Cen Baihe had never seen such a bizarre and terrifying scene. The wind roared like a beast. He even felt the ground under his feet vibrate.
The moon was gradually revealed from behind the clouds, and shone a silver ray on earth. The night scene that should have been quiet and beautiful was destroyed by the sudden sound of tiger roars. Cen Baihe raised his head in astonishment, and saw a huge white tiger appeared, but his whole body was bound by a giant red chain, and he could only lie on the ground helplessly.
As the moon became brighter, the chain on the white tiger became tighter and tighter, and finally embedded in its body. Its white bones were revealed, and they seemed to be corroded, constantly emitting black smoke. What worried Cen Baihe most was that the tiger’s mouth was facing Qi Yan, and that it would open its mouth and swallow him up.
“Don’t look, don’t listen, don’t think…”
Suddenly remembering this, Cen Baihe took a deep look at Qi Yan and closed his eyes.
“These people are still here,” An elegant man in a black tunic with gray hair and beard put down the binoculars in his hand and turned to the two people behind him, “These so-called masters are so benevolent and righteous that they are willing to die for strangers. How ridiculous.”
“What is the point of morality?” He took a cigarette from the person behind him and took a puff, flicking the ashes from the cigarette butt, “Since they are willing to sacrifice themselves, then we should fulfill their wishes and start the battle!”
“Roar!”
Sharp knives suddenly appeared on the bound white tiger. They penetrated its body, making its figure more and more faint, leaving a shadow behind
“Defend the formation!” Master Xu swept away the dust, and the spiritual energy on his body constantly poured into the formation. In just a few minutes, his rosy face became pale, but at this moment, no one dared to slack off. As soon as one of them stops, none of the remaining eight would succeed.
In the world of masters, the different sects would usually compete to become the best, but at this moment, everyone was just trying their best to fight for the chance to live.
“The Heavenly Sacrifice Formation has moved!” Master Shen noticed that she was losing a lot of the spiritual power in her body. She couldn’t help but look up at the sky. The edge of the round moon was blood red.
“Hang on!” Master Xu bit his finger, and blocked an attack at Master Shen with his blood, “Sister, close your eyes!”
Looking at her brother’s pale face, Master Shen gritted her teeth, took off the wooden hairpin from her hair, and inserted it into the center of the formation. The wooden hairpin was carved by a famous master a hundred years ago. It was a very powerful instrument, and she had no choice but to use it now.
While Master Shen and Master Xu were fighting for their lives, Abbot Yun tore off the beads on his wrist and arranged them in a circle, surrounding the formation.
The three of them were the most powerful among the nine, and they were struggling, let alone the other five. Two masters were bleeding from their nostrils and mouths, but they did not stop transferring their spiritual energy.
The white tiger was still crying and struggling, but it didn’t turn into nothingness in the end. For Qi Yan and others, it was already a blessing.
Qi Yan’s complexion looked best among the nine people, and he had the most spiritual energy. If the masters had the energy to look at Qi Yan now, they would find that the moonlight fell on him, as if it was providing him with a steady stream of spiritual energy.
“Inviting the Black Warrior, Vermillion Bird, and Azure Dragon!” Qi Yan bit his finger and quickly drew a talisman on the Ruyi Jade with his blood, “I invite the three divine beasts to help the White Tiger!”
In an instant, the thick clouds in the sky disappeared, and three phantoms suddenly appeared in three different directions. They were a phoenix, a dragon, and a turtle.
The three phantoms appeared in front of the Locked Tiger Formation and faced Qi Yan.
“He invited the gods!” The old man in black on the other side of the mountain yelled in surprise, “How is that possible!”
Apart from the dense population, this Wangxiang Town had nothing special at all. The main reason they chose this place was just that these mountains were the most suitable for setting up the formation. Even if someone wanted to break the formation, there would be no external help from nature.
How could a mountain like this have a mountain spirit, and it also turned into the four great beasts upon request.
No way!
They borrowed the energy of humans in the town to set up the Locked Tiger Formation. Then, what did these nine masters use to invite the three sacred beasts? This was impossible, how could such a powerful master exist?
“Master…”
“Don’t be nervous,” The old man in black suppressed the shock in his heart, “Even if they force the mountain to become a spirit, it’s useless, no one can take away the sacrifices sent to heaven. If they want to save these people, they have to use their own body for sacrifice, there is no other way.”
The phantoms of the Black Warrior, Vermillion Bird, and Azure Dragon didn’t look strong, but when they raised their heads and roared, the whole mountain became quiet, and the white tiger stopped shaking. Even the crimson blood chains faded a little, and moved out of the body of the white tiger.
But this was only temporary. Before the white tiger could escape from the chains, the Heavenly Sacrifice Formation emitted a powerful red light, surrounding the four divine beasts and the masters.
Cen Baihe seemed to hear the voice of a woman singing, and soon the woman’s singing turned into the cry of a child. The child had a hoarse voice, as if he had been abandoned, but he remembered Qi Yan’s words to not look, not listen, and not think.
“Wa…wa…” The child’s voice filled his ears, and gradually became weaker, and there seemed to be sounds of lazy footsteps.
“Oh…”
“It’s a child.”
“On such a cold day, he didn’t freeze to death. This child is really a miracle. He should have the surname Qi.”
Qi…
Qi?!
Cen Baihe was shocked, he couldn’t help opening his eyes, and saw a round-faced child squatting in front of him in the haze. His big eyes were teary, like he had suffered a great loss.
“Baihe…” He stretched out his arms. There was a deep and long wound on his arm, “It hurts, please blow on it.”
He was supposed to be an extremely cute child, but the tears in his eyes became blood red, and after sliding down his cheeks, he looked terrifying.
Cen Baihe opened his mouth, “Qian…” Suddenly he came to his senses, this was not Qian Qian, Qian Qian was still in the formation! Looking at the crying child in front of him, Cen Baihe couldn’t bear to hurt him, but he didn’t want to cause trouble to Qian Qian, so he simply closed his eyes again.
Time passed minute by minute, the moon in the sky had almost turned red. The four divine beasts were getting weaker and weaker, and their shadows swayed in the wind, as if they would disappear as long in a breath.
Qi Yan never felt this tired before, and his whole body seemed to be drained by the formation. He subconsciously tightened the grip on the Ruyi Jade in his hand, and kept accumulating spiritual energy in his body, which was continuously poured into the formation.
After using his spiritual power so much, his eyes became blood red, and he could hardly see anything. The only thing he could feel was the coldness and pain when the evil energy swept across his body.
“Xiaoyan, remember this, even if you fall under the cliff, as long as you can grab a single grass, you can’t let go, maybe it can save your life.”
“No one can scheme against heaven. God has eyes.”
“Fear is not shameful, ignorance and fearlessness are.”
“When your eyes can’t see, when your ears can’t hear, you still have your heart.”
At a time like this, Qi Yan thought about his master. How come he didn’t remember all the profound things that his master said to him? He only remembered his favorite thing to say, ‘“One can do anything one likes, but never suffer losses”.
“Whoever wrongs you, make him kneel!”
Swish! Qi Yan opened his eyes and looked at the blood mist that filled the surroundings. He stretched out his hand that was holding the Ruyi jade and waved heavily in the blood mist, revealing the talisman formation in the middle.
“There is heaven and earth first, and then there are people. If people respect heaven and earth, then they are rewarded with food. With respect, there is nothing to fear.”
What Qi Yan didn’t tell these masters was that there was one last step in the Nine Cauldron Formation. The person who set up the formation must give their blood in the cauldron and borrow the spiritual power of the earth.
He pierced his ten fingers and put blood on the foreheads of the eight masters. Then, Qi Yan walked to the center and sat down. He broke the jade pendant hanging on his chest, and cut his wrist by using the sharp edge of the jade pendant. Blood from his wrist poured into the formation.
As the blood poured in bit by bit, Qi Yan’s face became paler, almost shining.
“Buzz!”
The entire Wangxiang Town was plunged into darkness.
“Team!” Gao Ronghua turned on the flashlight, and found that even the flashlight would not emit light due insufficient power. In the dark, Gao Ronghua sat in the car and took a deep breath, “Can the monitoring system see anything?”
“The magnetic field is chaotic. Nothing can be seen. Even the satellites are not working.”
“Do you think…Master Qi will succeed?”
“I don’t know.” Zhao Zhicheng’s voice was hoarse. He flicked the lighter twice, but it was broken. He found a box of damp matches and lit a cigarette with shaky hands. He had quit smoking for many years, but at this moment, only cigarettes could calm his heart a little.
“Baihe, my hand hurts so much, blow on it for me.”
“Blow on it for me.”
Drip! drip!
The child stretched his hand towards Cen Baihe’s mouth. The blood dripped on him.
It was warm.
Cen Baihe opened his eyes and saw a vague shadow of the child in front of him, but the blood on his arm was so red that it hurt his eyes.
Don’t trust my eyes, don’t trust my ears, but I should trust my heart.
When the child’s figure became more and more pale, almost disappearing, Cen Baihe reached out and grabbed his bloody arm.
At this moment, he felt a warm sticky wetness in his hands.
