Seeing the Peacock Hades pointing at the stick in my hand, I quickly explained, "This is the Guide's Staff, which is the prize of the previous Truth Gate mission. ”

The Staff of the Guide isn't really a rare thing, as it's found in many missions. Generally speaking, the Guide Staff is like a locator that helps the user find the place they want to reach. Of course, as a common item, the Guide Staff is just as graded as any other common item. The lowest-level Guide Staff is a one-time finger that points in the general direction of the target location, and fails once in point. The Intermediate Guide Staff is a little more powerful, can pinpoint the location of the target more accurately, and can be used multiple times during the search process to correct the direction continuously, but the Guide Staff is still a single-quest consumable, as it will always only point at the target it was originally set for. The last is the Advanced Equivalent Staff, which is constantly targeted and can be used an infinite number of times. That is to say, after you use it to find a target, you can enter another target to use it again, of course, this kind of high-end goods must be very rare.

The staff of the Guide in my hand is not a high-end product. The Gate of Truth will only determine the level of the reward according to the user's goal, we just need to find the demon, and we don't need to set the goal repeatedly, so in the end we get this normal version, which can be pointed multiple times, but use the Guide Staff that only targets that demon. Although the function of this Guide Staff is slightly inferior to that of the advanced Guide Staff, it is not much different from this mission, and the advanced task reward also means a difficult task, compared to this general task prize, it is the most suitable.

Although the Peacock Hades had never seen what the Guide Staff looked like, she had heard of the function of such a thing, and as soon as she heard me say that this thing was the Guide Staff, she immediately understood the purpose of the Guide Staff.

Yinxue looked at the guide's staff in my hand and said, "The quest items provided by the Gate of Truth are indeed good, but why did it suddenly send us over without giving us time to prepare?" ”

"I think it might have something to do with the position we're in right now." When I was first teleported, I wondered why I was sent here, but combined with the nearby environment and my thoughts, I quickly guessed why.

"You know?" The Peacock Hades and Yin Xue, who didn't expect to get an answer from me, were both stunned and looked at me together. "What is the reason?"

Instead of answering their questions directly, I asked, "Don't you notice the strange environment here?" ”

Yin Xue nodded and said, "Actually, I wanted to talk about it when I first came in. It's like a dead space. There was no wind, no time passed, even the energy was still. ”

Hearing Yin Xue say this, the Peacock Hades also nodded and said, "Indeed, I feel that the energy in the surrounding space is completely unable to flow as if it is sticky. It's the first time I've come across such a strange place. ”

"What energy flows? How can I not feel it? The Children of the Night, who had been left hanging aside, couldn't help but interject at this time.

As soon as the Peacock Hades heard him speak, he said directly: "As long as you are at that level, you can naturally feel the energy in the space, then it is called a ghost, and you don't want to think about what kind of people we are." ”

The Children of the Night thought for a moment and said, "That's right. I seem to be the lowest level here! ”

The Peacock Hades struck him again and said, "That's it." I didn't plan to bring you here. The difficulty of this task is quite high, and your position was Vina's before, but you took the position, and I don't know if we can really run into that demon after that. ”

"Okay Peacock, don't talk about him anymore, the Children of the Night didn't mean to squeeze in." Yinxue saw that the head of the Child of the Night was about to hang to the ground by the Peacock Hades, and finally couldn't bear to help the Children of the Night say the Peacock Hades.

I also followed: "Yes, Peacock, don't say it, it's not his fault." ”

The Peacock Hades probably knew that she was too harsh, but she didn't have the habit of apologizing, so she just changed the subject after we finished speaking: "By the way, you haven't said what kind of place this is?" ”

"yes, where the hell is this?" Yinxue also turned to me and asked.

"This is actually the legendary ......," I deliberately pulled a long note, and then suddenly said, "Eighteen layers of hell." ”

"What?" As soon as I exited the eighteenth layer of hell, the other three people present all cried out at once.

"What did you just say? Eighteen Layers of Hell? Did I hear me right? The Peacock Hades asked incredulously.

I looked around me again and said, "That's right." I've been here once before, so I know a little bit about the features here. If I'm not mistaken, this is the legendary Eighteenth Hell. ”

After listening to my words, Yinxue also said to herself: "The bottom of hell, beyond the world, the junction of time, the grave of the avenue. The legendary eighteen layers of hell are indeed true. The environment and legends here are really not bad at all. ”

"What? Is this really eighteen layers of hell? The Peacock Hades still asked a little unconvinced.

"That's right." Yin Xue said: "The eighteenth layer of hell is said to be a small world outside the world. When Pangu opened the world with great power, it didn't actually decompose the entire Chaos Hongmeng to produce the world, and a small piece of the chaotic world that was not completely separated finally formed a *** small world, that is, the eighteenth layer of hell. It is *** out of the world and enjoys completely unique world laws. Time is a completely meaningless thing here, and energy will stop completely here, so you'd better borrow and use your skills, I'm afraid you won't be able to recover your magic here. ”

After listening to Yinxue, I smiled and stretched out my hand and snapped my fingers, and immediately a few feet of hellfire immediately erupted on my body. When the Child of the Night saw the flames, he quickly jumped to the side, and kept complaining. "Damn, boss, are you trying to ***?"

Unlike the less capable Children of the Night, the Peacock Hades and Silver Snow immediately smiled at the sight of the blazing flames. "I've forgotten about your attributes." Yin Xue smiled and said, "When you come to this kind of place, you are the strongest." ”

I also smiled and said, "I don't know in other places, but in this kind of place, I guess there are not too many people who can do me." ”

"Okay, okay, let's not show off your evil attributes, let's see where our target goes." Peacock Hades built yì Dao.

"yes, I'm good." I listened to the words of the Peacock Hades, and immediately stood on the ground with the staff of the guide I had obtained, and then pressed the top of the staff with one finger to keep it as perpendicular to the ground as possible. This action is important for the Guide Staff, as the Guiding Staff's pointing accuracy is guided by this action.

In fact, the guide's staff is a strangely shaped crutch, and when you need to guide you, you just need to put it on the ground, let go of your fingers, and let it fall down naturally and then look in the direction the head of the cane is pointing. However, as we all know, in the natural state, if an object falls, it will definitely fall in the direction where the center of gravity is offset, and although the Guide Staff can use its magical ability to make it fall in the direction of the target, the guiding power of the Guide Staff is actually very weak. If you can stand it completely vertically on the ground so that it doesn't fall down at all, and then use the guiding force of the Guide Staff itself to make it fall, then it will definitely be the most accurate. However, if you didn't put it straight before, for example, by a large angle of inclination in a certain direction, then the Guide Staff will not fall directly in that direction, but it will definitely not fall in the right direction. So, the best case scenario is to be able to stand it completely vertically on a flat ground. Of course, since it's unlikely that you'll find a completely flat ground in reality, and it's unlikely that you'll actually have the Guide Staff completely upright, a small deviation is acceptable. After all, with the exception of the low-level equivalent staff, which can only point the way once, the Guide Staff of the normal version and above can be pointed multiple times. By using the Guide Staff several times during the movement, you will be able to correct the deviation and eventually find the target.

As I straightened the staff of the guide completely upright, and then easily opened my fingers, the staff of the guide did not fall immediately, but remained still for more than a second, then slowly leaned in one direction, and finally fell suddenly. When I saw this result, I knew that this time it should be more accurate, because the previous second of stillness meant that I was standing relatively straight, and I didn't let the tilt of the center of gravity affect the guiding force of the Guide Staff.

Retracting the Guide's Staff, a few of us began to move in the direction indicated by the Guide's Staff.

In fact, in the eighteen layers of hell, most of the area should be turned into no man's land. Of course, this person does not refer to human beings in particular, but to all intelligent beings in general. Although there are such things as cities in the eighteen layers of hell, there are more of them as far as the eye can see. Above those wasteland plains, there is this purple mist all around us, and it is often the kind of super barren area where there is no one for tens of thousands of kilometers in a row. It is also thanks to the fact that time stands still under the eighteenth layer of hell, and even if it is trapped, it will not starve to death, otherwise it is estimated that all the creatures in the eighteenth layer of hell will have to die in these barren areas. You must know that the endless sand dunes in the desert alone are enough to trap most people, not only is the area larger than the desert, but it is also obscured by a layer of fog, and it is impossible to see anything at all from 200 meters away. If you want to find the right direction in such a place, it is really not something that ordinary people can do.

Now our goal is not to get out of the wasteland, but to find the demon, so we don't worry about getting lost at all. As for how to return to the world in the end, this is actually very simple. I still have a chance to call the Black Kirin for help, this is the promise I got when I met him last time, and I can use this promise to call him for help when I need to go back. Although the original black unicorn promised me was to help me have a big *** in the camp of the Russians, it was a bit of a waste to let him be a porter for a while, but anyway, the Russians had already retreated in advance, and the black unicorn's promise was not used or used, so it was not too much of a loss.

To maximize speed, the Children of the Night and I both summoned our respective guardian spears. The Children of the Night only had a guardian spear, enough for his own use. Because I'm a two-in-one, I have two guardian spears, and the Flying Bird is also a spear series creature, so I have three jet mounts. Asuka kept it for himself, and the other two spears could just be divided between the Peacock Hades and Silver Snow, so that the four of us could be fully jet-driven.

Relying on the speed of the spears, we can be described as *** speed in the Great Wilderness Park, but because the target we are tracking is a moving individual rather than a fixed location, we have to stop every half hour to reorient ourselves with the staff of our guide in order to prevent us from flying overhead.

After two hours of stopping, when we jumped off the spear for the fourth time and began to measure our direction, we suddenly noticed that the guide's staff had made a big spin and was pointing directly to our left. Although the Guide Staff had shifted a small area each time in the previous measurements, this time the angle of change was unusually large.

"It looks like we're not far from our goal." Seeing the direction of the Guide Staff, both the Peacock Hades and Silver Snow understood that we were actually very close to the target, otherwise the Guide Staff would not have made such a pronounced turn between the two points.

After taking two measurements in a row to make sure that the direction I was in was not due to my slippery hand, we stepped on the spear again and began to run in the direction that the Guide's Staff had directed. Because this time we determined that the target was not far from us, we did not dare to fly for half an hour in one breath as before, but stopped after flying for ten minutes and did another test, but this time the calculation found that the target seemed to have moved its position again, because the point was again deviated to the left at an angle of more than ten degrees.

As soon as the son of the night saw that the direction had changed again, he immediately flashed onto the back of his spear and prepared to continue flying, but before he could make it fly, I called out. "Don't use the spear, the target is not far away, let's just go over like this."

Hearing my words, the Peacock Hades and Silver Snow, who were just about to climb the spear, also hurriedly jumped down. After retrieving the spear, we switched to the steel claw instead of the spear. I didn't use the spear because it was so fast that I was worried about flying over my head, but I didn't plan to walk over it. Although the steel claws are not very fast, they are much faster than human walks, so we all have steel claws again.

My decision proved to be very wise, as I had only been running for less than five minutes with steel claws when the obstructed view in front of me suddenly became clear. Although many places in these eighteen layers of hell are covered by this purple mist that obscures the view, not every place is like this, for example, the places where the creatures in the eighteen layers of hell gather are generally free of fog.

We had only been running for five minutes before the fog in front of us suddenly disappeared, apparently allowing us to rush out of the fog area. And almost as soon as we left the Misty Zone, our target came into view.

"I saw her." The Peacock Hades had the best eye, and he found his target from afar, and the rest of us only saw a large group of people fighting in the distance.

That's right, not one person, but a large group of people. Although in terms of total area, the eighteen-layer hell belongs to the kind of area that is extremely vast and sparsely populated, but because most of the areas in the eighteen-layer hell are the kind of barren plains covered by purple mist, the area that is really inhabited by living beings is quite densely populated, so it is not too strange to see a large group of people at the same time. It's just that......

"What are they doing?" Although it was still a long way off, I noticed that the group was not standing in the right position.

"They seem to be attacking the demon." The Child of the Night said as he looked at a telescope.

Yinxue turned to me and asked, "What do we do now?" ”

In fact, all we can decide now is two plans: first, immediately rush over and join the melee; Second, wait for the demon and the local residents to fight the results before they pass.

Originally, if it was somewhere else, it would be a good way to rush over to see the excitement, but this is the eighteenth layer of hell, and the life forms here are relatively special, if we rush over now, those people will surround us as enemies, so if you don't want to mix, the best thing to do is to simply don't go over.

I looked at the people who were fighting and thought for a long time, and finally said, "Let's go now." ”

"Haha, there's a fight now." The Peacock Hades, a violent element, was immediately excited when he heard that it was over now, but Yin Xue had a different reaction.

"Why go now?"

"It's not bad to sit and reap the profits, but this is the eighteenth layer of hell, and there is no such thing as zài sitting and reaping the profits. In other places, it is applicable for the snipe and the clam to compete for the benefit of the fisherman, but here it is different. ”

"What's the difference?"

"This is an environment that involves the eighteen layers of hell. As you said before, the flow of energy here is completely dead, and there will be no energy transmission in space at all. But you don't know that there is actually energy flowing here, but not the free energy in space, but the soul energy between living beings. This entire eighteenth layer of hell is like a giant worm Gu, where every time you kill a creature, the energy in the opponent's body will flow into your body in an almost non-destructive manner. So ......"

"So if that demon kills all the people there, she will absorb the energy of everyone there and turn it into a stronger being?" Yinxue directly took what I didn't finish.

I nodded in confirmation of her guess, and said, "So we don't have to think about anything to profit the fisherman, it will only make our enemy stronger." ”

"In that case, then don't wait, let's rush." Yinxue also understood now that waiting more will not only not allow us to benefit, but will only make us more passive.

As we collectively rushed towards the area where the demons and native creatures were fighting, the demon also noticed us, so when she saw us, she desperately tried to run away, just because there were all around her trying to kill her, and she really couldn't escape.

In fact, when this demon first arrived here, it was only in the form of a head, and it was very badly damaged. The last teleportation to escape our attack didn't actually come without a price, as she lost nearly a third of the size of the incomplete head that was left at the time. Such a big effort directly teleported her to this eighteenth layer of hell.

When she first arrived, the demon was also very confused, because she didn't know where this was. But unlike us, we are confused because we know that this is the eighteenth layer of hell, and she is confused about all the external environment because she has never left the Seven Male Mounds. Her confusion was quickly replaced by fear, though, for less than ten minutes after she appeared here, a horde of creatures rushed to her place and tried to eat her.

The creatures in the eighteen layers of hell attack each other just to absorb energy, and this demon is all made of soul gold, this is simply a mass of concentrated energy, in such a place, a mass of super concentrated energy is what a tempting thing? Whew, the excited native creatures rushed up, trying to eat the huge energy mass. It's just that their ideas not only failed to satisfy them, but also harmed themselves.

Although the demon's soul gold body has been destroyed by us in the battle, the high concentration of soul gold is still there. Those who first discovered her were small people with little strength, and not only did they fail to absorb the energy from the demon, but they were absorbed in reverse the moment the energy channel was established. It's like holding an object on a rope and then pulling the rope hard. If the person pulling the rope is heavier than the thing that is being tethered, then he can naturally pull that thing to his side, but if the thing is heavier than the person pulling the rope, then he must have pulled himself to the object in the end, regardless of the size of the person's strength. This is the case with the demon and the native creatures that want to suck her. The energy channel that those native creatures and she established was that rope, but because the energy density of this demon was too large, the guys who wanted to absorb her not only did not absorb her, but pulled themselves into her body and were absorbed by her.

The demon who thought she was going to die this time didn't expect to get a lot of power inexplicably, not only was she reborn into her body, but even the rage in the previous battle seemed to stop, and her reason returned to her thinking.

Because of her thinking ability, this little demon princess began to use her brain. As the spirit of all things, the most powerful thing is not our body, but our wisdom. After summarizing the previous situation, the demon princess with the ability to think immediately realized that she should find more such creatures to absorb in order to greatly improve her own strength. Although she had just regenerated her body, this body was not comparable to the body she had before. Previously, her body was completely composed of soul gold, not only with outstanding resistance to blows, but also with a bunch of special attributes, and at critical moments, she could even directly burn her body to release energy. In contrast, this body is much worse now, although the regenerated limbs have most biological functions, but after all, it is only a simple ** and not soul gold, and it is significantly weaker than the previous body in terms of defense and various attributes, and because the soul gold in the head that was originally only a small piece of it was diluted into this body evenly, her finishing demon power has also decreased a lot. However, even if she knew that the average soul gold would reduce her demonic power, she would not hesitate to do so, because if she didn't do that, her body would not be able to control it freely at all.

The previous demon princess was actually a soul body, and we can completely imagine her as a ghost. The reason why she has an entity is because the soul power in her body is overly condensed and forms the product of the materialization of soul gold. After most of her *** body was knocked out, the remaining part of her head became her entire body, and the regenerated limbs were actually just empty shells, and if she wanted to *** this empty shell body, she had to attach her soul to other ghosts. And what is the soul of the demon little princess? Her soul is the soul gold body, so if she wants to attach to the newly created body, she must decompose her body with only one head left and reconstruct it into a * human form to attach to the new body, so that the body can be regarded as the body that truly belongs to the demon princess.

Although this method of dilution and dispersion of soul gold allowed the demon little princess to gain a new body, I have to admit that her defense and various combat attributes have indeed decreased greatly because of this. However, although she sensed that her strength had decreased, she didn't pay much attention to it, because she had already found a way to make herself strong again.

Why don't you say that Heavenly Court would be so anxious to destroy this demon? This girl has only been in the eighteenth layer of hell for more than ten minutes, and she has already begun to plan to "eat" all the creatures here, if she really does it, when she returns to the world, it is estimated that not only will she not be weaker than when she escaped before, but maybe it will be stronger. Of course, it takes time to execute this plan, and it doesn't mean that it can be done, and when we found this one, she was executing her plan.

Although the body of soul gold was diluted and dispersed into a new body, soul gold is soul gold, and for the beings in the eighteen layers of hell, the temptation of this kind of thing is basically irresistible. So under the temptation of the demon princess, she soon chased a small group of guys who tried to "eat" her. After gathering these people, the demon princess lured these guys to the edge of the no-man's land, then "eaten" them all, and then went back to those gathering areas to lure a group of people out again.

Probably because this method is too easy to use, the demon princess didn't control the pleasure of devouring for a while, so accidentally attracted a little more this time, so there were so many local creatures that we saw besieging the demon princess. Fortunately, I know that the law here is similar to the nature of insect Gu, otherwise if she was allowed to slowly kill these guys and absorb them, then her strength would definitely increase a lot.

After seeing us appear, the little demon princess herself was also shocked. The Peacock Hades had not participated in the strangulation battle against her before, so she didn't know what kind of strength the Peacock Hades was. As for the Children of the Night, because the energy reflection was too low, they were directly ignored by others. However, although the little demon princess didn't know the Peacock Hades and the Children of the Night, she knew me and Yinxue, especially me. On the battlefield before, although it was the auxiliary abilities provided by the gods of Tongguò that raised me to such a powerful level, but no matter what, I was the only one who had been pressing her from the beginning to the end. Therefore, if you ask this little demon princess who she is afraid of in this world, she will definitely be the first to think of me.

Before, on the battlefield, the little demon princess with a complete soul gold body was beaten so badly by me, and now her body has become like this, how can I not be afraid of it? Although my current strength can't be compared to the ability after inheriting the attributes of so many great gods on the battlefield, the little demon princess doesn't know this. She remembers being beaten up by me anyway, so the only thing I can think of when she sees me now is to run.

We weren't close to the warband, but when we spotted our target, we withdrew our claws and flew over on our own. The Children of the Night were slower, but we didn't expect him to go into battle anyway, so we didn't wait for him at all. The Peacock Hades and Silver Snow and I flew to the periphery of the warband in almost thirty seconds. As soon as she landed, Yin Xue looked at me and asked, "Which side to hit first?" ”

"Kill those guys out there first, it's better to be absorbed by us than by her."

"Good idea." After Yinxue finished speaking, she suddenly stretched out her hand, and a white pillar of light instantly swept through the crowd like a laser, and the area on the right side of the entire battle group suddenly fell as if someone had bitten it.

Although these guys locked up in the eighteenth layer of hell were all powerful and other kinds of storage at the beginning, but after being locked up in the energy barren area of the eighteenth layer hell for so many years, even if it was a super power with mana to the sky at the beginning, the energy should be almost consumed now. Therefore, the current strength of these great powers is actually very low. In terms of combat skills and skill theory, these guys are definitely grandmaster-level, and they can open up a mountain and establish a faction by pulling one out of any one, but no matter how strong the theoretical knowledge is, it is in vain if there is no energy support. Silver Snow's energy ray can be said to be an ordinary skill without any fancy skills, purely hurting people with energy, and what is most lacking in this place is energy, so those who were attacked were almost powerless to resist and were put down in an instant.

At the same time as Yinxue made a move, the Peacock Hades also moved. However, it is not the same as Yinxue's efficiency, although the Peacock Hades's colorful divine light is also a large smear, but because of the short distance, the killing efficiency is not as exaggerated as Yinxue. Of course, compared to them, I should be the least efficient. Because what I use is just an ordinary chop, although dealing with these guys is the same as chopping melons and vegetables, but after all, the speed can't be compared with others.

Under our strong attack, the guys who besieged the demon princess were all swept away in the blink of an eye, and the three of us were still standing except for the corpses in one place, and the children of the night had just arrived at the battlefield at this time.

"Huh? Didn't you say that the demon was very powerful? How can it be solved so easily? "When the Children of the Night saw the corpses lying on the ground, they thought we had killed the demon as well.

"No, we just cleaned up the people who got in the way first." I explained to the Children of the Night.

Unexpectedly, after listening to my explanation, the Children of the Night not only did not understand, but asked me in confusion: "Since you didn't kill her, what about her?" ”

"Damn, when did she learn to run away?" Looking at the empty battlefield, I said in surprise.

Yinxue corrected me and said, "She's already very good at running away, don't you remember that she kept running when she first came out of the Seven Male Mounds?" Later, in the camp of the Russians, she did not run because she had entered a state of madness. ”

"Then she now knows that she has escaped, doesn't that mean she's regained her senses?"

"It should be."

"I said, why did she run away when she saw us? It turned out to be a return to sanity. But that's fine, maybe it can scare her like that. "Although we can't bully her brainless anymore after knowing that demon has regained her senses, but on the other hand, since she has regained her senses, she will definitely be very jealous of me, and I can use this to deter her, maybe I can make her submit without beating. However, no matter what you do with the demon in the future, it is only right to catch up with her first.

With the Guiding Staff, we don't have to worry about losing the target at all, this thing is a super location tracker, no matter how you run, it's useless. Because of the problem of transportation, it took us less than a minute to find the runaway demon princess, who was desperately running to the nearby gathering point, because she knew that there were many people there, and it would be easier to mix in and make us lose our target. Of course, we can also do an indiscriminate coverage attack, but the counterattack of the native creatures will also delay us a little bit, so no matter what method we use, it will be beneficial to the demon in the gathering point. It's just that she obviously didn't take into account our speed, and as a result, she didn't run far before we caught up, and the gathering point in the distance was just a shadow at this time, and she couldn't expect to run over this distance.

"Where are you going?" I was the fastest on Nightshade's back, and I went straight in front of the demon to block her, and then deliberately rode on Nightshade's back and asked in a playful tone.! ……！