That thing looked like grass, but if you stared at it closely, the grass seemed to be alive, constantly writhing inside the bottle!
And beneath the magic altar, there was a circle of odd boxes arrayed, with red, white, and yellow substances sprinkled on the ground that looked like pigments or perhaps paper scraps, with blood-drenched symbols drawn all over the table and the floor.
Queen Jiya recited a few spells, picked up the box containing hair from the low table, and slowly descended from the magic altar, approaching a vessel resembling an incense burner beneath the altar. Inside it burned a flame fueled by corpse oil.
Liaodan's Great National Teacher Lei Da assisted her, helping her to take the hay out of a plate on the table, laying it flat on the table. The flames flickered, casting light upon the hay, which to their surprise started to move on the table.
