The ancient city of Jiaohe, whose earliest name was Gushi, was established by the ancient Europeans.
Probably during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han army defeated Gushi, changed the name of the country to Cheshi, and divided it into six countries in front of Cheshi, back, and Shanbei. This is the gateway for the Xiongnu to enter the Western Regions, and it is also the main traffic route from Yumen Pass to the Western Regions along the middle section of the Silk Road. It has been a place of contention since ancient times.
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Huns were trapped in chariots for eight years, and the king abandoned the city and left. From then on, Jiaohe was merged into Gaochang, and Cheshi's country name disappeared completely.
Afterwards, the Central Plains were unified, the Tang Dynasty was established, and there were frequent exchanges between the East and the West. The terrain of Gaochang is extremely heavy, and all major sects want to occupy it.
At that time, there were at least five or six groups of people from Buddhism, Shamanism, Zoroastrianism, and Manichaeism. And the most noisy ones are Buddhism and Shamanism.
There is no way to verify how the battle was fought during this period. Anyway, the Buddhist sect won in the end, and Gaochang became a Buddhist kingdom.
This information is the conclusion reached by the archmage after studying the classics. As for this underground cave, it was built by the shaman ancestors to fight against paganism.
Huoyan Mountain is a place of extraordinary good fortune, where yin and yang are intertwined, ferocious and evil. The ancestors ran out of resources just to breed a peerless beast. It's a pity that it was broken by the enemy before it succeeded, and the Northwest Shamanism has since declined.
He thought it was done by Buddhism, but when he checked the corpse just now, he found a Taoist jade pendant. Look at this, it was actually two teams working together...
The archmage looked at the altar, feeling complicated for a moment. He didn't know what that thing was, only the name was left in the ancient books, a very strange name: ghost.
The ghost, insect-shaped, six-legged and four-winged, sees a severe drought in the world!
"Master, what should we do now?" A mage came over and asked.
"Move the bones away first, and put them in one place. Keep an eye on the ghosts and let them go up."
"yes!"
Everyone executed it immediately, removing more than a dozen complete or fragmented bones to reveal the central altar. On this altar stood twelve columns, with one black line and one grimace, facing the pool of liquid.
At the very front, there is another small platform, which looks like a place for climbing the altar.
"when!"
Several mages held the bone chime in their hands and hit it with a small hammer with a white head. The twelve ghosts roared hoarsely, walked up to the altar slowly, and stood in front of the pillars.
A few more people went up, tied them tightly, and then pierced their hearts, each receiving a few drops of green blood.
The archmage took the cup and stabbed himself, dripping black blood, and closed his eyes. When the five mages saw it, they quickly retreated behind them and stood quietly.
The archmage moved his lips lightly, chanted an ancient incantation, and then turned the cup and bowl downward, and the blood mixed with black and blue was poured into the liquid pool.
The water in the pool was very thick and cloudy in color, like boiled gelatin soup. Blood poured into it, and after a while, I heard bubbling and bubbling inside.
The red and black qi in the cave slowly moved, gathered, and became bigger and bigger, finally forming a vortex in the air.
"..."
The archmage opened his pupils, the red light flashed, and he continued to chant the spell.
Rumble!
boom!
The vortex turned stronger and stronger, and became one with the pool water, boiling like a pot. Everyone's feet trembled, and they forced themselves to stand upright. Seeing the shaking of the mountain wall, they all felt that the sky was collapsing and the earth was falling.
"Wow!"
Suddenly, two long, thick, tentacles-like things jumped out of the water.
After a few seconds, I heard a louder "wow!"
The surface of the water parted, and the tentacles suddenly rose, bringing out an extremely huge head. The head is reddish brown, covered with dense spikes, and the compound eyes composed of tens of thousands of small eyes are separated from the left and right, almost occupying half of the space.
There is no nasal cavity, and the mouth protrudes below the eyes. The four pairs of mouthparts and the serrated sharp edge of the lower jaw can be clearly seen.
"..."
As soon as the ghost's head came out, the audience was dead silent, and everyone was drenched in horror.
"Great, Archmage..." someone trembled.
"Don't panic, continue!"
He barely pressed his hand, and then chanted the spell.
"Wow!"
The spell from thousands of years ago was passed into the pool, and the head twisted slightly, the eyes turned from gray to red, and then the mouth opened.
"Hey!"
"Roar!"
The twelve ghosts screamed in unison, the blood in their bodies couldn't bear the external pressure, broke out abruptly, merged into twelve green streams, and flowed into the hideous giant mouth.
"Glitch... ck..."
Everyone didn't dare to move, only their teeth chattered uncontrollably. They fully felt the crushing and fear of a biological level. In front of this ferocious beast, he was like an ant, he would be trampled to death in minutes.
Can we really control it
More than one person had this idea inexplicably.
"Hey!"
In just a few seconds, the flesh and blood of the twelve ghosts were sucked dry, leaving shriveled skins tied to the cylinder. The ghost twisted again, showing a trace of confusion, helplessness, and anger.
Like a child who hasn't had enough to eat but doesn't know how to vent, it looks extraordinarily weird.
brush! The red eyes flashed, turned back to gray, and then sank, about to retract into the pool.
"Insufficient sacrifices! Hurry up and replenish!"
The archmage was the first to react and shouted at the top of his voice.
"We have no more sacrifices!" A mage responded.
"No? How could there be no?"
He turned his head and glanced, just in time to see a congregation. The congregation retreated again and again, their faces pale, begging for mercy: "No, Archmage, no... ah!"
This person rushed forward suddenly, was caught in his hands, then his heart was cut, and he was thrown into the pool.
"Hey!"
Smelling the smell of food, the ghost simply poked its mouthparts into the opponent's body, and instantly became a human.
"Hahaha, how could the painstaking efforts of several generations be broken in my hands? We are about to succeed!"
The archmage looked like a madman, and shouted: "Who are people, I need more sacrifices!"
He grabbed it with both hands, and threw all the seven or eight men who survived.
They are not as good as ghosts, but they have also practiced secret arts, and they have a ghostly spirit. In the blink of an eye, the ghost sucked up the blood and floated up again, revealing a small part of its body.
The body is also reddish brown, flat and wide, and there seem to be four pairs of wings on the back.
The great mage's method is correct, but it's a pity that he overlooked one point: how can the ancient ghost refining technique be comparable to today's. He refined the ghost man, but the quality was seriously bad, and he couldn't feed the stomach of the fierce beast at all.
Seeing that the ghosts stopped again, he stared at the five mages suddenly.
"For the glory of our ancestors!"
The mage has a high status and a very pious belief. Immediately, three people jumped out, cut their hearts, and jumped into the pool.
"Squeak!"
That guy got a stronger ghostly aura, screamed excitedly, and rose a little further.
The remaining two were less courageous, shaking their heads and begging: "I'll call them over right away, isn't there still someone at the entrance of the cave? I'll go right away!"
"Now? It's time for you to sacrifice..."
The archmage was gloomy like a ghost, and just about to make a move, he suddenly turned his head and shouted, "Who?"
…
"Wow, what a big scene!"
I saw two people falling lightly from the top of the cave, a man and a woman. The man was quite amazed: "If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I really thought I had passed through."
"Gu Yu, it really is you!"
The archmage suppressed his emotions and regained his composure. He had already guessed that there were not many people who could enter the mountain, and the surname Gu was the most likely.
"You recognize me? Oh, Zhang Wei is with you, right?"
Gu Yu didn't take it seriously, looked around, and saw the ghost at a glance. In an instant, a powerful aura that even he could hardly resist surged towards him.
His heart trembled, these people actually attracted such ferocious beasts, once they got out of control, they would cause harm to the world if they ran out.
"snort!"
The archmage didn't answer, just said: "You guys came just in time, and it's almost enough to take you as blood food."
"What a big mouth... Huh? You're actually a genius?"
Gu Yu was stunned, the aura on the opponent was obviously a congenital master, but his foundation was frivolous, either he hadn't broken through for a long time, or he took some kind of shortcut, which was not the right path.
"Jie Jie, is it difficult innately? I'll let you see it today!"
The great mage waved his bone staff, and the super super super super big ghost head flew out, followed by ten imps. These ghosts seemed to form a small army, roaring and rushing towards the two of them.
As soon as Long Qiu saw it, he was about to release the golden silkworm, but under his divine sense, the golden silkworm didn't respond.
"Brother, the golden silkworm is not moving!"
She let out a cry of surprise, then turned her mind, "Maybe it was suppressed by that thing."
"It's okay, I'll deal with that big guy, be careful!"
Gu Yu gave a warning, strode forward, and heard the sound of "chi chi chi" piercing the air, and thirty-five fire cloud needles appeared around his body.
He waved his hand again, and the Huoyun Needle turned into a fire dragon, with crimson flames, and flew towards the ghost head like a roaring sky.
"howl!"
Not to be outdone, Guitou opened his mouth wide and sprayed out a cloud of black mist.
This is the purest spirit of ghosts, and it will be corroded and cleaned every minute if it is in contact with anything. I saw that the black mist filled the air, covering a small piece of void, and the fire dragon plunged into it, and was instantly swallowed by it, but after a short while, it rushed out again with a bang.
boom!
When the two magic weapons collided, the fire dragon became more powerful and passed directly through the body, causing the ghost head to weaken a lot.
Xiaoqiu also showed a long sword on the other side, with blue light flashing, fighting with the little ghost. Seeing this, the two mages hurriedly joined in regardless of the competition just now.
"howl!"
In the void, red and black fight each other, flying up and down, dazzling.
The Huoyun Needle is made by taking the sapphire from Tianshan Mountain and the spiritual energy from Huozhou, and refining it for seven to forty-nine days. It is unparalleled in power and power. Although the ghost face is powerful, it cannot be resisted at all.
There is no skill at all, just four words: drop it with one force!
"As expected of Phoenix Mountain, hehe..."
The archmage saw that the ghost face was retreating steadily, but he was not worried, as if he still had a killer move hidden. He laughed strangely, his figure flashed, and suddenly disappeared out of thin air.
Um
While Gu Yu was wondering, he saw a red light in Ghost Face's eyes. The red light appeared from the depths of his eyes, and it became more and more intense, as if something was gushing out.
He retreated quickly, cautiously.
Immediately, a red light shot out from that eye, like air, like light, piercing the void, and it came in an instant. When Hongmang came to him, there was another wave of fluctuations, faintly revealing the appearance of an archmage.
This is the highest existing secret technique in the lineage of the Northwest Parish: to integrate one's own entity with the ghost face, and the virtual and real can be transformed into one another, with endless changes.
"I really think it's innate, but it turns out that it's the loss of life essence, which makes me inhuman and ghost."
Gu Yu saw the heels at a glance, and was still in the mood to complain.
I saw the red light turning into a shadow, covering itself. In an instant, he suddenly felt his consciousness tremble, and a force was desperately drilling in, wanting to directly attack the soul.
"..."
He flashed a very weird expression, you, fighting with my consciousness
Among other things, the method of eating qi can be called the best in the world in terms of the speed of cultivation and accumulation of energy and spirit. In terms of the thickness of spiritual power and the strength of spiritual consciousness alone, he has never been afraid of anyone.
boom!
Inspired by Gu Yu's divine sense, the unbounded illusion fully opened up, instantly blasting his opponent away.
"What?"
The archmage was startled suddenly, horrified to find that his consciousness was rapidly lost, and then his eyes went dark.
…
"ah!"
There were two screams, and the archmage turned his head to look, but it was two mages who fell into the pool and were sucked dry by the ghosts. The big guy got a full meal and completely surfaced, showing a body like a hill.
Six long legs, four pairs of pointed wings, the whole body is reddish brown, with a peerless majesty.
"This this… "
He trembled all over, without the slightest thought of resisting. He watched the ghost fly into the air, staring at him as if he despised an ant, and sucked his mouthparts.
"ah!"
He also let out a scream, the skin, flesh and blood, bones, internal organs, every nerve showed an unbearable sense of tearing.
…
"ah!"
In the cave, a mass of red light gradually enlarged and returned to human form, struggling desperately in front of Gu Yu.
"Go!"
When the two mages saw the boss being beaten, they were terrified and ran away.
"Where to escape!"
Xiaoqiu chased after him, and the blue light flashed continuously, easily finishing the two of them. Looking around again, ten little ghosts were lying on the ground in unison.
"It's okay, okay, it's done..."
Seeing that the enemies were all wiped out, Gu Yu couldn't help shaking his body. The Archmage's spiritual sense is not weak, and he also expended a lot of energy.
He ignored the dying red glow, and only looked at the ghost.
The ghost has not been fed for a long time, and has long been impatient. Its tentacles are flicking lightly, and it is about to sink to the bottom of the pool at any time. This thing was cultivated by the shaman ancestors, and has not yet been formally sacrificed.
The liquid is like amniotic fluid, it will not come out for half a step until it has eaten enough sacrifices to ensure that the body is mature, and will only continue to sleep.
And with the strength of the archmage, even if summoned, he can't control it, and the left and right are dead.
Gu Yu didn't understand this, but he understood common sense.
The villain dies because he talks too much, and the decent dies because he is stupid... Faced with the birth of all kinds of evil things and the arrival of the devil, they can obviously stop them, but they make mistakes and miss the timing. life.
Fortunately, he wasn't too stupid.
Huoyun Needle!
A fire dragon circled several times in the air, charged straight down, and bombarded the altar like a bomb. There was only a sound of explosion, the broken rocks splashed, most of the twelve columns had collapsed, and a large part of the altar was missing.
"..."
The ghost was ignorant, his sanity had not yet been activated, but he was also taken aback.
The two compound eyes turned from gray to red, and then from red to gray again, as if they wanted to firmly remember this person. After a while, it finally couldn't stand the tiredness, twisted its head, and slowly sank to the bottom of the pool.
"..."
Gu Yu was twitched by it's look, secretly pained, to be vengeful by such an imposing enemy, it was simply frenzied.
This fight was short and costly, and he felt exhausted. He staggered a few steps, and saw that the archmage was swallowed by the illusion, and he had turned into a pile of rotten meat.
"Hey, what's that?"
With sharp eyes, Long Qiu opened his clothes with his long sword and pulled out several things: a scroll, a domino and a jade pendant.