While the mysterious Chen Luhao and the Profound Life Sect's Vice Sect Master Qin Shousheng were locked in a deadly battle, Tong 'an City was slowly returning to order.
The residents who had suffered heavy losses in the city poked their heads out of their homes in fear. Some sat in their homes and wailed as they watched their homes being ransacked. Some hugged the corpses of their loved ones in pools of blood and wept bitterly. The entire Tong 'an City fell into a cacophony of cries and wails.
The bailiffs and soldiers who had fled in all directions in the city returned to the city one after another when they saw that the chaos in the city had subsided.
However, when they returned, they were shocked to find that the entire city was littered with corpses. Raped women were everywhere, houses had their doors broken in, valuables and jewels strewn all over the ground, and ruffians lying dead in pools of blood.
Almost every street in Tong 'an City was covered in blood. The citizens who had come to identify the corpses cried as they walked, leaving bloody footprints all over the ground.
However, what none of them knew was that the blood had started to seep into the soil bit by bit through the cracks in the stone bricks of the street. The blood seeped deep into the soil, and when it reached a depth of more than ten meters, it gradually condensed into balls of black mist.
The black mist continued to seep deeper into the ground, especially when it came into contact with more and more black mist that was seeping in. They would gather together and form an even thicker black mist that continued to seep downwards.
This repeated for who knew how long or how deep it had seeped. Suddenly, the thick earth's crust disappeared. The black mist had entered a vast underground world.
This underground world was enormous. It was like the reflection of the surface world, vast and deep, comparable to the sky!
The black mist continued to flow downwards like a dark river, flowing along the riverbed towards the end of the underground world.
It meandered its way through a large area of mineral crystals that glowed with a dark blue light. Then, it swam past a large area of deathly still rocks before entering a vast, jagged cave. Finally, it arrived at a place that people would tremble at the mere mention of: Nine Hells!
Although the Nine Hells was far away in the northwest, that was the entrance to the Nine Hells. The area of the Nine Hells was almost the same as the surface world.
Cultivators knew that the Nine Hells were under their feet, but no one wanted to dig up the ground. This was because Luo Jiuzhong had set up layers of restrictions to seal the King of Hades in the underground world. They had no way to break through the crust, and cultivators would not dig up the crust that was tens of thousands of meters thick to fight the King of Hades in the Nine Hells.
The thick fog swam all the way until it reached a dark blue glowing cave entrance, and then entered.
When the fog appeared again, it had already arrived at the core area of the Nine Hells: the Purgatory Blood and Soul Pool!
This was a blood-red world, and there were tumbling pools of blood everywhere. Within the pools of blood, there were giant red meat eggs. These meat eggs were closely attached to other meat eggs, like densely packed ant nests.
The black fog swam through these nests and blood pools. Wherever the black fog swam, the meat eggs seemed to absorb nutrients and began to wriggle and grow.
If one stood in the blood pool and looked up, they would see this incomparably huge underground world. On its stone walls, every dark blue light hole was gushing out thick black fog. This thick fog 'irrigated' the vast world of the blood pool. It nourished the bloody flesh eggs that passed by, and then was sucked away by them, becoming thinner and thinner.
And the meat eggs that had absorbed enough vengeful spirit fog began to wriggle violently. After a while, a monster covered in blood crawled out of them. It was the Grim Stork. It opened its sharp beak and let out a shrill cry.
As far as the eye could see, in this densely packed sea of meat eggs, there were all kinds of monsters being born and howling.
This was the place that the Zhan family wanted to destroy the most, because it was a breeding ground for monsters, and it absorbed the power of the vengeful spirits of all the people who died in the human world.
The power that was filled with all kinds of dark emotions such as anger, hatred, and hatred were the best nourishment and catalyst for them.
But in the thick fog that came from all directions, there was a thick fog that kept moving forward. No matter which meat egg it passed by, it could not absorb it. It stubbornly and resolutely swam towards the deepest part of the blood pool.
After an unknown amount of time, it finally swam in front of a fist-sized ball of red flame.
This ball of red flame was located in the center of the blood pool. It floated in the center of a huge stone platform, surrounded by ten stone pillars. The center of this ball of flame was a solidified blood-red color, while the periphery was burning with a purple color.
The thick fog swam to the flame and stopped. It raised its head like a snake, looking around and waiting.
An extremely deep and resonant voice suddenly sounded from within this enormous pool of blood. It came precisely from this ball of flame that was continuously changing its shape. "In more than a hundred years, you are the second human who carried such deep hatred through the blood pool and walked in front of me!"
The thick fog did not react, and continued to "stare" at the flame.
The flame asked again, "Do you want revenge?"
The thick fog nodded, quickly transforming into a face twisted with hatred. One could vaguely tell that it was Zhou Ling.
The flame nodded and said, "You can!
In the name of the King of the Nine Hells, I grant you the power of a superior demon. You will become the leader of my army of billions of demons. You will lead them to trample the human world and attack the Nine Heavens! "
The ball of flame suddenly expanded, and a scarlet flame slowly flowed towards the thick fog. Soon, the thick fog became more and more solid. It twisted violently, and bit by bit, it turned into the figure of a woman. However, her eyes were red, and her five fingers were like iron hooks. Her body seemed to be covered with the scales of a wild beast.
The demon in the shape of a woman raised its head and let out a sharp howl. All the newly born demons in the boundless Purgatory Blood Soul Pool immediately fell silent and prostrated themselves on the ground!
Soon, her figure flashed, and she turned into an extremely thin and long streak of thick smoke, charging straight up.
The flame chuckled, its voice growing louder and louder. It was filled with excitement and anticipation, "Soon, soon!
Big teapot, how's your mission in the human world … going? "
This ball of flame instantly turned into a burning vertical pupil of flame, and the face of a middle-aged man appeared in the pupil. This man was wearing a black robe that covered his figure and appearance. His voice was hoarse, sounding like sandpaper rubbing against iron. "Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing!"
The flame cackled, "Very good, very good!
Big teapot, remember our contract!
If you dare go against me!
You'll never see her again! "
The vertical eye turned and looked at a corner of the Purgatory Blood Soul Pool. There, a beautiful woman floated in the air. She wore a white robe that seemed spotless. Her face was ruddy, as if she was taking a nap.
However, there were countless howling demonic creatures below her. They were jumping around madly, trying to tear this woman into countless pieces to satisfy their hunger. She had an endless supply of demonic creatures.
She seemed to be in a precarious situation as if she would be caught and bitten by the sharp claws and teeth of these demons at any time!
The man in black reflected in the flame raised his head. His face was full of scars, cuts, and burns. His face was almost unrecognizable, but his eyes were still sharp and bright. He looked deeply at the woman, his eyes filled with infatuation and love. Then, he said in a hoarse voice, "At most, in two years, my promise with you will be fulfilled!"
The flame roared angrily, "Two years?"
The man in black said coldly, "I've waited for thousands of years. Do you think I'll wait for another two years?"
The flames around the flame burned fiercely. After a while, it said, "Okay, I'll wait for you for another two years!
Remember, only two years! "
After saying that, it shrank abruptly. The burning vertical eye instantly dissipated, and once again turned into a twisting flame.
As for those monsters that were jumping and biting the beautiful woman, it was as if they were instantly pinched by an invisible giant hand and turned into a pile of meat paste. They fell into the blood pool like rain, and then turned into a river of flesh and blood, flowing into the other blood pools and being absorbed by the boundless forest of flesh and eggs.
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