mtl008 Chapter 377 Start of Construction
Chapter 377 Start of Construction
Chapter 377 Commencement of Work
Roses, bats, silver, crosses…
Shen Yao couldn't help but click her tongue: "Could there be a vampire locked up in here?"
Huo Die responded, "I think it looks quite similar."
Feng Yu and Tu Xiaoxiao understood the literal meaning, but they didn't know what the vampires they were talking about looked like.
Shen Yao pointed to the cross and explained to them, "This kind of pure silver cross is used to deal with vampires."
"Vampires are creatures from outer space. They typically have pale skin, sharp teeth that can transform into fangs, and they live by drinking blood."
As she spoke, she used her spiritual power to make a protective ring around her neck, and then made one for Feng Yu as well: "Just in case, let's protect our necks. Vampires love to bite necks, and some can even become invisible."
"They might just sneak up and ambush you."
Huo Die wasn't afraid of vampires at all, but he did use his divine power to make a neck protector.
Tu Xiaoxiao stood still, envious, wanting Shen Yao to make it for him.
Shen Yao understood his meaning at a glance: "Your spiritual power is stronger than mine."
Tu Xiaoxiao twitched her fox ears and said coquettishly, "I just want my wife to make it for me."
Fine, fine, I'll indulge you.
Shen Yao raised her hand to gather spiritual energy, preparing to make a neck protector for him.
A black-haired, red-eyed vampire, which had been invisible, suddenly appeared behind Tu Xiaoxiao and opened its mouth to bite his neck.
Tu Xiaoxiao reacted extremely quickly. He dodged to the side, struck the vampire's jaw with an elbow, and then kicked the vampire away with his foot.
A vampire with black hair and red eyes, dressed in court attire, was kicked and sent flying onto a silver fence.
"Ah..." the vampire let out a sharp wail.
The part of it that touches the silver railing is like raw meat touching a hot grill, constantly emitting white smoke and sizzling like roasting meat.
Shen Yao put a neck protector on Tu Xiaoxiao, then took out a pair of silver chopsticks from her storage ring, made a cross shape with them, and inserted them into the vampire's heart.
White smoke billowed from the vampire's heart. He struggled and screamed for a while before shriveling up into a dried-up corpse.
Shen Yao cut off its head, separated it from its body, and burned it.
Her process was clean, efficient, and professional, unlike someone killing a vampire for the first time.
After finishing, she raised an eyebrow at Feng Yu and Tu Xiaoxiao: "How was it? Pretty cool, sis?"
"Handsome." The two peach blossoms left no room for doubt; he was indeed handsome.
Shen Yao said proudly, "Luckily, I loved reading in my past life. I've read all sorts of strange tales and unusual stories from both the East and the West."
"To kill vampires, you need to use a pure silver cross to pierce their hearts, then cut off their heads and burn them. It's best to burn their bodies as well, otherwise they will regenerate indefinitely."
She said to Feng Yu, "Yunhe, I mentioned solar energy to you before. Didn't you create a magical artifact that can absorb sunlight?"
Feng Yu took it out directly and gave it to her.
The golden sphere resembled a small sun. Shen Yao activated it with her spiritual power, and the small sun flew in the air, continuously shining and releasing stored sunlight.
Shen Yao snapped her fingers: "Vampires are afraid of sunlight. With this, they can no longer become invisible."
The fully enclosed silver fence definitely cannot be removed.
Fortunately, Shen Yao had accumulated a lot of pure silver items from her previous shopping trips.
She took out some silver utensils, and Feng Yu, with his keen eye, followed suit by taking out a refining furnace to help her forge them.
The silver utensils were quickly crafted into twenty crosses.
They each took two of the light-powered golems and continued on their way.
Along the way, we encountered several vampires hiding behind rose vines. They were all exposed under the light of the small sun and killed with crosses, their heads cut off and burned.
From the second silver platform to the third raised silver platform, they walked for about a quarter and a half minutes.
On the third silver platform, there is also a cross.
The front of the silver plate is engraved with "800 meters", and behind the cross, there is also a line of text engraved vertically.
"Being too affectionate is a sin, but so is being heartless."
After pausing to look at it for a while, Shen Yao said, "The meters engraved on these silver plates may indicate the altitude or the depth underground."
"It should be altitude. If it's depth, the number of meters should increase from small to large."
The cultivators expressed their agreement.
As for the words carved on the back of the cross, they might just be a charade.
It is used to create psychological pressure on intruders.
The further down you go, the fewer red-winged three-eyed bats you see.
Above the silver railing, more and more of the Lingbao-made imitations of the inextinguishable candlesticks are appearing.
The underground area is getting brighter and brighter.
Shen Yao looked down through the gaps in the fence and saw nothing but stark white bones. The bone fragments were huge, and she didn't know how thick the pile was.
Tu Xiaoxiao glanced at it, and his pupils dilated instantly. He stared intently at the pile of bones below, his face filled with shock.
Feng Yu noticed the fox demon's strange expression: "What's wrong?"
Tu Xiaoxiao concentrated and carefully examined the remains for a long time: "The bottom is full of dragon skeletons."
His tone was very somber: "It is very likely the remains of all the Dragon Clan cultivators who failed to pass the Trial Tower in the past 60,000 years."
In order to create two demon lords of the same era, they needed to break the seal and obtain the secret treasure for cleansing the marrow and strengthening the tendons.
Is it really worth it to make so many clansmen undergo trials one after another, with the fittest surviving?
It's good to avoid developing mental obstacles through trials, but many of the eliminated cultivators might not develop mental obstacles even if they didn't accept the trials.
Many of the Long family cultivators who became corpses below could have lived peaceful lives.
Tu Xiaoxiao was indignant. He bypassed the Light Energy One leader and thought that if there really was a mysterious treasure at the bottom of the tower, then so be it.
But what if it's a conspiracy to help the Blood Demon wreak havoc on the world...?
After he leaves, he will definitely destroy the tower spirit and the trial tower.
The group walked down in silence, encountering no more vampires along the way.
Along the way, they passed two more silver crosses, one at 500 meters and the other at 100 meters.
On the 500-meter-long silver platform, behind the cross is engraved the words: "Disruption is wrong, stubborn adherence is even more wrong."
On the 100-meter-long silver platform, behind the cross is engraved the words: "Your stubbornness is timeless."
Outside the fence, there were countless dragon skeletons, as if they had all fallen from a great height, with the bones separated and in no order.
The further they went, the heavier their hearts became.
Finally, they reached the bottom, where the zero-meter silver platform appeared in front of them.
"Your sins are too numerous to count."
The cross on the silver table has these eight characters engraved on both sides.
"Pure evil is evil, and so is pure good."
"Being too affectionate is a sin, but so is being heartless."
"Disregarding the rules is wrong, but stubbornly adhering to them is even worse."
"Your foolishness is so deep that it is impossible to change it since ancient times."
"Your sins are too numerous to count."
Shen Yao read all the short sentences on the cross together: "When put together, they don't seem like they're being deliberately mysterious, but rather like they're blaming someone."
If the Trial Tower was built by the Goddess Ningyao, then who is she blaming?
The group walked out of the passage and were greeted by a magnificent hall.
Along the corridor railing in the hall, there were piles of dragon skeletons.
On the other side, there were exquisite murals on the walls, and a hexagonal coffin was placed every ten feet on the ground.
Near the edge of the passage, there were several lead coffins with their lids open.
Shen Yao counted them; there were seven in total, the lead coffins of the seven vampires they had killed in the passage.
The lead coffins were arranged in a neat and orderly fashion; there were no fewer than a hundred of them at a glance.
After using his divine power to detect it, Huo Die gave the number: "One hundred and thirteen, remove seven, and one hundred and six remain."
Shen Yao held the cross in both hands: "Let's get started."