In the black and cold world, everything seemed to be so heavy, even a fallen person like Lucifer was weighed down by the heavy darkness and had a chill down his spine, his hands were bound by black chains, sitting on the cold mirror, his long hair fell on the ground on his back, coiled into a black mess, and his body was stained with blood and black scars.

Behind the cage opposite him was Odin Lufas, the distance between the two people was more than ten meters, although the light was dim, and there were layers of dragon orchid crystal iron fences blocking the line of sight, but they were still able to look at each other, Lufas was trapped by chains, unable to move, and the feeling of cold touch permeated the mirror surface of the ground.

Suddenly, Lucifer laughed, like a sneer, like a helpless laugh, and then he laughed a dozen more times in succession, waking up Lufas from his sleep.

Lufas slowly opened his eyes, looked at Lucifer across the black bar, and slowly asked him what he was laughing at, but Lucifer did not answer him, and resumed the previous silence, and the surroundings were pitch black, and the deathly silence returned again, as if nothing had happened.

It was probably a long time before the sound of chains moving could be heard from Lucifer's side, and Lufas could imagine that he was struggling to lift his bound hands, and his body could make bones and veins pop after a long period of stiffness, and Lucifer spoke, the voice was small, but extremely hoarse, as unpleasant as the voice of a man who had almost lost his voice.

"A new era is coming, does Heifeng still want to learn to be a crow to protect himself in this place of filth and filth?"

After listening to Lucifer's words, Odin Lufas did not respond, except for a dull gasp, and then there was a long silence.

I don't know how long later, on the corridor outside the cage, there was a faint sound of footsteps, and the sound became more and more intense, as if someone was slowly approaching. All the people in the cage were silent, and whoever it was, sat quietly in their cages, waiting for the owner of the footsteps to come. It doesn't often come here.

Luvas closed his eyes, as if he didn't care who had come to this filthy place, and just like that, the footsteps stopped outside him, but the sound came to Lucifer's side, and he still turned a deaf ear.

"Lucifer, you can go out with me, and you will never have to live in this rat nest again, and you will no longer have to be afraid to avoid the pursuit of law enforcement after you go out, because the Lord needs your strength." The tall figure outside said in a muffled voice, and at the same time a bunch of keys were taken out, and suddenly a crisp sound of metal collision sounded, echoing at the end of the corridor.

"Let the tiger return to the mountain, Luo Yu really did this kind of thing, I admit it." Lucifer said lightly, a pair of ghostly eyes looking at Lufas opposite. He smiled imperceptibly.

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The wind and rain are ethereal, the wild grass is floating, the entire magic capital city seems to be soaked in wind and rain, the mountains and rivers are broken and the wind is fluttering, and the Tivoges castle on the magic capital mountain is lying on the top of the mountain like a black giant beast, still silent as a mountain.

On the long mountain road steps outside the castle of Tivoges, Shangguan Yuanjian walked up in the heavy rain, the heavy rain had already soaked his whole body, the black cloak was soaked by the rain, he looked up at the black castle, lowered his head and walked slowly, and finally came to the gate of the castle.

The black castle gate was closed, and he had just stretched out his hand to push the door, when someone inside had already opened, and he looked back at the way up the hill, and then entered.

It was the retainers in the castle who opened the door, and he took the wet coat that Shangguan Yuanji had taken off, then changed into a new shawl, and then asked, "Where is Luo Yu?" ”

"The Lord is playing chess with the Demon Mourning Heavenly Venerable in the small hall." The retainer replied with his head bowed.

After hearing this, Shangguan Yuanji walked in the direction of the small hall on the floor stall.

On the way, he walked on the promenade, beside him were floor-to-ceiling windows, which were washed by heavy rain at the moment, making a rustling sound, but the promenade was very quiet.

Before he could reach the small hall, Shangguan Yuanji was stopped by a person at the corner of the corridor, who seemed to be deliberately waiting for him to arrive.

"Tomoska? When did you get back. Shangguan Yuanji looked at the man standing against the wall and said coldly.

"Me? Just returned from Sishagu," Tomoska asked, clasping his hands to his chest, "I say freak, where did you come from?" ”

Shangguan Yuanji ignored him and wanted to continue walking, but was stopped by Tomoska's outstretched hand, and Tomoska said, "I have something to ask you." ”

"Say." Shangguan Yuanji replied with some impatience.

"Why didn't you kill Dongfang Ziyan?" Tomoska asked suspiciously.

"Do you know where I've been, and what do you ask me for?" Shangguan Yuanji glared and said, "Get out!" ”

But Tomoska still didn't get out of the way, but said with a treacherous smile, "You're moved by compassion, aren't you?" Do you think the Lord really doesn't want you to kill Dongfang Ziyan? He's testing you to see if you can kill him ruthlessly, it's testing your loyalty...... Uh-a-ah......"

Before Tomoska could finish speaking, Shangguan Yuanji smashed his fist into his stomach, and the sudden blow made Tomoska fall to his knees in pain.

"Garbage." Shangguan Yuanji's face did not change and continued to walk forward.

When I arrived at the small hall, I saw that under the crystal glass lamp, Luo Yu and Mo Mourning were sitting in front of the four-legged chess table, on the chessboard, black and white were staggered, both of them were contemplative, like two sculptures.

Shangguan Yuanji knew the truth of watching chess without saying anything, so he slowly walked to the chess table, did not speak, but watched the two play chess from a distance.

"Yuan Ji, find a seat for yourself first, there are no outsiders here, and there is no need to be restrained here." Luo said without raising his head, and then stretched out his hand and landed another sunspot.

Shangguan Yuanji didn't say anything, he sat quietly aside, and picked up the half-read "Bu Ghost Mingzhi Classics" on the side table, the book is an ancient book, at first glance, it has been sealed and painted, and it is well preserved, Shangguan Yuanji is not very interested in this kind of book, but he feels that he seems to have heard this name somewhere.

"......," Shangguan Yuanji muttered to himself.

"You can turn to page 67 and you may find it interesting." Luo Yu whispered, but the eyes under the mask were still fixed on the chessboard.

Shangguan Yuanji glanced at Luo Yu, and then turned the book to page sixty-seven, looking at the contents inside, but he couldn't understand a word, because the words in it were all ancient spells, but after opening the book, touching the paper of the book made him a little dumbfounded, because this was a leather book, and there were six dry finger bones of different lengths in the three-finger thick book, human finger bones.

In the barbaric slave society before the civilized society, the big slave owners usually used animal skins to make pages, such as sheepskin, but the more valuable pages were made of human skin, because the human skin is thinner, more convenient to write, and easy to preserve, so generally rich slave owners or manor owners will use human skin as a page or paper, framed into a book, in the old society human skin book, parchment scroll is a status symbol, having a parchment scroll or a human skin book can represent that person is a person with a very high status.

There is an ancient legend that has been circulating for a long time, that is, the human skin book is sealed with the resentful spirit of the owner of the human skin after death, because the human skin is pulled off alive from the slave, and the slave who has been stripped of the skin cannot die immediately, and must wait for the human skin to be cleaned and dried before the slave can die, before that, the slave will be subjected to the alchemy elixir to continue his life, until the human skin is rough before it can be killed or let it die on its own, at that time people thought that only in this way can the dead man's resentful spirit be attached to the human skin, In this way, the wraiths will be sealed in the human skin. Because of this, the owner of the human skin book will cut off one of his fingers before he dies and sandwich it in the pages of the book, in order to show the uniqueness of the human skin book, when the first owner of the human skin book dies, the second owner must immediately cut off his finger and clip it in it, otherwise he will be harassed by the evil spirits in the human skin book.

Although Shangguan Yuanji is not well-read, he still knows about this kind of thing, and he knows that the thick book of "Bu Ghost Mingzhi Classics" in his hand at this moment can only be made of the human skin of three people, and the finger bones sandwiched in the book are of different lengths, and there are eleven finger bones, which means that this book once had eleven owners.

"I don't understand." Shangguan Yuanji put the book on the side table and said softly.

Mo Mourning raised his head and looked at Shangguan Yuanji, and was about to say something, but was blocked by Luo Yu's words.

"Devil's Mourning, what do you see? It's your turn. Luo Yu looked at the demon mourning, and his voice was dull.

"Oh...... Be. Only then did the demon mourn lower his head and play chess seriously.

Luo Yu and Mo Mourning played for another quarter of an hour or so, only to hear Luo Yu's last black chess piece landing, he smiled indifferently, and then said, "Okay, this game is a lonely loss, Mo Mourning, you are really good at chess, I haven't been able to keep up with you for so many years." ”

"Lord, according to what I can see, you are distracted, so Baicai was given a chance by me, in fact, the lord's current chess skills have already surpassed Lao Chen." Mo Mo said with a wave of his hand.

Luo Yu stood up, the scarlet cloak behind him swayed, he walked to the seat opposite Shangguan Yuanji and sat down, picked up the wine bottle on the side table next to him and poured a glass of wine into the glass, and then took off the mask, but still wearing a mask that covered the upper half of his face, he looked at Shangguan Yuanji, took a sip of red wine, and then spoke, "Demon mourning, you are right, in fact, Gu was distracted when he was playing the game, do you know why he was distracted?" ”

"It's because the final battle is about to be launched." Demon Mourning whispered.

Luo Yu listened to the words of the devil's mourning, first smiled, and then shook his head slightly.

"I guess it's because of Dongfang Ziyan." Shangguan Yuanji said silently.

"Dongfang Ziyan?" Mourning was a little surprised.

"Yuan Ji, at this moment, you are the person who knows my mind best, you can tell me first, why am I distracted because of Dongfang Ziyan." Luo Yu set the wine glass aside and responded.

"I think it's because of Dongfang Ziyan's true identity." Shangguan Yuanji said without hesitation.

Luo Yu drank the remnants of the wine in the cup, then put on the mask with the red pattern on the other side, and then he walked leisurely to the chess table, and said lightly: "Yuan Ji, you and Dongfang Ziyan were sworn brothers before, and you should be the one who knows it best." ”

"That's right, I do know him very well, there are two strange souls lurking in him, according to my guess, one of them is very likely to be Hong Jun's soul, he himself may have only recently known about it, but he was very seriously injured after the Dethias incident, and I have observed it during the time he was unconscious." Shangguan Yuanji said, and then he spoke again: "Don't worry, Dongfang Ziyan is now under house arrest in Bruggis, and with Hades there, there will be no problem." ”

"You observed very carefully, very good, Lone is a little worried about Dongfang Ziyan, but now Lone should be able to rest assured." Luo Yu said lightly.

"You haven't told me what secret is in this book." Shangguan Yuanji patted the human skin book "Bu Ghost Mingzhi Classics" and asked.

At this time, the demon mourning sitting at the chess table spoke, and he said slowly: "Yuan Ji, do you know, this leather book was found in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of the Nine Hidden Valleys, because the Nine Hidden Valley Valley Lord Bai Ying rebelled, and the believers of the Nine Hidden Valleys also scattered and fled, and even the golden bodies of the previous valley lords sealed in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion were ignored, and the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of the Nine Hidden Valleys was left there. …”

"You still haven't said what's in it." Shangguan Yuan said coldly.

Speaking of this, Luo Yu secretly laughed, but after all, Demon Mourning is the patriarch of the Black Stone Demon Clan, the unique head of the Seven Demon Gods, of course, it is uncomfortable to be ridiculed by Shangguan Yuanji, but he knows that Shangguan Yuanji is an extremely arrogant person, and he knows that his status is noble, and he can't lose his temper at him in front of the Demon Emperor, so he didn't care about anything, but continued to say this ancient book, "There are six books in this book, one of which is composed of one, this is only one of them, it is a precious document of ancient civilization that records anecdotes of ghosts and gods, The page you are looking at now records the ancient battlefield classics about the 'Five Ghosts Fighting the Firmament'. ”

"What a five ghosts fighting the sky, five ghosts...... It sounds familiar, could it be the incident of the attack on the Nine Lands that happened in the human world a while ago? Hades has told me about this in the human world, and my shadow warrior has also heard something about the 'five ghosts' in the human world, but I have never heard of the 'five ghosts', so who are they? Shangguan Yuanji asked, and then he turned his head to look at Luo Yu Wei.