In a quiet room of the Magi Palace.
The layout of the quiet room was extremely simple. A small altar was placed against the wall, with a small black jade tablet placed on it. Occasionally, a dim beam of light would flash across the jade tablet, and a tiny 'Netherworld' character would flash across.
In front of the jade tablet was a very old clay bowl, which was filled with blood stains. Extremely dense streams of blood-red mist had been hovering in the bowl, just like living creatures.
Emperor Shun and Si Wen Ming sat facing each other, with their legs crossed, eyes narrowed, without saying a word.
After a long while, a black beam of light dazzled out from the black jade tablet on the altar. Large clouds of black mist surged out from the ground, gradually transforming into numerous whirlpool-like cyclones, spinning all over the ground. Shrill ghost cries came ceaselessly from those cyclones, and occasionally, countless twisted faces would be faintly visible in those cyclones.
The temperature in the quiet room dropped sharply, and soon, the walls and floor were covered by thick black ice.
Emperor Shun and Si Wen Ming moved their bodies simultaneously. They were both living human beings, but this black mist was the purest power of the netherworld, which conflicted with the blood power of living human beings the most. Their bodies were surrounded by the black mist, and they felt that countless sharp daggers had been tearing their bodies. The bone-piercingly cold black mist ceaselessly tried to drill into their bodies, making them feel quite uncomfortable.
A black metal gate slowly emerged from the black mist. The gate opened, and Netherworld Priest walked out with a frown, sitting behind the stone table between Emperor Shun and Si Wen Ming.
Si Wen Ming took out a vat of wine and put it in front of Netherworld Priest. Netherworld Priest didn't hesitate either, slapped the seal and poured quite a few mouthfuls of wine into his mouth, then let out a heavy breath and said, "Fortunately, you sent me the message early, and I followed that scent. Finally, I found the one."
Emperor Shun and Si Wen Ming remained silent, only looking at Netherworld Priest.
Netherworld Priest dropped the vat, put his hands in his sleeves, narrowed his eyes, looked at Emperor Shun and Si Wen Ming, and said, "Today, I will tell you everything I know. But … this time, you've got so many non-humankind captives, I want a million! "
Emperor Shun's fingers quickly flicked on the table for a few times. Looking at Netherworld Priest's smiling face, he sighed helplessly and said, "This time, we have captured quite a lot of captives, but many clans want a share as well. The few of us will gather some for you, Netherworld Priest …"
Before Emperor Shun started to bargain, Netherworld Priest grinned, showing his sparkling white teeth, and said, "A million non-humankind beings. Pick the young and strong ones with strong original souls and abundant life-force. You Magi Palace Magi will do it. Kill them with magic spells that can save life-force and life-force the most. Let me take their corpses and souls."
Si Wen Ming responded in a deep voice, "Here, a million non-humankind beings, I can kill them all in three days tops, then give them to you."
Netherworld Priest instantly let out a heavy breath, looked at Emperor Shun, smiled and said, "Emperor Shun, you are too kind … As a human emperor, this is a good thing, but also not a good thing. However, this is a matter of your human race, so I won't say anything. "
Narrowing his eyes, Netherworld Priest put on a serious look and continued in a cold voice, "What I am going to tell you is a bit against the rules. There are a few people that I don't want to offend. They are narrow-minded, and if I tell them about their backgrounds, they will certainly cause me trouble. Therefore, whatever I said today, don't let anyone know that I said it. "
Emperor Shun slowly nodded and said seriously, "Here! Netherworld Priest, please tell us in detail. "
Netherworld Priest narrowed his eyes, pondered for a while, then said slowly, "In fact, back in the era of the three human emperors, before the passage between the heaven and the human world was cut off, the humankind had many dealings with us … For example, I lived in the Netherworld for a long time. Back in the ancient time, in order to save his wife, a powerful human being broke into my territory, fought fifty-eight battles against me in a row, and forcibly took his wife's soul back."
Emperor Shun and Si Wen Ming held their breaths and dared not to make even the slightest sound, only listening to Netherworld Priest.
"Later on, some changes happened in the world. Many ancient books and records of your humankind were lost by your ancestors, and some were burned by some people on purpose. Therefore, regarding some things that happened in the ancient time, you can only leave some bits and pieces."
"I won't mention it for the time being. During all these years, we have dealings with you for many times, and we're all old acquaintances." Netherworld Priest proudly looked at Emperor Shun and Si Wen Ming and said, "Donggong and Ximu have been living in seclusion for many years as well, but occasionally, they would show up in the world, and have done a lot of good things for the humankind. More or less, you've heard about them."
Emperor Shun listened silently, while Si Wen Ming had already taken out a well-tanned piece of leather, holding a pen and quickly writing something down.
Netherworld Priest glanced at Si Wen Ming and continued, "Just now, the one who attacked that little phoenix was Priest Corpse. In terms of age and experience, he is not much weaker than me. It's just that he is not lucky enough, and his foundation is slightly weaker than mine. Therefore, he is not as powerful as me. "
Emperor Shun and Si Wen Ming became more and more concentrated, listening to Netherworld Priest slowly talking about some secrets that had been lost in the long history of the humankind.
In fact, ever since the Chi Ban Mountain war, smart people like Emperor Shun and Si Wen Ming had already discovered that the entire Chi Ban Mountain war was obviously influenced by an outside force, and it seemed that an outside force was involved.
Some clues showed that both Dishi Yanluo, who started the war, and Fan Hai, who wanted to take some benefits, were the 'chess pieces' of someone who was hiding behind the scenes. Especially Fan Hai, he excitedly made a move and attempted to gain some benefits, but in the end, Donggong and Ximu, who showed up abruptly and joined hands with Netherworld Priest, severely injured him and forced him to flee.
Netherworld Priest showed up in the Chi Ban Mountain war, because Emperor Shun had promised him great benefits and invited him to help. However, Donggong and Ximu, Emperor Shun had only heard about the existence of these two powerful beings, but had never seen them.
However, these two people suddenly showed up in the Chi Ban Mountain area, and directly joined hands with Netherworld Priest to seriously injure Fan Hai. Judging from the whole situation, this was completely a trap aimed at Fan Hai, a trap that had been prepared well before the Chi Ban Mountain war broke out.
This meant, before the Chi Ban Mountain war broke out, someone had already predicted Fan Hai's appearance, and set up this ambush in advance.
What happened later in the war proved Emperor Shun and Si Wen Ming's guesses right. The two sword formations killed countless elite non-humankind beings, and the Blood Moon suffered a crushing defeat. Dishi Yanluo was forced to make peace.
Added with the sudden betrayal of Ying Yunpeng and his brothers, all kinds of signs pointed to the fact that there were two terrifyingly powerful beings who had been using the Chi Ban Mountain area as a chessboard. Emperor Shun, Si Wen Ming and the others had all unknowingly become their chess pieces!
The scariest thing was that the two powerful beings clapped their hands and walked away after finishing the game, while human leaders still had to clean up the mess for them, and they didn't even know who had done all these behind the scenes.
All the time, Emperor Shun and Si Wen Ming thought that the Yu Clan was the greatest enemy of the humankind.
However, until the Chi Ban Mountain war ended, they found out that an ominous dark cloud had been hiding above the humankind's head.
Emperor Shun and Si Wen Ming wanted to get to the bottom of the truth from Netherworld Priest, even if they had to pay a great price.
Netherworld Priest explained in a low voice, while cold sweat oozed out from the foreheads of Emperor Shun and Si Wen Ming, drop by drop.
By the end, both of them couldn't help but slightly tremble.
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