Chapter 22, The Ancient Kingdom of Excellence

The exquisite kingdom lies in the northwest of Khotan, and the two of them are about to leave the capital of Khotan when they leave the city gate. The two of them are now considered celebrities in Khotan, when the two of them came out of Khotan, I heard that the two were leaving, many Khotanese residents went out of the city to see each other, and for a time the city gate was full of people, which was very spectacular. Leah's family also came to the send-off procession, because they had to cross the desert, Liya prepared camels and water for the two of them.

"The two guests are our benefactors in Khotan, and if you pass through Khotan in the future, you must come to Liya's house to sit. Liya took Ran Tianluo's hand, very reluctant.

"We still have important business to do, and we can't stay in Khotan for too long. Meeting is fate, and we will meet again in the future. Ran Qianluo said with a smile. Liya didn't say anything anymore and helped Ran Tianluo onto the camel. The two thanked the Liya family for taking care of them. Ride a camel and say goodbye to Liya's family and the people of Khotan. The two of them saluted the people of the city with their hands folded, and then turned their heads and headed northwest. Liya reluctantly waved goodbye to the two, and in just a few days, the Khotanese girl had formed a deep friendship with the two. At this time, seeing the two leaving, I couldn't help but feel a little lost. He folded his hands on the backs of the two and made a deep blessing.

The desert is the main symbol of the Western Regions. Out of Khotan, all the way to the west is the vast sea of sand, the scorching sun is scorching in the sky, there is no plant in the desert, the air is swelled by the high temperature, from a distance, the monotonous sand dunes in the distance are like being in the fire, illusory flickering. The intense temperature was all locked in the void, as if even metal could melt. Being walked through the desert by the two of them, I just felt that the heat was unbearable.

After walking like this torture for about half a day, the clothes of both of them were already wet with sweat. Shi Yunyang changed the medicine for Ran Tianluo halfway. The wound was treated, otherwise it would be soaked with sweat in this desert and it would be very easy to get infected. Around the afternoon, the two came to the ruins of an ancient city.

The ancient city was nestled in the desert, but it didn't smell of heat at all. All the stones here are jet-black, as if they had been burned in a charcoal fire. It was very damp, and many of the stones were covered with red moss, like blood that had just been spilled. To find such a cold place in the scorching desert must be exquisite.

The two of them walked slowly among the ruins of the ancient city, their eyes staring around vigilantly. It's clearly not a ruin. Some of the buildings that have not collapsed are already half-collapsed and half-standing. Even if you don't have to push, the wind and rain will blow lightly and it will all collapse. There was a faint green light in the ruins of the ruins here, and when you got closer, you could see that there were corpse insects. The rubble was covered with white bones, but there were no fresh living corpses, and both of them were surprised how these corpse worms had survived. A thin layer of mist wafted through the ruins and smelled of rotting corpses. It's disgusting. The white bones made Ran Tianluo feel creepy, and he was scared in his heart, so he followed closely behind Shi Yunyang.

The two of them walked among the ruins, and the smell of corrosion grew heavier and heavier. The two had to cover their mouths and noses with their hands. Suddenly, Ran Tianluo felt that there was someone behind him, and when he turned his head to look, it was empty. I didn't care, I just thought it was an illusion. He strangely followed Shi Yunyang closely. But after a while, Ran Tianluo had the same feeling again, and when he turned around, he saw that there was nothing. This is strange, could it be that someone is following? Ran Tianluo raised his vigilance, and there were several times in the same situation after that. Back and forth a few times, Ran Tianluo couldn't help but feel a little worried in his heart.

Shi Yunyang saw that Ran Tianluo couldn't help but turn around, and behaved strangely, so he said, "Tianluo, what's wrong?"

Ran Tianluo didn't know how to answer, just shook his head. Keep going. After walking another pillar of incense time. Ran Tingluo heard a hissing sound behind him, like the sound of a snake spitting out a letter. Ran Tianluo felt strange but didn't look back, she knew that when she turned her head, she would not see anything, and in the end it would only increase her troubles and tense her heartstrings. Fortunately, I didn't look at it, and continued to walk forward, but before I took two steps, the hissing sound became louder and louder, as if it was echoing in my ears.

Just as Ran Tianluo turned around, thinking that Shi Yunyang also heard this voice, he saw Shi Yunyang suddenly turn around, with a huge look of horror on his face. Mouth shouting:

"Tilt Luo, dodge away!!" With that, the whole body rushed forward, knocking Ran Tilting Luo down, and the two of them rolled on the ground and stopped their figures. Looking back, a two-person tall python was biting at the place where the two of them had been, and a huge black stone was bitten out of a hole in an instant. Both of them were frightened, and if they bit on someone, they would be afraid that Da Luo Jinxian would not be able to return to the sky.

The python spat out a mouthful of gravel and turned to look at the two of them, their eyes full of the instinctive fanaticism of seeing their prey. Shi Yunyang held it with his backhand, and a painting halberd was held in his hand, blocking his chest. Before the two of them could stand firm, the giant python pounced on the two of them with its huge body. Shi Yunyang and Ran Tianluo flashed quickly, and the giant python pounced between the two. Ran Tianluo swept the Hengqin, and a crisp horn sound swayed, with a huge force, crashing into the giant python, after all, the giant python was just a beast without intelligence, and it didn't know how to dodge, and it was knocked away at once. Shi Yunyang waved his halberd, and a sharp aura giant halberd flashed out, and the giant blade slashed across the body of the giant python, and in an instant, the head of the giant python fell to the ground. The giant python's head was shattered, but its body was still rolling on the ground, and it took about half a pillar of incense before it was completely dead.

The hearts of both of them were pounding, and they couldn't imagine that there was such a big python alive in this rolling barren sand area. This exquisite ancient city is indeed quirky. I don't know what to expect next.

With this experience, the two of them were more cautious, in this ancient city, the end is extremely dangerous, the two of them walked all the way, they saw a lot of poisonous insects and poisonous scorpions, just like the giant python as big as just now has encountered two or three heads. It's just that this time the two of them have been prepared, although the giant python is big, it is not difficult to cook, the enemy is clear and I am dark, and it was easily solved by the two.

After walking for a short time, the two of them smelled a foul odor, and then went around a corner, and suddenly found a pile of living corpses in a corner. These people have been gutted, and their flesh is already mutilated, as if the remaining flesh and blood have been eaten by fierce beasts. The smell of blood and rancid stench wafted through the air. This terrifying scene made Ran Tingluo nauseate when he saw it. Shi Yunyang held his breath and stepped forward to take a look, only to see that the clothes of these people seemed to be in the style of Khotan, and he understood that this was one of the teams sent by the king of Khotan to find Yugong. The other squads are estimated to be more than lucky.

The two of them walked around the outer city for a short time, and found nothing, so they came to the inner city, which was the palace of the exquisite ancient kingdom, although the city gate had collapsed, but the city wall was still there, and the tall inner wall was eight or nine zhang high. Stepping into the city, you can see a huge complex of buildings in the inner city, those buildings are black column domes, there are many serpentine carvings on them, although it is dilapidated, you can still imagine the prosperity and majesty of this exquisite ancient city.

The two stepped over some charred stone and wooden beams, and entered the main hall, where a huge serpentine throne was placed, and everything else in the hall had been burned to ashes. I saw rows of white bones wearing armor collapsed on the side of the stone pillars on both sides, thinking that after being killed in this temple, the armor was not burned by the fire, and after a long time, the flesh rotted, and only the white bones remained, but the armor was still worn on the body. These people are also warriors who swear to defend the country. It's just that this ending is really heartbreaking.

The two were investigating each other, when suddenly a faint and cold voice floated into their ears. The voice was very cold, like the wail of a woman. There was a murderous aura in that voice, as if the owner of this room did not welcome this uninvited guest.

The heartstrings of the two suddenly tightened, and Shi Yunyang shouted: "What person, come out!"

The woman's voice laughed faintly, and the laughter was full of killing intent: "It turned out to be a Han Chinese, and it came just in time, no matter who trespassed into the Elite Country, die!"

Shi Yunyang said: "Who is Your Excellency, why don't you show up to see it?" Shi Yunyang raised his gun horizontally, guarding against the enemy's sneak attack in the dark.

"Hehe, people, this king is no longer a human being for a long time, and after a while, you will be the same as this king, no longer human, hahaha" As soon as the voice fell, Shi Yunyang saw a black serpentine long arrow shot in secret, Shi Yunyang drew a halberd with his backhand, and the black arrow was blocked, turned into a cloud of black mist, and disappeared. Suddenly, many snake-shaped black arrows flew out from the shadows, and Shi Yunyang danced the halberd into a flower, blocking all those black arrows.

The voice laughed, and suddenly became a lunar calendar: "This king hates the Han people in this life, and he will die for this king." "It was a very harsh voice. I only heard the female voice muttering strangely for a while, as if she was summoning something, and the two of them had no choice but to prepare for the enemy at this time. Shi Yunyang listened to her and claimed to be the king, and she should be the queen of the essence.

Not long after the voice fell, Shi Yunyang and Ran Tianluo saw many snakes crawling densely around them. The snakes had triangular foreheads and were red and black, obviously poisonous snakes, and they were extremely venomous. The snakes wriggled and crawled on the ground, and some of them ran up the beams, but there were so many poisonous snakes on the beams that from time to time the snakes were squeezed down, as if it were raining. For a while, the ground, the pillars, and the beams were crawling with snakes everywhere, I don't know how many, at this time, it seemed that the entire hall was moving, which made people tremble. Shi Yunyang was shocked when he saw this. How come there are so many poisonous snakes all at once? Ran Tianluo was also frightened, when he was in the Lost Valley, he usually saw a lot of poisonous insects and poisonous snakes when refining Gu, but there were so many at once, it still made people's scalp tingle.

Ran Tianluo and Shi Yunyang started almost at the same time, each of them holding a sword, and Shi Yunyang swept out a halberd and swept away a large area. Ran Tianluo also plucked the remnant qin, and a feather tune mixed with spiritual power swept away, and the poisonous snake in the hall was half swept away in an instant. But these snakes were extremely fast and numerous, and after sweeping away one wave, another wave came up one after another. After several clearances, there are more and more, as if they can't finish fighting.

Shi Yunyang saw that those snakes were crawling out from behind the throne in the main hall. Shi Yunyang immediately drew a halberd to pick up a boulder and threw it hard, the boulder flew up suddenly, smashed the throne to pieces, and then sealed the snake cave to death. A few giant blades turned out, and the poisonous snakes in the hall were cleaned up.

The two of them were about to breathe a sigh of relief when they saw outside the main entrance of the main hall. And on the beams of the main hall, suddenly dozens of huge pythons crawled out. All of them are two people tall, exactly the same as what they saw before, except that they were only one or two separate heads before, but now dozens of heads appear together, and the end is extremely scary.

When the giant python group saw the two of them, their eyes lit up, and they all opened their mouths and crawled towards the two of them. Both of them jumped and went up to the beam, and after a few palace tunes, they swept all the pythons on the beam. Shi Yunyang, a swoop, his body swirled, and the halberd turned into a whirlwind in the air, and he cut off the heads of several giant pythons, and Ran tilted on the beams of the house, helping from afar. Shi Yunyang's figure flickered on the ground, and the shadow of the halberd swayed, only to see that flesh and blood were flying on the ground. In less than half a cup of tea, the dozens of giant pythons have all died.

"I'm going to see how long you can hold out. The faint voice of the Peerless Queen came out again, even more lunar than before.

"Wake up, Undead Knight!!"

The Absolute Queen shouted, and saw the rows of collapsed armor and white bones in the hall, as if they had life, and slowly stood up