Vol 2 Chapter 961: Don't do it, I surrender
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The Strongest Tribe
- Shanren has a clever plan
- 5300 characters
- 2021-03-03 03:58:04
At the junction of the northwest, central and northern regions, and the southern end of the remaining veins of the Shengwang Mountains, the mountains are clusters, green grass and trees, and black water in the deep mountains gathers and rises into clouds, like dark clouds spanning thousands of miles.
In this mountain, except for some insects and ants, low-level ferocious beasts are rare. Even at noon, the mountains and wilds seem very quiet.
In the place where the black fog is the most dense, there is an illusory black dragon flying between the black clouds, looming, flying through the fog, and faintly resounding dragons.
Below the black mist is a black water pool that exudes cold air. The black water is dozens of times thicker than ordinary river water, blocking the line of sight.
When did the Heishui Hantan appear? No one knows. Recently, a powerful evil beast, the sixth-order evil dragon, occupies the depths of the black pool.
Hundreds of miles away from the Black Pool, on a hill with withered trees, Venerable Wan Nu sat and rested.
She has faced off with the sixth-order evil scorpion here for three years, but it is a pity that this evil beast is too cunning, and has not really caught its trace in the past three years.
The evil flood control a large number of ghosts, entrenched in the depths of the cold pool, don’t look at the cold pool that is less than three miles in diameter, but deep in the cold pool, the caves are crisscrossed and connected to countless underground rivers, like a maze, in which a lot of snakes live Python monster.
She has entered the cold lake several times in the past three years, and the evil floods are hiding in the dark, waiting for an opportunity to attack her. As a last resort, she can only exit the cold lake and stay with her outside.
In the depths of the cold pool, there are hundreds of thousands of turns and countless dark rivers, filled with a large amount of snake and python venom. It can be said that they can attack and retreat and escape, and evil floods can run without a trace at any time.
Three thousand feet deep in the cold pool, in a water cave extending in all directions, the whole body is dark and densely scaled, the body is bloated, and there are five evil dragons with horns like sickles on their foreheads.
The evil dragon is a hundred meters in size, and its body is close to the earth dragon. It exudes a strong aura. In the caves surrounded by tunnels, there are large and small figures lying around. The body is similar to the reduced version of the evil dragon. The triangular head of the python is more slender.
At this moment, the evil dragon opened his eyes. Two eyeballs the size of a grinding disc suddenly illuminated the dim water cave. The water flow turned into a whirlpool in front of his nostrils, and the black dragon whiskers danced and beat the water.
Evil Jiao opened his mouth, golden light lit up from his mouth, and a three-foot-sized oval crystal floated out.
This crystal exudes dragon power and is also embedded on a stone table. The surface is carved with fine dragon patterns, integrating the crystal and the table.
At this moment, the crystal exudes golden light, causing the surrounding water to surge wildly, vaguely resounding from dragons, and the trembling beasts in the surrounding water caves are trembling and trembling.
The crystal undulates, and an illusory figure emerges vaguely inside, with teeth and claws leaping like thunder. Facing the erosion of Longwei, the evil dragon is also under tremendous pressure. He opened his big mouth again and spit out the sticky black dragon's saliva. , Wrap the crystal and stone platform.
The toxin-laden dragon's saliva was wrapped on the crystal and stone platform, and it made a piercing hum, and bubbles appeared, corroding the dragon pattern imprinted on it.
The golden light was flourishing and pierced the venom ambergris. The evil flooder's eyes shone coldly. Facing the figure in the crystal, he was unmoved by anger, and he spit out several mouthfuls of ambergris in a row, completely enclosing the crystal.
It seemed that the feeling was not enough. The huge body of the evil dragon roared, and the sound of its throat shook the water, spitting out a faint green flame, which was unaffected in the water, burning the outside of the crystal.
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In a golden flame lake, a middle-aged warrior wearing a golden armor was full of anger. The golden flames around him continued to explode while breathing, and dragons and tigers roared.
"Asshole thing!"
Tianlong Ling yelled at him, and the surrounding flame lava exploded with his ups and downs, burning the void with black marks.
After cursing half of the incense for a long time, Tianlong Ling only reduced his breath, and the surrounding flame lake gradually calmed down. The edge of this golden flame lake is distorted, and the void is shattered and reorganized from time to time, as if in a different time and space. .
"Tianlongyan listens to the order, please slay Longjue at the Hall of Law Enforcement, and go to the frontier to hunt down the blood traitors."
is like a killing sound coming out of the throat, causing the surrounding space to vibrate again.
"Follow the order!"
Then a golden light flashed outside Yanhu, the golden dragon dance fell to the edge of Yanhu, and then the golden light flashed into a young man wearing golden armor, with two golden dragon horns above his head.
"Stop it."
At this time, a blue-gold rainbow appeared in the distant sky. The Yanhu area was not large, and it was only a thousand miles away.
In the blink of an eye, an illusory youth appeared in the green gold bloom, standing with his hands holding hands, wearing a long gown, looking very weak.
"I have met the elders of the Qing Dynasty."
Seeing the green-gold figure, Tianlong Yan hurriedly bowed and saluted.
"Green, you want to prevent me from killing traitors~"
Tianlong made his dark golden eyes stare, looking at the cyan light figure that appeared.
Tianlong Qingyu waved his hand to make Tianlongyan leave temporarily, and his eyes fell on Tianlongling's body again, saying: "It's just a side branch with a mottled bloodline. Isn't it humiliating Long Jue to use Longjue?"
Tianlong Qingju's words are faint, but the invisible pride is evident.
"Then what do you say?"
The appearance of the Tianlong Qinglu made Tianlong Ling understand that it is difficult to use the Holy Land Punishment Palace to kill the Bianhuang Jiao Clan, but if he doesn't kill the Jiao Clan, his anger is hard to calm in his heart. What he hates most is the guy beyond his control.
"If I don't be punished, what is the majesty of my holy place."
Regarding Tianlong Ling's words, Tianlong Qinglu shook his head. He did not agree with these words, and then said: "The Bianhuang Jiao clan is a descendant of the Tianlong Palace line. Besides, on the Jade Butterfly of the Holy Land clan Mai had long since been stripped of blood, expelled from ethnicity.
Don’t forget, on the bright side, they have nothing to do with my holy land, how can I use Dragon-Zhanjue? "
"This group of trash, the mud can't support the wall~" Tianlong Ling sighed and said fiercely: "I knew I should send the holy place's hands to find the monument."
"Your temperament should also be changed. If you are self-cultivating, you will be able to cross this threshold long ago, ignite the fire of life, and go further."
Tianlong Qingyu said, he and the Tianlong Order in front of him are both the Supreme Elder of the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land, and they have reached the fifth step of cultivating the land.
The Heavenly Dragon Sacred Lands that have inherited three great eras are not comparable to those remote and small holy places.
From now on, the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land is still in its heyday, with a prosperous bloodline. Among the clan, there is a King of Heaven, who sits high above the wasteland, and is independent of the royal court.
In the entire barren land, there are so many ancient tribes as prosperous as the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land, but not many.
"Years and years can change, and my nature is hard to change. I am afraid that I will not be able to cross this sky in my life."
Speaking of cultivation, Tianlong Ling has a sigh in his eyes. He has lived for a lifetime, and he has also cultivated to the fifth step of the realm of creation in the first life. He may not cross that threshold. In this life, he also has feelings in his heart. I am afraid it will be futile. .
What he practiced is the fire method. He took the sun to the sun of the Golden Crow, his temperament burst, and it was difficult to stabilize.
"I let Tianlongyan go to the border, what do you think?"
Hearing the sound, Tianlong Qingyu looked at Tianlongling, and it seemed that if he didn't kill the Bianhuangjiao clan, Tianlongling would not give up.
The life and death of a branch bloodline, he doesn't care, what's more, it has been expelled from the Holy Land for more than thousands of years, and the bloodline has long since withered.
Kill if you kill, but you can't use the Dragon Slashing Art. This will make people think that the Heavenly Dragon Sacred Land is a fuss and make people laugh.
Of course, for the sake of a small descendant of blood, if the two great abilities of the fifth step of the land development are both focused, they are too worthy of them.
After a while, Tianlong Qinglu asked: "Recently, the fate of the border is recovering, and the high priest uses the congenital dragon bone and Hao pattern tower as a basis to deduct a heavenly secret.
Borderland is about to become a place where the wind and clouds converge. Opportunity and murder go hand in hand, so the search for the monument is temporarily stopped, watching the situation and talking about the next development. "
Tianlong Ling's expression was disapproving. When the chance and the killing were not the same, the high priest's deduction was purely a fart off the robe, and it was unnecessary.
I am really old, and I am shy about doing things.
But at this moment, he also restrained his emotions, his eyes showed contemplation.
The desolate change is a good time to look for the monument. In the past, the wasteland was like stagnant water, and the larger waves could not lift a few. How to find the monument.
Both people speak of God monuments, not the kingdom of God. In fact, searching for the kingdom of God by the border is false, but the monument of seeking God is true.
The dragon has nine sons and the stele has nine faces. It is painted with the shape of the nine sons of a real dragon. The nine stele is a powerful witch treasure.
The ridiculous wind stele has been in the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land for more than an era. If the ridiculous wind stele did not change, the matter would still be dusty, and the stele would continue to stay in the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land mansion.
More than four thousand years ago, there was a sudden change in the mocking wind monument. After hundreds of years of deduction and perception within the clan, it was discovered that the mocking wind belonged to the southwest.
At that time, it happened that the Tianlong Palace line committed the guilt, and the Holy Land took advantage of the trend and expelled this line to the border.
Unexpectedly, since the descendants of Tianlong Palace came to the border, the Laughing Wind Stele returned to calm. Gradually, the descendants of Tianlong Palace forgot, and the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land itself stopped.
Until a thousand years ago, the silent ridicule stele fluctuated again. Tianlong Ling felt that there might be another Jiuzi stele in the desert, so she started to contact the descendants of Tianlong Palace, the Jiao family.
God stele has a sacred aura, which is similar to the innate true spiritual aura that people call ‘sacred beast’.
Therefore, the direction was locked in the relics of the ancient innate true spirits, and the most famous innate relics in the frontier wasteland were the kingdoms of the gods acquired by the Daqi Kingdom.
Then, Tianlong Qinglu said: "Now all parties are concentrating their eyes on the border, so you still have to be careful so as not to attract attention.
Wait for this period of time, and then it’s not too late to look for the monument. If the monument is unavailable, we are making a move. "
"Hmm~"
Tianlong made anger come out of his nostrils, flowing like a dragon, and he responded with an open mouth.
It's not that the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land is afraid of things, it's about mocking the wind stele, this Jiuzhai stele artifact, they don't want extra branches.
There are so many ancient tribes on the barren soil. Who knows who has a mountain of moldy books in his house. I didn’t know about it. The books are piled up in the hall and eat ashes. Once I find out, if I look through it and find the secret, it will be plain. A little more trouble.
Nine Sons Monument, such a powerful magic weapon, I believe that many kings will be eye-catching. No matter how powerful the Heavenly Dragon Sacred Land is, it does not have the strength to be an enemy of the kings.
Of course, the most important problem is that there is a paragraph in a fragmented bone book in Tianlong Sacred Land that has a lot of missing words, and one of the columns has six consecutive words.
‘Human Huangxing, Yujiuzi. ’
Whether the Nine Sons is the Nine Sons Dragon Tablet, Tianlong Holy Land cannot be verified, but the Nine Sons Tablet is really old, leaving a lot of traces.
Even if there is only a one-tenth chance, the Emperor Xingyu Nine Sons refers to the Nine Sons Monument, then they must be careful and careful, once there is movement, then don't say that the wasteland has no inheritance, the three kings will not bear it. live.
Regarding the involvement of the Nine Sons Monument and the Human Emperor, only four people in the entire Tianlong Holy Land add up. The Tianlong King is counted as one, and the high priest is counted as one. The rest are two people including the Tianlong Order, and the Tianlong in front of them. Qinglu didn't know the most secret Secret Zi, only that the mocking wind monument was a very powerful magic weapon.
In order to keep this secret, except for the Heavenly Dragon King, the remaining three have not left the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land since then. Heavenly Dragon made himself have not taken a step in the Yanhu Lake for thousands of years, and everything he did was directed by the clan.
This is to prevent him from leaving the Heavenly Dragon Sacred Land, being caught by the king, living in the Heavenly Dragon Sacred Land, and all relying on other tribesmen, even if he is noticed, he will not get the most basic sentence.
Including many people in the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land, they also think that they are looking for traces of the kingdom of God, and the mocking wind monument is only the key to the kingdom of God.
This matter is very important, and the Heavenly Dragon Order had to ponder over the words of the high priest. Such a heavy weapon, even if it is not available, cannot be leaked, otherwise it will inevitably provoke the entire wasteland.
"I asked Tianlongyan to temporarily bring back the mocking wind monument."
In the end, Tianlong Ling made a conservative decision and placed the mocking wind monument in front of the desert. It was because there were not many people who focused on it. From now on, everyone will pay attention to the wilderness in the southwest with many people and eyes. Who knows if there will be any. Sharp-eyed guy.
Forget it, let’s find it slowly. If this life doesn’t work, then in the next life, if you can’t come back from the reincarnation, let other people in the clan take over. .
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The edge of the desert, the pond.
The lying dragon, with a humane look in his big eyes, the dragon spat in front of him was burnt by venom and poisonous flames, the dragon pattern on it was dimmed again, and the dragon patterns in two corners had disappeared.
Wait for him to take the dragon crystal off the altar and thoroughly refine it. The strength will definitely fly over, and then he will have the strength to contend against the chase of the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land.
But, will Heavenly Dragon Sacred Land give him this time for trivial development?
There was a hint of worry in his eyes, the evil dragon raised his huge head and looked at the creeping black dragon in the water cave, a touch of worry flashed in his eyes.
The black dragons in the water cave are all members of his tribe, but unfortunately they have all become monsters that are neither humans nor beasts. The curse of blood is beyond human power.
Holy land, ancestral temple, the ethnic group that has been yearning for thousands of years, ha ha...
Hoo~hoo~hoo~
In the water cave, looking at the evil dragon's huge eyes, the evil dragons of different sizes roared one after another, their eyes filled with panic and bewilderment.
If the body is a vicious python with flesh and scales, where will they go?
The evil dragon retracted his eyes and let out a low roar, the many evil dragons in the water cave calmed down.
After that, the evil dragon flashed a black light, and the huge body began to shrink, and the sound of battle bones squeaked in the body, and finally turned into a monster that resembled a human shape, and headed out of the water cave.
Outside the lake, Venerable Wannu sat cross-legged, refining a middle-grade spirit crystal, maintaining his aura, sensing the waves in the secluded pool hundreds of miles away, and his aura tightened in a moment.
She went down to the depths of the secluded pond several times, but unfortunately she was all escaped by the evil flood, but she did not expect to dare to come out.
The black water in the pool rippled, and strong poisonous smoke rose up, and the evil flood was wrapped in a stinking smell, and the eyes under the scaly corners looked around, and finally fell in the direction of Venerable Wannu.
"Hmm~"
At this moment, Venerable Wan Nu showed surprise in his eyes. It was not the appearance of the evil flood that surprised her, but the breath of the evil flood.
When she first met here three years ago, she first saw the evil flood, the strength of the evil flood was not beyond the first middle level of the realm.
It was this time that she easily smashed the evil flood into serious injuries. If it hadn't been for the topography of the secluded lake, and her own thick skin, she would have killed it long ago.
Since that time, every time she went deep into the secluded lake, the evil waterflood avoided fighting. In just three years, the evil waterflood not only repaired the injury, but also improved her aura to the second step of the realm of creation. This is eating What treasure is there.
Such a change caused Venerable Wannu to not directly act, but to carefully sense the surroundings, to guard against any conspiracy. Her charm technique did not have any effect in front of this evil flood.
At this moment, the evil dragon said: "I want to see the Daxia Clan Master."
The open mouth and the trembling Adam's apple are like two pieces of metal rubbing, giving people a very uncomfortable feeling.
Hearing the sound, Venerable Wannu picked up his beautiful eyes. It was strange that the humanoid monster knew the Daxia Clan Lord.
At this moment, Evil Jiao said again: "Go back and tell Daxia Clan Master that the northern ghost tribe went south a few hundred years ago... The human tribes in the southern part of Tianhou Mountain strangled the demon clan... the gods rumored in the southern foot of the Holy King Mountains. The ruins of the palace..."
Seeing the evil dragon's words didn't seem to be false, Venerable Wan Nu showed a touch of surprise in his eyes. Could it be that this evil dragon and Xia Tuo are really friends?
Humans are not humans, beasts are not beasts, Xia Tuo has a lot of friends.
Even though she thought so in her heart, Venerable Wannu did not move. Who knows if it is true, even if it sounds like it is true, it may not be true. She doesn't know whether it is true or not.
This thing is so ugly, it may not be true.
Venerable Wannu did not move, nor did the evil scorpion move. As for leaving the secluded pond, he didn't dare to leave it. With the water cave extending in all directions in the secluded pond, he had the hope of escape.
Since he started refining the altar, it was tantamount to breaking with the Heavenly Dragon Sacred Land. The murderous opportunity to come to the Heavenly Dragon Sacred Land will soon come, and now only the frontier and Daxia can shelter him, and only the king can contend with the king.
"The Daxia clan has been developed step by step by the old man in the past few hundred years." Perceiving Venerable Wannu was unmoved, and the evil flood was somewhat unpredictable. After all, this was nothing.
has a weird and inhuman appearance, with four ugly animal horns on his head, a figure with stubby limbs, and such a humane opening, it is really surprising.
It’s a pity that Venerable Wannu is still unmoved. The ugly monsters in front of her have a lot of benefits. Her realm is stuck in the second step of the ground for nearly a thousand years. Don’t look at the whiteness of the body, which is still very beautiful. Over middle age.
I have tried many times before, and I want to break the shackles, but the opportunity has not come. The evil flood in front of her is her chance.
After so many years of being born, she has learned a lot about the development of Bianhuang.
Tianhou Mountain Old God, just like her realm, broke through.
Sikong Huai of the secret platform of the clan courtyard broke through.
Linghu Shuijun of the Governor's Tower, broke through.
All three of them are the second step of land development, breaking through the bottleneck in one fell swoop. Although the process is different, they are inseparable from the clan.
Like the old man Sagong Huai, his life span was only 20 years away, and he was forced to come back, with the hope of reincarnation.
I heard that the old man Sikong uses the heart of the dragon. This is not easy to find. She is younger than Sikong Huai, try using a dragon heart?
It doesn’t work, so dig one first, and let the chief priest of the clan court consider it. What if it works?
When the time comes for the third step of promotion, I will find the guy Jiuying to avenge myself.
Besides, she just joined the Daxia Clan Court, but the size merits have not been achieved. If she wants to use the clan's resources, it is not very good. At the very least, she has to do some merits, and then go to the clan court to credit her merits. .
Such a big evil dragon can not only exchange merits, but also the dragon heart. After passing this pond, where to find it.
Feeling the erratic expression of Venerable Wan Nu, the evil dragon's expression changed, and sure enough, this lady still wanted to harm him.
With a turn of his thoughts, the evil dragon said again: "Don't do it, I surrender, I am willing to surrender to the Great Xia Clan."
"Yeah~" Venerable Wannu showed a touch of shame in his beautiful eyes.
stuff.
tease my old lady, right?
What to surrender, come and fight to the death.
I want to take your heart off.
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Daxia City, clan palace clan palace.
Xia Tuo sits high above the main position, with Lao Yun on the left side below, with six helms under his hand, and Haohai God General, Sikong Huai, Minghuo and others on the right.
"The clan master, Phoenix City's eight directions of veins are all stable, so I have to take the clan main vein into the master and take over the mountains and rivers around the Phoenix Terrace." Sikong Huai said, "When the nine veins converge, the veins can change."
Situ Fengshi of the household department got up and said: "The clan leader, the migration of the clan, how to arrange the tens of millions of people in Daxia City, and whether to move to Phoenix City in the Central Region together."
"This time the migration of the clan court, only a few important tribes of the clan court will be relocated for the time being, and the clan’s ground veins and air transport will be migrated, and the Xia Pavilion, Cishitai and other important tribes will be accompanied.
As for the temporary rear of the six halls, the old gods will stay in Daxia City, and take the place of Daxia City for me temporarily. After the Phoenix City is stabilized, the institutions of the six departments will move accordingly. As for the people in the city, there is no need to travel long distances. Up. "
Clan migration, the most important thing is geography and clan luck. I moved out of the Wangu Mountains to Daxia City back then. I have already experienced it once, but it was close last time.
And this time, from the northwest to the middle area, thousands of miles away, there are many mountains and rivers, and they can't hide their luck, they can only migrate step by step.
And the migration of ethnic groups, he must do it himself, which has great restrictions.
Speaking of it, the new clan city has not really been completed yet. It just has the appearance of a city. The most important defense against the ancient witch formation is only in its preliminary stage and needs to be continuously built in the future.
Fortunately, people in the Great Wilderness are very adaptable to the environment. Once there is a city, as long as there are people, there will be anger, and it will look like it will be.
On this migration trip, Xia Tuo only had two words, ‘simplified’. Right now, the territory was full of smoke, and the ghost was still in the air. He has not yet figured out who is behind it.
Therefore, this migration is the process of leading the snake out of the cave. If someone wants to destroy the Daxia clan, the migration process will shake thousands of miles of mountains and plains, no matter where it is, it is a good place to shoot.
This is also Xia Tuo's helplessness. He has no clue. He can only take one step and see one step. He can only passively be beaten if he stays still.
Following Xia Tuo’s edict, Daxia City is still busy. Although it is streamlined, Daxia’s current Hou Buddhism can be streamlined wherever it can be, not to mention that since it is a migration clan, how can it also be aura type it out.
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Summer Park, wooden pavilion.
A gray-haired old man looked at the wine cup in front of him with a wry face. The wine in the cup was like a syrup, exuding a strong aroma, but he had no appetite.
He took the wine gourd on his back and rubbed it in his arms. The old gourd was not happy at all, and he was stable for two hundred years. I didn't expect Xia Tuo to remember him again. When he moved to the family court, he called him the same. , Have to ride together.
Take a ride with the clan leader, this is such a great honor, I don’t know how many people in the city are about to lose their eyes.
He really doesn't want to.
There must be nothing good.
Where is the reason to go?
Over the years, his chances are pretty good. Although his realm is not all stuck in his lifelong promotion, in fact it is almost rare, and he is now at the peak of the Divine Tibetan Realm.
After listening to the sound in the hall, the old gourd sighed, grabbed the wine bottle, and drank it. This time, he was afraid that it would be another drudgery. Only the gourd in his arms can bring some warmth to himself.
Inside the main hall.
"When Qishan Divine Mansion was discovered that year, it was indeed found that there was a group of people whose aura was similar to that of the Sixth Sacred Land, but they weren't from the Sixth Sacred Land, but this group of people would only appear in a flash, and they would never be discovered."
The evil spirit opened his mouth, holding a roll of animal skins in his hand~EbookFREE.me~, and handed it to Xia Tuo, saying: "This is the record about Qishan Shenfu and his party back then."
Xia Tuo opened the scroll and took a look, then put it on the wooden table, and said: "Go down and prepare, this time you will bring some people with you to the migration clan."
Although the master of the Demon Suppression Division was replaced by Venerable Wannu, in fact the normal operations of the Demon Squad Division were in the hands of the evil spirits, and Venerable Wannu had no real power.
When the evil spirits left, Xia Tuo's eyes fell on the animal skin roll again, muttering: "The Heavenly Dragon Holy Land."
In the past, the ghost clan appeared in the border, it was the ghost that was smashed in the back of the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land. This matter was already clear when he destroyed the ghost clan.
But the Heavenly Dragon Sacred Land is not comparable to the deserted Heavenly Cave Sacred Land. People have big fists, and Xia Tuo can only coy, so he can only suppress this matter. If it weren't for Venerable Wannu's message, he would have done it. Forget about it.
Unexpectedly, the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land has arranged a back move in addition to the Minggui clan, even the Minggui clan is only a chess piece arranged on the bright surface, and the real dark hands are hidden so deeply.
deserves to be the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land, the method is so secretive, it has been concealed for so long.
"Looking for God's Mansion?"
The core of Shenfu is in his hands.
Where can I find the Heavenly Dragon Holy Land?
After thinking about it for a moment, Xia Tuo decided to meet the sixth-order evil dragon. In this way, the identity of this evil dragon is really not simple. He played the Infernal Affairs for hundreds of years and was a talent.