Chapter 60: The Sacrifice of the Mysterious Village
After Jingchen and Black Feather sent the little beasts back to the Shining Moon Forest, they casually found a place to rest for a while.
During the break, Jingchen took out the map again, and couldn't help but think of Chen Feng's words, go to the largest city nearby to find the people from the Demon Suppression Mansion!
Jingchen heard his father talk about the Demon Suppression Mansion, which opened branches in major cities in order to find out the movements of the remaining demons and eliminate them.
The leader of each branch of the Demon Suppression Mansion was one of the strongest in the city, and the vast majority of the powerhouses in the Divine Continent had joined the Demon Suppression Mansion.
Father marked the address of the nearest Demon Suppression Mansion to Jingchen on the map, and after a little thought, Jingchen gave up his plan to contact the Demon Suppression Mansion first, his perception of the map is due to Kunlun Pan, if there is not enough evidence to go there, it is easy to expose Kunlun Pan.
After adjusting for the night, the two set out on the journey again.
According to Jingchen's calculations, it would take about ten more days to get out of the Shining Moon Forest, and then he would be in the territory of the Tianyang Empire.
The place marked on the map is also in the Tianyang Empire, comparing the similarities between the two maps, Jingchen found that the place marked on the map is surrounded by almost no one goes to the deep mountains and old forests.
Unless the owner of the map wants to hide from people, he will not set the location in such a remote place. As for what you want to hide, it's only clear when you get there.
After resting, the two stopped and set off at full speed towards the place marked on the map.
"Big brother, hurry up! If you lose today, you have to make me something to eat!" Black Feather's figure galloped along a remote path, turning back to Jingchen behind him.
Hearing this, Jingchen shook his head helplessly, these days the two of them are almost competing in speed, and Jingchen has not won once.
Ever since Jingchen made a grilled fish, Black Feather seemed to be a little obsessed with the taste, and he couldn't help but swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva when he thought about it.
Jingchen doesn't care about Black Feather either, and it is not easy to make Black Feather's tricky mouth recognize his craft, and it can be regarded as adding a little fun to the boring itinerary.
Every time he passes through a city, Jingchen will stay for half a day to buy something.
Such days lasted for nearly a month, and the two of them were getting closer and closer to the places marked on the map, and it was at this time that Jingchen's heart suddenly became more and more uneasy.
Every time they got closer to their destination, the stronger the feeling in Jingchen's heart became, as if there was something terrifying waiting for them in that place.
Trying to shake his head, suppressing that sense of unease, Jingchen smiled bitterly, since leaving home, he has become more and more sensitive.
They only went to investigate the situation this time, even if there was something wrong with that place, they would leave immediately, as long as they couldn't solve it themselves, they would go to a nearby city and report it to the Demon Suppression Mansion.
After making up his mind, Jingchen told Hei Yu again, no matter what happened, don't do it lightly. If it is really a powerful demon clan, this kind of trouble is not within the scope of the two of them.
"Xiao Yu, the two of us will investigate the situation in the vicinity first, and we will almost reach the point marked on the map!" Jingchen glanced around, found that there was nothing unusual around, and looked at Hei Yu and said.
Black Feather nodded lightly and began to become serious. Although he is playful, he also knows which is more important.
Jing Chen's fingers quietly made a seal, urging the trace of Thunder Attribute Yuan Qi in his body, after such a long time of proficiency, his comprehension of Thunder Wan Jun was no longer as violent as it was at the beginning.
In addition to paying attention to fastness, the body method element technique is more unexpected.
Now it is used to probe the situation, if it is not a powerhouse in the spiritual cultivation realm, in the Yuan Force realm, there should be no one who is faster than him.
Of course, this does not include some wind attribute Yuan Qi cultivators, they major in speed, within the same level, even if the body method Yuan Skill they cultivate is a little higher, it is difficult to compare to the Wind Attribute Yuan Qi.
After Jing Chen mobilized the Thunder Attribute Yuan Qi, he and Hei Yu went in two different directions, and the two decided to find out the situation here first, and then come back to meet in half an hour.
Hei Yu's realm is completely stable at the first-order spiritual cultivation realm, and his strength is much higher than Jing Chen's, as long as he is not impulsive, he is much safer than Jing Chen's fifth-order Yuan Force realm.
In the two days since entering this area, Jingchen has not seen a single person, and there is hardly anything alive here except for some small alien beasts.
This also made Jingchen feel very surprised, although some places on the Chasing Wind Continent were sparsely populated, but a situation like this that no one could see was really weird.
Just as Jingchen reached forward, a strange muttering sound reached his ears. Jing Chen's nerves tensed instantly, and the Seven-Star Thunder Sword behind him was held in his hand almost instantly.
The fiery red Yuan Qi covered the sword body, dyeing the seven silver stars on the sword body red.
Jingchen quietly crouched down on a tree, holding his breath. There was no sound other than the rustle of the leaves of the trees.
After staying quietly for a while, Jingchen breathed a sigh of relief. Almost at the same time, the strange sound sounded again.
Jingchen felt a little nervous, this voice was like a chant, with a certain melody, and as if he was praying, it sounded very religious.
The chanting sound gradually became clear from the ethereal sound at the beginning, and Jingchen immediately reacted, the reason why the voice became clear was not that it had become louder, but that it had changed from the chanting of one person at the beginning to the chanting of dozens of people!
Jingchen followed the direction of the sound, standing on the top of the treetops and looking into the distance, there seemed to be a village not far away, although the distance was far away, Jingchen still saw the outline of the house.
After quietly touching it, Jingchen hid to the side, carefully observing everything that happened in front of him.
It was from this village that the chanting sounded, and when Jingchen walked to the entrance of the village, the sound was already very clear, and he could even imagine the scene of the sound coming out of dozens of people.
As far as Jingchen could see, he didn't find the source of the sound, it must have been in the depths of the village, and after standing there and hesitating for a moment, the thunder flashed and quietly touched the village...
The village doesn't look big, and it's the scattered houses that pile up to form what looks like a village of only a few dozen families.
The houses are made of bluestone bricks, which are so common that almost all the houses in small villages are made of this stone, which is cheap and durable. It's not a problem to exist for a hundred years.
The houses look to be some years old, many of them have been renovated, and presumably the village has been handed down for a long time.
In a square-like area in the middle of the village, Jingchen spotted the group of people chanting.
The leader was an old man in a linen suit, his face was smeared with red and blue paint, and his mouth kept chanting something that Jingchen didn't understand.
And the body is constantly writhing, with strange sounds, like dancing, but the strange movements have no beauty of dancing, with the people who look like villagers below, it looks like they are in... Sacrifice!
Turning his gaze to the area behind the old man, there was a girl tied there!
The girl looked to be only about six or seven years old, tied up there and crying incessantly, her crystal eyes full of fear.
I don't seem to know why the uncles and aunts in the village who have always been kind suddenly became like this.
Jingchen couldn't figure it out, after coming to Shenzhou, he found that the people here admired force and regarded personal strength as extremely important, so there shouldn't be such a sacrificial behavior.
It is better to believe in those gods than to believe in your own strength, besides, Jingchen has never heard of the existence of some creation gods in the Divine Continent.
I have only seen some powerful people in ancient books, and since those ancestors have become a thing of the past, it means that whether they disappear or live in seclusion, these people have no reason to sacrifice them, not to mention that this sacrifice is still a six or seven-year-old child!
"Sacrifice ceremony, begin!" the old man shouted after stopping the sacrificial dance.
They fell on their knees, and reverently laid their palms upwards on the ground, and their heads fell on the ground.
The two young men standing next to the old man put the little girl into the iron cage on the side, and the little girl kept struggling, but the two young people were strong, and the little girl had no room to resist at all.
The girl seemed to know her fate, and she cried loudly, and the tragic voice made Jingchen in the dark a little moved.
Jingchen shook his lips fiercely, and pressed down the struggle to save the little girl, he still didn't know the cause and effect of the matter, and making a rash move would only increase the trouble.
The place marked on Chanda's black map is probably near this village, and the village is worshipping at this time, so there is probably a great relationship between the two!
The two young men slowly lifted the iron cage that locked the little girl, turned around and walked towards the back mountain outside the village...