Rays of light burst out, but the opponent's sword force did not stop at all.
With a swish, a bloody sword flew and the general passed him by.
Hong Youyi turned his back to the general and staggered a few times: "Who... are you... anyway!" His chest was splattered with blood, and he fell down. Blood flowed out from his chest and abdomen, staining the earth and rocks beneath him red.
At this time, Yuan Gang, who was in the center of the team, led the gang members around him to charge up the hillside.
In order to avoid accidentally hurting the children in the prison van, the powerful crossbows and sharp arrows were mainly shot at their front and back, thus leaving Yuan Gang with a group of capable helpers.
When Yuan Gang heard Hong Youyi's words "charge out" at the front, he wanted to curse... That guy didn't kill them and turned back to support them, but rushed forward alone, which clearly meant he wanted to abandon them and leave.
Furious as he was, Yuan Gang had no choice but to fight to the death. He abandoned the prison van with everyone around him, and regardless of the enemies attacking from the front and back, he headed for the top of the hill, hoping to launch a desperate counterattack and directly attack the opponent's coach.
Yueyaer stood on a high place, looking at the group of people coming towards her, and quietly took out a magic weapon, wanting to try out its power, and at the same time try out the skills she had learned in the ancestral altar.
Logically, with the skills her grandmother taught her and the magic weapon she held, it should be no problem for her to deal with an eighth-grade expert, three or four ninth-grade warriors, and a dozen or so mediocre ones... absolutely no problem.
Unfortunately, she didn't have the chance to make a move at all.
The ten Golden Clan warriors were still guarding her side, while the remaining eight warriors, with hundreds of people, rushed forward and quickly dealt with the group.
Yueyaer pursed her lips. She had obviously learned a lot of skills in secret and possessed a powerful magic weapon, but she had never really used it, which made her very dissatisfied.
Chapter 33: A Hundred Souls as Gift, Qingyan Magic Source
The children in the prison van huddled in the small space in panic and fear.
There were crowds of people around them, swords flashing, and blood splattered everywhere.
Some children covered their ears and screamed, causing panic among other children, and more children started screaming.
But the surroundings soon became quiet, and someone shouted: "What are you yelling about? Shut up!"
The roar was like the roar of a lion or tiger, and it scared the children so much that they dared not make a sound.
Then a young girl's voice rang out: "Why are you yelling? You scared them!"
The girl picked up a stick and beat the big man who made the roar. The big man hurriedly stepped aside and dared not say a word.
There were dark clouds in the sky, but no rain fell. At this time, the clouds dispersed a little, and the full moon was finally able to shed its bright moonlight, illuminating the blood and corpses on the ground.
"Miss, what should we do with these children?" a voice whispered.
The young girl said, "There are few good people in the government. Send them to Tianwu Pass first, and then find a way to send them home one by one."
Under the girl's command, the soldiers pushed the prison cart in an orderly manner and took the children south.
Only the hundreds of corpses remained there, blood oozing from their bodies, dyeing the wasteland covered with dead leaves red.
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Shi Hao sat alone in the cave. He heard the sounds of killing below the mountain, the screams, and all kinds of roars.
The sounds of fighting gradually weakened, and the children's panicked cries, the roars of threatening people, and the girl's scolding began to sound one after another.
When Yueyaer and her men retreated with the children protected, the gorge became silent.
But there was a cold wind blowing in gusts from the cave entrance.
The candle closest to the cave entrance was lit first.
It was clearly a white candle, but at this moment it had turned into a gloomy green. The candle flame was a scattered green light, which made people look miserable.
The moment this candle was lit, more Yin Fire poured into the circular magic formation.
Then, the second, third, fourth, fifth... and sixth.
When all six candles were lit, the blood-colored runes on the stone wall seemed to come alive.
The entire cave seemed to be twisting and the space was constantly expanding.
There were ghostly figures lurking around Shi Hao.
"Where is this place?" someone screamed.
"What happened? Why are we here?" There were confused and puzzled voices.
These ghosts had their chests cut open or their heads split open. One of them had blood oozing out of his chest and abdomen, and his intestines were rolling out. He looked around and said, "Here, here is..."
"Hong Youyi, you damn bastard, you actually want to escape first!" Another ghost covered in blood, with almost no intact skin, pounced on and wrestled with the ghost with its intestines rolling out.
Shi Hao sat upright, motionless, listening to the screams, howls, and all kinds of quarrels and noises of these living souls.
The entire magic formation forged with blood seemed to come alive, with strange blood threads swimming around his body, and even worse, they seemed to be crawling onto his body.
Shi Hao endured this creepy feeling and ignored the noisy souls, muttering to himself: "The Great Dao is not forbidden, see my secret scripture; hundreds of insects and snakes are getting stronger day by day; fierce beasts chase each other, the lotus spirits open; hundreds of souls are offering gifts, Qing Yan is coming from afar!"
The light around him dimmed instantly, and the candles and runes disappeared. He could no longer see the moonlight outside the cave, the soil and rocks around him, or the corpse with its throat cut in the corner.
Only six will-o'-the-wisp lights flickered around him, and everything else was pitch black.
In the pitch-black darkness, those living souls let out miserable screams. No one knew what had happened to them, and no one knew what they were afraid of.
Such screams were heart-wrenching. Even when they were being slaughtered in the gorge just now, they had never screamed like this.
Shi Hao felt a soft hand touching his back. At that moment, goose bumps appeared on his skin and he almost jumped up.
"Hey, why is it a handsome boy?" There was a faint fragrance floating around his face, and the female voice that sounded as sweet as orchid was comfortable and pleasant to the ears. "This is the most authentic ritual recorded in the Night Charm Codex, but in the past, it was only used by the daughters of the Evil Lotus Sect. Oh, there is a handsome boy today, I like him so much."
That hand touched his face, gently and softly.
The words were full of temptation: "Little handsome boy, since you are so handsome and I like you, I can give you more gifts. Otherwise, I will give you more magic source, so that you can be promoted to the sixth grade, or even the fifth grade or fourth grade. What do you think?"
Shi Hao was unmoved and continued to chant: "The Great Dao is not forbidden, see my secret scripture; hundreds of insects and snakes are growing stronger day by day; fierce beasts chase each other, the lotus spirits open; hundreds of souls are offering gifts, Qing Yan comes from afar!"
The woman's voice became more and more sweet and seductive: "Little handsome boy, don't just focus on chanting, come on, let's play, I can't help myself, you have to love me well..."
Shi Hao continued to recite: "The Great Dao is not forbidden, see my secret scripture..." He repeated this sentence taught by the Fire Charm Girl over and over again. No matter what the girl said, he would not respond to her and never said another word.
This ceremony itself is a transaction, using these one hundred or so souls to exchange for the Qingyan Demon Source in the Demon Realm.
Apart from this, never accept any other temptations.
Just like what the Yin Demon said, "Send more magic source" to help him advance to the sixth, fifth, or even fourth level.
If he agreed, he would indeed get her promise, but the consequences would be something he could not bear.
If one goes astray, in mild cases his temperament will change drastically and he may go crazy or mad. In severe cases, he may be possessed by the devil and will no longer be himself.
For those who follow the path of evil, what they cultivate is the source of evil, but they are absolutely unwilling to sacrifice their flesh and blood, soul, longevity, or even life for it.
They will make sacrifices, but what they sacrifice are the flesh and blood, souls and lives of others.
This ritual can guarantee that more than one hundred living souls can be exchanged for the seventh-grade Qingyan Demon Source. However, if he cannot resist the temptation and agrees to other "benefits", the price he needs to pay will not only be the more than one hundred living souls that have nothing to do with him.
“… Hundreds of insects, snakes and demons are growing stronger day by day; the evil spirits chase each other, and the lotus demons open; hundreds of souls come as a gift, and Qing Yan comes from afar!”
I don't know how many times I read it, but the woman's voice sounded again: "Okay, okay, don't read it anymore, I'll give it to you!"
This ritual itself is a constraint, a constraint on the Yin Demon from the fourth day of the Demon Realm. This female demon from the Night Charm Sky can delay time but cannot refuse the transaction.
Moreover, she would not suffer any loss if she exchanged more than a hundred human souls for a magic source that was easily accessible to her in Ye Mei Tian.
Shi Hao saw six candle flames flying up in front of his eyes, extending little by little into the distance.
He saw that on the other side of the candlelight, there was a jade building that appeared out of nowhere, shrouded in fluorescent light, which was strange and inexplicable.
The more than one hundred souls flew to the other side of the candlelight with shrill screams.
At the same time, a green meteor flew out from the Yuyu Tower, broke through the air and crashed into his body.
"See you next time, handsome boy!" The woman's voice gradually faded away, and the six candles flashed and went out.
It was as if something suddenly shattered. When Shi Hao woke up, he was still sitting cross-legged in the cave, and all the candles in the cave were extinguished.
The screams of the more than one hundred souls were no longer heard. Although the cave was dark, there was a faint moonlight shining outside the cave, making the cave no longer as dark as before.
He felt a surge of energy in his body.
He circulated this energy and sent it to his lower dantian, merging it with the internal force cultivated through the Xuanmei Gong.
At that moment, he felt that the inner strength of the demon sect was like an ignited oil fire, burning fiercely and then rolling continuously.
A new internal force was born from it, forming a new foundation in his lower dantian.
In terms of magic skills, he has successfully advanced to the seventh level.
He slowly let out a breath.
Although the Fire Charm Girl told him in advance that as long as he could withstand the temptation of the Yin Demon, there would be nothing to worry about.
But the seductive voice of the woman just now still lingers in his ears until this moment, lingering in his ears for a long time.
Shi Hao realized that the internal force brought by this new Demonic foundation was even more overbearing. It was like an overwhelming tidal wave, trying to break free from its restraints and roll up to his dantian in an effort to destroy the Taoist foundation in his body.
The Fire Charm Girl originally told him that if one of the two kinds of foundations in his body was upgraded, there would be no big problem as long as the other one was upgraded within three days.
But now it seems that he probably doesn't have "three days" at all.
This was probably because the speed of his dual cultivation of Taoism and magic exceeded the original expectations of Fairy Shengxuan and Fire Charm Girl.
As a result, he himself did not have more time to perfectly absorb and control
Since the speed of cultivation was too fast, they were all more or less out of control, and it was only by checking and balancing each other that they maintained a delicate balance that he was able to remain safe.
At the beginning, the two techniques promoted and enhanced each other in his body, allowing him to greatly increase his skills in a short period of time.
He himself was also happy about it.
But later on, he gradually realized that he couldn't stop even if he wanted to.
They confronted each other in his body all the time, and circulated with each other in the confrontation. They eroded each other, and benefited each other.
When practicing one of the techniques alone and showing signs of losing control due to rapid progress, you may want to stop and adjust and rest for a while.
Now he is practicing Taoism and magic together, and these two techniques are running even when he is sleeping, and he cannot stop at all.
At this moment, his magic foundation was enhanced, and his magic power was like a tiger out of the cage, wanting to rush to his upper dantian.
He had to suppress it by force and gather it in his lower dantian.
Then he took out the elixir he had made yesterday and swallowed it in one gulp.
The reason why Shi Hao improved the foundation of the Demon Sect first was because he had already mastered the internal and external elixirs of the Taoist Sect and could take the elixir to advance at any time.
As for the magic sect ritual, I still can't guarantee it.
What if the Shuhu Gang has fewer than a hundred members? What if they take another route? What if Yueyaer doesn't follow his plan? These are all possible.
Therefore, he must first ensure that the ceremony here is completed, and he must successfully upgrade to the seventh level based on the Demon Sect's foundation before he can turn around and improve the Taoist foundation.
Of course, this is also because he has a bottom line after all. It is impossible for him to slaughter innocent people at will as the "price" in the ceremony, which causes so much trouble.
And now, after "sacrificing" these Shuhu Gang members and handing their souls over to the evil spirits in the Demon Realm, he felt no guilt at all and even wanted to do it a few more times.
The verdant, translucent elixir melted in his mouth, releasing its medicinal power throughout his body. It sensed the Taoist inner elixir in his body and rolled towards it like a stream being attracted.
The inner elixir and the outer elixir merged with each other and slowly rotated within his ancestral orifice.
The nine-grade immortality recipes of Taoism, although each grade has a specific name. For example, the ninth-grade Yunguang Shiliu Dan, the eighth-grade Jiuding Yunying Dan, the seventh-grade Jiuzhuan Shuangxue Dan...
But the immortal recipes of the same grade are actually different.
For example, Du Yuejiao practiced the Shenlan Jue, and he practiced the Xuanbing Jue.
The inner elixirs cultivated by different techniques are naturally different. Therefore, the immortal recipes needed to upgrade to the seventh level, even if the immortal materials are similar, the specific formulas are definitely different.
The inner elixir and the outer elixir merge together and turn into Yuandan.
He felt that the mysterious icy energy was like a lotus, spreading out layer by layer, revealing the fiery red buds inside. The buds transformed and became pure white and transparent.
Such a mysterious image actually happened in his body. It was so mysterious and incredible.
During this constant transformation, he opened his eyes, and a cold light flashed in his eyes. An icy air seemed to shoot out from his eyes.
The stone walls and ceiling of the cave around him were covered with ice flowers at some point. The white ice flowers were pure and flawless, just like moonlight.
He took a deep breath and released the magic internal force in his lower dantian.
The two inner forces, Tao and Demon, roamed through his meridians, confronting, competing with, and enhancing each other, running one big circle after another.
Suddenly, his mind moved slightly and his spiritual consciousness was released.
At this moment, his Tao and Demonic foundations had both risen to the seventh level, and he was in a wonderful state of unity of body and mind, and clarity without obstructions.
His heart is like a clear mirror, and every detail of the outside world is under his control.