novelapdf Chapter 1991: Entering the Palace
Chapter 1991: Entering the Palace
Chapter 1991: Entering the Palace
"Brother Shi, judging from your appearance, could it be that you didn't get anything?"
After returning to the team, Han Li immediately noticed Shi Chuankong's ugly expression and couldn't help asking.
"Alas, my luck is really bad. I didn't even see a cloud of sulfur blood. There was no chance to fight for it at all."
Shi Chuankong sighed, shook his head and transmitted his message.
"Did Fang Chan and the others also gain nothing?"
Han Li's eyes turned and he asked casually.
"Well, they are the same as me, but the four city lords, the Zhu brothers and sisters, and Shao Ying have all obtained at least one ball of sulfur blood cloud."
It would be fine if the number of Sulfur Flame Blood Clouds was not large, but now so many people have got the opportunity, it's no wonder that Shi Chuankong feels uncomfortable.
Han Li just nodded slightly when he heard this, but he already had a plan in mind.
After everyone came back, Erqi immediately sped up his pace.
So, after walking for more than an hour, the blood mist around them finally disappeared completely.
The scenery ahead suddenly became clear, and a continuous mountain range appeared in everyone's eyes.
This mountain range is vast, with rolling peaks, one after another, until the end of the distance.
But unlike the vibrant rainforest, these mountains are completely barren and look as desolate as the ancient wilderness.
The strangest thing is that both the ground and the rocks here are blood red.
There were several blood-red rivers flowing between the towering mountains, and a force of blood and energy was floating in the air, as if the entire mountain range was a corpse of flesh and blood.
However, there was no fishy smell in the air, but instead there was a sweet smell!
Without allowing everyone to observe for long, Erqi led everyone into the bloody mountains without stopping.
After quickly climbing over several mountains, they came to a huge mountain basin.
I saw that several blood-red rivers converged here, and at the junction of them, stood an extremely huge blood-red palace!
This temple is extremely majestic, and is not inferior even to the majestic mountains next to it.
In addition, even outside the main hall, there are towering jade pillars, silver-lettered steps, and flowing light, emitting billions of blood-red rays of light, which looks extremely spectacular.
After seeing it, everyone couldn't help but imagine what kind of spectacular scene would be inside the hall.
Of course, a thought also occurred to everyone at the same time:
"The city lord really didn't lie to us. There must be many treasures here!"
So, everyone subconsciously looked towards the entrance of the hall, which was blocked by two blood-red stone doors, on which were engraved countless blood-red runes and various patterns, which looked extremely complicated!
Although no one could understand it, the five small black holes on the stone door were very conspicuous, especially the two mysterious characters marked next to each hole, which were: Yesha, Youming, Bilin, Jingshen and Yinghua.
Han Li immediately recognized two of them; those were the names of the two temples he had entered!
"City Lord, could this palace be the forbidden area you mentioned? Is the bloody key I got earlier going to use on that stone door?"
Qin Yuan couldn't help but ask first at this moment.
"good."
Erkui let out a breath to ease his inner excitement.
No one here knows how long he has been planning for this day!
"Friend Li, Chen Yang, please take out the Holy Keys on your bodies. We must open the door and go in immediately without delay."
As soon as he calmed down, Erqi turned around and looked at Han Li and Chen Yang.
"Good for you, Chenyang, you actually have the Holy Key on you!"
Fu Jian was stunned when he heard this, and then immediately pointed at Chen Yang with a bad look.
"Why can't I have it? As a fellow city lord, do I have to ask you to help keep it?"
Chen Yang first retorted, then flipped his hand and took out a holy key emitting blood light.
"Li is also about to take out the Holy Key."
On the side, Han Li spoke calmly while flipping his palms and taking out two holy keys.
Seeing this scene, Fu Jian and others were shocked again. Obviously, they did not expect that Han Li had more than one Holy Key in his hand.
Erqi nodded without surprise, and then took out two holy keys.
In this way, the five holy keys needed to open the door are complete.
"I thought that if we wanted to open the door, we would have to fight with the people of Puppet City, but I didn't expect that all five holy keys would fall into the hands of our Xuancheng!"
Qin Yuan said in great surprise.
Although he had instigated internal strife before, he never forgot Puppet City.
However, after entering Daxu, the cultivators of Kuicheng seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth, which was really worrying!
"It doesn't matter. As long as we grab the opportunity first, we can take the initiative when the time comes."
As he said this, Erqi was about to take the Holy Key from Han Li and Chen Yang.
There was no surprise on Chen Yang's side, but Han Li spoke up at this time:
"Wait a minute, before we go in, shouldn't we discuss how to distribute the treasures in the palace?"
Everyone fell silent when they heard this, obviously having guessed what Han Li was thinking.
"Humph! We have worked together to get here, so of course everyone will get a share, except for the city lord, the rest can just split it equally."
Fu Jian snorted coldly and immediately made a proposal.
Neither he nor Qin Yuan was able to obtain a Holy Key. If this rule was not established, they would surely suffer a great loss later.
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, Chen Yang began to ask:
"Friend Fu has accomplished nothing on this journey. How can you have the dignity to share with us? Do we owe you something?"
"Okay, stop talking. It's not okay to split it equally, but you were lucky to get the Holy Key. I will give you more, but the gap between you won't be too big."
Seeing that everyone was about to start arguing, Erkui immediately spoke up and finalized the distribution.
Although not everyone was necessarily satisfied with his approach, at least they could accept it, so the storm died down before it even started.
"The method to open the door is very simple. You just need to insert the Holy Key into the small hole on the door at the same time. Now I will arrange it."
After collecting all the holy keys, Erqi distributed four of them to Chen Yang, Fu Jian, Qin Yuan and Zhu Yan.
A moment later, the five of them arrived in front of the blood-red stone gate at the same time. At Erqi's command, they inserted the holy key into the small hole in front of them at the same time!
Suddenly, the entire stone gate began to rumble and tremble, and the blood-colored patterns on it all burst into dazzling blood light. Then, there were a few strange "clicking" sounds, and the five holy keys were all sucked into the small holes and disappeared.
The next moment, a sticky blood light shot out from the five small holes at the same time, and they entangled with each other like a rope, forming a huge blood rune.
As soon as it took shape, the blood rune suddenly sank into the stone gate, causing the blood patterns on it to flash for a moment and then disappear completely.
At this moment, the two doors made a "creaking" sound and slowly opened inward, revealing a dark and spacious passage.
"Let's go."
There was a flash of excitement in Erqi's eyes, and he walked into the door first.
Han Li and the others did not hesitate at this moment, and walked through the gate and into the hall.
Then, a friction sound was heard, and the two stone doors closed again.
However, the crowd did not sense any forbidden aura above, so even though the door was closed, they were not at all panicked.
Behind the palace gate was a passage. After Erqi led the way and walked for a while, they arrived at a square.
At first, the square was pitch black, but soon, huge pearls lit up on the dome above the square, like stars in the night sky, illuminating the entire space.
Han Li looked up and felt as if there was a Milky Way hanging above his head, as if he was standing in the wilderness at night.
The most important thing is that those pearls all exude a strong starry aura, and everyone is very familiar with it.
"Are these all beast cores?"
"They are beast cores without a doubt, and most of them are earth-level beast cores, and there are also quite a few sky-level beast cores!"
"Oh my god, I have never seen so many beast cores. Even in the Xuancheng Treasury, there wouldn't be even a tenth of what's here, right?"
No one expected that they would be shocked by the ruthlessness of the lord of this place as soon as they entered the hall.
Although there was astonishing wealth right above their heads, no one had any intention of taking it. After all, judging from the situation, the real good stuff was still ahead!
The white stone square under the feet of the crowd was not very large. It was separated by a fence just a hundred feet forward.
Outside the fence was a bottomless dark abyss. There seemed to be thick fog swirling below, and gusts of cool wind blew up from time to time.
In the middle of the fence there are three white stone arch bridges, all of which are more than ten feet wide and about a hundred feet long, leading to a huge white circular altar.
The altar is so large that it is ten thousand feet in circumference, like a solitary round peak standing in the middle of the abyss.
Without saying a word, Erqi led everyone through the stone arch bridge in the middle and came to the altar.
As soon as they stepped onto the altar, everyone's faces changed and there was a flash of surprise in their eyes.
It turned out that just now, they all sensed an unimaginably strong aura of flesh and blood at the same time.
Following the source of the breath, everyone discovered that the altar was not a flat stone platform, but a pentagonal pit with a radius of one hundred feet in the center. The heart-pounding breath of flesh and blood came from it!
On the five corners of the pentagonal pit, there stands a strange-looking black stone sculpture of a scaly beast.
Its body is like a toad, extremely fat, with wings on its back, as if it is about to fly. Its neck is disproportionately thin and long, and in front of it hangs a huge lizard-like head, reaching towards the direction of the deep pit.
When everyone looked at the five black stone sculptures of strange beasts that were more than ten feet tall, their first reaction was to be on guard. After all, they had seen similar scenes in the temple before, and in the end those stone sculptures would turn into puppets and attack them.
This place was obviously the core area of Daxu, and who knows how powerful the puppets might be, so no one dared to move forward rashly.
However, Erqi was obviously not among them. He leaped and reached the edge of the pentagonal pit.
I saw that in the deep pit was an extremely huge sacrificial blood pool. The huge amount of bright red blood in it rose and fell like the tide, and the surface was covered with a thick blood mist.
Seeing that the stone sculptures did not move, everyone followed without worry. Soon they saw pieces of crystal white bones emerging from the surging blood waves. Some looked like the huge horns of some strange beasts, and some looked like white bone skulls.
"Such a strong aura of flesh and blood. If it goes down directly, it will melt us into blood!"
Zhu Yan couldn't help but exclaimed in amazement.
“Haha, of course we can’t just go down directly, but as long as we use the right method, the energy and blood that have accumulated here for countless years can be transformed into nourishment for us!
For us Xuan Xiu, this is the most precious opportunity in the world!"
Erqi chuckled, making no effort to hide his desire for the energy and blood in the deep pit.
"See those five statues? They are the five bases of the blood sacrifice formation. As long as we activate them, they can not only devour the blood and energy in the pit, but also absorb the bones below!"
"It seems that this city lord is here for the first time, but why does he look so familiar with this place?"
Zhu Yan hesitated when he heard that. How could he dare to activate the formation without knowing its details? He was afraid that he would be sacrificed.
Upon hearing this, the others all looked at Erqi, and it was obvious that they had the same doubts in their hearts.
“Don’t worry, Fellow Daoist Zhu, I just got a stone tablet in my early years, which described the situation of this place.
Moreover, it takes five people to activate this formation, and I will be one of them.
As for the other four people, you have all worked hard and made great contributions in the construction of the four subsidiary cities. I will certainly not let such a good thing go to others.
Of course, if you want to give the opportunity to your subordinates, I have no objection."
Erkui's attitude was very casual, without any intention of forcing him.
"Of course Fu trusts the city lord, I decided to do it myself!"
Fu Jian was the first to express his opinion, which caused Erqi to nod his head.
Qin Yuan turned his eyes but did not follow immediately. Instead, he said hesitantly:
"City Lord, can you let us check the formation so that we can be more comfortable with it when we activate it later?"
"Of course, but hurry up, the people from Puppet City may come over at any time."
Erqi agreed immediately without showing any guilt.
"Is there any need to check this? There must be something wrong!"
Han Li began to complain in his heart when he heard this.
"Haha, Junior Brother Han also noticed the problem?"
Luo Hong transmitted the message secretly.
“I previously thought that he repeatedly stopped the four city lords from fighting each other because he was concerned about Puppet City.
But now it seems that he obviously knew the situation here in advance, and did that in order to have enough manpower to activate the formation.
Senior Brother Luo, you have more experience than me, can you tell what kind of formation that is?"
Han Li has now determined that activating the formation will definitely not bring good things, but he doesn't know what specific changes will occur.
"Just looking at it this way, I can't recognize the origin of this formation, but as long as I know that Erqi has ulterior motives, combined with the violent smell of blood in this pit, it is not difficult to guess what he wants to do."
Luo Hong did not answer Han Li's question, but made some speculations.
"It was so painful for me to refine the Sulfur Flame Blood Cloud before. If I were to directly absorb such a powerful and violent Qi and blood force, even with my profound cultivation, I would not be able to sustain it for too long. So."
Han Li followed Luo Hong's train of thought and soon he understood something.
(End of this chapter)