This is a city built of stone mixed with jade.
Broken sculptures and ruined buildings have been shattered and fragmented under the erosion of countless years but one can vaguely see that this was once a magnificent and beautiful city.
According to the demon star this Blood Shore Lost City was destroyed tens of thousands of years ago.
If it were a city on Earth it would probably have disappeared long ago. After all even the Egyptian pyramids are only a few thousand years old.
Yet the city before him although badly damaged still retained its overall layout.
Suo Lun could even infer from the broken parts which were fountains and which were gardens.
The city had a large number of public buildings and many squares. The buildings here were far larger and even more magnificent than those in the Nu Lang royal city.
From this one could deduce that this was a city of relatively high civilisation level. Not only was productivity more advanced but the political system was also more progressive.
Suo Lun stood at the city gate. Ahead was a straight main road that seemed to lead directly to the centre of the city.
When he had looked from the mountain top earlier he had seen clearly that the roads of Blood Shore Lost City followed a spider web pattern.
There were a total of eight main thoroughfares running through the entire city like diameter lines on a circle.
There were also eight ring roads forming concentric circles just like Beijings third fourth and fifth ring roads except that Beijings rings are rectangular.
So the road layout of this city was like an eight trigrams diagram but circular.
These eight main thoroughfares running through the city corresponded to sixteen city gates. Suo Lun had entered through one of them.
Ahead was one road one of the eight main thoroughfares running through the city.
In theory if he kept walking straight along this road he should reach the blood lake in the centre of the city and the dragon seal ruin would be on the temple in the middle of the lake.
…
Suo Lun gradually went deeper always staying on the wide road completely unobstructed. It did not feel like a maze at all.
It seemed completely like a straight road that went on forever.
Suo Lun walked and walked and walked…
After about two hours he began to feel something was wrong.
The city was extremely extremely huge but including the blood lake in the centre the diameter was only a little over two hundred miles.
Suo Lun walked very fast. In two hours or four hours he should have covered the two hundred plus miles long ago and should have crossed the entire city to reach the opposite city gate. He should also have crossed the blood lake in the centre of the city long ago.
However he had not seen the blood lake at all and this road seemed endless.
Even more strange was that he was not caught in a ghost wall nor had he returned to the starting point because the buildings and scenery on both sides were always different.
Only now did Suo Lun truly understand the meaning of this city being a maze.
Obviously a normal city would not be designed as a maze because that would cause complete chaos.
This so called maze was the citys defence mechanism. When the demon descendant army attacked tens of thousands of years ago the city had activated its defence mechanism with the purpose of preventing the enemy army from reaching the temple in the middle of the lake.
Suo Lun stopped and said: Demon star what is going on with the roads of this city?
The demon star said: Master you have been walking the longitudinal lines. This way you will never reach the centre of the city. You also need to walk the transverse lines but I must tell you that every transverse line may have fatal killing mechanisms. That was how the citys defence mechanism worked at the time trying to use the entire citys defence to block the demon descendant army.
The so called transverse lines were the ring roads of the entire city with a total of eight rings.
Then can I not just cut straight across through these building ruins? Suo Lun asked.
That… would be even more dangerous. The demon star said: It is daytime now with sunlight shining everywhere so there are no vengeful spirits on the outer roads. But once you enter the building ruins where sunlight cannot reach there are terrifying vengeful spirits everywhere.
Suo Lun felt a chill and said: That means once night falls the entire city will be filled with countless vengeful spirits?
Correct. The demon star said: So before it gets dark you must find a place that can shelter you from the vengeful spirits.
Where can one shelter from the vengeful spirits? Suo Lun asked.
The demon star said: The Divine Dragon Halls because every Divine Dragon Hall will have holy light inside and vengeful spirits dare not enter.
Suo Lun said: What features do these Divine Dragon Halls have?
The demon star said: On the surface there are no special features but at night they will release holy energy light.
Suo Lun said: What is the relationship between these Divine Dragon Halls and the temple in the middle of the lake?
The demon star said: This human kingdom was a nation that believed in the divine dragon so at the key nodes of the city there would be Divine Dragon Halls. These Divine Dragon Halls guarded the central temple and the temple was the energy core command core and holy core of the entire city. These halls and the temple together formed the huge energy array of the entire city.
Suo Lun said: So to successfully enter the temple in the centre of the city walking the roads is useless. The key is to follow these Divine Dragon Halls right? Follow one hall after another and finally enter the temple?
Yes. The demon star said.
How many halls are there in total? Suo Lun asked.
The demon star said: Sixteen.
Only now did Suo Lun understand. After the citys ultimate defence was activated the huge energy array had also started.
So walking along the roads would lead into a complete ghost wall and one would never reach the temple in the centre of the city.
The sixteen halls were the only reliable city coordinates. The city had a total of eight ring roads with one hall on each ring. Eight times two exactly made sixteen.
So to enter the temple one must first find the halls.
Suo Lun looked up at the sky and found that the sun had already slanted to the west and would soon set.
Once night fell countless undead would surge out. At that time even the strongest expert would undoubtedly die. So Suo Lun must find a hall before it got dark.
On the longitudinal lines of the city the halls might not be found. Only on the ring lines would there be halls.
Suo Lun continued forward. After several thousand metres he reached the intersection of the longitudinal line and a ring line. He was at a crossroads.
Should he go left or right?
Suo Lun fell into a difficult choice. He carefully examined the difference between left and right.
Looking to the left he seemed to see a pile of skeletons. Many people had died there so the left side definitely had fatal traps.
Then he would go right. His gaze involuntarily turned to the right. In the end he discovered that the right side also had many skeletons. Many people had definitely died there too.
This… what the hell is this?
Both left and right had skeletons and many people had died. So which way should he go?
Master use the Inverted Moon Technique calm your mind and follow the call of your heart. The demon star said.
Suo Lun closed his eyes entered the world of the Inverted Moon Technique and soon his heart lake became completely calm. The well water in his heart was without ripples and the inverted moon on the water surface was complete and flawless.
Left side… left side…
Then a voice that was incomparably bewitching and seductive actually sounded in his ear.
Just this voice alone was enough to make one sink in and unable to extricate oneself.
Demon star is that you speaking? Suo Lun asked.
Of course not. The demon star said: I told you that no one can enter the core temple of this city except you.
Left side left side…
That seductive voice sounded again.
Was this truly guiding the way or was it a trap? Should he believe it or not?
Suo Lun took a deep breath. If the demon star were not there he might have gone in the opposite direction.
After hesitating for a few seconds Suo Lun walked towards the left intersection.
Instantly…
A strange shift of light and shadow occurred.
It was as if time travelled and the surrounding scenery kept changing while time kept reversing reversing reversing…
The originally collapsed and broken ruins on both sides of the road all recovered to completeness turning into snow white and magnificent buildings. There were libraries bathhouses and meeting halls.
Green trees and blooming flowers were everywhere on both sides of the road and fountains were everywhere. The magnificent buildings also had charming hanging gardens.
But immediately afterwards…
Countless demon descendant armies surged in from both sides of the road. Countless flames and countless dark energies destroyed the magnificent buildings on both sides of the road.
Waves of demon descendant armies passed through Suo Lun and even through his body like a swarm of demonic locusts. Wherever they went not a blade of grass grew.
Countless beautifully dressed humans were slaughtered raped and eaten alive.
Then ahead there was an ordinary building. Suddenly a dragon roar sounded and then it was like sunlight shining everywhere shooting out astonishing energy light.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh…
Countless barbarian armies instantly turned to ashes.
This was a Divine Dragon Hall. It looked very ordinary but at critical moments it would release energy light.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh…
A blinding energy light suddenly shot into Suo Luns eyes.
Instantly he quickly closed his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again all the previous illusions had disappeared. Instead there were only the ruins on both sides of the road.
The Divine Dragon Hall was three hundred metres ahead. It was that building that looked ordinary and unremarkable as if it were a public bathhouse.
And just at this moment a figure suddenly rushed into the crossroads behind him.
It was a barbarian with a pitch black body and sharp horns on its head.
Suo Lun was startled and was about to flee quickly. After all any barbarian that could enter Blood Shore Lost City was extremely powerful.
But that barbarian seemed unable to see Suo Lun. He stood at the intersection as if also hesitating not knowing whether to go left or right.
Please please do not go left. Suo Lun prayed in his heart.
Sure enough after hesitating for a long time the barbarian walked towards the right.
Then… Suo Lun saw an extremely terrifying and horrifying scene.
As soon as that barbarian stepped into the right intersection his whole body suddenly trembled horribly. Then his eyeballs burst out his skin split open and black red blood spurted out. His entire body exploded violently turning completely into a pile of minced meat.
Suo Lun knew this was because the air pressure in that area was almost zero so the blood in the whole body boiled and exploded the entire body.
This city truly had killing mechanisms everywhere!
And just at this moment the sun set in the west and sunlight completely disappeared.
The sun had set. There was still more than an hour until full darkness. By then the entire city would be filled with terrifying undead everywhere.
However there was still plenty of time because the hall ahead was only three hundred metres away. More than an hour should be more than enough.
However…
Whoosh…
Almost as if the stars shifted the instant the sun set the entire sky immediately turned dark.
There were no stars and no moon. The entire city fell into complete darkness.
Suo Luns heart trembled. This… this is坑爹.
The moment the sun set it instantly became night.
Then a scene that made Suo Luns hair stand on end appeared.
One after another transparent undead drilled out from the ruins on both sides of the road and from underground.
This huge city had been a human kingdom with a full several million people.
These several million had all been brutally killed by the demon descendant army! Because the city had been occupied by demons dust returned to dust and earth to earth. The law of dragon power balance and reincarnation had been broken.
These brutally killed people had turned into powerful and ferocious undead.
To these undead Suo Lun as a living person was as clear and conspicuous as a searchlight.
Almost all gazes turned towards him. Then at the first moment countless undead thousands and tens of thousands of undead surged towards him like a tidal wave.
Facing tens of thousands of undead even a dragon warrior level expert would undoubtedly die let alone Suo Lun a mere three star warrior.