In Panjiayuan, the first thing they did was trick Lao Hu into going tomb raiding.

Following the sound, I entered the main hall behind the stone gate. There were lights on the stone pillars. The walls were covered with hundreds of human skins.

Inside the hall are some large sacrificial vessels, and in the deepest part are some statues of naked female deities.

Su Mo asked, "What happened?"

Suppressing her nausea, Shirley Yang stared at the human skin on the wall and exclaimed, "This is a scroll depicting records from the city of Evil Luo Sea!"

"The information recorded on these skins is too important. Although I can't fully understand some of the symbols, I can combine them with the part of the epic poem about the World's Enemy-Defeating Jewel and the King's War with the content of the Demon Kingdom War!"

"It can definitely solve most of the problems we face!"

At this moment, everyone was unusually quiet, looking at Shirley Yang with suspicion and uncertainty.

Shirley Yang analyzed the scrolls on those human skins and gradually pieced together a series of clues.

"As the main city of the Demon Kingdom, Ero City has a completely different political system from other countries. At its peak, the Demon Kingdom's territory covered the area surrounding the Kunlun Mountains!"

"Throughout history, there has been no king. They were directly governed by the 'Remains of the Serpent God,' the main deity they worshipped. All major decisions were made by the priests of the kingdom through divination after offering sacrifices to the serpent god's bones!"

"In that ancient era, divination was a very serious and important activity that could not be held lightly. It could only be held once every few years, or even once every ten years!"

"The Demon Kingdom has no king, which is why there is no palace in the city but only a temple. The so-called royal family members are just wizards who hold power, but they also have to serve the Serpent God's Bone!"

"In the Demon Kingdom's value system, the bones of the Serpent God are the highest deity!"

"The scroll depicts most frequently the Demon Mother, a figure often mentioned in the legends of the Demon Kingdom. The religion of the Demon Kingdom believes that each generation of Demon Mother is a reincarnation. She can never show her true face and must always cover it!"

"Because their eyes possess an astonishing power!"

"Below the Demon Mother are those who possess some evil arts, similar to [unclear text - possibly a type of magical technique]..."

"The sudden decline of the Demon Kingdom was most likely due to the devastating disaster that struck Evil Luo Sea City, but there is no record of this event on these human skins..."

"........."

Shirley Yang stared at the last few human skin scrolls, then suddenly fell silent. His face turned deathly pale, as if he had seen a ghost.

"Snow Pear Yang?"

"Staff Officer Yang?"

"what happened?"

The crowd cried out in confusion.

Shirley Yang ran to Ah Xiang's side, lifted Ah Xiang's hair, her pupils dilated, and she froze on the spot!

Sherry Yang turned to Old Hu, Su Mo and the others and laughed bitterly, "This is not the Evil Ghost City at all, this is the Bottomless Ghost Cave!"

Old Hu was shocked after hearing this.

A bottomless ghost cave?

How can it be!

Old Hu looked around, his face full of disbelief. "How could this be a bottomless ghost cave?"

Shirley Yang looked dejected. "Just go and look at Uncle Ming and Chu Yi's napes, and you'll see!"

Could it be?

At this point, Lao Hu believed and accepted what Shirley Yang had said.

The frozen city of Evil Luo and the bottomless, cursed Ghost Cave are both existences that transcend common sense.

Old Hu quickly ran to Uncle Ming's side and pulled open Uncle Ming's collar at the back of his neck.

Sure enough, I saw a faint, circular red mark on the back of his neck, like a ring of red rash seeping out from the inside...

It's just that it's still very blurry, and it's extremely difficult to spot unless you're looking for it intentionally.

Then, Lao Hu looked at the back of the necks of Chu Yi and Zhang Yingban.

It's exactly the same as Uncle Ming's.

Seeing it with his own eyes, Old Hu was still shocked. "This is the mark of being cursed by the Bottomless Ghost Cave. Although it's only in its early stages and not very obvious yet, it will gradually become more apparent within a month or two!"

"A mark resembling both a vortex and an eyeball will appear. Those afflicted by this malevolent curse are just like us, around the age of forty."

"The hemoglobin in the blood will gradually decrease, and the blood in the blood vessels will slowly turn into yellow mud, torturing people into demons from hell!"

Old Hu's face was grim. "But Uncle Ming, Chu Yi and my senior brothers have been with us for the past month or so. It's impossible that they went to the Black Desert of Taklamakan in Xinjiang alone!"

"here…"

"This is actually a ghost cave!"

Chapter 133: The Origin of the Muchen Pearl!

Seeing Su Mo and the others looking at him with amused expressions, Uncle Ming grew anxious. "What's going on? What's with the red eyes?"

Old Hu shook his head. As a kind-hearted man, he did not answer Uncle Ming's question this time.

Because Lao Hu knew that this was not the time to dwell on this issue.

Old Hu looked at Shirley Yang again: "How exactly did you find out about this?"

Shirley Yang led Su Mo and Lao Hu to the last few human skins, pointed to them, and said, "The ritual of offering sacrifices to the bones of the Serpent God was actually the place where the Serpent God was buried, which is the Ghost Cave we saw under the Zaglama Sacred Mountain in the Black Desert!"

"These murals on human skin do not explicitly state that the Serpent God's leg is in the Western Regions, but combined with the long poem by the World-Defeating Jewel King, it is not difficult to make this inference."

“In the far north of Kunlun Mountain, there are five treasure boxes, each used to hold the remains of the serpent god.”

"Two relics of the Serpent God. One is its body, rotted away to the point of being just a skeleton, but its brain still retains the power of illusory transformation. The other is the giant eye on its head, which can grant its soul immortality, at the end of heaven and earth and time!"

"It will rise from the ashes like a phoenix, reborn from the ashes, and this giant eye can also serve as a passage to the gate of the Crimson Realm!"

"If we're talking about it scientifically, this illusionary realm is probably the imaginary space that American experts have been studying. Captain Su also mentioned this back in the Jingjue Ancient City..."

"In the final ritual depicted in the human skin mural, the ancestors of the Demon Kingdom took the eyes of the snake bone and mastered its secrets, then traveled to the Kunlun Mountains and Karamir to establish a vast religious theocracy!"

"Whenever there is a demon mother in the country who possesses demonic eyes, she will open the passage in her eyes and hold elaborate ceremonies, using captured slaves to sacrifice to the snake bones."

"Any slave who has seen the illusions of the realm with their own eyes will be marked with an eyeball. Then they will be kept in captivity like livestock until their blood congeals and they die!"

"In several countries near the Demon Kingdom, countless people have become sacrifices to the snake bones. There were people who resisted, but the priests in the Demon Kingdom were mostly skilled at controlling wild beasts and insects, making them difficult for other countries to match!"

"Until King Gesar and Guru Padmasambhava joined forces to send brave warriors to infiltrate the Demon Realm and steal the Phoenix Gall, the precious pearl of reincarnation, by trickery. Not long after, the Demon Kingdom's main city, Eroha City, was mysteriously destroyed!"

"The balance of power immediately reversed, and the epic poem of the allied forces described it as a mighty army sweeping away the lair of demons and defeating the king of the precious pearls. This story is still sung by the poets of the snowy plateau!"

Su Mo seemed to be deep in thought, "The Phoenix Gallbladder likely flowed into the Central Plains during that turbulent era. King Wen of Zhou divined that this thing was an object of immortality. There's some truth to that!"

Old Hu let out a long sigh of relief. "So far, the ins and outs of the Phoenix Gallbladder have been basically figured out. But what is this Evil Luo Sea City we're in? Where have all the people here gone? And why did time in the city freeze for a moment?"

Shirley Yang said, "Where the residents of Evil Luo Sea City went, only they themselves probably know..."

"Old Hu, I remember you mentioned to me in the Nine-Story Demon Tower that the glacial crystal corpse seemed to be missing something..."

"The Reincarnation Sect went to great lengths to excavate the Nine-Story Demon Tower and the Gate of Calamity. What was the purpose of all this? But the situation was chaotic at the time, and we didn't have time to think about it carefully..."

"Now that I think about it, that glacial crystal corpse had no eyes or head!"

Old Hu thought for a moment and said, "I only vaguely remember that the flesh and skin of the glacier crystal corpse were transparent, only the internal organs were dark red, like bright red agate."

"The Samsara Sect actually removed its head, including its demonic eyes, and placed them behind the Gate of Disaster. The Samsara Sect couldn't find the burial place of the snake bones, but they could create a passage, or rather, a mirror image!"

Old Hu suddenly realized.

Shirley Yang continued, "It wasn't until the final ritual scene in the human skin mural that I understood the true meaning: the Reincarnation Sect wanted to continue the ancestral sacrifices and reopen an ancient city that had already vanished..."

"This city holds memories of the Ghost Mother from her past life. For example, in that slaughterhouse: the yaks that had just been beheaded, the cooked beef, the bloody handprints still wet on the door!"

"They did not occur at the same time. These are fragments that left a deep impression on the Ghost Mother, and a city of memories constructed in the void space through the Demon Eye!"

Su Mo was genuinely impressed by Shirley Yang's wild imagination and rapid thought process.

Shirley Yang pieced together the truth by using fragmented clues.

Old Hu smiled at Shirley Yang and said, "That's right. I think your analysis is getting closer and closer to the truth. If it weren't for the curse, I find you'd be perfect as a detective!"

Sherry Yang rolled her eyes at Lao Hu, exuding femininity.

Old Hu was stunned.

Su Mo activated his Golden Eyes and muttered to himself, "This is not a simple illusion; this is a real city. The Serpent God's Eye is indeed powerful!"

"Speaking of curses!"

Su Mo looked at everyone and said decisively, "I have never believed in any curses in the world. This so-called Ghost Cave Curse is very likely a virus!"

"The most direct and effective way to deal with a virus that exists only in the imaginary space is to sever the connection between them!"

Upon hearing that there was still hope, Uncle Ming immediately perked up. "How can we find the real ruins of Evil Luo Sea City?"

Old Hu also realized at this moment that a breakthrough in one aspect could bring about a complete turnaround!

Old Hu called out to the group, "Let's go, let's hurry up and go back to the green rock on the edge of the city!"

Everyone was taken aback when they saw how anxious Lao Hu was.

Su Mo knew that Old Hu had discovered the real Evil Luo Hai City!

"Let's go, Old Hu must have discovered something, let's pack our things!"

Su Mo gave the order, and everyone quickly grabbed their things and hurriedly returned the way they came!

On either side of the green rock, to the west lies the city of Evil Luo Sea shrouded in the color of tombs. But that is the memory of the Demon Mother.

On the other side of the green rock lies a clear, transparent wind-eroded lake.

"Legend has it that the City of Evil Luo Sea is located right next to the Gate of Calamity. The true prototype of the City of Evil Luo Sea should be exactly the same as the ancient city in my memory, built entirely from huge natural wind-eroded rocks..."

Old Hu looked at the densely packed wind-eroded caves at the bottom of the lake and said excitedly.

at this time.

Looking at the honeycomb-like caves at the bottom of the lake, everyone understood.

"Because the Demon Kingdom worships the abyss and caves, the caves beneath the city have been hollowed out, and the true Evil Luo Sea City has sunk underground and been submerged by water..."

Su smiled and, following Lao Hu's thoughts, said, "Thousands of years of geological changes have transformed it into this mirror-like wind-eroded lake!"

Old Hu grinned broadly; he knew he couldn't hide these things from Su Mo. "That's right. Legend has it that dragonfish love to play with pearls. The reason those ferocious black and white-striped dragonfish keep attacking the fish in the lake is probably because they want to seize the treasures at the bottom..."