Outside the City Lord’s Mansion.
Pang Jian, who controlled the Jingzhi Spear and performed the "Jingzhi Edge" skillfully, was able to separate the spear tip and the spear shaft.
However, it is still far from reaching the level of proficiency.
suddenly.
The originally dead silent square and the eight streets leading to the city gate suddenly became strangely bustling with people.
The area submerged by the filthy power of the fifth realm is still in absolute darkness, but Pang Jian, who has been promoted to the Marrow Cleansing Realm with the dark power, can see things clearly in the darkness.
He was shocked by the scene before him.
I saw many people in old clothes suddenly appearing, talking loudly.
Those people were either standing in the square where he was standing, or stopped at the street corner where he had previously huddled, or appeared in the alley leading to the City Lord's Mansion.
They are everywhere.
Judging from the accessories on their clothes, these men and women of different ages all seem to be practitioners.
The frightened Pang Jian felt his scalp tingling. He felt like he was suddenly in a den of ghosts and was forced to hear a lot of words.
They were all talking about something called "spiritual food", saying how much "spiritual food" so and so had harvested in the underworld, and how much should be paid as tribute to the city lord.
The ancient people from all over the place had warm smiles on their faces and looked quite kind and polite.
In a panic, Pang Jian secretly prepared for the battle, but found that no one noticed him at all.
The ancient people suddenly appeared, as if they were in another time and space, discussing the topic of "spiritual food" in their world.
Pang Jian felt a little relieved, so he secretly sensed and immediately understood that these ancient people who suddenly appeared were not ghosts like the "Lingsha".
He could not sense any abnormal energy from those ancient people; they were like air.
A man and a woman suddenly came hand in hand.
Pang Jian looked at the couple, smiled, walked through their bodies, and headed straight for the City Lord's Mansion.
He was treating it as a formidable enemy and felt nothing when the two men passed through his body.
This man and woman and all the ancient people seem to be just flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water, projections from another time and space.
But Pang Jian could see their words and actions, and could hear them all talking about "spiritual food."
Pang Jian, who had no idea what strange thing had happened, was looking at the unusual and bustling scene before him in the extreme darkness of Bagua City, which should have been dead silent.
He felt increasingly horrified.
"Li Yuqing in the alley..."
Worried that the girl might be frightened, he did not bother to practice the "Shocking Gun" and immediately ran towards the alley with the Gun in hand.
A moment later, he returned to the girl's side and asked in a deep voice, "Are you okay?"
Many ancient people suddenly appeared, and walked along this alley towards the mansion as if they were paying tribute to the city lord. Some of them passed through Li Yuqing's body.
She was still standing gracefully at the entrance of the alley, twisting a delicate little wine pot, eating red fruits, and looking into the mansion with interest.
After hearing Pang Jian's question, she turned around and asked curiously, "What can I do?"
"These, and these..."
Pang Jian stretched out his hand and pointed at an old man in gray who was walking past him, and then at a beautiful woman who was standing next to the girl.
"Oh."
The girl pursed her lips and chuckled mischievously, "Do you think I'm afraid of these ghosts?"
Without waiting for Pang Jian's response, she waved her hand nonchalantly and said, "Don't worry, I knew what would happen when I came. These are not living people, not even ghosts, so I'm not afraid."
Pang Jianqi asked, "Do you know what will happen?"
"Um."
She waved at Pang Jian, motioning him to come over.
At this time, there were no tables, chairs or other decorations at the entrance of the alley, and she was the only one standing there.
Pang Jian followed her instructions and stepped forward, standing shoulder to shoulder with her. Through a barrier-like darkness, he gazed into the mansion again.
At this moment, Yuan Lengshan was standing on a high platform, questioning Li Jie about something.
Li Jie looked a little cold, and seemed unwilling to pay attention to her.
In the courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion, there were also many ancient people, some pouring in from the entrance of this alley, some passing through the wall, and all standing in the courtyard of the mansion.
Next to the pool.
There was a tall and handsome man with extraordinary aura, wearing a white robe standing by the pool. He was someone Pang Jian had never seen before.
After a closer look, Pang Jian realized that he, like those people who suddenly appeared, was also an alien in Li Yuqing's words, not a living person, not even a ghost.
The man had a smile on his face and looked extraordinary.
He was talking to every tribute payer, collecting the tributes they presented, and speaking to them in a low voice.
After paying tribute, those who had done so bowed and expressed their gratitude before leaving.
There was an endless stream of tribute payers coming forward to pay tribute in an orderly manner, and the scene looked quite harmonious.
Li Yuqing took a sip of fruit wine and saw Pang Jian looking at the scene in the City Lord's Mansion with curiosity. She whispered, "Do you know what the spiritual food they are talking about is?"
Pang Jian shook his head.
"Living soul."
Li Yuqing frowned.
Pang Jian's face changed, and he said in a deep voice: "The spiritual food those people are talking about refers to the living souls? The souls of living people?"
"Um."
Li Yuqing nodded gently, "Three thousand years ago in Bagua City, the city lord Yuan Shishan practiced forbidden techniques and fed on living souls."
"He also promoted this forbidden technique and asked the natives of Bagua City to practice it. He did not allow those who were unwilling to practice it to live in Bagua City."
"Later, all the citizens of Bagua City, like him, secretly practiced this forbidden technique of devouring living souls."
"Those people often go out to some cities in the third world and towns and villages in the fourth world to secretly hunt down the souls of those with strong blood and energy. Those who live in Bagua City have to pay tribute to Yuan Shishan with spiritual food every once in a while."
"What you are seeing now is one of the tribute scenes."
Li Yuqing slowly told the truth.
Pang Jian's scalp tingled as he heard this. He frowned and asked, "How many people from the third and fourth realms died at the hands of the citizens of Bagua City?"
“Hundreds of thousands.”
Li Yuqing said.
Pang Jian was silent for a moment, then said, "The city lord Yuan Shishan and all the citizens of Bagua City deserve to die."
"Yes, the people above thought so too. So when the last tribute was paid, Bagua City disappeared out of thin air and appeared on top of this Heaven-reaching Tribulation Pillar."
Li Yuqing took a deep breath and said, "Sacrificing blood to Bagua City and killing all the people in the city overnight was also a decision made by all parties."
"All parties?" Pang Jian was stunned.
Li Yuqing nodded and said, "The sects in the First Realm of Purgatory."
"Purgatory?"
"Well, our world is called Purgatory."
Li Yuqing gave an affirmative answer.
…
"boom!"
Fighting broke out again in the palace.
Dong Tianze waved the Ghost Chant, trying to use the numerous holes on the black gold broken blade to absorb the foreign objects in front of him, so as to greatly enhance his own strength.
As he practiced the magic of the Yinling Temple and had the evil weapon Ghost Chant in his hand, he could indeed do this.
But despite his excitement, he soon discovered that his ghost chant did not have any miraculous effect. The ancient people who poured in from all directions did not have any of the energy that souls and ghosts should have.
Instead, when he was waving the Ghost Chant, making it emit the sound of thousands of ghosts wailing, Lan Xi mistakenly thought that he was going to kill someone.
Lan Xi snorted coldly and threw a flower basket full of branches in his hand towards Dong Tianze.
The branches in the flower basket, while floating in the air, stabbed towards Dong Tianze like swords.
As soon as she moved, Heigu Lin Beiye said nothing and smashed over with the Panlong Staff in his hand.
Lines of light that looked like real dragons rushed out from the Panlong Staff and fought fiercely with the huge "魔" character that flew out from Lan Xi's clothes.
The stagnant battle suddenly broke out.
Lan Xi snorted coldly, her skirt fluttering as she produced more bright red heart-shaped talismans, some of which flew towards Lin Beiye and the others towards Dong Tianze.
"Heart-breaking!"
Lan Xi uttered a spell softly.
The heart-shaped talisman flew towards Lin Beiye and Dong Tianze, and the word "heart" suddenly shattered.
Lin Beiye and Dong Tianze groaned in unison, feeling a sharp pain in their hearts. In panic, they quickly gathered their strength to eliminate Lan Xi's evil curse in their hearts.
Lan Xi slapped the Panlong Staff with one hand, and countless huge black magic characters took the opportunity to strangle those light dragons.
"boom!"
While Lin Beiye was unable to free his hands, Lan Xi injected strength into the flower basket, causing it to suddenly shine with brilliant light.
With a "bang", the flower basket hit Dong Tianze, and Dong Tianze broke several bones immediately.
"Because you are the weakest, I will kill you first."
Lan Xi approached with a matter-of-fact look on his face, wanting to kill Dong Tianze as quickly as possible and then concentrate on dealing with Lin Beiye.
Yuan Lengshan is her hope for the future.
Whether she can gain a foothold in the Demon Heart Sect in the future and whether she can further advance in her cultivation level all depends on this youngest junior sister.
—She risked everything on this.
“Wow!”
As she flew towards Dong Tianze, she suddenly saw a brilliant starlight, like a galaxy appearing behind her.
Lan Xi turned back in horror and slapped the brilliant Milky Way with countless magic words on his palm.
She no longer cared about Dong Tianze. She quietly passed over Dong Tianze's head, turned around in mid-air and kept backing away.
Countless magic characters sank into the approaching brilliant Milky Way, as if colliding with thousands of stars, exploding with dazzling brilliance.
The violent momentum caused Lan Xi, who was in the air, to retreat step by step.
She looked at Luo Hongyan on the podium with fear.
However, she had no idea that she was getting closer and closer to the dark alley where Pang Jian disappeared.
"ah!"
Lan Xi suddenly screamed, and keenly sensed a sharp beam of light suddenly appearing from the darkness behind her.
"Bang!"
The broken galaxy on her chest suddenly exploded, and the violent force pushed her back.
"puff!"
As she was still retreating, a spear suddenly appeared in her chest, and the tip of the spear emitted a fascinating light.
The Demon Sect leader Lan Xi was pierced through the chest by a spear, with the spear still stuck in his body, hanging in the air facing everyone.
The spear that held her down, preventing her from falling to the ground, had the other end of the spear still hidden in the darkness.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, stopped fighting temporarily, and looked in horror at Lan Xi, who died first.
—Because Lan Xi was not killed by them!
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(End of this chapter)