Chapter 115: Pillar of Light

When I left, it took me half a day to walk a few miles because I tested my new ability, and when I went back, I was moving at full speed, so I came to the place where I met Chen Xiangjun before in half an hour.

When Fan Wucai came closer, he was really shocked by the vision at the scene, and the red pillar of light he saw from a distance only felt abnormal, but he didn't feel that it was so special.

Now standing at the top of the mountain, I saw that I was in the center of a dark cloud that was close to pitch black, and a pillar of red light that looked like a substance was shooting down towards the bottom of the valley.

The pillar of light will be nearly 10 meters wide, the whole column will be dark red, and there will seem to be water waves surging in the middle like blood, like a dark cloud opening a huge wound and flowing down the pillar of blood.

The bottom of the pillar of light is just the center of the valley, and when I saw it in the morning, it was still a shrub at the bottom of the valley, and I didn't know when a clearing was cleared for a radius of 300 meters.

The pillar of light that pierced through the clouds just hit the center of the clearing, and dozens of beasts were layered around the edge of the pillar of light.

The ape, the crocodile, and a tall, thin woman stood on the periphery of the enclosure in an equilateral triangle, as if supervising them.

Chen Xiangjun stood on a small hillside at the bottom of the valley near Fan Wu to see the overall situation.

Fan Wu on the top was still about 200 meters away from Chen Xiangjun, and at this angle he could only see her back, and he didn't know if she was directing the suicide of the three big demons and the beast herd.

Yes, the herd is lining up to commit suicide, and it turns out that the herd is not watching around the pillar of light, but lining up to jump into the pillar of light.

Although the night sky here is much darker than the starry sky in the distance because of the dark clouds, it still does not affect Fan Wu's vision, especially the faint red light emitted by the pillar of light, which is not much different from the day for Fan Wu.

The cascading herds are not randomly gathered together, but are arranged according to the size of the beasts from the inside to the outside, with the smallest squirrels and rabbits on the inside, and large beasts such as tigers and bears on the outside.

After Fan Wu stood and observed carefully, he realized that the beasts were committing suicide, they were not simply surrounding the pillar, but jumped into the pillar of light in a row according to the command.

As soon as they enter the beam of light, it is like jumping into magma, and their bodies are instantly ignited, and then in the blink of an eye, they will melt into a cloud of mist and merge into the pillar of light.

I don't know if it's Fan Wu's illusion, I always feel that as the number of melted beasts increases, the color of the pillar of light seems to be a little brighter, although it is an insignificant point, but Fan Wu's detection ability also captures this slight change.

Fan Wu, who was still a few hundred meters away from the bottom of the valley, didn't feel anything wrong with the pillar of light, but when he saw that those little beasts were melted and devoured after jumping into the pillar of light, he knew that it should have a very high temperature.

Just look at the little beast standing in the front row but not yet in turn, there is only fear on his face, there is no uncomfortable reaction, the high temperature in the pillar of light should be very condensed, and there is no trace of escape.

Look at the three big demons standing behind the herd, they take turns directing the actions of the herd, each suicide is intervaled by 3 minutes, and every time a beast moth melts into the pillar of light, the three of them also take turns chanting unknown spells loudly.

Combining all these circumstances, Fan Wu knew that this was definitely not a simple suicide party or massacre, it was estimated that it was a ritual, and it was unknown what the purpose of this ritual was.

Fan Wu, who was in doubt, didn't stay at the top of the mountain for too long, leaving the thunder dragon at the top of the mountain, and he followed the route taken by the demon beast group when they retreated all the way to the bottom of the valley.

Of course, in the process, they were careful to hide their figures, not for fear of being attacked by demon beasts, but for fear that it would affect what they were doing and not be able to find out the truth.

Coming to a place about 20 meters away from Chen Xiangjun, Fan Wu hid in the canopy of a big tree and watched the ceremony continue.

Approaching this distance, you can already faintly smell the fragrance wafting from Chen Xiangjun's body, as well as the sound of her chanting incantations, it turns out that she is not simply supervising the ritual, she is also a part of the ritual.

According to her identity, it is estimated that she should be presiding over this ceremony, and the mysterious incantation is recited from her mouth with a kind of bewitching and charming attribute, although Fan Wu is confident that she is not too affected by the bewitchment, but she also feels that her whole body has a crispy and numb feeling, which is very comfortable.

Immediately looked at the scene attentively, and when he came back to his senses and looked again, the small beasts in the inner circle had basically been consumed, followed by medium-sized beasts such as wolves, dogs, and wild boars.

After these beasts began to commit suicide, the brightness of the pillar of light increased even more obviously, and almost the naked eye could feel that the brightness was gradually increasing, and the beasts that were close to them began to need to squint their eyes to see the pillar of light directly.

Fan Wu's distance would not affect his eyesight for the time being, so he stared at the pillar of light as he was hiding behind him and doing nothing, trying to see what the hell this was.

Judging from the shape of the pillar of light, first of all, it must have come from the clouds above, but it definitely did not come from the sky of the netherworld, it should be projected by the space or world where the clouds connect.

Secondly, this pillar of light looks like a pillar of light, but it doesn't seem to have any entity, at least the entity is not here in the Netherworld, it may just be a projection, because it has almost no effect on the environment here, including the ground.

Moreover, as long as Fan Wu closed his eyes, he couldn't feel the existence of the pillar of light, but if it was a projection, how could it be able to melt the real beast body here?

Regarding this question, Fan Wu knew that he would definitely not know the answer now, and everything would not be known until after this ceremony was over.

Putting aside the problem, Fan Wu continued to observe the pillar of light, it was far away before and the pillar of light was dark red, so he didn't see it clearly, but now the distance has been pulled in, and as the brightness of the beast's suicide pillar of light has slowly increased, Fan Wu can already see more details of the pillar of light.

The 10-meter-square pillar of light is not a complete cylinder, and is somewhat inclined to an octagonal shape.

When you look at it from a distance, you can see that the shadows inside feel as if there is liquid flowing, and when you look closely, you realize that there is liquid inside, but those shadows are not caused by the liquid flowing.

It seemed to be the shadow of some biological activity, as if there were many creatures swimming in the pillar of light, and the shadows were projected on the outer wall.

Although it was not very clear, Fan Wu still intuitively felt that those animal images were definitely not normal, so he only called them creatures in his heart.

However, although those shadows were not normal animal appearances, Fan Wu felt a hint of familiarity, as if he had seen these creatures somewhere.

It's just that maybe the creatures are too far away from here to really exist in the pillar of light, so the shadow is still not clear enough, just an outline.

For example, two shadows just flashed, one of which looked a bit like a giant turtle, but the turtle seemed to have a thick hemp rope tied to its shell, and its tail was very long, and the end was divided into two like forks.

The other one is a bit like a bird, except that there is only a shadow under the belly, as if it has only one leg.

Now the shadow that appeared on the outer wall of the pillar of light was even more strange, its long body looked like a giant python, but there was actually a pair of wings on its back.

Fan Wu returned to the big tree behind Chen Xiangjun and squatted again, the outer wall of the pillar of light at this angle was a little brighter, and Fan Wu could see more shadows projected.

With the depletion of medium-sized beasts, it has begun to be the turn of large beasts to burn themselves and light up pillars of light.

The energy provided by the suicide of the large beast is so large that when all the beasts melt away, it almost turns the pillar of light into a translucent fluorescent tube, only red in color.

After the pillar of light became translucent, Fan Wu finally saw its structure clearly, and the pillar of light was actually hollow, like a glass pipe.

It's just that this 'glass pipe' has a thick pipe wall, a beam of light with a diameter of 10 meters, and the thickness of the pipe wall is at least two meters, and all the light comes from the pipe wall, although the center is still a little hazy, but you can see that the inside is absolutely empty.

It looks like glass, but the wall of the pipe is definitely not a hard object, because Fan Wu clearly saw that the last two batches of beasts could still merge into the pillar of light without hindrance, and they still burned and melted when they entered, and then were absorbed and assimilated by the wall of the pipe into a pool of liquid and became part of the wall of the pipe.

It's just that after the brightness of the beam increased to translucency, the shadows that appeared on the outer wall never appeared again.

There was nothing in the center of it, and the walls of the tube didn't look like a substance that could cause projection, as if everything just now was just Fan Wu's illusion.

But Fan Wu never thought that this was his hallucination, after all, after experiencing so many illusions, especially those battles in the Bodhisattva Cave, Fan Wu had already had a very strong resistance to hallucinations.

And after 60 years of dead and alive experience, Fan Wu after Cheng Xi will not be so easily affected by hallucinations, or even if there is an impact, he should at least know it.

When Fan Wu was still thinking about the pillar of light, Chen Xiangjun had already finished chanting the spell and came to the pillar of light, and the demons in the other three directions also came to her for the first time.

Fan Wu immediately sneaked to the edge of the clearing, hid behind a bush, and after hiding, he vaguely heard Chen Xiangjun talking to the three big demons.

“...... It works well...... My lord...... Satisfied...... Not ...... enough."

Because the distance was still a bit far, she only heard a few words, but seeing the excitement in the eyes of the three big demons after Chen Xiangjun finished speaking, it was estimated that she was praising them.

It is very likely that it is said that today's things are doing well or something, and it is estimated that a lot of rewards and other words were promised.

After Chen Xiangjun finished speaking, the three big demons all turned around and looked up at the top of the pillar of light with a reverent and expectant expression, as if they were welcoming the arrival of a certain big person.

Just when Fan Wu thought that the ceremony was over, and was also looking at the pillar of light with anticipation, he suddenly saw Chen Xiangjun instantly slap three palms at the three big demons who were facing her.

Hitting the backs of the three demons respectively, the three demons who were caught off guard felt a pain in their backs, and a huge thrust came from behind them to push them towards the fiery pillar of light.

The three demons were instantly pushed into the pillar of light and melted into three particularly bright red liquids, and the crocodile demon and the other one went in without any reaction, although the little ape was stronger and more flexible, it was just a matter of time to look back at the sneak attacker.

When he saw that it was actually Chen Xiangjun, he was so angry that his eyes widened and he scolded, but before he could say anything, his entire body had already been integrated into the pillar of light, turning into the largest pillar of liquid nourishing light.

After the three demons entered, Chen Xiangjun smiled.

"It's just the three of you, thank you!"