Ever since Ouyang Hongye said goodbye to Master Yong and Elder Cheng, and left the Tianquan Hall of Chenji Palace with Wang Yue and Feng Huo to embark on the road to find the Tianfu, he has been uneasy in his heart, but he still pretends to be casual and carefree on the surface. Although he knew that this journey to the west would be difficult and difficult, he was even more worried about Ouyang Xiaoleng and the others. In his eyes, they were just children, but now they were forced to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the survival of the demon world. .
After the war, except for the royal city of Yongchuan, which was managed by the two elders, and Dongyao, which was under the jurisdiction of the Amber Dragon King, the rest of the demon world had already fallen apart and fell into a leaderless chaos. The remnants of Qingyun took this opportunity to attack most of the cities. At present, the divine pillar of the royal city has collapsed, and the entire demon world is also in danger. It depends on Master Yong and Elder Cheng to turn the tide and temporarily restrain the collapse of the divine pillar. It goes without saying that they have great skills, but after all, both of them are old. If they want to resist the divine pillar and not fall, they will definitely use up most of their demonic power and energy. For the two old men, this was a test and even torture. To be honest, Ouyang Hongye had no idea how long they could hold on.
When he was thinking about it and was unable to do anything, he accidentally heard the sound of birds chirping above his head. He raised his head and looked along the birdsong, and saw a golden-red bird hovering above their heads. The cardinal was the thorn, and it slowly descended to the ground, taking on a huge human form and bowing to them as usual.
"Thorns." Ouyang Hongye nodded in response to him.
"I have a message for you from the manager of the underground database of Ouyang Ancient House!" Jingjia raised his head and said.
Ouyang Hongye suddenly became interested: "Come and tell me."
Jingjia cleared his throat, imitated Dong Muya's voice exactly, and repeated it again: "There are limited records about Tianfu, but I found a document about the lord of Nanzhe City, which contains this paragraph, in the private garden of the palace, The mural depicts the process of the god Qiansu creating the demon world, and part of it is exactly about the sky talisman being left somewhere in the demon world." Jingji paused for a moment, then resumed his original voice, "This is what she wants me to do. Message brought to you.”
"Is there anything else besides these?"
Ouyang Hongye was a little uncomfortable thinking that Dong Muya, a woman, had not left a word of concern or greeting to him.
Thorns replied: "There is a sentence, but she later said that there is no need to repeat it to you."
Ouyang Hongye asked: "Let's talk about it!"
Jingji returned to Dong Muya's tone: "Tell him to try to avoid direct conflict with the mourning ghosts in Nanzhe City, because that will soon attract a large number of their companions, and he must come back alive! Forget it, these things He must know it too, so there’s no need to tell him, lest he find me nagging me again.”
Wang Yue, who had been silent next to her, couldn't help but burst into laughter, "I've been told, but you think I'm nagging you, but if you don't tell me, you feel uncomfortable. Isn't this a bitch!"
Ouyang Hongye was not angry. Listening to his slightly sarcastic words, she just smiled mischievously and said, "Fortunately, there are still people who care about me. It's better than you who don't care about you!"
"You also know that others care about you, but for so many years, you deliberately pretend to turn a blind eye, turn a deaf ear, and let others wait for you."
Wang Yue's words were enough to make Ouyang Hongye speechless. Except for a heartless person like Wang Yue, who else would touch the restricted area of his heart like this? How could he not know Dong Muya's thoughts? Over the years, so many times spent together, and every bit of care, how could he, the person who thinks he knows how to love best, not appreciate it? But this expectation made him unable to respond. Although he had a good impression of her in his heart, his affection for her could never be as deep as that for another person. It was as if he had already determined the most beautiful destination, and for others The scenery is limited to admiring, but has no intention of staying.
He knew that Dong Muya understood his loneliness, his infatuation, the single-mindedness behind his romance, and the heartache in his disdain. She was his confidant and the outlet for his heart, but he could never give her a promise until there was room in his heart. He knew very well that he was selfish, but he didn't know how to accept her feelings.
"That's all I need to convey. If there's nothing else you need, I'll go back to the royal city."
Seeing that Ouyang Hongye and the others had no other instructions, Thorns bowed slightly again, then jumped into the golden-red bird and flew into the air and disappeared.
Dong Muya's discovery made Ouyang Hongye suddenly enlightened. He and Wangyue discussed that they should rush to Southern Zhejiang as soon as possible without delay. Unexpectedly, the decision to enter Southern Zhejiang did not match Feng Huo's thoughts, and a dispute immediately broke out between the two parties.
On the surface, this Fenghuo was ordered by Lion King Cheng to assist Ouyang Hongye and Mochizuki, but in fact it was more like a bystander sent by Lion King Cheng to monitor them. He always kept a certain distance from the two of them, neither far nor close to them, walking alone without saying a word. Previously, Ouyang Hongye was only thinking about Tianfu, and even if she was dissatisfied with him, she had no chance to express it. But now, facing his arrogance and unreasonableness, his long-suppressed anger almost exploded.
Feng Huo complained before him: "Just because of a piece of information that woman found from nowhere, she asked us to take a desperate risk and run to a ghost place like Nan Zhejiang?! How could she know something that couldn't even be predicted?! "
He was very reluctant to enter Nanzhe, because he knew too well what Nanzhe represented, and even comparing it to purgatory was not an exaggeration. In fact, the former Nanzhe City Lord was also a leopard demon, and he and he were of the same origin and race, and could be considered half brothers. Nanzhe and Yongchuan were not far apart. In the past, he often visited here because of his friendship with the Nanzhe City Lord.
Wandering in the middle of the busy market, watching the weird vendors selling all kinds of weird products, you can even buy many things that are prohibited from being sold in the demon world. For example, the "Yao Powder" that doubles the power of demons in a short time, the "Invisibility Cloak" made from the feathers of the hidden wind bird, the "Condensing Flower Dew" that can charm others, the highly poisonous "Ghost Eater Snake Powder", You can watch the "psychic mirror" somewhere in the other world...especially those demon slaves who were sold, many of whom are descendants of the mermaid clan and mixed with foreigners. They have blond hair, blue eyes, prominent outlines, graceful figures, and graceful postures. They are... The slave traders pulled out the cages covered with cloth bags and auctioned them one by one. Every time a cloth bag was opened, people were amazed and the bidders excitedly took out all the gold coins in their pockets. All this is like heaven and earth. Feng Huo in his youth was so stupid that he was often so greedy that he would not move for a long time as if his feet were nailed to nails.
In the first month when Nanzhe City fell into a dead city, he had met with the lord of Nanzhe City, and he stayed in the palace for a few days. At that time, everything was still calm and peaceful, and there was no sign of any contact between the Lord of Nanzhe City and Qingyun. Unexpectedly, not long after he returned to the royal city of Yongchuan, a plague of death-eating poison broke out in southern Zhejiang. A gorgeous city turned into a nest of death-eating ghosts within a few days. According to the few people who were lucky enough to escape from the city, the lord of Nanzhe City knew that he had fallen into Qingyun's scheme and had no face to live in the world anymore. He drank poisonous wine with Ghost Eater Snake Powder and committed suicide. Before he died, he ordered his soldiers to close the city gates to prevent the death-eating ghosts from running out of the city and causing harm to the people.
Since then, a lifetime of prosperity has vanished in an instant, wealth and glory have become a thing of the past, and Southern Zhejiang has become a well-known forbidden place of death. Everyone talks about the Death Eater Ghost City, and whenever you mention it, your face turns pale, as if you were frightened by a nightmare. There were also those who got lost and entered the city by mistake, or ventured into the city in order to find the treasure left by the Lord of Nanzhe City, and all of them became delicious meals in the mouths of the mourning ghosts.
Ouyang Hongye still tried his best to suppress his anger and asked: "Do you have any better ideas?"
Fenghuo shouted impatiently: "It's better than going to that ghost place to feed the dead ghosts!"
Mochizuki smiled contemptuously at him, turned to Hongye and said, "Forget it, he's afraid of death! I think it's better for the two of us to go!"
"That's fine!"
Ouyang Hongye decided to stimulate Feng Huo. With his personality, provoking him might be more effective than arguing with him directly.
"I'm afraid of death?! What a joke! What have I not experienced after living for so long?! No one has ever dared to look down on me like this!" Feng Huo retorted, he hated to hear people say that he was timid and afraid of death.
"You're even afraid of a small character like a mourning ghost, and you dare to say that you're not greedy for life and afraid of death?!" Wang Yue saw Ouyang Hongye winking at her, so she quickly understood and continued to provoke him.
Without saying a few words, Feng Huo was so excited that he couldn't hold his breath. Most of the time, Feng Huo is simply like a child. As the saying goes, "there is no string in the brain" or "one meridian", and someone can lead him into a ditch if he is not careful. Soon, he got into a fight with the two men and shouted in a loud voice: "Go ahead, who is afraid of whom? Let me show you if I don't kill him a mountain of mourning ghosts!" Feng said! After Huo finished speaking, he shouted and drove his horse towards the direction of Nanzhe.
Ouyang Hongye and Wangyue looked at each other and smiled, not daring to neglect, and followed him closely. By the evening of the second day, they were very close to Nanzhe City.
"Ahead is Nanzhe City." Ouyang Hongye, who was walking at the front, reined in the horse's rope and turned around and said. Looking from the horse, he could only see the hazy outline of Nanzhe City shrouded in haze. He turned back to look at the moon and the wind. Huo said, "It's getting late, let's rest outside the city tonight, and attack Southern Zhejiang early tomorrow morning!"
So, the three of them dismounted and called their demon horses back into the darkness. Ouyang Hongye and Wangyue lit a bonfire outside the city wall and sat on the ground around the fire. However, Feng Huo still stubbornly chose to keep a certain distance from them, which made Mochizuki extremely unhappy.
He deliberately shouted loudly in the direction of Feng Huo: "It seems we are going to meet the mourning ghosts tomorrow!"
Ouyang Hongye did not forget to echo him: "There is only one way to deal with them, which is to chop off their heads at once!"
Feng Huo, who once again lost his composure, muttered disdainfully: "Do I not know this?!"
Ouyang Hongye ignored Feng Huo and continued to talk to himself: "I wonder how Xiao Leng and the others are progressing?"
Wangyue comforted him: "Those children will definitely be able to find the Earth Talisman and return safely, so you don't have to worry too much."
"Although I have been to Nanzhe City many times before, I have never noticed any private gardens in the palace. I really regret it!"
Hearing what Ouyang Hongye said, Wangyue also felt pity: "I was not the same. At that time, Nanzhe City was very lively. There were too many interesting things in the market, so how could I focus on the palace."
"Haha, who would have thought that such a huge city would turn into the lair of the Death Eater Ghost in a few days. This is also its calamity!"
"If the Lord of Nanzhe City was not so greedy and fell into Qingyun's trick, this place should still be as prosperous as before."
Ouyang Hongye couldn't help but think of the former Nanzhe City Lord who was also a prince of the demon world. Although he is a demon, he likes to develop business. Nanzhe City once became one of the most developed cities in the demon world. In addition to ordinary transactions, you can also freely buy and sell various monsters, elixirs, charms, demon slaves and other things that are prohibited from being sold in other places. However, the lord of Nanzhe City could not resist the temptation of gold. It was said that the gold under his palace was as much as the entire demon world combined, but it still could not satisfy his desire.
In the end, he believed Qingyun's scam of turning stones into gold, and mixed the so-called "holy water" that could turn stones into gold into the water sources in southern Zhejiang. People in the city began to become seriously ill for no apparent reason, and their bodies seemed to be twitched little by little by some force. Qian, after death, he can still walk on the street and turn into a mourning ghost. The so-called zombie eaters are a kind of mummy that specializes in eating blood and carrion. Their consciousness is indistinguishable from that of single-celled organisms. They are sleepless and immortal. As long as they smell the breath of living creatures, they will concentrate there. The only way to kill them is to kill them. Their method was to chop off their heads.