"Hurry up, you have to hurry up......"

Shi Cheng and the three of them rushed through the narrow corridor, but because they needed to move forward with Wu Neng, who had a low cultivation realm, and they also had to beware of the hidden mechanisms that might be hidden in the shadows, the speed of the three of them inevitably could not reach the fastest level.

The road seemed to be very long, and Shi Cheng and the three of them ran for a quarter of an hour without reaching the end, and found the cell where the children were imprisoned, and the sense of strangeness and ominousness in Shi Cheng's heart became deeper and deeper.

……

"It's time, Elder Ling." Ma Guo looked at the hourglass clock at his feet.

Ling Xuan nodded, but his body didn't move, he looked at the Yin Bell on his left and said, "Deacon Yin, please preside over the ceremony." ”

Yin Ling smiled and nodded, and walked to the front of the high platform, where he could clearly see the trembling children hugging each other on the huge altar below.

"Hehe, babies, if you can contribute to the great cause of our clan, you have come to this world in vain." Yin Ling muttered to herself in a voice that only she could hear, and then, she took out a small piece of ruby from the cloth bag on the inside of her black robe, and after taking out the ruby, Yin Ling gently cut a hole in the hand holding the gem with her fingernails, and the dark red blood faintly covered by a layer of purple gas flowed out, and soaked into the strange ruby.

The moment the blood entered the gem, the gem on the Yin Bell's finger glowed purple-red, and the old woman giggled and threw the gem off the high platform, falling into the center of the altar with unmistakable accuracy.

It was like water in a hot oil pot, and the entire altar woke up from its silence in an instant, roaring, first the spirit pattern on the outermost fence lit up, and an invisible barrier completely restrained the altar, shaking back the children who were still trying to escape, and then, those evil patterns on the altar floor also lit up one by one, and wherever the glowing patterns went, the children seemed to have been pierced by blood-sucking thorns, twisting their bodies and falling to the ground in the pinprick-like sting, and the vitality in their bodies slowly flowed out.

"Daddy, woo woo, it hurts......"

"Help Me ......"

"Mommy, Mommy, I want to go home......"

"Grandma, woo woo woo ......"

In the cries of the children, who were gradually becoming weak, little Alido hugged his knees with red eyes, and because of the stinging pain coming from his body, the little one kept his mouth open, but his already hoarse voice could not make a sound. Alido shrunk her small body together, from childhood to adulthood, whenever she encountered something annoying or was scolded and punished by adults, she would find a corner for herself, bury her little head in her thin legs, and shrink her thin body into a ball, at least in this small world, no one would hurt her.

But today, this small world can't protect her, and Alido can clearly feel that her body is becoming weaker and heavier.

Alido suddenly remembered the scene when a kind chauffeur grandfather died in the fruit and vegetable shop a few years ago.

It was an ordinary sunny day, and at the door of the cottage where the grandfather lived, the guys in the bunk were crowded.

"He's dead......"

"Poor old Ace ......"

"Alas, the body is not good in the first place, and the owner still has to give such a heavy job, can it not be an accident......

"Be quiet, there are so many people, can you die if you don't say a few words......"

From that day on, Alido learned for the first time the meaning of the word "death".

"I ...... too Are you going to die......"

Alido's vision blurred, and I don't know if it was because of her increasingly weak and aching body, or because of tears.

……

The strange spirit patterns on the altar became brighter and brighter, and some of the weak and young children had begun to lose their support, and fell to the ground unconscious, and the glowing spirit patterns began to connect with each other, and the purple-red light gathered in the center of the altar circle.

A dazzling pillar of purple-red light shot up from the center of the altar and sank into the blood-colored roots of the trees at the top of the dungeon. In an instant, those roots seemed to come to life, like blood-red snakes, and began to swing in mid-air, growing longer and longer.

After shaking for a while, the blood-red roots suddenly began to entangle with each other, twisting into ten huge "wooden fists" in midair.

"Get out of here, don't let adult blood get those tentacles!" Yin Ling saw that there were still some dumbfounded guards beside the altar who had not left, and hurriedly shouted angrily.

The guards quickly came back to their senses, and fled in all directions, completely without facing the grandeur of their childhood.

After the "wooden fists" were formed, the ten fists lined up in a large circle and smashed heavily to the ground, and as the ground of the underground palace trembled, the "wooden fists" smashed ten big holes in the ground, just wrapping the altar in the center. After smashing out of the hole, the huge fists did not stop, like drills, and continued to arch into the ground, and no one knew where these thick wooden tentacles would reach before they could stop.

As the tentacles moved, the earth began to tremble inexplicably, and falling rocks fell from the top of the dungeon, blooming heavily on the ground, except for the altar, which seemed to be shrouded in some invisible barrier, unharmed.

"Elder Ling, why did you start moving, we won't be in danger, right?" Ma Guo looked up at the top of the dungeon and asked worriedly.

"Mr. Ma, rest assured, Ling has taken the current situation into account before, so the key positions of the underground palace and the secret passage have been additionally reinforced, and the high platform where we are located will be fine."

"That's good, that's good." Ma Guo breathed a sigh of relief, and glanced at the hourglass clock placed next to him by the way, "If you count the time, Qingwen's team should also go to the forbidden area, the time is just right." ”

"Your reinforcements?" Ling Xuan glanced sideways at Ma Guo, his eyes flickered, "It's just in time, so it's foolproof." ”

"yes, yes, hahaha." Ma Guo rarely saw it and showed a comfortable smile, "Happy cooperation." ”

Just when the two were talking happily, a black-robed man hurriedly ran in and whispered a few words in Ling Xuan's ear, and Ling Xuan's face changed greatly when he heard this.

He whispered a few words to the black-robed man, and when the black-robed man left quickly, he looked at Ma Guo with a serious look on his face, and said, "The deacon surnamed Xu of your chamber of commerce has encountered some accidents, and I have already sent my people to pick him up." ”

……

Shi Cheng stood stunned at the corner of the secret passage, his right hand pressed against the stone wall, sensing the direction from which the vibration was coming.

"Old Stone...... My pathfinder saw that there was a dead end, and at the end of the secret passage was just a storage room for stacked parts. Wu Neng gasped, his face a little pale because of Fang Cai's galloping, "We are on the wrong path." ”

Tie Mian looked in the direction the three of them came from, and said in a deep voice, "Another fork in the road is the right one. ”

"What a deacon Xu." Shi Cheng suddenly laughed, but soon became expressionless again, "I didn't expect that I, Shi Cheng, would also have such a day when I looked at people." ”

Shi Cheng's eyes rarely carried a strong killing intent, "Okay, Xu Fengshi, it's very good......"