The four of them took the elevator together and landed at the bottom of the central cave.
Each of the more than twenty floors above has several or even a dozen iron bridges connecting the elevators, but on the bottom floor, there is only one iron bridge and only one doorway.
Walk along the iron bridge and walk through the doorway. After the doorway, there is still a tunnel.
This tunnel is not very long, it should be more than a hundred meters long, and it also extends underground in twists and turns.
At the end of the tunnel, there is another door. The door is closed, and no one is guarding the door.
The middle-aged man who led the way easily opened the door, and Ye Bai saw a very messy room.
The area of this room is not small, about forty square meters, but there are a lot of messy things piled up in it.
There are some bottles and jars, some relatively old-fashioned instruments and equipment, as well as yellowed drawings and strange thick books.
There were also some cages containing mice, snakes, bats, toads, centipedes, and some small animals that Ye Bai had never seen or even heard of.
The whole thing looks like a very old-fashioned laboratory.
There are several luminous pearls on the ceiling of the room, which make the room not too dark.
Just those few luminous pearls, which are the smallest and the size of a fist, if you take out any one and sell it, you can get a huge fortune.
Entering this room, Ye Bai frowned slightly. He never expected that a big shot like the Speaker of the Dark Parliament would live in such a simple and messy place.
Moreover, Ye Bai also felt that many things here should be quite old.
There are several suites in this room. The middle-aged man in a tuxedo took Ye Bai and the others to the door of a suite and knocked lightly.
After a while, the door was opened, but there was no one behind it.
The middle-aged man walked into the suite without any emotion, followed by Ye Bai and the others.
The size of the suite is not small, but the layout is also very simple.
In the center of the room, there was a long oval table. There were some wine and dishes on the long table, as well as a few candles.
The food and drinks were also very simple, including bread, beef slices, red wine, vegetable salads, sausages, and a roasted whole lamb in the center of the table. That was all, and it was definitely not a sumptuous meal.
In one corner of the room was the kitchen, where a white-haired old man wearing an apron was busy.
As if he heard someone coming in, the old man turned around, took off his apron, and slowly walked towards the dining table.
This old man looks very old, with age spots and wrinkles on his face, and his face looks like a plowed field. However, his eyes are not turbid at all, they are very clear and bright, and their pupils are as deep as the vast starry sky.
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Ye Bai just looked at the old man and felt as if his whole body was about to be swallowed up by those pair of dark pupils.
At the same time, he immediately felt that the old man he was facing, who seemed to be on his deathbed, was definitely a top powerhouse, with strength comparable to that of the old beggar, or even slightly stronger than the old beggar.
"Please take a seat."
Throwing the apron aside casually, the old man pointed to the seat at the dining table and greeted him in Chinese.
However, the old man's voice sounded very difficult, as if he had not spoken for countless years.
"Thank you for sitting down."
The old man's expression didn't change at all, and Ye Bai sat down calmly.
Turado and Nicholas both bowed first and then dared to sit down, appearing cautious.
The middle-aged European man who led the way opened a bottle of red wine and started pouring wine for everyone.
"Friends from China, on behalf of the Dark Parliament, I would like to thank you for the help you have provided to our Dark Parliament."
The old man raised the goblet in front of him and said politely.
The tone was polite, but the old man's expression was still plain, without joy or worry, without any fluctuation.
"It's just a little effort."
Ye Bai also raised his glass and took a sip like the old man.
Just taking a sip, Ye Bai frowned, because the taste of this red wine was very strange. He had drank several kinds of red wine before, most of which were high-end products, but this one smelled of blood and was also sticky.
He had never tasted red wine that was so refreshing and cold to the bone.
Ye Bai frowned, but Turado and Nicholas looked envious. Although there were wine glasses in front of them and half a glass of red wine in them, they did not dare to drink directly.
As soon as a sip of red wine came into his mouth, Ye Bai couldn't help but shiver, but the fetal fire in his body immediately started to circulate, weakening the coldness in his body a lot.
But even fetal fire couldn't completely offset the coldness released by that sip of red wine, and it only made Ye Bai feel better.
"You all should have a drink too."
The old man looked at Ye Bai's reaction, and then nodded to Turado and Nicholas.
Turadot and Nicholas raised their wine glasses as if they had been greatly favored. They first expressed gratitude and then took a respectful and careful sip of the red wine.
After just a small sip, they immediately put down their wine glasses, then closed their eyes with a look of enjoyment on their faces.
Of course, like Ye Bai, they immediately started to tremble after taking a small sip.
It was just when Turado and Nicholas closed their eyes that Ye Bai felt that the small sip of red wine began to spread its power in his body.
Red wine generally has a low alcohol content and is not very strong. For a master like Ye Bai, even if he drinks several barrels of red wine, he will not be a little tipsy. However, the small sip of red wine he just drank now exudes the alcohol.
The strength actually made him a little confused at this moment.
However, after all, Ye Bai has a soul state that is extremely close to the late stage of spiritual fetus. Even if the red wine is a bit weird, he only took a small sip and there is no way he will be intoxicated.
As soon as his consciousness was awakened, the hazy feeling disappeared immediately, and Ye Bai returned to normal.
Turadot and Nicholas were still closing their eyes, probably trying their best to digest the alcohol.
What makes Ye Bai feel strange is that with this small sip of red wine, he actually feels that his veins are smooth and his whole body is extremely comfortable. Even his soul seems to have made some progress and become stronger.
Ye Bai estimated that as long as he drank half a glass of red wine, his soul state would be able to successfully advance to the late stage of spiritual fetus.
"This wine is really good." Ye Bai admired sincerely.
"The wine is good, but not much."
The old man pointed to the red wine bottle on the table and said, "Right now, I only have half a bottle like this."
"You can't drink too much of this wine at one time. Even half a bottle is enough for a long time." Ye Bai replied.
"The jade pendant in your hand looks familiar. It reminds me of a powerful senior from China." The old man looked at the jade pendant between Ye Bai's fingers and said as if he was recalling it.
"oh?"
Ye Bai was secretly shocked. This old man had lived for who knows how many years. Isn't the strong man he called his senior even older?
"Can you tell me where your jade pendant came from?" the old man said calmly.
"It came by chance."
Ye Bai said vaguely and perfunctorily: "I met this kid with this jade pendant a few days ago, so I found his parents and spent a sum of money to buy it."
"Haha, so you've got a big bargain." The old man smiled and nodded, and didn't ask any more questions.
"Senior Speaker, can you tell me the story of the original owner of this jade pendant?" Ye Bai looked very curious.
"It's been so long that I can't remember much."
The old man took another sip of red wine and said: "His surname should be Shen. One hundred and fifty years ago, he was a warrior at the peak of the ninth level. He was extremely powerful. He was only half a step away from the tenth level. At that time, he was There is also such a jade pendant on his finger. If I read it correctly, your jade pendant is his. It has an independent space inside and can carry many things with you."
"What happened to that old senior?" Ye Bai asked.
"later?"
The old man paused and said: "When he was at the peak of the ninth level, he traveled all over the world to compete with the top experts at that time. He never lost. It may be that he was lonely at the peak. He was already invincible, and finally disappeared without a trace. It has never been seen since."
"One hundred and fifty years ago, he reached the peak of level nine. After so many years, if he is still alive, he must have reached level ten."
Ye Bai said with regret: "It would be a great blessing in life to meet such a person."
"You are still young. If that old man is really still alive, you should be able to meet him one day."
The old man said calmly: "However, no one on earth has been able to break through to the tenth level for many years. Of course, it is also possible that someone has broken through to the tenth level and never appeared again, so everyone thinks that no one has broken through."
"What is the tenth level?" Ye Bai asked again.
"A god-like existence." The old man narrowed his eyes and said.
"God..." Ye Bai's heart trembled. Even though he was extremely talented and was about to reach the spiritual embryonic stage at a young age, he was not sure whether he could reach a higher state than the spiritual embryonic stage.
"Below the tenth level, you are borrowing ants. Only when you reach the tenth level are you truly strong. With just a few moves, you have the power to move mountains and fill seas."
The old man continued: "It seems that there is only one level difference between level nine and level ten. In fact, the strength gap between these two realms is huge. It can be said that a hundred level nine masters cannot beat one level ten master. Ten Below the level you are still a human being, but at the tenth level you are a god."
"It must be extremely difficult to cross this level." Ye Bai guessed.
"Yes, there are not many peak ninth-level masters on the planet now, but there are a few, but I'm afraid no one is absolutely sure that they can successfully advance to level ten. We don't even dare to try."
The old man looked at Ye Bai again and said: "Although you already have a strength that is close to the ninth level now, if there is not a great chance, you may still be at the ninth level until your death and cannot cross the tenth level. The threshold. I have seen and heard of many people like you who reached level nine very early but were stuck at level nine for more than a hundred years."