"Pound!"

A figure fell limply, slamming heavily on the scorched earth shrouded in poisonous mist.

Tao Tao lowered his head expressionlessly, and looked at the red-clothed young man who fell in front of him in a daze, motionless.

Red blood gushed out of the young man's abdomen, and the poisonous mist that penetrated into his body crawled from the young man's neck to his pale cheeks along the strange cyan lines. In the pool of blood, I saw that the young man's eyes were half-open, his eyes were facing the direction of the gluttony, and his lips were slightly open, as if he was about to shout something to the gluttony, but the other party's pair of dark eyes had long lost the light of life, and only the emptiness and confusion left by the moment of life were frozen in his expression, and the unspoken cry was forever dissipated in the raging wind of the battlefield.

"Hmph, when you are dying, you still want to let you go first, it seems that this kid named Jiang Yao is not only incompetent, but also hopelessly stupid. ”

The cold voice crossed Jiang Yao's corpse and lingered in the gluttonous ears. The latter slowly raised his head and looked at the orange-haired man who appeared in the poisonous mist in front of him, and the astonishment in his eyes instantly turned into boundless killing intent.

"Poor ...... How dare you ......!"

The cold dark purple fireworks burst out from the gluttonous palms, quickly enveloping his whole body, and the intense murderous aura swept through the shattered ruins around him, intertwining into a huge black-purple storm under the hazy sky, and pressing towards the cracked earth in a way that covered the sky and the sun. It's just that the man known as "Qiqi" not only did not have the slightest panic on his face, but raised his head with a sneer, and looked at the angry face of the gluttonous with interest, as if he was "appreciating" a long-lost performance.

"Hehe, you have obviously recovered your demonic power, but you are still groveling as a lackey of humans, you are no longer worthy of being called the head of the 'Four Fierce Beasts'. ”

Qi Qi said with a bare eye, and in a burst of demonic light, a pair of huge pale bone wings came out from Qi Qi's back, waving to bring Qi Qi into the air, and coldly looked down at the gluttony below.

"I'll let you know, 'traitor'...... It's not qualified to guard anything!"

"Smack!"

As soon as the words fell, he saw Qi Qi suddenly reach out and snap his fingers below. With a violent roar, the originally cracked scorched earth under the glutton's feet turned into a black poisonous swamp in a blink of an eye, and a cloud of poisonous gas "gurgling" rose from the mud bubbles of the swamp, and intertwined into cyan demon claws, quickly clinging to the gluttonous legs, and the corpse of Jiang Yao who fell in front of him was also pulled by the cyan demon claws, and gradually disappeared into the black poisonous swamp.

"......!" the gluttonous red pupils shrank suddenly, trying to reach out and grab Jiang Yao in front of him, but found that his body couldn't move under the tearing of the demon claws, and he could only watch Jiang Yao's body disappear inch by inch in the poisonous swamp.

"You will never be able to protect the 'important people', this is the 'curse' you are carrying. ”

In the black wind severed by the poisonous gas, Qiqi's voice swirled and intertwined, piercing into the glutton's heart like an ice pick.

"Die, you ......"

- "Traitor"!

……

"Squeak...... Squeak ......

The sound of a flickering fan crept through the edge of consciousness, and the red-haired man lying on the couch slowly opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling fan that spun alone in silence, the residual echoes of the nightmare seemed to finally dissipate with the return of reality.

"Hehe, finally woke up?"

A gentle and calm voice floated from not far away, and the gluttony sat up, looked up at Jiuya, who was looking at him smiling and silent, and after a long silence, a few words popped out of his mouth gloomily:

"How long did I sleep?"

"Hmm...... Soon, it's only been about ten minutes. Jiuya smiled, gently closed the ancient book in his hand, and replied. "But it's really rare, even you have nightmares, is it a premonition?"

"Do you ...... a 'hunch'? Heh, what I have a hunch is usually not a good thing. ”

Gluttony muttered, but his mind couldn't help but cross Jiang Yao's empty eyes that had lost their life-like brilliance again, and a trace of gloom couldn't help but appear on his face. But this gloom was quickly overshadowed by calmness, and he raised his head again and quickly glanced around.

It's a grand, retro library with an air of staleness in the air. Rows of shelves filled with books are lined up, and the sofas in the center are arranged in a circle, and the further inside are even denser, and even the walls of the library are lined with bookshelves, and the shelves are stacked with ancient books up to the high ceiling, and the ladders next to the shelves really look like a Western classical library at first glance. It's just that this place seems to be very popular, and there is no trace of a third person in the entire library except for the nine teeth and gluttony.

"This place was originally a church a hundred years ago, and it once housed a large number of out-of-print Chinese and foreign ancient books, and it is precisely because they built the library underground that they were able to survive the war and survive to this day. ”

As if noticing the gluttonous gaze, Jiuya turned around with a smile and opened his mouth to introduce.

"After a hundred years of changes, this library has also become the underground library of this girls' middle school. Although it has become an almost forgotten corner, it is quite an interesting place for me, which is why I chose to teach at this school. And you came here to find me, didn't you also want to know some 'past information' from this library?"

Jiuya said, carefully wiping the floating ash on the ancient book in his hand, and then with a flick of his finger, the book automatically floated up and slowly fell into the gluttonous hand.

"...... 'Demon Suppression Miscellaneous Records'?"

Gluttony glanced at the seal characters on the cover of the ancient book, and then turned the page, and saw a stick figure illustration before he turned two pages, and his eyebrows couldn't help frowning slightly.

I saw that in the illustration, a demon beast wielding huge bone wings was being pulled by several chains, struggling and roaring in the surrounding crowd, and this demon beast was all too familiar to gluttony.

"Five hundred years ago, the reborn Qiqi was resurrected from the mountain again, stirring up a bloody storm in the world. At that time, in order to quell the rebellion of the "Lingyutai", the leader of the "Lingyu Stage" personally led the elite legion of the "Lingyu Divine Envoy" to encircle and suppress, and after 7749 days of hard fighting, he finally captured Qiqi and imprisoned him in the [Criminal Prison Department]. ”

Jiuya said, slowly walked to the glutton's side, pointed to the illustrations in the ancient book, and stated.

However, the cost of this battle was also huge, and half of the 'Spirit Imperial Divine Envoys' who went to encircle and suppress were sacrificed, and even the leader at that time was seriously wounded. And in order to avoid this cycle of chaos and sacrifice in the future, that is, from that time, the "Spirit Imperial Terrace" issued a "domestication policy", sealing the captured beasts with demonic power, and trying to tame the other party to use the "power of the fierce beasts" for their own use. It's just ......"

"It's just that the captured Qi Qi and Han Qi would rather die and be turned into captivity, and the only one who has successfully used it is me, who was subdued more than a century ago. Gluttony shook his head, closed the ancient book, and tossed it aside. "I'm tired of hearing what you're saying, but that's not what I want to know now. ”

"What you want to know is the 'real location' where the 'Spirit Imperial Terrace' was imprisoned after capturing Qiqi, right?" Jiuya said unhurriedly after looking at the greedy expression.

"That's right. Gluttony leaned back on the sofa and said with his arms on his back. "Although the news to the outside world is that the [Criminal Prison Department] has taken over the task of imprisoning Qiqi, I don't think that the 'Lingyutai' will be stupid enough to announce the real place of detention. And if I want to find Qiqi, first I need to know where he came from and how he escaped. ”

"I understand your thoughts, but the details of the human imprisoning Qiqi back then are classified inside the 'Spirit Imperial Terrace', and there is no way for the outside world to know. It's not like you haven't inquired over the years, and the results are the same, aren't they?"

Jiuya said, turned around and poured a cup of tea, and took a sip gently.

"However, although we can't know exactly where Qi Qi was imprisoned in the first place, it is certain that there must be many institutions in that place, and even if the guards are temporarily weak, it is by no means easy for Qi Qi to escape alone. Jiuya put down the teacup, and suddenly the conversation changed.

"You mean to say that there is a 'Neiying' in ...... 'Spirit Imperial Terrace'?" Tao Tao raised his eyes, and his expression finally became a little serious.

"That's all I can think about. Nine Teeth calmly analyzed. "The place where Qi Qi was imprisoned is so secret, but he still managed to escape from under the nose of the 'Spirit Guardian', and there must be something wrong inside the 'Spirit Terrace'. In addition, I heard that when Qiqi escaped this time, he also took something with him. ”

Jiuya said, picking up the ancient book that had been thrown aside by gluttony again, and reached out to brush the yellowed pages of the ancient book. The pages of the book flipped through automatically with the mana light of the Nine Fangs' fingertips, and finally came to rest on a page of illustrations.

"Is this ...... 'Heavenly Pillar Stone'?" gluttony stared at the illustration displayed by Jiuya, only to see that a glowing cyan stone was hanging high in the sky, and below the light was Qiqi who was bound by chains.

"The Tianzhu Stone is made of the essence of the mountain stone of Buzhou Mountain, and it has the power to suppress evil spirits under the blessing of mana. Nine Teeth said. "But on the other hand, because if used properly, the 'Heavenly Pillar Stone' can also help the demons hide their demonic energy. This time, Qi Qi Neng escaped unnoticed, probably using the power of the 'Heavenly Pillar Stone'. ”

"No wonder I didn't notice his breath when I was in Changyou Mountain, it turned out that I had prepared for a long time......" Gluttony snorted coldly and said. "But with that guy's IQ, he can't be so meticulous in his mind, I'm afraid there is a 'military advisor' behind him. ”

"But anyway, since Qi Qi deliberately took the 'Tianzhu Stone', I'm afraid that there will be further actions in the future, so you should be more careful. Jiuya put away the ancient books, stretched out his hand and waved them lightly, and the books automatically floated into the bookshelf on the side, inserting them into the gap between the shelves.

"Hmph, even if he doesn't come to me, I won't let him go, I haven't settled the account with him at the beginning. ”

As soon as he thought of the demon Gu trap he encountered in Changyou Mountain, as well as the "Chiyou Remnant Soul" that was "coincidentally" taken away by Jiang Yao, his gluttonous face suddenly turned a little colder.

"Speaking of which...... This year's "ghost market" in the capital is about to begin, I heard that you and Jiang Yao are planning to go there to join in the fun?" Jiuya looked at the gluttonous expression with interest, and his words seemed to mean something.

"Heh, that kid went to great lengths to recover his qi veins, wasn't he just going there to inquire about the news of the 'Soul Suppression Stone'?" said the gluttonous man with his long legs on the sofa and an impatient expression. "If it weren't for Lu Jingyi's special care and saying that he wanted to look at him, I wouldn't have bothered to go to that kind of ghost place. ”

"Oh~ That's it...... Then you have to take a good look at him, once his 'colorless physique' is exposed to the outside world, it will be a big trouble. Jiuya tacitly looked at the gluttony, covered his mouth and smiled. "And I've heard that this year's 'ghost market' has a 'special rule'. ”

“…… Special rules?" said a frown.

"Hehe, that's right. Jiuya said, a hint of meaning floating in his seemingly gentle eyes.

"It's just that this 'rule' is for Jiang Yao...... But it's not a good thing. ”

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Author's Note:

"The Messenger of the Underworld" is serialized again!Starting from the "Phantom of the Ghost City", not only the previous popular characters will return~ A series of new characters will also gradually appear!In addition, the animation news of "The Messenger of the Underworld" has also been officially released~ For detailed information, you can pay attention to the official Weibo and the official public account (ajssBNESH). The animation PV can now be seen on major video sites~CG version of Jiang Yao and Gluttony are super handsome!Definitely won't disappoint everyone~