Su Xingchen's home is in the slum at the end of Dongjie Street, with two thatched houses and a covered backyard, which is extremely simple.

He bowed like a hill, a chair, a table, threw it on his back, locked himself in the room, closed his eyes and forced himself to sleep.

Father Su Chengzu was half-bent on the bench and pressed a wooden strip to push the planer. The snow-white shavings roll straight up, thin and delicate. He looked at his son's luggage, and without saying a word, removed the stick, glanced at it with one eye, and then continued to plane.

Su Xingchen lay down for a while, unable to sleep, so he got up, pushed open the door, walked to his father's side, and said, "Dad, I will no longer practice qi control techniques in the future." ”

Su Chengzu's turbid old eyes didn't show a trace of brilliance. Such an ending, he seems to have expected a long time ago.

He stopped pushing, stretched out his right hand with a ribbed edge, and opened it in front of Su Xingchen. His fingers were also half-stiff and could not be fully straightened, and the middle two fingers of his right finger were cut off in half, full of thick calluses, and cracked lines everywhere.

"Son, your grandfather used to be a carpenter, and he supported his family with a pair of weaving hands. I also thought that I would inherit my father's business and become a craftsman. But when my father was young, he hurt two fingers because of his playfulness. Everyone thinks I can't be a craftsman. Yes, Dad can't be a carpenter, but Dad can be a carpenter! Even if it's a pair of crippled hands, Dad is also a craftsman on Flame Sky Island!Child, God has cut off one of your paths, but he won't cut off all your paths!" Su Chengzu's eyes lit up, and he continued his pushing.

Su Xingchen smiled bitterly and said, "Dad, do you think I don't understand this truth? In the past five years, I have been practicing my muscles and bones diligently every day, hoping that one day, I will be able to re-induce the imperial pulse and embark on the road of cultivating the imperial qi." But......" He looked gloomy and shook his head heavily, but his eyes were full of unwillingness!

"Son, go and rest first. Get a good night's sleep and forget everything ......about the Imperial Sword Sect," Su Chengzu laughed. He laughed heavily, and his life, which seemed to have ebbed and flowed, was just a dream in his eyes, which was neither worthy of joy nor great sorrow.

Su Xingchen went back to the room, fell asleep deeply, and was awakened several times by nightmares in the middle of the night, but he was sweating profusely.

The bright moon rises in the east, and the superstars are like buckets, shining on the Flame Sky Island, and the surroundings are quiet.

Su Xingchen was sleeping, and a figure stood silently in front of his couch, half-bent on his body, it was Su Xingchen's father, Su Chengzu. He held a pitch-black mask in his left hand, looking at his sleeping son, the moonlight shone on his face, his muscles trembled slightly, and his two cloudy old eyes quietly glowed with a layer of bright color.

The mask was so black that there was no background to be seen, the lines were sharp and cold, like a knife and an axe, and the two eyes were set with two thumb-thick crystal pieces, which could not be seen through when viewed from the outside in. At the thick lips of the valgus, there are four long pointed teeth that are interlaced up and down, and a few wisps of blood are clearly visible between the teeth, which is extremely terrifying!

His lips twitched a few times, and then he stopped talking, only to let out a soft, low sigh.

After a long time, Su Chengzu's heart seemed to be engaged in a fierce ideological struggle, and the hand holding the mask trembled a little.

He held a piece of paper, gently flattened it, spread it in front of his son's bedside table, and then with trembling hands, he gently put the dark and strange mask on his son's face!

The moonlight shone on the paper next to the bedside, and a line of blood-red characters like the dance of dragons and snakes seemed to jump out of the paper. Such handwriting, as cold and hard as the bones, is obviously not written by a craftsman.

Only part of the paper was illuminated by the moonlight, and the handwriting was as striking as bloodshed: The end of the road......

......

As if in the whirlpool of darkness, pushed by the rapid flow of time, Su Xingchen was in a daze and unconsciously walked into a void. The void was silent, colorless, only a huge black face floating in front of it, full of strange flame light, towards Su Xingchen, opening its bleeding huge lips!

Su Xingchen secretly wondered where I am? He floated in the void, looking around, but he couldn't see anything except that huge and strange black face.

"Who is coming, dare to disturb the thousand-year-old dream of this city lord!" Behind the huge black face, a ghost-like voice came and entered Su Xingchen's ears. The voice was a little shrill and seemed to be that of a woman.

Su Xingchen was taken aback: "Who are you?

The voice was very subtle, as if it came from the depths of hell, and it was terrifying. "Into my bewitching dreams...... can fulfill all the beautiful dreams......" The voice was intermittent, but it seemed to have an irresistible magic, looking at Su Xingchen, step by step towards the huge black face!

"Can all the dreams come true?, what do you mean by that?" asked Su Xingchen in a trembling voice.

"Into my bewitching dreams...... Can all dreams come true......" The voice was just repeated, but it was like going deep into the soul, igniting the blood in Su Xingchen's chest little by little.

Su Xingchen's sanity was lost little by little. The deepest dreams and consciousness in his heart seemed to have become invisible under the voice behind this huge black face!

"I want to awaken the Imperial Vein and practice the Qi Resisting Technique, this ...... Is this okay?" Su Xingchen exhaled with difficulty.

The voice was as shrill as a ghost: "Naturally as you wish......"

Su Xingchen only felt that his heart was about to jump out, as if what he had been thinking about for five years could become a reality in one day, that kind of surprise and excitement is really difficult to describe in words!

In his confusion, he didn't have time to think about it at all, as if an invisible force was telling him, he approached the black face step by step, and then raised his palm and gently scraped it on the exposed fangs of the black face.

Blood trickled down the fangs and seeped into the lips of the giant black face.

The black giant face was soaked in blood, as if it had come to life, opened two cloudy red giant eyes, and opened its dark lips slightly, giving birth to a powerful suction, which actually sucked Su Xingchen into the air and swallowed it into two lips!

His body was squeezed and deformed by the powerful suction, like a piece of paper, sliding through the pitch-black bottomless passage, and the red in front of him was in an empty world!

Su Xingchen found himself in a wilderness. At the end of the wilderness is a huge wall of thousands of feet, and the sky is full of flaming clouds, illuminating the earth in a fiery red!

In the depths of the earth, magma was criss-crossed, and a heat wave was overwhelming, burning all of Su Xingchen's hair. Under the city wall, there were piles of white bones, mixed with wild grass, and it was even more ferocious.

Under the huge city wall, the city gate slowly opened, and two teams of ironclad soldiers covered in flames rushed out with weapons in their hands, surrounding Su Xingchen in the middle. The flame long sword in the hand of a leading officer pointed at Su Xingchen: "Boy, what's your name?"

Su Xingchen felt more and more strange, and said, "Under Su Xingchen." What the hell is this place?"

The officer waved his hand and ordered the two soldiers to set up Su Xingchen and bring him into the city.

There are few pedestrians in the city, but the buildings are very large, the streets and alleys are like them, the temples are solemn, but the pedestrians are scarce, and occasionally a few servants with withered faces and shackles are sweeping the streets.

"It's been so many years, and the unlucky ghost hasn't come in......"

"It seems like 300 years......"

"It's been six hundred years since the third child entered the city of demons...... My generation of Sword Venerables has also been in for more than three hundred years. This kid is too unlucky, he looks as thin as a monkey, and he probably isn't the type that the city lord likes......"

The servants who swept the street raised their godless eyes and grinned at Su Xingchen, but the laughter was extremely weird.

Su Xingchen was puzzled when he heard this, and secretly wondered where the hell I was? In his memory, he only knew that he had just been dismissed by the Imperial Sword Sect, officially parted ways with his junior sister, and was about to learn to be a craftsman with his father, but how did he enter this inexplicable city? But a ghost-like voice always sounded in his head, which lasted for a long time, making him uneasy.

The City Lord's Mansion is a large palace of extreme luxury, all made of rare jasper, and strings of jade are hung at the door of the palace, which is swept by the strong wind.

In the palace, the long corridor is full of jade pillars, the curtains are deep, and several handsome men with naked bodies, wearing long red skirts, are laughing between the curtains.

"City Lord, someone from outside the city has brought it!" The soldiers led by him lay on the ground, their faces full of piety and fear. Su Xingchen was kicked in the crook of his hind legs, but he couldn't stand on his feet, and he also fell to the ground.

"Crawl over and let the city lord see his face......" The voice behind the curtain was quiet and soft, soft and charming, but it was eight points similar to the ghost-like voice that Su Xingchen had heard before.

A soldier was bold, kicked Su Xingchen in the buttocks, and shouted, "Don't climb over quickly!"

The curtain floated up gently, and there seemed to be a faint light and shadow, blowing out like the wind. The soldier seemed to be strangled by the neck of an invisible person, his face was full of panic, and he called out a few times, and then his whole body, in front of everyone's eyes, began to twist and crush, accompanied by a gurgling sound, and his flesh and bones turned into a pile of flesh, and finally even the flesh was squeezed in a small paralyzed blood under the invisible force, and was gently blown by the wind that rose out of thin air, and then dissipated into nothingness, as if this person had never existed at all.

Su Xingchen only felt that his heart was about to jump out. He had never seen such a terrifying force that could turn people into invisible. He was originally sore and weak, lying on the ground, but for some reason, a kind of stubbornness in his heart suddenly came to his heart, secretly thinking, even if you have the hand to cover the sky, I am just a waste person who does not practice qi control arts, there is nothing important except death, why bend to you?

Under the shocked gaze of the soldiers, he slowly stood up and said lightly: "Su Xingchen can only walk in his life, not crawl. ”

The voice behind the curtain seemed to be a little surprised, and someone dared to be so hard in front of her, and laughed a few times: "Ben Hou only likes dogs, not men who are standing." If you don't crawl over, you'll just be like that rude soldier just now, and your spirit will dissipate......"

Su Xingchen felt a chill in his heart: "It turns out that the predecessor called me just now, it was just a deception, but he wanted to lure me into your city and become your slave?"

The curtains seemed to be pulled by a powerful force and spread out in all directions. The beautiful men in the red dress all knelt on the ground with a respectful expression.

A girl came out from behind the curtain, who was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and looked a few years younger than Su Xingchen. Her face is extremely delicate, her skin is whiter than snow, but she is wearing a red xia shawn, a crown of beads on her head, and a crested jade hairpin obliquely, but she is dressed as a bride. He was followed by two beautiful men, half-bowed, holding her fiery red hem, with a respectful expression.

"Yes, have you forgotten that a woman's words can never be trusted?" the girl sneered, and did not see her move, and the few jade beads hanging lightly on her forehead were pulled by an invisible force, and were thrown back, revealing a complete face.

Su Xingchen smiled dumbly and said, "It turns out that ...... It turns out that you are still so young, and I was still a senior when I didn't enter the city. ”

The girl sneered: "Your grandfather's grandfather, call my grandson's grandson, and call me the eighteenth generation great-grandfather." You call me senior, it's already cheap for you kid. ”

Su Xingchen saw that she was just a girl, so he secretly put his mind at ease, thinking that even if she was powerful, she was just a little girl, and it was easier to deal with a little girl than an old woman.

The girl's beautiful eyes like black jade suddenly flashed: "It seems, it looks like you are ugly, red and swollen, and lack of reverence for the lord of this city, the beautiful jade palace of the lord of this city cannot accommodate you, so he will be dragged to the city and punished with hard labor for three thousand years." ”

Su Xingchen was taken aback: "Three thousand years?"

The girl sneered: "What? I punished you for being a miscellaneous servant and insulted you? Do you know who those miscellaneous servants are?"

Su Xingchen shook his head, looking confused.

"The lord of this city has been building this city for more than 5,000 years in the mask of demon face. The mask has been circulating in the Shenwu Nine Lands for thousands of years, and has experienced countless masters, and before you wear this mask and enter the dream realm, there are more than 100 people, each of whom has a unique skill, and is the hero of the world. The city lord can build this bewitching city so beautifully, if there are no peerless masters, it is really difficult. You're just a wasted person who doesn't even know the basics of qi control, and it's already a great honor for you to be in the company of the city lord's miscellaneous servants!" the girl said.

Su Xingchen's anger rose, and he unceremoniously retorted: "In your opinion, everything in this world is not your master?"

The girl laughed: "The powerful are respected, and when they enter my city, they will naturally listen to the dispatch of the city lord, and the city lord will decide their life and death." ”

"For the first time, I've heard of the honor of being someone else's slave. Su Xingchen said in a loud voice, "Although I don't know how to control qi, and I am just an ordinary person in your eyes, I will never wear the aura of glory and be willing to do slave things." Why don't you turn me into a pile of blood!"

The girl's big beautiful eyes, like black jade, suddenly flashed a hint of different color.

The girl slowly raised her slender palm like white jade and hung it in the air. In the main hall, the wind suddenly rose, and it was pulled by an invisible force, whistling to form a huge whirlpool, and opened a huge mouth towards Su Xingchen in mid-air!

All the soldiers were shocked and retreated, and the beautiful men who served fell to the ground one by one, trembling with fear, and did not dare to move. In their pious and terrified eyes, this beautiful maiden is the most powerful master in the world! How dare this reckless young man be so presumptuous in front of the great ruler, I am afraid that my soul will fly away in an instant!

Su Xingchen's robe was suddenly pulled by the whirlpool and flew away, and was twisted into pieces. He stood in the wind with his bare muscles and knotted upper body, closed his eyes, raised his head, and raised his neck to die!;