Chapter XXVIII
Seeing the orcs being wiped out, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Is life always like this?" I asked Mask.
"What?"
"Someone appeared in a hurry and then disappeared very quickly. β
"It's always like this, there are very few people and things that can accompany you to the end. β
"When I lived in the past, I felt that the disappearance of distance was far enough, even if it was life and death, if there was reincarnation, I would see you again. But when I got here, I saw Master Wen Lin's primordial gods, and I saw the demon king's primordial gods, and they all disappeared, and they didn't even have a chance to enter reincarnation. β
"As long as you keep them in your heart, they will never disappear. β
"And what about you? Will you do that one day?"
"Yes. β
I didn't speak again, and walked over to Zhang Yi and helped Zhang Yi up.
His brow furrowed, his eyes closed, and a tear in the corner of his eye.
I picked him up on my back and walked over to Wen Lin. The wound on Wen Lin's thigh had not yet healed, but black blood was no longer flowing, and the white tiger was lying on the side, covered in scaly wounds, panting.
"You guys are here to recuperate, I'll go find Jairus myself, and I'll be back to you soon. I said to Wen Lin and the White Tiger.
Wen Lin wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, only replied, "Pay attention to safety." β
I settled Zhang Yi and walked towards the houses.
Gradually, they got farther and farther away from Wen Lin, but they still didn't find Jairus.
As I was walking, I suddenly tripped over something under my feet, and I fell to the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust.
"Ahem...... "I choked on the dust, and my eyes were blurry for a while, and when my vision was clear, I slowly stood up, and a touch ......of black appeared under the yellow dirt road.
"Hmm, what is this?" I crouched down and brushed the black dust with my hand, a stone tablet with ancient words engraved on it.
"What's written on this?" I asked the mask.
"Beast dungeon. β
"Will Jairus just be locked up here?" I didn't wait for the mask to answer, and continued to dig through the soil around the stele, finally digging out the entire stele.
It was a stone tablet made of black-gold stone, the color looked like the dragon scales of the demon king Yuanshen, and under the three ancient words, there was a row of small characters.
"It's supposed to be an almanac, and I don't quite understand it. Without waiting for me to ask, the mask answered me.
I looked up and saw a fence not far away, and behind the fence were countless grass huts.
"It doesn't look like a beast prison in front, is it underground?" I held the stele with both hands and erected it with all my might, and at the same time, there was a sound of chains in my ears, I looked around, the ground sank, the grass house collapsed, and in an instant my surroundings turned into several large pits, only the road where the stele stood did not move at all.
I stood up cautiously, lest one of them fall into the pit without paying attention.
I leaned out and looked down, and there were countless large and small iron cages inside.
"Jairus must be down there. I thought and slipped down the dirt slope into the pit.
From the pit, it looked much larger inside than it looked on the ground, and several large pits were connected, and gusts of wind were blowing in the face.
I approached a three-person tall iron cage, it was pitch black inside, I couldn't see anything clearly, I was about to get closer to see, suddenly there was a huge sound of iron chains, "roar-" With the sound of the beast roaring, a huge black shadow in the darkness pounced on me, I was so frightened that I took a few steps back and sat on the ground, the beast hit the iron cage, straightened the chain that held it, and was pulled back.
And it was still pulling at the chains, and it was coming at me.
"Roarβ", its roar echoed through the pit, and slowly more and more cages rang out with roars and chains, and some beasts seemed to be about to break out of the cage.
"What should I do?" I asked, looking at the shaking iron cages in front of me.
"Don't move, look at me. "The mask floated out of my body and rose into the air with a deafening beastly roar.
The roar was not like the sound of a beast that I had heard before, but it was more muffled, but powerful. The roar echoed through the pit for a long time, and the beasts that tried to break free from the ropes fell silent.
"What's that sound?"
"I can imitate the roars of the Ancient Ancestor Sacred Beasts, and these little beasts can still tell the size of these small beasts. β
I got up from the ground and looked down the road at the cages.
"Jairus, Jairus, where are you?" I called out to Jairus, but received no response.
"How do you find this?" I was a little tired from walking, "This pit is too big, it looks like a small pit from above, why is it so big inside?"
"Take your time. The mask couldn't do anything, "If the white tiger is here, it will be easy to find." β
I didn't answer, and continued to look for cages from cage to cage.
My eyes gradually adjusted to the dim environment, and I slowly saw these beasts clearly, they all looked strange, and had the characteristics of tigers, leopards, jackals, and other beasts of prey, "these...... Are they all ancient beasts?"
"Some are, some are just ferocious beasts. β
As I continued walking, a stone gate appeared in front of me, and I pushed it open, and a gust of wind mixed with the smell of rotting corpses hit my face.
I was nauseated, and walked slowly into a narrow stone passage, and the torches on the walls on both sides were suddenly lit, and the stone passage suddenly brightened.
Only then did I see that under my feet, there were white bones and unrotten flesh, and yellow pus, and maggots were wreaking havoc in it. Looking up ahead, there was a stone platform on which a huge beast lay on its stomach.
"That's ...... "I looked at the familiar back of the beast, and quickly ran over.
When I got closer, it was Jairus, and the thigh-thick iron chains tied it, and it could be seen that it was struggling very hard before, and those chains were sunk into the flesh, so I stepped forward and put my hand on Jairus's body.
"Roarβ" Jairus suddenly straightened up, let out a roar, and then fell to the ground again, gasping slowly.
"It's me, it's me, I'm Liu Xi!" I patted her head gently.
It struggled to open half of its eyes and look at me, then closed it again, and a crystal tear dripped to the ground mixed with blood from the wound on its face.
"I knew you were coming, how is Zhang Yi?" said Jianhua slowly.
"He's fine, I'm here to save you. "I'm sticking to Jairus's body.
Jairus just breathed slowly and didn't talk to me again.
"Mask, what can I do about this? Can you heal its wounds?"
"Just after the battle, my ghost power has not fully recovered, and I can't do anything about it. β
I looked at the scabs, some of which were black and pus-shedding, "If you don't heal its wounds, it will die." β
I scratched my head and walked from side to side, "Dragon scales!yes!dragon scales!" I remembered the black gold dragon scales that the Demon King Yuan Shen had left me at the end, and I touched my pocket, "It's still there!" I took out the dragon scales and placed them in the center of Jairus's forehead.
The black gold dragon scales flashed on Jairus's forehead, and a burst of golden light flashed across Jairus's body, and those large and small wounds miraculously disappeared.
"It really works!" I said, putting the scales back in my pocket.
"Liu Xi......" Jairus slowly stood up and shook her body, "What's going on outside?"
"Let's go out and talk about it, think about this chain first?" I looked at the thigh-thick chain on Jairus's body and worried.
"This ......" Jairus straightened up, straining hard.
"Bang!" the chain wrapped around Jairus's body broke instantly.
"You have so much power, why didn't you break free of it sooner?"
"I was imprisoned here after I was seriously injured, and the ghost soldiers also released maggots here to prevent me from healing. Jairus lowered her body, "Come on, let's go out." β
I climbed onto Jairus's back, and Jairus stepped out of the narrow stone path, and the beasts in the pit let out a roar again.
"Wait. I patted her on the back, "Do you know how to get them out?"
"Yes. β
"Can you communicate with them?"
"Yes. β
"Tell them, now that the Demon Realm no longer exists, we will let them out, but they can't do evil anymore. β
Jairus raised her head and let out a roar in the pits, and the sound echoed through several pits.
The caged beasts should roar in unison.
After Jairus finished speaking, he walked up to a stone wall and said, "There's a mechanism on the wall, you go and press it down." β
I fumbled with the stone wall and pressed the mechanism.
Suddenly there was a sound of the iron cage opening and the iron cable breaking from the pit.
The beasts stood in front of the cage, prostrate on their front legs, pressed their heads to the ground in the direction of Jairus, and then leaped upwards and jumped out of their holes.
When the beasts were gone, they looked at the sky and jumped out of their holes.