Chapter 514: Passage to the Underworld

Ji Xun and his companions watched as the lifeless tree root was thrown into the elemental spring, and then the entire secret realm turned into a world of roots.

Everyone was like an ant underground, trapped by the dense roots of the tree.

The tree roots are the world.

Ji Xun then understood that one of the goals of the Sun Cult and the Scarlet Cult from the beginning was this [Moon Well].

After all, any spell magic requires energy consumption.

The energy required to recall the Golden Dragon God Malodius from the underworld is even more unimaginable, and this is definitely not something that two guerrilla Outer God sects can raise.

Therefore, they originally planned to absorb the elemental energy in the [Moon Well].

Only the elemental energy accumulated in this secret realm for more than 100,000 years can support the spread of the world tree roots from the life plane to the underworld.

The reason why they took action now was that the two heretical sects had been watched by the main force of the Holy See. If they really came directly, they would definitely be stopped; and secretly letting Mrs. Mister's team explore through the ancient map was a secret and safe method.

Just like now.

"Old Xie" successfully located the Moon Spring through Mrs. Mister's location in advance.

They achieved their goal as soon as they came, and the people of the Holy See had no way to stop them.

From a certain perspective, Ji Xun and his team also helped the two sects.

But none of this matters.

The important thing is that the roots of the world tree suddenly covered the entire secret realm, and even the secret passage behind them was blocked by the ubiquitous roots.

This is countless times larger than the scale of the roots in the previous mirror secret realm, and it is still expanding.

Originally, Ji Xun and his team planned to escape when they saw that the situation was not good.

Now looking at the situation, the entire dead zone should be covered by the roots of the world tree.

And this is not the worst.

What's worse is that the environment has changed.

Just as the roots of the World Tree spread upward, a special smell of mud filled the entire space.

A layer of gray mist also floated in the air.

The mist was mixed with a thick cold breath of death and darkness.

It was like a deep well was opened, and some dangerous breath from the ground leaked out, becoming more and more dense.

Seeing this, Ji Xun felt an uncontrollable solemnity in his heart: "The breath of the dead? Is the passage to the underworld completely opened?"

The reason why he was so sure, in addition to knowing Lao Xie's purpose, was because he had seen it once.

Back in Shangbang Prison, the new king of Orlan summoned the gate to the underworld once, and it felt very similar to now.

"Lao Xie" and the cloaked man disappeared, and the white crow in the sky also disappeared.

In a blink of an eye, the fog was so thick that you couldn't see your fingers.

However, looking at the fog around him, Ji Xun actually found that the fog was like the power of elements, containing a faint extraordinary characteristic.

"Use feast to devour, unknown dark element affinity +0.001"

"Use feast to devour, unknown dark element affinity +0.002"

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Although it was weak, what was absorbed was actually the "unknown element".

"What's going on?"

Ji Xun always felt that something was wrong.

The natural elemental power in the air gradually disappeared and turned into this dark element.

Qin Rushi, who was standing by, also sensed something, tilted her head and looked over, and whispered: "The environment is wrong!"

She also found that she could not absorb elemental power from the surroundings, but she didn't know what was wrong.

The Dark Peacock saw it and said bluntly: "This is the breath of the underworld"

Ji Xun certainly knew it was the breath of the underworld.

But it stands to reason that even if these tree roots are connected to the underworld, there shouldn't be no normal elements around.

I originally thought that the biggest danger would be the "white crow".

But I didn't expect that the crow didn't hurt anyone, and the environment suddenly became strange and dangerous.

Before they figured out what happened, Ji Xun suddenly felt the old man Xu on his shoulder move.

Ji Xun quickly put him down and asked, "Senior, are you awake?"

The anchor of life woke up.

Just now, I still felt the fatal crisis lingering in my heart, but looking at the old man Xu who suddenly woke up, the sense of crisis was inexplicably not so strong.

"Oh, what happened to me."

Old man Xu seemed to be drunk and blacked out, rubbing his dizzy head and woke up.

He looked at three pairs of eyes staring at him, touched the back of his head, and grinned with his signature wretched smile: "Ji Xun boy, why are you looking at me?"

Looking at this expression, Ji Xun knew that he didn't have a big bowel movement, and a trace of pity flashed in his eyes, but he also said: "Senior, you read the [Forbidden Ruins Stele] before and then fainted."

He knew that the old man probably forgot, and wanted to help him recall, maybe he could get some useful clues.

For example, what content did he see to faint.

But before he finished, Old Man Xu saw the fog around him, shuddered, and yelled: "Ouch! Why did you come to the underworld?"

As he said this, the old man had a look of regret on his face: "It's over, it's over. I haven't lived enough, how could I die in a muddle."

Ji Xun: "."

Qin Rushi: "."

Although Kong Que didn't understand their communication, Old Man Xu's cowardly expression didn't look like a good person.

Ji Xun keenly caught something, and asked in a slightly unbelievable tone: "Senior, is this the underworld?"

He was still in the Dead Realm just now, how could he come to the underworld?

He would rather doubt his own perception than the old-timer's judgment.

Qin Rushi also looked suspicious.

Old Man Xu listened to the inquiry and carefully observed his surroundings. Then he confirmed something and seemed to be relieved: "Oh no, someone has opened the door to the underworld before we reach the underworld. Are you here through the passage of the dead?"

Ji Xun asked again: "What is the passage of the dead?"

Old Man Xu did not lose his temper this time and explained directly: "Well, you can understand it as a void space. It is a special space that cannot be defined as space. It is the passage for living beings to the underworld."

"???"

This expression was a bit confusing, and neither Ji Xun nor Qin Rushi understood it.

However, looking at the indifferent expressions of the two people, Old Man Xu said angrily: "Ji Xun boy, can you still laugh? Appearing here means that we are dead!"

"ah?"

Ji Xun's eyes flickered, as if his mind couldn't accept the information in that sentence, and he asked: "Are we already dead?"

Hearing this, he and Qin Ru were really surprised.

Aren't they alive and well? Why did they die?

Old Man Xu explained anxiously and timidly: "The 'Passage of the Dead' is the way back after death. For living people, appearing in this passage is already dead!"

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Ji Xun still looked puzzled.

He pinched his own flesh and blood, but it didn't look like he was dead.

He looked at Qin Rushi again.

She felt the same way.

"Oh, I can't tell you clearly!"

Old man Xu slapped his thigh fiercely.

I don’t know if I really forgot or if I don’t know.

The old man didn't say anything more, he just muttered the words "It's over" and "It's over".

Ji Xun and Qin Ru would definitely not believe it when others said such nonsense.

But when Old Man Xu said it, both of them firmly believed it.

But... really dead?

It always feels like something absurd and unreal.

But for some reason, Ji Xun felt that he should pay attention to it, but he couldn't feel much sense of crisis in his heart.

He suddenly thought of the girl in Nanjing, and asked: "Ah, senior. I have a friend who can go to the underworld, and it seems that there is nothing wrong with him?"

Although he only knew that the Nan family had this special ability, it was a special case after all.

This gave Ji Xun the illusion that the underworld was a special plane.

You can come and go.

When Old Man Xu saw his indifferent expression, he said angrily: "You mean the apostle who travels between the world of living beings and the underworld? That is an ability that only certain [Psychics] with special physiques have. And it must be certain people. Only the apostles who are in the underworld can come back if they have a treasure like the Book of the Dead. Otherwise, do you think anyone can?"

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When Ji Xun heard this, he realized that the problem seemed indeed big.

But his thoughts changed and he captured another detail in the conversation: "In other words, we are not actually dead yet?"

Since a living person can go to the underworld, of course he is not dead.

Old Man Xu rolled his eyes: "No. But it's almost as good as death. If you can't leave this passage within seven days, you're dead."

This old man finally described it accurately.

In other words, are they now in a state between 'dead' and 'not dead'?

"oh?"

Not only was Ji Xun not worried when he heard this, but there was a strange color in his eyes.

In other words, there are still seven days to find the way back?

Since death is not inevitable, it doesn't seem to be that urgent for Ji Xun's temperament.

Sure enough, with this old senior by your side, you can always anchor a glimmer of hope.

Thinking of this, Ji Xun became optimistic.

Old Man Xu understood his expression and said with a strange expression: "You don't think you can find your way back in seven days, do you?"

Ji Xun and Qin Ru asked rhetorically: Could it not?

Old Man Xu said quietly: "It doesn't matter that your consciousness is still intact now. But before long, it will be polluted and corroded by the aura of the dead, and you will gradually forget everything in your life."

As he spoke, the old face as dark as bacon was full of sorrow, and he said: "Also, the roots of this world tree are the way for exiles to go to the underworld. Now our souls have been imprisoned by the roots, no matter which direction we go. , it is impossible to escape. This is why I told you before, don’t touch the roots of those world trees!”

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Ji Xun and Qin Rushu also suddenly understood how Emperor Lanlingst banished the Golden Dragon God Marodis to the underworld hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Only when they heard that their consciousness would dissipate did they realize the seriousness of the problem.

If consciousness really dissipates, wouldn't that be death?

But Ji Xun looked at the fog around him, and for some reason, he didn't feel the "feeling of amnesia."

A thought suddenly popped into his mind: Is the "unknown energy" that cannot be swallowed by the feast the source of pollution?

Thinking of this, Ji Xun kept using the feast to swallow up all the extraordinary characteristics of several people nearby.

Whether it is or not, try it first and then tell.

"Senior, is there anything else we need to pay attention to in this underworld passage?"

"How do I know? I also heard it from others. Otherwise, do you think a living person can come to this place?"

"Who did you listen to? Emperor Lanlingst?"

"Who is Lanlingster?"

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After asking Old Man Xu a few more questions, Ji Xun didn't get any more information.

The old man didn't use his big account, and was intermittently unreliable.

Ji Xun had long been accustomed to it.

He told the Dark Peacock about his current situation.

Originally, he thought that this mythical creature of the Hell species would know some information, but he didn't expect to get another result.

After a conversation, Ji Xun realized that the "hell" he had previously known was not a part of the underworld, but some special planes.

Only after crossing the River of the Underworld can you reach the real underworld. That is a place where even gods go and never return.

Ji Xun was really confused.

It's really like a bug in a glass cover, completely unable to understand the world outside the glass cover.

The four people and the peacock just kept walking along the tree roots.

Originally, they wanted to avoid the roots of the world tree, but no matter which direction they went, there was endless fog and endless tree roots.

Looking at it this way, it seems impossible to find the way back within seven days.

Old man Xu was as depressed and pessimistic as ever, and from time to time he played the role of the "negative emotion maker" in the team, chattering non-stop.

The peacock was also affected by the old man and was quite solemn.

In comparison, Ji Xun and Qin Rushi's mentality was good.

They were very calm about death.

Moreover, they knew the specialness of old man Xu.

Following this old man, they would always have a better chance of survival than others.

And if only a few of them came to this "passage of the dead", Ji Xun would really worry about how to find a way out.

But now, people from the three major outer god sects have come.

This matter is definitely not desperate.

At least the golden dragon god Maraudis is going back to the card master plane, so there is always a glimmer of hope.

Before, we had to avoid the battlefield, but now it seems that we have to find a way to find where the people from the three major sects are.

But before that, Ji Xun and his team still have to find a few people.

Just now, Qin Rushi received a signal for help from Bonnie and others.

Bonnie and others who left early did not escape from the dead zone and were also trapped in it.

The revolutionary army has mutual positioning devices on them.

Ji Xun and his four companions followed the direction and quickly moved through the gaps between the tree roots.

I don’t know if it was because Old Man Xu was in the team or because they were lucky, but they had a smooth journey.

However, they were successful, but Bonnie and her companions on the other side were not so successful.

About half an hour later, Ji Xun and her companions were walking and suddenly heard the sound of fierce fighting coming from the deep roots of the tree.

Qin Rushi sensed something and shouted: "Bonnie and her companions are in danger!"

Before she finished speaking, she had already rushed into the depths of darkness.

Ji Xun originally wanted to follow and take a look, but suddenly a strong aura of the dead surged around.

In a blink of an eye, a group of tattered skeletons emerged from the tree roots.

These skeletons had empty eyes and burned two balls of dark green phosphorous.

The armor on their bodies had long been rusted, but it still looked strong, as if it was forged with immortal souls.

The skeletons held various weapons in their hands, such as rusty swords, deadwood staffs, and knights riding skeleton horses.

[Skeleton Warriors], [Ghost Knights], [Skeleton Mages], [Headless Knights], [Fallen Ghosts].

There were so many of them in sight that they were countless.

Ji Xun frowned.

I don't know why so many skeleton monsters suddenly appeared.

However, when Old Man Xu saw this scene, he was so scared that his soul flew away. He stammered, "This is the Undead Legion! No, we may have entered the territory of a certain Undead Lord!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a group of people rushing over anxiously at the end of his vision.

Qin Ru was the last one to leave, and the people in front were surprisingly the cadres of the Revolutionary Army.

Bonnie, the "Deadly Poison Doctor", Sam, the "Holy Hammer", Rosen, the "Demolition Master", Shan Dong, the "Sick Tiger", and Chen Jianwuliu.

Although everyone was injured to varying degrees, fortunately, no casualties were reported.

The leader was Sam, who rushed forward with a heavy shield. He looked at Ji Xun and shouted anxiously, "Brother Ji Xun, run, don't think about fighting! These monsters can be resurrected infinitely and cannot be killed at all!"

The source of the trouble was revealed in one sentence.

The scary thing was not the monsters, but the "unkillable".

Ji Xun also realized that the crisis was not small, and thought about leaving first.

But just by delaying this moment, the road they came from was already densely packed with skeleton monsters. In an instant, the skeleton knight launched a charge, the skeleton warrior wielded the corroded weapon and rushed up, and the skeleton mage also released black light magic.

Fortunately, the rank of the skeleton monsters was not too high, and it was estimated that there were ranks from one to six.

Most of them were low-level skeletons.

Ji Xun didn't give them a chance to surround him, and punched them: "Ba Quan·Feng Hu Run Liu!"

When he punched out, it was like a tiger roaring through the wind, and the punch was like a mountain torrent.

There was a "crackling" sound of bones breaking, and a road of hundreds of meters was cleared in front of him in an instant.

The skeleton was shattered into pieces.

However, before Ji Xun could breathe a sigh of relief, a horrifying scene took place immediately.

The thick death aura lingered around, and there was a sound of bones splicing. The skeleton bones that were obviously broken into pieces stood up intact!

"Huh, it's perfectly restored?"

Ji Xun looked at him in surprise and confusion.

Not only the broken ones, but even those skeletons that turned into a bag of bone powder were restored.

In other words, his punch just now had no effect at all.

No wonder the cadres of the revolutionary army were in a panic.

These monsters are immortal, and a long battle will lead to defeat.

It was obviously a critical moment, but when he saw this scene, Ji Xun's expression became strange.

Because he felt familiar for some reason.

He had encountered endless skeleton monsters in "The Great Cemetery Maze" when he was still an apprentice card master.

At that time, he found a good way to deal with skeleton monsters. Skeletons have no flesh and blood and brains, and their perception system is problematic.

They can only perceive human mental fluctuations, such as "excitement", "bravery", and "fear".

In other words, controlling certain violent mental fluctuations can prevent being captured by monsters to a certain extent.

However, the skeletons in the maze were all low-level skeletons at the time, so this idea is feasible.

Ji Xun didn't know if it would be useful for these high-level skeletons.

However, when he turned around, he saw that Old Man Xu had already demonstrated correctly. His eyes froze instantly, and the old man seemed to have become a dummy in a wax museum.

At the same time, he did not forget to remind anxiously: "Ji Xun, kid, pretend to be dead!"

Ji Xun smiled.

Sure enough, the old man was reliable at the critical moment.

He thought of giving it a try, so he gathered his thoughts and tried to suppress all mental fluctuations.

This attempt was indeed effective.

The hatred of the skeletons that had been watching him just now almost left his body and turned to the cadres who were running wildly.

Ji Xun looked at this scene and knew that he still had to find a way to fight.

He and Old Man Xu could perfectly control mental fluctuations, but others might not be able to do so.

And those skeleton monsters above level 5 seemed to have wisdom.

Playing dead was not a good choice.

Thinking of this, Ji Xun quietly used a flying knife to pierce the phosphorescent fire in the skulls of several skeletons around him.

"Clang" the bones collapsed into a pile.

However, just as this pile of bones was struggling to recover, a black devouring force covered Ji Xun's body.

He used the feast ability to directly devour the disintegrating extraordinary characteristics.

"Use feast to devour, toughness +0.05, unknown dark element affinity +0.001"

"Use feast to devour, toughness +0.017, undead affinity +0.003"

"Use."

"Hehe, as expected"

Ji Xun looked at the two skeleton monsters that did not recover again, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

In "I am the world", everything must have cause and effect.

So when he saw the situation of monsters resurrecting infinitely before, he immediately thought about the principle of resurrection.

And when Ji Xun saw the phosphorus flames of the skeleton monsters that were killed before dissipate in an instant and become a free state that can be devoured, he guessed this possibility.

When he found that [Feast] could devour, these monsters were completely extraordinary experiences for him.