Chapter 25: Black Flame
"Twenty years ago, on the Dark Day, after the Eastern Beast Kingdom was beaten back to the 'Beast Cage' by the commander, they destroyed all the ghost soldiers as the price of the truce. At that time, we got a fragment of a scroll with the origin of the ghost soldiers. Wei Yun flipped through the booklet and explained to the others: "What I said above is that this is a witchcraft that is the inheritance technique of the ordinary human world that fell into the world during the end of the Great Apocalypse, a country called Da Nan. β
"Ahh Da Nan, I remember. Qin Qian suddenly came back to his senses and said, "Isn't this the only neurotic who deliberately took the opportunity to enter the central realm?" β
Meng Yu was still at a loss, obviously with no memory.
Wei Yun nodded and said, "That's right." It is a small country in the nether realm of barbarians, and they worship voodoo. Three hundred years ago, they deliberately entered this world because this world has something that their world does not have. They vainly try to gain great power, and then return to Yanlai's world to dominate. They had paid a great price to get here, and when they arrived at the Central Border, there were less than 200 people left. And the only one they could predict the future of the High Priest couldn't withstand the aura and died as soon as he came here. Then the high priest's apprentice succeeded to the priesthood. But he didn't have the talent of his master. β
"That priest can't predict the future, and he can't learn the prowess of other worlds. In the end, they went off the rails and set their sights on the beasts. They worship the power of the beast, so they let the princess conceive the cub of the beast, in a vain attempt to get a strong people. However, instead of growing their race, the plan taught the beasts a way to find humans to breed in order to have wiser offspring. β
"In the end, the people of Da Nan reaped the consequences of their own evil and were controlled by wild beasts. Twenty years ago, they developed the onimaru and gained the trust of the beasts, but the beasts were defeated, and the people of Dainan took the opportunity to escape. β
Wei Yun flipped the pages of the book and sighed, "That's all. Where they fled after that no one knows. β
"Huh? Wait a minute. Priest Mingyue stopped Wei Yuan from closing the booklet, and Wei Yuan hurriedly stepped aside for Priest Mingyue to see.
Priest Bright Moon turned the page back to the page where the fragment had been kept. There are a few fragments pasted there, which are things like Da Nan's secret method, but because the text is different, I can't see anything. And in those fragments, there are also many patterns.
Priest Bright Moon's finger pointed at one of these patterns.
"I've seen this pattern." Priest Mingyue said.
"Really?" Meng Yu suddenly came to his sensesβfinally came to a word that he understood.
"Hmm." Priest Mingyue said with certainty: "In the north of the city, in the peach forest outside the city. There was a small village in seclusion, and a few years ago the people of the village were infected with a plague and begged to go to the temple, and the temple reported to the temple. When I went to see them, I saw that every one of their houses had this pattern engraved on the door beams. Because they have a lower door, I can see it clearly, yes, this is it. β
"Haha!" Meng Yu laughed: "Look where they run." Wei Yuan, go, order troops to arrest people. β
Wei Yu saw that Meng Yu was full of interest, and knew that such a Meng could not be stopped, so he could only sigh and agree: "Yes." β
Qin Qian waved his hand: "You can just go, I will stay in the city to strengthen the patrol." After all, I don't know how many such 'ghouls' there are in the city. β
Meng Yu waved to Qin Qian indifferently: "Let's go first." β
Priest Mingyue also smiled: "Then I'll continue to get this ghost pill." β
Qin Qian smiled and arched his hand: "There is a priest, I will leave first." β
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Meng Yu ordered two hundred elite soldiers, prepared five iron cage cars, and went out of the city in a mighty way.
The elite soldiers are all lightly armored and speared, with broad shoulders and narrow waists, and tiger-striped hair buttons hold their long hair high, and they are mighty. Meng Yu rode in front of him, and when he saw the surrounding city people, he hummed a song triumphantly.
Wei Yun sighed helplessly - every time he led his troops out of the city, he was like this, and after decades, the general still couldn't get tired of playing.
When I went out from Bermuda and arrived at the peach forest in the north of the city, it was already afternoon.
The bright moon priest said that it was a peach forest, and it was true. The mountains are full of peach trees, but it's not the time for the peach blossoms to bloom, so it looks like a bleak branch.
"Is there really anyone living in this mountain?" Meng Yu frowned in disgust: "It looks eerie." β
"If it's spring, it's going to be beautiful." Wei Yuan said.
Meng Yu shrugged his shoulders and was noncommittal.
"The generals listened to the order, rested for a while, and in a quarter of an hour the detachment went up the mountain to find someone."
"Yes!"
There are three kinds of elite soldiers in the Shuaifu, one is spirituality, one is the supernatural, and the other is martial arts. Meng Yu brought this time to bring the martial arts-based elite soldiers, because this kind of elite soldiers have the most actual combat experience - there are more descendants of the Great Southern Wild Beasts, and the elite soldiers of the spiritual cultivators and the supernatural ones, the most studied is to kill with one hit, and the speed of the spiritual method and the ability is really ...... But this time they want to live.
A quarter of an hour later, two hundred elite soldiers began to search the mountain. Meng Yu and Wei Yu worked together to let go of their spiritual sense to probe the living beings.
"Strange." Meng Yu pondered for a moment and said, "How can this be, there is not even an animal. β
"It is possible that they deliberately dispersed the animals and beasts, after all, the villages in the mountains are different from the cities, and the beasts are also a threat to them." Although Wei Yun explained it this way, he inevitably felt strange, and it was not necessary to disperse the beasts in such a wide range.
But soon, a team of elite soldiers came with the news that they had been found.
Meng Yu rushed over with Wei Yuan.
It was a small village of a dozen families, all wooden houses, some of which were built on trees. As Priest Mingyue said, the doors of the houses here are low, and the door beams are indeed engraved with the kind of pattern on the fragments.
"Report to the general, no living creatures have been found." An elite soldier came to report.
"It's a little weird." Meng Yu pinched his chin and waved his big hand: "Guard the periphery of the village, and enter two teams of people to search." β
"Yes!"
Among the two teams, Meng Yu and Wei Yu were also among them - Meng was curious, and Wei Yu was Meng Yu, and he would go wherever Meng Yu went.
Sure enough, there was no one in the village, and everything in each hut was there, and it didn't look like they were packing up their things and running away. In some huts, there were still half-cut vegetables on the boards, and the firewood in the stoves still had heat.
This qiΔ shows that the people of this village evacuated in a hurry, suddenly.
"Could it be that the news has leaked?" Wei Yuan had to suspect that they had just found the clues of Da Nan, and the people of this village had evacuated just before them.
"Possibly." Meng Yu casually responded, and then his eyes lit up, and he pointed to the front and said, "Look at the tree, is that the altar or not." β
Wei Yu looked up to look, and Meng Yu ran over happily.
Under the big tree, a large wooden platform was built, and in the middle stood a column with blood stains on it.
Meng Yu ran up to the high platform and stood in front of the column to take a closer look, but he couldn't see why.
Wei Yuan also walked over, but as soon as his feet stepped on the wooden platform, he felt a wave of heat accumulating under the wooden platform, and it tended to get hotter and hotter. And this heat guard is very familiar - the flame circle.
"General, be careful!" Wei Yuan didn't have time to think about it, his first thought was to raise his hand and push Meng Yu off the high platform with his qi as his palm.
"Boom-"
Suddenly, a violent explosion sounded, and several feet of foul-smelling black flames burst out of the entire wooden platform, and the black flames engulfed the altar and also swallowed Wei Yuan's figure.
"Wei Yuan!" Meng Yu's heart skipped a beat, and then his eyes became animal pupils, and pale cyan scales began to spread from the corners of his eyes. His body tensed, ready to rush into the black flames.
"Bang!" At this moment, a red fireball suddenly jumped out of the black flames, and the fireball rolled on the ground twice before stopping. The crimson flames faded, revealing the sleeping Wei Wei within.
The scales covering his body disappeared immediately, he rushed over and picked up Wei Yuan, and roared: "Retreat a hundred meters, garrison the foot of the mountain, and capture all suspicious characters." β
"Yes!"
After Meng Yu finished roaring, he galloped back to Bermuda with Wei Yuan.
And in the depths of the peach blossom forest, in a condescending hidden cave, three people wearing white masks were quietly watching this qiΔ.
When Meng Yu left, a masked man at the head chuckled: "Although the future is disturbed by the arrival of the scarlet sun, but so what, the spirit has been floating for thousands of years, he is no longer the original scarlet sun." β