Led by Ye Lan, Xuanzong and his men escaped from the trough and continued to walk deeper into the passage in the direction driven by the monsters.
This time they no longer entangled with the monsters, but chose to conserve their strength. They rushed all the way and soon saw a place that was faintly lit in front of them.
It was a flat earthen altar, with nine tubular crystals standing around it, each with a diameter of ten meters. The gurgling magma inside was not covered at all, emitting a dazzling red light and high heat, stinging everyone's eyes.
The elders covered their bodies with talismans to prevent burns, while observing their surroundings, and soon discovered that this Ditan Park was unusual.
"This is the Bagua formation, and each crystal is in the right position. It's a corpse-raising formation." Everyone looked at the center of the formation. Although there was also orange-gold magma inside, they all knew what was hidden inside.
As the name suggests, this formation is used to raise corpses.
In the pre-Qin period, in order to prevent his body from decaying after death, the Qin Emperor created a terrain with excellent feng shui for preserving the body in the imperial mausoleum. The methods were similar.
However, this was the first time they had seen a formation activated with such high-energy magma and dense demonic energy. Its extravagance and effectiveness far surpassed those of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.
"What on earth needs to be kept in this way?"
Nan Xu looked at this passage that consumed an unknown amount of energy, as well as the Bagua formation that rose from the ground and connected to the earth fire, and was really curious about the target in his eyes.
However, despite their curiosity, no one acted rashly.
Because the monsters chasing them stopped here, it can be imagined that the power of some things here even frightened them, brutal creatures who rely only on instinct.
But they didn't hesitate for long, as footsteps were heard behind them.
The man walked leisurely across the dark river filled with demonic energy. The hem of his robe was dyed black. Strands of demonic energy wrapped around his fingertips, quickly healing his injuries and strengthening his body.
He waved his hand, and the monsters following closely behind him all dispersed.
At this time, Xuanzong and his men suddenly realized what was happening.
"So you are not immortal, but you are using demonic energy to maintain your body."
They had found it strange before. Even if he had a powerful magical weapon like the Heavenly Grade Fragment, the exhaustion of spiritual energy was a common phenomenon in the world and could not be regenerated. So it was very unreasonable for a man to continue practicing for thousands of years and maintain his youthful appearance.
Now, the truth is finally revealed.
Because the man is possessed.
Perhaps because he had absorbed too much demonic energy, one of his eyes flashed with a strange blue light. When he walked out of the dark river and stood in front of the Bagua formation, half of his face was reflected by the magma in the crystal column, making his pupils red, making him look weird and evil.
"Haha, only immortals can achieve immortality. But if you can't ascend to heaven, becoming a god underground can also achieve this." He smiled slightly, still with that masterful look on his face, but his aura was much gentler, and even the curve of his mouth revealed a bit of softness. "Welcome here, I have waited for this day for thousands of years."
As soon as he finished speaking, the demonic energy nurtured in the corpse-raising formation instantly floated up, forming a giant net that firmly locked everyone in Xuanzong inside.
No one expected him to use this trick. They raised their hands to use magic weapons to break the formation, but they found that the power of the formation was astonishing. Even if everyone worked together, they were suppressed and unable to move.
"How could this happen? His strength was obviously not that strong just now?!" The elders were shocked, because they had measured the man's combat power during the fights along the way, especially after being severely injured by Ye Lan. Even if he recovered, it should be impossible for them to fail to break the formation even if they worked together with magic weapons.
But the fact is that even with Ye Lan, they have no other choice.
After trying once, Ye Lan decisively stopped, staring at the man with a cold expression and said, "He was deliberately hiding his abilities before."
What?
Hearing this, everyone was stunned for a moment, and then took a breath of cold air.
They had a group of people, a thousand-year-old ghost king, and a Zhuxian formation, but they still hadn't seen the other party's true strength.
The man not far away chuckled, a hint of madness in his gentle voice, "I knew it wouldn't be easy to catch you, so I took the trouble to set up this trap, using the whole world and the people around you as bait, and finally brought you here, Ye Lan."
When the last two words fell, Ye Lan felt something strange.
Because when the man looked at her with his heterochromic eyes, it seemed that he was not looking at her, but at someone else.
"Do we know each other?" she asked with a frown. She thought for a moment but there was no trace of this person in her mind.
However, the man looked at her and murmured, "We met a thousand years ago."
millennium?
At this moment, everyone subconsciously frowned, not understanding what crazy things the other party was talking about.
Even if Ye Lan was reincarnated, he would only be thirty years old.
Seeing their confusion, the man shook his head and laughed, and his voice as gentle as spring breeze reminded them of something.
"How do you know? This is her first rebirth."
Buzz.
Everyone's brain felt like it was hit by a sledgehammer, and there was a buzzing sound in an instant.
impossible.
They opened their mouths to retort, but looking at the meticulously arranged arrangements before them, and the mysterious man who had survived for a thousand years and cultivated to perfection, an absurd and terrifying thought could not help but emerge from the bottom of their hearts.
I'm afraid this is true.
"Ye Lan, don't you want to know what you really look like?" The man called out to her, his eyes fixed on her with a look of fascination reflected in the lava. "It's been a thousand years. It's time for you to come back, to me."
When being hung in the air, Ye Lan tried to struggle, but neither the suffocatingly dense demonic energy here nor the man who had reached the peak of his strength by feeding on the demonic energy was something she could resist.
“Chief!”
"Ye Lan!"
A Yue, who was separated, and the elders wanted to rush forward to rescue her, but unfortunately they were controlled by Xiao Yunzhao who was controlling the formation.
He raised his head with interest, watching Ye Lan being taken to the center of the corpse-raising array little by little by the tentacles of the evil spirit. In front of the raging lava flames, his plain robe was stained red, as if in full swing.
"Ah, she's truly beautiful." He sighed coolly, sensing the intense struggle within his consciousness. He smiled faintly and said, "Don't waste your energy. Even a god like Lei Ze is immobilized by my half-gold body. How can a mere mortal like you resist me? Of course, your fight for love is truly moving, but the disparity in strength means you can only watch her perish."
"You do have good taste, but that's all thanks to me. Otherwise, you would have died without a burial place just because you fell in love with the master's woman."
He felt that Xiao Yunting should not resist, but should be grateful to him instead.
But the main personality ignored the advice and continued to rampage in his consciousness, with increasing force, almost giving him a headache.
"Hmph, if you don't accept my toast, you'll have to pay for it." Xiao Yunzhao snorted coldly and inserted a silver needle directly into his temple to seal his sea of consciousness.
Although he couldn't see what was going on inside, it at least made him feel more comfortable.
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