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"Sacrifice?"

Hearing these two words, Chen Hu's heart suddenly tightened, and his expression became ugly, to the point where it was devoid of blood.

Chen Hu had always been guessing what exactly the ceremony the Falling Cloud Sect was holding would be like. He never would have thought that the ceremony would be a sacrifice.

Chen Hu didn't really understand much about sacrifices, even though he wasn't sure what kind of sacrifice the Falling Cloud Sect would offer, but he knew that it would definitely not be anything good.

He had once seen a magazine where people from a small town in Jiangnan offered sacrifices to the river god, bought pig samples for sacrifices, placed incense on paper, and poured the offerings into the river.

The final result of a sacrifice would inevitably be destruction. When the time came for the ancestors to be sacrificed, the wine provided in front of the grave would eventually be poured into the ashes of the paper money.

"These beasts!"

Chen Hu suddenly clenched his fists. This was too much, the sacrifice of a sacrifice to a child who was only a few years old was already crazy.

"I must destroy this priest."

Without even thinking, Chen Hu had made his decision. There were many experts in the Falling Cloud Sect, and his strength was limited, so it was impossible for him to rescue these children from the hands of the experts in the Falling Cloud Sect. The only thing he could do was destroy this sacrifice.

Although the Falling Cloud Sect would not let those children go, Chen Hu had no other choice. This was his only chance, regardless of success or failure, he had to try.

After taking a deep breath, Chen Hu suppressed the rage in his heart and silently waited for the opportunity to make his move.

After the children were brought over, the high priest, who was dressed in luxurious clothing, walked out from the hall along with more than ten men and women who were dressed completely differently from the ordinary disciples of Falling Cloud Sect. They were slightly older, and the youngest was probably around forty years old.

"What a powerful aura."

Seeing the group of people walking out from the hall, Chen Hu gasped. Not mentioning the old man who was leading the way, just the ten people following behind him all added up to be Innate Rankers.

The feeling the High Priest gave Chen Hu was even more unfathomable. He was as deep as the ocean, like a towering mountain that even birds could not cross.

"Could this old man be an existence that has surpassed the Xiantian realm?"

Chen Hu felt a chill in his heart, the probability of this happening was high, and it was also quite high. Even the few old men from Peach Blossom Village did not die, but Chen Hu had never felt such a sensation before.

"Greetings, High Priest! Greetings, Elders!"

As this group of people walked out of the great hall, many of the Falling Cloud Sect disciples who were kneeling outside all stood up and bowed towards the crowd, each and every one of them being extremely respectful.

"A terrifying old man, with more than ten Innate realm experts. Even if this is all of Falling Cloud Sect's high-end battle prowess, Falling Cloud Sect is truly worthy of being called the number one sect."

Chen Hu secretly thought, over 10 Innate Rankers were too scary. A sect like the Sky Dragon Sect that had thousands of years of history, only had one Elder in the Innate Realm.

Furthermore, Chen Hu felt that the people here were not the entire high-levelled fighting strength of the Falling Cloud Sect, there must be other experts from the strange and creepy sect, at least their Sect Leader was not here. Although Chen Hu did not know much about the Paleo-Martial World, but a sect must have its head.

The High Priest should belong to the rank of Elder, perhaps he should possess a reputation beyond that of the Sect Leader, but he definitely could not be the Sect Leader. The Sect Leader was the Sect Leader, the Elder was the Elder, and the two should not be mixed together.

If it was really like that, then the Falling Cloud Sect must have a faction led by the Sect Leader. If it was evenly matched with the power of the High Priest, then the Falling Cloud Sect's overall strength would be doubled.

Chen Hu secretly thought about the situation in the Falling Cloud Sect. The people of the Falling Cloud Sect had already started the ceremony, and the child was brought to the center of the square, under the altar. The disciples of the Falling Cloud Sect forced the children to face the altar, and then knelt down.

The High Priest walked up to the altar, a scroll in his hands that he did not know if it was a scripture or an image, and began to read. "The Heavens above, the Earth below, the Sun and the Moon past, the rivers and lands below …"

The High Priest's voice was extremely old, indicating that he had a long lifespan. However, the High Priest's words were very clear, and of course, the High Priest was not talking about ordinary people, but a type of local dialect. All of them were southerners, so Chen Hu naturally understood the High Priest's words.

Chen Hu did not act rashly. Although it was suitable for him to make his move now, he still wanted to wait for a more suitable opportunity. To think that Falling Cloud Sect would actually use a group of children as sacrifices, Chen Hu was enraged to the extreme.

If Wang Wen was here, seeing Chen Hu's expression, he would know that Chen Hu had been angered. The young generation of Peach Blossom Village called Chen Hu's anger the anger of a tiger.

This meant that when Chen Hu was enraged, he was as terrifying as a tiger in the mountains. Wang Wen would never forget how terrifying Chen Hu was when he was angry.

Four years ago, a group of poachers came to the old mountain behind the Tigerfang Village and hunted down tigers and leopards in exchange for money.

Originally, the villagers of Peach Blossom Village would not care about this matter, after all the tigers and leopards in the mountains were also threatening the villagers of Peach Blossom Village. Although they did not encourage poachers to hunt ferocious beasts, they did not stop them.

By the time they found the villager, his body was about to rot, but even so, they found a bullet mark on the villager's body, confirming that he had died by the hands of the poachers.

It could be said that he was one of the closest people to Chen Hu in the village. Chen Hu was furious to the extreme, his eyes were even red as he carried a machete and went up the mountain, using his keen sense of smell, he found the poachers and hacked three of them to death with his machete, leaving only one behind to escape in a sorry state.

Chen Hu chased after him all the way from the mountains, chasing after him until he finally caught up with the poacher outside of Peach Blossom Village. He killed the poacher with a single slash of his blade, and at that time, Wang Wen had personally witnessed Chen Hu chopping off the poacher's head with his own blade.

After that incident, the people of Peach Blossom Village called Chen Hu's fury the tiger. Once the tiger was enraged, the earth cracked and the mountains shook.

After about twenty minutes, the High Priest finished reciting the scripture. He then turned around and looked at the many disciples of Falling Cloud Sect, and said in a loud and clear voice: "My Falling Cloud Sect has been established for 3,742 years, Twelfth Spring and Autumn, for sixty-one years. We have been blessed with the protection of the Evil God, and have protected our Falling Cloud Sect until now.

Hearing the High Priest's words, all the disciples of the Falling Cloud Sect, as well as the dozen or so Innate Rankers, kneeled on the ground and began to speak with a devout voice, just like a monk chanting scriptures.

However, the Buddhist chanting scriptures gave off a sense of majesty and righteousness, while the disciples of the Falling Cloud Sect gave Chen Hu an extremely sinister and terrifying illusion.

At this point, even if Chen Hu didn't understand the Falling Cloud Sect's Sacrifice segment, he could guess that this segment was definitely the most important part of the Sacrifice Realm. If he wanted to destroy the Sacrifice Realm, there would be no better opportunity.

Thinking about that, Chen Hu did not hesitate, without hesitation, he extended his hand out like lightning, his five fingers were like steel tendons and bones, fiercely pinching into the wall tiles beside the house beams, using his terrifying Spirit Qi, he pulled out a brick from the wall.

When Chen Hu took action, the High Priest's gaze immediately turned to look at him. Previously, he had covered his breathing and hid behind the roof beams, he could even suppress his heartbeat, which jumped once or twice every minute. Even the High Priest who trained in the way of the Spirit Demons did not realise that Chen Hu was hiding here.

But at that moment, Chen Hu made a noise, how could he possibly hide from the High Priest's eyes and ears? It was a pity that the High Priest only found out about Chen Hu now, it was already too late.

"Go!"

Chen Hu's five fingers were like a dragon's as he grabbed onto the wall tiles and exerted his strength. The wall tiles were like a cannon, smashing towards the center of the gathered disciples of Falling Cloud Sect, releasing a blazing sound as they grinded against each other in the air.

"Junior, you dare!"

The rest of the Innate Realm experts also reacted. It was not because they were slow on the uptake, but because they discovered Chen Hu at this moment, but because they were focused on the sutra. The Sacrificial Evil God was a grand ceremony that happened once every sixty years, and they had to focus all their attention on it in order to gain the Evil God's acknowledgement.

Of course, this was also because they did not expect someone to be hiding here. Chen Hu's concealing techniques were not good, it was just that he did not expect it, otherwise, even if the 10 Innate Rankers present could not discover Chen Hu, the High Priest would definitely be able to.

It was because he did not expect the High Priest to not investigate the surroundings. To be honest, the people of Falling Cloud Sect would never think that there would be someone secretly hiding in their nest, and this sort of thing had never happened ever since the establishment of the Falling Cloud Sect.

The High Priest had an incredible strength, as he jumped up from the ground, ready to kick Chen Hu's brick back. Normally, he would not care about the life and death of the disciples of Falling Cloud Sect, but right now, it was the moment of focus for a priest, so he absolutely could not afford to lose.

However, the High Priest still underestimated Chen Hu's determination to destroy the priest. Although he had thrown out a whole brick, before that, he had secretly hidden a portion of his inner force inside the brick. Just when the High Priest was about to kick the brick back, Chen Hu's heart stirred, and he activated the bit of inner force he had left behind.

'Bang! 'a loud sound was heard.

The brick exploded in midair like a grenade, countless of brick fragments poured down towards the Falling Cloud Sect disciples like rain.

"Damn it."

Even though he was skilled in martial arts, he had no power to protect anyone at the moment. So, he could only use his internal energy and form a shield, trying to protect himself as much as he could as he tried his best to lift up the rubble that had exploded.

"Bang, bang, bang …"

The stone fragments, which were like bullets, struck the defensive barrier that the High Priest had propped up with his inner force. The sounds of the bullets hitting the stones were heard, but they were unable to move an inch forward.

Seeing this, Chen Hu sucked in a cold breath. The High Priest's Qi was too terrifying, even if someone was shooting at him from five meters away with a sniper rifle, the bullet would not be able to penetrate through the High Priest's protective powers. The High Priest did not even need to dodge.

With this level of strength, Chen Hu knew clearly in his heart that he was definitely unable to match up to her.