Chapter 017. Life and death.

　　"Did you see what it was?" Pang Bo asked, trying to figure out the source of the danger, he was usually big-headed, but he was never very steady at critical moments. 　　"Didn't see anything, only felt a terrifying aura enveloping my entire body, and then this bronze bell suddenly shook." At this moment, Prince Wen was enveloped by a golden glow, but still had palpitations in his heart. 　　After hearing these words, but anyone who had gained something in the Great Thunder Sound Temple tightly grasped the broken Buddhist artifacts in their hands, these things were now proven to be truly extraordinary, and must be things held by deities! 　　The broken copper bell stopped vibrating, the melodious sound of the bell gradually converged, the burning golden divine flames on Prince Wen's body disappeared, and the light like a golden battle suit reverted back inside the copper bell. 　　"Go, let's hurry and leave this ruin!" Ye Fan held the ancient bronze lamp, spilling out bits of divine radiance, and led the way towards the five-colored altar. 　　The crowd followed closely behind, there was definitely something terrifying within this vast ruin of the Heavenly Palace, and every extra second they stayed there would be one more point of danger. 　　"Ah ......" miserable scream came again, when approaching the edge of the ruins a male student fell to the ground on his back, in the center of his forehead there was a finger-thin bloody hole, blood gurgled and flowed, still the same way of death! He died without resting in peace, his eyes were wide open, and the horrified look he had before his death was frozen in place. 　　At this moment many people were overwhelmed with fear, another classmate had suddenly died, watching, but powerless to stop it, not even knowing what had killed him at all. 　　Separation of life and death is easy to say, but personally experienced, the crowd felt incomparably bitter, close classmates around them failed to even say a last word, so inexplicably died, it is difficult for people to accept. Not a few female classmates were close to breaking down and cried in low voices, where had they seen such a scene before. 　　"Go!" 　　The crowd didn't stop and couldn't stop, quickly rushing towards the five-colored altar. Finally escaping that ruin, but two lives remained there forever, never to be seen again. 　　Running out a long way, looking back and watching, those broken walls were like hideous demons, shadowed under the night sky, making one's heart palpitate. 　　However, the crowd has not had time to take a long breath, three successive screams sounded almost simultaneously, two male students and a female student successively fell heavily on the ground, the wound is still forehead, three identical blood holes are so shocking! 　　Blood dyed the ground red, three former classmates and friends died tragically like this, their eyes bulged out, their expressions of fear. 　　In just a few moments, five people had already lost their lives, which made the crowd sad and at the same time, their bodies were cold and their scalps were numb, perhaps the next one would be their turn, and no one could be sure when life would end. 　　"Oooh ......" a female student nearly broke down, cried out, said, "the dead people did not find the artifacts in the temple, that unknown devil is nearby, do not hold the holy relics left by the gods in the body, sooner or later to die ......" 　　This is a fact, the five people who died all found nothing in the temple, while Prince Wen, who was also attacked, was unharmed precisely because of the broken bronze bell. 　　"Help us ......" Those who did not find the artifacts in the temple were all terrified, and those who were close to having found something pleaded in an almost pleading tone to save them. But who would give up their only life-saving Buddhist artifact in such a life-and-death situation? 　　Some people didn't stay, didn't even turn back, rushed towards the five-colored altar with great strides, the friendship of classmates is certainly valuable, but in the face of life and death choices many people chose to be indifferent to each other, in order to self-preservation. 　　The relationship between man and man, the contradiction of human nature, for the first time to face the present difficult test. 　　"Please, save me ......" that near collapse of the female students while running while crying, pear blossom with rain, terrified, very poor, two shoes are running off, but still bewildered, at the moment the fear has taken over full of her mind. 　　Ye Fan shouted, "The artifacts found in the temple, we can share them with others." 　　Pang Bo had always been in the same boat with Ye Fan, hearing this, he stood by his side and also shouted, "That's right, we can share two or three people to hold an artifact found in the ancient temple." 　　Many people looked over, but with a hesitant look, someone spoke, "What if these broken artifacts are not that useful? If they can only shelter one person, wouldn't that put the original owner of the artifact in danger of life and death as well ......" 　　When such words came out, it immediately shook people up again, and there were even two people who started to speed up and rush forward without looking back. 　　"Thank you Ye Fan ......" The female student who ran off her shoes, her face full of tears and pathetic, stumbled to Ye Fan's body, an incomparable look of gratitude on her face, mixed with the tears that rolled down her face, making her heart feel pity. 　　She trembled and stretched out her right hand, but when she was still a foot away from the ancient lamp, her expression froze for a moment, and then her eyes became lifeless and she fell heavily to the ground. 　　The change was so sudden, Ye Fan watched as her eyes lost their luster, that pathetically beautiful cheeks were streaked with tears, and that smile of gratitude that had just rippled up was frozen there forever, making people feel uncomfortable in their hearts. 　　Ye Fan would like to help her up, but in the end, he just reached out his hand and put it back, the back of this poor female student's head was pierced through, this time it was not the forehead, there was blood flowing out from between that long black hair, only one step away, but she finally died or in front of Ye Fan's eyes. 　　That frozen smile pierced Ye Fan's eyes as he slowly backed away from the gradually freezing corpse. 　　"What the hell was that?" This was everyone's question. 　　Death was so close, the crowd became even more terrified, three or four people quickly surrounded Ye Fan and Pang Bo, they couldn't wait to grab towards the ancient lamp and the bronze plaque, it was almost a scramble, wanting to keep it for themselves. 　　"What are you guys doing?" Pang Bo glared then and bellowed, "We are saving you and holding these things with you, not giving up the bronze plaque and the ancient lamp to you and laying down our lives!" 　　He was stout and big, and naturally had an appalling power when he glared and fumed like this, and the men stopped at once and snapped forward, putting their hands on the bronze tablet and the ancient lamp. 　　There is no time to delay and stay, the crowd ran quickly, but at this time there is restlessness spreading, some people's eyes are hot, want to grab the Buddha weapon. Those who possessed the broken Buddha artifacts, on the other hand, were filled with wariness and regretted sharing their possession with others. 　　"We come from the same place, we are fellow students for four years, don't let the rest of your life be filled with shame and self-regret for your choice today!" Ye Fan shouted in a loud voice, more capable of shocking people than Pang Bo, instantly making many people settle down. 　　"Boom!" 　　Right at this moment, hundreds and thousands of thunderbolts suddenly erupted from Liu Yunzhi's body in front of him, electricity flying, and he was like a thunder god descending into the world! 　　The lightning was so dense that it covered his body completely, where the electricity flickered, illuminating the surroundings, and the vajra pestle in his hand was even more radiant, all originating from the half-broken treasure pestle. 　　Liu Yunzhi looked like he was wearing a battle suit made of interwoven lightning, his entire person emitted a stern and unrivaled aura, with an electric aura draped around his body, he was simply like a thunder and lightning god of war. 　　"Just now, I was attacked by that inexplicable thing." He merely had such a sentence, and then he didn't say anything more, his stern eyes swept over Ye Fan's place inadvertently, but upon seeing that bronze ancient lamp, those two stern auras quickly disappeared. 　　It wasn't until a few moments later that the electric aura on Liu Yunzhi's body gradually converged, and the Vajra Pestle in his hand became dim again. 　　A weapon staff held by a deity! 　　The might that this precious pestle possessed was witnessed by all in a gust of shock. 　　Everyone was silent and speechless along the way, and when they finally arrived in front of the five-colored altar, it was fortunate that there were no more deaths, which caused the crowd to let out a slight sigh of relief. 　　On the five-colored altar those nine huge dragon corpses and that bronze ancient coffin were silently straddling there, still so shocking. 　　"That's ......" 　　Arriving in front of the altar, everyone was taken aback, the five-colored altar was hazy with a halo of light, and in all directions there were dots of faint light coalescing and coming, not entering under the stone foundation. 　　The halo that enveloped the sky gradually dissolved and slowly disappeared, surprisingly because of the five-colored altar, it seemed to be accumulating some kind of mysterious energy. 　　The crowd was first surprised, and then revealed joy, because the five-colored altar was shining, just as it had done at Mount Tai, and it was most likely a sign of opening the Starry Sky Ancient Path. However, this time, it wasn't the "Stone Book and Jade Book" that provided the energy, but rather a hazy but huge light shield. 　　"Rumble!" 　　The hazy light shield in the sky was melting away, and the thunderous storm in the outside world rumbled, and the entire land seemed to shake. 　　The shroud of light was dimming, and the crowd all ascended the five-colored altar, nervously watching it all. 　　The terrifying presence of that unknown thing in the darkness was like a shadow lingering in the hearts of all the people, although it did not appear for the time being, as long as they did not leave this place, it was still a great threat, and all of them desperately wanted to escape Mars. 　　The whole lasted for half an hour, that dim light cover constantly compressed, finally even only managed to cover the five-colored altar, the diameter has shrunk from more than a thousand meters to less than two hundred meters, almost to press down to the ground, all the mysterious energy was absorbed by the five-colored altar. 　　Pang Bo lowered his voice and whispered in Ye Fan's ear, "Liu Yunzhi's gaze has swept over our place several times inadvertently, this guy is very scheming and deep, be careful." He was coarse and perceptive, and keenly detected the situation. 　　"Don't worry, I know!" Ye Fan turned his head to look at Liu Yunzhi and revealed a gentle smile. 　　Liu Yunzhi was subdued and nodded his head amicably, seeing nothing unusual. There were two other people beside him, one of them was the male student who had safely arrived here not long ago by harboring Ye Fan's Bronze Ancient Lamp. 　　This made Pang Bo very dissatisfied and whispered, "This ungrateful thing, he has been surrounding Liu Yunzhi all day long since he was in school, it was us who protected his life in the party, but now he is getting together with Liu Yunzhi." 　　Half a quarter of an hour later, the hazy light cover outside is gradually shrinking, about to press down on the five-colored altar, can clearly sense the terrible storm outside. 　　"Oooh," the wind sounded like ghosts crying and howling, the sand and rocks blew on the light shield, making thunderous sounds, even some sand and dust blew in, one could imagine that the light shield was already very fragile, and would completely disappear at any time. 　　The crowd was alarmed and retreated backwards, in case they crashed out of the altar, they were afraid that they would immediately be swept up into the sky by the storm. 　　At this time, that male student, who Pang Bo said was ungrateful, slowly moved over from Liu Yunzhi and suddenly grabbed the bronze ancient lamp in Ye Fan's hand, while the other hand violently pushed towards Ye Fan, wanting to seize the bronze ancient lamp and at the same time push him out of the five-colored altar.