Chapter 712: Conjuring
Just when Xiao Fan subdued the iron-backed sword mantis, an oasis in the desert in the far west, somewhere in distant Central Asia.
Here, once the main altar of the Western Apocalypse, the most vibrant and prosperous oasis in the entire desert, has become equivalent to a small-scale town. However, a few years ago, it became an empty city overnight.
A few years later, the oasis is still verdant, but it is showing signs of decline.
Because it is uninhabited, it is overgrown with weeds and looks very barren. Residents of the vicinity, who are afraid to settle here, even if they travel through the desert, avoid this oasis far away.
In West Asia, the Western Sect is a very prestigious sect, and the leader of the sect, Patriarch Rong Tian, is a generation of great witches who are regarded by many people as gods. But for some reason, the Western Sect suddenly declined, and even the main altar no longer existed, and all the important people in the sect disappeared without a trace overnight. There are only a few sub-schools left, struggling to support the endgame.
But everyone knows very well that if the high priests of the Western Sect do not appear in the next few years, this once prosperous sect will be truly expelled.
At present, there are many other sects that are encroaching on the traditional territory of Western apostasy, and this encroachment has not encountered any obstacles from the beginning of the secret to the semi-open now. After a while, if the high-level leaders of the Western Apostasy do not intervene to stop it, the encroachment will become completely open and even "legalized".
The power of religious countries and sects is completely unimaginable to outsiders.
However, for the time being, no sect has dared to openly encroach on the main altar of the Western Apostasy Church. But the oasis is not empty. In the midst of several large houses of the past that were resplendent with gold, smoke rises every day. There are already people who have settled down here.
The few people who live in the oasis come from three different sects. All were once vassals of the Western Apostasy Church. Seeing the decline of the Western Apostasy Church, these three sects are also the most active in grabbing land.
They sent people to live at the former headquarters of the Western Apostates, for nothing else, but to assert their "sovereignty." Once everyone openly announces the complete expulsion of the Western Apocalypse, this fertile oasis will inevitably usher in its new master.
If you don't send people in advance now, it will be too late.
According to the arrangements of the principals of these three sects, there will continue to be members of the sects who will be sent here for a long time in the future. It's just a handful of people right now. There is really no way to support such a large oasis, and the whole oasis still looks very barren.
The "new masters" of these oases, no one could have imagined that at their feet, at a depth of many meters underground, the entire Xili Sect General Altar was still operating in an orderly manner. The high priests of the Western Apocalypse who used to be powerful in the past are hiding in the depths of the earth to recuperate.
It's as if they're sitting on the pass of an active volcano. At any time, it is possible to be completely submerged by an erupting volcano.
And deep underground, there is indeed a place similar to a volcanic crater.
In the center of the underground altar of the Western Sect, there is a huge karst cave, but this karst cave. With obvious traces of axe chisels, lighting lights were installed on the walls and around the cave.
In the very center of this cave. There is an agate-colored crystal pedestal, which is high above the middle of the platform. There is a skeleton of Bai Sensen.
This is the skeleton of a beast.
It doesn't look like the beast's body is particularly large. If you don't count the coccyx, the skeleton is about two meters long and more than one meter high, roughly the same as the skeleton of a Siberian tiger.
The skeleton of this beast stood on a crystal platform, illuminated by the spotlight, looking indescribably weird.
In the entire cave, there is also a faint atmosphere of ancient wilderness.
On the side of the cave, not far from the crystal platform, there is a stand, and the railing of the stand is carved from white jade. In the stands, an old man in a white robe stood there quietly. This old man has curly hair, a gray beard, deep wrinkles on his forehead, and ravines, looking extremely old, and he is none other than the contemporary leader of the Western Departure Sect, Patriarch Rong Tian.
Patriarch Rong Tian was seriously injured back then, and after several years of recuperation, it seems that he has not fully recovered now.
Several other white-robed people, surrounded by Patriarch Rongtian, were Patriarch Rongtian's disciples Sabier, Abbas and others.
Sabir's face was gloomy, and it was evident that he was quite angry in his heart.
He had just received a report that on the ground, the sects had added a number of personnel to the oasis. This made Sabir very unhappy, when did even these cats and dogs bully the Western Apostasy?
If it weren't for Master's strict orders, Sabir really wanted to rush out and kill all these bastards.
Of course, Sabir also knew that it would not work, once the news spread and was known by the evil star far in the east, Xiao Fan would immediately kill back, and at that time, even if they hid deep underground, they would have nothing to hide.
That's the real catastrophe.
"Sabir, has the last spirit bone been refined?"
Patriarch Rong Tian looked at the fierce beast skeleton on the crystal platform, and asked without looking back.
Sabir hurriedly suppressed the anger in his heart, owed his body, and replied respectfully, "Master, the sacrifice is almost complete. This last spirit bone was appointed by the master for the fifth junior sister to refine. I guess I'm going to send it soon......"
"Good!"
Patriarch Rong Tian nodded slightly, looking at the bones of the beast, a fiery look flashed in his eyes.
"Master......"
Sabir hesitated and asked.
"Can this clone of the ancient holy beast really be summoned?"
The tone was unsure.
Patriarch Rong Tian glanced at him and said lightly: "If we can't summon it, then our departure from the West will be the end of the extermination of the sect." ”
"Yes......"
Sabir shrank his neck in fright, not daring to say anything more. Despite this, he really wasn't sure about summoning an ancient holy beast clone. It is said that the bones of this holy beast have been buried in this underground world for more than a thousand years, and who knows which era it is a beast skeleton left behind? Whether it was the bones of the holy beasts they had left the West or not, that was something that no one could say.
Now, Master actually said that this skeleton can be resurrected and have life again!
Don't say that Sabir has never seen such a thing before, and has never even heard of it.
Isn't that amazing?
After a while, a graceful white-robed woman, escorted by several attendants who were also wearing white robes, held a piece of Bai Sensen's bone in both hands, and walked towards this side quickly. The woman was veiled and couldn't see her face clearly, but judging from the posture of her entourage, she was undoubtedly Sabir's junior sister and one of the five great shamans of the Western Apocalypse.
"Master!"
The white-robed woman walked quickly to Patriarch Rong Tian and bowed.
Patriarch Rong Tian didn't even look at her, and his gaze fell directly on the bone in her hand. It can be seen that this is a rib, and in the color of Bai Sensen, there is a faint blue light.
After a while, Patriarch Rong Tian nodded with satisfaction, took the bones from the white-robed woman's hand, and asked a white-robed man beside Sabir, "Said, are all the items for the blood sacrifice ready?" ”
This white-robed man was none other than Patriarch Rongtian's second disciple, Said, who had been staying at the main altar to deal with religious affairs, and hurriedly replied when he heard this: "Please rest assured, Master, all the blood sacrifice items are ready." It's all voluntary! ”
Patriarch Rong Tian bowed his head slightly and said, "That's good. If it wasn't voluntary, the Holy Beast sensed that our hearts weren't sincere enough, and they were afraid that they wouldn't want to come to our world. This is the biggest key to whether the religion can survive the current difficulties, and there must be no mistakes. ”
"Yes!"
The four disciples bowed together and replied.
"Okay, let's get started!"
Patriarch Rong Tian's gaze froze on Said's face for a few seconds before he said slowly.
At that moment, Patriarch Rong Tian held the bones in both hands and walked in the forefront, followed by Sabir, Sabier, Saeed, Abbas and the white-robed female brother and sister. Further on, there were eight young men and women also dressed in white robes, with childish faces, the oldest of whom was no older than twenty years old, all excited, with a look of anticipation in their eyes, as if they were engaged in some extremely sacred cause. I didn't feel fear or frustration at all because my identity was just some living sacrifice.
Soon, Sabir and the other four sat down cross-legged at the four corners of the crystal platform, and their faces were grim.
Patriarch Rong Tian held the rib with both hands, bowed deeply in front of the beast skeleton, and then slowly stepped forward, raised the rib with both hands, and gently placed it on the left chest of the beast skeleton.
Strange to say, there was no glue or other adhesive on the ribs, and as soon as it touched the spine of the skeleton, a burst of blue light flashed, and it was firmly glued, as if it was glued by super glue, and it didn't shake at all.
Looking closely, the entire skeleton of the beast was not tied with any wire, and it was automatically put together like this, and it was extremely strong.
This last rib was installed in place, and although the appearance of the beast's skeleton had not changed, the entire momentum suddenly became more weird, and the aura of desolation came to the face.
A look of surprise flashed across Sabir's face, who was sitting in front of the beast to the left, as if he was surprised by the change in the beast's bones.
It felt like the bones of this beast had the breath of life.
After installing this rib, Patriarch Rong Tian bowed to the beast skeleton again, slowly walked to a circle directly opposite the skull, and reached out to take a strangely shaped magic weapon from the hands of the sect members on the side.
The eight young men and women stood in pairs at the four corners of the high platform, standing beside several high priests, staring at the skeleton of the beast that exuded a savage aura not far away, one by one, with wide eyes.
Patriarch Rong Tian's right hand gradually raised, and he raised the strange magic weapon high, and a low sound of incantation echoed in the underground world...... (To be continued......)