Chapter 383: Sacrifice
The undercurrents of the gates of Middle-earth are turbulent, and thousands of miles away in southern Xinjiang, after the beast and demon catastrophe, the people of all ethnic groups rebuilt their homes wordlessly. Although this is the place that has suffered the most, it seems that no one remembers it in the world. Anyway, the wasteland of southern Xinjiang is not in the sight of the rich people of Middle-earth.
In Qilitong, where the Jin clan lived, the scars brought by the beast demons were still visible everywhere, but on top of the ruins, many brand new houses had been built. On the mountainside of the back mountain of Qilitong, the mysterious altar entrance, there are still many sacrifices in and out, in this moment of ruin, the blessing of the ancestors is particularly important to the Jin people.
Seeing the sun setting in the west and the night falling, many gold people have returned to their homes, relaxed their tired bodies, and after dinner, they gradually fell asleep in the starlight sprinkled by the stars.
In the dead of night, a white figure appeared in the Qilitong, like a faint glow in the darkness, a few ups and downs in the quiet valley, and it had quietly approached the foot of the altar in the back mountain.
At the entrance to the mountain, there are still two golden soldiers guarding, the night wind suddenly blows over, they only feel that suddenly a white light as fast as lightning swept in front of them, and the faint fragrance is like a night flower lightly, and they can't help but be in a trance.
In their depth, a ghostly white slender figure, as if slowly oozing out of the darkness, appeared on the platform at the entrance of the altar, dressed in white, charming and infinite, it seemed that the starlight in the sky was attracted to her, but who was not Xiaobai?
She glanced around a few times, and then looked into the dark cavern, although it was still pitch black, but Xiaobai's gaze slowly flowed, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. Immediately, he seemed to feel something, shook his head silently, and sighed lightly.
The defenses here were much worse than she expected. Don't say that the stout soldiers at the bottom of the mountain should have many sacrificial guards with witchcraft in this altar, which is almost defenseless like what is in front of them, it seems that the beast demon catastrophe is really a heavy loss for the Jin clan.
In fact, it's not just the Jin clan in front of him, looking at the world, for the sake of the beast god alone, I don't know how many innocent people have died and been displaced, and it's really hard to say what is right and wrong.
Xiao Bai shook his sleeve slightly, didn't think about it anymore, his body swept up, and turned into a white shimmer of light and swept straight towards the cave. Most of the cave is still the same as before, the path has not changed, and there is a torch on the stone wall at a distance, and it is still the same as before. It's just that Xiaobai perceived it and found that there were very few people in this cave near and far, even a few people were breathing slowly
Slow and steady, I think I fell asleep.
Xiaobai didn't bother to pay attention to it, and flew silently in the cave according to the path in her memory, with her thousand-year-old Taoism, not to mention these lowly Jin clan sacrifices, even those who have profound cultivation, may not be able to notice her. In a few moments, she was outside the spacious cavern where the Great Wizard had lived.
At this point, Xiaobai stopped, frowned slightly, and looked into the cave, although it was far away, she already felt that there was another person in it, and this person seemed to be different from the others she felt just now, at least he was not sleeping.
In the cave, the blazing flames still emitted bright light, and in the bright shadows, the stone statue of the dog god loomed in the light and shadow. Xiao Bai's gaze stared at the dog's head on the statue for a moment, then retracted it and landed in front of the fire.
A young figure sat in front of the fire, with his back to the hole, and Xiaobai couldn't see his face clearly, but could only roughly see that it was a young man. I saw him facing the blazing flames, drawing mysterious and strange patterns in front of him from time to time, and at the same time reverently reciting something in the Jin clan in a low voice.
Xiao Bai quietly came behind the man, and the fire gradually shone on her body, and pulled a long shadow behind her. She listened intently to the man's low, song-like voice, which echoed through the ancient cavern, as if to tell something.
The deep voice seemed to be endless, and from the side, the young Jin priest was full of piety, and most of them had fully integrated into the illusory world.
A trace of confusion gradually appeared on Xiaobai's face, and then he sighed softly. This strange sound immediately alarmed the young Jin priest, and his body shook, and he was about to turn around to see what was going on, but before his body moved, a delicate and white palm flashed in front of his eyes, and then landed on his head and patted it gently.
The young Jin priest suddenly rolled his eyes, his body trembled, and in a moment he lost consciousness and fell to the ground beside him.
The mysterious chanting sound in the cave, along with the echo, quietly calmed down, Xiao Bai looked at the young face, suddenly smiled, and said softly: "Whether there is that dog god, and whether the dog god will protect your people, I don't know, but with such a pious person as you, I guess the great wizard can rest assured." ”
After saying that, she shook her head slightly, bypassed the young priest's body and the fire, and walked straight towards the statue of the dog god. For a long time, the Jin people believed in the dog god, believing that the dog god had given them a new life and blessed the reproduction of this clan, so that even if it was a sacrifice in this cave, they would not dare to approach this god statue easily.
And at this moment, Xiaobai stood in front of this black stone carved dog god statue.
The remains of the statue are carved from black stone, a specialty of southern Xinjiang, and the color is black and shiny, and there is a faint silver light, which emanates from it. Xiao Bai knows a lot about southern Xinjiang, and naturally knows that this is not a miracle of the dog god that many Jin people believe in, but just a very rare alien species in the black stone, which contains shimmering silver chips to form this mysterious and beautiful glimmer.
However, the purpose of her trip was naturally not to see this statue of the dog god of the Jin clan, after a while, her attention was focused on the dog's head, this statue did not know how long ago passed down, the carving skills are skillful, lifelike, delicate, without the slightest ambiguity, if it were not for the obvious stone in front of him, it would almost make people think that it was a black dog that had been opening its mouth slightly.
On the head of the statue of the dog god, the most conspicuous place is a pair of eyes, in a trance, there seems to be a god, and he is also silently staring at Xiaobai.
Xiao Bai's heart was suddenly shocked, she took a step back, and the pressure on her body was relaxed, and her consciousness immediately came to her senses, she frowned slightly, glanced at the idol again, and snorted: "There is still such a confusing prohibition." Then she pondered, pondered for a moment, still a little confused, and said softly, "But this is clearly the Tao of Middle-earth, how can it appear here?" ”
She thought silently for a moment, then shook her head lightly, leaving the boring thought behind. For her at the moment, this was naturally not what she wanted to explore. She looked at the idol again, and finally her gaze fell on the lifelike eyes of the idol, and she seemed to hesitate for a moment, and pressed lightly on the eyes that were so black and pure.
Suddenly there was a dull roar in the ancient cavern, which was not loud, but it seemed to make the spacious cavern tremble. The ancient statue of the dog god was in front of Xiao Bai, and in that low roar, it slowly descended and sank into the ground, until most of its body was covered, and only the head of the idol remained on the ground.
Behind the statue, a smooth stone wall appeared, and unlike the surrounding stone walls, it seemed to be shrouded in a faint black gas, which made it difficult to see. But this is no longer difficult Xiaobai, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, stepped forward, embroidered robe waved, a light breeze immediately swept from the bottom of her hand, swept over the stone wall, and blew away the black air.
A little golden light suddenly appeared on the stone wall, and after a while, I saw that it was another point, and a little bit of golden light appeared like a spring on the stone wall, forming a magical picture and text, and even Xiaobai, who was standing not far away, was slightly refracted by the golden light on his face.
Xiaobai stared at the mysterious pictures and texts presented in front of him in turn, and his eyes flowed, and he looked at them line by line. In front of her was the last secret of countless ancient witches, her gaze jumping, sometimes frozen, sometimes joyful, and finally, she saw the huge fire dragon pattern that roared into the sky and was unruly.
Xiaobai took a deep breath, a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and then, she confirmed it again, and then closed her eyes slightly, as if she was silently memorizing, remembering these pictures and texts in her heart.
When she opened her eyes again, the Ying Ying swept over the stone wall like water and waves, and said to herself: "I didn't expect those guys to still have this hand, could it be that they already knew that the Wu Clan was going to be destroyed?" ”
As she spoke, she smiled faintly, and seemed to bother to pay attention to the troubles of the ancients who didn't know how many years ago. When she turned around, she suddenly frowned, and her eyes suddenly froze, but it fell on the golden picture and text, and under the rampant huge fire dragon pattern, there seemed to be a small piece of black qi that was different from the surroundings, and was still attached to the stone wall.
Xiao Bai was slightly surprised, and pondered for a moment, after all, she still didn't want to let go easily, and was about to check, when suddenly her heart moved, Huo Di turned around suddenly, her eyes were instantly cold, and she looked coldly.
The vast cavern was empty, except for the occasional crackling of wood from the burning fire, and there was not a single figure except for the young priest who was still unconscious on the ground.
Xiao Bai's eyes drifted over the young priest, and after carefully looking at the surrounding caves, after making sure that there was nothing unusual, she frowned slightly and slowly turned around.
Could it be that he has been in this strange place for too long, and he has become a little suspicious?
Xiao Bai shook his head, smiled bitterly, calmed down, and then raised his hand, and the light wind blew out, but the force was greater than just now, and after a while, the remaining black gas finally dispersed.
On the stone wall, there are indeed several lines of text.
Xiaobai's spirits perked up, and after a while, a surprise suddenly appeared on her face, and she blurted out: "It turns out that the soul conjuring technique is here..."
It's just that as her gaze moved, the joy gradually faded, and was replaced by a heavy and confused look. Finally, after reading all the words, she slowly took a step back, as if spiritual, and the small black qi suddenly surrounded her, covering the mysterious lines of handwriting again.
Xiao Bai lowered his head slightly, was speechless for a long time, and sighed softly for a long time, and said softly: "I see, the ancient witch clan is so destroyed, this... But how is this good, should I tell her this? ”
She seemed to have suddenly encountered great confusion in her heart, and she hesitated for a moment.
The black qi that was blown away by the wind slowly condensed again, and the text pattern that originally emitted brilliant golden light was slowly covered up again, Xiaobai slowly turned around, and the low roar behind her sounded again, and the statue of the dog god rose back to its original position, covering the secret.
In the ancient cave, everything returned to calm. Xiaobai's figure slowly paced out, she walked very slowly, and she could see that she was preoccupied, but after a while, her figure finally disappeared into this cave.
The silence came back here, and I don't know how long it took, the ancient statue of the dog god silently stared at everything in this cave, and the light reflected in her eyes seemed so deep.
Suddenly, the body that had been lying on the ground moved, and the young Jin priest carefully got up and looked towards the entrance of the cave. There was silence and no movement, and it was clear that the mysterious woman in white had just left.
He breathed a sigh of relief, his body that had been tense slowly relaxed, smiled bitterly, and said in a low voice: "It's so dangerous, if it weren't for my clan's autism magic and the destruction of the six senses, I really couldn't hide it from her..."
Then, his gaze suddenly became hot, and he turned sharply to look at the statue of the dog god.
Among the Jin people, they have always been afraid of the gods, especially the statue of this god that has been worshiped since ancient times. Since he was a child, this young man said that when he touched this statue, it was very rare to look at each other, because in the rules of the clan, it was also a great disrespect.
But at this moment, there was a raging flame in his eyes, and it seemed that his body was also starting to get hot, and he stared at the idol, and the eyes of the idol seemed to be staring at him.
Immediately after, it seemed that a huge invisible force suddenly drove behind him, and the young priest tightened his teeth and walked towards the idol step by step. The ancient idol reflected the figure that was getting closer and closer, as if it was also a little sad.
Finally, he walked up to the idol, his trembling hands slowly raised, pausing and pausing in mid-air, but finally reaching out, the expression on his face seemed to be pain, struggle, but more like being scorched and tormented by a flame!
It's just that the hands, after all, have not been withdrawn, and they are on the double mou of the god statue.
In an instant, a low roar sounded again, and the whole cave began to tremble slightly, and the idol slowly sank into the ground again, and the mysterious stone chamber was in front of you.
There was a frenzied fire in the eyes of the young priest, and he could no longer bear it, and rushed forward, waving his hands. Suddenly, the black gas was scattered in all directions. The golden light slowly emerged again, illuminating his face.
Ancient text patterns, which seemed to have demagogic connotations, appeared one by one in front of his eyes. His expression was like drinking wine, with an indescribable look of ecstasy and satisfaction, and even his hands trembled.
He gently touched the picture and text on the mysterious stone wall with trembling hands, reading something in a low voice, with great joy, the text patterns, he seemed to shake them all to see through, he was so engrossed, so happy that he didn't even notice that at the bottom of this picture, almost connected with the surrounding darkness, there was a small black gas condensed.
The golden words and brilliant patterns seemed to have completely occupied his mind, and beside him, the statue of the dog god with only his head still on the ground, his eyes still looked so deep. It's just that at this moment, under the brilliant golden light of the flames and stone walls, the figure of the young priest is reflected in his eyes, and in addition to the initial trace of deep sorrow, it seems that there is more deep sorrow!