Chapter 20 Blood Lake

Qi Xuansu had seen this scene in his dream. It was the "Death Jade" that brought new changes to the dream.

This time, Qi Xuansu was very clear that he was dreaming, so he began to try to explore where the boundaries of the dream were.

There were many palaces around, with a rough style and full of ancient wildness. However, these palaces were already in ruins, and the various statues around were only left with broken limbs and debris.

There was a tragic battlefield below, which had completely turned into a world of ice and snow, covered with frost, and countless lifelike ice sculptures, still maintaining their appearance before death.

There were also many illusory figures standing expressionlessly on the mountain road. Except for the slightly illusory figure, it was no different from a living person, densely packed, at least hundreds of people.

These figures had lost all their sanity, like clay puppets, as if they had encountered a powerful spell, their souls were forcibly extracted, and their bodies were annihilated.

Qi Xuansu tried to look at the palaces around him and the small area. The battlefield below or the tall palace hidden in the darkness was just an unreachable background.

Although he couldn't get out, he could see part of the true appearance of the mountain through these invisible barriers and the surrounding darkness.

Lingshan was on the verge of collapse. There were several huge tornadoes and thunders outside the mountain, which were constantly destroying the mountain. Part of the mountain had already collapsed, but because of some strange power, this part of the mountain did not directly peel off and break away, but remained in its original approximate position. However, there was a huge crack between the two. Maybe in a very far place, you can't even see the crack, but when you get close, you will find that these cracks of more than ten feet have become an insurmountable natural chasm. Many large and small rubbles remained in a state of collapse and splashing and solidified in the air, not falling or moving, and frozen at this moment.

It was as if someone had frozen everything with great magical powers, keeping it at the moment when it was about to break but not broken. It was like a broken mirror that was forcibly pieced together. It was hard to make a broken mirror round and hide the cracks on the mirror.

The tornado and lightning outside the mountain were alive and moving, while the mountain was dead and still.

Between the movement and stillness, a very strange picture was formed.

Then Qi Xuansu saw two people fighting fiercely.

They were not afraid of the tornado columns that connected the sky and the earth, wandering between the lightnings, cutting off the wind columns and lightnings. Countless solidified gravel was shattered by the aftermath of their fight, and the visible ripples spread, even breaking the stagnant state of part of the mountain, causing it to fall down with a bang.

The scene in front of him actually corresponded to the scene in Qi Xuansu's memory, but it didn't completely correspond, because in the dream, there were wind columns and lightnings coexisting, and they were very close to Lingshan. At this time, there was only lightning, no wind columns, and the key Lingshan was still quite a distance away.

What happened in between?

Why did the positions of these two people change?

Where did those huge wind columns go? Are they still staying near Lingshan? Or have they disappeared?

Qi Xuansu raised his hand and pointed at the two figures, asking, "Who are they?"

Although the two figures were very powerful, they had no real power, more like the projection of the earth's energy.

To Qi Xuansu's surprise, Qi Jiaoyao really recognized them: "The figure who controls the soul fire should be Wu Zhen, and the figure who uses the sword energy should be the son of Zu Tianshi, Si Tianshi."

"It turned out to be them." Qi Xuansu felt that it was unexpected, but also reasonable.

Zu Tianshi was a second-tribulation immortal who lived for more than 200 years, less than 300 years. Such a long time allowed him to give birth to a son when his cultivation was low, and to watch his son become a white-haired old man. At this time, Si Tianshi was not young anymore, and his cultivation was also high. Even soon after Zu Tianshi ascended, Si Tianshi also ascended soon after his time was up, and quickly transitioned to the third generation of Tianshi.

As the saying goes, father and son fight together, so it is reasonable.

Qi Jiaoyao asked, "You seem to have seen this kind of scene?"

Qi Xuansu nodded and said, "Yes, but it was in a dream."

"In a dream?" Qi Jiaoyao was a little surprised.

Qi Xuansu said vaguely, "I went to Lingshan in my dream and saw a bonfire on the top of the mountain, and saw many dilapidated temples and remains. It was because of these dreams that I came to Lingshan Cave Heaven to find out."

Qi Jiaoyao was more and more surprised: "Tianyuan, are you serious?"

"What else?" Qi Xuansu asked back.

Qi Jiaoyao said, "I thought you made up an excuse to fool me."

Qi Xuansu said, "I don't have the time to be so carefree."

Not giving Qi Jiaoyao time to express his feelings, Qi Xuansu continued, "But in my dream, these two images should be near Lingshan, and there are huge wind pillars around them."

Qi Jiaoyao said casually, "What's so strange about this? It's just that the collapse of Lingshan Cave Heaven has further deepened, causing their positions and the wind pillars to shift."

Qi Xuansu thought about it, and it really made sense. The "Heart of the Immortal Stone" should be a product of the Yao Zu era. Now more than a hundred years have passed since the Yao Zu era, which is enough for Lingshan Cave Heaven to undergo many changes.

However, Qi Xuansu had another question, why only these two left projections? What does this mean?

Qi Xuansu asked Qi Jiaoyao the question in his heart with the idea of ​​giving it a try.

Qi Jiayao may not be able to solve all of Qi Xuansu's doubts, but he can always get to the point: "This means that Wu Zhen's burial place may have moved from near Lingshan to a place not far from us, but we don't know It was caused by the changes in Lingshan Cave, or someone did it intentionally. "

Qi Xuansu once again visually observed the approximate distance between the projection and the two people, and roughly estimated that it should be about two days away.

Then Qi Xuansu said nothing more and continued to move forward.

Soon, the two left this ancient battlefield. There were more and more cracks in the surrounding space, dividing everything, like white clouds in the sky that had been cut off, the earth in pieces, the huge mountains that were broken and collapsed, and the river that was cut off, as if they had been erased. Only some of the foundations of the totem temple are left on the ground, forming a depressed and dilapidated scene, silently telling the tragedy of that war.

This made Qi Xuansu and Qi Jiayao move slower. Not only could they not fly or run wildly, they even had to slow down their walking speed to avoid or bypass some too tricky space cracks.

After walking like this for about a day, after the two of them avoided a blood moon in a temple ruins, a huge blood lake appeared in front of them. Although the lake had dried up, the mud at the bottom of the lake was exposed, and it was dark red. It's dark, but it can still be seen that it was once filled with blood.

How much blood will this require?

Qi Jiayao said: "This used to be the blood sacrifice place of the witch sect, and it was filled with the blood of countless wild beasts. You should know that the great witch in our Taoist Gate is called the ancestral witch in the witch sect, and those under the ancestral witch The great witches must pass the blood sacrifice ceremony and ascend to the Lingshan Cave Heaven. However, when the Tianshi Sect attacked the Lingshan Cave Heaven, the witch sect broke this rule and allowed a large number of witch clans who were not great witches to enter the place in order to improve the abilities of these witch clans. In order to increase their combat power, the higher-ups of the Witch Cult opened this blood lake here and carried out a large number of simplified blood sacrifice rituals. Countless witch clans entered the blood lake and soaked in it, allowing the blood of the wild beasts to soak into their bodies, acquiring some of the characteristics of the wild beasts, and fighting Greatly increased strength.”

Qi Xuansu understood clearly, but the blood of so many desolate beasts gathered here, which also caused the place to become very strange. The ferocious thoughts of countless desolate beasts lingered, crazily eroding the souls of those who came here.

If a person with insufficient cultivation level just approaches, he will feel that his eyes are filled with blood, and the roars of thousands of beasts will be heard in his ears, and he will be pulled into a bloody ocean where countless blood-colored beast shadows are swimming, melting everything, dissolving everything, and finally going crazy. Abnormal, fall into it, and become part of this invisible bloody ocean.

However, Qi Xuan had the spirit and body of a martial artist, so he was not afraid of these residual thoughts directed at the soul. He took another special look at Qi Jiayao.

Qi Jiayao understood and tapped the bronze mask on his face to show that he was fine.

Qi Xuansu asked: "Are we going to cross this lake?"

Qi Jiaoyao said: "Otherwise? Since you are not afraid of the intrusion of residual thoughts here, why should we take a detour? This lake has the least space cracks."

Qi Xuansu asked again: "Will you be in danger?"

"You are right to ask, what is not dangerous when entering Lingshan Cave? Fight if you can, and run if you can't. If you want to be safe, don't come to Lingshan Cave." Qi Jiayao said.

Qi Xuansu couldn't refute and walked forward.

The blood lake is dry, and when you step on the mud, it looks a bit like a swamp, but also like some kind of flesh and blood viscera, which is sticky and soft and seems to be able to squirm.

If you stand in one place for a long time, you will feel like you are sinking.

Suddenly, Qi Xuansu's eyes were in a trance, as if he had entered the state where he had just arrived in Lingshan Cave. Last time he saw the confrontation between the Tianshi Sect and the Ancient Witch Sect, but this time he saw another scene.

At this time, the blood lake has not dried up, but there are no witches in it. There is only endless blood. The entire blood lake is like a big bowl. The blood in the bowl is shaking, and it seems that it will overflow the edge of the bowl at any time.

Then a man came to the top of the blood lake. His specific face could not be seen clearly, and he sowed a seed that seemed to be a catkin.

After the seeds fell into the lake, they immediately sank to the bottom and disappeared into the rolling blood.

Such a big blood lake, such a small seed, not to mention finding a needle in a haystack, is not much different.

But something surprising happened. The water level of the Blood Lake began to drop. This process may have lasted for several years, but the Blood Lake eventually dried up completely, exposing the silt at the bottom of the lake.

That is to say, in the mud, a bud breaks out of the soil, grows vigorously, and becomes a willow seedling.

Immediately afterwards, the figure sowing catkins appeared again, uprooting the seedlings with great supernatural power. It was unknown where they went, leaving only the blood lake that had completely dried up.