Sixty-eight, remnants of the dead world
"Maybe they are afraid of the cold." Ling Xi thought to himself, a layer of frost had formed on his arms, and he pressed the stone platform under his feet.
The spiritual power urged the ice to spread down, freezing the entire stone platform into an ice sculpture. The strange snakes beside the stone platform really avoided the spread of ice and surrounded the ice sculpture and did not dare to go forward. Ling Xi's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and his spiritual power could not support such a large amount of consumption.
"You..." Xiaoling saw Ling Xi's difficulty, so she wanted to ask worriedly.
Ling Xi shook his head and signaled that he was fine, took his arm back, and jumped straight from above the stone platform. He fell to the ground and staggered, almost unable to stand firm, so he hurriedly held the stone platform. The strange snake was about to get closer, and a faint layer of frost spread out from Ling Xi's feet, forcing the strange snake group to the corner.
The group of strange snakes tangled and dependent on each other, forming several wiggling balls of flesh, warming each other to resist the cold.
Ling Xi noticed that bells were hung around their necks, and the bells were made of iron and had no rust at all, and their workmanship was similar to the craftsmanship of the cliff country.
"Is this the animal that the Interior Supervisor put here to guard?" Ling Xi glanced at the dark hole, and could vaguely see that the bells tied to the neck of the strange snake were obviously different in size, and were embedded in the flesh.
"The bell is empty and there is no sound at all. Ling Xi, please pay attention to the wall there on your left side. There is something wrong with the wall there."
Ling Xi had no choice but to set fire to illuminate it, so he could only smear and touch the left wall based on his feeling. As soon as his finger touched the wall, a warm touch came from him.
No wonder these strange snakes are not afraid of the cold in the dark cave, and the walls are specially made by someone.
Ling Xi was puzzled in his heart. Is the Interior Manager really able to hide such a big project from the little emperor? You must know that this is underground, and it will take at least three to five years and thousands of labor.
"It's here, the walls are empty. There is also a layer of spiritual weapons wrapped inside, so my soul can't go in."
Ling Xi clenched his fists and knocked twice. The wall shattered like tiles, revealing the world inside. It was similar to the stone door in the passage, and the wall in front of him was also made of spiritual weapons.
However, Ling Xi pushed it gently, and a mechanism in the wall activated and automatically cracked to both sides. A biting cold wind blew out from it, which made Ling Xi shudder. Not to mention that the group of monster snakes not far away were all frantically escaping from the wall hole, as if there were some terrifying monsters inside to drill out.
Ling Xi often goes into places like caves and other places on weekdays, and has long been used to the dark environment, but the wall hole still gives him a sense of depression.
"There is no place to the outside world here, so how could the wind blow out?" Ling Xi murmured alone, stepping into the hole in the wall without hesitation.
A ray of frost immediately spread from under his feet, almost freezing him in place. Ling Xi hurriedly gave birth to rootless fire, burning the frost on his legs.
Xiao Ling pondered for a few times and explained to Ling Xi: "It is said that the Eight Wheel Realm was born in the extreme yin land of heaven and earth, and belonged to the soul-squeezing magic weapon of the Dead Realm. It was accidentally stolen by a person who sneaked into the Dead Realm. The Dead Realm was in chaos because of the Dead Realm, and countless souls rebelled. The man was quickly swallowed by the terrifying power of the Eight Wheel Realm, and was refined into a puppet by the Eight Wheel Realm, and he went to the mortal world to cause chaos."
Ling Xi felt a little nervous when he heard this, and interrupted Xiaoling and said, "What the hell is it? The first time I heard that there are magic weapons that can refine the host."
"Don't you understand?" Xiao Ling laughed twice, deliberately scaring him: "These legendary artifacts are blessed by the power of heaven and earth. If anyone can use them as soon as possible, wouldn't they reach the sky with their luck? Heaven and earth will not allow this situation to happen. If someone who is not strong enough wants to use it forcibly, they will be backfired by the artifact and refined into puppets."
Ling Xi was worried about the fragment and frowned.
"That's just a fragment, a fragment cut by the Yin-Yang Sword, and it won't devour you. Otherwise, you think how the Cial Kingdom hid this thing here."
"The Yin-Yang Sword can cut the eight-wheel mirror. So, can even the eight-wheel realm not reach the peak of the spiritual weapon?"
"The Eight Wheel Realm can only be considered Kun level, I know... It seems that only the Yin-Yang Sword used by Tiandi Zun is a Gan-level spiritual treasure. I don't know the others. The Eight Wheel Realm is relatively weak in Kun level and has no attack ability. The Yaozhu representing Yang is sealed in the sun. It is said that if it leaves the Yaozhu, the sun will be extinguished. You can imagine how terrifying the power of that Yaozhu is. In this way, it can only be considered a Kun-level spiritual weapon."
Even so, Ling Xi tried his best to keep his legs from being frozen, and there was still a layer of wet frost stuck to his robe.
"Ah!" A scream came from directly above Ling Xi's head, and it looked so shrill, like a hoarse woman pinched her throat and howled.
Ling Xi couldn't help but cover her ears and her eyes were turned upwards.
"The little emperor is there, and Gongsun Zhi's son is surrounded by a group of strange snakes."
Xiao Ling was stunned when she saw Ling Xi, and explained without waiting for him to ask: "There are no spiritual weapons to cover it, only the outer walls. With the financial resources of the Cliff Kingdom, she does not have the ability to fill the entire underground palace with spiritual weapons. Also, I suspect... this palace was built a long time ago."
"Why?" Ling Xi looked up at the top and found a way to jump up.
"Look at the foot of your feet, there is already a layer of ashes covered with ice."
Ling Xi leaned over and touched the ground, and there was indeed a thin layer of frozen ash condensed on the ground. "This is not important, we have to find a way to go up."
"The bricks on it are very crisp, you should be able to blow it away."
The little emperor and Gongsun Gongsun were surrounded by a group of strange snakes in the corner. One of Gongsun Gongsun's arms continued to seep blood, and bleeding from the cut wounds dripped on the ground, crazily stimulating the group of strange snakes.
Gongsun’s resistance was getting more and more difficult, and he was about to be torn apart by a group of strange snakes. The floor tiles several feet away suddenly opened and lifted a strange snake away.
Ling Xi flexibly jumped out of the cave entrance, and rolled cold air all over his body, forcing the strange snakes to retreat and rush forward to block them.
"Ling Xi!" The little emperor grabbed his legs with surprise, while Gongsun Gongzi looked surprised and leaned against the wall in relief.
"They are afraid of the cold. Gongsun Gongzi, you should be able to be Yuanling."
Gongsun Gongsun activated his spiritual power to summon the ice wall to isolate the group of monster snakes: "If I had known it before, how could it end up like this?"
"How did you get here?" Ling Xi asked them.
The little emperor stammered and couldn't answer it. Instead, Gongsun Gongzi replied: "The cabinet chief has set up many traps. I used a stone wall to separate you and me. I had no way out, so I could only lead the little emperor forward. Unexpectedly, I became colder and colder. When I wanted to keep the fire warm, the group of monster snakes came out of nowhere and started attacking us."
Ling Xi was skeptical about his words and did not ask any questions. His physical condition may not be the opponent of Gongsun Gongzi. Risky tearing him apart can only put him in a disadvantageous position.
Gongsun Gongsun didn't care whether Ling Xi believed or not, and only cared about himself: "It's so cold, the fragments of the Eight Wheel Realm should be very close. If we walk in, we can see the magical artifact."
"I don't want you to follow you." The little emperor's words made the atmosphere tense. He still grabbed Ling Xi's clothes and hugged behind Ling Xi.
Gongsun Gongsun smiled and bent down to the little emperor and said, "Your Majesty, one more person, you will be more you. With me next to you, the fire will be even more prosperous. Isn't that good?"
"I asked you to leave!" The little emperor was more nervous than anyone else and shouted at Gongsun.
Gongsun Gongsun's hand froze in the air and retracted it in disappointment: "Since that's the case, I'll wait for Your Majesty here. Please walk slowly."
Ling Xi breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Mr. Gongsun was worried about something and refused to expose himself easily. He was sure that Mr. Gongsun’s purpose was definitely fragments of the Eight Wheel Realm.
"Let's go." The little emperor took Ling Xi's hand and walked down. A ball of rootless fire ignited in Ling Xi's hand. As the little emperor went deep into the ground, he turned around and saw Gongsun Gongzi standing in place, his face was extremely gloomy and his eyes were staring at him.
Ling Xi held the little emperor's hand tightly, calming his heart and vigilantly.
"Ah!" The little emperor suddenly screamed and grabbed Ling Xi's hand. The echo of this sound was exactly the same as what Ling Xi heard below before. It seemed that the sharp woman's voice was made by the little emperor. There seemed to be many dense small caves here, and the sounds turned into a terrifying and weird tone through these caves.
"Shh." Ling Xi signaled the little emperor not to speak, and listen carefully to the sounds around him.
"Ling Xi, there are a lot of things around."
Without Xiao Ling reminding, Ling Xi's eyes had already seen many shadows approaching.
A ball of fire in Ling Xi's hand was even more intense, illuminating the entire space and seeing the things in front of him clearly.
Countless species that are even more deformed than strange snakes are creeping towards Lingxi.
They were all covered with a thick layer of cyan carapace, and mucus dripped from the carapace. The snake's head was twisted in an incredible shape, with its limbs covered with gray-white veins, and it stepped on the ground with force.
Ling Xi's scalp was numb. This thing didn't look like a living thing at all, and there was no sign of being alive.
"The remnant souls of the Dead Realm are transformed from the eight-wheel realm realm. Any creature who stays in the eight-wheel realm or the dead Realm for a long time will be refined into the remnant souls of the Dead Realm." The Great Sutra was not silent this time, and explained in detail the origin of these things to Ling Xi.
Ling Xi instantly realized that the group of monster snakes he had encountered before were all ordinary creatures being refined. After they were completely refined, they would shrink here and protect their magical artifacts.
The reason why those strange snakes were afraid of the cold was that they were afraid of the power of the Eight Wheel Realm and were afraid of being refined by the Eight Wheel Realm. Although they were just snakes, they still had the nature of seeking profit and avoiding harm.
"Xiao Ling, didn't you say that the Eight-Wheel Realm fragments won't refine us?" Ling Xi's back felt cold sweat oozing, and he felt that every moment he stayed here, he might have something strange in his body.
"I...I guessed." Xiaoling's words almost made Ling Xi fuck her. She grabbed the limp little emperor, turned around and ran away, and quickly stopped her pace.
At some point, a few souls from the dead world gathered behind them, staring at Ling Xi with gray and godless pupils and approaching them.
Chapter completed!