Chapter 108: Blood Sacrifice Ceremony

The shadow flashed directly, and Ye Bai, who was writing furiously under the lamp, disappeared.

The shadow wrapped around Ye Bai and dove into the shadow space.

Ye Bai felt as if he had gone through a muddy swamp; he struggled to push through.

A suffocating pain welled up in his heart.

It was unknown how much time had passed before he finally "surfaced" from the water.

The shadow, however, was completely fine; he looked down at Ye Bai from a high position.

Ye Bai breathed in large gulps; he felt nauseated in his throat, as if countless mud were surging into his mouth.

That suffocating pain struck again; only now did Ye Bai understand what claustrophobia was—after experiencing this, he understood.

"Oh my, you didn't pass out? Your mental strength is quite good."

"You're a decent sacrifice."

"After you are offered as a sacrifice, I might be able to scrape up some leftovers and use your shadow to create a Pet Beast."

"Previously, I sacrificed a highly infectious potion in Jiaying City to create a Beast Tide."

"I almost succeeded, but a dead old man stopped me, and I even lost two Pet Beasts."

"It forced me to defect from the Gospel Society and choose to join the Resurrection Society."

"Jiaying City is a place of sorrow for me; I wish I could tear every person from Jiaying into a thousand pieces, which is why I volunteered to go to Jiaying City."

"Your vigilance is too low; I didn't even have much fun."

The shadow smiled, and countless shadow threads pierced into Ye Bai's body.

Like a puppet, he walked forward step by step.

"Sigh, I don't know if I'm getting old, but I've become much more long-winded."

The shadow let out a sigh.

This was the first time Ye Bai had the experience of being led by shadow threads; his eyes darted around.

This seemed to be an abandoned Underground Waterway, with small puddles appearing on the ground.

Night Bats were hanging upside down in mid-air.

They were all plump and sturdy, and bloodstains remained on the ground, feeling sticky.

From their blood-dripping fangs, one could tell they had just had a full meal.

"Haha, I heard your talent is Photographic Memory, and your deskmate's talent is Insight Eye."

"What a pity, if only you had Insight Eye."

"Then I could use the Blood Sacrifice to strip away your talent."

"I wouldn't have to join the Resurrection Society and become a beast of burden!"

The shadow's hand rested on Ye Bai's cheek, stroking it gently; he stared into Ye Bai's eyes, making Ye Bai feel a chill.

Goosebumps broke out all over his body.

The shadow brought Ye Bai to the front of a prison cell.

This cell was built of wood, with a pile of straw spread on the ground.

Ye Bai discovered many people who had been abducted by the shadow.

"Kid, I know you're still awake; the rule here is to behave yourself."

"The more you behave, the less pain you will feel during the Blood Sacrifice; you'll only need to be bled easily."

"If you don't behave, you should know what death by a thousand cuts is."

"Our Pet Beast, the Steel Blade Mantis, will neatly slice three thousand six hundred pieces of meat, thin as cicada wings, from your body."

"We will enjoy the agonizing wails to our heart's content; in our eyes, this is the supreme gluttonous feast."

The shadow then unlocked the prison cell.

The door creaked.

The dungeon was covered with thin, dry grass, emitting a musty smell.

Firelight flickered all around.

The dim cell was filled with a dead, heavy atmosphere, as if it were the maw of the Abyss.

Several people lay scattered on the hay.

"Sorry, I have to knock you out."

Black threads stabbed into Ye Bai's brain; instead of fainting, Ye Bai remained very clear-headed, but he tilted his head and 'fainted' away.

Seeing that Ye Bai had fainted, the shadow manipulated the black threads to throw Ye Bai directly inside.

As soon as Ye Bai entered, he saw Li Chen and Zhang Yiyi, who had also opened their eyes.

However, Li Chen blinked at Ye Bai, signaling him not to speak yet.

The shadow looked with satisfaction at the top ten captives from Jiaying City.

"Haha, it's almost time; once I abduct one hundred people, the ceremony will begin."

The shadow muttered, then turned into a black shadow and disappeared from here.

Originally, Ye Bai wanted to ask Li Chen what exactly had happened here, but Li Chen blinked frantically at him.

Ye Bai immediately understood that the person called the shadow would very likely double back.

So he also lay on the ground and said nothing.

After repeating this a few times, Li Chen finally scrambled up from the ground; his body was covered in straw debris, and because he had been lying down for too long, one of his arms was a bit stiff.

"Ye Bai, I've finally waited for you; do you have anything to eat?"

"I feel like I'm about to go crazy with hunger!"

"My Pet Beast Space has been sealed, and even my Boxing Rabbit cannot rush out of the Pet Beast Space."

"Help me make a decision!"

Li Chen hurriedly said to Ye Bai, as he knew Ye Bai was the person with the best judgment.

"Let me see if I can summon a Pet Beast."

The Pet Beast Space being blocked was something Ye Bai had already calculated might happen.

In his hand, he possessed a Vajra Pestle that could break runes.

However, Ye Bai decided to use the Insight Eye to see if it could be used to break the seal.

His Pet Beast Space was surrounded by a faint layer of gray mist.

Ye Bai directly opened the Insight Eye, and the gray mist was naturally broken.

A cool sensation surged into Ye Bai's eyes; he felt his eyes become icy and cool, which was extremely comfortable.

【Sealing Keystone (Tier 2): A Ghost-type heavenly treasure, specifically used to seal a Pet Beast Master's space. The Sealing Keystone can lock a Pet Beast Space of the corresponding level.】

After the gray mist was broken, the items in Ye Bai's Pet Beast Space could be retrieved.

Ye Bai first summoned the Sun Flower King.

This type of Pet Beast is small in size, can burrow underground, and is skilled at hiding; it is truly an essential Pet Beast for home reconnaissance.

"Sun Flower King, contact the Pet Beast Guild for me."

"Then, detect exactly where this place is."

At the Pet Beast Guild, the Tier 2 Sun Flower nodded immediately, indicating that it had already made contact with the main body.

"Sun Flower, can you sense the current location of the main body?"

Zhang Lingxue asked curiously.

If it were simply a cross-city distance this far, the Sun Flower would not be able to sense it.

But the key was that the place where the Resurrection Society was located had been infiltrated by the Sun Flower Cleaning Company.

If the Sun Flower King were treated as a base station, then the Tier 2 Sun Flower was a signal tower.

It transmitted the message piece by piece through multiple signal towers.

One could see the Sun Flower wrapped around Zhang Lingxue's arm, pointing in a direction ahead.

"Very good, Ye Bai's Sun Flower is indeed monstrous."

"The three of you must swear an oath to the Vow Stone; you absolutely cannot reveal this secret."

"Otherwise, you know the consequences of breaking an oath, don't you?"

A milky-white Vow Stone suddenly appeared in Zhang Lingxue's hand.

This Vow Stone could record oaths humans had made; if one accidentally broke the vow, they would be baptized by a terrifying lightning tribulation until they were reduced to ashes.

"Everyone, let's go; President Zhang is already waiting ahead for the assembly."

"This time, we, over a dozen guild presidents, have gathered together to annihilate the Resurrection Society."

Wang Jinyin said with a cold sneer.

"Let's go, stop with the long-winded sentimentalities."

"For every step we are late, the safety of my students becomes one step more dangerous."

"This time, Ye Bai was willing to sacrifice himself just to save your children."

Zhang Lingxue emphasized again.

In the prison cell.

Li Chen and Zhang Yiyi were both wolfing down hamburgers.

Neither of them had expected that Ye Bai's Pet Beast Space had not been sealed.

"Ye Bai, good brothers for life."

"If we can survive this disaster, I will definitely swear a peach garden oath with you."

The corner of Ye Bai's mouth twitched; Li Chen must have watched too many TV dramas.

"Stop eating for a moment, someone is coming."

"Get down."

Li Chen stuffed the last bite of the hamburger into his mouth.

A group of people stopped here.

'He Qingyuan' was looking at Ye Bai with an incomparably gloomy gaze.

"Damn it, why did I only wake up recently?"

"And my second personality was actually that damn simp."

"Why didn't you stop it, one by one?"

'He Qingyuan' cursed loudly.

None of these people wearing black robes dared to make a sound; they all lowered their heads, not daring to look directly into the Holy Son's eyes.

"Forget it, a simp is a simp, but why didn't you capture that girl?"

"The Insight Eye, that is the Insight Eye; a talent I have racked my brains and agonized over wanting."

"If I had captured her early on, I would have had about a sixty percent chance of inheriting the Insight Eye during the Blood Sacrifice, and I would have been able to develop the Insight Eye to an even more powerful level."

At this moment, a man in black stood out in terror.

"Holy Son, your main personality hadn't awakened yet, so you were just an ordinary person; we didn't know it was you at the time."

"Furthermore, by the time we knew that person had awakened the Insight Eye, it was already too late; she had been protected by the people of Yan Country, I..."

Before the man in black could finish speaking, two beams of fire shot out from 'He Qingyuan's' eyes and landed on the man in black who had stood out.

"Sophistry."

"Regardless of whether I had awakened or not, the moment you knew the Insight Eye had appeared, you should have gone to snatch the Insight Eye for me."

"Instead of how it is now, where I still have to abduct a hundred people and pick a general from among the short."

"This is simply a waste of time and a waste of energy."

"He Qingyuan," that is to say, the Holy Son, Roar-ed.

The man in black wailed as he turned into charcoal, and a burnt smell wafted out.

Ye Bai was pricking up his ears to listen at this moment; he felt that the voice of this person called the Holy Son was very familiar.

Words like "lick-dog" and "Insight Eye" suddenly made such a guess appear in Ye Bai's heart.

Damn, no way, no way, that dog thing "He Qingyuan" is actually the Holy Son.

How could this Holy Son's selection criteria be so low?

I feel like I could even sneak in and become a Holy Son.

Ye Bai was extremely speechless.

However, he lay on the ground without moving, also trying his best to keep his heartbeat steady.

"And this person, who humiliated my second personality to the extreme back then, you must execute him by slow slicing for me."

"Three days from now is the time for the Blood Sacrifice, you all must be attentive."

The Holy Son flicked his cloak violently and left with the others.

The prison instantly became empty.

When Ye Bai opened his eyes, Li Chen also opened his eyes, and the two looked at each other: "You heard it, you heard it too?"

Zhang Yiyi????

No, what kind of riddle are you two playing?

"This Holy Son is actually He Qingyuan!!!"

The two said in unison.

"This is a bit troublesome; He Qingyuan hates the two of us to the bone."

One defeated his self-esteem in public, and the other took his Pet Beast.

In short, when the Blood Sacrifice happens, he won't let the two of them have an easy time.

Ye Bai felt the gravity of the situation; he was rushing to lie in a pit.

And just now, "He Qingyuan" seemed to want to kill the chicken to warn the monkey, and have him executed by slow slicing.

"Ye Bai, what do we do now?"

Li Chen smiled bitterly; he was just a fat man who loved to eat and play and hadn't grown up yet, and he didn't want to die here.

"It's fine, you two can rest assured."

"The teachers already know the location of this place and are rushing here."

"Three days from now, they should be able to arrive here."

"What I'm worried about now is whether someone will alert the enemy and cause this Blood Sacrifice ritual to be moved up."

"Li Chen, have you ever heard of the Blood Sacrifice ritual?"

Ye Bai asked Li Chen with some slight worry.

Li Chen's eyes lit up; he really did know about the Blood Sacrifice ritual.

"The Blood Sacrifice ritual is a very cruel ritual; it requires the life of a Pet Beast Master as the price to summon a Demon God from Hell."

"There are Seventy-two Pillar Demon Gods in Hell."

"Each of them possesses different abilities."

"Some are strong and some are weak, but the higher the ranking of the Demon God, the stronger their power will be."

"The Blood Sacrifice ritual uses the Soul and life force of one hundred Pet Beast Masters to conduct an equivalent exchange with the Demon God."

"The larger the scale of the Blood Sacrifice, the more terrifying the summoned Demon God will be."

"When the Demon God is in a good mood, it will refine your talent for you."

"There is a fixed time for summoning a Demon God, and the full moon night three days from now is the best time to summon a Demon God."

"Although it is only a phantom of the Demon God, none of the Demon Gods are existences we can resist."

"We can only destroy the ritual before it begins."

"Only in this way can we avoid the descent of the Demon God."

Ye Bai looked at Li Chen with a face full of surprise: "How do you know so many things?"

"It feels like you've experienced it before!"

Li Chen's eyes carried a trace of sadness: "I have indeed experienced it; I am a survivor of the Red Umbrella Murder Case seven years ago."

"My mother took my place and became a sacrifice, so I have been investigating this Blood Sacrifice matter for so many years."

"I want to find the person who organized the Blood Sacrifice and then kill him."

Li Chen clenched his hands tightly and said viciously.

"Then how should we destroy the Blood Sacrifice?"

Ye Bai asked the second question.

"Actually, this problem is also easy to solve."

"The pattern of the Blood Sacrifice is fixed and unchanging."

"As long as we destroy the pattern, the Blood Sacrifice will be completely destroyed."

"But think about it, there are so many people from the Resurrection Society here, and there is also the so-called Holy Son."

"You can think with your butt and know that the security level here will become very terrifying."

"I estimate that we will only be allowed to enter the altar area right before we become sacrifices."

"Unless time permits, otherwise I think we had better honestly wait for the teachers' rescue."

Ever since the Red Umbrella Incident occurred, this was the first time Li Chen had spoken so much.

"I know, I understand what you mean."

"Let us wait and see how things develop for now, and then we shall see how to make a breakthrough."

"We must keep the initiative in our own hands!"

Seeking votes.

(End of this chapter)