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Mai Xiaomai followed him out and came to a small hilltop.
The hilltop was swirling with quite a few vultures.
Below them squatted a man dressed in white hemp, holding a knife similar to a large machete, chopping away at something.
Mai Xiaomai saw that what he was chopping was astonishingly a human corpse that had been laid on a white cloth...
She felt a sudden chill run down her spine...
Could this be an encounter with a homicidal maniac?
"My grandfather is a Sky Burial Master."
Xiaomai was about to flee in fright, but stopped in her tracks upon hearing Pus say this.
She could understand the concept of a Sky Burial Master.
In the Tibetan regions of China, there is a custom of sky burial, where, after death, the body is consumed by "heavenly beings," typically vultures.
After the vultures eat the body chopped up by the Sky Burial Master and fly up into the sky, it is believed that the deceased's soul is purified and may ascend to heaven smoothly.
