Only the colorful starlight remains unchanged forever.
Every second, Qi Ji crossed an indescribable distance in this vertical cave.
At this speed that was beyond the imagination of ordinary people, the blood moon that seemed to be always high above and out of reach... was gradually expanding, approaching, and becoming more prominent!
Like falling into the mortal world!
In less than half a minute, the red full moon enlarged several times and occupied more than one-third of Qi Ji's field of vision.
I believe that in a few seconds, it will be within reach.
"……etc."
However, before that, Qi Ji frowned.
She looked around and found that the three translucent rings surrounding her, emitting brilliant starlight and extremely dazzling and beautiful... the light they emitted seemed to be a little weaker.
The amplitude is very small, but with Qi Ji's observation skills, he can still easily distinguish it.
There is no doubt that they are just a little darker.
Not only the brightness, but also the vividness and richness of colors have been weakened.
However, she did not reduce the release of her own power...
In other words, the changes in the halo have nothing to do with her, but rather there is some external force... that offsets and weakens it?
After figuring this out, Qi Ji immediately tried to activate the "Substitute Flash" to exchange positions with a mini reconnaissance puppet placed in the town at the foot of the mountain yesterday.
"...Tsk, interesting."
As she thought about it, the scene around her did not change. There was still the dreamy starlight and the rock wall flying downwards.
——The "Stand-In Flash" activation failed.
This was the first time she encountered any problem with this space transfer skill that she used most often.
As she made these attempts, her body did not stop, but continued to rise at the previous speed, approaching the full moon that seemed to be soaked in blood.
At this moment, the blood-red light had filled the entire sky above her, as if a sea of blood was pouring down.
I don't know if it's because the mysterious "weakening and offsetting" power has become stronger, or it's simply because the red light of the blood moon is too strong, the starlight emitted by the three halos has become very inconspicuous and is suppressed by the crimson light.
Qi Ji didn't show any panic on his face, but just a smile full of interest, as pure and flawless as a child who has seen a new toy.
"Snapped!"
She snapped her fingers again, and the three rings suddenly disappeared, and the beautiful colorful starlight went out.
And her body stopped rising at the same time.
In a way that completely violates the law of inertia in physics, it stopped at a certain position in an instant without going through any deceleration or braking process, just as abrupt and stiff as a video with the pause button pressed.
As her body came to a standstill, a large area of blood-red, so bright that it hurt her eyes... filled her field of vision.
Red, pure red, eerie red, completely filled her eyes when she raised her head.
With the naked eye, it is impossible to judge how far away the "red" is from you. If you rise just one meter, you will plunge into the scarlet sea of blood.
Fortunately, Qi Ji's senses were not limited to vision. She slightly relaxed her perception of spiritual and divine power, and instantly a very refined perception flooded into her mind.
"Sure enough, this is the divinity of 'The First Authority: Ordinary World'."
She nodded her chin as expected, then reached out her hand, reached over her head, and poked lightly upward with her slender white index finger.
At this moment, the pure, peaceful, and seemingly united "red" suddenly ripples.
With the tip of the finger she stretched out as the center, it quickly spread out in four directions, and then gradually subsided.
It turned out that the real body of the blood moon was less than half a meter away from her. If she hadn't stopped just now, even if she was a ten-thousandth of a second later, she would have collided head-on with it!
And at the moment when Qi Ji's fingers touched the blood moon, a ray of "information" suddenly escaped from the blood moon and attacked her without stopping, trying to invade her mind.
Qi Ji did not resist. He simply made some mental preparations, then let go of his mental defenses and allowed the information, which was not particularly vast, to enter his mind.
The next second, a long string of messy, complex, but not meaningless information... unfolded in his mind -
"The source of life", "blood moon", "primordial womb", "breeder of all things", "mother of all living things"...
"Ancient Moon".
Chapter 451 Summoning
"Run! Don't walk! Hurry up!"
In the long and deep tunnel, a group of people were walking hurriedly.
Hard-soled combat boots and iron-studded horseshoes tapped the smooth, even stone ground in a chaotic and urgent manner, while layers of light and shadows passed over the curved stone walls like fish scales.
The leader of the team riding war horses into the mountains held the reins in one hand and tightly grasped the unsheathed armed sword in the other. The sword god's face was pale in the light of the torch, just like the face of this calm and vicissitudes of life middle-aged man.
“Tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk!”
Behind him, seven or eight soldiers in plate armor formed a long line. Two of them were on horseback, following closely behind the leader.
Thanks to the fact that the tunnel is wide enough and high enough for a horse to pass through, the three cavalrymen in the front can ride on their horses and unleash their sharpest and fiercest fighting power as "cavalry".
The rest of the people were holding armed swords and running silently in the straight tunnel. Under the lifted visors were solemn and cold faces.
The spiritual brilliance that symbolizes the righteous warriors is now unabashedly flickering on the armor of these dismounted cavalrymen, shining brightly and looking intimidating.
Behind them were five authentic mages wearing long robes and holding magic staffs. They held up the hem of their slightly cumbersome robes with one hand and barely followed the dismounted cavalrymen, not being left behind by this group of strong warriors.
"Damn it, who on earth is that..."
The leader at the front had a dark cloud in his eyes, his eyes were about to shoot fire, and his teeth were clenched tightly:
"Mr. Nightmare has arranged all the procedures to be very secretive. How did the news leak out? Besides, a tunnel like this is a huge project. It would be impossible to dig it out in ten days or half a month, unless..."
He quickly glanced at the fish-scale-like layers of rock wall out of the corner of his eye. Even the most skilled stonemason would be impressed by such craftsmanship.
If it were an ordinary construction team, even if they arranged more manpower, it would take at least half a year, or even longer, to dig a tunnel of such precision and scale.
But the people who dug the site... weren't they an "ordinary construction team"?
If it was a high-level extraordinary person, such as a magician, a psychic warrior, an expounder, or even a legendary strongman of the fourth realm, then to complete such a project...
It’s not that difficult. As long as you are patient enough, you can achieve a similar effect.
After realizing this, the team leader's eyes became more serious and his brows were furrowed.
This meant that if they continued to move forward, they would most likely run into the group of excavators, a group of high-level transcendents of an unknown number but at least at the third level...
And they must be the enemy!
Without a doubt!
The leader was both anxious and frightened at the moment, and it took him a lot of effort to suppress the urge to ride his horse and gallop, because doing so would leave the infantry and mages behind him behind, putting everyone in an unfavorable situation.
We must, we must stop them, stop those hostiles of unknown origin...
"Damn, how long is this tunnel?! How deep did they get into it!?"
Ten minutes later, the team leader spat viciously.
Since they decided to send most of their forces into the tunnel, they had been jogging for nearly half an hour, but this strangely regular tunnel was still endless, with no sign of reaching the end at all.
The team leader became more and more uneasy, and his calm face gradually showed a hint of panic.
What frightened him was not that the excavators were so powerful that they could drill such a straight and orderly tunnel in the hard and dense mountain in just a few days.
But... as of now, the length of this tunnel has exceeded three kilometers, and it is obviously far from the end!
Three kilometers...if we extend it another two or three kilometers, we will reach "that place", that space that must not be exposed to the eyes of outsiders and must not be known by others...
"Speed up! Mages behind you, protect yourselves and sprint at full speed! Time is running out, no time to lose!"
He finally gave a stern order, then kicked the horse's belly with the spurs at the base of his boots. The well-bred warhorse immediately let out a long, angry howl and spread its four long legs to gallop wildly.
"Yes!"
The two cavalrymen behind him sped up in response. The soldiers and mages on foot behind them also gathered their spiritual power, temporarily endowing their bodies with functions far beyond those of ordinary people, and kept following closely behind the cavalrymen.
With the help of their spurs, the pure combat team of more than a dozen people increased their speed several times. In less than five minutes, the leader saw the end of the tunnel.
The team leader's heart fell to the bottom.
Under the illumination of torches, the curved rock walls on both sides extended forward for dozens of meters and then suddenly stopped.
Between the rock walls on both sides, there was only pure darkness, which could not be illuminated by the fire in any way.
This shows that the tunnel was not interrupted halfway through excavation, but penetrated the rock and led to a wide, lightless space!
What kind of space will it be?
The team leader already had the answer in his mind.
"brush!"
The next second, a team of more than a dozen people filed out of the cave, and their vision suddenly became clear.
Dark red sand and gravel spread out before my eyes, and above me was a blood-red full moon.
The moment they confirmed the scene before them, everyone's faces turned pale at the same time.
They stood there in silence like statues for a long time before someone whispered in a trembling voice:
"They have arrived..."
"Search! Search every corner! We must find them! At the very least, we must find any trace of them!"
The leader had a furious look on his face, brandished his armed sword, and shouted to the team members behind him:
"All mages, including you, you, and you, get on your horses and search here. Everyone else, follow me!"
After saying this, he turned over and dismounted.
At his command, three fully-armored soldiers on horseback and five righteous magicians stayed at the bottom of the "shaft" to conduct a carpet search, while the others followed him and ran straight into the depths of the red sand plain.
Soon, they passed through the circular bottom of the "shaft" and came to the stone wall at the other end, and the stairs carved on it appeared before their eyes.
"on!"
Five people, including the team leader, immediately climbed up the stairs and climbed up very eagerly.
"Speed up! Full speed! We must get ahead of them..."
"brush!"
Before the team leader could finish his urging words, a large area of dazzling colorful light came down from the sky, and the shining light made everyone subconsciously close their eyes!
"how……!"
The team leader was stunned. He forced his eyelids open and looked up at the colorful light that appeared inexplicably, but was stunned for a moment.
The blood-red full moon was now completely invisible, and in its place was...
A magnificent starry sky!
With pure black as the curtain and dark purple as the background, dots of starlight like scattered silver powder are dotted in every inch of space above the head, releasing a breathtaking charm and momentum.
And in the very center and deepest part of this "galaxy", everyone vaguely saw... a sacred, distant, and ethereal outline, surrounded by countless aggregates of light balls, blooming with billions of rays of light.
"This is……"
The leader's face was as white as paper. He stopped and stared blankly at the starry sky that completely covered the blood moon, his eyes wide open, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Suddenly, his face turned grim, as if he had made up his mind, and he reached out and took out a thumb-sized stone from the storage compartment of his armor.
A regular icosahedron that is completely black, has a texture like obsidian, and has its surface carved with complex runes and patterns.
The barely perceptible crimson glow flows slowly within the marks that are either bold and unrestrained, or subtle and restrained, or flow like clouds and running water.
"Sir, are you going to..."
When the team leader took out this thing, the faces of several team members behind him all changed drastically, and they all stepped forward to dissuade him.
However, this plank-walk-like staircase was too narrow, and could only accommodate two people walking side by side at most. The soldiers wearing heavy full-body plate armor had great difficulty in moving in such terrain.
Before they took any actual action, the leader spoke quickly, but recited a long list of descriptions in a low and devout voice:
"The source of all things, the origin of heaven and earth; the supreme Holy Spirit, the omniscient and omnipotent Lord..."
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There is another chapter tonight.
