The night is getting darker.
Except for the howling wind, the world is extremely silent.
In the corner of the tower that was mostly submerged in the yellow sand, a wind lantern hung. It was blown back and forth by the wind, and the light in the lantern became unstable.
Shrouded in light and fire.
The tents rise and fall one after another.
Located between the ancient cities, it is protected from the wind and snow by the broken walls that have not collapsed.
In the middle of the camp, a bonfire shot up into the sky and was burning brightly. There were several figures surrounding the fire pit holding spears, exhaling a stream of white air from time to time and whispering something.
The tent outside was already silent.
It was a day’s journey in the snow.
In the evening before, the group searched the ancient city several times, except for the statues and bronze figures that could not be taken away, and collected a lot of jade and gold coins.
Submerged in wind and sand.
Only gold, silver and jade will not be corroded.
Although it is not as large as the royal tombs, it can be regarded as an unexpected surprise.
After all, who would think too much money?
In a tent near the ancient city, there was a faint flickering light.
Chen Yulou sat cross-legged on the carpet. Although he had been busy for a long time, he did not feel sleepy at all. Instead, he concentrated on the jade eye.
On the carpet beneath him.
There are several jade fragments scattered around.
He brought them back from the Jade Building.
After repeated comparisons, he can now confirm that the jade eye in his hand is made of Hetian Qingyu.
But the feelings presented between the two are completely different.
The fragments remain intact.
Like a dead thing.
As for the jade eyeball, although it was just a failure, with clear cracks, but at this moment, the consciousness swept over it, and when it came into contact with the jade eye, it was like hitting an invisible layer of water mist.
Always impervious to prying eyes.
"No..."
Tried several times.
Chen Yulou frowned and suddenly thought of a possibility.
Put away the jade bead.
Get up and open the tent door.
Without disturbing anyone, they quickly walked between the camps. Not long after, they arrived at the cave they had passed in the evening.
At this time, it was pitch black all around, and I couldn’t see my fingers.
He also never brought any lighting tools such as wind lanterns.
I just stood outside the cave entrance with my hands folded, leaning down and looking down, looking past the long, narrow and deep stone path under me, just enough to be able to see clearly through the stone door.
But in the altar that should have been bottomless.
At this moment, there were suddenly wisps of dark mist flickering.
Looks like... a human figure?
Seeing this situation, the corners of Chen Yulou's mouth raised slightly, feeling like he had seen through everything.
Collecting the breath around his body, he took one step forward, and his whole body was like a feather flying silently through the air. The speed seemed slow, but in fact it was astonishingly fast.
Only for a moment.
Then he landed outside the stone gate.
The silhouette-like fog also reacted extremely quickly.
A little bit of light and shadow disperses at a speed visible to the naked eye.
It’s just...
After finally catching it, how could Chen Yulou let it go?
"Thunder!"
The word fell.
It’s like holding the Constitution of Heaven in your mouth.
In an instant, a divine thunder was born out of thin air in the empty dome of the altar. The thunder light shone and the panic of heavenly power shrouded down.
“Take one more step.”
"Every soul is destroyed!"
Staring at the mysterious figure that was obviously suppressed by the divine thunder, Chen Yulou shouted coldly.
Although its true nature has not yet been seen.
But such a strange existence is either a ghost or an evil spirit.
That’s why he would activate the ancient thunder talisman without hesitation. All monsters and evil spirits would not be able to escape the suppression of the divine thunder.
And the result was just as he guessed.
At this moment, the strange shadow seemed to be frozen in mid-air. Its silhouette was very similar to that of a human being. The only difference was... the top of its head.
The face is blurred and the facial features cannot be seen clearly.
But it didn’t feel like a human form to him, but more like a pool of invisible things condensed together.
“Aoki Reiki.”
"Break it for me!"
The more he looked at it, the more surprised he became. Chen Yulou was worried that something unexpected might happen due to the long night and many dreams, so he simply refined a ray of green wood spiritual energy and gently blended it into his eyes.
Start by integrating the thousand-year-old Zhixian flower in Zhelong Mountain and condensing the true body of Aoki.
With his natural night eyes, he has entered the legendary Dharma Eye level.
Not only can it not be blocked by night, nor can it be covered by fog, but ordinary demonic fog and poisonous mirages can also easily penetrate it.
But the strange shadow at the moment obviously does not belong to this category.
It is impossible to see through it with Dharma eyes alone.
Only Chen Yulou can use the Aoki Spiritual Eye, and he plans to take a closer look to see what the hell it is.
Just...
Almost at the moment when it looked at it with a pair of bright eyes.
The mysterious figure restrained by the ancient thunder talisman actually suppressed the shock and let out a sharp whistle.
It seemed that he had seen a scene that made him extremely puzzled and unbelievable.
But Chen Yulou ignored him and just glanced away coldly.
Under Qingmu's spiritual eyes, the black mist covering the altar quickly dissipated, and the shrine, the images of Buddhas, and the surrounding murals all came into view one by one with incomparable clarity.
At the same time.
The mysterious shadow with shimmering fog around it also appeared bit by bit.
“How could that happen?!”
But the moment he saw it clearly, a rare look of disbelief appeared on Chen Yulou’s calm face.
I thought it was either a ghost trapped in the city, or a monster that had successfully cultivated through the terrestrial veins of the Western Night Kingdom.
But at this moment, his eyes glanced away.
It was clearly a moving, sticky mass.
Intangible and without quality.
Not even the true form.
The moment he saw it, a word came to Chen Yulou's mind subconsciously.
Eternal life? !
That's right, it's the god believed in by generations on the grassland.
But Xiye Kingdom advocates Buddhism, which can be seen from the many golden stone statues of Buddha enshrined in the altar, and Changshengtian is the supreme god of the shamans of the Mongolian primitive religion.
Not to mention how big the difference is between shamanism and ancient Buddhism.
There are unimaginable differences between the Changshengtian Shaman and the Shaman believed by the Turks.
“Intangible and qualityless, an existence similar to Changshengtian, but it happens to be located in the Western Region...”
Chen Yulou frowned.
Muttered in a low voice.
Thoughts kept coming.
"Wait, is it... a ghostly look!"
Suddenly, his heart moved, and a bold idea came to his mind.
The creators of the ancient country of Jingjue are the Ghost Cave tribe from the underground. Living in a dark world, they regard eyeballs as totems, and the supreme being among them is called Ghost Eyes.
The Ghost Cave Clan hunts the nations, tribes, and wild beasts in the desert.
Sacrifice the ghost eyes with blood.
Trying to gain the divine power it rewards.
That is - the magic eyes and demon pupils.
And the person with the devil eyes and pupils is the ghost mother.
Each generation of ghost mothers never show their true colors to others, so they always cover their faces.
As for Queen Jingjue, although she is a descendant of the Ghost Cave Clan, she does not have demon eyes. In order to gain power when she succeeded to the throne, she signed a contract with the ghost eyes and dedicated her eyes. Go out and exchange for boundless mana. Therefore, even though her power was boundless and she single-handedly swept through the Western Regions and conquered the thirty-six ancient kingdoms during her reign, she still could not escape the fate of life and death.
Not like the ghost mother in the devil country who reincarnated.
Thoughts flashed through my mind.
Chen Yulou’s confused look disappeared.
Good guess.
That viscous liquid-like ghost thing should be the ghost eyes that the Ghost Cave Clan believes in.
However, it will definitely not be the real body.
Rather, it was a ray of divine power that gradually acquired spiritual intelligence and transformed into a demon over thousands of years.
Otherwise, if it were the legendary supreme being Ghost Eyes, it wouldn’t be completely suppressed by a bolt of thunder.
"So..."
Chen Yulou muttered to himself.
I seem to see a picture before my eyes.
After Queen Jingjue unified the thirty-six ancient kingdoms in the Western Region, in order to consolidate her rule and worry about accidents, she specially called the Lord of Xiye Kingdom, who was the best at selling jade among the kingdoms.
Order him to use the jade eyeball as a template to try to secretly imitate an identical jade eye.
At the same time.
With supreme magic power, he gave a divine power for the Lord of Xiye Kingdom to bring back.
When the jade eye is made, it can be given abilities similar to the demon eye.
But Queen Jingjue could never have imagined that the Lord of Xiye Kingdom was so ambitious. After many years of hard work, she managed to imitate a jade eye, but instead of handing it over, she secretly hid it.
After.
Because Queen Jingjue abused the power of ghost eyes.
Coupled with the iron-blooded suppression of the Thirty-Six Ancient Kingdoms, public dissatisfaction boiled and complaints spread. In the end, Prince Gumo united other countries to rise up and attack the ancient city of Jingjue.
In the end, the glorious Jingjue Kingdom was reduced to a pile of ruins, and the Guidong clan became extinct.
The queen who once suppressed the nations died.
It's like a big mountain weighing on your head has been moved away.
He felt more at ease and enshrined Jade Eye 1 in the altar. To be precise... it was the ray of divine power from the ghost eye.
Unfortunately, he is not from the Guidong tribe.
Even if you have jade eyes, you can't get as boundless magic power as the queen.
Wait until the ancient country is buried by yellow sand.
Thousands of years have passed, and the divine power in the jade eyes gradually awakened and transformed into what it is today.
"So... I can't let you go so easily!"
Chen Yulou let out a foul breath.
A pair of eyes soaked in Aoki's spiritual energy became colder and colder.
Before setting off, he had an astonishing plan, using the jade eye to conceal the truth and change the situation.
Now there is another one.
It is equivalent to increasing the success rate by more than 10% out of thin air.
How could he miss it so easily?
“Thunder character!”
Stretching out his hand, his long fingers crossed in front of him.
It seemed random, but a spiritual light emerged one after another, and finally condensed into a huge thunder net, heading straight towards the mysterious shadow.
In case it flees.
Chen Yulou specially used divine thunder to seal the four directions above and below, eight people in front and behind.
At this moment, feeling the majestic and flashing thunder net, Guiying was even more horrified, struggling desperately to try to leave.
What a pity.
It is just a ray of divine power that transforms into a demon.
If he meets ordinary people, he may still have a chance, but Chen Yulou has entered the golden elixir realm, not to mention it is just a wisp of spiritual thought. With his current realm, if he meets the Zhoujiao of Fuxian Lake again, The fight is all instantaneous.
What's more, the eight divine thunders in all directions seemed to have laid a pool of thunder around the body.
Make it impossible to cross even half a step.
I can only watch helplessly as the thunder net approaches.
Boom!
Under the terrifying power of thunder, in just an instant, the few spiritual intelligence of that mysterious shadow was wiped out, and it was transformed into a wisp of invisible divine power again.
“Rong!”
See this situation.
Even Chen Yulou couldn't help but feel shocked.
Having been practicing for so long, in addition to the Aoki longevity technique, he has practiced many methods, including swordsmanship, divine walking techniques, foundation building techniques, and horizontal training techniques.
But when it comes to killing the most.
But it is undoubtedly this ancient thunder talisman.
No wonder the two major thunder altars in Chenzhou were bleeding like rivers of blood because of it.
Shaking his head to disperse the distracting thoughts in his mind, he softly uttered one word.
The spiritual consciousness turned into an invisible big hand, forcibly integrating the divine power that wiped out spiritual wisdom into the jade eyes.
Wait until it's all over.
When he put away the ancient thunder talisman and looked down at the jade eye in his hand, it seemed that not much had changed, but the eyeball totem on the jade stone was much clearer, as if it were real.
Even the thin crack almost disappeared.
"Next, it's the one from the Stone Palace!"
Chen Yulou held it with his backhand, carefully put away the jade eyes, then didn't stay any longer, turned around and walked through the stone door, stepping on the stone steps and leaving step by step. .
The murmurs dispersed.
The ancient altar also fell silent again.
It was as if nothing had ever happened before.
When they returned to the camp, several guys in charge of night patrol were still chatting and didn't notice him leaving. Chen Yulou didn't disturb anyone and went straight back to the tent.
Resolved a major issue hanging in my mind.
With nothing to worry about, he quickly fell asleep.
I had a very peaceful sleep. When I woke up, it was already bright outside and the guys were already making fire to cook. Some people took this opportunity to go to the ancient city to touch gold again.
The Xieling faction has always been a thief.
According to the kidnapper, it was better to let them take it away than to bury it in the sand and never see the light of day, or have it stolen by those foreign devils.
A group of young guys were in high spirits, carrying bamboo baskets on their backs and taking shovels with them.
It’s like an early riser at the beach.
Only one of them was digging for seafood, but now he was sifting through the sand for antiques and artifacts.
Chen Yulou watched this scene calmly.
Didn't stop it.
However, when he passed through the camp, he saw a figure sitting on a section of the ancient city wall from a distance, holding his knees with his hands and carrying a long box behind him.
I don’t know what I’m thinking.
Already completely enchanted.
Chen Yulou walked behind her, but she didn't even notice.
"Miss Oona..."
After pondering for a moment, thinking of what the guys said just now, Chen Yulou spoke softly.
Hearing this, Oona suddenly woke up.
A pair of eyes were full of bloodshot eyes, as if he hadn't slept well all night, and there was a trace of incomprehensible complexity in his eyebrows.
Chen Yulou pondered for a moment and soon had the answer in his mind.
When they entered the city yesterday, Oona stopped them and mentioned things like devil's curse many times.
But everyone took away the ancient objects in the city.
Those ghost ants incarnated as devils were nowhere to be seen.
This made her feel an indescribable feeling. Sometimes she felt that the rumors in the village were wrong, and for a while she worried that the devil's punishment had not yet come.
The huge pressure made her toss and turn all night.
Chen Yulou did not try to convince her. After all, people who have lived in the Western Regions for generations cannot easily dispel the fear of the black desert with just a few words.
But another thing was mentioned.
"The water we brought from the village is running low."
"Do you think there is any way to replenish it?"
As expected, upon hearing this, Wu was stunned. Na looked serious for a moment.
"Shopkeeper Chen, there is an underground river that crosses the north and south in the Black Desert, named Zidu. If we can find it, water supply will not be a problem at all."
"Zidu Dark River?"
"That's right. There is an ancient well about half a day further north. We can go there first to supply supplies." (End of Chapter)