astonishingly, the Princess Consort actually found a method]

[She extracted parts of the young man that hadn't decayed yet — five organs: the lungs, the heart, the intestines, the stomach, and the liver, and placed them into specially crafted Curse Pottery Jars, burying them deep underground]

[According to her, the organs were the source of the young man's power, and the reason they couldn't regenerate was merely because they were affected by the poison]

[By burying the organs in the earth, allowing them to settle and nourish over a long period, they could slowly shed the poison and return to their original state]

[At the same time, the nutrients of the land would further nourish the organs, gradually perfecting the young man]

[Once the organs were fully restored and all five were gathered together, the young man's consciousness would return from the world of the dead, reclaiming his throne]

[Thus, the story basically comes to an end]

[Interestingly, the entire story's author is none other than the Princess Consort who created the town and executed the "organ sealing" action...]

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