Chapter 308: Live Ironwork, Waiting Online, Pretty Urgent
"All the tribesmen who are still awake, listen to my orders."
The old patriarch struggled to get up from the ground. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, with flames of anger burning in his eyes.
"We...were worshipping the wrong god."
"That's not a god, it's a demon that devours our flesh and blood and plays with our souls."
"Now take up your hammers and smash that false idol."
The surviving Fire Forge warriors were stunned.
The anger of being deceived and the grief of having his companions killed instantly overwhelmed the long-standing awe.
"roar."
They let out earth-shaking roars and stopped attacking Xiao Yu and the others. Instead, they turned around and stood shoulder to shoulder with them, pointing their weapons at their former compatriots who had been demonized, as well as the real culprit in the center of the battlefield.
"Oh, that's good." Chu Xuanyi whistled. "The useless teammate finally came to his senses and became a great teammate."
"Stop talking nonsense," Xiao Yu said coldly, "Hold on to those who are being controlled. I will go and take care of the core."
As soon as he finished speaking, he turned into a black lightning and rushed straight towards the beacon crystal in the center of the altar.
"Buzz."
A mental shock even more powerful than before suddenly erupted. At the same time, the ground around the altar cracked open, and more than a dozen thick black tentacles broke out of the ground, lashing towards Xiao Yu like wildly dancing magic whips.
Xiao Yu swung his sword and cut off two tentacles, but was forced back by more tentacles.
"No." The old patriarch looked at this scene with an extremely solemn expression. "The demon is already too deeply connected to the earth veins here. Unless the entire vein is destroyed, ordinary attacks will not be able to harm its body at all."
If the earth veins are destroyed, all 100,000 volcanoes will erupt. By then, not to mention them, I'm afraid half of southern Xinjiang will suffer.
"Is... there really no way?" A young Fire Forging Clan warrior said in despair.
"There's a solution."
The old patriarch's eyes accidentally swept over the black sword in Xiao Yu's hand, and he shouted excitedly, attracting everyone's attention.
"Your Majesty, fellow heroes, please buy us a little more time."
After saying this, he turned and rushed deeper into the village, stopping in front of a half-collapsed stone house. He bit his finger and used his blood to draw a complex totem on the stone door.
“Boom.”
The stone door slowly opened.
A moment later, the old patriarch staggered out holding a stone box.
"This is..." Taoist Tian Yan's eyes widened when he saw the stone box. "Wow, this material, these patterns, the residual star power on it... This is meteorite iron from outer space."
The old patriarch carefully opened the stone box, and inside was a fist-sized piece of metal that was completely black but had a little starlight.
"This is the sacred object of our clan, the 'Meteoric Iron,'" the clan leader said with a hint of piety. "Legend has it that this is a divine object that fell from outer space in ancient times. It has an unparalleled ability to conduct and amplify any form of energy. However, the bloodline power of our clan is no longer able to activate it."
He walked up to Xiao Yu holding the stone box and looked at him with pleading eyes.
"Your Majesty, your power is unique to me. It doesn't belong to the Five Elements, yet it transcends them. It carries with it a sense of... the majesty of ruling the order of heaven and earth. Perhaps this is the legendary 'power of human order' that can activate the divine iron."
"What do you want to do?" Xiao Yu asked.
"Please, Your Majesty, infuse your power into this sacred iron," the old patriarch's eyes flashed with madness, "and then, I will use my tribe's 'sacrificial forging method' to fuse it with your sword."
"We will forge a magical weapon here that is powerful enough to sever its connection to the earth veins and destroy all evil and demonic forces..."
When these words were spoken, everyone in the audience was shocked.
"You're kidding," Chu Xuanyi was the first to shout, "Old man, you don't have a fever, do you? We're hammering away here, how can that thing just stand there and wait for us to finish?"
"Our tribe still has one last protective formation," the clan leader pointed to the huge bonfire in the center of the village. "That's the 'soul fire' ignited with the bones of our ancestors. It can temporarily purify the evil power and buy us time, but it won't last long."
Xiao Yu looked at the sword in his hand, and then at the meteorite that was emitting starlight.
"good."
"All members of the Fire Forging Clan, follow me to activate the 'Ancestral Soul Formation'." Seeing Xiao Yu's agreement, the old patriarch immediately gave the order.
The surviving members of the Fire Forge tribe immediately took action. They gathered around the campfire, cut their hands and dripped their blood into the flames.
"Buzz."
The bonfire suddenly shot up into the sky, turning into a huge fire tornado that formed a solid barrier, temporarily trapping the beacon crystal and the demonized warriors inside.
The black demonic power hit the flame barrier with a sizzling sound, but it was unable to break through for a while.
"Quick, go to the Earth's Core Forge."
The old patriarch brought Xiao Yu to the village's forging workshop. He activated the mechanism, and the ground cracked, revealing a passage leading directly underground. A wave of extremely hot air gushed out from it.
"Your Majesty, please."
Xiao Yu walked down without hesitation.
This is the foundation of the Fire Forging Clan, the Earth's Core Furnace.
The boiling magma flows slowly in the stone channel under your feet, and a huge ancient war hammer is placed on the forging table in the center.
"Your Majesty, please place your sword and the sacred iron on it, and then please infuse your power into the sacred iron."
Xiao Yu stretched out his right hand and slowly pressed it on the piece of meteorite iron.
In an instant, a majestic and vast golden dragon vein energy continuously flowed into the meteorite from his palm.
"Buzz buzz buzz."
The divine iron that had been sleeping for a thousand years gave off an excited hum. The tiny starlight on the surface was instantly replaced by dazzling golden light, and golden dragon patterns swam and lit up inside the meteorite.
"Right now."
The old patriarch roared and raised the ancient war hammer, which was bigger than him, with both hands.
"Use my blood as a guide and my soul as a sacrifice."
"Forge divine weapons with fire."
"when."
The first hammer fell heavily, and the entire earth's core furnace shook violently.
The world outside has turned upside down.
"Oh my goodness, they're not going to let us live until the end of our forging career."
Chu Xuanyi wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the fire tornado in front of him composed of the "ancestor soul fire", which was swaying violently like a candle in the wind.
The beacon crystal, which had completely stripped of its disguise, was now floating in the center of the soul fire barrier, beating wildly.
Waves of evil demonic power as thick as ink hit the golden-red barrier again and again.
With every impact, the color of the soul fire will dim a little.
The demonized Forge Fire warriors also became more violent, and they used their bodies to madly hit the barrier.
"Master Taoist, does this scene look like a group of zombies besieging a safe house?" Chu Xuanyi quickly took out battle flags and jade talismans of various colors from his sleeves, while not forgetting to chat with Taoist Tian Yan beside him.
"Master Imperial Preceptor, it's already this late, and you still have the heart to joke." Taoist Tian Yan's beard was almost standing on end with anxiety. "This Ancestral Soul Formation is driven by blood, burning the very essence of the Fire Forging Clan. Look at how those clansmen are growing paler and paler. If this continues, even if the prince's divine weapon is forged, they will be drained alive."
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