Qin Tiexin was woken up by a sticky warm feeling.
When he opened his eyes, his head was still buzzing, and everything in front of him was shaking. He shook his head vigorously, and his vision gradually focused.
The light was very dark, with an uneven rock dome above his head and rough stone walls that had not been polished in any way. Several places on the cave walls were inlaid with glowing fluorite, and the light was dim and weak, barely allowing him to see the surrounding environment clearly. The air was filled with a strong smell of sweetness and rust, which mixed together made people breathless.
This is an underground cave. He is located in a sunken pool in the center of the cave. The pool is about three feet in diameter. The edge of the pool is covered with dense Spirit Pattern Circuit, and dark red light slowly flows in Spirit Rune.
The pool water is dark red, not as viscous as water, but more like some kind of thick slurry. The temperature is not low. After soaking in it for a long time, there is an abnormal warmth on the skin.
He looked down at his right hand and saw that the storage ring was gone. He touched his waist and found that the Storage Bag was gone. The fluttering Edgeless on his back was not there either. All the Law Artifact, talismans, and elixirs were all confiscated.
Then he smelled the smell. It was not the sweet smell of the pool water, but a deeper, more primitive fishy smell. He lowered his head and looked at the pool of dark red liquid he was soaking in. This was not water.
This is a pool of blood.
He is soaking in a pool of hot blood.
Qin Tiexin closed his eyes, sinking his consciousness into his body, and quickly checked his physical condition.
The situation is not good.
The spiritual energy in the meridians was sealed by a dark red force, like a sticky sludge blocking the exits of every spiritual energy cyclone. There was a sense of soreness in the limbs, and the strength in the muscles was still there, but it seemed that it had been diluted from the inside. When the fists were clenched, one could feel the tendons contracting normally, but the explosive power was far less than usual. He estimated that the strength he could exert now was less than 10% of what he was at his peak.
The voices of other people were heard nearby.
"Where is this?"
"Is anyone there?"
"Where is my weapon? Where is Storage Bag?"
Some people were shouting, some tried to stand up and then fell back into the pool, and some were patting the pool wall and touching up. The blood pool was not big, with a radius of three feet, but it was crowded with countless people. The pool water was stirred up by the commotion of the crowd, and the sticky blood waves hit Qin Tiexin's chest, making the heat a little higher than before.
He never heard the voice of Duan Xuan.
"My spiritual power is blocked!"
"I have no strength left. My whole body is as soft as cotton. Isn't it because I was crippled?"
"Who did it? If you have the ability, come out and say something!"
At this moment, a voice came from above. It was young, sinister, and far away, but the dome of the cave reflected the sound and reverberated everywhere.
"Be quiet. Enjoy your last moments. You should be grateful to be my master's nourishment."
After the words fell, several medicinal herbs with flowing auras were thrown down from above, followed by several huge black shadows smashed into the pool. The fishy smell exploded, and blood splashed on Qin Tiexin's face. Those were the corpses of several Demon Beasts. Not long after they died, blood was pouring into the pool from the broken limbs. Qin Tiexin felt that the temperature of the blood pool beneath him had increased a bit, and the light of Spirit Rune on the edge of the pool wall was also a little brighter.
Someone shouted loudly in the pool, "Do you know who I am? I am from Cangwu Mountain Guo Household! This is against the entire righteous path!"
"Let us out!"
"My master is the master of Clear Wind Temple. If you kill me, he will definitely find you!"
The footsteps above walked away little by little, without any response.
The yelling and cursing in the pool continued for a while, and then gradually quieted down. It was either that they had resigned themselves to their fate, or that they found that cursing was useless.
"Fellow Daoists." A voice came from the left side of the blood pool. It was smooth, neither impatient nor impatient, and was very recognizable among the noisy gasps and whispers. "Golden Body Sect Ge Qing, please listen to me."
The pool was quiet for a moment.
"It's Senior Brother Ge! Ge Qing of the Golden Body Sect!"
"Senior Brother Ge, tell us and we will listen."
Ge Qing's voice sounded again, "We are locked up here by a certain monk, and I don't know what kind of ritual it will be used for. I am a cultivator, and if I die, I will die, but the news must be spread, and I can't die in an unknown way."
"That's right!"
"Senior Brother Ge is right!"
Qin Tiexin glanced in that direction. Only a rough outline could be seen in the darkness, with broad shoulders, a thick neck, and the standard Body Refining monk body shape.
"Let me tell you an idea." Ge Qing continued, "Everyone should be like me. Storage Bag and Law Artifact have all been taken away. Our first task is to escape from the bottom of this pit. I just tested it and the surrounding stone walls have been polished and are extremely smooth. I think It is almost impossible to successfully climb with bare hands. My suggestion is that we stack human ladders to go up, with the defensive type at the bottom, the power type in the middle, and the speed type at the top. The position where the man's voice came from just now should be at a height of eight to ten feet, and ten layers of human ladders are enough to climb up. Instead of sitting here and waiting for death, it is better to give it a try."
After listening to Ge Qing's suggestion, Qin Tiexin nodded in his heart.
This Ge Qing is able to come up with a decent plan in such a short period of time in this environment. He does look like a leader. Moreover, the plan itself is reasonable. If you don't try it in this situation, you will really have to wait for death.
However, there was also a trace of uneasiness in his heart. With such an obvious loophole, would the monk with the broken arm be unprepared?
"I'm defensive, I'll go first!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a few strong men squeezed out from the crowd and walked to the position closest to the wall by the pool.
Qin Tiexin could clearly see the figures of those people through the dim light. They were about the same height as him, about nine feet tall, but their width was almost twice as wide as his own. The muscle lines on the shoulders and back looked like pieces of Shitou had been forced into the skin. The veins would pop with the slightest exertion.
The six defensive body cultivators leaned against the stone wall with their hands on the wall and their legs were slightly bent to form a stable base. The soles of their feet sank into the bottom of the blood pool, and the water submerged the calves of the monks on the first floor. Then one by one, the strength body cultivators stepped on their shoulders and piled up layer by layer. The crowd in the blood pool automatically dispersed, leaving room for the stacked human wall to rise.
Four floors, five floors. The height is already more than three feet.
The sixth monk climbed up along the body of the monk below, and the powerful body cultivators at his feet sent him up one by one. Finally, he stepped on the shoulders of the monk at the top, and tentatively raised his hands upwards, preparing to find a place to hold on.
Where his hands touched, a layer of dark red formations appeared on the stone wall.
The array pattern flashed for a moment, followed by a dull Bursting sound.
Bang!
The monk at the top was shattered from his head. The skull, flesh, and brain were compressed into a piece of dark red blood foam under the power of the formation, and flowed down the stacked ladders. The monks on that floor froze when the blood foam flowed. The blood foam slid over their shoulders and heads, and merged into the blood pool at their feet, leaving not even a trace.
Qin Tiexin saw that the person closest to him, the eighth-level monk who had been climbing up just now, had a broken bone on his shoulder. He froze there, his eyes were wide open, and his lips were trembling, but he did not make any sound.
The entire crowd was silent for about three breaths.
Then the monks on the top floors began to climb down crazily, causing the ladder to shake violently. The defensive monks on the bottom held on to the wall to prevent the entire tower from collapsing.
"Don't mess around! Go down slowly! Don't push!" Ge Qing's voice suppressed the commotion, but Qin Tiexin could hear that his voice was also trembling.
The ladder dispersed. Everyone fell back into the blood pool, and no one spoke. The living monk just now turned into a pool of blood foam that merged into the blood pool before he even had time to scream.
The gloomy voice came from above the head again, unhurried and with a condescending weariness.
"Don't waste your efforts. You can't escape. The bigger you move, the faster you will die."
Several more spirit medicine plants and several Demon Beast corpses were thrown down. Spirit medicine melted the moment it fell into the blood pool, emitting strong fluctuations of medicinal power. Demon Beast corpses Within a few breaths of entering the pool, the flesh and blood of the body was peeled off from the bones by some force and turned into thick plasma. The bones sank to the bottom, and the fur floated on the surface of the pool for a few times before melting in. The temperature of the pool water increased again, and Spirit Rune's light became a little brighter.
Qin Tiexin stood in the pool, slowly clenching his palms under the water.
He crushed the jade talisman given by his master, but the jade talisman could only allow the master to sense his location and encounter a life-and-death crisis, but it could not tell her what his current situation was.
Luo Ling is Golden Core Peak. If the speed is fast enough, we should be able to catch up.
But in this place now, he raised his head and glanced at the dark red formation light curtain above his head. The monk who kidnapped them was at least Golden Core Realm. Looking at the formation, he knew that there were complete preparations here.
If Master really chases him here, will he be harmed by himself instead?
Qin Tiexin felt some regret in his heart. He took a deep breath and forced himself not to think about those things.
He began to carefully observe the direction of Spirit Rune at the bottom of the pool, with [Spirit Rune Weakness Insight] fully open, trying to see if he could see any weak points in the formation.
At this moment, there was a faint sound of paddling behind him. Someone moved toward him in the dark, moving very gently, as if they were afraid of disturbing the people around him.
"Tiexin, is that you?"
Qin Tiexin turned his head sharply. He couldn't see his face clearly in the darkness, but his figure was much smaller than the few figures around him, and his voice was extremely familiar.
Duan Xuan.
The blood pool rose a little, and her lower body was almost soaked in the blood pool, and her hair was soaked in blood and stuck to her forehead.
"It's me." Qin Tiexin lowered his voice, "How are you?"
Duan Xuan squeezed through several monks, walked to him, and grabbed the corner of his clothes under the water.
"My spiritual power has been sealed, and I feel sore all over. Others are fine." Duan Xuan leaned closer to him and stopped less than one step away from him, "What about you?"
"Same." Qin Tiexin glanced at the direction she came from.
"What's next?"
Qin Tiexin felt her hands trembling slightly and patted her shoulder gently.
"There will be a way."
He turned his head and glanced at the dark red Spirit Rune that were still slowly flowing on the wall of the pool, and then scanned the surrounding monks who had just calmed down from their panic.
Ge Qing was still discussing something in low voices with a few people not far away, seemingly unwilling to give up just like that.
But Qin Tiexin knows that conventional means will definitely not work. That layer of formations can blast those who approach it into bloody foam. It cannot be broken by just relying on the number of people stacked up on top of it.
If conventional means don't work, there may be other ways.
He subconsciously touched the black ring on his chest. For some reason, his ring was not taken away and was still hanging around his neck. Perhaps it looked too ordinary, like a decoration.
The moment his fingers touched the surface of the ring, he faintly felt an extremely weak wave coming from a certain direction in the distance.
It's the Storage Bag engraved with Frost Rune, and the arm is still inside.
Qin Tiexin's consciousness sank into [Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts]'s mind, and he felt as if he could immediately connect with that mysterious arm.
"Senior! Senior, are you there?"