Chapter 65 Humans of Ten Thousand Demon City, what is the name of the city lord of Ten Thousand Demon City...?
A transparent coffin, a person covered in blood.
In particular, the man's left hand was a pool of mangled flesh, and his face and chest were covered in blood. He was probably still bleeding heavily when he was put into the coffin, so a small layer of bright red liquid had accumulated under the coffin.
Coupled with the man's tattered, blood-stained clothes and the distorted face seen through the carvings on the coffin's surface...
This scene is quite stunning.
Fu Yu blindfolded Xiao Jiu, then stared wide-eyed at the system and mouthed: "Are you crazy?!"
The system was also a bit confused.
The lighting was poor before, and it just casually put the person in there, never expecting that the person would end up in such a miserable state.
It quickly swallowed the coffin back into its mouth.
After Fu Yu removed his hand, Xiao Jiu looked at the empty space in front of him and blinked in confusion: "System, the box?"
Xiao Jiu kept calling the crystal coffin a box, and upon hearing this, the system knew something was wrong.
Just as it was thinking about how to let the matter drop, Taotie came over.
No one knows what happened to Taotie before, but now it's like he flipped some strange switch, squeezing directly between the system and Fuyu, and then burrowing into Xiao Jiu's arms.
Taotie raised its head and said cheerfully, "That one just now looked like a big crystal rice dumpling."
Crystal rice dumplings—when they were researching the recipe, Suanni had explained to them that it was a kind of dessert made by humans.
The pastry has a transparent skin, allowing you to see the colorful fillings inside, making it look cute and appetizing.
The coffin that Taotie mentioned, which the system had just spat out—
The skin is transparent, allowing you to see the filling directly.
filling......
Fu Yu's face turned pale instantly. He looked at Taotie in horror and subconsciously took half a step back.
As he stepped back, he bumped right into Qian Chuan behind him.
At this moment, the water ripple-like pattern on Qianchuan's body also disappeared, and his height made it easy for him to see things in the distance.
After helping Fuyu to her feet, he asked in confusion, "What is Meow Meow doing lying there?"
Everyone turned their heads and saw that a dozen meters away, a white, short-haired cat-like Suanni was lying on the ground in a contorted position with the back of its head against the ground and its buttocks raised.
His tail, except for the tip, was shaved completely bald, like a strangely colored cattail, both pitiful and funny.
Seeing Suanni like this, Fuyu remembered the crystal rice dumpling incident. He swallowed hard and then tugged at Qianchuan: "Why don't we... don't ask anymore?"
Qianchuan was completely baffled.
At this moment, the Suanni slowly got up from the ground. It habitually flicked its tail, and then shivered from the cold.
He turned around in confusion—
"Aaaaaah, I'll fight you to the death!"
The Suanni rushed over as fast as a baseball thrown into the air, and because it was so fast, white smoke rose up wherever it ran.
The white smoke swirled in the air, threatening to burst into flames, when the system quickly said, "Calm down!"
The spirit flowers nowadays are planted in ordinary soil! They'll be destroyed if burned!
The Suanni didn't care about any of that.
He charged forward yelling, and then—was headbutted into the ground by the Taotie.
Taotie said sweetly, "Meow meow, calm down."
Seeing the Suanni that was stuck in the ground for almost half a meter, Fu Yu and the system both shuddered.
So when Taotie asked the system to take out the coffin again, the system only hesitated for half a second before doing so.
Fu Yu quickly covered Xiao Jiu's eyes again, while Taotie pushed the coffin lid open with a single claw.
He made a sniffing motion towards the human inside, and then said, "He's still breathing, should we save him?"
Fuyu and Qianchuan now know what happened when this human appeared.
Fu Yu had never liked humans, so when he learned that this man wanted to attack Xiao Jiu, he naturally didn't want to save her.
Qianchuan, however, said, "Perhaps he has some unspeakable difficulties. There's still a lot left before the spirit transformed into a celestial being. I think we can wake him up and ask him about the situation first."
The implication is that if asking doesn't work, then they'll take action.
Anyway, these humans can't beat them, so it's not a big problem.
The system doesn't care; it can extract data from anything, whether it's dead or alive, as long as it hasn't turned to ashes.
With one vote in favor, one vote against, two neutral votes, and one abstention, it's up to Xiao Jiu to decide.
Xiao Jiu: "Help!"
Soon after, boxes of light green liquid medicine were poured into the crystal coffin.
The green liquid and red blood were mixed together, sticky and gooey, looking like some kind of red-skinned worm that had burst open, which was a bit disgusting.
Although it was disgusting, the medicine was surprisingly effective.
The bleeding from the man's left hand, which resembled a mass of mangled flesh, stopped rapidly within seconds, and the broken bones and flesh even showed signs of remodeling.
About ten minutes later, the man in the coffin woke up.
He seemed a little dazed, staring blankly into the air for a while after opening his eyes.
His expression hardened when his gaze fell on Xiao Jiu and Taotie: "Demons."
He instinctively reached for the sword at his waist, but grasped at nothing.
He immediately tried to sit up, but as soon as he raised his upper body, the Taotie slapped him with its claw and knocked him to the bottom of the coffin.
Because of the position and distance, the man's head first hit the edge of the coffin with a loud "thud," and then his whole body slid down like a lump of dough.
Fuyu, Qianchuan, and the System: !
Taotie, still speaking in a voice as sweet as candy, said, "He's still on his last breath, shall we save him?"
Fu Yu, Qian Chuan, and the System: "..."
Xiao Jiu simply nodded: "Save."
So the system took out the Spiritual Ox and Xiao Jiu to synthesize medicine, and then poured the medicine into the coffin again.
A few minutes later, the man woke up again.
Man: "A demon."
The Taotie continued to attack with its claws.
After this process was repeated nearly ten times, the man finally shut up, and Fu Yuqianchuan and the others were truly numb.
Once the man's injuries stabilized, the system put away the crystal coffin.
At this moment, Fu Yu and Qian Chuan stood half a step behind Xiao Jiu, one on the left and one on the right, while the System and Taotie stood diagonally in front of Xiao Jiu.
The Suanni lay down in front of the dried flower tent further back, hugging its tail and sighing.
The man stood about five meters in front of Xiao Jiu. Even though he was being stared at by a group of powerful demonic beasts, he simply lowered his head calmly and remained silent.
Neither of them spoke or moved.
The only sounds around were the flowing water and the man's shallow breathing; the silence was unsettling.
After this atmosphere lasted for a few minutes, the system couldn't take it anymore.
It asked, "Who are you?"
The man glanced at the system, then continued to lower his head slightly.
The man's demeanor clearly indicated that he didn't want to pay them any attention, but the next second, he said in a completely flat tone, "Xie Chuanfeng, a disciple of the Qinglin Sect."
The system then asked, "How did you get here?"
Xie Chuanfeng honestly replied, "I was being chased."
"Pursuit?"
"Yes."
At this moment, apart from Xiao Jiu, the other non-humans all noticed the man's strange behavior.
He was like a pre-programmed humanoid device, expressionless and emotionless, yet always ready to answer any question. In Suanni's words, he was more like a system than the system itself.
But no matter how strange the man was, his behavior undoubtedly made it easier for the system to "extract data".
Under the system's continuous questioning, Xie Chuanfeng recounted the whole story of how he was being hunted down.
According to Xie Chuanfeng, the creatures chasing him were not human, but "demons".
In his world, there are humans and demon beasts. Humans who embark on the path of cultivation become cultivators, and so do demon beasts.
The relationship between human cultivators and demon cultivators, while not exactly one of friendly cooperation, can still be considered one of peaceful coexistence.
However, all of this changed after that winter three years ago.
Three years ago, the city lord of Ten Thousand Demon City and his companion spirit beast ascended to heaven one after another. A few months later, the Iron-bellied Bear Demon that once belonged to the city lord seized the city and became the new city lord.
However, this bear demon was cruel and tyrannical. On the day he became the city lord, he slaughtered all the demon beasts in the city that did not obey him, and at the same time, he killed and ate all the humans in the city.
The reason why the bear demon was able to seize the city in one fell swoop was not only because of his own strength, but also because he was accompanied by a human evil cultivator.
That evil cultivator could refine corpses, mixing demonic beasts and humans together to create a strange creature that had some human-like features but moved like a mad beast.
Because these things were irrational and possessed physical strength comparable to that of demonic beasts, cultivators called them "demons".
These monsters will attack any living thing indiscriminately.
They will not spare humans, monsters, or even animals that have not yet developed intelligence.
"I was suddenly brought here after I had cleared out the last monster in the mountains."
After Xie Chuanfeng finished speaking, he saw several pairs of eyes staring at him. Xie Chuanfeng looked at Xiao Jiu and the others with a blank expression, and he even looked a little dumbfounded.
Several seconds later, Xie Chuanfeng asked in a sleepwalking tone, as if the system had just reconnected, "What's wrong?"
Xiao Jiu didn't find the other party's reaction strange, and simply tilted her head to ask, "What is the City of Ten Thousand Demons?"
Xie Chuanfeng fell silent again, and after a long while, he asked, "You guys haven't heard of the Ten Thousand Demon City and that city lord?"
Xiao Jiu and the others shook their heads.
A hint of doubt appeared in Xie Chuanfeng's eyes, and then he said, "Then let me tell you about it."
When he spoke again, his tone was noticeably more lively than before.
Xie Chuanfeng said that the place where he lived was not originally a place where humans and monsters lived in harmony.
Since ancient times, humankind has considered itself the most superior of all beings, and naturally, after learning about the path of cultivating immortality, it has become even more convinced that other living beings are inferior to itself.
For countless ages, even powerful demon cultivators were merely beasts that human cultivators could not subdue for the time being.
And those sects and cultivators who can command demonic beasts are even more so; they always treat demonic beasts as expendable resources and don't care about their lives at all.
Therefore, those powerful demon cultivators also hate human cultivators to the core. Whenever they meet, one of them will be injured or even killed.
Until a thousand years ago, a mysterious cultivator, with just a sword, overturned all twelve sects that represented human cultivators at the time.
The leaders of the three major sects shamelessly fought three against one, but ended up getting beaten to a pulp.
The cultivator won, and after her victory, she announced to the world that she and her companion spirit beast would build a city in the center of the continent.
The city doesn't restrict whether visitors are human or demon; anyone who enters the city is under its protection. As long as they don't do evil and live a good life, it will ensure their safety for life.
At first, those major sects and even cultivation families didn't take it seriously at all.
How can cultivators live with mortals? Wouldn't that lower their status?
Moreover, once you embark on the path of cultivation, you must compete with others and fight against the heavens, otherwise how can you obtain abundant resources to ascend to immortality?
What's even less noteworthy is that the city was built by a woman.
These gossipers seem to have all agreed to lose their memories, completely forgetting how pathetic they were when they were defeated by that woman not long ago.
Despite their pessimistic predictions, the city grew increasingly prosperous, and its territory expanded ever larger.
Those old men who were used to being in positions of power now wanted a piece of the pie.
As they adopted the airs of elders, intending to give the city lord a lecture disguised as advice, the city lord's companion spirit beast stepped through the door.
Upon seeing that the companion spirit beast was a young woman, and given that she had likely received good treatment after entering the city, those old men fell ill again.
They thought the spirit beast was easy to talk to and that they could control her.
So these people started talking over each other, openly and subtly criticizing the spirit beast for disrespecting its elders, and even using it to mock the city lord for not understanding etiquette.
The companion spirit beast merely gave a cold laugh.
The moment she opened her mouth, those people were thrown into disarray by her overwhelming presence.
So this group of people came with high and mighty attitudes, but in the end they could only slink away in disgrace.
From that day on, those powerful families and sects finally realized that the future of the world was no longer in their hands.
Not long after, that city became a paradise that everyone longed for.
Because the monsters in the city no longer concealed their forms, the relationship between humans and monsters became close and harmonious. Many mortals even enjoyed dressing up as monsters, and gradually, people began to call them—
Ten Thousand Demons.
When Xie Chuanfeng got to this point, Suanni, who had been listening intently in front of the dried flower tent, suddenly lit up.
He stood up and abruptly asked, "Human, what is the name of the city lord of the City of Ten Thousand Demons that you mentioned?"
A ripple suddenly appeared in Xie Chuanfeng's eyes, which were as still as a deep pool.
His face lit up with anticipation: "Her name is Qinian."
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