From three months of meditation to eight thousand miles of wild running, experiencing two different kinds of cultivation, Chang Le has almost been reborn.

Moreover, his "dual-track realm" successfully broke through to the super peak battle master, and his actual strength surpassed the peak war spirit, which was equivalent to the elf queen before the war.

Now, even if he goes toe-to-toe with Elliott, he is confident that he will be able to maneuver.

But the current opponent is not Elliott, but an ethereal "ghost".

By sunset the next day, the Demon Castle was in sight, and for the last part of the journey he rode the necromantic bird Bald, which slowed down but helped him regain his strength and put himself in the best fighting condition.

Night is approaching, and it would be unwise to kick open the door and break into the "demon's" lair at this time.

The safe plan is to find a place to rest and go up the mountain tomorrow at sunrise.

But the question is, what happens if Betty stays in the Ghost Castle for one more night?

Saving people is like fighting a fire, and there is no room for delay!

Changle landed on a boulder by the river to avoid the sight of the Eriot Legion on the other side.

He wanted to fly to the top of the cliff and face the ruined castle directly, but the strange wind blowing from the mountain was close to a hundred kilometers per hour, so that the necromancer seemed to be flying forward, but in fact it was retreating.

Therefore, he could only start from the bottom of the mountain and climb the steep cliff of nearly a thousand meters on his own.

He also solemnly donned the "Dark Glory", the armor of the head of the Dark Knights, and also the symbol of the Demon King's Guard.

It doesn't matter if the "demon" recognizes the "demon" as a relative or not, what he wants is the "strengthened dark resistance" on the armor.

Sure enough, as soon as the armor was put on, the indescribable cold was driven away, and even the surrounding air became fresh.

In addition to resisting the darkness, you also need to be well prepared before climbing the cliff and think clearly about your strategy.

Behind him is the roaring and rushing Start River, which is confined to a few hundred meters wide by a canyon, resulting in a turbulent flow and dense whirlpools, completely eliminating any possibility of boat movement, let alone swimming.

If Chang Le fell into it by himself, he could only sink into the bottomless abyss wrapped in iron armor.

It was the existence of this river that prevented the dark power from spreading to the south bank, and at the same time helped the kingdom of Zaran to stop the invasion of the Cayan people on the south bank, but now they lured the wolf into the house and asked Elliot to lead the army to station, and Changle could not help them.

In short, you have to be very careful when climbing a cliff, you must never fall down, and this is quite not easy to do.

The cliffs are covered with water vapor and frost, and they are nearly 90 degrees vertical, no matter which direction, and the moss in the summer will be just as slippery, which is probably why the "Demon Castle" was built here.

As the afterglow of the setting sun faded, the top of the cliff also became black and foggy, reminding Chang Le of the phrase "white bones make smoke".

In fact, Changle has also seen this kind of fog at the edge of the Misty Mountain, which is a natural manifestation of the dark power when it is strong, and Anita believes that it is caused by "abnormal magnetic fields that distort the light".

The only way to climb up and plunge into the black fog is to use the dead vines on the cliffs.

Is it really a dead vine?

The more Chang Le looked at those things, the more wrong they became, clumps of dead branches poked into the air, the shape was suspicious, and if you looked closely, they seemed to be ghost claws, the number and length of "fingers" varied, but the "knuckles" were clearly visible, and the "fingertips" were all as sharp as knives.

Is it a trap?

As his keen eyes searched, he found more evidence, and in the shadows hundreds of meters high, there was a clump of withered vine ghost claws in the shape of "clenching", and its fingertips penetrated and pinched, it was a helmet, and there was a half-cut skull in the helmet.

The victim's jaw and the rest of his body must have fallen into the river, leaving only half of his head firmly grasped by the vine claws.

Dark creatures should also have souls, Chang Le closed his eyes, and the power of his soul slowly spread, and sure enough, he detected the bright reaction in the rock wall, those things disguised as dead vines were really part of some kind of huge organism!

This was the first dark creature Changle had ever seen here.

The first one is a dismount, a body hundreds of meters high, hidden inside the rock, with predatory claws sticking out from the gaps!

It is conceivable that this thing has probably killed countless adventurers, and no one has been able to kill it, after all, it is hidden in the mountains, and it is so huge that it doesn't know where the key point is.

But now it is not someone else, but Chang Le!

On leaving Fort Stanley, the skinny monkey used to chase after him and shout:

"Boss, the evil ghost castle is full of ghosts! The 30,000 army of the Zalan Kingdom has been destroyed, and you are alone to send you to die?"

And his answer was:

"I'm not afraid of ghosts, I'm ghosts!"

This is not a joke, Chang Le has many reasons to conclude that he is not human.

At the beginning of the imperial capital Haisen City, he was pierced through the liver by a spear and picked out his intestines, and he could tighten his clothes and wrap his internal organs to break out of the encirclement, what can a person do?

Capture a bunch of living people and sacrifice them, create countless white bone monsters, and drive them to kill enemy human soldiers, is this something that a man can do?

In front of you are just some withered vines and ghost claws, it is better to compare who is darker!

With the movement of Chang Le's palm, a black mist began to fill around him, and a large group of hideous evil spirit insects appeared out of thin air, like skeletons drilled out of the ground, but only the skull was connected to a string of spines.

The two ribs open to reveal two rows of elastic legs, and the protruding mouth and fangs are their weapons.

The strength of these evil spirit insects is neither strong nor weak, they are equivalent to junior war masters, they have always relied on numbers to win, they are the guardians of the Misty Mountain, and they are also excellent cannon fodder, and Chang Le has brought a lot.

After he gave the order, hundreds of Sensen skeletons immediately hissed, sharp bones and limbs hooked the cliff, and "Xi Xi Suosuo" climbed up, this is a charge from the bottom up, and like an inverted white waterfall, it has some kind of strange and spectacular momentum.

The fierce fire of war suddenly ignited everywhere on the cliff, and the bite force of the evil spirit insect was equivalent to the swing of a sword by a human warrior, and the teeth were as sharp as a razor.

But all the ghost claws belong to the same matrix, and they are alert everywhere when they are attacked, and they immediately launch a counterattack.

They don't have eyes, but they can sense the movement of objects around them, and accurately grasp the incoming evil spirit insects.

As soon as the "five fingers" of the ghost claws were closed, there was a tooth-souring sound, because they tried to pierce the skull of the evil spirit insect, and the confrontation between hard and hard was like a knife and fork scraping a dinner plate, which made people feel uncomfortable listening to it.

In terms of strength, the evil spirit worm was at a disadvantage, and most of the captured could only struggle in vain, and finally died with the crisp cracking sound of the bones, and green pus-like blood spurted out of the convulsed bodies.

Anita of the beast soul space has analyzed this, and the blood cells of the evil spirit insect do not contain iron, and they are replaced by copper, so they turn green.

This kind of conclusion is worthless to Chang Le, he only cares about whether the evil spirit worm can be beaten, and whether it is powerful enough.

The reason why evil spirit insects are the best cannon fodder is because they are simple-minded, unlike the necromantic birds, they are not afraid of death, and they are not frightened by the death of their companions.

Even if the withered vine ghost claw wins one-on-one, it will be surrounded, gnawed, and torn apart by other evil spirit insects that swarm up.

On the entire mountain cliff, the evil spirit insects constantly sounded dense and sharp high-frequency hiss, which was an instinctive battle cry, and it also had a communication function, because where the shouts were denser, it means that where the enemy is stronger and more, there will be more evil spirit insects gathering there.

At the beginning, the sea of evil spirit insects on the misty mountain, as if the entire hillside was moving, made Chang Le unforgettable for life, the former elven queen and her elven expeditionary force were all killed by the siege of the insect swarm, and the queen's terror and despair at the last moment, he could deeply understand.

But now the Evil Spirit Worm is under Chang Le's control, and it is his personal army!

Chang Le briefly explained a few words to Solchak in his mind, and the latter was equally excited, because the Evil Spirit Worm was his work, and he was able to defeat the creation of the current "Source of Darkness", proving that he was the true master of darkness, far better than the unidentified "usurper".

Anita in the beast soul space was dumbfounded, her detection of external things far exceeded that of Solchak, because the beast soul bell itself was a signal receiving device, and what she saw in front of her was beyond her comprehension, and it was completely impossible to explain with her otherworldly "scientific" theory.

She was even more worried about the control principle of the evil spirit worm, afraid that this kind of thing would one day attack its owner and tear Chang Le to pieces.

"Quite simply, I'm a demon, so I can control them. Changle is calm and calm, and explains it with the theoretical system of the world.

At this moment, the ground beneath his feet began to shake faintly, the cliffs were humming, and even Chang Le's heartbeat became disordered.

"Master!" Anita eagerly reported, "High-intensity infrasonic waves have been detected, which could be an early warning of an earthquake or tsunami!"

Chang Le shook his head:

"I heard it, it had nothing to do with the earthquake or anything. ”

He pointed to the cliff a few hundred meters high:

"It's roaring!"

The huge creature hiding in the mountain sensed the danger and finally began to roar, and its roar was in contrast to the piercing high-frequency howl of the evil spirit worm, so low that it was difficult for human ears to detect, and Chang Le also relied on the beast soul to enhance his hearing to capture the real sound.

As the mother roared angrily, more withered vine ghost claws also broke through the cracks in the rock, growing outward and opening outward, catching the evil spirit insects one by one, pinching and kneading them hard, and there was a "click" sound in mid-air, and the broken bones and limbs fell one after another.

"Vain resistance!"

Chang Le sneered and raised his hand to throw out the king's sword.

Under the control of his mind, the dark and lightless short sword rose like a fish swimming in the air, leaping deftly towards the sky, and then crossed the blade and levitated above the river, the blade pointing directly at the place where the soul fire in the mountain shone.

No matter what shape the giant monster takes, the place where the soul is must be the most important of the strong!

The deterrent power of the King's Sword is more than indestructible.

If you are a "king", you must command the world!

Where the sword blade pointed, the evil spirit insects scattered in panic, they were not afraid of death, but they were afraid of the "king".

Where the swarm spreads, a hard, thick rock formation is revealed, which looks impossible to break by manpower.

But in front of the "king", no matter how thick the rock wall is, it is just a layer of paper.

With Chang Le's mind, the King's Sword turned into a rushing black water, quickly stretching and changing shape.

Two seconds later, it had become a huge war spear tens of meters long, and under the aura, it seemed that the great river below had stopped rushing, and there was silence all around.

Chang Le waved his hand lightly, and the war spear flew forward, and the place it passed was silent, but it was enough to penetrate everything, and there was a black ripple-like trail behind the gun, which was the crack in the space shatter.

At this moment, there was a thought of extreme fear coming from the mountain, a bitter begging for mercy when destruction was coming.

Chang Le's mind moved, and he raised his right hand, causing the war spear to hover in front of the cliff.

He "listened" to the thoughts of the Mother Vine Ghost Claw, just like he did to the evil spirit insect and the necromantic bird!

"Against me, it's a dead end!" he sent his thoughts to him.

"Yes, I will surrender, my esteemed master!" the thought of the giant creature became clearer.

"Withdraw your ghost claws!"

"Yes, my master!"

With the new servant's obedient answer, the remaining ghost claws on the cliff trembled and twitched back, all of them retracted into the stone crevices, and there was no trace of them.

This guy's individual strength is far stronger than that of the Necro Bird and the Evil Spirit Worm, and his intelligence is also higher, and he can communicate fluently.

"What shall I call you?"

"The master, my name, is called 'Intelligent Self-Contained Perimeter Active Safety System'. ”

"What kind of weird name is this? From now on, you will be called 'Old Vine'!"

"Yes, my master!"

Chang Le's gaze turned to the evil spirit insects that were crawling all over the cliffs, and the new instructions were conveyed, and the insects quickly gathered in a column, and the bony arthropods pierced deep into the rock, hooking tightly, and then clumping their bodies up.

A "staircase" made of evil spirit insects was built in an instant.

Chang Le stepped on the white bone staircase like this, slowly climbing towards the place where the "Demon Castle" was located at the peak.

The reason why he moved slowly was not that he was not in a hurry to rescue Betty, but that he was still on guard against the sneak attack of the withered vine ghost claw, although the other party expressed his surrender, he could not fully believe it.

The King's Spear hovers where the Soul Fire shines, ready to deliver a fatal blow.

"Who is your master?" Chang Le interrogated as he climbed.

"My master, of course you!"

"I mean, before me, for whom did you owe allegiance?"

"It's you, it's always been you!"

Chang Le was stunned:

"Who am I?"

"King, King in the dark!"

"Oh!"

Chang Le replied and stopped making a sound, laughing secretly in his heart:

"Well, no matter what weirdness the king's suit is, today Lao Tzu will impostor and be a king!"

At this moment, he suddenly had a strange feeling, as if someone was watching all this from afar.

He immediately looked around vigilantly, and even if he mobilized the ears of the cunning rabbit and the smell of the blue wolf, he still found nothing.

The idea of "old vine" came again.

It says it's a "plant-like" life that's been around for thousands of years, and its only directive for a long time has been to "kill and suck all climbers, be they humans or apes." ”

There is another "teleportation shaft" to the top of the cliff, which is a legal passage from attack.

But now that the ladder has been built, Changle doesn't need to look for the "teleportation well".

"Old Vine" went on to add, saying that it could recognize the "king" in the depths of its consciousness and knew that it was the creation of the king.

However, there are a large number of new dark creatures in the castle, they are not created by the king's own hands, and the more powerful and intelligent they are, the more difficult it is to tame.

The "King" has been sealed by the Holy Emperor for thousands of years, and other powerful leaders have already been born in the clifftop castle, they may not be willing to obey the king's command, and now that the "king" has returned, it is inevitable that they will encounter resistance, so be prepared for this.

The other party still hesitated to say something, but Chang Le could roughly understand that Lao Teng thought that the "new leader" in the castle was much more powerful than the "Reborn King" he saw in front of him.

Chang Le also didn't know until this time that the so-called "king", that is, the previous owner of the king's suit, was originally sealed by the Holy Emperor, which was similar to the fate of Solchak, but it was not Solchak, because the latter had never heard of the existence of the "king".

In other words, the "King" is likely to be the successor of the Lord of Darkness after Solchak's expulsion, the master of all dark forces, and the creator of this "Demon Castle"!

Chang Le nodded, and said in his heart:

"Obviously, someone would love to become the third Lord of Darkness, and the King's Outfit was what they were most desired, luring me by kidnapping Betty and asking me to 'bring that armor'. We will find out where the other party is sacred!"

In this way, he maintained a high level of alert, and finally reached the top step by step, standing tall in the fierce wind in his face.

The King's War Spear relieved itself of the coercive mission and quickly flew back to Chang Le's side, falling into his palm and shrinking back into a short sword.

The "ladder" of evil spirit insects then quickly dispersed, like a white tide surging up the high cliff, passing past Chang Le's side, swarming forward, and disappearing in the thick black fog.

And the high-frequency alarm sound that is unique to them when they encounter the enemy is also quickly transmitted back from the front.

Another great war between the creatures of darkness is already on the verge of breaking out!