Volume 1: Overture to the Dead Chapter 2: Requiem Ritual

The night has become deep, the miserable snowflakes have fallen in large pieces, the faces of the spirit refiners on the spirit tower have become blurred, there is no trace of the living between the corpse mountains, and the entire requiem array has become more and more ghostly.

At this moment in the past, when all the spirit refiners had left the arena and ascended the spirit pagoda to prepare for the ceremony, the defenders stationed at the scene should have already begun to pull the net and clear all the living people present. These garrisons are different from recruits like teenagers, they are now known as the entire Zixuan "Xun" word battalion, the personal guards of General Chuanshi, and the mainstay of Xunyang City today.

But somehow, they were never seen tonight. Presumably, like these tired spirit alchemists, they have lost their patience.

The boy smiled bitterly as he quickened his pace and walked in the direction of the girl. It's just that I didn't expect that halfway through the journey, those spiritual pagodas have been activated, the spiritual lamp above the corpse mountain has been lit, the singing of the requiem has begun to sound, and tonight's requiem ceremony has begun to start.

The boy couldn't help but be a little surprised. In his only spiritual understanding, there are three most important parts of the requiem ritual: sacrifice, induction, and requiem.

Sacrifice refers to the use of precious spiritual treasures to make sacrifices to arouse the will of the face to pay attention to this place, soul attraction is to use the soul incense burned in the spiritual lamp above the corpse mountain to strip these dead souls from the spiritual sea, and requiem is to introduce these souls into the embrace of the will of the surface to allow them to be completely liberated.

But now, the three most important parts of the ritual of sacrifice, spirit induction, and requiem have all been disrupted and mixed up by these ritual alchemists.

The most important part of the sacrifice has been completely ignored, as if in this troubled world, there is no need to disturb the sleeping will of the plane for the sake of these ordinary people who have died like mustard. The link of inducing spirits is no longer as ethereal and mysterious as in the legend, and various tedious but solemn rituals are carried out. The spirit refiners present almost omitted all the unnecessary branches, and instead directly lit the soul-attracting incense and forcibly started the requiem ritual.

"Could it be that everyone has been infected by the numbness of this city, and has reached the point of despising everything!?" sniffing the charming aroma of these soul-attracting incense, the young man shook his head with a wry smile.

The war has gone on so far, and there are fewer and fewer spirit alchemists in this city who can only play an auxiliary role in the war, and each of them has become a treasure. Not to mention that it was his turn to go to the battlefield that day, and he died in vain, but once he was injured, he also needed the help of these spirit refiners.

Moreover, even the Soul Leaving Gu that was still permeating the city now also needed them to clean up the cure, as a big soldier who had just joined the army, how could he dare to offend, or what qualifications did he have to offend them!

Fortunately, he finally found the right place to place the girl, and the boy picked up the corpse that was placed on it haphazardly, and saw this petite girl who had been a little deformed.

"It's all right! that faint breath is still there!" he leaned over and put his finger on the tip of her nose, realizing that she was still alive.

He picked up the girl and prepared to turn away.

At this moment, the entire Requiem Array had changed-

Under the blessing of the eight huge spiritual pagodas, the dim soul-attracting lamp in the air had been ignited, and it began to float and sink above the corpse mountain, emitting a thick fragrance and emitting strong fluctuations. The souls who had just died in the surrounding corpse mountains were drawn by this fragrance and began to break away from the spiritual sea, turning into pieces of pure soul fire and jumping out.

These soul fires wandered among the mountains of corpses, like fireflies that flickered continuously, paused in the air, and then rushed towards the thick incense like moths to the flames, as if it were the gate to a new world.

First the stars, then countless souls all rose up.

In the constant succession, these miserable souls seem to have waited too long, and they can't wait to escape from this chaotic world, regardless of whether the world behind that aura is heaven or hell.

The boy couldn't help but stop, this was the first time he had witnessed the sight of ten thousand souls rising. Although he had not yet stepped into the door of spirituality, and his knowledge of this spiritual path was blank, he still felt that something was wrong!

Because according to common sense, the strong fragrance of the soul attraction lamp in the sky should be the purest color of the aura of the purple plane—that is, purple—and it must not be the black that it is presenting now.

What made him even more uneasy was that he found that under the thick incense, among the pile of dead people in front of him, there was a big living person!

The man had curly hair and a shawl of long hair, and he couldn't see his face clearly, but he just sat quietly among the corpses, looking solemn and peaceful. He also seemed to be a little surprised by the strong fragrance in the air, and let out a light "huh", but then lowered his head again, raised his hand, and summoned several soul fires, floating and sinking on his fingertips.

As his hands waved at will, traversing several esoteric trajectories, the souls he had summoned began to stagger, trembling in all directions, as if they were drunk.

They were stretched into long lines of soul light and fire, forming a dazzling array of mysterious runes. After a while, it exploded like starlight, transforming into inexplicable constellations. In the end, there was a "porphyry" sound, constantly shrinking and collapsing, annihilating into a void spark......

"Alas, failed again...... the man shook his fingers, and looked at these soul fires like stars in a somewhat distracted manner, and there seemed to be endless amazement in his tone.

Seeing this strange scene, countless questions turned in the young man's heart.

Who is this person!?What the hell is he doing!?Spirit refiner?Spirit sealer?A spy of the rebels outside the city!?From his tone, the young man found that this person had probably done such a strange thing more than once.

As an ordinary soldier, the boy knew that he was very different from the world of spiritual practitioners. Not to mention the Spirit Sealing Knight, even a spirit refiner who is not known for his combat power can easily wipe him out! Fighting against such a force is undoubtedly self-defeating.

But as a soldier, his natural sense of mission forced him to take action.

The battle was empty, the spiritual pagoda was far away, and the black incense had begun to spread everywhere, turning into clouds of smoke, and even the vision had gradually become blurred.

He hesitated for a long time ?—— leaving, but finally raised his head, tried his best to suppress the pounding heart, and quietly moved towards the man.

"Why do you sigh!, I have been waiting for you here for three days!" Just as the boy was about to approach the man, a voice sounded in the thick fog.

Around the man, out of nowhere, four soldiers in strong armor appeared, standing in all directions, blocking all the way of the man.

The four sergeants were all dressed in battle armor made of the cowhide of the spirit beast brute, and the long knives that had been unsheathed were the standard weapons of the defenders in the city. The huge word "Xun" on the front of the breastplate with the spiritual method seal was faintly exuding spiritual power fluctuations, and their faces exuded a murderous aura like a substance, showing that they were all true elites who had gone through countless times between life and death.

It is the elite warrior of the "Xunzi Battalion!!

The boy let out a sigh of relief, and the heart that had been restless was finally relieved.

As the ace team in the city today, he has the confidence in them. In fact, the word "Xun" on their chests has now become the last confidence and hope of all the surviving people in the city. Everyone who can wear the word "Xun", whether it is fighting the rebels at the head of the city or maintaining order in the city, has never disappointed.

The boy was about to join the battle formation, so it would be good if it was just to help shout and cheer. But suddenly remembering that I was here seems to have violated the ban!

Although the brothers of the Xunzi battalion are not going to do anything to him, but when he returns to the new barracks, a board is indispensable. He had an idea, stopped, and quickly fell into the mountain of corpses. With blood on his face, he secretly watched the changes in the field with only half-closed eyes.

"Friend, hand over your weapons and come with us—we're in charge of the generals, please!" the captain of the four called out to the man, his tone clean and crisp, with the iron and blood of a soldier.

Seeing that he was surrounded by four hundred battle elites, the man did not panic at all, and his expression was still calm: "General Chuan Shi is elegant and elegant, and he is famous for Zixuan, and his prestige is also spread in the entire dimensional world. With such a big person, I would naturally go to see it. It's just that it's not time yet. ”

One of the warriors shouted violently, looking impatient, but his eyes looked at the captain, as if waiting for his order: "Captain, what are you talking about with him! This kid is slippery like a loach, don't let him slip away like he did last time!"

"Then offend!" Seeing that the man was still sitting upright on the ground, ignoring himself, the captain nodded slightly.

The fierce warrior was waiting for this moment, the captain's "offended" voice had not fallen, and a war knife had already roared away at the man!

This knife is aimed at the man's neck!

From the sharp trajectory of its oblique split, the boy found that this was not the fancy posture of the duel he had seen on the pier in the north of the city, but the battle of life and death on the battlefield - clean and neat, pointing directly at the target!!

"Good knife technique!!" The young man couldn't help but secretly praise in his heart in the mountain of corpses.

However, in the face of this sharp blade, the man was indifferent, that is, he did not resist, nor did he move, but still sat calmly in place.

But just as the blade was about to slash down on his neck, a white aura flashed away. There was a "snap" - the excellent war knife was actually broken in two and fell to the ground!

Looking at the broken knife on the ground, the man sighed: "Alas, why bother! You don't have to waste time on me, but you should pay attention to the strange black fog in this requiem field." ”

The warrior who rushed straight up had already noticed that something was wrong, and he flicked his left leg and quickly retreated, even faster than he could pounce on the man. At the same time as his left leg was tapped, the figures of the other two warriors had moved, and two long knives slashed directly at the man at the same time, slashing at his left shoulder and right leg respectively!

In this one-on-one volt, several warriors cooperated tacitly, showing their usual training!

The man sighed lightly, and gave a sigh of appreciation to the two who pounced again: "The negative general really lives up to his reputation, and he can train your Xunzi battalion in such a short time. It seems that this Xunyang City, I have come to the right place this time!".

As he spoke, the man was still sitting on the ground with an indifferent expression. What's even more surprising is that the ending of these two knives is exactly the same as just now. With a flash of white light, the two long knives were simply broken into two!

Seeing this, the young man couldn't help but be dumbfounded. The four warriors who hurriedly retreated to their original places also looked at each other, everyone looked at the three broken knives in their hands that were only half cut off, and finally all looked at the captain.

"Array !!"

The captain's face showed a heavy melancholy at this time, but in the end he still screamed. The four "Xun" character warriors glanced at each other, and almost simultaneously patted their breastplates, and the word "Xun" on their chests suddenly glowed with a dark purple aura.

These four clusters of spiritual light seemed to possess spiritual intelligence, and soon stretched out and connected with each other, and instantly formed a circular light curtain that surrounded the person.

"Let's—"

With the captain's order, the four warriors began to quickly swim around the man. As they swam faster and faster, the light curtain began to surge with bursts of spiritual power fluctuations, rolling up bursts of whistling, rolling the surrounding corpses to the ground.

"Synergy Array—" The young man cheered in his heart!

"It's rare...... "Looking at the curtain of light, which was getting tighter and closer, the man finally stood up slowly, and for the first time there was a look of attention on his face.