Prologue 1 Sacrifice
The stars sink and the moon is cold, the ancient land is barren and hot,
A majestic barren vein is like a sleepy dragon dormant, its peaks are like ridges, and the spine has five thorns, and they are lined up into the nine heavens in a finger-like shape, tearing the boundless night. Under its five fingers is the peak mound, high ten thousand, if the volley bird's eye view, it is like a huge head, suppressed under the five fingers, but also in the forehead and eyes of the skull peak, for many years there is a puffy and gloomy evil atmosphere. This evil aura cannot be seen by ordinary people at all, even the strong people who have stepped into the third and fourth realms of the path of cultivation cannot see it, but if they rush under the skull peak, they will have a chill on their backs, their cold hairs stand on end, and they will even have the danger of disappearing. For this reason, this peak is called Barren Ridge.
I don't know what kind of powerful creatures are cultivating in this barren mountain of the Dao Dao, day and night. It actually caused a sinister aura to permeate the entire barren mountain for thousands of years, and it was isolated and became the third world.
There are great monastic powers that want to explore the mysteries of the barren mountains, but those who approach the barren mountains are all contaminated with an extremely terrible ominous aura, or they cannot advance an inch for the rest of their lives, or they are delirious, their memories are completely lost, and even worse, they are immediately wiped out without warning at that time. As for those who dare to step into the barren mountains, no one has no way of knowing the way!
Every 300 years, there will be an earth-shattering sound in the barren mountains, the sky will collapse, and the sun and moon will be dull. The roar of the shattered sky was mixed with the roars of countless demon beasts, gods and demons...... The entire ancient continent would be shaken, as if some undead creature was about to be born underground. Then, in the middle of the night, there will be a whole hour, with the hissing of ghosts, the manifestation of a hundred beasts, the strange creatures with the head of a dragon and a snake body, a two-winged tiger on their backs, and a turtle beast with a human face...... They appeared over the barren ridge one after another, spreading shocking cries everywhere, and the barren ridge was like purgatory on earth for a while.
On this night, all cultivators will have demonic obstacles in their hearts, and if the monks who are close to the barren mountains are in the process of cultivating, they will either go crazy or become undead creatures with blood......
Some prophets predicted that in the future, this extremely demonic force will reappear in the world, and then mankind will have that great calamity and misery!
Upon learning of this prophecy, some powerful forces in the entire Desolate Ancient Continent couldn't sit still, and they joined forces to encircle and suppress it more than once, but the army composed of countless strong people went deep into the Desolate Mountains, but there was no news...... I don't know life and death!
Since then, this place has become a forbidden place of death, and all the Xiuzhen sects in the surrounding thousands of miles have moved away, and none of them have stayed.
Hundreds of years have passed, and the Bai family, which was once one of the four major cultivation families in the Desolate Flame Ancient Land, was attacked by a mysterious force, and the power withered, and the family declined, leaving almost only a Dry Life Wheel monk to support the façade. But for some reason, despite the danger, the family moved to the barren mountains, where they took root, preached, and multiplied.
This behavior has attracted the attention of countless sects, and many masters have visited the Bai family one after another, wanting to find out, but to no avail. Some people say that it was the late ancient power of the Bai family who guided them to seek luck before they died; some people say that the head of the Bai family is not dead yet, and wants to explore the barren mountains alone before his life is dying, looking for immortal fate in order to break through the realm and live forever; there are also people who say that the Bai family has reached some kind of agreement with the terrifying creatures in the barren mountains with the help of ancestral mysterious Taoist soldiers and secret arts, so they are allowed and protected to set up a dojo next to the barren mountains and spread out their branches......
No one knows whether these rumors are true or not......
There is no nail in the cultivation, and there is a reincarnation of hundreds of years.
This**, in the vast boundless night, buried the last trace of starlight.
The dead black swallowed up the scorching sun of the day, the night wind was cold, the spirits were screaming, and the resentment was everywhere.
At the entrance to the barren ridge, a crimson altar floats in the air.
This altar is too large, with a radius of ten zhang, and there are nine sticks of incense with the thickness of a child's arm inserted on the altar. The scarlet incense flame was like nine black and red ghost fires extinguishing in the cold mountain wind. Wisps of gray cigarette smoke soared upwards into the depths of the huge skull-shaped evil peak in the distance......
At the feet of these nine giant incense sticks, there are nine children, each of whom is wrapped in red and has a bun on his head. Their facial expressions varied: some were weeping, others were stunned, and some seemed unconscious.
Among these nine children, only one is very different, with a ten-year-old appearance, a pale face, and a pair of black and white eyes, which is very aura. What is even more strange is that the child did not even bring a trace of horror and fear, on the contrary, a little face with a monstrous hatred, this hatred seems to be innate, extremely amazing. Sharp eyes, staring at the crowd opposite without moving for several hours......
From the look in his eyes, he could clearly understand it, "Those who kill me will not be repaid in this life, and in the next life, they will refine their souls and cut off their bodies, and they will be stripped alive! The sky will not be destroyed, and my white hatred will not be extinguished!"
"Hee-hee...... Waste, what are you staring at us? Do you want to remember your master? Then you have to remember it, lest you be beheaded in the next life, and you will be wronged by others! Hehe, you will become a holy relic later...... You little waste, you can be regarded as a little contribution to my Bai family!" A voice came out subtly.
"Ah...... Be bold, don't give me a mouth shut yet!" A slow snort came from an old man's nose.
This humming voice carried great coercion, like substance, directly descended on the person who spoke out, causing the person who made the voice to provoke and insult immediately pale, and the corners of his mouth were even more bloody......
On the opposite side of the altar were a hundred and ten white-clothed men, all of whom had serious and respectful expressions. There are old people who look like they are over the age of six, but they are in good spirits, and there are young people who are only five or six years old, with beautiful faces, red lips and white teeth.
At the front, the white-clothed monk had yellow cheeks, eyebrows and sideburns, and a solemn complexion.
I saw him kneeling on the ground, first prostrate his body forward about three feet, and then slowly raised his upper body to the altar and knocked nine times, and then slowly straightened his upper body, his hands were in the shape of a moon, and he held a bead in his palm, which was about three inches in diameter, and his whole body exuded a slight blue light......
"The Bai clan, with blood inheritance, sacrifice to the child at the root of the nine spirits!" the monk's voice trembled and entered the mountains......
The blue light bead in his hand burst out of the moment when the monk's sacrificial words were spoken, and a red blood line flew out of the ground, and once the blood line flew out of the bead, it turned into nine paths in the wind and flew down on the nine burning incense sticks. Nine thick incense sticks burst into nine flames, bewitching and dazzling in this dark and starless night sky!