Xu Dao looked at the mirage rushing towards him, and his mind was shaken for a moment. He identified the direction and after confirming that the mirage would pass by his hiding place, he immediately sprang out from behind the blocking fish bones and slipped to the side.
Fortunately, the mirage moves slowly, and the distance of more than a hundred feet is completely enough for Xu Dao to avoid it.
While Xu Dao was avoiding the mirage, the five Shezhao Taoist disciples who were still alive on the altar were also hiding in the corners of the Dragon Palace, avoiding the mirage.
Slowly, the body of the mirage was dragged out of the mist and appeared in the eyes of the five Taoist disciples and Xu Dao.
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It is hundreds of feet long, and its body is almost as wide as its head. Its abdomen is attached to its claws, like a four-legged snake. Its whole body is covered with dark red scales, which look extremely hard at first glance.
But the scales on the body also fell off, revealing large sores underneath, with granulation growing inside, which was very scary.
At the same time, the fishy smell at the scene became even stronger. Xu Dao stood aside and watched the mirage slowly pass by him, feeling that his body became slippery, as if it was covered with disgusting mucus.
As the mirage traveled, the billowing mist filled the sight-reading area to a greater extent, submerging the entire altar.
It swam in the direction Xu Dao and others came from, from near to far, entrenched in front of each palace, thrust its head in, squirmed its neck, and swallowed all the living creatures inside, or...
Catch it on your body and embed it on your body surface.
In just one or two palaces, there were four to five times more heads on the mirage's body. They were so densely packed that they were all shaking constantly. It was extremely frightening!
Just like this, in the eyes of Xu Dao and others, the mirage kept poking its head into the various palaces, as if opening food boxes one after another, easily grabbing food from them.
As more and more people were preyed upon by the mirage, a roar gradually echoed in the dragon's sky, but this was not the roar of the mirage, but the roar of the human heads growing on its body.
"Ahhh!" The painful wails echoed around. Even though Xu Dao had been practicing for many years and had seen many scenes, he was still stunned by it.
It's not a sign of compassion, it's actually a feeling of panic that comes from the sorrow of the rabbit dying and the fox.
Fortunately, even though he was still shocked by the scene of the mirage flying out, Xu Dao still focused three-thirds of his attention on the five living Shezhao Taoist disciples, and there were even more mirage flying around them, paying attention to the five people.
Every move.
But at this moment, the body of the mirage, which was three to four hundred feet tall, was gradually pulled away from the altar, and all of them disappeared into the palace complex. Behind them, there was an empty space, revealing a road.
The five Shezhao Taoist disciples gathered together, and after a brief discussion, they ran back in the direction where the mirage came out.
"There must be something important over there." Xu Dao's heart moved. Without thinking too much, he ordered the beetles released in advance to explore the way for it, and then he chased after it himself.
After passing through a thick fog, probably because of the escape of the mirage, the fog in the deeper parts of the Dragon Palace became thinner, which greatly improved the visibility, and the scene inside also appeared clearly in everyone's eyes.
A ruined and collapsed building appeared in front of them, far more dilapidated than the large and small palaces we met when we came. There was almost no standing house, and the whole place was in ruins.
There are traces of huge snake-like sliding on the ruins, with passages carved out and criss-crossing. There are denser and more white bones and corpses scattered on them, many of which have been crushed into slag or even pressed into powder.
Xu Dao also instantly understood why the altar where they were just now was covered with a finger's thickness of bone meal.
It turned out that when the mirage was traveling, its body rushed out, and the bone powder it brought out from the ruins scattered like dust and fell on the altar to form a thick layer.
The five Taoist disciples of Shezhao were hunched over. They did not use spells or release the worms and beasts. Instead, they walked among the ruins on their feet.
But its speed was not slow. Instead, it rushed straight to the center of the ruins.
Xu Dao was far away behind them. Because the ruins were uneven, as if giants had wrestled and fought, he could easily hide his body.
As for the goals of the five Shezhao Taoist disciples, Xu Dao just glanced ahead and knew it.
Because in the center of the ruins stands a sloping spire. The top of the tower has a corner, which is dozens of feet high. There are three legs below it, which are submerged into the ground of the Dragon Palace.
This minaret looks like a huge broken three-pronged fork. It is inserted in the Dragon Palace. Its surface is rusty, but it still emits a cold metallic light, giving people a scary feeling.
Xu Dao glanced at it and subconsciously regarded the mottled marks on the surface of the spire as blood stains. Even after identifying it for a long time, he did not know whether these dark red things were rust or dried blood stains.
The Dragon Palace is so vast that the ruins of the White Bone Jungle are several miles in size. However, Xu Dao and the others hurried on and crossed several miles in a short time.
Silently watching the five Taoist disciples approaching the steeple, but not getting in, Xu Dao also stopped in time and looked at it from a distance.
It turned out that it was not that the five Shezhao Taoist disciples did not want to approach the minaret, but that the tower was surrounded by a black film, as if dry moss had dried up.
Xu Dao walked in quietly, clenched the breath-containing jade hook in his hand, and suddenly heard a curse coming from the front:
"Damn it! There is really evil in this place, what can be done about it?"
There was a murmur of discussion, and no one was pacing back and forth in front of the minaret, looking impatient.
Hearing their discussion, Xu Dao looked over and said in surprise: "This is evil spirit!"
Looking carefully, he noticed that although the surface of the minaret was mottled, there was still gray light flowing and squirming on it. There should be an array arranged and still operating.
"Don't be angry! The formation here is something you and I can easily do, and neither can the elders."
"Exactly! This formation is arranged on the spiritual veins, and there are surrounding evil spirits gathered around it. One is positive and the other is negative. It cannot be moved easily. Otherwise, if the two collide, the entire spiritual vein may be polluted."
"Hey! Isn't this the Dragon Palace? Why is there such a evil gathering formation? It's so evil!"
Xu Dao listened to the conversation of several people and found that the formation on the spire was similar to the evil gathering formation he had seen in Guo's ancestral hall. It was a formation for gathering evil energy.
This array falls in the center of the entire Dragon Palace, inserted into the dragon veins of Sheshan Mountain. Driven by the continuous spiritual energy in the dragon veins, it attracts all the evil spirits within a hundred miles and accumulates them around the spire, even forming a black film.
, covering the entire minaret.
"I don't know how many years these evil spirits have been accumulated, and what kind of evil spirits they are, but they should be more than enough for Taoist priests to build the foundation. Once they are completely released, the entire Dragon Palace and even the dark lake will be completely defiled, and Sheshan's spiritual veins will be completely defiled.
Naturally, there is also the possibility of being destroyed.”
Xu Dao thought for a while and realized why the five Shezhao Taoist disciples in front of him had troubled looks on their faces.
At the same time, he also suddenly thought: "No wonder there is no evil spirit in the dragon vein evil cave, but there are traces of evil spirit in the lake, and the closer to the bottom of the lake, the stronger it becomes."
"I originally thought that the place where the Dragon Palace was built was the real dragon vein evil point, but I didn't expect that this place is actually an auspicious point, but it was arranged with a formation to gather evil energy."
His heart suddenly became clear, and Xu Dao felt that what he saw and heard in the underground dark lake were almost connected to form clues.
But after all, it was still a little bit wrong, and he was unable to determine the plot of the Shezhao Taoist priests and what was strange about this Dragon Palace.
After waiting quietly for a long time, the five Shezhao Taoist disciples stood in front of the minaret and suddenly began to turn back and look in the direction they came from.
This surprised Xu Dao, thinking that the other party had discovered that he was peeping in secret. Fortunately, looking at the appearance of several people, they seemed to be anxiously waiting for something.
So Xu Dao also turned around repeatedly and looked at the palace complex that was being ravaged by mirages.
Suddenly, his eyes widened and he saw black energy rising in the distance, then flying over and disappearing into the iron-colored spire in the center of the Dragon Palace.
Immediately afterwards, black gas continued to fly over from a distance, and even a few wisps of gray gas rose from the ravines covered with layers of bones.
Xu Dao looked at the scene in front of him with a stern expression and said in his heart: "This is resentment!"
The black energy was surging, and he could faintly hear screams and screams, which was frightening. It was the energy of resentment before a living creature died tragically.
The gray energy coming out of the pile of bones is the Yin energy generated by the corpses.
I don’t know what the five Shezhao Taoist disciples did. The endless resentment and yin energy were captured by the formation on the spire and blended into it, causing the black film on the tower surface to shake for a while, and the gray light shook!
Xu Dao looked around, thoughts rolling in his mind, and he thought somewhat clearly and yet unbelievably:
"Is this a place where corpses are raised?"
Buzz! As the gray light of the minaret emerged, a burst of laughter sounded in front of the tower: "Hahaha!"
"The calculations of the elders are indeed correct. The resentment generated by the tragic death of one hundred thousand people is enough to turn this place upside down!"
"Jie! That's right, the formation is out of order now. Let's work together quickly to activate the formation and pull out this nail for my Sheshan spiritual veins!"
Laughter rang out, and the five Shezhao Taoist disciples nodded to each other, then sat cross-legged around the minaret, holding something in their hands, and then chanted the Dharma in their mouths.
A huge amount of mana rose above their heads, and then it was all poured into the spire.
Xu Dao looked at it cautiously. He was unsure for a moment and didn't know what to do. He thought about it again and again, but just took a few steps forward and got closer to the five Shezhao Taoist disciples.
But suddenly, his steps stopped, and his eyes suddenly became strange. Because the distance was closer, he saw what the other person was holding in his hand.
They are all made of pieces of jade, hook-shaped, with an ordinary surface, and they all look the same.
And Xu Dao happened to have a piece of such a thing in his hands, and it seemed to be better than what those five people had!
Xu Dao stood still, spread out his hands, and looked at the breath-collecting jade hook in his palm, his eyes were stunned for a moment.
The jade hooks in the hands of the five Shezhao Taoist disciples sitting cross-legged were washed away by their true energy, and cracks appeared on the surface, as if they would be broken into dregs in the next moment.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a dark wind blew around, making ghosts cry and wolves howl. At the same time, Xu Dao was shocked and came to his senses.
Because the black film on the minaret was opened by the five Shezhao Taoist disciples, a stream of evil energy and wind came out from inside, hanging up all around, destroying everything.
Many white bones and corpses were directly ground and corroded into powder.