Seven days later, Xiaochen removed a large number of bandages. Most of the wounds had scarred. Although they were not completely healed, they were no longer hindering walking and fighting. He was relieved after burning all his blood and clothes with flames.
Xiaochen took out two yellow-level body-protecting jade pendants, threw one to Ling'er, and said, "Put a drop of your life essence blood on it, and it will bind the body-protecting jade pendant. It can save you for a while." Life."
"Essence and blood?"
Ling'er was a little confused after taking it. She held the jade pendant in her little hand and didn't know what to do.
Only then did Xiao Chen react and continue: "Your words can mobilize a trace of his natal soul. As for the method... take a deep breath, guide a bright cyan light along the meridians, and pull it into the jade pendant."
"OK."
Ling'er responded and then closed her eyes and tried hard.
These two body-protecting jade pendants were also found by Xiao Chen from more than a dozen spiritual treasures. The jade pendants are generally refined by the masters of the clan and are used to protect the safety of their own juniors. There are naturally marks on them, and they are very easy to erase. Trouble, Xiaochen just managed to dispel two marks in seven consecutive days.
Recalling the previous battle with Ma Liangyan, Xiaochen also had some thoughts. That man's Lingbao methods were endless, and he was ruthless and thoughtful, so it was really difficult to deal with him.
"Several of my key attacks were defused by various means. Fortunately, I successfully killed this person in the end."
"If Ma Liangyan didn't have so many life-saving spiritual treasures in that battle, he wouldn't have been so difficult to kill." Xiaochen thought.
Then he looked at the dozen or so people stacked on the other side. Those people had been seriously injured, and most of them were now extremely angry.
Looking at those people, Xiaochen thought of the spirit-summoning sacrifice before the birth of the spiritual embryo, so he stopped delaying. Seeing Ling'er binding the body-protecting jade pendant, he said, "Okay, let's set off. By the way, You take those dozen people with you."
Ling'er looked at the people Xiaochen pointed at. Although she was a little confused, she didn't think much. She used her spiritual energy to pick up the dozen people and dragged them behind her, then followed Xiaochen out.
"Sir, why is the sky here so dark? It looks so scary." Ling'er frowned and looked at the sky outside the tunnel. The sky was burned by the black flames igniting all around, like a burnt steamed bun. , the darkness was ominous, and the dark red sky that appeared from time to time in the gray clouds made her even more uncomfortable.
Xiaochen didn't answer her question, his eyes kept focusing on the center of the surrounding sharp ring-shaped peaks, where there was a huge altar.
There is an ancient bronze tripod with square ears placed in the center of the altar. It seems as if the surrounding terrain has been smashed out by the rotating terrain. The carvings on the ancient tripod are complicated, and you can see the striped patterns like big insects carving the entire square tripod. Full.
"Are those the nine sons rumored to be born from the ancient divine dragon? Although the pattern is a bit blurry, you can still vaguely identify the prison ox with horns and the zodiac animal with the word "king" engraved on it..." Xiaochen said softly. , I had never had the opportunity to observe this tripod so carefully before.
Ling'er followed Xiaochen to the altar. She seemed a little scared. In her eyes, the aura here kept oppressing her. If she hadn't followed Xiaochen, she would have turned around and ran away.
Xiao Chen turned around and said: "Guding Suppresses Evil Object, you belong to the ghost, so it's normal to feel uncomfortable. If you can't stand it, I will take you back."
"No... don't!" Although Ling'er cowered and hid behind Xiaochen, she still refused. She would rather endure the suppressed aura around her than return to that pitch-black space.
Fang Ding seemed to be aware of the approach of the flesh and blood, and some black smoke spread out from it like tentacles, lingering above the unconscious dozen people, as if smelling whether the sacrifices were fresh. generally.
Xiaochen quickly dodged the black smoke. The smoke had a sinister aura, which made him feel very dangerous.
"What exactly is this cauldron?" Xiao Chen was puzzled. When he came here in his previous life, the ancient cauldron had already been activated. The cauldron was filled with black-red liquid, and the spiritual embryo was inserted into it. From this, Xiao Chen was behind him. After Chen got the spiritual embryo, he felt it was quite strange for a while and did not refine it immediately. He returned to the sect and checked a lot of documents before he felt relieved.
However, the document did not record the name of this tripod. It only wrote: The ancient tripod was born in a place of chance and liked to eat flesh and blood. Most of the tripod contained various spiritual treasures. However, this tripod has great power and must not be disrespected. If you want to obtain it, The inner spirit treasure needs to be summoned by the spirit, using three pillars of soul incense as a guide, gathering flesh and blood, three souls and seven souls, and the spirit swallows and tastes it... This process is divided into three steps and nine postures, so don't neglect it.
Returning to his thoughts, Xiaochen understood the method of summoning spirits. As for the materials, thinking about this, he also glanced at those people again. In addition to these, Ma Liangyan had also prepared other materials for him.
Xiaochen thought for a moment and took out the Breathing Formation Talisman and slowly arranged it. There was a crack in the ground three meters away from the square tripod, which was quite appropriate. Xiaochen also placed the core of the formation at the bottom of the crack in the ground, and then placed it The remaining talismans are arranged around. The range of this high-grade Xuan-level breath formation is enough to reach hundreds of square meters. As long as the core of the formation is not damaged, it can operate normally.
And hidden in the formation, even if the opponent walks in front of you, you can't see the people in the formation, and the formation can even cover up most of the fluctuations in magic and spiritual power.
Xiaochen's plan is very simple. It takes time for the spiritual embryo to be born. During this period, he only needs to hide it. When the other geniuses fight to the death, someone will come to the tripod to extract the spiritual embryo. At that time, he will take action. snatch.
Thinking of this, Xiaochen looked at Ling'er who was hiding next to her. She learned those two spells for the final stage of the fight. After all, having one more helper would give her a better chance of winning.
As for after grabbing it... Xiaochen looked at the formation talisman and added a destruction formation inside. The aftermath of the detonation of a mysterious high-level formation talisman was enough to blow up any strong enemy to ashes. The chaos it created was enough for Xiaochen to take advantage of the chaos and leave.
"And the premise of all this is the breath formation in my hand." Xiaochen secretly thought, after putting all his efforts into this moment, he naturally couldn't be careless. After checking back and forth three or four times, and seeing that there were no flaws, Xiaochen finally completed the arrangement. Okay, the Breathing Formation is done.
"Huh, it's finally done." Xiaochen had been busy for a long time, and now he breathed a sigh of relief.
Ling'er looked at him with confusion as he kept walking around, quite curious, but the aura of this place made her feel safe only if she stayed next to Xiaochen, so she had to hide behind him and watch him work. , From time to time, I poked my head out curiously and looked at it, but I was also filled with doubts in my heart.
"However, looking at the rocks acting like this, I'm afraid they are going to trick people again..." Ling'er thought of Xiugao, whom she had met once in the tunnel. The man was cut into several pieces in the end. It was so miserable.
She felt a little emotional, sighing for the unlucky ones who were about to be tricked.
Before starting the spirit summoning ceremony, Xiaochen and Ling'er said, "You hide in the crack first. I have activated the formation there. You will not feel the suppression of the objects there."
Ling'er nodded and hid in the crack obediently. After seeing that she didn't feel the palpitation or panic, she became active again. She stuck half of her head out of the crack and looked at Xiaochen, who was a few meters away and was wearing strange white clothes. There was some confusion in his eyes.
Taking out the sacrificial clothes, Xiaochen touched the clothes with his hands. It was made of coarse linen, so it felt hard to the touch. It was dyed white and had no strange smell. Xiaochen moved his stiff arms. Rather than saying this, The clothes are worn on the body, it is better to say that they are just outside the body. They are very ill-fitting. In addition, the high white hat on the top of the head looks extremely strange and incompatible with the dark red soil of this place.
And this piece of clothing is the first step in the three-step and nine-step process of summoning spirits, which is wearing spirit clothing.
There are three ways to wear the spiritual clothes, which are to disturb the deceased spirits, to tell the deceased what they want, and to offer incense to the souls.
Xiaochen stood at the incense stand in front of the square tripod. He bowed three times and said, "Don't blame me for disturbing the ancestors...Don't blame me..."
After chanting it 9 times in a row, it just stopped.
Then Xiaochen took out the soul incense and lit it while continuing: "This time, I came to pay homage to the ancestors. I haven't asked for him..." Even though he said this, Xiaochen actually knew that there would be something in the cauldron after the spirit summoning ceremony. What kind of treasure is there? It's quite peaceful at this time.
The spiritual energy turns into fire and ignites the soul incense. The white smoke of the soul incense falls heavily and flows down the incense stick towards the ground. After the white smoke falls into the incense cauldron, it gradually fills the incense cauldron.
The black smoke in the cauldron also became interested at this time, moving towards the incense cauldron and flowing into the incense cauldron. Suddenly the two colors of smoke were mixed together, but they were distinct, entangled like incompatible pigments. Together.
But there was also some black smoke that seemed to be interested in Xiao Chen in front of him, and kept shrinking and moving towards him, but suddenly shrank back when it was about to touch Mai.
When Xiao Chen saw this, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, but his expression remained unchanged. This step would not be completed until the black smoke dissipated.
"What is that?" Ling'er watched intently. She lowered her gaze tremblingly. The black smoke and white smoke made her soul tremble and fearful, as if she had encountered a natural enemy.
It wasn't until half of the soul incense burned in front of him that the black smoke returned to the square cauldron. The curled incense dust stood twistedly on the soul incense, like the fingers of ghosts and gods, without falling.
Xiaochen just started the second step, paying tribute, which literally means putting the sacrifice into the cauldron.
There are also three ways to pay tribute, namely feeding blood, taking soul, and collecting soul.
Ling'er watched Xiao Chen grab a person, and wiped the person's neck open with sword energy from his fingertips. Blood surged into the cauldron, and the person's neck shrank. She quickly touched her neck, feeling a little numb there.
Blood spattered on the white spiritual clothes, but left no trace at all.
"Ah..." One of the sacrifices suddenly opened his eyes, but Xiaochen's movements still did not stop at all. After draining the blood, he threw it into the cauldron.
One after another, they did not stop until all 12 people on the ground were thrown into the square tripod and submerged in the black smoke.
"call..."
