After staying in the hieron's hall for almost 2 days, it was Zhang Tie's first time to seriously observe this joss in the hieron's hall.
This joss was about 30 m high. Standing in front of the sacrificial altar, Zhang Tie felt like watching a furious giant spirit, which made him feel oppressive.
This joss had the features of humans and demons at the same time. Its upper body was that of a human; its lower body was that of a snake. It had the features of a reptile. The joss lowered its head and closed its eyes while a vertical eye in its central forehead was looking down at a place on the sacrificial altar. The lower body of the joss was coiled around an odd-shaped, high furnace. The joss and the furnace were connected to each other and formed an organic whole.
If this was a statue of a god, then the furnace below the statue would be the base of the statue. If this was a furnace, then the statue above the furnace would be the bizarre and exaggerated decoration of the furnace.
The joss was purple all over as if it was made of purple copper. However, it was just its texture. Actually, this joss couldn't be made of such a common metal as purple copper.
The furnace being coiled around by the joss was covered with dense runes and various vivid patterns and sculptures of strange animals. The sacrificial altar was in front of the furnace. The exact position of the sacrificial altar was opposite to the opening of the furnace. The entire sacrificial altar was connected with the furnace. It was a part of the furnace or a part of the structure below the joss.
There were many animal reliefs and mysterious runes around the sacrificial altar.
If this joss was a sculpture, it would definitely be a priceless art treasure.
After observing the joss for a short while, Zhang Tie suppressed his shock. Closely after that, he moved his eyes onto a small platform in the middle of the sacrificial altar. The platform was over 1 m higher than the ground like a lectern. There was indeed a two-palm-sized concave formation on the platform.
Actually, in Zhang Tie's eyes, it was just a mysterious pattern composed of some unintelligible geometrical figures. The core of this pattern was the odd triangular symbol composed of three scales on the gate of the hieron.
When he recalled the demon baron's words, Zhang Tie slightly cut his palm with his gold-eaten tri-edged dagger, causing a small incision. After that, his blood sprayed off his palm and gradually filled the mysterious pattern in the concave formation.
In the blink of an eye, Zhang Tie's blood had been absorbed by the matrix. Closely after that, the weird pattern started to radiate red light. Closely after that, the small platform gradually shrunk into the sacrificial altar, leaving that mysterious pattern in the center of the sacrificial altar which was radiating red light.
After that platform completely shrunk, Zhang Tie instantly felt that his spiritual energy had established a connection with that joss. Closely after that, some strange information appeared in his mind.
All the information was about the method of bloody sacrifice.
At this moment, Zhang Tie felt that these information were like the instruction of a machine. When the machine was started, these instructions appeared in his mind.
There were three points in the instruction.
Firstly, the process and essentials of bloody sacrifice. The entire bloody sacrifice had to be completed by living beings with intelligence. Lifeless living beings could not be used for bloody sacrifice.
Secondly, as Zhang Tie started the bloody sacrifice altar with his own blood, this bloody sacrifice would be dominated by Zhang Tie's will. It was an exchange between what Zhang Tie offered and what he needed.
Thirdly, the effect of bloody sacrifice in this bloody sacrifice hieron was to cure wounds and break through bottlenecks of some skills. Everything was exchanged according to a mysterious principle of equivalence. If you wanted to cure severe wounds, you would have to sacrifice more living beings and higher levels. So did breaking through bottlenecks of skills; especially the latter. Compared to the former, sacrifice and breakthrough bottlenecks of skills didn't correspond to each other 100%; instead, it had a success rate. Sometimes, even if you sacrificed yourself, you couldn't guarantee to break through bottlenecks of skills. The more advanced a skill was, the lower the success rate would be. However, one advantage of this bloody sacrifice was that even if you failed this time, you could try it again next time.
After understanding these contents, Zhang Tie's face turned weird. Such a bloody sacrifice gave Zhang Tie the feeling of being in a senior pawnshop or casino. However, what you exchanged and gambled here was not common money, but fresh blood and lives. What you could get was the cure of wounds and breakthrough of skills.
'Is this Bloody Sacrifice Hieron a special "community hospital" in far-ancient times? It could not only cure "diseases" on one's body and recover one's health, but also cure "diseases" on one's ability so that one could make a breakthrough in one's skill.' An absurd whim occurred to Zhang Tie's mind.
Zhang Tie shook his head as he got rid of this weird whim. 'It doesn't matter what this bloody sacrifice hieron was in far-ancient times. What counts is that this hieron is still useful to me.'
When Zhang Tie thought about this, he put his palm on the platform which was covered with the matrix once again like making an oath according to the Bible, the Constitution or some sacred classics in the court, "With my blood as the witness, I would like to devote enough fresh blood and lives as an equal and fair exchange for what I want!"
The moment Zhang Tie finished his words, the fiery door of the furnace in front of the sacrificial altar had been opened. The fiery door was the huge mouth of a boa which was as high as 1 m. The black flames were burning in the furnace with an empty and terrifying qi as if they could burn everything in the world...
The moment Zhang Tie sensed the black flames in the furnace, Zhang Tie had changed his face. As long as he fell into such a furnace, even knights would be burned into ashes in a split second.
Once the bloody sacrifice furnace was opened, it would be closed automatically if there was no blood sacrifice within 3 days. After that, if it was necessary to make a sacrifice, it had to be restarted.
After successfully opening the bloody sacrifice furnace, Zhang Tie let out a sigh inside as he got off the sacrificial altar and walked towards the demon baron.
Old Monster Qi's corpses were scattered in the middle line of the hieron's hall, covering a large area.
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem After killing Old Monster Qi, Zhang Tie didn't have time to search his corpse. Later on, Old Monster Qi's corpse was thrown out by the demon knight as a pathfinder. It was split into 7-8 pieces and scattered over the ground, which looked pretty bloody.
Zhang Tie had seen much more bloody scenes than this. Therefore, such a bit bloody scene could not scare Zhang Tie.
After coming to the side of Old Monster Qi's corpses, Zhang Tie squatted down and started to check his booties carefully.
Since Zhang Tie killed Old Monster Qi, he had not touched his corpse at all.
As an earth knight, especially a remnant of Three-eye Association in Taixia Country who had been hiding very well, how could he not have any good items? Old Monster Qi could not be more dead, but his belongings should still be there.
Zhang Tie focused on the broken pieces of Old Monster Qi's hands and the parts below his neck.
After checking some broken pieces, Zhang Tie became faintly stunned. He found both hands of Old Monster Qi; however, his 10 fingers were all clean, not even a finger ring...
Old Monster Qi's body below his neck was also clean. He didn't even have a necklace. Besides a boa silk robe which had been split into pieces and a well-preserved diamond-shaped metal plate which was used to access the pyramid of the hieron, some medicament and gold checks, Old Monster Qi's boa silk robe and the soft gold waist pouch which contained some medicament and gold checks.
The items in Old Monster Qi's boa silk robe and the soft gold waist pouch looked valuable; especially those vials of medicament which were precious. The gold checks inside were worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins. However, these items were too shabby for an earth knight. Even a green black iron knight might have more belongings than this. How could an earth knight be so poor?
"Motherf * cker, how could it be possible!" Zhang Tie swore. He would never believe that Old Monster Qi was such a coward.
When he killed Old Monster Qi, he had wasted Old Monster Qi's earth chakra. If he got nothing at this moment, Zhang Tie would never accept it.
After searching for a while, Zhang Tie even peeled off Old Monster Qi's clothes; however, he still didn't find anything valuable.
'F * ck, what a pauper! '
Zhang Tie became speechless...
'Did Old Monster Qi hide his good items in the Lion Fortress or somewhere in the wild after knowing that this action was dangerous? '
'It's possible; however, if so, Old Monster Qi is too weird. Could he predict that I would face a bloody disaster after entering the pyramid of the hieron? '
Now that there was nothing valuable, Zhang Tie could only let out a sigh and accept the reality.
These corpse fragments were too bloody and uncomfortable here. Additionally, the temperature in the hieron had recovered to normal. If they were not cleaned up after 2 days, they would smell bad.
At the sight of the bloody sacrifice furnace, Zhang Tie ran his spiritual energy as a divine dominator and had those corpse fragments float over him towards the bloody sacrifice furnace behind him. On this occasion, the bloody sacrifice furnace was the best tool to deal with rubbish.
After walking a few steps, Zhang Tie suddenly stopped. He turned around and found all the broken pieces of corpses were in the air behind him. The farthest piece was over 50 m away from him...
Zhang Tie gazed at a part of Old Monster Qi's calf and found a bulge under the skin, which was a bit higher than the surrounding skin and faintly revealed a regular outline...
If not that part of the calf flew over him, Zhang Tie really could not discover the oddity under the skin of that part of the calf.
Only by running his spiritual energy, Zhang Tie had cut open the skin of Old Monster Qi's calf, exposing a 2-finger-sized rectangular metal plate like a peeled banana. Closely after that, it flew towards Zhang Tie with a bit blood stain...
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PS: Congratulations, Dr. Ye, for becoming the hegemony of Castle of Black Iron after overcoming all the obstacles!
Another chief of Bloody Sacrifice Immortal Palace came to Castle of Black Iron after Mountain Monster 61, hahaha … (To be continued)
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