CHAPTER 420: CHAPTER 285: MILLENNIUM BLOOD SACRIFICE, NINEFOLD NINE DEMONS TOWER

Gong Jiu and the others couldn’t help but wish they could hang up the person who designed the ancient mechanism and whip them a thousand times, but the exploding underground water vein still surged up a fierce torrent...

Splash!

In the blink of an eye, a fountain over ten meters high burst forth—with a roar!

Gong Jiu and the others, fast though they were, couldn’t fly and were utterly smacked by the wild wave...

Dizzy and disoriented, they followed the tumultuous waves...

Water, so much water, spewing out like the spectacular scene of water flooding the Lei Feng Pagoda in mythological novels, and amidst the turmoil, Professor Ye and the others suddenly saw the ancient city... sinking.

If the Divine Temple Tower was the central core of this ancient city, controlling its fate, did its disappearance also mean that the ancient city, standing for countless years with numerous hidden secrets, was finally stepping toward destruction?

All because of the incident at the Divine Temple Tower...

Ye Changan suddenly noticed the ripples formed by the water...

"Oh no, there’s suction in this hole!"

Uncontrollably sucked downwards by the waves, Gong Jiu and the others suddenly thought of the Black Water River...

Quicksand, storm, suction, ancient city...

A principle passed down!

It was fundamentally a systematic chain design!

In an instant, Gong Jiu fiercely pulled out a map hidden in her clothing!

Kicking her legs, she held the map over her head to look.

Her memory wasn’t that good, but she remembered there was a mark on it...

A whirlpool!

The position where the Divine Temple Tower had appeared had a whirlpool!

Right behind the original Heavenly Plate of the mechanism...

That is, where the Divine Temple Tower had now disappeared...

"Anyway, Sui Yi is down there, let’s go!"

Seeing this, Gong Jiu and Flower Demon also gave it their all!

The map was worth the effort, as was not easily abandoning Sui Yi!

They also bet on the dangers of this region, even if they didn’t enter the vortex... how would they leave this place?

Food was already scarce, ammunition and the like had also run out, they were trapped in this desert!

And the instruments they had previously used to fix their location couldn’t even find the coordinates of this place! Sending out their position for rescue was almost hopeless...

So...

Gurgle!

They resolutely rushed towards the vortex with the water flow...

Below the vortex... it was like an abyss, completely covered by the water flow.

The sinking Divine Temple Tower emitted gurgling bubbles, and Anayi and the others finally swam out from the tower top and the ground floor gate, but couldn’t swim up due to the terrible underground suction!

Damn it!

Old Goat Monster and the others were extremely frustrated, and underwater... they couldn’t last much longer; the deeper they went, the more dangerous it was. If they reached deep into the earth’s veins... they would undoubtedly die!

But just as they were desperately trying to swim up, they saw several shadows swimming down from above!

They were courting death!

It was surprisingly Gong Jiu and Flower Demon at the forefront, frantically swimming towards the rapidly falling Divine Temple Tower...

To Wei Feng and the others, this was inconceivable...

Were they crazy?

But on second thought...

Sui Yi’s group had a map!

Wei Feng’s eyes flashed, and he decisively followed the two...

The others weren’t foolish either, knowing that Gong Jiu and her group had the map, so they immediately followed, assuming they knew something...

"A bunch of lunatics! I have no idea what’s down there... but it’s good that they came, we’ll die together!"

Gong Jiu and her companion were calculating rapidly, a strange smile appearing on their faces.

...

The crowd plunged toward the vortex below, where they could see light...

Golden light!

It emanated from the top of the Divine Temple Tower.

It was like a guiding light of hope...

Perhaps, they were heading toward another world, a dazzling world.

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Actually, not much later, since the underwater breathing limit of Gong Jiu and the others was not even half reached, the Divine Temple Tower suddenly rotated.

Eh?

What’s going on?

The vertically falling Divine Temple Tower rotated 180 degrees... entering a pitch-dark opening on the side...

Because of the water flow’s direction!

There was a passage!

Outside, Sui Yi in the Blood Pool inside the tower had no idea of any of this; she was completely immersed in a glittering golden world... her body completely out of her control.

But she recognized this feeling... it was familiar.

She had experienced it twice.

Those mirror fragments!

She had obtained two pieces before, but this time... it was a whole mirror, as if a tangible mysterious power had entered her body with greater intensity.

Inheritance, memory, power, all invaded her world in various forms of ionic factors.

In the chaos, she seemed to have arrived over a bustling and magnificent imperial capital, watching the busy flow of people below.

This imperial capital, vast and immense, made a thousand, ten thousand Forbidden Cities seem humble, with not the scenes portrayed in TV dramas... the people, ordinary and simple.

But among them were many bearing swords, their shadows darting rapidly...

The horses, strikingly beautiful like in a myth, and large birds flew across the sky...

The people’s attire on the streets was splendid and elegant, like a fairyland.

The store was extremely high-end, a feast for the eyes.

The civilization of this capital city completely defied history.

Such a civilization was too vibrant, too intense!

It had reached a pinnacle of prosperity!

She felt so unfamiliar, yet there was a vague sense of familiarity...

With a trace of doubt, a moment’s haziness, her gaze suddenly got pulled into another isolated world where the heavens and Cangwu were devoid of the previous prosperity, the vast capital...empty of people.

Only a solitary, elegant, and secluded temple stood tall.

A bronze incense burner smoked faintly, and a person kneeled on the white jade floor, his hands hanging by his sides, head touching the ground.

"Imperial Crown, not destined by heaven, but it’s up to you whether you want to go against the current. That person, the people under the heavens... I am too sorry for you...all of us are willing to follow you and strike against his realm! To slaughter these heartless and unrighteous people!"

That person, the people under the heavens, burdening you...the person kneeling on the ground voiced his grief and anger, his chest filled with resentment and pain.

The window veil was hazy, and behind it, a silhouette appeared dimly through the glazed light...

There was silence for a moment, then a light sigh.

"Loulan, my life has reached its end, it’s not about the people under the heavens... nor does it concern others... it’s heaven that cannot tolerate me."

"A millennium for a blood sacrifice, Ninefold Nine Demons Tower... if my fate is fortunate, Cangwu unbroken, we might meet again. If not, then let it be,"

"I am tired."

"I am tired," these three words, no longer carrying the supreme respect of ’I’, simple and straightforward, coming from the depth of the soul...

The person on the ground finally choked with sobs.

The person behind the window veil...disappeared.

The world was desolate, the Divine Capital ravaged, and he just continued kneeling there...

He knelt for many, many, many years...

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Gurgling, Sui Yi suddenly came to, regaining consciousness. By that time, the blood pool beside her had dried up, and she was sitting against the cold bottom of the pool, leaning on something rigid and cold...

She turned her face and saw the Blood Jade Coffin.

Now only the Blood Jade Coffin remained, with no blood water, nothing else... not even water remained.

"This is..." Sui Yi shook her head, noticing that her wounds were still there.

This was indeed different from the previous transformations. In the past two transformations, her constitution had dramatically improved, and her wounds had healed, but now...

Perhaps what happened before was an illusion, not a mystical lens after all...

Remembering what she had seen before, Sui Yi couldn’t help but sit cross-legged for a while, quietly reflecting...

The person kneeling on the ground...named Loulan.

He must be the Progenitor of the Ancient City of Loulan, and also the progenitor of this clan. The person he revered was evidently an ancient figure...

It seemed like a great disaster was looming...

Later... he presumably died, and Loulan then established the Loulan Clan~~

A millennium for a blood sacrifice...Ninefold Nine Demons Tower... nine thousand years? These words originally came from that person’s mouth.

Does her death require nine thousand years? Or a millennium?

"Nine Demons Tower~~ this blood coffin... Could it be Loulan himself? Or the person he served, the Imperial Crown... I have heard of this term before,"

Sui Yi thought of the High Priest... inevitably, she was reminded of the face on the Jade Bi in the Ye family’s palace under the ancient tomb...

After pressing slightly on her temples, she stood up.

As soon as she stood, she felt something unusual.

Deep within her mind, a secret technique surfaced.

"Crimson Refining Blood"?

A fragmented Chapter, the first Chapter; the cover was almost unreadable, blurry, but it was evident what the first Chapter was about.

Was this a fragmented legacy memory?

Sui Yi started, then slightly furrowed her brow, putting aside the secret technique for a moment to look around the Jade Pavilion.

The Blood Jade glass was clear enough to see someone inside, but not clearly enough.

She lightly touched it with her finger, feeling its chill.

For some reason, Sui Yi did not want to use Magnetic Sensation to probe the presence of this person.

Perhaps it was due to a vague reluctance in her heart, or a faint melancholy.

Towards that Loulan, or towards the person behind the temple’s window veil.

Let it be that I cherish my remaining Magnetic Sensation.

She sighed softly, stepped back, and sat down cross-legged on the ground.

Since this encounter had given her this bizarre and mysterious secret technique, she naturally wouldn’t refuse...

She was indeed somewhat weakened.

At least she was still not able to contend with the Old Goat Monster and others.

She opened the "Crimson Refining Blood" Chapter, and upon the first glance, Sui Yi was startled...

"Crimson Blood for body refinement, respecting all creatures under the heavens, dominating thousands of ancient wilds, those not of my clan shall perish upon contact."

The opening statement was overwhelmingly majestic, causing a slight stirring of excitement mixed with suspicion in Sui Yi.

...Crimson Blood Refinement...

Quite intriguing.

But it seemed there was a requirement... not of my clan?

Sui Yi chuckled bitterly, deciding to not worry about it. Her nature was always spontaneous; if she felt like cultivating, she would just do it. Life and death were secondary...

A single thought to cultivate!

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Time trickled by, approximately an hour later.

Sui Yi opened her eyes, a drop of black blood forming on the tips of her index fingers of both hands...she flicked it lightly to the ground.

Her eyes were sharply restrained.

She pressed her palm on the ground, and snap!

The ground where her palm touched indented to a just-right depth.

It did not crack further because she had reached a mastery of power control.

"Just the beginning of practice, and within an hour, I have expelled the impurities within my body, making my Inner Strength twice as pure, and my Magnetic Sensation also enhanced by more than double. Under this increase, it compares to the Hundred-Year Inner Strength..." (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you’re welcome to vote for it at qidian.com, your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)