Chapter 1 The Woman in the White Dress

The woman in the white dress appeared again.

Both Jiang Cheng and Chen Ran had a deep impression of the woman in the white dress. The woman had never appeared in Black Rock Town, nor had she been in the team. She seemed to appear out of thin air.

She seemed to have a special connection with the white stone disk.

With the appearance of the woman, the ritual officially began.

The old man took the lead to kneel down, followed by the rest of the townspeople who had been captured. The low crying gradually formed the main melody here.

Scenes flashed in Jiang Cheng's mind, from different perspectives and different directions. It was as if he had traveled back to that time, quietly watching everything in front of him through the eyes of the townspeople.

A huge and hideous figure appeared from the stone disk. It was already 4 or 5 meters tall before it even raised its head. Words like "strong" were completely pale and weak when used on it.

Sharp dark lights were reflected on the sword-armor-like scales, and there was not a trace of赘赘 on the strong body... It was majestic like mountains and rivers just standing there, without moving or making a sound.

No one knew what it was, but they had to be convinced by the majesty that permeated from it.

The faces of the outsiders guarding the townspeople showed a fanatical worship like mortals meeting a god. They knelt down involuntarily, offering their respects to this "creature" that had experienced countless years.

A change occurred at this moment!

Unexpectedly, the child placed on the stone disk did not get better. Instead... in the next moment, he was swallowed whole by the strange "creature."

A huge and chilling chewing sound rang out. Muscles, bones, and even the hairy skin... were all crushed by sharp teeth. Everyone was stunned.

So much so that it was a long time after the "creature" on the stone disk disappeared that screams rang out.

The woman on the stone disk pinched the corner of her loose sleeve and wiped the corner of her mouth very naturally.

Just like a noble girl preparing to leave after dinner.

A devil...

The woman in the eyes of all the outsiders changed her appearance. She actually... actually allowed the monster to eat the child. She was a devil, she must be the incarnation of a devil!

A faint blood-colored halo appeared, gradually evolving into a blood-colored barrier at the edge of the stone disk. The barrier continued to extend, trapping the townspeople and outsiders within it.

The eyes of the outsiders began to turn blood red, and a strange force was eroding their remaining sanity. The original fear of monsters and mysterious sacrifices began to become thin, and anger and greed struggled and jumped in their eyes.

"Kill her!!"

Someone in the crowd shouted.

The remaining sanity was finally covered up. The outsiders holding various weapons rushed up as if they had received some kind of order.

The townspeople, who had been more obedient before, spontaneously stood in front of the outsiders, but it was useless. Soon, groups of townspeople fell in pools of blood, and large areas of blood stained the land red.

If you pick up a handful of soil, you can drain blood from it.

The woman raised her head, not even looking at the surrounding slaughter, as if... it had nothing to do with her.

As the leader of Black Rock Town, the old man was the last to be killed. Before him, a man among the outsiders cruelly split his granddaughter in half, one half was picked up with the tip of a knife, and the other half was thrown onto the stone disk.

Their hideous expressions seemed to be asking if only half of the body could still be resurrected.

The old man's eyes were blood red, and he clenched his fists tightly, staring at these despicable robbers. The hatred in his eyes could almost condense into a solid form, but after a while, the old man suddenly smiled.

When the outsiders' blood-stained spears were about to pierce his chest, the old man turned and ran away.

He rushed directly to the white stone disk with difficult steps, and at the moment when his hands touched the stone disk, an even more shocking scene appeared.

Starting from his hands, the blood in his body seemed to be boiling. Horrifying blood-colored blisters bulged on the surface of his skin, and large pieces of flesh and blood kept falling off. Only bones remained on his two arms.

But even so, he still refused to let go.

The outsiders, also with blood-red eyes, pressed closer step by step. Only pure fanaticism remained in their eyes.

Since... the woman allowed the demon to eat their child, then they... would eat the woman. Disgusting saliva dripped down the corners of their grinning mouths, just like the lowest and most despicable demons in the darkness.

Perhaps... if they ate the woman, they could obtain the power from her.

The power of immortality...

Such words were repeatedly emerging in everyone's minds. Their pupils protruded, and the veins on their arms holding the weapons were exposed. They surrounded the stone disk.

The woman was still on the stone disk. The night wind with a bloody smell raised the corners of her skirt, and the blood accidentally splashed on her body painted a circle of blood-colored afterglow on the pure white skirt.

The woman stood there, seemingly indifferent to everything around her.

Whether it was the bloody slaughter, or the townspeople who stood in front of her, falling down row by row, dying for her.

There was no anger, let alone sorrow or joy.

Rather than being calm, it was better to say it was indifference.

It was as if what she saw was a vast and ancient history. The wheels of history rolled forward, and the flesh and blood crushed under the wheels, whether wise men or naughty children, were just a fleeting glance.

Anyway, in the next second, new flesh and blood would fill in.

For her, there was no essential difference.

The dying old man suddenly turned his head. Half of his face had turned into bone, his flesh and blood had fallen off, and his white bone stubble was exposed. Even his voice had a trace of terrifying blur.

His lips had long since disappeared, and his exposed teeth were hideous and terrifying.

The old man grinned and laughed loudly, and two streams of blood and tears dripped from his eye sockets, like a prisoner being tortured in hell.

Jiang Cheng frowned slightly. The old man's presumptuous laughter echoed in his mind. This was not surprising. Some clues in nightmares could indeed affect people's minds.

For those with weak minds, rashly contacting clues may lead to unpredictable consequences.

What he found strange was... the feeling he captured from the old man's laughter.

The entire clan was slaughtered, his loved ones died tragically in front of him, and the secret of the altar that could be resurrected was known by the invaders... It was understandable that the old man was laughing wildly because of madness for such a bloody feud.

Jiang Cheng could understand emotions such as grief, powerlessness, resentment, and curses, but why didn't the old man's laughter contain any of these, but only one kind, um... relief.

Yes!

It was relief!

It was as if he was a prisoner about to be released after his sentence was over.

His flesh and blood melted, and the old man's skeleton crashed onto the stone disk with a "crash." The round skull rolled far away, until it hit the woman's feet before stopping.

The empty eye sockets stared straight at the woman.