The third trial of the Land of the Ancient God was connected to the Realm of Nirvana. In the southwest corner, a speck of white light suddenly appeared. This speck of white light quickly grew until it looked like a hole had been torn open. An irregular, oval crack gradually appeared.
From the crack, a pair of hands with long nails and bone spikes suddenly stretched out.
The nails were slightly black and gave off a cold glow. They looked extremely sharp. As for the hands, they were covered in pustules, and each pustules had a thin bone spike sticking out.
After the pair of hands reached out, they grabbed at the edges of the crack and tore it apart. Immediately, a tearing sound could be heard, and the crack, which was already quite big, suddenly grew larger. It became a huge crack that was more than a hundred feet tall.
Bursts of intersecting red and black gas came out of the crack. Shortly after, a giant figure walked out of the crack.
This figure had a bulge on his back, making him look like a hunchback.
He was more than 100 feet tall, and his body was covered in pustules like his hands. Some of them had already ruptured and were leaking out a pungent, black liquid.
Bone spikes protruded from these pustules. It seemed that every part of this person's body, except for his arms, legs, and other places where his limbs intersected, was filled with bone spikes!
There were some scattered clothes hanging from the bone spikes on his body, making him look like he was in tatters. Looking up, this person's face was ferocious. His appearance was very similar to Hunchback Meng, who died in the first trial. However, his head was several times bigger than Hunchback Meng.
On top of his head were two spiral-shaped horns. Strands of blue lightning flickered between the two horns. From the looks of it, this person's aura was monstrous, like that of a demon that had come from the Nine Hells.
After he walked out of the crack with his hunchback, he squeezed the crack with his right hand. The crack immediately shrank until it was only a speck of light. After flashing a few times, it disappeared without a trace.
The demon raised his head and looked into the void. He muttered to himself, "Master said that no one is allowed to enter the fourth trial. Everyone here must die!"
After he finished speaking, he was about to fly forward when he suddenly sniffed and looked towards the southeast corner. He muttered to himself, "Strange, why do I feel an extremely disgusting aura over there? I can't wait to go there and tear the person who emits this aura apart!"
At this moment, a wandering soul suddenly appeared beside him. This wandering soul looked at the demon, then completely ignored him and swam past him.
The Fiendish Demon didn't even look at the wandering souls. He just stared at the southeast corner. His body immediately disappeared in a flash, rushing toward the aura that he hated so much.
Following the direction the demon was heading, Wang Lin's divine sense was at the other end of the World of Nirvana. He was looking at where the Ji Emperor was trapped. The light from the pagoda above Ancient Emperor's head was getting smaller and smaller as waves of wandering souls attacked. At first, it was 300 feet wide, but now it was only 150 feet wide.
After Wang Lin became a Soul Devourer, he no longer had any emotions that a mortal should have. All he had was endless calmness and ruthlessness. He was about to order the wandering souls to attack again when he suddenly looked toward the northwest. Through the wandering souls that were being controlled, he felt a strong fluctuation of divine sense coming from that direction.
Then, the controlled wandering souls used a special method to transmit what they saw to Wang Lin's divine sense.
"This … this is … Hunchback Meng!"
Wang Lin was shocked. Although the demon had changed a lot, he could still tell that the demon was Hunchback Meng!
Wang Lin withdrew his divine sense and stopped the wandering souls from attacking. Instead, he sent a message to the Ji Emperor.
"Hand over the inheritance item …" Ancient Emperor was startled. Even when he came here a thousand years ago, he had never heard of these strange creatures using divine sense to communicate. However, he quickly reacted and sent a message with his divine sense:
"Se … Senior, I … I don't know what the inheritance item you are talking about?"
After Ancient Emperor finished speaking, he felt bitter in his heart. Ever since he reached the Spirit Severing stage, he hadn't called someone senior in a long time. Now that he called someone senior, he felt it was a bit awkward.
Suddenly, his expression changed and he said, "Se … Senior, are you talking about the inheritance item to enter the Land of the Ancient God?
If it is really that item, then you have found the right person. It is with a person called Six Desire Devil Lord. "
Wang Lin pondered a little. The violent divine sense fluctuations were getting closer and closer. Through the wandering souls on the way, Wang Lin was able to clearly grasp the opponent's position. While he was talking with the Ji Emperor, he controlled the wandering souls to block and attack.
However, the opponent's body was extremely strange. No matter how the wandering souls attacked, they were unable to do any damage to the opponent. This caused Wang Lin to be shocked once again.
As for what the Ji Emperor said about the inheritance item not being with him, but with Six Desire Devil Lord, Wang Lin didn't believe it. Even if what the opponent said was true, with the personality of the Ji Emperor and the others, they wouldn't enter the Land of the Ancient God without hesitation. Otherwise, once they entered, they would be completely controlled by Six Desire Devil Lord. After all, Six Desire Devil Lord had the key to entering and leaving this place.
Regarding the inheritance item, Wang Lin first heard about it from Duanmu and the others. At that time, they didn't say much. Afterwards, Wang Lin analyzed the situation and came to this conclusion.
There must be something he didn't know that the Ji Emperor dared to fight with Six Desire Devil Lord in the second trial. Wang Lin's divine sense rippled and the surrounding wandering souls began to attack again.
The Ji Emperor clenched his teeth and said with his divine sense, "Although the Old Man doesn't have the complete inheritance item, when he first came here, he was given a fragment of the inheritance item. This fragment contains a technique that can be used to teleport people out of the Land of the Ancient God. Otherwise, the Old Man wouldn't be trapped here.
As for the fragment, after the Old Man memorized the technique, he crushed it. "
What the Ancient Emperor said was true. 1,000 years ago, when he entered this place, he was one of the experts. Naturally, he saw the legacy item clearly and even obtained the set of hand techniques. This was also why he could escape back then and still dare to come here again.
Back then, not many cultivators obtained this technique. The reason why no one was able to escape was because the technique could only be used at the whirlpool of each trial.
As a result, those who passed the first two trials didn't plan on giving up halfway. After missing the whirlpool of the second trial and entering the third trial, this place was too big. Looking for the exit was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
In addition, they were afraid of attracting those strange divine sense creatures, so they didn't dare to spread out their divine sense too far. As a result, finding the exit became even more difficult.
This technique could only be used at the exit. If the exit was at the whirlpool, then it would be useless. When he was at the exit of the second trial, due to the lack of time, Ancient Emperor didn't have the time to use this technique and had no choice but to enter the third trial.
"As long as you bring me to the exit of the third trial, I'll give you this technique in exchange!"
Ancient Emperor's eyes were calm, but he was secretly thinking. He didn't know what Hunchback Meng wanted the inheritance item for, but if he didn't give him an answer, the wandering souls would definitely attack again. At that point, only death awaited him.
Wang Lin didn't speak again. He moved his divine sense and the surrounding wandering souls began to attack again. Wang Lin silently calculated the time. Through the connection between the wandering souls, he knew that Hunchback Meng was not far away. He would arrive in about the time it takes for two incense sticks to burn.
Under Wang Lin's urging, the wandering souls' attacks became even more intense. At the same time, in order to speed things up, Wang Lin spread out his divine sense to summon more wandering souls to join in the attack.
Ancient Emperor's face was pale. He guessed that his answer was not the answer Hunchback Meng wanted. Ancient Emperor clenched his teeth and swallowed a few more pills to maintain the tower's light.
But the wandering souls' attacks were endless. Just as Ancient Emperor was feeling despair, he sent out another message.
"I'll give you the technique to make these strange creatures stop attacking …" With that, he quickly took out a piece of jade and placed it on his forehead. He held it in his hand and nervously looked around.
One incense stick of time had passed. Wang Lin moved his divine sense and the wandering souls immediately retreated. Ji Emperor let out a sigh of relief. He hesitated a little, clenched his teeth, and threw the piece of jade out of the tower's light.
After the piece of jade flew out, it was immediately surrounded by Wang Lin's divine sense. He scanned it and found a detailed technique recorded inside.
After Ancient Emperor threw out the technique, he immediately became nervous. He was afraid that Hunchback Meng wouldn't let him go after taking the jade.
Wang Lin pondered a little. The surrounding wandering souls suddenly charged forward and began to attack again.
Ancient Emperor smiled bitterly. His face was filled with hatred. He frantically used his own spiritual power to maintain the tower's light.
But there were too many wandering souls. Soon, the tower's light began to shake. Finally, with a bang, the tower could no longer withstand the wandering souls' attacks. A crack appeared in the middle and the tower broke into two.
At this moment, Ancient Emperor's body suddenly moved and he disappeared from his original position. Unfortunately, 10 zhang away, Ancient Emperor appeared with a cry of pain. Countless wandering souls pounced on him and devoured him at an extremely fast speed.
At this moment, a wandering soul came out of Ancient Emperor's body. He held a storage bag and flew to Wang Lin's side.
Wang Lin quickly left after taking the bag.
This time, he didn't go to find other cultivators. Instead, he quickly went to where he was hiding his body.
In the void, Ji Emperor's body was rapidly shrinking. His eyes were wide open and his face was ashen. Inside his body, his nascent soul kept spitting out nascent fire to stop the wandering souls from devouring him. But it could only stop them for a while.
Even if his life treasure wasn't damaged or his cultivation was still at the mid stage of Soul Formation, he still wouldn't be able to stop so many wandering souls from devouring him.
Not long after Wang Lin left, the demon that looked like Hunchback Meng moved like a meteor and arrived. He immediately saw Ancient Emperor and frowned. The aura he hated wasn't here. Just as he was about to chase after it, he suddenly stopped. He stared at Ancient Emperor and his eyes lit up.
He reached out and grabbed Ancient Emperor's withered body. With a shake of his hand, the wandering souls that were devouring the nascent soul were thrown out of Ancient Emperor's body.
After all the wandering souls were thrown out, his right hand tore the void and a spatial rift appeared. The demon let out a sneer and threw Ancient Emperor inside.
The moment the spatial rift appeared, one could clearly see that it was a blood-red world. The ground there was completely covered in thick, blood-red liquid. The sky was also dark red, like a piece of blue cloth soaked in blood.
There were countless cultivators sitting in the blood on the ground. Their appearances were very similar to the demon that looked like Hunchback Meng. They all had horns on their heads, and the number of horns varied from one to four.
There were many stone pillars around this blood red world, and each one had a cultivator sitting on top of it.
As far as the eye could see, there were many stone awls of varying sizes. The most eye-catching was an enormous stone awl that seemed to pierce the heavens. Sitting on top of it was a red-haired Cultivator. His head was lowered, making it impossible to see his face clearly. However, he radiated an arrogant and disdainful aura.
After Ancient Emperor was thrown in, his nascent soul hadn't been completely devoured by the wandering souls. He immediately took back his body. When he opened his eyes, his expression changed greatly.
"Red Fire Devil Lord … Mad Southern Wu Bai … Sky Devil Magician … You guys … You guys didn't die?"
The Ancient Emperor turned pale with fright. He immediately recognized a few of the demons. They were the ones who had entered the Land of the Ancient Gods with him a thousand years ago. However, they had all died here.
For example, Red Fire Devil Lord died on the restriction mountain in the second trial. Ji Di saw him get hit by purple lightning and turn to dust. Even his nascent soul couldn't escape his body.
There was also Mad Southern Wu Bai. He died on the third trial. He was swarmed by tens of thousands of demons and died in less than half an incense stick of time.
As for Sky Devil Magician, Six Desire Devil Lord's master, Ancient Emperor followed him closely. He saw Six Desire Devil Lord use the inheritance treasure to open a passage. Just as Six Desire Devil Lord was about to leave, he was suddenly attacked by a strange divine sense. Six Desire Devil Lord died without any resistance.
At this moment, these people that were supposed to be dead suddenly appeared here. He couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. He suddenly turned around and saw the demon that looked like Hunchback Meng in the spatial rift that was about to close.
"Hunchback Meng!"
Ancient Emperor's pupils shrank. At this moment, the spatial crack was closing. Ancient Emperor was on guard as he looked around. There were many cultivators here, but it was clear that all of them were people that had died in the Land of the Ancient God over the countless years.
A hoarse voice came from the blood red land. "Welcome to the Demon God Blood Sea …"
As for Wang Lin, his divine sense was very fast, so it didn't take long for him to cross the third trial. However, halfway there, he suddenly stopped. Through the senses of the wandering souls, he immediately noticed the change with Ji Di. He saw Hunchback Meng open the spatial crack and throw Ancient Emperor in. Even the moment the spatial crack opened, the red light was clearly seen by him through the wandering souls.
Wang Lin pondered a little. Although he had the jade that recorded the technique, it was hard to say if Ji Di had tampered with it. For safety's sake, he should find Duanmu, Wang Qingyue, and Six Desire Devil Lord and use the same method to find the way to leave.
However, the appearance of Hunchback Meng and the red light from the spatial crack made Wang Lin feel very scared. He decisively gave up on finding Duanmu, Wang Qingyue, and Wang Qingyue and quickly flew toward where his body was hidden.
Along the way, he kept track of Hunchback Meng's location through the wandering souls. He found that Hunchback Meng wasn't chasing him, but was instead flying toward Duanmu and Wang Qingyue. He quickly sped up and returned to where his body was hidden. The devil Xu Liguo and the second devil were quietly hiding inside the stone. When they noticed Wang Lin's divine sense return, they immediately flew out.
Wang Lin's divine sense flashed and went back into the stone. Not long after, he suddenly opened his eyes. His divine sense had grown a lot after being nourished on the way here.
His body moved and appeared from the stone. Without any hesitation, he flew toward the entrance to the fourth realm.
Wang Lin's face was gloomy. Hunchback Meng's sudden appearance had messed up his plan. Hunchback Meng's demonic appearance made Wang Lin's heart jump. Most importantly, Hunchback Meng was able to ignore the attacks of the wandering souls!
This was the main reason why Wang Lin decided to immediately leave the third realm. Wang Lin knew that his cultivation level was insignificant compared to those old guys. If it wasn't for the fact that this was the Nirvana Realm and there were a lot of wandering souls here, he wouldn't have been able to deal with them. He wouldn't even have the qualifications to face them.
Now that the wandering souls had no effect on Hunchback Meng, Wang Lin's biggest advantage was gone. If he were to encounter Hunchback Meng, the only road left for him was death.
Hunchback Meng only needed to wave his hand to turn him to ashes.
Wang Lin was well aware of this. Although he had the upper hand along the way, it was all because he was good at using external forces.
If Hunchback Meng hadn't been surrounded by the hurricane, he wouldn't have had the chance to beat a drowning dog.
But now that the external force had disappeared, both sides were on the same level. No matter how brave Wang Lin was, he had to make the decision to leave immediately.
Wang Lin was never a wishy-washy person. After he made his decision, he didn't hesitate and quickly flew toward the exit of the third realm.
Along the way, he didn't even bother devouring the wandering souls. He seized every second to quickly leave.
In truth, if Wang Lin was willing to give up his body and fly in his soul form, his speed would be even faster. This was why his divine sense left his body to travel around the third realm.
Just as he was halfway out, Wang Lin suddenly stopped. He suddenly turned around and his face was as gloomy as water. He looked in the direction of Duanmu Ji and Wang Qingyue. At that moment, he clearly saw a terrifying scene through the wandering souls.
Duanmu Ji and Wang Qingyue didn't last long under Hunchback Meng's attack. A giant demonic hand suddenly came out of the rift Hunchback Meng created and grabbed them. They were unable to resist at all and were pulled in.
The demonic hand's bone spurs were ferocious and gave off an evil aura that would cause anyone to feel fear.
Wang Lin's face was gloomy as he flew out once more. This time, he put away the devil Xu Liguo and the second devil. He drank a large gulp of spirit liquid and used 120% of his spiritual energy to quickly leave.
He could feel that the demonic Hunchback Meng was chasing after him at an extremely fast speed.
Wang Lin quickly moved. His expression was gloomy as he calculated in his heart. At his current speed, he should be able to reach the vortex before Hunchback Meng caught up.
But just at this moment, the demon-like Hunchback Meng used some unknown method to cover his body in a blood red light. His speed suddenly increased several fold and he closed the distance between them. Not only did he not slow down, he became even faster.
Wang Lin immediately noticed this and his heart sank. At this rate, in another incense stick of time, Hunchback Meng would catch up.
From here to the exit of the third trial, it would take about two incense sticks of time. Wang Lin scanned the area with his divine sense. Using the senses of the wandering souls, he quickly scanned the area. His eyes narrowed as he stared at a location in the distance. A bold idea appeared in his mind.
He hesitated for a moment, then changed his direction without saying a word. His position was slightly slanted, and he quickly escaped.
Six Desire Devil Lord's heart was in a mess. He didn't dare to spread out his divine sense too much, so he couldn't find the exit in the third trial. He had searched for a long time and finally determined that the exit was 90% to 90% to the northwest.
In fact, he had come to investigate this direction two years ago, but there were simply too many wandering souls here. Even though he had such a magical treasure on him, he did not dare to rashly barge in. Therefore, in the past two years, he had attracted a large number of wandering souls and eliminated them one by one before slowly advancing.
As a result, his speed was slow, but it was stable. At this rate, sooner or later, he would be able to enter the fourth trial and be transferred to the Ancient God's body.
At this moment, he was attracting large amounts of wandering souls and was about to use the body of the young man in his hand to kill them one by one. Suddenly, his expression changed and he spread out his divine sense. Although he didn't dare to spread it out too far, he could still clearly detect any movement within a radius of 100 feet.
He saw a young man appear 100 feet away. When Six Desire Devil Lord saw this person, he was startled, but he quickly revealed a grin and shouted, "Walking right into the trap!"
Wang Lin coldly stared at Six Desire Devil Lord. His speed didn't slow down, but instead increased. Large amounts of wandering souls appeared around Wang Lin. These wandering souls were like guards, protecting Wang Lin.
Just as Six Desire Devil Lord was about to make a move, he suddenly stopped. He frowned as he stared at the wandering souls around Wang Lin. His heart was filled with terror. These strange creatures that he had to be careful with not only didn't harm the junior, but were instead protecting him. This shocked Six Desire Devil Lord greatly.
So he didn't act rashly. His eyes were cold as he stared at Wang Lin. He wanted to see what this damned junior wanted.
Wang Lin stopped 100 feet away from Six Desire Devil Lord. The reason he had the wandering souls protect him was to send a signal to Six Desire Devil Lord not to act rashly.
Now that the signal was successfully sent, Six Desire Devil Lord didn't act rashly. Wang Lin secretly let out a sigh of relief. Although he wasn't afraid of Six Desire Devil Lord with the wandering souls around him, the thing in Six Desire Devil Lord's hand was very strange. If they were to fight, he wouldn't have enough time to get to the exit. After all, Hunchback Meng was about to arrive.
Wang Lin looked at Six Desire Devil Lord with a hesitant expression, but in reality, he was silently calculating the time.
Six Desire Devil Lord narrowed his eyes. He didn't have the ability to control the wandering souls like Wang Lin did, so he naturally didn't know there was a demon rushing towards them. So when he saw Wang Lin's hesitant expression, although he was confused, he still sneered.
If it wasn't for the fact that there were too many wandering souls around Wang Lin, he would have definitely taken the initiative to attack. But right now, he didn't want to cause any more problems, so he coldly snorted and said, "I'll let you go for now. I'll give you three breaths of time to scram for the Old Man. The further the better."
Wang Lin secretly counted a few breaths of time and revealed a strange smile. He thought to himself, "Now!" He immediately raised his head and clasped his hands at Six Desire Devil Lord and said, "Many thanks!"
With that, he immediately jumped out and charged towards the group of wandering souls to the northwest.
Six Desire Devil Lord frowned. Just as he was about to think about it, his expression suddenly changed. He saw a blood red meteor coming from the distance. In the blink of an eye, it arrived 100 feet away from Six Desire Devil Lord. The figure of Hunchback Meng was revealed!
"You … you are Hunchback Meng?!
You … you ate a Soul Transformation pill? "
Six Desire Devil Lord's pupils suddenly shrank. He immediately determined that Hunchback Meng's aura had reached the late stage of Soul Transformation and was only one step away from Soul Transformation.
To be able to reach this level of cultivation in such a short period of time, there was only one possibility, and that was that Hunchback Meng had eaten a Soul Transformation pill!
But almost in an instant, Six Desire Devil Lord moved the body of the young man in front of him to the side. He stared at Hunchback Meng and said, "It's not a Soul Transformation pill. What did you eat to become a demon??"
Hunchback Meng's large eyes looked at Six Desire Devil Lord. The person in front of him gave him a very familiar feeling. This wasn't the first time he had this feeling. Whether it was the Ji Emperor, Duanmu Ji, or even Wang Qingyue, they all gave him a familiar feeling. However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't remember them.
But soon, he threw this feeling to the back of his mind. He revealed a cruel smile and gloomily said, "My name is not Hunchback Meng. My name is Demon God Tu Si!"
As he spoke, he waved his right hand that was filled with bone spikes in the air. Immediately, a huge spatial crack appeared, and a red glow was emitted from the crack. Following this, a crimson figure that was around ten zhang tall came out from the crack.
"I'll leave this person to you. I'll go after the next one!" After Hunchback Meng finished speaking, he jumped out.
Six Desire Devil Lord stared dumbfoundedly at the person in front of him. He muttered to himself, "Master …"
I really can't write anymore, so this is all I can do … I went to the hospital today and the doctor said it was more serious than last month. He told me that if I still don't cooperate with the treatment, then I don't need to come to the hospital.
Ai, I'm really afraid that one day when I wake up, I won't be able to move my lower body … Because today the doctor said that if I don't take it seriously and let it develop, it will cause the nerves and muscles in my lower body to atrophy, or even paralysis …