The cross-shaped pupils of the screaming devil flickered with an inexplicable brilliance. Ye Xing said in a tone of joy and pride, "It turns out that I have such a high evaluation in the master's heart. I am so happy and honored."
This... I'm just stating a fact. Tianyang was somewhat speechless. The key had already been pushed to the bottom. He tried to turn it...
Ye Xing said with regret: "Unfortunately, my memory is not complete, and the history I remember is also very messy, so I don't deserve the master's praise."
Well, you don't have to take that to heart. Tianyang turned the key and heard a light "click" from the secret door. He saw the key to the royal court glowing and felt the door vibrate slightly.
He stepped back a little and saw that each secret symbol on the gate was emitting a faint, light yellow light.
Then, a gap appeared in the middle of the door, and it began to slowly split to the left and right and open inward.
I don’t know how long this door has not been opened. When the two doors moved inward, they shook off countless dust.
When they stopped, Tianyang saw a corridor, an aerial corridor. It connected the entrance and another gate a hundred meters away. It had no railings, and both sides were deep and dark, leading to an unknown abyss.
"Master, this is the abyss corridor." Ye Xing's voice became low, as if afraid of disturbing the silence behind the door.
Tianyang strode forward, passed through the door and stepped onto the corridor.
The corridor is about 100 meters long and can be walked through in less than a minute.
Tianyang walked forward for a while, then stopped and looked around.
There are high walls on both sides connected to the secret gate. Behind the high walls, between the royal court and the gate, is an abyss with no bottom in sight.
Looking down from the corridor, one could vaguely see the depths of the abyss, where there seemed to be some kind of faint light flickering and flowing. Just looking into the abyss gave one the illusion of falling.
It can be seen that Ye Xing did not lie. The abyss in the cracks does have a strange power that will pull the lives passing above and make them fall uncontrollably.
Therefore, if you don’t pass through the secret gate, you will not be able to enter the royal court.
Even a flying bird can fall into the abyss.
Looking at the corridor again, it is nearly 100 meters long and six meters wide, which can be considered spacious.
The floor of the corridor turned out to be the same crystalline matrix as outside, spanning the abyss.
Walking on it and looking down, you can see the abyss at the bottom through those translucent crystals.
Passing through this corridor was like walking on the void. Fortunately, the fog ghost mask blocked his face, otherwise Ye Xing would have discovered that his master had a serious expression on his face.
Through the corridor.
At the end of the corridor, which was the entrance to the sacrificial site, the door was open and the light inside was dim, so nothing could be seen.
Tianyang didn't rush in. He first communicated with the black fog and sensed the scan.
Seeing that the young man was standing still, Yexing did not dare to act on his own, so he also stopped and waited for Tianyang's further action.
The model constructed by the black fog allowed Tianyang to "see" the situation in the dusk sacrificial site.
Behind the gate is a vast hall with a stone platform in the center. Braziers, fallen stone pillars, broken statues, etc. are scattered around the platform.
There are two stone staircases around it, leading to the high platform above, on top of which stands a stone seat.
The stone base is majestic and has a unique style.
But now, it is full of cracks, and even flowers and plants have sprouted in some places.
There are several huge stone pillars in the hall, which support the dome. Around the hall, twisted vines are everywhere. Dust can be seen in every visible corner.
No one has set foot here for a long time.
Although it had been abandoned for many years, no illegal citizens were found in the hall, which made Tianyang feel relieved.
But the young man did not dare to take it lightly. He took out the crown and iron gloves and put them on, then condensed the mist into a sword and walked into the hall.
Just as he had observed in the black fog, the hall was pitch black, and the night star quickly floated to the platform, and no one knew what it did. After a while, clusters of dim yellow light began to light up in the hall.
The light shone from the stone pillars supporting the dome on all sides. It turned out that there were some crystals embedded in the pillars. They emitted a light like dusk, allowing Tianyang to see things in the hall clearly.
Everything was almost the same as the scene presented by the black fog model, except that it was clearer. However, on the walls around the hall, there were some additional things that the black fog model did not present.
mural.
Ye Xing had already floated to a mural: "Master, look here, this is the origin of our Dusk Clan."
Tianyang walked over. Due to the characteristics of the Mist Ghost Armor, he did not leave any footprints on the dusty ground.
When he came to the wall and looked up, there was indeed a mural on it. However, the mural was covered with dust, which blocked most of the picture. Tianyang raised his hand and blew a breeze, blowing away the dust on the painting.
I don’t know whether the painting was colored back then. In any case, after years of erosion, only a turbid color like rust remains on the mural.
The contents of some of the paintings have long been unrecognizable; they are blurry and unclear, and it is hard to tell what they are depicting.
Judging from the remaining barely recognizable images, this is a scene of the Dusk Clan worshiping their gods. The picture is filled with a sea of people, all kneeling towards the front.
In front of the crowd, there was a huge, blurry figure. That shadow was much larger than that of the Dusk Clan, giving people a feeling of being tall and noble.
This should be the so-called God of Dusk.
However, it has no specific image. I don’t know if it is because the mural is blurred or it was originally like this.
But near that figure, Tianyang recognized some things scattered around, which seemed to be holy objects bestowed by the God of Dusk to believers.
These sacred objects include books, idols, jewelry, weapons, etc.
Tian Yang couldn't help but ask, "Didn't you say that the God of Dusk didn't appear or respond until the universe slid into eternal night? Then what's the matter with this painting?"
Ye Xing spread his hands and said, "Sorry, Master, that happened so long ago that I can't remember it clearly. However, from my experience as a member of the Twilight Clan, this mural is just the result of the painter's beautiful wishes."
Oh, that's what is called 'wishful thinking'.
Tianyang observed again and found that the Dusk Clan in the painting all had human appearance. In other words, at this time, they had not yet been corrupted by the Eternal Night.
I walked around the hall and looked at seven or eight murals. These paintings can be said to be a microcosm of the history of the Dusk Clan.
From the first painting, which began with worshipping the God of Dusk, to the second painting, which was inspired to leave his hometown, to the third painting, which was influenced by the Eternal Night and began to be corrupted... ... .
By the eighth picture, it is the figure of the God of Dusk.
Half hidden in the clouds, below was a picture of the corrupted Dusk Clan crying and holding their heads. Looking at this mural, even Tianyang felt the pain of being abandoned.
Yexing stared at the mural in a trance, not knowing what he was reminiscing about. Tianyang did not disturb him. Walking further ahead, there was another mural.
This mural has distinct colors and clear textures, and it seems that it was painted not long ago. The mural is only half painted, and the theme it expresses is war.
The war between the Dusk Clan and the Old Black People is reflected in this mural by a thick black shadow.
The painter used bold brushstrokes and exaggerated techniques to outline the black shadow into the outline of a giant snake.
In the shadows, some delicate lines were left blank, making them look like scales on a giant snake. But when Tian Yang looked closely, he found that these so-called "scales" were actually human faces.
Young and old, men and women!
A chill ran down the young man's back, and he felt a little dazed. He seemed to have seen a strange snake with scales like a human face somewhere before.
Then he noticed that the direction the strange snake was moving was opposite to the battlefield.
Moreover, there was scarlet paint on the body of the strange snake, depicting several things.
Two of them were flesh and blood devices that appeared in the Metropolis and the Nameless City!
"Those were things that the Eternal Night believers stole from us."
Probably realizing that Tianyang was observing the giant snake and the things on its body, Yexing, who had left his original position at some point, said this.
Tian Yang glanced at the Screaming Demoness and said, "You mean, these things were taken out from here? What are their uses?"
The boy pointed at one of the flesh devices.
Ye Xing's cross-shaped pupils changed for a while, as if he was trying hard to find some memory fragments, and suddenly he shouted: "I know, it's the signpost!"
"Those things can open the gap where Akagi is located and connect it to the outside world!"
The Screaming Demoness said indignantly: "Those damn Eternal Night believers must be planning to make a comeback in the future, so they took away our 'beacon'. Oh, by the way, I am no longer a member of the Twilight Clan, so what does that have to do with me?"
Tianyang looked at the foreign creature in silence, and added in his heart, it’s a pity that they lost the signpost, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to come in.
It turned out that the two flesh and blood devices were "beacons", tools to connect the reverse world and the secret realm. Could it be that soon after they sent out some kind of signal, the "door" to the secret realm of the underworld appeared
In the boy's mind, some puzzle pieces that were obscured by the fog gradually became clear.
"gone."
There was nothing else to gain from staying any longer, so Tianyang walked towards the door at the other end of the sacrificial field: "What area is outside the door?"
"Outside the door is the 'Square of Doom'. We can pass the square and take the 'Red Corridor', from where we will reach the 'Twilight Courtyard'."
Yexing paused, and suddenly a strong malice surged up, and he gritted his teeth and said: "The King of Dusk is right there!"
"Understood."
Tianyang pushed open the door of the sacrificial site and just opened a gap, but suddenly, he stepped back as if he had been electrocuted.
Just behind the crack in the door, there was an eyeball. It had a huge, pitch-black pupil, and the eye socket was oozing with blue, fluorescent liquid.
This strange eyeball was slowly turning outside the door, spying on the scene inside the sacrificial field...