The volcano is very high, with a corona-like gray-white platform in the middle. Looking toward the platform from a distance, there seems to be a shining blue stone pillar standing on it.
It's just that the platform is surrounded by a black circle composed of countless black insects, flying around the platform in a steady stream.
Lin Xin tried several times to go up and take a look, but was blocked back by a huge invisible force.
This place was too mysterious and weird, and he didn't dare to attack head-on to see if he could break the siege. He had to give up.
He continued to climb up the stone steps, increasing his speed. After about ten minutes, he finally reached the top of the volcano.
On the top of the mountain is a large bowl-shaped crater. He just stood on the edge, illuminated by red light, as inconspicuous as an ant, just like the countless stones on the side.
Walking around the crater, I saw some mummies. Some of them were lying on their sides on the ground, letting the high temperature of the ground make them smoke all over their bodies, but they laughed inexplicably.
Some climbed up from other stone steps, and then jumped directly towards the volcano without even looking at Lin Xin who was very close at hand.
Others were kneeling on the ground, covering their faces and crying sadly, but no tears could be seen flowing down.
After seeing more, Lin Xin no longer paid much attention to these mummies. Beside the dazzling red crater, there was a small ancient dilapidated building surrounded by walls. It seemed that this place was originally a courtyard.
The rocks inside are stitched together by solidified magma to form one whole.
He walked into the small courtyard with a little curiosity, where gray-black spiked vines were everywhere.
"Hehehehe"
Suddenly, a somewhat nervous man's voice floated out from a corner of the courtyard.
"Another new person trying to save himself"
Lin Xin was stunned. When he heard the laughter, he thought it was another unconscious mummy man, but he didn't expect that the other party actually spoke ghost whispers.
Following the direction from which the sound came, he quickly found the person's location.
Behind the highest broken wall in the courtyard, among the jumbled stones, there was a large group of huge black shadows in human form floating.
The black shadow was floating like this, like a human being wearing a robe, but it was more than four meters tall. It was the same as the broken wall.
His hem seems to be swallowing and absorbing the black particles in the surrounding void all the time to replenish itself.
No facial features or details can be seen on his entire body, just like the shadow of a person reflected on the wall by the firelight. It is somewhat distorted and only has an outline.
Lin Xin stood in front of him and looked up at him.
"Who are you?" He also asked in ghost language.
"Me?" The humanoid black figure seemed to have heard something surprising and funny, "You are asking, who am I??"
He laughed lowly.
"I, like you, am just a desperate person who came here to seek salvation."
"Desperate?" Lin Xin finally found a sane guy here, and immediately sorted out a lot of questions in his mind, intending to figure them all out.
"Yes," the humanoid shadow replied in a low voice, "We call all the lives that come here to seek salvation with the last glimmer of hope as desperate people."
"Someone told me that as long as I find this place, I can get rid of the illusion." Lin Xin asked directly about his purpose this time.
"Hehehehehe escape? Method?" Black Shadow laughed nervously again.
"Another loser. The lies spread by losers regard this place as their last hope."
"Isn't there?" Lin Xin's heart became cold and his voice became gloomy.
"No?" The humanoid shadow suddenly became quiet, "No, no, no, of course, of course!"
"So, how can you tell me?" Lin Xin said in a low voice. Everything here made him feel extremely strange. Unlike other countries that traveled through Youfu, this place seemed to be full of despair, death, and uneasiness.
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"I don't need anything." The black shadow leaned down and put his head close to Lin Xin. Although it was just a black shadow shaped like a head, Lin Xin could still feel that he seemed to be looking at him carefully.
"Tell me your name." The shadow said softly in a whispering voice, "I want to tell you quietly, only tell you one person." He seemed to be whispering.
"Red flowers." Lin Xin said casually.
"Red flower? I am that Shura. I have forgotten how many years I have been here. It has been too long, too long, too long, and my memory has problems. I am not sure if my method still works, but you can try it.
"The shadow said softly in a sweet, hoarse, yet sticky voice.
"What method?" Lin Xinxin was holding the red flower sword all the time. As the black shadow approached, he was ready to draw the sword at any time.
"Hey hey hey hey!!" The black shadow suddenly stepped away, returned to its original posture, and let out an unknown laugh.
"You know what?"
He suddenly appeared in Lin Xin's ear again like lightning and spoke softly.
"Youfu is alive"
"Did you find that in You Mansion, killing can no longer improve your cultivation level quickly?"
"Have you discovered that you can get enough promotion by killing in the outside world?"
"Did you find that you can no longer keep up with the speed of hallucination strengthening just by relying on the killings in You Mansion?"
Every question pierced Lin Xin's heart like a sharp sword. His heart kept tightening and his pupils suddenly shrank into small holes.
"What should I do!?" He suppressed the urge to take action at any time and asked in a deep voice.
"Kill, kill." Shura, the humanoid black shadow, laughed weirdly, "Kill endlessly in Youfu, you need endless nutrients from different worlds, from different times, everything."
As he spoke, the entire black shadow gradually became silent, and there was no more sound.
"Kill? What to kill and where to kill?" Lin Xin wanted to know more, but found that the other party had completely lost his voice.
"are you still there?"
No response.
"Do you have any wishes that you need me to fulfill?"
"Or do you want to get something?"
"What can I do to help you get out of here?"
Tested again and again, seduced again and again, but the human-shaped black shadow did not respond at all.
In the end, Lin Xin simply sat down here cross-legged and waited. This human-shaped black shadow, Na Shura, definitely knew almost all the secrets. If he couldn't get enough information from him, it would be really difficult to come back next time.
This was a few days of waiting, and he recorded it with the time dial he brought. Five full days passed, but no matter how he called, there was no response from the human-shaped black shadow.
In the end, he tried to touch the other person, but it was like an illusion. The other party could not be touched at all. It seemed like it was just a ball of shadow and light floating in the air.
In desperation, he could only return along the original path, use Qinggong to speed down the mountain.
When passing by the mountainside, the circle of black bugs was still flying around the corona. It seemed tireless.
Lin Xin glanced at it from afar, then continued to return to the original route.
There is no danger, no murderous intent, no sunshine, and no hope.
He felt a little empty in his heart, but he didn't know what was missing.
Not long after, he arrived again at the mummies worshiping around the bonfire.
"What the hell is this place?"
"Is Youfu alive?"
"Killing? Continuous killing. If it doesn't mean killing in You Mansion, then it means killing somewhere else."
"Perhaps it refers to the killing on the surface of the earth, in the underworld?" He stood in front of the fire, looking back at the dazzlingly red top of the volcano in the distance.
He vaguely recalled that he seemed to feel that his killing skills improved much faster in the world than in the Netherworld. The hallucinations also seemed to be alleviated a lot.
"Youfu, are you encouraging us to kill people in our own world to provide him with nutrients?" Lin Xin had a faint suspicion in his mind.
After crossing the fire, he left the town and soon returned to the lava lake, where the formation of the Short Sky Flower was located.
"Can I still come here?" He turned back and looked at the volcano in the distance. If he just left like this, he would be a little unwilling.
He came here to find a way out of the hallucination. But now, he just learned from a strange black shadow that he could try to solve the problem by killing.
There is no reason, no foundation, he cannot completely choose to believe the other party.
After removing the formation, he looked at the short sky flower that gradually emerged. In the middle of the petals was a dark tunnel entrance, which was the way back.
"I wonder if demon talismans can be used here."
Suddenly his heart moved, he took out a demon talisman and gently injected spiritual energy into it.
A subtle trembling sound spread from the demon talisman. Within a few seconds, the entire metal demon talisman suddenly burned. The red flame burned violently on Lin Xinxin's body, but no heat spread. It was as if it was not a fire at all.
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"This!?" He tried to activate the formation disk to expel the flames, but to no avail. The red flame seemed to be ordinary fire, but it had no characteristics of flame at all.
A piece of demon talisman was quickly burned and completely vaporized.
The fire slowly extinguished.
Lin Xin felt disappointed and took back his hand, knowing that there was no way to summon the carriage. After all, he turned around and walked towards Short Sky Flower without hesitation.
Standing directly below the cave entrance, he raised his head and whispered softly.
"Double-faced country."
A strong suction force suddenly pulled Lin Xin to the surface, and with a sneer, his whole body was immediately swallowed by the flower.
Short Sky Flower burped like a human being, and the entire plant quickly turned black, dried up, and became limp. After just a few breaths, it turned into a pile of dead plant remains.
Lin Xin returned to the tunnel that looked like a black intestinal wall, flying forward in twists and turns. When he looked back, he saw that all the intestinal wall passages behind him turned completely black the moment he flew through.