Chapter 142: Ten Thousand Demon City
Xu Chen had no choice but to return to the cabin, and then he found that the wooden door that had been broken by himself was intact, but he didn't think it was strange, after all, this was the territory of the demon clan, and if nothing strange happened, it would be a real strange thing.
But he was too bored, so he had to calm down and cultivate, although Xu Chen's cultivation has been increasing day by day these days, but he has always been unable to break through the fourth layer of the refining void realm, and every time he is a little bit away from breaking through, he has lost all his previous efforts, so he hopes that he can gain something this time.
After only cultivating for a moment, he was surprised to find that today's cultivation was so smooth, and the true qi flowed through the various acupuncture points without the slightest hindrance!
The qi and blood in the body were running non-stop, it brought Xu Chen a sense of comfort that he had never felt before, and in every acupoint around his body, there was an amazing energy quietly growing. This made his cultivation climb sharply in a short period of time.
As more and more true qi flowed into the meridians, Xu Chen actually had an illusion in his mind, which made him feel as if he had been reborn, and his body was rapidly expanding and growing!
At this moment, his mind was filled with countless brilliant colors, they were blooming and withering like flowers, and his body began to be unable to bear this surging energy frenzy, and he felt that the meridians flowing along the way of the True Qi had burst the embankment, so that his entire body and mind were bathed in the vast sea of True Qi.
Xu Chen couldn't help but be shocked, his eyes suddenly opened, and there was a sharp light in his eyes that made his heart tremble.
At this moment, Xu Chen was ecstatic, and he suddenly realized that his cultivation had unknowingly reached the fourth layer of the Void Refining Realm.
In the past, he couldn't succeed in forcibly breaking through many times, why did today's cultivation go so smoothly to such an easy point, is it because there is still the power of Di Jiang in his body?
Xu Chen didn't have an answer in his heart, but he began to look forward to it strongly, and after taking a deep breath, he continued to cultivate.
If he could break through the fourth layer, he would have reached the top level of the Refining Void Realm, and if he broke through this fifth layer, then he would have the same cultivation in the Xuantian Realm as Su Lingxuan and the others.
This was unthinkable in the past, but Xu Chen is now in extreme excitement, and he is very eager to create his own miracle.
After a pillar of incense, although there was not much progress, Xu Chen still slowly opened his eyes, not that he didn't want to continue cultivating, but that he sensed that someone was coming.
It was the little girl of the demon clan with long ears who came in, and she brought Xu Chen a delicious meal, and Xu Chen realized that it was already dark.
During the meal, Xu Chen asked about Huang Xiaoxue's whereabouts again, but the little girl pursed her lips and smiled, just poured him wine and food diligently, and did not reveal more information to him.
In the next few days, the little girl would only appear in front of Xu Chen during the fixed time of delivering food and medicine, and never entered the house to interfere with his activities at other times.
The little girl is quite cute, don't look at her on the surface she is only fourteen or fifteen years old, but in fact she is more than nine hundred years old, at this age, in terms of human beings, she can be Xu Chen's ancestor.
During the conversation, Xu Chen learned that her name was Linglong, and she was the palace maid beside Qianshuangxue, who had taken care of her for two hundred years. Because Linglong is rigorous, Qianshuangxue sent her to take care of Xu Chen, and when his injuries are completely recovered, she will return to serve Qianshuangxue in the official ranks.
Linglong doesn't seem to like to talk very much, every time Xu Chen takes the initiative to ask before answering a few words, but the content is all about Xu Chen himself, as long as Xu Chen shifts the topic to Huang Xiaoxue or Qianshuangxue, she doesn't want to say a word, let alone expect her to tell her what the place is.
Sometimes when he was annoyed by Xu Chen's questioning, Linglong would tell him that as long as Xu Chen's injuries were almost healed, he would naturally be able to meet with Qianshuangxue and them, otherwise, he would have to sleep alone in this small cabin.
Xu Chen also wanted to go out for a walk in his spare time, but the thick fog outside never dissipated for a moment, which made it difficult for him to see the surrounding scenery clearly, and if he forced it out, he would probably lose his way and never return to this small cabin.
So all he could do was keep cultivating, and now that he had successfully reached the fifth layer of the Refining Void Realm, if he could break through again, he would be the one who had the cultivation of the Xuantian Realm.
But just when Xu Chen continued to cultivate with confidence, he unexpectedly found that no matter how hard and hard he worked, his cultivation had not made any progress at all. It was as if there was an invisible shackle in his body that was preventing him from further development.
This made him feel very helpless, and he felt very lonely when he lived alone in this deserted and mysterious area, so when Linglong came to bring him food again, he offered to leave this ghost place.
Linglong categorically refused: "That's not good, you can't go anywhere until the injury is healed." ”
The war between the gods and demons has been rekindled, how can Xu Chen stay here for a long time, seeing that Linglong has no intention of being accommodating at all, he can't help but sink his face and say, "How long do you want to lock me up?"
"Hey, I said why are you so unreasonable, my princess kindly asked me to take care of you, you don't appreciate it, you still want to harm me!"
Obviously she was unreasonable, but instead said that she wanted to harm her, Xu Chen was stunned, and asked her what she meant.
"This is not a place for mortals to come, if the news of your escape is known to the princess, you must punish the slave and maid!"
"The Qianshuangxue I know is a kind girl, she shouldn't be the kind of princess who likes to punish people at will, right?"
"Those of us who are subordinates have to carry out the princess's orders to the letter. You stay here honestly for me, and I'll wait until I'm healed. ”
"Well, then I'll listen to you and don't go out. Xu Chen knew that Linglong's personality was a little stubborn, so his tone softened, and after Linglong packed up the dishes and chopsticks and went out, Xu Chen quickly got up and put his head by the door to observe the movement outside.
When he saw that Linglong had been walking forward without looking back, he couldn't help snickering in his heart, and followed her all the way after gently covering the door.
Since this little girl is unreasonable, Xu Chen decided not to talk to her anymore, but to meet Qianshuangxue in person, as long as she secretly follows her, are you afraid that you won't be able to see the princess of the demon clan at that time?
Linglong walked like a gust of wind, Xu Chen followed behind and trotted all the way to catch up, and in the end he could only watch her figure disappear into the fog.
However, Xu Chen was not depressed by this, because he smelled a faint demonic aura in his nose after going out. Usually she didn't have any demon qi on her body when she chatted with Linglong, but now the demon qi was permeating the mist, which showed that she used demon magic when walking, so Xu Chen couldn't keep up with her pace.
Xu Chen followed the demonic qi all the way, knowing that Linglong was very fast, but he was still cautious and did not dare to take a big stride to catch up, because Xu Chen knew that if this little girl found out that he was following him today, I am afraid that he would have to obediently stay in the cabin in the future until he recovered from his injuries before he could regain his freedom of movement.
Xu Chen was walking vigorously, and suddenly felt the emptiness under his feet, and suddenly his whole body fell straight forward.
In an instant, the sound of the wind kept whistling past his ears, and Xu Chen was surprised to find that his body had been falling, and he suddenly realized that he had accidentally fallen into the abyss.
In a panic, he suddenly exclaimed: "Help!"
In the midst of the danger, a slender little hand grabbed Xu Chen tightly, it was Linglong who noticed that Xu Chen behind him was in trouble, and hurriedly jumped up and flew straight down, and finally rescued Xu Chen when he was about to fall to the ground.
As the two of them arrived on the ground safely, Xu Chen gasped and asked, "Thank you Linglong girl for saving your life." ”
"Alas, you seem to be honest and loyal, but I didn't expect that there are still a lot of ghost eyes, come back with me. ”
Xu Chen blushed, knowing that Linglong had misunderstood him, and he was about to go back with her in a gloomy way, when the sound of people talking and the chirping of poultry suddenly came from afar.
At this time, he found that there was a mottled bluestone road under his feet, and then he looked into the distance, the fog in front of him was gradually fading, although the sight was still gray, but Xu Chen, who grew up in the countryside, suddenly knew that there were people in front of him, maybe it was still a village.
His curiosity suddenly came, so he cheekily begged Linglong to let him wander around the neighborhood and exercise his muscles.
After all, he had been staying alone in that small cabin for several days, Xu Chen was really panicked, he really wanted to see the customs here.
"No, come back with me, or the princess will be punished if she knows that you ran out." Linglong still coldly refused.
Seeing Linglong being so stubborn, Xu Chen couldn't help but get angry, and he couldn't wait to knock the banshee unconscious with a fist, and then went to walk around by himself.
But the family had just saved his life, and he had been thinking about Qianshuangxue's kindness, so Xu Chen had to be patient and grind with Linglong, and Linglong also knew that if he didn't let him hang out today, he was afraid that he wouldn't give up, so he agreed to Xu Chen's request.
Linglong walked forward with him, the fog became lighter and lighter, and the terrain became more and more open, and finally when the fog disappeared completely, Xu Chen came to the bottom of the high slope by the way, looked up, and was surprised to find that there was a majestic city in front of him, and there seemed to be a plaque hanging on the city gate, but the distance was too far for him to see the words on it.
Xu Chen couldn't help but point to the front and asked, "What a magnificent city, what kind of place is that?"
"Childe, don't go forward, Her Royal Highness the princess's family lives in the city, if you enter the city and are found by her, it will be bad. Why don't you wander around the city, the villagers nearby are simple youkai, and they won't embarrass you. ”
Xu Chen didn't want to be embarrassed, so he nodded in agreement, and after the two of them went downhill, a beam of lights suddenly appeared on the side of the road, in fact, it was not a lamp, but a street sign composed of several green lanterns strung together, and there was a bright red arrow on the card, pointing directly to the towering city in front.
Squinting again, there was a word written on each lamp, Xu Chen read it from top to bottom, and couldn't help but be shocked: "Ten Thousand Demon City!"
Seeing him so panicked, Linglong couldn't help but smile and said, "Are you afraid? I want to tell you, the city is full of vicious monsters that eat people and don't spit out bones, if you are afraid, go back with me." ”
"Hehe, do you want to scare you? Don't tell me, Thousand Frost Snow Girl is also one of those monsters, and you, who also live in Ten Thousand Demon City, but why didn't I see you eat me?"
Seeing that Xu Chen had exposed his little lie, two red glows appeared on his delicate pink face.
Of course, Xu Chen didn't want to go back, he settled down and pointed to the city again, and asked, "Is this really the legendary Demon City, the capital of the Demon Kingdom?"
Seeing that Linglong nodded affirmatively, Xu Chen thought to himself that it was true, the place where the princess of the demon clan and the demon emperor Qianyehua lived could not be somewhere else except the national capital.
He had heard Master Nangong Muyang say that the Ten Thousand Demon City was built in Qingqiu Mountain, the holy land of the Demon Clan, surrounded by a vast sea full of treacherous reefs and vicious waves, a mysterious country that ordinary people could reach.
He couldn't help but sigh that he was lucky to come to the mysterious Qingqiu Mountain unintentionally, and it seems that this journey will definitely give him a lot of experience.
Thinking about it like this, he couldn't help but look around, and found that there were mountains in the distance, and the Ten Thousand Demon City happened to be surrounded by mountains, which added a bit of mystery to it.
Looking back, a straight mountain peak loomed out of the mist, almost reaching the sky.
Xu Chen suddenly knew that this was the peak of the mountain where the cabin he lived in, and he couldn't help but feel afraid, if Linglong hadn't saved himself in time just now, this fall would have turned into a meatloaf long ago.
It's no wonder why she refuses to let herself out for a stroll, imagine that she is wandering around in the thick fog like a blind man, completely ignorant of the way, and it is very likely that she will accidentally fall off the cliff.
At that time, his life was not guaranteed, and Qianshuangxue was furious, and Linglong really couldn't eat and walked away.
He couldn't help but ask, "What's the name of this mountain where I live?"
"Beacon Peak. "Since they all secretly brought Xu Chen out, Linglong no longer hides it from him.
She was about to say something more, when suddenly her eyebrows furrowed, and she cried out in a lost voice: "Oh, I've been with you for so long, I almost forgot everything the princess explained!"
"Is Miss Linglong going back?" Xu Chen saw that Linglong was nodding, so he said: "Then you go and get busy first, I'll take a walk outside the city, and then we will meet under this street sign, do you think this is okay?"
Of course, Linglong would not agree, but Xu Chen patted his chest and repeatedly swore that he would never break his promise, so he agreed with him to meet here in two hours and go back together, Linglong jumped into the air and turned into a breeze to return to the Ten Thousand Demon City.
Xu Chen originally wanted to go to the nearby village to beg for a cup of tea according to the path pointed out by Linglong, and casually learn about the customs and allusions here, but he only walked a few steps and suddenly thought: "Since the Ten Thousand Demon City is the capital of the demon clan, it must be very prosperous, and there are many novelties that have not been seen in the world. Besides, Qianshuangxue must be living in the deep palace compound, how could I be discovered by her as soon as I entered the city, I might as well go in and watch the excitement, and I will have a bragging capital when I go back in the future. ”
So he turned around and walked towards the Ten Thousand Demon City, but after walking dozens of steps, Xu Chen hesitated and couldn't help but stop.
He thought to himself: "Although I have made many friends of the demon clan, but there is a deep grudge between humans and monsters, if I trespass like this, the residents of the city will see that I am a human being, how can they spare me, even if they don't kill me, they will inevitably be beaten at that time." Forget it, I'd better wait for Miss Linglong to take me into the city later, so as not to cause trouble and cause her to suffer. ”
So Xu Chen turned around again, but at this moment, the demon fog rolled out behind him, and he looked forward in surprise, and it was a team of heavily armed demon clan soldiers who came around an official sedan chair.
Unlike ordinary officials on patrol, this group of monsters flew quickly in a cloud of black mist that was a foot high from the ground, and their speed was so fast that Xu Chen, who was standing in the middle of the road, almost had no time to dodge.
Seeing that the tiger riding by the monster that opened the way at the front was about to grab Xu Chen's head with its front paws, the young tiger rider quickly grabbed Xu Chen's shoulder and saved him from being scratched by the tiger.
Xu Chen couldn't help but secretly say lucky, and was about to thank him, but he didn't know that this demon general actually shook his hand hard, and threw Xu Chen high, this sudden action was completely unexpected by him, Xu Chen suddenly fell to the ground unexpectedly, and his mouth was stuffed with dirt.
By the time Xu Chen got up from the ground in embarrassment, the group of demon clan officers and soldiers had already roared away from him.
Xu Chen, who suffered a dumb loss, really couldn't swallow this mouthful, but this was someone else's territory, and he didn't want to make a big deal and let Qianshuangxue blame Linglong, so he scolded at the group of officers and soldiers who were far away: "A group of turtle bastards, are there any people like you who push pedestrians to give way?"
After scolding this sentence, the group of demon clan officers and soldiers actually stopped, only to see the young general who caused him to gnaw a mouthful of mud come to the official sedan chair, I don't know what he said to the officials in the sedan chair, and then nodded, and several demon soldiers came to Xu Chen in front of Xu Chen in an instant with a black mist.
Xu Chen thought badly, he remembered that Ziling had said to himself that many monsters have more acute senses than humans, although the scolding just now was not loud, I am afraid that it was heard by these monsters, so he went back to trouble himself.
"Hey, it's actually a human, how did he come to us?" The monsters showed surprised expressions on their faces, and after glancing at each other, the young general asked: "Hey, human, who are you from, and whose help did you get to come to the capital of the world that is admired by the demons in the world?"
"I came here on my own legs, okay?" Xu Chen replied angrily, he was angry, how could he calmly answer the other party's question.
His stubborn temper came up all of a sudden, and he thought to himself: "Anyway, I have a lot of relationship with Qianshuangxue, even if there is a dispute after waiting, I don't dare to do anything to these monsters!"
The young general heard Xu Chen lying nonsense, and suddenly changed his face and said sharply: "Nonsense! My Qingqiu Holy Mountain is located at the end of Sihai, which is an empty realm that is difficult for people in the world to reach, how can you walk here with your legs!"