It's a dark space out of nowhere, and Mo walks through it alone. And Qingming, who was supposed to be with him, was no longer there.

It was obviously a pitch-black environment, but Mo always walked unswervingly along some strange trajectory and direction. There were no figures to see, nothing to touch, not even sounds, just an empty and dark space......

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"It all started with a ......funeral I attended ten years ago," said Qingming, who slowly recounted a past and secret story in the flickering lights that night.

Ten years ago, Qingming was invited to come to this country of green hills. And because he was appreciated by the lord of Qingqiu Country, he obtained the right to enter and exit Qingqiu Country freely. And because of this, he stayed in this country for a short time.

During that time, he got to know a lot of people, and he also learned about the customs and customs of the entire country of Qingqiu. Originally, it was a very pleasant memory, until one day, a man he had met in Qingqiu invited him to a funeral.

There is nothing special about the funeral itself. It's just that according to the customs of the country of Qingqiu, all the people of Qingqiu who died should return everything they have to the sacred tree. Therefore, the place of burial is under the sacred tree.

Originally, he was just invited to go for a walk. But when he returned to his residence from the funeral scene, there was a sense of disobedience in his heart that could not be dispersed. You know, for people of his level, whims and the like are never lies. It's the awakened consciousness that is transmitting something to him. Something he didn't notice at first.

And when he was in his residence and recalled the funeral scene in detail, he finally discovered where the sense of disobedience in his heart came from.

No Soul...... The Qingqiu citizen who was buried, from beginning to end, did not reveal his soul.

Generally speaking, after death, the soul will gradually leave the body, and then it will be carried to the underworld by the power of the underworld, until it finally re-enters the cycle of samsara. And this period will take a certain amount of time.

But from beginning to end, Qingming, who watched the entire funeral process, was completely unaware that a soul had escaped from the body of the dead Qingqiu people, let alone been guided into the netherworld and reincarnated.

Of course, there are all kinds of possibilities. Maybe the moment that person died, his soul had already come out of his body. By the time he went to the funeral, the soul had already been drawn into the netherworld. It's also possible that there is a god of death or something, taking the soul away first, and so on......

But the sense of disobedience that lingered in my heart still did not dissipate, but accumulated more and more. So Qingming decided to investigate carefully, of course, in the dark.

And after some careful investigation, he discovered a shocking fact. It's not that the people of Qingqiu who attended the funeral before him are special, but all the people of Qingqiu are like this. After their deaths, none of their souls were guided to the Netherworld Reincarnation, but disappeared.

Faced with such a situation, he didn't dare to ask rashly. I can only take the time to come to the country of Qingqiu from time to time, and then secretly investigate the reason for this alone.

In the end, following all the clues, he finally found the starting point of all the legends of the Land of Qingqiu, the legendary Qingqiu Sacred Tree.

Hundreds of years ago, thousands of years ago, the country of green hills was originally just an ordinary green hill. Under the leadership of the first lord, the people took root in this land, multiplied, and finally established this prosperous country.

And the huge Qingqiu Divine Tree was planted by the wise Shenwu, who is said to be the first lord of the kingdom descended from the gods of heaven during his lifetime. As if a miracle, in the presence of all the people, a seed with a faint green light broke through the ground and sprouted immediately after being planted, and grew into a giant tree in just a few days.

Later, the first lord of the kingdom declared that this tree was a sacred tree that would bring them blessings and protect their country from disaster, and that it should be worshiped by all the people.

Then, in the days that followed, this cyan 'sacred tree' continued to grow until it grew into the appearance of the giant tree......

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"Is this the origin of the Qingqiu Divine Tree......", Mo picked up the teacup and took a sip of the tea that had completely cooled.

"Yes, and what I'm going to talk about next is about the so-called 'favor' of the Qingqiu Divine Tree......" Qingming on the other side nodded and continued......

The completely grown Qingqiu Divine Tree not only opened a huge barrier to isolate the entire Qingqiu Country from the outside world, but also gave the people of Qingqiu a 'favor', a favor that allowed all people to become 'cultivators'.

After the mother of each of the people of Qingqiu is pregnant, she needs to go to the sacred tree to worship. And the sacred tree will give her a blessing, a supernatural 'seed'. And every mother who has received the favor will give birth to a new baby, and the baby will have the talent to master the power of its own. Therefore, in this country of green hills, from the lord to the commoners, everyone is a natural 'cultivator', or a person with extraordinary abilities.

"Then I think you've probably investigated the seed of this magical 'gift' as well." , Mo said faintly.

Qingming nodded with a wry smile, "Yes, although for the country of Qingqiu, it is undoubtedly a move to spy on their biggest national secret. But by the time I got to this point, the uneasiness and alarms in my spiritual consciousness had been completely shattered. This forced me to continue to snoop in some of the less glamorous ways. ”

In the end, all the clues point to the so-called 'gift' of the Qingqiu people, which is the most special and the most different from the outside world. And Qingming also found an opportunity to perform a secret technique and discovered the whereabouts of the souls of the people of Qingqiu after they died......

Memories come to an abrupt end when you get here. Mo slowly pressed his right hand on the hilt of the long sword at his waist and looked ahead.

I saw that the originally dark space slowly emerged with a deep blue light. Invisibly, a cold aura rose and spread all around. In what was supposed to be a silent space, some strange voices suddenly appeared.

Wailing, crying, roaring, murmuring, and wailing were like a myriad of chaotic sounds of pain, mixed together, one after the other. It is completely impossible to tell the source of the sound.

Finally, the glowing surroundings gradually revealed countless dark blue figures.

It was a strange, distorted, 'wall' made of transparent human bodies, like a hellish ukiyo-e. Above the walls, what should have been a humanoid body, twisted, overlapped, staggered, torn, disintegrated, melted, stacked on top of each other.

Distorted, crazy, terrifying, weird, just one look at it is enough to make people break down. It is not a product that should exist in the human world, nor is it an existence that human beings can look at. Madness, pain, inversion, absurdity, and endless evil breath emanated from the 'human wall' that filled all the places around, enveloping the entire space.

At this moment, hell came to earth.

…… To be continued......