209. Twenty-four strings(1/2)
How terrifying the demon world is at night is a fact that countless demon hunters have described at the cost of their own blood for hundreds of years.
No one will doubt it!
Therefore, when Cheng Zhong stopped Su Anran and Song Jue from entering, both Song Jue and Su Anran felt uneasy - the upper limit of the demon world is not low, and it is far from reaching the level that makes Su Anran and Song Jue like this
The Xuanjie monks who first entered the Soul Condensing Realm were able to run wild and unbridled.
"Evil spirit!" Cheng Zhong said with an ugly expression.
Su Anran and Song Jue looked at each other.
Neither of them spoke.
Because they didn't feel the evil spirit.
The demons in the mysterious world naturally have demonic aura. It is even said that in the long-ago Second Era, judging the strength of demons only required the induction of demonic aura. However, with the advancement and changes of the times, as
Nowadays, female cultivators in the Xuan Realm like to use perfume - it is said that this thing was invented by Huang Zi - for the same reason. The demon clan from the Demon League has long passed the era of judging strength by relying on demon aura.
Nowadays, in the mysterious world, the only ones that still emit demonic energy and don't know how to cover it up are ferocious beasts.
Yes, in the mysterious world, even monsters know how to cover up their own demonic aura.
But here in the demon world, neither Su Anran nor Song Jue noticed the familiar demonic energy.
Perhaps it was because the evil spirit permeating the air was so strong that they were unable to determine the more specific situation - it was like the garbage that had been rotting for ten days and the rotten garbage in a closed space.
The smell of garbage that has been left out for half a month is the same. Without observing it with your own eyes, there is no way to tell which level of decay is more serious.
"If there is an area isolated by a demon-removing rope, will there still be demons?" Su Anran asked.
The existence of the demon-killing rope is an important indicator of the shrine - in game terms, it is a safe zone.
Amahara Shrine has not yet become Amahara-so, so the safety zone will be as large as the scope of Amahara Shrine.
This point is completely different from the situation in Linshan Villa.
"Except for the Plateau Mountain Grand Shrine, the demon removing ropes in other places cannot completely isolate the demons. At most, they can only weaken the demon's strength." Cheng Zhong said solemnly, "And this weakening is also related to the demon's strength.
The priest who is in charge of the shrine, the boundary nodes of the shrine, etc. have a lot to do with it...Amahara Shrine is just a new shrine, and the demon-suppressing stone here has not yet been opened to meat."
When talking about the latter part, Cheng Zhong was already gritting his teeth and his voice gradually became deeper.
But Su Anran and Song Jue understood it clearly.
The strength indicator of a shrine, in addition to the strength of the priest responsible for guarding it, also depends to a certain extent on the demon-suppressing stone.
The more demons are sealed, the stronger the demon-suppressing stone will be. In this way, the demon-suppressing barrier formed with the power of the demon-suppressing stone as its foundation will naturally be stronger. Then the demons entering it will face
The weakened strength will naturally become stronger. Even if the strength of the demon-suppressing stone can be as strong as that of the Plateau Grand Shrine inherited from Plateau Mountain, even the twelve-marked demons will not be able to directly enter.
"Let's go."
Su Anran sighed softly, then patted Cheng Zhong on the shoulder: "We have no way back."
The time of demons is coming, and the entire world of demons will begin to fall into darkness. If they do not enter the Amahara Shrine, the nearest shelter to them will take half a day to reach, which means
This means that it is completely impossible for them to find a place to shelter from the wind and rain before the darkest hour comes.
What's more, Amahara Shrine has been attacked. If they don't enter it but choose to escape, then when the darkest hour comes and the demon in Gaoyuan Shrine chases them out, the problem they face will not be a dilemma.
But it's a desperate situation.
Ignoring Cheng Zhong's reaction and attitude, Su Anran walked towards the torii gate of Tianyuan Shrine.
For Su Anran, this is not an impulse.
Listening to other people's opinions is ultimately not as valuable as going to meet the monsters in this world for yourself.
Song Jue didn't say anything.
She has dealt with demons in this world, and naturally knows the general level of demons - she has her own way of judgment, and she is not entirely convinced by the classification methods of demon hunters in this world. Su Anran's set of methods about demons
The basis of judgment was derived and established from Song Jue.
So since Su Anran plans to test the demon's strength personally, Song Jue will naturally not dissuade her.
She just carried the sword and followed Su Anran towards the torii gate of Tianyuan Shrine.
"You..." Cheng Zhong shouted, but seeing that Su Anran and Song Jue were very determined, he could only follow them.
…
The two realms of Yin and Yang are different.
According to rumors, the high-rise buildings that can be seen in the Yang world may be the rough houses, steel foundations, or even undeveloped wasteland before the high-rise buildings were built in the underworld.
Scenes such as hills and mountains a hundred years ago.
Su Anran had never believed it before.
But now, he couldn't help but not believe it.
Outside the torii gate, what he saw was a harmonious and peaceful scene: Although the Amahara Shrine is not big, it has a main hall, a side hall, and a dormitory hall, which can provide a place to stay and food for the passing demon hunters.
Even steaming bath water.
But the moment he stepped into the torii gate, what entered his nostrils was the burnt smell, the strong smell of blood, and other strange smells that made him sick just by smelling them - probably like
I went back to my hometown for quarantine due to the new coronavirus, and then finally resumed work and returned to the city where I was working, but suddenly found that the rented house
The refrigerator in your house, which has been out of power for four months, still contains raw pork, tomatoes, potatoes, and half-eaten fish; and you also have a roommate who loves Swedish food. In order to welcome you, he not only bought the most authentic
Stinky tofu, and also opened a can of herring to prepare for a good celebration.
"vomit--"
Song Jue, who came in next to Su Anran, had already started spitting out rainbow liquid.
"I thought you would choose to leave."
It sounded like a harsh noise like fingernails rubbing against a blackboard.
A hunched old man slowly walked out of the main hall, which was burning with blazing flames.
Blood like a stream flows out from the main hall, and is rapidly evaporating and condensing under the high temperature of the flames. The blood that has not disappeared and is still flowing out is like a red carpet, flowing from the main hall towards the hall.
Spread out the shop outside.
This old man with gray hair and a height of only 1.6 meters was walking out slowly like an English gentleman, leaning on a cane.
However, the angry-eyed human head he held in his left hand completely destroyed that gentlemanly temperament.
Several canine creatures dripping with dark green liquid that looked like saliva followed behind the old man.
"Priest Zhao?!" Cheng Zhong's exclamation sounded behind Su Anran and Song Jue, "Soul-eating dog? Are you... a shepherd?"
"Shepherd?" Su Anran turned her head and glanced at Cheng Zhong, only to find that his face had become quite ugly.
He didn't ask who Priest Zhao was.
The old man was still holding a human head in his left hand. It was obviously too stupid to ask such a question at this time.
However, the strength of a priest in a gathering place would not be much weaker than that of Helian Po. Moreover, judging from the angry look on his face, the priest was much younger than He Lian Po, so he probably would not be any weaker than He Lian Po.
But the result was that he was beheaded by an old man. Su Anran did not dare to be careless in the slightest.
"Oh?" The old man, known as the shepherd, glanced at Su Anran, and a smile suddenly appeared on his wrinkled face, "It seems that this kid doesn't know me."
Su Anran had no way of guessing how old the old man was.
But when the old man smiled, the wrinkles on his face all stuck together, looking like a chrysanthemum that had been patted flat.
However, as his smile appeared, it did not give people a sense of peace, but instead made him more violent.
For some reason, both Su Anran and Song Jue could feel that the old man seemed to be angry.
"He is the shepherd, one of the twenty-four strings, the eleventh string on the right." Cheng Zhong said with an ugly expression.
After Su Anran learned about Jiutun's situation, he asked Helian Po about this issue, and later obtained further confirmation from Cheng Zhong.
So he naturally knew what Cheng Zhong's concise and concise words meant at this time.
In the world of demons, the twelve most powerful demons in the world are called the Twelve Pattern Great Demons, among which Shuten is one of the Twelve Patterns.
Under the Twelve Lines, there are the great demons also known as the Twenty-four Strings. They are powerful beings whose strength is second only to the Twelve Lines - of course, the individuals among them are naturally strong and weak, and strong and weak.
The difference in contrast is very obvious, so there are left and right chords.
In the world of monsters and monsters, the left side is respected, so the left twelve strings are also called the upper string twelve strings, or the great upper string strings.
The twelve strings on the right are therefore also called the twelve strings on the lower string or the big demon on the lower string.
The twenty-four-stringed demons are ranked according to their strength. This ranking is not fixed. As long as the challenge is successful, they will naturally be replaced. Needless to say, the fate of the defeated twenty-four-stringed strings is: those with better luck,
Perhaps they escaped with severe injuries and gave way to others; those with less luck became food for the new challengers to replenish their strength - in the world of monsters, there is no such thing as cannibalism and cannibalism.
"Don't get entangled with the shepherd's soul-eating dog. It's an evil beast evolved from his magical power." Cheng Zhong whispered, and then he drew his sword directly.
The sword-drawing technique is not a sword skill that Cheng Zhong is good at.
Having received the inheritance of Thunder Sword, what he is really good at is the more violent open and close sword fighting skills, so he chose to draw the sword directly, in fact, to avoid the dilemma he encountered during the last sparring with Su Anran.
Similarly, once the sword-drawing attack is blocked, it will be very difficult for him to accumulate momentum, so it is better to abandon the initial sword-drawing technique and directly use the subsequent sword skills as the starting offensive.
To be continued...