Six hundred and ninety-one Lost Souls
This technique of Iizuna was not actually invented by cultivators, but by those ninjas in Japan before, and it was a technique used by ordinary people. However, the Shinto ninja has improved this Iizuna technique, and the Iizuna sword is even more powerful when it is slashed with a blade with an aura attached. Thinking about the ninjas who besieged Li Huan at that time, they were only five or six layers of qi refining, which could make Li Huan embarrassed for a while, and Li Huan's current cultivation was thrown out of the Rice Gang Sword, which was simply terrifying.
Not to mention the body of the insect, you must know that there is a thick crystal jungle growing in this underground altar. The hardness of crystals is not bad, and in the ranking of known substances on the earth, the hardness of crystals can definitely be among the best. Every time Li Huan throws out the rice gang, he can cut a large piece of insects and crystals in half, which shows the great power of his rice gang. If Li Huan's current battle scene was seen by Japanese cultivators, it would be enough to make a large number of Japanese cultivators cry and faint by the toilet.
And this kind of technique is not too consuming aura, Li Huan is originally a pervert who has almost infinite aura as long as there is food, he thinks that if the insects are all of this strength, then the aura he has left now is enough for him to be starved to death before he is consumed. As long as you don't starve to death, then just by injecting spiritual energy into the oymagnum broadsword, you will definitely be infinitely blue than the plug-in, because the consumption is not comparable to the recovery.
When Li Huan was killing below, the people who stayed in the council hall to watch the 3D image of the fact left by Li Huan almost fell to the ground. Especially the high priest, if it weren't for the lizard by his side in time, his dry jaw might have really fallen to the ground. It's horrible. No one would have imagined that such a terrifying situation would appear inside the underground altar.
Because they built the altar themselves, they knew everything about it.
When the underground altar did not begin to sacrifice, that is, when the two thousand Aztec warriors did not sacrifice their flesh and blood. It's just an ordinary altarβit's really ordinary, so ordinary that it can't be more ordinary. The process of building it, because the Aztecs did not have many tools and materials, they had to dig on the spot. At a depth of 100 meters, it was originally a layer of soil that was not hard. After digging a huge cave here, they transported the stones mined from the outside into the underground altar through several passages, and then laid a huge plane on the underground altar, polished the plane and carved the sacrificial inscriptions on it, so that the altar was completed.
At that time, an altar was an altar.
However, when the witchcraft of the Yellow Springs Guardian was activated, the High Priest himself did not know that the Yellow Springs Guardian would bring such a great influence. First of all, the underground altar has become unrecognizable. According to Li Huan, those things are the remnants of the materialization of power. can make the power materialize, then what a terrible thing happened under this in the first place. Originally, the high priest thought that the 2,000 Aztecs who volunteered their lives would be drained of their flesh. But now, they must have experienced more terrible things to become like this. If this had been known beforehand, the high priest would have had the courage to sacrifice his own people as a sacrifice to activate the altar.
There is no doubt that these bugs are Aztecs, because Li Huan will continue to liberate his soul in the process of killing these bugs. In the large area of insects that were chopped into pieces by the rice gang, almost every once in a while, an insect burst out of a soul, Li Huan is now throwing the rice gang all over the place, while using the soul silk thread to pull those liberated souls, and now he has collected the souls of three or four hundred Aztec warriors.
"High Priestess, did you know that activating the altar with our own human lives would turn them into these disgusting bugs?" asked the eagle, holding Gardenia behind him, who was already trembling at the sight of patches of bugs.
"No, I swear to Quetzalcoatl I really don't know. The Yellow Springs Guardian is an ancient form of witchcraft. In fact, there are very few Aztecs who have seen it alive. No one knows what kind of impact it will have. If I had known that our valiant warriors would become like this, I would not have made this plan in death. This is a blasphemy against our valiant fighters. The high priest said, "But it's all right." You bring this heroic outsider, and he can help us solve this problem. Otherwise, even if we decide to leave this place one day, we won't be able to take these people away from the altar. β
"High Priest...... You see, it seems like it's coming to an end. The eagle suddenly pointed to the 3D image and said.
Li Huan is advancing while fighting. He didn't stand there stupidly. Although he was protected by three thugs, pulling his soul while throwing rice to destroy the insects, his feet were not idle. He knew that he was only at the entrance to the Crystal Jungle, and that these bugs must have come out of the depths of the Crystal Jungle. In the case that the power of the underground altar has been materialized into crystals, the formation mentioned by the high priest may not necessarily be depicted with spiritual power.
Li Huan led three thugs to advance while exterminating the insects, although the underground altar was large, it didn't take long for Li Huan to come to the center.
In the central area of the altar, Li Huan finally saw that formation. Li Huan guessed correctly, since the power of the underground altar has been materialized into crystals, how can the formation that is used as an output amplification power be constructed by spiritual power? Of course, Li Huan can't see what kind of formation this is, and probably no one in this world knows it, and even the Aztecs themselves think that it is an ancient formation that is about to be lost.
But based on the gorgeous multi-layered relief shape and the two huge outer rings inlaid with various mysterious symbols, Li Huan concluded that this must be the center of the formation in the underground altar.
Otherwise, no one had been to this place for hundreds of years, not only had no one visited, but they didn't know that the underground altars that had been sealed off had even given birth to a large crystal jungle, and they didn't even know that the Aztecs who had given their lives for this place had become a large swarm of insects.
If this wasn't a formation, wouldn't it still be a performance art that the insects had nothing to do when they were full?
"Is it this thing?" Li Huan pointed the camera at the sculpture, which can be said to be beautiful.
"Like...... It should be!" The high priest recognized for a while: "I know those symbols, why don't you try them?"
"How do you try this thing?" Li Huan was stunned for a moment, not to mention that Zhou Wei was a deadly insect swarm for the time being, Li Huan couldn't spare his hands to try this so-called formation at all, even if he was free and could free his hands, he wouldn't be able to operate it!
"You can inject some spiritual power...... "Use your spiritual power, surround the outer layer, I have a spell here......"
As he spoke, the high priest handed over to Li Huan the method of testing whether the formation was true or not, as well as the mantra, and specially instructed: "Outsiders." The mantra I have just given you is the mantra to activate this witchcraft, but you should not recite it all, because if you recite it all, the witchcraft will start again. You saw it, and I don't know what else will happen. β
"It's so dangerous, you Aztecs are all playing with their lives...... Li Huan complained, but this complaint is right, if you want to talk about playing with life, there is no one in this world who is more capable of playing with life than the Aztecs, they are playing with their lives all day long, either playing with their own or playing with others.
After Li Huan intercepted a spell, he injected his spiritual power into the outer circle of the "carving", and then recited a spell.
Suddenly, the beautiful carving immediately emitted a blue halo. As Li Huan recited the incantation, the entity of this formation began to surround
A circle of something similar to an electric arc - some arcs jumped out and smashed into Li Huan's spiritual power shield, making Li Huan's spiritual power feel a vibration. Li Huan secretly thought in his heart that this was worthy of being an altar that could only be activated by sacrificing two thousand people, but such a strong arc could be generated by reciting a spell, and the arc that jumped out at random just now was almost equivalent to a full-strength blow from a Qi refiner of the seventh layer of Qi refining - you know, it was just Li Huan intercepting a mantra, not reciting it completely, there is currently no living sacrifice nearby, and the process of the cottage can no longer be copied.
In this way, on the materialized formation, the arc that jumped out could be equivalent to a full blow from a Qi Refiner of the seventh layer of Qi Refining.
One can imagine how terrible it was when this altar was activated after sacrificing 2,000 Aztec lives, and after sacrificing 20,000 Spaniards alive and reciting the entire incantation. No wonder five or six hundred years have passed, and the three "Yellow Spring Guards" pyramids have broken through the ground, and there is such a powerful power, and the dead air emitted directly envelops hundreds of square kilometers of rainforest!
However, Li Huan soon discovered a benefit.
That is, the arc jump here has become a good helper for extermination!
Li Huan has a spiritual shield to cover himself and the three thugs, in fact, he just doesn't cover it, and the three thugs, especially the reefback turtle, will not suffer any serious damage. But in the eyes of those bugs, the jumping arc has become a deadly fence, in fact, after Li Huan recited a few more incantations, the jumping arc has formed a sphere, wrapping Li Huan and the three thugs inside.
Li Huan relied on his strong spiritual power to protect the hard top, but the insects outside were not so lucky.
Around Li Huan and the three thugs, thousands of insect characters gathered densely in this vast crypt, blocking every inch of space here from the sky to the ground, although Li Huan's rice gang is sharp, but at most it can only pass through the bodies of dozens of insects and is powerless - and limited to the length of the big knife, each rice gang is only about two meters in diameter at most, and the rice gang can kill nearly a hundred insects, although this efficiency is already very high, but in the face of the boundless insect tide, this speed is still too slow.
And when Li Huan was testing the formation, the unexpected appearance of the arc ball made him open up a new world of insecticide.
Li Huan injected spiritual power into this materialized formation, and the arc was a derivative of this formation, but its strength was still not to be underestimated for insects. The insects didn't have much intelligence, they only knew that they were overwhelmingly surging towards Li Huan, but the damage of the arc to them was too deadly. Each arc hitting a bug can be transmitted to the next bug like a chain of lightning conduction, often as long as an arc hits a bug, hundreds of bugs are electrocuted. And an arc in the shape of a hood has been formed, except for the onslaught on Li Huan inside, any bug that comes close to its attack range will be sanctioned by the arc. Li Huan could see clearly inside, because there were too many insects, there was almost no gap between the insects and insects, so from the outside, the entire arc ball continued to emit arcs, and the surface seemed to have expanded a large circle - the frequency of the arc was too high.
This unexpected joy made Li Huan excited.
"Why is there an arc?" asked Li Huan in the intercom system.
"I don't know, this sorcery is too old......," the High Priest muttered, "but if you have to give you an answer, that's all I can tell you." I guess this is the self-protection of the witchcraft of the Yellow Springs Guardians. Before the witchcraft is officially activated, in order to protect the altar and the formation, there will be an electric arc around it, so as not to be disturbed by something else when the formation magic is activated. β
"It seems that your formation is quite scientifically designed. Li Huan praised: "Otherwise, with so many insects, I really want to fight for a while." β
"Quetzalcoatl bless. The High Priest nodded.
However, Li Huan also found other problems: "Your Quetzalcoatl God will not bless you, let's talk about it first, but did you find a problem? Since more and more bugs have come here, I just estimated that I have killed more than ten times the previous ones." Why are there no more souls? If you kill about 1,000 bugs, you will have a soul, and I still don't see a soul after killing 10 times as many bugs. Will their souls go somewhere else? If it goes on like this, I haven't seen the end of the insect tide yet, and the time for the protection of the formation is definitely not infinite. β
"That's what you say......" The high priest hesitated, "What about your suggestion?"
"How do I know, I don't even know how your witchcraft works, you ask me. Li Huan complained: "I don't think the mechanism to protect it can run for a long time, there must be a limit, it's best to think about where the rest of the people go before this mechanism stops, otherwise I may not be able to stop so many bugs." β
As if to confirm Li Huan's words, as soon as Li Huan's words fell, the arc circle suddenly shrank by a circle, and the volume seemed to be reduced by a circle, and the frequency of those arcs flying in the sky was no longer so fast.
"Grass, what are you talking about!" Li Huan scolded: "Think about it, where else can their souls appear?"
"Well, I'm hard to say......" said the High Priest, "Quetzalcoatl bless ......"
"Still blessed by Quetzalcoatl, your Quetzalcoatl has been killed by a ballistic missile, you might as well think about it now, where to find the rest of the soul. Li Huan said: "Otherwise, I will immediately break this formation, don't blame me for not fulfilling my promise." Although I promised you to take out two thousand people, there must also be a limit, so far, I have killed so many insects, I have not seen a single soul, and I have added up to ...... Well, about 1,500, where is the remaining 500? If you can't think of it anymore, don't blame me for not keeping my promise, you can't trap me in it, right?"
"They will come out!" said the High Priest.
"Come out, where did you come from? You can't say that there was a thunderclap, I'll wait for them to appear on their own, right?" Li Huan scolded. This damn high priest has pitted himself into misery. Although he said the way to leave this world, just destroy the formation. The almond copper broadsword in Li Huan's hand now can complete this task, as long as the broadsword smashes it, it can immediately smash this already materialized formation into pieces.
Li Huan is not the kind of villain who is treacherous. But he also said it very clearly. There's no reason to trap yourself here for an impossible promise. If the soul of the Aztecs will continue to be liberated now, then Li Huan will hold on even if he grits his teeth, and he will definitely not say a word. But now, after killing more than ten times as many insects as before, and still not seeing a single liberated Aztec soul, Li Huan has reason to suspect that they are no longer among these insects.
"You, you're trying. The High Priest said.
", no matter how hard I try, you don't expect them to fall from the sky...... right" Li Huan said.
Of course, Li Huan said so in his mouth. He said that he wanted to directly smash this materialized formation, but he didn't do anything after saying it several times. Because he knew that there were still 500 lost souls waiting to be saved. Through these insect swarms, Li Huan can know that the Aztecs are living too miserably in this underground altar, they not only sacrificed their own flesh and blood, but also turned into insect swarms, God knows how these insect swarms have changed?
He sacrificed his body for the sake of his country, and eventually became a worm and was trapped forever in this dark underground altar
, Li Huan really couldn't bear to see them so miserable, so he wouldn't give up as long as he had a little strength left. But Li Huan is actually very conflicted now. He didn't know how many other swarms there were, although Li Huan hadn't counted them carefully from the beginning to the present. But a rough number he knows. Li Huan himself and his three thugs eliminated nearly 50,000 or so bugs in total. Now the Crystal Jungle floor has been covered with a thick layer of insect corpses. As long as you step on it, it will have a sticky feeling, which will make people goosebumps fall all over the body. It's not just the feet, it's the sticky corpses everywhere you look, and the air is filled with a pungent smell, and God knows how long it will last.
Gradually, Li Huan began to be a little irritable, he began to inject more aura into the oliven copper broadsword, and the power of the rice gang doubled every time he swung it, and the length of the rice gang changed from two meters at the beginning to five meters, ten meters...... The huge rice gang swept everything, and the insect tide was suppressed again, but Li Huan's aura began to decline rapidly.
"Li Huan, you can't be so brutal, I feel that your body is already very tired. Xiao Fei reminded: "Your current consumption has exceeded your recovery many times." β
"Then how long are we going to fight here?Where did those five hundred souls go......" Li Huan was very depressed.
If you take your time, you can still keep your consumption and recovery on an equal footing at a very perfect level, that is, the state that he will not consume his light aura when he starves to death at the beginning. But that state was too slow to destroy the swarm, and the speed at which the swarm came in was much faster than they could eliminate. Moreover, Li Huan's biggest reliance, the layer of arc that the formation materialized, has begun to flicker and darken, and it has obviously been compressed to the extreme. The protection of this formation is very strong, but in the face of so many suicidal bugs, God knows how long it can last.
Li Huan wants to complain very much now, how can a good formation attract so many insects!? Huangquan Guardian is Huangquan Guard, how can it have anything to do with insects!?
"Kebley, Kebley, is this a conjuring spirit, or is it a worm to disgust people...... What does Kebley mean!" Li Huan was about to go crazy, and he didn't care if his aura was declining rapidly, and the overwhelming insects made him feel confused.
"I probably know. Xiao Fei said in the spiritual power channel: "At the beginning, I was searching for the meaning of this word, but there are too many possibilities, and now that I combine the situation of the underground altar, I probably know what Keyeli means." β
"What is it?" Li Huan asked.
"No, it's supposed to be the name of a god. Remember when the High Priest said that the skill sorcery wasn't actually Aztec, but was improved by a genius priest who had unearthed and improved on an ancient kingdom that had perished. At the time, I didn't know what the word meant, but now that I combine so many bugs, and combine it with what it says is dead, this should be an ancient Egyptian witchcraft, Kebli, the name of the scarab god worshipped by the ancient Egyptians. Xiao Fei said: "It should be right." It represents perdition and rebirth. β
Kable, the scarab god in ancient Egyptian mythology, was regarded as the morning sun and was another godhead of Ra, symbolizing sunrise and rebirth. Because the rising and setting of the sun is related to the scarab rolling dung balls and holding eggs, the symbol is the scarab beetle. However, there was no place dedicated to the sacrifice of Kebley, who was often seen as the embodiment of Ra. In fact, there were times when Kebli and Atum, another sun god, were seen as the sun in the morning and at dusk, respectively, while Ra symbolized noon. The scarab beetle is the symbol of the Kabley, so most of the Kebli idols are actually the scarab. Occasionally, tomb paintings and papyrus depict a male Kabli with a beetle's head, and it also appears as a scarab in the solar boat on Nunn's ferry.
Of course, there are also people who say that the scarab beetle is a symbol of death, and there are many such claims.
For example, there is a true record of a South African woman owning a scarab beetle-shaped gemstone stolen from Tutankhamun's tomb, but the woman and the family of the previous owner of the jewel have suffered a series of misfortunes, and the woman no longer dares to own the jewel, and has written to the Egyptian Ministry of Culture for help, hoping that the Egyptian government can send someone to take back the pharaoh's tomb ornament and help her lift the so-called "pharaoh's curse".
The scarab-shaped ornament, carved with Libyan meteorite, was first circulated in Egypt after it was stolen from Tutankhamun's tomb. Later a South African seafarer won it from the gaming table and brought it to South Africa. Shortly after the seafarer gave the ornament to his daughter, he died during a sea trip. A few days after the seaman's body washed ashore, his daughter also died of leukemia. The seafarer's wife, believing that the scarab jewel had brought bad luck to the family, sold it to a South African woman, who died of leukaemia shortly after the South African woman obtained the scarab beetle.
The woman decided to find a new owner of the jewel after hearing that the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt had caused the mysterious deaths of several people, but her husband died the day before the transaction. The woman and the family of the previous owner of the jewel have suffered a series of misfortunes, so that the woman no longer dares to own the jewel, and has written to the Egyptian Ministry of Culture for help, hoping that the Egyptian government can send someone to take back the pharaoh's tomb ornament and help her remove the so-called "pharaoh's curse". In the midst of her grief, the South African woman began searching the Internet for information about Tutankhamun, and finally decided that returning the "scarab" ornament to the Egyptian government might be the only way to break the "curse of the pharaohs".
Unfortunately, not long after she returned the "Scarab", she also died.
If that's what you say, it makes sense.
Perhaps it was the genius high priest who, while traveling, somehow found a copy of witchcraft in ancient Egypt. This witchcraft is derived from the scarab and the like. When it comes to witchcraft in this world that summons the return of the dead, if the ancient Egyptians recognized the second, then probably no one can recognize the first. In this regard, even China's Qi Refiners have to admit it. In ancient Egypt, there were countless kinds of witchcraft that spoke to the dead and summoned the dead to be reincarnated. After the fall of the ancient Egyptian dynasty (which is not part of the current Egyptian dynasty), these witchcraft gradually disappeared, and the Aztec high priest did not know where to get it, and finally improved it into the exclusive domain of the Aztecs.
But apparently his improved method went to the extreme, in addition to summoning the return of the dead, he also summoned a large number of bugs, and Li Huan was now fighting against these bugs.
Now that you know this, countless people from ancient Egypt are associated with scarabs. Then these Aztecs turned into insects, Li Huan can understand it very well. The ancient Egyptians had a very paranoid hobby of insects, maybe this witchcraft originally had no side effects, but under the improvement of the genius high priest, it became like this, although Li Huan said that he wanted to give up, but he did not plan to stop before burning the last aura. And although the arc of that materialized formation is getting weaker and weaker, it has also killed and injured countless insects, and now the two sides are just fighting for endurance.
Either the insects were consumed by Li Huan's side, or Li Huan was consumed to death by the insects' side - because although Li Huan hated to break his word, he wanted to see if he could liberate a few souls after fighting the last bit of aura, but if it really reached the point of exhaustion, Li Huan would not be stupid, he would smash the core of this formation at once, according to the high priest, once the core of the witchcraft formation was destroyed, this abnormal world that was stuck would not appear.