People often use the red of flames to dye the hell scroll, but hell is not always hot. Feiqi motivated himself to climb to the fifth level of hell, and then saw an ice-cold hell.
In front of me is an ocean occupied by icebergs. The quiet blue sea water is as quiet as dead, without waves or ripples, and it looks like a pool of water that has never been blown by the wind. Countless floating ices of different shapes float on it, the small ones cannot allow mosquitoes to land on it, and the large ones are enough to accommodate a whole city.
The cold is so hot, but there is no wind. The cold is invading from all directions without discrimination, but the feet that touch the ice surface will be slightly more serious. As a contract demon, Fitch is not afraid of ordinary flames at all, and has a very strong tolerance for coldness. At least in the natural environment of the earth, he will not be frostbite. However, in this layer of hell, the cold still makes him feel tingling all over his body, which is actually a sign of being hurt.
Using the power of magic, Feiqi created a flame, but it disappeared instantly. The overall environment here has an unexpected suppression effect on the fire element. The final result of using mana to keep warm will be exhausted and death. You must pass through this layer as soon as possible, even if you quickly go to a world full of magma and fireballs, it is better than here. Feiqi shuts his mouth, stops breathing, and quickly finds the way before his eyes are not frozen.
In the shadow of the iceberg, Feich saw an extremely vast and towering ice field. If there is a place around it that can lead to the fourth floor, then the ice field seems the most suspicious. However, there is no direct passage between the ice field and Feich. It seems that there are only two ways to go: swimming in the sea water, or jumping between the icebergs.
The first one will be frozen to death, and the second one needs only God to have the jumping ability. Perhaps these two methods are better than to use an iceberg as a boat and then row over it. But is rowing in hell so simple? Feiqi doesn't believe it, especially after experiencing the sixth level of fear and crying, he is becoming more and more alert to the threats that the environment may be posed. Will there be hidden dangers under this seemingly calm water surface? Why can't you see prayers and other devils walking around here?
There are different kinds of devils, some are afraid of fire and some are afraid of cold, but the "native" devils on this level should have adapted to the cold environment, but they cannot see one in Feiqi's vision. The same is true for prayers. They are the result of the dead souls being shaped by hell in this environment. They can move anywhere in hell, and they will roam around. But where are they?
Feiqi's guess is not wrong. The fifth layer of sea water is indeed full of danger. The first is the extreme low temperature. The water here does not start to freeze at zero degrees, but follows the rules of hell, and is still liquid at more than twenty degrees below zero. These low temperature sea waters are mixed with a large amount of Styx water, so it can not only take away the heat from the body, but also constantly absorb the soul. The sea water on this layer of hell is a greedy tax officer who constantly squeezes out the value of prayers, the devil and all living beings that mistakenly enter this place.
But there are still creatures underwater. A creature called Shahuayumen is hidden in the darkness of the ice sea. Their gods, an ancient existence called Sekora, bless them to be immune to the damage caused by all waters. Therefore, whether it is the sea water of hell or the Styx, these Shahuayumen attack the devil everywhere to express their respect to their gods. Of course, they dare not step on the ice. The devil is very enthusiastic about killing fish and drying fish, and is indeed very skilled.
Relying on his intuition and his finally increasing vigilance, Feiqi decided to stay away from the water and try to go directly to the wider ice field with teleportation spells. On the previous floor, crying and self-stimulation constantly affected Feiqi's soul, making it impossible for him to concentrate all his attention and find it difficult to control the teleportation technique. On this floor, the water flow did not fluctuate, the wind did not blow, everything was quiet, and it was suitable for teleportation.
Before inventing the three barrel magic array, Feiqi was studying the spells transmitted within the visual range. The assistants at that time were Benny, Shani and others. Transmission within the visual range did not require the coordinates of the departure and target location, but only needed to master the relative position relationship between the two points. Through visual observation, runes represent the space vector, and then input enough mana into the spell, and the rest was like crossing a threshold, and you could reach the opposite side by raising your foot.
"Why call this spell Any Gate..." Feiqi was carving a magic circle on the ice while worrying whether there would be some problems due to the duplicate name. "Well, I didn't know how many programs I cracked in my previous life, and I used the kernel. I was still worried about what the name would do?"
Gudu, a bubble emerged from the water not far away, and the ripples after the burst spread in all directions, causing the floating ice to shake slightly. Feiqi frowned, and a feeling of uneasiness hit his heart. There was something under the water! He accelerated the speed of his work and began to deliver mana to it in advance without waiting for the magic circle to be 100% completed. When the second and third bubbles emerged from the water one after another and broke, any spells had already begun to start.
Dozens of gray-blue covered with scales suddenly stretched out from underwater. Kou Tao fishmen crowded, pushed and climbed onto the ice one after another. Feiqi took a step into the spell of any door, and then disappeared with a whoosh. The fish people who lost their prey started to frantically and rushed towards the position of the spell of any door. However, the mana stored by Feiqi can only be used once, and the energy of the spell to tear open the space also wiped out most of the runes on the ice. The fish people chirped, swung each other to vent their anger, and then drilled back to the water.
The water surface quickly returned to its usual calm, as if nothing had happened.
Feiqi walked out of any door and found that he was still slightly off, more than ten meters higher than expected. A vast ice surface like a complete continent hit his nose, and he quickly adjusted his posture with the air element rope. He buffered the downward impulse and turned it into a horizontal thrust. Feiqi slid at high speed on the ice surface.
Summoned by Shani, Feiqi left hell, calculated the coordinates, and then took two days to adjust his mental state. His appearance of a contract demon cannot be seen by others, so as not to attract the attack of the paladins of the Church of the Goddess of Truth. Therefore, during the two days of rest, he carefully hid in the cave of the three barrel magic circle, and did nothing but praying to the goddess and studying magic every day.
Not everyone can see this scene as a devil who prays to the Goddess of Truth and can perform magical magic. As the only witness, Shani can't find any other words to describe it except shock. Looking at the strong and sharp-angled giant red devil in front of her, she was still a little scared in her heart. It was not until Feich's unique movements, attitudes and humor appeared that she gradually felt relieved.
"Can you touch it?" Shani was already poking her fingers when she asked: "The skin is so hard, and when it is pressed, there are still words that appear, as if there is text hidden below... It's so weird."
"This is called watermark, an anti-counterfeiting technology. Forget it, this joke is not very suitable."
Only by walking in hell can you know that even if you are just a semi-closed cave, you will be much happier. However, the expedition must continue, and the road to hell has just begun. Feiqi took a full rest, then carefully examined his heart in the "Mental State Q&A Test Paper", and then activated the three barrels of magic circles to continue back to hell.
He was still on the ice and was near a busy road. Feich has not seen the towering peaks on the Hell level so far, and it seems that no place can lead to the upper level. So in order to avoid losing direction in this iceberg world, Feich decided to follow the road, and it would be best to find other devils to find out how to go.
There is no need to inquire at all. Turning over the frozen mountains and crossing the rivers on the glaciers, a magnificent and chaotic devil city appeared in front of Feiqi. It is called the Ice City, and it is a territory of the Deep Demon, but it does not mean to manage it well. In this vast city, only the fortresses in which the Deep Demon lives and the ports on the edge of the city are somewhat neat, orderly and strict. Other places are all messy streets, random buildings, crowds of fish and snakes, and bustling markets. Feiqi estimated that after the Deep Demon built the fortresses and ports, the rest would be allowed to develop.
Various devils walk on the complex streets here, with different races standing shoulder to shoulder with them. One side has a meaningful smile and the other side has a vigilant and defensive attitude, but they can always communicate and trade instead of fighting. Obviously, this is a huge trading city, with various items being priced at gold and soul, and are constantly being exchanged here.
The low-level devil acts as labor here, and almost all the clerks are inferior demons, but the real thing is the middle-level devil. The barb demons who were killed by Feiqi before often act as store owners, and they express their loyalty to the contract demon. Feiqi walked on the street and noticed that many stores often belong to the same contract demon, so they cooperated with each other in commodity sales and pricing, with the purpose of course to attract everyone here as much as possible.
There are all kinds of people, especially those creatures that are born to move across the world - so races such as humans, elves, and dwarves are rare. Most of the golden skin and green skin come from the "upper plane", in other words, slightly closer to the heavens, and red skin and blue skin are closer to hell - but these do not mean that they have any tendency to be good and evil in their hearts. At least Fitch is equally wary of all of them, watching more, listening more, talking less, and not acting.
As a contract demon, Feiqi naturally has the identity of "maybe a shopkeeper" in Ice City, so he can walk on the street without any disturbance. Those evil demons who sell various commodities will not disturb him. By listening to the conversation around him, Feiqi gradually figured out the reason why the city became a market: the port on the side of the city connects the River Styx, and the River Styx is a magical river that travels almost all planes, and naturally can shoulder the heavy responsibility of transportation. The River Styx crosses all nine-story worlds from top to bottom in Hell, and this stop in Ice City is the end of cargo navigation. To the next level, the terrifying world of slopes turns the tributaries of the River Styx into a group of waterfalls, and no matter what kind of ships are, they cannot move forward.
Things from the lower layers of hell gather in the Ice City by land transport, and then trade with people from other worlds. Although the devil is evil, he also respects order, and at least they are very covenant in trading. Being able to obtain souls through trading is also profitable in the devil's eyes. In the eyes of the devil, except for the soul and gold - gold that helps the devil act in the mortal world and buy souls - nothing else is worth much, which also makes merchants from all planes profitable here.
"Spell Book! Spell Book! Time Spell Book of the magical wizard Strange!" A human in red and full of armor was hawking on the roadside, and behind him was a strong man from another world with purple skin, covered with scars, and inlaid with various gems on his left fist gloves, seemed to be a bodyguard. "Don't miss the inheritance of ancient wizards and the improvement of modern spells!"
Spell book? This is quite attractive to Fitch. He stopped and carefully observed the souls of the two people. The fire of their souls is full of vitality. Only those who love and strengthen themselves and believe that they have the ability to change the world will have such souls. Fitch looked at it for a while and was sure that the hawker was not lying, so he walked forward.
"Human?" Feiqi said to the man who had been wearing armor all over his body: "It is rare to see humans here."
"Yes, it's rare. Do you want to check out the products or want to fall in love with me? I have to tell you clearly that I have no interest in males. Of course, unless you can swing the hammerhead to summon the portal to take me away from this ghost place."
"Maybe I really have that ability. You have to know that I am a contract demon and realize my wish..."
"Oh, come on! The contract demon is just an annoying lawyer, or the kind of lawyer who specializes in black agents! The one who fulfills his wish is the God of Light. I just saw one. Do you know what it says?" The man snorted with his mouth and imitated in a sarcastic tone: "Oh, sorry sir, have you seen my urinary? You have to find and wipe my urinary so that I can realize my wish. Go to his!"
"Using gags to avoid the language trap of the contract demon, a very good trick." Feiqi thought about it after laughing and understood this caution. "Okay, no nonsense. I want to see that magic book."
"You have to give money first. Soul currency, six, and then you can read this magic book." The man said, "On the other hand, if you can retrieve the blue gem that he accidentally lost for this guy around me, you can read this book too."
Feiqi looked down and saw that there was indeed a gem slot on the strong purple potato man's gauntlet that was empty. It seemed that the missing gem should have been there. "I'm not interested in finding something for you, and I won't pay for anything I haven't seen. And, do you know how much the six soul currencies are worth?"
"It's just six depraved fools, and they're exhausted. In my world, there are people like this everywhere, and it's absolutely no exaggeration to have billions of people." The man sighed: "Well, in this broken place, six money can buy two tickets for the Styx, and then we can go back to the first floor and look for the lost gem!!"
"Supply and demand determines the value of the commodity." Feiqi said casually. The spell book is good, but the boat leading to the first floor of hell sounds more attractive. Any method that can reduce the dangers of traveling to hell is necessary to pay attention to. If the ferry has safety and credibility, isn't it an option?
"You know what you say?" The man was about to talk a few times, but saw the contract demon turn and leave. He sighed and hit the chest of the strong purple potato man beside him. "It's all your fault. It was fine, why did you beat me? My wedding hasn't been held yet. Do you know? If I missed it, I would be killed by the pepper! Do you understand? Why don't you say a word?"
"It doesn't hurt." The strong man of purple sweet potato snorted softly: "Do you know, if you lose half of the people, you will have no such worries."
"If you don't have to do it yourself first, we will have no worries!" The man kept muttering.
Feiqi asked all the way to the port, which was filled with all kinds of ships, and only a narrow and crowded waterway could enter and exit. In the middle of the port, a shark statue was filled with people, and they were praying devoutly. After listening to it for a while, Feiqi learned that it was the statue of Saikora, the god of Kotao, the god of the fishman. The captains prayed to it to get blessings and avoid being attacked by the fishman.
The devils are all very realistic, or the most realistic, and only interests are the only things worth paying attention to. Therefore, on the one hand, there are people who want Sekola to pray, and on the other hand, there are shops selling fish-human leather products - both are one thing at the level of interest.
After praying, the fleet will leave, and walking together will greatly reduce the possibility of attack - as long as your ship can be faster than some. Everyone will say that their ship is the best, but by observing the fire of the captains' souls, Fitch knows who is really confident and who is resigned to fate.
He looked at the soul coins of other devils with a slanted eye. Feiqi tried to exchange this spirit coins with the ability of the contract demon. At this time, it was obvious that the road demon was indeed reserved and did not hand over the relevant knowledge and memories to Feiqi. However, this ability was more like the instinct of the body, just like summoning a contract from the soul. After trying dozens of times, Feiqi finally succeeded.
"Eighty Spirit Coins... I didn't expect that the stock in the soul crystal was so small. I killed so many demons to have such a small amount. It seems that the road demons have intercepted me a lot! They are all saving up to resurrect themselves, right?" Feiqi snorted coldly, glad that he decided to take this independent path. "But it's really cheap to resurrection together. The resurrection that had been blown away by the body was only spent on four spirit coins. Well? This is so strange. No wonder the road demons never quantify the deposits in the soul crystal."
After buying three tickets worth five spirit coins, Feiqi turned back to the market and came to the man with armor and the strong man with purple potatoes: "This is a ticket, let me see the spell book."
"Wait, only six soul coins will be shown to you, not two ship tickets."
"These two tickets are worth ten soul coins, and there is a better chance of reaching the first level. If you don't accept tickets, I'll sell them and give you six spirit coins. Do you think you have the ability to judge which captain is more trustworthy?"
The man frowned, "Intuition tells me that the devil is always lying to others. I really doubt whether there is any purpose behind your kind-hearted behavior?"
"I can tell if a person is lying and having faith, so you can judge the value of the item by your faith. There is no second person selling spell books in this market that has more confidence than you."
"Wow, this is a great ability. But six money is just the cost of watching, not the price of selling books."
"I understand, I'll watch by your side and won't take it away." Feiqi shook the boat ticket: "There is another hour to drive the boat, and it will take fifteen minutes to get to the dock. I will only give you one minute to consider whether you will accept this transaction."
"I accept that you can read books, but you can't delay us boarding the ship."
One hand ticket and the other hand magic book, a pleasant transaction was completed. Feiqi opened the book and it was full of strange words and symbols that he had never seen before. Fortunately, he could barely understand it with the help of the text recognition ability of the contract demon. It was a unique magic system, completely different from what Feiqi knew. Feiqi used his soul to change the world, while the book made the rules of the world change the soul and let the soul manipulate the surrounding environment. Therefore, their spells are very fixed and rigid. There is only one way to go to achieve a specific effect. Not like Feiqi, as long as he understands it well, different people can achieve the same effect with different runes.
"This is obviously not an introductory magic book. It is full of spells involving time and space, including summoning powerful creatures from other worlds." Feiqi frowned and said, "This mage is very interesting. Did he throw you into hell? Did you steal his stuff?"
"How could I steal my friend's things? This book was accidentally left to me." The man with armor reached out and wanted to get the book back, but Feiqi hid it, so he said dissatisfied: "We are going to catch the boat, and the time for viewing has passed."
"Go to the port together," said Feiqi. "I can walk while reading, and it won't delay you."
"Well, I hope you can keep up!"
"Oh, this is not a race. If you run deliberately quickly and make me unable to catch up, it must be considered that you deliberately gave up this book. Don't worry, I will keep it for you. When you come back, you will charge at most some storage fees."
Although Feiqi said this, he did not delay them from boarding the ship. It was a large black three-masted ship. The captain was a weird man with octopus tentacles on his chin. He spoke very rudely. "Can't you come early? You can easily be targeted by the damn fishman when you fall behind!"
He just complained and would not stop anyone from getting on the boat. The man in full armor stretched out his hand to Fitch again: "My book! Are you going to break the contract, are you?"
"Of course not." Feiqi took out a ticket and walked onto the boat first on the pedal: "Hey, aren't you two coming? Now the tickets you have in your hands are too late to exchange for money, and even if they can be exchanged, are you going to continue to bet on luck?"
"So, you use this method to gain benefits, but just to read that magic book? Are those magic tricks useful to you devils? I have asked many people before that the things in the magic book are not universal at all!"
Feiqi shook his head: "I told you that I can see the vitality and confidence of a soul. How can you be sure that my purpose is this book? It may be just a journey and my goal has something else? Oh, don't talk, I know you are not interested in males unless you are someone who can open a portal with a hammer."
The man with armor gritted his teeth and put down his face armor, so he hid himself completely under the steel shell. However, the strong purple potato man tilted his mouth and said, "I like you a little, are you willing to join me? I can use your subordinates like you well."
"I just like farming, not fighting," Fitch said.
Chapter completed!