"Puff puff puff!~"
After Xue Yi, the six Blood Guards beside the six-pointed blood-colored magic array also spat out a mouthful of blood mist, forming seals, and simultaneously slapped their palms onto the six-pointed blood-colored magic array beneath them.
"Hum!"
Instantly, the six-pointed blood-colored magic array, which had absorbed and fused a large amount of flesh and blood, shone brightly, and then plunged towards the ground with a sudden force, disappearing into the earth in the blink of an eye.
The next second, Ye Feng and the others felt a massive, bizarre pressure surge from the depths of the earth, as if a primeval behemoth had suddenly awakened...
"Rumble!!~"
Following that, the ground began to shake violently, the tremors originating from beneath, indicating something was rapidly drilling upwards.
"Bang!~"
Suddenly, the ground where Ye Feng and the others stood burst open, and a colossal structure rapidly rose from the earth, its uppermost section forming a Y-shaped configuration.
The moment the colossal structure emerged, Ye Feng and the other three felt an extremely eerie and violent aura rush outwards from it.
"Bang~ Crack crack! Bang crack!~"
The massive structure continued to rise from the ground, and after a considerable time, it finally stopped. The tremors in the ground also ceased.
By then, Ye Feng and the others could finally discern what the colossal structure that had just erupted from the ground was: it was an immensely tall and large black stone tablet.
The black stone tablet had existed for an unknown number of years, emanating an aura of decay, desolation, and deathly silence. Its surface was covered with all sorts of bizarre runes, giving it a profoundly sinister appearance.
At the very bottom of the black stone tablet was an inverted cross-shaped coffin, wider at the top and narrower at the bottom, similar to the blood-red coffin Ye Feng had seen when encountering Sphinx in the mecha.
The entire inverted cross-shaped coffin was enveloped by unnaturally red liquid, which appeared to be extremely viscous blood...
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, Ye Feng frowned.
He found the bizarre runes on the black stone tablet strangely familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before.
"Those bizarre runes... the demonic runes on the demon dagger?"
Ye Feng observed closely and couldn't help but be surprised.
"Hum!"
At this moment, the bizarre runes on the black stone tablet began to emit a blood-red glow, rapidly spreading upwards from the bottom of the tablet.
Within a few breaths, all the runes on the black stone tablet were radiating a blood-red light.
"Whoosh!"
The next second, driven by some unknown force, the red light from the bizarre runes on the black stone tablet surged towards the two protruding platforms at the very top of the tablet, finally condensing into a blindingly blood-red eye in the center of the Y-shaped structure.
The instant the blood-red eye appeared, the entire land, which had been quite dark due to the lunar eclipse, was illuminated by a red light. The red light was eerily intense, as if the entire land had been dyed in blood...
"Big... Big brother, what is that strange black stone tablet...?"
"I... I think I smell blood again... The blood was just absorbed by that strange magic array..."
At this point, Xiao Xiao frowned and spoke to Ye Feng.
"That stone tablet... might be the legendary Tower of Cain!"
Yue Miao took a couple of steps forward, gazing at the colossal stone tablet not far away, and spoke with great astonishment.
"Tower of Cain?"
Ye Feng turned his head, looking at Yue Miao with some confusion.
"Yes!"
Yue Miao nodded. "The Tower of Cain is said to be the birthplace of the first vampire... and the legend of the Blood Clan..."
"Legend has it that the first Blood Clan member was a murderer who slaughtered his parents, wife, and children in a sacrifice. He received divine guidance... and came before a holy tower covered in runes. He drank the divine blood from a holy chalice... and attained immortality..."
"The holy tower covered in runes where the Ancestor of Blood was born is the Tower of Cain, and the murderer who drank the divine blood from the holy chalice and achieved immortality... is the progenitor of the Blood Clan, the Ancestor of Blood..."
"I always thought it was just a legend, I didn't expect..."
Yue Miao's voice was filled with disbelief.
"What kind of deity would guide such a scoundrel to gain treasures!"
Upon hearing Yue Miao's explanation, Xiao Xiao was quite indignant.
"Tower of Cain... Earlier, Xue Yi seemed to mention 'awakening' or something... killing so many people at the auction house... and so many infants... making Blood Bags commit suicide... even making Blood Clan members kill each other to trigger the magic array...
"The blood-red coffin beneath the Tower of Cain... could it be... the Ancestor of Blood?"
Ye Feng looked at the blood-red coffin at the base of the black stone tablet, a dreadful speculation flashing through his mind.
"Ye Feng, be careful!"
Just then, Qiao Ying urgently shouted at Ye Feng, as Xue Ba suddenly shot two rune arrows towards the back of Ye Feng's heart.
Ye Feng gripped his Tang dao, spun around, and with a flash of light, instantly shattered the rune arrows shot by Xue Ba.
"Ye Feng, you..."
Qiao Ying, with her angelic power surging, was quite surprised. She had been worried that Ye Feng might have trouble dealing with Xue Ba's rune arrows and had intended to help.
"That saber... is quite interesting!"
Xue Ba, from a distance, narrowed his eyes, looking quite surprised.
It was difficult for ordinary sabers and swords, even when imbued with arcane energy, to deflect his arrows, let alone shatter them.
"Senior Xue Ba, don't look at me, my abilities are reconnaissance and identification, combat is not my strong suit!"
"And those people all look very powerful, there's even an angel, though she doesn't have the Angel Blade anymore..."
Seeing Xue Ba look at him, Xue Shi immediately retreated several steps, waving his hands repeatedly.
"Bang! Rumble!~"
"Rumble! Bang bang!~"
At this moment, a series of explosions erupted from the direction of the auction house, which had been reduced to ruins.
"That direction..."
Looking at the flashing firelight in the distance, Ye Feng's heart sank, as that direction was precisely where Kolerki's secret room was located.
Did the trap set earlier explode...?
"Whoosh! Huhu! Whoosh whoosh!"
Amidst the fiery light of the explosions, a figure was rapidly approaching Ye Feng.
"Ye Feng, things have gotten troublesome!"
Yue Miao had clearly realized something as well. His brows were tightly furrowed, and his expression was serious.
Shortly after, a figure engulfed in flames landed on the rooftop of the courtyard where Ye Feng and the others were.
It was Kolerki, a middle-aged man missing his right leg and left hand, with burns all over his body and one eye socket empty.
Kolerki scanned the surroundings with his remaining right eyeball, his gaze finally settling on the four of them. "This auction didn't attract the angels, but instead, some interesting people have arrived!"
Kolerki narrowed his eyes, his gaze constantly appraising Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, and Yue Miao. "Who are you? How did you enter that secret room? The runes in that room... are not comparable to mere arcane runes!" Kolerki's words held little anger or despair, but rather surprise, and even a hint of excitement...