Chapter 741: Capital of Death
The place of Endless City in the Western Regions was also told to me by Mr. Wanhuo.
Endless City is a newly built city, the first real city overseen by the Scorpion King, the Lord of the Western Regions, and the place where the Ancestor of the Corpse prepares to be the capital of death.
The meaning of endless is taken from: endless, without beginning and without end. It is said that the name was chosen by the ancestor of the corpse himself, implying that the city can be endless, with no beginning and no end.
In the Western Regions of the Ten Thousand Demon Pit, it is a very magical place. Most of the spirits here are cultivated into the climate, and because of the geographical environment of the Ten Thousand Demon Pit, there are more spirits such as snakes, insects, rats and ants.
Among these spirits, scorpions, centipedes, and snakes are the most numerous. This is followed by sand wolves, vultures, lizards and the like. Of course, there are also some foreign spirits who have defected to the Western Regions of the Ten Thousand Demon Pit, such as foxes, yellowskins, and hedgehogs, and even tigers and lions that have become climates.
In the Endless City of the Western Regions, the Scorpion King is the most powerful one. It is rumored that this guy has been in the climate for a long, long time, and has been spawning near a sand dune.
This spawn was laid for nearly a few hundred years.
Because the resources of the desert where the Scorpion King is located are scarce, if the huge Scorpion King wants to develop, he must have countless food, drinking water, and enough Yin Qi.
But where is there so much food and water in the sand?
Therefore, the scorpion king can only produce countless little scorpions, and use his yin qi to dissipate to influence the little scorpions to go out to find food and grow up by themselves.
When the baby scorpions find enough food outside, they grow bigger and bigger. When the little scorpion has grown to thirty or forty centimeters, it returns the way it came, throws himself into the scorpion king's mouth, and lets it eat.
It sounds a little cruel, but this is the Scorpion King's way of survival. Because when the scorpion king gave birth to the first little scorpion, he didn't want to pass on the lineage, but wanted to use the growth of the little scorpion to keep himself alive.
The little scorpion becomes a big scorpion, and the big scorpion is eaten by the scorpion king, and then the scorpion king produces countless small scorpions, and countless small scorpions go out to find food, grow into a big scorpion, and then return to be eaten by the scorpion king......
In this way, the Scorpion King actually survived the most difficult era of material scarcity until he entered the Ten Thousand Demon Pit.
Because of the Scorpion King's toughness, cruelty, and special brain waves can affect the behavior of all spirits, so after a long time, the Scorpion King became the domain master of the Western Regions.
This guy is different from the Eastern Domain Lord Hua Lianhua, he is a crazy admirer of the Corpse Ancestor, and anything that the Corpse Ancestor orders will be unconditionally supported by him.
And because he has countless spirits under his command, the responsibility of building the Endless City is entrusted to him.
When I was on the Devil's Volcano, I had already agreed with Mr. Wanhuo that I could help him send this Natal Purple Flame, but the things I had to do had to be done first.
First of all, I want to ensure Yu Buren's safety, and secondly, Pangu Banner must not fall into the hands of the Ancestor of the Corpse. After doing these two things, I can go to Yudu and hand over this Natal Purple Flame.
I thought that if I made such a request, Mr. Wanhuo would definitely be unhappy. But who Cheng thought that he did not express any dissatisfaction, but nodded in agreement very generously.
He even pointed me in the direction, saying that just before I arrived at the Devil's Volcano, he had met Yao Chongsheng. Facing Yao Chonghua's opposite, Mr. Wanhuo was extremely disgusted, but he didn't dare to stop him, so he could only let him pass through the devil's volcano and leave.
At that time, Mr. Wanhuo saw that the direction he left was the location of the Endless City.
More importantly, Mr. Wan Huo speculated that the location of Endless City was likely to be the place where the Demon Conquering Army was wiped out back then. It's just that the Scorpion King, the lord of the Western Regions, didn't realize this.
I asked Mr. Wan Huo for a detailed map of the ice sheet, and I calculated the latitude and longitude with the data told me on a piece of paper. Although the result of the calculation is relatively rough, the approximate location happens to be near the Endless City in the Western Regions.
That's the main reason why I decided to rush to Endless City.
But we said that we would rest on the glacier for a while, and seeing that everyone was bandaging their wounds and feeling much better, we prepared to leave the River Styx and rush to the place where the Endless City was.
The short rest did not make all the exorcists recover, but the First Combat Brigade was originally an elite team selected from all over the country, and those who could penetrate the eighteen layers of hell and still survive were all masters among the masters.
Although everyone is still tired and the clothes on their bodies are in tatters, but with the goal and task, all of them have become different.
From here, the distance to Endless City is about 300 kilometers. Among them, the terrain is unpredictable, there are strange shapes, and there are ice towers that can encounter avalanches at any time, and there are also ice and snow cities where demons are entrenched in various places.
There is a dark ice zone where the yin air flows and can quietly freeze the living, and there are also demons and monsters that emerge from the ground to occupy the mountain as kings, blocking the road and hurting people.
In addition, there were no roads on the ice field, and we didn't have a means of transportation to take advantage of, so it took us seven days to reach the periphery of Endless City after a three-hundred-kilometer road.
With the physical fitness of an exorcist, an average of forty or fifty kilometers a day is advanced! This speed is basically no different from a snail crawling for me who has mastered the technique of shrinking the ground into inches!
However, in the past seven days, Xu Jianqin's injuries have gradually healed, and the expressions of the other exorcists have also become fierce. The elites, who were originally ragged and emaciated, and almost fell when they walked, finally showed the edge of the 1st Combat Brigade after seven days of adjustment, plus some abandoned cities and villages they searched along the way, and received sufficient supplies and supplies.
On the morning of the eighth day, we finally saw the whole city from afar.
Endless City is the location of the Ancestor of the Corpse as the capital of death, so whether it is site selection, construction, or design, it is all about excellence, contrary to the illegal buildings built indiscriminately in the past.
Standing where we were, we saw that the Endless City was surrounded by mountains on three sides, each of which was a magnificent glacier and snow mountain. On the snow-capped mountain, there are countless tiny insects crawling densely, these insects emit a faint flame light, and they are slowly wriggling on the glacier.
Su Zi'an took out a monocular and looked at it carefully, then his face changed color slightly, and said, "Good guy!" Those bugs are inscribed with yin charms! ”
Yin runes, in fact, are runes that gather yin energy, and all kinds of runes are engraved on the cliffs that are as smooth as mirrors on three sides. Some are responsible for early warning to prevent living people from sneaking into the cliffs, and some are responsible for gathering yin qi so that all yin qi is concentrated in the endless city.
I took the telescope from Su Zi'an's hand and looked carefully, only one of the three cliffs was completed. The other two sides are still as smooth as a mirror, and the time has always been short, and the city has not yet been really built.
As for the river that never freezes, it should also be the river that is brought from the River Styx. Although this moat is not as wide as the actual River Styx, it flows directly upstream to the River Styx, and belongs to the same water system.
On the River Styx, three wide bridges were being built at the same time, and a group of stout spirits were pushing huge blocks of ice slowly, they looked a bit like apes, with knotted muscles and looking very majestic.
The spirits of the Western Regions are not dead people in the strict sense of the word, but they are definitely standard evils. Except for a few spirits, because of their type and cultivation, most of them can turn into human form for a period of time.
It's just that the human forms turned into are miserable, some have human bodies, but they have a wolf's head, and some have human heads, but they drag a long tail.
As for those scorpions and centipedes and the like, because the difference in size is too great, they simply appear as they are, anyway, everyone is a spirit, and no one can get in the way of anyone's business.
What surprised me even more was that there were hundreds of living people involved in the work. These living people wore thick cotton clothing, which was supposed to protect them from the cold.
But although the cold can be resisted, it can't resist the yin qi, and they are shivering from the cold, and it is not easy to work.
It can be seen that these living people are the objects of protection, because the construction of a city cannot be completed by these spirits alone.
Even if the Scorpion King is extremely smart, can design, and can schedule, some technical work has to be done by living people. After all, a city is not built by just a few ice cubes.
The status of the living in Endless City is very low, and they are basically like slaves. In addition to not killing indiscriminately, anyone can bully them.
In the more than half an hour that we observed from a distance, there were two living people who could not withstand the erosion of yin energy, and all their yang energy was lost, and their souls were completely scattered.
But even if the soul is scattered, the body of a living person is a treasure to the demons and monsters. After all, although Endless City is located in the Western Regions, as the capital of death in the future, there are also a considerable number of ghostly ghosts living in it.
After the death of every living person, the soul is devoured by the evil spirits, but the body is all given to the ghosts, so that they can become ghosts with bodies.
I gritted my teeth when I saw it, but I secretly wondered that with such a way of dying, it is estimated that hundreds of living people will die in less than two days. The construction of the Endless City is not half completed, and the living are dead, who will do the technical work?
When I was wondering, I suddenly heard a noisy sound, I turned my head to look, and I couldn't help but tear my eyes, it turned out that a group of wolf-headed human spirits were punching and kicking to drive thousands of living people to come over again.
It immediately dawned on me that the demons had probably formed a team to capture the living, transport them from all over the world, and then participate in the construction of the Endless City.
After all, the Great Dark Age has not yet come, as long as you leave the ice field, there are endless living people everywhere. No wonder these captives are not taken seriously.