#82 - Chapter 82: Living People in the Dead City

"Young friend, this old man is from the Huo family of the Wu Kingdom. If you save me, I will definitely repay you handsomely..."

[The old voice calling for help echoed from the stone house a dozen meters away, and you immediately became vigilant.]

[There are actually living people in Stone City, which is very unusual. You sized up the stone house where the old man's voice came from, and you vaguely saw a stone elder. He seemed to be locked in the stone house by blood-red chains.]

[The cry for help came from this stone elder. He said he was from the Huo family of the Wu Kingdom.]

[The Huo family is very unusual in the Wu Kingdom. They can be called a Zhongzhou aristocratic family, and are descendants of the founding Huo Xuan King.]

[The Huo family, such a Zhongzhou aristocratic family, has a profound foundation, and there are many Nascent Souls, and even Transformation Stage Heavenly Lords.]

[The Huo family has always acted together with the royal family. If the stone elder is really from the Huo family, could it be that many years ago, the Zhongzhou royal family explored Chaoge Death City?]

[Your heart stirred slightly. While being vigilant about the surrounding movements, you wanted to try to ask questions, wanting to pry some information from the stone elder's mouth.]

"Senior, are you from the Huo family? Do you know anything about this Chaoge Death City?"

Lin Changqing did not directly answer the question of whether to rescue him or not. He directly stood in place and asked.

After hearing Lin Changqing's question, the stone elder said weakly: "Young... friend, come closer and I'll tell you."

Lin Changqing was unmoved, standing in place, maintaining a distance of a dozen meters away from the stone elder. Even when the stone elder asked Lin Changqing to come closer, Lin Changqing directly took a big step back, retreating a few steps.

"Forget it... forget it, young friend is indeed cautious, but this is also the style of people of my generation," the stone elder suddenly sighed. "How about this, young friend, let's make a deal. I'll tell you some information about the Death City. If you can save me, that would be best. If you don't want to save me, I won't force you. Just promise to help me pass a message to the outside world."

"Okay, I'll help you pass the message," Lin Changqing replied immediately. This sentence seemed to directly silence the stone elder.

He seemed to not expect Lin Changqing to answer so readily.

After a long while, the stone elder sighed: "Passing a message is fine too. Forget it, I won't force you to save me."

[The stone elder seemed to have reached a deal with you. In the next ten minutes, the stone elder recounted that he followed the royal family to explore the Death City thirty years ago.]

[And said that he was trapped in Nanxuan City due to an accident, turned into a stone man, and was locked in a stone house.]

[In addition, you also learned from the stone elder's words that Chaoge Death City is divided into east, south, west, and north, and there are 100,000 bronze ancient cities distributed in each direction. Some bronze ancient cities are very dangerous. The stone elder recounted that even Transformation Stage Heavenly Lords of the royal family have fallen in those dangerous ancient cities.]

[Of course, there are many opportunities in some ancient cities.]

[The stone elder said that in the past thousand years, it is precisely by exploring the Death City that the Great Wu Dynasty has become more and more prosperous in the hands of the current emperor, and even vaguely surpasses the founding ancestor!]

[Hearing this, you nodded silently in your heart. Indeed, the opportunities in this ancient city are indeed great. You obtained the incomplete Kunpeng Heavenly Art in Beixuan City before, and you were only in this one city. Over the past thousand years, the Great Wu Dynasty has explored this Death City countless times, and must have accumulated a lot of treasures in its hands.]

[It seems that the Sword Palace elder was right. In Zhongzhou, if you want to quickly improve your cultivation realm, you must follow the royal family.]

[This time you entered Chaoge Death City by accident, but from the words of this stone elder, you can hear that the royal family seems to have mastered the method of independently entering the Death City.]

[From here, you can diverge your thinking. Perhaps the Zhongzhou Dynasty also controls the methods of entering many precious secret realms.]

"Senior, do you know what the Xuan Bird Token is?"

[You directly asked what you wanted to know most, and your question made the stone elder silent again. He didn't seem to expect you to ask such a question.]

[Finally, he replied that he was not very clear either. In short, according to the stone elder's understanding, the Xuan Bird Token is an extremely precious thing. Mastering the Xuan Bird Token can greatly improve safety in the Death City.]

[Hearing this, you nodded. The function of the Xuan Bird Token in the stone elder's mouth is consistent with the scene you saw. This stone elder didn't lie to you, and told the truth. His words have some credibility.]

[Next, the stone elder stopped talking about the Death City, but instead brought up his Huo family identity again, saying that his Huo family is a Great Wu marquis, with Transformation Stage Heavenly Lords sitting in town, and controls countless cultivation resources.]

[The stone elder directly hinted that if you save him, you will become an honored guest of the Zhongzhou Huo family, enjoying endless wealth and glory. Even Nascent Soul spiritual objects that can help people form a Nascent Soul are available in the Huo family.]

"Young friend, are you really not planning to save me? This old man has a granddaughter with unparalleled beauty, one of the four beauties of Zhongzhou Imperial Capital. If you save this old man, I will make the decision to marry that granddaughter to you."

"If you become the grandson-in-law of my Huo family, you will ascend to the heavens in one step in Zhongzhou. My Huo family is an aristocratic family with Transformation Stage Heavenly Lords sitting in town, and has been on good terms with the royal family for generations."

"From your clothing style, this old man can tell that you are a cultivator from Qingzhou. It is extremely difficult for people from Qingzhou to survive if they want to go to Zhongzhou, but if you become the Huo family's son-in-law, everything will be different. Your identity will directly change from a cultivator from the most remote place to a member of a precious Zhongzhou aristocratic family."

[The stone elder is tempting you to save him again, and even directly used his granddaughter as a bargaining chip this time.]

[You directly pretended not to hear. Seeing that your will was firm and unmoved, the stone elder sighed in the end.]

"Forget it, forget it, young friend is cautious. It's okay if you don't want to save me. You can just help me send a letter out," the old man seemed to have given up the idea of ​​wanting Lin Changqing to save him, and directly moved two stone fingers, and a letter floated out of the house.

"Help me send this letter to the Zhongzhou Huo family. This letter is from this old man to my family. Alas, I'm afraid I won't have the chance to see my family again in this life..."

The stone elder's voice was very sad. At the same time, the letter slowly floated from the stone house towards Lin Changqing.

Lin Changqing stared at the letter, his eyes flashed, and he directly teleported back a hundred meters away.

And just at the moment when Lin Changqing teleported, the letter suddenly burst out with black light and submerged the place where Lin Changqing was just standing.

"I've been guarding against you for a long time..." Lin Changqing sneered. His vigilance against this stone elder had never been relaxed. From the beginning of letting him approach, to later tempting him with his granddaughter's marriage, all the signs indicated that the stone elder definitely had a problem. Sure enough, it was exposed in this letter.

[Seeing that you were not tricked, the stone elder had regret on his face, and then suddenly smiled lightly.]

"You junior is indeed cautious. It's a pity, if I had caught you, I could have let you be my stone statue ghost, and I could have escaped," the stone elder said with infinite regret on his face, then he looked at Lin Changqing and suddenly grinned.

"Junior, didn't this old man tell you that some cities in this Chaoge are opportunities, and some cities are dangers? Guess what this city is?"

"What do you think this old man was talking to you for just now? If I can't deceive you, I can at least make you die with me!"

"Let me tell you, in this Nanxuan City, as long as a cultivator enters for two quarters of an hour, they will immediately be locked by the rules and turned into a stone statue ghost. You will become a stone statue ghost with this old man, locked in this stone house, waiting to die."

"This old man has been talking to you for almost two quarters of an hour just now," the stone elder grinned.