Chapter 42: Terrorist Demon Temple
Chen Nan stooped up the nine steps and resolutely walked towards the main entrance of the hall. The Tiger King followed a few steps forward by his ears, but when it came to the dark and lightless devil's mouth it refused to move forward any further, its four tiger paws striking the ground with all its might.
Chen Nan whispered, ''Color tiger quickly go.''
Tiger King Xiaoyu desperately shook its head, it raised a tiger paw for a while to draw, at the same time, the color of panic appeared in its eyes.
When Chen Nan saw that it refused to move, he used his Xuan Gong to lift its neck to make it rise off the ground, and then walked towards the hall, although Xiao Yu kept struggling, it was difficult to escape from Chen Nan's powerful palms.
When Chen Nan stepped into the hall in the moment, a wave of cold air to the face, in this hot summer, the palace is like an ice cellar cold. He placed the Tiger King on the ground, the Tiger King shuddered, its body quickly shrunk, and then "whoosh" scurried to his shoulder, two small tiger claws vigorously grasped a strand of his hair.
''Color tiger release claws,'' Chen Nan shouted in a low voice.
Little Jade gripped hard, let him rebuke, how also refused to let go, at the same time appearing a look of fear and anxiety. Chen Nan had no choice, letting it stay on his shoulder, he slowly walked forward.
"Ta", "ta", "ta".
Inside the empty, dark hall, there was only the monotonous echo of his footsteps, other than that, there was a dead silence, in this darkness where one could not see one's fingers, Chen Nan groped his way forward by virtue of his sharp spiritual sense.
After walking forward for nearly ten feet, a few steps appeared under his feet, and above the stone platform a stone door blocked the way. When he pushed toward the stone door Xiao Yu uneasily let out a low roar, and then lifted up his collar "whoosh" sound drilled into his arms.
"I xxxx, color tiger you want to scare me to death actually to my arms drill" Chen Nan a hand pulled it out, thrown on the ground. However, Xiao Yu immediately scurried up to his shoulder again and firmly grabbed his hair.
"Cowardly as a mouse, quasi a reincarnation of a mouse, not like a tiger at all."
Chen Nan pushed open the stone door with force, inside was a very open hall, the four walls were inlaid with beads emitting a faint green light, the ghostly green light made the hall look particularly eerie, as if it was an eerie hell.
When he looked inside the scene sucked in a breath of cold air, shocked scalp numbness, the two sides of the hall stood two columns of dry corpses, air-dried skin and flesh tightly wrapped in the skinny bones, distorted features unusually hideous, Chen Nan heart "flutter flutter flutter" jumping, he suspected that he had stepped into the land of the netherworld.
"Cough" the old coughing sound suddenly rang in the hall, Chen Nan jumped up in shock, hiding in his shoulder Xiaoyu fell down, but it immediately scurried back. Chen Nan grabbed it, his hands unconsciously using force, pinching Little Jade and rolling his eyes until Little Jade gave him a claw, and only then did he hastily let go.
He quickly retreated backwards, but realized that the stone door had long been closed, and he couldn't push it open in any way. Little Jade was roaring uneasily on his shoulder, her eyes constantly scanning the surroundings.
Chen Nan stabilized his mind and shouted, "Whoever is hiding in the shadows quickly come out."
The old man's voice echoed in the hall: "Young man don't talk so impulsively, I've always stayed here, why have I ever hid to it's you who barged in for no reason, how do you blame me instead".
Chen Nan used his sharp spiritual sense to search inside the hall over and over again, but found nothing, there was no sign of life inside the hall except for him and Xiao Yu, he had a chill.
After a while, that old voice sounded again, "Meeting is fate, I didn't expect that someone would actually set foot here, young man let's have a chat."
Chen Nan said, "You didn't even let me see you, it's too insincere"
"I'm really not hiding, since you have to see me, just keep moving forward."
Chen Nan walked forward step by step, Xiao Yu nervously looked around on his shoulder, when stepping between the two columns of dry corpses, it once again burrowed into Chen Nan's arms with a whoosh, leaving only a small tiger head exposed to vigilantly observe the nearby movements.
"You colorful tiger come out quickly." But this time no matter how Chen Nan pulled it, Xiaoyu's small tiger claws were firmly grasping his clothes, and dead refused to come out.
"Oh, kitten a hundred years ago you did not come here, do not want my old man, and came back to see me"!
Hearing this little jade stay can no longer stop, from Chen Nan's arms "whoosh" drilled out, stepped on Chen Nan's face climbed to his head, vigorously grasping his hair looking around.
"I xxxx, color tiger how dare you stool my nose on my head, angry me." Chen Nan pulled it off and threw it towards the feet of a dryad.
"Roar."
Tiger King Xiaoyu let out a low roar in fear before quickly running back to Cinnan's feet, a small tiger paw nervously grasping his pants leg.
"Hehe, kitten you're still as timid as you were a hundred years ago, it's not like I'm going to eat you, what's there to be afraid of," the pale voice echoed throughout the hall, it was impossible to tell exactly where it came from.
Chen Nan walked forward a few more feet, a dry corpse next to him suddenly turned his head and showed his teeth to him, his white teeth flashed with a demonic light.
"Roar" Xiao Yu let out a loud roar and quickly ran out a few feet away, at this time it was covered in upside down hair, gazing at the dry corpse from a distance in fear.
"Ah," Chen Nan also shouted in shock, and retreated seven or eight steps in a row, he felt a chill rising from the bottom of his heart, and he was ice-cold from head to toe. He pulled out the long knife behind his back and shouted, "Are you a human being or a ghost?
The "dry corpse" walked out from the column of corpses, his whole body was covered with skin and bones, and he walked mechanically and stiffly, just like a zombie.
He laughed and said, "Still alive now, but not far from death." And then he rushed to the far side of the small jade beckoned: "kitten a hundred years ago you mistakenly enter the magic temple, until the time of departure also did not find me, and now see my old man's true face, still as scared as before "!
Looking at the living skeleton that was like a zombie, like a stern ghost, Xiaoyu was filled with fear, it had already made its body bigger and was ready to fight.
Chen Nan looked at the "dry corpse" in front of him with a face full of disbelief and said, "You're really still alive how can you be like this"
"Yes, I am indeed still alive. Don't be afraid, let's have a good chat, I haven't seen a living person in many years."
This time when Chen Nan was running his Xuan Gong, he finally sensed the faint pulsation of life in the "dry corpse", but it was intermittent and almost lifeless. Chen Nan was convinced that this was indeed an old man with a trace of life, and just now he must have performed a kind of sound power to make people unable to recognize his location.
Chen Nan put his long sword back on his back and took a few steps forward, coming to a distance of less than a zhang from the old man, standing opposite him. Xiao Yu, however, refused to come over, looking at the place in fear from afar.
The old man said: "I think your heart must be full of doubts at this moment, right?
Cinnan said: "Yes, it's simply hard to imagine that there would be such a terrifying hall in the middle of the vast mountains, can I ask you some questions?"
"Yes, you can ask as many questions as you like. I have a short life ahead of me, if I don't tell the secrets in my heart now, I am afraid that I won't have another chance in the future".
"What kind of place is this?"
"The Temple of the Devil."
"The Hall of Demons? Did a demon create this hall?"
"It was created by an ancient god."
"If it was created by a god, why is it called the Hall of Demons?"
"Because the ancient god felt he had fallen from grace and was no longer worthy of being called a god."
"How did he fall?"
"He fought with another fallen ancient god over a divine treasure, and in the end, although he was lucky enough to defeat the other, he himself was seriously injured and dying, and has remained in the earthly realm ever since."
Chen Nan's heart stirred, the owner of this Demon Hall was most likely one of the Ancient Gods recorded in the sheepskin scroll dug up in Sin City, however, there was more or less a discrepancy between what was recorded in the sheepskin scroll and what the old man said.
The old man said: ''Young man have you heard of the two ancient gods before, otherwise why would you not have a hint of shock''
"Yes." Chen Nan told the rumors of the Ancient Gods in Sin City.
The old man sighed, "That godly battle thousands of years ago, I didn't expect it to be recorded, but it was different from the truth."
"What exactly is the truth?"
"The master of this great hall was so skillful that he killed another Ancient God who was dying of serious injuries. When the god was about to die, he suddenly blew himself up, and even though the master of the temple was protected by his armor, he was still seriously injured. His divine power weakened to the lowest line, how could he not sense the divine treasure lost in the mountains, he hurriedly put away the skeleton of the ancient god who blew up his divine body, and fled back here in a mess to recuperate."
"What happened then?"
"The master of the Demon Hall recuperated here for some time, and was horrified to find that it was no longer difficult to condense his divine power, and that it could only be maintained at a rather low level. He went to the place of the great battle several times in search of the leftover divine treasures, but returned disappointed every time."
Hearing this, Chen Nan was a bit nervous and said, "Where did that Ancient God go afterward?"
The old man sighed and said, "He has been recuperating here for hundreds of years, but his divine power never recovered, and once he went out and never came back."
"Ah" Chen Nan was shocked and said, "So the Ancient God disappeared without ever returning."
"Yes, I really don't know if he's in a bad or good situation with limited divine power."
After hearing these words, Tatsunami took a long time to come back to his senses and muttered, "It's too unbelievable, a god wandering the world" Next he asked, "What's the relationship between those giants inhabiting the outside and this demonic hall, and why are they worshipping this great hall"
"The ancestors of those giants were once subjugated by the Ancient God as divine slaves, and they made a great effort to build this hall, and they carried all the black corundum needed for the hall from the distant mountains. The Ancient God is a god in their hearts, and even though he has disappeared for a long time, his divine might has been passed down from generation to generation among the giants, who have lived here for generations, guarding this magic hall."
"But why did they pile up so many white bones under the Demon Temple?"
"This is one of the secrets of the Magic Palace." The old man pointed his finger at the ground and said, "There is an exceptionally powerful savage beast underneath this hall, and the reason why the giants piled up those white bones beyond the rocky mountain was entirely to carry out the orders left behind by the Ancient God. The Ancient God has placed a Nine Specters White Bone Formation here, condensing the power of the heavens and earth, gathering the souls of ten thousand souls, and deterring that savage beast underneath the ground, so that it will not be able to come up and do evil."
Chen Nan was dumbfounded by what he heard, his heart was horrified, the savage beast that was subdued by the god must have been terrifying to the extreme, to think that it was dozens or hundreds of feet below his feet sent a chill down his spine.
"What kind of beast is this?"
"I don't know, except for the master of the Magic Palace no one has seen it, only occasionally can hear its roar."
At this moment, a dull roar suddenly came from the underground, but through the strata of the hall, the sound was not very clear, but the smell was chilling. Little Jade quickly shrunk to the size of a kitten, and then scurried to Chen Nan's shoulder, it was vigilantly watching the old man like a dry corpse on the opposite side, while shaking its ears to listen to that devilish sounding roar.
Chen Nan in the daytime in the hall outside the observation has heard if not the strange whistle, at this time a clear, until the whistle stops, he asked: "the ancient gods why it will be trapped here, why not directly eliminate it in the first place"!
The old man said: "the ancient gods from elsewhere to bring it here, originally wanted to tame it as a mount, but the savage beast temperament, how also refused to yield, the ancient gods had no choice but to trap it under the hall, want to slowly subdue it. However, he was seriously injured in that divine battle not long afterward, and was no longer capable of killing that vicious beast, so he set up the Nine Specters White Bone Formation to prevent it from escaping."
"I didn't expect that there would be such a mysterious place in the middle of such deep mountains."
The old man said, "This is only one of the secrets of the Devil's Palace, in addition to this, there is a bigger secret."
"There is an even bigger secret."
"Not only is there a vicious beast underneath this hall, but there is also a precious armor sealed underneath it."
Chen Nan's heart stirred, he remembered a legendary armor, he couldn't help but ask, "What is the name of the armor?"
"Xuanwu Armor."
Chen Nan was shocked, "Ah, could it be could it be that Xuan Wu Armor that existed in ancient times"
The old man nodded and said, "Not bad, it is the legendary divine armor of the original Immortal Fantasy Continent."
In the distant past, the immortal fantasy continent there are a few weapons have been regarded as immortal treasure, divine treasure, legend has it that if the top expert is holding a piece of such a weapon, it can be against the gods, against the immortals. But unfortunately these weapons often only appear in the legend, thousands of years only occasionally have a piece of the world.
Ten thousand years ago, Chen Nan had seen the Hou Yi bow, which his father, Chen Zhan, had unintentionally acquired while traveling the world. After 10,000 years, he saw the bow again, but things had changed. He didn't know whether Chen Zhan had left the Hou Yi Bow behind and went away after breaking through the void, or whether
Although Chen Nan hadn't seen another few legendary treasures, he knew that there was a precious armor named Xuanwu, and he didn't expect to be able to learn of its whereabouts here today. It was rumored that this armor was not only able to protect the body, but was also able to use its strength to counterattack, attacking and defending at the same time, which was incredibly divine.
"Are you telling the truth, old man?
"It is true that this armor is sealed under the Devil's Palace. The owner of the Magic Palace got it by chance and treasured it as if it were his life. If he didn't have this armor to protect his body, I'm afraid he would have died with another Ancient God in that divine battle.
Chen Nan sighed, "In the ancient legend, the Hou Yi bow, which is the same name as the Xuan Wu Armor, had shot down the gods in the sky, I really don't know what is so marvelous about the Xuan Wu Armor."
The old man said, "A treasure that has been passed down from ancient times to the present day must be extraordinary."
Chen Nan said: "Old man what exactly are you, why are you staying here until now I still don't know your identity."
The old man reached out and pointed to the two columns of dry corpses inside the hall and said, "I was a servant in the Devil's Palace just like them."
"Ah, they are also still alive," Chen Nan exclaimed.
"No, it's been many years since they died. These people are the successive generations of divine servants, and because the techniques they practiced were all withered wood techniques, they all look like this after death."
"Divine Servants."
"Yes, before the master of the Devil's Palace disappeared, he once took in a servant, the first generation of divine servants, and he was the only one who had ever met the master of the Devil's Palace. The first servant was loyal to the Ancient God, and had been waiting for the Ancient God to return, but he waited in vain for more than a hundred years. In his old age, he asked the giants outside to send him out of the mountains and take a disciple in Sin City before returning here. This has been the case for generations since then, and this is how all the divine servants in the Demon Temple came to be."
"Oh, I see."
The old man continued, "Time passes, thousands of years have passed, and although there are still God Servants in this Devil Temple, the hearts of the God Servants are no longer the same as in the past. The later servants have never seen the Ancient God, so they don't have a trace of fear, and the servants have no meaning to their existence. In previous generations, there were those who intended to stop accepting disciples, but they were never able to make that decision. I've come to the point of no longer accepting disciples."
"Do you intend to leave this place?"
"I'm over 300 years old, I'm already dying, what's the point of leaving, this is the best place for me to die."
"If what the old man said was true, then I am afraid that his cultivation has reached a level that is unimaginable to ordinary people.
The old man said: "Every generation of God's servants can live to be at least 150 years old or more, the ancient gods have passed down their techniques to maintain their health, not the kind of cultivation in the usual sense. As a matter of fact, the skills of all the generations of God's Servants were not very strong, and could only be considered an ordinary expert on the continent. Take me as an example, right now, although I'm already over three hundred years old, I'm not a match for you at all, and I definitely can't fight against you."
"Oh." Chen Nan had indeed heard of this type of cultivator, this was a side branch of the Taoist Sect, these types of people did not seek to grow in power, their purpose of cultivating their bodies was only to gain longevity.
The old man said, "I know that I don't have long to live, so I told you the secret in my heart. The Xuanwu Armor has been one of the legendary treasures of the continent since ancient times, and I hope that the world will be able to learn of its whereabouts, and I don't want it to be buried deep in the ground for many years."
