Inferno Altar.
Although it was a wooden door but it still felt heavy, under Ghost Li's strength, this thick and heavy door on the Inferno Altar, emitted a muffled sound and slowly opened inwards. Inside the door, a faint red light shone out, the surrounding air seemed to have risen a few degrees, extremely hot. Ghost Li frowned, beads of perspiration already forming on his forehead, he suddenly recalled what he heard just now, that Shang Guan elder had actually guarded this hot place for close to a hundred years, he really did not know how he had been living in this place.
Inside the Inferno Altar, it did not look bright, other than a trace of red light shining from somewhere, it seemed to be more of a gloomy darkness, not matching the surrounding heat. Ghost Li stood at the entrance, pondered for a moment and finally still lifted his feet and walked in. With another creaking sound, the wooden door gently closed. Ghost Li inhaled deeply, calmed his mind and started to assess the surroundings. Just like what he had guessed when he saw the altar from the outside, it was indeed an extremely large hall inside, as high as five zhangs, the entire hall was circular in shape, the walls were the same as what he saw outside, made of that kind of scarlet red rock, without any carvings or decorations, simple and unadorned but in this huge space, there was an indescribable grandeur, making one feel that only this kind of simplicity, was the true highest realm of architecture.
Very soon, Ghost Li discovered that the red light in the entire great hall, originated from the centre of the great hall. The nearer he got to the centre of the great hall, the brighter the surroundings, looking from afar, under that red light, the great hall seemed like a ball of scorching fire was burning. Ghost Li stared at that ball of 'fire', the red light shone over, reflected in his eyes and also shone on Xiao Hui who was crouching on his shoulder. One man and one monkey's eyes, seemed to be dyed red by something at the same time, indistinctly a red fire burning. Xiao Hui's tail swayed slightly, seemed to also feel uneasy, quietly called out. Ghost Li strided, walked towards that ball of 'fire' in the centre of the great hall, unhurriedly walked towards the depths of that red light.
As he got closer and closer to the "flame", the surrounding air became hotter. At this moment, it was almost the same as being next to underground lava. In Ghost Li's mind, for some reason, he suddenly thought of a long forgotten past matter - under the Fire Dragon Cave, the lava lake that was even hotter than now, that pair of fox demons who jumped into the lake to commit suicide... this thought flashed past, when he was less than one zhang away from the center of the great hall, he suddenly stopped. Xiao Hui turned its head to look at its master. Ghost Li frowned, his eyes had already turned away from the ball of fire, looking at the ground.
A pattern suddenly appeared on the flat floor made of crimson stones. Just below Ghost Li's feet, a finger-sized cut appeared on the stone, extending to both sides but it looked crooked and not smooth. And one chi in front of Ghost Li, was the same finger-sized engraving, drawn on the hard scarlet red rock, forming a one chi large pattern. It was a god! A god that Ghost Li had never seen before, never heard of before.
The vigorous engraving slowly extended on the ground, traces of time could be seen everywhere at the edges, showing that these patterns had existed for a long time, revealing a trace of desolation. The god's head did not have any hair but had slightly curved horns like a goat's, the face and brows were similar to a human's, just that under that pair of eerie and empty eye sockets, the mouth was clearly filled with sharp fangs. The carver even carved a few tiny holes beside the fangs, as if fresh blood was dripping out, adding a few degrees of ferocity and savagery. The body of this god was very different from that of a human. It was as strong as a tiger or leopard, and it had four arms. One of its hands held a knife, and the other held a shield. One of its remaining two hands was tightly gripping a human body that was twisting in pain. That person seemed to be screaming at the sky. The other hand was gently holding something that was still dripping with blood. It was a human heart.
The original ancient and desolate engraving, at this point, suddenly became furious and unrestrained, that strength, that deep hatred, seemed to burst out at once. Ghost Li actually so vividly and inconceivably felt that wave of madness, rising from this engraving. The gentle engraving suddenly became intense, flew down from the torso, merged into one in the lower body of this ferocious god, and turned into a raging flame. The red light shone, this god's mouth also seemed to have a trace of a hideous smile, as if it was about to break out of the ground and resurrect! Ghost Li took a deep, deep breath, almost subconsciously, in his mind, he combined this carver and the person who built this altar as one. He did not expect that there was such a master craftsman in this world, there was actually such a genius with such uncanny workmanship!
One engraving, seemed to have seized all the creation of the world! That engraving was still extending on the ground, Ghost Li could not help but walk to the side, and gradually found the second statue, the third statue, and finally, after circling around the red flame in the middle, he found a total of eight engraved images of gods on the ground. Not one was the same, but Ghost Li could almost be sure, that all the engravings on the ground were all ferocious gods. In these engravings, humans had completely become these gods' sacrifices, like food.
The entire great hall, right now was in an austere atmosphere, as if following the discovery of these engravings, there was some ferocious creature growling in the unseen world. And outside these images, there was another engraving, enveloping all of them but it was not a complete circle, sometimes it curved inwards, sometimes it surged outwards, for the moment Ghost Li could not understand. Right now, he had returned to the first image of the ferocious god, after taking a deep look at this ferocious god, he raised his head, that burning "flame" again appeared in front of him. Suddenly, a sound in his mind, something seemed to surge up, a thirst, a thirst for blood, so familiar welled up in his heart.
Almost at the same time, the surrounding ferocious god engravings suddenly seemed to come alive, indistinctly swaying in front of him. The Soul-Absorbing stick hidden beside his hand, through his robe sleeves, slowly started to light up. Ghost Li's breathing slowly turned heavy, suddenly, he shook his head heavily, forced himself to calm down and then slowly walked towards that ball of flame in the middle. Just that, he had forgotten to look at the monkey Xiao Hui on his shoulder. In that pair of monkey eyes, the golden light appeared again but behind the golden light, there was even more red light, carrying the same crazed bloodthirsty look in Ghost Li's eyes, gradually brightened and dazzled, filling up its eyes. The distance of one zhang was not very far, Ghost Li very quickly reached the source of the red light in the middle of the great hall.
Right now he had already discovered, the eight deities stone carvings, were all surrounding this source of light and the deities' heads were all facing here. Right now the surrounding temperature was already blazing hot, if an ordinary person was here, most likely he would not even be able to continue breathing. Ghost Li forcibly suppressed the waves of bloodthirsty impulse in his heart, through the red light, looked towards that source of light. An object that looked like Ishii, thin at the top and thick at the bottom, appeared in the middle of the great hall.
Three chi, diameter less than two chi, like the stones on the ground, it was built with that kind of scarlet red rock. However, on the flat surface of the well, there was a piece of white, translucent stone that was as clear as crystal. It seemed to be round, but upon closer inspection, one would discover that there were countless facets on it. They were of different sizes, and incomparably resplendent light flowed and covered it. And the red light that shot out incessantly from the well, after passing through this crystal-like strange stone, the light was refracted layer by layer, looking as if there were traces of blood vessels flowing in it. And these light rays condensed into a ball of red light three chi above the strange stone, it was the burning flame that Ghost Li had seen from afar, and the light source in the entire great hall was also coming from here.
Looking at this mysterious and miraculous scene, Ghost Li slowly approached that well, approached that seemingly transparent and resplendent strange stone, looked down. A familiar scene, imprinted into his eyes. The scorching magma below roared and surged like a raging ocean tide, continuously surging up and down. The splashing magma hit the hard rock walls and made sizzling sounds. This Inferno Altar, was actually built on top of a volcano that looked like it was about to erupt. Ghost Li felt a wave of irritation, involuntarily clenched his fists, even his breathing became heavy. Ever since he got close to those ferocious god stone carvings on the ground, it was as if these images that he had never heard of, never seen before triggered the ruthlessness deep in his heart, or maybe these gods were actually savage evil gods.
The bloodthirsty murderous intent in his heart grew stronger but the strange thing was, his consciousness was still able to maintain, totally different from his usual state where he seemed to have sunk into madness. Just that although he was clear-headed, the torment brought by the violent ruthlessness in his body was even more excruciating. If there was anyone standing nearby, they would be able to see that Ghost Li's eyes right now, glowing red, almost like an evil spirit. Just when Ghost Li was forcing himself to hold on, Xiao Hui on his shoulder suddenly called out twice, jumped down and landed on that strange stone.
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