The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 438: The Use of the Longevity Book

At this moment, Qin Guan no longer had the handsome appearance he once had. Instead, he was like a tattered, shriveled skeleton made of human skin, nailed to a crystal stand by filthy thorns. The devilish fire burning above his head sucked away the essence of his soul bit by bit, causing his body and soul to gradually dry up and decay.

Theoretically, the devil's fire will continue to exploit Qin Guan for nine nine days, or ninety-nine days.

In the end, everything that belongs to him, from his identity to his name, talent, works, fame... and even his existence in the real world, will be seized and swallowed up by Su Baniang.

In other words, there will no longer be a person named Qin Guan in the real world. Even if one travels through time and returns to Qin Guan's youth, such a person will no longer exist.

Qin Guan’s relatives, friends, parents, brothers and children will all forget him forever.

It's not just Qin Guan, but the nine sacrifices in the Jiuyao Ascension Sacrifice would all have the same fate after being sacrificed.

Chen Shen looked at Qin Guan, and Qin Guan also looked at Chen Shen, with a hint of desire in his empty eyes.

Qin Guan tried to move his dry lips to say something, but unfortunately, he was so weak that he didn't even have the strength to open his mouth.

Chen Shen suddenly realized that if he extinguished the demonic flame three feet above Qin Guan's head, this scholar Qin would probably die suddenly on the spot.

It was not just Qin Guan, the same was true for several other disciples of Su Shi who were used as sacrifices.

Although compared to the ending of being sacrificed and having their souls torn to pieces, the sudden death of Qin Guan and others was much better.

But this was only beneficial to Qin Guan and nine other individuals, and it was still a failure for the overall human situation.

In a sense, the Nine Lights Ascension Ceremony organized by the evil demon Su Baniang can be regarded as further revenue generation based on the guarantee that the evil demon wins.

This was a dead end set by the evil demon for Chen Shen. If Chen Shen could not break the dead end, then he could at best avoid a bigger failure on the basis of failure, but he could not turn defeat into victory.

Of course Chen Shen didn't want to admit defeat just like that, he wanted to find a way out of the situation.

Although Qin Guan and the others have been drained of their souls and marrow to the point of being exhausted, according to the rituals of the evil demon sacrifice, they will continue to be tortured for a while before they are truly wiped out.

Not to mention that Chen Shen had just destroyed the Eye of Revelation of the Ever-changing Evil God, causing the sacrifice to be delayed even further. The original eighty-one-day sacrifice would be delayed to one hundred and eight days.

All in all, there are still seventy-two days until the end of the grand sacrifice, but Chen Shen has less than a month to break the impasse, because once the grand sacrifice is more than halfway through, everything will be irreversible.

Fortunately, Chen Shen did not need to spend so much time. He even thought of the way out after just a few breaths.

The [Book of Longevity] was a "gift" from a mysterious old Taoist priest, which recorded countless evil secret methods of prolonging life and a magic book of blasphemous rituals. When Chen Shen was flipping through it, he came across a record of the [Nine-Star Ascension Ceremony], but he did not read it in detail.

Chen Shen did not carry this magic book with him, because this thing itself is a terrifying source of evil. For a psychic like him, it is almost like carrying a stinking manure pit with him.

Chen Shen's thoughts immediately changed, and he activated his psychic jump and instantly arrived in front of the familiar steel ruins.

The familiar steel creation is still surrounded by countless evil demons.

Chen Shen tore through the evil encirclement and rushed into the depths of the ruins again.

Still in the hall where the strange statue stood, on the edge of countless stone platforms filled with trophies and weapons, the [Book of Longevity] was placed there.

It was covered with a tassel woven from a woman's hair, but the tassel was already a little burnt and curled.

This hair is no ordinary thing, it is a demon-suppressing hair that was plucked from Princess Xiaoshi.

The princess has always been the human's trump card to suppress evil spirits. After her death, her bones are used to make magic tools to exorcise evil spirits. In theory, the princess's hair, nails, saliva, tears, and even excrement have a certain effect in exorcising evil spirits.

Therefore, sometimes, if the situation faced by the demon-suppressor is more serious, the living princess will be asked to contribute some flesh and blood and limbs as a temporary means of exorcising evil.

Chen Shen didn't treat Princess Xiaoshi as a blood bag to ward off evil spirits, but Xiaoshi's hair was basically cut once every six months.

Chen Shen stepped forward and picked up the [Book of Longevity], cleared his mind, and then opened it to look for it. As expected, he found the record of the [Nine-Star Ascension Ceremony]. Its viciousness and evilness were shocking.

But what really caught Chen Shen's attention was a note appended at the end of the ceremony, which described how to reverse the "Nine-Star Ascension Ceremony".

When Chen Shen finished reading this annotation, a ball of blue flame suddenly rose from the [Book of Longevity], and in the blink of an eye, it burned the human skin book into ashes and finally dissipated into nothingness.

Chen Shen looked at the ashes dissipating in his palms and clapped his hands subconsciously, feeling horrified in his heart.

He was not a fool and he immediately realized that the mysterious old Taoist had given him this book in light of the current situation.

Chen Shen felt somewhat frightened at this. Fortunately, he had been too greedy that day. If he had been too rigid and had not snatched the [Longevity Book], he would be in trouble today.

Chen Shen had a plan in mind and did not dare to delay any longer. He picked up a few things and rushed out of the steel ruins, activated his psychic jump, and rushed directly back to the twisted camp of the evil demon.

When Su Baniang saw Chen Shen coming back, she laughed sarcastically, "Good Ren'er! Why did you come back so hastily? Could it be that you can't find a reason to come here, so you come to pay homage to me?"

Chen Shen did not respond to her. He rushed to Su Baniang and stabbed her in the heart with a spear, nailing her to the crystal stand behind her.

Su Ba Niang was shot with this bullet, but she screamed in excitement and said, "My dear! This bullet hurts me so much! Please shoot me a few more times!"

Chen Shen sneered, then reached out and grabbed Su Banniang's forehead, tearing it down fiercely, and actually tore out a slightly incomplete skull.

There were some things like blood lines on the cervical vertebrae of the skull, connected to Su Baniang's forehead.

Su Ba Niang screamed and shouted, "No! Give me back my head! You thief! How dare you ruin my plan!"

Chen Shen sneered, "Devil! You are stealing Su Ba Niang's identity and endangering the world. How can I allow you to do that?"

That "Su Banniang" screamed, and its original human form began to distort, gradually revealing the appearance of a giant hairless bird, which looked extremely hideous and terrifying.

It struggled hard and twisted its evil body, trying to snatch the skull that Chen Shen had taken away, but the spear pierced its heart and it couldn't break free.

Chen Shen ignored the struggling demon, and carrying the skull, he first came to the Yaoguang star position.

The sacrifice here is Dong Rong, one of the four scholars after Su Shi's school. Dong Rong, also known as Yun, with the courtesy name Wuzi, is a rare martial arts master among Su Shi's disciples. He can be called "a match for ten thousand men" together with another person, Li Qi (comment by Su Shi).

Because of resisting the evil spirit, Dong Wuzi's condition was very bad. His legs were chopped off at the hips, his arms were cut off at the elbows, his lips and tongue were peeled off, and his eyelids were also removed. He was tortured whole body and looked very creepy.

When Chen Shen saw this, he was furious.

When Dong Wuzi saw Chen Shen, he opened his empty gums and made a hissing sound.

Chen Shen stepped forward with great pain and said, "Mr. Dong, please wait a moment. I will definitely save you and bring you back to the human world!"

(End of this chapter)