Eternal Night

Chapter 124 Coming from the Myth

(PS: Today I will update three chapters normally, and take a day off.)
The inheritance that Jiujiu obtained from his bloodline was actually not much. It was only the most basic ones, such as the standards of monster cultivation, powerful types of monsters, how humans are dangerous, how to avoid danger, edible things, monster cores, and a small amount of monster texts.

Apart from this, there is no technique to practice.

In fact, it's not just her, the giant wild boar monster in the north is the same. Even though it has been practicing Taoism for more than 300 years, it actually has no systematic practice method. Even though it has used its wild boar fangs to refine magic weapons, they are just some of its monster bloodline inheritance, which is not the result of systematic practice.

Not to mention this, Jiujiu used the few demon writings she knew to find a lot of information in these coffins, murals, and a few funerary objects. Even if the information was incomplete, she could still piece together some facts.

At some point, the demon race came from outer space.

The information here is a bit vague, but this is generally the meaning. Yao is not a separate group, but a general term for intelligent life formed by birds, beasts, mountain goblins, plants, rocks, etc. Yao is its name.

The descriptions in these coffins and funerary objects, as well as the texts on the murals indicate that the demons came to this world under the leadership of five leaders: the Phoenix, the Qilin, the Dragon, the Black Turtle, and the White Tiger. At that time, this world had just begun and the gods were just enlightened. Under the attack of the five demon saints, all the gods were destroyed, thus laying the foundation for the great era of the demon clan.

The Five Saints reside high on the ninth floor, regulating yin and yang, filtering chaos, and transforming it into spiritual energy.

All the monsters recuperate, reproduce, refine their bloodlines, and protect the Five Saints.

But all this goodness did not last long, as the Ten Thousand Demons Conference held by the Five Saints led to internal strife.

The Phoenix and the Dragon decided to set up the Demon Court, but the Qilin and the Black Turtle opposed it. The White Tiger went crazy at this time and bit off one of the Black Turtle's legs. He then attacked the Phoenix, and was eventually suppressed by the Four Sages. However, this also led to a civil war among the demons. The whole world was in ruins, and the spiritual energy retreated prematurely. In the end, the Four Sages took the suppressed White Tiger and most of the demons away from this world.

Afterwards, the demons that did not leave this world began to degenerate or die as the concentration of spiritual energy gradually dissipated. The very small number that remained combined with the creatures of this world and turned into the natives of this world, or they were called... mythical creatures.

The demons who died in the battle, the remaining demons, and the original mythical creatures were buried in one place by some force of this world. They were buried in the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons where the five original demon saints and many demon patriarchs held a meeting. They then turned into the mark of this world, and eventually formed the different difficulty areas in the tomb area of ​​Demon City, including shallow, middle, and deep levels.

And this is only the shallow area of ​​the imprint of the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons.

"According to this speculation, in addition to the endless corridors, there should also be a hall."

Wu Xianxiao looked at the strange words on the huge coffin in front of him and said.

Daphne's worldview suffered the greatest shock on this day, because the sacred mythical creature in her mind turned out to be a defective product of the demon race. This was simply unimaginable!
But she actually saw the dry bones of many of the most legendary mythical creatures in that one day, which made her unable to completely deny the information found in this cemetery.

Fortunately, Daphne is not a racial supremacist. Descendants of this kind of mythical creatures were very common in the Age of Gods and the early days of civilization, but as the supernatural faded and human civilization became mainstream, they basically disappeared.

Wu Xianxiao and the two girls had been staying in this tomb passage for a day. Including the rest time when rescuing the two girls, he had been in this tomb area for more than a day and a half.

In the graveyard area of ​​the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons, the only monster encountered so far is the headless knight. The combat power of all headless knights is slightly weaker than that of the giant bear. As long as there are not more than five of them at a time, Wu Xianxiao can easily solve them without any injury. This is not a problem.

The real main problem is fresh water!

There was barely enough food left. One pig demon meatball could keep one from feeling hungry for a whole day, but there was no way to get fresh water. Before entering here, Wu Xianxiao had eaten food and drank fresh water in the corridor area, but the two women had not. Moreover, a lot of blood had been drained from them. At this time, their mouths were so dry that they were about to smoke, and they were both dizzy and dazed.

Wu Xianxiao knew that they could not hold on for long. Even though one of them was a demon and the other was a werewolf, and they were the descendants of demons, their physiques were not much stronger than ordinary humans due to their age and gender. If they did not drink water for more than three days, they might faint at any time, and sudden death might even occur if they lost too much blood.

He must find the so-called core location as soon as possible, and then take the two women out of this cemetery area!
(There is another way.)
Wu Xianxiao glanced at Daphne silently.

There is another way, which is to return to Gaia through the main brain!

This is probably also the method used by Captain Hao Cheng and his teammates.

However, this method has two disadvantages. The first is that if you leave directly, it is very likely to cause the situation described by the Skull Head, that is, the next time you return to this Castlevania dream world, you will be dragged into the demon world of 0.5 of the baseline reality. The second disadvantage is that if you fail to complete the ten-day suppression mission, once you return, any monster may go to Gaia, and his location will be detected by Nightmare.

There is only half a day left in the ten-day suppression mission, which he can endure. However, returning like this means that he can never come back to this dream world. Then, after a month, the coordinates of his event shelter will be detected by the nightmare, and it is unimaginable what kind of monster will appear at that time.

Moreover, this also means that Daphne must die.

Although he would not deliberately save Daphne, he would not let Daphne die in front of him either. These are two different things.

Do something, don't do something!

"We now roughly know that this is the remnant of information left by a race called the Demon Clan a long, long time ago, and its core is the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons, but we can't find the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons now."

Wu Xianxiao walked in front, and behind them was Jiujiu holding Daphne. The two girls looked a little dazed, their eyes were distracted, and they hadn't even spoken for a long time. This was a sign that they were about to reach their limit.

Wu Xianxiao had no choice, but he made up his mind to upgrade to the citizen level as soon as possible, and then obtain things like space pockets and space magic from the main brain. Of course, it would be great if he could get fantasy items with similar properties, which could save the next two upgrade rewards.

Wu Xianxiao continued, "We have been avoiding those headless knights before, and we only fought them when we couldn't avoid them. Now I think this was a mistake... I don't know where the Hall of Ten Thousand Monsters is, but I know that the more important the place is, the more monsters there must be. So there is only this stupid way, we go to the place with the most headless knights!"

After saying that, Wu Xianxiao waited for the two girls for a moment, then took the lead and followed his heart lake sensing to walk towards the nearest headless knight.

The alert distance of these headless knights was two hundred meters in a straight line. In this winding and complex tomb passage, two hundred meters was already a very far distance. When Wu Xianxiao walked towards the group of headless knights, the six headless knights immediately sensed Wu Xianxiao and then ran towards him as a group.

However, these headless knights were from far and near, so they basically arrived one by one. Facing this headless knight who appeared alone, Wu Xianxiao simply swung his sword and killed one of them. He easily smashed the six headless knights one by one without even stopping.

For nearly half a day, Wu Xianxiao led the two girls to the place with the most headless knights. Gradually, the number of headless knights increased. Even though Wu Xianxiao relied on his heart lake state to sense them in advance and lured them to come again and again, he was besieged by more than five headless knights many times. At most, there were thirteen headless knights coming at the same time. Although he was in danger many times, he also gained a lot.

When the two women were almost reaching their limits and Wu Xianxiao was extremely thirsty, in his mind's perception, the front suddenly became clear and there was no Headless Knight anymore.

This kind of open terrain is unique here. Wu Xianxiao immediately said excitedly to the two women behind him: "We're here. The Hall of Ten Thousand Monsters must be ahead!"

But the two girls did not answer. They supported each other and followed Wu Xianxiao out of inertia.

Seeing them like this, Wu Xianxiao's heart sank. Without any further delay, he picked up the two girls and quickened his pace to rush towards the Hall of Ten Thousand Demons.

He was afraid that the two girls had reached their limit.

In ancient times, there was a state of disaster victims called starving people. They seemed to be walking normally and could seem to walk a long way, but at this time, if someone knocked them down or they lost their balance and fell to the ground, they would die immediately, the kind of sudden death that occurs instantly.

Wu Xianxiao didn't even dare to think about the current condition of the two girls.

With Wu Xianxiao carrying the two girls, they passed through several corridors in less than a minute and finally saw a huge open space in front of them.

The open space was semicircular in shape. After walking in, an extremely fierce flame burned at the edge of the open space. At the same time, Wu Xianxiao could roughly see the situation of the open space. There were huge skeletons of various types all around. These skeletons were sitting on huge stone chairs. Each skeleton was more than 100 meters in size. The largest skeleton was even several thousand meters high and over a thousand meters wide.

Most of these skeletons were human-like with animal features, but there were also a very small number of skeletons that were in complete monster form, such as a snake... or a dragon skeleton, which looked like an oriental dragon, but had three pairs of huge bone wings on its back.

When Wu Xianxiao led the two girls into this huge open space with no visible boundaries, a black aura immediately rose from Jiujiu. Wu Xianxiao immediately looked at Jiujiu nervously and found that Jiujiu was still in a semi-comatose state and there was nothing unusual. Wu Xianxiao then immediately looked in the direction where the black aura was rising.

The black aura rose into the air, then split into two streams, floating towards the two skeletons on the open ground stands.

One skeleton is about 500 meters in size, and is a bird-like skeleton with nine skulls. The other skeleton is a human-shaped skeleton, about 150 meters tall, but with a pair of bone wings on its back.

After the two skeletons received the black energy, green light appeared in their eye sockets and pupils.

At the same time, Wu Xianxiao learned the identities of the two skeletons from the information that came inexplicably.

The skeleton of the nine-headed bird is a descendant of the Guhuo bird, and it controls the soul, death energy, and the field of disaster.

The human-shaped winged skeleton is a descendant of the Peacock King, who controls the underworld, death, and withering realm.

This is the origin of the demon blood in Jiujiu's body. Because he is an insignificant demon for countless generations, his demon blood has been mixed for a long time. But after returning to its origin, the blood of these two demons is the closest to it.

After a moment, the light in the eyes of the nine-headed bird skeleton dissipated, and the skeleton of the descendant of the Peacock King stood up, and then appeared in the distance of the empty plain in the next moment.

At a height of one hundred and fifty meters, one hand held a skeleton sword and the other held a bone vajra. At the same time, a layer of bone-colored halo appeared on the back of the Peacock King's skeleton.

The inexplicable information once again came into Wu Xianxiao's mind.

If they can fight with the skeleton of the descendants of the Peacock King for one minute without dying, they can leave this cemetery. If they die, they will sleep here forever.

Because it has been completely destroyed, the skeleton of the Peacock King's descendants does not have even one ten-thousandth of their combat power in their prime.

"The Peacock King, or the Peacock Mother?"

Wu Xianxiao placed Jiujiu and Daphne at the edge of the entrance of the square, while the descendant of the Peacock King stood there motionless and did not take the opportunity to attack or anything.

Wu Xianxiao roughly estimated the distance between the descendants of the Peacock King and Jiujiu and Daphne. Judging from visual observation, they were at least several thousand meters away, but this was still not safe.

Apart from anything else, if Wu Xianxiao now throws a stone with all his strength, the power is comparable to that of a bullet within a hundred meters, and it can hit a person's head and cause bleeding, or even kill him directly at a distance of a thousand meters.

The origin of this skeleton was too shocking, and its shape was terrifying. What kind of descendant of the Peacock King? Beings like the Peacock King were among the most powerful in mythology. Even if they were his descendants, even if their power was less than one ten-thousandth left after death, Wu Xianxiao didn't dare to imagine how powerful they were.

So a distance of several thousand meters is really not safe.

Seeing this, Wu Xianxiao could only try it out, pointed to a place farther away, and ran towards that place first.

Unexpectedly, the skeleton of the descendant of the Peacock King actually followed him and moved thousands of meters away in the same stride, so it was at least ten thousand meters away from Jiujiu and the others.

After arriving here, Wu Xianxiao no longer moved, but stood in place and kept taking deep breaths. Each breath had a lung capacity at least three times that of a normal breath. When even he felt a little intoxicated by the oxygen, he roared to the sky, and his blood and energy burst out to all his strength at the same time. A steam burst out from the pores all over his body, surrounding him for a long time.

He drew his sword, clasped his fists, and the energy of his dantian surged.

"Wu Xianxiao!"

"I've seen it before!"

The next moment, the jade-colored sword was raised up to the sky, facing the hundred-meter-long giant sword that was slashing down from the air!
(End of this chapter)