Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Lord of the Hidden Capital
Endless darkness, eternal silence!
In all directions, the sky and the sea are hollow and dark, and there is not a single light in sight, and the sea here seems to be somewhere between the unreal and the real, and the waves are surging but not the slightest sound can be heard.
In the darkness, a terrifying ghostly figure appeared, peering at the three people on the ship, but they did not dare to appear, as if they were afraid of the light emitted by the bronze lamp.
The ship sailed through the Netherworld, and there was nothing in this world, except darkness, only a bronze lamp, a lonely ship, and three people.
That light is the only reliance and guidance on the dark sea, propelling the ship forward.
The bronze lamp was inserted into the bow of the ship, and Fang Xiu sat cross-legged on the tip of the ship, passing through this place of eternal darkness.
Qingyang was hungry and thin, Zhu Liu also felt dizzy, after entering this sea area, he gradually became exhausted, except for the lack of water, he could no longer find a little food.
And they had been sailing in this darkness with no end in sight for half a month, and if it weren't for the fact that the ship had been moving forward, I am afraid they would have been driven mad.
Qingyang Sanren was lying on the deck, looking at the sky, there were no stars, no moon, and after looking at it for a long time, he even felt a gray vortex in front of him constantly swirling: "Where is this going?"
Zhu Liu grabbed the mast, looked around, and couldn't see anything except the black smugness: "We shouldn't have really passed through the end of the world, right? What the hell is this place?"
Qingyang sighed, "Can we really find the hidden capital?"
"If I had known, I wouldn't have looked for any way back! It's not bad to stay in the country of Yu!"
Zhu Liu also resounded about the leisurely and comfortable days in Shanhai and Haizhou: "Yes! Leisurely, at ease! The most important thing is that there is meat to eat and wine to drink!"
Fang Xiu turned around and said, "It would be better if I could stay in the Shark Country, maybe I would be chosen by that female monarch as the king's husband, and I would ...... from now on."
Zhu Liu and Qingyang immediately stood up and smacked Fang Xiu fiercely: "I'm still thinking about it!"
And at this time, at the end of the day, for some reason, a little light appeared.
This light was so conspicuous in this eternal darkness that it was immediately noticed by the three of them.
When Fang Xiu turned around to chat with them, Zhu Liu, who was still standing on the deck, was the first to see it: "There is light! There is light in the distance!"
Qingyang in the cabin also climbed out and looked into the distance: "What is that?"
They saw that the light was getting brighter and brighter, and the ships were drawing nearer, and they finally saw clearly, that it was a city, built on a large island.
The lights of thousands of homes are flickering, like the sky full of stars, and the ancient city does not know how many years of vicissitudes it has experienced, and where it still stands.
Just by looking at the lights in the city, you can imagine the bustling scene.
At this moment, Qingyang and Zhu Liu rushed to the bow of the boat together, where could they not understand where they were: "Youdu!"
The bronze lights flickered, and the ship docked on the old dock, and the three of them found that the dock was full of large and small ships, some of which were even decayed, and it looked as if they had been docked here for thousands of years.
The three of them took their things and baggage, and walked together towards the city, the avenue was paved with stone slabs, and outside the city you could see the village, the fire, and the smoke of the cooking.
"Look at the sky! There's the moon here, how can you not see it on the sea just now?"
"What a bright moon!"
Along the way, there were many figures entering the city, heavy figures, walking in a hurry, most of them wearing cloaks or hats.
Qingyang cautiously looked at their faces, but what he saw was not a human face, but a monster in the shape of a pig-headed human, and when he turned his head again, he immediately saw a monster with a fluffy face and a tail behind him, and he immediately withdrew his gaze.
Qingyang felt a chill on his back: "Shapeshift! Shapeshifted!"
"And there's more than one!"
Zhu Liu also remembered something: "Chi Yan said! The monster that can transform into a demon has either swallowed a spiritual object, or it is a big demon!"
The three of them followed the monsters hidden under the cloak and hat to approach the Youdu City, and the other monsters didn't do anything when they passed through the gate, but when the three of them approached, there was an abnormality.
Two rows of bonfires lit up in the doorway, which exploded as they approached the gate, causing flames two meters high.
The two black stone lions at the door actually spoke, they twisted their heads and looked at Fang Xiu and the three of them: "The demon holding the bronze lamp!"
The other lion's petrified eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of gray, and he looked at them carefully: "It's a person!
"It's been a long time since anyone from the outside world came!"
"I'm sure I'm going to die!"
"The master will eat them!"
"Human flesh is delicious!"
"Hey, hey, hey!"
The two ghostly and evil stone lions suddenly spoke, asking and answering themselves, which startled Qingyang and Zhu Liu: "The stone has spoken!"
The two stone lions looked at each other: "Outsiders enter the city!"
The other stone lion immediately replied, "You must make an offering!"
After speaking, he saw two huge bronze doors slam shut, blocking the three of them outside.
Fang Xiu and Qingyang Zhu Liusan looked at each other, to be honest, Fang Xiu didn't expect this set, but thinking about Hei Sha's greed for money, this is also normal.
Qingyang thought for a while, first took out a stack of talismans, and put them in front of the three-meter-long black stone lion stone pier, and immediately saw that the stone lion turned into an afterimage and swallowed the tribute, and the door opened a crack.
The three of them were about to go in, but as soon as Qingyang entered, the door immediately closed, and he almost didn't squeeze Zhu Liu into a meatloaf.
Zhu Liu was furious: "What's the matter?
One of the stone lions said, "That's what he confessed!
Zhu Liu touched his body for a long time, and took out the last bottle of Jiuquan spring water he treasured in pain: "How is it?
Then he saw the door open and put Zhu Liu in, Fang Xiu touched his body, and found that there was really nothing to bribe except for some treasures, he directly knocked on the stone lion's head with a bronze lamp pole: "No money! Hurry up and open the door for me!"
The three of them entered the city, stood at the door, and were immediately shocked by the scene in the city.
They saw a lantern and a street market with heavy buildings in front of them, and the tall wooden building was divided into several floors, and the layers were brightly lit, and the figures were heavy, making a noisy and chaotic sound.
The streets are filled with the smell of food and pedestrians dressed in various costumes, making you feel as if you have traveled back in time to the ancient capital.
A fluffy fox covered its mouth and smiled, holding its own child and taking a sugar gourd from a crow-headed peddler, and a large fat pig with a bare chest made a large bone broth out of a bucket, poured it into a bowl and placed it in front of a dog demon dressed in blood-red.
A short rat demon dressed as a little two, sent the sword cow spirit out of the hotel, hanging red lanterns in the delicate small building, a group of wolf girls wearing heavy makeup, looking to reveal the desire to choose people to eat.
There were all kinds of monsters standing in front of the shop, and there was hardly a single human in sight.
Compared to the Ten Thousand Demon Bazaar in Flying Squirrel City, which looks like Animal City, this place is more like a demon capital, and in the ancient city under the moonlight, a group of demons dance wildly and monsters are rampant.
The three of Qingyang entered here, wearing linen robes and straw sandals, looking less like farmers from the bustling city, more like farmers who had rushed into the city from the countryside, and marveled at everything they saw here: "All ...... All of them are shapeshifting...... Youkai!"
"Chirp~"
And at this time, there was a sudden bird's cry in the sky, a crisp scream, with the coercion of a superior person, overriding the entire demon capital city, just hearing the sound was enough to make people's legs weak.
As the bird cried, the entire people in the city knelt down at the same time, and thousands of demon clans in the house poured out at the same time, crawling on the side of the road.
Fang Xiu and the three of them didn't know what was happening, they could only follow the sound and look towards the sky.
I could only see the two Luan Birds in the sky spreading their fiery red wings and brushing the sky, and flames surging above the fire feathers, breaking through the Nine Gang Winds, leaving a fiery red trail.
And at this moment, behind the luan bird, there was a gorgeous golden-red phoenix.
With the luan bird pulling the cart, the demons under the earth are lying on the ground.
"Bell~"
"Bell~"
At this moment, the bell rang in the Immortal Palace Temple in the center of the Youdu City, and the doors of the palace opened at the same time, and a fox demon wearing a white cardigan and a strange smile on his pointed face led the demons to greet him in front of the palace.
"The master has returned from the heavenly realm!"
"Ten thousand demons in the hidden capital city, welcome the lord of the hidden capital!"
The sound was transmitted to the whole city with the crisp sound of the bell, and all the demons in the city got up and knelt down at the same time.
The whole city reverberated with mountain shouts.
"Welcome to the Lord of the Hidden Capital!"
"Welcome to the Lord of the Hidden Capital!"
This style is like the Emperor of Heaven traveling, the Luan Bird pulled the phoenix chariot past their heads, the temperature in the city seemed to be raised in an instant, and the blood from the divine beast suppressed the thin divine power in Qingyang and Zhu Liu's body could not be exerted.
And the terrifying existence within the phoenix chariot seemed to look down at the three of them as if it were looking down at the three of them when it passed through the sky, and the gaze like a god and a demon penetrated as if it penetrated their shells and froze their souls.
Frightened, Qingyang and Zhu Liu, who were standing at the gate of the city at the moment, also felt their legs tremble, and almost didn't fall to their knees directly.