Behind him came the angry curses of the residents of Guiya Village.
Chu Qingxiao, who was carefully observing the situation in Ghost Crow Village, quickly lowered his head.
The situation in Ghost Crow Village is a bit strange.
As the largest village in the entire Taixuan Mountains, there are almost no houses for people to live in, but there are some remnants of the doors being demolished.
In the center of the village is a huge circular building. It seems that the entire Ghost Crow Village is now running for this strange building.
At this moment, Chu Qingxiao and others were being driven there by a bandit from Guiya Village.
The village was completely dark, with only the torches burning around the circular building, flickering in the darkness, but it was too far away to see clearly.
Chu Qingxiao lowered his head and pressed his body very low. The sword box in his arms was wrapped in clothes. In order not to cause unnecessary trouble, he stopped raising his head and carefully followed the team.
When he was sure that the gangster responsible for supervising them had retracted his gaze from him, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Soon, the group of them was brought to the huge circular building.
The entire circular building is made of piled stones. The outermost ring requires climbing twenty steps. There are twenty stone pillars on the edge of the ring, more than one foot high.
Between every two stone pillars, there was a cage, which was filled with miserable-looking crow slaves.
The second ring further ahead requires climbing 300 steps. It is much smaller than the first ring. There are eighteen stone pillars around it, and a figure is tied to each stone pillar.
And further up is the top of the entire building, which is a dome. There is a stone pillar in the center of the dome. Weird runes are engraved on the stone pillar. There is a sculpture of a crow-headed human body at the top. In front of the stone pillar,
A man as fat as a mountain was sitting cross-legged.
Chu Qingxiao looked at everything in this circular building, secretly thinking that this was probably the altar used by Guiya Village to summon the outside gods.
"Go in!" At this time, the bandit from Guiyanzhai beside him had already led everyone to the lowest cell door, opened the cell door, and shouted sternly at everyone.
Everyone who had been imprinted with the crow slave mark was filled with despair and did not dare to disobey the other party's request. They all walked into the cage with their heads hanging down.
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"It's okay now! The Crow Slave Seal has also been planted, and now we have completely become turtles in the urn!" As soon as they entered the cage and saw the bandit who brought them here walked away, Ziyu couldn't help but complain.
road.
Chu Qingxiao just lowered his head and seemed not to respond to Ziyu's accusation.
On the other hand, Chu Zhaozhao frowned and said: "Miss Ziyu, Qingxiao has always been prudent in doing things. He must have his own reason for doing this! Please be patient..."
"Do you have your own reasons?" Ziyu snorted coldly after hearing this, with a disdainful tone.
"I think he was so lustful that he risked his own life for the sake of the girl. But in the end, he had no choice but to ride a tiger with difficulty, dragging us into the mud pit."
After saying this, Ziyu looked at Chu Zhaozhao again and said, "I do believe what my junior uncle said now..."
"You are indeed the kind of idiot who would get carried away by the affair between your children."
"You've been bought by someone, and you're still helping to count the money?"
Chu Zhaozhao frowned when he heard this: "This is our business, you have to come here by yourself. If Ziyu girl is dissatisfied, she should have left on her own!"
Ziyu heard the anger in Chu Zhaozhao's words, but she didn't take it seriously. At this time, she said: "Do you think I want to follow you?"
"Didn't Junior Master Shufei leave you in my hands?"
Ziyu was a little angry as she spoke. She pointed at the crow slave mark on her forehead and said, "Do you know what this thing is?"
"Demon seed!"
Chu Zhaozhao had heard these rumors, and he only knew that this thing was very terrifying, but he had no idea what the specific consequences would be.
Faced with Ziyu's question, Chu Zhaozhao also frowned.
Seeing this, Ziyu naturally took advantage of the victory and continued to pursue it: "The demon seed is a soul imprint planted in the body of a living being by an alien god."
"Relying on this object, they can give believers power, but at the same time they can also control the believer's life and death. When the demon seed grows to a certain extent in the believer's body, he can extract the power and vitality from the believer's body at any time, and even if he wants,
With just one thought, our souls can be crushed and become the nourishment for his coming!"
"Originally, before he put the brand on us, we had a chance to resist, but this guy directly accepted this demon seed. If I wasn't afraid that if I forcefully shattered the brand, it would expose you two, I would have walked away long ago.
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Although Ziyu has a bad attitude, what he said is also true.
At least, it was indeed because of herself and Chu Qingxiao that she was in danger, and at the same time, she chose to accept the Crow Slave Seal at the last moment because she was afraid of injuring them both.
Thinking of this, Chu Zhaozhao also fell silent, feeling somewhat guilty in his heart.
"If there is a chance later, Miss Ziyu, please leave by yourself..." she said.
Although Ziyu said she was unforgiving, she was actually not bad-tempered. Otherwise, she would not have followed the two of them into such a dangerous situation just because of Zhao Nianshuang's words. Chu Zhaozhao put down his body, but Ziyu didn't know it for a moment.
How to deal with it.
She frowned and then said: "I'm leaving on my own. How can I deliver the errands when I get back? Look at my eyes later and let's take action together to see if we can escape..."
"Yue Jian is kind to me and Qing Xiao, we can't leave like this..." Chu Zhaozhao said.
Ziyu suddenly became angry when she heard this: "Isn't she just a bandit? Didn't I say that you were kidnapped by her? How can I be kind to you?"
As Ziyu said this, her eyes suddenly fell on Chu Qingxiao who was standing aside.
This guy has kept his head down since he walked into the cell door, not knowing what to think about.
When she thought that it was Chu Qingxiao who brought them here from the beginning, and that he was the one who told her to submit when they were planted with the Crow Slave Seal, Ziyu's words and anger immediately transferred to Chu Qingxiao.
She reached out and grabbed the corner of Chu Qingxiao's clothes, and said angrily: "Didn't I tell you that you were confident just now? Why don't you dare to speak at this juncture?"
"Do you know that once this demonic seed is planted, unless the outside god comes in person, or a god more powerful than him takes action, there is almost no possibility of unlocking it! Or you can only find a strong person above the eighth realm.
It can be broken with brute force, but this method is extremely dangerous and can easily cause irreversible trauma to the soul of the recipient..."
The more Ziyu talked, the more excited she became. She pulled Chu Qingxiao's sleeves and shook him.
Chu Qingxiao seemed to be lost in some thoughts. He was pulled by Ziyu and suddenly came back to his senses. He looked at Ziyu with an angry face in confusion, blinked and asked: "Miss Ziyu just said
What?"
Ziyu was already angry, but when she saw that Chu Qingxiao was still aloof from the incident, she became even more angry and said angrily: "You..."
"Do you know what the Crow Slave Mark on our heads means? If there is no master above the Eighth Realm to take action, this thing will stay with us for a lifetime..."
Ziyu's words suddenly stopped at this point.
Her eyes were widened at this moment, staring at Chu Qingxiao in disbelief.
At this moment, the crow slave mark on the young man's forehead was dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a blink of an eye, the crow slave mark completely disappeared.
"How...how did you do this?" Ziyu was stunned for a while, then she came back to her senses and asked in a puzzled tone.
"How did you do it?" Chu Qingxiao was very confused, but in an instant he looked at the two of them anxiously and said: "This crow slave mark is a bit overbearing. Being branded by it for a long time may hurt your souls. I will do it first.
You unlock this seal."
As he spoke, he didn't care how dull the expression on Ziyu's face was, he stretched out his hand and grabbed their wrists, and immediately a breath flowed into their bodies.
The next moment, the two of them felt that the demon seed planted in their souls was swallowed up by the breath, and the crow slave mark on their foreheads also dissipated at this moment.
After doing this, Chu Qingxiao raised his head and looked at Ziyu, who still had his mouth wide open and his eyes full of shock.
"Qingxiao, how did you do it?" Chu Zhaozhao looked at Chu Qingxiao with surprise on his face and asked.
Chu Qingxiao said very calmly: "It's very simple. You just need to absorb it and then decompose it. It's the same as absorbing spiritual power."
Could this be the same as devouring spiritual power? Ziyu on the side opened her eyes wide with a look of astonishment.
Wrapped in the demon seed is the original power of the outer god. Through it, the outer god can continuously absorb the power in the body of the believer, and then make the demon seed grow stronger, and finally become the nourishment of the outer god. The Eighth Realm monks want to destroy the demon seed.
You can only rely on brute force.
Just like pulling out the grass and trees from the ground, no matter how hard you apply, the soil will be brought out and the soil will be destroyed.
But Chu Qingxiao's method just now is to eliminate the demonic species and keep the soil as it is. This method is something that even the eight realm experts cannot do. It must be extremely profound. How can it be as simple as swallowing spiritual power?
Ziyu's face was filled with astonishment. She looked at the calm-faced young man in horror, unable to understand how he could do this.
But Chu Qingxiao didn't seem to realize what a shocking thing he had done. Instead, he looked up at Ziyu, blinked and asked: "By the way, Miss Ziyu, what did you want to tell me just now? I want to think about other things.
I went there, but I didn’t hear it clearly.”
Chu Qingxiao said this with a bit of apology on his face.
"Ahem." Ziyu coughed twice, her cheeks feeling a little hot.
But then he continued seriously: "I...I just said..."
"Your plan to let us sneak into Ghost Crow Village without any effort is really clever..."
"We just want to come down and figure out how to break out of the encirclement. You should come up with a plan as soon as possible so that we can fully cooperate!"