Chapter Seventy-One: A Journey to the Underworld (Part I)
"Back to His Royal Highness, there is only the palace of the palace, where in addition to the guards of the forbidden army, there are also formations to guard!"
Yunxiao thought about it, there was no safer place in Nanyang City except for the Zhennan Wangxing Palace in the north of the city.
"Okay, let's go, you take the old man's corpse with you!"
Meng Tong carried the old man on his back, and Yunxiao put the assassin's body into the Qiankun Xuanji bag, then turned over on his mount, and rode his horse to the Zhennan Wangfu Palace in the north of Nanyang City.
The Zhennan Wang's Palace is not in the inner city of Nanyang City, but in the northern part of the main city near the outer city, when Yunxiao and Meng Tong came to the palace, Meng Tong showed the token and ordered to immediately block the range of ten miles around the palace, and after they entered the palace, a large area of protection was immediately raised in the palace, but all this did not attract the attention of any ordinary people.
Yunxiao entered the palace and looked at the palace in front of him, which covers an area not very large, with three palaces, one main hall and two side halls, except for a forbidden army stationed here, no one haunts here.
"His Royal Highness, there is a dungeon under the side hall on the right!"
Yunxiao hadn't been to Nanwangfu Palace in Nanyang Town before, so Yunxiao didn't have any memory of this place when he turned around.
"Hmm!"
Yunxiao followed Meng Tong to the side hall of the palace, opened the door of the palace and walked in, Meng Tong walked to an inconspicuous bronze candlestick in the corner of the side hall and fiddled a few times, and a staircase leading to the underground appeared nearby.
Meng Tong walked down first, Yunxiao followed, after walking a few zhang, the steps came to the end; after going down, Meng Tong smeared the old man's body on a few cases, and then lit a few candles, and an underground hall with a radius of more than ten zhang appeared in front of Yunxiao.
The underground hall leads to more than a dozen rooms, and four passages lead to other places. Looking at the large number of weapons placed in the hall, Yunxiao couldn't help but smile, and couldn't help but sigh that his luck was really good.
Among these weapons, a rusty sword was thrown next to the weapon rack, and it was this long sword that intrigued Yunxiao.
"I didn't expect to have a sword with the power of the underworld here, what's going on?"
Just when Yunxiao was a little confused, the soul lamp appeared:
"Boy, I didn't expect your luck to be so good, there is a dark weapon in this dungeon, now you have a better way to get that guy to be loyal to you!"
Yunxiao then summoned the exorcist talisman, and when the leader of the assassins was released by Yunxiao from the Qiankun Xuanji bag, he was so frightened that he fainted when he saw the golden skull, the exorcist talisman.
"Soul Lamp, this guy was frightened by you before, why was he scared when he saw the exorcismist!"
Before the Soul Resurrection Lantern could explain the reason, the exorcist talisman spoke first:
"This guy has a pair of yin and yang eyes, and he has a yin soul body, he is born to be able to see yin ghosts, this guy should be because he will be interfered with by yin ghosts at the critical moment of every cultivation, so the advancement is not successful, but it will lead to damage to his cultivation qualifications, so this guy who is troubled by yin ghosts is so afraid of us!"
"So that's the case, no wonder this guy is not afraid of death, he was so frightened that he gave in to me when he saw the soul revival lamp just now!"
When Yunxiao looked at the unconscious assassin leader, Meng Tong had already lit all the bronze lamps, candles, and torches in the dungeon, and suddenly the dungeon was brightly lit.
"Hey, Meng Tong, didn't you see a rusty sword there?"
Yunxiao saw Meng Tong walking over from the rusty sword, as if he hadn't seen it. When Meng Tong heard Shizi Yunxiao's words, he was stunned for a moment, and looked at his feet with a puzzled expression:
"Your Royal Highness, there are all very well-maintained weapons here, and there are no rusty weapons!"
"You didn't see that?"
Now it was Yunxiao's turn to be puzzled, the sword was under Meng Tong's feet, but the head of the guard of the Zhennan Palace, who was strong in martial arts, actually said that he didn't see it.
"Boy, don't figure out the reason, except for you, the underworld weapon in this dungeon may only be seen by that guy, not to mention ordinary people, even many powerful monks can't see the underworld weapon!"
Yunxiao couldn't figure this out, and was about to ask how to make the Assassin leader loyal to him, when the exorcist talisman spoke again:
"Boy, now there are two ways for you to choose to deal with that guy, one is to make him a complete ghost, and I will give you the art of exorcism, and the second is to let him use this sword as his natal magic weapon to specialize in cultivating the art of yin and underworld?"
Yunxiao heard the words of the exorcist talisman, lowered his head and thought about it: "Since this guy has something to do with the Voodoo Sect, it doesn't have much value for me to make him a ghost like this, it's better to let me be my right-hand man, and I will find a way to make him my loyal subordinate in the future!"
"Meng Tong, you take this outside to guard, no one is allowed to let it in!"
After Meng Tong left the dungeon with the Five Elements Xuanhuo Cover, after making up his mind, Yunxiao told his decision to the Exorcism Talisman and the Soul Resurrection Lamp, and the two powerful underworld artifacts began to act, only to see that one of them released a small silver skull, and the other released a small flame;
"Ahh
As the silver skull in the form of fire floated towards the forehead of the Assassin leader, the unconscious assassin suddenly screamed, and then held his head and screamed, after about a stick of incense, the guy easily stopped screaming, and the whole person lay on the ground and gasped.
Seeing that the ceremony was over, Yunxiao walked up to the Assassin and asked:
"What's your name?"
"People who know me call me Shadow, and my real name has long been forgotten!"
"Okay, then I'll call you Ghost, you must completely obey my orders, or I will let you fall into the underworld and never be able to transcend!"
When the assassin named Shadow heard Yunxiao's words, he hurriedly turned over and kowtowed: "Your Highness, although I have killed many people, I am also forced to do so, I joined the Voodoo Cult because they promised that I would never see ghosts again, so I agreed to help them. ”
Yunxiao looked at the sword not far away, and thought of an idea: "There is a sword over there, you go and get it!"
The Assassin looked in the direction the clouds were pointing and found a sword with a powerful ghostly aura, but at this time the man realized that he was not as afraid of ghosts as he had been.
"Your Royal Highness, that sword doesn't seem to be a weapon in our world?"
"Exactly," Yunxiao stared at the ghost shadow, thought for a moment before saying, "If you are really willing to be loyal to me, just pick up that sword, it will become your natal magic weapon, I will try my best to help you improve your cultivation in the future, but I will never allow you to betray me, I will leave a soul mark in your body, otherwise I will turn you into an unconscious ghost now!"
Yunxiao said this, with a wave of his hand, four powerful ghosts suddenly appeared beside the ghost, these ghosts were four of them in the Qiankun Xuanji bag that was originally included in the cave near the ghost city of Xudu by the beggar immortal Xu Jian, which was already the limit of what he could currently control with the help of the exorcism charm.
"If you want, these ghosts will be left to you to drive, but if you don't, you will be their kind!"
The ghost knew that he had no choice, but he didn't regret it, this murderous guy had already thought that there would be such a day, and the current situation was much better than the ending he had been killed.
"If you take this pill, you can enhance your strength, so that you won't have enough power when you fuse with that sword!"
The ghost took the elixir and immediately took it without hesitation, and suddenly felt a hot current surging in his body, and the injured part of the meridians showed a tendency to improve.
"Could it be that this prince of Zhennan is really so kind, or does he have other plans for me?"
The ghost shadow secretly thought to himself in his heart, thought for a while, and suddenly thought: "I am no longer of use now, why should the prince really want to kill me?
The ghost made up his mind, walked to the rusty sword, bent down and grabbed the sword, and suddenly the rusty sword in his hand was cold and shining, and after the sword body appeared, it immediately flew into his body.
Yunxiao saw the exorcism talisman and the resurrection lamp cast the spell again, and soon the ghost fell into a state similar to a deep sleep.
"Remember that our current strength has not been fully restored, and we can only open the passage to the underworld for you for a day and night, and you must come back before dawn, otherwise you will remain in the underworld forever. ”
After speaking, the soul lamp emitted a golden light, enveloping the old man's body, and then a black vortex appeared, through which a huge space could be faintly seen, but from the outside, there was nothing unusual in the side hall.
After everything in the clouds was ready to stop, the ghost exorcism charm opened its mouth and spewed a golden light towards the black vortex, which instantly pierced a hole in the spatial vortex!
"Go ahead, remember you have to be back before dawn, take this guy with you, he should be able to help you!"
Yunxiao grabbed the sleeping ghost and walked into the black whirlpool without hesitation, feeling as if he had stepped through a door, and instantly came to a completely strange world. The world in front of him, although it was also undulating, the green vegetation here was completely black, or gray-black, and everywhere in the eyes was bare and lifeless.
"Is this the underworld?"
"This is only the outer space of the underworld, and the real underworld can only be reached through the well of the dead in the city of vain!"
The resurrection lamp opened its mouth to explain to Yunxiao, and a lit copper lamp appeared in front of Yunxiao.
"This guide light will ensure that you don't get lost, it will stay on until dawn, and guide you!"
Yunxiao knew that the matter was urgent, and was about to leave the sleeping ghost and go on the road alone, when suddenly a sword appeared in the ghost's body, and this sword began to absorb the faint yin qi around it, and soon the ghost opened his eyes and woke up.
"Shizi, come with me, the sword you got for me tells me that less than twenty miles ahead, there is a city of vain death, and you only need to climb the small hill in front of you to see it. ”
"You lead the way!"
Yunxiao looked at the small hill not far away, nodded to the ghost, and then followed the ghost all the way forward, and the two of them followed a road that was not a road, and reached the top of the hill with a stick of incense, and finally saw a large-scale city appear in the distance.
From the small hillside, the walls of the city in the distance are covered with flags, and a huge skull can be seen faintly above the city, and a gray-black fog hangs over the city, making the whole city look very strange.
At the gate of the city below the city, a large number of ghosts of various forms were walking in a neat queue, and the ghost suddenly spoke:
"Shizi, are we looking for the soul of that old man?"
"Yes, can you find his soul?" Yunxiao asked, in the outer space of the underworld, his divine sense sensing range was pitiful, and he couldn't detect any anomalies at all.
"Shizi, there is a powerful ghost handle junction all around this vain death city, asking for the soul power of the ghosts, I think that old man should not have approached the vain death city yet. The city of the dead looks very close, but it is actually far away from us, since we are here, then the soul of that old man is most likely there!"
Yunxiao looked in the direction of the ghost shadow, less than twenty miles away, under a black giant tree more than 100 zhang high, a large number of ghost things gathered, but these ghost things were all shadowy and couldn't see what they were.
"Let's go, we have limited time, if we really can't find it, we can't do anything!"
Yunxiao followed the ghost figure forward again, and after the time of the incense had passed, they came to the vicinity of the giant tree, and sure enough, the old man's soul was lining up with the other ghosts.
"Shizi, what should we do? I sensed a very powerful ghost over there!"
"I also sensed that if I'm not mistaken, there should be a powerful ghost king here, which is really bad!"
Yunxiao didn't expect that before he really approached the city of vain death, he encountered a powerful ghost king, and just as he was thinking about how to deal with the ghost king guarding the level in front of him, a roar that resounded through the heavens and the earth sounded.
"Haha, this king hasn't seen a living person break into the city of vain death for tens of thousands of years!"
With the roar, there was another smug laugh in the ears of Yunxiao and the ghost, followed by a chaos of ghosts not far away, a powerful headless ghost king who was more than twenty zhang tall, holding two black giant swords in his hands, and wearing black armor, strode towards them.
"Ghost, you go and find a way to take the old man's soul away from here, and I'll drag the ghost king!"
The ghost shadow didn't expect Yunxiao to hand over the low-risk task to himself, and suddenly his sense of identity with Yunxiao increased a lot, this orphan who has been fatherless and motherless since he was a child, since he can remember, what he has come into contact with is the world of deceit, life and death, and intrigue, otherwise he would not have become the famous king of killers in the mortal world of the Kyushu Continent...... (To be continued.) )