When the litter finally came to a stop, Ye Qing squinted at the signboard on the temple’s roof and muttered, “The Five Viscera Temple?”0

The temple was made from bones, and it looked like a bone giant without a head from the outside. There were five niches[1] placed at the east, south, west, north and center of the temple, but instead of statues, they held a human heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys respectively.1

All five organs looked bloodied and fresh. It was as if they had just been dug out of a living human’s body.0

Ye Qing narrowed his eyes some more. “A temple that was shaped like a headless human, and five organs placed in five directions to represent the five phases[2]. This is definitely the Five Viscera Temple.”2

Despite Chu’s best efforts to educate the people, there remained some places in the realm where the people were particularly ignorant and superstitious. One such superstition involved using the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys to build a Five Viscera Temple and worship the Five Temple God. They believed that they would gain his blessing and protection if they did this, and fresh viscera was the best offering they could give him.0

This was a thing even back in Ye Qing’s world where the supernatural didn’t exist, so of course...1