Di Ling Mountain Range, Black Prison Village.
The sky was already dark. Black Tiger, who had returned to Black Prison Village, did not manage to escape a round of whipping.
Fortunately, Black Tiger's skin was thick after becoming a cultivator, so the beatings were not as hard to endure as before.
After returning to his wooden house, Black Tiger started to plan his next step of hunting.
After he explained his situation to the Evil Demon God, the Evil Demon God gave him a method to speed up his growth.
Blood sacrifice the entire Black Prison Sect!
He would enslave everyone, including the sect's disciples, and refine them into food for him to grow.
This idea seemed crazy to Black Tiger, but to the Evil Demon God, it was just a small matter.
Moreover, he had already planned out how to do it for Black Tiger. As long as Black Tiger did as he said, everything would not be a problem.
The Evil Demon God's idea was very simple. In his mind, there were tens of thousands of blood sacrifice formations that could refine the entire Black Prison Sect in one go.
Most of these formations required energy from the sect itself, but there were also a few that relied on absorbing spiritual energy from the heaven and earth to operate automatically.
However, the Evil Demon God did not use these two types of formations this time.
After all, he was currently in the Human Realm during the end of the world. It was very difficult to rely on the spiritual energy from the heaven and earth to operate the formation.
The other type was even more undesirable. With Black Tiger's current strength, he would be sucked dry the moment the blood sacrifice formation was activated. He would not be able to support the operation of the blood sacrifice formation at all.
Therefore, the Evil Demon God thought of laws.
The power of laws was everywhere, it was the source of power that built the world. Even though the Human Realm was in the end of the world, the power of laws had never faded, nor had it decreased. This was because laws were a special form of energy that was constant. If they were to disappear, the Three Realms would definitely collapse.
Therefore, the Evil Demon God thought of using the power of laws to operate the blood sacrifice formation.
Although the Evil Demon God was only a consciousness, he was once an Ancient God and had a deep understanding of laws. Furthermore, there were five types of laws inscribed on his body. Even if he died, it would not be erased. Therefore, it was not difficult for the Evil Demon God to borrow the power of laws.
However, before that, the Evil Demon God needed Black Tiger to make many preparations.
He first began to teach Black Tiger how to build the Blood Sacrifice Formation. Then, he began to prepare the materials. Since it was a Blood Sacrifice Formation, blood was naturally the best material to draw the formation without the help of spiritual materials.
Based on the black tiger's current situation, there were two ways to obtain blood. One was the fresh blood of wild beasts, and the other was the fresh blood of odd-job workers. These two ways could be used at the same time.
Since the Blood Sacrifice Formation occupied a large area, the amount of blood needed was naturally very large. Therefore, the blood of wild beasts was the main source of blood, followed by the odd-job workers. After all, hunting odd-job workers was risky.
There was still an extremely important step in the process of outlining the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation, and it was to conceal the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation. It couldn't be discovered before the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation was completed, otherwise, all previous efforts would be wasted.
This step could be easily accomplished by the Evil Fiendcelestial as well. This was because the Illusion nomological law of the five nomological laws he grasped could completely conceal the Blood Sacrifice Array and prevent anyone from discovering it.
After finalizing all the plans, Black Tiger began to act …
In half a month's time, Black Tiger would finish his day's work as soon as possible. Then, when he went out to fetch water, he would start to collect the blood needed to draw the formation.
He wouldn't store the blood, but use it directly on the outlining of the Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation outside Black Prison Village. Fortunately, Black Prison Village was shrouded in thick fog all year round, so Black Tiger's actions of secretly drawing the formation around Black Prison Village were not discovered.
Everything was carried out in an orderly manner according to the Evil Fiendcelestial's plan.
It was also because of the Evil Fiendcelestial's plan that Black Tiger's hunting of odd-job workers and sect disciples slowed down.
However, the people in Black Prison Sect were still anxious.
Because this time, not only did the disciples go missing, even the elders went missing.
The disciples searching the mountain only found Elder Xue Han's clothes by the lakeside, but they couldn't find him. It was as if he had vanished into thin air like the other missing people.
The frequent strange things that happened during this period of time even alarmed the Black Prison Sect Leader, Xuan Tianji.
After a long period of fruitless investigation, Xuan Tianji finally couldn't sit still and personally came out to investigate.
After that, Xuan Tianji summarized all the existing clues according to the disciples' descriptions and began to analyze through the night.
During the investigation, Xuan Tianji found that since the first mysterious disappearance, 378 people had already gone missing, but there were very few clues, because all the missing people only left behind clothes. There were no other clues that could prove what attacked them, and he couldn't find the killer based on these insignificant clues.
However, Xuan Tianji found a trend in the missing people during the investigation.
At the beginning, the missing people were odd-job workers, then it was the managing disciples, after a few days, it was the inner disciples, and after that, it was the direct disciples. As the days passed, it seemed that the upper limit of the missing people's strength also increased.
This trend seemed like the hidden killer was also becoming stronger, especially after the last time he killed Elder Xue Han, his strength could be said to have increased by leaps and bounds.
This guess really scared Xuan Tianji, because this kind of growth was too terrifying. Xuan Tianji definitely wouldn't believe that there could be such a fast cultivation progress in this Age of Chaos.
Even if the hidden killer used the missing people as blood food, it would be impossible for his strength to improve so quickly, because according to Xuan Tianji's understanding, it was good to be able to absorb 1% of the essence of refining blood food. It was impossible for him to grow so quickly. He immediately rejected this guess.
But then another possibility popped up in Xuan Tianji's mind.
What if the killer had the ability to refine blood food 100%? This was the only way to explain how the hidden killer could grow so quickly!
In order to find out where the problem was, Xuan Tianji had been running around the missing people's areas for the past few days and began to investigate.
In the end, he really found a clue, and that was in the water grass cave where Elder Xue Han disappeared, he found traces of dried white brain on the ground.
After finding traces of dried brain, Xuan Tianji was even more sure of his guess.
Obviously, a battle had broken out here. Although it was not clear whether the brain belonged to Elder Xue Han or the hunter, since the brain had been beaten out, why was there no blood?
This already showed that the hidden killer had the ability to devour blood and was growing in this way.
Although these clues could not directly help Xuan Tianji find the hidden killer, it gave Xuan Tianji a direction to investigate.
At this time, Xuan Tianji also felt a sense of urgency, because the hidden killer was growing rapidly. He had to find the killer before he was strong enough to kill him.
After the investigation, Xuan Tianji thought of the possibility of an enemy invasion, but this guess was quickly overturned.
After all, there was blood food in the big cities in the outside world. Why would someone come all the way to the Black Prison Sect territory and start growing by devouring odd-job workers? It was very likely that it was done by someone inside.
So Xuan Tianji thought of the elders in the sect, but after thinking about it carefully, Xuan Tianji could not help but shake his head. Because if those elders really had this ability, then he would definitely not be the Sect Leader. There was no need to endure for decades to do this.
It was not an enemy, not an elder, but it was very likely that it was done by someone in the Black Prison Sect.
These clues made Xuan Tianji start to investigate the recent events in the sect. After this investigation, Xuan Tianji suddenly realized where the problem was.
Among the recent events in the Black Prison Sect, there was such an event, and that was that he announced that all odd-job workers would start using the virtual reality helmet to help him earn soul coins!
Xuan Tianji was very clear about what was in the game Battle Online.
There were adventures in it, and even some big opportunities that could affect reality!
And the disappearance incident only happened half a month after all the disciples and odd-job workers started using the virtual reality helmet.
This time, Xuan Tianji's thoughts suddenly became clear.
At this time, Xuan Tianji had already realized that the disciples or odd-job workers of the sect must have obtained a big opportunity in the game and obtained a powerful cultivation technique.
Thinking of this, Xuan Tianji's heart surged with strong jealousy.
After all, he had worked hard for months in the game to no avail, but someone else in the sect obtained it in just half a month. He was very indignant.
After knowing the reason, Xuan Tianji changed the direction of his investigation. He no longer looked for clues in reality, but turned the direction of his search to the game.
Starting from the official forum, he scrolled forward day by day to see if there were any big opportunities that appeared in the server announcement.
Xuan Tianji was undoubtedly very smart, and his direction of investigation was very correct.
Soon, he found a post that was posted by a player a month ago.
[Come out and show me your "Great Art of Seizing Foundation", the name of this technique is a bit interesting, it makes me inexplicably scared (laughing emoji)]
Great Art of Seizing Foundation!
Xuan Tianji was now sure that this was the cultivation technique that the hunter had learned. After learning this cultivation technique, he began to hunt in the real world.
Then, Xuan Tianji continued to read forward. He needed an accurate target, and these players' posts could provide him with clues.
In the search, Xuan Tianji quickly found another surprise.
[Technique? Damn, this is the first time it appeared. Come out and show off, big boss, satisfy our curiosity! (Beating drums)]
(Server Announcement: Congratulations to player Black Tiger for obtaining the godly technique "Great Art of Seizing Foundation"!]
Seeing the screenshot in this post, Xuan Tianji laughed out loud because this was exactly what he wanted. With a name, he would not have to worry about not being able to find the hidden hunter.
At this time, Xuan Tianji was already sure that it was not done by the sect disciples, because he knew the names of all the sect disciples.
Now the final clues all pointed to the handyman!
However, he was not familiar with the handyman. After all, in Xuan Tianji's eyes, the handyman was just livestock, there was no need to know their names.
However, the disciples in charge were very familiar with the names of the handyman they were in charge of, so it was not difficult to find this handyman named "Black Tiger"!
…
In the evening, the elder's call came from inside the sect, and all the disciples, including the handyman, quickly rushed to the front of the sect.
After all the handyman and disciples arrived, Xuan Tianji personally came forward this time, and without any delay, he asked directly:
"Who's the name Black Tiger here?"
Xuan Tianji's question stunned the handyman and disciples.
At this time, Xuan Tianji spoke again, "Who's the name Black Tiger here?"
At this moment, sweat was dripping from Black Tiger's forehead. He did not know where he had exposed himself, and because he had to draw the blood sacrifice array recently, even the frequency of his hunting had decreased. Logically speaking, he should not have exposed himself.
At this time, Black Tiger was completely unaware that the players on the official forum had already sold him out.
"Sect Leader, may I know why you are looking for this person?" An elder next to him asked with some doubt.
"He's the assassin in the dark!"
Xuan Tianji's words were shocking, and all the sect disciples and handyman were in an uproar.
Hearing this, Black Tiger's heart skipped a beat. The hope in his heart was gone, and the only thought in his mind was to escape.
At this time, the handyman standing next to Black Tiger suddenly spread out, exposing him.
These handymen were naturally familiar with Black Tiger, and before the disciple in charge could speak, they had already sold him out.
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