You said you would practice martial arts. Have you mastered the Tiangang Dharma?

Chapter 510: Netherworld City Demon King

Ah Qiu didn't know who he saw and thought it was a god he had never met before, but Jiang Qiu only took one look and a familiar scene emerged in his mind.

The girl's ears are like two small brown fans, soft and heavy, just like the ears of a little bear. They don't seem to belong to the ordinary structure of this world, revealing a hint of exotic mystery. The black hair flutters in the wind, forming a sharp contrast with her deep eyes. There is a lively light in her eyes, as if she can see into the abyss of people's hearts, and as if she hides endless stories and secrets.

Her eyebrows are like two gentle mountains, adding a touch of softness to her bear ears. The eyes under her eyebrows are so focused and penetrating, as if they can see through all the vanity in the world. When she gazes at you gently, you will feel an inexplicable sense of security, as if all your troubles can be comforted by her eyes.

Her nose is straight yet soft, and below it is a delicate cherry mouth. There is often a smile on the corner of her mouth, warm and sincere enough to melt the frost. Her cheeks are slightly flushed with healthy red, just like the peach blossoms in early spring, both subtle and attractive.

Her figure is light and graceful, and even the simplest clothes cannot conceal her innate temperament. When she walks among the crowd, she always seems to leave a trail of invisible footprints, which makes people involuntarily attracted and followed.

The most vivid scene in my memory is that the girl was in a peaceful forest, with sunlight shining through the gaps between the leaves, and the fresh air was mixed with the fragrance of soil and wild flowers, and she was like an elf in the forest, coexisting harmoniously with nature.

Yes, it was Ah Xiong. I don’t know if it was because he dreamed about something during the day, but he found the clue in the first illusionary world of the fourth heaven that he entered.

Perhaps the Fourth Heaven and the Third Heaven have a lot in common, so Jiang Qiu saw that familiar figure in the fantasy world: "I must bring Ah Xiong with me, and find a way to go to the Fifth Heaven."

Somehow, he felt that these two things were related to each other. Perhaps the method to enter the fifth heaven was in Ah Xiong. Otherwise, he would not have seen Ah Xiong in the fifth heaven.
Without thinking too much, Jiang Qiu continued to observe the fantasy world, following Aqiu's movements. The other party had already walked towards the distant city. In the ancient city shrouded in mist, the traces of the demons were looming. This city, called Netherworld, stood under the vast sky, like a bottomless black gem, emitting a mysterious and strange light.

The city walls were high and inlaid with countless demon crystals, which shone with a faint blue luster under the moonlight. The city gates were tightly closed, and various strange demon beasts were carved on them, which were lifelike and seemed to jump out of the stone walls at any time and pounce on those intruders who dared to approach.

Walking into the city, the ancient stone road is winding and the buildings on both sides are scattered. Each building embodies the wisdom and strength of the demon race for thousands of years. These buildings have different shapes. Some are like huge flowers, swaying in the wind; some are like layers of clouds, floating and uncertain. They are colorful, but steady, as if they can blend into the surrounding natural landscape.

The market was bustling with all kinds of stalls, filled with rare treasures from all over. The vendors were shouting, and the monsters were bargaining, full of life. From time to time, monsters in gorgeous clothes passed by, with either pride or subtle vigilance on their faces.

When night falls, the city has a different style. The demon fire lights up every street, and the soft light leaves colorful shadows on the stone road. Under the full moon and beautiful flowers, the demons sing and dance, drink tea and chat, enjoying the tranquility and peace that belongs to them.

However, deep within this bustling city, there are also unknown secrets. In those deep alleys, you can occasionally hear low spells and eerie laughter, as if they are calls from another world. These sounds drift in the night wind, adding an unspeakable mysterious color to the Nether City.

In the center of Nether City, there is an area permanently shrouded in fog. That is the palace of the Demon King, majestic and solemn. Above the palace, black flags are flying, fluttering in the night wind, like the unyielding souls of the demons.

This city is the home of the demons and also their fortress against foreign enemies. Here, they write history in their own way and compose the legend of the demons.

The blood moon was in the sky, and the obsidian walls of the Nether Demon City glowed dark red. The Demon King stood on the seventh step of the Chaos Altar, watching the Ten Thousand Demons Book floating in the center of the altar move without wind. The blood-red runes emerging on the parchment pages looked like living creatures trying to break free from their restraints.

"My king, it's three quarters past midnight." The high priest Cangwu tapped the ground with his bone staff, and the hollow sound echoed twelve times in the circular temple. The firefly vines hanging from the roof of the temple suddenly went out, leaving only the nine hundred and ninety-nine bronze lamps at the bottom of the altar glowing faintly under the blood moon.

The demon king raised his hand and pressed the gilded hilt of the Eclipse Moon Blade on his waist. The seven ghost eye stones inlaid on the scabbard opened at the same time. This was the first time in tens of thousands of years that all the ghost eye stones had awakened. The four guardian stone statues at the four corners of the altar began to crack, and a sticky dark green liquid oozed out of the cracks, flowing along the grooves on the surface of the altar and gathering into the bronze groove in the center.

“Click—”

The sound of a mechanism turning came from the bottom of the groove, and the entire floor of the temple suddenly sank. Cangwu's long silver hair danced wildly in the sudden cold wind. His skinny fingers slid across the cover of the Ten Thousand Demons Classic, and colorful murals appeared on the originally blank stone wall. The patterns drawn with demon blood were melting and reorganizing, and finally froze into a picture of a nine-tailed demon fox tearing the sun and the moon apart.

"Ancient prophecy," Cangwu's voice trembled with a rare tremor, "is more complete than what was recorded in the notes of the first generation of demon kings."

The demon king stepped onto the last three steps, and the Eclipse Moon Blade automatically unsheathed three inches. The blade reflected the details of the mural: a giant dragon with a chain piercing its heart hovering below the inverted city, various demon tribes fighting and arguing, and a mysterious figure wearing a bronze mask could be vaguely seen at the edge of the picture.

The altar suddenly shook violently, and the liquid in the grooves boiled and rolled. The demon king smelled a strong smell of sulfur mixed with ambergris, which was a sign of the turmoil of the earth veins. The three-layer structure of the Nether Demon City was shifting - the twelve black iron chains of the top-level suspended city were rattling, the roars of demon beasts came from the middle-level Nether City, and the dull dragon roars came from the Dragon Bone City deep underground.

"Open the triple barrier!" As the demon king turned around, his cloak swept across the melting murals, and the pigments actually climbed up the hem of the demon king's clothes along the gold embroidery. Cangwu's bone scepter slammed heavily to the ground, and twelve bronze pillars engraved with runes broke out of the ground around the temple. The mirage beads inlaid on the top of the pillars projected an illusory protective shield.

Ink mist rose from the cracks in the ground, condensing into thirty-six warriors holding halberds. These guards, condensed by the energy of the earth, had dark lights flowing on their armor similar to the runes of the Ten Thousand Demons Codex. They struck the ground with the handles of their halberds in unison, causing the short blades in the boots of the demon king to resonate. "King, the prophecy shows that the sky fire will fall on the suspended city." Cangwu's pupils turned into vertical golden lines, a sign that the Tianji pupil was operating to the extreme. In his hand, a three-dimensional city model composed of star sand appeared, representing the part of the suspended city that was oozing blood.

The demon king held the moon-shaped earring on his left ear, which was a sound transmission device connecting the three main cities: "Order the Qingluan Guards to block the Tongtian Tower and activate all the floating array eyes." A shrill buzzing sound came from the earring, and the voice of the suspended city lord was filled with electric noise: "The zombies in Dragon Bone City are attacking the ban."

The nine-tailed fox on the mural suddenly turned its head to look in the direction of the demon kings, and its gem-encrusted eyes flashed a strange red light. The demon king pulled out the Eclipse Moon Blade completely with his backhand, and when the blade split the blood-colored mist that was rushing towards him, it actually made a clanging sound like metal hitting metal. Countless distorted faces emerged in the mist, all of them were powerful demons who had fallen in previous generations.

"Use the Soul-Calming Bell!" The demon king swung his sword and drew a half-moon arc, and the sword energy blew off the helmets of three earthly warriors. Cangwu shook out a bone chain with nine skulls from the sleeve of his robe, and the sound of shaking made the dead souls scream. The empty eye sockets of the skulls produced dark blue ghost fire, which intertwined in the air to form a blockade net.

The bronze lamps at the bottom of the altar exploded one after another, and the splashing lamp oil condensed into blood-drop-shaped crystals in mid-air. The demon king crushed two crystals and jumped to the top of the altar. The Ten Thousand Demons Codex suddenly automatically turned to the page that recorded the "Great Nirvana Technique". The words on the parchment were oozing blood beads, outlining a complex array diagram on the surface of the stone platform.

"King, no!" It was too late when Cangwu wanted to stop him. The demon king's palm was on the center of the formation. The Eclipse Blade trembled excitedly, and the ghost eye stone at the end of the hilt emitted a red light that enveloped the entire altar. The restless runes suddenly quieted down and returned to the pages like a group of tamed snakes.

The shaking stopped.

The suspended star sand model showed that the three main cities had returned to stability, but Cangwu's Tianji pupil was still bleeding. When he wiped the blood from the corner of his eye, the demon king noticed that there was a humanoid figure in the corner of the mural.

"From now on, the Netherworld Demon City will enter a wartime state." As the Demon King sheathed his sword, the Ghost Eye Stones gradually closed. "Send the Shadow Guards to check all travelers who have entered the Netherworld City in the past three months."

Cangwu was using bone powder to repair the cracks in the cover of "The Book of Ten Thousand Demons" and suddenly froze when he heard this.

The sound of wings breaking through the air came from the dome of the sacrificial hall. The captain of the demon king's personal guard broke into the hall through the window. When his black wings folded, he shook off a few blood-stained feathers. "My king, the zombies have been forced back to the third mine tunnel, but this was found at the forbidden gap."

The black iron token he presented was still stained with rotten flesh. A star map was engraved on the front, while the word "Guixu" was written in the ancient language of the demon clan on the back.

The seventh ghost eye stone continued to vibrate in the scabbard, and the dark red light shone through the shark skin scabbard and reflected on the palm of the demon king, like a ball of demon blood that never solidified. This was also the only ghost eye stone refined from a living body.

"It's still absorbing the evil spirit from the altar." Cangwu used his fingers wrapped with spells to trace the stone patterns in the air. The spells suspended in the air were suddenly absorbed by the Ghost Eye Stone. "We must use the triple restriction."

Before he finished speaking, spider web cracks suddenly appeared on the scabbard. The demon king turned around and nailed the Eclipse Moon Blade into the Dragon Suppression Pillar in the center of the altar. The seven ghost eye stones screamed at the same time, and the sound waves caused the runes on the surface of the bronze pillar to explode one after another. In the depths of the seventh stone pupil that refused to close, the distorted face of the Tianji Pavilion Master when his eyes were gouged out gradually emerged.

"Back off!" The demon king bit his tongue and sprayed his blood on the hilt, but the blood was swallowed up by the ghost eye stone. Fine blood vessels appeared on the surface of the stone pupil, and they climbed along the hilt to the demon king's wrist. The sealing bone thrown by Cangwu turned into powder as soon as it touched the red light, and the whole temple began to echo with strange sounds.

Turbid black water gushed out of the cracks in the ground, and countless bloated demon corpses floated on the water surface - this was the Ghost Eye Stone recreating the tragic scene of the Southern Wilderness over the years. The demon king tore off the necklace around his neck, and nine demon king relics floated in a ring, temporarily suppressing the rampaging evil spirit.

"Use the Chaos Altar to trace back to the source!" Yao Wang shouted to Cangwu, his left hand entangled with blood vessels up to his elbow. The moment the bone scepter was inserted into the groove of the altar, the nine-tailed demon fox on the mural suddenly jumped out of the stone wall, and the nine fox tails entangled the ghost eye stone that was undergoing abnormal changes.

The illusion suddenly switched.

The demon king saw an unknown residual soul curled up inside the ghost eye stone. Her spirit body was pierced by seven soul-suppressing nails, but she still wrote in the void with her bleeding fingertips. Those bloody words were clearly the formation diagram of the ancient forbidden technique "Reverse Fate Wheel", and the position of the formation eye was marked as the Guixu Sea Eye of the Nine-Layered Demon City.

"So this is the real parasitic curse." The demon king urged the demon pill to shatter the blood vessels in his arm, but the Eclipse Moon Sword suddenly flew up on its own. The seventh ghost eye stone broke away from the handle and floated in the air, projecting a holographic star map covering the entire temple - the position of the seventh star of the Big Dipper corresponded to the zombie breeding pool in the deepest part of Dragon Bone City.

Cangwu's Tianji pupil suddenly burst into golden flames: "King, that star corresponds to the fate track."

This is what happened in the depths of Nether City. It immediately alarmed the entire Nether City. A Qiu, who had finally found a temporary shelter, was also awakened. He had already sensed the breath of the evil god's sacrifice. Before the demon king's team came to search, he hid in the darkness first: "The Southern Wilds are not peaceful, and there are big demons everywhere who are trying to seize the power of the evil god!"

With his strength, it would not be too difficult for him to deal with some tribal demon leaders, but facing the demon king of a demon city would be a challenge. He could only fight with some demon generals for a few moves, and the gap was huge.
But this does not mean that he will just leave this place alone. The Demon King captures living beings for sacrifice, and he might catch him at any time. The most urgent thing is to leave the Nether City and practice outside for a while.

Without saying much, Aqiu passed through the darkness, passing through the inspection of the Demon King's Qingluan Guards and other city guards, and soon disappeared into the darkness. Jiang Qiu saw all of this and couldn't help but frowned slightly. He felt that the Demon King had grasped something he wanted.
(End of this chapter)