Blue, Red and White Dark Abyss Cauldron

After walking for a while, the road ahead suddenly became clear.

I saw a large group of frogmen half-lying on the ground with their legs bent and their hands supporting themselves, their heads tilted upwards, staring in unison at a rocky platform in front of the open space.

Everyone looked in the direction the frogman was looking, and saw that the rock platform was extremely large and looked very strange. It was big on the top and small on the bottom, with one end slightly raised, just like a black strange hand carved out of a huge rock.

And in the palm of the "strange hand", there was an ancient tripod engraved with densely packed strange pictures and texts. At this time, it was surrounded by a dark blue light, which looked strange and mysterious.

Chu Xiaomu was most familiar with this ancient tripod, as it was the ancient tripod used for sacrifices in the Baihua Bandits' Southern Village, and it was also the Mingyuan Tripod, one of the four great divine artifacts of Canglan, Chi, and Bai!

Aqi stared at the ancient tripod for a long time and said, "Is this the Dark Abyss Tripod that attracted the Red Soldiers to attack our Cangmu Country? This thing is black and there is nothing special about it."

Lu Linnan Ge said: "Look at its twisting divine light and its dark and mysterious hidden things. Apart from the Nether Abyss Cauldron, what else is so powerful?!"

A voice sounded behind the four people: "Lu Lin is really amazing. He even knows the divine will contained in the Nether Abyss Cauldron. I admire you, I admire you..."

The four of them looked back and saw that it was Ran Qingdeng, the ugly man with a hunched back.

Aqi asked, "Master Ran, what are these frogmen doing here?" He didn't know how to address Ran Qingdeng, so he simply used the word "Master".

Xiaoying chuckled and said, "'Master Ran'? Brother Aqi, this title you use is really inappropriate. He is a strange man in this world who is more powerful than the Spirit King."

Ah Qi laughed and said, "If we don't call him Master Ran, what should we call him?"

"Call...Calling him Ran Qiren doesn't sound good. Ran Gaoren...still doesn't sound good..." Xiaoying tilted her head and thought for a while, but couldn't think of any appropriate and nice name.

Ran Qingdeng bowed to Xiaoying and said, "Thank you for the praise, fairy." His expression was extremely respectful.

Chu Xiaomu was puzzled. Ran Qingdeng seemed to be a little indifferent to the spirit king Feng Bao of the Snow Country. He only mentioned Lu Linnange's ancestor Lu Linqiu and Aqi's ancestor Yu Wang in one sentence, just like he was talking about an ordinary person. Why was he so respectful to Xiaoying? And he even called her a fairy. Why was that?

While I was daydreaming, a strange sound of quacks quacks came from the frogmen. The frogmen did not screech in unison, but one after another. After a group of 20 or 30 frogmen screeched, another group would follow, one after another, like layers of waves, quite rhythmic.

Xiaoying was also very curious and asked, "These frogmen are so strange, what are they doing?"

Chu Xiaomu, Aqi and Lu Linnan Ge also met for the first time and were not clear about it.

Ran Qingdeng said: "This is the custom of the Lanming Kingdom. They are preparing to make a sacrifice to the Mingyuan Cauldron."

"Sacrifice, what sacrifice?" Xiaoying asked again.

"That is to take the internal organs of a living person and sacrifice them to the thing they respect." Ran Qingdeng's tone was very calm, but the words "take the internal organs of a living person" shocked the four people.

Chu Xiaomu had heard from Hai Wuqing from the Pearl Island of Lanming Country that the Water Country (that is, Lanming Country) had the custom of removing internal organs for sacrifice to the spirits, and he also mentioned the clamp-handed people and the Dragon Snake Island. The customs were far more bizarre than he had imagined. But when he heard it again this time, he still found it a little unbelievable.

"Why do we have to take the internal organs of a living person for sacrifice? What's the point?" Xiaoying asked Ran Qingdeng again.

"Humans and souls are all nurtured by spiritual energy, and the internal organs are the place where spiritual energy is densely concentrated. In the Lanming Country, there has always been a custom of taking the internal organs of human souls to sacrifice to the gods. One is to show sincerity to the gods, and the other is to obtain divine gifts. It is said that sacrificing one person's heart can enhance the spiritual power of hundreds of people." Ran Qingdeng explained patiently.

"Even if there are these benefits, you can't kill people. Isn't it too cruel?" Xiaoying frowned, not daring to imagine what will happen next.

As soon as she finished speaking, the wave-pushing frog spirit walked into the group of frogmen, pointed at one of them at random, and made a quack sound.

The frogman being pointed at grumbled in response, then stood up from the ground, his eyes wide open.

Ran Qingdeng said: "The Frogman King has selected the person to be sacrificed. The next step is to open his stomach and take out his heart and lungs..." It turned out that the frog spirit who could use the magic of pushing waves was the Frogman King.

The Frogman King reached out and pulled the frogman he had chosen, then walked towards the stone platform where the Nether Abyss Cauldron was placed.

The chosen frogman staggered, his eyes bulged bigger than ever, and he kept making croaking sounds from his mouth. He looked very scared.

After the frogman king pulled him onto the platform, he took a black dagger from a frogman, grabbed the frogman's left hand and raised it high, shouting "gugu", and the frogman who was half-lying on the ground under the platform also shouted "gugu".

The captured frogman on the stage looked almost crazy. Not only did he scream, but he also kept scratching his chest and belly with his webbed hands with sharp nails. No one knew what he meant by this.

Seeing how cruel the Frog King was, killing any of his men at random, Chu Xiaomu couldn't help but feel angry. He took off the Qiongshi Sword on his back and said angrily, "It is unjust to take human lives so lightly! Ah Qi, let's go save them!"

Aqi was stunned and said, "Xiaomu, this... this is their own business. I think we should not meddle in it."

Chu Xiaomu said: "You and I are both soldiers of Bicheng, we should have a kind heart! Besides, cutting open the stomach of a living person to take out his heart and lungs is really too cruel, how can we just watch him die?!" His generous words have shown that he is determined to ignore the endless entanglement of the frogmen.

But then Ran Qingdeng snorted coldly and said, "You ignorant person, you are really talking nonsense!" His tone and expression were full of contempt.