Chapter 992 Spiritual Sacrifice
"Ahem..." Shen Fuzhou crawled out from under the bed in a somewhat embarrassed manner, clutching half a blue crystal in his hand, "This thing... just now suddenly ran into my arms..."
Inside the crystal, Xiaoyi's curled up figure can be vaguely seen.
Everyone frowned. It was so strange. This Xiaoyi was obviously a very important person in this mirror world.
But she couldn't find any reason to leave the mirror world.
Luo Li was also a little confused. She pondered for a moment and said, "Put this thing away first. Next, it's time for the Spiritual Sacrifice."
Two days later——
They didn't dare to close their eyes for the past two days, until now, everyone gathered in this room again.
Above the priest's temple in the distance, countless blue lights were interweaving into the shadow of a divine dragon.
All the "residents" on the street stopped what they were doing at the same time and turned to look towards the inn.
Their mouths curled up in the same arc:
"The Spiritual Sacrifice... has begun..."
Luo Li and the others looked at each other and followed.
When they arrived at the central square, to their surprise, the person standing on the platform was not Xiaoyi, but an extremely beautiful woman.
They appeared vigilantly at the back of the square, but they found that the high priest was performing a ritual. She had set up a huge formation by herself.
As the formation was circulating, the concentration of spiritual energy in the entire desolate city increased significantly.
The high priest said in a cold voice: "This year's spiritual sacrifice ends here. Everyone can go."
"Yes, High Priest!"
When the high priest turned and left, Luo Li vaguely saw golden dragon scales flashing on her forehead.
She frowned. Was she seeing things?
"Is this the Spiritual Sacrifice?" Shen Fuzhou was a little annoyed, "Is it over like this?!"
Luo Li and the others looked at each other and could only follow the crowd back to Xiaoyi's teahouse.
Sitting in the room, their heads were about to explode.
No matter how much I brainstorm, I still can't figure out how to break the rules of this mirror world.
Just then, Xiaoyi knocked on the door: "Brother and sister, are you there?"
Everyone was startled and looked at Luo Li, silently asking: "What should we do?"
Luo Li had a vague guess in her mind. She pondered for two seconds and said, "Yes, just come in."
Upon hearing this, Xiaoyi walked in and asked with a smile, "Brothers and sisters, how do you feel about participating in the Spiritual Festival?"
"How is it?" Luo Li smiled. "It's pretty good, especially the high priest of your Desolate City. He looks very powerful."
"Of course," Xiaoyi grinned, "The high priest is a powerful Saint Lord."
Luo Li tapped her fingertips lightly, her voice carrying a hint of malice, "Hey, the High Priest is so powerful, why doesn't he help your grandfather heal his eyes?"
After saying this, Xiaoyi's face twisted slightly, and she turned around and slammed the door.
Xie Shiyuan frowned slightly, "Ali..."
Before she finished speaking, there was a loud noise outside the window.
Wen Xingyan's sword suddenly turned completely black, and strange runes appeared on the sword: "My sword is warning you!"
Xie Shiyuan suddenly lifted a corner of the window screen and said, "Look at the street!"
The Spirit Sacrifice had just ended, and at this moment, the once bustling streets were now deserted, and the black mist pouring out from the cracks in the bluestone slabs condensed into countless human shapes.
What was even more terrifying was that all the black shadows kept their heads raised, and on the dark yellow sky, a huge red vertical pupil was slowly opening.
"Damn it, why has the speed of time changed again!" The Heaven-Swallowing Mirror in Shen Fuzhou's hand, which was about to be completely shattered, also began to spin wildly.
Xuan Mu suddenly lifted the bed curtains with his folding fan: "Haven't you noticed? All the fabrics in this room are breathing."
As if in response to his words, the quilt embroidered with intricate patterns suddenly bulged, and the outline of a human figure could be vaguely seen underneath.
Luo Li slashed with a sword, and blood gushed out from the torn quilt. But then Xiaoyi's silvery laughter came: "Brothers and sisters, don't you like the surprise I prepared?"
The door was knocked open by an invisible force, and sticky black liquid oozed out of the corridor wall.
Grandpa Xiaoyi's voice came from all directions: "Guests, please stay and participate in the spirit sacrifice forever—"
The entire teahouse began to twist and deform, and the wooden structure grew sharp fangs.
Xiaoyi floated in the air, with countless black tentacles extending from under her embroidered skirt.
"Welcome to the real Desolate City," her voice now blended with dozens of voices, men, women, young and old, "You are the first batch of living sacrifices in the past three thousand years!"
The vertical pupil of the sky suddenly shrank, and the entire city trembled with hunger.
The black fog that disguised itself as buildings completely tore off its disguise, revealing the real city built of skeletons underneath.
The densely packed "pedestrians" on the streets turned out to be vengeful spirits still struggling after being devoured.
Luo Li suddenly opened the window and saw that the buildings in the entire deserted city were twisting and reorganizing.
The bluestone streets wriggled like living things, swallowing countless motionless "residents" into the ground.
The black tower of the priest's temple in the distance emitted a dazzling blue light, projecting a huge dragon totem in the sky.
"Something's wrong..." Xuan Mu gritted his teeth and said, "These blue crystals are starting to drain our spiritual power again!"
Before he could finish his words, the floor of the inn suddenly collapsed.
The moment everyone fell, Luo Li swung out the Xuan Yue Sword and nailed it into the wall, while grabbing Xie Shiyuan with the other hand.
In the abyss below, tens of thousands of blue crystals were forming some kind of ancient formation.
"It's a sacrificial formation!" Wen Xingyan's sword energy cut off the attacking crystal tentacles. "They want to use the energy of the entire city to resurrect something!"
Suddenly, Xiaoyi's figure appeared in the center of the formation.
The girl's body was decomposing into blue spots of light. Every time a bit of it dissipated, the golden dragon shadow in the sky became more solid.
"I see..." Luo Li's pupils suddenly shrank. "Xiao Yi is the core of the formation! The old woman, Grandpa, and Xiao Yi are actually the same person in this mirror world!"
She cut her palm without hesitation, and the moment the chaotic blood dripped, the entire formation came to a standstill.
Taking advantage of this gap, Luo Li flew towards the center of the formation, but was blocked by a mirror barrier in mid-air.
"It's useless," Xiaoyi's voice echoed from all directions. "When the Divine Dragon Clan sacrificed the entire city three hundred thousand years ago, this outcome was predetermined. Lord Dragon God should have been resurrected long ago, but something unexpected happened. I can no longer maintain the formation, and I won't be able to see the resurrected Lord Dragon God with my own eyes."
"But as long as Lord Dragon God can be resurrected, we are willing to do whatever is possible or impossible. You just stay here and serve as the new center of the resurrection formation!"
Countless memory fragments suddenly flooded into everyone's mind:
——In order to revive the fallen Dragon God, the Shenlong clan transformed the entire city's living beings into vengeful spirits;
——A girl named Xiaoyi, with a faint trace of Chaos blood, was chosen to be the vessel, bearing all the resentment;
——The purification process is actually a resurrection ceremony that lasts for hundreds of thousands of years!
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