Demon Realm.

"Is even this land dead?"

Cerseiri half-knelt on a whitening earth.

This is the territory of the Water Elemental Lord, one of the four dukes of the Demon Realm.

After the land where the towns and villages around the Demon Realm grow crops turns gray and withered, Cecily decides to build a new farm on the land.

But the ground beneath Cecili's feet had already turned gray, gradually decaying from dirt to gray dust, and losing any value.

This kind of graying and whitening began to spread like a plague in the demon realm, and even if the prophet found countless human cultivation methods, there was no way to use it.

"What the hell is going on?"

Cerseiri looked at the decaying trees around her, and she felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

She was able to calm the unrest in the Demon Realm Royal City, eliminate all uneasy factors in the Royal City that threatened the people, and re-establish diplomatic relations with the Human Kingdom.

But in the face of this strange lesion, Cecily was powerless.

She searched for many books in the library of the Demon King City, none of which recorded this situation.

A dark green portal appeared behind Cecili, and the Prophet's petite figure stepped out of it.

"His Royal Highness Qiao Xiu is back." The Prophet said.

"Qiao Xiu?"

Cecily heard the name and immediately stood up.

The original uneasiness caused by the corruption of the land was quickly and gradually dissolved......

There are too many miracles that Qiao Xiu has brought to the Demon Realm, from the very beginning, letting the human kingdom Faloxi establish diplomatic relations with the Demon Realm, and making some specialties within the Demon Realm become 'hot sellers' in Nolan, etc., are all things that Cecily couldn't imagine before.

"Take me to him."

Cerseili followed the Prophet into the dark green portal.

The location to which the portal leads is the center of the Demon King City, the center of power in the entire Demon Realm.

Cexili went all the way to the courtyard and saw Qiao Xiu, who she hadn't seen for almost a month.

She immediately walked in front of Qiao Xiu, and before Qiao Xiu could speak, she began to look at Qiao Xiu.

“……”

Qiao Xiu could only be at the mercy of this eldest sister, she held Qiao Xiu's cheeks with both hands and looked at them for a long time, and then looked at Qiao Xiu's hands.

She was making sure that Qiao Xiu had no traces of injuries on his body, since he was very young, His Royal Highness the Third Prince of the Demon Realm liked to toss some dangerous things, and then tossed himself so much that he was covered in injuries.

But the third prince of the past had already died in an experiment, and it was just a copy of his memory for the current Qiao Xiu.

Therefore, Qiao Xiu's feelings for this eldest sister are only an older friend, and they are also friends who need to be avoided.

The reason why Qiao Xiu didn't go back to the Demon Realm much was because he didn't want to see Cecily very much.

After all, Joshua needs to hide some brutal facts from Cecily.

"Who are they?"

Cecily breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that her brother had not done anything to kill her, and had injured her own body, and looked behind Qiao Xiu again.

"The old Chinese medicine doctor I brought to you... No, they're High Elves... He has the ability to heal the gray mist. ”

Qiao Xiu pointed to the High Elf priests standing behind him.

Although Ciri had been standing next to Qiao Xiu, Qiao Xiu did not introduce her, because this eldest sister Cerseili had already heard about this human girl.

"High Elves?"

Secily's gaze looked at the tall figures behind Qiao Xiu, and the high elf at the head looked at Cecily in her eyes, and Cecily read something called 'hostility'.

But she quickly controlled that dangerous look.

"My name is Enya, and I'm here on behalf of the Children of the Forest."

Elder Enya simply introduced his identity.

Cecili's perception of the elves is only stuck in the 'idols' that have been particularly hotly discussed on the magic network recently, these elves are beautiful and can sing and dance, so it seems that their own succubi also have this kind of skill point.

"Can they heal the ashes of the land?"

Cerseiri is not in the mood to think about the matter on the Demon Net now, and the large-scale ash of the Demon Realm Land has gradually turned into a crisis that may 'threaten the existence of the Demon Realm'.

Although the golden potion that Qiao Xiu gave to Cerseili could slow down the spread of ashing, it still seemed a little more ... Impotence.

"Is the ash of the land still going on? It's a little tricky, Sister Cecily, you... Have you seen your father? ”

Qiao Xiu vaguely remembered that he wanted to climb to the top of the tower to see Fuya, unless it was a special person allowed by the ruler of the Demon Realm, such as the dark elf Thousand Faces... Others must first obtain permission from the ruler.

"Father, he hasn't come out of the altar for a long time."

Cecily looked at the tallest building in the royal city, and Qiao Xiu's words reminded her of another thing she was worried about.

"Not yet... Come out? ”

If Qiao Xiu remembers correctly, the first time he saw the ruler was in the Keeper's Altar.

He hasn't left the altar since... That is, it's been in it for a whole year!

"Sister Cecili, haven't you knocked on the door?"

Qiao Xiu immediately walked quickly in the direction where the altar was located, and a kind of uneasiness surrounded Qiao Xiu's heart.

"I've asked my father, but he hasn't responded to me lately." Cecily said.

"Then you should just push the door in!"

What if your old father has another stroke!

Qiao Xiu put up with the next sentence, Cerseili is not the kind of woman who likes to joke.

"Forcibly breaking into the Keeper's Altar is a violation of our taboo and will be punished by... Capital punishment was imposed. Cerseili said in a warning voice to Joshua.

"It's taboo again......"

Qiao Xiu heard this word and glanced at the high elves behind him, this group of elves also has a lot of clan rules, which is uncomfortable.

"But it's approaching the time for the king's election, and now I have enough reason to ask my father."

Thankfully, Cerseili is a flexible person, and she also understands that things are too abnormal to wait any longer, at Qiao Xiu's suggestion.

"We can't go there, can we?"

Ciri looked at the Water Elemental minions walking in the corridors of the castle, approached Qiao Xiu and asked in a low voice.

Just from the name of the altar mentioned by Qiao Xiu, Ciri felt that this was some kind of 'forbidden place for outsiders to set foot in'.

"This... Well, Ciri, you and the High Elves are here for a while. ”

Qiao Xiu glanced at his eldest sister's serious expression, and could only let Ciri and those High Elf priests wait in place, while he followed Cecily all the way to the location of the Guardian's altar.

The door of the Keeper's Altar was still locked, and after silently glancing at Qiao Xiu behind her, Cecily silently said 'Forgive me' and pushed open the stone door engraved with inscriptions.

The door gradually opened... A strong smell of blood quietly permeated the entire corridor.

The inside of the Guardian's Altar was shrouded in darkness, Qiao Xiu took out a primordial crystal for illumination to dispel the surrounding darkness, and a figure was faintly kneeling on the ground in the distance.

"Father!" Cecily tried to step forward and talk to the ruler, but she had just taken a few steps forward before she gradually stopped.

Qiao Xiu came behind Cecily with the glowing protocrystal, and saw the figure in the darkness.

Notline Arnorod, ruler of the Demon Realm.

But the ruler was half-kneeling on the ground, supporting his aging body with the sword behind him, while holding a heart in his other hand.

This heart is the ruler's own......

The blood had dripped to the ground and was dying, and the heart was completely failing and dying...

A closed room homicide case? Qiao Xiu looked at this scene, and this thought popped up in his mind for the first moment.

But Cecily beside her was already in a state of complete anger.

"Sister Cecili, there seems to be a scroll on the ground."

Qiao Xiu looked at Cersylly's clenched fists, she was controlling her emotions, Qiao Xiu also took a deep breath and pointed to the ground, where a scroll was placed in front of the ruler's long sword piercing the ground.

Cecily walked slowly to the ruler's corpse, then picked up the scroll on the ground, and opened it after making sure that it was free of any magic or mechanism.

"It's... Father's notes. Cecily whispered.