Inside the palace, rows of meat hung in midair.

Zu An’s first reaction was that they were some form of preserved meat, but that didn’t seem right. When he looked more carefully, he realized that they were human corpses!

The internal organs of these human corpses had been emptied out, and their bodies were cut open down the middle and hung from the ceiling by hooks. They looked like livestock hung up on a butcher’s line.

Pei Mianman let out the breath she had been holding. “How could there be such cruelty in this world?”

Zu An also felt extremely disturbed. Even though they had seen many sacrificial pits along the way, the sacrifices within them had already turned to bones, and so the visual shock wasn’t as great.

These dried-up corpses had been air-dried, and had not turned to bone. Not only that, their bodies were displayed the way butchered livestock would be.

Even though he had always been aware of the concept of human sacrifices, it was never something he had come into personal contact...