Chapter 2037: Sacrifice?

Not waiting for him to ask, Nan Ronghe said: "This is the roar of a great monster. But because the cave structure is complex, who knows how far it is from us."

"What about the little monster you caught?"

"Here."

Right opposite the cave entrance is a flat giant stone, on which a magical device is inverted.

This magical device truly resembles a food cover used by farmers, or like an opened umbrella directly pressed onto the ground, with very fine mesh eyes, so that the things inside cannot come out.

Nan Ronghe said, this is the ancestral magical device of the Nan Rong family, the "Ding Shan Zhao."

The monster locked inside here, thin and long, at first glance looks like a person, but when its face turns around, it is just like a demon that would only appear in nightmares. Its eyes are very small, blood-red, and its mouth is not like a human's opening and closing up and down, but splits left and right outward, like an insect's mouthparts.

Its gaze toward He Lingchuan and the others is full of hatred.

Elder Shituo walked around the "Ding Shan Zhao" twice, then suddenly muttered, and few nearby could understand.

He said: "Where do you come from?"

The monster's ears perked up inside the cover, showing a bit of focus.

Obviously it understood.

Then it let out a hiss toward Elder Shituo, saliva almost spraying onto his face.

To He Lingchuan's hearing, this guy was saying:

"You also want to die here, all of you!"

Truly the language of the heavenly demons!

He Lingchuan also asked it: "Where is your master?"

He had already judged, this guy is either a demon puppet or a Jin Du ghost spawn. But why did it say "also"?

Does it know it is doomed to die?

He used the heavenly demon language as well, the monster's eyeballs turned and fixed on him:

"You, especially you!"

When He Lingchuan wanted to ask more details, it started roaring and muttering angrily again.

This guy's mind is a bit confused, not very smart-looking.

He Lingchuan suddenly asked Nan Ronghe: "Why did you guys move to catch them?"

"Recently, villages near Luofeng Tan have had people disappearing, so I sent people to stake out." During the handover, security within the territory still belonged to the Nan Rong family, "I didn't expect them to suddenly appear yesterday morning, and they even killed several of my subordinates, eating half of each."

"How did you catch it?"

"Bai Bai stabbed it in the back with one knife, it bled, we followed the blood trail. Used a net to catch it." Nan Ronghe said, "Fortunately that place wasn't far from the cave entrance, we forcibly dragged it out."

Everyone understood, no wonder Nan Ronghe sought help from He Lingchuan, though he has many troops, in this special terrain of caves they cannot be effective. To catch that monster, still need elites and strongmen.

He Lingchuan asked his subordinates: "Did you all understand?"

The crowd said: "We understood."

He Lingchuan pointed at the cave with his hand: "Wear the Qing Xin charm, go help General Nan Rong."

The victims were unharmed all over, most likely they were bewitched by monsters.

Thus he led his three hundred elites, under Luo Xie, into the cave to pursue the monster.

Elder Shituo clicked his tongue twice: "If only Zhu Xiuer were here."

Why is it called the "Earth Cave Spider Queen"? Zhu Xiuer's physique is simply made for this kind of water-land labyrinth, entering water when encountered, able to squeeze through any gap.

The speaker meant nothing, but He Lingchuan felt his heart stir upon hearing it.

He walked aside on his own, lowered his voice and asked the blood demon: "Do you see Nan Ronghe as a living person?"

"Alive." The blood demon in cloak form said, puzzled: "What do you mean by that?"

"I once saw a kind of insect demon in Dian Dao Sea, after killing people it could control corpses to speak, move, and even kill. The guardian of Mian Cheng County, Huang Chengqi, met his demise this way, after death being controlled thus, destroying the city's moat beast mechanism." Actually, Boss Situ He's father, Boss Situ Yu, also suffered such an assassination.

That's why He Lingchuan had the blood demon observe, whether Nan Ronghe is already dead.

This guy's sensitivity to flesh and blood is such that even ordinary immortals cannot match.

"Indeed he is a living person, I can still hear his heart thumping." Of course, it can also hear He Lingchuan's heartbeat, "How so, you suspect he has a problem?"

He Lingchuan rubbed his hands: "Nothing, I have an ominous spiritual omen, I feel strange as soon as I come to this place."

If "suspicious" is one of the qualities of those in high position, then he has indeed cultivated it.

So he did not enter the cave. Those who want to kill him are countless, he still is careful.

The blood demon said bluntly: "Fine, I'll go check everywhere."

At this moment, the cave entrance suddenly stirred, and Nan Ronghe's voice came over:

"My lord!"

A bit urgent.

He Lingchuan strode back to the crowd, only to see the monster inside the "Ding Shan Zhao" suddenly wither.

It was originally lean and sturdy, with muscle groups on its legs and arms, but now it was like a balloon drained of air, instantly becoming skin and bones.

In just a dozen or so breaths, its flesh, blood, and essence were sucked dry by something unknown.

The Soul-Capturing Mirror exclaimed: "What is this situation?"

The monster was like a desert corpse, after a few breaths it ceased.

The blood demon also said: "This speed of consuming flesh and blood is not slower than mine. Hmm, could it be sacrifice?"

The two words "sacrifice" came out, He Lingchuan shuddered: "Not good!"

If it truly is sacrifice, what is it trying to activate?

A black-armored soldier stood three zhang away, He Lingchuan took him as target, initiated "Following Shadow," about to shift over.

Unfortunately, too late.

Before his eyes flashed a red light.

And in everyone's eyes, the boulder where the lord and Nan Ronghe stood suddenly emitted a red light, especially dazzling.

This boulder was right at the cave entrance, its surface diameter three zhang, flat and level, like an oversized round stone tabletop.

The monster restrained by the "Ding Shan Zhao" was on the boulder, so He Lingchuan, Elder Shituo, Nan Ronghe, and the two guards naturally stood on the stone as well.

Others couldn't stand on it, the boulder's area was limited, and the cage wasn't small either; Elder Shituo's ox alone could take up the space of four people.

In the next second, everyone on the boulder vanished, including the monster's desiccated corpse!

Everyone gasped in shock: "My lord!"

Oh no!

As the red light flared before his eyes, He Lingchuan knew things had gone wrong.

He had walked into a trap.

He flung his cloak, and the blood demon transformed into a cluster of scarlet blood mist, enveloping everyone within.

Fortunately, he reacted in time, for what awaited them was a barrage of swords.

Not arrows, but swords, palm-sized tiny swords.

The sword bodies gleamed bluish-green like jade; when first released, there was only one, which split into two in midair, then two struck to become four, and by the time they reached the people before them, there were three or four hundred, their tips faintly glowing with gold.

Before the red mist rose, He Lingchuan glanced hurriedly and saw before him a screen full of blue-green, all of these things.

Once struck, it was not as simple as turning into a hedgehog.

Now the damage from these several hundred swords was all contained by the blood demon.

The scarlet cover was nearly pierced through, even leaking out a crimson-gold light. He Lingchuan then heard the blood demon let out a strange cry: "Damn, it hurts! Yangyang Ganghuo!"

The golden light attached to these sword tips was all drawn from the Jiaoyang True Fire, each strand refined to perfection, dealing maximum damage to yin-polluted entities like the blood demon.

(End of Chapter)