That was a deity!
A deity that Lin Yi had never seen or heard of before.
The powerful engravings slowly extend across the ground, with traces of time worn away at the edges, showing the long history of these patterns and revealing a sense of desolation.
The deity's head was bald, but had slightly curved horns like ram's horns. His face and features were similar to a human's, except that beneath his sinister, empty eyes were sharp fangs.
The sculptor even carved several tiny holes next to the fangs, like dripping blood, adding to the ferocity and grotesqueness.
This deity's body was vastly different from that of a human. Its strong, tiger-like torso had four arms, one holding a sword and the other a shield. One of its remaining arms tightly gripped a agonizingly twisted human body, which seemed to be screaming at the heavens. The other arm gently held up an object, still dripping with blood—a human heart.
The original ancient and desolate carvings suddenly became angry and unrestrained here, the power and the hatred in the heart seemed to burst out all at once.
Lin Yi felt that madness rising up from the engraving so vividly and unbelievably.
The gentle engravings instantly became intense, cascading down the torso and merging with the lower body of this ferocious deity, transforming into a raging flame.
The red light flashed and shone, and the deity seemed to have a sinister smile on his lips, as if he was about to break out of the ground and be resurrected!
Lin Yi was filled with admiration; this carving seemed to have captured all the wonders of the world!
The carvings continued to extend across the ground, and Lin Yi then saw a second statue, a third statue, and so on...
Finally, he circled the central red flame and discovered a total of eight divine images engraved on the ground.
In these images, humans are completely sacrificed to these gods, like food.
The entire hall was filled with a chilling atmosphere, as if some ferocious creature was growling in the shadows as these images appeared.
Around these images of fierce gods, there is a winding engraving that completely envelops them, but it is not a complete circle; it sometimes curves inward and sometimes tumbles outward.
The Mystic Fire Mirror appeared in Lin Yi's hand, its red light flashing and merging with the light in the main hall. The fierce images of the surrounding gods suddenly seemed to come alive, vaguely flickering before his eyes.
Lin Yi released his grip, letting the Xuanhuo Mirror fly towards the flames in the center of the hall.
The Eight Fiends Profound Fire Formation is one of the three strongest formations in the world of Jade Dynasty. Let me see just how powerful you are.
This is what he feels right now.
The next moment, all the light suddenly disappeared, and the entire hall was plunged into darkness.
From the depths shrouded in darkness, a desolate howl suddenly echoed, vast and powerful. The ferocious stone carvings on the ground simultaneously emitted a red glow, lighting up one after another.
When the eighth fierce god stone carving also lit up, the desolate howl echoing in the hall had turned into a mournful cry, filling the entire space.
At some point, a constant gust of wind began to swirl above this otherwise solid hall.
With a loud "boom," all the stone carvings shone brightly. In an instant, the red light seemed to become tangible, and one after another, the fierce gods transformed into red light and condensed in mid-air.
Lin Yi finally saw clearly that the crooked stone carvings surrounding the fierce god sculptures were actually a huge flame totem, enveloping all the fierce gods within it.
The ferocious gods, each with a hideous appearance, seemed to have come back to life, laughing wildly in the huge, flame-shaped, blood-red halo.
At this moment, the darkness in the hall had been completely dispelled, and the entire area was illuminated by this dazzling halo of light.
The red halo began to slowly rotate, gradually increasing in speed, which also caused the wind speed in the hall to become more and more rapid.
The eerie atmosphere in the air grew heavier, and the rapid, sharp wind seemed to carry a mysterious and ferocious sneer, like a demon from the netherworld in legends coming to earth.
The red halo finally rose to the dome, spinning faster and faster beneath the simple stone slabs, its red light raining down like blood rain falling from hell.
"boom!"
After spinning rapidly to the point of being almost overwhelming, the red halo suddenly stopped abruptly, without any warning.
The next moment, above the crimson flame, the huge stone slab seemed to be summoned and moved away, retreating in all directions from the center of the flame totem.
Within the crimson light, two burning gazes lit up.
"roar……"
A deep roar came from the red light above, and in an instant the entire hall seemed to tremble, as all the gods shouted together!
A towering, fiery beast appeared in mid-air.
Its limbs are thick and strong, with extremely sharp claws at the ends. On its huge head is a gaping maw full of sharp teeth, and its large eyes are almost invisible, instead appearing as two burning flames.
Moreover, the surface of this enormous beast's body was covered with blazing, intense fire, as if the flames were an integral part of its body.
Meanwhile, the giant flame totem formed by the red light in mid-air seemed to be controlled by some inexplicable force, falling down and standing upright behind the strange beast, slowly rotating.
All the evil gods above it seemed to be just as fierce as the fiery beast, glaring down at those who dared to disturb the gods.
"roar!"
The fiery beast roared again and pounced on Lin Yi.
"Mysterious Fire Mirror, is this your last act of defiance?" Lin Yi formed hand seals, and seven-colored flames swirled, instantly filling every inch of the hall.
The Nine Heavens Fire Palace Grand Formation unfolds, with the seven innate true fires as its core. The forty-nine kinds of innate and acquired true fires, each with its own profound mysteries, follow the mysterious trajectory, endlessly and naturally forming a perfect world of flames.
This is the true form of the Nine Heavens Fire Palace General Array.
The ferocious beasts evolved from the Eight Fiends Profound Fire Formation roared and struggled incessantly in the world of flames, but to no avail.
Its body gradually shrank, and the mark imprinted deep within the Xuanhuo Mirror was extracted and then completely erased.
From today onwards, the name Xuanhuojian will become a thing of the past.
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