บท 451: Rewarding

The dense scent of blood reached directly to the sky, and not even the fragrance released from those ceaselessly burning spices could cover it.

For this sky-offering ceremony, two hundred thousand large-scale livestock would be sacrificed, but this livestock would not simply go waste. Instead, in the banquet soon after the offering ceremony, this slaughtered livestock would all become delicious dishes and be served to people who had participated in the sky-offering ceremony.

A hundred thousand non-humankind captives were sacrificed as well. Their dead bodies, which were still twitching, were thrown into the blazing ditch and burned to ashes along with those huge piles of spices. A fierce gale blew across the ditch, stirring up large clouds of white bone ashes, drifting in the air and flying to unknown places. In the next year, the soil of Pu Ban city would indeed become richer.