Chapter 307: Ancient Civilization (2/2)
But now they were basically inviting them to follow them. Could it be that their plans were to actually lure them away? Or did they want them to think like this?
Xue Wei felt a headache coming his way.
”The King and Lin Xiao are strong,” he muttered to himself, ”They will be able to hold out on the ship. Although they will be pushed to their limits, they will be able to manage. So we should follow these tracks and see what is going on.”
Bai Tianyi heard his words and a small smile flittered across his lips. He knew that his master was the most conflicting person he had ever encountered before.
He was ruthless, cold-blooded, and bloodthirsty towards those who wished to harm him.
But he was warm, friendly and a real friend towards those he considered friends.
Bai Tianyi had picked him out of desperation. He had wanted to leave the village no matter what, to become a living being again, or as close to a living being as he could, so he had picked the first, the best, candidate that appeared.
Now that they had been together for years, Bai Tianyi was very happy with the random master he had picked.
Xue Wei did not treat him like the spiritual artifact that he actually was; he treated him as his real friend, and someone who had given up his humanity for immortality, this was an exciting thing. It felt that he was still human.
Just as they thought like this, Xue Wei stopped in his tracks. The scent of blood in the air was getting more and more prominent, the scent was so dense that he could almost taste it, and he felt how his own blood was boiling, wanting to let go of everything and rush forward, ready to fight anything that came across them.
The bloodlust in his body was much more overwhelming than normal. It was as if there was some sort of drug within the bloody smell, some sort of drug that was making him have an even more overwhelming urge to murder than usual.
It was not only Xue Wei who felt it. When he looked at Bai Tianyi and Hei Gou, he saw that their eyes were red, and their teeth were tightly clenched.
”The smell is wrong,” Xue Wei growled, his eyes narrowing dangerously. He found a soul-calming pill he had concocted back in Yan Dalu and tossed two to Hei Gou and Bai Tianyi before he took one and sat down to cultivate.
The Soul-Calming Pill was a very different type of pill than what one would normally consume. It did not increase one's cultivation base, neither did it do anything for one's strength, all it did was to calm one's mind and bring control over the soul.
This pill was not consumed unless necessary. Pills left impurities in one's body if one did not eat high purity pills, and thus they were only consumed in limited quantities, or to improve one's cultivation base.
But right now, the Soul-Calming pills were very important, and they could help them maintain their sanity while investigating what was happening with this heavy scent of blood.
Xue Wei sat still for as long as it takes for a cup of tea to brew before he stood up once more. When he stood up, he felt that he had control over his mind again, although the bloodlust was still struggling under his control, he could feel that it no longer threatened to take over his mind any longer.
Hei Gou and Bai Tianyi took a bit longer to calm themselves, but when all three of them were back to normal, they once more began moving forward.
They relaxed and took a lot of time to slowly inch forward. They had entered a dense forest, and this forest was ideal for setting up ambushes, so Xue Wei and the other two were on high alert as they moved past the trees, bushes, and branches.
The forest was filled with ancient old trees, but the further they got into the forest, the more overwhelming the silence became. There was no wildlife sounds, no living beings at all, not even insects.
There was only a bit of dim light in the forest as the crowns of the trees were a thick layer of green above them. The sun could not break through the dense blanket of leaves and branches.
Suddenly, in front of them was a clearing in the branches. This clearing was filled with old ruins of an ancient civilization, the pagodas and buildings were almost ruined, and in the middle was a massive altar.
When they found the clearing, the scent of blood was much more overwhelming than it had been before.
The closer to the ruins they got, the more alert they became. In the ruins were a river that ran through the ancient city, and this river was filled with blood. The river originated from the altar and ended in a sea that was located in the middle of the city.
The amount of blood needed for this river was not able to be counted in the thousands, in fact, much more was needed. It seemed as if millions had left their lives to be able to fill up this river and lake.
But even within this ancient city, there was not one living being. The city had clearly been visited recently, it was completely spotless, not a grain of dust could be seen, but no one living could be seen. Even when they spread out their spiritual energy, could they not find anyone.
Their eyebrows furrowed, their hearts beating rapidly as the adrenaline started to rush through their bodies.
”Let us look at the altar,” Xue Wei said after a bit of thought, and the other two had no objections. They were constantly looking around as they made their way towards the altar.