Zhao Yuan's heart shook, and he couldn't return to his senses for a long time, he didn't expect that the road to becoming a god would be so abruptly displayed in front of him.

"But they failed. Zhao Yuan's voice was a little dry.

"That's right, they failed," Old Xuanwu said in a deep voice. "Do you see that purple snake, I guess the problem is probably on it. ”

Zhao Yuan can be said to have a profound image of the purple snake, but ...... "After all, it is just a magical beast, and it shouldn't know so much...... At least you shouldn't have understood that much back then. Zhao Yuan heard the resentful eyes of the purple snake, and couldn't help but shudder.

"Indeed, it is a monster, and it is impossible for a person to live that long, even if it is of atavistic blood. Old Xuanwu agreed. In fact, in its opinion, except for the incomparably long-lived Xuanwu, few other magical beasts can have the same wisdom as humans. Many eighth-order demonic beasts have learned human language, but their mental level has always been difficult to improve, just like the eighth-order ice field bear turtle, even if it has eaten treasures like the ice crystal phoenix lotus, and there is still the blood of the divine beast on its body, the wisdom it shows is still only at the level of a child.

"But it attacked me like crazy after seeing the destroyed magic circle, which shows that it understands what this magic circle is for. Zhao Yuan said, at that moment, he really felt in his heart that it was a person who lived in the body of a snake.

Old Xuanwu shook his head and continued to seriously lick the red wine marks on the crystal coffee table until they were completely invisible.

"Don't tell anyone that you know about this magic array, otherwise even if you are an eighth-order archmage, you will be killed. Old Xuanwu said.

Zhao Yuan's eyes moved, and he immediately realized something, and nodded seriously.

Old Xuanwu saw that he listened, so he continued the topic just now: "At the beginning, there were countless poisonous snakes dying in the cave, and there should be countless grievances gathered in that place, although the spiritual intelligence of the demonic beasts is low, but it can't bear the large number, at the beginning, this purple snake was extremely talented, and its resistance to magic was extremely high, so when the magic array was running, it survived, but it must have suffered a heavy blow." When we went, there was not the slightest resentment in the entire ruins, but this purple snake, the resentment on its body was extraordinary, so it should have absorbed the resentment of tens of thousands of poisonous snakes and turned it into its own use, so that it had extraordinary spiritual wisdom. ”

Old Xuanwu's words were reasonable, although it didn't see what happened at the beginning, but it also inferred seventy-seven-eighty-eight.

"As for how this ritual failed, I don't dare to speculate, after all, there are too many possibilities. ”

Zhao Yuan continued: "Is it because he was discovered by the gods?"

Old Xuanwu shook his head, "This possibility is not very likely, if it is discovered by the gods and sent down heavenly punishment, it is impossible for that magic array to remain." I prefer to think that someone in the snake clan deliberately sabotaged this ceremony, after all, tens of thousands of poisonous snakes are said to be a lot, but it is nothing to the snake clan, and this major ceremony must also go through layers of inspection, and there should not be such a purple snake mixed in. I think that's why, after making such an act against the sky, the snake clan was not completely abandoned by the gods, but just became an incomprehensible race. But this ritual should be extremely secret, and no one in the living snake clan knows the exact location of this ruin, so the beast god did not track it down to the ruins. ”

Zhao Yuan also knew that it was very taboo when the magic array was running, and there was a problem with the source of magic power. When every snake is sacrificed, it is a link in the magical supply chain, and a snake with extraordinary demonic resistance will undoubtedly cause a break in this supply chain. No matter how small or large this fault is, there should be no such low-level mistake in this extremely important ritual.

"But it's different if you change it, you can supply magic power to this magic array yourself, and you don't need outside support. Old Xuanwu said this, staring straight at Zhao Yuan with a pair of black bean-like eyes. Zhao Yuan's heart was shocked, the meaning of the old Xuanwu was obvious, it was telling him, how to become a god!

Brother Xiong also came out at this time, looking at Zhao Yuan with a look of hope, as the so-called one person ascended to heaven, if Zhao Yuan became a god, Lao Xuanwu and Brother Xiong could also become legendary beasts!

"Of course, it's too early to tell you this, you're too bad. Old Xuanwu changed his tone again and said lightly. Zhao Yuan also exhaled, and somehow, when he heard the word Chengshen, what surged in his heart was not excitement and joy, but an indescribable heaviness, like a prisoner who was about to be escorted to the guillotine.

Zhao Yuan felt very strange about his mood, if he wanted to go home, he had to have supreme power to shatter the void, why did he feel so uncomfortable. He shook his head, threw this strange feeling out of his mind, and asked, "Senior, what else do I lack?"

"First of all, you have to break through the ninth order, and then gain the power of faith, this is easy to do, and then find a realm that is not governed by gods, the heart of the world is good, and the gods there have long fallen. All in all, everything has to be based on your strength, so focus on breaking through first. Your spiritual power is all at the ninth order, and it stands to reason that it won't be long before you reach the ninth order holy law. Old Xuanwu said.

Zhao Yuan felt bitter in his heart, his realm didn't know what was going on, he was firmly stuck on the eighth order, since his spiritual power broke through the ninth order, no, or since he came to this world, his realm has not moved at all. Before, he thought that it was just because it was too difficult to cultivate at the eighth order, but everyone told him that the breakthrough of spiritual power was followed by the breakthrough of the realm, which was very easy and natural. However, Zhao Yuan still showed no signs of breaking through.

He pursed his lips, and still told Lao Xuanwu about this situation, Lao Xuanwu couldn't believe it when he heard it, he only had a fifth order, and he couldn't feel Zhao Yuan's level change, and he always thought that Zhao Yuan should have made a lot of progress during this time, but it was just an illusion that Zhao Yuan had become proficient in spells through constant fighting.

"I've never heard of this phenomenon, maybe it's because the beast side is not suitable for you, and when you get to the human side, you can ask someone else. Old Xuanwu finally said.

That night, Zhao Yuan came out of the hotel, as soon as he got out of the hotel, he found a remote corner, changed into a black leather armor, his face was also tightly covered, and he went out of the city alone.

He still has a lot of doubts in his heart, but these doubts are not difficult to solve, they just need to be kept secret.

Every city has its own prison where criminals are kept. Zhao Yuan silently infiltrated the prison. Today, he is coming to find a mortal man.

The prison was dark, lit only by a few magic lights. This is the Ryugu tribe, who smell of money from their toes to their hair, and even use expensive magic lamps in prisons where criminals are held.

Soon, Zhao Yuan quietly came to the detention room of the death row prisoners, most of the people held here are foreigners or mixed races, and the pure-blooded Longgu clan will not face punishment as long as they do not commit heinous crimes. They are the most special existence in the entire beast clan, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are nobles among nobles.

The number of condemned prisoners was not large, only one or twenty, and they were held in separate cells. There was no patrol outside the cell, as the Ryugu were so confident in their cell that no one could escape from it.

The criminals all wore a collar around their necks, which flashed with the light of an inscription, and was a magic instrument specially used to suppress the criminals' martial energy. With it, no matter how powerful a person is, it is difficult to exert one-twelfth of his strength, and the cell is made of special materials, and the beast clan below the eighth order has almost no possibility of escaping.

Zhao Yuan looked at the ape clan in front of him, raised his hand and woke him up with a column of water. Unlike the other condemned prisoners, he looked terrible with his hands hanging and his body covered in scars and blood from the whipping.

"You, who are you?" the ape looked up, and a pair of brown eyes peeked out from between their wet hair, with a dull and dead air. His voice was very young, but it seemed to have a blood clot between his throat, and his speech sounded a little muddy. Zhao Yuan was about to speak, but the ape clan suddenly laughed at himself again: "Heh, I know, you must have been sent by them to kill me, don't worry, these days, I haven't confessed a word." ”

Zhao Yuan was a little speechless, what secrets were involved in the ape clan, but it was none of his business. He said coldly: "No, you guessed wrong, I am just a person who came to make a deal with you. I'm going to kill you tonight, and before that you do me a favor and I can fulfill one of your last wishes. ”

The ape clan was a little surprised, he looked at Zhao Yuan's tightly covered face, and after a long while, he squirmed his lips and said, "Why should I believe you?"

I saw that the corner of the black-clothed man's eyes was slightly bent, and with a slight wave of the black long sword in his hand, the iron chain binding the ape clan was broken. Suddenly lost the pull of the iron chain, the ape clan "bang" fell to the ground, looking at the iron cable with a smooth incision, the pupils constricted, this iron chain is engraved with magic runes, the man in black can actually cut it with a sword, what kind of strength is this!

Zhao Yuan didn't talk nonsense with him, and directly took out the treasure map of Doshi before: "Tell me, what is written on it." ”

The ape clan didn't expect it to be such a simple thing, stared at Zhao Yuan for a long time and couldn't speak, and finally smiled bitterly, picked up the treasure map and looked at it seriously.

"What is written here is that if there is a problem with those points of light, it is safe to stand on the ground...... This piece says that the exit is on it...... Then the last line of big letters reads - I released that thing, they were killed by me, and now this ruin is safe......" After listening to the translation of the ape clan, Zhao Yuan felt the situation at that time. He put away the treasure map and said to the ape, "All right, tell me your last wishes." ”