The night wind was howling, and the mist was like a shadow.
Su Yue looked up at the ancient stone gate in front of her, and an inexplicable sense of oppression rose from the ground. The stone gate was engraved with obscure ancient symbols, and blood-red vines were entwined on it, like blood veins growing from dry bones.
This is the "Blood Bone Pass".
It is said that it was the site where the earliest group of fallen vampires fought against werewolves, and it was also the abyss of all blood oaths. Only by truly setting foot here can you enter the depths of the oath road.
"The atmosphere here... is completely different from the 'Flower Oath Land'." Su Yue murmured, but her steps did not stop.
Ethan walked beside her, his eyes darker than before. "This land buried too many memories of the old times. I can feel that my father... he has been here."
Su Yue was startled and turned to look at him. Ethan had already walked to the stone gate, raised his hand, and pressed the ancient pattern.
"Bone is the lock, blood is the key, whoever opens the pass must swear by his life."
Click...
The ancient door trembled slightly, blood mist filled the air, and a dark corridor slowly opened, like a huge mouth that swallowed the soul.
The two looked at each other, without any words, but stepped into the pass in unison.
Inside the corridor, there were many reliefs, all of which were the battle totems of werewolves and vampires in the old times. Stone statues intertwined one after another, and Su Yue suddenly stopped.
"Do you see this?"
It was a statue of a priestess, wearing a torn white robe, with rubies inlaid in her eyes, and holding a broken oath page in her hand. At her feet was a kneeling werewolf, with pain and piety engraved on his face.
"This is one of the origin rituals of the Blood Moon Covenant." Ethan whispered, with a look of awe in his eyes, "My mother said that in the old days, there were werewolves who were willing to sacrifice their souls and swear to live and die with the vampire race."
"Then why are vampires and werewolves hating each other now?" Su Yue asked the question that had been in her mind for the longest time.
"Because the oath was betrayed." Ethan sneered, "Bishop Eternal Night destroyed the Book of Oath and tore up the last covenant."
Before he finished speaking, the stone statues around him made a low hum, as if responding to Ethan's words.
Boom!
The ground shook violently, and a tall skeletal golem broke out of the ground and rushed over with a roar! It was dressed in a black robe, with bone wings spread out, and a broken oath seal gem was inlaid on its chest.
"This is not an ordinary guard, this is... the Fallen Oath!" Su Yue exclaimed.
Ethan's eyes were solemn. He drew out the silver blade behind him and rushed forward without hesitation: "You stand back! This thing kills people who have taken the blood oath!"
"We are together!" Su Yue shouted angrily, and the red blade in her hand flashed, and she also jumped up.
Silver light and blood light intertwined, and the oath seal and bone wings clashed.
The battle unfolded in the dark depths of the Blood and Bone Pass. It was tragic and heavy, but there was an invisible tacit understanding between the two people that quietly deepened.
A quarter of an hour later.
The Fallen Oath fell to the ground with a bang, and was reduced to ashes.
Ethan was panting, and the silver blade in his hand was full of cracks. He turned his head to look at Su Yue, but found that her arm was bleeding.
"You..." He frowned and held her, "The wound is deep, don't force it."
Su Yue just smiled bitterly, "Is it useful to say this now? We have come this far."
She suddenly put her hand on Ethan's chest and whispered: "You are right, the oath was betrayed. But we... can make it reborn."
Ethan was stunned.
Su Yue's eyes were firm: "No matter what is at the end of this road, I will not retreat."
At that moment, Ethan held her hand.
"Okay."
The road ahead became deeper and deeper.
They passed through ancient battlefields covered with debris and bone blades. Su Yue gradually felt that the blood oath seal in her body was trembling slightly, as if some power was calling her.
"Is this... the power of the oath master?" She murmured.
"The blood in your body is awakening." Ethan responded, "The flower oath is just a key. The real door is behind the blood and bones."
Boom--
In front of them was a dark hall, with a blood-colored altar suspended in the center and a broken oath scroll floating above it.
As they approached, an illusory figure slowly rose from the altar.
It was a man wearing a blood-bone crown, his eyes were as cold as the night. He stared at the two and spoke in a low voice:
"After the blood oath, only blood can be paid. Are you... ready to pay the price?"