Yanhsia City was completely reduced to ruins, with black, murky water filling the city area.
Only a few sections of broken city walls and some corpses outside the city could be vaguely seen.
"The Sect Leader's plan is brilliant! Letting these people willingly enter our Blood纹 teleportation array, they were all teleported to the River冥, only to be washed to that place."
In a corner somewhere north of the city, a splash of water was heard, and the huge one-eyed snake emerged from the water. Sect Leader Yan and the other two were still standing on the snake's head, not having left.
The speaker was a black Nascent Soul, the ghost-robed cultivator that Zhang Ling and the others had dealt with before.
Sect Leader Yan looked up at the sky and slowly said, "If my sect's strength wasn't lacking, this Sect Leader would never have risked pulling these cultivators into the game. However, with forty to fifty Nascent Soul old monsters, breaking open that strange space and opening the real Ghost Gate will be much more certain."
"What the Sect Leader says is true, but these alien demons and human cultivators are already at odds. Even if they gather together, they won't be easy to control," the Ghost Mother asked with a frown.
"It doesn't matter. Even if they're unwilling, once they arrive at my sect's forbidden area, they won't have a choice. Moreover, Elder Ghost Chariot will soon arrive with my sect's disciples, which will be enough to restrain them. If they want to survive and escape, they can only listen to us," Sect Leader Yan said, then looked at the ghost-masked youth with a slight frown.
"Just now, I saw your expression change slightly, as if you cared about a certain cultivator. Now that my sect has provoked all these cultivators, we can't afford to be soft-hearted. Don't disappoint your father."
"I know what I'm doing. That person isn't someone I'm close to, but rather an enemy of mine," the ghost-masked youth snorted.
"Oh, an enemy? Could it be one of the people who intercepted you and those alien demon cultivators when you were carrying out the blood sacrifice mission? You said at the time that one of them was evenly matched with you."
"That's right. That person is very strong. If I hadn't used the Ghost Seal at the time, I'm afraid it would have been difficult to escape."
"You've cultivated the Heavenly Ghost Body and someone can fight you to a standstill. It seems he can't be underestimated. Pay more attention to him when the time comes." Sect Leader Yan was speaking when he suddenly sensed something and looked towards the north.
Not long after, a cloud of black mist floated over from the sky, circled over the ruins of Yanhsia City, and landed next to Sect Leader Yan and the others.
The black cloud dissipated, revealing hundreds of cultivators. Each of them was quite strong, with the lowest being Core Formation cultivators.
Leading them were seven or eight people with powerful auras, all of them Nascent Soul old monsters. Among them was a green-robed man. If Zhang Ling were nearby, he would have recognized him as the Hundred Souls True Man of the Hundred Souls Sect.
Sect Leader Yan's gaze fell on a white-haired old man among the seven or eight Nascent Soul cultivators. "Senior Brother Ghost Chariot, thank you for your trouble."
"Hehe, greetings, Sect Leader. Whether this time is successful or not is related to whether my Ghost King Sect can prosper again. This old man will naturally do his part," the white-haired old man said with a dry, thin body, stroking his beard with a smile.
In his other hand, he held a roll of black bamboo slips, like a learned old scholar.
Sect Leader Yan nodded, waved his hand, and led everyone directly into the black hole in the center of Yanhsia City, disappearing without a trace.
The black water accumulated in the city gurgled and flowed into the black hole, revealing more ruins.
It wasn't until more than two hours later that more cultivators arrived in the ruins of Yanhsia City.
The first to arrive was a sneaky, hemp-robed old man with a high cultivation level, a Nascent Soul old monster.
As soon as he approached, he was extremely shocked to see Yanhsia City turned into ruins. "How did this city become like this?"
He was a rogue cultivator named Mist Wind Shangren. He knew that the alien demon race and the human race were fighting, but he didn't come to reinforce them.
For the past few days, he had been relying on secret means to wander around Yanhsia City, hoping to take advantage of the chaos and muddy the waters.
Not long ago, he sensed a great battle here, but soon after, a strange aura of blood and evil spread, and then it became extremely quiet for a long time, as if the war had ended.
That's why he wanted to approach quietly to see if there were any advantages to be gained. He didn't expect to see this scene. The area within a hundred miles was empty.
Where did the alien demon cultivators and the Twelve Immortal City cultivators go? Mist Wind Shangren was very puzzled. Then he entered the Immortal City ruins and only found some broken magical artifacts, which were not of much value.
Finally, this person also came to the huge black hole in the center. Many strange black branches had grown in the black hole.
His divine sense penetrated into it, but he couldn't reach the bottom. He didn't know what was inside.
After thinking for a moment, this Mist Wind Shangren also entered it.
Not long after, some more sneaky cultivators came here, all with not weak cultivation levels, and all of them were very proficient in secret methods.
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In the endless black water, Zhang Ling was being squeezed by a powerful pressure and thrown around, unable to control his direction.
Suddenly, he sensed that the squeezing pressure had weakened a lot, and he immediately mobilized the spiritual power of his whole body to stabilize his body. Although he was still being turned by the violent water flow, he was constantly rushing in one direction.
But he was already able to control himself. With a thought, a layer of blood-colored light and a layer of yellow spiritual light appeared on his body.
The weight of his whole body suddenly increased greatly, and he slowly stabilized himself in the water flow.
Looking at the dark water outside, Zhang Ling's face was ugly.
He didn't expect that entering that piece of blood-colored rune was like triggering a teleportation array, and he was teleported into this water flow.
His divine sense probed the surroundings, and was greatly affected in this violent water flow. He could probe seven or eight miles deep. Everywhere were underwater undercurrents.
Could it be that he was teleported to a certain big river or the sea?
Zhang Ling thought in his heart. He raised his arm, and a black turtle crawled out on his arm. It was Xuan Gui.
Before, when he was using the Thunder Escape Technique, he had summoned Xuan Gui back. He was suddenly teleported, and he didn't even have time to release Xuan Gui.
With a thought, the second Nascent Soul controlled Xuan Gui to grow bigger. In an instant, it turned into a giant turtle more than twenty feet long.
Zhang Ling stood directly on the turtle's back, and Xuan Gui's body emitted a layer of blue water light, protecting himself.
The black water hit the blue water light and was completely separated. It didn't cause any impact.
After identifying the direction, Zhang Ling moved forward quickly along the direction of the water flow. He also noticed that the black water outside was all flowing in one direction, not knowing where it led.
But now he should leave the water first.
After half an hour of traveling like this, Xuan Gui broke out of the water.
After coming out, Zhang Ling immediately released his divine sense power to check the surrounding situation. But immediately he showed a surprised expression.
The place where he was located was on an extremely large black water river, and the water flow was very turbulent. A layer of black mist lingered on the river, and the naked eye could not see far.
His divine sense spread to more than a hundred miles away, and he could sense some mountains, rivers, grass, and trees. This seemed to be a huge mountain range.
It didn't seem to be anything special. However, looking up, he could see that the sky was full of stars. It was night.
Moreover, what was strange was that there were two full moons in the sky. No, to be precise, there were three moons.
The brightest was a white moon, which looked normal. It was in the town's sky. Behind the white moon was a hazy blue moon. Behind the last one was a faint red moon, which was extremely blurred.
"Is it an illusion?"
Zhang Ling stared at the moon in the sky and muttered to himself. Then he sensed that the moon's yin energy here was very strong, not an illusion.
Vaguely, he could also sense a trace of blood and evil aura spreading around.
"Senior, do you know what this place is?" Lan Que suddenly asked strangely.
"White moon, blue moon, blood moon. This seems to be the Yin Moon Space. Weren't you fighting with that alien demon? How did you come to this place?" A lazy voice came from the side. A flash of fire appeared next to Zhang Ling, and a fiery red sparrow transformed into a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl.
It was Lan Que who had been staying in the Sumeru Cave.
Zhang Ling originally just wanted to call Lan Que out to check this strange place together, and did not expect that Lan Que could answer his question.
He didn't expect that Lan Que seemed to know what this place was, which made him show some surprise. "Yin Moon Space, what place is this?"
"Hmph, where this place is, I naturally don't know. This is based on the three-moon phenomenon in the sky, judging that this is the Land of Yin Moon." Lan Que played with a blue feather in her hand and snorted softly. "The so-called Land of Yin Moon is the kind I told you about before, a special space that may be connected to the Yin Division Realm."
"It is said that in the Nether Yin Division Realm, there is a celestial phenomenon that will present twelve moons. It is called the Ghost Moon Celestial Phenomenon. Of course, some other interfaces will also have multiple moons or suns. Like in the Spirit Realm, the phenomenon of three suns and six moons often appears. There are also some other interfaces that are like this. But there will be no blood moon situation.
When the blood moon appears, the yin and evil energy between heaven and earth will be extremely strong. It is said that it will connect to the Nether."
Hearing this, although Zhang Ling's face did not change, he couldn't help but slander in his heart. "It seems that this is the secret realm of the Ghost King Sect that those Ghost King Sect cultivators mentioned. Judging from this situation, it is definitely not a good place. I wonder if Elder Dongfang, Elder Tian, and the others have also been transmitted to this place."
While thinking in his heart, Zhang Ling suddenly thought of something again. He flipped his hand and a black round bead appeared in his hand. This was the memory bead he obtained in the Misty God Palace, in the broken small cauldron.
It recorded the experience of True Man Divine Light. Hoping to save Miss Ruolan, he sneaked into the Ghost King Sect ten thousand years ago, looking for possible secret techniques.
But he found that the Ghost King Sect was secretly building a teleportation array and was transmitted to a strange space.
Could it be this place?
Zhang Ling's eyes flashed with golden light as he looked around. The environment here was indeed in line with True Man Divine Light's experience.
Combined with the fact that they were also transmitted by the Ghost King Sect's cultivators this time, it was very possible.
He rubbed the black memory bead a few times and put it away. It only simply recorded this experience and did not have much information.
It did not help to understand this place.
Zhang Ling sighed and said to Lan Que, "No matter what this place is, we should find a way out first. Those people from the Ghost King Sect teleported us to this place. I don't know what their purpose is, but we should leave as soon as possible."
Zhang Ling controlled Xuan Gui and moved forward along the river.
Not long after, a rumbling sound came from the front. He just glanced at it and did not let Xuan Gui change direction.
This sound was just the movement formed by the underwater undercurrents in front. It formed countless large and small whirlpools. Xuan Gui entered it and was not affected at all, as if walking on flat ground.
Suddenly, a water whirlpool exploded, setting off a hundred-foot-high wave. A black-scaled fish with a body of more than twenty feet jumped out, trying to bite Xuan Gui's neck, not knowing whether to live or die.
Zhang Ling didn't even lift his eyelids. Xuan Gui just shook his head and instantly bit the big fish, directly swallowing it into his mouth and eating it with a crunching sound.
On the next journey, they encountered many water monsters. There were black-scaled fish, and there were also strange fish that were larger and looked like catfish.
There were also several kinds of monsters that looked even stranger. Among them, there were some high-level monsters. On the way, Xuan Gui devoured several demon pills.
At this time, Xuan Gui's blood-red snake tail suddenly wrapped around a ghost-faced fish with yin and evil energy.
Zhang Ling's sword light flashed, and he took out a sixth-order ghost pill from the ghost-faced fish's head. He held it in his hand.
The yin and evil energy here was extremely heavy, so it made sense for this kind of demon ghost monster to appear.
After two hours of this journey, it was estimated that they had traveled thousands of miles. The black water river under their feet still had no end in sight.
This was a yin water river, not only wide and with rapid water flow, but where did it lead to? It seemed to be wider than the Hundred Rivers.
The shore was not far to the left. Xuan Gui had approached the left bank along the way. It was a black land, and he had seen many tall stone mountains along the way.
Of course, he had also controlled Xuan Gui to look at the right bank just now, and the environment was the same as here.
Zhang Ling directly put away Xuan Gui, and Lan Que had already returned to the Sumeru Cave. Only he himself was flying at low altitude, looking for a way out.
Following the river, there were no clues, so he could only explore the surroundings.
At the same time, Zhang Ling's current situation was not unique to him. Basically, all the cultivators who were transmitted to this place were looking for a way out like him.
Above a section of the river, a cloud of purple magic was floating. Suddenly, the water flow in front surged, setting off a thousand-foot-high wave. A huge two-headed python with a huge body probed out of the water, wanting to devour the magic cloud.
A blue light flashed in the magic cloud, and a blue arc of light as thick as an arm flew out extremely quickly. It circled in the air, and the two huge python heads were chopped off.
Immediately after, more than a dozen huge blue beetles flew out of the magic cloud, making strange hissing sounds. In a moment, they devoured the huge two-headed python corpse. Even the two seventh-order demon pills were not left behind.
In the magic cloud, High Priest Luo Ming expressionlessly retrieved the flying insects. These dozen or so Holy Demon Insects were all mature demon insects specially cultivated by their Demon Soul Palace with true demon energy. They were extremely fierce.
Each one's strength was comparable to a seventh-order peak monster. They also had special magical powers. A dozen of them could easily deal with a Nascent Soul early-stage cultivator.
Originally, they wanted to deal with the human race cultivators, but they were tricked by those people from the Ghost King Sect and were inexplicably teleported to this strange place.
"Blood Light, come out for me!"
"Hmph, this尊 has told you, I am Bloodheart of the Blood Demon Clan, not some Bloodglow." A bloody shadow appeared in the demonic clouds, unwillingly declaring.
