Chapter 207: Mountain Sacrifice

Chapter 207: Mountain Sacrifice

The Old Ladies got into a circle formation, surrounding the deformed one as they whispered amongst themselves.

Most of them focused on how to deal with Gu Qianqian, and some praised Yibei for her idea.

Her heart began to beat fast, and beads of sweat oozed from her palms.

Ever since she encountered Miss Rabbit, she didnt know how many times she panicked. And yet, she was never as nervous as she is now.

Last time, it was all on her, but this time, she may accidentally kill Gu Qianqian.

A sacrifice, you say, the deformed Old Lady spoke, her slits studying Yibei closely.

Yes, she spoke, raising her head in confidence. This is an outsiders conspiracy to desecrate our holy ceremony. Executing her may not be enough to appease gods anger, so indeed, she is the perfect sacrifice. Since she incurs its wrath, perhaps she shall meet it in person.

The deformed Old Ladys eyes flashed with a golden light several times.

Gu Qianqian felt wronged and puffed up her cheeks, wanting to yell at the Witch. However, the moment she opened her mouth, the system stopped her.

Be calm.

What do you want me to do, then? Shes lying in my name. I never did anything wrong!

What a surprise for a Witch to lie, the system sighed. But shes delaying time for us, so maybe its our chance to escape.

But Im pissed!

Its never too late for a gentleman to take revenge.

But Im not a man!

As the Witch spoke, the Old Ladies fell into deep thought before nodding in unison.

You make sense, little girl. Let us sacrifice her to the gods, and

The Old Ladies gathered together and said, We hear that you may be the best candidate for becoming a nun to serve our god. Then, you shall preside over this sacrifice, and when it is done, you will become a nun to the cause.

Thank you, Yibei responded.

Yes, my plan is working! I can help Gu Qianqian escape somehow, and maybe I can get into contact with the serpent god, steal knowledge, and get out of here!

Looking around, she expected to see the grateful faces of the villagers, but instead, all she saw was pity and contempt, as if sad that her fate was reduced to becoming a nun.

After the storm, the banquet celebration continued.

The villagers continued to compete for food, and the soup, exuding a peculiar smell, was mixed with meat.

Everybody seemed to take their minds off Gu Qianqian, still within the black snakes grasp.

However, the villagers seem to avoid Yibei. Its hard to imagine how these deformed villagers would, ironically, avoid the most normal-looking person among them.

However, she didnt care. She was used to being alone anyway.

At the banquet, three Old Ladies brought a nuns robe to her. The Old Ladies looked exactly the same.

After taking the robe, she took the opportunity to slip out of the celebration under the pretence of changing her clothes. She returned to the stone house she was hiding in and found the guitar bag that she had hidden inside.

The robes worn by the nuns had a strange texture. Silky or made of tulle, but its smooth yet greasy on the skin.

Now, Yibei understood why the jacket couldnt morph into their ceremonial clothes. It must be of unknown origin.

The jacket seemed to touch the robe, and I swallowed it as it began to mimic its appearance. Additionally, it added a layer of velvet lining to the robe.

She couldnt help but want to feed it more cores.

After getting into the robe, she took out her knife and a drawstring bag filled with charms from her guitar bag and placed them close to her body.

She didnt know who to trust anymore: the old man or the cry for help she heard when she entered the realm. Anyway, she had already planned on killing the serpent god if the opportunity arose.

Before leaving, she also checked on the deformed man that she knocked unconscious with the statue and smiled upon seeing him still lying limply by the wall.

She placed the statue gingerly on top of his family jewels and left the house back into the celebration.

The Old Lady implied that the ancestral hall was at the bottom of the sinkhole.

Why didnt that old man tell me?

A frightening scream sounded in her ears, and she could see the giant serpent tossing Gu Qianqian into the sky, and her body was suspended over the pit.

The priests pushed their wooden boxes into the pit, letting them slide down its crevices into the darkness.

In a brief moment of confusion, the snake pounced on Yibei with its fangs and claws, and its sharp fingers and claws launched waves of black smoke towards her.

Yibei instantly unsheathed her kitchen knife and swung it towards the evil claws. Stabbing it relentlessly, she silently recited her spell to conjure a pillar of fire.

The psychic energy around her became restless, and she shot out several fireballs from her fingertips, accurately hitting the snakes body as it crackled upon impact.

The snake roared as it lost its stability, but Yibei knew her job wasnt done.

Narrowing her eyes, she leapt onto a rock and leapt off it, slashing her kitchen knife down on the snake.

At that moment, she felt the wind and the rain on her face, and her red hair sparked with bloodlust.

Gu Qianqian felt herself being suspended over the sinkhole, but she could feel herself being lowered little by little.

Roar!

The system briefly stopped the process of clearing the curse out of her body and glanced in the direction of the roar, Gu Qianqian, l-

What is it?

Forget it 92.1%

After seeing the Witchs bloodlust with its own eyes, the system was in awe but kept silent so as not to damage Gu Qianqians ego.

Even if she wasnt relying on the power within her body, she would become a terrifying menace once she did.

If Gu Qianqian knew that her destined enemy was more ruthless and talented, as well as proficient in tinkering with spells and alchemy

As the system was thinking, thunderstruck.

Arcs of electricity danced in the clouds, and a huge sense of oppression came over the pit.

A shadow, deeper in black than the shadow within the pit, crept past and rose into the sky in an instant.

The shadow shimmered strangely as its blasphemous limbs sent out maddening screams in all directions, intending to devour all that there was.

Gu Qianqian!

Before she knew it, a dark limb dragged her deep into the sinkhole.

By the edge of the sinkhole, relying on her kitchen knife, Yibei was in a fierce battle with the giant snake.

The battle was in an endless back-and-forth, but she never expected that the snake would call upon its god to aid it.

When an intense burning pain came from her eyes, her vision blurred as her body stagnated. The snake quickly took the opportunity and swept its tail across her feet.

She soared into the sky, and a dark tail wrapped around her ankles, sending waves of chilling cold into her soul.

She waved her arms wildly and stabbed wherever she could, feeling cold blood spraying on her face, and the terrifying scream of the snake was heard.

If Im dying, Im bringing you down with me!

The Witch yelled viciously, grasping her knife with both hands, and repeatedly stabbed the snake with her knife.

They viscously fought as she tried to break free from the snakes tail, but the snake felt something pulling it into the pit, and even though its claws grasped onto the stone floor

Accompanied by the sound of rocks collapsing, it fell into the abyss alongside the Witch in its grasp.

Roar!

It was as if the cries of thousands of wronged souls and the screams of countless snakes had gathered together.

The terrifying wails of the snake sounded in her ears, and yet a strong sense of calm came over her as she spun endlessly in their fall.

Soon, they could no longer see the pits opening, and the two fell into an eternal darkness.