5. Jin Tianyu: Dragon Mound

Nangong Qingyun, who was dressed in armor, broke into his dormitory alone, his broad cheeks full of ruthless anger.

The palace maid was driven away by this fierce general, and only the white-dressed Bei Ming Ling stood in front of Li Yu.

The tall Nangong Qingyun looked past the delicate girl who stopped in front of him, forced him to look at him with disdain, and then stretched out his rough palm to irresistibly push away Bei Mingling, and as soon as Bei Mingling raised his hand to resist, he was easily knocked to the ground.

This stubborn girl did not give up, knelt on the ground and hugged Nangong Qingyun's leg who was forcing Li Yu, Nangong Qingyun grabbed one of her arms, picked her up suddenly, dragged her away a few steps and threw it aside, and then quickly raised her hand.

"Smack!" a loud voice broke the confrontation that had been silent. Bei Mingling's pretty cheeks were flushed, and the corners of her mouth were overflowing with blood, but her eyes were still clear and firm, and she didn't say a word.

"Stop, bastard!" Li Yu, who was dressed in a dark dragon robe, rushed forward like an angry little beast and kicked it, but was immediately grabbed by Nangong Qingyun and tied up behind him.

He gritted his teeth and resisted, feeling his arm almost broken, and beads of sweat the size of beans oozed from his forehead. "Ah!" he cried out in pain and anger.

"My emperor, come with me honestly, so that you will suffer less. Nangong Qingyun said coldly behind him.

Li Yu turned his head sideways to look at Bei Yingling, and shook his head at her eyes with tears in his eyes.

This is a punishment for him, since he can't avoid it, there is anything more painful for him to bear alone, and he shouldn't affect others.

He was escorted out of the dormitory with his backhand, pushed onto the waiting sedan chair, and the half-kneeling guard immediately got up, lifted the sedan chair and walked quickly towards the still messy deep palace, Nangong Qingyun was silently aside.

The deeper you go into the palace, the once familiar palace is full of ruins and scorched rubble. Occasionally, after passing by a few palace guards, when they saw his dragon chariot, they knelt on the ground one after another.

Although he was determined to bear it, Li Yu was still afraid, he wanted to call for help, but he knew that everything was in vain, and he trembled.

The sedan chair walked to a remote place in Beigong where he had never set foot and stopped, the guard half-knelt down, and Nangong Qingyun's hand had firmly grabbed Li Yu's shoulder and pulled him down.

Li Yu felt the strong pressure on his shoulders, and was pushed into the two newly painted black doors, and walked down the deep steps, the light was hidden behind him, and the pitch black in front of him was a cloud of blackness, and a suffocating smell of burning came to his face.

He stumbled and fell on the steps several times, and was picked up again, and Nangong Qingyun behind him walked firmly, without saying a word all the way.

After descending the steps, they had been completely submerged in the darkness, and they were pushed forward for a long time, Nangong Qingyun stopped, and a cold voice sounded behind him, echoing in the dark space, "My emperor, the commander asked you to stay here, think about how to be this emperor, when to think about it, when to go out." ”

As soon as the words fell, Li Yu was forcefully pushed to the ground, and his knees and palms on the ground ached, and he turned over and couldn't see anything. Something was thrown at him and fell to the ground.

"A little candle flame and I think it's too dark, so I light it up and take a look. After Nangong Qingyun finished speaking, he should have turned around and left, and the sound of the collision of the armor on his body gradually disappeared.

Li Yu endured the pungent scorching stench, trembling and groping on his knees on the ground. It was only pitch black in front of him, and there was a faint strange sound in his ears, he stopped vigilantly, listened with his ear, and it was difficult to distinguish what it was for a while, only to feel a chill in his back, and a cold sweat broke out. He heard his own rapid breathing, and groped in more and more panic, but his fingers touched and pushed out, and he chased forward and touched again, and finally picked up the fire sickle and flint and a fire candle.

"Bang, ......" He tried for a long time in the dark, the sparks flashed again and again, and the faint flames finally lit up, and the firelight covered the square inch of the place where he was, and also vaguely illuminated the surroundings.

He stood up tremblingly, raised the candle in his hand, and the range of the candle stretched a little longer, and he fixed his eyes on it.

Under his feet were black wolf ashes, probably some scraps of wood and iron, but in the ashes, there were clearly many human corpses that had also been burned to charcoal, and not far from the corpses, there were several huge rats crawling, making a creaking sound, and the whole body of the gnawed charred corpse turned out rotten flesh. This is the burned out Beigong dungeon!

"Ahh

He crawled and fled in the direction he came, and in the process he tripped over hard objects or scorched corpses again and again, but in the darkness he could still tell the direction from which he came, and only felt that there were those things all around, and in despair he stood up and ran away, but "Ah!" tripped hard, fell face down to the ground, and fainted.

I don't know how long it took for him to wake up with a stinging pain. The smell of rotting and burnt stench hit his nostrils again, and he felt a tingling pain in his hands and body, something crawling on top of him and gnawing on him. "Ahh

He retreated in trepidation, and finally leaned against a wall and sat down curled. He suddenly couldn't help but vomit wildly, so vomiting that he could only vomit bitter water, vomiting so much that his stomach ached, and his body convulsed tightly. His face was covered with tears and sweat, and he raised his hand to wipe it, and the pain on his hand was unbearable, and the sticky and wet blood was all over his face. The rat had bitten all his fingers.

Fresh blood must have been full of attraction to them, and in the darkness Li Yu saw a pair of eyes glowing with green light, and they squeaked together again, slowly approaching him. "Go away, get me away!" he kicked and shoved them away in extreme fear.

It's going to be eaten to death by these beasts here, Li Yu thought. His out-of-control mood calmed down a moment, and he struggled to his feet, groping his way to where he had fled, the rats following him closely.

It took him a long time to finally touch the candle that had fallen earlier, the flame was lit, the rats were scurrying around, and he once again inhaled the cool air from the tragic image in front of him.

There were many charred corpses lying in the dungeon, and carefully discerning them, most of them were actually headless, and the heads were scattered around the corpses. If he hadn't been tumbling in the Shura field of war, experiencing immense pain in the disgusting mud pool, and encountering rotten and terrible ghosts, this sight in front of him would have broken down. It is always better for these people to be killed and thrown here first than to be burned alive, Li Yu thought so instead.

In the dead silence, Li Yu suddenly heard something again, and the fear spread again, not those rats, but more like human voices.

The voice was faint, intermittent, like a cry, like a curse, Li Yu couldn't help but feel tense and creepy when he heard it.

Xu was too frightened, although his heart was still pounding violently, but his senses were a little numb, and he could no longer be himself, he identified the source of the sound, and raised his feet tremblingly to follow the sound. No matter how he died, he had to die to understand, he flashed such thoughts.

Avoiding the ashes and charred corpses on the ground, he leaned deeper into the dungeon, the voice growing clearer in the dead silence. He came to a cell with a burnt iron bar, and knew that the sound was coming from inside.

He stepped forward boldly, slowly raised the flickering candle in his hand, and on the ground in front of him, a mouth more than a person wide was burned, and a miserable whimper seemed to come from inside with a cool breeze.

He moved to the edge of the gap and looked down, but the faint candlelight did not shine to the end, and only faintly saw that there seemed to be uneven steps underneath the rocks.

A whispered curse that seemed to come from far away came from inside again.

Is this hell down here, Li Yu thought so, hesitating, not daring to raise his feet.

In the dead silence, there was a loud "click" under his feet, and he felt empty under his feet, and before he could react, he fell into the hole with the ground that had collapsed again. The candle went out as soon as he fell, and in the darkness he subconsciously reached out to grab it, and the candle in his hand also fell, but he couldn't catch anything, and rolled down from the rocks, and then rolled down the hard steps, and finally his head hit the ground so hard that he almost passed out.

His whole body was in pain, his mind was groggy, and he seemed to be awake in the darkness, lying on the ground for a long time unable to move.

The strange voice came again, this time more clearly, but I still couldn't hear what was said, like a person's babbling.

Li Yu wanted to hide, but his hands and feet seemed to be broken, so he had to lie in place for a long time, letting the sound stimulate his nerves for a while, and after a long time, it was not so terrifying.

It wasn't until the pain in his body eased a little that he felt that his hands and feet were his own again, and Li Yu struggled to get up, but fortunately there didn't seem to be broken bones. With rocks behind him, he climbed to the side of the rock and staggered forward. After a short walk, he kicked something, reached out to touch it, and thought that it seemed to be a stone lamp, so he immediately took out the flint, tried it several times, and the fire was lit up in the stone lamp.

At his feet, one more step was a steeper, longer and more dilapidated stone staircase. He took a cool breath and looked around, a very high, smooth-walled passageway.

The crying and scolding from below stopped for a while, and then sounded again, Li Yu took a deep breath and walked down.

Descending the steps, there was still an endless passage in front of him, and he lit a stone lamp along the way, and the lights in the secret passage were bright, and the voice became clearer and louder, and it was indeed a man crying and cursing loudly.

He didn't know how long he walked, but he felt the cry in front of him, and he stepped out of the secret passage, and came to a dark open place, and the sound stopped abruptly.

With the light behind him, he carefully lit two stone lamps, and he looked around at a domed chamber as tall and wide as the palace.

The secret room was empty all around, only the ground in front of him was piled up with many white skeletons taller than adults, Li Yu was so frightened that he wanted to quit, but he still forced himself to go around the four walls and light all the stone lamps.

The room was brightly lit, and he could see what was in front of him, a small part of it he had seen, but now it was all of it. It is a fully entrenched keel.

What he had seen before was black and gray, weathered into stone, this was white, the bones were huge and intact, and he could see the part of the huge dragon's head, the fangs were as sharp as blades, although they were only bones, they were so cold and majestic that people shuddered and did not dare to look at them directly.

He also noticed the mottled marks on the walls of the chamber, which were frescoes that had fallen off for a long time, and he could still see many different scenes when he looked closely. Among them, the most depicted is the real dragon flying in the sky, and several dragons of different colors in the war lead many beasts such as phoenixes, tigers and leopards, and countless soldiers are fighting with terrible ghosts and monsters...... He noticed that the murals came to an abrupt end in the center of the dome of the secret room, and a few rows of words were inscribed in a blank space, which he tilted his neck to try to identify, and it was: "In the first year of the founding of the country, the last green dragon was extinct, and the fortunes of my Xuanyuan clan were falling, alas."

It turned out that the green dragon had been extinct thousands of years ago, when did the dragon he saw in Longshan die before, could it be the golden dragon, Li Yu thought about it, and suddenly turned his head sideways vigilantly, I don't know when, there was a person standing next to him, looking at him motionless!

Li Yu couldn't help but scream, and retreated again and again, he saw that the person was wearing a dragon robe like him, the golden green dragon robe in the previous dynasty, the dragon robe was old, and the people were ...... No, it's not a human, the head under the crown of heaven is dry and rotten, and the position of the sunken eyes is cold and cold, and it is a ghost!

Li Yu's head exploded in shock, and he ran away with a shout, but his body was still in great pain, and he fell to the ground after not running a few steps, and the ghost actually bowed down and walked towards him quickly, it opened its mouth with almost two rows of teeth, and rushed over with a loud roar, and the continuous inaudible angry rebuke was endless, and its empty mouth flashed a deep cold light, as if it wanted to swallow Li Yu.

Li Yu couldn't stand up, kicked his legs and desperately retreated, reaching the keel. The ghost was already in front of it, and it poked its head down, grew its mouth, roared, and pounced on it!

Li Yu screamed and turned his head to dodge, but it didn't bite down, he shivered sideways, and saw the dry cheek against his face, and the cold gaze was directed at him. The ghost stopped, as if to scrutinize him, and even sniffed at him with its sunken nostrils.

Suddenly, the ghost let out a miserable cry, the cry shocked Li Yu almost faint, but the ghost had reached out and pinched his neck tightly, he felt a suffocation, his body was in the air, and the whole person had been lifted up against the dragon's head.

The ghost cried and roared, its slender and withered fingers forcefully digging into Li Yu's neck, Li Yu's face flushed, and his hands grabbed it with both hands and struggled desperately to no avail. The blurred eyes glimpsed the opposite side of the keel, and the ghost's back engraved words, "Li usurped my throne, harmed my clan, and I Yu escaped from the sect and died here."

Li Yu propped up the last desire to survive, grabbed the fire sickle on his body, and smashed it hard behind him, the firelight gradually faded again and again, and the sporadic firelight splashed on the ghost's body, igniting its body, but it still stood holding Li Yu high, Li Yu threw away the fire sickle, reached out and tried his best to pull off a loose dragon tooth, and stabbed into the ghost's head with a wave of his hand.

The ghost roared in pain and let go, Li Yu fell to the ground, rushed forward with bated breath and pierced the dragon tooth in his hand into its chest, and then rolled backwards, extinguishing the fire on his body, curling up on the ground and gasping violently.

The burning ghost in his sight let out a desperate scream, and sparks erupted from his mouth in his eyes that were already full of cold light, and then quickly turned into countless sparks, and then immediately fell and extinguished, and finally disappeared completely.