Chapter 26: The Legend of Hu Man!
This girl was indeed Bailian. She was very frightened at the moment, watching the village elder worship and looking around at her tribesmen who were all pale-faced like her, with a hint of horror.
"The Blood Moon that appears every three years, only occurs after the snow on Wushan has completely melted, at which time there are enough wild beasts to be used as sacrifices, and disasters can be avoided... But now, it's actually come so much earlier than expected...... This......" Bai Ling bit her lower lip, looking around, becoming even more frightened.
At this moment, Su Ming was inside the Fire Melt Cave, fully focused on refining medicine. His body was covered in sweat, his eyes fixed intently on the furnace as he adjusted the flame's intensity.
Before long, a dull rumbling sound came from the cauldron. Su Ming let out a bitter laugh and wiped away his sweat. He knew he had failed again.
"This Shanling San is much harder to ascend than Qingchen San..." Su Ming shook his head, opened the Huoding and took a look, from which a wisp of cyan smoke emerged, revealing an intense and pungent aura.
He let out a quiet sigh, and was about to continue when he suddenly felt his internal energy stirring restlessly, as if it were beyond his control. He furrowed his brow in surprise, looking around cautiously, but saw nothing out of the ordinary.
"Strange..." Su Ming rubbed his head, pondered for a moment, and then continued to disperse.
At this moment, in another direction of the Wushan tribe, within the Heishan tribe, it was vastly different from both the Wushan and Wulong tribes. Throughout the entire Heishan tribe, although there were also large numbers of people standing about, their eyes gazing up at the sky were filled with a bloodthirsty excitement amidst fear.
Wave after wave of roars came out of their mouths, not only the barbarians but also ordinary people were like this. The roar slowly merged into a piece, forming a swirling sound wave.
In the very center of the crowd, there was a small hill pushed by countless red stones. On that hill stood an emaciated old man wearing a black robe. The old man's eyes were cold and sinister as he stared at the blood moon in the sky, with a hint of cruel smile on his lips.
"In the ancient years, on this vast land, there was a tribe called Huo Man. This tribe possessed incredible power, controlling the fire of heaven and earth. Their rage could burn down the sky, their fury could reverse the universe! Their name was so renowned that even those who were not of our tribe trembled with fear."
"One of the eight great tribes of the entire barbarian tribe at that time!" The thin old man, with his hoarse voice, seemed to be muttering to himself, yet also proclaiming it to heaven and earth.
However, this tribe wanted to seize the heavenly vessel and was punished by the barbarian god. After going through nine heavens, nine times, and nine breaths, all members of the Huo Man tribe, except for the barbarians, were burned to death, their souls scattered!
The fire barbarian is so strong that even after experiencing such a thing, the barbarians within his tribe have not died out, but instead want to betray the barbarian god and establish themselves as barbarians. The barbarian god punishes them, displaying his mighty divine power, wanting to thoroughly wipe out this tribe in an instant. At this moment, the fire barbarian king wages war against the barbarian god!
"This battle shook the heavens, and although Huo Man Gong died in battle, he had used a technique that made the Barbarian God apprehensive before his death, protecting all the remaining barbarians of his tribe from death!" The withered old man's eyes revealed an unusual color, his right hand lifted, and his dry fingers were immediately surrounded by black air, transforming into ferocious ghostly shadows.
"But he was wrong, for although he had protected the entire Huoyan tribe from death, the Huoyan god used a method that would only be used once in ten thousand years to cause all of the undying people of the Huoyan tribe to lose their human form and transform into Blood Moon Wings!"
From then on, they fell into darkness, lost their divine wisdom, and only had the bloodthirsty Moon Wings. Their resentment, hatred, anger, and sorrow transformed into a torrent of grievances that filled the sky. Every three years, they would dye the bright moon red once, turning it into a Blood Moon, allowing them to venture out once.
Today, Lao Fu Hei Shan Bu Man Gong Bi Tu, help you once!" The lean old man burst into a loud laugh, biting his tongue and spitting out a mouthful of blood. At the same time, the small mountain made up of countless blood-colored stones under his feet suddenly exploded with a loud bang, and the countless red stones flew up into the air.
The Black Mountain Barbarian King's body was even more eerily floating in mid-air, his arms stretched out, and his expression revealed a crazy excitement.
But then, countless red stones were seen in mid-air, rapidly rotating and suddenly forming a huge pattern. The pattern was circular, with a crescent moon inside, and the entire body was all crimson.
"Moon Wing, awaken! Rise from your long slumber ahead of time!!" Bi Tu spat out another mouthful of blood, which directly transformed into a bloody mist that merged with the massive pattern in the sky, causing it to emit a deafening roar and suddenly shatter, forming large patches of red mist that rolled out in all directions.
At this moment, the entire Wushan land suddenly shook violently, and the shock was extremely clear, as if the earth was shaking, causing an uproar in the Wushan tribe in an instant. The same was true for the Wulong tribe.
At this moment, Su Ming, who was inside the Black Flame Peak cave, also clearly felt the vibration of the entire mountain peak. His face changed, and in the midst of the vibration, he faintly heard a weak howl coming from the depths of the cave. His heart skipped a beat, and he immediately abandoned his meditation, retreating several steps to crawl out of the exit. As soon as his head emerged from the small hole, he almost let out a cry of surprise. He saw the blood moon in the sky!!
"Blood Moon!!!" Su Ming's face turned pale in an instant.
At the same time, a strong bloody aura immediately emanated from Hei Yan Peak. Su Ming didn't dare to hesitate for even a moment, as he understood the Blood Moon and had even secretly calculated its appearance time.
But he never could have imagined that the Blood Moon would arrive ahead of schedule!
He immediately turned around and went back into the cave through the small hole. He knew that if he stayed outside, there was no place to hide, and time was running out. Back in the cave, he frantically took out the bone horn and quickly scraped it against the wall beside him. The roar from deep within the cave grew clearer, with other sounds faintly embedded within.
Su Ming's eyes were bloodshot, fortunately he was more familiar with this place, and the bone angle was extremely sharp, in an instant he dug out a hole, Su Ming immediately crawled inside, using the excavated stones to block the entrance, not caring about the scorching heat in the temporary small hole.
Just as he drilled into the hole, a red mist suddenly burst out from the depths of the cave, filling the entire cave and then pouring out through the exit passage. The screeching sound was extremely clear to Su Ming's ears.
Outside, under the light of the blood moon in the sky, the five peaks of Wushan Mountain were seen, as if a volcano had erupted, rumbling and shocking the heavens, bursting out a large amount of red mist.
This mist seems to have been present in the five peaks of Wushan from the beginning, and now it has erupted, immediately covering the sky. The mist on the Wudragon Peak is scattered from the cracks in the mountain body, and many are sprayed from the place where Su Ming obtained the Wudragon Saliva. If Su Ming looks carefully here, he can clearly see that the areas where those Wudragons chased him but did not dare to enter and had to bypass are the places where this mountain mist erupts the most!
Wūlóng Fēng was like this, and all the other peaks were the same. Especially that Hei Yán Peak, the mist was even more astonishingly emitted. In the midst of the misty atmosphere, a buzzing sound immediately reverberated, mixed with a large number of wing-flapping sounds, blending together to form a terrifying death melody!
But then, a red shadow emerged from the five mountain peaks with the mist, and there were sharp screams echoing through the sky. Those red shadows were actually beasts with double wings, double eyes as red as blood, but only the size of a palm, with six limbs, human face, and an expression that revealed their crazy bloodthirsty nature.
They are the Moon Wings!
Densely packed, covering the sky and earth, the number of crescent moons was no less than tens of thousands, shrouding heaven and earth, in that sharp, shrill cry, they charged towards the Black Mountain Regiment, Wuyue Regiment, Wulong Regiment, and all the beasts' habitats within the mountains.
They have no divine wisdom, are filled with resentment, extremely bloodthirsty, they only know brutal slaughter, devouring fresh blood, especially the blood of barbarians, which can stimulate them to go crazy, and even instead of looking for trouble from those wild beasts, they will head straight to the barbarian tribes.
Inside Wushan Department, the tribesmen were in an uproar, wave after wave of terrified screams echoed, Chen Xin's face was pale, tightly grasping Beiling beside him, Beiling also had a bloodless face.
Lei Chen was far away, extremely violent, he went to find Su Ming at the first time, but did not see his existence. At this moment, worried, and even more shocked by the sky's scenes.
Those panicked ordinary people were immediately stopped by the barbarians in the tribe, and gradually, all the people in the tribe put their eyes on the burning wooden platform, looking up at the sky.
Grandfather's face was pale, but it couldn't be seen by outsiders under the firelight. His pupils contracted as he saw the distant red mist and heard the faintly transmitted mad howls.
"How could this be...... Not only has the time been brought forward, but the number has also increased by so much...... In previous years, there were only a few thousand......" He took a deep breath and immediately started drinking heavily.
"Ordinary tribesmen immediately hid, the barbarians obeyed orders, took out all the stored meat food, opened their wounds, and waited for my command!" Ah Gong's body trembled slightly, he looked down at his own tribe with a glance, and closed his eyes.
The same scene was unfolding within the Wulong tribe, where Bai Ling watched as her fellow tribesmen listened in terror to Ah Gong's orders, and the fear in her eyes deepened.
She will never forget that nine years ago, when she was still a child, she saw with her own eyes one of her playmates being caught by countless moonwings as they flew away, disappearing into the fog amidst the playmate's shrill cries, dragged into the dark mountains, where only slow death awaited.
The blood moon in the sky, under the shroud of fog, was faintly visible, but the red shadows that whizzed by in the fog were gradually approaching. The massive moon wings split into three parts and rushed towards the three nearby tribes.
Wushan tribe, Ah Gong stared at the sky with his eyes fixed on it. At the moment when the moon wings arrived, he swung the bone staff in his right hand, and suddenly the sea of fire under him spread out with a loud noise, directly covering the entire tribe. However, this sea of fire was strange and did not burn everything including grass, wood, and houses. Instead, it surrounded the tribe like an illusion that didn't exist.
"Throw the beast!!" Grandpa let out a low growl, and immediately the tribe's warriors, in terror, threw the bloody wild beasts into the sky with great force.
Updated late...... Got up late today, 12:30, all because of the couple next door fighting and hitting each other last night, banging and crashing, very intense, very miserable.
All I heard was the woman scolding, no sound of a man... Only physical violence.