The Night Before Jingzhe, I Became a Ba Hui Vessel

[Folklore Distortion + Ancient Gods Awaken + Lovecraftian Reincarnation + Bone-Erosion Evolution]

“Bahui”: “The true form of the Minnan Goddess of the Womb, the serpent-shaped ancient god Bahui.”

To cure my younger sister's “bone erosion disease,” I trusted an old family remedy and brought her to a forbidden ancient town absent from every nautical chart: Huixu.

I thought it was our last hope. I never imagined we were walking into a sacrificial trap laid with painstaking care.

The townspeople use the flesh and blood of outsiders to appease the ancient god sleeping beneath the sea.

The merciful deity here is an evil thing called the “Goddess of the Womb,” and it feeds on blood relatives.

And I was chosen by the “Ghost Scales” as the perfect “true-weight sacrifice.”

When I was brutally sacrificed in the blood-red “Human Sacrifice Nuo” ceremony, only to wake again and again aboard the boat home, I finally understood: I was trapped in an endless cycle of death.

Beg for mercy, and I die. Fight back, and I die. Try to escape, and I die.

Until the ancient god whispered in my ear and told me the only way to break the deadlock: become its vessel.

To protect what I hold dear, I must devour divinity and embrace madness.

As bones pierce through my flesh, as scales cover my body, as each cycle makes me less and less human...

I gaze into the abyss, and the abyss awakens within me.

Seven cycles, seven lifetimes as a human.

This time, before the Night of Insects Stirring, I will overturn the gods' altar with my own hands!