[The sixth day of the second month of the tenth year of Daqian Jingyi, the ugly time, in the cave of Bashan]

Xu Ke was about to chase those demonic beasts with a torch in his hand, when he suddenly heard the sound of ghosts crying wolves behind him. He hurriedly turned around and followed the sound, only to hear the voices as if they were coming from the stone chamber he had just left.

"General, the brothers seem to be in trouble!" Zheng Kai shouted in panic.

At this time, when the dozen or so soldiers heard the terrible shouts, their faces turned pale with fright, and they couldn't help but tremble.

"Let's go, let's take a look!" Xu Ke led the way first, and everyone followed the main general and hurriedly rushed to the stone room.

As soon as Xu Ke stepped into the stone room, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.

The tragic scene in front of me can really be described as "hell on earth".

I saw hundreds of stout "demons" frantically biting the guards in the stone chamber. This time, the tactics adopted by those demons were to "devour and bite alive", not only biting the guards to death one by one, but also tearing open their hands and feet, stomachs, intestines, and internal organs and putting them in their mouths to chew and chew them alive.

Some of the poor soldiers in the stone chamber had their necks bitten off and their bodies were frozen on the ground, some of their hands and feet had been torn apart by the demons, and they were still dying, and some of them were bitten by the demons and their intestines were bleeding all over the ground, but their mouths were still screaming hoarsely......

It was only at this time that Xu Ke saw the true face of the so-called "Demon Legion". I saw that those well-trained demons were all tigers and bears, with unusually tall figures, and their bodies were covered with thick black hair, like a group of savages who had run from the ancient barbarian era, fierce and savage, bloodthirsty and brutal, eating human flesh raw was like chewing melons.

The remaining eighty or so soldiers in the stone chamber were silently bitten by hundreds of demons in just a moment. The previous terrible cries for help gradually weakened until they were silent. At this moment, the more than eighty soldiers had already killed the mouths of the demons, and most of the soldiers' bodies were still swallowed by the demons, leaving only some broken bones and fragments, scattered all over the stone chamber......

The demons seemed to have eaten unsatisfied, and when they saw more than a dozen living people suddenly appear in the intersection in front of them on the left, they all screamed "ho ho" and surrounded Xu Ke and them.

"I'm here to block it, you guys run away!" Xu Ke shouted as he stepped forward with his sword.

Zheng Kai and the remaining eleven soldiers were already frightened when they saw this tragic situation in the world. At this time, the dozens of demons were like evil ghosts in hell, and they were walking towards them step by step, and they still made a "ho-ho" sound from their mouths. They tried to escape, but their feet trembled, but they couldn't move, and two of the soldiers were already paralyzed to the ground with fear.

Suddenly, there were several crisp human sounds from among the dozens of demons, as if someone was giving them orders. The dozens of demons immediately split to both sides, and a slender man stood out in the middle. The man was dressed in a blue cloth robe, but he wore a green leather mask on his face.

"Green ...... The Demon King of Tsing Yi!" Zheng Kai pointed to the man in Tsing Yi and exclaimed in a trembling voice.

The man in green clothes slowly approached Xu Ke, and the man's lifeless face emitted a faint blue light, looking like a messenger from hell, and his whole body exuded the breath of death......

The Tsing Yi Demon King gradually approached Xu Ke step by step, and the twelve soldiers beside Xu Ke forgot to turn around and flee because they were too scared. Xu Ke held the hilt of his sword in his hand, and his palm was already sweating. Rao is that he has been in battle for a long time and has encountered countless enemies, and he can't help but feel a chill in his back at this time. He saw the expressionless green face in front of him, under the light of the fire, extremely mysterious and gloomy, which made people feel terrified and uneasy.

Being in this deep and mysterious cave, facing this large number of demon soldiers who eat people and don't spit out bones, Xu Ke at this time was ready for the worst in his heart.

Unexpectedly, the Tsing Yi Demon King walked in front of Xu Ke, but suddenly stopped, opened his mouth and said:

"Brother Xu Xian, why are you?"

"Brother Xu Xian?" Xu Ke heard this voice very familiarly, but he couldn't remember who it was for a while.

The Tsing Yi Demon King reached out and took off the green leather mask on his face, revealing a handsome and delicate face inside, only to see that his eyes were not big or small, his two eyebrows were not thick or light, and the facial features on his face were just right, looking like a teacher.

"Brother Nangong, how could it be you!" Xu Ke couldn't help but exclaim.

He really didn't expect that the "Tsing Yi Demon King" who made the soldiers so scared that they didn't dare to flee turned out to be his former colleague and friend, Tsing Yi Wei Bei Anping Si Qianhu, Nangong was silent.

At this time, the dozens of demons behind Nangong Bu were silent, all of them had already opened their mouths, revealing the fangs of Sen Sen inside, and they wanted to pounce on Xu Ke and the twelve soldiers behind him. Nangong was silent and turned to those demons and said "twitter", and those demons seemed to turn around and retreat reluctantly.

"Brother Xu Xian, it's hard to say......" Nangong sighed silently.

Xu Ke carefully looked at Nangong in front of him and was silent, only to see that his appearance had not changed much from ten years ago, and even the blue cloth he was wearing was still the blue cloth that Tsing Yiwei used to go out on errands. It's just that his peaceful and clear eyes in the past are now slightly glowing with some red light.

"This is not the place to talk, you come with me!" Nangong waved his hand at Xu Ke silently, and walked into a cave junction in front of him first.

"Come with me!" Xu Ke hurriedly raised his hand to the soldiers behind him, and everyone followed Xu Ke into the cave.

Nangong looked at the soldiers silently, but

He stopped and said to Xu Ke: "Brother Xian, these soldiers ...... You can't keep it!"

"No!" Xu Ke said anxiously: "They are all soldiers brought by me, and they followed me from birth to death, and they finally survived." I promised them that I would take them back to Chang'an safely. If you won't let them go, I'll not go!"

Nangong shook his head helplessly, and didn't say much. He turned around and whispered a lot of "magic words" to the hundreds of demons in the stone chamber, as if he had ordered them to finish this "supper" and then return to the camp to gather. Those demons nodded their heads one after another, and said "ho-ho" a few times in their mouths, making a gesture of receiving their fate.

Immediately, Nangong walked towards the cave without saying a word. Xu Ke and Zheng Kai, as well as the remaining eleven soldiers, all followed closely behind him.

Xu Ke couldn't help but glance behind him again, only to see that Fang was still a warm and bright underground stone room, and at this time, almost everywhere was covered with the blood of the soldiers. Moreover, the bodies of the remaining soldiers have almost been gnawed away by the demons. This shocking and tragic scene, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes at the moment, he really couldn't believe that it was really happening next to him......

What is the reason that the former upright and selfless Tsing Yi Wei Qianhu has now become a "Tsing Yi Demon King" that everyone fears! Moreover, this Tsing Yi Demon King has also trained this such a terrifying demon army!

Xu Ke was puzzled by this question. He looked at Nangong's silent and handsome back, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

Nangong silently led Xu Ke and the others, turned left and right all the way, walked through countless forks in the cave, and zigzagged all the way inside. Xu Ke followed behind, and couldn't help but be secretly frightened. He didn't expect that there were so many forks in this cave, as if it were a natural underground labyrinth. If it weren't for Nangong to lead the way, he would have to get lost!

Everyone followed Nangong silently for more than half an hour, and finally came to the exit of a cave. Walking out of the cave entrance, Xu Ke suddenly saw that there was a flat and wide mountain col, and three huge holes were exposed on the side of the col.

Nangong waved his hand at Xu Ke silently, and walked into the largest hole in the middle of the mountain col, and Xu Ke and all the soldiers also entered.

As soon as he walked into the entrance of the cave, Xu Ke felt that the situation in the cave had changed, and it was no longer the previous low and dark cave, but a spacious and bright corridor. At intervals in the corridor, there are piles of burning black stones. The road was not long, Xu Ke only walked a few dozen steps, and his eyes couldn't help but light up, at this time, everyone had walked into a more spacious underground space.

I saw that there were piles of burning black stones everywhere inside, and with the light of the burning black stones, Xu Ke clearly saw that there were huge stone pillars towering inside, and the stone pillars arched with a circular dome, about five zhang high, and the walls of the cave on all sides were as smooth as mirrors. The space inside is unusually wide, with a length and width of more than 200 zhang...... It's not so much a cave as a huge underground palace.

At this time, in this huge underground palace, there were piles of demons sitting or lying in the corners on all sides. Those demons looked like the demons who had broken into the stone chamber earlier, with large bodies and black hair.

When the demons saw Nangong come in silently, they immediately stood up one after another, Nangong was silent and just waved his hand, and the demons all sat down again.

Xu Ke counted them and guessed that there were at least two hundred demons in the main hall. Combined with those who raided the underground stone chamber, there were no less than five hundred people in total. He thought in his heart, it seems that the Demon King of Tsing Yi is really hiding a demon army. Moreover, the combat power of this legion, those soldiers of the human race, are not their opponents at all.

The twelve soldiers behind Xu Ke suddenly saw that there were so many demons in this underground hall, and they immediately turned pale with fright and froze on the spot. Nangong waved his hand silently, telling them not to panic, and led them through the main hall, walked to a room in the back, pushed open the door, and motioned for these soldiers to enter and hide first.

After settling these soldiers, Nangong led Xu Ke into another room behind the main hall without saying a word.

After Xu Ke entered the house, he immediately felt that the scene in front of him was quite familiar. I saw a long bookcase in the room, on which there were pen, ink, paper, inkstone and other things, and behind the bookcase was a Taishi chair, and there were wooden cabinets, low tables, wooden chairs, and square tables next to it. He remembered, isn't this the official room where Nangong was silent in Tsing Yi Wei in the past?

Nangong waved his hand silently to signal Xu Ke to sit down, and he personally poured a cup of hot tea for Xu Ke. Xu Ke only took a sip and immediately exclaimed: "This is ...... 'Huayu Tea'!"

Nangong smiled silently, turned around and sat on the Taishi chair behind the bookcase, picked up the teacup himself, blew open the tea, took a sip slowly, and said with a smile: "How is it?

Xu Ke couldn't help but shake his head again and again, feeling emotion in his heart. He could never have imagined that he would be able to drink this cup of "Huayu Tea" that used to be famous in Chang'an in the magic nest of Bashan at this moment! Moreover, the tea taste is fragrant, almost exactly the same as back then......

"Brother Xu Xian, in the current world, even if it is Li Ci in Chang'an Xingqing Palace, I am afraid that he will not have this treatment! Looking at the whole world, you are the only one who can still drink Huayu tea now!" Nangong said slowly while sipping the famous tea.

However, at this time, Xu Ke had no intention of drinking tea, he put the tea cup down, and immediately asked anxiously: "Brother Nangong, I haven't seen you for many years, how did you enter the Demon Dao?

Nangong was silent but said indifferently: "Look at my whole body, where does it look like 'fallen into the devil'?" As for the name of the 'Tsing Yi Demon King', it is purely those mortals who shout nonsense, what does it have to do with me?...

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"Mortals? Are you and I all mortals? Brother Nangong, I remember that you were a very good person ten years ago! As a thousand households of the Tsing Yi Wei Bei Anping Division, how many innocent people have you helped, how many unjust cases have you cleared, and how many lives have you saved! Why, now, you are actually ...... Turned into a demon?" Xu Ke asked with heartache.

Nangong sneered silently: "Mortal...... Mortals are like ants in this heaven and earth, and they will only be oppressed by others! Ten years ago, as a thousand households in Tsing Yi, even if I saved so many lives, what was the use! In the end, I couldn't even save my own sister!"

At this time, Nangong was silent and showed a sad face, and sighed dejectedly: "On the first day of June of that year, I tried my best, but I still couldn't save my sister Wuhua. Hey, no flowers...... I hate those mortals, who give me my flowerless ......"

"Girl without flowers...... What's wrong with her?" Xu Ke couldn't help asking.

"She's dead!" Nangong replied lightly without saying a word, his tone becoming cold again.

"Brother Nangong, the nine hundred guards I put outside the cave during the day were also bitten into 'demons' by your men?" Xu Ke still asked.

Nangong nodded silently.

"Then can they still be saved?" Xu Ke still didn't give up.

"These people are dead a long time ago! What is still moving now is just their corpses......" Nangong Bu said with a blank face.

"Brother Nangong, I don't know what happened to Ling Mei that day, but at that time, the whole world was suddenly in a great change, and countless human beings died under that catastrophe. Even if Sister Ling unfortunately dies, Brother Nangong can't sink into the devil because of it!" Xu Ke patiently persuaded. From Nangong's silent expression, he could already guess that on the first day of June ten years ago, under the catastrophe of the world, Nangong Wuhua must have failed to avoid that catastrophe and unfortunately died, while Nangong Buyu was bitter and hateful, and perhaps fell into the devil's path because of this......

"You said it lightly! Wuhua is my sister, and she has nothing to do with you, so naturally you have nothing to do with yourself, and you won't go to your heart! Let me ask you, how many of your close relatives have ever died on that day? How much can you feel this pain in my heart?"

"Brother Nangong......" Xu Ke still wanted to defend.

"Don't call me Brother Nangong! I'm ...... now. It's the Demon King of Tsing Yi! This is not a place for you to stay, you better go back to your Chang'an quickly!" Nangong was silent, Huo Ran stood up from the Taishi chair, and saw that he was about to serve tea to the guests. At this time, I suddenly saw a tall figure running over from the main hall in a hurry, and while running, he shouted loudly: "Lord Nangong, Lord Nangong!"

"What's the matter?" Nangong replied silently and walked outside his "official room".

"Lord Nangong, the demon ...... The Demon Lord is here!" the tall man replied.

Xu Ke also followed and walked outside the room, and when he saw the person, he immediately exclaimed, "Ding Chunqiu, is it you?"

The person with a tall body and a big head was none other than a banner in the former Tsing Yi Weibei Anping Division, named Ding Chunqiu.

Ding Chunqiu saw that Xu Ke came behind Nangong silently, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Xu ...... Master Xu is here too!"

At this time, Nangong Bu was already full of nervousness and fear, he turned around and took Xu Ke's hand, and hurriedly said: "Brother Xu Xian, go there and hide! The Demon Lord is here, if he sees you, he will be in trouble!"

As he spoke, Nangong took Xu Ke to the room where the twelve soldiers had been housed before, and told them not to make a sound. As soon as he closed the door, he heard a clear and high-pitched voice from the hall:

"Tsing Yi ...... Where are you?"

"The subordinates are here, and the subordinates welcome the arrival of the Demon Lord!" Nangong walked to the middle of the main hall without saying a word, and leaned over in the direction of the road.

In the blink of an eye, a thin man's figure, like a ghost, appeared in the main hall. The man was dressed in black clothes and black robes, with a golden crown on his head, and a hideous face on his face, but when he looked closely, he was wearing a mask.

Nangong was silent and hurriedly led Ding Chunqiu a few steps forward, walked to the man wearing the mask, bowed and saluted: "Subordinates see the Demon Lord!"

The Demon Lord also stepped forward in person, helped Nangong silently, and said gently: "Tsing Yi, between us, don't be polite!"

Immediately, the Demon Lord pointed behind him again and said, "I brought the white rat with me!"

There was a long laugh in the corridor, which was old and hoarse, and it was extremely uncomfortable to smell in this dark night. Even Xu Ke, who was hiding in the hut behind the main hall, had already heard that that person was naturally the notorious "White Rat Demon King". Xu Ke couldn't help but clench his teeth, and his right hand gripped the Kunwu sword in his hand. As soon as he remembered the scene of the innocent slaughter of the people in Xuchang Tubao that night, he gritted his teeth with hatred for this white rat demon king, and he couldn't wait to rush out of the room immediately and break this white rat demon into ten thousand pieces!

As soon as the White Rat Demon King saw that Nangong was silent, he arched his hand and smiled: "Brother Tsing Yi, I see you coming again! Speaking of which, the old man hasn't drunk your Huayu tea for a long time......

Nangong was silent but only slightly arched his hand, which was regarded as a return gift, and he replied coldly: "White mouse, you don't stay in Bishan in a dignified manner, what are you doing in my Bashan?"

"Tut-tut!" The White Rat Demon King immediately said with a smile: "I said Brother Tsing Yi, I accompanied the Demon Lord, who came all the way to see you. It's okay if you don't serve a cup of tea, don't you even have a place to sit?"