funbook-pk Chapter 215 Once a Year
Chapter 215 Once a Year
The old woman untied Ning Xiaoxi's hands and feet and then left.
The sound of the door locking wasn't loud, and it was quiet outside. The old woman's clattering footsteps carried far before finally disappearing.
Ning Xiaoxi saw through the hole in the roof that the sky was turning blue, and it was almost dawn. It seemed that she was going to be sacrificed before dawn.
It guarantees no drought for ten years. There are nearly a hundred mummies there. Have they been there for a thousand years?
Thinking of those calm, mummified corpses, they must have been women who knew what was going to happen to them and accepted their fate! There were also women who were unwilling but were still thrown down.
A woman's body was enough to keep that fake female demon quiet for ten years? That's too easy, isn't it? Maybe I should go down and check things out later.
Ning Xiaoxi put aside her thoughts, picked up the bowl, and began to eat heartily.
The blue of the sky grew more pronounced, but the sun had not yet risen.
The old woman reappeared, followed by two burly men, clearly to prevent her from escaping.
Ning Xiaoxi calmly followed behind the old woman, "Grandma, can I know more? Even if I die, I want to die knowing why."
Perhaps it was Ning Xiaoxi's frail appearance that aroused the old woman's pity, or perhaps she thought Ning Xiaoxi was about to die and it didn't matter if she knew. "The goddess is the guardian deity of our area. The surrounding area is under the goddess's protection. Our Gobi Desert region is already hot and difficult to survive in. The goddess can suppress the heat and prevent us from having no harvest, thus ensuring our survival."
The old woman led Ning Xiaoxi onto the stone platform and into the small house, where the stone carvings on the shrine were blurry and indistinct.
Is this stone sculpture a goddess?
"That is the supreme god. There are ten goddesses, but only one supreme god. Only under the protection of the supreme god can the goddesses keep the region at peace."
Haha, there's another main god, what guardian, more like suppressor! There are actually ten goddesses, that's a bit exaggerated.
The old woman pointed to a circled spot near the entrance to the shrine and told Ning Xiaoxi to stand there. Then she stared at the shrine without moving. Two burly men stood guard by the door of the small house, also motionless.
Ning Xiaoxi stood in the circle and could clearly see a beam of light slowly climbing up the shrine from her feet.
"Roar!" A roar echoed from the deep cave.
The old woman, however, paid no attention, as if she hadn't heard anything, and just stared at the statue in the shrine without moving.
The beam of light slowly rose, and the sounds inside the cave grew louder and louder.
When the beam of light shone on the stone sculpture's face, a soft, hazy light appeared. The old woman pushed Ning Xiaoxi onto her back, plunging her into the light.
With a "whoosh!", Ning Xiaoxi's falling body was enveloped in light, and she was slowly lowered down.
"Roar!" A loud roar came from below, the excitement in the voice was undisguised, it was time to eat!
Ning Xiaoxi followed the light and didn't rush to fall.
As they descended into the cave, they could see shimmering fluorescence on the surrounding stone walls, forming a rune array that imprisoned the pseudo-female demon below.
The fake female demon had already awakened and sat up in the coffin, tilting her head back with her white mask facing the cave entrance and her blood-red eyes fixed on Ning Xiaoxi as she fell.
[It's a demon-sealing formation, suppressing and absorbing the power within her body. How vicious! Sealing her wasn't enough; it also made her provide power, and instead of letting her die, she's trapped here underground, with no hope of ever escaping.]
Ning Xiaoxi stopped three zhang away from the fake female demon and just looked at the white, blank mask with its head tilted back.
The fake female demon waited in vain for blood offerings, and gripped the coffin lid with both hands, roaring anxiously.
A fireball appeared in Ning Xiaoxi's palm, forming a flame projectile. The flame particles gathered more and more, but the size remained unchanged. The fireball's appearance and color changed from light red to dark red, to purple, to black, and finally to white, colorless.
The colorless fireball fell rapidly with the light, landing on the blank mask.
"boom!"
The colorless fireball exploded upon contact with the mask, and flames poured out, engulfing the blue body.
As the flames spread, the pseudo-female demon's roars ceased. She simply raised her blank mask and stared at Ning Xiaoxi above her. The blood-red in her eyes faded, leaving only pitch black.
Does it not want to live anymore?
The crackling sound rang out as the clothes in the flames were burned away, revealing fair and tender skin. Under the flames, the white turned black, then gray, and finally fell away, revealing white bones.
Black runes were on the bones, the patterns appearing and disappearing in the flames, flashing one by one before being swallowed by the flames. After all the patterns on the bones had appeared and been swallowed, the bones became flawless and translucent.
The skeleton slowly lay down, and fine cracks began to appear on the mask atop the skull.
The demon-sealing array patterns on the surrounding stone walls still shimmered, diligently guarding against the demons here.
The bones were still burning, and a strange fragrance began to fill the air. Blood-red flowers began to bloom on the bones.
The kapok flower represents courage, heroism, and unwavering perseverance.
Kapok flowers are in full bloom, their fragrance filling the air.
【How could it be a kapok flower?】
Ning Xiaoxi watched in bewilderment as the fiery red flower bloomed and melted in the flames.
Tuanzi, perched on Ning Xiaoxi's shoulder, was also puzzled as she watched the last kapok flower bloom and wither in the center of the mask.
When the kapok flowers withered, the flames also disappeared.
The coffin was intact, with only a blank mask lying quietly inside.
The demon-sealing formation was unaffected.
Ning Xiaoxi waited quietly.
No way, she burned a fake female demon and it had no effect at all? Then what's the point of having ten of them?
As the temperature dropped, the patterns on the mask began to appear, and the cracked patterns strangely formed a character: "hand".
What does this mean?
[The remains of a fake Nüba, remnants of her flesh and blood, and hand bones.]
This looks like it's time to play a jigsaw puzzle!
Ning Xiaoxi remained suspended in the air, and with a gentle flick of her Spirit Crystal Whip, she lifted the mask.
On the blank mask, there are two black holes and a "hand" character made of cracks.
The mask was placed in the cave, and we waited, waited, waited.
Xiaoxue looked at the mask curiously, pushed it with her hand, but felt nothing. She touched it again, but still nothing changed. Finally, she picked it up and looked at it over and over. It was just an ordinary mask.
Jiuyu wasn't interested, so he just let Xiaoxue do whatever she wanted.
I don't know if it's because the desert sun is too strong, but it seems like you can sunbathe inside the cave.
Nothing has changed. Well, as expected, it was all just people's imagination.
Nothing has changed except for the empty coffin.
Ning Xiaoxi used the wind to return directly to the passage, touched the stone wall with her feet, and quickly rose up.
The small house where the shrine was placed was empty, and the two burly men who had been guarding the door were also gone.
Ning Xiaoxi stepped onto the stone platform, which was desolate and deserted.