Chapter 8: The Altar
Under the thousand-foot-high waterfall that Bai Nian passed on the way, a group of black-clothed people were gathering together.
It was completely different from the late night on the stone road, and the time was still the beginning of the evening, and the noise was noisy.
"Are you saying that Lin Qingyue's soul mark suddenly disappeared?" asked a man in black with a hideous ghost face, his tone not angry and arrogant.
"Left Protector, judging from the traces left by the soul seal, Lin Qingyue should have entered this dense forest. A man in black with a hunched back pointed to the jungle on the right side of the waterfall and said, his fingers were so thin that only skin and bones remained, his whole face was wrinkled, very old, it was Elder Wang.
"The playwalker came to report that the body of an eight-legged giant centipede was found in this dense forest, which must have been caused by a battle not long ago. Elder Wang paused when he said this, glanced at the figure with a hideous ghost face, and continued: "This eight-legged giant centipede is not only huge in size, but also extremely poisonous, and can easily poison the martial artists of the Kaifu Realm. Judging from the traces at the scene, Lin Qingyue should have been poisoned by the eight-legged giant centipede and couldn't go far. ”
"Go on. "The Left Protector seems to have finally heard good news.
"There are walkers searching within a hundred miles of this, and they haven't found Lin Qingyue, but a stone road dozens of miles away from the eight-legged giant centede is very suspicious. This stone path has the remnants of the ancient formation, and I suspect that Lin Qingyue should have entered this stone path, and the formation shielded the induction of the soul seal. ”
"Then enter this stone road, I'm a little curious about this Fengqi Mountain, a few days ago, the beast king actually had a phoenix bloodline in his body, and there was a stone road with an ancient formation left here, this Fengqi Mountain must have a secret. The left protector waved his hand, and a group of black-clothed people walked towards the stone road.
And in the ancient road at this moment, Bai Nian and his party finally came to the end of the stone road, and a river more than 100 meters wide blocked the road ahead. Under the shallow rays of the moonlight, the river water is black, flowing quietly, like the black Lethe River on the Huangquan Road. As far as the eye can see, there is a wasteland on the opposite bank, but at the shore there is a large patch of lush bright red flowers, which are the flowers of the other side.
"Are we here in the underworld?" Bai Nian looked at the scene in front of him that was enough to shock the world, and squeezed out this sentence in a daze.
The underworld, where the dead return.
"Impossible, how can there be a theory of the underworld, this is just a formation made by the ancients, and everything in front of you is an illusion. Lin Qingyue didn't believe it either, but the scene in front of her was still terrifying.
They came to a hard time along the way, and everyone had a hunch that the altar was on the other side, but how they were going to cross the black river that looked like a Lethe River.
The piece of red jade on Bai Nian's chest was as hot as a piece of hot metal when it arrived here, and he took out the piece of red jade. Under the moonlight, the piece of red jade trembled slightly, and it emitted a strong red light, and the red light shone all around, and above the Lethe River, the space fluctuated like a lake, and a stone bridge was faintly exposed.
After the stone bridge completely appeared, the piece of red jade calmed down and the temperature gradually decreased.
"It was left by the village chief, who said that the altar could only be found with this piece of ruby jade. Bai Nian was afraid that Lin Qingyue would be puzzled, so he explained.
"Let's go. Lin Qingyue didn't ask much, only said four words lightly.
I don't know what kind of stone the stone bridge is made of, no matter how hard you step on it, there is no sound, and only the sound of the black Lethe River under the bridge can be faintly heard around the silence. The light of the torch shrank into a ball and enveloped Bai Nian and his party, like a squeezed mass in the darkness.
Crossing the stone bridge, they stepped onto the wasteland on the other side. About a mile or so from the shore, there were many dirt bags rising up and down, and there was no end in sight.
"These can't all be graves, right?" the bags seemed to be made entirely of earth, but each bag had a wooden sign with a few ancient characters scrawled on it, but the wooden sign was so rotten and dilapidated that it was impossible to recognize what it was carved, which faintly implied that these bags were graves.
"Brother Nian, grandpa used to say that everyone in Bai Village would be buried in the ancestral land after death, is this the ancestral land of Bai Village?" Bai Fan, who was holding a torch, got closer to Bai Nian, and everything here made him feel scared.
"But Baicun is only a village with a population of about 100, and there are at least tens of thousands of graves here, where are so many people from Baicun?" Bai Nian was extremely surprised, even if Baicun developed from generation to generation, it would be impossible for there to be so many people. He suddenly remembered what Bai Fan had said, could it be that Bai Village was really a big tribe before?
"Let's go find the altar first! Once we find the altar, the secret of the White Village may be revealed. At this time, Lin Qingyue said, she followed the ribbon tied to her hand and pulled Bai Nian to continue walking.
Large and small bags of different shapes seem to be scattered, but after walking for a while, they found that these bags seem to have a peculiar distribution pattern.
"Wait, let me go ahead, since I've been here, I feel like there's a calling guiding me. The piece of red jade on his chest was warm, as if a voice was pointing him the way in Bai Nian's mind. But the sound was noisy and subtle, and when he calmed down and tried to hear it clearly, he found that the sound disappeared, like the sand in his hand, which was still there when he held it, but when you grabbed it hard, the sand ran away through his fingers.
After walking through the earthen bag group for half an hour, they saw a pavilion, the pavilion was very huge, it could fully accommodate the entire white village, supported by four pillars that two people embraced, and the pillars were carved with some moire. Bai Nian found that the cloud pattern carved on the pillar was somewhat similar to the white jade ring left by his parents.
In the middle of the pavilion there is a protrusion of the open space, and up the stairs is a half-man high stone platform, which is very simple and without any carving, and is very smooth, like a complete stone polished.
"This stone platform should be an altar, but what does the village chief mean by calling me here?" Bai Nian looked at the stone platform at a loss.
"Void Stone, such a big Void Stone?" Lin Qingyue said in surprise as she stroked the stone platform.
"This is a teleportation platform, and such a large piece of Void Stone is placed here, and it must be teleported to a very distant place. Do you have a letter of faith?"
"Xinfu?" Bai Nian was puzzled, he had just entered the world of martial artists, and he didn't know many things, so his opinions were naturally not as good as Lin Qingyue, who was born in a family.
"The letter is the key to open the teleportation array, and it is also the coordinates, when the teleportation array is opened, people will travel through the endless void, and only with the coordinates can the destination be determined. Without coordinates, the people in the teleportation array will be banished into the void turbulence. Lin Qingyue said slowly, as if she was thinking about something while talking, and suddenly her hand stroking the stone platform stopped, and she said to Bai Nian: "You touch here." ”
Putting his hand up, there was a very shallow circular dent in the center of the stone platform, but it was not obvious in the dim light, and Bai Nian found that the dent was exactly the same as the piece of red jade left by the village chief.
"This talisman should be the piece of red jade that the village chief gave you. Lin Qingyue said the key, and there was a faint joy, like a little girl who finally found the treasure after going through a lot of hardships during her adventure.
Bai Nian put the red jade into the indentation, and the stone platform instantly emitted a blazing red light, and a dizzy feeling enveloped everyone's hearts.