Big dreamer

After returning to the small town, Shen Luo and the others, led by the ghost general Zhao Feiji, successfully reunited with Rumeng Feihong and the others.

The group found an inn in the small town, took two rooms and rested for two days before leaving.

Wu Man'er took the three spirits and set off back to the godswood forest, while Shen Luo continued his original journey alone, rushing to Tianji City to find a way to repair the jade pillow.

…

Lion camel city.

Black clouds rolled over the city, and the sky was pitch black.

In a large city with a majestic gate, the evil spirit is soaring to the sky, and the monsters all over the city are extremely angry.

In a large hall in the city lord's palace, a middle-aged man wearing a black feather cloak was sitting on a carved gold chair in the hall, with a sad expression on his face, leaning on the armrest, and gently rubbing his eyebrows with one hand. .

Although the man has a middle-aged face, his facial features are quite handsome, with only one aquiline nose, which seems a bit too prominent.

It was none other than the golden-winged roc, the lord of the Lion and Camel City.

There are still several figures standing in the hall, all of them are tough-looking people with sinister faces. They all look at the figures sitting in the hall with nervous expressions.

One of them, a tall man with the head of a leopard and wearing scale armor, said tentatively: "Your Majesty, the Second King has sent someone to urge us again. Let us hand over Fudong Lai quickly. Let's..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw the hook-nosed man slowly opening his eyes and immediately shut up.

"Second brother asked me to befriend someone, what did eldest brother say?" Golden-winged Dapeng asked.

"The Great King... The Great King said that they shouldn't need to clean up the door, right?" A one-eyed green wolf monster came forward and said.

"Hmph, one by one, they all seem to have identified Fu Donglai as the thief who stole the Yin and Yang cylinders? Where's the evidence?" Golden-winged Dapeng snorted coldly, seeming a little angry.

"Your Majesty, we don't believe that it was Fu Donglai who did this. It's just that the timing was too lucky. He had just been... expelled from Shituo City by you, and the Yin and Yang cylinders were stolen again. It was inevitable. Let the two kings and the others become suspicious..." the one-eyed green wolf said.

"Fart, you have worked with Fu Donglai for many years, and you still don't know what his temper is? It is really helpless to expel him from the apprenticeship this time. It just happened to be at such a juncture, and he... alas..." he said at the end , the Golden-winged Dapeng only let out a long sigh.

"Then, Your Majesty, how should we explain to the other two Kings?" the leopard monster asked tentatively.

"Explain it...explain it like shit."

The golden-winged roc first cursed angrily, and then sighed: "Send two teams out to look for him. Remember... no matter whether he has touched the Yin-Yang cylinder or not, bring him back alive."

"Yes." The demons in the palace responded with clasped fists.

Everyone lowered their heads, but there was a bit of jealousy in their eyes.

They still don't understand what is unique about that tiger-headed monster who yearns for human civilization that can make the king so partial.

If they fell into the current situation, the king would not be in much trouble and would order them to be captured or killed and give an explanation to the two kings at Shituoling.

The demons slowly retreated, leaving only the golden-winged roc in the palace.

He stood up slowly and looked at the big golden chair carved with dragons, with a complicated expression.

…

More than 700 miles away from Shituo City, we were in a miasmatic mountain forest.

A young man wearing a green robe and a bamboo hat was walking slowly through the path in the dense forest.

The man is sinking.

He rushed all the way from Yunmengze to Tianji City. Because he had wasted too much time in Yunmengze, he had no plans to go to Shituoling to investigate the ginseng fruit trees in Wuzhuang.

But when he came near the road, he still couldn't help it and wanted to come over and meet Fu Donglai.

The mountains were winding, but before they reached Shituoling, Shenluo saw a mountain with a strange terrain just outside the distant mountains.

Looking from a distance, the mountains look like a corpse lying on the ground, stretching for 800 miles.

Among them, the sect of Shituoling is located at the head of the "corpse".

As soon as Fang entered the Shituoling area, Shen Luo found that the surrounding atmosphere had changed from the outside. The birds and animals that were never uncommon here became very few, and even the chirping of insects in midsummer was intermittent.

Even though it was midday, Shen Luo still felt a chill running down his entire back as he walked along the forest path covered by dense forest.

He didn't find it strange at all. He had heard many rumors about Shituoling being littered with corpses and flesh turning into mud. Many of them were historical facts recorded in the geographical annals of the Tang Dynasty.

When the demonic troubles were not yet over, this place was a death place that humans and immortals could never approach.

The Lion and Camel City alone was not a gathering place for demons at first. Instead, after it was occupied by demons, hundreds of thousands of people in the city fell into the hands of demons, and now it turned into a demon city.

There are also many descriptions of Shituoling in various travel novels, which also describe the tragic scenes of demons skinning and breaking bones, cooking people and eating them.

But now, the three realms have put down their wars and returned to peace.

Due to various pressures, Shituoling no longer had the purgatory-like scene it once had. However, despite this, the human race was still deeply afraid of this place and did not dare to approach it easily.

As Shen Luo walked along the way, he could occasionally see white bones exposed on the surface in some valleys and streams, and the air was still filled with a faint smell of corpses. He didn't know how many years they had been stagnate.

Every time like this, he hopes that the current scene of peace in the three realms is not an illusion, not just superficial.

But all the previous experiences kept telling him the fact that the evil troubles had not really subsided, and the three realms were not truly peaceful.

Various thoughts were intertwined in Shen Luo's mind. As he was walking, he suddenly heard a series of footsteps coming from ahead.

Immediately afterwards, from the corner of the mountain rock, seven or eight strange-looking monsters came out, each holding a weapon in his hand, with a fierce look on his face.

The leader of them, whose true appearance is unknown, looks very similar to the human race, except that his nose has a black hard bone, he is wearing a tattered chainmail, and he is carrying a black triangular flag in his hand.

The three characters "Shituoling" are written on the flag.

"Who is it?" The leader of the black-nosed monster shouted as soon as he saw Shen Luo.

Shen Luo also looked them up and down and said, "Are you Shituoling disciples?"

"So what?" The black-nosed monster hesitated for a moment and said somewhat unconfidently.

These little monsters who patrol the mountains can only be regarded as handymen in Shituoling, not disciples at all.

"I'm here to find someone, his name is..."

Before Shen Luo finished speaking, he was interrupted. The black-nosed monster said impatiently: "You came to Shituoling to find someone. I think you are looking for death? Who doesn't know that there is no living person here."