Chapter 196 Blood Sacrifice
The smell in the air is fishy and mixed.
The further you go, the stronger the smell becomes.
It's the smell of blood.
Walking in the wasteland, Su Ziyi felt short of breath, and his whole brain was so dizzy, as if he had not slept in the past few days and nights before he started practicing. This made him feel bad immediately. He held his breath, found a piece of handkerchief from his storage bag, wet it and put it over his mouth and nose, and then he felt better.
The smell of blood is probably weird.
After realizing this, Su Ziyi immediately activated his spiritual power to circulate in his body for a week, and he found some minor problems. I saw some tiny shadows like black floc floating in his veins, eating away at the surrounding spiritual energy bit by bit, strengthening his body, and soon grew from the size of gravel to the size of a small fingernail. That's it.
Su Ziyi was so horrified that he broke into a cold sweat.
He stopped moving forward and found a rock that had been seriously eroded by the wind to sit down on. Then he closed his eyes and meditated cross-legged, turning Qing Ling Gui Yi Jue, intending to expel these things. Just like those shadows can devour spiritual power, these spiritual powers can also cause devastating attacks on shadows. Under Su Ziyi's fixed-point targeting, all the black shadows in the veins of his body were cleared away in a short time.
However, as the impurities in the muscles and veins in his body were eliminated, a layer of black, oily and smelly grease appeared on his body surface, which made people feel unpleasant when smelling it.
Therefore, as soon as Su Ziyi opened his eyes, he immediately held his breath unbearably. He released his consciousness, and after confirming that there were no living creatures around him, he quickly took off all his clothes, wiped his whole body clean with a cloth handkerchief, put on new clothes, and then used the essence of the five elements to activate the new mud again. , smear the whole body tightly.
I don't know if it was because of the soil quality, but Su Ziyi always felt that the mud applied to his body this time was a bit prickly.
But this kind of thing was not a big deal, so he turned his back and forgot about it. He didn't have a good way to deal with the black shadow, and none of the pills on his body seemed to be aimed at this situation, so he directly took one of the pills that had detoxification effects, and then added another A cloth kerchief was tied in front of his ears and nose. Finally, he also set up a spiritual shield around it to isolate the weird smell.
At this point, the black flocculent shadow no longer appeared in his veins.
This made Su Ziyi relax, and at the same time he became more wary of the unknown ahead. The wasteland stretches as far as the eye can see, the moonlight is cold, and the stars are clear. It looks just like last night, but Su Ziyi can clearly feel how different the atmosphere is these two nights. If last night was just cold and quiet, then tonight's is evil. , there is always a faint shadow floating in the air, ready to block the remaining light at any time.
He walked forward cautiously, and the further he went, the stronger the evil smell became.
Su Ziyi could even feel a slight pressure from the spiritual shield. He always felt that if he removed the spiritual shield in front of him, he would be swallowed up by the weird atmosphere in an instant.
The opportunity to test this possibility came soon.
After Su Ziyi traveled northwest for nearly two hours, several auras stronger than his came from both directions. After all, the distance between them was getting closer and closer, and they seemed to be converging in the same direction. Such a sudden abnormality caused Su Ziyi to immediately retract the aura shield in front of him and lie down directly on the ground.
And the moment he removed the shield, a stench that was ten or more times stronger than before came from all directions. They seemed to have condensed into substance, rushing straight into Su Ziyi's body like a tide, leaving no one in the room. Su Ziyi's mind went blank for a moment when he had time to set up defenses.
But fortunately, the detoxifying pills he had taken before had a little effect.
Just when those black flocs were about to invade his tendons again, Su Ziyi suddenly felt a stinging pain, and his brain, which had been dazed by the smoke, immediately woke up. Then he concentrated and held his breath, completely eliminating the black flocs from coming back. One step of invasion. At the same time, amidst the fishy smell that was as strong as water, Su Ziyi had a flash of idea, wondering if the water-avoiding pill would be useful in this situation?
You can do it if you want, and there are no side effects from taking the water-avoiding pill, so Su Ziyi swallowed one immediately.
As soon as the water-avoiding pill fell into his stomach, Su Ziyi suddenly felt alive and relaxed a lot. Although the fishy smell can still be smelled, because the breathing rate has decreased, it is difficult for the black floc in it to penetrate into his veins. Even if there is an occasional fish that slips through the net, it will be absorbed by the spiritual power in Su Ziyi's body. Clear it out immediately.
After this, Su Ziyi felt much more comfortable than before.
Those foundation-building cultivators coming from other directions are obviously heading in the same direction. At first they were still coming from different directions, but the further they went, the closer they got, and they didn't even have any intention of avoiding them. Some of their auras were even mixed together, presumably they were going together. Went forward.
After they left, Su Ziyi hit the road again.
This time, he walked forward for less than half an hour when the auras of new foundation-building cultivators appeared. Although the number was not as large as before, they were still real cultivators. They were extremely fast and looked very anxious, heading in the direction where the previous practitioners disappeared, and soon left Su Ziyi's sensing range.
Su Ziyi guessed that the thing that brought so many foundation-building practitioners together was about to happen.
Thinking of this, he also speeded up his speed. With the cover of the mud, he only needs to stop when he senses the breath of other foundation-building practitioners, and then he can move forward with confidence. So after walking for nearly an hour, when the moon had turned to the western half of the sky, Su Ziyi felt a disgusting and evil aura coming from the distance directly in front of him.
He subconsciously looked up and saw a blood-like red mark appearing in the night sky that was originally full of stars.
Its shape is indescribable. It looks like a waterfall hanging from the sky. It makes people feel that it is unattainable. However, its appearance also looks like a blood-colored thin cloud that is scattered but not condensed. It can be blown away by a gust of wind. . And at the bottom of it, there was a burst of blood light, not like the brilliance of thousands of lights, but like the color reflected by an endless pool of blood.
In an instant, Su Ziyi's heart became heavy and he stopped moving forward.
But at this moment, suddenly under the blood light, in the pool of blood that Su Ziyi had imagined, there suddenly came a rumble, not like thunder, but like the sounds of countless little ghosts talking. , hearing this made everyone feel disgusted. They just wanted to strike out with a sword and eradicate all the evil little devils.
Now, no matter how little Su Ziyi knew, he knew that what happened there was definitely not a good thing.
However, as the rumbling noises appeared, the aura of foundation-building practitioners appeared again behind Su Ziyi. Their speed was faster and more desperate than those before, as if they were trying their best to get there. Although he couldn't see clearly, Su Ziyi looked at their appearance of not caring about the consumption of spiritual power, and could tell that they were not planning to fight, but seemed to be rushing to an extremely important feast.
At this moment, Su Ziyi's heart sank completely.
Neither he nor the original owner had received any truly systematic and orthodox training guidance. Everything they followed was a wild path, and he himself relied on his own brain to explore all the way. But even so, he still knows what should be touched and what shouldn't be touched. He really doesn't know what happened there, but what happened is definitely not something that any orthodox practitioner should be grateful for and dare to try his best. Go for something close.
So, are these people crazy?
At this moment, for the Aristocratic Family, Su Ziyi's inner senses had been reduced to the lowest level.
He stood there like a puppet for a long time. In this half day, the blood light in the distance became higher and higher, and the blood-colored thin clouds in the sky became solid little by little, and other foundation-building practitioners flew over his head from time to time. , flew towards that direction in a hurry.
This made Su Ziyi feel a sense of sadness in his heart.
Although, he didn't know why.
But, at this moment, there seemed to be tears rolling in his eyes.
At the end of the day, there were no more foundation-building cultivators passing overhead, and the blood light in the distance gradually condensed into a vague humanoid outline from the initial dissipation, and some of the blood light had a darker color. The place turned black. None of this is a good sign.
Although he knew it was very dangerous, at this moment, Su Ziyi did not flinch or run away. Instead, he flew towards that direction at a faster speed than before. If it weren't for the solemn and even sad look on his face, outsiders would almost think that he was in the same group as those previous family foundation-building practitioners.
The Bloody Land did indeed seem very far away, but with Su Ziyi's full efforts, it only took him two-quarters of an hour to reach the outskirts.
As soon as he reached the periphery, Su Ziyi did not dare to be so reckless anymore, because the foundation-building practitioners walking in front of him were gathering in front, forming an extremely uncomfortable pressure for him to push him back and let him It is impossible to act rashly. He gritted his teeth and walked forward bit by bit with a pair of fleshy feet. However, the further he went, the heavier the pressure from the group of foundation-building practitioners became, causing his originally straight back to begin to bend downwards. .
As for the vague bloody humanoid figure that has been lingering in Su Ziyi's heart like a magic omen, it has become clearer now. Although the limbs and facial features are not very clear, people can still identify which one is which. And its limit seems to have reached here. After becoming like this, it will never change in a clearer direction.
But this seems to be enough for that group of people.
It is also a wasteland, but it is even more wild here. Although there are many rocks, every inch of the rock gives people a murderous aura. When Su Ziyi looked over, he even felt that every grain of gravel on these rocks carried a sharp murderous aura. It stung so much that he didn't dare to look further. The erosion here has been even more serious by wind and external forces. Black rocks as big as an adult elephant have been blown directly into hollows, and the hill-like mountain shape is even more pitted.
But this made Su Ziyi more convenient.
Relying on these rocks that could be seen everywhere, he carefully hid his figure and leaned over little by little. He did not get too close to those people, but relied on the strength of their auras to choose a direction that would be least affected by them, then lay down on a rock with the highest altitude and looked over there.
Just by looking at it, he was instantly stunned.
In his previous imagination, this place should be a sea of blood like a magma pool, but that was still an imagination, but he did not expect that his imagination would actually come true!
It's just that it's not very accurate to say it's a sea of blood.
To be precise, this vast lake, looking down from the rock he was lying on, was about the size of a dozen acres of fields.
It's just that this lake is different from any lake he has seen before.
The water is not clear blue, but as black as thick ink, making it impossible to see the bottom. In the center of the lake, a bright red color is rising from the bottom of the water, turning into circles of ripples on the water, and turning into a red dance on the black water. The dancer's skirt always dances only in the center of the lake, not exceeding the range determined by it. Once the red light wants to leave its control, it immediately turns into red mist and surges into the sky, directly blending into Su Ziyi's body. Among the bloody human figures he saw.
But that wasn't what surprised Su Ziyi the most.
What surprised and horrified Su Ziyi the most was that in the lake, to be precise, in the mid-air of the lake, on the water surface with red ripples, there were more than a dozen people tied up in knots. Solid human bodies float among them. There was no other support point on their bodies, as if they were being lifted by their necks by an invisible hand.
Many holes had been poked into their bodies with sharp objects, and the blood on their bodies was flowing down their bodies, forming blood lines that connected to the lake below.
It looks like a piglet waiting to be slaughtered.
But how could these people be piggies!
Su Ziyi glanced at them and determined that all of these ten people were foundation-building practitioners.
What made Su Ziyi even more surprised the more he looked at it was that among these hanging foundation-building practitioners, they were wearing different clothes, but all of them were marked with distinctive signs, so Su Ziyi could tell at a glance that they were among them. Some of them are from the government, some are from Da Yue, and three or four cultivators are also foundation-building cultivators from aristocratic families!
Su Ziyi only felt ridiculous.
He subconsciously turned his head and looked at the group of people surrounding the lake. Those people are not wearing the same clothes, but as long as the clothes are in the same style, there are at least five people, which shows that they are from the same group, and it also shows that they are from different families. After a rough count, Su Ziyi found that there were actually twelve such groups!
This shows that there are twelve aristocratic families here who have reached the same agreement, arresting practitioners from the government and Da Yue, and even practitioners from the same aristocratic family as himself, just to carry out the blood sacrifice in front of him!
Chapter 197 Bloody Humanoid
This is, how absurd!
At this moment, Su Ziyi felt strongly that he was out of tune with this world.
Although he has never studied history or witchcraft intensively, as a practitioner with the soul of a modern person on earth, he also knows that most of the sacrifices involving living people are not a good thing. But now in front of him, the aristocratic families representing half of the power of the entire Yuan Kingdom did not hesitate to pick up knives and stab their own kind, and even people from the same camp, just to complete a bloody process. Festival.
This made Su Ziyi's throat roll.
At the same time, my views on the aristocratic family were once again refreshed in my heart.
Glancing over, Su Ziyi didn't find anyone from the Xiang family. He didn't know if they hadn't arrived yet or if they weren't involved, but as long as the other party didn't appear in front of him now, he would always feel better.
At this time, the lake changed again.
It's still the center of the lake, and it's still the same bright red color.
At this time, the dozen or so people hanging in the blood-colored water seemed to have dried up their blood. There were no more small streams of blood flowing on their bodies, only a few drops left to drip there. As less blood falls into the water, the water becomes redder, as if the red mass originally hidden under the water is slowly rising up, planning to break out of the water.
As for the cultivators who had their blood drained, they had long been silent. They were all pale-faced and stiff, their entire souls annihilated under the severe physical pain and endless psychological torture.
Such behavior is simply outrageous!
In the blink of an eye, the deep red blood under the water became more and more clearly visible. There was no "swishing" sound of the water, only more and more red colors gathered together, and then when the smelting reached a certain degree, it suddenly became very quiet and permeable. It came out and condensed into a red and black blood ball floating on the water.
The speed and the suddenness of the appearance were both beyond people's expectations.
The color of the blood cells is extremely thick. From a distance, Su Ziyi could see viscous liquid constantly flowing on the surface of the blood cells, and the temperature inside seemed to be extremely high, causing blood bubbles to explode from time to time on the surface of the blood cells, which looked very lively. It was also at this time that no more blood could be shed from the corpse floating in mid-air.
Contrary to the dead silence of those corpses, there was a lot of noise among the circle of cultivators standing around.
They were not chanting for the blood sacrifice, but simply whispering to each other, and all of them looked excitedly at the ball of blood with undisguised desire. The light spilling out seemed to explain the ball of blood to Su Ziyi. It's like a treasure. Seeing this made Su Ziyi feel nauseated.
During this period of time, the explosion on the blood cells had entered the day-to-day stage.
For this reason, Su Ziyi no longer looked at the group of people on the shore, but focused all his attention on the blood cells. He looked at the blood ball that seemed to be boiling. The blood bubbles exploded one after another, and he noticed with sharp eyes that at the moment when the blood bubbles exploded, there was always a trace of black material seeping out of the blood, like black The smoke was annihilated in the blink of an eye, disappearing so quickly that it was difficult to catch.
After blinking, Su Ziyi checked again and again before confirming that he was not wrong.
At the same time, the blood cells themselves seemed to have mutated. I don't know if it was because of the strong psychological effect, but Su Ziyi always felt that the red color of the blood cells became purer and the plasma became thicker.
But fortunately after burning incense, time proved that his intuition was right.
The color of the blood cell was indeed changing like that of the plasma, and the size was also changing. In just a short while, it had shrunk in size, and it looked like some substance inside had been volatilized.
Moreover, as it shrank in size, an extremely attractive aura came out of it. It was not the surge of spiritual power brought about by the advent of rare spiritual treasures, nor was it the pleasure generated by cultivators' souls, but a This kind of instinctive desire comes from the body, making people feel that the thing is of great benefit to them, and they can't wait to swallow it in one gulp.
This smell was so alluring that even Su Ziyi, who was averse to it, felt a burst of desire, not to mention the already excited family members on the shore.
However, Su Ziyi woke up the next second.
The sense of crisis engraved in his mind made him feel that something was wrong. He shook his head to drive the unnecessary thoughts out of his mind, and looked at the ball of blood warily.
But the circle of people on the shore were already ecstatic. Unlike Su Ziyi, they all knew what the ball of blood represented, so when the blood ball became smaller and smaller and the smell became more and more attractive, they were completely unable to suppress their inner desire and All the greed and desire were expressed at once.
The only person who looked calm was the young man standing in the middle.
There were two old men standing next to him on the left and right, but their eyes were red with excitement. They even took a few steps closer to the shore, which made this young man who only had explicit emotions in his eyes more different. .
Regarding this young man, Su Ziyi did not know his identity. But just based on the position where the opponent was standing and the aura of aura on his body, he could guess that the opponent must be of extraordinary origin and not low in strength. If they were to face each other, it would definitely be quite troublesome. So he firmly wrote down the person's face to avoid unnecessary trouble in the future.
He knew very well how much he weighed, so before he had absolute strength, it was best not to show off too much.
Time passed by in a hurry, and when Su Ziyi lay down so hard that his chest felt a little sore, the ball of blood finally completed its transformation. At this time, it had evaporated from the size of a basin to the size of an adult man's fist. Although the size was much smaller, the blood color was extremely pure, and there were a few strands of light gold in it, which pierced the eyes. See.
In addition, the alluring aura hidden in its body was completely exposed, and the temptation that was several times stronger than before spread to the surroundings. Even though Su Ziyi had been prepared for it, he was agitated by it. He bit the soft flesh in his mouth with his teeth until the flesh was bloody, and then he restrained his body that was about to move.
But those people who have no control over their desires will have a hard time.
When the aura became stronger and stronger, there was a cultivator with a weak heart, his eyes were red, he summoned the flying sword and wanted to control the sword and fly away. But the moment they summoned their swords, the other cultivators closest to them launched a move, knocking people away and rolling back dozens of feet before stopping.
The attack was only one move, and the cultivator who blocked him returned to his position after flying the person away, and continued to guard against other cultivators. As for the person who was knocked out, it took a long time before he got up covered in blood. However, compared with before, the excitement in his eyes was much less and a little more calm.
As for some people who couldn't be beaten to consciousness, and who were knocked out and then immediately got up and flew towards the center of the lake, they were knocked unconscious and tied into rice dumplings and thrown aside, no longer paying attention to them.
Although the pain in his mouth was excruciating, Su Ziyi still noticed that the one who took action and the one who blocked it all came from the same family, and other families would completely ignore the changes in other families' camps. And whenever there is a stubborn person in a certain camp who has to be knocked unconscious, the eyes of other people in this camp will show a burst of schadenfreude.
This couldn't help but make Su Ziyi's mouth show a hint of ridicule.
But before his ridicule could take shape, the blood ball that was only the size of a fist suddenly exploded from it with a "bang" and swept through the entire water area with a wild force that had never been seen before, causing the water to surge up. Attracted everyone's attention. When the sound stopped and the water waves subsided, the blood ball had disappeared from the place and split into twelve equal-sized blood groups scattered in the air.
But at this moment, the aristocratic families who had been guarding the shore moved.
They didn't all take action. Only one person from each family rose up with a sword, and a blue glass-shaped bowl appeared out of thin air in each hand. When they flew in front of the blood group, the blood group took the initiative to get into the bowl very obediently. Move again. Twelve blood groups, twelve bowls, twelve aristocratic families, no more, no less, just one for each family.
As soon as the blood group fell into the bowl, these people covered their sleeves and robes and returned to the area where their camp was located with their things. To Su Ziyi's surprise, these people did not hide the blood groups in storage bags. Instead, after returning to their own camp, they directly divided them into several levels. Although the sizes were different, they could ensure that each group had different blood groups. Everyone who is still awake can get a share.
And these people didn't use anything to collect the blood. Instead, they opened their mouths and swallowed the blood directly. Then, their faces instantly turned red as if they had been roasted by fire, and large beads of sweat rolled down their faces like waterfalls, forcing them to immediately close their eyes and sit cross-legged to meditate. .
Although some people in this group thought that the portion they got was too small, everyone swallowed it up immediately the moment they got it, so even if they were unwilling to do so, there was nothing they could do. It was better to refine it as soon as possible.
Therefore, it didn’t take long for the entire lakeshore to be filled with meditating practitioners.
The moment those people swallowed the blood, the alluring aura that had previously incited Su Ziyi's mind and body to restlessness completely disappeared. This really made Su Ziyi breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, it also made Su Ziyi feel uncomfortable with the things these aristocratic families had swallowed. The mass of blood was very curious. And just as he was thinking about it, the corpses originally hanging in the lake suddenly moved!
Su Ziyi only caught a slight distortion in the corner of his eyes, and immediately turned his head to look. But in just a little time, earth-shaking changes had already appeared on the dozen or so corpses!
Just like ice cream melting under high temperatures, those hard corpses melted into an inhuman shape in just a moment, and bursts of black mist emitted from their bodies, destroying them at a very fast speed. They were all shrouded in it, and the blackness was so rich that people couldn't see what was going on inside.
Lying on the top of the rock, Su Ziyi only heard a solemn and sharp wind, as if a sharp knife wind was raging inside.
When the knife wind gradually stopped, the black color began to spread outward, and the rich color was continuously diluted. By the time it spread to the entire lake, it had turned into a thin layer of black mist. But this layer of almost transparent black mist made Su Ziyi's whole body stiffen and his pupils shrink suddenly, because in this black mist, he once again saw the strange but familiar black ghost
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At this moment, Su Ziyi's mind was in chaos. As soon as he glanced at it, he found that the number of black ghosts matched the number of corpses. What else didn't he understand now? His heart was cold, frightened, and at the same time he wanted to laugh. He rested his chin on the hard rock ground, his mind completely empty and he didn't know what he was thinking.
The newly born black ghost was a little confused and stayed in place without moving. Only its mist-like body surged with the flow of air. But their sluggishness did not last long, maybe even for a moment. The next second they turned into the strong look that Su Ziyi had seen before. With a shake of their bodies, all the black mist that escaped to the entire lake was dispersed. It was absorbed into the body, and then rushed towards the people meditating on the shore like a roaring wind.
But just when they rushed forward, a big bloody hand with a rough outline suddenly appeared above their heads, and he easily caught them all with a single grab.
Su Ziyi was also frightened by this sudden scene. This article is written by Beig Youyu Dujia
. The series of things he saw before made him completely forget about the bloody humanoid he saw before, making him mistakenly think that it was just a symbolic thing.
But he didn't expect that this symbolic thing was quite powerful. It tightly trapped the dozen black ghosts in its hands, making it impossible for them to escape. Then he brought them to his mouth at a not-so-fast speed, and Su Ziyi watched helplessly as it swallowed them in one bite and even chewed them a few times!
Su Ziyi couldn't explain how cold his body was at this moment.
Because of his previous neglect, he only realized now that the bloody humanoid figure was more solid than what he had seen before. Even some small details on the body had been shown, and it was no longer the barely humanoid outline before. . Su Ziyi didn't even have to think about it, this must be the result of this blood sacrifice.
After the bloody humanoid finished eating those black ghosts, he stretched his limbs and facial features with satisfaction, and then his whole body disappeared with a "swish".
But Su Ziyi's mood did not improve because of its disappearance, but instead worsened.
Because at the moment when the other party disappeared, he saw the other party's substantial gaze, looking at him through the disguise on his body.
At that moment, his heart stopped for a beat.
At this time, the stars have dispersed, last night has passed, and the rising sun has jumped out of the horizon, spreading its warm sunshine on every sunny corner of the wasteland, but it has been unable to awaken Su Ziyi's blood.