Under the setting sun, Chen Xu's hand caressed the volume of "Chronicles of the Strange and Mysterious."
While telling a story, he said to Wei Yuan:
"Human sacrifice is just the beginning. Later, people discovered that compared to offering prayers to the heavens, burying the dead directly in the ground was more effective in fertilizing the soil.
Opening up wasteland was arduous, lacking food was even harder. In this area, each day people would freeze, starve, and die of illness. So initially, the village didn't lack corpses.
Later, the village sorcerers researched a method using talismans to create human fertilizer, which sped up the land clearing..."
The faster land clearing resulted in the villagers of Xiaopo Village beginning to lack bodies.
