Chapter 295: Blood Sacrificing the Common People

After exiting Duanyun Pass, Yin Qi went straight to the enemy's rear and soon discovered the Chi Yi army a hundred miles away.

Perhaps to guard against the Sky Patrol Warship, the golden turtle shell was not taken away, still hovering over the military camp, hanging down translucent light curtains, covering the entire military camp.

Originally, Yin Qi wanted to control the Chi Yi main general and refine him into a puppet, but now it seemed it wouldn't work.

That golden turtle shell was extremely mysterious, and rashly breaking in would very likely be discovered.

The "Boundless Devouring Technique" was even more mysterious than the "Hongmeng Parasitic Art," not only capable of devouring a person's entirety, including flesh and blood, primordial spirit, etc., but even having memories, and could also transform the primordial spirit of the devoured, making him a puppet.

This puppet was almost no different from before.

If the Chi Yi main general was refined into a puppet, that would be equivalent to controlling this Chi Yi army.

Great Shang's army came to reinforce, and without replenishing troops, the Chi Yi main general would not easily launch an attack again, and would not even easily walk out of this golden turtle shell, so Yin Qi did not hesitate and bypassed the Chi Yi army to continue deeper.

His purpose this time was to investigate clearly the reason for the Chi Yi's unusual movement.

In the Yang God world, Yin Qi traveled with the Thousand Mile Foot; one step was several light-years, and he could stroll in the universe.

But in the Fengshen world, the Thousand Mile Foot could only take a hundred miles in one step.

In order to investigate, Yin Qi did not rush at full speed, and soon he discovered that the occupied area was not only deserted outside the city, but more than ten cities were also empty, with broken walls and ruins everywhere.

Not to mention people, there wasn't even a ghost.

"All taken away?"

Yin Qi frowned slightly, but was not surprised.

The various branches of the Eastern Yi harassed the eastern vassal states; besides looting supplies, the most important thing was population.

With population, they could multiply and grow.

Women were usually treated as birth machines, while men were reduced to slaves, farming, hunting, making artifacts, etc., for them, and their fate was extremely miserable.

Soon, Yin Qi walked out of the Cao State and entered the Taiyuan Mountain Domain.

The Taiyuan Mountain Domain had undulating terrain.

The outer periphery was sparse forest, where ordinary people would enter the mountains to hunt or pick mountain goods.

But the deeper one went, the denser the forest became.

Especially after crossing a mountain range a thousand miles long and a thousand meters high, it was an endless primeval forest, with ancient trees reaching the sky, lush and green, filled with countless dangers.

Demonic beasts, snakes, insects, rats, ants, miasma, etc., each could easily take a life.

But this was the paradise of the Chi Yi.

They were born with strong physiques, and after adulthood, their skin was as tough as cowhide, and ordinary snakes, insects, rats, and ants could not hurt them at all.

The Chi Yi's million-strong army came out of the mountains, and of course, they had long since opened up marching paths, like spider webs, submerging into the depths of the Taiyuan Mountain Domain, connecting one Chi Yi tribe after another.

In order to supply the front line, one could see teams transporting supplies from time to time along the way.

They rode exotic beasts, galloping on the marching paths.

This was the Fengshen world; transporting grain and grass naturally did not require ordinary civilians, nor did it require various vehicles; they only needed some storage magic artifacts and sent a team of elite soldiers to escort them.

Yin Qi did not alert the enemy; he hid in the void to avoid being discovered by the Chi Yi.

Deepening more than ten thousand miles, he finally discovered a team escorting common people.

This Chi Yi team had only a hundred people, but they were escorting nearly ten thousand common people.

These common people were in rags, supporting each other as they walked, their eyes already numb; perhaps they had already seen their future fate, which would be to die of exhaustion among the Chi Yi.

At sunset, they arrived in front of a big mountain.

This big mountain was dark brown, full of dead silence, and there wasn't even a plant.

"Eh?"

Yin Qi was surprised and opened his Po Wang Eye; immediately his pupils constricted tightly.

In his vision, the big mountain was shrouded in a thick black fog, full of endless resentment.

The black fog rolled, and vaguely, one could see countless wailing ghost faces!

This was resentment!

Yin Qi was shocked; such thick resentment was almost materialized, and he didn't know how many resentful souls were buried.

Suddenly, he thought of something, and murderous intent burst from his eyes.

At the foot of the big mountain, there was a huge array altar.

This array altar was over a thousand meters in diameter, paved with black jade, and countless evil runes were drawn on it.

Around the array altar, a Chi Yi army of more than a thousand people was stationed.

Seeing more captives being escorted, a giant man over two meters tall stepped forward and laughed heartily: "May I ask which tribe you brothers are from? We were just waiting for this last batch."

The leader of the small team escorting the captives also laughed heartily: "We are from the Rock Tribe; sorry to have kept you waiting, brothers."

The giant man waved his hand and said generously: "No matter, no matter, it should be you who have worked hard. Someone, take these brothers down to rest, and treat them with good wine and meat. Brother, leave these people to us."

The small team escorting the captives was enthusiastically taken away.

Subsequently, the giant man looked at the captives, his face instantly darkened, and he shouted: "Everyone listen to my order, all walk up there. Those who are slow, kill without mercy."

The ten thousand captives all couldn't help but tremble.

Everyone squeezed each other, and soon stood on the array altar.

Seeing this, the giant man pinched a magic formula with both hands and cast it towards the array altar; subsequently, runes on the array altar were activated, actually rising into the air, covering all the common people.

Seeing this, the common people were terrified and uneasy; they instinctively sensed that something was wrong.

But at this time, it was already too late.

Boom!

These runes actually turned into black flames, submerging into everyone's bodies.

Then, everyone burned themselves.

This kind of black flame was very strange, actually burning from the inside out, and could even burn the primordial spirit.

Immediately, wailing rose one after another on the array altar.

"Ah! Save me! Save me!"

"I don't want to die! I don't want to die!"

"Barbarians, I curse you!"

"Charge, charge out!"

"Dad, Mom! Wah!"

The array altar was in chaos, with some trying to pat out the flames on their bodies, some trying to charge out, and some just waiting to die while wailing, etc.

But the array altar had already been activated; it seemed there was an invisible barrier blocking everyone.

Under the burning of the black flames, everyone was dissolving rapidly, soon turning into skeletons, and then even the skeletons were burned into flying ash, leaving nothing.

Finally, those black flames turned back into runes and fell back to the ground.

Subsequently, at a speed visible to the naked eye, blood-colored crystal things appeared out of thin air, spreading all over the array altar, emitting charming colors under the setting sun.

"Haha, another ten thousand blood crystals!"

The giant man laughed heartily and said to the people around him: "Brothers, go and collect the blood crystals. Tomorrow we can leave here and return to the ancestral hall. The task given to us by the High Priest is now completed."

"Thousand-man commander, we have already collected more than five million blood crystals; I think the High Priest will definitely reward us heavily!"

"If only we could be rewarded with some Zhurong Liquid, it could purify the bloodline. I am only a little bit away from being promoted to the mid-level Man Witch."

"It's a pity; the High Priest wants blood crystals, otherwise these human women could have been picked for their good looks and taken back as female slaves."

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