Xianlu

Chapter 170 Jade Hook Token of Gathering Formation
Xu Dao looked at the mirage rushing towards him, and his mind was shaken instantly. He recognized the direction, and after confirming that the mirage would pass by his hiding place, he immediately rushed out from behind the fish bone that was covering it, and slipped aside.

Fortunately, the mirage dragon moves slowly, and the distance of more than 100 feet is completely enough for Xu Dao to avoid it.

While Xu Dao was avoiding the mirage, the five Shezhao Taoists who were still alive on the altar were also hiding in the corners of the Dragon Palace, avoiding the mirage.

Slowly, the body of Mirage Jiao was dragged out of the mist, and the whole body appeared in the eyes of the five disciples and Xu Dao.

Its body is hundreds of feet long, its body is almost as wide as its head, its abdomen is attached to its claws, and it has a long and slender pointed tail, like a four-legged snake.

The whole body of the mirage is covered with dark red scales, which are extremely hard at first glance.But the scales on its body are the same as the ones on its head, they have fallen off a lot, exposing the large and small sores underneath, with granulation growing inside, which is very terrifying.

The dragon came out of the mist completely, and the stench at the scene became more intense. Xu Dao stood aside, watching the dragon slowly pass by his side, and gradually felt his body become greasy, as if hanging Like disgusting slime.

At the same time, the billowing mist spread around the surrounding area to a greater extent as the mirage flooded in, submerging the entire altar.

It swam towards the direction where Xu Dao and the others came, from near to far, entrenched in front of every palace, then shook its head, poked its mouthparts into the gate of the palace, wriggled its neck, and after a while All the living creatures in the temple were swallowed into their stomachs, or caught on their bodies, and embedded in their bodies.

In just one or two palaces, there are four or five times as many human heads moving on the surface of the mirage dragon, densely packed, all shaking constantly, extremely frightening!

In this way, in the eyes of Xu Dao and others, mirages kept poking their heads into palaces and palaces, as if they were opening food boxes one after another, easily getting food from them.

As more and more people were preyed on by the mirage, there was a roar gradually echoing in the Dragon Palace, but this was not the roar of the mirage, but the roar of the human hair growing on it.

The heads of densely packed people shook.

"Ahhh!" Painful wailing echoed around, even though Xu Dao had practiced for many years and had seen many scenes, he was still dazed by it.

It's not about compassion, it's really the feeling of panic born of the rabbit's death and the fox's grief.

Fortunately, even though he was astonished at the scene of mirages traveling, Xu Dao still focused his three-point attention on the five living Taoists of Shezhao, and there were gnats following them around, paying attention to the behavior of the five people. Every move.

With the mirage dragon's body two or three hundred feet long, it gradually drove past the altar, and it completely submerged in the palace complex. There was emptiness behind the mirage dragon, revealing a path.

The five Taoists of Shezhao had gathered together a long time ago. After discussing for a while, they immediately flickered and ran towards the direction where the mirage came out.

"There must be something important over there." Xu Dao's heart moved, he didn't think too much, let the gnats released in advance to explore the way, and then he chased after him personally, hanging tightly on the five Taoist disciples body.

Passing through a thick fog, possibly due to the departure of the mirage, the fog in the deeper part of the Dragon Palace became thinner, which greatly improved the visibility, and the scene inside appeared clearly in the eyes of everyone.

A piece of buildings was in ruins, far more dilapidated than the palaces they had seen when they came, almost no house was standing, the whole was in ruins.

There are traces of huge snake-shaped sliding in the ruins, and a series of corridors are pressed out, criss-crossing, and there are more dense and various bones scattered on it, many of which have been crushed into slag, or even crushed into powder.

At this moment, Xu Dao also instantly understood why the altar where they were just now was covered with a finger-thick bone powder.

It turned out that when the mirage was traveling, its body impacted, and the bone meal brought out from the ruins splashed and fell on the altar, forming a thick layer.

In the ruins, the five disciples of Shezhao hunched over. They did not use spells, nor did they release Gu worms and beasts, but walked among the ruins with their feet.

Its speed is not slow, scrambling to be the first, rushing directly to the center of the ruins.

Xu Daoyao trailed behind them, because the ruins were uneven, as if giants had wrestled and fought here, and there were holes everywhere, so he could easily hide his body from the people in front of him.

As for the goal of the five Shezhao disciples coming straight all the way, Xu Dao just glanced ahead and immediately understood.

Because in the center of the ruins stands a slanting minaret, with a corner on the top of the tower, tens of feet high, and three pillars below it, which are submerged into the ground of the Dragon Palace.

The whole body of the minaret looks like a huge broken three-pronged fork, inserted obliquely in the Dragon Palace. Its surface is rusty, but it still emits a kind of metallic cold light, which brings a sense of horror.

Xu Dao glanced over and subconsciously regarded the mottled marks on the surface of the steeple as bloodstains, but even after identifying them for a long time, he still didn't know whether these dark red things were rust or dried blood.

March silently.

The Dragon Palace is large, and the bone forest ruins are more than a thousand feet wide, but Xu Dao and others hurried on their way, and this distance was crossed in a short time.

Xu Dao watched the five disciples approaching the steeple, but did not go in directly. He also stopped in time and looked from afar.

It turned out that it wasn't that the five Shezhao Taoists didn't want to approach the steeple, but that the tower was surrounded by a strange black film, which was gloomy and blocked their footsteps.

Xu Dao walked in quietly, clenched the breath-holding jade hook in his hand, and restrained his energy. He listened, and suddenly heard cursing from ahead.

"Damn it! Not only is there evil spirit here, but the evil spirit has formed a membrane. Wrap this thing, what can I do?"

A murmur of discussion sounded, and the five people paced back and forth in front of the steeple, looking impatient.

Hearing their discussion, Xu Dao looked at it, and said in surprise, "This is evil spirit!"

Looking carefully, he noticed that although the surface of the minaret was mottled, there was still gray light flowing and wriggling on it. It should be that a formation was arranged and the formation was still in operation.

"Don't be angry! The formation here is not something you and I can do anything about, and the elders can't do anything about it."

"Exactly! This formation is arranged on the spiritual veins, and it is full of evil spirits. One is positive and the other is reversed. It is easy to be indestructible. Otherwise, if the two collide, the entire spiritual vein will be polluted if you are not careful. The elders dare not touch it." it."

Someone sneered and said: "Hey! Isn't this the Dragon Palace? How could there be such a gathering evil formation? It's so vicious!"

Xu Dao listened to the conversation of several people, and found that in the other party's mouth, the formation on the steeple was impressively similar to the evil gathering formation he had seen in Guo's ancestral hall, it was a formation for one party to gather evil spirits.

This array falls in the center of the entire Dragon Palace, inserted on the dragon veins of Sheshan, driven by the continuous spiritual energy in the dragon veins, it can capture all the evil spirits within a hundred miles, accumulate them around the steeple, and even form a black membrane, covering the entire minaret.

"I don't know how many years these evil spirits have accumulated, and what kind of evil spirits they are, but it should be more than enough for one or two Taoist priests to condense their evil spirits... I think that once it is completely released, the entire Dragon Palace and even the dark lake will be completely polluted. If it is lost, the Sheshan Spiritual Veins may also be destroyed."

Xu Dao thought for a while, and understood why the five Shezhao Taoists in front of him showed troublesome expressions on their faces.

At the same time, he also pondered: "It's no wonder that there is no evil spirit in the Longmai evil cave, but there are traces of evil spirit in the lake water, and the closer to the bottom of the lake, the more obvious the traces of existence."

Listening to the previous conversation, he sorted it out: "I thought that the place where the Dragon Palace was established was the real dragon vein evil acupoint, but I didn't expect that this place is actually an auspicious acupoint, but it is arranged to gather evil spirits. "

Suddenly, Xu Dao felt that his various experiences in the underground dark lake could be linked together to form clues.

But after all, there was still some information missing, which made him unable to determine what the Shezhao Taoist priests were plotting, and what was so strange about this Dragon Palace.

After waiting for a long time, the five Shezhao Taoist disciples stood in front of the steeple, and suddenly began to turn their heads again and again, looking in the direction they came from.

This surprised Xu Dao, thinking that the other party had discovered him, he quickly hid himself and held his breath.Fortunately, taking a closer look at the appearance of several people, the other party seemed to be anxiously waiting for something.

So Xu Dao also turned his head repeatedly, looking at the direction he came from, the palace complex that was being ravaged by mirages.

Suddenly, he widened his eyes, watching a black air rising in the distance, and then whized over, submerging into the iron spire in the center of the Dragon Palace.

Immediately afterwards, black air continuously flew over from a distance and sank into the steeple.

Xu Dao looked at the scene in front of him with a serious face, and thought: "This is resentment..."

The black air was moving, and he could faintly hear mournful cries, like a magic sound, which can disturb people's minds and make them terrified.

These black qi are exactly the resentment qi produced when living things die tragically.

I don't know what the five Shezhao disciples did. The continuous resentment was absorbed and absorbed by the formation on the steeple, and melted into it, causing the black membrane on the tower to shake for a while, and the gray light shook!

The surrounding skeletons also began to emit gray gas, and flew to the steeple with a hiss.

This gray gas is exactly the cold and gloomy atmosphere accumulated after the corpses have been piled up for a long time.

Xu Dao looked around, thoughts tumbling in his mind, and an idea popped up:
"Is this place a place to raise corpses?"

hum!As the minaret shone with gray light, there was a burst of laughter in front of the tower: "Hahaha!"

"The calculations of the elders are indeed correct. The accumulated resentment caused by the tragic death of 10 people is enough to turn this place upside down!"

"Jie! Exactly. Right now, the formation has taken in too much resentment and has become disordered. It is time for us to quickly work together to pry open the formation, so that we can completely pull out this nail for my Sheshan Spirit Vein!"

Someone breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Hurry up, you'll be at ease once you get inside, maybe there's a baby!"

Laughter sounded, and the five Shezhao Taoists nodded to each other, then sat cross-legged around the minaret, each raised something in their hands, and then began to chant the formula.

Huge mana rose from them, formed into a formation, and then poured it all into the minaret.

Xu Dao watched cautiously, he was not sure what to do for a while, he thought over and over again, just took a few steps forward, and got closer to the five Shezhao Taoist disciples.

After approaching, his footsteps stopped, and his eyes suddenly became strange.Because the distance was getting closer, he saw the things that the Taoists were holding in their hands.

They are all pieces of jade, hook-shaped, plain and unremarkable, and they all look the same.

In this way, the jade hook fell into the hands of Taoist Shezhao, shining with light, as if it had a relationship with the minaret in front of him.

Xu Dao was surprised because he happened to have a similar thing in his hand, and it looked like the quality was far better than those held by those five people!
On the opposite side, the five Shezhao Taoists sitting cross-legged, the jade hooks in their hands were washed by true energy, and cracks had already cracked on the surface, as if they were about to shatter into dross in the next moment.

Xu Dao stood still, spread out his hands, and looked at the breath-holding jade hook in his palm, his eyes were strange for a moment.

This object is exactly what he got from the coffin of the Patriarch of Shezhao Shao in the Baimaofeng Grotto, and it is said to be a token of the patriarch.

Whoosh!

Suddenly there was a dark wind blowing all around, ghosts were crying and wolves were howling, Xu Dao was startled and quickly came back to his senses.

I saw that the black membrane on the spire was opened by five Shezhao Taoists, and a black iron portal appeared.

This portal is one foot tall and simple in style, with strange patterns engraved on it, and it is still wriggling and walking like a living thing.

But at the same time, gusts of evil wind formed around the body of the tower, and began to violently blow around the tower, destroying everything and growing from small to large.

A lot of white bones and corpses were blown by the evil spirit, instantly corroded and ground into powder.

The five Shezhao Taoists who were casting the spell were also affected. They screamed, and the sinister wind blew off pieces of flesh and blood on the five of them, and began to defile their flesh.

Horrified, Xu Dao grasped the jade hook and thought of fleeing from here quickly.But the roar of Taoist Shezhao made him stop in his tracks.

After being hit by the evil spirit, the five Taoist disciples managed to save their lives because the evil spirit was not yet strong, and then all of them suddenly got up and rushed towards the steeple.

One of them held a jade hook in his hand and immediately inserted it into the lock key of the iron door, but with a crack, the jade hook in this person's hand broke and turned into powder.

The exclamation sounded: "Damn! The door can't be opened!"

"I'm coming!" Another disciple rushed forward, trying to open the gate, but the jade hook in his hand broke again.

Five people stepped forward one after another, and all the jade hooks that looked like keys in their hands were broken off and turned into powder.

The five jade hooks were broken into slag, and the faces of the few people who had been hit by the evil spirit became even more ashen and sad.

"This is different from what the elders explained!"

"What should we do? When the evil spirit is released, the entire Dragon Palace will be submerged by the evil spirit. At that time, we will die!"

Someone complained: "The elder hurt me! Killed me!"

And Xu Dao peeked at the scene in front of him. He held the jade hook, looked at the ever-expanding evil wind, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

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(End of this chapter)