In front of him was the ruins of Blood Shore Lost City. Suo Lun only took one look and was completely shocked.
He had many ideas and fantasies about this place but when the real scene appeared before his eyes he was still shaken.
The so called Blood Shore Lost City truly lived up to its name.
This was an incomparably huge city ruin even larger than the Nu Lang royal city. One could imagine that this had once been an extremely prosperous city.
The entire city was surrounded by huge mountain ranges several thousand metres high that wrapped the city within them.
The city was built against the mountains spreading all the way down to the basin at the foot of the mountains. The elevation difference of the entire city was extremely huge reaching several thousand metres.
Looking at it this city looked like a giant bowl a giant bowl several hundred miles in diameter.
In the centre of the city was a huge lake a lake spanning a hundred miles. The water in this lake was blood red and thick like blood.
This blood coloured lake was the origin of the entire citys name. Blood Shore Lost City. The whole city surrounded the blood coloured lake.
Here there was once a civilisation a kingdom and it was very powerful. Suo Lun said.
Meng Tuo Luo said: This is my third time coming to Blood Shore Lost City. Only by coming to the barbaric continent can one feel the mystery and vastness of the world. The Central Plains world is too ordinary.
Yes. Suo Lun said: This scene is too shocking.
Then Suo Lun added: Is this Blood Shore Lost City very famous?
Of course. Meng Tuo Luo said: It is one of the known civilisation ruins on the barbaric continent. Every year many many people come to feel its grandeur and mystery and to search for treasures here. You are also here to search for treasures right.
Suo Lun was stunned then nodded. This was originally a huge secret yet now it felt as if everyone knew about it.
Meng Tuo Luo shrugged her fragrant shoulders and said: The vast majority of people in this world do not know about Blood Shore Lost City because the Divine Dragon Holy Temple has suppressed its existence. But in the barbarian world it is already known to everyone. Countless people have come here to search for ancient treasures.
Are there many treasures here? Suo Lun asked.
Meng Tuo Luo said: Every ancient ruin has many treasures.
Suo Lun said: That means after we enter we might encounter other people?
We? Meng Tuo Luo said: You go in alone. I am not going.
Suo Lun was stunned and said: Why?
Meng Tuo Luo said: Because I still want to live a few more years. If I die my venomous snake tribe is finished. In the barbarian territory my venomous snake tribe is almost the weakest and lowest level. It completely relies on me manoeuvring between several large tribes to survive.
Suo Lun said: Is… is it very dangerous inside?
Meng Tuo Luo said: Out of a hundred people who go in probably one person comes out alive.
Instantly Suo Lun was greatly startled.
What dangers are there exactly inside this lost city ruin? Suo Lun asked.
Traps monsters special energy highly toxic substances and so on. There is everything. Meng Tuo Luo said: Moreover it is a huge maze. Once you enter you basically cannot get out.
Then Meng Tuo Luo said: Oh right. If you encounter barbarians inside run as fast as you can. They will definitely kill you at the first moment. Although this lost city is very large you may not be so unlucky as to encounter a second person. But once you do encounter one it will definitely be a barbarian and their martial arts will be at least a hundred times higher than yours.
Suo Lun said: Then I can disguise myself as a barbarian. I will specially use medicine to turn my face into a devilish appearance looking as if I have demon spot disease making me look even more like a barbarian than barbarians.
After speaking Suo Lun reached out to touch his own face.
In the end he found that his face was already smooth as jade.
Meng Tuo Luo took out a crystal mirror and placed it in front of him. Suo Lun saw clearly that in the mirror he had recovered his peerlessly handsome appearance and his skin was lustrous like jade.
Meng Tuo Luo said delicately: These past few days while you were unconscious I not only washed off the medicine from your face but also used my skincare products on you. The effect is good right.
Suo Lun said: I went through so much trouble to soak my face into an ugly devilish appearance just to disguise as a barbarian. You why did you change me back?
Meng Tuo Luo said: Your original face looked too disgusting and you even slept with it pillowed on my chest every day. Looking at such a beautiful face makes one feel happy.
After speaking Meng Tuo Luo stretched out her small tongue and licked Suo Luns handsome face once.
But I need to impersonate a barbarian. Suo Lun said.
Little idiot do you think that turning into an ugly devilish appearance will make others know you are a barbarian? Meng Tuo Luo said: Do you know how barbarians distinguish between barbarians and humans?
Is it not by appearance? Suo Lun asked.
Of course not. Meng Tuo Luo said: Among barbarians there are also those who look very similar to humans or even more handsome. They distinguish by scent that is the energy aura emitted from deep within the blood.
Suo Lun could not help being stunned. Why is that?
Meng Tuo Luo said: The common totem and faith of humans is the divine dragon because the blood flowing in human bodies is all dragon bloodline. As for barbarians the blood flowing in their bodies is all kinds of bloodlines. For example the venomous snake tribe flows with snake spirit bloodline. The yaksha tribe flows with yaksha bloodline. The characteristic of our snake spirit bloodline is invulnerability to a hundred poisons. The yaksha bloodline is that cultivation surges in the dark night. Barbarians have many characteristics such as immense strength or skin as hard as iron impervious to blades and spears and so on…
Suo Lun was instantly stunned. He knew none of this and humans had never mentioned it.
In human books and records barbarians were just described as ugly like wild beasts with no mention of special abilities. Of course almost all books portrayed barbarians as heretics irreconcilable with humans who must be exterminated.
Meng Tuo Luo patted Suo Luns face and said: Little fool you have been brainwashed by the Divine Dragon Holy Temple right? You really think humans are the god chosen race? The noblest and most powerful race in the world? Compared to barbarians humans are so much weaker in martial force. It is only thanks to the Dragon Emperor who unified humans several thousand years ago and created civilisation. Otherwise humans would have gone extinct by now.
Then Meng Tuo Luo pouted her small mouth and said: Moreover if it were not for the barbarian tribes being a scattered mess these few thousand years and thus being defeated one by one by the human kingdoms how could humans possibly be a match for barbarians? They would have gone extinct hundreds of times already. Only by coming to the barbaric continent does one realise the vastness of the world and the insignificance of humans.
Suo Lun glanced at her and said: Little Meng your anti human tendency is quite heavy!
Meng Tuo Luo said: I have always been anti human. You already know that. Moreover if I were not anti human you would have died long ago.
Suo Lun said: So barbarians distinguish each other by smelling energy auras. No wonder you kept me drunk and unconscious the whole way for a full seven days and seven nights.
Meng Tuo Luo said: Correct. Because you were unconscious the barbarians who saw me would only think you were a human captive I had caught to be skinned alive for sacrifice. If you had been awake and leisurely along the way we encountered countless barbarians and you would have been skinned and eaten no less than a hundred times already.
Instantly Suo Lun felt a chill run down his spine. Fortunately he had found Meng Tuo Luo. Otherwise if he had entered the barbarian territory alone he would have died a hundred times even before crossing the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and turned into barbarian shit.
Wait you are also human. You also have dragon bloodline. Why are barbarians willing to accept you? Suo Lun asked.
Because I swallowed the snake spirit bead. The energy aura in my body is now exactly the same as that of barbarians. Meng Tuo Luo said with charming eyes: I am now a proper barbarian.
Her tone sounded exactly like certain people who worship foreign things showing off with an American green card.
Race traitor. Suo Lun spat out two words.
Alright say whatever you want. Meng Tuo Luo said stepping forward to kiss Suo Lun once: I need to return to the tribe. I will come here to pick you up at this time ten days later and will wait for you one day. If you do not appear I will assume you are dead.
Suo Lun quickly memorised this place. Ten days later he would wait here for Meng Tuo Luo to pick him up.
This location was still very conspicuous. On a huge cliff there grew a huge tree with red leaves. Moreover ahead was the main gate of Blood Shore Lost City.
That meant that within ten days no matter whether he had found the dragon seal ruins or not he must return. Otherwise without Meng Tuo Luo to lead him he would definitely be unable to leave the barbarian territory alive.
Alright goodbye. I wish you success in finding the treasure. Meng Tuo Luo waved her hand then rode the giant beast and quickly left returning to her venomous snake tribe leaving Suo Lun alone in the depths of the barbarian territory.
Suo Lun roughly calculated that this place was more than four thousand miles from the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and more than seven thousand miles from Tian Ye City.
Previously Suo Lun had still worried that Meng Tuo Luo would definitely follow him to search for the dragon seal ruins. At that time if greed suddenly arose in her she might directly kill him and snatch the treasure.
He had not expected that she would just pat her buttocks and leave throwing him alone in this dangerous territory several thousand miles away.
…
Suo Lun did not rush to enter the lost city ruins. Instead he first identified the direction and memorised the rough outline of the entire lost city in his heart.
Demon star if divided by faith the human kingdom is the territory of the divine dragon. Then is the barbarian territory the territory of the barbaric beasts? Suo Lun asked.
It is not barbaric beasts but the bloodline of demons. The demon star said: Demons are the common totem of all barbarians. Humans are descendants of dragons and all barbarians are descendants of demons. However there are no divine dragons left in this world naturally there are no demons either.
Suo Lun said: Then is the demon bloodline the highest bloodline of barbarians?
Yes. The demon star said: However the demon bloodline has been extinct for many years. The yaksha tribe is considered one of the races relatively close to the demon bloodline.
Suo Lun said: Why can none of this be seen in the classics of the human kingdom?
The demon star said: Because the Divine Dragon Holy Temple destroyed most of the records about all barbarians. They do not want humans to know how powerful barbarians are.
Suo Lun said: This is clearly barbarian territory. Why is there a dragon seal ruin here? This is clearly the territory of demons.
The demon star said: The city here once belonged to human civilisation. It was just destroyed by demons. Do you see the lake in the centre of the city? Is it blood red?
Yes! Suo Lun said.
The demon star said: That is real blood. When the demon descendant army captured this city theyćź every person in the city to this lake and killed them. The blood of several million people completely dyed the entire lake red. Countless years have passed yet the blood in this lake has always existed without drying up or disappearing.
Suo Lun said with a trembling voice: That also means the human kingdom was once destroyed? Barbarians once destroyed humans?
Of course! The demon star said: The history of this world spanning several hundred thousand years is the war history between demons and divine dragons and the war history between the human kingdom and barbarians. This world can only accommodate one kind of bloodline either divine dragon or demon.
But… but in the records of the human kingdom the history of this world is only a little over ten thousand years. Suo Lun said: Before the Dragon Emperor created the world the entire world was chaos with no civilisation or order at all.
Hehe. The demon star sneered: That is just brainwashing by the Divine Dragon Holy Temple. These ten thousand plus years are only the time when the human kingdom was destroyed and then rose again and again. Moreover I can tell you that in these few thousand years the human kingdom seems to be constantly expanding and becoming bigger and bigger. In reality… it is merely reclaiming lost territory and only less than half has been reclaimed. For example the land you are standing on now was part of a certain human kingdom tens of thousands of years ago.
Suo Lun was truly completely shocked. He was really shaken by this truth.
In the records of the human kingdom the history of this world is only a little over ten thousand years and the true civilisation history is only a little over three thousand years. Civilisation only appeared after the Dragon Emperor created the world.
The demon star said: These barbarian tribes are clearly stronger than humans and far more numerous than humans yet they are being suppressed and beaten by the human kingdom. They cannot even hold the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains defence line. They are truly a complete failure.
Suo Lun said with a trembling voice: Demon star you did this on purpose. You deliberately let me come to Blood Shore Lost City to let me see everything before my eyes.
The demon star said: Correct. I must let you understand the truth of this world.
The demon star still had half a sentence it did not say. You are the World Destroying Demon Emperor. You need to awaken.
Suo Lun said: Right now I only want to do one thing and that is to find the dragon seal ruin to save Yan Yan. Where is that dragon seal ruin?
The demon star said: Do you see that blood coloured lake? In the centre of the blood lake there is a temple. The dragon seal ruin is inside the temple!
Suo Lun said: What kind of sacred object is that?
The demon star said: That I do not know. It could be a sculpture it could be a treasured sword or it could be something else. Anything is possible.
Suo Lun said: This city itself is a maze. Do you know how to enter the lakeside temple?
I do not know. The demon star said: But you know.
What do you mean? Suo Lun said.
The demon star said: In short you just know. I can tell you that in these tens of thousands of years no one has been able to enter the core of Blood Shore Lost City but you can go in and you can also obtain the sacred object inside.
Suo Lun felt a dangerous aura especially from the demon stars last sentence.
Ahead was one of the city gates of Blood Shore Lost City. He seemed to feel that once he walked through this gate certain things could no longer be turned back.
But Yan Yan must be saved!
Suo Lun closed his eyes took a deep breath.
Alright no matter whether ahead is hell or heaven I must enter.
He closed his eyes opened them again and Suo Lun walked into the gate of Blood Shore Lost City.
Rumble! The huge stone door behind him slowly closed locking Suo Lun inside this huge lost city ruin.
…
At this moment inside the temple at the centre of the blood coloured lake a peerlessly beautiful woman lay quietly naked inside a coffin.
The instant Suo Lun walked into the lost city she suddenly opened her beautiful eyes revealing golden pupils.
My master you have finally come. This slave has waited many years.
Then she slowly stood up from the coffin. A pair of demon wings slowly grew from her back.
Flapping the demon flesh wings she slowly flew to the centre of the temple spun rapidly turned into a ray of light and finally condensed into a peerless treasured sword placed in the centre of the temple.
The entire temple once again became silent and soundless!