Chapter 263 Half human, half demon, the demon king! (Please vote for me!)
Li Ran stared intently at the place where the black mist collided with the white mist.
Because soon, the wedding procession will collide head-on with the funeral procession.
This road may be wide or narrow, and it can accommodate a carriage.
If an eight-carriage sedan and a coffin carriage meet, who will let whom?
Usually during weddings and funerals, the beating of gongs and drums for funerals can be heard from far away, and the procession for weddings will choose to take a detour or avoid it, but there is a road in front of you, with two hundred years of bronze drums sounding in unison, mourning and music playing, and red The scene of the upcoming collision with Bai is as weird as it gets.
But just when Li Ran thought that neither of the two completely different teams would give way to the other, the two teams stopped at the junction at the same time.
There was no spark between the two teams.
On one side, the suona and drums sounded, and on the other side, there was the sound of mourning gongs.
On one side is an eight-carrying sedan chair, and on the other side is a red-painted wooden coffin.
Black mist surges and white mist spreads.
Hiding in the bushes, Li Ran looked at the extremely weird scene in front of him in disbelief.
Suddenly, the sound of gongs, mournful music, cries, and suona and drum music suddenly stopped.
Both parties stopped as if they had agreed to do so.
"What is this doing?" Li Ran was confused.
The colorful phoenix butterfly on the back of his hand was still trembling and did not dare to fly forward.
This means that there is something very scary to it in this area.
Is it in an eight-carat sedan or in a red-painted wooden coffin?
In Li Ran's eyes, whether it was the procession wearing linen and mourning under the black mist, or the festive red procession to receive relatives in the white mist, they all exuded a terrible sense of death and weirdness.
Because of the thick fog, he could not see the appearance of everyone in the two teams, let alone what the bride sitting in the sedan looked like.
But even if he couldn't see clearly, Li Ran was sure that the figures in the two teams were not alive.
He sensed with his senses that the teams on both sides were filled with dazzling light, indicating that these were all weird.
It’s all ghosts!
"Yeah, I thought I encountered Yin soldiers taking advantage of the passage, but I didn't expect to encounter two groups of Yin ghosts who were married and buried." Li Ran was inexplicably frightened. He didn't dare to breathe now, and his face was extremely solemn.
Suddenly, the figure leading the funeral procession dropped a red cloth in the middle of the road.
The sound of the bride crying loudly came from the eight-carriage sedan.
Just when he was extremely shocked, the woods directly in front of him suddenly gave way to both sides, and a gloomy road appeared in the woods.
Then, the two teams moved forward on the trail in a mighty manner.
The two teams marched together, beating gongs and drums, and the sound of suona and drums followed.
Seeing such a scene, Li Ran was stunned.
What's going on?
Black mist and white mist also poured into the gloomy road in the bamboo forest.
In the mist, there are ghosts and shadows.
What's even more terrifying is that in addition to the figures with white soul flags and red umbrellas, there are also huge, deformed terrifying figures behind the two teams. There is even a hill-like terrifying figure following the two teams. The rear entered a gloomy road in the bamboo forest.
The procession of weddings and funerals seemed to have opened a passage to a mysterious place, attracting countless strange figures into it.
Li Ran noticed that around the forest, more and more strange shadows in the black and white fog followed the two teams.
Some of the more terrifying shadows have no lower limbs and only rely on slender arms to support them. Some are like giant cats with two tails, but their heads are human heads. There are even some wearing ancient costumes. The ghost woman who was convinced followed closely behind.
"Papa, go there, go there." Xiao Yusu excitedly took Li Ran's hand and pointed to the gloomy bamboo forest passage.
Only then did Li Ran discover that Xiao Yusu's basic magic value had increased from 8600 to 8800, and it was still growing automatically.
This means that the density of the dark aura in this area is such that Xiao Yusu can automatically increase his force value. This is like a cultivator who comes to a place with extremely rich aura. Even if he does not need to practice, his cultivation level can also increase automatically.
"Owner of the ghost card!"
Li Ran felt the need to change his aura.
Now that his human aura has entered that place, he is probably attracting hundreds of ghosts into his body.
When the owner of the ghost card is turned on, his aura changes and becomes the aura of a ghost.
After the funeral and wedding procession had gone away, the Phoenix Butterfly slowly flew up, guiding Li Ran towards the passage deep in the bamboo forest.
"Is the treasure inside?"
Li Ran emerged from the bushes and followed Xiao Weidie.
Following the dark road into the bamboo forest, many strange things appeared from all around.
It felt to Li Ran as if a mysterious city gate had opened, welcoming visitors from all over the world.
It's just that most of these visitors come from the territories of the Netherworld and the Demon Clan.
The road in the forest was deathly silent and eerie, as if there was a gloomy black mist shrouding the depths at the end. The deeper he went, the wider the road became. In the dense mist, he could see the strange shadows walking around him.
A three-tailed monkey, a mud-like monster, a child with three figures stacked on top of each other, a headless man...
Li Ran wanted to see clearly the strange shadows around him, but found that he could only see their outlines, and the density of the mist was far beyond his Imagine.
The deeper we go, the more and more strange monsters and ghosts appear, crowding the road in the bamboo forest as if they are going to a market.
Walking on this eerie road, Li Ran felt like an old woman entering the Grand View Garden, dazzled by what she saw.
"With such large-scale monsters and monsters, could it be that there is a ghost town at the end of the road?"
The wider the road, the more ghosts there are, even the little ghosts running around the feet.
After an unknown amount of time, he could no longer hear any sounds from the wedding and funeral procession.
After passing through a large gray fog, the vision suddenly became clear.
Li Ran raised his head and stared at the night sky filled with countless lights, his face filled with disbelief.
"Have I entered the secret realm again?"
You must know that before arriving in this forest, the outside time was noon.
But in front of him was night, with lights all over the sky, illuminating the night sky brightly.
A red rope bridge appeared in front of them. Li Ran and countless ghosts came to the cliff in front of the red rope bridge, overlooking a red demon city on the opposite cliff.
The red rope bridge is a hundred meters long. Under the bridge is an abyss filled with thick fog. Opposite the rope bridge, an ancient city filled with red light is built in an orderly manner on the edge of the cliff. The buildings are connected by rope bridges. There are red ropes on the edge of the cliff. The wooden plank road winds around the cliff, but whether it is the red rope plank road or the rope bridge, it will eventually lead to another red rope bridge. The end of the rope bridge is a red tile palace on the huge reef of Yi Zhu Qing Tian.
Li Ran narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the red palace on the cliff with its pillars holding up the sky.
(The Red Mansion of the Demon Lord: Legend has it that if you wear your precious things, you can exchange them for anything you want here.)
"What is the Demon Lord?" Li Ran whispered.
At this time, a child's voice speaking in an adult voice sounded at his feet: "The demon king is the king of the demon city. How dare you come to the demon city even if you don't know this?" Li Ran lowered his head and saw a one-eyed toad at his feet with a face full of it
. He looked at Li Ran disdainfully.
"Why is there a demon city here?" Li Ran asked doubtfully, but because he was afraid that his identity would be suspected, he hurriedly explained: "The first time I came here, I was brought in by my friend, but Now my friend and I are separated."
The toad spirit at his feet jumped on Li Ran's shoulder and looked suspiciously at the mini nine-tailed demon fox on the other side of Li Ran's shoulder. Its eyes widened and it was slightly surprised: "You can't even see the nine-tailed fox? There are all demon foxes, but you don’t know about the demon capital?”
Seeing Li Ran's still confused look, the toad spirit said: "In order to restrain the intensification of the conflict between the Netherworld and the Demon Realm, a city where demons and monsters coexisted was built at the junction of the two realms. The person in charge of this city is the Demon Lord." "Come here
. As long as the demons and monsters here hand over their cherished treasures, they can go to the palace to see the demon king and exchange for what they want." The Toad Spirit pointed at the palace on the cliff of Yi Zhu Tian.
"Is the demon king from the Netherworld or the demon world?" Li Ran asked curiously.
The toad spirit sat on Li Ran's shoulder, crossed his paws across his chest and said solemnly: "Half demon, half ghost!"
Li Ran frowned and couldn't help but feel shocked.
I have heard of half-gods, half-demon, half-demon, and half-ghost, but I have never heard of half-demon and half-ghost.
"So is this a demon cheating on someone, or a ghost crossing the line?" Li Ran said with a smile.
"Humph, the demon lord will not tolerate blasphemy. Put away your smiling face. If the demon lord finds out, your life will be in danger." Toad Mirror glared at Li Ran, then jumped off his shoulder, jumping once and for all. Jumping to the red rope bridge, he said to Li Ran: "Seeing as you are new here, the first rule when you come to the demon city is that you must be incomplete." After saying that, the toad spirit jumped towards the red rope bridge
. Jump onto the rope bridge.
"Incomplete body? What do you mean?"
Li Ran came to the red rope bridge. He did not rush to cross the bridge, but looked at the monsters and ghosts crossing the bridge.
He found that those monsters were more or less incomplete.
The three-armed Netherworld Shura holding an arm in his hand, the centipede monster with asymmetrical legs, the bull's head with one horn broken, the horse face with one leg missing, and the evil ghosts with one eye missing are everywhere here.
Li Ran thought of the toad spirit just now, who was also missing an eye.
"Does it take an incomplete body to cross the bridge?" Li Ran guessed in his mind.
"Chi Tong, Yu Su, you go back first."
He took the two little ones back to the summoning space and took out the magic knife.
"It seems that you must have something missing from your body to cross this bridge."
He cut off the palm of his left hand with a magic knife, then held the left palm with his right hand and stepped onto the red rope bridge.
The limbs of creatures chopped off with the magic knife will not lose vital signs and can last for five minutes.
If the severed limbs are not reassembled within five minutes, they will quickly lose vital signs.
Like most monsters and monsters, he walked across the red rope bridge holding his palm.
The colorful phoenix butterfly slowly flapped its wings on the back of his hand and continued to fly forward with him.
Li Ran felt that this treasure hunt was much more difficult than going to the Netherworld Dungeon.
After passing the red rope bridge, he found that the monsters and monsters had reinstalled their missing limbs or eyeballs, and continued to move forward as if nothing was wrong.
He also put the broken hand back on and followed the army of demons and monsters into the demon city built on the cliff by the sea.
"It seems that flying is prohibited here."
Li Ran noticed that many flying demons and monsters changed to walking here, and no one dared to use their skills indiscriminately.
Li Ran summoned Xiao Yusu and asked her to absorb the dark atmosphere in the Demon City.
In just a short time, Xiao Yusu's basic magic value increased by another hundred, reaching 8900.
"Daddy, there are a lot of fun things here, can I buy this balloon?"
Xiao Yusu ran to a stall on the street and grabbed a balloon and said.
Li Ran looked at it and almost rolled his eyes.
Damn, what a balloon, it's clearly a floating human head.
Seeing Li Ran's face, Xiao Yusu's expression dropped, and he stuck out his tongue, then ran to the stall in front and said, "Daddy, can I have ice cream?" "No!" Li Ran pulled Yusu to
him
. Beside you, Nai Nai Ni said fiercely: "You are not allowed to eat and run around without my permission, otherwise Daddy will be angry."
"Okay, Dad, don't be angry." Xiao Yusu floated up and touched Li Ran's head.
Li Ran glanced at the ice cream on the stall and saw an ear that had not completely melted in the ice cream jar.
"Papa, shall we go to that palace too?" Yu Su asked.
"Yeah." Li Ran nodded.
The colorful phoenix butterfly slowly flew up, guiding Li Ran forward.
Judging from the flying direction of the little weird butterfly, there is no doubt that the palace on the sea cliff is in the direction.
When we came to the red rope plank on the cliff, we followed the little butterfly on the undulating sea cliff plank. Looking down, we could hear the sound of waves hitting the rocks, but we couldn't see the waves below. We could only see the thick waves. Gray fog.
Looking up at the night sky, the night sky was unusually bright, which was strange.
Walking on the red rope plank road, Li Ran noticed that many demons and ghosts would hold a brocade box in their hands, which was exquisite and beautiful, with a big gift tied to it.
"Xiaoguidie, Xiaoguidie, the treasure can't be in that palace." Li Ran shouted in his heart.
He didn't want to see the half-demon, half-ghost demon king. He just wanted to find the treasure and leave this ghost place.
But Xiao Weidie guided Li Ran to the sea cliff with a pillar holding up the sky. When he looked up, he could see another rope bridge connecting the cliff and the palace.
"Is there any rules on that rope bridge?" He
was really afraid that something might happen. After walking for a long time, he finally came to the rope bridge leading to the palace. Li Ran found that all the monsters and monsters were walking on the bridge in a strange posture.
It was a twisted posture in which the body was lying on its back, crawling on the ground with its hands and feet, especially the hands and feet, which had to be completely turned and twisted, which was impossible for humans to do.
"Daddy, do we have to crawl over like this?"
Li Ran lowered his head and looked at Xiao Yusu, leaning up, crawling on the ground with her limbs, and turning her head 360 degrees.
"It's a pity that Daddy can't make it." Li Ran was so surprised that his jaw almost hit the ground.
Xiao Yusu got up and returned to his normal appearance. He poked his two little fingers aggrievedly on his face and said, "But I want to go over and have fun." "Where did this guy come from?
"
Suddenly, A sharp sound came, and the bat spirit crawling on the bridge was pulled up by a mysterious force. Before the bat spirit could cry out for help, he was thrown into the thick fog under the bridge. Then, a sad and shrill sound came from the thick fog. Incomparable screams.
All the monsters and ghosts stared at the thick fog below with palpitating faces, and they could vaguely see long and ferocious shadows flashing through the thick fog.
"It's no use. I can't make it through."
Li Ran noticed that the one-eyed toad spirit he had talked to before was lying on a stone beside the bridge, shaking his head.
"What is this level?" Li Ran asked curiously.
Toad Spirit was surprised when he saw it was Li Ran. He could pass the first level without any defects from head to toe.
The one-eyed toad spirit jumped on Li Ran's shoulder, pointed to the top of the red rope bridge and said, "Did you see the hanging man in black?"
Li Ran looked around, and then noticed the man fifty meters away from the red rope bridge. There was a man in black hanging there. The man's limbs were weird, as if they were pieced together from rotten wood. There was a devil's face on his head. At this time, it was crawling in the air with its body on its back and all fours on the ground. .
Seeing this scene, Li Ran suddenly realized.
"To cross this rope bridge, you need to completely copy the movements of the man in black. Even if you move incorrectly, you will not pass the test. If you are found, you will be thrown into the sea and fed to the terrifying monsters." The one-eyed toad spirit said.
"No wonder there are fewer people crossing the bridge here." Li Ran said.
"That's for sure. The man in black has a human-like structure. Many demons and monsters here don't have human form, so they can't complete that set of actions at all, not to mention the twisting actions of anti-human crawling. With a body structure like mine, it can't be beaten to death. It's impossible." The Toad Spirit shook his head with regret and said, "It seems that I won't be able to see the Demon Lord this time."
"Will the movements of the man in black change?" Li Ran asked.
"Three hours change. If you have time to wait, just wait. Maybe we can make the next move of the man in black." The Toad Spirit said.
Li Ran understood. No wonder there were so many monsters and ghosts gathered here.
There are very few people who can cross the red rope bridge. They are not without intelligence. They know that they can't do the moves and don't try them. However, some are still willing to challenge them. They think they can do it, but they are determined. Because he failed to pass the test, he was thrown off the cliff by a mysterious force and fed to the monster.
This level is not like the rope bridge in the first level. The incomplete body rules for many monsters and ghosts. Some tricks and magic can easily separate the body, cut off the hands and feet, take out the eyes, etc., which is very difficult for them. It's not difficult at all.
Of course, some cruel demons and ghosts are really willing to sacrifice their own limbs in order to see the demon king without any magical means.
The rope bridge in this second level makes it difficult for many monsters with animal structures to make twisting and reversing crawling movements.
Some soft monsters with weird limbs can easily pass this level.
Although Xiao Yusu could pass, Li Ran could not.
However, Li Ran felt that this level was not difficult for him.
He focused his gaze, quietly took out the [String Puppet] from the storage space, and immediately fired a shadowless needle towards the man in black above the rope bridge.
It is not difficult for Li Ran to hit the target at a distance of fifty meters. Even if there is a flying fly a thousand meters away, the shadowless needle he ejects can hit the target with incomparable accuracy, making it truly Thousand steps can cross the Yang!
The Shadowless Divine Needle landed accurately on the back of the man in black high in the sky.
Then, Li Ran took out the puppet and started playing with it.
"Wow!!"
The demons and monsters exclaimed, and they discovered that the movements of the man in black at high altitude began to change.
(End of chapter)