Chapter 899: Blood Moon in the Sky, Clock Turning

Gazing at the moon in the night sky that was as red as blood, the 'Crow' of the Xuanzhen Sect only felt that his back was soaked with cold sweat.

It was the Mid-Autumn night in the Western Continent, but the sun had already risen in the Eastern Continent!

Since the Xuanzhen Sect's main sect did not remind them during the day, it meant that the Mid-Autumn night in the Eastern Continent did not have any special situation, but at this moment, the red moon overhead looked strange no matter how you looked at it.

Their Xuanzhen Sect is already an evil sect of the side door!

But this moon is even more demonic...

The crow, shrouded in a black robe, trembled slightly. Crow is his bandit name, and it is not correct to call it a crow, it should be called a blackbird!

"Something big happened! Something really big happened!" The blackbird whispered to the little brothers beside him: "The Fifth Epoch has just begun, why did such a strange phenomenon that happens once in a thousand years appear? If it were in our Central Kingdom, such a celestial phenomenon, the heads of ten prime ministers would not be enough to pay for it!"

"Brother Blackbird, are we still looking for the Young Sect Master?"

The Xuanzhen sect disciple beside him revealed two arms full of tattoos, but he shrank his head like a quail, even though he had dragon and tiger tattoos.

A glimmer of light flashed in the crow's eyes: "Don't look for him! He wants to hide from the brothers in the sect, and we can't help it. After all, there is the affection of the old sect master. We can't do anything to the Young Sect Master!"

"Didn't the Young Sect Master say that he donated the book to the secret library of the foreign devils?"

The crow looked at the blood-red moon in the sky: "Something big happened, that secret library must be empty inside. Let's just kill our way to the door. If we can grab it, we will grab it. If we can't grab it back, we will get some scriptures of the foreign devils and go back to give the sect master an explanation!"

The crow looked at the direction of the Night Watcher headquarters, and his left eye suddenly turned over, the pupil turned over to reveal pure white.

The crow stared into the distance with one white eye.

The crow, which was as strong as a falcon, was locked in an iron cage. Its wings flapped, hitting the iron bars as thick as fingers. It was difficult to even shake this cage, and with the invisible art defense circle wrapped around it, wanting to open the cage, not only did it need the key to a heavy iron lock the size of a fist, but it also needed a specific ritual.

Otherwise, this iron cage would be invisible to them...

But this did not prevent the crow from observing the Night Watcher headquarters, which was already in chaos, from behind the cage.

Except for the personnel left behind to guard the archives, evidence room, and seal room, the Night Watchmen had deployed their elite forces, heading in the direction of Miskatonic University.

"Those black dogs can't take care of us!" The crow concluded: "This blood moon in the sky is indeed a big deal! All the black-skinned dogs are dispatched. It seems they are not here to find trouble with us!"

The two little brothers looked at each other and said: "Brother Blackbird! Take us to give the foreign devils some color!"

The three climbed out of the sewer and ran toward Miskatonic University in black robes.

The public security in Kafas City is not good. Whenever night falls, decent people will not stay on the street. Even college students and revelers looking for fun at night will only wander in places like Kating Street.

And the three of them rushed all the way from the Lower City to the college district where Miskatonic University is located. Unexpectedly, many people dressed in mysterious ways passed by them on the road.

The tattooed disciple looked back at the two strong men running wildly on all fours on the dark street, and couldn't help but stand still.

"Wolf... wolf demon!"

The disciple's legs were as slow as if they were filled with lead.

The crow looked back and cursed: "What wolf demon! Just half-demons of the foreign devils, what are they called werewolves, they are far worse than real demons!"

As he was talking, two witches wearing pointed hats flew past their heads on broomsticks.

The crow looked at them all rushing in one direction, and once again confirmed his intuition. The Western Continent, at least Camelot, really had something big happen!

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In the small courtyard, under the osmanthus tree, an Eastern-style table was placed in the middle of the courtyard, a bit like a sacrificial table in front of the god.

But where the sacrificial table faced, there was no statue, only an osmanthus tree and a blood moon hanging on the branches.

A stack of mooncakes was placed on a plate, four at the bottom and one at the top!

The crust was baked golden, and complex patterns were printed on it with a mold.

The one on the very top was printed with the scene of the Moon Palace, a cold palace, a goddess shaped like a toad, an osmanthus tree with human limbs twisted, and a giant cutting down the limbs with an axe.

The four mooncakes at the bottom were also branded with a legend story.

They were: Chang'e flying to the moon, Jade Rabbit pounding medicine, Toad Palace breaking osmanthus, and Heavenly Dog eating the moon, all entrusting Qian Chen's beautiful wishes for the world.

For the mooncake on the very top, Qian Chen used the allusion of this world—Three Saints creating the moon.

The moon was the first to be created among the three major interfaces of the sun, moon, and earth. Qian Chen and Kunlun Mirror used small pieces of mirrors to test how to best carry the light and shadow of the True Spirit Realm. Those small mirrors scattered into stars, and after testing with stars, they used a larger mirror to test the structure of the World Mirror. This mirror later became the moon!

And on the moon surface left in the Spirit Realm by Kunlun Mirror, a group of Spirit Realm creatures opened up a world. The one that looks like a toad is their descendant, a strange moon-dwelling race—Moon Beast!

And the Creation Cauldron tried to create life on the moon mirror surface, and the flesh and blood of the first living beings were shaped into a mother tree by creation.

And Qian Chen himself pointed out a giant, responsible for cutting down the branches of the flesh and blood mother tree, to provide the Creation Cauldron to create humans and other lives...

And the other mooncakes are allusions from the Earth Immortal Realm. As a candidate for the former Guanghan Fairy, Qian Chen is infinitely familiar with the allusion of Chang'e flying to the moon, and he even hid a part of the secret of the West Kunlun Immortality Medicine in it.

Jade Rabbit pounding medicine is the story of the West Queen Mother ordering the Rabbit Great Sage to pound and refine the Immortality Medicine.

And Chang'e flying to the moon is the myth of the Guanghan Palace ancestor Chang'e drinking the Immortality Medicine and flying to the bright moon.

Heavenly Dog eating the moon is the battle left by the Supreme, where the Heavenly Dog Great Sage swallowed the old heaven's sun and moon at the critical moment of the crusade against the Ten Thousand Demon Divine Court.

Toad Palace breaking osmanthus is a story of a Daoist predecessor who feathered and ascended to immortality, broke off an osmanthus branch at the gate of the Moon Palace, and brought it back to the world after his primordial spirit, thinking it was a joke.

Qian Chen filled four cups with osmanthus wine and handed them to Quinn and the others.

The three drank it down, and then secretly, like some kind of religious secret ritual, piously, with a sense of ritual, worshipped the moon, chanted the blood moon praise in their mouths, arranged the knives and forks neatly, and then picked up the knives and forks one by one, and ate the mooncakes under the blood-colored moonlight like mice.

If you didn't know, you would think they were eating people!

Qian Chen also didn't want to look! A good Mid-Autumn Festival, how did it become like this?

The blood-colored moonlight silently transformed their spirituality. The mysterious power of mooncakes and osmanthus wine gradually merged into their bloodlines. At this moment, besides Gable taking another step on the path of transcendents and touching the threshold of the Baptized, Quinn and Elijah also finally had their spirituality fulfilled and could open the Ouroboros Gate!

Gable led them to the alchemy array that had been set up long ago and began to guide them to open the gate of yin and yang circulation.

And Qian Chen gazed into the distance, at the Wisdom Zhong Lou that was becoming more and more strange in the moonlight...

The old wizard of the Tower of Omniscience was trying his best to stop Anderson and the others from stepping into the clock tower. He wore a professor's robe from the Fourth Epoch, leaned on a secret silver long staff, blocked the princess and Anderson, and said: "Night Watchers, without the resolution of the Board of Trustees, you cannot search here!"

Anderson looked at the moon in the middle of the sky, and the blood-red moonlight spilled over the earth. He was getting more and more anxious, but had to suppress his temper and said: "Professor Nicholas!"

The princess said solemnly: "We don't have time!"

She pulled out the two-handed sword at her waist, held it flat in front of her chest, and said loudly: "I, as the Princess of Camelot, Knight Gawain of the Round Table Knights, Supervisor of the Night Watchers, Donor of Miskatonic University, Honorary Member of the Board of Trustees, and the bloodline of the Red Dragon, the Keeper of Secrets, order you... give way and assist us in investigating the remnants of the Original Sin Sect!"

"Otherwise, you will be an enemy of the Camelot royal family!"

The old wizard saw this and could only lean on his long staff, slowly kneeling on one knee, and said: "I respect your order, Princess! But please don't let your people disturb our students..."

At this moment, a *da* sound suddenly came from the clock tower.

This slight machine sound made several people look up, only to see the long second hand on the clock tower overhead, which seemed to jump a grid.

*Da! *

This time, everyone saw it!

The pointer of the Wisdom Clock jumped a grid again. The big clock, which had been damaged for thirty years, with most of the machine springs behind it damaged, and even the Royal Mechanical Association could not repair it, turned again. In the shocked eyes of the wizards of the Tower of Omniscience, the second hand slowly jumped over the second half of the circle. This time the minute hand also began to move!

The princess looked cold, pointed at the clock tower and said: "Why would it move?"

The Great Wizard was at a loss: "I... I don't know. Without the eternal movement and planetary gears, it is impossible to let the machine anchor the operation of the stars in the star realm. Without the Balancer, the power of the Abyss and the Spirit Realm cannot be orderly balanced. In the midst of chaos, it is even more impossible for concepts like 'time' to exist!"

"The clock is just a manifestation of the order of the Wisdom Clock!"

"Its essence is to anchor the Hours in the chaos of the Spirit Realm, and then apply the order of the present world to the Spirit Realm... The planetary gears correspond to the operation of the stars, and the eternal movement steals the great power of the Hours."

"Therefore, under the influence of the Wisdom Clock, the Spirit Realm and the Abyss have 'time sequence'!"

The Great Wizard grabbed the sparse hair on his head, looked at the time displayed by the Wisdom Clock, and said in despair: "The time is right! The essence of the Wisdom Clock is an incomparably powerful secret ritual. By borrowing the power of the twelve Hours, with the stars as anchor points, it combs and determines 'time'. Now all anchor points have been broken, and the eternal movement containing the power of the Hours has also been destroyed. So, what exactly is defining time?"

"Whose power can compare to the Hours and the stars?"

"The Hours are not gods. The power of all gods cannot be compared with them at all... They even transcend the world itself. Everything in front of them is as small as ants. The so-called Savior is just a ridiculous mortal who wants to stain the brilliance of the Hours!"

He suddenly lifted his head, looked at the blood moon in the sky, and suddenly whispered: "It's the Hours!"

"Only the Hours themselves can match the power of the Hours..."

The Great Wizard suddenly understood. No need for stars, no need for the anchoring of the Hours, only the Hours themselves, which symbolize the power of time sequence, can continue to operate this secret ritual when the underlying logic of the secret ritual has completely collapsed and does not exist.

Because the essence of the Wisdom Clock secret ritual is—anchoring time sequence! ===== CHAPTER 900 =====