bookcurios Chapter 163: Offering a Sacrifice
Chapter 163: Offering a Sacrifice
Putting aside other things, this guy's attainments in magic are remarkable. After all, the landscaping of this underground city, the alternation of day and night, and the star disk in the sky are not something that an ordinary alchemist can transform.
There are also various bronze mechanical animals in the barracks, as well as dozens of bronze houses that are as big as a small room in ancient times.
There are actually two cannon barrels installed on the windows of this house, and there is also a small tower similar to a watchtower on the house, which can accommodate two people standing on it.
Two bronze supports and giant bronze feet are installed under the house, just like a small mobile fortress.
When everyone saw all this, they were shocked beyond words. They were all shocked that a dynasty thousands of years ago could create such things.
Everyone tacitly took away one or two mechanical animals and put them into their own spaces. After all, their storage spaces were not large enough to hold too many large objects.
"Host, why don't you take one with you? It would be nice to keep it in your villa to guard the house." Li Shang suggested.
"Guarding the house? Then the lethality is a bit too great. But we can't leave these things here. It will be troublesome if they are all used against us." As she spoke, Bai Ningyu snapped her fingers, and a room full of bronze mechanical products were instantly collected into her space.
Everyone couldn't help but gasp in their hearts. A whole room of things disappeared in the blink of an eye. How huge must the space reserve be? Her space magic weapon must be a divine item!
Everyone's eyes changed when they looked at Bai Ningyu. Some were envious, while others were jealous.
You know, such a top-level space treasure may not even be in their family's treasure house. Even if it is, it is not something that people of their status can possess. It seems that they still underestimated the identity of the little girl in front of them.
After doing this, the group quickly left the barracks. There was a small village behind the barracks.
According to the fat man, these people are all the families of the guards, and there are nearly a thousand of them, but those villagers only move around in the village and never move around, not even coming down the mountain.
These people don't look abnormal.
Bai Ningyu and his group came to the right side of the city, where there was a tower called Tianji Pavilion.
There are about a hundred Taoists here. Like the Taoists we met in the cave before, they cannot be considered human at all. Their arms can instantly turn into huge vines and attack people.
The door of Tianji Pavilion was tightly closed. Just as they were about to approach the door, they heard a shout from behind: "What are you doing here?"
Everyone was shocked and became a little nervous. If they were discovered here by their people, it would not be a good thing. A big battle would definitely be inevitable, and even withdrawing would become a problem.
Everyone slowly turned around and stared vigilantly at the Taoist priest not far away who didn't look very friendly.
The Taoist priest stared at them and slowly approached. Li Shang was already prepared, waiting to kill the Taoist priest with one blow before he could attack.
However, after the Taoist priest stood still, before anyone could say anything, he dismissively instructed, "Put away your curiosity. This is where we practice alchemy. You can't enter. Hurry up and grab two offerings, clean them, and send them to the main hall. The Grand Master is waiting!"
After Li Shang responded, the Taoist priest flicked his sleeves and walked into the Tianji Pavilion without even looking at them.
"Sacrifices? Could he be talking about those in the dungeon?" Li Yanchen asked in a low voice after the Taoist priest entered the house.
"It's most likely true, but this is a good opportunity. We can take this opportunity to go into the hall and find out what's going on." Li Shang looked at Bai Ningyu, as if asking her if it was possible.
Bai Ningyu nodded in agreement, and the two of them sneaked back into the dungeon and brought out two people. The pungent smell was so strong that even Li Shang almost couldn't stand it.
Fortunately, Bai Ningyu gave them a cleansing spell in time, and Li Shang's churning stomach was calmed down.
Bai Ningyu made a magic gesture and transformed everyone's appearance into that of the city guards.
Then everyone took the two sacrifices and walked towards the central palace. In front of the palace, they saw two guards, one fat and one thin, wearing armor, standing upright on both sides of the palace door, with bronze armor on their faces.
Bai Ningyu and the Great Elder exchanged glances and decided that if they couldn't get in, they would quickly subdue the two guards.
When the group arrived at the temple gate, the Great Elder said, "We have been ordered to bring the sacrifice inside. Open the door."
"Just two sacrifices, why did you send so many people today to deliver them?" asked a slightly fat guard in front of the door. His voice was extremely cold and seemed to carry some hostility.
Li Shang said calmly and slowly, "A group of uninvited guests broke into the mountain yesterday, so we sent more people to escort these two people here."
"No! You are lying! Tell me, who are you?" The two guards in front of the palace gate immediately picked up their weapons vigilantly and pointed at everyone in a defensive posture.
Everyone was shocked, but Bai Ningyu and the Great Elder acted quickly, dodging in front of the two guards with extremely fast movements and snatching the weapons from their hands.
Just when the Great Elder and Bai Ningyu were about to knock them unconscious, a figure suddenly jumped out from behind them, attacking the two of them with a weapon in hand.
Bai Ningyu pinched the thin guard's neck with one hand and raised the other to gather spiritual energy, releasing a barrier to block the guard's weapon. At this moment, the fat soldier hurriedly stopped, took off the mask on his face, revealing his big fat face and said, "Alright, brothers, you are quite powerful. This disguise is pretty good!"
This person was the Fat Man whom I met in the Taoist temple.
Seeing this, the guard who was strangled by Bai Ningyu hurriedly took off his mask, revealing an elegant face. Yes, he was the middle-aged man in the Taoist temple.
The other guard was obviously the young man.
The Great Elder and Bai Ningyu looked at each other, and Li Yanchen asked, "When did you come?"
The fat man chuckled and said, "You just arrived not long ago, so we thought we'd come along to see what we can do. Maybe we can help you in any way. But the most important thing is that we want to see if you can enter the main hall here."
"We were really scared just now, but how did you recognize us?" Li Yanchen asked in confusion.
The fat man started to talk nonsense again: "That's right, don't you see who I am? I only have a pair of sharp eyes..."
The fat man was stopped by the middle-aged man before he could finish boasting. The middle-aged man then explained, "It's nothing serious. We just saw you guys coming out of the barracks and heading towards the Tianji Pavilion. Although you've changed your appearance, your number hasn't changed, so it's easy to recognize you."
"So that's how it is. Why are you still standing there? Let's go in and take a look." Li Yanchen put his hand on the door, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't push the door open.
At this time, the young man stepped forward, stroked the dragon totem on the door with his index finger, and touched the dragon's eyes. The door of the hall creaked open.
When the door of the hall was opened and they saw what was inside, almost everyone stared with wide eyes at the scene before them.