Chapter 235: Weird Altar, Bone-Eating Bloodworms

After Xu Yang and his group reunited, they walked towards the depths of the cave together.

They did not walk very fast because there were many rare treasures around. Every time Tushan Yaoyao and other disciples took treasures, they handed them to Xu Yang. Of course, as the master, Xu Yang could not accept all of them. Instead, he gave some treasures that were useful to the demon clan to Tushan Xinya.

After all, she is Yaoyao’s aunt, and we are family after all!

Tushan Xinya took the treasure given by Xu Yang, her pretty face turned red as if smoking, her beautiful eyes wandered for a while, sometimes she stole a glance at Xu Yang, shy and timid, no one knew what she was thinking.

As they go deeper, the treasures become more and more precious, even including the Supreme Ancestral Root, but they are also becoming scarce. There may be only one treasure in hundreds of miles. Xu Yang put away the Ancestral Root and received a hundred times critical return from the system.

"Master, there seems to be something strange ahead!"

Tushan Yaoyao, who volunteered to explore the way, came back running with a clattering sound, his ears shaking, and his crystal-like eyes looked at Xu Yang with confusion.

"What's weird?"

Xu Yang asked.

He extended his spiritual sense, spreading it boundlessly, wanting to see what the strange thing Yaoyao had mentioned was. However, just after spreading out for dozens of miles, he was blocked by a barrier.

There is something strange indeed!

"Master, there is an altar over there. I wonder what they are offering sacrifices to. And there seems to be a powerful creature guarding the altar. Yaoyao didn't dare to get close, for fear of disturbing it, so he turned back and reported to Master!"

Tushan Yaoyao told the truth.

“That’s what we should do.”

Xu Yang touched Tushan Yaoyao's head and said without hesitation:

"Don't go any deeper. I'll go check it out by myself. Xinya, please keep an eye on my three disciples!"

After several major boosts, his spiritual awareness had become indescribably powerful, but it was still blocked. This meant that if there was real danger, even he might not be able to stop it, so he didn't want his disciples to take the risk with him.

"Okay, Brother Xu!"

Tushan Xinya agreed, and her mind immediately became tense.

Even Brother Xu found the place ahead a bit tricky because of the weirdness. It was definitely not a place they could set foot in.

"Master, you have to be careful!"

Tushan Yaoyao hugged Xu Yang's thighs, blinked her watery and clear eyes, and spoke in a soft voice.

"Don't worry, Yaoyao, I'm just going to take a look. If I sense any danger, I'll withdraw immediately."

Xu Yang smiled.

"Master, I'll wait for you here."

Situ Qingqing stared at Xu Yang with sparkling eyes.

"Master, be careful!"

Ruan Yuer said obediently.

Xu Yang nodded, then turned into a rainbow light and flew towards the depths of the cave.

In the blink of an eye, they arrived not far from the altar that Yaoyao mentioned.

There was indeed a terrifying aura emanating from the altar, which was so frightening that it even surpassed the Mahayana realm. It was as if a creature from the Tribulation Realm was sitting on the altar. If an ordinary cultivator came here and felt this aura, he would definitely be scared to death on the spot and run outside without looking back, because this aura was too real, as if a powerful being from the Tribulation Realm had descended to the world. Even many Mahayana saints who had been famous for a long time would probably be terrified when facing this aura.

But Xu Yang is different.

He suppressed the throbbing in his heart and carefully extended his spiritual sense to check the reality of the altar. Then he found that there was no living being that was transcending the tribulation on one side of the altar, but only a drop of blood, a drop of dried blood.

He walked closer and looked at the drop of dry blood falling on the side of the altar. It was really hard to imagine that a drop of dry blood could emit such a terrifying aura. How powerful must the owner of this drop of blood be?

He should be the owner of this ancient cave, right?

Maybe he really is an Immortal Emperor!

I just don’t know the name of this Immortal Emperor!

Xu Yang searched around the altar and found many rare treasures, including ancient gold that could be used to refine magical weapons and an unnamed elixir that had been around for millions of years but still contained medicinal power. Although Xu Yang had the true explanation of alchemy, he had never seen this elixir in the true explanation, so he did not know the name of this elixir.

Xu Yang looted all the treasures and came to the altar, where he saw the leaning white candles, the collapsed incense burner, and all kinds of offerings turned to ashes, as if the sacrificial ceremony was interrupted halfway through and abandoned halfway.

He originally wanted to see what the white candle was made of, but as soon as he approached, a strange and eerie wind blew towards his soul, trying to weaken his soul, but fortunately his soul was strong and was not blown away by the wind.

"It's really weird!"

"Fortunately, I didn't bring Yaoyao and the others here!"

Xu Yang stared at the white candle for a while and finally recognized the material of the white candle. It was the oil of the Xu beast. Because the Xu beast was born close to the Yin, it was able to shuttle between the Yin and Yang worlds. In ancient times, immortal forces often captured this beast, refined its oil, and made white candles. Once this kind of white candle was ignited, it could open the Yin and Yang worlds and allow the undead to return to the world!

The more powerful the undead is, the more white candles are needed, otherwise it will not be possible to support the undead's body!

He just took a quick glance and saw that there were thousands of white candles on the altar. So, in the unknown history, how powerful a spirit would be summoned for this sacrifice? It couldn't be that it was summoning the Immortal Emperor, right?

Xu Yang kept his distance from these white candles because he could feel that they exuded an ominous aura. This ominous aura did not come from strange creatures, but from the unknown!

He walked around the white candle and carefully observed the incense burner in front of him that was as big as a small mountain. The incense ashes inside were as cold as the white candle, especially the incense ashes. There was obviously no living thing in it, but it was constantly squirming, as if there were hundreds of insects piled up, causing the incense ashes to vibrate.

This kind of incense ash must be poisonous. It is very likely that even the ancient saints would die on the spot if they inhaled it.

"Everywhere is weird, be careful!"

Xu Yang used his magical power to block the acupoints, cover his mouth and nose, and take a detour. He could not fly because there was an invisible pressure gathered on the altar, forcing everyone to walk.

He was well versed in formations and knew that the pressure came from the formation on the altar, and this altar was the eye of the formation. As long as the eye of the formation was broken, the formation could be broken.

But he had just tested it, and the material of the altar was very mysterious. It was impossible to tell what material it was made of. In addition, there seemed to be several dragon veins underground blessing the altar, making it as solid as a rock. It seemed harder than the strongest iron in the world, and it was very tough. He couldn't even leave a scratch on it, let alone destroy it.

“What a treasure!”

"What a pity that it cannot be collected!"

Xu Yang felt a little regretful. This altar, the underground dragon vein, and the formation were all integrated into one. Unless he was promoted to the Mahayana realm and went further in the way of formation, he could not try to take away the altar.

He really wanted to move this altar away. Just imagine, when facing the enemy, he only needed to throw this altar away, and he didn't need to do anything else, and it would be enough to crush the person into meat paste.

Regret for a while.

He looked at the jade plates that originally held the offerings and discovered that they were also divine objects that could be used as divine weapons. A single plate smashing out would definitely give a person a big bump, but the gray on the plates was darker, and there were even black handprints on them. Upon closer inspection, he discovered that the handprints were twisting and shaking, as if they were made up of black tadpoles that were constantly shaking their tails, making the handprints suddenly come alive, with the power to bewitch people.

Seeing this, Xu Yang suddenly became angry. Who did this? It would have been fine if he didn't use these treasures himself, but he even didn't allow those who came later to use them. It was simply too immoral.

He walked around the jade plate indignantly, stepped down from the altar and continued to walk deeper. After walking for several hundred feet, a underground palace that was a hundred feet high appeared in front of him. Thick black light was scattered from the top of the palace to the surroundings. The black light was evil and seemed to be able to pollute people's souls.

Xu Yang felt it and found that when the black light shone on his body, he felt a slight itchy sensation, which was dense and creepy. He glanced around and found that it was actually a group of black beetles with flapping wings gnawing at his body.

Fortunately, he is not a trypophobic patient, otherwise, he would have had a heart attack at this moment.

This black beetle has eight wings and an extraordinary origin. It is called the bone-eating bloodworm. It can spit out mucus that is enough to corrode the divine iron. Even the divine iron cannot escape, let alone the human body. This kind of creature loves to parasitize in the human body. They first make a hole in the human body, and then thousands of bloodworms drill into the human body through the hole, suck blood, and devour flesh and bones. It only takes about one day to hollow out the human body, and then parasitize in the human body, and can imitate human habits, so as to make the rest of the human race careless, thereby achieving secondary parasitism!

Ten thousand years ago, an immortal force encountered a bloodworm disaster, and the ancestors of the tribe were helpless because there were too many parasites. If they were not dealt with in time, they could only burn all the descendants infected with bone-eating bloodworms with yang fire. Those who survived could be reborn, and those who could not could only blame themselves for their bad luck.

"These black lights are all bone-eating bloodworms!"

Divine power surged in Xu Yang's body, and his body surface suddenly burst into a scorching golden light, burning all the bone-eating bloodworms that covered him into ashes. A burning smell spread around him.

Because bone-eating bloodworms often live in tombs and are extremely yin creatures, they are most afraid of extremely yang and extremely strong things. So when Xu Yang used his extremely yang Taoist power, the black light on the top of the palace dared not shine on Xu Yang anymore.

Without the invasion of bone-eating bloodworms, Xu Yang walked straight to the front of the underground palace. Looking at the closed door of the underground palace, there were two large bloody handprints. The aura emanating from them was exactly the same as that on the altar, equally terrifying and making people's scalp tingle.

"Could it be that the owner of this bloodstain is not the same person as the owner of this cave, or that they are even enemies..."

Xu Yang thought about this and suddenly felt a little creepy. The hairs on his body stood up and his back felt a little cold. He thought of many things, such as...