Ruins of the past

Amidst the streams of blood rising into the sky.

Thousands of living corpses loomed among them, and numb and weird tones were spat out from their throats, turning into bursts of ominous sound waves and transmitting in the air full of the smell of blood.

In this ritual full of mystery and weirdness, Chu Qiguang could feel his consciousness leaving his body bit by bit.

He seemed to be able to see the roar of the stars in the distant sky, and see countless unknown beings wandering in the void.

Each of the powerful sage masters in this world from ancient times to the present use their own school's methods to achieve sage transformation.

One of the common methods is to travel to the outer world, or to travel in the void, to acquire knowledge of the outer world and obtain some transformation that is different from common sense.

In the void that lacks the concept of time and space, from the past to the future, from the center to the boundary of the universe, there is a huge amount of information about various worlds. It just requires some luck and patience.

And some people with extraordinary talents, such as the Tiansheng Emperor, can exchange their knowledge with strangers in the world during their wanderings in the world, and even create a new dharma later on.

At this moment, part of Chu Qiguang's consciousness left the body and communicated with the void, just like a radio that continuously received information from the void.

Under the ritual of the future demon guide, his connection with the void was fixed at a special frequency.

In this case, the information Chu Qiguang obtained was no longer as diverse as finding a needle in a haystack, but all came from the same world.

Various words, lights, shadows, and sounds echoed in his mind, gradually forming a picture of a different world.

It was a dark world full of gunpowder, electricity, religion, aliens, and twisted beliefs.

Although the entire world is divided into hundreds of small countries, they all share a unified belief. The king of each country obeys a religious organization called the Imperial Religion and believes in a god named Huangtian.

Most of the people also have crazy beliefs in the Emperor. People in the entire world are divided into different levels according to the depth of their beliefs. Whether it is ideology or culture, they are all conservative and feudal.

The deformed and demonized aliens hide in the darkness, quietly conveying strange beliefs or ideas from outside the world, and are therefore hunted by the hunters of the Imperial Religion...

Chu Qiguang read the information and thought to himself: 'Is what the Future Demons and others said true? Human beings are the mainstream existence in this universe...'

He recalled the information revealed by his friends in the Book of Void. Humans were the first race in the universe to master the power of immortality.

But once upon a time... As the organizations named Heavenly Court and Xu Dao Palace continued to conquer and expand, human footprints gradually spread across the galaxy, creating countless countries and civilizations.

‘Even Earth’s civilization… originally originated from an act of heaven, and then gradually developed into what I know. ’

‘Most of the countless worlds and pastures ruled by Huangtian also use humans as the main subjects. ’

‘It’s not just the group of friends who say this. Judging from the extraterrestrial knowledge I have read, it is true that the majority of them are human-like. ’

Chu Qiguang's mind turned slightly, and he continued to receive information from the void. He wanted to see how powerful the real Emperor Tian was. Only by knowing himself and the enemy, and understanding the gap between the two sides, could he have a fuller understanding of the future battle. Prepare.

At the same time, this will also allow him to acquire more knowledge and increase his potential and savings.

In the process of constantly acquiring knowledge about this world, he could sense the vague calls coming from the void from time to time, as if bubbles appeared on the calm water, inviting him to come and talk.

‘Are people from that world also communicating with the outside world? ’

After a period of gaining knowledge in the world, Chu Qiguang finally chose to respond after hearing the calls again.

In the weird and vague voice, Chu Qiguang tried to decipher the other party's language and tried to respond.

However, this attempt was not successful at first. Chu Qiguang could only collect knowledge while responding to the other party many times and trying to communicate further.

In these exchanges, he tried to obtain the other party's information about Taoism, extraordinary power, and the power of Emperor Tian.

At the same time, he also tried to exchange some advanced economic theories, qi and blood theories, and management knowledge with the other party.

This is also not simple. The existence of the void constantly interferes with the communication between the two parties, causing both parties to always misunderstand each other's meaning.

In several months of communication, Chu Qiguang discovered many strange phenomena, and a glimmer of enlightenment gradually flashed in his heart.

…

1846, New World, Luzhou.

Because Zhan Tian offended his boss, he was transferred from the bustling city to a rural town called Kaiken Town and became a peace officer in the town.

This town was once prosperous for a period of time because of the gold mines, but soon it was discovered that the reserves of the gold mines were extremely low, and the town fell from prosperity to desolation.

The local country bumpkins spoke a dialect that Zhan Tian could not understand, and their eyes were full of wariness and hostility towards him, a foreigner.

Zhan Tian misses the bars, casinos and afternoon tea in big cities very much at this moment. Even the low-quality fake wine sold in the taverns in the sewers is so sweet and refreshing in his memories.

And in this country town there was nothing but mud and stupidity.

Every minute and every second here was so torturous for him.

Originally, Zhan Tian thought that he would be like the last sheriff, repeating the last day in this moldy town, and end his life in the dead silence of the ancient well.

But a strange case gave him a chance to leave this town.

It was a peaceful morning.

A servant named Youfu discovers a female body in the woods.

The female corpse was naked and kneeling in front of a large locust tree. Her hands were tightly tied, her back was covered with various cruel scars, and a big pig's head was covered on her head.

Judging from the incense, lead powder, sulfur remaining at the scene, as well as the psychedelic drugs in the female body, Zhan Tian concluded that this must be a sacrifice ceremony for a cult.

Zhan Tian couldn't help but feel excited when he thought that there were cultists in this rural town.

He vowed that even at the risk of Huang Tian's faith, he would catch all the bedbugs in the sewers in exchange for the chance to return to the big city.

In order to learn more about the case, Zhan Tian specifically contacted the helper and the other party's employer.

Considering the lack of supplies in this rural town and the impoverished state of the other party.

He deliberately took the vodka he brought from the city, hoping to completely pry open the mouths of these country bumpkins.

Alcohol quickly brought the relationship between the two parties closer. The originally conservative and guarded servant and the employer quickly became chatty and funny after drinking a whole bottle of wine.

Their imagination and eloquence seemed to be given a pair of wings, and ghost stories and ancient legends from the countryside flew out one after another.

Zhan Tian scoffed at those ancient legends. He simply asked directly: "How much do you know about that female corpse?"

Hearing these words, the helper couldn't help but tremble, and it was as if a basin of cold water had been poured on him who was originally eloquent.

"Chief...I...I don't know anything."

After Zhan Tian drove away his employer and handed him another bottle of ale, the servant's voice gradually became louder.

"Hiccup! Curse! Everything is because of the curse of Qujiazhuang!"

"They were the ones who opened the evil god's treasure! Oh~~ That's not a treasure, it's a path to hell that leads to the sky..."

Sure enough, Zhan Tian thought to himself, and immediately poured a few more bottles of wine into the servant's mouth.

The other party's voice became sharper and harsher, and the information revealed in the words began to become weird and terrifying.

"Since centuries ago, the Qu family has used rituals to communicate with the outside world...to obtain evil, dark and taboo knowledge..."

"They gathered wealth through those dark knowledges. They opened the cursed Black Heart Bank, dug out ancient evil gold mines, and established flesh-forging factories."

"And he also used evil means to confuse the townspeople, turning them into zombie-like workers, and thus accumulated countless wealth..."

According to the servant's account, the Qu family held cruel rituals again and again, and they did not stop even after acquiring unparalleled wealth.

"Until that day...until that day..."

"In a ceremony a hundred years ago, they summoned the evil god...the evil god named Tongtian..."

After encountering the evil god named Tongtian, something happened to the Qu family.

The entire manor was razed to the ground, and all family members disappeared without a trace. Only the shrill screams were left, lingering among the ruins at midnight from time to time.

"Tongtian?" Zhan Tian muttered some weird names: "Is the female corpse also because of the Qu family's ritual?"

In his opinion, it was obvious that someone had found some knowledge of evil gods from the ruins of the Qu family and started a new ritual again.

But Zhan Tian doesn't think so. As a senior believer in Huangtian and a graduate of Cam City University, he believes that most of the so-called evil gods are just aliens living in the sky.

They are just like those monsters and ghosts in the darkness. They are also mortal objects that can be destroyed, far from reaching the realm of gods.

But the maid let out a deep laugh, tears and saliva kept flowing out, and his expression became more and more crazy and frightened: "He's back! He's back again!"

The maid stood up, waved the bottle in her hand and ran towards the outside of the room.

"The stars are calling!"

"When the promised day comes!"

"A sea of ​​blood will swallow up the world."

“People eat each other!”

"Give everything in this world to Him! Give it to Him!"

"Bongtian! Bongtian!"

Zhan Tian watched helplessly as the other party fell from the balcony on the second floor with a thud.

He hurriedly ran to the balcony and saw the helper's head hitting the ground and his neck bent at a strange angle.

But until he died, the other party still maintained that weird smile on his face, and his eyes were fixed on Zhan Tian's position, which cast a shadow on his heart.

However, the opportunity to return to the city stimulated Zhan Tian's nerves, and he decided to organize a team to explore the ruins of the Qu family and look for traces of the cultists.

Once he succeeds, the achievement of destroying the cult will be enough for the imperial church to give him a gift, allowing him to return to the big city and live a good life again.

However, the death of the helper also made Zhan Tian pay more attention to the ruins, and because no one in the local area responded to Zhan Tian's call, he had to go to Ma County, dozens of miles away, to summon helpers.

He first went to the local Imperial Church and invited a priest with a seventh-level faith, a nun with a sixth-level faith, and two expert hunters.

Then he hired a bounty hunter, a master swordsman, and an expert electric gunner from the black market.

This expedition spent all Zhan Tian's savings, but he didn't care. As long as he could destroy the evil cult, his gains would be ten times that. The Holy See would never be stingy with rewards for resisting evil gods.

They walked into the ruins under the moonlight and explored the dark secrets hidden in history in the ancient and deep mansion.

Using the power of faith, ritual, and blood, they cracked the long-hidden secrets in the ruins, and they opened the secret passage to the underground.

Finally, in a huge underground space, they discovered the ancient evil from another world and disturbed the long-dormant dark power.

Death, madness and distortion swarmed out from the ground, swallowing up the entire ruins.

Only a figure escaped wailing and brought the horrifying news to the city.

…

"I was the only one who escaped."

The gray-haired Zhan Tian murmured: "We are the ones who opened the door to hell."

Zhan Tian has spent the past twenty years in Cam Sanatorium.

Every day in the past I was tortured by the endless regret and fear in my heart.

He didn't dare to go near any darkness, and only the electric light all night long could make him fall asleep.

And every time he woke up from nightmares, the endless blood would appear in his eyes, as well as the crazy and twisted faces of his companions before they died.

"That ruin... is a festering, decaying, abominable curse."

"Go and stop Him."

"Please, save our world."

"Time is running out."

"The evil of greed must be driven out of our world."

Looking at the old man who was gradually going crazy in front of him, the hunters around him looked at each other in shock.

If it hadn't been for the recent series of cult cases in Luzhou, they wouldn't have come to this nursing home to talk to the elderly about the case that happened twenty years ago.

Hunter Kang Shounuo said: "It seems that whether it is the massacre of the Qu family a hundred years ago, the Kaiken Town twenty years ago, or the recent serial murders and sacrifices, they are all related to the evil god 'Tongtian'."

The investigators on the side nodded secretly, seeming to realize that for centuries, the evil god had been watching their world in the dark, and beguiled one after another of Emperor Tian's followers, causing them to commit incompetent crimes. Forgiveness of sins.

Kang Shounuo said solemnly: "According to the archbishop's investigation, these cultists used the tricks of evil gods to deceive the people of their wealth and make them crazy about tulips."

"Cities are going bankrupt, countries are becoming turbulent, and those cultists are trying to summon evil gods to deal with creditors who are pursuing debts from them."

"For the sake of world peace, we must stop them at all costs!"