It was a light rain in the morning in Chihong City, and the air was filled with a sleepy fog, and the figures of pedestrians on the street were hidden by the fog and swayed.

Since the end of the battle in Blackstone City, twenty days have passed, and in the three major battlefields of the human world, the army of the Blackstone Demon Clan seems to have reined in its edge and has been standing still, and the orders issued by the alliance to each department are also to hold their positions quietly to wait for the times to change, and the war has temporarily subsided, and this temporary tranquility has not made the people of the Slayer Alliance have the slightest relaxation, and in all corners of the human world, the smell of gunpowder is still choking.

In the rain, a man in a black cloak holding a black umbrella walked slowly on the streets of the city, his figure looming, like a ghost. Because the water vapor was too strong, the vision was blurred, so the patrol guards in the past didn't pay much attention to it.

The man's footsteps were erratic, one second he was still at the door of the "private famous dish", and the next second he came to the door of the "Fushun Elbow" a hundred meters away. Because of the war, Wang Fushun's shop was very idle during the day, he was playing cards with two shop mates, and suddenly, the man in the black cloak flashed past the door of the store, and Wang thought he was dazzled, so he rubbed his eyes, and there was nothing at the door.

At the corner of the street, a hairy boy who was rushing home without an umbrella was running with his head bored, his whole body was soaked in light rain, just turned the street, and hit the man in the black cloak head-on, and almost fell backwards and fell into the puddle, fortunately the man grabbed the hairy boy, and the hairy boy raised his head timidly, looking at the man under the huge black umbrella. The man has black hair with an inverted back, dark skin, and a vertical scar on each eyelid, but his face is not serious, but somewhat kind, he has a pair of black red phoenix eyes, and the bridge of his nose is high.

"Be careful when walking on rainy days." The man smiled and slowly squatted in front of the hairy boy, his cloak open, revealing a luxurious black gown, with golden tassels on his shoulders and a sapphire pendant.

"Ah...... Thank you, uncle. The child stood up, dumbfounded, perhaps he had never seen such a richly dressed man.

The man smiled and touched his brain, handed the black umbrella in his hand to the hairy boy, got up and walked forward without looking back, the little boy quickly looked back, but found that his figure was gone.

The mysterious man continued to move in the direction of the Imperial City, and in the middle he encountered three groups of patrols, but all of them avoided the other party's sight with his strange footwork, until he came to the streets of the central city of Chihong City, and then he stopped.

"As the saying goes, 'the light rain in the heavenly street is as moist as a crisp, and the grass color is close but no, which is the most beneficial spring of the year, and it is better than the smoke and willows all over the imperial capital." The man in the black cloak stood at the corner of the empty alley in the drizzle, and the smoke and rain in the city of Chihong were hazy, which was really the same as the scene in the poem he read.

"After the new rain in the empty mountains, the weather is late in autumn." The voice of another person came from the side street on the right, and a faint figure was approaching.

"Friend, it's early spring, why is it 'late autumn'?" The black-cloaked man's voice was low.

"Although the sky is early spring, the heart is like late autumn." The visitor did not have an umbrella, but wore a white robe with a blue sleeve collar and dark blue hair, and was a kind old man.

"Ximen stops the water...... the man looked at the old man and said faintly.

"Odin Lufas, are you here to visit my old friend, or are you here to find your enemy, Aurora?" Ximen Zhishui asked with a smile after approaching.

After hesitating for a moment, the man in the black cloak looked up at the rainy day, "I don't plan to see the aurora, I heard that there is a place called 'White Horse Temple' in your imperial capital, why not take this opportunity...... How many drinks? ”

"Let's go." Ximen Zhishui smiled faintly.

The White Horse Temple on the west side of the inner city of Chihong City was originally a special place for the royal family to rest, which is part of the royal garden, and there are no specific people living here, the period before the alliance holy war, the royal family was persecuted by the new political alliance of Shadow Eater Mikrolos and almost perished, and this place once became deserted, and no one cleaned it for a whole year, until the alliance headquarters moved to the Chihong Imperial City, and there were gradually retainers here to clean it regularly. The White Horse Temple is famous for growing plantains, and there is a large study room inside, and the rest is a large winding corridor.

The rain was still falling, and in the gazebo in the middle of the corridor, the man in Ximen Zhishui and the man in black cloak sat on a blanket and drank at the table.

"You've slipped out of the watershed after all, and I've heard that you've been banished to the snowy for a while." Simon put down his wine glass and looked at the man in front of him.

"This is also thanks to your granddaughter, Ximen Cangyue, through whom I got the key from Magog." As he spoke, the man took out an ancient golden long-handled key from his arms, and the aura of the desolate spirit burst out.

Simon's eyes were stained with a dull gold, and he muttered, "It's not...... Where did you get the 'Hell's Key' of Magog Meleles? ”

"As I said, it's your granddaughter's credit." The man smiled darkly, and immediately restrained his smile again.

"That girl hasn't been able to do this yet, tell me the truth." Ximen Zhi asked.

"At that time, Magog was ordered by Luo Yu to go to the Heavenly Dao Layer to bail Lucifer, you know, the relationship between the demon race and the river basin, Lucifer has something to do with your granddaughter, and Lucifer quietly copied this 'Hell's Key', that's it." The man said without changing his face.

Simon Zhishui's eyes revealed the light of sensitivity and wisdom, he turned his head to the side, looked at the drizzle outside, listened to the sound of the rain hitting the plantains, and after a few seconds of silence, he spoke again: "I thought you would look for the aurora first when you came here."

"I said that we are mortal enemies, and with his personality, he must kill me when he sees me, the 'outlier' of the Black Stone Demon Clan," the man laughed dryly, "Who in this world does not know that you Ximen Zhishui is the most approachable." ”

"But you're not very approachable." Simon put down his wine glass, "Huh?" 'Emperor of the West', Odin Lufas? ”

Suddenly, the man's face became very gloomy, and he said coldly, "You don't mention my name again." He would pick up the flask, open the lid, and drink it all, and when he put the flask on the table, the picture in front of him was back to fifty-three years ago.

That year was the first spring after the "Black Winter" that erupted after a century of chaos, but instead of recovering, everything on the earth revealed a lifeless scene of decay and weakness.

Just a few days before the arrival of this spring, in the Great Forest of Modibek in South County, as one of the Holy Prophets of the "Eight Glory" of the Slayer Alliance, Sereant Pumierga and his only young son mysteriously disappeared, and two days later, his body was found in the Great Forest, confirmed to be killed by the demon god of the Black Stone Demon Clan, a generation of prophets died, and his young son disappeared.

Soon after the incident, the same "Eight Glory" of the "Wisdom General" Ximen Zhishui, the "Human Emperor" Aurora Miklos was in the process of quelling the civil strife of the human race, was attacked by a surprise attack from outside the South County of the Black Stone Demon Army, that was the army of the Seven Demon Gods, the battle broke out, so that the two Glories were caught off guard, and at that time, Emperor Xuanhuang Hongjun Ming was repairing the barriers of the Three Realms in the imperial capital, and the other glories were also scattered all over the place, unable to support for a whileThe army of the "Eastern Emperor" banner appeared from the east and west, the leaders of the two armies were extraordinary, and their combat methods were also very special, which was to directly transfer to the rear of the enemy for all-round flanking attacks, under the attack of the three forces, the army of the Black Stone Demon Clan had to retreat, and these two armies that did not know where to go solved the urgent need of the two when the Hongjun Empire burned their eyebrows.

Afterwards, the Terrans learned that the "Western Emperor" was the left priest Odin Lufas, who was once the "priest" of the Demon Dark Alliance, and the "Eastern Emperor" was a legendary figure who was famous but unknown at that time,、, it is said that he was a mysterious person who came out of the Void Realm of the River Basin, named "Samael Shajiao". The two forces seemed to have come specifically to relieve the siege of the Terrans, and the three-way army crushed the army of the Demon God, and the Terran civil strife alliance collapsed in this battle.

After the civil strife basically stopped, the troops of the Western Emperor and the Eastern Emperor did not retreat, but stationed in the devastated Nanjun City that was devastated by the war, and there was no intention to retreat after being stationed for a long time, Aurora is a domineering person, how can he tolerate others so unreasonable, so he wanted to lead the army to attack Nanjun, but was stopped by Emperor Xuan, half a month later, Emperor Xuan, accompanied by Ximen Zhishui, personally went to Nanjun, after some peace talks, finally Odin and Samael were persuaded by Hong Jun Ming, evacuated the continent of the human world, and the two tribes parted ways in the South China SeaSince then, Ximen Zhishui has never seen the West Emperor and the East Emperor again.

Two years after the two tribes left, Chihongcheng received news from the Weasel that the "Eastern Emperor" tribe living on the Norga land group in the East China Sea had suddenly disappeared, and Samael Sha Hole was captured by the Judgment of the River Basin and sent to the first floor of the Heavenly Dao of Babel Tower for unknown reasons, and no one among the Terrans knew what was going on, and not even the Weasel had found any clues.

As for Odin Lufas, his Western Emperor clan disappeared and never appeared again, until today.

"What happened when you left Samael that year?" Simon asked.

"Some mysterious people who have never met, they are all wearing iconic black clothes, and there is a golden tiger head belt, I have never seen which organization the golden tiger head is, but I think it should be the Black Stone Demon Clan, they are all pure Yin Spirit Makers, and their strength is comparable to the Seven Demon Gods, but I know everyone in the Seven Demon Gods, none of those mysterious characters are familiar to me, and there are some called ...... who came with them. Creatures of Reiki and Imra. Luvas stared at the wine in the glass, as if recalling that time, "Our people had no room for resistance, almost all of them were slaughtered by those monsters, and I had no ability to defeat those mysterious people, I escaped from the bottom of the sea, and I stalked under the sea for nearly half a month before escaping to another island, but I was still caught up by those people, and those people were followed by the law enforcers of the basin, and then I was escorted to the valley, and before I got there, Samael was already in prison." ”

"Tragic encounter, I think those people are all from the Dark Alliance, and those monsters, they are all monsters refined by alchemy, and it is normal for none of your people to survive without understanding their weaknesses," Simon sighed, "In the Terrans, we have suffered many sudden attacks from the Spirit Hunt, as well as the Deeas tribe that was once far away in the Western Sea, and they are all dead. ”

"You've guessed the purpose of the Black Stone Demon Clan, huh, stop the water?" Lufas asked secretly.

Ximen Zhishui was silent for a few seconds, and then said slowly: "Imperial blood, the emperor's blood with ancient spirit, I have thought about it for a long time, only this is worth Luo Yu to do like this, even at the expense of a certain demon god." Simon said quietly.

"You're right, that's what I thought." Lufas sighed and said, then spoke again: "Have you thought about the consequences?" ”

"Of course, do you think I'm the kind of person who is indifferent to the safety of the world?" Simon Zhishui smiled and said.

"In that case, I won't ask any more questions." Lufas's words changed sharply and said slowly, "I'm here for someone this time." Lufas stared at Zhishui, "His name is Dongfang Ziyan." ”

"Dongfang Ziyan?" Ximen Zhishui's eyes widened, "You mean you came here just to find Dongfang Ziyan?" ”

"I've heard he's a mechanical genius and has defeated Shadowdevourer Mikrollos, so I'd like to meet him." Lufas said.

"But he's long since left the Terrans, and he's not in Chihong now." "It is said that he is now with Rhein Gruss and Lucifer. ”

"I see." Lufas smiled slightly, then stood up, "Okay, that's all for today, I'm leaving." ”

After speaking, without waiting for Simon Zhishui to respond, Lufas's body turned into a black shadow, blended into the wind and rain, and disappeared in an instant, and after a while, Ximen Zhishui reluctantly dropped a cigarette and said silently, "He's gone, you come out." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Cang Kuan held an oil-paper umbrella, walked out from behind the rockery outside the gazebo, took off his shoes and walked into the gazebo, and sat down at the table.

"Why don't you come out and meet him? How many years haven't we seen? Zhishui asked.

"I don't like this guy, even if he's not an enemy." Cang Gu said lightly.

"By the way, I saw Aurora go out today, where did he go?" Simon Zhishui suddenly remembered this matter, so he asked.

"I said I went to see an old lover, who knows who." The skeleton laughed dryly.

The rain was still falling, the sky was gradually darkening, and the rustling of the rain continued to sound, like the murmuring of the night.