When night falls, the moonlight is obscured by dark clouds, like a curtain blocking the light in the dark world.

In the dead jungle, a figure in a golden robe walked alone.

His gaze was staring at the front, not moving at all, and there was a scorching light shining in the two eyes full of vicissitudes, full of longing.

As his pace quickened, he got closer and closer to the altar, and the smell of blood wafted in.

He subconsciously took a deep breath and smelled a disgusting smell of blood, but there was no discomfort on his face, on the contrary, the corners of his mouth curved in a wonderful arc.

He was laughing, uncontrollably because he was so excited.

"It's finally coming, it's finally coming!" He shouted in a hoarse, trembling voice with excitement, as if to declare his victory.

Before his joy had faded, he was interrupted by screams and wails.

"Who are you and why are you arresting us!?"

She struggled to break free from the man's shackles, but to no avail.

There is no way, the difference in strength between the two is too big, she is just an ordinary person, and the man is a monk of the Xuanyin Realm, and her resistance does not work at all in the man.

And the man was obviously a little tired of her resistance, and didn't pay a word to her, and was about to cut down with a sword.

"Don't !!"

The panicked and helpless voice stopped abruptly, and the woman and the boy she was protecting in her arms were killed by the man and thrown into the pit below.

"Puff"

The body had fallen to the ground, and the man looked down to see the frightened look on the dead woman's face, and a sneering smile appeared on his face, and then he confirmed the number of sacrifices, and after confirming that it was correct, he nodded with satisfaction.

After that, he put away his smile and turned to walk towards Zhang Lun.

"Tell the lord of the country, according to your orders, the sacrifices have been prepared." The man walked up to Zhang Lun and said respectfully.

Zhang Lun nodded with satisfaction, there was no joy or sorrow on his face, but his heart was already full of energy.

After decades of preparation and layout planning, now that everything is ready, and finally ushered in the moment of harvest, how can he not be excited.

But now is not the time to be happy, he is not completely victorious yet, and he cannot be happy and sad.

So he regained his mood and said to the man on the side: "Good job, you will have a share of the 'Spirit Blood Sacrifice' for a while." ”

The man was overjoyed when he heard this.

Zhang Lun looked at him with a happy look, showed a smile that seemed to be a smile, and then turned to the soldiers around him and said, "Of course, not only him, but all of you present have the opportunity to participate." ”

As soon as these words came out, the scene suddenly exploded.

Many people heard the conversation between Zhang Lun and the man just now, and they were still jealous of her, but then Zhang Lun was all qualified to participate in the 'Spirit Blood Sacrifice', and the jealousy suddenly disappeared, leaving only ecstasy.

They were just a group of insignificant little people, and they were originally not qualified to participate in the 'Spirit Blood Sacrifice', but what they didn't expect was that Zhang Lun actually gave them a chance, which was really good, and countless cheers poured out.

"Long live the lord of the country!"

I don't know who shouted first, and then there was a gushing cry.

In the cheers, the smile on Zhang Lun's face became thicker and thicker, but there was a slight chill, which was elusive.

And the cheers didn't last long, and soon subsided.

"Thank you for the reward, and the ministers are willing to go to the soup for Your Majesty, at any cost." The man clenched his fists and said in a heavy tone, obviously too excited.

However, this is also normal, although he doesn't know what the 'Spirit Blood Sacrifice' is, but he can guess through various inquiries from all sides, as well as through Zhang Lun's behavior of asking them to secretly capture living people and put them into the life sacrifice, the 'Spirit Blood Sacrifice' is the legendary blood sacrifice evil art.

It's just that it's mostly sealed, and it's now uncommon, just because it's so evil and inhumane......

No, he doesn't care about this, those who are sacrificed have nothing to do with him, he just wants to give himself strength, and wants to use this opportunity to break through to the Guanyang realm, so that he may be able to break through to the five visceral realms in his lifetime, or even the Liangyi realm......

These are all his thoughts, and everyone else is similar to him, Zhang Lun can naturally see it, but he doesn't care what they think.

That's right, he promised these people that they could participate in the 'Spirit Blood Sacrifice', but how to participate, he didn't say.

Thinking of this, he looked at these people who were still immersed in excitement, and couldn't help but sneer in his heart, and his face still looked like a smile.

"Alright, it's time, it's time for me to go up." Zhang Lun put away his smile and said lightly.

At the same time, the others also put away their excitement and watched Zhang Lun step up the steps of the altar with a respectful expression......

At this time, there were already several figures on the altar, obviously they were waiting for Zhang Lun's arrival, among these people were the powerhouses of Cangteng Country, and there were also people from the Mu family of Haifeng Country, and even ...... There is Zhou Lingsu.

That's right, Zhou Lingsu ran all the way after escaping from the imperial city, first escaping to the border, and then under the response of Zhang Lun and them, he came here - a small mountain village not far from the battle between the two armies.

And in this small mountain village, they are going to carry out the most important part of this plan, which is the 'Sacrifice of Spiritual Blood'.

They want to increase their strength through the 'Sacrifice of Spiritual Blood', so as to defeat the Canglan army in one fell swoop, but this is only one small step, and their ultimate goal is to dominate the entire Ten Thousand Souls Continent!"

The reason why they did this was because they had the support of the super sect, otherwise even if they had the ambition and courage, they would not have the strength to complete it.

Zhang Lun naturally knew that the other party's purpose was not pure, but he also knew that the other party had such a strong strength, but he didn't come forward directly, it must be because someone was watching them, so he found them and asked them to make knives.

But it is because he knows that he is being used, Zhang Lun will be even more unhappy, he doesn't like this feeling of being controlled, he likes to control everything, but the current situation does not allow it, if he wants to please this situation, he has to be patient now, endure until he succeeds.

He believes that the moment is not far off.

As long as he allows himself to break through to the Liangyi Realm in this 'Spirit Blood Sacrifice', and the henchmen he has carefully selected will also break through to the Liangyi Realm and the Five Visceral Realms, then the national strength of the Cangteng Kingdom will be unprecedentedly prosperous.

And on the Wanling Continent, there will be no force that can confront him, even if they unite, they will have the temple of the Lance Continent, as well as a group of forces such as the Sea Breeze Country to help them, and when the time comes, they only need to let them kill each other, and they will just sit and collect the fisherman.

He was immersed in beautiful fantasies and couldn't extricate himself for a long time, but fantasies are fantasies after all, and he missed Su Changnian.

But this can't be said to be his problem, he doesn't know Su Changnian at all, because the people who have met Su Changnian here are basically dead, and they didn't even leave their last words.

Now the only person on his side who has seen Su Changnian and has lived to the present is Zhou Lingsu.

However, even if Zhou Lingsu had seen Su Changnian, he didn't mention it to Zhang Lun, because he didn't know the details of Su Changnian at all, he only knew that he was very strong at a young age, but he didn't know how strong he was.

Not long ago, when the Blood Mist Forest rescued Chu Yunzhou, he knew that Su Changnian also went and came back alive, but he was seriously injured, but in his opinion, it was caused by Su Changnian's lack of strength, and he didn't know the reason.

Of course, it's not that he doesn't want to know, but Jiang Tianqi buried the details in it, so not only him, but most others don't know either.

So he subconsciously thought that Su Changnian's strength was insufficient, even if he had seen Su Changnian teach Zhang Jingming a lesson, he also knew that Su Changnian had fought with Chu Yunzhou, and Chu Yunzhou also told himself that he couldn't beat Su Changnian, but he was in conflict with Su Changnian at that time, plus he didn't deal with Chu Yunzhou on weekdays, so he thought that Chu Yunzhou was scaring him.

It's just that he didn't believe it completely, after all, he also saw the confrontation between the two in the air that time, although he changed his cognition a little, he still regarded Su Changnian as a young man with a strong talent, the kind who could pass a few tricks with Chu Yunzhou.

After all, in his impression, Chu Yunzhou's cultivation was only one of the five visceral realms, and as for Su Changnian, it was estimated that he was at the peak of the Guanyang realm or the early stage of the five visceral realms, but he didn't take it to heart.

But he thinks so, he doesn't play all right.

It's just that Zhou Lingsu, as a civil official, is not very good at cultivation, and he has become a prime minister from a civilian, so there are many things he doesn't know.

You must know that the Five Visceral Realm is not like other realms, the five tokens of the Five Visceral Realm are not to say that the more they are, the stronger they are, but to see the degree of refining, as well as the degree of fit with themselves, not just a few tokens that have been refined.

And Chu Yunzhou specializes in the way of fire, and he has refined a fire attribute token over the years, and he doesn't know how much effort and energy he has put into this road.

However, his efforts are not without gains, under normal circumstances, his combat power is not lower than that of the second or third powerhouse of the Five Visceral Realm, plus now that he has replaced a stronger source fire as a new token, his combat power is rising steadily, and now he can even pass a few moves with half of the Five Visceral Realm, and the third or fourth is not lagging behind.

So from this point of view, Zhou Lingsu really underestimated Chu Yunzhou, and even more underestimated Su Changnian, but he didn't realize it.

Besides, now he doesn't have the heart to think about those two, now he just wants to complete the 'Spirit Blood Sacrifice' quickly, so that he can also gain strong power, and when the time comes, he will return to Canglan Country and save Zhou Lin.

When he fled before, in order not to startle the snake, he didn't go to the Qi Palace, so he didn't go to the Qi Palace, and left her behind.

Because of this, Zhou Lin's mother has been scolding him all the way, and even forced him to die, and in the end he has no choice but to promise that he will definitely save their daughter when the time comes.

But although he promised so, he really didn't know the bottom in his heart, he ran away, would Jiang Qianmu let Zhou Lin go?

To be honest, he didn't know the bottom in his heart, but he was only afraid that when he went back, all he saw was Zhou Lin's corpse......

"Alas......" he sighed, his mood very complicated.

"Prime Minister Zhou, do you have anything on your mind?" Liu Xinyu on the side asked.

"No, no......" Zhou Lingsu said with a sneer.

"That's good."

Seeing that he said that it was okay, Liu Xinyu didn't ask again, anyway, he didn't know Zhou Lingsu well, he just asked casually, and Zhou Lingsu didn't get too entangled.

And at this moment, Zhang Lun began the final announcement.

"Everyone, everything is ready, the ceremony will begin immediately, please take your seats."

It's finally about to start, and they can't wait, one by one, their eyes shining with longing, like hungry wolves one after another.

And although Zhang Lun was also looking forward to it, he still maintained his demeanor, stood in the middle of the altar, sat down cross-legged, and the rest of the people also sat down when they saw this.

It didn't take long for everyone to make adjustments, and Zhang Lun also had a few more heavenly and earthly treasures in front of him, and the aura from the escape of many heavenly and earthly treasures made the aura on the entire altar a little thicker.

However, he didn't touch these natural treasures again, but closed his eyes and began to say something in his mouth.

For a moment, only the unexplained murmur of Zhang Lun's mouth remained on the altar.

And as time passed, the totems that were originally looming on the altar also began to emerge and became more and more obvious.

It didn't take long for the black-red light to shine out from above the totem with a "ding" sound, and under the light of the light, the shape of the totem was clearly seen.

It was a fire, black and red, and it was constantly flickering, and the hearts of those who watched trembled.

"Burning Sky Necromantic Array, rise!"

With a loud shout, the totem instantly expanded from the altar, forming an enchantment with the altar as the center, covering everyone present.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Lun waved his hand, and a spirit grass burning with black flames flew above the enchantment, and instantly merged into the enchantment.

"Ah!!h

The terrible screams sounded in the ears of the people on the altar, and Zhou Lingsu's heart couldn't help but tremble.

He opened his eyes and found that except for the altar, all the places shrouded by the enchantment were burning with black flames, and those who were contaminated with black flames, whether they were in the Spirit Sea Realm or the Xuanyin Realm, all turned into a pool of blood in a moment or three, and then merged into a trickle, flowing into the original corpse pit and the current blood pool.

Looking at this hell-like scene, Zhou Lingsu was speechless, but he didn't feel any more pity.

He knew that the essence and blood of these people would eventually turn into spiritual power and be absorbed by them, that is, these people would become their strength and become their stepping stones.

He longs for strength, longs for advanced cultivation, after all, with advanced cultivation, he can have a longer life, who doesn't want to live long?

Zhou Lingsu didn't care where this power came from, he only cared if this power belonged to him.

At this time, Zhang Lun had also put the heavenly treasures he had prepared before into the blood pool one after another, and soon these things worked.

The original mottled and mixed spiritual power was gradually purified, and it continued to converge towards the altar.

"Alright, it's time to start absorbing."

Zhang Lun, who was sitting in the strongest place of the aura, said, and took the lead in settling down, began to devour the majestic aura, and began to break through to the Liangyi realm.

As for the others, according to the level of cultivation, they sat around Zhang Lun in a radial shape, absorbing the aura that Zhang Lun failed to absorb, although it was much less than Zhang Lun, but the aura they absorbed now was not comparable to that on weekdays.

Now everyone here is greedily absorbing the aura and heading towards a higher realm.

And Jiang Tianqi, who disappeared at this time, was also a blessing in disguise and accepted the baptism of inheritance......