Daring! She cheated in the thriller game

The two walked in silence to the pile of bones in the courtyard, and Yu Lan sighed helplessly. After all, they had different positions, and it was hard for Yu Lan to say whether the new god was right or the old god was wrong, but letting the dead rest in peace and investigating why the bodies of the residents were piled here were what Yu Lan had to do now.

Thinking of this, Yu Lan waved the lantern in her hand, and a cluster of small flames emerged from the blue flame in the lantern. Yu Lan added the magic power of the old god to the small flame, and the flame instantly turned red.

Yu Lan controlled the red flame to float to the skeleton closest to her. The skeleton sensed the breath of the old god, and the red lines attached to it began to surge wildly, as if trying to devour the power in front of it.

But how could Yu Lan let it succeed? In an instant, the flames grew larger, quickly surrounding the skeleton, and quickly spread to the other skeletons along with its contact with the other skeletons.

The Skeleton Mountain in front of him, surrounded by red lines, instantly turned into a raging volcano, and Long Shiqing had been standing beside it, looking at the volcano in front of him as if nothing had happened.

After a while, she asked, "Will this free them?"

"Not yet." Yu Lan shook her head, then raised her hand and used the power of the old gods to set up a soul gathering array. Soon, all the undead in the city were attracted by the magic power of the old gods and gathered together.

"Can you perform a ritual to save the dead?" Yu Lan tilted her head and asked Long Shiqing. Long Shiqing nodded slightly and said, "Someone taught me."

"Let's get started." Yu Lan said, and handed the matter of salvation to Long Shiqing.

Although she could also perform the salvation, it would require her to chant sutras and cast spells. This involved her origin, so she couldn't do anything. In addition, Yu Lan also wanted to find out about Long Shiqing's situation, so she just stood by and watched.

Long Shiqing nodded slightly and took out a yellowed blue-covered notebook, which was not the black-covered notebook that Yu Lan had seen.

The blue-covered notebook seemed somewhat familiar, and soon, Yu Lan knew where the familiarity came from.

Long Shiqing turned one of the pages, pinched her fingers and read the contents of the book. Yu Lan listened and found it was a very familiar Taoist soul-soothing mantra and a scripture to be recited during salvation.

Yu Lan looked at Long Shiqing in surprise, but she was casting a spell at the moment. Although Yu Lan had many questions to ask, it would be risky to interrupt rashly, so Yu Lan waited patiently, absorbing the magic power of the old gods from the flames of Skull Mountain.

I don't know how long it took, but the sky gradually turned white, and the flames on the Skull Mountain gradually went out, leaving only a black skeleton.

When the wind blew, the skeletons turned into powder and returned to the yellow sand along with Long Shiqing's chanting.

The number of undead in front of him gradually decreased, and finally disappeared completely.

After reciting the spell all night, Long Shiqing was obviously very tired. She rubbed her brows, looked at the sky above her head and murmured: "The last time I sent so many undead away, I was still a newcomer who knew nothing and was just helping others. I didn't expect that I can do it myself now..."

Yu Lan's heart moved slightly, and she asked, "Isn't it a good thing that I have grown up?"

Long Shiqing did not answer Yu Lan's question, but changed the subject: "I found that those dead souls were more or less wearing some religious items with patterns of the Old Gods on them. I think the people in this entire city are all believers of the Old Gods."

"I suspect the red line on them... is because of this."

Yu Lan raised her eyebrows. Even Lucius couldn’t see those red lines, but Long Shiqing could see them?

"Have you seen it all?"

"I can see it clearly." Long Shiqing replied calmly, but there was always a hint of melancholy between her brows: "But I have never seen it so clearly before."

Yu Lan pondered for a while and was about to say something, but she found that Long Shiqing's eyes changed and became expressionless again.

"I think those red lines are the shackles that the church puts on its believers, and they won't let them go even after death. But why do the people of the Old God Sect use them?"

"The power in them." Yu Lan replied: "A person can be squeezed out of a lot of power. His vitality, lifespan, destiny, emotions, beliefs, resentment after death, evil spirits, evil thoughts, etc. As long as you have the ability, you can squeeze out all the power in a person to the end, leaving nothing behind."

"I think the old god church first used the faith of the living to bind them, so that they could continuously provide energy to the old god. The new god probably wanted the old god believers to discover this, so he deliberately massacred the city to let them see the church's constraints on them... or maybe he massacred the city for other reasons."

"But I prefer the former." Yu Lan said: "It was the power of the new god that prevented me from entering the church. I think it was not to protect the church, but to restrict the church's actions and their control over the residents of the city."

As for why he didn't demolish the church to completely solve the problem, it might be because he wanted the residents of the city to recognize the true face of the Old God Church themselves.

Or maybe it was just because of his bad taste. After all, he was the god who slaughtered several cities.

"You're right." Long Shiqing nodded calmly: "It's over, let's go back."

"Ah."

When Yulan and the others returned, the camel team leader's men had also woken up. The camel team leader looked unhappy when he found that he had slept all night without knowing it, but when he saw Yulan coming back, he quickly asked, "My lord, how is it?"

Yu Lan nodded slightly: "It's almost done, let's pack up and get ready to go."

Just now, she took advantage of Long Shiqing's prayer for the dead to be reincarnated and did a fortune-telling. The fortune showed that everything would be fine and normal.

Hearing Yu Lan's words, the camel team members hurriedly began to pack up. The sky gradually brightened, and the deserted city would soon disappear.

The group hurried out of the city when the sun rose into the sky. As soon as they stepped out of the city gate, they heard a loud noise behind them. They looked back and found that the black deserted city began to collapse, then turned into yellow sand, and finally merged with the desert.

Yu Lan was silent for a moment, then said, "Let's go."

The camel team leader patted his chest with lingering fear, recalling that he had slept in this city for a night, and he didn't know whether he was afraid or grateful. He led the camel to Yu Lan and asked, "Sir, where are we going today?"

"Head southwest." Yu Lan said, and the lantern in her hand disappeared, replaced by the incense burner she held during the day.

It's terrible. It hasn't been long since the sun came up and I feel hot already... Well, that's also because she is dressed so warmly.

After the incense burner came out, the camel team leader felt a coolness all over his body. He smiled cheerfully and said, "Okay, let's go! Head west!"

As he spoke, he patted the remaining camels happily and hummed a little tune he had never heard before. Looking at his back, Yu Lan felt that this was like going to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures.

"Well, I hope I'm not really going to heaven." Thinking of this, Yu Lan sighed helplessly, and drove the camel unskillfully to follow the leader of the camel team.

The journey was very boring, and the people who believed in the new god in the caravan couldn't help but come forward to talk to Lucius. They were just ordinary believers, not to mention wanting to become ascetics, even trainee ascetics were difficult, so seeing Lucius at this time was like seeing an idol, and they kept exchanging experiences with him.

Poor Lucius, he was already distressed after working all night without any results, and now he couldn't even take a break. He wanted to refuse, but he had to put on a tolerant face as a preacher for the sake of the new god, which really exhausted him.

Yu Lan couldn't help but feel lucky in her heart that because of the red robe she was wearing, everyone suspected that she was a messenger of the old gods and dared not approach her, so she had a quiet journey.

After resting for a while, Yu Lan finally had time to look at the backstage. She remembered that when she picked up the box containing the ribs last night, she received a system notification, but she hadn't had time to read it yet.

Yu Lan flipped through the message and couldn't help but raise her eyebrows when she saw that line of words.

[Congratulations to the player for picking up the item: the rib of the sacrifice. ]

[This item carries the aura of an unknown person, please do not touch it directly. Please explore the usage by yourself. Remember, do not damage the item, otherwise disaster will befall the world. ]

Sacrifice? Unlucky person? Disaster?

Yu Lan smiled. It was the first time she had seen such a strange description of a prop. But the name of the prop did remind her.

Why would a sacrificed rib be considered a holy relic? And if there is a rib here, are there other body parts from the same person stored in other churches?

After all, this is not uncommon in religion. Some churches will store various parts of a person's body separately, saying that this person is full of divine power and a miracle from God has befallen him, and they will not let go of even a drop of blood or a hair.

In this case, we can go to other deserted cities that have been massacred and maybe find the same thing. Yu Lan's intuition tells her that if she collects a set of sacrificial body parts, she might be able to summon a dragon... no, summon an evil god.

Thinking of this, she smiled and curled her lips. When she wanted to take out the tortoise shell to calculate whether her idea was correct, she suddenly felt something extra beside her.

Yu Lan turned around and saw that it was Lucius who had come to her on a camel at some point.

Yu Lan had an incense burner filled with Hanquan Jade. The air around her was very cool, which made Lucius sigh in comfort.

Yu Lan looked at his sunburned face and all black clothes with sympathy... Black clothes absorb the most heat, only a fool would wear black clothes in broad daylight.

"Lucius cultivator...is there something wrong?"

"Oh." Lucius just remembered the business at this time. He spoke casually, as if chatting with Yu Lan: "Nothing. I think you have been walking in the desert for many years. You are also a senior to us, so I want to ask for your opinion."

"Look, my teammates." Lucius showed an expression of pity: "After practicing for so long, except for Long Shiqing, no one else has made any progress. This makes me very distressed."

"You can't be impatient when it comes to cultivation. Only by sticking to your original intention can you make progress." Yu Lan replied: "If you are too impatient, you will forget your original intention... Why do you want to become an ascetic?"

Why? It was because of this damn mission. Lucius gritted his teeth secretly and said in a muffled voice: "We admire our Lord very much. He is the greatest God in the world."

"So what does the new god want?"

What did he want? This question stumped Lucius.

"this......"

Seeing Lucius's strange expression, Yu Lan asked in confusion, "You guys are following the new god without even knowing what his purpose is?"

Lucius smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Forget it, we will think about this matter carefully."

If Yu Lan hadn't mentioned it, he wouldn't have thought of it. The new god has been on the throne for so many years, but he is completely different from the old god. The old god would occasionally convey some divine orders to the high priest to execute, but the new god didn't say anything, and the high priest often disappeared without a trace, so it was very difficult for him to get into the inner circle.

If he had known earlier, he would not have chosen the New God's camp. He had originally thought that now was the era of the New God's rule, and it would be more convenient to choose his camp. Now it seems that it would be better to go to the Old God's camp, as they definitely want to bring down the New God.

But to pull God down from the altar...that's easier said than done.

It’s difficult both ways. When will this crappy S-level copy end?

Lucius went back to the team. There was no one around him. Yu Lan took out the divination. At this time, the leader of the camel team came to find her again.

Yu Lan sighed secretly and said something casually to deal with the camel caravan leader. After he finally left, Lucius came up again.

But at this time he didn't say anything, as if he just wanted to walk with Yu Lan.

Lucius: It's so hot out back, it's cooler here in Tinglan. Why don't I just stay here, maybe the NPC will suddenly issue some quests.

With someone watching her, Yu Lan naturally couldn't tell fortunes. She lowered her head and glanced at the tortoise shell in her hand. In fact, this was also a sign, meaning that Yu Lan's problem could not be told.

There are many reasons why divination cannot be done, but most of them are because they involve untouchable beings and are blocked by the laws of nature. The laws of nature... God...

Yu Lan looked at the scorching sun above her head and thought, forget it, if it can’t be counted, then it can’t be counted.

The group walked for a long time and unknowingly came to a rocky area. Seeing the rocks around, the camel team was very happy. The leader of the camel team thanked Yu Lan excitedly: "Thank you, sir! We know the way now!"

After passing this rocky area and walking a little further east, they will reach the Red Shadow City. They will be able to return home soon!

Just then, the situation suddenly changed.

A dozen people in bright red robes suddenly jumped out from behind the huge rocks. They held knives in their hands and surrounded the camel team. "Who are you?"