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Running out of time.

The torrential rain did not stop, and it was still like a flood that had broken a dike and poured down endlessly. The white mist became thicker and thicker. Looking up and down, there was only endless plain white, as if falling into deep snow.

The black shadows who had been cut down by Tao Mo and the others stood up unsteadily just now, but they were already broken. These broken black shadows gathered in the white mist, walking aimlessly.At this time, except for the noisy rainstorm, only the low growls of these black shadows soaked in the white mist seemed to be stuck in their throats, like the painful groans that could only be heard in the underworld.

The stone statue of the goddess spread her arms, as if she was about to embrace the black shadows in the white mist. She just stood quietly on the edge of the white mist, showing a benevolent smile to the day that was as dark as the night.Suddenly, a bolt of lightning tore through the sky, and the strong light reflected the huge centipede hidden behind the white mist for a moment.

At this time, the three of them rushed to the statue of the goddess with the girl holding the sacred object in their arms. Asha stared nervously at the white mist that was faint but lurking in danger. She took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down. The three people around said solemnly: "My family's sacrifices are usually presided over by the saintess and the great witch, but... time is running out, so I don't care about so much, the fog is dangerous, and the altar is still in the white fog. Please, three of you Protect me, don't let those shadows destroy the sacrifice."

Bai Wangyan glanced at her, and immediately saw through the infinite tension under her seriousness, he smiled helplessly: "Did you sneak out?"

Asha's face turned pale when she was told, but she still frowned and retorted: "I can't wait for the rain to stop. No matter how much they object, I must fulfill my duty as a saint!"

"Oh?" Bai Wangyan raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Even if you know that without the presence of the great witch, the priest may not be able to succeed, do you want to bet everything to complete the sacrifice that you think can save the whole village?"

"Yes," Asha looked into the eyes of the white-haired young man in front of her, nodded firmly and said, "This is the only way, and it is also the only thing I can do for the village."

The peach blossom eyes slightly narrowed into crescent moons, Bai Wangyan smiled: "Okay." He turned his head and said to the other two: "You have also heard her answer, since this is the meaning of the saint, we naturally cannot neglect it."

"That's natural!" Tantaiying carried the Chiluan Saber on his shoulder, and cast his eyes on the altar half hidden in the white mist, "It's not too late, let's go there quickly, brother Tao! Let's go to open the way !"

Tao Mo nodded, but just as he took two steps forward, he suddenly turned sideways and looked at Bai Wangyan who was standing next to Asha: "Go back to the Butterfly Tower."

The smile on his face suddenly froze, Bai Wangyan seemed to suddenly not understand what Tao Mo was saying, and asked with a frown, "Ah Mo, what do you mean?"

Tao Mo frowned, looking at the white-haired young man in front of him who was soaked by the rain, his eyes fixed on his white-clothed chest, the tragedy on the top of the sword pavilion suddenly reappeared in front of his eyes... bright red blood burst from his chest When it came out, scarlet star points splashed on the ground, which was shocking.Now recalling it again, Tao Mo still felt his heart ache unbearably.

"It's safe in the Butterfly Tower, but it's dangerous here."

Just now the gentle smile faded, Bai Wangyan stared at Tao Mo expressionlessly, then sneered, "Young Master Tao, are you humiliating me?"

These words made Tao Mo startled: "I..."

Seeing that the situation was not right, Asha at the side quickly persuaded: "You two, don't get confused at this moment... That's not what he meant, ah, don't get me wrong!"

As soon as the words finished, the white-haired young man only gave her a cold look, and the saint felt as if her blood was frozen. She suddenly felt that the rain was very cold, and she shivered involuntarily.Turning his gaze back to Tao Mo, Bai Wangyan's voice dropped in vain: "Miss Asha bet everything on this sacrifice for the sake of the whole village, but at this critical moment, you make me a timid coward. Isn't it humiliating?"

Caught off guard by Bai Wangyan's sudden change of attitude, Tao Mo didn't know what to do for a while. He opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say, and finally spit out those words: "I'm afraid you seem like a Like this time..." The normally silent swordsman lost his reticent look at this time, Tao Mo seemed to search all the words in his mind and tried his best to piece them together before he said with difficulty, "I didn't want to humiliate you, I just... Even if I let my life die there, I don't want you to have any accidents...you can't have any more accidents."

Seeing that the black-clothed swordsman looked embarrassed at this time, as if he had done something wrong and tried his best to repair it but was still clumsy, Bai Wangyan's cold expression gradually eased. He glanced at Asha beside him, and turned to Turning his head to Tao Mo, he said slowly: "Although I don't know martial arts, I still have self-knowledge, and naturally I won't get in the way. I just ask Tao Shaoxia not to be too forceful, otherwise I'm afraid my life won't last twice."

After all, under Asha's persuasion, Bai Wangyan walked towards the altar in the mist with her. Only Tao Mo, who was at a loss with Zhuohua, was left standing in the rain in a daze.The rain hit his shoulder recklessly, which made his heart ache. Tao Mo knew that Bai Wangyan was really angry this time, but he didn't know how to redeem his slip of the tongue.

At this moment, he suddenly hated his clumsy tongue. If he really had the ability to speak lotus flowers, how could he make Bai Wangyan, who had never had any disputes with him, so angry.

"Brother Tao! Help me!" Amidst the white mist and rain, Tan Taiying's voice suddenly came, and Tao Mo recovered himself from the heavy rain. Holding the Zhuohua Sword, he rushed into the thick white mist.

Watching Tao Mo rush into the boundless white mist in front of him, Bai Wangyan had a slightly strange expression on his face. It was said to be indifferent, but mixed with a trace of sudden worry. Now that the words had come out of his mouth, he naturally knew The principle of "overwhelming water is hard to recover", but just now Tao Mo let himself hide in front of a girl's house, which immediately made him angry, and his usual rationality disappeared. Now that he thinks about it, he carefully considers whether he said something serious .

Holding the wooden box in her arms, Asha looked at the faint mist in front of her with a little fear.In front of the goddess statue, the stone platform used for worship was bathed in mist, as if covered with a layer of white gauze, but this altar was simpler than the ruins in the forest, it was just a relatively spacious stone platform Forget it, there is a butterfly pattern engraved in the center of the platform, other than that, there is nothing else.As the only saint in the village, Asha is of course very clear that since 12 years later, the re-built altar has never held sacred sacrifices, because since that day 12 years ago, the goddess has never shed tears shine.

But now, offering sacrifices to holy objects is the only way to save the village, and she firmly believes in this.

"Miss Asha."

She hugged the box tightly and stood still in the middle of the stone platform, when suddenly the white-haired young man stopped her, she trembled nervously, turned around and asked: "What's wrong?"

Bai Wangyan folded his hands behind his back and looked at her with a frown: "This is the path you chose, don't be afraid."

After his reminder, Asha realized that her whole body was trembling. She forced out a smile, nodded and said, "Yeah."

She took a deep breath and tried her best to calm herself down. This was something she had to bet everything on, and there would definitely be a satisfactory result.In the mist, Tao Mo and Tantai Ying's sharp knives blocked those black shadows. Holding the delicate box containing the holy objects, she immediately felt much more at ease.

Probably talking to herself, Asha frowned and murmured, "The sacrifice has begun."

After all, she carefully took out the pale pink spar like a teardrop from the box, and held it up with both hands. The spar that was emitting five colors of brilliance in the room just now was emitting a faint smile in her palm. The light is like a palm-sized lamp in the rain.She held up the light-colored lamp, looked at the ancient and mysterious holy object devoutly with her eyes, and recited the sacrificial words loudly.

The woman's clear voice pierced through the white mist and rain curtain, piercing the sky, and the black shadows who were fighting with Tao Mo in the white mist stopped moving. They looked up to the sky one after another, as if they were watching something.

"Is this effective?" Seeing these black shadows stop, Tantai Ying said happily, "These things are not moving anymore!"

But at this moment, there was a rustling sound coming from the depths of the white mist, mixed with the sound of rain water hitting the ground, making one's scalp tingle, Tan Taiying and Tao Mo's expressions froze immediately, and the two exchanged a Eyes, while holding the weapon in hand.The intuition of martial arts practitioners tells them that a strong enemy is coming...

In the thick white mist, a scream suddenly sounded, and then, the group of black shadows who were in a trance just now moved violently, roaring, rushed over Tantai Ying and Tao Mo, and rushed towards the altar crazily.

Oops!

Tantaiying and Tao Mo tapped their toes to the ground at the same time, using lightness kung fu to cover both sides of the wave of black shadows, Chiluan and Zhuohuaguang continuously drew sharp silver arcs in the rain, and the black shadows who tried to stop the sacrifice were scattered one after another. Cut under the sword.

The magic weapon made by the sword soul, coupled with the two outstanding martial arts skills, is simply invincible, and it is more than enough to kill these black shadows.

Under the torrential rain, the young woman's dress was torn by the rain, and the bean-sized raindrops washed her face wantonly, but she still held up the tears of the goddess with both hands, and chanted the sacrificial words loudly, and the teardrop-like crystals gradually shone A more intense brilliance than dim light.

A piercing scream burst out from the white mist again, and then, mixed with noisy sounds, the monster that had been hiding in the thick fog finally swam to the altar at high speed!The huge centipede broke through the thick fog and rushed towards the woman in the middle of the altar.Asha, who was concentrating on reciting the sacrificial words, was startled by the multi-legged giant insect in front of her. She was nothing but a young girl. The Gu King who disappeared before.

"Don't panic!" Bai Wangyan shouted from under the altar, "Keep reading!"

Yes, now the sacrifice is stopped because of panic, and everything is in vain.Asha frowned and tried her best to stabilize her trembling arms. She closed her eyes and continued to chant the unfinished sacrificial words.

At the same time, two figures came from both sides of the Gu king, the silver light reflected by the Chiluan knife and the Zhuohua sword in the rain merged into a dazzling white rainbow, and pierced fiercely towards the head of the hundred-legged Gu king, and that King Gu took the full blow of the two men, and the hard shell on the top of his head was pierced by the weapon, spraying out streams of black rot, and immediately, white smoke rose from the ground where the rot was sprayed, Tao Mo and Dan Seeing that the situation was not good, Tai Ying hurriedly retreated to one side, but luckily the two soldiers were forged by sword spirits and could not be corroded.

The Gu King was seriously injured, but he still didn't fall down, while the black shadow rushed towards the altar like waves, countless pairs of black arms grabbed the altar, and it seemed that he was about to climb up, but he didn't move for a moment. up.

If you look carefully at the side of the stone platform, you will find that a layer of frost has formed on it at some point, firmly freezing the hands and feet of those black shadows.But in the melee, neither Asha, who was reciting the sacrificial words wholeheartedly, nor Tao Mo and Tantai Ying, who were fighting against the Gu King, didn't notice.

With his hands behind his back, Bai Wangyan watched the sacrifice with a cold eye.He sighed, and his eyes fell on the person hiding in the white mist.The man looked very similar to him, but he had pale skin, a pair of peach blossom eyes with only the whites left, and he was dressed in shabby Miao costumes, holding a hooked knife in his hand.

At the same time, the man also noticed Bai Wangyan's gaze, but a dry and stiff smile appeared on his face. After that, he disappeared into the white mist behind him.

"Such a deep obsession, really..." Seeing that person disappear completely, Bai Wangyan shook his head and muttered to himself, "It's not the same as me."

Already doing her best, Asha held up the tears of the goddess and shouted the last word in the sacrificial speech.

The faint light that had gradually ignited before finally shined brightly in the rain, and the breathtaking brilliance suddenly bloomed from the tears of the goddess, reflecting the entire cloudy sky with brilliance. Amidst the bizarre, the goddess behind her As if wearing a rainbow-woven butterfly garment with the light of the sacred object, it spread its arms and spread its wings towards the white mist in front of it.The white mist quickly faded under the brilliance, and the original thick white mist disappeared without a trace in an instant; illuminated by the light, the black shadows closed their eyes and turned into fine dust, washed away by the rain; The Gu King who died and came back to life under the sword also returned to dust under the sword.

The cloud was broken by Huaguang, the torrential rain was completely collected, and the sporadic raindrops finally turned into nothingness.

The long-standing fog finally dissipated, and the exhausted girl sat down in the middle of the altar, holding the tear of the goddess that was shining faintly in her hand.She wiped her face with the back of her hand, not knowing whether it was tears or rain.

"Finally..." Asha's voice was a little choked up. She sat on the altar, looking up at the clear sky where the rain and fog had cleared, but she was speechless.She won the bet, this is the correct path she chose...

"This girl is really not an ordinary person." Tantai Ying threw the long knife to her side and smiled at Tao Mo, "Mr. Bai is indeed right."

Tao Mo looked at Bai Wangyan beside the altar and nodded silently.

Suddenly, a black shadow approached quietly, and Asha felt a gust of wind blowing in front of her, and her hands suddenly became empty.She looked blankly at Tao Mo and Tantaiying's expressions, and chased them out like flying, and then looked down at her empty hands.

After a while, she came back to her senses.

Goddess Tears was snatched away.