22. Under the cliff

The Land of the Dead, under the cliffs.

All around are craggy and strange rocks, where there is no grass, the air is thin, and the thick black fog blocks the faint light in the sky. A demonic beast that looked like a wolf but had black barbs on its body was menacing, and pounced on the woman standing under the rock in a jade-burning posture.

The woman was covered in blood, holding a snow-colored sword in her hand, leaning against the cliff wall, opening her mouth and panting for breath, the blood and sweat on her forehead flowing down together and seeping into the collar. In the face of the monster that pounced, the movement of the woman's hand was sluggish for a moment, and when she saw that it was too late, she only turned slightly sideways to protect her right hand holding the sword.

At this moment's pause, the furious giant wolf's sharp claws with black flames grabbed the woman's back, and forcibly tore off a large piece of flesh, and the blood basin bit half of the woman's body, and the sound of bones breaking was particularly clear here. The woman didn't seem to feel the pain, her blood-stained face was like a sword, and not only did she not hide, but she also sent her body into the mouth of the giant wolf. Immediately after, the great sword in her hand slashed straight down at the giant wolf's head with an unstoppable momentum. The giant wolf was instantly split in half and fell to the ground with a bang, and the exploding brains and blood sprayed all over the woman's body, dripping between the rubble on the ground, and soon seeping into the ground.

The sword in the woman's hand was stuck in the ground to support her crumbling body, covered in blood, staining the gravel under her feet red. She leaned her back against the rock, tilting her head slightly and gasping for breath, trying to calm her breathing and heartbeat.

At her feet, the corpses of countless berserk wolves were piled up, and the battle had lasted for three days and nights. The single combat ability of these berserk giant wolves is not as good as that of other high-level demonic beasts, but this race lives in groups, and all the same clans are led by the head wolf to live in this place, and those powerful demonic beasts do not dare to provoke the berserk giant wolf lightly.

The corners of the woman's eyes were slightly bloody, as if she was a tireless monster who had killed the rampaging wolf clan, as if she was venting something.

And this woman is Huo Sui, who stepped into the land of death two years ago.

The place of death is far more dangerous than she imagined, and she has almost strayed into the gap of time and space many times, because her own strength is too weak, and she was even forced into the abyss by the demonic beast, Huo Sui accidentally entered the "time hourglass". She stayed there for ten years, battling the undead and caught between life and death.

One year in the "Hourglass of Time", ten years have passed outside.

She stepped into the hourglass of time that day and stayed there for ten years. The hourglass of time is in the shape of an hourglass, and when a decade has passed below, the barrier above will disappear for a moment before it can find a chance to leave. It was a completely cordoned off space, with no living creatures except for a steady stream of undead, as if the world was left alone.

There, people's negative feelings will be infinitely magnified, if it weren't for Huo Sui's inner strength, in that kind of place, the spirit would have collapsed in ten years. And she will also become one of the undead.

In those ten years, Huo Sui made full use of it, except for a short break, she used it to practice swordsmanship and compete with the undead for space to survive.

There is no living creature in the hourglass, and there are black stone walls all around, except for a giant vine lying horizontally in the cave, on which will bear black fruit in the shape of a heart. Huo Sui only took one bite at first, and saw that there was no obvious rejection in his body, so he slowly increased the dosage, and finally became full.

Huo Sui had never seen such a fruit, but there was nothing edible around it except for this giant vine, and the space was completely closed, so if he didn't eat it, he could only starve to death. She had to let her body produce antibodies to it first, so as to minimize the adverse effects of the fruit on her body.

In the third year there, Huo Sui only touched the threshold of the mystery of swordsmanship, and then it was a matter of course, Huo Sui broke through the realm of the Great Swordsman in one fell swoop, and faintly touched the barrier of the Holy Swordsman.

Ten years later, Huo Sui left the time hourglass at the moment when the enchantment disappeared, and the heavy sword in her hand, which was made of unknown material, broke in two when it fought with the demonic beast when it came out. Huo Sui remembered the sword that Isaac had asked him to take, so he went to the forest where he had walked at that time, and then she found the sword.

The sword was beautiful, not as beautiful as a murderous weapon, the body of the sword was as white as snow, but the hilt was pale gold, surrounded by the words of the elves. As soon as Huo Sui approached the sword, a familiar feeling that made people cry guided her to take the sword, and when she pulled the sword up, the sword qi cut a shallow mark on her hand, and blood dripped on the sword, revealing a curtain of light.

On the light curtain was an extremely beautiful woman, with black hair like ink, eyes as deep as the night, and her complexion was different from that of the women on this continent, not fair. She happily called Huo Sui her child, and Huo Sui leaned over and bowed to her, all the courtesies.

Then, the woman turned into a black light and disappeared into Huo Sui's forehead.

At that moment, the dark element of the Land of the Dead came alive by Huo Sui's side.

She awakened the blood of the dark elves.

Huo Sui, who left the forest, was besieged by many high-level demonic beasts because of the murderous aura that could not be restrained in his body when he walked through the swamp land, and the negative feelings that had accumulated in his heart for ten years finally found a place to vent. It wasn't until she was seriously injured and those high-level demonic beasts that were about to move retreated, that Huo Sui came back to his senses and found that he was actually bloodthirsty. Wangkong zhì stopped.

Huo Sui was covered in blood, but the sword in his hand was as white as ever.

Thankfully, it's only been a decade.

Time has really left traces on Huo Sui's body, his facial features are more three-dimensional and mature, his posture is as tall as an unsheathed sword, and the bloody aura on his body is like a substance, which is terrifying.

From a seventeen-year-old girl to her current appearance, Huo Sui has countless wounds on her body, and a centipede-shaped scar can be faintly seen behind her left ear.

However, at this time, half of her body that had been bitten by the giant wolf on her left side had lost consciousness, and there were black silk threads twitching under the wound, stirring the flesh under the skin little by little.

When Huo Sui's breath calmed down slightly, she raised her sword and walked to the side of the berserk giant wolf she had just killed, and with a sharp pick of the tip of the sword, a fist-sized magic crystal fell into her hand, exuding an inky halo.

The rich dark element inside was like water, Huo Sui lowered his head and looked at the magic crystal in his hand, closed his eyes and absorbed the pure dark element inside. When the magic crystal in her hand turned into nothingness, she opened her eyes, and without even chanting, a black beating flame instantly appeared in her palm, the flame was about a foot high, but the top was golden, she stared at the flame for a few seconds, and then burned the flame on the wound.

The next moment, the black silk threads under the wound twitched even more, Huo Sui's body trembled slightly, but the movements in his hands did not pause at all, and he burned those parasitic demon insects with an expressionless face, until the last one turned into ashes, and the flames in her palm dissipated. At this time, the wound was no longer bleeding, and Huo Sui connected his dislocated bones little by little. When she was ready, she knelt half-on the ground along the rock wall, her hand on the hilt of her sword, closed her eyes and began to rest.

The smell of blood is thick here, and the hunters hidden in the shadows gather the murderous aura on their fangs, and wait not far away for their prey to be killed at the most relaxed moment. Huo Sui didn't dare to relax for a moment, even if she hadn't closed her eyes for a few days and nights, she was still in a position where she could get up at any time to face the battle for a short rest.

When the injuries on her body were relieved a little, Huo Sui stood up and looked at the steep cliff with the sword in his hand, and then stepped on a raised stone with a light jump, and then climbed up between ups and downs. Huo Sui didn't dare to pause, and climbed up in one go.

Huo Sui stood up straight and calmed his messy breathing, and the place on his body that had been burned by the flames hurt badly, but fortunately, no blood flowed out again. She looked at herself as a wolf, thought about it, and used a magic to remove the blood from her body. Huo Sui walked towards the outside of the deep forest with steps, the bloody aura on her body was a little more restrained, according to the time, she had left Slote Academy for nearly three years.

Then, it's almost time for Kyle to come to the Land of the Dead to retrieve his Staff of Death.

Huo Sui didn't think about destroying the Death Staff in advance, but at that time, she couldn't get close to the dark abyss, let alone destroy it. In the end, this world exists because of Kyle alone, Huo is a plane repairer, and in some ways, the rules of this world are still very restrictive to her.

Clenching the sword in his hand, Huo Sui thought about it and walked in the direction of the dark abyss. Even if it can't be destroyed, it must not allow the Reaper Staff to fall into Kyle's hands.

It is the northernmost part of the Land of Death, and the closer you get to it, the stronger the power of darkness, the darkness that can drive people into madness. In this world, only the people in the Temple of Light can come close to that place.

There was an ancient legend in this continent that the dark abyss sealed the dark god for half □□, and anyone who approached it would be swallowed up by the darkness and finally die, and the corpse would be transformed into the body of the undead.

Countless people who have long wanted magic have come here, either devoured by the beasts of the Land of the Dead or consumed by the darkness within themselves.

And the only one who walked into the dark abyss intact was Kyle.

At that time, Huo Sui, who had just left the hourglass of time, did not dare to approach that place, just because Huo Sui stayed in the hourglass of time for ten years, he was affected by countless dark and negative emotions every day, and Huo Sui became bloodthirsty, that kind of desire to kill. Hopefully driving her crazy. If Huo Sui at that time was close to that place, it would undoubtedly be self-defeating.

It took Huo Sui a year and a half before the tyrannical aura on his body gradually returned to normal, and his spiritual power became stronger, and the bloody aura on his body was not as uncontrollable as when he first left the hourglass of time, and he was even regarded as an offense by the high-level demonic beasts of the Land of Death and launched a siege. It was also the group attack launched by the high-level demonic beasts in the swamp that relieved Huo Sui's depression and negative feelings accumulated in the depths of his heart a lot.

The air in the forest is getting colder and gloomy. While walking, Huo Sui vaguely felt the fluctuation of magic, she stopped, closed her eyes and felt the direction of the fluctuation of magic. After a moment, Huo Sui opened his eyes and looked at his left front.

In that direction, it is the swamp