After making up his mind, the old priest took off his shirt while telling the assistant priests some necessary things.
He began to use refined chicken blood to draw magic spells on the old and withered body. He had painted these curses countless times, but this was the first time he painted them on himself, so he seemed a little clumsy. Upon discovering this, he sighed in annoyance, regretted his lack of preparation, and called for the deacons to come and help.
The deacons were very surprised by this. They knew the purpose of these spells, but they never expected that such a thing would happen. But in the Church of the Evil God, the orders from superiors to subordinates are absolute and cannot be questioned. So soon, the chest and back of the old chief priest were covered with scarlet magic spells, forming a strange magic circle.
After trying to let the magic power run on the magic circle, he nodded with satisfaction.
"Have you remembered everything I told you?" he asked.
The acolytes nodded.
"Very good. After a while, you will pray to our Lord together, and He will decide who will succeed me. My shallow wisdom is not enough to see the future clearly, but you must remember that only by devoting your whole body and mind to our Lord can you transcend death and gain True eternity!”
The skinny old man smiled, his smile full of satisfaction.
"You see, I am the best example."
After saying that, he faced the shrine, held the wooden staff "sacrifice" tightly with both hands, and stabbed his chest fiercely.
The enchanted hardwood is harder than steel, and the sharp tip pierces the flesh like a spear, directly piercing the heart.
Blood spurted out, soaking into the wand, and the black stains turned into scarlet runes, floating in the air in circles. It was a chapter and verse copied in magic words, a hymn of sacrifice to the evil god.
The fatally injured old priest did not fall down, but became more energetic. As if he didn't feel any pain at all, he smiled and opened his arms, making a gesture of hugging something.
He smiled happily, as cheerfully as the sun, which was an incredible miracle for the deacons who were used to seeing his gloomy and deep appearance.
Then, his body quickly withered, turning into a rotten wood almost in the blink of an eye.
"My Lord, I finally go to your kingdom..."
Accompanied by inaudible murmurs, the withered body began to collapse from the top of its head and turned into ashes. In just one sentence, with the sound of the wooden stick falling to the ground, the old priest had turned into a pile of ashes, without any trace of his existence anymore.
But the shrine in front of him emitted a dazzling red light, as scarlet as blood and as deep as the sea.
The oldest one among the deacons took a deep breath, calmed down, walked to the shrine, raised the holy symbol, closed his eyes and recited the incantation. The remaining priests stood in a circle around the shrine and sang hymns in unison.
The statue on the roof emitted a dazzling red light, and a strong evil aura rose up, making people tremble with fear and make their hands and feet weak.
Sui Xiong naturally noticed this aura immediately and couldn't help but frown secretly.
Although he didn't know anything about "good camp" and "evil camp", it was the nature of all living beings to work together in different ways. This evil aura was so powerful that it immediately made the kind person He was disgusted.
"These bastards! They obviously have such powerful methods, but they keep hiding them..."
Staring at the statue fiercely, he was secretly wary, but his men did not stop at all and continued to fight against the skeleton army.
But the next moment, he realized that he had made a huge mistake.
A dazzling red light shot out from the statue, but the target was not the skeleton, but—him!
When the red light shot out, Sui Xiong had already accurately judged its direction, and he subconsciously dodged. He was very strong and reacted quickly, but he forgot one important thing - his body at the moment was not a human being, but a giant jellyfish. With human speed, he was indeed able to dodge the red light, but the giant jellyfish's body was too huge. Even if he dodged several meters in an instant, he still didn't have time and was hit by the red light.
When the red light hit him, a strange force came out of thin air, majestic and vast, full of terrifying majesty. Along with this power came more chaotic and vicious thoughts, as if tens of thousands of people were shouting and yelling at him, asking him to kneel down and surrender.
Although he still knew very little about this world, his intuition told him that he must not give in at this moment, otherwise he would be doomed!
Of course Sui Xiong's intuition was right. The spell he fell into was called "Slavery", and it was a powerful spell unique to evil gods. This spell is extremely restrictive. It must be cast near a holy residence that receives extra attention from the gods. The cost is also extremely high. A pious chief priest must be sacrificed in order to communicate with the kingdom of God and use divine power to force the target to surrender. But this spell is also extremely powerful. If the person hit cannot resist the huge pressure from the kingdom of God, his mind will be twisted and he will become a loyal servant of this god.
For the strong human beings, the general effect of this spell is not obvious - which strong person has not come out of countless hardships? Which path to becoming a strong person is not paved with countless blood and sweat? Although the majesty of the Kingdom of God is powerful, the will of those strong people is by no means easy, and it is not possible to tame them with this move.
However, for those giant creatures that rely on talent and time to grow and lack a strong heart, this spell is very powerful and difficult to resist.
Many churches of evil gods keep several giant creatures enslaved by them as their powerful thugs.
What the old chief priest of Baiye Village wanted to do was to use the enslavement technique to brainwash the powerful giant jellyfish into becoming his church's thug.
As long as he has this thug, his church can use violence to defeat other nearby churches and completely dominate the area.
He did not hesitate to sacrifice himself for this, and he can really be called a ruthless person!
His sacrifice was not in vain. Sui Xiong, who was recruited, has now fallen into the biggest crisis since time travel.
The huge pressure from the evil god's kingdom made him dizzy and his whole soul was trembling. He had the thought of surrender more than once, but he suppressed it again and again. But although he was able to suppress the thought that did not belong to him every time, the thought would definitely become stronger next time.
In the spiritual world, turbulent waves were set off. He felt as if he had become a small boat, floating in the waves of countless voices forcing him to surrender, and could be sunk at any time.
"This can't go on like this!"
He was frightened and angry, and subconsciously resorted to life-saving measures.
The magic core in the giant jellyfish shook violently, emitting a dazzling blue-white light. The entire body of the jellyfish instantly turned blue-white, as transparent as a gem. Unimaginably powerful magic spewed out and turned into an almost solid shield, firmly blocking the bewitching power. Magic and divine power collided crazily, emitting countless frightening explosions. Along with these explosions, endless cold air emitted, filling the surrounding area for miles in the blink of an eye. In the next moment, no matter flesh and blood, skeletons, vegetation, or rocks and steel, all tangible objects that came into contact with the cold air were solidified in the ice formed by the cold air. More than half of them were unable to withstand this. The extreme coldness of the human world has become fragile. It is conceivable that when the ice melts, they will turn into powder.
The roaring voices in Sui Xiong's mind stopped abruptly, and the vast pressure quickly weakened. Before it dissipated, Sui Xiong roared angrily, summoned his strength, and shattered the pressure.
Only then did he have time to look around and see what was going on.
What he saw was a sad scene.
The entire village and all the surrounding farmland and open spaces have been frozen, and even a large area of the forest in the distance has been frozen. Everything in the blue-white ice was silent, without any life at all. Although the red light still flickered on the statue on the top of the stone roof, the red light was rapidly weakening and disappeared without a trace after a while.
He was silent for a while, sighed deeply, took the cold air back into his body, and stored it in his magic core.
In just a moment, more than 30% of the ice magic power stored for a long time was consumed.
The effect of this blow was to turn the entire village to death.
Not only were all humans and animals wiped out, but even the skeletons hidden deep underground were not spared. The bright moon is still in the sky at this moment, but there are no more skeletons emerging from the ground. Both sides, who had been fighting to the death not long ago, had fallen to the ground and turned into wreckage that could no longer move.
"This is completely different from what I expected..."
Sui Xiong smiled bitterly and lowered his head. The body of the giant jellyfish trembled slightly, floating silently in the cold air that had not completely dissipated.
After a long time, when the morning sun illuminated the earth, he suddenly woke up and walked towards the stone house.
His intuition told him that all the answers could be found there.
The village is not big, and we walked to the stone house in a few steps. Of course, the giant jellyfish couldn't get through the narrow door, so Sui Xiong chose to demolish the house.
Several tentacles grabbed various parts of the roof, and then exerted force together. The solid roof shook, and was separated from the wall and lifted up. Everything in the house was also displayed before his eyes.
Sui Xiong glanced at the girls in black who were lying lifeless on the ground, sighed, and focused his attention on the shrine.
It was still his intuition that made him understand that this shrine was the key to the problem.
He set the roof aside and extended a tentacle to touch the shrine.
Before he could touch the shrine, a fierce and cold will came out of thin air and blocked him. This will was exactly the same as the one that wanted to enslave him last night. It was majestic, cold, and aloof.
Sui Xiong snorted coldly, and before the will could take any actual action, the ice magic suddenly activated. This time, the blue-white cold air covered a very small area, just covering himself and the shrine.
The will was indeed blocked by the cold air. At the same time, Sui Xiong rolled his tentacles tightly around the shrine and pulled it up from the ground.
Seeing that the shrine was taken away, the will was furious. Thick dark clouds appeared in the originally clear sky, and an infinite murderous intention enveloped the earth like a thick fog.
Although this guy doesn't know his origins, he is really powerful. Before the official action was taken, the color of the world changed, and the power was extraordinary.
Sui Xiong showed no fear in his heart, the ice magic became more and more concentrated, and several strands of magic were condensed into sharp blades. There was also anger in his heart. Since this guy dared to bring bad luck to him, he was going to be stabbed twice by him!
Both sides stood ready, and the conflict was about to break out. But before they could fight, a golden lightning flashed through the sky, tearing the dark clouds into pieces, and an old voice laughed heartily in the dark.
The fierce and cold will before was now filled with fright and anger. Naturally, it did not want to be attacked on both sides, so it had no choice but to retreat angrily. And that warm and heroic will spread toward Sui Xiong, turned into a golden light, fell on the ice magic barrier, and penetrated.
This golden light contained infinite vitality, which made him feel exhausted, his originally heavy heart relaxed, and even the magic power he had previously consumed was replenished.
The golden light disappeared in an instant, and only the old and heroic voice still echoed in the air.
It was a language he didn't understand, but it conveyed a clear and unmistakable message.
Kindness, and encouragement.