The sky was light gray, and the ground was dark brown. Not a single blade of grass grew. The entire world gave off a feeling of deathly stillness and lack of vitality.
After stepping through the bronze door and arriving in this space, the people of the Aoki family suddenly became excited. Even though they tried to suppress their excitement, the subtle changes in their expressions and the excitement in their eyes completely betrayed them.
Even someone as cold and arrogant as Li Peiyun could easily sense it, let alone the others.
"From the looks of it, they must have found the source of the species?" Li Peiyun glanced at Yui Aoki's incomparably charming face and recalled the first time they met in secret, when she told him about the fox demon Tamamo-no-Mae.
Tamamo no Mae seemed to have traveled across the ocean to find something that could help her enter the Pantheon Palace. In the secret scroll, she mentioned that the Pantheon Palace had the source of her species.
The existence that was imprisoned in the Pantheon Palace sent a distress signal to the outside world. Anyone with its genes would be able to sense the signal.
"No wonder it insisted on getting into my car. I couldn't get rid of it," Li Peiyun thought.
He had always wondered why the people of the Aoki family didn't cooperate with Bosch. Instead, they were determined to find him. He wanted to hold his hand and beg, "Old driver, take me, take me to the Pantheon Palace."
They hadn't seen each other for a while, but Kurumi Aoki was still as charming and beautiful as ever. Her seductive gestures had a fatal attraction to men. Along the way, the foreign devils stared at her butt.
Li Peiyun originally had a good impression of Kurumi Aoki. It was rare. An ascetic male god like him was supposed to be like "I don't need women" and "I will never let women taint my body".
But after spending some time with Kurumi Aoki, he couldn't help but be attracted to her. It could only be said that the Aoki family's Charm Supernatural Ability was a little too abnormal.
This kind of good impression had completely collapsed during the Dao Discussion, and it had completely vanished.
Li Peiyun was a straight man. Whenever he thought of how she was kneeling at Li Xianyu's feet during the Dao discussion, trembling and screaming, no matter how beautiful a woman was, his heart would still be as still as water.
Now, when Li Peiyun looked at Kuri Aoki again, her heart was as calm as an old dog.
"What a pity. This girl is useless." Li Peiyun sighed in her heart.
That brat, Li Xianyu, was his greatest enemy. He didn't like the women that Li Xianyu had touched, no matter how pretty they were.
Which man would dare to marry Kurumi Aoki in the future?
He would explode on the spot in a matter of seconds.
In any case, a handsome young man like him would definitely not be able to endure it, and a man of a lower level would probably be looked down upon by the Aoki family.
In the thick fog, visibility was extremely low, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty of the exploration.
Just as they were panicking and regretting not bringing their Wind Ability, they saw the Empress from the Alliance of Demons shoot a dark fireball with a flick of her finger. At the same time, the seductive woman with a slender waist blew out a breath of air.
A hurricane appeared out of nowhere, tearing apart the fireball and sending the scorching heat in all directions.
The thick fog thinned visibly, the humid air became dry, and the temperature in the space rose sharply.
So strong …
It wasn't the seductive woman with the snake body, but the "Empress" from the Alliance of Demons. Just from this alone, her strength was at least at the top of the S-rank, and she was one of the best among the S-ranks.
It should be known that there were strong and weak S-ranks. The guardians of the Alliance of Demons were also top S-ranks, but they still couldn't beat the ten monsters of Bosch.
War God and Li Peiyun knew the strength of the "Empress", so they weren't surprised, but the people from the Aoki family and the Alliance of Soul Extermination were secretly shocked.
"So this is the Pantheon Palace." Eva Capei turned her head and looked around, sizing up this deathly silent world.
The dark brown wasteland stretched as far as the eye could see, and there were many statues of monsters. They had human-like bodies, but their appearance was that of a beast, and their tails were similar to that of a giant lizard.
Eva Capei stretched out her slender index finger, and exploded a statue in the air.
"It's just a dead thing!" she said.
"Be careful, it's too quiet here. If the enemy doesn't come from beside you, then they'll be under your feet, "Ford Anderson said in a deep voice.
Three-quarters of the Alliance of Soul Extermination's combat power was here, and the lineup was huge. There were a total of five top S-ranks, eighteen normal S-ranks, and twenty-six A-rank high-level employees. They wouldn't be afraid even if they encountered a half-step Extreme Grade. If the experts from the Sakurai family and the Murray family were added to the mix, they might even be able to wrestle with the Extreme Grade.
The Sakurai family and the Murray family were lurking around Bosch, or rather, the Unparalleled War Souls. They were in charge of monitoring the Unparalleled War Souls, and were waiting for the right time to carry out the Soul Extermination operation.
However, the current situation had deviated from the plan. It turned out that the key to the Pantheon Palace opened different spaces, and each space seemed to be different from the other.
This was going to be very awkward. If they didn't encounter the Unparalleled War Souls by the end of the Pantheon Palace exploration, they would be in a bad situation.
The group trudged through the wasteland, and after walking for a while, they came across a skeleton wrapped in rotten rags, and half of the skeleton was buried in the ground. Other than that, there was a rusted knife, and a submachine gun that was also riddled with holes.
Based on the degree of decay, it should be something from the last century.
Tako Aoki picked up the knife, and after studying it for a long time, he revealed an excited expression. "Yes, yes, we've come to the right place. This is the place where Evil Dao killed our family's ancestors."
The submachine gun was a Type 100 submachine gun commonly used by the Japanese during World War II. It was oddly installed with two tripods, which was the specialty of the Japanese Type 100 submachine gun at that time. In addition to the knife, other than the Japanese, who would use this kind of knife?
Tako Aoki explained, "Back then, the Aoki family had already found the Pantheon Palace. The first time we entered, Evil Dao was brought in as a sacrificial animal. However, we don't know what happened, but in the end, only Evil Dao managed to enter the Pantheon Palace.
"After Evil Dao Wang Chen came out of the Pantheon Palace, his temperament changed drastically. He held another key in his hand, and proposed to cooperate with the Japanese. As long as the Japanese helped him take revenge, he would bring the Aoki family back into the Pantheon Palace to find what we want. Hence, the second expedition to the Pantheon Palace.
"At that time, the Empire was on the brink of collapse, and that proud war was destined to end in failure. The Pantheon Palace was our last hope, and we could not afford to lose it. For the future of the Empire, for the future of the family, all the descendants of the family in China turned out in full force, and followed Evil Dao into the Pantheon Palace, never to return. "
Speaking of the past, the Aoki family's faces were solemn and heavy.
They solemnly buried the bones, and the twenty people stood in front of the small mound and bowed. Tako Aoki said in a low voice, "You are all heroes of the family, heroes of the Empire."
Li Peiyun spat, "Ptui!"
The Aoki family members looked at each other angrily.
Li Peiyun whistled and pretended to look around at the scenery.
They continued on their way, and along the way, they met many more skeletons of the Aoki family's ancestors. Tako Aoki left a few people in charge of burying the skeletons, and led the rest of the people on their way. After walking for about half an hour, the unchanging wilderness finally changed. At the end of their line of sight, a tall building appeared in front of them.
It was a strange building that was hundreds of meters tall, as if it was built on a mountain. There were only bronze walls and thick pillars, and no roof. The spiral steps could be climbed up by the people below.
The only thing was that the steps were a little high, a full two meters.
It was like a newborn puppy climbing the steps. It was so high, so tiring, and it cried out for its mother to help it climb.
Fortunately, the people present were not puppies, and they all had a pair of invisible wings. They easily jumped over the two-meter high steps, and climbed up to the bronze palace.
They reached the bronze building in one breath, and their faces were not red, and they were not out of breath. They saw the square pool in the middle of the vast area.
"The thing we are looking for is already under there." Tako Aoki said.
Instantly, the people who were not red or out of breath breathed a little faster.
Kuri Aoki took out a large bundle of light sticks from her small square backpack, twisted them all, and threw them into the bottom of the pool. The light sticks fell into the darkness, and the light was swallowed by the darkness.
Almost at the same time, everyone jumped into the pool. They followed the thick chains on the wall of the pool and landed steadily on the ground.
The bottom of the pool was silent, and the light from the light sticks illuminated the underground space. The ends of the four chains hung on the ground, and it was empty.
The bottom of the pool was empty, and apart from the four chains, there was nothing else.
The people of the Aoki family stood stiffly, and their expressions were one of confusion and disappointment, and they looked very pitiful.
"How could this be …" Tako Aoki muttered to himself.
Was the script wrong? This was different from what he had imagined.
If they returned empty-handed from this trip to the Pantheon Palace, how was he going to explain it to his family? The thing that his family had been looking forward to for so long was all for naught?
"Look at the wall, there are paintings on it." Wright Green said softly. As he spoke, he turned on the strong light, and illuminated the paintings on the wall.
The people's gazes followed the beam of the light to the wall. The style of the paintings was based on the stream of consciousness, and the lines were simple, but there was a charm to them. You would think that the paintings were bad, but you could understand them.
The painter was either a top-notch painter or the legendary Soul Painter.
In the painting illuminated by the flashlight, the main character was a huge creature that looked like a fox and a dog. It had nine tails, and its body was elegant.
The painter had painted a few mountains beside it to highlight its size.
It was the king that ruled the world. It sat elegantly, and countless creatures crawled under its feet, worshipping it.
One day, a huge palace appeared in the mountains, and the nine-tailed monster entered the palace. In the end, it was killed at the bottom of a pool in a building, and its corpse was tied up with four thick chains.
This was the message that the four paintings conveyed to the people.
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