Yuan Ming looked at the crescent moon pattern on the disk, and couldn't help but feel a strange feeling in his heart. He felt like he had seen it somewhere or heard someone describe it, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
But at this moment, the blood moon pattern suddenly flashed with light. After absorbing a large amount of wish power, the bloody light on it suddenly brightened, and a burst of evil light emitted from it, which began to cover the statue.
Yuan Ming's heart moved, and he clearly noticed that the blood was the richest on the chest of the statue, and became thinner toward the top of the head and below the feet.
But as time goes by, this blood color will sooner or later spread throughout the statue.
At the same time, he noticed that the originally fresh fruits in the fruit plate on the table were quickly shriveling and shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if something had absorbed all the moisture.
The statue of Ming Yue has been tampered with!
Yuan Ming's expression changed slightly, and he subconsciously wanted to destroy the statue, but his reason told him not to be reckless.
So in the midst of great disagreement, he observed the entire prayer process.
After the crowd dispersed, Yuan Ming called Hu Ji and his wife to him again.
"You said this statue was sent by Xu Che two months ago and replaced the original statue?" Yuan Ming asked.
"Yes." Hu Ji replied respectfully.
"Was there this black disk and the blood moon pattern on it at that time?" Yuan Ming continued to ask.
"The disc existed at that time, but the blood moon pattern just appeared recently. I thought it was a miracle." Hu Ji said.
Yuan Ming's eyes darkened. It seemed that the change in his willpower was related to the blood moon pattern.
"Then do you know where Xu Cheren is?" he asked.
"The God Envoy is busy preaching and traveling between cities. I don't know where he is now." Hu Ji shook his head and answered honestly.
"When he sent the statue, did he say anything to you? Or did he behave strangely?" Yuan Ming asked again.
"I didn't say anything... I just gave us a prayer and asked us to recite it sincerely. I didn't say anything else." Hu Ji was a little confused. Aren't the actions of the envoys all guided by Yuan Ming?
Yuan Ming asked him instead?
But even though he had doubts, he didn't dare to question anything, because it was said in the prayer that questioning the gods was the greatest disrespect to the gods, and after death, he would go to the purgatory of having his heart cut out.
Yuan Ming knew that the prayer in his mouth was what everyone was chanting in a low voice just now. He originally thought it was just something Xu Che made up to fool people, but now it seems that this matter is not simple.
Either something happened to Xu Che, or he betrayed him.
No matter what the situation is, Yuan Ming will not ignore it.
"Lord Ming Yue God, do you want to find the Divine Envoy Xu Che?" Hu Ji tried to ask.
"Can you contact him?" Yuan Ming raised his eyebrows.
"I can't, but other divine envoys should be able to." Hu Ji shook his head and said.
Yuan Ming was stunned. Are there other divine envoys? Could they be other cultivators?
But he didn't ask, he just nodded and signaled Hu Ji to continue.
"At the end of every month, a divine envoy will come to collect the statues from me. At that time, you can ask the arriving divine envoy and you may be able to find Lord Xu Che." Hu Ji said.
"Collect the idol?" Yuan Ming frowned.
"Yes, at the end of every month, someone will come to collect the statues, saying they want to take them back for baptism." Hu Ji said slowly with a suspicious look on his face.
He just felt that the god in front of him was really weird. Why did he seem to know nothing about these things?
"It just so happens that tomorrow is the end of the month, and the two divine envoys should be here too," Hu Ji added.
"Okay." Yuan Ming nodded after hearing this.
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The next day was also in the evening.
Not long after everyone finished praying and dispersed, two figures flew past from outside.
The person who came was wearing a large black robe and a half-moon-shaped mask on his face. He was a man and a woman, both of whom were monks in the foundation-building stage.
The moment the two of them broke into Hu Ji's courtyard, they entered Yuan Ming's illusion knot. Although Yuan Ming was right in front of them, they could not see it at all.
Hu Ji and his wife had already been controlled by Yuan Ming with illusions and had forgotten Yuan Ming's existence.
After the two people entered the courtyard, Hu Ji and his wife also knelt down and bowed, but they didn't kiss each other's shoes.
The two of them remained silent the whole time without saying a word to Hu Ji and his wife. They just picked up the statue on the stone table and turned around to leave.
Yuan Ming also set off and followed the two of them, following them all the way.
After taking the statue from Hu Ji's house, the two of them went to two other courtyards in the city, one of which was the residence of the Lord of Usu City.
The Lord of Nawusu City was in the early stages of foundation building and was actually a loyal believer of the Mingyue God Sect. Not only did he deliver the statue of the Mingyue God, he also handed over a box of gold and silver jewelry.
After taking away these three statues, the two divine envoys left Wusu City.
Yuan Ming originally thought they would return directly, but unexpectedly they went to several nearby cities and took away several statues before returning to their home nest late at night.
It was an unknown temple built on a mountain wall.
The mountain gate is not much different from an ordinary temple, except that it is embedded in the mountain wall like an archway.
The red lacquered door studded with copper nails opened to the outside, but inside was a deep passage that penetrated directly into the mountain wall. You could faintly see the flickering fire inside.
The two divine envoys entered. Yuan Ming took out the gray cloak, used the Hidden Element Technique to cover up his aura, and followed them in.
The one-foot-high and two-foot-wide passage is full of traces of man-made excavations. There is a brazier hanging every fifteen steps on the walls on both sides. The firelight reflects bright and dark spots inside, making it full of energy.
Mysterious meaning.
After walking more than a hundred feet inward, Yuan Ming followed them to an empty stone room.
The walls of the stone chamber are painted with various scenes of flying goddesses and sacrifices to gods. On the left and right sides and right in front, there are strange-looking statues of gods.
Among them, on the left side is a dark-skinned man with splayed beard and hair, and a naked upper body with angry eyes. He is holding a cornucopia in one hand and a gold mace in the other, with a ferocious face.
To the right, there stood an armored evil spirit with three heads and six arms, holding chains, shackles, scimitars and other torture instruments in his hands, and his shape was even more terrifying.
There is only one statue directly in front of him, which shows a man lying on one side, with open breasts and loose hair. He has kind eyebrows and kind eyes. He is holding a lotus in his hand. It is not clear whether he is a man or a woman. He has a look of compassion on his face.
The appearance of these statues is very different from the gods Yuan Ming knows. I wonder if they are the unique gods believed in here in the Black Wind Desert.
However, when his eyes fell on the chest of the lying statue, his eyes suddenly froze.
I saw a pattern of two overlapping moons on his chest.
Yuan Ming recognized this pattern as the mark of Wuyue Sect.
No wonder he felt a strange feeling of déjà vu when he saw the black disk and the crescent moon mark earlier.
"This matter has something to do with Wuyue Sect?" Yuan Ming couldn't help but wonder.
Before he could figure it out, he saw that the two people had turned around and walked towards the statue on the left.
Yuan Ming followed the two people and came to the back of the statue, only to find that there was a cave entrance as high as one person on the wall next to the stone statue.
As soon as he entered the cave entrance, Yuan Ming noticed that there was a forbidden aura inside, but his method was not clever.
He muttered words, and the surface of his body glowed with black light. His body gradually became translucent, and he stepped forward, penetrating the restriction like a spirit body.
This is a secret technique "Void Transformation Technique" recorded on the white jade tablet of Venerable Liuyu. It can transform the physical body into a spiritual form in a short time and penetrate the restricted light curtain.
Yuan Ming was just learning and practicing, and he could only use the Void Transformation Technique superficially, but it was more than enough to penetrate the crude restrictions in front of him.
After he walked dozens of steps inward, the front suddenly became brighter.
Yuan Ming followed the two people who were deceived by his illusion into a spacious stone room, and immediately saw a dazzling golden light.
It was bright inside, with the luster of various gold and gemstones reflected everywhere. A large amount of gold sand and gold coins were piled on the ground like leaves and soil, and they were filled with colorful jewelry and jades.
To an ordinary mortal, this is naturally a huge amount of wealth, but in Yuan Ming's eyes, it is no different than dirt.
There were a few magic weapons on the shelf in the corner, which he could take a look at, but that was all.
Seeing the two divine envoys pouring the treasure offered by the Lord of Wusu City into the piles of gold and silver, he turned around and walked out of the stone room, and he followed them again.
This time, the two people walked towards the benevolent statue in the center, and there was also a cave behind it.
This time the passage was longer, and before reaching the end, intermittent voices could be heard coming from inside.
When Yuan Ming heard the voice, he felt a little familiar. It seemed to be Xu Che's voice?
When they arrived at the entrance of the cave, the two people stepped in, while Yuan Ming stopped sideways at the entrance of the cave and looked inside carefully.
I saw that the space outside the cave entrance was very huge, the size of seven or eight houses, and it was also brightly lit inside.
However, unlike the previous place where gold and silver treasures were stored, there is a dark statue that is three feet high standing in the center.
She looks like a young goddess in palace attire, with a fan-shaped peculiar decoration on her head, her hair tied up high, a black ribbon covering her eyes, her hands slightly open in front of her, and a
The aura of a deputy king who dominates the world.
On one of his palms, he was holding a black disk with the crescent moon mark of the Wuyue Sect engraved on it.
At the foot of the statue of the dark goddess, on a circular altar, there are palm-sized golden lotus lamps. Behind each lotus lamp, there is a statue of the Dark Moon God.
Yuan Ming made a rough count and found that there were more than three hundred.
This chapter has been completed!