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Three days later, deep inside the Pope's Palace.
Xuan Ming slowly opened his eyes, his ice-blue pupils gleaming with brilliance, and his aura had returned to normal.
He stood up and stretched his muscles, feeling the renewed strength in his body, and looked out the window.
Gu Yuena and Bibi Dong will help him deal with the problems here, and next... it's time to leave.
The palace door was gently pushed open, and Bibi Dong walked in slowly, followed by Hu Liena with a complicated expression.
"What do you mean?" Xuan Ming frowned slightly.
Hu Liena stepped forward and said, "Teacher told me that you are going to the Slaughter City... I will go with you."
Xuan Ming was slightly stunned and looked at Bibi Dong.
Bibi Dong's gaze swept between Xuan Ming and Hu Liena. For a moment, the only sound in the hall was the faint sound of the wind outside the window.
She knew very well the dangers of the Killing City. It was a place where the strong preyed on the weak and the rules were so simple that there was only killing and survival left.
Letting Hu Liena follow is extremely risky.
But at the same time, she also knew the temperament of her disciple. Although she seemed charming and gentle, she was actually extremely stubborn in her bones. Once she made up her mind about something, it would not be easily stopped.
not to mention...
Bibi Dong looked at Xuan Ming. "I know your strength, but you can't dominate the Slaughter City with strength alone. Having a trustworthy companion can sometimes bring a little more safety, and..."
She paused, her tone slightly more emphatic, "Nana needs this kind of tempering, too. The Spirit Hall's golden generation can't just be flowers in a greenhouse. True strong men must be tempered in blood and fire."
"You two coming together will provide more support."
These words were explained to both Xuan Ming and Hu Liena.
She agreed, but not out of connivance, but based on a calm weighing of the situation and an assessment of the abilities of both men.
Now, due to Qian Renxue's exposure and the twists and turns of the Soul Hunting Operation, undercurrents are surging within the Spirit Hall. Although the Elder Hall has been suppressed temporarily, it will never give up.
Letting Hu Liena temporarily leave the center of this vortex and go to a Jedi where even Qian Daoliu can hardly intervene and can only slowly influence it with rules to experience life and death is a kind of protection.
At the same time, it can also allow her to truly grow up.
There had been no news of Qian Renxue since she entered the Elder Hall, nor had she any intention of interfering in the affairs of the Spirit Hall. She had even said nothing about the failed undercover plan. If she guessed correctly, Qian Renxue had already begun preparing for the Divine Test.
"I'll take you there myself," Bibi Dong said.
"The situation in the Slaughter City is special. I need to meet the Slaughter King in person. There are some rules that need to be explained in advance."
The greatest danger of the City of Slaughter does not lie in the Killing Fields of Hell, but outside the Killing Fields of Hell. In the past thousand years, only a handful of Gods of Slaughter have walked out of the City of Slaughter, and a large part of the reason is the existence of the King of Slaughter. Unless one possesses the power to threaten the King of Slaughter in a place like the City of Slaughter, that guy will not allow the God of Slaughter to be born.
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The next day, before dawn, three figures had quietly left Wuhun City.
Bibi Dong did not take the carriage, but directly opened the eight-winged purple wings and took Xuan Ming and Hu Liena to fly towards the City of Slaughter.
The situation in the Spirit Hall is tense now, and she cannot leave for a long time. After sending Xuan Ming and the others to the City of Slaughter and warning the King of Slaughter, she must come back as soon as possible.
Towards evening, the three of them arrived at a desolate and strange town.
This town doesn't look big, but it gives people an extremely eerie feeling. As soon as Xuan Ming entered the town, he sensed countless eyes staring at this side in the dark.
"The Killing City is a special little world. It is independent of our world and is shrouded in a huge killing barrier." Bibi Dong said.
"In a sense, it's a kingdom of sin. No one knows how long this place has existed. Legend has it that a thousand years ago, when the Tiandou Empire was just being built, an army from another country accidentally discovered this place. To resist the Tiandou Empire's army, they entered here and established the original Slaughter City within the scope of the Slaughter Barrier."
"Within the killing barrier, spirit skills cannot be used, and martial spirits will be suppressed to their original state. Only those who possess the Killing God Domain and those who are protected by the Killing God Domain are unaffected."
"Every time a Killing God is born, it will cause a huge loss to the Killing City. Moreover, the existence of the Killing God is a huge threat to the Killing City. Those who possess the Killing God's domain are unrestricted within the Killing City. Moreover, the special effects of the Killing God's domain can be added to others, allowing them to be unrestricted as well."
"Therefore, the Lord of Slaughter will do everything in his power to prevent the birth of the God of Slaughter."
As they spoke, the three of them had already arrived at the center of the town.
In the center of the town stands a dilapidated Blackstone Tavern. A vague skull pattern is engraved on the crooked signboard, and two lanterns emitting a dim light hang at the door, like some kind of ominous guidance.
Bibi Dong pushed open the creaking wooden door, and a turbid air mixed with the smell of cheap beer, sweat and blood hit her in the face.
The tavern was dimly lit, with a few haggard-looking, dull-eyed or ferocious patrons sitting here and there. When they saw someone coming in, especially the three people whose temperaments were out of place here, their eyes instantly became greedy and vigilant, like hyenas spying on their prey in the dark.
Bibi Dong turned a blind eye, revealing a powerful aura. Those malicious gazes immediately shrank back as if burned, and the drinkers lowered their heads, not daring to look again.
She led Xuan Ming and Hu Liena through the dirty lobby and came to an ancient well in the backyard that looked to have dried up long ago.
The edge of the well was engraved with ancient runes and stained with dark brown, difficult-to-wash stains.
"The entrance is right here." Bibi Dong raised her hand and injected a stream of pure soul power into the runes on the edge of the well.
The runes lit up one by one, emitting a dim red light. The bottom of the well was not soil, but a swirling, twisting, bottomless dark vortex. A strong smell of blood and a crazy killing intent surged out of it, a hundred times stronger than the breath in the small town!
"Let's go." Bibi Dong took the lead and stepped into the dark vortex. Her figure was swallowed up in an instant.
Xuan Ming followed without any hesitation.
Hu Liena gritted her teeth and took a step forward.
A strong sense of weightlessness and spatial distortion came over me, and I was surrounded by countless twisted phantoms filled with painful howls.
After a moment, I felt my feet touch solid ground, but the "ground" beneath my feet felt sticky and cold.
They are already in a completely different world.
The sky was a perpetually dim dark red, as if shrouded in solidified blood, and the sun, moon, and stars were invisible.
The air was filled with a disgusting, thick smell of blood and corruption, almost condensed into substance.
Surrounding it are jagged rocks and twisted, strange buildings that seem to be made of bones and flesh.
In the distance, the enormous black city was like a crawling beast, emitting a desperate sense of oppression.
This is the outskirts of the Killing City.
Almost the moment they appeared, countless rustling sounds and greedy gasps were heard in the darkness, and countless pairs of malicious and hungry eyes lit up in the shadows.
Bibi Dong snorted coldly, and released the terrifying pressure of the peerless Douluo without reservation!
boom!
The impact was like a substance that spread out from her as the center, and the peepers hiding in the dark quickly fled. In just a moment, all the malice and peeping around were cleared away, leaving only deathly silence and an even stronger smell of blood.
"King of Killing!" Bibi Dong's voice resounded directly over the entire Killing City.
"I'm here in person, and you still don't show up?!"
The sound was like thunder, rolling and echoing under the dark red sky.
The entire city of slaughter seemed to freeze for a moment.
The next moment, deep in the huge black city ahead, a more terrifying and violent will, as if it had gathered all the negative emotions and desire for killing in the world, suddenly awakened!
The blood mist in the sky gathered madly, forming a huge vortex in the sky. Following closely behind, a blurry tall figure slowly condensed. He was wearing dark red armor and a blood-red crown on his head.
The scarlet gaze was like two blood moons, piercing through the void and locking onto Bibi Dong and the other two.
The terrifying pressure came down like a tsunami.
Hu Liena groaned, her body swayed, and her face was as pale as paper.
Xuan Ming took a step forward, and an invisible chill spread out, quietly dissolving most of the pressure directed at Hu Liena.
The King of Slaughter slowly descended from the sky, followed closely by hundreds of law enforcement officers in black armor.
He stared at Bibi Dong and suddenly grinned, revealing his white teeth.
"Is this a gift from the God of Death himself? How rare!"
Bibi Dong said coldly, "King of Slaughter, they will both enter the Slaughter City for training. You must not do anything detrimental to them. Otherwise..."
Bibi Dong's eyes flashed, and her aura suddenly erupted, sending a powerful pressure towards the King of Slaughter. "You know what will happen!"
The smile on the King of Killing's face froze.
He felt the pure murderous intent, a power that even made him tremble.
How many years has it been? How did this woman become so strong?
"I know the rules." The King of Slaughter spread his hands, but his tone became gloomy.
"I can promise you that I won't take the initiative to attack them. But the rules of the Killing City cannot be broken. If they die in the hands of others, it has nothing to do with me."
Bibi Dong snorted coldly, "Of course. As long as you don't interfere, they'll handle everything on their own. But if I find out you're secretly plotting something bad, you know the consequences!"
After saying this, Bibi Dong turned to look at Xuan Ming and said, "I'm not worried about your strength, but you still have to be careful and don't act recklessly."
"Yeah." Xuan Ming nodded.
Bibi Dong looked at Hu Liena, "Nana, remember what I said."
"You'll have to walk the rest of the way on your own. Get out alive."
After she finished speaking, her figure became blurred, and the next moment she disappeared from the spot, as if she had never appeared.
The terrifying pressure also disappeared.
"You have violated the rules of entering the City of Slaughter." The King of Slaughter waved his hand, and two black-armored knights slowly stepped forward.
"According to the rules, this is your greeting gift."
Xuan Ming's eyes condensed, a flash of blood appeared, and a blood spear appeared in his hand. The next moment, he shook his wrist slightly, and the blood spear turned into a dark red afterimage, tearing through the sticky air and accurately piercing the head of the black-armored knight in the front!
The tip of the spear pierced through the skull, bringing out a puff of sticky black blood. The knight didn't even have time to scream before he fell straight back, and his heavy armor hit the ground with a dull sound.
The other knight froze, his raised weapon suspended in mid-air.
Xuan Ming shook his wrist, and the blood spear flew back with a buzzing sound and was firmly grasped by him.
The black blood dripping from the tip of the spear left a deeper mark on the dark red ground.
He raised his eyes, his ice-blue eyes were emotionless, he just looked at the King of Slaughter calmly.
"Is that enough? Or... do you want me to kill all of them?"
The scarlet pupils of the King of Killing shrank slightly, and the blood mist around him seemed to freeze for a moment.
He stared at the strange blood spear in Xuan Ming's hand that was still buzzing and devouring the remaining vitality, and then looked at the corpse on the ground that was rapidly shriveling.
Suddenly, he let out a low, hoarse laugh.
"Interesting... Really interesting!"
The King of Slaughter licked his lips, and a trace of extreme greed and excitement flashed in his scarlet eyes.
"It seems this gift is even more delicious than I imagined."
He waved his hand, signaling the frozen knight to retreat.
"Rules are for the weak." The Slaughter King's voice was filled with twisted joy. "You are very good... I look forward to your performance on the killing field."
His gaze finally swept over Xuan Ming and Hu Liena, whose face was pale but she was trying to remain calm, and his figure slowly merged into the surging blood mist.
Hu Liena took a deep breath, suppressed the churning in her stomach, and whispered, "Where...are we going now?"
Xuan Ming shook off the remaining blood on the tip of his spear and cast his gaze towards the black city in the distance that looked like a crawling giant beast.
"Go into the city."