Chapter 113 (1/2)
Book 4, Chapter 113: Strange Beast
Strange Beast
Inferno Altar
Although it was a wooden door but it felt heavy to touch, after pushi+ng hard, the heavy Inferno Altar’s solid door emitted a low sound of [zhi ya] and slowly opened
Froht weakly shone out, the tely hot
Ghost Li frowned, faint sweats already seen on his forehead, he suddenly recalled what he had eavesdropped just now, that elderly called ShangGuan actually had been guarding this blistering hot place for nearly a hundred years, he wondered how did he bear it all these while
Inside the Inferno Altar, it was not that bright, other than the ht,torrid heat Ghost Li stood at the entrance, deliberated for a moment and finally stepped in
A sound of [zhi ya] again accoently closed
Ghost Li inhaled deeply, cals It was as what he had surmised when he had looked at the Inferno Altar froht reaching up to five zhangs, the entire hall appeared circular and the walls also looked identical to outside, all le decoration or engravings, siainst this enorrandeur andthat only the exalted level of architecture would have this kind of simplicity
Very quickly Ghost Li soon discovered that the red light that was filling the entire great hall ca the center, the surrounding becaht, a ball of fla
Ghost Li watched intensely at that ball of “fla in his eyes and also on Xiao Hui as crouching at his shoulder
In the eyes of oneat the sa
Xiao Hui’s tail gently swished, it seemed unsettled and quietly called out
Ghost Li strided, walked towards that ball of “fire” in the center of the building, unhurriedly walked deep into where that red light was
As he walked nearer to that “fire”, the surrounding air becaht now, it was alround lava In Ghost Li’s otten past event suddenly surfaced - Below the Fire Dragon Cave, the lava lake that was evenhot than now, that pair of fox spirits co into the lake
The thought flashed past, at less than one zhang to the center of the building, he suddenly stopped Xiao Hui turned its head and look at its master
Ghost Li frowned, already looking away fro the floor
The smooth floor, n
Under Ghost Li’s feet, a notch about the thickness of a finger appeared on the flagstones and extended in two directions but it appeared to be twisting and definitely not level And one chi ahead of Ghost Li, the saly drawn on the solid cri
That was a celestial deity!
One that Ghost Li had never seen before, never heard before deity
The worn-out notch on the ground slowly extended out, the signs of wear and tell could be seen all over on the peris existed for an eternity, revealing some desolation
The top of the deity’s head was hairless but instead a slightly curved horn like a goat was there, his face looked similar to human, just that underneath that eerie holes for the eyes, sharp fangs were obviously in the raver had even carved out a few tiny holes at the side of the fangs, as if fresh blood was dripping down, increasing the savageness of the idol
And the body of the deity, was greatly different from human, like a well-built panther’s body, he had four ar a knife, one hand a shi+eld; the rehtly onto a painfully contorted hu out loud towards the sky; and the other hand was gently holding an object, still dripping ith blood, it was actually a human heart
The initial crude bleak notch stopped here, the carving strokes suddenly was abandoned in anger, the deep hatred in the heart like it had erupted all of a sudden Ghost Li could actually incredibly vividly felt that frenzied energy, seething from the notches
The placid notch, in an instant, beca swiftly down from the body, it became one with the lower part of the ferocious deity, transforlirin, as if he was about to break out from the floor and come alive!
Ghost Li deeply, deeply inhaled, alraver and the architect of this Inferno Altar Unbelievably there was actually such a master craftsman in this world that had such out-of-the-world talent!
An engraved drawing and it had as if captured the world’s creations!
That notch was still extending out, Ghost LI could not help but followed it to the side and gradually discovered the second, third deities’ drawings and finally, after circling once around that ball of red flaht deities drawings carved into the floor Not one of theraved on the floor were all ferocious deities
In those drawings, hus for the deities, like food The entire interior of the huge building right now had becas, so
And outside those ferocious deities drawings, there was still a notch that surrounded them but it was not a co inwards, at times it rose and turned outwards, Ghost Li for the ure it out
Right now, he returned to the first baleful-looking deity, after staring deeply at the deity, he raised his head and that burning fire once again appeared in front of him
Suddenly, a [weng] sound went off in his head, soed up, a kind of thirst, a kind of thirst to suck blood, such a fa rushed up in his heart Almost at the same time, the deities suddenly seemed to come alive, indistinctly wavered in front of him
The Soul-Absorbing stick hidden beside his hand, through the cloth sleeve, slowly started to light up
Ghost Li’s breathing slowly turned heavier, suddenly, he forcefully shook his head and focused his mind, and then sloalked over to that ball of fire
Just that, he had forgotten to look at theat his shoulder
In that pair of ain appeared but behind the golden light, there were even hts, the sahten its eyes, filled its eyes
The distance of one zhang was not far, Ghost Li very quickly caht in the center of the building
By now he had already discovered, the eight stone carvings which he had just seen, were all surrounding this light source and the direction of the deities’ heads were all facing this way The te hot, if a normal person was here, most probably he would not be able to breath
Ghost Li forced hi in his heart, looked past the red lights and at the source of the light
A thing that looked like a stone well, thin top and thick bottoh and with a diameter of not more than two chi, built out of the same crimson stone as the stone floor
But on top of the s crystal-clear stone, it appeared to circular and looking carefully at it, innu in sizes, resplendent radiance circulating around it
And the unceasing red light projecting out froe stone that looked like a crystal, the light was refracted out layer by layer, there see in in-between it And those light streaht three chi above the strange stone, that was the burning flames which Ghost Li had assumed it to be when he saw it fro
Looking at this mysterious and mystical scene, Ghost Li sloent near that well, near that dazzling clear stone and looked down
A fa lava underneath raged and roared, like the tide of a furious raging sea, surging unceasingly and receding, the lava which were splashed up onto the rugged rock facessounds
The Inferno Altar building was actually built on top of a volcano that looked like it was going to erupt
A wave of agitation was felt in Ghost Li’s heart, subconsciously he was clenching his hands into fists, even his breathing started to becos in the ground, those never seen and heard before drawings stirred up the savageness deep inside his heart, or e evil deities The Soul-Absorbing stick’s bloodlust in his heart was getting stronger but strangely, he could still remain conscious, unlike the other times where he had descended into madness
Just that although he was clear-headed, the agony froy in his body tormented him more If there was anyone around, the person would see that in Ghost Li’s eyes, aglow brightly with red light, like an evil ghost
Just when Ghost Li was forcibly holding up, Xiao Hui on his shoulder suddenly [zhi zhi] called out twice and jue stone
Ghost Li was greatly shocked, that strange stone had faint blood-red rays travelling around it, even he who had trained with the Evil Sect Tian Shu fornot to be trifled with, he iently called out, “Xiao Hui, be careful!”
But because Xiao Hui had leapt out in a sudden, Ghost Li’s reaction was too late and his hands grabbed empty air Xiao Hui unfolded out in the air, its eyes like Ghost Li, gliht Before he knew it, Xiao Hui had already landed on top of that strange stone, a slight sound of [peng] was heard
Instantly, the red lights which were refracted froe stone, were blocked by Xiao Hui’s body And alated above, lost their light source and vanished
Suddenly, the entire world seemed to turn silent
Only in a twinkling of an eye, the entire great altar building lost all of its light, darkness enveloped the entire place