Act 181 [Before the Decisive Battle] (Medium)
In Yaoguang City, the ancient temple that had been abandoned in the previous dynasties had been renovated at this time. The women dressed in black were carrying out the tasks left by Gu Yu when he left.
The soldiers of the Mexican Kingdom, who should have been kept in the dungeon of Yaoguang City, have been taken to the deepest part of this ancient temple by the women in black one after another since this ancient temple was rebuilt.
In the process, these Mexican soldiers were blindfolded. They don't know where they're going to be taken until the moment when the blindfold is finally removed. They saw a dark blue flame, burning in the deep darkness.
Before they could figure out what was going on, a blood-red arm suddenly appeared from the blue flames, pulling the person closest to him directly into the dark blue flames.
The women in black who had brought them here were now nowhere to be found. The Mexican soldiers, who were lucky enough to avoid this arm, immediately realized that a terrifying monster was hiding in the dark blue flames.
The wailing made all the eardrums tighten in the process, and the unprecedented fear ignited the most primitive memories in the souls of these Mexican soldiers in an instant. Although it was the first time they had seen this monster, everyone seemed to know what this monster was after it came out of the dark blue flames.
The heavy gate blocked the desperate roars of these Mexican soldiers in the main hall deep in the ancient temple. The black-clothed women guarding outside the main hall looked indifferent, as if they couldn't hear their voices at all. I don't know how much time has passed, but the snow in the sky has become bigger and bigger in the process.
When all the sounds in the hall fell completely silent, the blue flames gradually extinguished. A beautiful young man stood in the place where the blue flame had been burning, staring at the darkness in front of him suspiciously, and fell into a long contemplation.
He didn't seem to know what had just happened.
The women in black who had been waiting outside the main hall for a long time slowly pushed open the heavy stone door of the main hall after the beautiful boy regained consciousness. The strong smell of blood hit the face the moment the stone door opened.
As the light of the day fell into the dark depths of this hall, the beautiful boy finally saw the corpses in this place. At this time, there was no mercy in his eyes except for doubt and indifference. It seems that death has long been accustomed to him.
There was blood everywhere on the ground.
He was naked, staring directly at the women in black in front of him in silence. And after seeing the appearance of the beautiful young man at this moment, these women in black slowly put on the new clothes that had been prepared for him.
A moment later, surrounded by these women in black, the beautiful boy slowly stepped out of the main hall in the depths of this ancient temple. When the heavy stone door closed again, a dark blue flame ignited again in the deep darkness.
Soon, those women dressed in black will once again bring a new batch of Mexican soldiers. It also means that what happened here will continue to be repeated.
Right now, Chu Liang, as the acting city lord of Yaoguang City, didn't know that those Heavenly Martial Kingdom secret magicians (that is, the "Feather Fallers" of the Black Heaven Sect) who came with Gu Yu were secretly transferring those captured soldiers of the Mo Kingdom under his nose.
Although Lei Che had instructed Chu Liang to be careful of the remaining Tianwu people in the city before leaving Yaoguang City, and Chu Liang did send someone to secretly monitor them.
However, these are nothing more than useless actions for the "Feather Faller" who has become the secret master of the Heavenly Martial Kingdom. They can "steal" the time of these guys and wash away their memories. Therefore, for those who monitor them, they will not remember what the mystics of the Heavenly Martial Kingdom have done during the time they have been monitored, let alone what their plans are.
However, Chu Liang finally knew about it.
From the rumors, from the eyes of ordinary people who are not cared about by the "fallen feathers". Fragmentary information told Chu Liang that the women dressed in black were taking the captive Mexicans to the ancient temple that they had recently renovated. All the Mexican people who stepped into that ancient temple did not come out alive in the end.
So, Chu Liang went to the dungeon to check the number of those Mexican captives according to this rumor, and to his surprise, he found that the number of these Mexican captives had not decreased. Or rather, he didn't realize that he had fallen into the illusion of the Feather Fallen from the moment he stepped into the dungeon.
Out of prudence, Chu Liang went to the ancient temple to check again, but in the end he still found nothing. However, Chu Liangyou noticed that this ancient temple seems to have a lot of "new faces" recently. At first, Chu Liang thought that these new faces were all guards recruited from the city by the mystics of the Heavenly Martial Kingdom to guard this ancient temple.
These guards all wore special masks and wore the black armor that was characteristic of the Celestial Warrior Kingdom. Although Chu Liang didn't know what kind of faces were hidden under their cold masks, he had already realized that these mystics of the Heavenly Martial Kingdom might be engaged in some conspiracy that he didn't know about.
These Black Heaven Cultists, who had incarnated as secret magicians of the Heavenly Martial Kingdom, would send twelve soldiers of the Mo Kingdom into the main hall deep in the ancient temple every once in a while. When the "monster" in the blue flame devours them all, a new "life" will be born.
In other words, the twelve soldiers of the Mexican Kingdom will transform into a "warrior" of the Black Heaven Sect through the blue flame hidden behind the stone gate of the main hall in the depths of the ancient temple. The Black Sky Cult is building up an army of their own.
After Chu Liang left the ancient temple, he immediately contacted the spies he sent to monitor these "Heavenly Martial Kingdom Secret Magicians". At first, Chu Liang didn't notice anything wrong with these spies, until he asked about the "new faces" who appeared near the ancient temple, and the spies showed puzzled looks.
Obviously, they didn't know about this memory.
So, Chu Liang, who sensed that something was wrong, hurriedly dispatched the army to be stationed near the ancient temple, and sent more spies to observe the movements of these Heavenly Martial Kingdom secret magicians in the ancient temple. He himself went to the dungeons of Dawn City once again to verify the rumors he had heard earlier.
At this time, Qing Yan was dressed in black, and his face was solemn. According to the task left to him by Gu Yu when he left, he needed to push the boulders located under the ancient temple to the correct position, so as to correspond to the position of the boulders above the ancient temple and activate an ancient magic circle.
This ancient circle will strengthen the spiritual power of the "Featherfalls" within a certain range, which in turn will allow these "Featherfalls" to perform more powerful magical arts.
The structure of the ancient temple is divided into two floors.
When Qing Yan first came here, the upper layer was full of ruins and broken walls, as well as many signs of man-made destruction, in addition to the traces left by the wind and frost. Because the entrance to the next floor is hidden in an extremely hidden location, and there are many gravel to cover it, it really took a lot of time to find this entrance.
When he discovered this entrance, Qing Yan thought that this entrance was going to Dark Star City together. As a result, when he pushed open the stone door and saw all this inside, a familiar and unfamiliar force made him lose his perception of time and space.
If it weren't for the fallen feathers who followed him around him, even if he woke him up, perhaps Qing Yan would soon die in this underground palace as a mortal, allowing the "familiar and unfamiliar power" to erode him and finally be powerless.
Later, Qing Yan learned from the mouth of the fallen feather that this power was actually the rumored "chaotic elemental power", which was left by the night god "Shuo", and these powers could strengthen the spiritual power of the low-level fallen feather, so that they could perform some high-level magical arts. And the high-level Feather Fallen is very likely to fall into madness after coming into contact with this power.
At this time, although Qing Yan had the blood of "Shuo" flowing from Meng Jian, and obtained a part of Shuo's power, and would be manipulated by "Shuo" at some specific times, he was still a mortal body after all, and he could not absorb and use these "chaotic essence powers" to strengthen himself like the Fallen Feather One.
The lower floor of the ancient temple has a large space, and in Qing Yan's opinion, it is more like a long-abandoned underground palace. When the stone gate that had been sealed for many years was pushed open by Qingyan again, the "chaotic primordial power" left behind by "Shuo" was reawakened. Dark blue flames silently rekindled from the stone lamps on either side, and from near to far.
Guided by these stone lamps burning with blue flames, Qing Yan walked step by step to the depths of the underground palace on the lower level of this ancient temple. The "Chaotic Elemental Power" gets thicker and thicker the further it gets to the center. In order to prevent Qing Yan from being eroded by this terrifying power that only the Feather Fallen One could withstand, the accompanying Feather Fallen Feather Ones escorted him all the way forward.
Finally, in the deepest part of the dungeon, Qing Yan found the magic circle that Gu Yu had said earlier. As he stood on the perimeter of the circle, the Fallen Feathers around him spread their black wings and looked very happy.
Then, the feathered ones began to involuntarily hum the ancient ballad that Gu Yu occasionally hummed. In the song, the mysterious characters on the boulders in the circle gradually appeared and disappeared under the blue flames, as if they had suddenly come to life.
The center of the dungeon is where the "power of chaos primordial" is most thick. Hearing the accompanying Feather Fallen Ones humming this ballad, Qing Yan immediately realized that they might be using the song as a key to open the circle in the center of the dungeon.
As a result, to Qing Yan's surprise, the power that had been sleeping in his body also reawakened when the Feather Fallen Ones hummed this song around the circle.
In the process, a memory that did not belong to him also surfaced in his mind out of thin air in this burst of singing. Perhaps it was the amount of information in this memory, or perhaps the Fallen Feathers around him were so busy humming ancient songs that they forgot to protect him from the erosion of the "Chaotic Elemental Power".
When the veins on those boulders turned completely dark blue, Qing Yan's eyes gradually turned blood-black, and he slowly walked from outside Stonehenge to Stonehenge. Then, the corners of Qingyan's mouth furrowed. Seeing the scenes behind this scene, the fallen feathers immediately shouted in unison:
"Chaos is order, and chaos creates order"