Chapter 688: Qingming Ghost King

"Second brother, you were not injured last night, were you?"

"Me? Is it possible to get hurt?"

"This..." Zuo Pojun pondered for a while, and said, "The death conditions of those seven people were not ordinary. The surface of the body was cracked, and the internal organs were even more rotten... I thought it was the second brother, you were accidentally injured, so It was only in anger that I lowered my hand."

"..." Ye Tianxie remained silent. He shot and killed those seven people from a distance, without even touching the corners of their clothes, and he didn't even go to see their state when they died... I didn't expect it to be so serious. The strength of those few air attacks was even stronger than he expected.

"How is your mission going?" Ye Tianxie changed the topic and asked into the communicator. Although Novice Village and the Lost Continent are two different spaces, it will not affect the call.

"Huh... It is indeed a nightmare-level mercenary mission, and it is really difficult. The first wave of monsters that greeted us were all one-star elites... Yesterday afternoon, I was dizzy by the yellow sand formation in the Canyon of Despair. Going out, Xiaoyao and Xiaojie almost got stuck in the yellow sand, anyway, we have to be more careful today." Zuo Pojun said.

"Well, come on,"

"Hey...don't worry, we won't go to Xunmeng for help unless something is impossible. By the way, second brother, when will you come back from Xinshou Village?"

"It may be a long time."

"Oh, this mission in the Canyon of Despair should take a long time... I decided to go there, the howling sound here is really scary, the content of the mission is to investigate the source of this howling sound... Oh, sister Feifei is here, everyone We're all here, so second brother, let's go first."

After hanging up the call, Ye Tianxie took a few breaths of the air here, and returned to Xinshou Village with the Empty Magic Orb.

It was about nine o'clock in the morning, and after greeting the village chief, I stopped by Yuan Que's place for a while, but unexpectedly hit a hard nail and was driven out by a burst of roar. Only then did he turn to his today's goal, the blacksmith shop.

The door of the blacksmith's shop was wide open, and when Ye Tianxie walked in, he saw the blacksmith couple standing at the door, as if they were waiting for him. Seeing him walk in, Mrs. Blacksmith nodded slightly and said, "You are here."

From the first time he saw the blacksmith's wife, Ye Tianxie vaguely felt that she was not normal. What she said at the beginning made his heart jump inexplicably. The feeling she gave him at that time can be attributed to the loss of his son She was in a half-crazed state, but now, with her face obviously relaxed, she still gave him an uncomfortable feeling.

The blacksmith Old Wang greeted him excitedly: "Young man, you are here, really... I really don't know how to thank you. Xiao Ming is now weak and has no scars on his body. He will fully recover after a period of cultivation. Help me We brought back Xiao Ming, this great favor, we will never forget it for the rest of our lives..."

Ye Tianxie was stunned for a moment, then asked suspiciously: "Xiao Ming... is he resting? Was he released from yesterday's... glass ball?"

Old Blacksmith Wang nodded: "Yes, the black glass ball disappeared by itself. Although Xiao Ming hasn't woken up yet, it doesn't look like a big deal, and he will wake up soon."

The blacksmith Old Wang rubbed his hands excitedly, and then took out a gray-white scroll from his clothes: "Young man, Xinshou Village is sparsely populated, and I really can't find anything that is good enough in this small blacksmith's shop." Something to repay your kindness... This is something I got by accident when I was young, please accept it."

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Ye Tianxie took it, glanced at its attributes, and the surprise flashed across his face...

Scroll of Fairy Spirits - Shifting Stars: A strange scroll with the ability to transfer power. It can transfer a certain skill or attribute of equipment not higher than Shenxuan level to another piece of equipment of any level. After the transfer, the original equipment is transferred Attributes or skills disappear.

What a magical scroll, it can transfer skills. Its effect is completely equivalent to cutting out the skills or attributes of one piece of equipment and then pasting it on another piece of equipment.

Ye Tianxie put away the scroll and said: "Thank you, master blacksmith, this scroll will help me a lot."

"Hehe, I feel much more at ease when you say that." Old Blacksmith Wang smiled with relief: "By the way, if you have any forging or other things in the future, please feel free to find me. You must not be polite."

The quiet Mrs. Blacksmith finally spoke. She said to her husband, "I have something to say to him alone..."

The blacksmith didn't resist at all, and didn't say much. He smiled peacefully and went into the inner room to take care of Xiao Ming. The blacksmith shop fell silent, only the sound of the fire burning.

"Sister-in-law, what big secret do you really want to tell me?" Seeing that the blacksmith's wife kept silent and stared at him, Ye Tianxie had no choice but to speak first.

The expression of the blacksmith's wife was very complicated. From the front, she was no different from a weather-beaten peasant woman, and she even looked a little older than the blacksmith Old Wang. She said in a low voice: "I said that at the time to give myself a reason to convince myself... I never thought that you could bring Xiao Ming back... But since I said it, I have to do it. And I It can be seen that you will not be a villain."

"Then, could the big secret you want to tell me be..." Ye Tianxie's voice paused, and he said with a smile, "You are a demon."

"Because I can open the Dark Soul Orb?" After hearing Ye Tianxie's words, Mrs. Blacksmith replied calmly without any emotion.

"The dark soul orb can only be used by the demons, and only the demons can open it... And, it must be a high-level demon. In addition, when I saw you for the first time, there was a kind of pain all over my body. Uncomfortable feeling, it should be the breath of the devil." Ye Tianxie said slowly.

"Then do you repel demons?" Mrs. Blacksmith did not deny it, her expression remained calm.

"I have no reason to reject it. Demon is just the name of a race. Perhaps because of some things, it has become synonymous with cruelty and evil, but this does not mean that all demons are evil, just like not all people are evil. Generally kind." Ye Tianxie replied.

The blacksmith's wife looked at him slightly changed: "You really think so?"

Ye Tianxie nodded.

The blacksmith's wife smiled. She didn't seem to be used to laughing, and the smile she tried to hold up was only fleeting. She looked away, looked outside the door and said, "You, you should know the Eight Demon Kings who were sealed into the Tower of Destiny a hundred years ago, right?"

"I know, but they have all escaped now." Ye Tianxie said.

Mrs. Blacksmith nodded, and said: "Actually, these demons called 'devil kings' by the humans lost in the continent are not real 'kings', but demon generals, the only king, who was named by the four great gods of the phantom beast clan. The sealed demon god... Originally, there were nine such 'devil kings', and they were called the nine demon kings by the name of the Lost Continent... In the battle of sealing demons a hundred years ago, eight were sealed, and one was sealed by twelve. Killed by the sages...then, the Nine Demon Kings became the Eight Demon Kings."

Ye Tianxie was stunned for a moment, then his expression suddenly changed: "You mean...you are the demon king who was 'killed'?"

"Qingming Ghost King." The blacksmith's wife looked outside the door and said the name she was trying to forget word by word.

Ye Tianxie: "!!!!"

"Surprised?" Mrs. Blacksmith glanced at him and said flatly.

"Heh... anyone will be surprised when they hear it." Ye Tianxie replied as calmly as possible. How could he not be surprised? He once encountered the Dark Underworld Ghost King, one of the Eight Demon Kings, and what the Dark Underworld Ghost King showed was an astonishing sub-Saint Destroyer level. As a demon king, this old woman in front of her is not amazing in appearance, let alone powerful, and even looks exactly like a human being, and she possesses such strength... How could he not be shocked.

Who would have thought, who would have thought... the wife of an ordinary blacksmith in the blacksmith's shop in Xinshou Village would be the King of Ghosts!

"But it seems that you don't seem to doubt... Hehe, you are indeed not a mortal. All of this is indeed incredible. I will be today, and sometimes even I feel like a dream. Back then, I also thought I was dead. The collision of that huge force was enough to tear my body into pieces... But under the huge force, the space cracked, and my body was pushed into the crack of the space by the force, and I came to this sealed place isolated from the world, Moreover, he woke up after being in a coma for decades."

Ye Tianxie: "..."

"The one who woke me up was my current husband...Although I woke up, I lost all my strength, and I didn't even have the strength to raise my arms. My husband is taking care of everything, and this care lasted for a long time. Three years, three years is enough to change a lot of things, after three years, I finally regained the strength to walk, so I became his wife."

Ye Tianxie: "..."

Mrs. Blacksmith smiled and said, "Don't you think it's unbelievable? As one of the demon kings of the demon clan, a man who once had the power to destroy the world, once had the ambition to occupy the Lost Continent, and brought huge disasters to the Lost Continent Demons, they took the initiative to marry an ordinary human, it sounds really unbelievable... But, what is the purpose of our invasion of the Lost Continent? , no hatred, no jealousy, and a world where people take care of me without complaint or regret for three years, I found that this is what I wanted in my dreams... We demons invaded the Lost Continent for the purpose of being able to interact with humans The same, can you live carefree in a rich land where there is no hunger..."

A demon king married a human being... Such a fact really made Ye Tianxie feel unspeakably awkward. He didn't doubt the old woman's words, because many things proved that she didn't lie anymore. He didn't let himself get entangled in the matter of a demon king marrying a blacksmith, and instead said: "That's your choice, I have no right to ask anything... It's just that your last sentence can't be a sign of the invasion of your demons." The reason for losing the continent. Do you want to trample and plunder other people's land and homes in order to live a better life for yourself..."

The blacksmith's wife did not refute, but said indifferently: "Then do you know how the demons originated?"

Ye Tianxie: "?"

"In the very early days, demons were not called demons, but were also called humans... Yes, they were originally humans, humans who lost the continent. Their only 'mistake' was that they practiced darkness. magic."

"Dark magic?" Ye Tianxie muttered.

"Yes... dark magic has powerful power and terrifying effects that cannot be compared with other six-series magic. However, everything in the world exists in balance. Although the power of the dark system is the strongest, it also has the most terrible side effects. Practicing dark magic , will affect people's temperament to a certain extent, make people's temperament become irritable, show more negative emotions, and occasionally lose control. At the same time, the devouring ability of dark magic will first devour the practitioner's body, making people A normal person becomes dark and thin, and in serious cases even looks like a skeleton... Later, those who practiced dark magic were rejected because of their bad temper and ugly appearance, and finally they were expelled...even cruelly killed, In the end, human beings vowed to completely eradicate the 'ugly' things like dark magic from the Lost Continent. As a result, many people who practiced dark magic were driven away, many people were killed, and many people escaped... Finally, They gathered together and found a barren continent abandoned by humans, where they lived idly... There is no richness in the lost continent, and they will face hunger and cold every day... Those who practice dark magic are easily aroused by negative emotions , being expelled, tortured, and living a hellish life in such a place, they can't help but grow stronger and stronger resentment. The dark magic power will grow with the growth of resentment, and resentment will grow with the growth of dark magic power And grow...then, under the resentment and the daily mutual killing between people for the purpose of robbing objects, their dark power is getting stronger and stronger...the powerful ones become demons."

Ye Tianxie: "..."

"It was human beings who expelled them, it was human beings who pushed them to a dead end, and made them depraved and powerful in resentment, and then they were crowned with the title of 'devil' by human beings and listed as heinous creatures...Why don't they have the right to go? Take revenge on human beings and take back what should belong to them?!" Mrs. Blacksmith said in a cold voice.