How terrifying the demon world is at night is a fact that countless demon hunters have described at the cost of their own blood for hundreds of years.
No one will doubt it!
Therefore, when Cheng Zhong stopped Su Anran and Song Jue from entering, both Song Jue and Su Anran felt uneasy - the upper limit of the demon world is not low, and it is far from reaching the level that makes Su Anran and Song Jue like this
The Xuanjie monks who first entered the Soul Condensing Realm were able to run wild and unbridled.
"Evil spirit!" Cheng Zhong said with an ugly expression.
Su Anran and Song Jue looked at each other.
Neither of them spoke.
Because they didn't feel the evil spirit.
The demons in the mysterious world naturally have demonic aura. It is even said that in the long-ago Second Era, judging the strength of demons only required the induction of demonic aura. However, with the advancement and changes of the times, as
Nowadays, female cultivators in the Xuan Realm like to use perfume - it is said that this thing was invented by Huang Zi - for the same reason. The demon clan from the Demon League has long passed the era of judging strength by relying on demon aura.
Nowadays, in the mysterious world, the only ones that still emit demonic energy and don't know how to cover it up are ferocious beasts.
Yes, in the mysterious world, even monsters know how to cover up their own demonic aura.
But here in the demon world, neither Su Anran nor Song Jue noticed the familiar demonic energy.
Perhaps it was because the evil spirit permeating the air was so strong that they were unable to determine the more specific situation - it was like the garbage that had been rotting for ten days and the rotten garbage in a closed space.
The smell of garbage that has been left out for half a month is the same. Without observing it with your own eyes, there is no way to tell which level of decay is more serious.
"If there is an area isolated by a demon-removing rope, will there still be demons?" Su Anran asked.
The existence of the demon-killing rope is an important indicator of the shrine - in game terms, it is a safe zone.
Amahara Shrine has not yet become Amahara-so, so the safety zone will be as large as the scope of Amahara Shrine.
This point is completely different from the situation in Linshan Villa.
"Except for the Plateau Mountain Grand Shrine, the demon removing ropes in other places cannot completely isolate the demons. At most, they can only weaken the demon's strength." Cheng Zhong said solemnly, "And this weakening is also related to the demon's strength.
The priest who is in charge of the shrine, the boundary nodes of the shrine, etc. have a lot to do with it...Amahara Shrine is just a new shrine, and the demon-suppressing stone here has not yet been opened to meat."
When talking about the latter part, Cheng Zhong was already gritting his teeth and his voice gradually became deeper.
But Su Anran and Song Jue understood it clearly.
The strength indicator of a shrine, in addition to the strength of the priest responsible for guarding it, also depends to a certain extent on the demon-suppressing stone.
The more demons are sealed, the stronger the demon-suppressing stone will be. In this way, the demon-suppressing barrier formed with the power of the demon-suppressing stone as its foundation will naturally be stronger. Then the demons entering it will face
The weakened strength will naturally become stronger. Even if the strength of the demon-suppressing stone can be as strong as that of the Plateau Grand Shrine inherited from Plateau Mountain, even the twelve-marked demons will not be able to directly enter.
"Let's go."
Su Anran sighed softly, then patted Cheng Zhong on the shoulder: "We have no way back."
The time of demons is coming, and the entire world of demons will begin to fall into darkness. If they do not enter the Amahara Shrine, the nearest shelter to them will take half a day to reach, which means
This means that it is completely impossible for them to find a place to shelter from the wind and rain before the darkest hour comes.
What's more, Amahara Shrine has been attacked. If they don't enter it but choose to escape, then when the darkest hour comes and the demon in Gaoyuan Shrine chases them out, the problem they face will not be a dilemma.
But it's a desperate situation.
Ignoring Cheng Zhong's reaction and attitude, Su Anran walked towards the torii gate of Tianyuan Shrine.
For Su Anran, this is not an impulse.
Listening to other people's opinions is ultimately not as valuable as going to meet the monsters in this world for yourself.
Song Jue didn't say anything.
She has dealt with demons in this world, and naturally knows the general level of demons - she has her own way of judgment, and she is not entirely convinced by the classification methods of demon hunters in this world. Su Anran's set of methods about demons
The basis of judgment was derived and established from Song Jue.
So since Su Anran plans to test the demon's strength personally, Song Jue will naturally not dissuade her.
She just carried the sword and followed Su Anran towards the torii gate of Tianyuan Shrine.
"You..." Cheng Zhong shouted, but seeing that Su Anran and Song Jue were very determined, he could only follow them.
…
The two realms of Yin and Yang are different.
According to rumors, the high-rise buildings that can be seen in the Yang world may be the rough houses, steel foundations, or even undeveloped wasteland before the high-rise buildings were built in the underworld.
Scenes such as hills and mountains a hundred years ago.
Su Anran had never believed it before.
But now, he couldn't help but not believe it.
Outside the torii gate, what he saw was a harmonious and peaceful scene: Although the Amahara Shrine is not big, it has a main hall, a side hall, and a dormitory hall, which can provide a place to stay and food for the passing demon hunters.
Even steaming bath water.
But the moment he stepped into the torii gate, what entered his nostrils was the burnt smell, the strong smell of blood, and other strange smells that made him sick just by smelling them - probably like
I went back to my hometown for quarantine due to the new coronavirus, and then finally resumed work and returned to the city where I was working, but suddenly found that the rented house
The refrigerator in your house, which has been out of power for four months, still contains raw pork, tomatoes, potatoes, and half-eaten fish; and you also have a roommate who loves Swedish food. In order to welcome you, he not only bought the most authentic
Stinky tofu, and also opened a can of herring to prepare for a good celebration.
"vomit--"
Song Jue, who came in next to Su Anran, had already started spitting out rainbow liquid.
"I thought you would choose to leave."
It sounded like a harsh noise like fingernails rubbing against a blackboard.
A hunched old man slowly walked out of the main hall, which was burning with blazing flames.
Blood like a stream flows out from the main hall, and is rapidly evaporating and condensing under the high temperature of the flames. The blood that has not disappeared and is still flowing out is like a red carpet, flowing from the main hall towards the hall.
Spread out the shop outside.
This old man with gray hair and a height of only 1.6 meters was walking out slowly like an English gentleman, leaning on a cane.
However, the angry-eyed human head he held in his left hand completely destroyed that gentlemanly temperament.
Several canine creatures dripping with dark green liquid that looked like saliva followed behind the old man.
"Priest Zhao?!" Cheng Zhong's exclamation sounded behind Su Anran and Song Jue, "Soul-eating dog? Are you... a shepherd?"
"Shepherd?" Su Anran turned her head and glanced at Cheng Zhong, only to find that his face had become quite ugly.
He didn't ask who Priest Zhao was.
The old man was still holding a human head in his left hand. It was obviously too stupid to ask such a question at this time.
However, the strength of a priest in a gathering place would not be much weaker than that of Helian Po. Moreover, judging from the angry look on his face, the priest was much younger than He Lian Po, so he probably would not be any weaker than He Lian Po.
But the result was that he was beheaded by an old man. Su Anran did not dare to be careless in the slightest.
"Oh?" The old man, known as the shepherd, glanced at Su Anran, and a smile suddenly appeared on his wrinkled face, "It seems that this kid doesn't know me."
Su Anran had no way of guessing how old the old man was.
But when the old man smiled, the wrinkles on his face all stuck together, looking like a chrysanthemum that had been patted flat.
However, as his smile appeared, it did not give people a sense of peace, but instead made him more violent.
For some reason, both Su Anran and Song Jue could feel that the old man seemed to be angry.
"He is the shepherd, one of the twenty-four strings, the eleventh string on the right." Cheng Zhong said with an ugly expression.
After Su Anran learned about Jiutun's situation, he asked Helian Po about this issue, and later obtained further confirmation from Cheng Zhong.
So he naturally knew what Cheng Zhong's concise and concise words meant at this time.
In the world of demons, the twelve most powerful demons in the world are called the Twelve Pattern Great Demons, among which Shuten is one of the Twelve Patterns.
Under the Twelve Lines, there are the great demons also known as the Twenty-four Strings. They are powerful beings whose strength is second only to the Twelve Lines - of course, the individuals among them are naturally strong and weak, and strong and weak.
The difference in contrast is very obvious, so there are left and right chords.
In the world of monsters and monsters, the left side is respected, so the left twelve strings are also called the upper string twelve strings, or the great upper string strings.
The twelve strings on the right are therefore also called the twelve strings on the lower string or the big demon on the lower string.
The twenty-four-stringed demons are ranked according to their strength. This ranking is not fixed. As long as the challenge is successful, they will naturally be replaced. Needless to say, the fate of the defeated twenty-four-stringed strings is: those with better luck,
Perhaps they escaped with severe injuries and gave way to others; those with less luck became food for the new challengers to replenish their strength - in the world of monsters, there is no such thing as cannibalism and cannibalism.
"Don't get entangled with the shepherd's soul-eating dog. It's an evil beast evolved from his magical power." Cheng Zhong whispered, and then he drew his sword directly.
The sword-drawing technique is not a sword skill that Cheng Zhong is good at.
Having received the inheritance of Thunder Sword, what he is really good at is the more violent open and close sword fighting skills, so he chose to draw the sword directly, in fact, to avoid the dilemma he encountered during the last sparring with Su Anran.
Similarly, once the sword-drawing attack is blocked, it will be very difficult for him to accumulate momentum, so it is better to abandon the initial sword-drawing technique and directly use the subsequent sword skills as the starting offensive.
"Heh." The shepherd glanced at the thunder knife in Cheng Zhong's hand, and his laughter was a bit contemptuous.
Su Anran frowned, then reached out to hold Cheng Zhong's shoulders, stopping him from rushing away: "He's coming for you."
"Me?" Cheng Zhong was stunned for a moment.
"He didn't show any surprise when he saw your thunder knife, and he made a very clear choice to attack here from the beginning... If I remember correctly, you seemed to have gone to Linshan Villa from here in the first place.
"
Hearing Su Anran's words, Cheng Zhong's face suddenly turned ugly.
About ten days ago, he received a request from a squad leader in Linshan Villa who claimed to be a waiter, and went to Linshan Villa with him. After three days of traveling, he then stayed in Linshan Villa for a few days, and then he met Song Jue and Su Anran.
Let’s get back on the road together and prepare to return to Junwu Mountain.
But if it hadn't been for Linshan Villa's request, he would have stayed at Tianyuan Shrine for at least half a month before going to Linshan Villa.
so……
If he had not left early, he would have been present when the shepherds attacked Amahara Shrine today.
In this case...
Cheng Zhong was not a fool. He immediately understood that someone had leaked his whereabouts.
Thinking again of the past identity of the shepherd...
"You buried the seeds at Amahara Shrine?"
"It seems that you are not stupid." The shepherd said calmly, "It was supposed to be foolproof, but I didn't expect that there was a mistake... But it doesn't matter. Anyway, you came to the door yourself, which saves me the trouble.
Just a quick trip."
"I'm sorry." Cheng Zhong sighed, "I've dragged you down."
Neither Su Anran nor Song Jue spoke.
The strength of the big demon is at its weakest, which is equivalent to the soul-condensing realm. The twenty-four-stringed demon is already equivalent to a monk in the soul-condensing realm's domain-suppressing phase. Not to mention anything else, it can just expand its domain.
This was enough to hang Su Anran and Song Jue up and beat them.
Su Anran had personally experienced the horror of the realm in the Dragon Palace ruins.
Just at this moment...
Su Anran frowned: "Is this his underworld?"
In the world of monsters and monsters, they are accustomed to calling the realm the underworld, the border, and the border, which is used to distinguish the area from the real world where humans live.
This is also the origin of the saying that there are two realms of yin and yang in this world.
"The shepherd's underworld is the 'pasture'. One of his magical abilities is herding. He can trap humans into the pasture for breeding, and then harvest them when needed. The soul-eating dog is a derivative of his underworld magical ability, and it is also
His 'Sheepdog' was penned
The humans among them are his 'sheep'." Cheng Zhong explained, "As long as he is in his pasture, he can continuously create soul-eating dogs. If the battle cannot be ended quickly, he will eventually be killed by him alive.
He died here."
The shepherd still kept smiling and did not launch an attack while Cheng Zhong was explaining.
Obviously, he is quite confident in his abilities in the field and believes that Su Anran, Song Jue, and Cheng Zhong are already in his pocket.
He really enjoys the feeling of toying with his opponent, watching his opponent continue to struggle, and then go from hope to despair.
That was one of his few sources of accomplishment.
However, his joy was soon broken.
"That is to say, he is actually not very good at frontal combat?" Su Anran asked, his tone was quite calm, and there was no panic or fear like Cheng Zhong - demons are good at identifying smells, even if
No matter how well Cheng Zhong concealed himself, no matter how hard he hypnotized himself, the shepherd could still smell the smell from Cheng Zhong's body that was very familiar to him and intoxicating to him.
But Su Anran didn't.
This made the shepherd quite unhappy: "Arrogant little guy."
"No matter how bad he is, a shepherd is at the level of a general." Cheng Zhong smiled bitterly, "Although the result may not change, if you are lucky enough, maybe..." At this point, Cheng Zhong shook his head, "
I will try my best to hold him back for a while. You can find a way to run away. He is coming for me, so he will definitely not chase you before he solves me. And after the soul-eating dog leaves the ranch, its combat effectiveness will increase.
Big discount.”
"Is the Zhenyuan area of Tianyuan Shrine still effective?" Su Anran asked again, ignoring Cheng Zhong's words.
Although he didn't know what Su Anran meant by his words, Cheng Zhong still nodded slightly: "It's still working. It's not that simple to destroy the demon-suppressing stone. This is why I have the confidence to entangle him and help you escape...
…”
"No need." Su Anran interrupted Cheng Zhong directly, "The strength he can exert now is not much better than yours."
Cheng Zhong looked stunned.
After all, he is also a soldier commander, so he is stronger than Su Anran and Song Jue, right?
Even if the shepherd is suppressed by the effect of the demon-suppressing stone and cannot display the true strength of the twenty-four-stringed demon, the soldier commander is still stronger than you two guys who are barely stronger than the banchang.
?
Neither Cheng Zhong nor Shepherd knew where Su Anran's confidence came from.
"What an arrogant brat." The shepherd laughed angrily.
"It's not that I'm arrogant." Su Anran shook her head, then chuckled, "It's just that... you don't know anything about power."
