The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the thick clouds were spinning like a whirlpool in the endless black curtain. In the center of the whirlpool, a faint white moon was floating, with a strange and quiet moonlight.
"This is… "
An incredible expression appeared on Peacock's old face.
He glanced around, as if realizing something in an instant, and quickly took out a compass from his arms.
The compass needle began to turn, and the black needle tip did not point to the illusory mirror frame in the church, but pointed directly in the opposite direction. It seemed to be in the center of Mensa Village.
Moreover, the ruby in the center began to sparkle.
"Sure enough... Hahaha... Sure enough..."
Peacock laughed: "Since the compass has emitted light once, the fragments of the door must exist inside Mensa Village..."
He now understood what was going on. The legendary Mirror of Illusion, the mirror in the Soma mythology that had the power to reverse reality and falsehood. The Mirror of Illusion that he had just obtained from the basement only had a frame but no mirror. The fragment of the door was not in the frame, but on the disappeared mirror.
It is that mirror that causes the current vision.
Swish!
He suppressed the joy in his heart, rushed out of the Mensa Church like lightning, and chased after Kasu who was running wildly in the distance.
The streets in Mensa Village are interconnected, and the village looks much newer in the dark. Footsteps flashed quickly in a dark alley, and Kaxiu appeared at the corner of the road.
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with a gloomy face.
After the quick fight just now, Kaxiu recognized his own strength again. He is a boxer who poses a certain threat to the fighter. First, he has hard Qigong, which makes him very resistant to blows. Even if the fighter wants to beat him to death with a large-scale lethal weapon, it will take a certain amount of time. Second, he is young and strong, and with the power-based killing move of the Wind Elephant Fist and the Blue Wind Airflow, if he gets the chance, the fighter will be beaten to death.
However, the old man named Peacock just now has rich combat experience, his fighting style is cautious and smooth, and his moves are well-connected.
Gaining the upper hand in the battle, but not getting carried away at all.
There was no chance for Kaxiu to find any flaws.
This kind of opponent is undoubtedly formidable. He knows his own strengths and hides his weaknesses, constantly expanding his victory bit by bit by relying on his speed and skill advantages.
If it was a fighter with a very aggressive fighting style, Kaxiu would not have such a headache. Maybe he would be suppressed more severely and injured more seriously, but he could always find an opportunity.
Exchange injuries for injuries, or even launch a desperate counterattack.
"Here it comes..."
Kaxiu glanced back and saw a black figure rushing towards him at a very high speed, flying several meters each time.
Just like a water bird skimming across the river.
"Who are you from?! Why are you running around during the great spirit sacrifice? Hurry up and go to the square to worship!" At the end of the alley, three men holding torches walked towards this side step by step. They were wearing old gray and black linen clothes.
The flickering firelight illuminated the black tattoos on the men's necks. It was a coiled black snake with its mouth wide open. It looked like it was about to swallow their heads.
“Get out of the way!”
Kaxiu had no intention of paying any attention to them, he just dodged and bumped into them, knocking down a man with his shoulder, and disappeared at the beginning of the next street with a single step.
"Damn it! How dare he rush around during the Great Spirit Sacrifice! It must be those bastards in the church, the damn foreign invaders!" The man who was hit stood up cursing, and he looked at the middle-aged man holding a torch on the far right.
The middle-aged man also had a white bone whistle hanging around his neck.
"If it's just one person, then don't make a big fuss. Let's notify other patrols to catch him and put him on trial under the Great Spirit!"
The middle-aged man waved the torch in his hand.
"Eh? Over there..."
Snap! Bang!
The man flew out like a cloud, hit the wall heavily, and blood gushed out of his mouth.
His chest had collapsed, revealing his shattered internal organs, and blood was gushing out like a spring.
The middle-aged man originally stood in the position where Peacock, who was using this to relieve the force, retracted his elbow and looked at the three people with interest.
“How lifelike… even feels real…”
Peacock raised his elbow and glanced at the horrified expressions of the other two people: "Is this the power of the Illusionary Mirror that possesses the fragments of the Gate? It directly restored a Mensa village from decades ago, and even brought the dead back to life..."
His eyes were blazing, and he stepped forward, his figure flashing and disappearing in the alley, leaving only two terrified people at the corner.
"William..."
"Hurry up and use the bone whistle to notify the other patrols in the village!"
As the two were about to run, their heads suddenly fell off their heads. They fell to the ground with a thud, and blood flowed out.
Blood gushed out and gradually seeped into the cracks between the bricks and stones.
At some point, the head that had fallen to the ground began to move on its own. A black tail-like thing protruded from the broken part of the head, and its surface was covered with scales. It began to hiss and crawl. Finally, it disappeared along the shadow of the corner of the wall with the head on its head.
Bang!
Kaxiu swung his fist and hit the wall hard.
Suddenly, a hole as big as a head appeared and gravel flew everywhere.
At the side, Peacock pecked three times with both hands. Each peck hit the area from Kaxiu's armpit to his ribs hard, tearing the thick skin, drawing blood, and making the tough muscles numb.
Kaxiu turned around and threw an explosive slashing knife. The strong wind blew the folds of Peacock's clothes on his chest, and the fabric was torn apart. There was also a blood mark on his chest, but it was just a superficial wound.
"Boy, your destructive power is indeed good, but your moves will only be effective if you hit the target. Your attack posture is too obvious, and there are also some flaws in the connection between your moves. You haven't yet mastered your secret martial arts to perfection..." Peacock said as he threw a punch, "To truly master a martial art, you need to combine all the straight punches, swinging punches, hand knives, elbows, whip kicks, knee strikes and other moves together. A straight punch in the last second may be a whip kick in the next, a hand knives in the last moment, and a knee strike in the next. You can switch your moves at will, making it look easy..."
He didn't know why he was talking so much right now, maybe he was venting his excitement, or maybe he wanted to confuse Kaxiu with words.
"… "
Kaxiu remained silent. He had many wounds on his body, and at least three of them affected the functioning of his muscles and joints. Peacock did have much more combat experience than him.
In a flash, the light on his face changed again, and the night turned into day. Then, just a second later, the day turned into night again. The night was getting longer and longer.
Take advantage of this flash.
Kong Que and Ka Xiu collided again, and this time they seemed to be serious. They roared and their eyes were red. The collision of their fists produced a dull sound like beating drums.
Half of the street was demolished by the brute force of both sides, and most of the gray-white walls collapsed. Many patrols holding torches surrounded them.
The two sides had no intention of stopping the fierce battle. The two blurry figures fought and plowed through the streets. All the villagers who blocked the passage were knocked away or pressed against the wall like pancakes. Blood and torches filled the broken road.
"It's useless! What's the use of practicing hard qigong? You're just a sandbag to get beaten!" Peacock shouted and punched out.
It collided with Kaxiu's iron fist, and both sides were shocked.
Peacock rushed forward, and Kashu's tall body was directly pushed down the wall, and fell to the ground with a loud bang.
In the dust.
Peacock's face turned purple and a trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. He raised his trembling hand and wiped it off, and his state returned to normal.
When the dust cleared, the peacock looked toward the hole.
This was an oval square with many white stone pillars standing on it, with flames floating on top of the pillars. There were dense crowds of people all over the square, nearly a thousand people in total.
They were all villagers from Mensa Village, and they were kneeling on the ground with their heads bowed. Their hands were placed on their shoulders in a dislocated position, hugging each other, like a horizontal symmetrical hourglass.
And in the center of all the villagers, a huge snake statue is lifelike, it is a ferocious python with its mouth open to bite the sky.
A skinny old man wearing only a grass skirt and naked was dancing around the bonfire. He held a wooden scepter in his hand, a tooth pendant hung around his neck, and his body was covered with black snake tattoos, as dense as a pile of leeches.
The old man was still mumbling something in some incomprehensible dialect with a strange flavor.
"Kusa!"
He roared and raised the wooden stick in his hand.
All the villagers raised their heads and shouted at the same time: "Kusa!"
Then, everyone looked over here.
The target was Kaxiu, who had just gotten up from the ground after accidentally breaking into the square. Kaxiu also felt the malice behind him.
Just as he was about to rush out of the square with all his strength, he was hit in the chest again by a fleeting black shadow, and he staggered backwards.
Wow!
Kaxiu spat out a mouthful of blood and saw the peacock behind the wall. He was holding a compass in his hand and looking towards the center of the square.
"There's no mistake... The fragment of the door is inside the snake statue." Peacock's eyes flickered: "I can sense the danger over there, let this kid help me test it out."
"Sizzle...sizzle..."
Kaxiu, who had just stood firm, was injured. He vaguely heard sounds coming from around the square, like a snake crawling
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
On the square floor, there were indeed more than a dozen black snakes moving quickly. But their heads were extremely strange, not a thin snake head, but a fat human head!
Everyone had an expression of fear and pain on their face.
They were the villagers who had just been affected by Kaxiu and Peacock!
All the human-headed snakes rushed towards Kasu, their arched bodies bounced against the ground like springs, and they rushed over one by one.
Bang, bang, bang…
Kaxiu swung his fists at high speed, smashing the flying heads one by one. The broken snake body fell to the ground like kelp.
"Kusa!"
There was another shout from the center of the square, and this strange word seemed to be something like Hallelujah.
It means: Praise the Great Spirit, praise the Serpent.
The densely packed villagers in the square raised their heads, revealing strange and dull smiles on their faces. They raised their hands and placed them on their heads, then twisted them with a snap. They directly pulled their heads off, and a hissing sound like a hornet's nest was heard.
Nearly a thousand human-headed snakes rushed towards the statue in the center like a tide, and the groups looked like black waves on the sea.
Boom…
That was the sound of the huge snake's body crushing the stone slabs.
A black python as big as a house climbed down from the wooden frame, its body covered with black scales. These so-called black scales were actually made up of the faces of the villagers.
He looked dull and sluggish, with a strange light flashing in his eyes.
As soon as this huge human-headed snake appeared, it opened its bloody mouth and swallowed Kaxiu whole in one gulp!
It even chewed a hole in the ground.
"Kusa!"
The giant snake stood upright in the moonlight, and the human-like scales on its body shouted at the same time, creating a deafening resonance.
Only a hundred meters apart.
The peacock looked at this scene and smiled.
He took out a translucent eyeball from his arms.
No, it was a human eyeball sealed in an amber ball as a specimen. The eyeball was blue in color, with two pupils in the center. The mysterious blue was like the sea.
The prop of the Gate Organization, the Blue Eye of Tears, was made by the leader of the organization, Xia Du. It is a prop that can strongly attract Gate fragments, but it can only be used once and is fragile.
Peacock held up the Blue Tear Eye with one hand and tapped it three times lightly with the other hand, allowing subtle force to penetrate into it.
Click~
The surface of the amber shattered, and a blue light gushed out from the broken hole, and then the amber peeled off inch by inch.
Peacock released his hand just in time.
A blue eyeball was suspended in the air.
Two blue rays of light like searchlights were projected out.
In an instant, the giant snake climbing in the distance was illuminated.
The giant black snake trembled violently, and its entire body froze at that moment, unable to move like a statue.
“Hahaha, hahahahahahaha!”
Peacock walked over while laughing.
After ten years in the sect, he finally... was about to have his own fragment of the sect. Although he didn't know which sect it was from, as long as it was a fragment of the sect, it would be fine! Peacock was not picky, and any fragment would allow him to continue his journey!
"Let me see where it is?"
Peacock waved his hands eagerly, tearing the scales of the human heads off the giant snake. The giant snake, fixed by the blue light, had no defense at all, and its abdomen was ripped out in an instant. Dozens of human heads were thrown randomly on the ground in the square.
"Where? Where is it!? The fragments..."
With his hands dripping with blood, Peacock dug along the instructions of the compass. Finally, he locked onto the bulging tissue that occupied a quarter of the length of the digestive tract. That was the stomach of the giant snake.
The compass's red light flashed rapidly, and finally lit up directly.
"It's right here, that's right!"
The peacock was ecstatic.
But the next moment he made a puzzled sound: "Huh?"
Something seems to be moving inside the stomach wall? !
Gulu, gurgle, gurgle…
Snakes have extremely strong stomach acid.
Kaxiu experienced this firsthand.
He was swallowed alive by the giant python. The python's body was like steel, constantly squirming and squeezing, bringing terrifying power! Kaxiu's body was already seriously injured, and now he was bleeding from all seven orifices. Fortunately, he had hard Qigong, so he survived.
Until he slid into the python's stomach, the horrible stomach acid rapidly corroded Kaxiu's whole body, which was more painful than practicing the Elephant Soul Secret Art. The peristalsis and corrosion were beyond imagination.
Kaxiu understood that he now had only one solution.
That is to infuse all the obsession energy into the wind ivory pendant and enter the third stage of the wind ivory pendant, the retrospective era of decades ago. When one's spirit enters the retrospective era, all time in the real world stops.
"Obsession Energy: 3.5"
An extremely cold air current gushed out from Kaxiu's body and then poured into the wind ivory pendant on his neck.
"Well."
During this process, Kaxiu suddenly groaned. He felt as if something had pierced his chest, like a piece of glass. But Kaxiu didn't care about the damage now, the retrospection was about to begin...
Buzz!
His whole brain shook, and a hazy feeling rose from his body. In an instant, Kaxiu was isolated from the outside world, and even the pain of being corroded was weakened.
In the dark giant snake's stomach, the entire space changed like a dizzy world. Kaxiu felt like he was stuffed into a washing machine, spinning continuously in silence and blur. Finally, he was thrown out by the vortex, snap!
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May 7, 110th year of the Red Lebanese Federation calendar.
Snap!
A streak of white lightning shaped like a tree fork streaked across the sky.
Beiliu County, a brown wooden house in a forest.
Two half-grown children were busy beside the wooden house, one was a chubby boy and the other was a cute little girl. They were very skilled in lighting the fire and cooking food.
A bubbling sound was heard.
The faint aroma of food can't help but arouse one's appetite.
The little girl swallowed and tried to take the small wooden bowl next to her, but was stopped by the older boy with a look.
“Xia La, you have to give it to uncle first.”
"Yeah." The girl pursed her lips and nodded obediently.
Suddenly, a roaring sound came from the wooden house. The hoarse male voice seemed to be experiencing something extremely painful.
"It's the uncle! He's sick again!"
The boy stood up anxiously. He looked at the girl and said quickly, "Xiala, take the basin and go to the river to get some cold water. I'll go in to check on the uncle. Go faster on the road and be careful!"
"Um."
Shara quickly disappeared around the side of the cabin.
The boy pushed open the wooden door and walked into the wooden house.
The layout of the room was very simple, with a table, a chair, two wooden beds, one large and one small, and that was it.
And on the smaller bed.
A thin middle-aged man was shaking constantly, with sweat dripping down his forehead. His face was full of a painful and twisted expression, and his scarred face became even more hideous and ugly.
He looked to be in his early thirties, definitely under 40. But his hair was completely white and lifeless.
It's as messy as dead weeds.
The boy took a few steps closer and suddenly heard the man's crazy mumbling, as if he was talking in his sleep.
"It's my fault, it's all my fault!"
"Why do you only know how to run? Where else can you run to?"
“Ahhh!”
"Li Chu, Lixia, Shirley... I... I... I..."
"Uncle!" the boy yelled, but the man couldn't hear him at all. He was still mumbling with his bloodshot eyes wide open, and he was constantly immersed in painful memories.
The pale and cracked lips kept moving.
He said he was a coward who huddled in the corner like a wilted bean sprout when his sister was raped by gangsters.
He said he was a bastard and that he ran away like a spineless slug on the night the sect was attacked!
He also said that he was a disaster star and that anyone who got close to him would have a bad ending. The woman he loved the most died because of him.
He said he should have died long ago, and that he had nothing when Shirley died seven years ago. After that, he was just having a dream that he never wanted to wake up from, a nightmare.
Now the only thing supporting his broken body is the flame of revenge, as his life potential has long been drained by the forbidden technique.
He didn't want to forget the pain and the memories.
Because forgetting is more terrible than death.
The boy listened to the man's tragic experience and did not interrupt his painful mumbling. He just moved a bench and sat next to him.
Wiping tears while listening.
Until the man said that he was a waste and should die now, the boy cried loudly and defended the man.
"I don't know what you were like before, but how can you be a waste now? Didn't you save Xia La and me from those monsters? And Nasu, Mr. Sidney, Miss Chiara, etc. Look, you saved more than ten people in half a year. How can you be called a waste?"
The boy wiped his eyes with his hands and snot bubbles came out.
He spoke loudly, recounting everything he had witnessed after being rescued by the man. They were all real and meaningful. They helped people get out of suffering little by little.
Why is it that the rescuer himself is still struggling in the quagmire
The boy suddenly remembered a famous saying in his textbook.
People are like trees. The more they yearn for the sunlight above, the deeper their roots will go into the darkness underground. Survive or rot…
"Cough, cough, cough!"
The man began to cough violently, blood oozing from the corners of his mouth, and even blood from his abdomen gradually seeping through his clothes.
At this moment, the little girl outside the door walked in.
Dozens of minutes later.
The boiled hot water was placed in a wooden basin.
The boy carefully took off the man's clothes, revealing an ugly body covered with scars. There were all kinds of scars, densely packed all over his body like a centipede.
That was the consequence of frequent battles and the use of forbidden techniques.
He was skinny and had wrinkled skin like an old man. On his abdomen, there was a through wound wrapped in a bandage. Threads of blood turned purple and flowed out.
Half an hour later, the sweaty boy and girl helped the man change into clean clothes, and the wooden basin was full of purple and red.
The sky gradually darkened and the sun set. Only a little bit of light shone through the window of the wooden house onto the bed.
The man with his eyes closed had his pupils moving under his eyelids.
He clenched his fists tightly and sweat dripped down his forehead.
It was like having a terrible nightmare.
Until the sunlight is about to completely disappear from the window.
The man suddenly stopped shaking, his breathing became normal again, and his tightly clenched fists relaxed. In the darkness...
A pair of blood-red eyes suddenly opened.
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