Chapter 27: Walking into a trap Helan couldn't reach out after all, all...
Helan couldn't reach out his hand after all, and he felt completely helpless.
"Let's see those snake-men and monsters first." Helan only hoped that her nephew could survive. She was also determined that if she really couldn't defeat that group of snake-men and monsters, she would do her best to send Lu Wazi to the protection of the Bronze Mirror Goddess.
Ye Lu didn't know what Chief Helan was thinking. All his attention was focused on the snake-men and monsters that were vaguely visible in the wind disaster in the sky above him.
Ye Lu also took this opportunity to finally see through the entire appearance of this group of gods and monsters.
Much uglier than he had imagined.
What’s more important is that Ye Lu can see that these snake monsters have a kind of divine power, a very special power of faith.
A weird god?
Ye Lu seemed to be thinking about something.
"Jie!" The snakes realized that their attacks, which had always been invincible, had failed for the first time. They even lost the gift of the Mother Goddess. Countless pairs of vertical pupils stared at the culprit below.
During the storm, pairs of deep yellow vertical pupils like snakes appeared, ready to devour people, making people shudder.
The blood food didn't even show any sign of thirst.
"They are so angry that they are about to attack. Aunt Lan, please step back for a while." Ye Lu only needed to take one look at the snake people and monsters to understand their next move. He turned around and said to Helan.
Helan didn't say anything. For some reason, after Lu Wazi became more powerful, he seemed to change. He looked heavier and more majestic. There was always an illusion that he was facing the land. Helan waved his hand, and the guards and the villagers retreated silently.
Ye Lu smiled, and the white bone lamp in his hand swayed slightly. He used his long, slightly curved hand to lift the delicate white bone lamp, which had been shaking slightly due to his previous movement, and he gently pushed it upwards.
The white bone lamps moved without wind, floating above the fleeing convoy and blocking the way of the snake people and monsters.
"Ding-ling-ling..." The white bone lamp swayed gently, making a crisp sound.
One after another, shapeless shadows swam out from the lamps. Some had snake bodies, some had human heads, some were holding snakes, and their faces were different, some were ferocious, some were stiff, and they were stationed in four directions. The only thing they had in common was that they looked like earthenware or bronze statues that had been hidden in the tomb.
They are voiceless, breathless, ignorant and unconscious.
Snakes are swimming around their bodies in various postures, some standing straight, some bending over, some lowering their heads, some glaring, and some holding snakes and smiling, guarding the white bone lamp in the center.
"What is that?" The first thing Helan noticed was the group of phantoms with snake bodies and human heads. Her heart skipped a beat and then she realized, no, that's not right, they were not snake-people or monsters. Those ghostly shadows were much larger, heavier, and colder, like gods descending to the earth.
She couldn't help shuddering at the mere sight of it.
That? It’s a god, the snake god who controls life and death.
Helan didn't even dare to look at it for longer. She felt dizzy just from taking a quick look, and her soul seemed to be taken away by those snake god shadows the next second.
"Don't look up, don't look, keep your eyes open." Some guards in the camp had already noticed something was wrong. Qian Bacun heard the outside become quiet and was pulled down by He Si. He hesitated a little but finally stuck his head out, and what he saw was this scene. He saw that the phantom of the snake god surrounding the white bone lamp above was even more exaggerated than Helan's.
"No one is allowed to look at this. Do you all want to die?" Qian Bacun shouted loudly.
The people of He Village inside the camp reacted quickly. Even those who were not quick were pulled away by their companions and covered their eyes. The people outside were much slower. Ordinary villages were not good at dealing with weird things, and they were terrified. They looked over subconsciously, but it was too late by the time they reacted.
He could only cover his head and roll on the ground in agony. Fortunately, someone nearby hurriedly held him down, and nothing happened.
But it also frightened others and they never dared to look up again.
"It's just a little bit of divine power. You can't look directly at the gods. It will be much better if you close your eyes." Ye Lu was the first to explain, without Helan beside him having to speak.
"This is the god of snakes."
"They are also the gods of the earth who are in charge of mountains and rivers. They have appeared in this world since the birth of Huangquan. Unfortunately, as time goes by, the legends about them are gradually becoming less and less, and their figures are gradually disappearing underground."
"Snake-controlling God?" Helan could still hear Ye Lu's words slowly introducing the Snake-controlling God. She looked up at the god above her. Her heart was shocked at first sight. However, the Guishi was different. The strength of her soul allowed her to adapt quickly, and she could also stare at the phantoms of the snake gods for a short period of time.
Indeed, these snake gods were different from the strange gods in the classics she had read.
They are older and simpler, and their clothing has a rough and wild beauty, from which we can see how old they are.
"There was a time when the human nobles worshipped them crazily. They carved out the Heavenly Gate, with a goddess at the head, and the Snake God next to the Earthly Gate. They believed that the Snake Gods could allow them to live well in the underworld, with groups of slaves and servants, living a life of drunkenness and dreams."
“This is not nonsense.”
"The snake gods live in the underworld from ancient times to the present. They are in charge of reincarnation, and also of another thing that all living things in the world dream of." Ye Lu's voice was still neither hurried nor slow.
Helan listened attentively, and when she heard the last sentence, she had some vague guesses in her mind.
"That? That is—" A voice with a snort of laughter sounded, saying: "Lifespan."
"As long as you perform certain rituals and offer sacrifices that satisfy the snake gods, lucky creatures can even gain some life." Ye Lu spoke lightly, as if he didn't see Helan's eyes suddenly widen. "That's the life granted by reincarnation. If you don't live to the last moment, the Yin gods won't accept you."
The shock in Helan's heart was beyond words. Although she had heard of many magical objects and legends in this world, she had also heard of the strange food that could prolong life. It was said to be a kind of rhino horn incense in the King's Court of Beasts. When it was lit and smelled, it could prolong life. Every year, powerful strange warriors would go to the King's Court of Beasts to summon it.
But this was the first time that Helan had seen anything related to prolonging life.
Ye Lu took a glance and saw that his aunt Lan could not help but look at him. He paused and could not help but explain: "These are just the phantoms of the snake gods. They do not have the ability to sacrifice life." After all, his was just a white bone lamp, and he only got a quick glance from the snake gods' clones.
Only then did Helan forcefully suppress the surging emotions in his heart and told himself to stay calm. Even if Lu Wazi really had such a good thing, their He Village would not be able to defend it.
After saying this several times, Helan finally calmed down.
Then, Ye Lu's next words lifted her heart again.
"But no matter how weak the shadow is, it still has some effect." Ye Lu looked far away towards the sky, with a slow smile on his lips.
Helan followed Ye Lu's gaze and saw that the snake people and monsters were getting closer and closer in the deep yellow windstorm in the sky. They were so close that their hunched upper bodies were about to rush into the camp at any moment, ignoring the phantoms of the snake gods around the white bone lamps in front of them.
Maybe they just don't care.
Hurry up? Hurry up? As long as these sacrifices marked by the Mother Goddess are offered to the Mother Goddess, the Mother Goddess's anger will be calmed. The leading snake-man monster stretched out his hands with a ferocious face, trying to grab Ye Lu in the center.
Ye Lu had no fear at all.
"Like? Say something weird!"
The snake-men and monsters broke into the area guarded by the white bone lamp snake god phantoms. The next second, the snake gods slowly opened their eyes, and their pairs of snake pupils were also revealed. However, compared to the bloody pupils of the snake demons, their pupils were savage and cruel. They watched the group of snake demons breaking into their territory as if they were looking at a group of ants who did not know whether to live or die.
A huge hand with an indescribable deathly aura grabbed the neck of the leading snake, Hanzi, and tore it into two pieces as if it were an ordinary grass stem. Then it went to the chest. Another hand took out the heart of the snake man monster. The long snake wrapped around the shoulder of the snake god's phantom swam down, opened its big mouth, and swallowed the heart into its stomach in one gulp.
During the whole process, the snakes seemed to be fixed in place and unable to move at all.
What about the snake gods? Their attacks have a strange rhythm, which is more like a sacrifice than an attack.
"After all, no matter how strange the snake gods are, they are righteous gods, believed in by humans. As gods, their divine duty is to govern life and death, and be mysterious."
"The evil meets the righteous, haha."
"You've walked into a trap without knowing whether you're dead or alive!" Ye Lu's tone was also very calm, as if he had anticipated this scene long ago.
Why do you think he used the snake god? Or the strange white bone carved lamp? The reason is that the snake gods are there to suppress all evil.
Use evil to fight evil, and all evil will retreat!
Not only that, the snake gods devoured the hearts, brains, and lungs of the sacrifices, leaving behind the corpses. The bodies of the snake gods seemed to be accelerated in time. The originally dark yellow hair and elastic skin aged at a speed visible to the naked eye. The hair became sparse, wrinkles appeared on the skin, and the teeth began to fall out.
Their lifespan is extracted.
As the corpse fell, it gradually aged, broke, and even shattered.
After the snake god shadows finished doing all this, they returned to the white bone lamps in a very normal manner. Everything was back to normal, and the wind disaster had automatically become a reality.
"Ding-ling-ling!"
The exquisite white bone lamp swayed gently in the air, making a crisp sound. The originally empty wick in the center became filled with lamp oil as the snake gods returned, eventually increasing to almost half its position.
Ye Lu stretched out his hand, and the white bone lamp leaped up as if it had a spirit and flew into his palm. The clear bell sound stopped instantly.
Ye Lu waved his hands a few times, smoothly flowing like water.
Then, he looked towards the east as if he had been prepared.
The wind is calming down.
But the enthusiasm showed no sign of subsiding; instead, it intensified.
The wind disaster that dissipated due to the death of the snakes gathered together again at some point, and there was a little bit of blood in the center of the deep yellow wind disaster.
Dust was everywhere and drought was widespread.
A pair of huge and incomparable eyes emerged from the storm. From the moment they appeared, the drought in the air began to rise at a terrifying speed.
The withered and yellow grassland showed signs of further desertification. The exposed skin of the refugees on the outer layer was cracked and bleeding. They looked at the strange scene above their heads in horror.
The blood-grudge-level weird god—the Great Mother of Drought.
The Great Mother of Drought stared at Ye Lu in front of her with cold and cruel murderous eyes. She felt the death of her offspring.
The culprit is none other than the group of blood-eating creatures in front of him.
From the moment I felt it, He came.
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