The smoke from the camphor incense that had filled the air earlier danced on the heads of the five people who formed the five-pointed star. The smoke began to merge evenly, and an upward-rotating whirlwind was generated within the circle drawn by the blood of Xia Qiu and Ouyang Xiaoleng on the ground.
This whirlwind was so powerful that Ouyang Yong's body swayed as he stood outside the circle. He spread his legs wider and readjusted his body's balance. He clearly felt that the inside and outside of the circle had been isolated by some invisible force.
Ling Yu looked up into the air unconsciously. The smoke of camphor incense was gradually turning into a cover, covering the five of them and Xia Qiu inside. The soul-returning ceremony entered the most critical stage.
"Lingyu, concentrate!" Ouyang Yong reminded, "The soul that is destined to be wandering can get back to the true body of evil! The soul that is destined to be wandering can get back to the true body of evil..."
As he repeated this sentence, his voice continued to rise, and the cover formed by the camphor incense became thicker and thicker. The five people in the five-pointed star position began to feel suffocated at the same time. The oxygen in the mask was thin and the carbon dioxide was increasing.
The first person who felt he couldn't breathe was Ling Yu. He was panting hard and sweating constantly, making it increasingly difficult to concentrate. He felt as if his face and body were covered with layers of plastic film. Wrapped up like that, but unable to break free.
No one had told him before what kind of pain those who participated in the soul-returning ceremony would endure. In fact, the soul-returning technique itself belongs to a darker field in magic, so even in the demon world, few people tried it. For this time, helping Xia Qiu return to the soul It’s the first time for everyone.
One of Qian Qi's hands happened to be clasped together with Ling Yu's hand. He could clearly feel the coldness coming from Ling Yu's palm. Intertwined with the coldness was darkness and fear. He tried hard to exert some more force on Ling Yu's hand to give him some support.
Ouyang Xiaoleng also had this feeling, and he seemed to understand the mystery of it. He felt that the five of them were working together to help Xia Qiu and contend with the dark power from the Source Sin Blood Pool that still remained in her body. But this power itself seems to have a very high IQ. It will choose the weakest link among them to attack, so the first one to be affected by it is Ling Yu.
At this moment, he felt personally how much pain Xia Qiu had suffered these days, and how vicious the soul-changing technique was that prevented her soul from returning to her body. Along with his heartache for her, there was a deeper hatred for Qingyun.
Mochizuki, who was on the other side of Lingyu, also tried to work with Qianqi to help him resist the erosion of dark power, but soon, he himself was also affected by this power. At first, all he experienced was suffocation and the feeling that his whole body was being restrained and bound. Later, he began to have hallucinations.
In a daze, he suddenly returned to the center of the sycamore tree. A ray of sunlight just hit him directly, making him squint his eyes involuntarily. The sweet laughter of the little snow rabbit came to her ears. She took his hand and asked him to play with her on the swing. This should be a normal afternoon in her childhood, everything was so real, she was so happy in front of him, and he was infected by her happiness.
But the screen suddenly jumped one frame, and it turned into Miao Xueyou's heartbroken face. She said to him in a voice that was so weak from crying: "The poison that Little Snow Rabbit was poisoned has relapsed again. This time there is really no hope." .”
"What did you say?!" Mochizuki asked loudly.
He had the impression that the Chinese medicine Wu Fangqi had cured her, at least she was gradually recovering. Why did she suddenly become like this again? He couldn't accept Miao Xueyou's words, let alone believe that his beloved little snow rabbit would leave him like this. He rushed into her room and watched helplessly as her face and lips turned purple and black, her breathing was silky, and her body was getting colder and colder.
"Wake up!" he shouted, slapping her cheek, "No!"
At the moment when he was about to collapse, Ouyang Yong's bell-like voice suddenly sounded in his brain. The voice made him feel that time began to slow down or even stop, and the sadness that tried to engulf him also became blurred.
"Wangyue, face the fear in your heart. Everything you see is just what you are most afraid of happening. You must try to defeat it before you can help Xia Qiu regain her soul."
Under Ouyang Yong's guidance, Wang Yue finally realized that what was bothering him was just an illusion created by the dark power. He kept recalling what happened after the little snow rabbit took the antidote prepared by Fang Qi to strengthen himself. . When the illusion in the illusion could no longer blind his heart, the illusion also disappeared, but what greeted him was another terrible place.
Lingyu once broke free from the control of the dark force thanks to the support of Qianqi and Wangyue, but when Wangyue also began to waver, the darkness returned. This time its attack was even more fierce, causing him to involuntarily enter a fantasy world, which was a completely unfamiliar world to him.
The scenery in this world was shrouded in golden light. His body was walking aimlessly in the pure white palace uncontrollably, and he didn't know why he came to such a place. Finally, a man came towards him. The man looked very tall from a distance, but when he walked in, Ling Yu realized that he was actually about the same size as him. The man was extremely beautiful, and the cyan clothes he wore were of a style he had never seen before, and the tailoring was even better than those in Chenji Palace.
He came to Ling Yu expressionlessly and said, "Brother, my father already knows what you have done. I advise you to end it on your own."
The man's tone was extremely calm. Let's not talk about why he and he were brothers. It was a matter of life and death, but he could handle it so easily. He gave Lingyu the same feeling as this palace, beautiful and spotless, but without a trace of life.
Ling Yu just wanted to escape from this uncomfortable place as quickly as possible, but the palace corridor seemed to have no end. He couldn't help shouting loudly: "Who can take me out of here?!"
"Ling Yu!" Qian Qi and Ouyang Xiao Leng shouted his name almost at the same time.
Their voices were like a big hand, grabbing him out of this void world. He felt like a meteor, falling continuously, but this feeling seemed familiar, and finally he landed in a cave.
"What is this place?" Qianqi asked standing next to him.
"We have been here before, don't you remember?" Ouyang Xiaoleng reminded him.
"Origin Sin Blood Pool!" Ling Yu blurted out.
He suddenly remembered that in the Earth Temple, they had entered the Origin Sin Blood Pool to find out what was going on, and the place they were in now was almost exactly the same as there. Obviously, this should be another Origin Sin Blood Pool.
Wangyue and Ouyang Hongye soon caught up from behind. They looked at the blood pool filled with black liquid in front of them, feeling a little at a loss.
Suddenly, a strange sound came from the blood pool. It started out like a low moan, and then turned into a shout without any content. Countless painful screams echoed in the cave, causing them to cover their ears in unison.
"Look! That's..." Qianqi pointed in the direction of the blood pool and shouted.
A smoke-like arm was stretching out from the blood pool, followed by a similarly smoke-like head, neck and body. Behind it, humanoid monsters exactly like it kept appearing, and these monsters were quickly heading towards the shore. Come crawling. The five of them all summoned their weapons, ready to meet the challenge from the humanoid monsters at any time.
"Wait a minute, why are Xia Qiu in their hands? Isn't this also an illusion?"
Ling Yu found that in the distance, several arms reaching out of the blood pool were passing a girl in white to a platform in the center of the blood pool, and that girl was Xia Qiu.
Ouyang Xiaoleng entered the pool without hesitation. His move entailed huge risks. No one knew what the consequences of direct contact with the liquid in the Origin Sin Blood Pool would be, but compared to taking back Xia Qiu, he thought his comfort was nothing. This was his last chance, and he must firmly grasp it and bring it back. She was brought back to her original world.
"Leave the monsters on the shore to us, and just take back Xia Qiu!" Ouyang Hongye said behind him.
"Okay!" He didn't look back and continued to explore the depths of the blood pool.
The battle on the shore has begun. The humanoid monsters crawling out of the blood pool are the same as the monsters Meng Er controlled in the Immortal Lake Temple that day. These smoke-like monsters are actually the souls of the dead who have gathered into this sinful blood pool. They are fighting. After dying on the battlefield, he was tortured by evil spells and became a slave to the dark power.
Hundreds of humanoid monsters surrounded Ouyang Hongye and others, and some returned to the blood pool in an attempt to stop Ouyang Xiaoleng.
Their demon power cannot be used here at all, let alone flying, and even their attack power is greatly weakened, so the battle with the humanoid monsters becomes a hand-to-hand fight. The most troublesome thing for them was that those humanoid monsters were constantly cutting, and the weapons seemed unable to harm them at all, and could only temporarily slow down their movements. Even if they are cut into two pieces, they will soon become one again.
"Let's try to buy some time for Xiao Leng!"
As Ouyang Hongye spoke, he slashed diagonally at the humanoid monster in front of him with his sword, while another humanoid monster was trying to grab his left hand. While he quickly dodged, he stabbed it with the sword in his hand. But he didn't escape the humanoid monster that attacked from the right, and his shoulder was firmly grasped by it.
The nails of these incorporeal monsters seemed to be able to pierce into his body. In addition to the pain, there was also an extreme cold, making half of his body sluggish. Several humanoid monsters around him also took the opportunity to attack. He pounced.
"If you want to catch Hongye, go ahead and daydream!" Mochizuki shouted, swinging his Moon Shadow Knife down from behind those humanoid monsters, temporarily scattering them.
Ouyang Xiaoleng's body was also covered by the thick black liquid in the blood pool up to his waist. Arms of humanoid monsters were reaching out to him one after another on both sides. While he was dealing with these arms that wanted to pull him into the blood pool, While keeping a close eye on Xia Qiu, who was about to reach the central platform of the blood pool.
Just like they are holding a soul-returning ceremony for Xia Qiu, these humanoid monsters seem to be holding some kind of ceremony. Xia Qiu's role in the ceremony should be the sacrifices they want to offer to the Origin Sin Blood Pool, and the blood pool itself is undergoing Acceleration makes her a part of herself.
Ouyang Xiaoleng was anxious, so he accelerated his progress, but he didn't want to think that just when his hand was about to grab Xia Qiu, his feet sank, and his whole body sank into a pool of blood. The humanoid monsters worked together to wrap around his hands and feet, which were submerged in the black liquid, and gradually dragged him toward the bottom of the blood pool.