The mortal world is in danger, and it is rapidly ascending......

On the way to Dongzhou, these eight words lingered in Ye Ling's heart.

Asgard's reply to him was a little too direct.

This was obviously to make Ye Ling give up the human world and go to the upper realm to escape this demonic catastrophe.

But how could he agree!

In the previous life, Ye Ling had not been exposed to too many fireworks in the world, and felt that there was only a gap between the human world and the upper realm, and there was no other difference.

But this time, he found that the excitement and complexity of the world could not be brought to him by the upper realm.

He loved this mortal world that brought him bitter happiness, and he could not let him be destroyed by demons.

For him, ascension meant that he had to leave behind the best friends and relatives he had met in the mortal world over the years, abandon the country he was supposed to protect, and live alone in the upper realm.

If so, Ye Ling died in the mortal world.

Mobilizing the blazing beads in his body, Ye Ling burned the meteorite descended from the Heavenly Palace into gray-white stone slag.

............

Dongzhou Kingdom, a country that prides itself on the fairy island in the sea, is also the favorite exotic recreation place of the Hongyuan people, but now it has become a ruin of blood and fire.

The long-distance fast ships are relatively fragile themselves, and they do not dare to approach those burning ports.

Ye Ling got off the boat a hundred miles away from the harbor, boarded the water, and set foot in the land of Dongzhou.

"Uh-"

Overhead, on the burning dock cargo ship, there were three or four corpse demons covered in fire.

Their hands have mutated into the claws of wild beasts.

After seeing the long-lost living people, these corpse demons came to kill without hesitation.

The next moment, they fell to the ground one after another, and the flames gradually died down, turning charred corpses into charcoal black.

Ye Ling didn't like this kind of "welcome ceremony" very much, but this was already expected by himself.

As far as the eye can see, in the ruins of blood and fire, there are countless black shadows creeping between the moonlit night and the light of fire.

If he wanted to give the current Dongzhou Kingdom a name, Ye Ling would really want to make him the "Land of Ten Thousand Demons".

A stumbling skeleton walked towards Ye Ling.

It wears heavy armor and has a distinctly Dongzhou infantry style.

After the demon possessed it, the skeleton underwent a mutation, becoming taller than the original body, and the armor on its body was also stretched open, and the metal buckles broke apart from each other, and it walked with a "bang-la-la" metal impact sound.

It dragged a large axe and moved slowly.

Ye Ling knocked him away with a punch.

Soon, he gathered again, his bones back together.

"Waste of time. ”

Seeing this, Ye Ling no longer paid attention to the axe-wielding skeleton and walked in the direction of the capital of Dongzhou by himself.

Walking forward alone, the pace seems to be calm, but in fact it is extremely fast, and countless demons chase after him, scrambling to be the first, but they are all left far behind.

This port is very close to the Imperial City.

Ye Ling's first destination was the imperial palace in the imperial city, whose full name was "Tianzang Imperial Palace".

This place is called Hanyu Snake Province, and it is the best geographical area in Dongzhou Province.

It is also because there are mountains and rivers here, warm in winter and cool in summer, and the climate is pleasant, and it is also very popular with local demons.

Who said before that this Dongzhou realm was originally a gathering place for demons.

Dongzhou is close to the Hongyuan continent, full of spiritual energy, and the local warriors are generally not as talented as Hongyuan people, and powerful exorcism families abound in Hongyuan, but in Dongzhou, they are rare.

This naturally gives the demons a more ideal living environment.

Now here, there are both demons and demons, plus fierce beasts roaming around, it is too dangerous for humans to find resources in this land first.

Ye Ling killed all the way to the imperial city, and he had to have this idea in his heart.

After entering the city, what Ye Ling saw was still the evil demons wandering around.

Dongzhou has had many earthquakes since ancient times, and the houses were built more simply, which was much thinner than the Hongyuan Empire, so that in the event of an earthquake, it would not cause serious casualties.

Nowadays, many buildings have been destroyed by the evil spirits and turned into ruins.

Ye Ling walked through it, he didn't love fighting, he saw the evil spirit, he could hide if he could, and he ran when he could.

At most, half a pillar of incense, and he came to the front of the Heavenly Tibetan Imperial Palace.

The imperial palace of Dongzhou Kingdom has some peculiarities, its location is not in the middle of the city, but in the northeast corner of the city, with the front door facing the city and the back leaning against the mountains and forests.

In the mountains and forests, there is another small village called Hanyu Snake Village.

That's where the name of the entire province comes from, and the details aren't mentioned for the time being.

The gate of the Imperial Palace, which was originally blue-black, is now completely bright red in the light of the fire in the city.

The corpses of the defenders everywhere, blood spilled in front of the door, but they also kept their last duty.

Two-thirds of these bodies had now regained their feet.

Among them, there are charred corpses, skeletons, and festering rotting corpses.

Ye Ling stepped into the gate in a few steps, closed the gate tightly with his backhand, and pulled a stone statue in front of the door to block the gate.

This way, no one will interfere with his exploration of the palace.

Dongzhou is a small country, and the palace is not small, with eighty percent of the scale of Hongyuan Palace.

Moreover, in this palace, there are dark bamboo forests everywhere, which makes it difficult for Ye Ling to understand.

There are very few plants in the Hongyuan Palace, and even if there are, they are heavily guarded gardens, such as the elegant garden where Ye Ling and Duan Weishan talked two days ago.

This was done to protect the royal family's safety and prevent them from hiding in the trees at the moment, waiting for an opportunity to assassinate.

And in Dongzhou, there is a group of people who are specifically responsible for assassination, known as ninjas.

If Ye Ling became the emperor of Dongzhou, he would definitely not leave these bamboos and give him the opportunity to assassinate himself.

Of course, no one in this world can assassinate him.

Just thinking in his heart, Ye Ling only heard a slight sound among the lush bamboo leaves.

To the ears of ordinary people, the sound is simply inaudible, and there is no difference between it and the breeze blowing.

But Ye Ling was sure that this was by no means the sound of the wind blowing bamboo leaves.

He resolutely swung a sword bolt between the bamboo leaves.

The bamboo leaves fell one after another, only to hear a "bang", and a heavy object fell from between the leaves.

Speaking of ninjas, ninjas are really here.

Ye Ling leaned over and saw a curled figure falling from the bamboo tops, wearing a black night suit and a black face covering.

Ye Ling picked open the corpse's face towel with the tip of his sword, and found that under this face towel was a face with a sharp beak monkey's cheeks!

Its eyes were dead and scarlet, and two short fangs, sticking out from its lower teeth, pierced its upper lip.

Ye Ling didn't bother to name it, but it must have been a ninja possessed by an evil demon after death, mutated into a species similar to "Ghost Ape".

For the time being, let's call them ninja apes.

In one of the corpse's hands, he clutched a special-shaped weapon belonging to a ninja.

This thing is called "lock sickle" in Hong Yuan Kingdom, and the whole body is an iron cable, with a sickle at one end and a weighing stone at the other end.