It is a mountain shrouded in clouds and mist, and once you enter it, you will get lost in the fog all year round, and even the animals that live in the mountain will be completely lost if you enter it by mistake.

There was a faint sound of turbulent water in the fog, and a river looming in the fog poked out from the source of the fog that could not be seen clearly. Follow the river through these thick clouds and fog, between the mountains and the woods, a huge, retro city sits in the middle.

The glow of the sun, but not the sun, in the sky glows softly, illuminating these classical, but not archaic buildings at all. The bluestone road, unlike the classical buildings, is full of people with mobile phones or headphones, dressed in modern decorations.

There are also many people wearing classical robes and long hair. If you look closely, you will find that there are wires exposed between the classical buildings, and there are also signal towers among the surrounding mountain cols, which are undoubtedly unqualified if they are used as filming locations for TV dramas.

The mix of modern and classical styles makes people who don't know know that this is a tourist attraction of some kind of scenic spot. A mist drifted from the nearby cols, covering the quaint courtyard towers, adding a touch of haze to it.

On the bluestone road, dressed in solemn formal clothes, the head of the Chen family in a Chinese mixed-race family walked on the classical street under the guidance of the guards around him. Looking at the shops open on the side of the road, there are all kinds of color TVs and even computers for sale, and his ancient eyes can't help but be surprised.

"I thought it would be more ...... here," he hesitated, as if thinking of an adjective.

The man in the ancient mask beside him answered for him, "You want to say backward, right?"

Nodding silently, the head of the Chen family whispered, "My impression of this place is only the various annotations about the Peach Blossom Land in the ancestral notes."

The land is flat, the houses are like that, there are fertile fields, beautiful ponds, and mulberry bamboos...... This is one of the very few records of this place in history, the simple and old farmhouse appearance, although there is no trouble, but it also symbolizes backwardness, this is his first image of this place. And now it seems that this has nothing to do with those old records, and looking at the life and personal status of these residents, it is even better than some second- and third-tier cities in the outside world.

"Times will always change, and hundreds of years ago, Yanjing was not what it is now." The Masked Man replied that he, like some of the people in the crowd, was dressed in the classical garb of the ancestors.

His voice sounded young, moving under his mask even when he wasn't speaking, as if he was chewing something, and occasionally hearing something like bubbles popping. Coupled with the latest smartphone that I took out from time to time along the way just now, it is obvious that he is also a trendy person who is completely opposite to classical dressing.

He nodded all the way to the people who bowed to him next to him, and all over the bluestone streets, people who came and went stopped to make way for them when they saw them, and at the same time looked at the extremely strange man with curious eyes.

The head of the Chen family also looked into the crowd, and there were men, women, and children watching him, who were either wearing graceful ancient costumes, or dressed the same as people from the outside world. Young people are also dressed as fashionably as young people outside, and even some of their own styles are too excessive, and they will also be ridiculed inside, and they can't see that they have been isolated from the world for a long time.

….

At the same time, they are just as ordinary as people from the outside world, so ordinary that they are not what a half-breed should be...... Or rather, they are really just ordinary people, a group of ordinary people who are protected by powerful hybrids who are hidden from the world.

The bustle gradually faded away, and the classical buildings on both sides of the bluestone road gradually became fewer, and the towering clouds in front of the sky were visible, and the gorgeous palace was reached in the clouds on the top. At the wide main entrance of the huge palace, a woman with a graceful demeanor and wearing a classical palace dress stood at the door and waited.

She is also wearing a mask on her head, and if you look closely, it is similar to the one here, but it is different from the heroic warriors here, and it is more feminine. One yin and one yang, one big and one less, this is the big and the young.

The great priest beside the head of the Chen family pushed him forward: "Someone brought it to you, although it is

It's impossible to run away here, and I guess he doesn't have the guts, but he's still going to keep an eye on it."

The head of the Chen family stepped forward a little helplessly, and let the guards standing behind the young commander come forward and grab him. He wore a pair of bracelets with strange words inscribed on them on his wrists, which were covered by trouser legs, like the handcuffs and anklets that bound a prisoner.

The cold gaze under the mask of Shao Si Ming looked at the head of the Chen family, who was dressed in a solemn formal suit, but he was already down, and said in the same cold voice: "Hide from everyone, and complete the cultivation of the embryos left outside, although the Gattuso family may contribute a lot in the back, but it can make us realize that it is a little capable, the so-called darkness under the lamp is such a thing."

"You're overrated." The Chen family bowed their heads and replied, even if he was reduced to a prisoner, he maintained a good conversation.

"This is not to praise you, but you are still concerned about your judgment compared to this." Shao Si Ming nodded to Da Si Ming, turned around with her people, and walked towards the gorgeous palace.

The great secretary who had completed the handover also turned around and walked towards the town covered in smoke and rain in the distance. The next moment, the footsteps of all of them stopped.

The dull sound of bells rang out from the mountains that were hidden by the clouds and mist, and spread throughout the mountains. The people in the distant town looked up in confusion, like the mountains around the town, trying to find the place where the bell sounded. There are elderly people dancing excitedly, quickly returning home, taking out ancient wooden masks and putting them on, singing ancient songs on the bluestone road, like a sacrifice towards the gorgeous palace.

The young people who realized it came back to their senses one after another, and when they reappeared, they also wore simple masks and joined the ranks of sacrifices.

The surrounding fog seemed to have been shaken away, and it became a little thinner. The towering palace looms in the clouds, shrouded in mist, like the dwelling place of the gods.

Under the gorgeous palace, the eyes under the mask of the Great Priest were full of incredulity: "One God...... How is this possible?"

In the towering gorgeous palace, in the pavilion of Qionglou Yuyu, it was enshrined at the highest place, and the noble ancient dragon head seemed to have woken up, and the gold and rainbow colors slowly opened in the empty eyes of the mask, casting his gaze on this isolated peach orchard.

….

In the pavilion, a woman's lament sounded, her red hair brushed, and a pair of slender palms that were too white and even a little illusory gently stroked the mask. She was a dancer and a priest through a mask, looking at her master, whose eyes were thousands of miles away.

Silently, those eyes closed gently, and the dull bell outside the pavilion disappeared together. The clouds once again covered the towering palace, and the abode of the gods that had been glimpsed was once again hidden in the clouds. The sacrificial procession on the wide bluestone road also stopped, looking at each other in confusion.

There was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the pavilion, and the owner of the footsteps stopped at the door, and after waiting for a while, a female voice outside the door asked softly, "Your Highness, are you awake?"

"Well, awake all the time." Some illusory woman took off her mask and held it in her arms. No one outside the door was allowed to come in, and she said, "Let all the people who sacrifice go back, Taiyi has not woken up."

"Yes." The man outside the door agreed, and slowly retreated.

"Wait." She suddenly stopped the people outside the door, "Let Yun Zhongjun close all the doors in the source, and let the great priest immediately go to pick up Dongjun, and don't return to the source until I wake up next time."

"Your Highness, may I ask why?" The person outside the door asked softly, "If the gate is closed, the lives of the inhabitants of the source will be affected."

After a long silence, the people in the pavilion whispered, "Activate your emergency measures, these are extraordinary times...... The noble beings who have died are still wandering back in the world."

The footsteps of the people outside the door faded away, and the illusory red-haired woman sat on the stairs in the pavilion, her eyes looking at the noble mask in her hand with complicated eyes. The sight from above the artifact had been completely disconnected, but there seemed to be a pair of eyes faintly staring at her in the hollow eyes.

「…… It's too early." She sighed and put on her face

Put it back on the table where it was offered.

Her somewhat illusory form gradually disappeared, and finally, she looked back at a certain part of the attic, where the gold that had not changed for thousands of years still stood on it.

The fog behind him became thicker and thicker, and the river that was originally faintly visible was completely covered. In the mist, on a small boat drifting along the river, the lone Great Priest floated with the boat in the thick fog.

「…… It's too much, and you won't send me more people this time." He sighed to himself at the fog, and then staggered and changed his clothes in the fog.

As the fog cleared, a man in a trendy Korean trench coat with medium-long Japanese and Korean hair dyed maroon swung a boat from a stream into the Yangtze River. There were already people standing on the shore waiting, and when he came ashore, he put away the boat and the clothes and masks on it, and opened the back door of the sedan.

"Si Ming, this was transmitted to your computer before the Great Source was shut down." As soon as he got into the car, someone brought the computer over, "Gennai asked us to contact him as much as possible."

"Got it...... It's true, and there's something you can't say all at once?" The man took it with a helpless face, and then looked at the young man in the black suit above and was stunned.

Lu Mingfei, an S-level upstart from Kassel Academy, is an acquaintance, and the two sides had a brief conversation when they were in Yanjing. However, after the other party disappeared on the bank of the Yanjing North Canal, the contact between the two parties was naturally disconnected.

….

……

Lu Mingfei silently looked at the mask in front of him that was split in half again, and under the pouring of his huge magic power, the old alchemy matrix on it was completely damaged.

Donghuang Taiyi ...... After a long silence, he silently put away the damaged mask and disappeared into the darkness through the massive crack in the white room.

Somewhere completely shrouded in darkness, the inexplicable sound of Ka Sha Ka Ka rang out. Natsumi tilted her head and raised the plastic package in her hand to Conrad, who glanced here from time to time: "Do you want to eat it?" I'll give it to you, sister."

"Who wants your ......" Conrad turned his head dissatisfied, and then he seemed to react, angrily turning back and asking, "Who wants to call you sister?" You disrespectful one!"

Natsumi licked the potato chip crumbs off her fingers, and said with a nonchalant face, "My brother is Surter, are you Surter?"

「…… I'm not Surter, but my brother is Surter!" Conrad said angrily.

Xia Mi nodded like this and said, "Yes, so it's okay for him to be an older brother, and it's okay for you to be a younger brother."

"Sophistry!" Conrad shook his head, not wanting to talk to her anymore.

"Sister, I'm hungry again!" A miserable-sounding male voice came from the side.

Natsumi sighed, looked back at the boy sitting in the corner, who seemed to be buried in a snack bag, and said like a child, "Bear with me a little longer, Fenrir, and I will be able to go back soon."

Eating is an activity that only ordinary beings need to sustain their lives, and they don't need it either when they're still alive or when they're spirits. But as if engraved in the soul or the spirit base, Fenrir still misses those little snacks now. And the appetite is getting bigger and bigger, and the food is getting more and more varied. The snacks that an unknown assistant hid in Valhalla for easy access had been given to Huo Huo in a short period of time.

"Humph! It's obviously a brother, but he looks so shameless." Conrad clasped his hands on his chest and sneered, "Fenrir, we're all losing our faces to you."

Fenrir, the dragon king who is now being crowned with a fake identity Xia Tang, turned his head and looked at the sneering Conrad quietly, and suddenly stuck out his tongue at him: "Slightly, Constantine, you envy my sister for being good to me, you can be spoiled yourself."

The sneering Conrad instantly exploded: "Who envies you!"

A figure slowly walked over in the darkness, Lu Mingfei ignored these struggling brothers and sisters, and disappeared into the darkness in front of him. There was a slight light in the darkness of the five fingers that could not be reached, and Ronald stood in front of the slightly glowing alchemy matrix, and the red gold eyes quietly looked at the darkness in the depths.

perceived

Someone approached, and he didn't look back and said, "The invasion of this alchemy matrix has been completed, and we can make this our home field at any time."

It is not for nothing that the commissioners of the Kassel Academy can enter here so smoothly, the alchemy matrix that has been running under this pantheon for an unknown amount of time has long been completely attacked under the interference of Ronald, and can be brought under their control at any time, turning this place completely into their home turf.

But they haven't done that yet, because in this darkness, there is still a hidden existence that is not below them.

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