You Should Have Died Long Ago.

On the back of these white jade steps were clusters of black mist as thick as liquid. When Ning Ruirui looked up, she saw that the black mist on two of the steps had slowly condensed into human shapes. They looked exactly like her and Xia Tian in body shape, and their facial shapes and appearances were becoming more and more alike.

"...What's going on?" Ning Ruirui found it difficult to understand and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

“Pah!”

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At this time, someone came up from below, clapped his hands, and shouted to Ning Ruirui and Xia Tian: "Stop looking, if you keep looking, you will die here."

"Who are you?" Ning Ruirui then retracted her gaze and looked at the person who came. She found that it was a young man wearing a blue robe, about twenty-four or twenty-five years old. He had no eyebrows but a pair of phoenix eyes, a thin face, and a faint scholarly air.

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"My name is Meng Liangyu, and I'm a storyteller." The eyebrowless young man laughed and bowed to Ning Ruirui and Xia Tian, ​​"What are your names?"

"My name is Ning Ruirui, and his name is Xia Tian." Ning Ruirui casually said her own name and Xia Tian's name. She did not intend to reveal any extra information, and there was nothing much to say.

Xia Tian added: "I'm the boyfriend of the girl with long legs. You'd better not have any ideas about her, or I'll beat you up."

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"So it's Miss Ning and Mr. Xia. I'm sorry for offending you just now." Meng Liangyu didn't mind. After all, it was their first meeting, so it was reasonable to be on guard. "Mr. Xia, you're worrying too much. Liangyu definitely doesn't have such dirty thoughts."

"My boyfriend is always outspoken. He didn't mean it. Don't mind it." Ning Ruirui turned around and glared at Xia Tian, ​​and whispered, "You bastard, can you please stop offending people as soon as you open your mouth?"

"Really?" Xia Tian said with an innocent look on his face, "I just kindly reminded him so that he wouldn't get beaten up later and not know why."

"Forget it, I can't make you understand. Don't talk for a while. I want to ask him something." Ning Ruirui thought of the previous incident and asked Meng Liangyu, "What was that thing just now? Do you know?"

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"I don't know what that thing is." Meng Liangyu showed a regretful look, and then raised his eyebrows, "However, I have experienced its terribleness, so when I saw you two being attacked just now, I couldn't help but warn you."

Ning Ruirui looked at Meng Liangyu and felt a strange feeling in her heart. This man looked innocent and harmless, and his expression was quite calm, but there was a bit of cunning and calculation in his eyes. It was rare to see two completely different temperaments combined in one person, and there was no discord at all.

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"What's so scary about it?" Ning Ruirui asked.

"If you two look at it for too long, it will slowly grow into your appearance, almost exactly the same." Meng Liangyu lowered his head slightly, trying to avoid looking at the bottom of the stairs above. "In this way, your vitality will be divided by them. They will keep splitting and replicating you. When a certain number of you are replicated, you will die of exhaustion."

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Ning Ruirui felt a little scared after hearing this. She subconsciously wanted to look up again, but she moved her neck and held back.

"Then you should have died a long time ago." Xia Tian interrupted, "How come you are still alive?"

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"Mr. Meng, do you have any way to avoid it?" Ning Ruirui thought so too. This man just mentioned that he had experienced the horror of that thing, and it was obvious that he had been hit a long time ago. According to him, he should have died of exhaustion long ago.

"There is indeed a way." Meng Liangyu looked at Xia Tian in surprise. He originally thought that this man was ordinary, and he was just an ordinary person, but he didn't expect that he had such a sharp mind.

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Ning Ruirui asked: "What method?"

"This is not a place to talk. Please follow me!" Meng Liangyu looked around vigilantly, suddenly stepped on a step, gently floated away from the entire staircase that curved downward, and slowly moved towards the hollow in the center.

"So these stairs can be dismantled and used?" Ning Ruirui understood and immediately grasped what he meant. She moved out a stair and followed Meng Liangyu.

Xia Tian didn't do that. He just hugged Ning Ruirui and stepped on the same ground with him.

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"These stairs are both numerous and countless." Meng Liangyu explained as he moved. "If you are completely targeted by the black fog, then these stairs will be endless and you will be exhausted to death. If you avoid their replication, then these stairs will only be 10,000, but divided into three parts. The first two parts are not important, I will take you directly to skip them. It's just that the last part still needs your help, otherwise no one can go down, and no one can go up either."

"I see." Ning Ruirui nodded, "Then what do you mean by help?"

"There is a door at the end of this passage that needs seven people to work together to open it." Meng Liangyu did not hide anything and said softly in a tone that Xia Tian and Ning Ruirui could hear: "Originally, we were all there, but a golden light appeared just now and two of our friends were killed. So I hope you two can fill the vacancies. As long as the passage down is opened, everyone will have a way out. I'm sure you won't refuse."

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Just as Xia Tian was about to say something, Ning Ruirui quickly covered his mouth and said with a smile, "Of course there is no problem, but we are not very familiar with this place. Can you explain it in detail?"

"Could it be that the two of you were accidentally drawn into this Guixu Secret Realm?" Meng Liangyu showed a look of surprise on his face, and whispered to himself: "That's a bit bad, I don't know if this can be accomplished."

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"Guixu Secret Realm?" It was the first time that Ning Ruirui heard this name. When others mentioned this place before, they only said it was an underwater palace or an underwater world or something like that.

"There are three secret realms between heaven and earth, one is called Heavenly Palace, the second is called Netherworld, and the third is called Guixu. These are the names given by the ancestors of the Yuan family, how could you not know them?" Meng Liangyu looked at Ning Ruirui and Xia Tian in confusion, and asked curiously, "Aren't you two fellow cultivators invited by the Yuan family?"

"We are cultivators, but we were not invited by the Yuan family." Ning Ruirui didn't want to explain too much, and just said lightly: "We came here by accident, so we don't know much about this place."

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"Then you..." Meng Liangyu's eyes flickered, and after a few seconds of silence, he asked, "What era did you come in?"

"What era?" Ning Ruirui was a little confused. This question made her not know how to answer.

Meng Liangyu said slowly, "I entered this place through the Sea Eye at the invitation of the Yuan family eighty years ago. At that time, there were hundreds of people coming with me, but less than fifty people actually entered this secret realm. Only seven or eight people are alive now, and we just lost two more. Although the Yuan family has allowed several batches of people in over the years, unfortunately the quality is uneven and it is not enough to be of great use."

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"We came here these few days." Ning Ruirui thought about it and felt it was not right to say that she flew here, so she added, "We took a cruise ship to an island, took several tests, and then entered the seabed."

"This is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the work of the Yuan family. Could another family be involved?" Meng Liangyu showed a puzzled expression, but soon regained his composure. "It doesn't matter how we got in. What matters is whether we can work together to reach the next level."

Ning Ruirui took the opportunity to ask, "Then do you know what's on the next level?"

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"How do you know if you haven't been there yet?" Meng Liangyu smiled faintly and avoided the question.

"Since you know this is the so-called Guixu Secret Realm, you must know something else." Ning Ruirui asked, "Is there anything you can't tell me?"

"You'd better not make up lies. I can tell." Xia Tian glanced at the man lazily. "The long-legged girl is a little stupid, but I am the smartest person in the world. If you dare to tell a lie, I will beat you up."

"Boy, you are so arrogant!" A buzzing voice sounded not far away, shouting at Xia Tian: "If you dare, beat one up for me to see?"

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As they were talking, Meng Liangyu had already brought Xia Tian and Ning Ruirui to a small square made of white jade steps. Below the square was a white barrier of the same size as the passage, which should be something like a barrier.

This square is suspended in the corner on the right side of the center of the passage, with an area of ​​about 20 to 30 square meters. Four young men and women of different identities are standing on it.

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One of them was a man and a woman, both dressed like young students from the Republic of China period. Another one was a newspaper boy of about twelve or thirteen years old. The remaining man looked strong and robust, wearing a yellow short jacket on the upper body and grey shorts on the lower body. He looked like a rickshaw puller in TV dramas of the Republic of China. It was this man who yelled at Xia Tian.

"Kuliqiang, stop yelling." Meng Liangyu glared at the man. "I invited Mr. Xia and Miss Ning to help. Now that Reporter Liu and Boss Zheng are dead, they can fill the gap."

"What the hell!" Kuliqiang glanced at Xia Tian with disdain, then looked at Ning Ruirui and spat, "This guy looks like a piece of trash, he's useless. But this lady is extremely beautiful, ten times more beautiful than the famous star Hu Die. Keep this lady, kill that man and throw him down to feed those ghosts."

"You idiot, you want to die, don't you?" Xia Tian said dissatisfiedly, "The long-legged girl is my girlfriend. Anyone who wants to take advantage of her will either become a eunuch or a dead person. Which one do you choose?"

"I choose you...die!" Kuliqiang was full of anger, his eyes flashing with undisguised ferocity. He walked up to Xia Tian in two or three steps, clenched his fist and said, "Little pretty boy, you dare to challenge me, you think your life is too long."

"Kuliqiang, what are you doing!" Meng Liangyu was shocked and quickly stopped him: "I invited Mr. Xia to help. If you attack him, you are showing disrespect to me."

"Tsk, you stinky storyteller, you really think you're the boss." Kuliqiang didn't mean to give Meng Liangyu face, "Reporter Liu is a cultured person, Boss Zheng is a rich man, I have no opinion on what they say. You are a low-class thing, you can't beat me, why do you give me orders?"

"You..." Meng Liangyu's face flushed, "You are so disrespectful. Didn't we agree before that I will be the one making the decision for now? We can talk about other things later."

"I've changed my mind. I have the final say here now." Kuliqiang curled his lips, pointed at Ning Ruirui and the young female student and said, "This lady and this female student are all mine. I'm not interested in going to the upper and lower classes anymore, and I don't want to go there anymore. Now I just want to enjoy myself, and having a few more women will make my life worthwhile for the past few decades."

“Bang!”

Before he could finish his words, Kuli Qiang was suddenly sent flying backwards, knocked down the wall of the passage, and fell heavily to the ground, spitting out several mouthfuls of blood. His life or death was unknown.