Not far from Lianxin Village, on a small hill, Long Yutian stood up from the ground, wiping sweat from his brow.
At his feet was a circular magic array, with corresponding materials placed at specific positions around it, and a bird skeleton in the center.
“Finally, the Summoning Death Ritual is set up. Thankfully, its requirements aren’t too many. I just wonder how the others are doing…”
Just as he was worrying about his teammates, he received a message from them.
“All done?” A look of joy appeared on his face. “That means I can go on a rampage.”
His two other teammates slowly turned their heads, all showing harmless smiles.
Not far away, several villagers watched the scene before them with trepidation, and the moment their eyes met, cold sweat soaked their clothes.
“I’ve long found you beasts an eyesore,” Long Yutian said, drawing his gun and firing. “Before, because the ritual hadn’t started, I had to be cautious, but now I can finally let loose.”
The bullets pierced the villagers’ foreheads, instantly reducing their sanity to zero and triggering their second forms.
Monsters tore through human skin, emerging from the flesh, roaring as they charged at the three.
This situation was also unfolding with the other two teams.
As for Mo Di, unlike the Claws Squad, who were locked in a fierce battle, he was engaged in a one-sided slaughter.
As his lips moved, his vocal cords vibrated, producing a hoarse, strange, bird-like sound. At the same time, his hands moved continuously, his greatsword sweeping wide, chopping the surrounding monsters into pieces.
Internal organs were scattered everywhere, and blood flowed into a river.
The monster that Xian Tong had transformed into roared loudly, but it could not drown out the sharp bird cries, and could only helplessly watch the ritual proceed.
She also watched Mo Di push everything to an irreversible point.
“Caw!”
An equally strange bird cry came from nowhere, echoing throughout Lianxin Village.
Whether it was the sealed Black Sky Buddha Mother or the Earth God in the Earth God Shrine, both heard this bird call.
Xian Tong broke out in a cold sweat. As the person most closely connected to the Black Sky Buddha Mother, she could feel the curses that permeated Lianxin Village all fall silent.
What did this signify? The Black Sky Buddha Mother was afraid.
She was weak and inexperienced, not understanding how terrifying that bird call had been, but the Black Sky Buddha Mother was different.
She secretly regretted not eliminating these intruders at the first opportunity, allowing them to complete the ritual to summon an outer evil god.
Compared to herself, the one the ritual pointed to was the true evil god.
“Caw caw!” With two more bird cries, Mo Di felt something extra within him—it was… power!
“Corvus above, I shall bring death to those who deserve it!”
He took a deep breath, then exhaled heavily.
In the blink of an eye, the airflow he exhaled, under the combined effect of magic and cold blood true qi, transformed into a raging cold wind.
Ice mist and cold wind howled, engulfing most of Lianxin Village, freezing the blood on the ground into blood ice.
In the howling ice wind, all the monsters surrounding Mo Di were frozen into ice sculptures.
The magic within the ice mist extinguished the curses in their bodies; their flesh completely lost its regenerative ability, only to face death under the witness of Corvus.
After the ice wind passed, only Xian Tong remained alive in the entire area.
As soon as she opened her eyes, besides the snow-white Lianxin Village, she also saw a rapidly enlarging greatsword.
With a “pfft” sound, the greatsword slashed diagonally across her body, splitting her in two.
Two sharp claws wrapped in bloody ice crystals seized the opportunity to grab her outstretched proboscis, tearing it apart.
After a sharp pain, her proboscis was torn in half, unable to even whimper, she could only writhe in agony on the ground.
She tried to find her other half.
But she couldn't even achieve this last thought, because a greatsword pierced her half-body from top to bottom, nailing her to the spot.
The cold blood true qi extinguished her last bit of vitality, returning to Mo Di after circulating through her body.
Only a dried corpse, split in two, remained on the ground.
Lianxin Village fell into a deathly silence, with no sound other than Mo Di’s heavy breathing and the howling wind.
Everywhere were bodies frozen into ice sculptures, everywhere were houses he had destroyed; most of Lianxin Village had been reduced to ruins.
His perception spread with the ice wind, and Mo Di carefully searched for traces of the villagers.
The saying goes, “eliminate evil thoroughly,” and it’s the same with doing good.
If a few villagers escaped, squeezing out the living space of others, then this good deed would be half-ruined.
Mo Di would never allow his kindness to be so wasted; he wanted to send all the villagers to meet the Black Sky Buddha Mother.
“Found them.”
Indeed, there were still a few villagers hiding in the outskirts of Lianxin Village, which had not been reduced to ruins.
Target locked, preparing spell.
Cold blood true qi, mixed with magic, merged into the cold wind.
Under his intervention, the ice crystals in the sky condensed and gathered, and a blood-colored ice spear quickly formed.
Adjust trajectory, charge… fire.
As if thrown by an invisible hand, the blood-colored ice spear accurately hit its target.
Another ice storm erupted, and after the cold wave, the previously intact buildings on the outskirts of Lianxin Village all turned into ruins.
Aside from these outsiders, there were probably no other living people left in the entire Lianxin Village.
Two more bird cries sounded, and Mo Di detected some joy in them.
Perhaps because most of the villagers were dead, the bloodthirsty Corvus was very happy and directly rewarded him with a wave of power.
His spirit merged with the raging ice mist. At this moment, Mo Di felt that his power was enough to suppress the Black Sky Buddha Mother’s curse.
Taking out the walkie-talkie, he ordered Long Yutian and the others: “Your mission is complete. Retreat to the Earth God Shrine on the outskirts. I’ll handle the rest.”
After a moment, the voices of the others came from the other side, one after another.
“Yes.”
Long Yutian put down the walkie-talkie, beneath him a pile of monster corpses.
He let out a heavy breath and greeted his two comrades: “Retreat to the Earth God Shrine. The rest is up to our teacher.”
He and the others naturally would not question Mo Di’s decision; strict obedience was their basic quality.
Moreover, they understood that ten of themselves wouldn't be enough to fight Mo Di, let alone confront the dangerous Black Sky Buddha Mother.
The Claws Squad exited first. When Long Yutian and his two companions retreated to the Earth God Shrine, they saw the other two teams who had arrived earlier.
Unlike their team, the other two teams each had one person missing, and combined with the expressions on their teammates’ faces, what had happened was self-evident.
Long Yutian swallowed the words he had intended to say, silently gazing at Lianxin Village, which had completely turned into an icy wasteland, not far away.
“You’re back so soon?” The Earth God appeared at the opportune moment, asking in confusion, “What happened in Lianxin Village? Why do I feel a terrifying gaze sweep over it?”
“This is our method of dealing with Her,” he replied vaguely. “Next, it depends on whether my teacher can resolve Her.”
“I see.” The Earth God realized that their trump card might be calling upon a higher being and did not ask further, his heart filled with anticipation.
Perhaps, this time, they could truly succeed in eliminating that malignant tumor.
While everyone in the Earth God Shrine waited in silence, Mo Di also made his move.
He didn’t immediately go to the Black Sky Buddha Mother to plant bombs, but instead fixed his gaze on the scattered frozen meat.
“I seem to have a Frostblood Abomination Transformation Ritual. Perhaps I can moonlight as a Blood Mage?”
Although he was reluctant to admit it, many Blood Mages actually moonlighted as necromancers; when the two overlapped, their reputation became even worse.
“I still have the power of Corvus, which is something all necromancers dream of. Moreover, Corvus doesn’t mind me doing this, so it would be a pity not to.”
Finally convincing himself, he decided to show kindness once more, allowing the villagers’ corpses to atone for their past sins.
Magic imbued with the power of death, mixed with cold blood true qi, spread to the frozen meat everywhere.
The Wendigo’s bloodline specialty, skull, and fur shawl all took effect simultaneously, combined with the power granted by Corvus, his Frostblood Ritual achieved miraculous results.
Death magic awakened the frozen meat from death, while cold blood true qi imbued them with twisted vitality.
The frozen meat thawed, wriggling to find its kind, leaving trails of frost paths on the ground.
Before long, lumps of flesh aggregates, roughly humanoid in shape, covered in ice armor and wielding ice blades, stood upon the earth.
Their eyes glowed blue, their figures were tall, and they exhaled cold air, silently forming a square formation before Mo Di.
“Such a squad of Frostblood Abominations could easily wipe out the original Wendigo, and could also kill a Transcendent at the cost of their lives. They should be able to cause some trouble for the Black Sky Buddha Mother.”
Ordering the Frostblood Abominations to wait for his command on the outskirts of Lianxin Village, he alone, carrying the large bomb, silently approached the Black Sky Buddha Mother’s altar.
“This was originally the Black Sky Buddha Mother’s seal, but now it has become a place to worship Her. How ironic.”
Mo Di kicked open the door to the underground passage, seeing darkness as nothing, and walked straight into the curse-filled passage.
Due to his height, he had to stoop to continue walking.
“This underground passage is too narrow; it’s extremely unfriendly to someone of my height.”
It was clear that the people who built this underground passage were not as tall as him.
As he went deeper, he saw some objects that were originally used to maintain the seal, such as mirrors and clay figurines, but now they were either destroyed or moved away.
They served no purpose.
A chilling wind blew, and the sound of infants crying echoed in his ears. Mo Di ignored it all, like a horror movie character who knowingly walks into danger.
“The curses are all suppressed by the might of the Demon God, yet they still linger. It seems this Black Sky Buddha Mother is not simple.”
The deeper he went, the more he felt the power of the curses within.
After some estimation, he came to a conclusion:
The Black Sky Buddha Mother very likely once possessed the power of an Eternal, but now she is severely wounded, and it’s uncertain if she even approaches the power of an Eternal.
Even so, she is still a powerful Transcendent, capable of trampling De Wei An underfoot.
“Here we are.” Mo Di looked at the statue before him, a chill rising in his heart.
The statue had eight arms, two performing a reversed lotus mudra, while the other six held a skull, a blood bowl, and other objects, looking particularly grotesque and repulsive.
The statue’s head was covered with a red cloth, under which the outline of a proboscis was vaguely visible.
The Black Sky Buddha Mother was sealed within this statue; only by destroying the statue could one confront Her directly.
But the occasional flashes of spiritual light on the statue indicated that destroying it would require considerable effort, or the purest form of violence.
Mo Di chose the latter.
Ignoring the illusory voices in his ear that tempted him to unveil the red cloth, he placed the large bomb on the offering table and set the detonation time.
“Alright, I hope you like my offering.”
He clapped his hands, resisting the urge to unveil the red cloth, and returned the way he came.
The underground passage returned to silence, with only the ticking of the bomb’s countdown occasionally sounding.
Presumably, it would bring infinite surprises to the Black Sky Buddha Mother!