In the early years, Jianyou City was not called Jianyou City, but Xunyoumen. It was a place where people specialized in finding the souls of the deceased for the families of people who died in a foreign land. They accepted the commission from the families and searched for the fragments of the deceased's ghosts. Although only some residual thoughts and emotions were left, they could still be collected, stored in special Horcruxes, and finally sent back to their hometown.

Although such commissions can bring good income per transaction, only wealthy families can afford such luxury, so the faction has always found it difficult to grow and develop.

But the predecessor of Haoli Yama Palace was different. They were called "Cult of Death" at that time. The magic skills of the sect were orthodox those of the necromancers in the Western Continent, mainly focusing on killing, awakening corpses, and refining high-level undead creatures. It was said that if you practiced to a high level, you could still live after death, even if your body was destroyed. This attracted many people at that time. After all, the number of people who could practice to the realm of immortals was very small.

It was just that the nature of the 'Cult of Death' was so incompatible with the various factions that they were often besieged and resisted by surrounding factions. Later, they had no choice but to hide from each other, and occasionally seek help from some factions that were also part of the Nine Netherworld.

This situation continued until the "Cult of Death" was accepted by the Youchi State at that time. With the protection and acceptance of the country, this sect developed rapidly and was later directly renamed Haoli Yanluo Palace.

"Haoli" is the name of a funeral song in ancient times.

"So that's how it is." Loran Hill became interested after listening to it.

"Then how did you become the faction you are today?"

"Although Lord Chifeng led his people to defeat the Haoli Yanluo Palace, he was also impressed by its strength. He collected the methods and skills within their faction, deleted many of the vicious methods, and later passed them on to us and the Ningzi Zhaoye Palace."

"So many of our sect's methods and skills actually came from Yama Palace. However, due to the different styles, we later made many improvements and became different from Yama Palace."

There are very few factions in the East Continent that practice the Nine Nether Sequence. Among the upper sects, there are only three: 'Ningzi Zhaoye Palace', 'Tagu Jianyou City' and 'Zhuo Ri Xiangyu Sect'. Among them, the Xiangyu Sect is not the main practice, but it has a complete inheritance. The only two well-known ones outside are Zhaoye Palace and Jianyou City.

As they talked along the way, they unknowingly walked through the long tunnel and arrived at the exit.

Before they got close, they heard the sound of rushing water. When Loran Hill stood at the entrance of the cave, he could see a rushing underground river below.

Because it is underground, the underground river is dark and only the edge outline is visible. Looking inside along the underground river, you can see a little light in the turning cave entrance.

Walking down the stairs at the entrance of the cave, the group came to the edge of the dark river. There was a half-submerged pavilion with white lanterns with candlelight hanging on it, and several boats were tied to the edge.

"Master Brother/Sister." A middle-aged man with a slight beard walked down the stairs with a few people. When he greeted and saluted, he also glanced at Loran Hill behind him. He seemed to be unaware of the identity of this girl.

"Is Junior Brother Sui Du on duty today? We need a boat to take Prince Luo Lan to the depths of the dark river."

"That's not difficult. Please wait for a moment, brothers and sisters." As he said that, he took the two of them and walked quickly back to the platform. He rowed out one of the ebony river boats and parked it in front of them.

"This 'Xingyin Ebony Boat' is the best-made one currently. Please take a look at it, senior brother." He introduced it with great pride. It seemed that most of the boats here were built by him personally.

"Thank you, junior brother." You Xing and You Xing nodded with a smile.

In fact, they would not be so restrained under normal circumstances, but they only said some polite words because there were distinguished guests present today.

After boarding the boat, two disciples from Jianyoucheng rowed the boat at the back, while Youxing talked about the situation of the junior brother just now.

"Junior Brother Suidu is actually much older than the two of us, but he joined the sect later, so his seniority is a bit behind. Although he practices the Nine Nether Dao, he is more interested in making some instruments and tools. Junior Brother Suidu has contributed a lot to the development of the Dark River in recent years."

"The water in this dark river carries the breath of dragon veins and is very cold. A typical wooden boat will corrode after a short time, so we need to find additional materials to build it."

"Actually, the disciples of the sect usually fly over directly, but today we have to receive His Highness Luo Lan, so we can't be so careless, hehe." Youxing said, covering his mouth with his hands and chuckling.

After spending some time together, the two of them saw that Loran Hill was not the serious and rigid person, so they relaxed a little. In fact, the two of them entered the sect to practice earlier than Loran Hill. If it were not for Loran Hill's special status, under normal circumstances, they would also need to call each other senior brothers and sisters. Of course, this kind of "senior brothers and sisters" is just a courtesy, not really senior brothers and sisters.

While riding on the boat, Loran Hill and You Xing You Xing occasionally talked about the underground abyss. The two of them talked about everything they knew. It was not until a while later, after turning around a tall stone mountain, that they stopped talking when the view suddenly opened up.

The water flow becomes extremely wide here, so the speed has slowed down a lot. There are large tracts of plains on both sides of the underground river, and now there are rows of flowers and plants planted there, emitting little fluorescent lights in the dark underground.

Across this field, there are steep stone walls on both sides, some of which have stalactites hanging down and dripping water. Looking up, it is pitch black, and all you can see are huge stalactites sticking out from the darkness and hanging down.

After mooring the boat at the shore, the group walked forward and climbed the steps on the shore, and then they could walk into the neat fields. These plants were about as tall as Loran Hill's chest, with dark green leaves and light white flower spikes. The seeds in them emitted a little magical fluorescence as they swayed, which was very beautiful.

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