"Look for an exit," Yuan He said, "There should be a dry magma river under the temple, and that should be the only exit."
Su Yue frowned: "There may be an answer, why didn't you say it before?"
"I'm afraid I can't find it, so I'm happy," Yuanji smiled awkwardly. "If we can find the magma river, we only need to wait there for Gu Zhan and Jingche."
"How do you know he will be there?"
"If he wants to activate the ancient divine power, he must divide his inner alchemy into three clones in order to stand firm. I guess when he comes out, it is the weakest time, and he cannot integrate the ancient divine power into his body. At that time, we will have more chances of winning."
Su Yue frowned slightly, and her expression added a bit more complicated to her lower eyes.
Yuan He knocked around the stone cave and finally determined a location: "This should be the entrance."
His palm gathered his strength and shook down, and a big hole blasted out from the ground. When he looked down, he could vaguely see traces of magma that had condensed.
The three of them jumped off the magma river and walked out for a short distance. Suddenly, they heard a sound of mountain collapse and cracks. The huge rocks and fine sand tilted down from above their heads, as if a brief earthquake was coming, and after a moment, they returned to peace.
It was the seal of ancient divine power that was untied... Gu Zhan should be here soon.
On the other side, Gu Zhan put the ancient divine power into a green bead, picked up Jing Che, who was tortured on the ground and quickly evacuated it.
However, seeing traces of people walking through the dry magma river underground, Gu Zhan thought for a moment and stopped leaving.
He sat down on the spot, meditated cross-legged to restore his energy, and the light of the two clones jumped dimly one after another in his body.
Jing Che lay on the ground to rest, obviously Gu Zhan didn't plan to do anything to her. After a long silence, she sarcastically said without hesitation: "You are really a perfect villain."
Gu Zhan doesn't care at all, he says in a concise way: "Anyway, I'm misunderstood like that, so I don't care anymore."
She sneered and stopped communicating with Gu Zhan. Her eyes wandered around without any focus, looking at the dry magma river. After staring at it for a long time, she gradually discovered something was wrong.
The cooled magma traces are winding and almost impossible to detect without careful observation. However, a layer of black viscous liquid is curvy on it, extending to the distant outlet.
"What is this?" Jing Che asked tentatively. In fact, she had a terrible idea in her heart, but she just didn't dare to confirm it.
"What do you think is what you are." Gu Zhan still closed his eyes, his tone calmly as if he was just explaining something extremely natural.
"You want to blow up this place?!" Jing Che shouted in surprise.
“Why not?”
"After the explosion here, the volcanic ash erupts again, and the backflow of magma will flood the entire ghost village!"
"I know."
"You--" Jing Che stared at him fiercely, his eyes full of anger.
"If you want to kill me? If you kill me, you can't get out." Gu Zhan said lightly, holding a natural threat.
"I don't want to go out at all--" Jing Che's words showed murderous intent. When Gu Zhan opened his eyes quickly, he took a step later. Jing Che had already held one of his clones' inner elixirs in his hand, stood up and retreated step by step, "If you dare to come over, I will crush your clones. How many ten thousand years have you been practicing for ten thousand years? Twenty thousand years? Although you have obtained the ancient divine power, you can't integrate it. What else do you have to use to fight with the same abyss and fight?"
"Don't be impulsive," Gu Zhan stretched out his hand to her, indicating that she would better walk back by herself, "If you go back, you will be buried in this place with the entire ghost village. You'd better not do this, return the clone inner elixir to me, and I'll treat it as nothing happened."
Jing Che still held the transparent and luminous ball in his hand and continued to retreat: "When I go back from the entrance, I will naturally release your inner alchemy."
"The entire ghost village has no other exit except here. Even if you go back to inform us, you will only die together. The gunpowder has already started burning on the other end, so it is impossible to stop."
Jing Che insisted on his own. After confirming that Gu Zhan would not catch up with him at this distance, she did not fulfill her words, but decisively crushed Gu Zhan's inner elixir, turned around and ran back when she was back and forth.
Gu Zhan grabbed his chest behind him, and his face showed an extremely painful look.
Jing Che staggered all the way back, and as soon as he stepped out of the stuffy cave, he was immediately subdued by several strong men.
"Let me see you, I have something to say to him."
Her hair was grabbed and pulled back, and she was slapped hard on her face without saying a word: "Today our village people will definitely tear you into pieces to sacrifice to the gods!"
Jing Che's face was swollen, and his eyes were covered in blood because of the stagnation. She guessed that this was what Yuan Ji did, which aroused public anger in the parody. Gu Zhan activated the ancient divine power and pushed everyone's anger to the top. However, she could only bear the blame, endured a sense of salty smell in her mouth, and insisted: "Let me practice it."
He kicked her lower abdomen again, and Jing Che almost knelt down without being beaten. At this time, a familiar voice came from the front: "Stop!"
She raised her eyes with difficulty, and without waiting, she opened her mouth, then grabbed his sleeve tightly and said, "Take the people in the village... go quickly."
When Ye Xiu saw Jing Che, no matter how cold his face was, he felt a little angry. He tried to open Jing Che's hand: "I stole the divine power and I still have the courage to come back and die!"
Jing Che had no time to explain too much and gasped: "The magma river is filled with fuel and is about to explode... If you don't want your tribe members, go out quickly!"
Ye Xiu was slightly stunned when he heard this, his tone was not as tough and cold as before: "Why should I believe you?"
"I can go out safely, but I come back here to find you." A desolate smile appeared on the corner of Jing Che's mouth.
Ye Xiu looked at Jingche for a long time, and his expression was obviously convinced.
A look of despair appeared on his face, his eyes fell on the distant sky, and he sighed: "I once said that there is no exit for the Ghost Village, which is indeed a lie, just for everyone to give up here. However, if the Ghost Village has an exit, it may be in vain to give people hope. Whether you can go out depends on God's will."
Jing Che was anxious at first. The people here were really pedantic. No matter what they did, they had to worship first, and even escape was so urgent. It was not until he witnessed this blood-sacrificial temple that he began to realize that this sacrifice was definitely different.