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Chapter 242: Moon Wheel, Burial of the Abyss, Witchcraft

"Tap tap tap."

Xiao Chen walked slowly along the passage. The empty passage was so quiet that he could clearly hear the echo of his footsteps.

As he moved forward, the content of the mural above his head gradually became more diverse.

In addition to a large amount of sacrificial content, some of the Moon Witch tribe's daily life and war scenes are also interspersed.

After walking for 999 feet, a screen wall with a large number of hieroglyphics carved on it appeared in front of them.

It seems to be some kind of explanation.

But from those traces, the red paint can be vaguely seen.

Most likely a warning to intruders?

"Ah this..."

Xiao Chen naturally couldn't understand the witch language, so he didn't know what was said on it.

But even if he understood it, it was impossible for him to turn around and leave just because of such simple words.

Only children would be scared by a few words, while adults would ignore the risks and insist on entering!

Therefore, Xiao Chen decisively bypassed the screen wall and continued to move forward.

After turning three corners in a row, the passage suddenly opened up and a strange building appeared before his eyes.

It was a spiral tower emitting a strange aura. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a tower of bones made up of thousands of leg bones.

Reflected by the nearby crystals, the entire tower reflected a dark white light.

As Xiao Chen approached, a pungent and foul smell instantly enveloped him.

When you get closer, you can clearly see that the exposed parts of each leg bone have been carefully processed.

However, perhaps because too much time has passed, most of the lines have become dim and completely invisible.

Only a few of them still have a few relatively clear scratches.

"Crack!"

There was a sound like a dead branch being stepped on. Xiao Chen looked down and saw that it was a leg bone that had fallen to the ground at some point.

It was already fragile, and when it was stepped on, it broke into a pile of debris on the spot.

……

Carefully bypassing the spiral bone tower, the passage ahead suddenly became narrow.

The number of glowing crystals suddenly decreased, replaced by some strange graffiti.

After walking a few steps inside, Xiao Chen saw an illusory figure suddenly floating out from the dark corner in front of him.

It was emitting a faint green light and completely occupied the narrow passage.

With the help of his spiritual sense, he immediately saw the same scene happening behind him without looking back.

"Qiongtai Fire Lotus!"

If you are undecided, cast a defensive spell first and see how the situation develops.

"Boom~!"

The moment he touched the fire lotus.

The dark green figure exploded and turned into a large ball of light green flames burning fiercely.

However, although the passage was already a sea of ​​fire, Xiao Chen only felt a biting chill that almost penetrated into his body through the fire lotus.

"Snapped!"

"Crack!"

Under the influence of this strange green fire, layer after layer of fire lotus was directly frozen into ice cubes, falling to the ground with crisp sounds.

"Snow Surge Spirit Armor, rise!"

To be on the safe side, Xiao Chen immediately cast another defensive spell, materializing a set of ice armor on his body.

Then he continued to move deeper, alternating between casting two defensive spells along the way.

"Boom~!"

Two more shadows rushed forward, but were firmly blocked outside.

After walking like this for about quarter of an hour, no new figures appeared.

But just this short distance consumed half of Xiao Chen's true energy.

If another Jindan cultivator came here, he would probably have turned into an ice sculpture or ashes.

At the end of the passage, there is another screen wall.

Xiao Chen noticed that there were many similar words, which seemed to be repeating the previous warning.

The difference is that this time there is an extra set of stone paintings below the screen wall.

The first picture is clearly the passage just now, with two little people running on it.

The second picture shows two little men standing in front of a screen wall, which should be referring to this place.

The third picture shows one of the little men returning to the channel and swimming into the water.

The fourth picture shows another little man continuing to move forward, stepping into a palace, and finally falling under a huge moon wheel.

It seemed that they knew in advance that Xiao Chen could not understand the witch language, so there was no writing on the stone painting.

Instead, he chose to express a warning through the different consequences brought about by the different actions of the two villains.

This advice is very interesting.

If it were an ordinary cultivator, after experiencing the previous raging green fire, even if he managed to survive, he would have inevitably consumed a lot of true energy and experienced the danger of Wu Ling.

If you see the warning again, you will probably give up.

But Xiao Chen was an exception. He sat cross-legged on the ground and began to recover his true energy, not caring about the warning on the stone painting at all.

Whether there is danger behind is another matter, but let him go before you even see any evil spirit.

That must be impossible!
The spiritual energy in Wuling can actually be considered thin, which is a small limitation for recovering true essence.

But it doesn’t matter. Xiao Chen took out a third-level spiritual fruit and swallowed it.

I had picked more than a hundred third-level spiritual fruits in the Baicao Secret Realm before, and I still have more than ninety left after eating them.

Therefore, there is no need to save it, as you can never finish it.

Thanks to the hundredfold blessing, it only took Xiao Chen two quarters of an hour to recover the true energy that had been lost with the help of the spiritual fruit.

Xiao Chen walked around the stone painting and forward for a distance.

Sure enough, they arrived at a grand palace.

Its overall shape is a regular dodecagon, except for the channels connecting the front and back.

There are four moon phase paintings on the left and right, depicting the changes in the moon's phases at different times.

There is a new moon corresponding to the waning moon, a waxing moon corresponding to the waning moon... and so on.

Xiao Chen looked around, but found that the palace was empty, without even a pillar, a cabinet, or even a stool.

The most eye-catching thing is that on the top of the temple, there is an extremely huge crystal moon hanging upside down, which is several meters long.

Just like a real bright moon, it casts a bright white fluorescence.

At the edge of the top of the palace, there are eight mirrors that have been polished to an extremely smooth surface.

The bright white moon was refracted by mirrors at different angles, creating artificial moon phase changes on the open ground.

As the light flickered, it seemed as if the waxing and waning of the moon were compressed into this small space.

Since the phases of the moon change, they will naturally not remain unchanged.

With a slight roar, the eight mirrors slowly moved, causing the light reflected from the ground to seem to evolve dynamically.

Xiao Chen immediately noticed that the eight locations corresponded exactly to eight special stone slabs.

As the moon phases evolve, the eight stone tablets move accordingly.

As a result, the different moon phases are always arranged in order from left to right when viewed as a whole.

The little man in the stone painting fell down, which means there will be corresponding danger here.

If nothing unexpected happens, the problem should lie with these stone slabs.
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Under normal circumstances, Xiao Chen should observe the changes in the phases of the moon and find out the hidden patterns therein.

However, after studying it for a quarter of an hour, he found nothing except some gravel powder scattered on some of the stone slabs.

So I decisively gave up this plan and decided to take another approach.

That is to take out the defensive spiritual shield to protect your body, and then rush forward directly!
This was not a momentary impulse on Xiao Chen's part, so he decided to solve the problem by rushing.

On the contrary, he made this decision after careful consideration.

As the saying goes, use your strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses.

At any time, you should play to your strengths.

Xiao Chen's advantage is naturally his powerful magic and the confidence brought by the Night Blade.

If you really want to study some rules step by step, it will be a waste of time and may not necessarily lead to finding a safe route.

"Crench!"

As soon as he took a step, a strange noise came from under his feet.

Then, the floor sank two inches, revealing a circle of small holes around it.

A stream of purple smoke quickly spurted out of each small hole.

Strangely enough, the smoke ignored Xiao Chen's protective spiritual shield, passed through his Qiongtai Fire Lotus, and went straight into his body.

Very good, this piece represents poison, which means safety.

He took another step forward.

"Crench!"

The floor sank slightly and a flash of ochre light appeared, but in the end nothing happened.

It looked like some kind of confinement technique, but there was no feeling, which meant it was safe.

In the middle, Xiao Chen also tried to step on those special moon phase slabs.

"Kaka!"

This time the slab did not sink, and the sound changed.

The corresponding mirror immediately shone brightly, drawing a beam of bright white light from the moon disk and shining directly on Xiao Chen.

He was completely confused by this method.

Fortunately, there is still no strange feeling, which means it is safe.

……

After stepping on ten wrong floors along the way and triggering various toxins, illusions, etc.

Xiao Chen finally reached the other side smoothly and safely.

After passing through a short passage, I saw the screen wall for the third time, which was almost the same size.

In the upper part, the warning is still marked.

The content of the lower half was directly replaced by some distorted lines from the stone painting.

But I don’t know if it’s because it’s too old or if it wasn’t drawn clearly from the beginning.

Xiao Chen only saw the outline of a body that looked like a human, but it had several completely asymmetrical arms growing out, and the head was swollen to one-fifth the size of the body, a strange pattern.

"Ok?"

He was a little confused: "What does this mean? Is this just a pure scare tactic?"

I carefully distinguished them.

Xiao Chen noticed that there seemed to be some damage in the pattern. It seemed as if the portrait was painted with too much force, causing slight damage to the wall itself.

This is not difficult to understand.

From the distorted pattern, we can infer that the witch who left the portrait was probably not in a very good mental state, so it is normal that he used a little too much force.

Go around the screen wall again.

The passage ahead began to widen.

After walking for about three quarters of an hour, Xiao Chen arrived at a place that looked like a square.

The entire square is four thousand feet long from front to back and two thousand feet wide from left to right.

Apart from the numerous stone pillars used for support, the outer areas are completely empty.

Therefore, you can directly see the tomb chamber that is four hundred feet long and four hundred feet wide, which is built in the center and the most core position of the square.

Xiao Chen had seen this scene before during a lunar eclipse.

The magical weapon he came here to find was enshrined in the tomb.

At the same time, this is also the last blockade of Wuling, filled with the burial evil accumulated over millions of years.

Under normal circumstances, cultivators cannot directly feel the evil spirit. Even Xiao Chen needs to use secret techniques to see it clearly.

But this place was different. One could sense it just by getting close. A depressing atmosphere permeated the entire space, like collapsing quicksand, stagnant sludge, or a clogged ditch.

Anyone familiar with evil spirits can immediately tell that there is an overly strong evil spirit here.

Generally speaking, the monks who can come to this place are not simple.

After discovering the abnormality, anyone with insight would be directly persuaded to retreat by Zangyuansha.

A few who were reluctant to leave or failed to recognize the enemy rushed in and lost their lives in vain.

For millions of years, there has never been a problem with this blockade.

However, today it met a special guest.

Xiao Chen put away the protective mysterious light and stepped straight into the square.

Afterwards, he took the initiative to sit cross-legged and activated the "Xuantian Secret Method of Taking Medicine" to absorb the evil spirits around him.

In an instant, a whirlpool appeared at the edge of the square, madly swallowing up the surrounding evil spirits.

A steady stream of evil energy rushed into his body and was immediately drawn into his dantian, becoming the raw material for condensing the Yin Earth Seal.

"Wow~!"

Faintly, Xiao Chen seemed to hear the sound of waves.

That was because the evil energy around him was dissipating too quickly, causing the evil energy from other places to fill in and merge with each other, causing the noise.

One day later.

After sixteen hours of continuous refining, the Burial Abyss Evil in the square finally dissipated.

"Hoo~!"

Xiao Chen let out a long breath: "Finally it's done."

Since the evil spirit will corrode nearby living things on its own, once the refining process begins, it cannot be stopped.

Even though he felt very tired after practicing the secret method at such a high intensity for such a long time, fortunately it ended smoothly.

Using his spiritual sense to look inward, looking at the newly added Yin Earth Seal in his Dantian, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up slightly.

This is the fifth evil spirit that Xiao Chen has collected.

Although only a pair of fire evil spirits have been formed so far, you should know that the five elements of evil spirits are divided into ten types of yin and yang.

In other words, he has gathered half of the five elements of evil energy.

Next, as long as I pay attention and inquire more about the news, I estimate that I will be close to gathering all the evil spirits.

"Damn Yinshi Sect, a bunch of bastards!"

Thinking of this, Xiao Chen couldn't help but think of the lightless sea and the clues about the evil spirit he had obtained.

I had originally thought of trying my luck after coming out of the ruins, but now there's basically no hope.

"Forget it, why do you always think about those annoying things?"

Xiao Chen shook his head vigorously, as if trying to get rid of this useless negative emotion: "Let's go get the magic weapon inside first."

He stood up and walked towards the tomb in the middle of the square.

At this point, the tomb itself was not designed with any unnecessary obstacles.

There is no need for that anymore.

Therefore, when Xiao Chen walked over and pushed the door directly, he easily pushed open the stone door in front of the tomb without any effort.
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When you step into the tomb, the first thing that catches your eye is a series of murals in different styles.

Perhaps because this place is better protected, Xiao Chen can still clearly see the colorful colors on the painting.

The largest and middle painting depicts the scene of the moon sacrifice ceremony in detail.

At that time, the Moon Witch Saint was wearing an extremely gorgeous red dress, a bright moon crown on her head, and holding a glowing ball in her right hand, her expression was solemn and dignified.

In front of her was a huge altar filled with various offerings.

Most of the tribesmen around were kneeling on the ground, bowing their heads and worshiping the altar.

There was only one tall and strong warrior who was half-kneeling in front of the saint, with his hands together and raised above his head, waiting for the other party to bestow the blood crystal.

It seems that the saint's status in the clan is definitely not low.

"So this is what the moon worship ceremony is like?"

It was completely different from Xiao Chen’s previous two experiences.

He carefully observed the saint's expression on the mural, but could not see any pain.

I don’t know if it’s really painless, or if the person in charge of the painting deliberately made some artistic processing.

In the tomb chamber, a large number of burial utensils are placed in a regular pattern.

Hundreds of candlesticks with ancient shapes are scattered throughout the tomb.

The candlestick is made entirely of bronze and has exquisite patterns carved on the surface.

Thanks to the miniature spirit gathering array interspersed in the patterns, a small ball of orange-red spirit fire is still burning inside, illuminating the surrounding area.

Besides.

There are also different kinds of unique objects scattered around, such as bone ocarinas engraved with runes, necklaces made of unknown animal teeth, scepters topped with gems...

The closer to the center of the tomb, the more exquisite the workmanship of these things.

"Ok?"

Xiao Chen tried to reach out and pick up a necklace of animal teeth, but he didn't expect that with just a slight force, the animal teeth were crushed into ashes.

He reached back for the gem beside him.

Although the gem was fine, the scepter broke into more than a dozen pieces in an instant.

"Boom!"

Xiao Chen threw the fist-sized gem directly to the ground.

Despite the meticulous carving, the spiritual energy in the gem has been lost.

For most practitioners, including him, jade and jewelry without spiritual energy are no different from scrap metal.

In the center of the tomb chamber, there is an exquisite coffin.

It is made of a single piece of shiny black stone, with a total length of 33 feet and a width of 6 feet 6.

The surface of the coffin is engraved with complex and mysterious witch symbols and patterns of various birds and beasts.

If you look closely, you can see a faint mysterious light flowing inside the stone.

"Hey, why can't I see any magical weapons?"

Xiao Chen looked around and finally saw a small niche on the side of the tomb.

He walked quickly forward and took a closer look, only to see an animal skin of unrecognizable origin lying quietly in the niche.

The surface of the animal skin was covered with mottled marks, but one could still clearly identify the dark red witch symbols drawn on it with witch blood.

"Could it be a inherited technique?"

Xiao Chen reached out and picked it up to examine it.

Although he still couldn't tell which monster this piece of skin came from.

But he immediately sensed the unique aura of a fourth-level monster.

"No wonder it can last so long. Not only does it require the blessing of the magic talisman, but the raw materials themselves must also be good enough."

Xiao Chen sighed and put the animal skin into the Hanhai Ring.

Although based on previous experience, the quality of the inherited skills should not be low.

In other words, this thing is probably useless to him.

But maybe this technique can help Su Li, so I'll bring it back to her.

These details don't really matter.

The most critical question at the moment is - where is the magic weapon?

Xiao Chen looked around again. Although the tomb was not small in size, the layout inside was not complicated and was basically clear at a glance.

There were no other niches, and divine sense could not detect the hidden dark room.

The only place he couldn't see or penetrate with his spiritual sense was the inside of the coffin in the middle.

"Uh~!"

Xiao Chen blinked his eyes: "Could it be that the magic weapon was placed in the coffin?"

Push open the thick coffin and lift the lid inside.

Inside the coffin, a beautiful woman lay quietly, her long black hair flowing softly beside her. Her ornate priestly attire, adorned with various ornaments, still gleamed.

Sure enough, there was a round ball, held in her arms.

Except that it does not glow, it is almost identical to the magic weapon of the saint in the mural.

Xiao Chen reached out to take it, but felt a strong suction force that directly sucked his hand onto the ball.

Then, a pair of icy cold hands reached out.

She grabbed his wrist tightly.

Sharp nails dug deep into his flesh.

At the same time, a chill that seemed to come from the depths of the underworld climbed up Xiao Chen's wrist like a snake.

Wherever it passed, it actually froze his meridians.

"call!"

A gust of cold wind suddenly blew into the originally quiet tomb, causing the candlelight around to flicker, as if it would go out at any time.

The suction force on the ball is getting stronger and stronger.

Not only was Xiao Chen's hand sucked firmly, but the hands were also pulling his arm hard.

It was as if he wanted to pull his entire body into the coffin.

"Hey~!"

Although he immediately mobilized his true energy and struggled to break free, he still moved uncontrollably towards the coffin.

The high priest's eyes, which had been tightly closed, slowly opened at this moment.

But those eyes were filled with white so that the pupils were completely invisible, and there was no trace of spirit in them.

Immediately afterwards, the high priest's mouth began to open and close.

It was as if there were two rusty pieces of iron inside, pressed together and rubbing against each other.

It made a strange, incomprehensible sound that Xiao Chen had never heard before, like some kind of primitive spell.

An invisible pushing force immediately appeared around him, rushing towards him like a tidal wave.

It was as if a thousand hands were exerting force at the same time, pushing him into the coffin.

"Oh, are you guys annoying? There's actually a trap."

Xiao Chen really couldn't break free, so he simply gave up resisting and let the other party pull him in.

The coffin that had been pushed open before was actually lifted up and closed by an invisible giant hand.

A quarter of an hour later.

Xiao Chen's figure reappeared in the square outside the tomb.

"You have no moral principles, don't you? True Yang Fire Dragon, smash it!"

A huge fire dragon rushed out from behind, and its coiled body almost covered the tomb chamber.

"Boom!"

A huge explosion sounded, and a big hole was directly created in the entire tomb.

However, Xiao Chen still felt it was not enough, so he raised his hand and used a Fire Condensation Palm.

The raging flames immediately shattered the broken wall into pieces.

The severely damaged tomb could no longer hold up and collapsed.

Looking at the coffin in the middle, Xiao Chen pulled out his flying sword and practiced it according to the sword manual.

The majestic sword light accurately avoided the magic weapon and crushed everything else into powder.

He took out the snake bone spear that had not been used for a long time, grabbed the magical weapon from a distance, and put it into the spare storage ring.

Xiao Chen no longer had any scruples and opened fire at full force.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

……

Explosions rang out one after another, hitting everything visible around.

(End of this chapter)