On the East China Sea, a specially modified cargo ship is slowly heading east.

Li He and Xiangxiang were leaning on the guardrail at the bow of the boat at this time, looking at the endless sea and enjoying the warm sea breeze. And the fire unicorn Erfei was lying in the renovated empty cabin and dozing off.

"Shopkeeper Zhang, how long will it take for us to get to Netherworld?" Li He looked at the vast sea and asked a person next to him.

The man said respectfully: "Back to the second son, at this speed, it will take about three days to arrive." He is Zhang Dasan, the shopkeeper of the Li family's Fufeng pawnshop branch in the East China Sea.

In the East China Sea, the Li family's "Fufeng Pawnshop" also has a semicolon, and when Li He and Xiangxiang arrived, they directly asked the person in charge of the pawnshop to prepare a specially modified cargo ship for him to carry them and the fire unicorn to the Netherworld Island.

Because of the great influence of the Empress in the Great Xia Kingdom back then, the rich side has many martial arts masters, who can compete with the decent and the demon sect, but in fact it is not limited to one Jianghu sect, it is much more mysterious and powerful than the latter two, if it were not for the sudden dissolution of the Empress Hou and the retreat to the island, their final fate is either to be exterminated by the imperial court or to dominate the rivers and lakes until they become the overlord of one side.

Therefore, both the imperial court and the Li family set up a small stronghold on the island not far from the Netherworld Island to monitor the movements of the Netherworld Heavenly Palace. Now that Li He is going to the Netherworld Island, everything is naturally prepared by the subordinates of the Li family Fufeng pawnshop. "Well, you go and prepare a table of wine and food, and let people bring it up." Li He instructed lightly, when he came to this world, it was the first time he had seen the sea. Although I have seen it in my previous life, I always feel that the sea in this world is slightly different from my previous life, as if it is bluer, wider and clearer.

Li He held Xiangxiang in the bow of the boat, facing the gust of sea breeze, which suddenly reminded him of a movie "Titanic", and looked down at the pretty face of the little fox demon in the cup, although the ship was much smaller than the Titanic. But the beauty in his cup was much more beautiful than that of Rose.

Shopkeeper Zhang didn't go down immediately to prepare the wine and food, but hesitated, took a step closer, and said: "Second son, my subordinates don't know what important things you want to go to the Netherworld Island, but it's just ......"

"Just what?"

"It's just that no outsider has ever been to the Netherworld Palace since the water, and no one has even been able to go deep into the Netherworld. Many martial arts masters want to see the beauty of the Netherworld, and are attracted by the treasures and cheats in the Netherworld. But there is no return, and there is more than luck. Decades ago, the imperial court and the major families also frequently sent masters to the island to explore, but there was no news of them, and they never came back after they went to the island. The imperial court even wanted to send a large army to the island, and later some courtiers admonished him. There is nothing wrong with saying that Netherworld is not at fault, and if you rashly send troops there, I am afraid that it will not be appropriate, and the matter will be over. But since then, almost no one has gone to Netherworld. I've never heard of anyone coming back. The shopkeeper Zhang said slowly: "Second son, your subordinates know that you are very brave, but the Netherworld Heavenly Palace is too mysterious, and only two people will go to the island, is it too ......?"

"Too sloppy?" Li He smiled and said, "Shopkeeper Zhang, I understand that you are worried about me." Don't worry, I don't believe that this Netherworld Heavenly Palace can still be the bottom of the seventy-two layers of hell, and it is impossible to enter.

"The subordinates still feel ......," shopkeeper Zhang wanted to say something more. Li He interrupted coldly: "Shopkeeper Zhang." I'm a little hungry, so let's go prepare food and drinks. ”

Shopkeeper Zhang sighed secretly, and after answering yes, he reluctantly retreated.

Li He smelled the fragrance of the fragrance and the delicate fragrance on his hair. He said softly: "Xiangxiang, do you say that in this world, can anyone kill me?" ”

Xiangxiang's delicate body was shocked, her head was slightly raised, her beautiful eyes looked at her master, and said, "Whoever wants to kill the master, Xiangxiang will kill him." ”

Li He smiled: "I am just myself, I believe that no one in this world can kill me, even the Queen of Darkness is no exception." ”

The cargo ship traveled for another three days before finally arriving at the Netherworld.

From a distance, there was a lush forest on the Netherworld Island, and several not very tall mountains stood in it, and the top and bottom of the mountains were also covered with green. In short, Li He's first impression of this island is green.

"This queen seems to know how to cultivate herself, and the greening of the place where she lives is so good." Stepping on the Netherworld Island, Li He couldn't help but feel that the air was much fresher, and it seemed that those trees had not grown in vain.

With a few low hisses, the fire unicorn also jumped from the boat to the island.

Li He turned over with Xiangxiang and was about to drive the fire unicorn to the island to explore the location of the Netherworld Heavenly Palace, but saw Shopkeeper Zhang and others also walking down from the boat.

"What are you doing down here?" Li He looked at the knife in Zhang's shopkeeper's hand and asked.

"Although the subordinates have humble martial arts, they have one more person and more strength, and the subordinates are willing to protect the second ,...son," said the shopkeeper Zhang.

"You don't have to, just take care of the boat, keep the boat safe, and I'll be back soon." Li He said, and with a whistle, the fire unicorn immediately carried him and Xiangxiang to the island.

Seeing this, Shopkeeper Zhang and the others had no choice but to return to the ship.

Li He held Xiangxiang and rode on the fire unicorn to concentrate on the movements in the surrounding woods, he felt that the reason why this Netherworld Island was so mysterious and made many masters come without returning, there was a chance that there was some terrible mechanism in it.

However, after running in the woods for a while, Li He suddenly felt that the surrounding environment had become a little strange, and he couldn't help but call for a ceasefire unicorn and look around.

The woods are still woods, and nothing special is seen. It's just that this island is so quiet, so quiet that there is not even the sound of insects that should be in summer, and such a large wood, as if there are no birds, birds, or beasts, is lifeless, and you can only hear the rustle of the woods from the summer wind blowing from the sea.

"Xiangxiang, can you sense where there are people on this island?" Li He said.

Xiangxiang closed her eyes and searched with spiritual power, and after a long time, she opened her eyes and frowned: "It's strange, there seems to be someone on this island, but I can't feel how many people there are and in what direction, this island is a little weird."

Li He looked left and right, but he couldn't tell the direction. A three-meter-long giant sickle in his hand swept sideways; , Immediately cut down several large trees around him, and the sunlight instantly spread in. When I saw the sun, I redefined the direction.

Li He squinted his eyes and said, "This may be some kind of formation using the woods, so that people will be affected by it and lose their sense of direction when they are in it." He couldn't help but think of Zhuge Liang's stone henge, the former dynasty of this world, there was also a famous military advisor named Zhuge Liang. But this woods. It seems that the formations such as the invisible gossip recorded are more fantastic, and it is no wonder that so many people will come and never return.

Li He was about to move forward while cutting down the tree, when Xiangxiang suddenly pointed to the ground and said, "Master, look at those." ”

"Hmm" Li He looked down in confusion, and saw that some strange rattans had quickly grown next to the tree he had just cut down. The vines were entangled with each other, growing upwards around the broken branches, and where the sun shone, they grew as fast as snakes crawling.

"What's going on...... Li He frowned slightly.

"It looks like a sun-covered vine!" Xiangxiang said in a low voice.

As he spoke, the rattans seemed to be conscious, wrapping around the felled tree trunk on the ground, and pulling it up little by little. Then the rattan went up the tree, and it didn't take long for it to cover the sky again.

Li He swung the three-meter giant scythe in his hand fiercely, and the trunks and rattans that had just been erected were cut to pieces. But as soon as the sun shines in, the rattan comes back to life, and it grows even faster. The rattan seems to have broken through the ground directly. It's bizarre.

Li He sighed lightly, turned into a ring attached to his index finger again, pouted and said: "It seems that cutting trees to open the way will not work, if only there were B52 bombers, get a few bombers to bomb his mother all the way, come to a carpet, bed, bath bombing, first flatten the woods and then go to the island, see where the Netherworld Palace can hide!" ”

At this time, Xiangxiang suddenly pulled his sleeve. Whispered: "Someone! ”

"Huh?" Li He's eyes burst with light. Immediately look in the direction indicated by Xiangxiang.

Sure enough, a figure slowly faded into the woods over there, because the trees were too dense for the sun to shine through. It looked a little gloomy, so Li He couldn't see the person's appearance clearly, but judging from the figure, it should be a fair woman.

"Hey, who are you? Is it someone from the Netherworld? Li He asked loudly.

"Are you Li He?" The man asked rhetorically, and at first glance he knew it was a young woman's voice.

Li He couldn't help but be surprised, how could a woman know her name?

"It's Huyang Li He below, does the girl recognize it? Can I ask the predecessors of the Hidden Queen? Li Helang said.

"The queen wants to see you, come with me." The woman turned around and walked in one direction in the forest, and Li He hurriedly patted the fire unicorn on the head and followed closely.

When the fire qilin followed the woman, she stopped, looked at the fire qilin and said, "Leave it behind." ”

The woman was wearing a long black dress with a black veil over her face, giving her a sense of mystery. Those eyes, beautiful but cold, reminded Li He of Gongsun ruthlessness and ghost aunt.

"Leave it here? This place is mysterious, what if you can't find it later? Li He said left and right.

The woman said lightly: "I'll take you to find it." ”

"In that case, there will be Miss Lao in that moment." Li He took Xiangxiang out of the fire qilin, kicked the big guy's head, and said, "Don't run around, stay honest." Then he turned to the woman and smiled and asked, "What is the name of the girl?" And how do you know the next name? Did you ask you to take me? ”

The woman didn't answer a single question, and looked at Xiangxiang: "She also stays." ”

Li He was stunned: "Why?" ”

"You're the only one who sees you." The woman glanced at him and said lightly.

Her tone made Li He always think of Gongsun ruthless.

Xiangxiang held Li He's hand tightly and said in a low voice: "Master, this place is a little weird, Xiangxiang wants to follow the master." ”

Li He also pinched Xiangxiang's little hand, smiled at her and nodded, and then said to the masked woman in the black dress: She is my maid, and she is as close to me as she is, I won't let her stay here. “

To his surprise, the woman in the black dress listened to his words, but immediately turned around and continued to move forward, still saying in a tone that was so faint that she couldn't hear a trace of emotion: "If the queen wants to see you alone, she will only see you." If you want to take her, you can take it, but don't regret it for a while. ”

Li He frowned: "What kind of grace do you have?" ”

The woman in the black dress did not answer, and walked forward as if at a uniform pace. Li He hurriedly took Xiangxiang's hand and followed.

This Li He asked many questions, but the woman in the black dress didn't say a word, just kept walking. I don't know how long it took. The woman in the black dress took Li He and the two to a large area of rocks.

The rocks weighed thousands of pounds, and they were stacked crookedly together, as if they could be blown down by a gust of wind.

The woman in the black dress walked straight to the gap between the two large stones, walked straight in, and disappeared into the darkness. Li He and Xiangxiang glanced at each other, knowing that it was an entrance, and followed hand in hand.

The passage is narrow. Li He and Xiangxiang had to walk sideways one after the other, and after walking in the cave for a while, a staircase appeared, leading straight down.

In the dark, Li He and Xiangxiang could only hear the gentle footsteps of the woman in the black dress in front. I don't know how long I walked underground, and gradually there was a bright light in front of me, but that light. But it was pale blue, and the atmosphere became more and more eerie.

When the blue light came from, it was the end of the stairs, and the space suddenly opened up a lot.

This is an underground hall, and it is really terrifyingly large, because the light is not enough. It makes people feel that there is no edge around, and the top is also amazingly high, and there are dozens of meters under the visual inspection! It gave him the feeling that he was in a hallucination. Hundreds of small triangular palm-sized spaces filled the ceiling, and light blue light shot into the main hall from them, paving them a dark blue.

The ground was paved with unknown smooth boulders, which glowed pale blue under the blue light. There was nothing in the hall, so even the woman in the black dress in cloth shoes walked lightly. There were still bursts of footsteps. It was like the sound of a small stone falling into a deep well, hollow and distant.

Li He took Xiangxiang's hand and walked in the main hall, competing with a feeling that his consciousness was constantly drifting around. It was as if the soul was about to leave the body. The footsteps on the ground also have a somewhat unreal feeling, and even though the floor is very hard, I always feel like I have to sink into it slowly, as if I am stepping on the sea, and my knees can't help but feel a little weak.

"Master, what's wrong with you?" Xiangxiang, who was holding hands with Li He, naturally noticed the strangeness of the master, and asked in a low voice with concern, but this voice suddenly changed into a burst of indistinct echoes in the main hall, as if there were countless people around moaning, which startled Li He.

Li He took a deep breath and found that under the ground, the air competition was the same as in the woods above, and even the breath of the trees could be faintly smelled.

"I'm fine, I just think this place is a little weird." Li He said, the voice coming from all around with a short but noisy echo.

Xiangxiang said: "This place is indeed very strange. ”

After walking for some time, the woman in the black dress in front stopped.

"Let's go inside." The woman turned around and said to Li He.

Li He pulled Xiangxiang and walked forward, only to see clearly that a door appeared in front of him, a giant gate that was circular and had a radius of more than twenty meters. Through the blue light, you can see a bunch of strange patterns carved on it, like waves and clouds. The round door was surrounded by four long white swords, the tips of which pointed to the middle.

The wall next to the door seemed to be black, and it seemed that there was no wall at all, just empty darkness, and the blue light could not reach it at all.

How does this get in? Li He asked the woman in the black dress suspiciously.

The woman in the black dress did not answer, but the round gate buzzed. Li He and Xiangxiang looked over and were surprised to find that the circular gate was split into four equally large fans from the center of the circle, and the fan shape became smaller and smaller, sinking into the surrounding darkness until it completely disappeared, revealing a huge circular passage.

The passage is endless, and the left and right sides and the top are covered with triangular spaces, and the light blue light makes the entire passage blue, connecting with the blue of the main hall.

Li He walked into the passage with Xiangxiang, and the round door behind him slowly closed again.

The surroundings are the same blue, and the floor is the same as the floor of that material, but in this circular passage, Li He has lost the sense of drift that he had just been in the main hall, and there is a feeling that his soul has returned to his shell and his spirit has been reunited.

"You're Li He?" A woman's voice came from the end of the passage, where only an untouchable blue could be seen.

To be honest, this sound is very beautiful, like a spring breeze, like a pool of clear ripples, like the winter sun, like a small leaf on the surface of the river, gently tugging at people's heartstrings.

Li He paused, looked at the blue in front of him, and thought that this should be the queen of the shadows, so he replied loudly: "Is it the predecessor of the queen of the shadows?" It is Huyang Li He below, who has come here to ask to see his seniors, and asks his seniors to show up. ”

"Who is she?" The voice asked, softly, but with a kind of surrendering majesty.

Li He said: "She is the maid Xiangxiang below, please take her with your seniors." ”

"You let her go back, I'll only see you." The voice was unhurried, as if a gentle mother was telling her child to do something.

Li He frowned slightly, looked at Xiangxiang beside him, but the little hand holding her was tighter, looked up and said: "Senior, Xiangxiang and I are the same person, her business is my business, and my business is also her business, regardless of each other, please don't blame the seniors." ”

"One last time, let her go back." The voice was still gentle without a hint of anger, and even such threatening words made it difficult to mention the slightest hostility.

This place is full of weirdness and strangeness, Li He didn't want to let the little fox demon keep it for himself, and replied loudly: "Forgive me!" ”

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! Sou! Four piercing ringings rang out one after another, and the four white lights were particularly dazzling in this dark blue passage.