A Demon’s Path

After Ling Shiyu made a solemn oath never to tell anything about them, Long Yuxuan let Ling Shiyu go.

Now, only a few people related to this treasure hunt are left in the entire hall.

As soon as Ling Shiyu left, Ling Xiao immediately put on a lazy look, and yawned again and again: "Since we are looking for my cooperation, where are we going, what are we looking for, and what are the risks, you have to tell me in detail."

The black-haired old woman snorted coldly: "Long Yuxuan, why is the kid you found so ignorant that he didn't even know his identity?"

Ling Xiao glanced sideways at the black-haired old woman, and said contemptuously: "Where did such an ugly old woman come from, full of inhuman words?"

"Looking for death!" The black-haired old woman was furious, her eyes widened, and she greeted Ling Xiao's head with a cane.

Before the attack arrived, the wind driven by the crutches blew Ling Xiao's hair up. No one in the room would suspect that if this crutch was used for real, Ling Xiao would definitely end up in pieces. Even so, Ling Xiao still stood still, not even blinking his eyes.

call! The blue crutch shadow flew towards Ling Xiao, and then a white figure blocked Ling Xiao's body, and with a swipe of one hand, the attack driven by the black-haired old woman's crutch was invisible.

That white figure was indeed Long Yuxuan.

"Black-haired mother-in-law, we are a partnership, you can't just kill whoever you want to kill me." Long Yuxuan's statement made the people present immediately understand Ling Xiao's status.

Even for Long Yuxuan, when Ling Xiao was in danger, she could only personally protect her, which shows how important Ling Xiao is to Long Yuxuan.

Several people present had different faces, but they had the same thoughts in their hearts. They all thought that this Ling Xiao was probably the face of this woman, Long Yuxuan.

The black-faced burly man yelled carelessly: "Stop talking nonsense, take this kid and talk while walking, if the kid wants to explain, Long Yuxuan, you can explain it to him."

Long Yuxuan narrowed her eyes slightly, and said coldly: "Okay, since everything is ready, let's go."

The eight of them set off together, although Long Yuxuan didn't explain anything to Ling Xiao, but she took out a thin parchment scroll for Ling Xiao to read.

Ling Xiao put the parchment into the space, and used his mental power to investigate, his expression gradually became weird.

There are several paragraphs of text recorded on the back of this parchment, and an incomplete map on the front.

Ling Xiao didn't look at the map first, but carefully read the records in those few paragraphs.

The content of the written record is roughly as follows:

The tower of ancient gods and demons is jointly controlled by two gods and demons to check and balance each other. And a few years ago, the successor of the master of the gods and souls of the tower of gods and demons suddenly launched a war of gods and demons in the heavenly soul world.

The part of the body of the Demon Soul Master on Xuantian Continent is the head, and when he fell to the ground, it landed in Xihe City, causing countless black flames and burning the ground. The lord of the spirit and soul lowered his own power, turned it into golden water, extinguished the black fire, and sealed the head of the lord of the demon soul under the golden water.

Every year there will be a few days when the power of the golden water weakens, and these days are the best time to enter the sealed palace. I, Xuantian Continent, have sacrificed countless people from the eight great families of ancient times to research this secret map.

After the eight diagrams merge into one, if you find the things you need in the eight diagrams, you can enter together to obtain the endless treasures left in the master soul chain of the demon soul.

After reading these few paragraphs, Ling Xiao looked at the incomplete map again.

The incomplete map is a square, and in the upper right corner is a piece of dead wood that Ling Xiao is very familiar with: the root of the poisonous tree.

In Ling Xiao's "Compendium of Amicao", there is a record of the root of the 100 poisonous trees: the root of the 100 poisonous trees is the trunk of the highly poisonous tree in the Heavenly Soul Realm, and when it is burned, the poisonous gas released is the beast The natural nemesis of humans, as long as they are intelligent beasts, they will avoid it.

"Compendium of Amakusa" also records that if the root of the poisonous tree is immersed in a large lake for three seconds, all living things in the lake will die immediately, which shows its strong toxicity!

Although the root of the hundred poisonous tree is highly poisonous, it is the nemesis of all toxins. It is estimated that there is some difficult poison in the sealed palace, so the root of the hundred poisonous tree is needed to dissolve it.

Ling Xiao's guess about the hiding place of Xihe City's treasure was indeed correct, and after a while, he followed the seven people to the west side of Xihe City.

Although the West River is called a river, its breadth is far beyond that of ordinary lakes and rivers.

Under the moonlight, the mist lingering over the broad river makes the West River look more hazy and full of mystery.

With the naked eye alone, Ling Xiao would never be able to see where the other side of the river is.

The water in the West River has turned pale gold at this moment, but even so, the West River still looks like a layer of gold dust has been spread on the surface of the water.

Ling Xiao looked around curiously, while the other seven people stood quietly by the river and waited with serious faces.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the fog on the river surface became thicker, and the light golden color of the river water completely faded away, turning into an ordinary river.

"Let's go!" With a stroke of the beggar old man, the river was immediately divided into two sides, and the other six people jumped into the river one after another.

"Let's go, just follow me." Long Yuxuan pulled Ling Xiao up and jumped into it.

For the other seven people, avoiding water was not difficult at all, but for Ling Xiao at this time, it was a huge burden.

It was alright at first, but as it went down, the water pressure increased, and Ling Xiao was gradually overwhelmed by the pressure of the water.

Long Yuxuan seemed to be taking revenge on Ling Xiao deliberately, and didn't help, letting Ling Xiao resist the water pressure with a pale face.

Long Yuxuan originally planned to help Ling Xiao when he was about the same time, but soon, Long Yuxuan discovered that no matter how strong the water pressure was, Ling Xiao could always keep herself from being crushed by the water pressure.

"Hmph!" Although Long Yuxuan had some admiration for Ling Xiao in her heart, when she thought of Ling Xiao's hideous appearance, she turned this admiration into a cold snort.

"It's here!" The black-haired old woman shouted excitedly as if she had a second spring.

Ling Xiao glanced at the black-haired old woman with disdain: Is there any need to be so excited? Isn't it just an underwater palace? What a countryman who has never seen the world.

No one would care about how Ling Xiao was slandering them in his heart at this time, the seven people looked at this majestic underwater palace at the same time, and were stunned for a while.

This underwater palace is not very high, only about ten meters high, but its peculiarity is that it only has a flat surface in front of Ling Xiao and the others, and behind it is the empty bottom of the water, which cannot be seen at all. The "body" of this palace!

"Try to investigate with mental power!" The goatee with the sword behind him was aware of his own strength and conceit, and immediately used his mental power to scan in the direction of the palace.

"Boom!" The goatee looked as if his brain had been hit with a hammer, his face was pale, and a very conspicuous trace of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

Long Yuxuan snorted coldly, and said with a sneer: "Yang Bai, don't think that you are someone. No matter how strong you are outside, you are nothing inside this palace. Be careful, if you are negligent I am not responsible for losing my life."

Yang Bai shook his head with a wry smile, only admitting that he was unlucky.

Even so, Ling Xiao still didn't intend to give up the idea of ​​using mental power to investigate the palace.

Because Ling Xiao always has a feeling of deja vu to this palace, and always feels that someone inside is calling him.

With an attitude of giving it a try, Ling Xiao also carefully integrated his spiritual power into this palace.

Ling Xiao didn't feel the tingling pain, but the extreme shock!

As soon as his spiritual power merged into this palace, another strange spiritual power completely merged with his spiritual power, presenting the map of the entire palace in his mind!

In just a short second, Ling Xiao immediately wiped away her shocked expression, but Long Yuxuan still saw a clue: "What's wrong with you?"

"It's okay, it's too weird here, I just want to leave quickly." Ling Xiao deliberately pretended to be very uncomfortable, and her face continued to be weakly pale.

"Hmph!" Long Yuxuan snorted coldly: "Don't even think about it! Go!"

Ling Xiao shrugged his shoulders, followed the cautious seven people to the gate of the palace.

"Long Yuxuan, open the door." The black-haired old woman ordered bullishly, if it was Ling Xiao who had enough strength, she would have already slapped her.

It's just that Long Yuxuan's mind is now on the treasure hunt in the palace, and she doesn't bother to argue with this old woman.

She flipped her palm, and a piece of bronze-colored metal about twenty centimeters appeared in her palm.

The gate of the palace is made of a circular unknown metal, and there is a small hole in the center of the circle, the size of which fits the piece of bronze-colored metal in Long Yuxuan's hand.

Long Yuxuan held the piece of metal, even though she was as calm as her, her hand was still slightly steep.

Ling Xiao secretly sighed in her heart, woman, woman, why bother? If you can get in, you can't get out.

None of these seven people knew that Ling Xiao already knew their fate at this time, looking at the round door that opened in two, his heart was pounding wildly.

"Take out everyone's map!" Long Yuxuan's voice was a little trembling, probably only she herself could know how excited she was at this moment.

For many years, this has been the long-cherished wish of more than ten generations of my family. Seeing that it was about to be realized in her own hands, how could Long Yuxuan not be excited?

The others also had their own ideas, but their movements were not slow at all, and they took out the maps in their hands one after another.

The beggar old man had two maps in his hands, and he handed them up, one from the left and the other from the right, and merged them with the maps in the hands of the other six people to form a complete map of the sealed palace!