Chapter 7

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One by one, his fingers struck the heads of the female shark whose limbs had been chopped off and put in a wine urn, making an empty sound like a watermelon. The shark women struggled and screamed desperately, but their tongueless mouths could not make a sound, like a creepy pantomime.

Zhu Yan was watching, feeling horrified and clutching the sleeve of Shi Ying tightly. There is such a terrible thing hidden under the ground of Susa Haru! Oh, my God. What kind of Huotu Royal family was she about to marry into? It’s clearly the hell of evil spirits!

“It’s almost dawn. If you want to revive Princess Zhu Yan, we need to hurry up.” the great wizard drew a charm on the snow with his staff, and arranged the twelve urns in a circle on the snow.

“Let’s get started.” The wizard whispered, “Twelve shark women are probably enough for blood sacrifice.”

He began to chant the spell and held the long red hair strand in the palm of his hand. The eulogy was very strange, not in the ancient language of Kongsang, but closer to the deep roar of a wild beast, which sounded restless and very uncomfortable. With his voice, his pupils also gradually changed color and turned crimson, like two points of flame. The wizard was gazing at the palm of his hand changing his gestures while chanting the mantra, and suddenly the strand of hair in his hand burst into flames!

This… What kind of strange technique is this? She has been training in Jiuyi Mountain for so many years, but never heard of it! Surprised, Zhu Yan looked at her Master inquiringly, but Shi Ying ignored her gaze and only stared at the scene intently, his expression solemn, the eyes leaping with flaming light, quiescent.

The wizard cast a spell in the blizzard, and the flames in his hands became more and more exuberant. At the end of a spell, he picked up one of the burning hair strands, took a step forward, chanted the spell, and with a “brush”, inserted the hair directly into the top of the woman’s head!

Such tiny hair cut through the skull like a steel wire. The facial features of the woman in the urn twisted in an instant, obviously she was in extreme pain, but she could not make a sound.

“Stop! You lunatic!” Zhu Yan was so angry that she forgot for a moment she was no match at all and wanted to rush out to strangle the demoniac wizard. However, Shi Ying’s hand firmly covered her mouth, preventing her from moving. He just stood there, holding the umbrella, watching the tragedy coldly, motionless.

One after another, the burning strands of hair went straight into the top of each urn, like a torch. In the twinkling of an eye, in this snowy night, a blazing array was lit in the wasteland! In the heavy snow, the flame was burning, forming a lamp array, taking human life as lamp oil. The Great Wizard knelt cross-legged in the center of the array and cut his hands. While chanting, he dripped blood into the cover of each woman’s urn. Then stretched out his arms again, opening wide his bloody palms into the night sky, and with a low voice continued to chant his magic spell:

“Hand of the devil who destroys everything, please come and grab the sacrificial blood! Please respond to your slave’s wish and let the dead return from the darkness!”

When the blood dripped into the flames, the twelve women opened their mouths together, as if screaming in agony. Feeding from their pain, the twelve flames suddenly flourished, as if sucked by a force, gathered toward the center of the circle, and merged into a huge pillar of fire! At the same time, the women in the human urns were sucked out of their spirit, and instantly shrunk and withered. In the pillar of fire, a shadowy thing was born.

“It’s coming out… it’s coming out!” The concubine was overjoyed.

Zhu Yan stood in the storm watching this scene almost dizzy. Yes, she could clearly see: the figure gradually bulging out from the flames was actually a human figure! When she looked over, the person in the fire seemed to be staring at her, and even smiled strangely towards her!

What… What is that? She shuddered and raised her head, wanting to ask Shi Ying next to her, but suddenly found that there was nobody around her, only the wind howling. Master? Master… She looked up and almost lost control of her voice in an exclamation. The wind and snow roared wildly. What was that thing flying over her head? It was a huge white bird, instantly spreading its wings, rushing down from the cloudy sky right into the pillar of fire!

“Ah!” Zhu Yan finally couldn’t help shouting, “Four…Four-eyed bird?”

Chongming! After so many years, she finally met again the ancient divine bird who had accompanied her in her childhood. This huge white bird is the Millennium Guardian in the temple of Jiuyi Mountain. It belongs to her Master as Imperial Soul Guard. Now it was hovering down from the sky. Where is Master? Where did Master go?!

The Imperial concubine exclaimed at the same time: “That…what is that?”

The divine bird roared from the sky, with the wings spread almost ten feet, two scarlet eyes burning on each side, gazing at the flames lit by the Great Wizard on the ground. With a sharp roar, swiping the wings to stir the wind and snow, the bird swayed the twelve urns to the ground, while her sharp beak probed and pecked directly at the newly formed flesh in the pillar of fire. In an instant, the flames suddenly dimmed.

“This… is this Chongming? Impossible!” the Great Wizard was shocked. With a sudden bolt of fire coming from the staff in his hand, he took the right eye of the bird, forcing it to tilt its head and lose its voice. “Could it be…could it be that the people from Jiuyi Mountain are here?”

“That’s right!” a voice said coldly in the snow.

Riding on the white bird, a figure appeared silently from the dark. Wearing the white robe of Jiuyi Temple, Shi Ying jumped down from Chongming’s back, his dress fluttering in the wind. With a spin of the wrist, the umbrella in his hand closed instantly, turning into a glowing sword in a flash!

“Ah!” Zhu Yan exclaimed. She watched Shi Ying’s long sword striking down in the air, instantly penetrating the just formed thing in the fire. Then, with the sword’s power, he lifted it high and threw it out of the array. With a bang, the thing fell in front of her. She only glanced at it, and jumped a step back in horror.

That thing… was unexpectedly another self! Not a doll with an empty shell, but a living, twisting human being! The “Zhu Yan” born from the flames was naked, with a painful expression on her face; her chest was cut from top to the bottom by the sword, and the internal organs were hanging out visible. The blood gushed out rapidly and started to spread over the snow. The blood of that “Zhu Yan” was actually black!

“He…help me…” The thing could still speak, struggling painfully on the ground, crawling over and reaching out a hand to her, with her eyes full of imploration.

“Ah! Ah!” She took another step back and glanced at her Master as if she were asking for help. However, Shi Ying had already turned over again and jumped onto Chongming Divine Bird’s back, fighting with the Great Wizard, so fast that she couldn’t see it clearly at all. As the storm roared, the Great Wizard’s white hair stood up, he started shouting something in a weird tone, pounding the ground with his staff again and again. After the flames got extinguished, it started burning again with a burst. He manipulated and directed them towards Shi Ying! A white robe fluttered in the fire, passing in and out like lightning, dazzling people’s eyes. The winter storm roared, circling like a tornado, turning this piece of land into a desperate situation of life and death.

“Master, be careful!” Seeing Master’s white clothes being engulfed by the flames, Zhu Yan become so anxious that without thinking twice, she pulled out the Jade Bone and made a magic stroke. With a “brushing” sound, the Jade Bone turned into a stream of light, broke the wind, and pierced the center of the battle group. The ice and flames trembled at the same time, and both went out.

The Chongming Divine Bird hissed for a long time, converged her wings and fell to the ground, while the heavy snow in the sky solidified.

“Master!” As soon as she released the spell, she couldn’t help being ecstatic. “Are you all right?”

“I’m fine…” After a while, the voice of Shi Ying came from the darkness, vaguely showing a trace of fatigue, “you hurt Chongming.”

“What?” She was taken aback.

The night was almost over, and in the dim light of the fire, the huge bird landed slowly on the snow, tilted to one side, with its right wing trailing behind, and the four eyes turned slowly to stare at her coldly. Her Jade Bone was impressively planted on her white right wing.

“Ah?” Zhu Yan was dumbfounded and remained speechless. Shi Ying jumped down from the bird’s back with the long sword dripping blood in his hand. Sure enough, he was not hurt, but with a cold face: “Go and apologize to Chongming.”

“I’m not going!” Zhu Yan didn’t dare to step forward.

However, Shi Ying ignored her, and with a twist of the wrist, the long sword suddenly changed back to its original shape, becoming a simple jade slip. That was the ever-changing magic weapon of the Great Priest of Jiuyi Mountain.

Shi Ying held the jade slip, passed across her side without looking at her, and walked towards the other side of the snowfield. She could only tremble forward to the ground, raised her hand to stroke the white bird’s feathers, then shrank back fast: “Yes… I’m sorry! I really didn’t mean it! I obviously aimed at the Great Wizard and called it… Who knew it would be…” Zhu Yan glanced at this childhood friend, knowing that the divine bird was arrogant, stammered and did not dare to approach further: “Are you… are your wings okay? May I help you bandage them?”

Chongming looked at her coldly, her jaw slightly raised, all four eyes pointing down towards her, then suddenly she gave a cold snort, raised her neck, and spit the thing she was holding on her beak into the snow. It was the Great Wizard; he has been split into two parts!

“What? I mean, you’ve been holding this guy into your mouth the entire time?” She cried out at once, finding a reason for her failure. “Look, I didn’t miss! It is clearly your fault…”

In the middle of the words, a strong wind suddenly arrived hitting her on top of her head, everything become black for a moment, and she immediately fell to the ground gnawing at the mud. Chongming outspread her wings impolitely. With a sweep, she knocked the wordy human down to the ground. She gave her a white glance. The bird folded her wings, walked away with graceful steps, and began to peck at the remaining flames one by one, swallowing a human urn that was burned to ashes.

Chongming is the head of Liuhe Immortals and Divine Beasts; it is a Divine Bird that specializes in eating demons, ghosts and evil spirits. For thousands of years, she has stayed in Jiuyi Mountain, guarding the tombs of the Emperors of Kongsang in the Valley of the Kings. It is the guardian of the Great Priest of Jiuyi Temple. At this moment, she is also responsible for cleaning up the scene.

Zhu Yan got up awkwardly, just about to find her Master, but suddenly heard an earth-shattering sound approaching from a distance, like a thousand horses.

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