A dark secret passage that seems to have no end in sight winds its way underground in Longbei.

The churning red cloak dragged a trail of flames against the flickering lights on both sides of the secret passage.

This is the underground of the Thousand Households of the Suzaku Yashenwei in Longbei Province.

An embroidery-eyed bird wrestler was trotting through the secret passage with a swarthy bucket in both hands. In front of him lay a huge stone gate made of fine iron mixed with green rock stone. On both sides of the stone gate, there is a tall embroidered bird made of pure copper, lifelike, standing upright, looking at the red-clothed guard of the embroidered bird with great interest.

Nalux bent down and shouted respectfully towards the stone gate: "Xiaguan seventeen, Qu Bai returned with his life." ”

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I don't know how many metal brackets were hidden in this tunnel, and heavy iron chains sounded from all sides of the stone door at the same time.

The embroidery-eyed bird named Seventeen quickly lowered his head and lifted the letter bucket with both hands. As the iron door was fully opened, he slowly walked into a hall behind the stone door, hunched over step by step.

The hall was very dark, except for a flickering candle on a stone table in the middle.

There was a man with a half-flying fox mask, sitting behind the firelight, holding a delicate knife, and he was so bored that he carved a pattern of an embroidery-eyed bird on the table.

"On the fourth day of the sixth month of the 35th year of Longqing, the tragedy of Qubai Zhuque Ya, all the information collected is in the letter barrel. The embroidery-eyed bird wrestler still kept his head down.

The masked man buried his head and muttered, "Tsk...... Pick it up. ”

The letter barrel, still sealed with fire glue paint, came to the stone case in an upright manner.

"How many people have seen and touched this keg, how many have touched it?" the masked man's voice was slightly higher.

"Three have seen it, four have touched it. ”

The embroidery-eyed bird named Seventeen paused and added, "There are only seventeen people left." ”

"Do you want seventeen to disappear?" Embroidery-eyed Bird Lux lowered his head, his face was terrifyingly calm, and even faintly tinged with a hint of fanaticism.

The Flying Fox Masked Man happened to carve the last stroke of the pattern on his hand. He smiled and shook his head, picked up the unopened letter bucket in his hand, and put it on the lantern without looking at it.

As the flames rolled, he smiled and commanded, "Let it look like what it should be, and you don't have to worry about it." ”

"Whoa......," Seventeen greeted briskly, and walked out of the hall with his head down.

The stone door is closed.

The flying fox masked man quickly threw the knife aside in his hand, stood up, and bowed to the shadows behind him.

"Everything is as the courtiers say. ”

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A shrill voice floated out of the darkness, and Chang Mingguang quickly shrank his head in fright.

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"Hmph...... Hum...... Hum...... The heart of a thousand households is like a bodhisattva...... I think he must be able to do great things. ”

"Then let's go to the stage...... Singing?"

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Longbei Vermilion Bird Shenwei Qianhu Ya to the west and another 700 miles to the west is the first Xiongguan in the northwest of Great Xia - Sunset Fortress.

In the fortress, the fine bluestone bricks of four feet and two inches wide rose from the foundation and slowly tired, from low to high stood a towering majestic city that spread the wasteland for dozens of miles, and from north to south, it seemed to descend from the sky and dominate here.

This life-like majestic city is now gazing out at the heavenly forest hidden in the clouds and mist beyond.

Yes, this is the Babel Forest.

If you're lucky enough not to lose your life in the fog, you'll be able to get out of this dense forest of ancient pines and sycamores. Congratulations, your former friend is almost at the realm of the demon clan.

This is the demon mountain surrounded by the 80,000-mile Chishui River.

At this moment, on a north-facing main road in the misty forest, a demon caravan of seven or eight carriages had to stop because of the abnormality of the road ahead. The demon guards were horrified to find the ground in front of them rolling back and forth as if enchanted, and dark dirt and sand flew out of a hole the size of a manhole cover in the middle of the road.

One of the leaders of the caravan stepped out and raised his hand to stop the group, while the guards went up to form a semi-circle of the cart.

Standing on the pavement, one could clearly hear the screams of bone-eating insects coming from the ground beneath the hole.

It's close

It's closer

The sound gradually approached the ground, and the first thing that came out of the hole was a withered wooden hand. The sunlight shone right over the withered hand, sending out a thick, fishy black smoke. But the owner of the hand didn't seem to care, and slowly exposed his arm, then the head, and then the body.

The demons watched in horror as a corpse that crawled out of the middle and was blackened by the sun.

Then the second, the third, the fourth......

The new withered thing can gradually crawl out of the hole before it completely turns into a black charcoal.

This is an unheard of monster. Their slumped bodies are the size of seven or eight-year-old children.

The demons in the caravan looked down and couldn't help but feel a chill down their spines. The first thing that caught their eye was the threaded turtle shell on the monster's back. For some reason, the shell of the turtle was tied up with rusty iron cables. Of course, the heads of these monsters are also very distinctive, they have no eyes, and only some sharp white fangs are exposed outside their mouths.

The most interesting thing is that they still have a dead wooden cane as thick as their arm in their right hand. Probably the muscles of the hind legs are very obscene, and these guys are crawling forward step by step on the ground with a pestle and a cane.

The caravan was panicked at first, but after a while it became clear that the disgusting monster would not attack them. Their mission seemed to be just a corpse that emerged from the ground, crawling on the ground and silently heading towards the Chishui River and the Demon Mountain in front of them.

Then, flying ants emerged from nowhere and hovered over the monsters' heads, helping them gradually obscure the annoying morning glow on their heads.

There are more and more monsters. The flying ants, which became denser and denser, eventually turned into a cloud in the sky that reflected the golden light of the sun.

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Not far in front of this group of monsters is the Demon Mountain surrounded by the 80,000-mile Chishui River.

In fact, the demon mountain is thousands of walls, and there are 10,000 mountains.

But the only thing that is enough to carry that silverstone giant hall is the demon capital Qianji. To the north of the thousand machines, there was a stone staircase of 4,800 steps, spiraling upwards to the ancient hall made of silver stone that seemed to sit in the clouds.

At this moment, in front of the main hall, there was a demon man in gorgeous clothes who was also entering the giant hall.

This man stood up and was actually more than half a body taller than ordinary humans, but when he entered the gate of the majestic and majestic hall, it was like a pebble buckled into an ocean.

The Silverstone Hall was supposed to be dark, but the deepest part shone with a blazing silver-white glow.

It is like the stars in the night, the golden sun in the rising sun.

The man in fancy clothes, sideways, knelt down very solemnly.

"Nangong greets Mr. ”

The intense and scorching brilliance in the Silverstone Hall dimmed slightly.

The man who called himself Nangong remained motionless, bowing his head and holding his breath.

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"General Nangong?" the voice was thick like the roar of volcanic lava.

The tall man in fine clothes nodded, put his hands on the ground, and looked at the brilliance with wide eyes and anticipation.

The Silverstone Hall resounded with the crunch of metal and air, as if something was slowly waking up.

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The light curtain slowly dissipated, and on the Iron Thorn Throne, a man in silver heavy armor like a mountain leaned deep on the back of a chair composed of three silver heavy swords.

In order to see General Nangong, the man leaned forward slightly, his right hand leaning on the arm of the throne slowly propped up the head that had been sleeping for many years, and his left hand was gently tapping on the arm on the other side.

With each of his movements, dust kept coming out of the cracks in the silver heavy armor.

"Sir...... In the Misty Forest, withered pilgrims emerge from the ground, along with flying ants basking in the heavenly dome. ”

"Nangong, have you heard the secret of the pilgrims?" the silver-armored giant raised his head slightly with his right hand.

The man in the fancy dress named Nangong nodded and said, "They are all the works of the ancient sages, and the meaning of their existence is to sniff out the holy scriptures that are above everything all the time. I have heard that every time a pilgrim comes out of the ground, it means that a great calamity will come. ”

"yes, it's going to be messy......" the giant said, propping himself up and standing up.

one-step

The magnificent silverstone hall at his feet trembled.

This giant walked past Nangong and was taller than four or five Nangong generals tired together. Covering the sky and daylight, he alone blocked half of the light in the main hall.

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The giant, whose whole body was hidden behind the silver armor, bathed in the tremor of the main hall like this, and came step by step to a high platform outside the hall overlooking the distant mountains.

Where the eyes behind his helmet pointed, a marble bridge a hundred feet wide crossed the Chishui River from the edge of the sky to the end of the continent.

At that moment, a beam of sunlight shone from the oblique plane to the top of the giant's head, and the silver-white crown and armor shone with an almost substantial brilliance.

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Misty Forest

The ugly pilgrims, as if attracted by something in the distance, all stopped crawling together, and bowed down in a certain direction on the other side of the Chishui River, and the strange mouths full of fangs opened.

But it was a breathtaking, desolate and mournful song.

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On the other side of the continent, thousands of miles away, the Great Xia Dynasty

In the forbidden city where tens of millions of people fall, five steps to the first floor, ten steps to a pavilion, if the dragon ascends to the sky, the eunuch of the Ministry of Rites just walked up to a high tower to ring the bell of the early dynasty. So hundreds of scholars and ministers walked out of a red gate a hundred zhang away, bent over with fists, neatly and neatly, like a flowing red river surging towards the Mingguang Palace.

The silver giant on the demon mountain slapped his palm on the silver iron ball that was even bigger than him not far away, and let out a majestic roar.

His Royal Highness Yinshi and all the demons in the demon capital Qianji City worshipped together and praised his name together.

He is the master of the demon mountain surrounded by the 80,000-mile Chishui River, he is the leader of all demons, and he is the silver-white giant king - the Silver Emperor.

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The eunuch of the Ministry of Ceremonies sang loudly. The ministers shouted: "Long live ......", a man dressed in red, as if his whole body was immersed in flames, sat on the highest dragon chair of the Great Xia Dynasty behind him.

He is the man at the top of the Xia Kingdom in the vast land in the middle of the continent, he is the head of all peoples, and he is the guardian of the entire territory of the Great Xia Dynasty - Yan Fei Lun.

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At the end, in the towering misty forest, thousands of pilgrims and flying ants turned into grains of glorious dust under the bright sun.