The location of the rat path that Wu Lie sensed from the key to the rat path was not too far from the Xiehuo City. After climbing over a dozen peaks and passing through a forest covering hundreds of miles, he came to a large lake where there was no limit to see. .

What is different from ordinary large lakes is that the lake water here is blood-red, and it looks like a huge pool of blood from a distance.

"Blood Sea Lake! Why is it Blood Sea Lake?" Looking at the bloody lake in front of you, Wu Lie's face became extremely ugly, and his eyebrows also frowned, making the word Sichuan between his eyebrows.

The name Xuehai is the name given to it by people living in the local area. In fact, there is another name in the lake in the Prefecture and Litian Palace. It is just that the name Xuehai Lake is more circulating, and no one remembers the official name of this lake. Everyone regards this folk name as the official name of the lake.

The reason why locals gave this lake such an unlucky name is not only because of the color of the lake itself, but also because of a city called Yecheng, which was flooded by the lake, and the millions of residents who sank to the bottom of the lake with the city. Therefore, many people also believe that the lake will have such blood color because of the resentment of the millions of people who died in vain.

A hundred years ago, the area covered by Blood Sea Lake was still a plain and hilly area. It was also the largest grain production area in Qingzhou and the only production area of ​​Qingzhou's specialty lark grass. For this reason, the Qingzhou Prefect's Prefecture specially built a huge city here that was no worse than the city, and drew a large number of civilians from other places to move here. After tens of millions of years of development, the population of this city has reached one million. This is just the people in the city. If the small cities surrounding this city are included, the total population will probably reach five or six million.

Originally, according to normal development, Yecheng, a large city with a population of one million, should have gradually grown with its own resources, and eventually replaced Qingzhou Prefecture City and became the power center of Qingzhou. This is not necessarily impossible.

But one night more than a hundred years ago, the entire Yecheng City was suddenly flooded by water gushing out from the ground overnight. What's even more strange is that when the city was flooded, the residents of more than one million people in the city went up to the city lord, Litian Palace Befujun, and some peddlers and pawns, all of them did not escape, and were drowned in the water along with the city.

Yes, it was drowned in the water. This conclusion was the final conclusion drawn after a joint investigation by all parties. Not to mention ordinary people in Qingzhou, even the investigators who were responsible for investigating this matter and gave this conclusion did not believe that such conclusion was true.

Not to mention that a large number of strong men in the city can use various magic or magic weapons to fly away before flooding the city. Even if the city is completely submerged by water, these strong men can survive in the water like fish through magic. But things are just strange here. Judging from the millions of corpses salvaged afterwards, no matter how strong the cultivation is or how good the treasures in their hands are, they all died of flooding without exception. It seemed that at the time when the city was flooded, everyone in the city lost all their strength, and even had no power to escape. They could only watch the water overwhelmed little by little like a paralyzed person, and finally drowned by the water.

Although such a conclusion was so absurd that it was almost a joke, it was spread to the upper realm of Litian Palace and was even ridiculed for several years, judging from all the traces on the scene, this conclusion was the only correct conclusion, and this incident also plagued the Qingzhou Prefecture for several years.

For this reason, the Qingzhou Prefecture and the Qingzhou General Administration sent a large number of elites to investigate what happened to the residents in the city when the flooding city was discovered. However, after spending a lot of manpower and material resources, they did not get an answer in the end. This incident has become the biggest unsolved case in Qingzhou so far.

At first, the lake water of Xuehai Lake was no different from ordinary lake water, but during the years when Qingzhou Prefecture and Litian Palace Qingzhou Beppu investigated the incident, I don’t know if it had touched something unknown. In short, the lake water began to gradually turn red and became deeper and deeper, and finally became what it is now.

During the period when the lake water turned blood red, the people around the lake were extremely afraid of this blood red water. Even after inspection, it was proved that these lake waters were only different from ordinary lake waters, and the rest were no different from ordinary lake waters and would not cause any harm to people. However, no one was willing to get close to this place, which made the surrounding area of ​​Blood Sea Lake look like a desert for a long time, and no one could see any people.

This situation did not change until more than ten years ago, and the person who changed all this was not someone else, but Wu Lie. At that time, Wu Lie's subordinates accidentally discovered that due to some coincidence, they were deemed impossible to have any aquatic species that showed signs of fish-like beasts moving in the Blood Sea Lake, and caught a half-snake and half-fish, and presented it to Wu Lie.

At that time, Wu Lie discovered that the half-snake and half-fish beast contained a trace of power. The power was extracted and absorbed, which could actually extend the lifespan of the person who had died.

This discovery made Wu Lie realize the huge benefits contained therein, so he personally took people to check the situation of Xuehai Lake on the spot. Soon he discovered that a large number of fish-like beasts that had not been seen in other places had grown in the Bloodhai Lake, which originally thought there were no living creatures. Most of these beasts did not contain the power to prolong their life. Only a few strange beasts that built nests at the ruins of Hudiye City have this power.

At the same time, Wu Lie also discovered something that might be related to the sinking of Yecheng and drowning of millions of people more than a hundred years ago. That is, the Yecheng lying at the bottom of the lake actually has a natural restriction power. All people entering the Yecheng area, even the waters and airspace above the Yecheng area will be affected by this force. People with far distance will be suppressed part of their magic power, and the casting effect will be weakened. For example, if they are directly inside the Yecheng area, their magic power will be completely imprisoned, leaving only physical power to use. However, this imprisonment power does not have an effect on the outside world. As long as they leave the Yecheng area coverage, this force will disappear immediately.

Because the incident happened suddenly, Wu Lie and others were not prepared at all. Some of his capable subordinates were not familiar with water and relying on magic to enter the water. When they entered the city of Ye and their magic power was limited, the spells blessed on their bodies also dissipated. Those subordinates were flooded without having time to prepare. Although Wu Lie and others who were familiar with water also responded correctly, stopped exploring and prepared to rescue, they were intercepted by a large number of strange beasts that emerged from the ruins of the city. When they defeated the strange beasts and went to rescue them, it was too late.

This incident has always made Wu Lie feel uneasy, because a large part of the people who lost this time were his old subordinates from Qingzhou who came down from the mountains. These subordinates who were regarded as ministers by him did not fall in the war to open up Qingzhou. However, they were drowned by the water because of a small mistake in this exploration mission, which really made him feel annoyed and regretful. This emotion still exists today, and it is even stronger after seeing the Blood Sea Lake.

If Wu Lie was able to master the output of this life-extending beast in Blood Sea Lake, he would not be upset for so long. After all, although there were losses, there were also gains. Moreover, the profit potential of this life-extending beast is very huge, which is enough to complete some of the things he planned in advance. With the offset of gains and losses, his spirit will be calmed down a lot.

But the subsequent development of this incident not only made Wu Lie's regret not dissolve, but instead became a heart-wrenching problem for him.

The large amount of losses of his capable subordinates also caused great turmoil in Wu Lie's forces. In order to calm the turmoil and stabilize the situation, Wu Lie had to give up other things and focus on it. It took a year for him to stabilize the internal forces and even expand the power he controlled a lot. After he managed the forces under his command, he turned around and dealt with the matter of Blood Sea Lake, but found that the Avenger Beast in Blood Sea Lake had been discovered by the people of Li Tian Palace. Before the forces in Qingzhou responded, he secretly sent people to fish all such strange beasts, leaving only an empty Blood Sea Lake.

Wu Lie had never suffered such a big loss of losing his wife and soldiers, so this incident made him feel resentful. Now he stood in front of Xuehai Lake again, and the things that happened back then came back, making his mood extremely bad. Driven by this emotion, he turned his head and looked in a certain direction behind him, as if he was thinking about something, then flew down Xuehai Lake and swam towards the ruins of Yecheng, which was also the direction indicated by the key.

Not long after Wu Lie jumped down, ten stalkers fell from the air where he was standing. The person who was leading the ten people was about to jump into the water and followed Wu Lie as soon as possible to avoid the movement traces left by Wu Lie being disturbed by the strange beasts in the water, but a woman behind him stepped forward and grabbed him.

"Lan, what are you doing?" The leader looked at his companion with an unhappy look and asked.

Others around him didn't understand the woman's actions and looked over in confusion.

The woman seemed very serious and said, "I think it's better not to follow me. We should go back outside the Evil Fire City and wait for him to stop him when he returns."

"Reason?" the leader asked briefly.

The woman recalled the look when Wu Lie turned around to look at them before jumping into the water, and said worriedly: "I think Wu Lie has discovered that we have followed him, so he will definitely be prepared and even set up a trap in front of us."
Chapter completed!