2. Obstacles
Han Bo 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 attention of the will of the face; Soul attraction is to use the soul attraction incense burned in the spiritual lamp above the corpse mountain to strip these newly dead souls from the spiritual sea; Requiem, on the other hand, is to bring these souls into the arms of the will of the plane, so that they can 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, Han Bo 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 location of the suitable girl, and Han Bo picked up the corpses that were placed on it haphazardly, and saw this petite girl who was already a little deformed.
"It's fine! That faint breath is still there! He leaned over and put his finger on the tip of her nose to find 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.
Han Bo couldn't help but stop, this was the first time he had witnessed the scene 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, Han Bo's mind turned countless questions.
Who is this man!? What the hell are you doing!? Alchemist? Soul Sealer? Traitors outside the city!? From his tone, Han Bo found that this person had probably done such a strange thing more than once.
As an ordinary soldier, Han Bo knew that he was very different from the world of spiritual practitioners. Not to mention the Spirit Knight, even a spirit refiner who is not known for his combat power can easily erase him! To confront such a force is undoubtedly self-defeating.
But as a soldier, his natural sense of mission forced him to take action.
Shouting people? This one 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.
Walk!? - He hesitated for a long time, but finally raised his head, tried his best to suppress the pounding heart, and quietly moved towards the man.
"Why do you sigh friends!? We've been waiting for you here for three days! Just as Han Bo 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!!
Han Bo let out a sigh of relief, and the heart that had been restless finally let go.
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.
Han Bo was about to join the battle formation, even 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 invited!" The captain of the four shouted to the man, and his tone was clean and clear, 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 very 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 Ling Li trajectory that it slashed away obliquely, Han Bo found that this was not the fancy posture of the duel in the rivers and lakes that he had seen on the pier in the north of the city before, but the battle of life and death on the battlefield - clean and neat, pointing directly at the target!!
"Good knife !!" Han Bo couldn't help but secretly praise in his heart in the corpse mountain.
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 your time on me, but you should be aware of 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 abnormality, Han Bo 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—" Han Bo 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.
In the mountain of corpses, Han Bo hurriedly stabilized his mind, and unconsciously opened his wide eyes with a look of unease and excitement. He knew that the battle array surrounded by spiritual light in front of him was called the "Xiemai Array", which was a battle formation that would only be used when the "Xun" character was used when the warriors cooperated to deal with powerful enemies.
He had heard from the captain of their recruit camp, Captain Shi Jian, who was also from the Xunzi Battalion, that this set of formations was created by the Purple Xuan Legendary Spirit King Yi Shizhong. When facing the enemy, the chakras are opened at the same time between the teams, forming a harmonious resonance, and the formation of a joint pulse battle array.
The captain said that this Synergy Array was a weapon in the world of Zixuan's fame plane, and it was also a unique formation created by the Purple Xuanfeng Spirit Knight.
Attack, you can gather everyone's strength in one person, one hit will kill! Guard, but everyone shares the impact of the enemy, and the beast does not move! Especially once you are encircled in this encirclement, no matter how strong you are, you will not be able to break out of the formation, you can only be captured.
When Captain Shi Jian described it, Han Bo was extremely fascinated at that time, wishing that he could step into the path of spiritual cultivation as soon as possible, and he could also form this joint pulse formation with his teammates to fight the rebels outside the city. But the captain patted him on the head and told him with a smile that it wasn't that easy.
The rarity of this battle formation is not only that it requires tacit cooperation between comrades-in-arms, and they dare to hand over their own backs to their comrades. What is even more rare is that the spiritual realm of each person who makes up the battle array must not be too far apart, and it must reach above the "knot realm" in order to be effectively stimulated.
It's just that although the warriors of the Xunzi battalion in front of them are strong, they still need the assistance of their robes to be stimulated, and they obviously can't send and receive this. It seems that the city is in a bitter battle, and the Sealed Spirit Knights have suffered a large number of losses, and General Chuanshi has had to relax the recruitment criteria of the Xunzi Battalion.
But even so, Han Bo found that the fluctuation of the spiritual power of this formation was so strong. Even he, who was a few feet away from this battle formation, suddenly felt a great increase in oppression, and even his soul showed signs of instability.
He kept his eyes open and stared at the changes in the field, not wanting to miss a single move.
Suddenly, a sword light flashed in the purple light curtain, and it still slashed cleanly at the man's chest!!
But just as the sword light started, the figure of the man was also activated-
Inspired by the light of the sword, Han Bo finally saw the man's face clearly for the first time. He found that the man was not a few years older than himself, tall and graceful, with long flowing hair, and his face was not handsome, but his eyes were extremely clear, but there was a faint depression in his calm expression.
Seeing that the man was in a battle formation, and the sword light suddenly appeared, he didn't dodge or dodge, only when the sword light was about to fall on his chest, he casually clicked his hand, and his slender fingers had already touched the oncoming knife face.
There was a clang, and the sharp sword light was deflected, and it had already split into the air!
Han Bo didn't expect that the powerful knife of the four great battles in this episode would just sweep over the man's clothes and cut off a piece of fabric on the corner of his clothes.
With this sword slashing through the air, an imperceptible disorder appeared on the light curtain of the Synergy Array. The man seemed to be waiting for this moment, and his clear eyes suddenly became sharp, shooting out a fierce white aura. The whole body suddenly burst out, turning into an afterimage, pointing at the weak point in the light curtain.
"Break—"
With a soft snort, the light curtain on the Synergy Array caused a ripple, and then exploded. Several Xunzi warriors spurted out a mouthful of blood almost at the same time. Han Bo only felt a flower in front of him, and the man had broken the battle formation, and his clothes were fluttering outside the formation.
The man no longer waited for the four of them to move, and the remnants of his body rose again, wandering all over his body, and his fingers continued to point, hitting the back of the heads of the four people one by one. Before these four elite "Xun" warriors could react, they had already fallen to the ground softly.
Han Bo blurted out with a "yes", but then covered his mouth tightly with his hand!
"I've seen it for so long, have you seen enough?" A voice that Han Bo didn't want to hear sounded again, although the voice was soft, but it showed a trace of irresistible oppression: "Come out-"
Han Bo lay dead on the mountain of corpses, carefully weighed the gap between himself and him, and finally mustered up the courage and stood up suddenly: "You killed them!? ”
He knew that he must not show weakness, and his eyes were fixed on the man. It's just that subconsciously, but I don't know that I am still holding the girl tightly in my hands.
The man looked at Han Bo playfully, glanced at the girl in his hand again, and whispered to himself: "It's rare - people's hearts don't die, it seems that this Xunyang City can fall into death without falling, it's not unreasonable!" ”
The man had a chuckle on his face, and looked at Han Bo with some admiration: "Are you going to save her?" ”
was about to approach, but heard a sudden soft sound in the sky, the man suddenly looked back, couldn't help but look down, and secretly said, "Not good!" ”
When Han Bo saw that person approaching, he habitually drew his knife to fight!
But the corpse that was moved for a day today, and what weapons were there on it. But as soon as his right hand was released, the girl rolled to the ground, and with a "snap", something slipped out of her bosom and rolled to the ground.
With the faint aura above his head, Han Bo found that it was a broken knife that was only half cut off. The blade was rusty, and the blade was wrapped in a layer of cyan patina, looking broken and old.
Han Bo couldn't control that much, so he picked up the remnant knife and threw himself at the man!!
He never expected this knife to hurt the man, but the despair and bloodiness that had accumulated over the past few days still made him do his best.
It was just to his surprise that the remnant knife in his hand was about to touch the man, and a familiar white light flashed, but it did not break the remnant knife. Han Bo only felt a slight obstruction, and then thrust into the man's left shoulder with a "swish".
The man was in pain for a while, and a dazzling white light suddenly surged, and Han Bo's chest only felt an irresistible huge force attacking, bouncing him several meters high, collapsing the mountain of corpses behind him, and then falling to the ground with a bang.
Han Bo reached out and touched his unconscious chest, and a fragment of an ancient scroll slipped from his arms. When he saw the words "Spirit Hunter's Oath" on the cover, he suddenly remembered that this fragment was still obtained from the old blind man. He hadn't paid much attention to it, but he didn't expect to save his life here.
Han Bo tried to stand up, but found that he couldn't move at all. However, although his body was out of control, his eyes could still see, and his mind was still clear. He noticed that the man was not coming towards him, but staring at the sky as if he were facing a great enemy.
A blood-colored waning moon has risen in the sky at some point!
Han Bo beat his spirits and tried to sober himself up. But the waning moon was so cold, and so tempting. As for the people who were still alive, he felt his heart shake for a while, and the soul in his spiritual sea was constantly trembling, as if he also wanted to break away from the shackles of the spiritual platform and run to the new world of light and freedom.
In the Requiem Array, the black fog kept floating, and they all seemed to hear the command of the waning moon, and pounced on the white soul fire floating around.
Some of the stronger souls have noticed that something is wrong and have begun to run desperately.
But in this black fog that is coming from the sky, there is a way for them to escape!? Before they could struggle, they were instantly annihilated and exploded into colorful fireworks in the air!
"It's so beautiful, it's like that, so death is like this!" Han Bo's will began to blur, and the expression that had been crumbling finally relaxed, and as soon as his eyes went dark, he lost consciousness.
At this time, the man stared at the black waning moon and whispered: "Evil obstacle! ”
Before the voice fell, the white aura on the man's body suddenly surged, slowly flowing through his body, and finally all converged on the tip of his right finger, forming a chakra like an abyss, emitting a light as hot as the sun. With a tap of his hand, the white light shot towards the blood-colored waning moon.
When- boom-
That bit of white light collided with the waning moon, and it burst open, and there was a silent muffled sound in the entire requiem array!
In the midst of this violent explosion, the waning moon only shook slightly, and then stabilized. It seemed to be enraged, and with a light "bang", its entire body actually doubled in size!
With the sudden change of the waning moon, the boundless black qi in this requiem field seemed to hear the summons, and began to change its form, winding towards the man!!
"Humph!" The man snorted coldly, and the white light all over his body flashed, forming a protective realm. With a flick of his right hand, white chains of light spilled out, and the entangled black qi melted with the light.
He also wanted to swell up his spiritual power again to launch a blow to the waning moon, and his left shoulder ached for a while, and then he remembered that he still had a residual knife stuck in his body.
He gritted his teeth and pulled it out, only to notice Han Bo who had fallen to the ground and had passed out. He found that Han Bo actually had an idiotic smile on his face, and couldn't help but sigh softly: "The 'Spectrum of the Undead' is here, and the trace of the spirit hunter has reappeared, it seems that the world will be eventful from now on!" Anyway, let's save you first! ”
He had exhausted all his strength in the blow just now, and he knew that it would be in vain to fight any longer. Moreover, this spectrum of the undead is weird, once it breaks through his protective realm, it will cause irreparable consequences.
He shook his head slightly, picked up Han Bo, and prepared to leave.
Seeing that the man no longer provoked and attacked him, the waning moon also put down his body and no longer paid attention. It seemed to be interested only in these dead souls, and it summoned countless black gases and began to feast on them.
At this moment, the girl who had been lying quietly beside Han Bo suddenly changed!
Just when Hanbo passed out and the man fought with the waning moon, the ice and snow on the girl's body had begun to melt quietly.
As the requiem's singing continued to melodious, the fluctuations from the spirit tower became more and more smooth, her figure became soft, and her curled body began to stretch. Her face began to glow with blood, her body became hot and trembled imperceptibly.
In the rising frequency, the mark of a red flower flashed on her forehead. With a soft sound of "porphyry", the girl's body suddenly lightened, and a white soul fire had come out of the other side flower.
"Huh-" Seeing this quietly appearing soul, the man sighed lightly and stopped: "Messenger of Fate? He seemed to be very surprised and a little jealous, and after careful observation, he asked softly with a puzzled face, "Phantom!?" ”