The Fluorescent Cave is not just one cave, but is connected by multiple large and small caves. However, each cave is not small, and the area can be said to be very vast.
In the past, caravans from the City of Divine Heritage walked among the large and small caves. They sold various props and supplies, and also brought news from far away.
That is the greatest comfort to the hearts of all underground snake people.
In recent years, for some unknown reason, caravans from the City of Divine Heritage have stopped coming. Some people speculate that something may have happened in the City of Divine Heritage.
Because of this, the passages connecting these caves gradually became blocked without anyone cleaning them.
Some places were blocked by collapsed rocks, and some were occupied by basilisks or other monsters.
On the way, when Yin and Ying passed through some snake towns and villages, they learned that they had basically never seen people from other towns in recent years.
Only the increasing number of basilisks can be seen, as well as villages and towns that have disappeared silently. There are ruins left behind after the disappearance of human traces everywhere along the way.
All the underground snake people seemed to feel something. They had reached the end of their road, so even in villages and towns with people, all Yin and Ying saw were despair and madness.
"Boom!" On a rock wall, the blocked passage was suddenly blasted open. "Dong dong dong dong~" Huge boulders rolled down one after another.
Two figures walked out from behind the passage.
Yin didn't stop at all and walked forward.
Firefly twisted her tail out of the dust, covering her nose with one hand, and waving her other hand to drive away the smoke and dust.
"Cough cough cough!"
She covered her mouth and nose and followed Yin. "This should be the Giant Vine Cave."
"My father is from here, from the City of Divine Relics."
"He heard that there was a passage at the edge of the fluorescent cave, so he wanted to find a way to the upper level."
"However, I was not found later, and the alienation condition of my body became more and more serious, so I stayed in the town."
"When I was young, I often listened to my father telling me stories about his adventures. Just like us now, he also crossed caves one after another and walked between large and small villages and towns."
As they walked, Yin and Yingying both stopped.
They looked into the distance and seemed to notice something beyond common sense.
Hotaru pointed to the fluorescent vines at the end of the sky that connected the dome to the ground like pillars, lighting up the cave like a fluorescent lamppost.
"Look!" "Giant vine!" "It's a fluorescent giant vine!"
You can hear Hotaru's voice full of surprise and expectation.
For her, this is also a place that only exists in the story. It is the most powerful and complex city in the underground world and the hometown of her father.
Silver quickened her pace, and Firefly followed closely behind her.
Firefly also knew that they were about to reach the end of their journey, and they would be separated by then.
So he couldn't help but ask Yin: "After finding the entrance to the Sea of Darkness, Yin, what will you do next?" Yin's answer was still very brief: "Go find the Altar of Life."
Firefly: "What happens after you find the Altar of Life?" Silver: "Let God save the people in Astrology City."
Only then did Yingying know: "Has your hometown been destroyed? Who did it?"
Yin remembered the name mentioned by the people in Astrology City before: "It seems to be called the Abyss Order."
Yingying sighed: "Your goal is so great. Go to the depths of the earth to find the altar of life, meet the gods, and then save your hometown."
"I don't even dare to think about it. Even when I look at this goal above the ground, I don't know how to achieve it."
Yin then said something else: "Save everyone." "Then, have dinner with everyone in Astrology City."
"There is a big canteen there, which can feed many people."
"There is bread, sea vegetables, rolled cone soup, and you can eat the cooked brown cone fruits as you like." Yin paused for a moment, lowered his head and said.
"Someone also gave me a very delicious snack." "It's very sweet and delicious."
Maybe it’s because the goal in the front is too big compared to the goal of having dinner together in the back.
It was so small that Yingying couldn't help but laugh.
But when she heard the words "I can eat enough" later, Yingying was speechless. In silence, the two of them walked under the giant fluorescent vine.
And Yin suddenly took out the secret treasure of the Starlight Ascetic Order, the magical prop astrology ball. "I opened the shield, you hold it, and you must not let go after entering." Ying held the astrology ball obediently, without asking why.
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She did whatever Yin said, and it was like this all the way.
After searching for a long time, Yingying pointed to the area covered by vines and said, "Look, there seems to be something inside." Deep in the gap, there seemed to be something like a wall.
Silver walked towards here.
As soon as she approached the city, the dense vines spread out and opened a path, and even the fluorescent light emitted by the vines converged. It was as if an inward passage was opened for the guests.
"Swish, swish, swish!"
This feeling was the same as before when Pato controlled the huge eyeless basilisk to approach the sky, and the vines on the sky made way for an entrance.
And behind the vines that were pulled apart like a curtain, a city that had existed for more than a thousand years was revealed. The City of Divine Heritage.
The two of them walked an unknown distance and wandered around until they finally found this sacred city covered in fluorescent vines.
The two small shadows looked up at the vines spreading high above, and at the tall city walls illuminated by fluorescent lights in the sky, with traces of time remaining on the mottled stones.
Firefly opened her mouth wide, as if she had forgotten how to move forward.
It was Yin who was walking forward, leading her to follow him in a trance, towards the interior of her sacred city. They passed through the open door between the two giant pillars, and the gap continued to expand as they moved forward.
, and finally saw the whole picture of this ancient city.
As soon as Yin came in, he happened to see the huge black egg in the distance of the city. There was also the shadow of the monster that was shouting triumphantly.
"I am Naproses, the deputy lord of the abyss!" "The existence on the side of the throne of original sin."
"Just wait, I will return to my master with the strongest posture and complete the mission entrusted to me by my master." Yingying, who was holding the astrological ball, was at a loss and stood there blankly.
Because everything here was different from what she imagined and expected. There was no one in the city, only dead silence.
"Why is there no one? Why is there no one?"
Looking at everything here, she found that this place was completely different from the busy city her father had told her about when she was a child.
The anticipation in her eyes gradually dissipated, leaving only doubts.
And Yin stared at the figure in the distance, because she had just heard a familiar name from the other person's mouth, and the other person's appearance and words were also very similar to those people.
"abyss?"
The shadow on the giant black cocoon also looked at Yin at this moment and said, "Who is it?"
"Shadow of God?"
Their eyes met, and it seemed that they confirmed that the other party was an enemy without any words. Yin raised his hand, and the giant pillar of the city gate next to him was instantly pulled up.
She pushed her hand forward and immediately saw that the pillar was like a sharp arrow piercing the giant black cocoon. "Whoops!"
The speed was so fast that it caused the sound of breaking wind, and a wave of air exploded in the sky.
The being on the black cocoon was also frightened by Yin's divine form, and took out the most powerful things in his storage space.
It held a transparent glass shard in its left hand, and took out a gold candlestick in its right hand. "Barrier!" It held the gold candlestick in its hands and shouted loudly.
"Poof!" The candlestick burned, and a huge golden barrier was immediately formed where the fire shined. The pillar hit the barrier, rubbing against golden light and fireworks.
Then.
It turned into powder with a loud noise.
This golden candlestick is a third-level magical item, and when fully activated at the cost of damage, it can barely block a fourth-level power. It is a very powerful life-saving item.
Silver's attack actually caused the ceramic villain to take out all of this, which shows how much of a nightmare the God's form has for him.
However, this confrontation allowed the porcelain villain to understand clearly the opponent's reality and strength.
"Life Power?"
"It turns out to be a guy who is not a witch yet!"
Naproses discovered the truth, and then roared in anger, and the sound swept through the entire city of the gods.
"Who are you trying to scare in the form of a god?"
"Even if you want to show off your power in front of Lord Naproses, get out of here."
At this moment, the little ceramic man pinched the fragment of the original sin bottle and activated the fragment of this ancient mythical prop. Especially, it also had the name of the former owner of the magic bottle and was inherited by the other party.
To others, it's just a fragment and otherworldly material. But to the ceramic figurine, it's a remnant of mythical power. "Come and try the power of the ancient gods."
"The power of the magic bottle!"
The little ceramic man stretched out his hand, and it seemed to have caught a black sun in his hand.
It's just that it emits black light. The black light refracts and rotates, and a vague shadow from the ancient times appears behind the little ceramic figure.
The terrifying power turned into light and fell from the sky, sweeping down the earth.
Although it only showed a trace of its past insignificant power, it vaguely reached the fourth level. Silver activated the organs in his hands, and the huge life energy in his body was mobilized.
Nearly a hundred meters of stones, buildings, and houses were pulled up and thrown at the little ceramic figure.
But the black light on the little ceramic man's hand swept away, and everything was annihilated in ashes. This was not over yet, the black light was still heading towards Yin.
The guy Naproses met before was either a god or a chosen one. No matter how weak he was, he must be an ordinary apostle!
It has a lot of trump cards in its hand, and there is an even more terrifying backer behind it. For the first time, this is the first time it can compete with others.
Instead of kneeling down and surrendering or running away, you can't even think of taking action. "Boom!"
The black light wiped out all Yin's means and bombarded Yin's body.
Yin was finally ejected, and most of his body was penetrated and torn apart by the black light. "Boom!"
This was not over yet, a second loud noise erupted from the sky.
All I could see was the black light plowing a trace of hundreds of meters in the center of the city, everything along the way turned into dust, and Yin followed the trace and was blasted directly out of the city of divine heritage, and even his shadow could not be seen.
But she was not dead yet, and soon she crawled up in a big pit outside the city in a bloody state. Her flesh and blood grew rapidly, and her body recovered quickly.
While lying on the ground waiting for recovery, Yin stared motionlessly in the direction of the City of Divine Heritage, as if hesitating and thinking about something.
After getting up, she quickly started to return to the city she had taken when she came. The city of divine heritage.
Looking at the plow marks in the center of the city, even the ceramic villain Naproses himself was shocked by such a powerful blow.
This kind of power comes from oneself? With power, self-confidence comes back to you.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
"I'm too strong, too powerful."
"A mere low-level life species dares to start a war with the mythical Lord Naproses." "You are asking for trouble."
The arrogant face of the little ceramic man was completely exposed, and there was no longer any cover. It laughed wildly and shouted at the same time.
I’m afraid that others won’t hear the same thing.
"No background, no backing, no origin."
"How do you fight against the great Vice-Lord of the Abyss, the most loyal left hand of the God of Original Sin, Lord Naproses from the ancient times and the Kingdom of the God of Creation?"
After the arrogance.
The little ceramic man looked at the fragments of the magic bottle that had just shown its power and hesitated for a moment.
Finally, the fragments of the magic bottle in his hand were integrated into the black cocoon beneath him. This time, the egg of the Death Lord truly had a foundation.
The little ceramic man sits on the black cocoon and hears the life form in the black cocoon becoming more and more powerful. He can even faintly hear a rhythm that represents death and advanced forms.
It becomes addicted to it and begins to communicate with its power.
Can't wait to get this more powerful body. And on the edge of the city.
A girl holding an astrology ball, a magic tool, looked confused.
Standing in fear. Not knowing whether to leave or not to move.
But gradually she discovered that the monster deep in the city didn't seem to notice her.
The ceramic villain is too lazy to care about this mortal who was left behind in the city, not to mention its enemies, even the seeds of the King of the Abyss that it selected in the past, and the slaves of the Abyss Cult that it enslaved, who are not famous people in the world. I
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Naproses. Don't kill unknown people.
Yingying looked outside cautiously. She was somewhat expecting Yin to come back to find her, but she was also afraid that Yin would come back to find her.
She knew that Yin was not dead, and the two of them had gotten to know each other quite well along the way. She knew that the other person's life and body were incredibly powerful and difficult to kill at once.
But she also knows that the other party is no match for the monster deep in the city. Not only will she not be able to save herself when she comes back, but it will bring about a worse situation.
In this state of uneasiness, Yingying suddenly heard a voice: "Child."
"Come here."
Yingying discovered that the sound was coming along the street and seemed to be in the direction of the monster: "Are you that monster?"
The voice told Ying: "Master Naproses is asleep. He won't pay attention to you. Don't be afraid." After being discovered, there is no use in hiding at this time.
Following the sound, Yingying walked through the tunnel nervously, looked at the huge black cocoon standing not far away, and entered the snake meat workshop sideways.
But as soon as she came in, Hotaru exclaimed, "Ah!"
She saw the unprecedented eyeless basilisk, a huge snake hundreds of meters long.
She has seen that those underground snake cities have special methods of manufacturing snake meat workshops, which can allow an eyeless basilisk to continuously integrate into the power of swallowing other eyeless basilisks, thus cultivating and preserving a basilisk for decades.
Hundreds of years, let the city continue to operate for a long time.
But she had never seen such a huge eyeless basilisk.
How many years has it been cultivated, and how many years has it been devoured and turned into a basilisk.
When Yingying looked at this behemoth in stunned silence, a voice came from above: "Your companions have abandoned you."
Firefly said: "My partner will come back to save me."
Voice from above: "She can't come back because her enemy is a god from ancient times."
Yingying was immediately stunned: "God?"
At this time, Firefly also walked up the blood-stained stone platform little by little and saw the existence that made the sound. It was a skull, but it was obvious that it was not the head of a snake man.
Dry, cracked, with a visor of bones.
The brain inside can be seen in the cracked place, and the strange lines on the brain grooves are glowing, giving this monster wisdom.
Yingying stopped going forward: "What are you?"
The upper jaw of the head collided with the lower jaw and made a sound: "I am a consciousness parasitic on this ancient relic. I was once a snake man named Topa."
Firefly asked again: "Why did this city become like this? Was it caused by the existence just now?" Topa said: "No, it was caused by ourselves."
"We committed the sin of devouring each other, and thereby incurred the punishment."
"In the end, there was an irreversible ending. Everyone died. The three monsters and the eyeless basilisk you saw that had existed for almost a thousand years swallowed everyone in the city."
"The eyeless basilisk devoured their bodies, and the other three monsters in the city devoured their spirits."
"We pray to Lord Naproses just to free us and find a way to free all the underground snake people."
Firefly probably understood what happened. After all, she was also an underground snake-man. Topa asked: "Why did you and that life species come here?"
Firefly didn't say anything about Yin's real purpose, she just said: "She asked me to be her guide and said she wanted to find the entrance to the Sea of Darkness."
"And she said if I could help her find it, she would tell me how to get out of the underworld and back to the surface."
Firefly asked again: "Do you know where the entrance to the Sea of Darkness is?" Topa said affirmatively: "Of course I know."
But when he said this, he changed his words:
"But do you want to go to the ground?"
Yingying nodded: "Well, I want to take my sister to take a look at the ground. That is my father's dream, and it is also our dream."
Topa's tone finally changed at this time, as if Yingying's words had a different meaning to him.
"yes!"
"Go and have a look on the ground and see the legendary sun and moon." "And the stars."
"I heard the poet say that every star is the eye of the gods, and every time they twinkle represents the gods' gaze on the world."
Firefly looked at Topa: "You want to go to the ground too?"
After thinking about it for a while, she said: "If your body is only this big, I can take you with me when we set off."
"But I can't guarantee that we will successfully reach the ground."
"You may die on the road, you may turn into a monster on the way, you may be eaten by a monster, or you may meet the son of a giant god."
As Yingying spoke, she suddenly felt that she had thought too much and was still trapped in this city.
"Of course, it's possible that he died here before setting off." Speaking of death, Yingying was particularly calm.
Topa smiled and said, "No, I won't leave here." Firefly was a little strange: "Don't you also want to go to the ground to see it?"
Topa said: "I have been here for too long. I have lived for almost a thousand years and I have completely integrated with this place."
Yingying was stunned. She didn't know whether what Duofang said was true or false. She also couldn't imagine that a mortal could live for a thousand years.
The existence of an apostle is too far away for her, and she has never heard of it. The bone demon's head twisted slightly, indicating something: "Did you see that big guy below?" Yingying looked over and listened.
When the other person says: "That's the body I used to have!"
Yingying's scalp felt numb for a while, and she quickly turned around and looked at Topa in shock. But Topa didn't stop and continued.
"A thousand years ago, I abandoned my body and transferred my consciousness into the sacred blood organ left by this ancient life, just to protect this city and the people in it."
"I watched this city go from decay to prosperity, and then from prosperity to decay." "Finally, it entered destruction."
"The city I guarded perished. I brought it to prosperity with my own hands and destroyed it with my own hands." "I will not leave here, because this is my destination."
When he said this, Topa said inadvertently, "Besides, I don't have time anymore."
"My last wish is to see the dead return to the kingdom of God. As for the living returning to the earth, it is impossible for me to see it."
The secret technique of the Samo family is called the secret technique of immortality, but it cannot obtain eternal life. One thousand years is already the limit.
It seems that this number is a threshold, an insurmountable limit.
Topa was living in this head and was about to completely dissipate. He could feel that the limit was getting closer.
As for the secondary transfer of consciousness, this problematic secret technique can barely survive a single transfer without collapsing. It is simply impossible that the second transfer can maintain consciousness.
Firefly on the stone platform listened to Topa's self-introduction and the other person's name.
Suddenly I remembered a name mentioned by my father, a legendary story.
Yingying hurriedly raised her head and asked in surprise: "Are you Topa, the eleventh generation snake priest, the one who distributed his flesh and blood to everyone and saved the city?"
Yingying stepped forward and got closer to the other party. "Have you really survived until now?"
"I heard my father tell you stories about your past." The Bone Demon grinned his head.
"Yes, I am the one who started the decadence and dark age." "I am Topa!"
The head asked Yingying: "Are you interested in hearing the story of an old monster who has lived for almost a thousand years?"
The name Topa, the eleventh generation snake priest, seemed to have some kind of magic power for the underground people, and Yingying had no other place to go, so she chose to sit under the stone platform and listen to each other's stories.
Topa also consciously transferred everything he knew to
He told everything to the little girl in front of him. He was not in a hurry and started talking about it from his own youth more than nine hundred years ago.
How he became a priest of all snakes, how he went from an ambitious young man who wanted to climb up to become a master, to become the king of snakes in the underground world.
How could he choose a method that even he thought was crazy in a desperate and collapsed situation?
He then told the story of the past thousand years in the city of divine heritage. Some of these stories were told by Yingying's father, but they were not as true and closest to the truth as told by the ancient priest in front of him.
Finally, he focused on the destruction of the city.
"The alienation of everyone is getting more and more serious. Ghouls are wandering around the city, and a terrible curse is attached to everyone in the city."
"Until the city could no longer bear it and the disaster completely broke out." "That day, I sealed off the entire City of Divine Heritage."
"I watched my bloodline descendants cut off, and watched everyone in this city die. They called me a demon and said I was the source of the dark age."
Until he said this, Toppa paused for a long time. Then he sighed and spoke slowly.
"Really!"
"I am about to disappear completely. In a few years, it will have nothing to do with me." "I still want an old guy like me to see such a scene."
"I really want to pretend I can't see it, just fall asleep like this, and then everything will have nothing to do with me."
After Yingying listened to the last story, she heard that the last generation of snake priests personally walked up to the altar to sacrifice themselves and said the last words.
"Topa!"
"Is this really going to be over?"
"Can the dead return to the kingdom of God, and can the living return to the earth?"
She was so sad that she kept crying, even trembling all over, and burst into tears. The snake people living in the underground could not resist the power of these words. And after listening to Topa's sigh, she couldn't help but say.
"Priest Topa."
"Are you sad when they call you a demon?" Topa didn't answer directly, but told Yingying.
"At first, they said I was a hero." "Later, they said I was a devil."
"However, no one is destined to be a hero, and no one is destined to be a devil. We just sit in that position and make a choice when facing the tide of the times."
"The so-called heroes and demons are meaningless. When we sit in that position, we will always try our best to do something."
"It's just that sometimes, we can't choose the ending."
"What makes us heroes and demons is not the choices we made at the time, but the outcome in the future." Topa looked at Yingying and said these words, with a hint of meaning.
It seems that he wants Yingying to understand the story and the deep meaning in his words.
At this time, Yingying couldn't quite understand what he was saying. She only felt the bitterness and helplessness in this sentence, and lowered her head to hide her face. On the contrary, Topa, the protagonist of the story, looked particularly indifferent and calm.
Seeing that Yingying was so sad, Topa finally changed his tone and said in a seemingly joking tone. "Yingying, your father also walked out of the City of Divine Relics."
"Maybe you also have my blood flowing in your body and are my descendants!" Yingying was stunned. She didn't know if this was a joke or true.
Yingying stammered: "I don't know either. I just heard what my father said." "I can't confirm it either."
Topa smiled. In fact, this is not important anymore.
Regardless of whether the other party was his descendant or not, he had no other choice. And Topa's next words made Yingying stand stunned on the spot as if she had been struck by lightning.
"firefly!"
"Want to become a priest of all snakes?"
"It is not the snake priest of the underground snake people, but the snake priest who leads everyone to the surface." "The last priest of the underground snake people has died, taking his mission and responsibility with him."
The head looked at Yingying and said seriously, "But you can start a new future."
He may soon be able to see the dead return to the Kingdom of God, but when the living return to the earth, it will still be him
An unforgettable wish.
In the dark.
A figure stepped through fluorescent plants and stood under a bare mountain. "Buzz buzz~"
The mountains continued to arch, an invisible terrifying field spread and reverberated around them, and a strange buzzing sound came from the air.
The son of the Death Star woke up from his deep sleep and stared at the silver in front of him. There was no movement for a long time, and it seemed a little strange.
Didn't the guy in front of me leave just now? Why is he back again?
Yin looked up at Dashan, as if she was speechless and didn't know how to speak, because she was not a person who was good at making requests to others.
Moreover, she didn't know if the son of the Death Star in front of her could understand her.
The two beings with the blood of the Death Star Titans just stared at each other without saying a word. After a long time, Silver finally spoke.
"I'm in trouble."
"I encountered a very powerful enemy, which may be related to the guys who destroyed Astrology City." "More importantly, my friend fell there."
"I want to save my friend, but I am no match for that person." "Can you help me?"
The Son of the Death Star didn't know what Silver was talking about, but the anxiety deep in Silver's heart was transmitted into its consciousness.
But the Son of the Death Star didn't respond. Instead, he gradually sank. "Woooo!"
The earth roared, and the Son of the Death Star disappeared without a trace. It seemed that it rejected Silver.
Yin was very disappointed. He raised his feet and prepared to return to the City of Divine Relics to attack the enemy alone. At least he had to rescue Ying.
But before she could take two steps, the ground shattered under Yin's feet.
Silver fell into the crack, followed the Son of the Death Star through the earth, and disappeared into the distance.