North of the city, Black Mountain.
Zhou Qi finally saw the whole mountain clearly.
The mountain is thousands of feet high and is as black as ink. There is no grass growing on the mountain, only jagged and strange rocks stacked on top of each other. From a distance, it looks like a ferocious beast crawling on the ground.
At the foot of the mountain, a huge circular altar has been built.
The entire altar is made of white boulders, about ten feet high, and divided into nine floors.
The edges of each layer are covered with bright yellow flags, and various mysterious runes are embroidered on the flags.
Around the altar, tens of thousands of people have gathered, and there is a huge crowd and a buzz of people.
Zhou Qi mingled on the edge of the crowd, found a high ground to stand, and looked above the altar.
At the top of the altar, a completely black Square Tripod stands majestically.
The tripod is a hundred feet high and more than a hundred feet wide.
The entire body is carved from an unknown black boulder, and its surface is covered with densely engraved patterns, which are exactly the same as those Zhou Qi saw in Imperial City.
The entire altar was built for this tripod.
The nine-story white stone platform gathered up layer by layer like a staircase, and finally converged under the foot of the tripod, guarding the black tripod high in the center.
Zhou Qi's eyes narrowed slightly.
There's something wrong with that cauldron.
At this moment, drums and drums suddenly sounded from the north of the city.
The crowd instantly became quiet, and everyone craned their necks to look in the same direction.
Zhou Qi also followed everyone's gaze and looked over.
I saw a group of chariots slowly approaching.
The first to clear the way were hundreds of golden-armored cavalry, all with Golden Core Completion cultivation and fierce momentum.
Following closely behind were dozens of court monks in green robes, each holding a bright yellow formation flag and chanting something while walking.
But Zhou Qi's eyes were immediately attracted by a figure at the front of the chariot.
It was a middle-aged man wearing a dark blue monk's robe, standing on the chariot shaft with his hands behind his hands, his clothes not moving at all in the breeze brought by the drum music.
His face was pale, his eye sockets were slightly sunken, his cheekbones were high, and his whole person exuded an indescribable cold temperament.
The moment Zhou Qi saw this person clearly, a system prompt sounded without warning:
[Character: Chen Youliang]
[Realm: Mahayana Realm third floor]
Zhou Qi narrowed his eyes slightly.
Chen Youliang? Mahayana Realm three layers?
Primordial Immortal Sect Apart from the sect leader, his only Dharmakaya is Mahayana Realm, and he dares to impersonate him!
Sure enough, there is something fishy.
Zhou Qi snorted in his heart and held his right hand towards his waist Curved Saber.
Mahayana Realm has three layers, which is almost the same strength as Rainbow Daoist.
But he has already stepped into Grand Completion of Body Integration. With his current state, even if he resists head-on, he may not be able to fight back.
At this moment, Zhou Qi suddenly felt a warmth in his arms.
He immediately reached into his arms and found the Hidden-Heaven Dao Pearl.
Before he could think about it, the warmth quickly turned into a strong agitation, as if something was calling it frantically, struggling to fly out of his arms and rushing in the direction of Chen Youliang.
At the same time, Chen Youliang on the shaft clearly noticed something.
He frowned and took out a black bead from his arms.
The dark light was flowing on the surface of the black bead, and it was also trembling violently at this moment. It was also struggling desperately in the direction of Zhou Qi, as eager as a living thing.
Chen Youliang slowly raised his head, his gaze penetrated the crowd like cold electricity and landed on Zhou Qi with great precision.
The two looked at each other.
Chen Youliang stared at him, a trace of surprise first flashed in his eyes, and then turned into a serious murderous intention.
Zhou Qi held the handle of the knife in his hand, his expression remained calm, but a turbulent wave flashed in his heart.
Heaven-Escaping Pavilion people!
A chilling aura quickly flashed between the two of them.
But neither of them moved.
Chen Youliang took a deep look at Zhou Qi, then withdrew his gaze and restrained his murderous intent.
He put the black beads into his arms again and continued to sit on the chariot and rushed to the altar.
Zhou Qi also looked away slightly, becoming more and more certain in his heart that this Cloud Marsh Kingdom water was deeper than he thought.
Looking back again, there was a person sitting behind the chariot.
The man was wearing a bright yellow five-dragon gold robe and a nine-pointed crown on his head. His face was unreal, and his whole body was shrouded in a faint layer of purple qi.
He is the leader of the country, but... he is an empty shell!
There is no heartbeat, no breathing, just a humanoid skin wearing a dragon robe.
Zhou Qi A sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.
He is indeed a puppet.
He no longer tried to hide it, and held the handle of the knife tightly, just waiting to see how the play would go next.
And just as the chariot was driving towards the altar, Chen Youliang had already jumped onto the altar and walked step by step to the stone platform directly in front of Square Tripod.
He didn't even look at the puppet of the king sitting in the chariot. He just sat cross-legged and made Law Seals with his hands.
Every time Law Seals falls, a black light hits the stone platform at the bottom of Square Tripod.
Square Tripod suddenly trembled, and dense black lines lit up on the surface of the tripod, spreading all the way up from the tripod's feet, like vines covering the entire tripod.
The next moment, the giant 100-foot cauldron rose slowly, 100 feet above the ground, and hung in the sky directly above the altar.
The huge cauldron was completely black, blocking out the skylight, like a black mountain hanging upside down, making the entire altar darken.
Chen Youliang Make a seal with your hands and mutter something in your mouth.
The bright yellow flags surrounding the altar automatically turned on in the wind, and the runes on the flags lit up one after another.
The next moment, the sky suddenly darkened.
There was no warning.
One moment it was a clear sky, and the next moment large swathes of dark clouds rolled in from all directions, completely covering the entire sky.
The wind stopped and the drumming also stopped.
Hundreds of thousands of people raised their heads and stared blankly at the suddenly darkening sky.
"What's going on? Why is it so dark?"
"It was fine just now, why did it suddenly become cloudy?"
"Is it going to rain?"
There was gradually a buzzing discussion among the crowd, which was a bit uneasy.
Zhou Qi frowned slightly, looking at the aura in the air that something was wrong.
Deep in the clouds, a black light was constantly swimming.
On the altar, the Square Tripod above Chen Youliang rotated slowly, and countless rays of black light spread in all directions like snakes, connecting with the runes on the nine-layer flag of the altar one by one.
His face turned slightly pale and veins appeared on his forehead.
But the corner of his mouth slowly turned into an almost maniacal smile.
At this moment, Black Mountain moved.
The ground beneath my feet shook violently, followed by a low roar that sounded like it came from the depths of the earth.
The sound was extremely dull, with a certain scalp-numbing rhythm, like a giant beast turning over.
"Boom--"
The jagged rocks on Black Mountain began to shake violently, and large pieces of gravel peeled off from the mountain, rolling down the steep mountain wall and smashing into the crowd of people at the foot of the mountain.
"Ah...!"
"Stone! The stone fell!"
"Run quickly!!"
Screams and exclamations came and went.
The people ran away from Black Mountain, but as soon as they took a few steps, they seemed to have hit an invisible wall and stumbled to the ground.
Zhou Qi's eyelids twitched when he saw it, and he already felt a little uneasy in his heart.
On the altar, Chen Youliang still maintained the posture of lifting Square Tripod, his face was pale, but he clenched his teeth to hold on.
At this moment, the top of the Black Mountain mountain suddenly exploded.
"Boom--!!!"
Countless black rubble rose into the sky and disintegrated like rain under the dark clouds.
A black figure boldly emerged from the exploded mountain top.
The thing was so fast that it disappeared into the surging dark clouds above its head almost the moment it appeared.
Zhou Qi I can only feel the blur in front of my eyes.
Black light shot into the sky, creating a violent wave of air.
The whole world seemed to be darkened by three points at this moment.
"What... what is this?"
"What flew up just now?"
"Monster! It must be a monster!"
A trembling exclamation arose from the crowd.
At this time, Zhou Qi's heart was already ringing with alarm bells!
A strong sense of crisis has poured into his limbs like a cold wave.
That feeling was a hundred times stronger than when I faced Rainbow Daoist in front of the Primordial Immortal Sect mountain gate, or even when I faced Huang Jiyuan at Xihe Imperial Capital.