Xingchou ran away, and Jiang Yuebai's real body appeared on the city wall, pressing his chest and coughing up blood.
Lu Nanzhi jumped onto the city wall which was hundreds of feet high, his eyes full of concern.
"How are you?"
Jiang Yuebai wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and smiled bitterly, "Today I have experienced the feeling that strength lies in numbers and that ants can kill elephants."
The individual strength of these puppets is only at the Foundation Establishment stage, and their bodies are very fragile due to weathering. But when they gather in the hundreds and thousands and bombard each other violently, even the Golden Core cannot withstand it!
After taking a healing pill, Jiang Yuebai straightened his breath and asked Lu Nanzhi, "How are you?"
"I'm fine."
"If I don't get something good this time, I'll be sorry for the two mouthfuls of blood I spit out!"
Jiang Yuebai used the Phoenix True Fire to burn the blood she vomited on the ground to avoid any future troubles. Her blood was not ordinary blood.
Glancing around, Jiang Yuebai discovered that the material used to make these puppets was still dragon bones, but they were of low grade.
Jiang Yuebai picked up a few relatively intact dragon bone puppets and put them away, then jumped into the inner city with Lu Nanzhi and picked up a few heavy fire crossbows under the city wall.
"There are spirit stone fragments here."
Lu Nanzhi called Jiang Yuebai over and saw many circular totems on the city wall. They were all in the shape of dragons with witchcraft characters inside and some high-quality spirit stones embedded on them.
"It must be Xingchou who activated these puppets."
Jiang Yuebai was not unconcerned that Xing Chou would take away the most important treasure, but compared to the treasure, his life was more important.
Xingchou was obviously familiar with the terrain, mechanisms and even secret passages here, so there was a gap in information between them.
If she continued to pursue Xingchou, she would probably fall into a trap and end up losing more than she gained.
It is better to explore slowly. There may not be gold and silver everywhere ahead. There may be more difficult to break mechanisms and greater dangers.
The two men sneaked into the city. The buildings in the city were very huge, mostly stone houses. On the doors were totems of human bodies and dragon tails painted with blood-red paint, which had a wild and savage feel.
It seems that the people living here are all over three meters tall, as can be seen from the height of the door frame.
"Are all the people living here giants?" Lu Nanzhi walked into a stone house on the side of the road and asked in confusion.
Jiang Yuebai followed in and looked through the books on the shelf that broke at the slightest touch.
"It's also possible that people in ancient times were just huge."
The books on the shelf looked like some kind of leaves tied together, like burnt paper ashes, they broke at the touch and were impossible to pick up.
Jiang Yuebai found a few more animal skins under the shelf, with some red text still on them. After opening them, he discovered that they were the manufacturing drawings of the dragon armor soldiers on the city wall, as well as drawings of flame heavy crossbows and other heavy and light weapons.
The two of them briefly searched other rooms and found some witch animal skins and a large number of similar puppet manufacturing drawings.
Jiang Yuebai took a quick look at the animal skins with witch characters and deduced based on a few familiar witch characters that they were all related to raising and controlling dragons.
"It seems that the totem worshipped by the people here is this human body and dragon tail."
The two walked to the center of the city and saw another statue with a human body and a dragon tail, which was much smaller than the one they had seen before.
After walking a short distance, the two men discovered a large number of traces of fierce fighting and two normal-sized human skeletons on the side of the road.
There were only pieces of clothing left on the human bones, and no storage magic weapon. Jiang Yuebai searched carefully and found half a token under the collapsed stone house.
"Fu... Long... Fu Long Sect?" Jiang Yuebai picked up the token to identify it.
Jiang Yuebai stood up and said, "It seems that someone came here many years ago. The Black Cauldron was taken out at that time and fell into the hands of the demon Hun Tian. Maybe he also found clues about this place from the cauldron and came here."
The two stood on the wide main street. At the end was an ancient and majestic black stone tower. On the tower, there was a dragon carved out of red rock. The dragon head was coiled on the tower. The dragon head had a ferocious face and was roaring at them.
It seems to be warning those who come not to come near.
Jiang Yuebai had few Divine Invisibility Talisman and Turtle Breath Talisman left, so she needed to save some. She released her puppet clone, and the two talismans on the clone could be activated with spiritual energy.
The puppet clone hid its body and explored the way ahead, while Jiang Yuebai and Lu Nanzhi followed behind.
The stone door below the black tower was pushed open a crack, and the puppet clone went in first. He saw a hall supported by nine dragon-coiled pillars. There was a dragon carved on each pillar, corresponding to the nine dragons.
The floor of the hall was still the kind of shiny marble that could reflect light. The puppet clone carefully examined the reflection. Just like before, the dragon in the reflection was slightly different from the dragon on the stone pillar, and there was a distinction between female and male.
"What does this mean?" Jiang Yuebai muttered, and began to think uncontrollably.
A divine thought controlled the puppet clone to continue walking inside, where he saw some traces of battle and a dragon-armored puppet that was beaten to pieces and covered with charred marks.
This dragon armor puppet is obviously more sophisticated and of a higher level than the one on the city wall.
Jiang Yuebai used his puppet clone to check and found it was still warm, so it was obviously done by Xing Chou.
Further in, on a circular altar, a path leading underground appeared.
The puppet clone went down first. The stairs were only ten feet wide and there was darkness on both sides. You couldn't see your hand in front of you and no light could get in.
All you can feel is gusts of chilly wind blowing out of the darkness, accompanied by the echo of footsteps, which makes you shudder.
After walking not far, the dim light in the hall at the back disappeared completely. There were no reference objects in front or behind. Only the stairs under my feet were suspended over the endless abyss, going down all the way, deep into the underworld.
Jiang Yuebai and Lu Nanzhi, who were following behind, were both tense, feeling as if there was some huge monster in the darkness, staring at them.
After walking down for more than an hour, the stairs finally reached the end. In front of us was a naturally formed gorge, winding and twisting, with a faint light coming through.
The puppet clone continued to move forward and when he reached the end of the gorge, he was stunned.
At first glance, Jiang Yuebai thought they were back to the place of the Nine Dragon Heads outside, but after looking carefully, she found that the Nine Dragon Heads were indeed exactly the same as the surrounding rocks, but there was an extra black coffin in the center of the nine dragon heads.
Nine chains stretched out from the mouth of the Nine Dragons and connected to the black coffin, hanging it in the center of the abyss.
Xingchou sat cross-legged on the edge of the abyss with his eyes closed and brows furrowed.
In addition to Xingchou, there are three normal-sized skeletons around, also sitting cross-legged.
"Since you can come here, you are qualified to inherit my legacy."
A vicissitudes of life and ancient voice suddenly appeared in Jiang Yuebai and Lu Nanzhi's sea of consciousness, and the two were immediately locked by a powerful divine thought.
The two were shocked and retreated immediately, only to find that the stairs under their feet were collapsing rapidly from a high altitude, forcing them to retreat towards Jiulongshou.
When they came down the stairs, the barrier glowed, blocking all exits.
"I will let you go immediately after you learn the skills I teach you."
The voice sounded again, and along with it came a large amount of witch language that enlightened them, forcibly imprinting a complex and profound technique into the two people's sea of consciousness.
Jiang Yuebai didn’t know whether the martial arts Lu Nanzhi obtained was the same as hers. What was imprinted in her mind was the "Chaos Nirvana Kung Fu".
Today's fourth update is over, see you tomorrow~
(End of this chapter)