Chapter 230: Surrounded
“Your Majesty, bad news!”
“What bad news? You’re so shocked.”
The Devil King was playing with a strange token. When he saw his subordinates rush in in a panic, he put away the token.
The ethereal body of this subordinate trembled and looked very fl.u.s.tered. “Your Majesty, something bad has happened. Hai Changping is dead!”
The Devil King frowned and curled his lips. “These demons have been getting worse and worse in recent years. They can’t take it anymore after being locked up for so long?”
The subordinate carefully held up a very exquisite dagger that was still stained with blood. “Your Majesty, we found this in his cell.”
Initially, the Devil King did not take this matter seriously at all. However, his expression immediately changed when he saw the dagger.
The Devil King held the dagger in his hand and glared at his subordinates. “What’s going on? How did this thing get in?”
His subordinate’s body trembled as he crawled below and said in fear, “Your Majesty, I don’t know either. I only felt that something was wrong just now and immediately went over to check. However, Hai Changping has already died in prison. I don’t know when he brought this dagger in.”
“Nonsense!” The Devil King threw the dagger out and stabbed the blade of the dagger into the thick stone wall. The entire blade sank into the wall until it hit the hilt. “He can’t bring anything in!”
If Hai Changping had this thing in his hands, he would have committed suicide long ago. The pain of the Yin energy corroding the dungeon was very difficult for ordinary people to endure.
The strength of his body was completely suppressed to an extremely low level. He did not even have a way to commit suicide. He could only wait for the corrosive energy to corrode his body bit by bit and die in endless pain.
It was impossible for this dagger to enter.
“Your Majesty, please calm down…”
“Don’t you even know when this person went in?”
This subordinate definitely could not answer the Devil King’s question. How would he know when that human had sneaked in?
“Hai Changping is useless after all. He’s dead now. In my opinion…”
He wanted to quibble further, but the Devil King would not give him another chance.
The Devil King suddenly stretched out a dark arm from his cloak. This arm was pitch-black and seemed to have some patterns imprinted on it.
The patterns on his arm slowly lit up. Immediately after, a huge suction force came from his hand. Before the person crawling below could let out a scream, he turned into a thick black fog and was sucked into the Devil King’s body.
After the Devil King took him in, he sighed.
On the other side, on the river, a blurry figure seemed to have just sped across the river, leaving only a gust of wind that collapsed the entire river.
Li Yuanqing was like a bolt of lightning as he streaked across this river. It was thousands of kilometers long. He did not know what was at the end of the river.
“Master, I heard that it’s very dangerous. Are we really going there?” A blood-red vine climbed onto Li Yuanqing’s shoulder and asked carefully.
Logically speaking, this was a matter between the demons and the devils. Sea City was still so far away from Ping City and Rong City. They could completely build a defense system and block the devils outside.
As long as they stopped these devils from going over, they would not be a threat. The only place that the devils could reach was Sea City. The further away from the river, the weaker they would be. With this characteristic, there was no need to care about Sea City.
Although the Blood Vine kept chattering, Li Yuanqing had no intention of responding. He only lowered his head and rushed forward. His meaning was obvious.
Blood Vine really could not figure out why his master always wanted to do such a dangerous thing and always placed himself in a very dangerous situation. Although his master was indeed strong enough, after the last battle, his master’s strength was already at the fourth-grade Formation Arrangement Realm.
This strength was enough to be tyrannical on this continent. However, the devils were extraordinary after all. Moreover, there were often powerful things among them that were not to be trifled with.
The Blood Vine tried his best to convince Li Yuanqing, but it was useless. He could only watch as Li Yuanqing followed the river down and the scenery ahead gradually became blurry.
Originally, there was still clear land on both sides of the river, but as they walked forward, the border of the land became more and more blurry. It even slowly turned into large patches of swamp. Towards the end, it even blurred the waters, as if the river was gradually widening.
Later on, the two of them seemed to have reached a vast sea. They looked around and could not see any borders.
Li Yuanqing stood in the middle of the vast water, his eyes emitting white light.
This was actually a natural illusion. The so-called truth and falsehood.
At the back of the river, the poisonous things gathered. After these substances gathered, they formed such a huge illusion in this area.
Everyone who arrived here thought that the large area in front of them was all sea, but that was not the case. As the river reached the back, its surface became narrower. Originally, if it was thousands of meters wide at the front, it would only be a few hundred meters wide when the back was almost at the end.
The Blood Vine said softly, “I heard that there’s only a narrow pa.s.sageway left at the back of the river. There’s a stone tablet in this pa.s.sageway that blocks the demonic aura below. It should be the Illusory Realm now. What we can see should be fake.”
However, the Blood Vine’s reminder was still a little late. Li Yuanqing had already found the true path.
Li Yuanqing took out two basic array discs. He casually threw these two discs into two strange positions and placed them beside him. Then, he muttered something and energy vaguely overflowed from his hands. The spiritual energy gathered in his hands was divided into two and gathered into the two array discs.
The array disc that had received the order swayed slightly, as if it was letting out a low cry. Immediately after, energy fluctuations kept spreading out. This energy spread out like water in oil, pushing aside the scene beside it bit by bit.
Under the energy fluctuations of the two array discs, the turbulent river water slowly retreated into a desolate black land. The dark land emitted waves of yin energy, and strange energy fluctuations kept transmitting up from below.
“Yin soil.” The Blood Vine screamed at the top of his lungs. “This kind of soil is very dangerous. Although it’s in the territory of the demons, there is a lot of devilish origin power bred in this soil. Although it can’t raise a large devil, it can raise countless devil insects. Once you step on it and are found by the army of devil insects, no matter how strong you are, you might die.”
This Blood Vine was indeed knowledgeable. He even knew about this.
Li Yuanqing indeed felt a rich devilish power on this land. He had felt this very familiar power from the devils.
The Blood Vine looked at the dark land with lingering fear. He was glad that he did not step on it just now. If he had accidentally stepped on that land just now, he would probably have become a corpse.
“Master, this place is too dangerous!” The Blood Vine was still thinking about escaping. “It’s useless for the two of us to come here. Since the devils have already descended here, it’s useless to waste any more effort.”
Li Yuanqing was indifferent to the Blood Vine’s words. He continued to persuade him, “Moreover, the devils will definitely not be able to adapt to the living environment of the demons. At that time, their strength will definitely slowly weaken and they won’t be able to hold on. Is there really a need for us to take this risk?”
The Blood Vine looked at the increasingly narrow river in front of him and felt a little scared. The closer he got to the end, the more evil this matter became. It would be strange if he was not afraid. If Li Yuanqing really died, his life would be over.
After Li Yuanqing found his way, he was about to continue when he suddenly sensed a commotion on the river under his feet.
He suddenly took a step back. Just as he retreated, a huge tentacle immediately stretched out from where he was standing. This tentacle was more than ten meters wide and was like a huge pillar that raised a huge splash and waves.
The Blood Vine returned with lingering fear and did not dare to stay outside any longer. This place was really too dangerous. If his master had not reacted quickly just now, he would have been stabbed by this tentacle.
Li Yuanqing looked back. The river below was churning and a huge head emerged. It was actually a huge octopus. Its two huge eyes were drooping as it looked up at Li Yuanqing in the sky.
“Good lord, why is there such a huge octopus guarding here?”
The Blood Vine carefully stuck out half of his body and clicked his tongue in wonder at the big octopus that rushed out of the river below.
The big octopus was so big that it almost filled the narrow river below.
He wondered where such a huge fellow was hiding. It seemed like there was another world at the bottom of the river.
This big fellow was pitch-black all over, only its two eyes were white, yet the whites still had a gloomy feeling.
The big octopus’s two eyes stared fixedly at Li Yuanqing in the sky, as if it was examining the human in front of it. It raised a tentacle and raised a huge wave that swept towards Li Yuanqing, looking threatening.
However, Li Yuanqing did not seem to be moved. Not only did he not retreat, but he also slashed out a wind wall and calmed the huge wave.
The expression of the big octopus seemed to have changed greatly. This human did not seem to have any intention of retreating and was planning to fight him head-on.
The big octopus’s head was simple. After calculating this, it no longer hesitated and attacked Li Yuanqing with a huge tentacle. Not only that, but another huge tentacle suddenly jumped out of the water behind Li Yuanqing. It did not give him any chance to react and charged at Li Yuanqing’s back.
Li Yuanqing seemed to be unable to withstand the attacks from both sides. However, at this moment, a sword suddenly appeared behind him.
The sword behind Li Yuanqing suddenly soared into the sky and disappeared.
In the next second, when the two huge tentacles were about to touch Li Yuanqing, they suddenly stopped moving. Looking down, the two tentacles were actually cut off from the roots by Li Yuanqing. Black blood stained the river.
The lower half of the octopus’s body was cut into two by an inconspicuous sword. The upper half of its body lost its support and fell.
However, the big octopus did not show any fear. Instead, it glared angrily at Li Yuanqing in the sky, as if it was in no pain, like a walking corpse. It still had to continue attacking Li Yuanqing with its last broken body.
Li Yuanqing did not give him any chance to continue counterattacking. The sword suddenly expanded in the wind and turned into a huge sword that was about a thousand feet long.
The huge sword slashed down at the octopus’s head, splitting its entire body into two.
As a result, the big octopus was split into four by Li Yuanqing and scattered in the river, slowly sinking.
It was unknown what kind of strange effect the river water had. Just now, it was filled with pitch-black blood. However, after a while, the river water slowly cleaned itself and became clear again.
The Blood Vine looked at the remaining traces on the river in shock. He did not expect such a tragic battle to happen in just two breaths.
Li Yuanqing did not give the big octopus any chance to react at all. He cut the big octopus into pieces.
“I didn’t expect such a monster to be hidden in the river below. The further we go, the more dangerous it will be. I heard that very few people can reach the end of this river.” The Blood Vine looked at Li Yuanqing carefully and reminded him.
“Why?” Li Yuanqing suddenly asked him.
The Blood Vine replied vaguely, “No one knows the exact details, but I’ve only heard that there’s indeed an end to this river, but no one has ever reached it. I wonder if Hai Changping has ever arrived. I feel that what he said is not entirely true.”
“If we follow this river all the way down, where will we end up?”
“Master, I don’t know about that either, but it’s definitely getting more and more dangerous down there. I think that instead of taking the risk to go to the entrance of the devils’ lair, we might as well go back and think of a way to deal with the devils in Sea City. Perhaps it’s even simpler.”