After the familiar trance and dizziness of the teleportation gradually dissipated, Li Qing and Wendy slowly opened their eyes.

What catches your eye is a gloomy and gray space.

The endless scorched ground seemed to have been eroded by flames. Patches of mottled bones were thrown on the ground, dotted the scorched ground with dots of white.

In the distance, there are large and small black hills, and occasionally one or two dead trees can be seen, standing on the earth and hills like hideous ghosts, and the branches of the ridges are like ghost hands stretching out to the sky.

There was also a dark river flowing quietly, and all kinds of strange corpses floated in the river.

The sky was gray, as if it were densely covered with oppressive dark clouds, hanging low as if within reach. There was no obvious light source in the sky, but there was a dim glow that emanated from the sky, reflecting the entire space in a bleak light, like a cemetery at dusk.

After taking a cursory look at the space environment and having a preliminary impression of this phantom realm, the two of them looked at their feet again, and then looked back, but they did not see any traces of altars, magic circles and other facilities.

The place where the two of them were at this time was a charred and barren hill. There is no teleportation array under his feet, and there are no towers or altars behind him. That is to say, in this phantom inner layer, there is no advance or retreat, and there is no return. As long as you get in, don't even think about going back the same way unless you find the artifact of death.

"This is the Realm of Illusions?" Looking at this dark and dead space, Wendy looked quite bad: "Although Sanssouci Valley is a false environment, at least it is as beautiful as a fairy tale world. Isn't this the phantom realm? How is it the opposite of Sanssouci Valley? This is clearly a dead land! ”

Li Qing comforted: "After all, it is an illusion built with a death artifact as the core, and it is reasonable that the illusion inner layer is this kind of lifeless death place. ”

Wendy pouted and said, "Okay, you're right. However, this space seems to be huge, where do we go to find the artifact of death? ”

Speaking of this, her eyes were full of worry: "You said that our bodies may only survive for three to five days. To find the artifact of death in such a short time and in such a large space...... I feel very unreliable! ”

"It's okay, it's me. With me, I'm sure I'll be able to find the artifact of death. Li Qing patted his chest with confidence.

He didn't mean to comfort Wendy, but he was really sure.

This phantom inner layer, although the environmental attributes are completely different from the outer layer of Sanssouci Valley, are still the same in nature, and they are all artifact illusions that can only be entered by the conscious body.

Li Qing and Wendy's current bodies are nothing more than virtual bodies given to them by the power of the illusion.

This kind of environment is definitely extremely unfavorable for the average strong. Whether it is a combat position or a spellcaster, it can be said that most of the abilities have been lost when they have lost their physical bodies and only their consciousness bodies remain.

The strength of ordinary combat positions comes from the body, and without the body, no matter how firm the will is, it is impossible to have much strength left. Ordinary spellcasters, unless they are spellcasters who specialize in the soul realm - such as necromancers, psychic warlocks, etc., have only virtual physical consciousness bodies, and they can't release a few spells.

For example, Wendy, her spell casting level is not high, and her strength is supported by equipment and scrolls. Now that her consciousness is out of her body, the equipment and scrolls naturally follow her body, and they are all left outside the illusion.

Wendy's own spell-casting ability is not very good in the first place. Just a low-level mage who can put small fireballs. Now that he has no body, he can't even release a small fireball. You can only barely use one or two low-level spells of the spirit system.

But Li Qing is different from ordinary powerhouses.

Without his body, he did lose a lot of abilities. But the power seed bound to his soul was still there, and the power that the power seed gave him was not affected in any way.

What's more, Susu's other half of his soul, the Queen of Darkness in her adult form, is still sleeping in the Power Seed and is with him.

The Queen of Darkness had no physical body and could not have manifested in reality. When Li Qing encounters a strong enemy in reality, no matter how dangerous it is, the Queen of Darkness has no way to help him, so he can only solve it by himself.

But the problem is that the illusion where Li Qing and Wendy are now is not the real world, but an artifact illusion that only consciousness can enter.

In other words, when necessary, the Queen of Darkness can appear directly in this illusion!

With the soul essence of the Dark Queen's super-god-level powerhouse, even if this illusion was created by the ancient elf main god, it was not enough to suppress her soul. In this artifact illusion, the Dark Queen may be able to exert her strength to the fullest.

Therefore, no matter how big this illusion is, no matter how deep the death artifact is hidden, Li Qing is sure of success.

Of course, as a last resort, Li Qing did not take it lightly to wake up the Queen of Darkness.

After all, the reason why the Queen of Darkness has been sleeping is to recover from her soul-level injuries. Every time she wakes up, it will have a certain impact on her recovery.

As the queen's guardian knight, Li Qing will never disturb her healing process with inconsequential trivialities. Unless it's really a matter of life and death.

Li Qing did not tell Wendy about these secrets.

But seeing Li Qing's confident appearance, and thinking of this adventure, Li Qing can always have a way to solve various crises, and Wendy Fang has inexplicable confidence in Li Qing in her heart.

"Since you said it's okay, then it must be okay." Wendy smiled and gave Li Qing a thumbs up: "Dear Tony, my little life can be entrusted to you!" ”

"Don't worry, I will live up to my trust!" Li Qing also picked out his thumb and grinned.

Wendy grinned and asked, "So, which direction are we going now?" ”

Li Qing closed his eyes, clarified his mind, didn't think about it, just followed his intuition, and pointed in a direction casually: "Go that way." ”

He is a high-level black knight, and he is also a martial artist who cultivates the Dan Dao and cultivates his true qi, although he has not reached the realm of sincerity of "the autumn wind has not moved the cicada", but he also has a strong intuition.

When you don't know the way forward and the direction you don't know, follow your instincts, and you may be able to break the game.

"Let's go." Wendy didn't have any opinion on the direction Li Qing chose, smiled at Li Qing, and walked down the hill in the direction he instructed.

Descending the hill, Wendy suddenly said, "Speaking of which...... Since this inner space is the defense layer used by the ancient elf main god to protect the death artifact, what kind of defense methods will there be here? ”

Li Qing touched his chin and muttered: "Since it is a death artifact, and this inner space is also a place of death, then I guess the defense measures here are ninety percent likely to be necromancy......"

"Congratulations, you guessed it." Wendy said suddenly.

"Well, I guessed right, but I'm not happy at all." Li Qing said depressedly.

As they spoke, both of them stared straight ahead. Because as far as the two of them could see, there were skeletons and zombies crawling out of the charred land. Soon, hundreds of white skeletons and pitch-black zombies appeared in front of the two, and the ground was also covered with craters left by skeletons and zombies when they crawled out.

The two stared at the dead spirits who crawled out of the ground one after another, until there were no more skeletons or zombies crawling out of the ground, and Wendy, who was watching nervously, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and said with a happy face: "Great! Only a few hundred skeletons and zombies! It doesn't seem like there are any high-level undead, and there are no legendary undead like lichs and bone dragons......"

"You're rejoicing too soon. How could the defense layer of the dignified death artifact be so simple? Li Qing sighed: "What appeared in front of us was indeed only a few hundred middle and low-level undead. But don't forget, we've only just entered the Land of the Dead, and it's only the outskirts of the Land of the Dead. As we go deeper, the undead are bound to become more and more numerous and stronger. That's when we get to the real test. ”

"Uh......" Wendy's little face fell, and she muttered unhappily, "Really, why do you want to tell the truth?" Why be so cruel? Can't you make me a little happy? ”

Li Qing smiled: "You don't have to worry too much, isn't this me?" ”

He moved his hands and feet twice, "I'm very good at this kind of one-ride game!" ”

Before the words fell, the ground under his feet exploded, and in the strong anti-shock force, Li Qing had already ejected like a cannonball, and slammed into the oncoming group of undead.

Bang bang bang! A series of explosions sounded, and under his impact, more than a dozen skeletons were knocked apart by him at one time, and all kinds of bones flew into the sky, and then fell down, and in mid-air, there was a sudden rain of bones.

Two zombies were torn apart by him, and the rotten flesh as hard as iron scattered out like shrapnel from cannonballs, slicing down a large piece of the undead within a hundred and eighty degrees behind the two zombies.

A savage collision has knocked down dozens of undead, these middle and low-level undead are even more fragile than Li Qing imagined!

"No, it's not a real undead. Just like my body, which is not a real body, these undead are just the death energy emitted by the death artifact, the pseudo-undead who are transfigured. Each undead is essentially a trace of the dissipating energy of the death artifact...... If the death artifact is presided over by a god, these undead will naturally be so powerful that there is no boundary. However, after losing the owner of the artifact, and losing energy for more than 40,000 years, and not being replenished, the undead formed by the escape energy of the death artifact will inevitably weaken. Plus...... My soul is extraordinary! ”

The battle in this fantasy realm of the land of the dead is essentially a collision of soul and energy, and has nothing to do with the physical body.

And Li Qing's soul essence is very powerful. After all, his soul has been transformed by the Demon King of Destroying Miè, which binds the power seed that has slumbered half of the soul of the Demon King of Destroying Miè.

Therefore, the strength of his soul is far beyond his strength level, and he has power seeds to provide energy, in this kind of illusion battle that only looks at the soul and energy level, he will of course appear to be more powerful than in reality.

Thinking of this, Li Qing's mood relaxed for a while, and he played more unrestrained and hearty, and soon killed all these hundreds of undead to slag.