When Taoist Yuanlong rose into the air, a huge "Shou" character appeared inexplicably on the ground below.

Seeing that there was spiritual power flowing on this huge "Shou", Su Xing immediately judged it.

Not surprisingly, this should be a formation.

Under the influence of the "Shou" formation, all the rebels seemed to have been drained of all their strength and fell limp to the ground one after another.

Wrinkles began to appear on their faces and their hair gradually turned gray.

It is clear.

These people are losing their lifespan rapidly.

Part of the lost lifespan of the rebels turned into 'black threads', slowly rising to the sky and merging with the huge eyeball formed by the clouds and mist.

As for the other part....

To Su Xing's surprise.

The other part of the lifespan was not absorbed by Taoist Yuanlong in mid-air, but was directly integrated into the black robe.

It was as if the real beneficiary of this 'ascension ceremony' was not Taoist Yuanlong, but the black robe on the ground.

While absorbing the life span, the black robe slowly rose to the sky like Taoist Yuanlong.

His aura began to rise sharply, and the clothes he wore were dancing in the wind, and an invisible aura radiated from the inside out...

Not long after the black robe rose into the air, Taoist Yuanlong fell directly to the ground.

——Taoist Yuanlong was able to levitate in the air before because he was blessed by the formation of the word "Shou" after the "Ascension Ceremony" began.

However, the black robe had already tampered with the formations and sacrifices.

The 'Ascension Ceremony' seemed to be prepared for Taoist Yuanlong, but in fact, it was Hei Pao himself who was actually performing the ceremony.

When the beneficiary of the "Shou" formation was transformed into a black robe, Taoist Yuanlong naturally fell from mid-air.

Seeing Heipao tampering with the formation, Taoist Yuanlong found it hard to accept it: "Heipao, how dare you betray me?"

"snort,"

In mid-air, the black robe sneered and looked at the other party condescendingly.

He said calmly: "Old man, isn't this what you taught me? If you don't cultivate the golden elixir, you will be an ant for the rest of your life. I have memorized everything."

"you!"

Yuan Longdao was so angry that he was speechless: "After I break through, won't you be the next city lord? Why should I rush to cut off my path to immortality at this moment?"

During the conversation between the two.

As a large amount of lifespan was gathered into Heipao's body, the aura he invisibly exuded became more and more oppressive.

But Taoist Yuanlong didn't show any signs of panic. He just laughed angrily and said, "Heipao, do you think I haven't been guarding against you?"

"snort,"

The black robe sneered: "Do you think I don't know you are guarding against me?"

There was unabashed arrogance in his tone: "These rebel troops used for the 'Ascension Ceremony' and the formations in the central square were all arranged by me... Everything is under my control now,

What else can you use to guard against me?"

"You are right."

Taoist Yuanlong said calmly: "It is true that you prepared the formations and sacrifices for this 'Ascension Ceremony' by yourself, but do you know why I am so relieved to let you prepare everything?"

"Why?"

The black robe was shocked when he heard this, and felt that something was not right.

He stopped talking and just worked hard, trying to use the absorbed 'power of life' to break through the bottleneck of the foundation building period.

Taoist Yuanlong continued: "Don't forget, although you prepared the sacrifices for the 'Ascension Ceremony', your method of preparing the sacrifices was learned from me."

"What's the meaning?"

Now, Hei Pao felt something was wrong even more.

He could vaguely feel that Taoist Yuanlong really had some back-ups.

Taoist Yuanlong did not respond to the other party, but said sadly: "Originally, that backhand was just a whim of mine, but I didn't expect that it really worked today."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yuanlong flew into the air again.

Seeing this, the black robe widened his eyes and said in disbelief: "Impossible! I am controlling the 'Shou' formation now, how can you possibly fly?"

Heipao and Taoist Yuanlong are both at the foundation-building stage.

As for the foundation-building monks, they cannot fly into the air without commanding a flying magic weapon.

Therefore, it is impossible for Taoist Yuanlong to fly directly into the air without the blessing of the "Shou" formation.

But he just flew up inexplicably.

This made Heipao have a guess in his mind: "Old man, did you secretly arrange a set of formations with the word 'Longevity' without telling me?"

"Why bother?"

Taoist Yuanlong said in a calm tone: "I taught you the method of using the rebels as sacrifices...Didn't you feel anything was wrong while you were learning?"

"Could it be that...."

Hearing what Taoist Yuan Long said, Hei Pao's expression suddenly changed, as if he had guessed something.

But only then did I realize that it was already too late.

mid-air.

Taoist Yuanlong shot a burst of spiritual power into the formation with the word "Shou", and immediately, countless "black silk threads" poured out from the body of the black robe.

Part of the silk threads rose high into the sky and merged with the huge eyeball made of clouds and mist.

The other part was gathered into Taoist Yuanlong's body.

In this way, the entire 'ascension ceremony' formed a strange picture:

Part of the 'black thread' emitted by the rebels rose into the sky, and part of it poured into the black robe.

And the body of the black robe also exudes "black silk threads".

Part of it rose to high altitude, and the other part poured into Taoist Yuanlong's body.

This scene made Su Xing, who was mixed in the crowd, subconsciously think of the proverb "The mantis stalks the cicada, but the oriole follows behind."

The mantis in this refers to the black robe that absorbs the life span of the rebels, and the Yuanlong Taoist who absorbs the life span of the black robe is the oriole.

Although the black robe had tampered with the formations and sacrifices, he didn't know that he himself was also used as a sacrifice by Taoist Yuanlong.

Maybe it's because of past feelings.

It may also be that it is about to break through to the Golden Elixir stage, causing some changes in mentality.

mid-air.

Taoist Yuanlong sighed: "Heipao, you have been following me for so long anyway. I will let you lose clearly today, and let all fellow Taoists know what is going on..."

According to Taoist Yuanlong.

The 'ascension ceremony' he performed was actually, to put it bluntly, a 'transaction' with 'Shou'.

In order for a person to become a sacrifice in the 'Ascension Ceremony', the first condition is for the person to kneel down and worship the statue of 'Shou' and say a specific prayer.

Among them, those who guide mortals to say prayers are called priests.

Just like the black robe.

The mortals who uttered the prayers were called sacrifices.

Just like the rebels present.

When the 'Ascension Ceremony' is activated, the rebels who serve as sacrifices will dedicate part of their lifespan to the body of 'Shou'.

The other part of the lifespan will be given as a reward to the priest who presides over the 'Ascension Ceremony'.

According to the plan discussed between Taoist Yuanlong and Heipao.

This priesthood should have been held by Taoist Yuanlong.

After the 'Ascension Plan' is completed, he can use this part of his lifespan to break through the bottleneck and successfully advance to the Golden Core stage.

But Black Robe was unwilling to accept this, so in the process of preparing the sacrifice, he made some moves and transferred the identity of the priest to himself.
Chapter completed!