Chapter 597: Chapter 166: Everything Goes Smoothly
Liu Er was overjoyed and immediately commanded a change in formation. The Three Generals returned to their places in the Triangle Arrow Formation and continued their advance towards the mountain.
Singing boldly as they charged, they reached the mountain peak and saw a White Bone Temple.
The temple doors were wide open, and a ritual sacrifice had just been completed.
Blood painted ancient talismans filled the entire temple hall.
What remained of the barbarian clan’s Golden Core Cultivators twisted their heads backwards in silence, watching Liu Er and his comrades without a sound.
Their eyes were gone, leaving only two bloody holes from which blood continuously seeped out.
Though they were eerily silent, all the soldiers could feel their resentment, anger, and hatred!
For these barbarians, the army of Liangzhu Country was the invader of their homelands, an enemy they could not share the sky with.
“Ah!” Liu Er, as the Main General of the Three Generals Camp, suddenly cried out in pain and hurriedly closed his eyes.
Underneath his eyelids, a mysterious light flickered, indicating that he was marshaling all his Mana.
Liu Er retreated repeatedly, with Guan and Zhang flanking him on the right and left, standing like two formidable door gods, protecting Liu Er behind them.
Liu Er gasped heavily, filled with dread in his heart.
It was because he had almost experienced an eyeball explosion, and it was only due to his timely reaction and his premonition that something bad would happen that he managed to protect his eyes by immediately summoning his Mana.
However, for a short period, he could not see anything.
So he quietly activated his Innate ability.
Spirit Sound Pulse Detection!
The next moment, he used his four ears to listen, with his Divine Sense assisting, his perception far wider than his previous field of view.
He felt as if he were looking down upon the battlefield, “seeing” that the Three Generals Camp had already completely surrounded the White Bone Temple. Ning Zhuo, overseeing the Mechanical Army, was following up behind, making their way up the mountain.
“This is bad! Very, very bad!”
Through Spirit Sound Pulse Detection, Liu Er quickly understood the whole situation; he discovered that the barbarian clan’s Golden Core Cultivators had sacrificed a large number of their elite warriors, and in the end, they even blood sacrificed themselves. The sole purpose was for the Divine Summoning Technique!
Divine Summoning Technique.
This was a type of Spell, encompassing many variations.
To summon benign gods, the price was usually not high. To summon evil gods, the price was bloody and extremely high.
Clearly, the gods the barbarian Cultivators intended to summon were no benign entities.
The blood-painted Array for the sacrifice gradually dissipated without any abnormalities appearing.
“Perhaps, their Blood Sacrifice has failed, and the gods did not respond,” Guan Hong guessed, stroking his beard.
Liu Er had a very bad feeling, keeping his eyes tightly closed, with two trails of blood running down his cheeks from the corners of his eyes.
Out of caution, he issued an order: “Let’s leave this place first and let the adviser’s Mechanical Puppets dismantle the temple.”
Just as the officers and soldiers turned to leave, a voice suddenly reached everyone’s ears.
“So, it was you who murdered my followers?”
The soldiers quickly looked towards the source of the voice, and saw a figure of white bones standing quietly on the side.
Guan Hong’s pupils shrank abruptly: “When did this appear?”
Not just him, Zhang Hei felt the same. Their Divine Senses had always been cast outward, and if not for the white bones speaking up, they wouldn’t have even noticed it.
“Who are you?” Liu Er asked urgently.
The figure made of bones let out a cold laugh: “Liangzhu Country invades Thousand Peak Forest, and under normal circumstances, you would have ample intelligence. Since you have come to this region, do you not know the name of the Dice Bone Demon God?”
“Dice Bone Demon!” Zhang Hei snorted coldly.
This Dice Bone Demon was the deity worshiped by the barbarian tribes in this region.
Originally a demon transformed from white bones, it spread its faith through fear, making the tribes of the region universally worship it and offer it incense.
Thus, it not only had Demon Arts but also Divine Skills, with its combat strength increasing manifold.
The Dice Bone Demon God was ten feet tall, with an extremely slender figure, resembling a walking ghastly skeleton.
Its skull was elongated with a high forehead, and deep eye sockets. Its eyes were two dice, with the exposed side showing the number “one.”
It had no lips, and whenever it spoke, a set of sharp teeth was revealed, which was extremely unsettling.
The tips of its ribs were sharp like swords, its spine protruded, and each segment bore ancient talismans.
Its arms and legs were exceptionally long and thin, with the joints slightly enlarged, resembling a few bamboo poles connected together.
The aura emanating from it had reached the Golden Core Level.
“A mere Demon God at Golden Core Level! Take my spear!” Zhang Hei shouted coldly, taking the initiative to strike.
The Black Snake Spear thrust forward, the spear infused with the dark Mana of the Black Wave Sky Technique, like a giant python on the attack, powerful and heavy.
The Dice Bone Demon God moved nimbly, leaping lightly, covering a great distance in one bound.
Zhang Hei shouted again: “Demon God, where do you think you’re fleeing to!”
And he pursued with renewed vigor.
Liu Er felt the ominous premonition rising again and called out urgently: “Third brother, do not pursue too far.”
But it was already too late.
In the next moment, two more figures suddenly appeared, blocking Zhang Hei’s retreat.
The soldiers focused their eyes and realized that they were two more Dice Bone Demon Gods!
Only this time, the numbers on the dice in their eye sockets were “two” and “three” respectively.
Ning Zhuo had already led his army to the scene and, seeing this scene, his heart sank immediately. He realized: “Does this mean there are three more Dice Bone Demon Gods?”
Just as he had this thought, Ning Zhuo’s fingers around the Mechanical Ring tightened fiercely.
Without a second thought, he leaped into the air.
Almost simultaneously, two Dice Bone Demons appeared; their long bony fingers grasped at thin air, the force of their failed strike churning up the ground so fiercely that dirt and stones flew.
These two Dice Bone Demons bore the numbers four and five.
Ning Zhuo took a deep breath. While still in midair, he executed his Spells, blasting towards the two Dice Bone Demon Gods.
Under the bombardment of Fire-attribute Spells, the surrounding Mechanical Puppets were instantly wrecked, but the two Dice Bone Demon Gods stood unshaken, proudly amid the sea of fire, their bodies enveloped by a divine light that provided thorough protection.
The battlefield changed rapidly; the barbarian clan’s adviser succeeded in Blood Sacrificing himself to summon the Demon God, causing the Three Generals Camp to suffer attacks from the Demon God, plunging into a passive situation.