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Thorn Village.

The map in Li Xi's hand was incomplete, at least the location of Thorn Village was not marked on it, and several routes to the Tongtian Pagoda were also incomplete and incoherent.

Judging from the position of the Blood Moon in the sky, he had already deduced that he was in the southwest of the Burial Immortal Land, and the extremely vast ruins of Ruyi City and the Tongtian Pagoda in the ruins were in the most central position of this world.

In any case, if you want to fully understand the secrets of the Pagoda, you must first get there, and it is completely useless to speculate here.

After silently planning the route in his heart, Li Xi put away the map, took out an incense candle from the storage bag, and with a finger of his fingers, a dark flame danced and burned.

Then he placed the incense candle in front of the spiritual throne in a proper manner.

Under the reflection of the candlelight, the tablets embedded in the wall became more and more eerie and obscure, and there was a strange and unpredictable glow.

As time passed, the blood-red sky outside faded.

Li Xi, who was sitting on the ground with his eyes closed and recuperating, suddenly opened his eyes and looked towards the crack in the door, only to see that in the gray-white mist, an inexplicable dark shadow shrouded him, like an endless abyss, wanting to devour all the living beings in heaven and earth.

Seeing this, Li Xi's heart was slightly cold, and he immediately dodged and escaped into the coffin.

Bang—

and then, he lay in it and raised his hand, and the long rotten wooden coffin lid on the ground flew automatically and buckled onto the coffin, completely cutting himself off from the outside world.

After

doing all this, Li Xi suddenly frowned, and in the position of lying on his back, he immediately noticed the abnormality in front of him.

I saw that the top of the coffin was carved with six vague ancient seal characters.

The writing of these six characters is not standardized, the strokes in the words are of different shades, uneven, and there is a little dark red blood oozing on it, as if it was pulled out by someone with a fingernail.

Li Xi's eyesight was astonishing, and he quickly recognized the meaning of these words:

"Give birth to one person, sacrifice one person." The

six seal texts that are not complicated form a sentence that looks like clouds and mountains, and between the lines, there seems to be a monstrous hatred, which makes Li Xi can't help but feel cold in his heart and think about it.

Is this a curse, or is it some kind of record?

At some point, it was pitch black outside, and an aura of extinction, death, withering, and annihilation kept pouring in from the cracks.

"Sheng..."

Li Xi muttered, and suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest, as if he had been stabbed by some sharp weapon, and the golden blood instantly stained the placket red.

Realizing something, he immediately shut up, held his breath, and lay quietly in the coffin.

Knock, knock

... It was as if it was the sound of drums, which made people's eardrums buzz, and the door outside shook violently, as if something outside was pounding wildly on the door panel, as if it could break open the door and rush in at any time.

Endless ferocity and malice fill the space, making people's scalps tingle.

Li Xi, who had been completely enveloped in darkness, looked calm and peaceful, without revealing the slightest breath around his body, like a piece of rotten wood, only a pair of clear eyes flashing with inexplicable light.

After a while, the roars of the demons gradually stopped, and beyond the cracks in the plank, there was no longer pure darkness, but began to glow pale, and then blood spread.

Three hours....

It took three hours for the black sun to completely sweep over the place.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Xi's eyes narrowed slightly, and he secretly wrote down this important information.

Suddenly, there was a slightly heavy sound of footsteps outside the door, from far and near, as if someone was rushing this way.

Soon a gentle voice sounded, and this voice was not pleasant to the ear, but a little twilight and gloomy.

"Guest, dinner has been prepared, and the old man has brought it to you. Hearing

this, Li Xi was stunned for a moment, and soon his face suddenly appeared, for the villagers who go out day and night, [dinner] and [breakfast] mean the same thing.

He immediately stepped forward and opened the door, and saw an old woman with goosebumps standing outside on crutches, dressed in a linen jacket, and her swarthy face covered with ravines, looking like an old dragon.

As soon as the door opened, the old woman walked slowly into the house, hunched over.

In her hand, she was holding a bowl of black soup, and there were a few dry ugly vegetables floating in it.

If it weren't for Li Xi knowing that the environment here was indeed extremely bad, he would almost suspect that this old woman was poisoning people...

Although he didn't intend to drink the bowl of unknown substances, Li Xi politely took the soup bowl and put it on the stone table, then took out a large handful of incense candles from his arms and stuffed them into the old woman's hands.

"Thank you mother-in-law for your hospitality, there have been many disturbances in the past two days, and I will leave here. The

old woman carefully put away the incense and candles, and her face was even more sad.

"Before leaving, the old man told the old man that this stone house should be left empty all the time, and that he would take in those passers-by so that they could have a place to live. "

Let's

go, the more Li Xi listens, the more wrong it becomes, originally he thought that what the old woman said was to go out to work, but he could listen to the other party's meaning, this [go], it seems that the person is completely gone.

Thinking of this, Li Xi's face turned slightly pale, and he asked in a deep

voice: "I dare to ask, where is the village chief of Ting now?"

Hearing him ask, the old woman's cloudy eyes suddenly showed sadness, she shook her head and sighed in a low voice:

"Give birth to one person, sacrifice one person." The old man went to wait for Hengdu Daxian.

Hearing this, Li Xi couldn't help frowning, and couldn't help but ask out loud

: "Old woman, what does this mean?"

The old woman sighed and said slowly:

"The daughter-in-law of the soap family gave birth to a child yesterday, and the old man drew a red lot, and volunteered to put down the ghost disaster with his life.

"If he dies, the child can live, this is the rule of the village, otherwise, this village would have been extinct a long time ago!" Seeing

that Li Xi was still confused and didn't have much common sense, the old woman seemed a little surprised, but she still explained:

"A hundred years ago, Thorn Village was originally a large village with a number of people around, and when it was the most populous, there were more than 300 households, but since the last exorcism sacrifice disappeared, the village has been worse day by day. "

There is no exorcism sacrifice to resist the ghost disaster, whether the people in the village marry their own children, or the annual worship of immortals, they must sacrifice with the living, otherwise they will suffer terrible disasters, ghosts are raging, newcomers are dying, and children are dying.

"Up to now, there are only a dozen households left in the village..."

The old woman babbled and recounted, but the details contained in it made Li Xi's heart tremble a little when she heard it.

Ghost calamity

, exorcism

sacrifice, living sacrifice? At

this time, he realized how little he knew about this place before, and this world was definitely more treacherous and sinister than he imagined...

Just as he was about to continue asking, there was a sudden cry at the door.

When the old woman heard this, her expression changed, and she said hurriedly:

"The people in the village are going to funeral for the old man, and the old woman must hurry up and prepare!"

She hurriedly ran out, staggering, but very determined.

Li Xi watched her departing back, and after muttering for a while, he quickly followed.

Originally, he had planned to take advantage of today's blood moon to leave here and continue on his way, but this incident caused him to change his mind.

At this time, Li Xi had a hunch that this funeral would be an excellent opportunity to thoroughly understand the land of fallen immortals.