Suddenly, a weak female voice slowly poked its head out from the darkness on the side.
She was wearing thick black clothes that looked like a raincoat, and she wore a hood-like hat with her head lowered. Her face could not be seen, but it could be seen that she was not tall and she seemed to be shivering.
She was holding several small figures in her hands, all standing in the shadow outside the firelight, and they seemed to be her children.
"It's so cold. Please, please, please let me and my children come over to warm themselves by the fire." The woman lowered her head and begged weakly.
Lin Xin watched her standing in the dark with her children, wearing a hood and lowering their heads. Her children also had their heads lowered, their faces could not be seen, and they were silent, so quiet that it seemed a little lifeless.
people!
He didn't know why this idea suddenly came to his mind, but he couldn't help but think of this word like this.
"Please do good," the woman stood at the edge of the fire and kept begging, as if she was about to freeze to death.
Lin Xin thought for a while.
"Where are you from?"
He planned to get some intelligence information from this woman.
"Please do me a favor." The woman seemed to have not heard his question at all and kept repeating the same sentence.
I don't know why, but seeing her like this, Lin Xin couldn't help but feel sympathy and pity in his heart, and he suddenly opened his mouth.
"If that's the case, then you can go in."
Halfway through the words, he felt his scalp numb, something was wrong, because he immediately saw the woman suddenly raise her head, with some bulging eyes staring straight at him on a pale and bloodless face.
His eyes were a little hairy, with a hint of strange joy.
He grabbed the hilt of the sword at his waist.
puff.
Suddenly there was a burst of flames, and Lin Xin's eyes blurred for a moment. When Lin Xin returned his gaze, he saw that the woman and her child had disappeared.
"You have to be careful." The voice of Hongye Sword Master suddenly came from the darkness.
His figure soon appeared at the edge of the fire.
"What are you careful about?" Lin Xin asked.
"This fire represents your life, your soul, and all the roots of your essence." Hongye Sword Master said lightly, "Those things just now wanted to extinguish and devour your origin."
"Origin?" Lin Xin didn't understand this word for a while.
"From the moment you enter, the area of fire where you stand is the area illuminated by your current fire of life. Once you leave here, or the bonfire is extinguished, you will also die." Red Leaf Sword Master
explained.
Lin Xin's heart moved. He held the red flower sword and slowly injected spiritual energy, hoping to activate and summon Yinmantuo.
But the sword blade didn't respond at all, and the summoning failed!
"It's useless to summon creatures. This is not reality, nor is it Two-faced Kingdom. Do you have any treasures on your body that can resist decay?" asked the Red Leaf Sword Master.
"Yes." Lin Xin nodded.
"If you put it on your body alone, its effect will be very weak. You'd better put it into the campfire. It is the fire of your life, the fire of all your origins. Use this treasure to comprehensively enhance the origin, and perhaps it can be fundamentally improved.
Maximize the use of treasures.”
The Red Leaf Sword Master explained carefully.
Lin Xin nodded slightly, it did make sense. He took the herring lantern off his chest, held it in his hand, and walked to the bonfire.
"What should I do?" He still believed in the Red Leaf Sword Master. After all, the opponent's strength was much higher than his own. There was no need for him to deliberately plot to harm himself.
"Throw that treasure into the bonfire and that'll be all." The Red Leaf Sword Master whispered.
Lin Xin took the herring lantern and was about to throw it into the bonfire when he suddenly felt an inexplicable awkwardness welling up in his heart.
He hung his hand by the campfire and stopped.
"The Red Leaf Sword Master has never talked so much. He used to be very nervous and would talk without saying a word. Why has he become so talkative today?"
He turned back to look at where the other person was.
But unexpectedly, I looked into the sky. There was no one there, just empty darkness.
Feeling a little chilly in his heart, Lin Xin put down the herring lantern and put it in his heart again.
"You let it go? Why don't you let it go?"
Hong Ye Sword Master's voice came again, and it seemed to be vaguely urgent.
Lin Xin looked around, but could not see his figure at all.
He simply sat calmly by the fire, turning a deaf ear to all sounds.
Time passed slowly, and Lin Xin didn't know how long it had passed. He only knew that he was getting hungrier and thirstier, but he did not dare to leave the fire.
Whenever he wanted to leave to find some water, he would immediately be urged to sit down again by a strong sense of crisis in his heart.
After repeating this for several times, the hunger in his heart became stronger and stronger.
The food in his storage bag was quickly eaten, but the sky was still black without any light.
He didn't know how long this situation would last, and the bonfire showed no signs of weakening and burning out. But his intuition told him that it was best to maintain the status quo.
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In the woods beside the waterfall.
The Red Leaf Sword Master seemed to be walking aimlessly, neither too fast nor too slow, as if he was taking a walk. The extremely dangerous beasts around him were as if they were avoiding snakes and scorpions. If they saw him from a distance or smelled his scent, they would
Run away quickly.
In the lush and dangerous woods, he felt like he was in no man's land.
After walking for a long time, he slowly stopped in a broad forest.
In mid-air in the forest, there was a wrinkled old man with gray hair and dirty clothes hanging all over his body.
The old man's body was tied around the neck with a large number of white silk threads and hung among five trees. There were circles of fine formations on the ground under him, as if a fixed formation was formed to trap him.
"You're still the same." The old man closed his eyes and said in a low voice.
"On the ninth floor, how many people are coming in?" Hongye Sword Master asked slowly.
"More than a hundred people, the ones who came in within fifty years, are almost dead." The old man replied.
"Did you find any seeds?" Hong Ye Sword Master continued.
"You have thousands of incarnations, don't you have a supervisor on each floor?" the old man asked.
"You know, I only have two hours of waking time every day." Hongye shook his head.
"It's only during these two hours that I dare to come see you." The old man also smiled bitterly. "Is there another person coming in at Shishiyuan?"
Hongye was silent for a moment and nodded slowly.
"Both of them have potential after entering."
"Just watch, just watch, don't interfere."
"One of the ones in the Kingdom of Hades is watched by me. The other one is watched by Qiu Shui."
"Qiushui Sword Master, is she not dead yet?"
"Last time, only Huangtan died." Hongye fell silent after saying that.
The old man sighed.
"Where's the white sparrow?"
"When I went crazy, she didn't have time to run away." Hongye paused, "I ate her."
The old man fell silent immediately.
After being silent for a long time, he seemed to have managed to regain his mood. Then he spoke again.
"It's okay, she has always loved you, and she can be with you forever." The old man showed a sincere smile of blessing.
"Enter bliss forever and escape from the sea of suffering."
"Maybe." Red Leaf Sword Master said expressionlessly. "I came to you to get some Bizhen Fruit."
"What did you trade it for?"
"A drop of essence and blood." Hong Ye said calmly.
"Two drops."
"One drop."
"Two drops!" the old man emphasized.
"Half a drop." Hongye remained expressionless.
"You're really good. Just drop by drop." The old man said helplessly and sighed. He carefully pulled a white beard from his chin and gently threw it forward.
The beard fluttered slowly and fell on the soil between the two of them.
As soon as it touched the soil, the beard suddenly burrowed into the soil and disappeared quickly.
Both of them waited patiently and watched where the beard disappeared.
Soon, the white beard sprouted a head from the soil. Then it quickly became thicker and divided into branches.
The branches grow taller and taller. They grow bigger and bigger. It takes almost only a dozen breaths to grow into a small silver tree as tall as a person.
This small tree is quickly covered with dense green leaves, and each leaf is as crystal clear as jade and extremely beautiful.
Soon, large and small flower buds appeared among the branches of the tree. The silver flowers were like peonies, opening slowly. They were gorgeous and noble. After a while, the petals withered and fell one after another. Silver mice unknowingly appeared in the flower buds, hanging upside down.
On the tree trunk.
The silver mice had their slender tails connected to the tree trunks, motionless, shiny and smooth. After a closer look, they discovered that they were silver fruits that looked like mice.
"Thirteen in total." Hong Ye made a move with his hand, and immediately all the mouse fruits fell down automatically, flew towards his sleeves, and disappeared into them.
After that, he stretched out his fingers again and raised them in front of him.
With a click, a section of his index finger broke off automatically and flew towards the old man.
The index finger dissolved in mid-air and turned into a ball of translucent light red blood, which seemed to be wrapped in a dazzling red light, constantly emitting light.
Hongye's complexion also turned slightly pale, and a trace of fatigue flashed in his eyes.
"Is he worthy of your investment?" the old man sighed.
"I have been paying attention to him. Among the group of people who entered, he is the one who has the most nourishing life. He is also the one who knows Youfu the fastest. The one who can use local forces to help the fastest is still him. Until a while ago,
He went through a trance and was safe and sound." Hong Ye Sword Master explained calmly.
"It hasn't been more than fifty years since he came in safe and sound, right?"
"yes."
"No wonder" the old man understood.
"I'll go first." Hongye took the mouse fruit and turned to leave.
The old man was left looking at the pool of blood floating in front of his eyes, thoughtfully.
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"It should be five days."
Lin Xin sat by the campfire, motionless.
The surroundings were still dark, with no moon or starlight, only the bonfire in front of him burning brightly.
The strong sense of hunger and thirst kept stimulating his nerves. He wanted to go to a place not far away to drink water, but his instinctive sense of threat and crisis kept reminding him that once he went there, he might never be able to return.
Coming.
The food in the storage bag seems to be consumed very quickly. I don’t know why. Obviously with his current state, there will be no problem if he doesn’t eat or drink for a while, but now he feels aroused after only such a short time.