Chapter 434: Following

Yuan Ming looked at the crescent moon pattern on the disk and couldn't help but feel a strange feeling in his heart. He always felt that he had seen it somewhere or heard someone describe it, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

But at this moment, the blood moon pattern suddenly flashed with light. After absorbing a large amount of wish power, the bloody light on it suddenly brightened, and a burst of evil light emitted from it, which began to cover the statue.

Yuan Ming's heart moved, and he clearly noticed that the blood was the richest on the chest of the statue, and the blood became thinner toward the head and feet.

But as time went by, this blood color spread all over the statue sooner or later.

At the same time, he noticed that the originally fresh fruits in the fruit plate on the table were quickly shriveling and shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if something had absorbed all the moisture.

The statue of Ming Yue has been tampered with!

Yuan Ming's expression changed slightly, and he subconsciously wanted to destroy the statue, but his reason told him not to be reckless.

So in the midst of great confusion, he observed the entire prayer process.

After the crowd dispersed, Yuan Ming called Hu Ji and his wife to him again.

"You said this statue was sent by Xu Che two months ago and replaced the original statue?" Yuan Ming asked.

"Yes." Hu Ji replied respectfully.

"Was there this black disk and the blood moon pattern on it at that time?" Yuan Ming continued to ask.

"The disk existed at that time, but the blood moon pattern appeared recently. I thought it was a miracle." Hu Ji said.

Yuan Ming's eyes darkened. It seemed that the change in his willpower was related to the blood moon pattern.

"Then do you know where Xu Cheren is?" he asked.

"The God Envoy is busy preaching and traveling between cities. I don't know where he is now." Hu Ji shook his head and answered honestly.

"When he sent the statue, did he say anything to you? Or did he behave strangely?" Yuan Ming asked again.

"I didn't say anything... I just gave us a prayer and asked us to recite it sincerely. I didn't say anything else." Hu Ji was a little confused. Aren't the actions of the envoys all guided by Yuan Ming? Yuan Ming asked him instead?

But although he was doubtful, he didn't dare to question anything, because it was said in the prayer that questioning the gods was the greatest disrespect to the gods, and after death, he would go to the heart-cutting purgatory.

Yuan Ming knew that the prayer in his mouth was what everyone was chanting in a low voice just now. He originally thought it was just something Xu Che made up to fool people, but now it seems that this matter is not simple.

Either something happened to Xu Che, or he betrayed him.

No matter what the situation is, Yuan Ming will not ignore it.

"Lord Ming Yue God, do you want to find Divine Envoy Xu Che?" Hu Ji tried to ask.

"Can you contact him?" Yuan Ming raised his eyebrows.

"I can't, but other divine envoys should be able to." Hu Ji shook his head and said.

Yuan Ming was stunned. Are there other divine envoys? Could it be other believers of immortal cultivators?

But he didn't ask, he just nodded and signaled Hu Ji to continue.

"At the end of every month, a divine envoy will come to collect the statue from me. At that time, you can ask the arriving divine envoy and you may be able to find Lord Xu Che." Hu Ji said.

"Collect the idol?" Yuan Ming frowned.

"Yes, at the end of every month, someone will come to collect the statues, saying that they want to take them back for baptism." Hu Ji said slowly with a suspicious look on his face.

He just felt that the god in front of him was a bit weird. Why did he seem to know nothing about these things?

"It just so happens that tomorrow is the end of the month, and the two divine envoys should be here too." Hu Ji added.

"Okay." Yuan Ming nodded after hearing this.

…

The next day was also in the evening.

Not long after everyone finished praying and dispersed, two figures flew over from outside.

The person who came was wearing a large black robe and a half-moon-shaped mask on his face. He was a man and a woman, both of whom were foundation-building monks.

The moment the two of them broke into Hu Ji's courtyard, they entered Yuan Ming's illusion knot. Although Yuan Ming was right in front of them, they could not see it at all.

Hu Ji and his wife had already been controlled by Yuan Ming with illusions and had forgotten Yuan Ming's existence.

After the two people entered the courtyard, Hu Ji and his wife also knelt down and bowed, but they didn't kiss each other's shoes.

The two of them remained silent the whole time without saying a word to Hu Ji and his wife. They just picked up the statue on the stone table and turned around to leave.

Yuan Ming also set off and followed the two of them, following them all the way.

After taking the statue from Hu Ji's house, the two went to two other courtyards in the city, one of which was the residence of the lord of Usu City.

The Lord of Nawusu City was in the early stages of foundation building and was actually a loyal believer of the Mingyue God Sect. Not only did he deliver the statue of the Mingyue God, he also handed over a box of gold and silver jewelry.

After taking away these three statues, the two divine envoys left Wusu City.

Yuan Ming originally thought that they would return directly, but unexpectedly they went to several nearby cities and took away several statues before returning to their home nest late at night.

It was an unknown temple built on a mountain wall.

The mountain gate is not much different from an ordinary temple, except that it is embedded in the mountain wall like an archway.

The red lacquer door studded with copper nails opened to the outside, but inside was a deep passage that penetrated directly into the mountain wall. You could faintly see the flickering fire inside.

Two divine messengers entered, Yuan Ming took out the gray cloak, performed the Cang Yuan technique, concealed his breath, and followed them in.

The passage, which was one zhang high and two zhang wide, was full of traces of human excavation. There was a fire basin hanging on the walls on both sides every fifteen steps. The reflected firelight illuminated the inside with bright and dark spots, making it full of mystery.

After walking more than a hundred zhang inward, Yuan Ming followed them to an empty stone chamber.

The walls of the stone chamber were painted with various goddesses flying in the sky and scenes of gods worshiping. On the left and right sides and in front of them, there stood a strange-looking statue of a god.

On the left side, there was a black-skinned, hairy, naked upper body angry warrior, holding a treasure bowl in one hand and a golden mace in the other, with a ferocious face.

On the right side, there stood a three-headed, six-armed armored demon holding chains, shackles, scimitars and other torture instruments in his hands, and his appearance was even more terrifying.

Only the statue in front was lying on its side, with a bare chest and long hair, kind eyes, holding a lotus in his hand, and it was hard to tell whether it was a man or a woman, with a look of compassion on his face.

The appearance of these statues was quite different from the gods Yuan Ming knew. I wonder if they were the unique gods worshipped in the Black Wind Desert.

However, when his eyes fell on the chest of the lying statue, his eyes suddenly stagnated.

There was a pattern of two overlapping moons on its chest.

Yuan Ming recognized this pattern, which was the mark of the Wu Yue Sect.

No wonder he felt a strange sense of déjà vu when he saw the black disc and the crescent mark before.

"Is this related to the Wu Yue Sect?" Yuan Ming couldn't help but wonder in his heart.

Before he could figure it out, he saw that the two people had turned around and walked towards the statue on the left.

Yuan Ming followed the two men and came to the back of the statue, only to find that there was a cave entrance as tall as a person on the wall next to the stone statue.

As soon as he entered the cave entrance, Yuan Ming sensed the aura of restriction inside, but the means were not sophisticated.

He muttered something, and a trace of black light appeared on his body. His body gradually became translucent, and he stepped forward, penetrating the restriction like a spirit.

This was a secret technique "Transformation Technique" recorded on the white jade plate of the Six Desires Venerable, which could transform the physical body into a spirit form in a short period of time and penetrate the restricted light curtain.

Yuan Ming was a beginner, and he could only perform the Transformation Technique superficially, but it was more than enough to penetrate the crude restriction in front of him.

After he walked a few dozen steps inward, the front suddenly became bright.

Yuan Ming followed the two people who were deceived by his illusion into a spacious stone room, and immediately saw a dazzling golden light.

It was bright inside, reflecting the luster of various gold and gems everywhere. A large amount of gold sand and gold coins were piled on the ground like leaves and soil, and it was filled with colorful jewelry and jade.

For an ordinary mortal, this is naturally a city-shattering wealth, but in Yuan Ming's view, it is no different from soil.

There are a few magic tools on the shelf in the corner, which can still let him take a quick look, but that's all.

Seeing the two gods pouring the treasures offered by the Lord of Wusu City into the piles of gold and silver, and then turning around and walking out of the stone chamber, he followed them again.

This time, the two walked towards the benevolent statue in the middle, and there was also a cave behind it.

This time the passage was longer, and before reaching the end, intermittent voices came from inside.

Yuan Ming listened to the voice and felt a little familiar, as if it was Xu Che's voice?

When they reached the cave entrance, the two men walked in, while Yuan Ming stopped at the entrance and looked inside carefully.

The space outside the cave entrance was huge, as big as seven or eight houses, and the lights were also bright inside.

However, unlike the place where gold and silver treasures were stored before, there stood a three-meter-high black statue in the center.

Its appearance was like a young goddess wearing palace clothes, with a strange fan-shaped decoration on her head, her hair tied up high, a black ribbon covering her eyes, and her hands slightly opened in front of her, with an air of dominating the world.

On one of her palms, she was holding a black disc, on which was engraved the crescent moon mark of the Wuyue Sect.

At the foot of the black goddess statue, on a circular altar, there were palm-sized golden lotus lanterns, and behind each lotus lantern, there was a statue of the Dark Moon God.

Yuan Ming roughly counted and found that there were more than three hundred.