Daoying

Chapter 557: City of Hell
After Xie Huan saw Wei Daying off, he identified the location and flew towards the City of Hell.

Although the City of Hell is full of evil, it is one of the main cities of the sea clan. The deep sea of ​​the prison where it is located is adjacent to the Haidu area. It can be reached quickly whether by flying directly or using a teleportation array.

Seven days later, looking through the blue and silver light, one could vaguely see the outline of a city, located on the vast underwater plain.

"It is seven days indeed."

Xie Huan thought of the schedule calculated by the sackcloth-robed monk. It seemed that the fellow had done enough homework, but he didn't know what his purpose was.

But it has nothing to do with him anymore.

It would be best if that guy was caught by Haiyin, otherwise the whole Hai would be under martial law, which would be extremely disadvantageous to himself.

Xie Huan used the Xiaohong Pearl to change his appearance, and instantly turned into a flathead fish warrior. His entire head took up half of his body. He took out an iron trident, spitting bubbles from his mouth. His eyes rolled around, and he was quite satisfied with his appearance, then he flew away.

Not long after, Xie Huan entered the city.

The entire city is shrouded in a gloomy energy. There are city walls made from reefs everywhere, which have been soaked in the dark water and deformed. A large number of shellfish, seaweed, corals, etc. are attached to the entire city, making it look very strange and rough.

This was Xie Huan's first time entering an underwater city. He was a little curious, but more cautious. He didn't dare to release his spiritual sense too much. He looked around and saw many strange things.

In addition to the buildings, what is even more strange is the sea people themselves. There are all kinds of shapes, and although most of them have changed to walk upright, their true forms can still be seen at a glance. For example, there are several-meter-tall electric ray people with electric light flowing on their skin and eyes like fireballs. There are also crystal mermaids with transparent bodies and colorful tails. There are also creatures whose bodies are made of bubbles, and so on.

"Look, mom, there's a monster with a big head. It's so weird."

Two sea vine monsters passed by Xie Huan, their bodies made of flexible sea vines. One of the smaller sea vines cried out childishly, the flower bud on its head opened and closed as it looked at Xie Huan.

"It should be a cross between some kind of flat fish. Don't talk about people behind their backs. Be careful that it will rush up and eat you. Go quickly."

The other sea vine monster said as a warning.

The two sea vine monsters sped up and disappeared at the end of the road in a few "whooshes".

Xie Huan blinked a few times and touched his head, but because it was too big, his hands couldn't reach it. He could only scratch his face a few times. He thought to himself, what a bunch of monsters, and they called him a monster, damn.

He continued wandering the street with the iron trident in his hand, dissatisfied.

In addition to the peculiar architectural style and the sea tribe, there were two other things that caught Xie Huan's attention:

One was the faint energy that enveloped the city, it was extremely dark, it was hard to tell what it was, but it felt familiar.

The second is that the entire city is shrouded in a "manufactured" atmosphere, with pungent smells everywhere, violent energy and vibration waves spreading from time to time, and strange formations activated on the city walls, streets, and even some houses, performing various functions.

People walking on the road all kept their heads down and remained silent, and many of them were transporting goods in strange vehicles.

According to the information provided by the Holy Island and the Shadow Market, the City of Hell is home to a large number of strange and evil sea creatures, conducting all kinds of unrestricted trade. As long as you are willing to pay, you can buy anything.

To put it bluntly, it is a city of underworld with no bottom line, combining the two attributes of "manufacturing" and "trading".

Xie Huan also saw a group of weak sea creatures, whose spiritual power fluctuations were only at the Qi Refining level. The strongest ones among them were only in the initial stage of Foundation Establishment. They were tied together with rune chains and transported to some workshops with disordered energy, mostly to be used as raw materials.

"This is too evil. They actually use their own people as materials. Although there are also people like this among humans, they are all hiding. How can they do it so openly?"

Xie Huan frowned.

Of course, he did not sympathize with these sea creatures, but he felt a little worried.

It is difficult to deal with an enemy who has no bottom line in doing things.

"Hey, fellow fish monster, come here."

In a room next door, a pair of dark eyes appeared, staring at Xie Huan and waving its tentacles, like an octopus man.

Xie Huan took a look at the house, and there was a sign hanging on it: Yu Lingdan House.

"calls me?"

Xie Huan pointed at himself and found that there was no one around.

"Of course I'll call you."

A tentacle shot out from the Dan house, instantly locked Xie Huan, and pulled him into the house.

In front of Xie Huan was an octopus monster about three or four meters tall, with suction cups all over its body. Not only was he tied up by the tentacles, but he was also sucked tightly by the suction cups.

Fortunately, this octopus monster is only at the middle stage of the Jindan period.

"Strange. I've seen thousands of big-headed fish people, but this is the first time I've seen someone like you. You look a bit like the Giant Fish Clan, but they can cast illusions with their eyes. You look a bit like the Flathead Sea Clan, but they're small and agile. You look a bit like the Giant Skull Fish Clan, but your teeth don't seem to have enough bite force."

The octopus monster held up its chin with several tentacles and looked at Xie Huan carefully.

Xie Huan then realized one thing. In his eyes, the fishmen were no different and he could just change them casually. But in the eyes of the fishmen, there were still many flaws.

Just like a group of pigs, you think they all look the same, but in the eyes of a pig, each one is unique.

He imitated the appearance of the flat-headed fish monster, which was definitely fine in the eyes of humans, but among the fish monsters, he should be very different.

"Oh, but it doesn't matter. It's probably a hybrid with promiscuity and genetic mutation."

The octopus man gave up thinking, laughed, and looked ferocious.

The light in the room dimmed and the door slammed shut. It was a very heavy metal door.

"What are you doing, fellow Taoist?"

Xie Huan sensed the other party's evil and asked the question even though he knew the answer.

His spiritual sense had already swept through the house and outside. There were "materials" piled up everywhere. They were all the remains of the sea people, and all of them were fish people.

There was a faint smell of blood and some pungent refined smell everywhere.

There were several alchemy furnaces in the inner room that were humming and emitting green bubbles and smoke.

"What for? Seeing such a good material like you hanging around outside my house, how can I not put it into the furnace? Hehe, this place is called 'Fish Spirit Pill House', and it specializes in using fish as materials to make pills."

The octopus man strangled Xie Huan tightly, and his tentacles wrapped around his body and head, leaving only his mouth and eyes.

"I'm curious, you opened a shop so blatantly, but no fish tribe members came to cause trouble?"

"Trouble? Haha, buying and selling are free in the City of Hell, and refining is also free. Who dares to cause trouble?"

The octopus man's eyes flickered, and he asked doubtfully, "You would ask such a question, are you from outside the city?"

"It seems that there is still a lot of information missing. It is easy to reveal flaws."

Xie Huan sighed, and then said very sincerely: "Thank you for clearing up my doubts and sending me the information I need."

Xie Huan moved his hands and broke those tentacles apart.

While the octopus man was shocked and caught off guard, a fist shadow hit his heart, and lightning was released from his heart, rushing through his body, instantly paralyzing him.

Then Xie Huan grabbed the top of the octopus man's head and directly extracted his memory.

The octopus man was trembling all over, his tentacles dancing around the house, his mouth wide open, but no sound came out.

Half a moment later, Xie Huan let go, and a large amount of memories had already entered his mind.

The octopus man fell to the ground, but he was not dead yet. His strong body was still tumbling, but he had lost most of his consciousness.

Xie Huan punched it again, killing it completely, then threw it into the Baohua Space as material, looted all the items in the store, and left with satisfaction.

In the city of hell, murder is not allowed.

But often, as long as the killing is not done openly, it will be done secretly.

No one would avenge a dead and worthless corpse, unless the corpse's tribe members. The strength of this octopus tribe was not strong, and the dead one rarely interacted with the tribe members, and always did some bloody business alone.

Judging from the memories obtained from them, although the cause of death will be investigated, it is basically impossible to find out, and no one cares after a period of time.

When Xie Huan walked out of the alchemy house, his body underwent a slight change, completely matching the characteristics of a giant skull fish clan. Then he closed the heavy iron door of the alchemy house and went straight in one direction.

He originally wanted to stroll around slowly and familiarize himself with the environment of the Hell City. Now that he had the memories of the octopus man, he had everything he needed, so he went straight to a place called "Dark Sea Rare Goods Shop".

Judging from the top-secret information provided by the Shadow Market, the owner of this "Dark Sea Exotic Goods Shop" is one of their secret agents in the sea clan.

Judging from the top-secret information provided by Holy Island, this boss is actually a secret agent of Holy Island.

This is interesting.

One person serves as two agents.

Shadow Market and Holy Island are unaware of each other.

Soon, Xie Huan came to the center of a street and saw the "Youhai Exotic Goods Shop". The entire wall was flowing with a dark blue glow, and both the color and the ripples seemed to blend into the sea water.

The doors were two heavy shells.

He walked straight inside and encountered a current that swept his body up and carried him into the shop without any effort.

There was no receptionist inside, only a few scattered guests and an expressionless waiter sitting nearby. His two bulging black sesame eyes glanced at Xie Huan and then turned back, like a statue.

"I want to see your shopkeeper."

Xie Huan walked forward and said to the shrimp.

This time, the shrimp showed a little emotion. Its two claws opened and closed casually, making a "clicking" sound, and said without any emotion: "The shopkeeper is busy."

"So when are you free?"

"I'm not free at any time."

"Please inform me, big brother."

"No time."

Pipixia said unhappily, with a cold look in his eyes, waving his hands impatiently: "If you want to buy something, buy it. If not, get out of here and don't block the way."

Xie Huan resisted the urge to slap him to death, took out a storage bag, quietly handed it over, and said with a smile: "I wonder if Big Brother can spare some time?"

Pipixia's eyes condensed, staring at the storage bag, and then his expression relaxed. He snatched the storage bag from Xie Huan's hand, touched it a few times, and then stood up and said, "Then I'll help you inform him. I can't guarantee whether the shopkeeper is free."

"I hope big brother can do his best to help."

Xie Huan handed over another storage bag.

Pipixia took it, looked at Xie Huan a few more times, and said, "Come with me."

At this time, a customer came up with an item and asked, "Fellow Daoist Xia, how much is this?"

"No time, get out of the way."

Pipixia waved his hand, not even bothering to look at him, and took Xie Huan to the back of the shop.

After walking through a narrow corridor and arriving in front of another shell door, Mantis shrimp approached and said in a rustling voice, "Shopkeeper, a fishman from the Giant Skull Clan is here to see you."

"what's up?"

A man's voice came from inside the door.

"do not know."

"Okay, let him in."

As the voice spoke, some slight noises came from inside the house, as if someone was tidying up something.

The shrimp pointed inside and turned away.

Xie Huan just felt that there was something weird about the way these sea creatures were doing business, and he didn't know if it was just like that in the City of Hell or in the entire sea creatures' territory.

He pushed open the shell door and walked in, and was stunned.

In the center of the room sat a huge, flat-headed fishman, looking at him with a pair of round eyes.

The two looked at each other.

The two fish heads took up almost half of the space in the room.

"The shopkeeper is from the Broad-skulled Fish Tribe?"

Xie Huan learned about N kinds of fish from the octopus man’s memory.

"Exactly."

The shopkeeper said cheerfully, "Tell me, where are you from and what do you want from me?"

"Excuse me, is the shopkeeper's name Bozer?"

"It's me."

"Is it safe to talk here?"

"It's very safe."

Boze frowned slightly, not knowing what Xie Huan wanted to say.

"One plus one equals one, and one plus two equals two."

Xie Huan said slowly.

"boom!"

The teacup in Boze's hand was crushed to pieces. He jumped up from his chair, staring at Xie Huan intently, and said word by word: "Three fives are fifteen, four eights are thirty-two!"

Xie Huan nodded and said, "One minus nine plus one, two minus eight plus one."

"Six back one back four, seven back one back three!"

Bozer said hurriedly.

Xie Huan smiled slightly, took out a fish-shaped silver token with intricate patterns on it, and said to Boze: "I am a commissioner sent by the market. Seeing this token is like seeing the boss. From now on, you have to obey my orders."

Boze checked the token, confirmed it was correct, and handed it back to Xie Huan respectfully: "Yes, Mr. Commissioner."

He was so nervous that he was sweating. He asked in a low voice, "During this extraordinary period, why did you come to the city of Hell in person? Is there something important going on?"

"I don't know if it's a big deal or not, but this matter must be done, otherwise you and I will both die here."

Xie Huan said seriously, "I want to find something in the sea tribe's territory. Has the shopkeeper ever heard of Dark Skeleton?"

"Dark skeleton?"

Bozer looked puzzled, shook his big head, and asked, "Any clues?"

"The clue said it was in Haidu, but after I arrived at the City of Hell, I suddenly found that the energy here was a bit strange. After thinking about it carefully, it felt like it was somewhere else. I'll shake someone to confirm it."

Xie Huan waved his hand, and golden light floated in his palm. Under the shining light, a solid black shadow appeared in the house.

(End of this chapter)