(The cover is created by He Xiyuan of Chengdu Experimental Chinese School)
Chapter Eighty-Six: The Abyss of Death
The restless black pool of water stopped at the entrance of the Nether Palace.
The floor of the palace was not covered with swaying ghost grass, but was paved with black square bricks, flat and dry. The main hall is wrapped around the main hall, and it is like an endless dark yin cao mansion. Torches planted on the walls of the palace were rusty, and the burning phosphorus fire illuminated the empty palace, eerie and silent. There are no Aquarius soldiers. There is no palace maid to serve. Ah Xia rode in the Nether Palace, in a single shadow, like a warrior galloping in loneliness in Mr. Lu Xun's pen.
Ah Xia wondered darkly, "Could it be that Water Demon Qi has fled when he hears the news?" According to legend, it was sealed on the stone pillar of the heavens, and it had lost its freedom for a thousand years, so how could it escape? Unless the seal is lifted, is that possible? If the Water Demon Qi was still in the Nether Palace, then where did the many other Water Clan soldiers go except for a handful of soldiers who were fighting with Qing Yi? Could it be that the people have rebelled and separated, and the water tribe has dispersed like birds and beasts? ”
Although Ah Xia muttered inwardly, she had a feeling that the Dragon Sword was imprisoned somewhere in the Nether Palace, and the more she went in, the stronger this feeling became.
Just after Ah Xia had passed through several dark halls, a loud bang of chains was heard, and then a golden light suddenly flashed in front of her eyes--a stone pillar blocked in front of her.
The stone pillar is thick and thin, more than ten meters in diameter, the whole body is black, and there is a spirit rune attached to the top, and the flashing golden light is the dense Sanskrit glow on the spirit rune. One end of a gentetsu chain went deep into the stone pillar, and the other end of the chain disappeared behind the stone pillar.
"Is this the legendary Stone Pillar of Heaven?" Could it be that the Water Demon Qi was sealed here? Ah Xia said darkly.
"Who would dare to break into the Nether Palace and not report it?" Behind the stone pillar, two eel guards with fang tian painting blades ran out, fanning their pectoral fins, whistling triangular pointed mouths, and the corners of their mouths ticked with slimy mucus, looking very domineering.
"Ah Xia, come, quickly tell the king of your family to come out and hand over the dragon sword!" Otherwise, this girl would have beaten this stinky palace to pieces. Without saying a word, Ah Xia raised his gun and tried to stab.
Stinky, you're too arrogant! The two eels put down the Fang Tian Painting Halberd that was caught in their hands, the sharp halberd head tilted forward, the hands clasped the handle of the halberd, the small eyes bulged up, bent down to prepare for battle, "To see the king of my family, first pass our brother's level!" ”
"Ah Xia, these two eels, I came to stew them." Water Demon Qi took the Dragon Sword hostage, and at this moment he hid behind the Stone Pillar of Heaven and was about to mutilate the Dragon Sword. Qi's seal is about to be lifted, time is pressing, go fast! The Next Dao Tong Qingyi Dancing whisked dust in his hands and exchanged hands with eels.
"It's a lot of work." Ah Xia turned the horse's head and ran from the other side to the back of the Stone Pillar of Heaven, and the horse's hooves were loud.
Behind the stone pillar, the sound of the chains dragging the floor resounded again, and the sound gave people a cold and bone-chilling chill, which was creepy.
Ah Xia walked half a circle along the pillar, and came to the back of the pillar, and the white horse suddenly raised its front hooves and made a hissing sound.
Ah Xia looked in the direction of the raised horse's hooves, and couldn't help but take a breath of cold air—a monster was creeping on the ground, with a huge body, and seemed to be nibbling on something with its head down.
Only the figure of the dragon sword was not seen.
Ah Xia was extremely anxious, and at this time, a sharp sword through the heart of the pain overwhelmed the sky, as if thousands of ants were nibbling on the whole body.
The monster heard the sound of horses' hooves, lowered its head and jerked up, with a satisfied smirk on its face, turned its head and looked around, and its brass bell-like eyes shot out a tyrannical look.
The monster was like an ape, five feet tall, with a white head and a blue body, a convex forehead, a collapsed nose bridge, a copper bell piercing into its nostrils, golden eyes and snow teeth, the corners of its mouth dripping with mucus stained with blood, and an iron hoop around its neck that was connected by a thick iron chain.
"Aren't you the legendary king of the Water Clan, Qi Cheng?"
"The king is none other than Qi. It seems that you are the reincarnated Seventh Princess, who makes the king sleepless at night, and wants to kill the king and then quickly stinky, Ah Xia? ”
"Return my husband's dragon sword, and I will spare you from death."
"Okay, take it!"
Water Demon Qi stretched out his sharp claws, pulled out a person from under the huge body, and suddenly threw it at Ah Xia. As it twisted its body, the iron chains around its neck rattled.
The man did not resist at all, like a kite with a broken line falling towards Ah Xia.
Ah Xia recognized the person who flew towards her at a glance, and although she thought of something, she was unwilling to accept the results of rational thinking, and mechanically reached out her hand to catch the person.
Ah Xia caught the person, and after just glancing at it, she felt a dizziness and almost fell off her horse.
The person thrown by the water demon Qi was None other than Ah Xia's husband, the Dragon Sword, who was dead ash at this time, and a large hole had been bitten under his neck, and blood was gushing out.
Ah Xia desperately pressed the bloodied neck of the dragon sword with her hand, and at the same time, she probed the other trembling hand under the nostrils of the dragon sword, and some breath drifted out.
Dragon Sword's life is in danger!
"Dragon Sword don't leave me!" You can't leave the lonely Ah Xia behind, don't! I don't want to leave you. Ah Xia screamed desperately, echoing in the empty, eerie hall.
Ah Xia cried as she shook the dragon sword's gradually coldened body vigorously, and tears blurred her eyes.
At this moment, the spirit rune attached to the top of the stone pillar drifted away from the stone pillar, and the Sanskrit with golden light on the rune turned red, and then the spirit rune burned up and instantly turned into ashes.
With a howl, the two sharp claws broke the iron hoop connected to the chain of gentetsu locked around the neck, and then the other end of the chain was also pulled out of the stone pillar.
After sucking the blood of the Dragon Sword, the Water Demon Qi broke the seal of the Spirit Rune, and the beast in the iron cage was released.
"The king is free!" Water Demon Qi danced the Xuan Iron Chain, drawing a black arc in the air, and then threw it at Ah Xia, who was still crying with the dragon sword. At this moment, Ah Xia was defenseless, and her heartbeat almost stopped due to the weakening of the Dragon Sword's heartbeat.
Longquan Swordsman
November 30, 2021