Chapter 626: The Hundred-Ghost Eater Came Alive
Inside the Monster Pickup Truck.
Chen Ye began drawing a formation on the ground according to the information within the Hundred-Ghost Eater.
He had never let the Hundred-Ghost Eater devour anything before. First, because Chen Ye couldn't bear to part with Hatred—after all, Hatred was still very useful.
Second, because the sacrifice process was quite complicated, and he hadn't had a good opportunity until now.
But now...
On the first day in Xi City, Chen Ye felt some pressure.
Since he couldn't advance to Sequence 4 for now, he had to think of other ways to boost his combat power.
This formation was very strange—several large circles encompassing smaller ones, with special talisman connecting the large and small circles.
But Chen Ye didn't understand the meaning of these talisman.
Just like he didn't quite understand the meaning of the talisman deep within the black pupil of his left eye.
The material used to draw the talisman was blood he had gotten from Xue Nan.
According to the description in the Hundred-Ghost Eater's information, blood also contained energy.
The more powerful a creature, the stronger its blood and the more energy it contained.
Therefore, when wanting to sacrifice powerful Anomalies or living beings,
the blood needed for drawing had to be more stringent.
Ideally, he could get blood from Anomalies with physical bodies, like the Giant or the Tangled Crowd.
Thinking back to all the blood he had wasted when fighting those Anomalies, Chen Ye felt a pang of regret.
The blood he had gotten from Xue Nan this time was part chicken blood, part meatworm blood.
This was the best he could manage for now.
The detailed layout of the formation was already in Chen Ye's mind.
So, aside from some unfamiliarity while drawing, it went relatively smoothly.
It took a full hour before Chen Ye completed drawing the sacrifice formation.
The formation had a total of six circles.
In the center was one large circle.
Surrounding the large circle were five smaller circles.
Mysterious text connected each small circle to the large one.
No one would believe there was no connection between these circles.
According to the explanation in the Hundred-Ghost Eater's sacrifice records,
the large circle was generally used to place the sacrifice offering.
The small circles held auxiliary sacrifice materials.
For example, if Chen Ye could get the Mist River Great Serpent or the Resentment Dragon to sacrifice to the Hundred-Ghost Eater,
he would first place the Mist River Great Serpent or Resentment Dragon in the central large circle.
Then, in the five small circles around it, he would place the auxiliary sacrifice materials.
Not just anything could serve as these materials.
Auxiliary materials were key to determining whether the sacrifice would succeed.
The more powerful the energy contained in the auxiliary materials, the more they could suppress the offering's power, allowing the Hundred-Ghost Eater to devour it.
If the auxiliary materials were very ordinary while the offering was extremely powerful, success was almost impossible.
Of course, ordinary offerings—or even those of lower grade—could succeed without auxiliary materials.
Alternatively, if the offering itself was willing to be devoured by the Hundred-Ghost Eater, it could also succeed.
Naturally, no one willingly let themselves be devoured by such a strange thing.
If the auxiliary materials were very precious, exceptionally so,
there was no need to fill all five small circles.
For example, now, Chen Ye wanted to use Hatred as the offering to sacrifice to the Hundred-Ghost Eater.
Directly using the Resentment Dragon Scale or the Tangled Remnant Limb as auxiliary sacrifice materials would be perfectly fine.
To put it simply, the function of the auxiliary materials was to help the Hundred-Ghost Eater devour the offering.
Of course, the blood used to draw the formation was also a key part of the sacrifice's success.
Currently, Chen Ye planned to use the Resentment Dragon Scale, the Tangled Remnant Limb, or Hatred as the offering.
He wanted to try to create a powerful Wonder.
He had no idea whether he would succeed.
But as always, he had to try.
This was the apocalypse—many things couldn't be one hundred percent prepared.
What if it actually worked?
Besides, Chen Ye was also too afraid to use the Resentment Dragon Scale for Spirit Infusion.
The side effects were just too severe.
Even the Eight-Limbed Human Face hadn't been very obedient after Spirit Infusion, let alone the Resentment Dragon—which seemed infinitely more powerful than the Eight-Limbed Human Face—and the Tangled Crowd?
If Deputy City Lord Ma Qing of Oasis hadn't finally concocted that poison, the Tangled Crowd might have grown into something terrifying.
If the Hundred-Ghost Eater could accept these two things...
Chen Ye would obtain an extremely powerful Wonder.
Following the records in the information, Chen Ye placed the Hundred-Ghost Eater in the center of the formation.
As soon as the Hundred-Ghost Eater was placed there,
the entire blood-drawn formation faintly glowed, but the light was very weak.
It seemed that the formation drawn with chicken blood and meatworm blood still wasn't enough.
After thinking it over, Chen Ye first placed the Resentment Dragon Scale in one of the small circles.
Then...
When the dragon scale was set down, the entire formation's light instantly blazed bright.
It seemed like a phantom of the Resentment Dragon swam through the formation once, making Chen Ye's heart tremble slightly.
Fortunately, this process was extremely brief—otherwise, this strange phenomenon would definitely attract others' attention.
Chen Ye placed the Tangled Remnant Limb in the large circle at the center of the formation.
According to the formation's description, Chen Ye had made the Tangled Remnant Limb the offering.
As soon as the Tangled Remnant Limb was placed inside,
the formation's light intensified once more.
Black vapor began to rise from the Resentment Dragon Scale, and this vapor was all transported to the Hundred-Ghost Eater's blade body through the mysterious text.
The entire blade of the Hundred-Ghost Eater vibrated slightly.
Then, under Chen Ye's gaze,
he watched the Hundred-Ghost Eater's blade edge begin to change.
That's right—the blade edge...
Countless sharp teeth began to emerge from the blade body at the Hundred-Ghost Eater's blade edge. These teeth interlaced and slowly opened.
Both the front and back of the Hundred-Ghost Eater had teeth.
At this moment, the Hundred-Ghost Eater came alive like a living creature.
These teeth slowly opened...
At the original blade edge position, it actually...
opened a large mouth.
The blade edge position was actually a mouth.
A mouth that was usually tightly shut, filled with sharp teeth.
This...
Inside that large mouth full of sharp teeth, there was even a long, slender tongue.
The tongue was very long, somewhat similar to a human tongue, but a human tongue wasn't this pointed or this long.
This tongue was a full half-meter long.
Saliva constantly dripped from the tongue, looking extremely ravenous.
At this moment... the Hundred-Ghost Eater really looked like a malevolent ghost.
Chen Ye's pupils constricted violently, and for a moment, he didn't know what to say.
The Hundred-Ghost Eater's transformation had exceeded his imagination.
And the remnant limb placed in the center large circle seemed to come alive too,
as if sensing danger and wanting to escape.
Just then...
More black vapor overflowed from the dragon scale, forming those mysterious talisman, which wrapped around the Tangled Remnant Limb like chains.
The remnant limb struggled wildly, but the talisman-formed chains tightly bound it.
The Hundred-Ghost Eater opened its large mouth, like an elderly old man, twisting its body step by step closer to the Tangled Remnant Limb.
Previously, Chen Ye had thought the Hundred-Ghost Eater wouldn't be interested in these remnant limbs.
But now it seemed...
Chen Ye stared intently at every move the Hundred-Ghost Eater made.
If this actually worked...!