Volume 1: Spring in Wulong Town Chapter 188: Thousand Children's Blood, Moon-Slaying Sacrifice
Manager Li has had enough of living. He really has had enough of living.
Everyone in Yinlan Villa knows that he is the only person with a different surname among the managers of Yinlan Villa. It is not easy for a person with a different surname to climb to his current position.
But only he himself knew that, although he was of a foreign surname, his status was actually not low - he was the biological brother and sister of the ancestor of Yinlan Villa, the product of tasting the forbidden fruit!
He clearly had the purest bloodline of Hidden Blue Villa, but he had never been seen in public and had to be raised by a deaf-mute groom named Li. Even his horoscope was not allowed to be revealed in front of others.
Because, once he revealed the astrological sign, it would be impossible to explain why a groom's son had a crescent-shaped astrological sign!
He was born and raised in filth and darkness. Although everyone envied him for being appreciated by his ancestors and being promoted quickly, his psychology became more and more distorted as his status in Yinlan Villa became higher and higher.
Because all of this should have belonged to him. In fact, with his qualifications, if he could openly use the surname Lan, he could get more resources and it would be possible for him to break through to three stars at the age of thirty.
However, he did not...
His birth is not recognized, and of course everything about him can be erased at will.
Originally, he still held on to a last glimmer of hope. Although his birth could not be remembered, he at least hoped that the sacrifice he made for Hidden Blue Villa would be remembered forever.
But everything Xu Qingyan had just done to him destroyed even his last thoughts...
Forget it...I'd better die early!
He opened his cracked lips with a weak breath, chewing the blood in his mouth, and said, "Ask."
"Tell me clearly and accurately, what exactly is blood sacrifice?" Tang Zheng asked.
"Blood sacrifice is a specific method of attracting stars into the fate. It uses some secret methods to improve the cultivation level by a whole star level in a very short period of time... generally no more than two months. However, the star that the blood sacrifice brings into the fate palace is not any of the fourteen main stars, but a star Betelgeux!"
"Star...comet?" Tang Zheng didn't expect that comets were also stars containing star power.
"Star Betel, also known as the broom star or blood star. Whether the blood sacrifice is effective or not depends on the strength of the star Betel itself..."
"Of course, no one can count how many kinds of comets there are." Tang Zheng thought to himself, "Besides, I'm afraid not every comet contains star power, right?"
"As long as the blood sacrifice is performed, the Star Beacon can be introduced into the Fate Palace. The Star Beacon is very strong... very strong... but it will not stay in any Fate Palace. It is uncontrollable, and the power of the Star Beacon is different... It can improve the blood sacrificer in two months, which would have taken two or even twenty years to achieve. However, this improvement will destroy the Fate Palace. It will only stay for a period of time before leaving the Fate Palace. When it leaves, the blood sacrificer's star veins will burst and die immediately."
Tang Zheng listened to the effect of the blood sacrifice and knew that the ancestor of Yinlan Villa had already made a desperate attempt.
He was in seclusion and offering a blood sacrifice, obviously intending to sacrifice his own life in exchange for the suffering of all the people in Tangjiabao.
“The blood sacrifice of our ancestor is the Moon-Slaying Blood Sacrifice, which is to … According to the secret method records of my Hidden Blue Villa, the constellation of a crescent moon is most consistent with the Moon-Slaying Star Beacon. If the blood sacrifice is successful, it will be no problem for our ancestor to forcibly break through to the five-star level!” Manager Li’s eyes were full of expectations.
At the same time, there is regret.
He was looking forward to the moment .
But it's a pity that he probably won't have the chance to see the ancestor who has taken care of him since he was a child, come out of seclusion wearing a five-star robe and massacre Tangjiabao with blood.
"Moon-killing Blood Sacrifice... five stars..." Tang Zheng calculated the strength of Tang Family Castle and felt a little depressed.
The three brothers Tang Boyuan are all three stars. Even if Tang Boyuan, who is at the peak of three stars, forcibly breaks through to four stars, he still cannot be compared with the ancestor of Yinlan Villa.
As for himself, there is no need to mention him at all.
A five-star warrior was strong enough to raze Tang Family Castle to the ground. He, a two-star warrior, could only be regarded as an ant that was stepped on and killed by others when they razed Tang Family Castle to the ground.
If you encounter this kind of high-level Boss in a game, the most normal way to deal with it is to shout in the upper world, "Come and take care of it with a big account", but this is the Xingyao Continent, which is not the game world that Tang Zheng is familiar with.
Of course, Tang Zheng was not unfamiliar with the "big ones" . Ghost Grandpa was the big one, and Lu Huang was the big one. But Ghost Grandpa never took action. He only protected the safety of Azhi. As for Lu Huang, he was a non-combatant and had already left Wulong Town.
"If I can find a way to suppress his strength to four stars, and my dagger technique can increase the lethality to three stars..." Tang Zheng compared the two and found that although there is a way out, there are still many difficulties.
First, there is a big problem...
Tang Zheng thought about it and asked directly: "The Moon-Slaying Blood Sacrifice, how long has it been going on? What stage has it reached? How can we interrupt it?"
"The Moon-Slaying Blood Sacrifice requires the blood of a thousand boys and girls. It has been going on for more than a month. Ten days ago, one of the girls sent there was not a virgin, which delayed the process a bit. Otherwise, the old ancestor's cultivation should have reached the peak of four stars by now!"
"If there is no supply of virgin boys and girls, how long will it take him to come out of seclusion?"
“That’s not known. There are three managers in charge of the sacrifices. Even if you rescued some of the sacrifices, at most you can only delay the time for the old ancestor to come out of seclusion. You don’t know where he is in seclusion, so you can’t interrupt him… You can’t stop the old ancestor… Hahahahahaha…”
Tang Zheng actually didn't want to listen anymore.
He didn't want to imagine what it would be like to drain all the blood from the bodies of a thousand boys and girls. He asked one last question: "Where is he in seclusion?"
"Of course it's in the Lan family's secret cave. But if you ask me where the secret cave is, I don't know either, hahaha..." Manager Li didn't dare to tell the truth due to Xu Qingyan's threat, so when he encountered questions he didn't know, he would feel twistedly happy, "Only the owners and young masters of the manor in past generations know where the secret cave is. Apart from the ancestor of Yinlan Villa, the only person who knew where the secret cave was has been killed by you..."
Tang Zheng knew the person he was referring to, of course it was Lan Shaoze!
It’s a pity that Lan Shaoze is already dead. Tang Zheng turned to look at Xu Qingyan, but Xu Qingyan shook his head, indicating that Lan Shaoze had never mentioned the matter of the Lan family’s secret cave to him.
Tang Zheng nodded, went into the house, picked up Sixteen, and turned away.
Xu Qingyan pointed at Manager Li and asked, "Is he still useful?"
"Take him back first and let Uncle Tang ask some more questions. They know more about Yinlan Villa and might be able to find out something else." Tang Zheng climbed over the wall and got on the horse holding Sixteen.
"Yeah." Xu Qingyan knocked Manager Li unconscious with a knife, hung him on the horse's back and followed Tang Zheng.
…
The news that Tang Zheng dug out from Manager Li shocked the entire Tang Family Castle.
The blood of a thousand boys and girls!
Use blood sacrifice to attract the blood star into the fate palace!
Each of these events was something they had never heard of before.
They had been fighting with Yinlan Villa for so long, but they had no idea that they had such secret methods and secret caves!
"Is there any news from Thirteen?" Tang Zheng handed Manager Li over to Tang Zixie and the others for care, and asked Tang Xiaotang, who had just returned from Wuqing Mountain and was on another team.
"Yes. Zhao Shanhe said that Thirteen must have chased a monster into the mountains." Tang Xiaotang replied, "But Zhao Shanhe said that his footprints were very steady. They didn't look like the kind of footprints that someone would have accidentally run into the mountains because they were being chased. Instead, he must have been very confident before he chased after the monster!"
"Good!" Tang Zheng was not surprised by this result.
If Thirteen has an intuition about whether a person is a good person or a bad person, then Tang Zheng also has a certain intuition about whether a person is a strong person or a weak person.
When he saw Thirteen, it was like he was seeing himself.
People like them would never die easily in an unknown place!
"Dad is back." Tang Xiaotang had just finished talking to Tang Zheng about Thirteen when she saw Tang Boyuan walking into the hall, exhausted.
As soon as Tang Boyuan saw Tang Zheng, he said, "Your guess should be true..."
As he spoke, he handed a yellowed drawing to Tang Zheng.
When Tang Zheng opened it, he saw that it was a formation drawn in blood!
The drawing was a three-dimensional picture. In the center was a large circle that was deeply sunken, resembling a pool of blood. The crescent patterns drawn around the large circle looked like a pair of eyes blinking in the dark, giving people a chill at first glance.
"The Moon-Killing Blood Sacrifice, the secret blood sacrifice of Hidden Blue Villa!" Tang Boyuan did not reveal where he got such precious information from. "It involves killing young children as sacrifices. No matter what level the main sacrificer is at, as long as the sacrifice is successful, his level can be directly increased by a full star!"
Tang Zheng already knew what Tang Boyuan had said. He knew it in more detail and even brought the person back with him.
However, the specific secret magic array diagram that Tang Boyuan brought back must contain more detailed information.
"What we know now is that the ancestor of Yinlan Villa entered the blood sacrifice, and after he came out of seclusion, his cultivation level reached five stars." Tang Zheng sorted out the information he knew and said, "If we just defend blindly, I'm afraid we won't be able to prevent it. We must take the initiative to find a way! So, I think, what we have to do next is two things..."
"Yeah!" Tang Xiaotang and the others all sat down to listen to Tang Zheng's ideas.
"First, of course, we need to find the place where Old Man Lan is in seclusion as soon as possible, which is the so-called Lan Family Secret Cave. Where exactly is it?"
"Yes, second?" Tang Boyuan nodded.
"Secondly, we must study this formation diagram clearly. Once we find the secret cave, we can enter the formation and break the sacrifice immediately without stopping for a moment!"
