Chapter 156: Blood Sacrifice
Xiao Jinyan had seen bats, but he had never seen bats of this size, and the wings of these bats were dark red.
Ordinary bats will take the initiative to avoid obstacles, and these bats will take the initiative to attack the three people when they encounter them, as if they have seen prey.
Li Chengcheng saw it and said: "This is a blood bat, living on the blood of living creatures, and its teeth contain highly poisonous, don't be bitten." ”
The three of them were about to retreat, but found that there was no way behind them.
With a loud bang, the golden knife was unsheathed.
Zhao Lanjiang immediately made a decision, and a black knife gang spread out from the golden knife, blocking the bat three feet in front of him with his qi.
Countless bats crashed into the knife and suddenly became a pulp. However, these did not stop the bat's attack momentum in the slightest, and they followed one after another, as if they were going crazy.
Li Chengcheng waved his long sword at this moment, although his martial arts realm was not as good as Zhao Lanjiang, but whether it was from the sword moves or the comprehension of the Zhixuan realm, he had reached the peak. The slender sword qi, in the most economical way, drew more than a dozen sword marks in the air, and wherever the traces went, the bats were cut in half and fell to the ground one after another.
Among the three, the most painful is Xiao Jinyan, who can't gather internal strength, relying on his sensitive sense and the torch in his hand to drive away bats.
Bats are afraid of fire.
Wherever the torches swept it, the blood bats dodged.
Xiao Jinyan said, "With their backs on the cave wall!" In this way, the three of them changed from horns to side by side, with their backs against the wall, so as not to suffer from the enemy on their backs.
Xiao Jinyan remembered that there was fire powder in his bag, so he asked Zhao and Li to protect him, and took out three bottles of fire powder from the three's bag.
These fire powders have the function of helping to ignite, usually when the fire is lit, sprinkle a little on the dry wood, and hit the spark with a flint fire sickle, which can ignite the dry firewood.
There were more and more bat corpses on the ground, and those bats had no intention of stopping, Xiao Jinyan raised a handful of fire powder into the air.
Fire powder filled the air, as well as dozens of bats.
Whew!
In the cave, a bright light flickered, followed by countless squeaks, and the blood bats' bodies were stained with fire powder, ignited by sparks, and fell to the ground one after another.
The three of them concocted the same method, especially Li Chengcheng, who sent the fire powder to a distant place with internal force, and ignited it once in this way, and could clear two or three zhang of space in the cave.
Since you can't go back, move forward.
Xiao Jinyan was responsible for preparing the fire powder, Li Chengcheng was responsible for releasing it, and Zhao Lanjiang was responsible for killing the fish that slipped through the net in front of the three people.
The three of them cooperated seamlessly, and they actually walked forward for more than 20 zhang.
The cave floor was full of squeaks and squeaks, as well as the corpses of fire powder charred by fire powder.
This is probably the slowest twenty feet that the three of them walked, but in the cave, on the dark side, there is still no end in sight, and I don't know how many blood bats there are inside.
"It's the last one. Xiao Jinyan said.
When the fire powder is exhausted, they can only rely on martial arts and internal strength to support themselves. I originally thought it was an abandoned Ghost King Sect, but who would have thought that this mystery would be hidden here.
No wonder the stone monument with the words "No one is allowed to enter" on it, and nearly 10,000 bats alone are enough to stop the vast majority of people from coming.
Li Chengcheng's expression was solemn, and he said, "Wait behind me, rush over!" With that, he sprinkled the fire powder on the long sword, and after igniting it, the long sword swung like a giant sword dancing wheel, emitting a dazzling light.
He rushed forward, and all the bats that touched his sword fell to the ground and became corpses.
A fishy smell permeated the cave.
Xiao Jinyan walked at the end, and suddenly felt a pain in his shoulder, as if he had been bitten by something, Xiao Jinyan grabbed it and grabbed a bat in his hand.
The blood bat struggled twice, its whole body turned black, and it died upright.
Xiao Jinyan suddenly realized that after taking the six poisons that day, his body was already invulnerable, especially centipedes, scorpions and other poisonous things, not only could not cause harm to Xiao Jinyan, but also suffered backlash, and even the king of the five poisonous boys' mamba was poisoned because of a bite on him.
Xiao Jinyan had an idea, slashed his fingers with a sharp blade, and exposed them in the air, and those cave blood bats seemed to feel a great threat and flew away one after another.
Puff puff!
Dozens of bats landed on the ground, and the rest flew away into the distance.
Zhao Lanjiang breathed a sigh of relief, "This trick is a shame that you can figure it out!"
Xiao Jinyan said, "It's not a way to go on like this, there are so many bats in this cave, hurry up and find a way, otherwise if I don't wait to kill the bats, my own blood will be drained." ”
Zhao Lanjiang said with a smile, "It's good, at least when you are buried, you don't need to do anti-insect and anti-bite treatment." ”
Xiao Jinyan scolded, "I'm here to spill blood for you, but you are talking cool words on the side!"
The swarm of blood bats was temporarily controlled, but he knew that the bats had not retreated, and they were hanging upside down under the eaves of the cave, as if waiting for the next round of attacks.
After more than ten zhang of progress, the three of them rushed out of the cave, the terrain gradually widened, and when they looked up, there was another cave.
The three of them were stunned by what they saw.
Inside the whole Dingling Mountain, more than half of it seems to have been hollowed out, and six stone pillars that are as high as dozens of zhang rise up, like huge stone beams, supporting Dingling Mountain.
The walls are inlaid with countless shellfish and stones, shimmering with a faint luster, shrouding this palace-like mountain in a haze.
Zhao Lanjiang said, "This is where Mrs. Qi's mausoleum is located? If this place was built with manpower, then the person who built it is indeed amazing!"
At the end of the cave there are steps, a total of one hundred and eight steps.
The three of them descended the stairs to the bottom.
At the foot of the foot is a black square boulder ten zhang square, and the smooth stone face is carved with countless irregular grooves, glowing with a dark red glow.
Zhao Lanjiang asked, "How much do you know about the Ghost King Sect and this Mrs. Qi?"
Li Chengcheng was also shocked by what he saw, and he said, "Hundreds of years ago, another branch of the Demon Sect, the Netherworld God Sect, was split and became the Eight Sects of the Demon Sect, and the Ghost King Sect was one of them. It is said that the first generation of the ghost king is the apprentice of the leader of the demon sect, known as the blood demon sword to find the building night, with a blood demon sword has set off a bloody storm on the rivers and lakes, five hundred years ago, the sword mountain descended on the world, the ghost king sect will be extinct in the rivers and lakes, very rarely in the rivers and lakes. This Mrs. Qi is a little red with the Central Plains, and it is said that she is the fourth generation of the ghost king's descendants, and she was also a flash in the pan in the rivers and lakes a hundred years ago. ”
In the center of the black boulder is a crystal sarcophagus. The three of them stepped forward and looked into the sarcophagus, and couldn't help but gasp, and the cold hair on their bodies was about to stand upside down.
Inside the sarcophagus, the body of a woman in red lay in her thirties. The corpse was very well preserved, both the clothes and the skin were lifelike, but the face was very pale.
What is shocking is that the woman's limbs and neck were nailed to the boulder by five red stone nails, and the grooves on the boulder finally converged under the crystal coffin.
Xiao Jinyan said, "According to legend, Mrs. Qi was hunted down and killed, and she had a relationship with a Shaolin monk, and the ghost king crucified Mrs. Qi to death in this mountain because of jealousy and hatred.
Li Chengcheng pointed to the sarcophagus and said, "There are words below." ”
The three of them then saw a line written on the sarcophagus, "Sacrifice to my god of darkness with your blood." ”
Li Chengcheng said, "Mrs. Qi was killed, but the body did not decompose, you see the grooves on these boulders, there are dark marks, if you guess correctly, it should be the traces of blood flowing through the grooves after she was nailed." ”
Xiao Jinyan said, "This should be a formation, or a memorial ceremony. Regardless of it, but it looks like it was interrupted by something. ”
Li Chengcheng looked around, seemed to have found something on the stone pillar, and exclaimed, "Sword marks!"
Everyone looked at the six stone pillars of this Dingling Mountain, the lower half was dark red, and the upper half was still red black, and on the stone pillars, there were six traces of different heights, as if they had been cut by someone with some sharp blade.
Li Chengcheng said, "I remember seeing it in the Library Pavilion, the Demon Sect has a blood sacrifice array, which uses human blood with special bloodlines as a medium, and can summon the power of non-human darkness when it is launched.
Zhao Lanjiang asked, "You mean, back then, when the Ghost King crucified Lady Qi, he wanted to launch the Blood Sacrifice Array?"
"I'm afraid that's the case, it seems that there should have been a problem when the formation was activated, and this formation was forced to be interrupted. ”
Zhao Lanjiang glanced at Xiao Jinyan.
"What do you want to do?" Xiao Jinyan said.
"You have a lot of blood, why don't you try it with your blood?"
Xiao Jinyan snorted, "Recently, I don't think it's necessary to be anemic." ”
In this Dingling Mountain, there are strange things everywhere, and the three of them did not dare to act rashly, and walked around the sarcophagus.
Zhao Lanjiang's eyes were sharp, "There are words here." ”
The three of them stepped forward and vaguely saw a few lines of words.
"I would like to awaken the sleeping gods with the blood of darkness. ”
"I want to sink forever, and to bring forth the greatest power of the endless abyss, calling you here through my bloodline. ”
"I want to burn myself in flames, so that my beloved will be released from prison. ”
"From now on be thy servant, and be in darkness forever!"
This "incantation" like a word made the three of them feel a chill, a chill to the bone, and Li Chengcheng said in a low voice, "Bright curse." ”
The Demon Cult worships the gods of light and darkness, and believes that with the help of oaths and formations, the power of the two gods can be added to the mortal body, so as to obtain power beyond the mortal world.
Zhao Lanjiang frowned and said, "Whether it is Mrs. Qi or the Blood Sacrifice Array, it must be related to the Ghost King Sect, but what does it have to do with Yu Jiaxue's disappearance? Why is Lord Yu so convinced that Yu Jiaxue will be abducted to Dingling Mountain?"
Li Chengcheng said, "This matter, I'm afraid I can only understand it by asking him in person, I always feel that this matter is strange, it seems that I can only ask Lord Yu in person." ”
Xiao Jinyan sighed, "Since Yu Jiaxue was not robbed here, it seems that there is something else to do." He glanced at the corpse lying in the sarcophagus again, and shuddered.
"It's too similar!"
The two of them didn't know why, "What is too similar!"
Xiao Jinyan said in a trembling voice, "Don't you think that this Mrs. Qi lying in the sarcophagus is a little similar to Yu Jiaxue's appearance?"