The next day, Jiang Li ran to "check in for work" as usual and secretly did some tricks on the rune black bricks when no one was paying attention.
Although he still needs to bring in private goods when carving the runes, his speed is still far faster than others.
However, this time he did not hand over the black bricks immediately, but secretly transferred the carved bricks to other resisting monks hiding nearby.
This way he won't arouse suspicion by turning in too many bricks in one day.
The bitter master would come over to take a look from time to time. He was the biggest threat in the plan.
But every time at this time, the formation that heated the entire cauldron would suddenly fluctuate. It was either too cold or too hot, which troubled Wu Xia Hegu.
This is because the main force that provided spiritual energy to the formation were the prisoners of Rock Ridge captured during the battle.
They were trapped in an underground cell, squeezing spiritual energy every day to provide ferocious spiritual fire.
Huyan Longan once had a high reputation in Black Rock City. He used the spiritual stones he had accumulated in the past to bribe some jailers and go in to communicate with the prisoners inside.
As long as he passed the code, the prisoners below would increase or decrease the firepower output.
They have the largest number, and when they exert force together, the temperature of the spiritual fire will fluctuate significantly.
If it is not adjusted back in time, the entire refining may be destroyed.
This is how they divert attention.
A little troublesome, but also very effective.
As long as they remained safe, they could probably add thirty black bricks that concealed problems on the cauldron a day.
The construction deadline is getting closer and closer, but we can barely make up the quantity of two hundred.
During this period, Jiang Li also asked Huyan Longan about the specific situation of the Blood King Cauldron and got some useful clues from him.
Just as Jiang Li thought, the purpose of building this cauldron is to serve the blood king's crown to gradually recognize its master.
This Blood King Crown was left by a rebellious prince during the Immortal Cultivating Dynasty 7,000 to 8,000 years ago. It contains the energy of the blood dragon, and it can control thousands of bloody soldiers.
This big cauldron was built to refine those tens of millions of bloody soldiers.
Once the cauldron is completed, all the survivors in Blackstone City will be thrown into the cauldron and trained into blood soldiers.
Then as the Wan Tu Clan, the ace unit capable of endless killing and destruction.
If it is not stopped, Dachongshan will be the first target targeted by the troops.
Therefore, if the rebellious monks in Rock Ridge want to stop this, Jiang Li must also stop this from happening.
As the black bricks were melted and cast one by one, the Blood King Cauldron was finally completed before the deadline.
It is obviously a large cauldron made of metal nails, but there is no trace on the surface.
Now there is only one last step left, quenching and unlocking the spirit.
But before that step, some people will die.
After the last black brick was added, all the array masters were driven out of the venue.
Then, the temperature of the entire venue began to soar.
Before quenching and unlocking the spirit, the entire cauldron needs to be burned red to unify the overall runes.
Not far away from him, Huyan Long'an, hidden in the crowd, had an ugly expression.
Because the energy required to push the formation to the limit like this will drain all the fire-attribute monks in the dungeon.
They are destined not to wait until the moment of rescue.
"Master Ku, you did a great job."
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind.
Jiang Li seemed to have turned into a helpless child. A beast passed by him, making his body tense up and almost unable to move.
A gorgeous man with a red crown on his head came up from behind him and passed by him very close to him. The people around him got out of the way and respectfully called him the leader.
Jiang Li also quickly followed suit and saluted without revealing any flaws.
This is the head of the Wan Tu Sect. Just looking at his elegant and noble appearance, it is hard to imagine that he is actually the head of a demon sect.
He patted Master Ku on the shoulder.
Master Ku always wanted to curse, but when he saw the leader coming, he quickly restrained himself and changed his face to a smile.
Fortunately, he had completed refining the cauldron a few hours earlier. If it had been a few hours later, the hand just now would have probably slapped him on the head.
Wu Fan, the head of the Wantu Sect, was not afraid of the high temperature in the formation ahead. He entered the formation on foot, stretched out his hand to grab one of the legs of the Blood King Cauldron, and carried the entire Blood King Cauldron as if it were a teacup.
Played around and checked.
The scene was like an ant lifting a car easily. The exaggerated power gathered in a human body seemed very inconsistent.
While astonished by its power, Jiang Li and the others were also worried that the other party would see something.
Fortunately, Jiang Li's manipulations were all on the sides of the bricks. After being cast on the tripod, they were completely covered and could not be seen with the naked eye.
Wu Fan nodded with satisfaction. In the end, he didn't see anything wrong.
With a bang, the red cauldron was returned to the ground.
The head of Wan Tu Sect stretched out his hand to grab it, and a dark shadow was captured by him from a distance.
When it was far away, it looked like nothing, but when the thing came closer, Jiang Li realized that compared with that thing, the train seemed so slim and short.
"Holy Spirit!"
Not far from Jiang Li, Hu Yanlong'an's voice was almost suppressed through gritted teeth.
That big snake with scales all over its body like black jade is the belief of the Immortal Cultivation Circle in Rock Mountain. Before they grew stronger, they protected the human race here. However, at this time, they were killed, and their bodies were still played with like this.
Any monk in Stone Ridge will feel angry when he sees this.
He suppressed the anger in his heart and walked to Jiang Li in two steps.
"You'd better go quickly, there's going to be big trouble here tonight!"
He put a special snake scale into Jiang Li's hand, and then left here with the others.
He is now going to the dungeon to rescue the prisoners.
And that snake scale is the key to finding the dragon beads. This guy is true to his word. Jiang Li originally thought that he was just writing a bad check to deceive him, but he didn't expect that he actually fulfilled his promise at this time.
A big knife suddenly appeared in Wu Fan's hand. He waved it twice, and the huge snake body coiled in the air was cut into hundreds of pieces.
A large amount of snake blood splashed down from the air and fell on the red Blood King Cauldron.
The moisture in the snake's blood instantly vaporized on the high-temperature metal surface, rising into a thick fog that obscured the view.
The essence of it penetrated into every part of the deep cauldron along with the blood quenching.
The surrounding spiritual energy surged in crazily, and they all got into the cauldron to fill the huge gap in the spiritual energy.
The expected grade of the Blood King Cauldron is the Earth Grade, and the spiritual energy required for it is absolutely astronomical. The surrounding area is not a place where earth veins gather, and the spiritual energy in the air will be completely drained out in just a few moments.
For this, Wan Tu Sect has also been prepared for this.
A large number of medium and high-grade spiritual stones were poured into the cauldron. They captured the Rock Ridge area and collected countless spiritual stone treasures.
In the high temperature that has not dissipated, these spiritual stones were directly refined and exploded, and a large amount of high-concentration spiritual energy poured out from them, constantly filling the needs of the Blood King Cauldron.
Then the corpse of the giant snake, which was cut into hundreds of pieces, was also thrown into the cauldron.
A transparent snake shadow emerged from the snake corpse, but was then captured by the Blood King Cauldron, struggling and roaring in the cauldron.
At the same time, a blood dragon emerged from the Blood King's crown above Wu Fan's head and roared at the big snake below.
He wanted to forcibly refine the guardian spirit beasts of Stone Ridge into the spirit weapon of the Blood King Cauldron, which would increase the power of the Blood King Cauldron.
But no one noticed that in this big cauldron, with the penetration of snake blood, two hundred symbols that were exactly the same as the black snake's vertical pupils were being ignited one by one.
Today happens to be a full moon night, but the moon that rises today is extra bright red than usual.
At this moment, a red thunderbolt suddenly rose into the sky, and something strange happened in the dungeon not far away.
At this point in time, the commotion was obviously caused by a few people in Huyanlongan.
But their actions surprised Jiang Li. A group of severely injured and unarmed prisoners would never be the opponent of Wan Tu Clan if they fought head-on.
They had the geographical advantage and should have escaped quietly. How could they be discovered so easily?
Sure enough, with a cloud-penetrating arrow, a large number of Wantu Sect monks gathered in the city rushed to the dungeon and caught all the monks who were about to escape.
A fight broke out among the escaped prisoners, but they were all suppressed before long.
Then, they were locked in more than a dozen large iron cages and brought here together.
"Master, this group of prisoners wanted to escape, but we have captured them and are waiting for the master to punish them."
There were hundreds of prisoners squeezed into each large iron cage. Taken together, there were at least a thousand prisoners in these dozen or so large iron cages.
After they were captured, they had already gone through several rounds of torture. This time they were captured again and suffered many serious injuries.
Many prisoners were missing arms and legs, and thick blood continued to flow from under the iron cage, leaving a trail of bright red behind them.
"It wouldn't have been your turn so early."
"But it's okay. Don't worry, none of you can escape. After you die, you will become my strength and fight for your enemies."
Wu Fan's voice came from the air, and the phantom of the blood dragon above him also turned its head and looked here.
The shadow of the blood dragon continued to extend, and it bit a large iron cage in one bite.
The shadow pulled the big iron cage and hoisted it to the top of the Blood King Cauldron, and then the traces of teeth tore the iron cage apart, and hundreds of prisoners with injuries all over their bodies were dumped into the Blood King Cauldron rolling with surging spiritual energy.
Their Dao bodies simply couldn't withstand that kind of refining, and soon turned into a pool of blood, while their souls writhed in pain together with the giant snake in the cauldron.
"Come on, you bastards! Kill us! I will never let you go even if I die!"
"Even you cowards want us to bow our heads! Just wait another ten thousand years!"
What surprised Jiang Li was that he didn't show any fear in the face of this group of monks from the Stone Ridge, and was still cursing loudly at the surrounding monks from the Wantu Sect.
They are quite aware that even if they die, their blood will be splashed all over them.
But the Wan Tu Clan, whose average killing per capita is three to four figures, has long been tired of hearing such words before death, shouting for mercy and the like.
They were completely unmoved and only noticed the noise.
One by one, the iron cages are continuously thrown into the cauldron, and the wailing soul shadow is entangled with the snake body, and it will eventually become what Wan Tu Sect wants.
It seems that Wan Tu Men's plan is going smoothly.
The monks from Rock Ridge's advance escape plan had also failed.
But among the more than a thousand prisoners, Jiang Li did not see Huyan Longan and the other five people from before.
Did they abandon their companions and run away?
In addition, the expressions of these monks looking at death made Jiang Li feel very strange.
It was as if they couldn't wait to die in that big cauldron.
Jiang Li's doubts did not last long. The blood moon in the sky was so red that it seemed like it was about to drip blood.
Just when the blood moon rises to its highest point, it’s time to arrive at midnight.
On the scarlet moon, a vertical pupil suddenly reflected.
The phantom of the big snake in the Blood King Cauldron also stopped struggling at this time.
The more than a thousand wailing souls beside it stopped pretending, laughed, stood up, and rushed towards their Holy Spirit.
"Damn Wan Tu Men! You've been fooled!"
"Give up my remaining soul, but the Holy Spirit will never die!"
"Long live Stone Ridge!"
Due to the active integration, thousands of souls entered the body of the Holy Spirit Serpent without any hindrance.
After absorbing the souls of thousands of monks, the phantom of the big snake began to expand rapidly, and with the help of the energy in the Blood King Cauldron below, the big snake was regaining its former power.
The two hundred vertical pupil rune nodes inside the Blood King Cauldron were all ignited, and this unfinished magic weapon lost control at this time.
The vertical pupil rune carved by Jiang Li himself is the totem symbol of this holy serpent.
Hiding in the cauldron opens two hundred back doors for the Holy Spirit, allowing it to control the cauldron.
In the dungeon just now, the more than a thousand prisoners didn't really want to escape. They made noise and were deliberately seeking death.
Because the Holy Spirit has been exposed to the sun for too long, the soul has been severely traumatized and may not be able to resist the power of the Blood King Cauldron.
So after they learned about Huyan Longan's plan, they simply agreed to sacrifice themselves to restore the Holy Spirit as much as possible.
They made a fuss to anger Wantumen just so that Wu Fan could throw them into the Blood King Cauldron in advance.
They know the power of Wantumen better than anyone else, and it is not easy to rescue the prisoners trapped in the city.
There must be a powerful enough existence to temporarily hold Wu Fan back and make the entire Black Rock City chaotic, so that they can have a chance to rescue people.
So the Holy Spirit is their only chance.
"Wantumen! Wufan! Taste the anger of Stone Ridge!"
The blood-red King Cauldron shook violently, and the phantom of the big snake spoke human words, roared, and rushed towards the head of the Wantu Sect above.
The shock wave from both sides exploded, sending everything flying.
Under the blood-moon vertical pupils, it suddenly turned into ruins. Even a building made of black stone could not withstand such a degree of impact.
Jiang Li was also blown away and landed in a ruins.
When I got up again, I found that everything was in chaos.
He took out a bright bloody lotus flower from the coffin.
"Hmm, by the way, let me give you a taste of Dachongshan's wrath."