Chapter 372: Sacrifice
Chapter 372 – Sacrifice
Those cultivators who had been kidnapped spectated the scene, staring at it with wide eyes and disbelief.
They wanted to say something to condemn this behavior, but the intense life and death crisis made them close their mouths tightly, unable to say half a word.
“If any more nonsense delays the hour, you won’t have to walk the rest of the way.”
The Jindan cultivator in the lead lightly killed those few cultivators before casually ingesting their corpses.
He didn’t even turn around, his tone calm and without ripples, as if he had just crushed a few disobedient ants.
Those captive cultivators finally stopped acting like demons, realizing that this place was far away from the City of Cultivators, and that the city’s decrees couldn’t regulate this place at all, one by one they were as quiet as chickens as they accelerated their speed.
After traveling for a day, the crowd arrived at a very barren looking plain.
Just when a group of cultivators are puzzled, a few Jindan cultivators shot together, in a corner of the plain opened the boundary, revealing a hidden entrance to the underground palace.
The leader of the Jindan cultivator first stepped into it, although other people do not know what is waiting for them under the ground, but also can only follow hard-headedly down.
After Xu Chuniang stepped into the underground palace, she found that it was much larger than she had imagined, and there were more Jindan cultivators wearing black robes in the underground palace, who seemed to have been waiting here for a long time.
After the two groups of cultivators met, they discussed for a while, and according to the plan, they divided all the Foundation Establishment Cultivators into nine waves, and respectively led them to step onto different paths.
“True or false, false or real, so that the Evil Eye Beast, if it wakes up unexpectedly, will only think that we are performing a sacrifice ceremony.”
“But it hasn’t offered so many sacrifices in the past, will it be suspicious?”
“Perhaps it will, so it’s best that we rush to leave this place completely before it wakes up.”
The others were a bit dissatisfied with this answer, but this was an opportunity they had waited many years for, and it was something they would never give up easily.
If they missed this time, perhaps they wouldn’t be able to wait for the Evil Eye Beast to fall asleep again until their lifespans were exhausted.
Xu Chuniang’s four followed the black-robed old man from earlier and stepped into the intricate underground palace.
Apart from the two Jindan cultivators in black robes, the remaining twelve people in the group were all Foundation Establishment cultivators.
The two black-robed cultivators were very familiar with the underground palace, as if they had already been here many times.
As they continued to go deeper and deeper into the underground palace, an oppressive feeling deep into the soul was born, as if they had stepped out of the domain of some powerful existence, making people uneasy.
The faces of several tied-up cultivators showed a look of uncertainty, and fear was suppressed in their voices.
“Where are you taking us, this place …… shouldn t be where that thing is located, right?”
“What exactly do you guys want to do, is it hard to use us as sacrifices?”
They had stayed in the city for a long time, so naturally they knew that there were high-level cultivators who had been offering sacrifices for the Evil Eye Beast.
But those sacrifices were often people who had violated the rules.
Those like them who followed the regulations would never be taken as sacrifices.
“Hehe, since you don’t want to be a sacrifice, then be obedient.”
The black-robed old man gave those people a meaningful glance, “Whether or not you can survive depends on your luck.”
A few people’s faces turned pale, remembering that the Jindan cultivator who was in charge earlier had purposely put away those people’s corpses after killing them.
At that time, they felt that the other party was being redundant, but only now did they realize that those were sacrifices.
Sacrifices that were offered to the Evil Eye Beast were meant to be dead or alive.
In other words, if they died, 100% of them would fall into sacrifice.
On the contrary if they were able to live, they would instead win a ray of hope. After understanding this, they finally became more serious, who would want to die if they could live?
Seeing that the few people were completely at peace, the black-robed old man withdrew his gaze and continued to walk ahead to lead the way.
The group of people continued to go deeper and deeper into the narrow underground passageway until they entered a wide stone room that opened up in front of them.
After stepping into the stone room, the oppressive feeling grew stronger. The crowd knew in their hearts that this place was one step closer to the Evil Eye Beast’s main body.
They unconsciously lightened their movements for fear of startling it. Even the two Jindan cultivators did not dare to be careless.
After traveling some distance forward in the stone room, a thick stone door blocked the way forward.
The black-robed old man took out an offering from his storage ring, and without changing his face, he cut his finger and drew a symbol on the offering with blood.
When the last stroke fell, the sacrifice filled with blood symbols suddenly spontaneously combusted without wind.
Within a few short breaths, the sacrifice burned to a crisp, and not even half of the ash remained.
The stone door in front of him slowly opened as if it was inspired by something.
The black-robed old man’s face was slightly relieved, and he stepped into it first.
After the stone door, is a broader space, there are strands of black fog, from time to time in the surrounding drift.
“These are God Devouring Mists, most like to devour Divine Sense and Yuan Shen, don’t touch them with your Divine Sense.”
After the black-robed old man finished his explanation, he took out a gourd and skillfully collected the black mist.
Xu Chuniang’s four exchanged a glance, this black mist looked exactly the same as the black mist outside the Rift Wind Valley.
It was just that the reason why the God Devouring Mist existed in the Rift Wind Valley was because there were many spatial cracks in the depths of the Rift Wind Valley.
If the God Devouring Mist appeared here, did it mean that there were similarly spatial cracks inside?
With this thought, the few people couldn’t help but be much more careful.
The others also recognized that this God Devouring Mist was the black mist in the Rift Wind Valley, only that they didn’t know that the God Devouring Mist was a product of the Heavenly Beyond Heaven, so after the initial accident, they didn’t take it too seriously.
“From stepping into here, gradually there will be demonic beasts appearing, this place is too close to the Evil Eye Beast’s main body, in order to avoid overly powerful forces attracting its prying eyes, the two of us won’t make a move, everything can only rely on yourselves.”
As soon as the black-robed elder’s words fell, several demonic beasts hidden in the black mist let out a low roar and rushed towards the crowd.
Because of the black-robed elder’s reminder, coupled with the cultivation of several demonic beasts was not high, so they were soon a crowd of Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivators were cut down.
“Foundation Establishment second level? These demonic beasts are nothing more than that.”
The cultivator who spoke was at the third level of Foundation Establishment, and was at the bottom of the crowd, so he was a bit dismayed when he easily won against the beasts at the second level of Foundation Establishment.
Demonic beasts at this level of song were not worth making a fuss about.
However, he soon paid the price for his gullibility, as a late Foundation Establishment level demonic beast appeared by his side without a sound, easily tearing away half of his body.
This Late Foundation Establishment Demonic Beast killed two cultivators in a row, and was eventually decapitated heavily by Kong Huan’s black sword.
The black-robed elder turned his head to skim over the two dead cultivators and shook his head in disgust.
“Pity.”
He slightly snapped his fingers and flicked out a few sparks from his fingertips, landing on top of the two men’s tattered corpses.
Dying with incomplete corpses, they weren’t even qualified to be sacrifices.
(End of chapter)