Chapter 517: Altar of the Lonely Island (1/2)

"Master Wu, what are the details of entering the virtual world?" Xiong Yan asked modestly.

Although he killed someone, he himself did not dare to rush in. He still had to consult an expert.

Wu Yuan said: "I can only say that the mortality rate inside is extremely high, more than 90%."

"Also, you'd better go together. No one who went in alone has come out alive so far."

No one disbelieves what Wu Yuan said.

There have been instances of meteorites falling, and even the evil spirits did not dare to question him.

Xu Hei also suddenly remembered that the nine people alive were all traveling in a team, even though all their companions were dead.

Not long after, all the monks present started to form teams in small groups.

Three people gathered around Xu Hei, and they happened to be the first three to arrive.

They were the black-robed woman, Xue Yang, and the white-robed monk whose face was half covered. For no other reason than that they were the first to arrive and were relatively familiar with each other.

Hunter hesitated for a long time, then came over and stood with Xu Hei.

As a result, Xu Hei's team now has five people.

"Everyone, although we don't know each other and are wary of each other, after entering, please work together. If we encounter danger, we must fight together!" Xue Yang said solemnly.

"This is natural." The monk in white nodded.

"As long as you take action, I will naturally not stand by and watch." The woman in black robe said.

Xu Hei also nodded: "Me too."

"As long as the money is available...well, even if there is no money, I will take action."

Hunter originally smiled playfully, but halfway through his words, he noticed that everyone was looking at him unkindly, so he changed his tune.

"Hmph, this person is the most untrustworthy!" the black-robed woman said coldly.

"Hey! When did I lie to you? Don't accuse a good person unjustly!" Hunter yelled.

The woman in black robe was too lazy to argue. She had clearly been cheated out of one million spiritual stones.

"What do you call fellow Taoist?" Xue Yang looked at Xu Hei.

"Ma Teng." Xu Hei said.

"Haha, it turns out to be Fellow Taoist Ma, and I'm Yang Lie." Xue Yang said with a smile.

The woman in black robe said: "Just call me Heilian."

"My name is Luo Bai." said the monk in white, whose face was half covered.

There is no doubt that all four of these people have false names.

Only Hunter smiled brightly: "Hunter, if you have any needs, you can contact me at any time. As long as the money is in place, everything will be easy."

As he said that, he also took out his summons token and sent one to everyone.

In this way, the five people formed a team and formed a small group.

Those top experts did not trust others, so they summoned their respective sect masters to form teams.

Xiong Yan's Blood Refining Sect, Ling Wushuang's Tianhen Sword Sect, Gu Yunsong's Ancient Tomb Sect, Ji Shu's Shenpuppet Sect, and Sun Wuxiang's Yandao Sect.

After such a call, the number of people has exceeded fifty.

"Senior Sister Gu, should we also join a group?"

In the corner of the crowd, Ye Li spoke to Gu Yunxi beside him.

When Gu Yunxi heard this, she immediately thought of Xu Hei's figure. After looking around, she shook her head and said, "No need, the two of us are enough."

She clutched the green lotus jade pendant around her waist tightly. She had a hunch that this jade pendant would be of great use.

Master Wu Yuanwu received invitations from many parties, but he had no intention of joining any party. He just stood among the casual cultivators.

"Set off!"

Wu Yuan gave an order, and everyone took off and filed into the virtual world.

There were fifty-eight people present, and they rushed in with great force. Xu Hei's team was behind the crowd.

In the world of nothingness, everyone passed through the vortex and fell into darkness. Everyone sacrificed their magic weapons, activated their body-protecting essence, and used various means to protect themselves in case of possible crises.

Xu Hei's mood was also in his throat, and he was ready to sacrifice even a drop of dragon's blood at any time.

Fortunately, no danger was encountered during this process.

In an unknown environment, even people with evil intentions would not dare to attack at this moment.

After a while, the scenery in front of me became clear.

Xu Hei's team landed on a floating island. The island was not large in area. Outside the island, there was an endless world of nothingness, with nothing in it.

In the center of the island, there is an altar standing in front of you.

Xu Hei and others were suddenly shocked. They looked around and found that there were only five of them left on the entire island, that is, the five people in the team.

The rest of the people were all gone.

"Where are the others?"

"There are only five of us here?"

Everyone looked around, looking at a loss.

Xue Yang was very calm and said in a deep voice: "I guess the other teams encountered a similar situation and were teleported to an island."

Xu Hei looked around. The island was not large. He ducked and reached the edge.

There was endless darkness ahead, and there was nothing. He tried to release his external avatar and flew into the distant void. However, after flying a hundred feet, the avatar disappeared out of thin air, as if it had been wiped out by something.

The other four made similar moves, probing the edge of the island and finding they couldn't leave.

A hundred feet away is the limit.

Whether it is a magic weapon, spiritual power, or a clone, if it exceeds one hundred feet, it will disappear.

In other words, they cannot leave. Only the altar in front of them is the key to passing this place.

"Go and look at the altar."

Hei Lian jumped and landed on the altar. Others were not far behind and came to the top of the altar.

On this altar, countless densely packed line diagrams were carved, like meridians, spread all over the place. There was a groove in the middle, and I didn't know what to put in.

And all the lines were connected to the groove.

"What do you mean?" Hei Lian narrowed his eyes.

Everyone came here for the first time, without any experience, and could only grope and guess.

Han Te took out a hoe and stood beside the altar. A gleam flashed in his eyes. He hoeed hard at the altar, only to hear a "choke" sound, but not even a hair was dug out.

"Damn, it's so hard, it must be a treasure!"

Han Te's eyes lit up, and he dug again with a hoe, but it still didn't move.

He started digging the soil on the island again and found a similar situation.

After several attempts, nothing was dug out, but the hoe in his hand was knocked out with a gap.

Xu Hei couldn't help but speechless.

"This place is protected by a formation, so it can't be dug. These are not precious materials, but ordinary materials." Luo Bai reminded.

Hent cursed, and then stopped in dismay.

Xu Hei stared at the groove in the center of the altar, and then looked at the crisscrossing lines beside it. Suddenly, his pupils shrank, as if he thought of something.

If they look at it from the perspective of the formation, they can't see anything, but from the perspective of biology, Xu Hei found a clue at a glance.

"Could it be that these lines are blood vessels? And the groove in the middle is the heart?"

Xu Hei had such a thought inexplicably, and he was immediately terrified.

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In the world of nothingness, there are many identical islands.

On one of the islands, six members of the Blood Refining Sect appeared.

They did the same as Xu Hei, first exploring the periphery, and when they found that they could not leave, they came to the center of the altar.

Xiong Yan stared at the groove in the center, just took a look, and smiled slightly.

"Elder Shi, come here, I'll show you a treasure." Xiong Yan smiled.

Elder Shi approached with doubt.

Suddenly, Xiong Yan grabbed his forehead and pressed hard into the groove.

"Pah!!"

Elder Shi's head was broken and blood was flowing. The blood rushed into the groove, and the groove jumped violently, flowing into the blood vessels next to it, and spread throughout the altar.

Elder Shi tried to break free, but his body seemed to be absorbed by the groove. Even if Xiong Yan did not use force, he still could not leave.

"Save me, save me..."

Elder Shi screamed miserably, and the scream became weaker and weaker.

In an instant, this elder in the late Nascent Soul stage turned into a mummy, and his blood was sucked dry.

The other four people were silent and dared not say a word.

After absorbing Elder Shi's blood, the blood vessel patterns on the altar suddenly brightened, and a door opened in the middle, leading directly to the next location.

"That's right, you must kill one person first before you can go to the next level." Xiong Yan smiled coldly and led the other four people into the door.

The portal closed, and the blood disappeared, as if nothing had happened.

The Blood Refining Sect was the first team to pass the level.

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Outside the virtual world, East Wilderness.

Under the God King Palace, the location of the Fire Phoenix Seal suddenly twisted, and a fiery red and beautiful figure appeared in the twisted space.

This woman was Jiang Jiufeng.

After the virtual world was opened, she was also awakened and came out of seclusion a year earlier, but her injuries were no longer a problem. And her cultivation level, which had dropped by one level, also recovered quickly under the influence of Wutong Heart and reached its peak.

The first thing Jiang Jiufeng did when she came was to spread her consciousness and look for Xu Hei.

"Gone?"

Jiang Jiufeng frowned slightly, and her first reaction was whether Xu Hei had been burned to slag.

After all, he had been suppressed by the Fire Phoenix Seal for two years, even if he was in the late Nascent Soul stage, it was normal to be burned to ashes.

But when she checked again and again, let alone Xu Hei's storage bag, she didn't even find a bit of dust.

Her Fire Phoenix Seal even had traces of being forged by someone.

"He actually... escaped?"

Jiang Jiufeng's breathing stagnated, and the flames in her eyes almost turned into substance.

However, she was not as furious as she was two years ago. She just calmed down and said to herself: "It doesn't matter. If I can suppress you once, I can suppress you twice. Your consciousness has been marked by the Fire Phoenix Seal. Next time I meet you, I will kill you with my own hands!"

She put away the Fire Phoenix Seal and turned it into a flame mark, which merged into her eyebrows.

Afterwards, Jiang Jiufeng rushed towards the direction of Chaos Star City at the fastest speed.

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In the virtual world, there are a total of thirteen teams participating in an unknown test.

After an hour, three teams have passed and went to the next level. Their choice, without exception, is to sacrifice one person.

The five-man team that Xu Hei is in is still stuck in the first level.

They tried various methods, such as putting spirit stones in the grooves, attacking with the strongest spells, or trying to analyze the formation, but nothing was achieved.

Xu Hei is still hesitating whether to express his opinion.

Once he said that he would try putting in blood, the others would definitely unanimously decide to let him try it himself. What if he dripped his own blood and triggered a chain reaction, pitting himself?

Xu Hei would not do such a thing.

He didn't know whether the others had noticed this, or if they had, but like him, it was not impossible that they would not take the initiative to speak.

After dawdling for an hour.

"Plop!"

Suddenly, Hei Lian fell to the ground.

Everyone looked over and saw that her whole body was black, her eyelids were white, black blood flowed from the corners of her mouth, and her body was still twitching slightly.

"It's... it's... poisonous." Hei Lian said weakly.

Everyone suddenly realized that there was a highly toxic substance in the air from somewhere.

They quickly turned on the protective measures to isolate their eyes, mouths, noses, etc., but everyone's bodies were also slowly turning black, and isolation was useless.

Xue Yang felt dizzy and his body was swaying. He immediately sat cross-legged and took the detoxification pill. A blood-red sun appeared between his eyebrows, and the world appeared strangely, suppressing the poison with all his strength.

As soon as the blood sun appeared, his identity was exposed, but in this place, it didn't matter. Anyway, as long as he went out, all his memories would be forgotten.

Xu He also sat cross-legged and secretly used the Demon God Cauldron to refine it, but he also pretended to be poisoned.

Hunt and Luo Bai were poisoned and fell to the ground, their legs were weak and they vomited black blood.

"Who did it?" Xue Yang said angrily.

He looked at Xu Hei and stared at him, obviously questioning.

"Do you suspect me?" Xu Hei narrowed his eyes, "Anyone present could have poisoned, or the altar itself could be poisonous. What do you mean by suspecting me?"

Xue Yang spit out a mouthful of black blood and gritted his teeth and said, "Who else could it be except you?"

"Because, among the five people present, only you are not poisoned!"

As soon as Xue Yang said this, everyone looked over with a surprised look.

Xu Hei's eyes condensed, and he saw Xue Yang raised his hand and waved it, and the blood-red sun in his palm rose slowly, hitting Xu Hei, zooming in the air, splitting into two, then into three, and connecting into a line.

All kinds of doomsday-like scenes and various disasters appeared, among which there was a destructive vision of a meteorite falling to the ground.

At this moment, Xu Hei seemed to be suppressed by the power of heaven, his bones bent, his whole body crackled, and the space was imprisoned. This was the pressure of heaven and earth before the star hit.

It seems that after Xue Yang witnessed the star falling, he also had an epiphany, and his doomsday state of mind had a breakthrough.

However, Xue Yang has been hiding his strength. Now he is not only one of the top ten masters in the East Wilderness, but even if he looks at the entire battlefield outside the domain, he can be ranked in the top ten.

Enough to compete with the Heart Devouring Demon, the Three Corpse Taoist, the Peerless Sword Emperor, etc.

A man who has been away for three days should be looked at with new eyes. Xu Hei was able to have an epiphany in the meteorite and refine the Star Moon Sword. Xue Yang also has his own opportunity.

Facing such a terrifying attack, Xu Hei did not dare to hold back. He immediately rose from the ground and swung his sword. The Star Moon Sword was unsheathed. The simple sword fell on three rounds of scorching suns.

The star fell, and there were only three loud "crackling" sounds. The three rounds of scorching suns were actually cut off by Xu Hei's sword.

Although he broke the opponent's attack, the fact that Xu Hei was not poisoned had been exposed.