Volume 5: The Ancient Glorious Empire Chapter 109 City Ruins, Evil God Tribe
In the middle ghost world, everything is silent.
More than ten figures walked through it cautiously.
Fang You had been in the middle ghost world for half a day. They first explored and collected intelligence back and forth at the outermost edge, and only when they had enough information did they slowly explore deeper.
The current situation in the Central Ghost Realm is indeed dozens of times more difficult than before. However, the fundamental reason why Sage Cangtu and others have encountered an endless stream of seven-star and eight-star ghostly attacks is that there are several sources of disasters far away from them.
Yes, within the Zhonggui Realm, there are sources of disasters everywhere.
Fang You's own eyesight is stronger than Cangtu Sage, but it is also limited. He is also restricted by the extremely thick gray fog in the Central Strange Realm, so his vision cannot reach far.
Even if he used the Evil Tracking skill, it was difficult for him to find the very few darker targets in the darkness.
The one who discovered the source of these disasters was An Jianyou.
In the early days, she was known as the evil radar, and now, she can also be called the source of disaster radar.
She gazed into the distance, and with a stroke of her hand, she marked out all the sources of disasters in the surrounding area for billions of miles.
There are a lot of them. Quite a lot. Very many.
During the previous two disaster periods, the number of sources of disasters that appeared in the outside world was dwarfed by that here.
After the discovery, they did not rush to destroy it, as doing so might have attracted the attention of the evil god's camp... However, there was another possibility, that they had already been discovered when they set foot on this land.
In terms of probing and gathering intelligence, he had to admit that his own apostles were slightly inferior.
Ilosi: After all, we are still young girls in our early teens (hands on hips)!
This is not the case with the demigods such as the old Lord of Chisha. Each of them is an experienced old explorer. They did not have the opportunity to try before. Now, after being far away from the crisis, these old demigods and old sages quickly analyzed and summarized the intelligence information.
Fang You also recorded it down and gave it to Xiao Huan to organize and update on the organization's intranet.
"The gray fog in the Central Ghost Realm hinders divine consciousness by at least 30 times more than that in the outside world. An ordinary myth who sets foot here is completely unable to observe the outside environment. As for relying on pure sight and vision? It is even more impossible."
"The gray fog here is even harder to dispel. Even an epic-level fog-dispelling device can only barely dispel the gray fog within a 500-meter range, and it cannot dispel it completely. This means that using fog-dispelling items cannot avoid attacks from evil spirits."
"At the same time, many of the evil spirits here are hidden deep in the other side of the gray fog. Under normal circumstances, they are invisible to the naked eye or divine sense. They will suddenly emerge from the gray fog not far away, making it difficult to guard against them."
This is also the fundamental reason why the old Lord Chisha and other demigods have been possessed.
It was their first time stepping into the middle ghost world, and they had not seen too many high-level ghosts. What they saw was still within their expectations, but they were soon stunned by the ghosts that suddenly emerged from the gray fog in all directions.
After experiments, it was found that using some extremely filthy weird objects and high-level evil limbs as cover can indeed deceive most of the weird things... as long as there is no fierce battle.
"When exploring the Middle Ghost Realm, you must try to avoid fighting. If you can retreat, retreat. If you can escape, escape. This way, you won't fall into the encirclement of ghosts and evil spirits."
During the previous investigation, they had already reunited with Sage Bai Yao, Queen of Ice and other powerful human beings from the East, North and West Weird Worlds.
However, when it comes to a really in-depth investigation, everyone still goes their separate ways.
Not only is team exploration inefficient, it is also prone to various interest issues. To put it bluntly, apart from the same camp and the same goal, many strong people may not be very familiar with each other, and the core interests of various countries may not be the same.
Of course, it is safer to form a group and we can rely on Xinhuo as a strong supporter.
Some wise men were also interested, but after thinking it over, they felt that they still had to rely on themselves.
After all, they are in high positions!
In this strange world, as long as you are careful and stay safe, there won't be many problems.
However, if something unexpected happens, they may still have to...
Need help!
Before leaving, Sage Bai Yao provided a treasure that could be used for communication.
"The filth in the Central Ghost Realm is deep and serious interference to communication is caused. However, as long as the distance does not exceed several large domains, there will be no problem with communication."
The sages set out one after another.
The demigods in the Southern Weird Realm were more resourceful, or perhaps they were frightened, so they sent their own myths back to their own homes. The remaining dozen or so demigods relied on the "Mist-Repelling Bonfire" building that Master Fang had just planted and built as the core to build a relatively safe area.
This safe zone is located at the southern end of the abyss.
If there are strong people crossing the abyss, they can play a supporting role... If they had left some support personnel behind before, they would not be so embarrassed when they evacuated by flying across.
At the same time, Fang You had already brought An Jianyou and others and slowly went deeper into the middle ghost world.
During this exploration, many dominant forces brought out their most valuable treasures.
A powerful person in the Western Weird World took out a legendary treasure with a very strong fog-dispelling effect.
The Ice Queen of the Northern Weird Realm uses a special domain-type treasure to conceal her own aura.
Bai Yao and several other sages drove the palace-like strange devices and moved forward carefully.
These methods can be used unimpeded in the four regions of east, west, south and north. However, in this strange world, even if you use top-level treasures such as the Dimension Palace, there is still a possibility of being discovered.
The aura of these people is out of place here.
It was as if they were outsiders of this world, locked in by the will of the world.
But there is no world will in the ghost world.
Moreover, they are the allies of the world, while the evil god has always wanted to swallow up the world.
"Obviously, the Central Ghost Realm has completely fallen into the shape of an evil god."
Fang You sighed.
He walked towards the distance seemingly slowly but actually quickly, measuring the earth with his feet, each step covering a distance of thousands or tens of thousands of meters .
From time to time, eerie roars could be heard all around, a huge shadow was passing by in the gray fog not far away, and the earth was shaking.
However, no matter how evil it was, it was unable to detect the several tiny figures so close.
They were treading on a dark field.
This is An Jianyou's netherworld, which continues to spread as she moves. In terms of blocking the perception of evil spirits, An Jianyou's talent is stronger than any treasure in the field. At the same time, An can also control the netherworld and take everyone in the field to jump through space.
She is also a strong space expert. Except for her inability to accurately position herself when jumping, she is not much worse than Xiao Huan in other aspects.
An Jianyou maxed out his life-saving abilities.
Even so, she still clenched her fists tightly, and her eyes kept scanning the surroundings like a searchlight.
She not only serves as a protector and evacuator, but also undertakes reconnaissance missions, which is indeed a heavy task. But there is no other way, those who are more capable should do more work.
Fang You was also using other means to investigate the surroundings to fill in the gaps of the Eye of the Netherworld.
"There is a city ruin ahead."
An saw the secluded path.
The distance was still quite far, and the energy fluctuations caused by flying at full speed were difficult to conceal.
Fang You then asked Xiao Huan, the transport girl, to appear.
Faint, barely perceptible ripples appeared in the surrounding space, which then shrank inward.
The next moment, the eight people, led by Xiao Huan, carried out a small-scale, low-key movement and arrived at the point where An Jianyou was observing - in front of the city ruins.
There are actually quite a few city ruins in the strange world.
Once a world like Blue Star is swallowed up and integrated into the strange world, all that remains are ruins.
Once an oasis is breached and polluted, it will also leave behind architectural ruins.
There are also ancient ruins that can be seen from time to time.
But these city ruins have one thing in common: they have been eroded by time and are very dilapidated, with the buildings seeming to have been weathered for thousands of years.
The city before us was fragmented, yet quite new.
It was as if it had just been destroyed.
call out--
Fang You shot out a small bolt of lightning, which hit the hundreds-meter-high Guixie. The flashing lightning annihilated Guixie, with neither more nor less power, without damaging the surrounding soil and rocks in the slightest.
They are environmentalists, but the evil in the city is not.
There are still many evil spirits here, some of which are like bulldozers, collapsing buildings.
However, these broken buildings were restored to their original state in the blink of an eye, which was extremely strange.
It seems that the entire city ruins are forever frozen at a certain node.
"The power of time? But it doesn't seem to be."
Fang You and his group passed through the city ruins but found nothing.
Of course, it’s not all in vain.
They picked up many treasures along the way, including many red-level materials... Compared with the outside world, the Central Ghost Realm is dangerous, but it is undoubtedly an uncultivated treasure land.
Here, legendary materials can be found everywhere.
However, they took a high risk to enter the middle ghost world, not just for a few materials.
Fang You just picked up some along the way and continued to go deeper.
After crossing the ruins of City No. 1, they discovered several more city ruins, among which was the city of the Kandra Empire.
Pure white tall buildings stand there.
If you ignore the canyon-like cracks in the city, ignore the dark clouds and gray fog covering the city, and ignore the evil spirits wandering around, these are cities that have just been robbed.
He also found some unexpired food here.
Chi Yan's nose twitched. She tore open a package and took a small bite. Her eyes lit up immediately. "Hmm, this is the taste. It's exactly the same as what I ate back then!"
With her physique, there is no possibility of poisoning, so eating something random is not a big problem, but...
What's the matter with you running around and sweeping the shelves around?
They went deep into the middle ghost world not to purchase goods!
Hey, Ilohi, put your hands down too!
Instructor Fang was tired, but the team continued to move forward.
…
They have been deep in the middle ghost world for three days.
After three days, apart from the wonder of the city ruins, no other discoveries were made.
This is normal.
This was Fang You’s first time exploring the Middle Ghost World, but other human overlords and ancient beings had definitely explored it in depth. If the secrets of the Middle Ghost World could be easily discovered, the disaster would not be so difficult.
Keep looking.
They are not completely unfamiliar with the middle ghost world.
Qianmian had been an undercover agent before, and he/she had also set foot in the Central Ghost Realm. However, Qianmian did not take the normal route to and from the Central Ghost Realm, and the scope of his/her activities in the Central Ghost Realm was also very limited, confined to the Blood Empire.
After all, Thousand Faces is just a servant of the evil god.
If he/she can be promoted to a waiter, he/she will be qualified to know deep secrets.
However, the waiters were all promoted by the evil gods and need to face the indescribable evil gods directly.
No matter how strong Qianmian's camouflage ability is, it is estimated that it will be difficult for him to hide from the evil god. There is a high probability that he will die as soon as they meet... In fact, death is a luxury.
What's more, Qianmian has not yet been promoted to a high position.
On the fourth day of in-depth exploration, they were still in the outer area of the Central Strange World. However, they discovered some special traces that day - traces of human activities (×) and traces of humanoid intelligent life activities (√).
"Let's keep up."
There were more than a dozen figures in simple animal skin coats in front.
Very weak, only at the third or fourth awakening level.
They are the most ordinary minions in the evil god's camp, and in many cases they are not even cannon fodder.
In the early stages of the invasion of the outside world, these minions were the main force. I remember that the inhuman minions leader could cause a bloody storm on the Blue Star and sacrifice a city with blood.
But in the dangerous world of the middle ghost, the minions of the third and fourth awakenings? They are not even ants.
However, these ant-like minions were now freely moving across the gray and desolate land without attracting any evil hostility. They were carrying a lot of items on their shoulders, as if they were hunters returning from hunting.
"It is a strange skeleton."
Groups of minions returned to the tribe .
The tribe was very simple and shrouded in thick gray fog.
However, the gray fog has never had any effect on the minions. Perhaps in the eyes of the evil god's minions, the world under the gray fog is the clearest world.
But in the center of the simple tribe, there is a huge pool. Lifelike statues stand on the edge of the pool, and inside the pool is turbid black water with bubbles constantly rising.
The minions of the evil god threw their limbs into it one after another.
Suddenly, the black water boiled even more, bubbling continuously.
What happened next was even more horrifying.
One by one, the minions of the evil god tore off their clothes, jumped into the black pool with fanaticism on their faces, embracing what they called the "Water of the Divine River".
Fang You had seen similar sacrificial scenes before.
This time it was particularly exaggerated.
There were many "humans" living in this tribe. They jumped into the black water one after another. Most of them had their bodies distorted and turned into pus while howling. Only a very few walked out from the other end of the black pool with a suddenly stronger aura.
The mortality rate is over 95%!
Even so, no tribesman retreated. They remained enthusiastic and rushed forward one after another.
The sacrifices only stopped slowly until the blackness of the pool water gradually faded.
The tribesmen who were unable to embrace the water of the sacred river looked regretful.
At this time, there were at least tens of thousands of tribesmen who had turned into pus in the black water.
An Jianyou and the others were silent, feeling somewhat frightened.
Yiluoxi swallowed and said, "This... is a bit scary." She didn't think too many people died. What really frightened her were the tribesmen who were howling and gradually turning into pus, but still looked fanatical.
It's so crazy that it's scary!
Before the sacrifice began, these guys looked not much different from humans!
"This is the pollution and influence from the evil god."
"Those who become minions or servants of the evil god are already dead at their root."
"Not only that..."
Fang You looked out at the strange black pool.
Just now, the black pool of water swallowed up tens of thousands of people, but also spit out many strong men.
Among them, there are four servants of the evil god—newly rising myths.
This is a tribe under the rule of the evil god, but it seems more like...
Evil God Arsenal.
A factory that continuously produces high-level weapons.
