In the darkness, there was silence.

Tick...

Tick......

It seems that water droplets slide from the tail of the leaf, rippling in the black water, and the ripples spread, but showing the dense and colorful pupils underwater, these pupils are frozen, and they seem to be imprisoned, and present a special treachery.

Beneath the black water.

A small figure is being entangled by some "aquatic grass-like" things, and behind the figure floats a huge "ball", which is inlaid with countless colorful pupils.

Burst...

Burst...

There was still something like a "pupil" that was sucked in from the black water and stuck to the "ball" again.

The small figure suddenly sensed something, and conveyed the message in a non-vocal way of communication: "Zhu Wei, are you back?"

The same stratasphere.

The same in the black water.

An indescribable, strange being of dark cyan replied, "Black Yama, don't call me by name.

A name is a lethal weapon for the weak, but for you and me, it's a flaw, you always call me by my name, and I don't like it.

Why don't you tell me your name too?"

The little figure was silent for a while, "What's the catch?"

"I saw a perfect shell. Maybe I can take on the shell of your soul and mine. ”

The two beings chatted one sentence at a time.

After each speak.

There will always be quite a long pause.

But this pause is not temporal.

It's a feeling.

The being, known as the Vermilion, continued to speak, and in this stratosphere, it was only the one in front of it who could communicate.

"That body has been bloodied four times, and according to the age of mythology, he belongs to the Great Witch, and I see his world.

When the underworld comes, I will follow him, and before he breaks through the ancestral witch, I will take his body and devour his soul and become my sustenance.

I've already marked me, so if you want to go, it's too late. ”

Calm, silent.

"Oh, what kind of people?"

"You've heard of the one who was once called a guru. ”

"Mentor?"

"Red Yama is very close to him, and this time he actually stood on the opposite side of me. ”

"Red Yama is on your side?"

"Not bad. ”

"Can you show him?"

Silence.

"Good. ”

As soon as he thought of it, the picture of the fight in the wind and snow was transmitted, and the little figure closed his eyes, sensing the image of the man in the picture, and could not see the joy, anger and sorrow.

There was a dead silence on both sides.

Or rather, they were all in dead silence.

In this flow layer, there will be no sound.

Nor will there be any life.

Or, to put it more bluntly, from the beginning of the upper stratosphere of this stratasphere, life has been completely irrelevant here.

But if there is death, then there will be life.

Life and death are opposites.

There is no life, there is no death.

But here, even death does not exist.

In this black "water" in the unknown, there are only colorful "pupils" that are "frozen", and two terrifying existences.

...

...

"Xia Ji, this is the only way. ”

Red Yama turned her back to the man in front of her.

And Xia Ji was thinking.

The words of the Red Yama echoed in his mind over and over again.

"In the human world, it is impossible to obtain the power to surpass it in just a dozen years, and once the underworld comes, it will immediately find you, no matter where you are.

So come to Hades, as long as you can go high enough on the Ancient Ladder of Souls, you can gain the power to resist and even surpass it.

Soul Ancient Ladder, I will take you there, but it has already marked you, and once you enter the underworld, it will perceive it, which is the first risk.

And climbing the ancient ladder, as long as you fail, you will lose your soul, but if you leave halfway, you will lose your efforts, which is the second risk.

But that's the only way I can think of it. ”

"What is the Soul Ladder?"

"It's the most dangerous, and it's also the most direct place where the soul can change. ”

"Who built this ancient ladder?"

"No existence can build this ancient ladder, because it exists at the beginning of the universe just like the self-rotating reincarnation platform, and this ancient ladder has never existed and can climb to the end, and no existence even knows where the end is.

But as long as you go high enough, you will gain terrifying soul power. ”

"Have you crawled?"

"When I opened my eyes, it was on the nineteenth floor of the ancient ladder, and I barely climbed to the twenty-ninth floor and came down. ”

"What about it?"

"It's at least 100 floors. ”

You say a word and I whisper a word.

For some reason, Xia Ji also felt a strange connection between himself and Red Yama at this time.

He felt that this terrifying being of the underworld would never lie to him.

But with caution, he shook his head, "I'll think about it again." ”

Red Yama replied to his concise style and replied, "Oh." ”

After a while, she said, "You're running out of time. ”

Xia Ji understood what she meant.

"Come to me at the end of the year. ”

"Oh. ”

Hong Yan Luo thought about it for a while, and directly pulled a "consciousness group", she had done this before, and it was also one of her special abilities, so that it would be much easier for her to contact Xia Ji.

Xia Ji instantly felt that he had entered a wonderful environment of consciousness.

But that's not right...

In this conscious environment, why are there dozens of unimaginably terrifying consciousnesses?

It's like a big horror with closed eyes?

Just thinking about it, he felt like he was being kicked out again.

Red Yama said succinctly: "It's wrong. ”

Xia Ji: ...

"What's that?"

Red Yama: "Nightmare." ”

Xia Ji: ...

He understood what the Red Yama meant, it was the consciousness group of the Nightmare.

So he asked, "Are you a nightmare too?"

Red Yama: "No. ”

Xia Ji: ...

He had understood that dragon energy was generated by dragons, and that the nightmare energy of the underworld was produced by nightmares...

But there are so many dragons in one world alone, and there are only a few dozen nightmares in the underworld?

In comparison, the Nightmare is much more powerful than the Dragon.

The devil knows what will happen if he just showed up in front of the nightmares.

So, Xia Ji asked, "All the nightmares?"

"A few worse. ”

Xia Ji sneered slightly: "Is it really okay for you to pull me in just now?"

Red Yama was silent.

I thought about it for a while.

I thought about it for a while.

I thought about it for a while.

Then he simply replied with two words: "Something." ”

"What's the matter?"

"They'll remember you, they'll ask you who you are, they'll ask me why I pulled you in, how you don't look like a nightmare, can they eat you, can they play with your soul, can they..."

As if reciting a book, Red Yama was obviously relaying the situation in the consciousness group, and her eyes were noticeably glazed.

Xia Ji said: "That's why we want to enter the underworld in a low-key manner and look for the Dao Soul Ancient Ladder... You're going to let me be marked by all the nightmares?"

Red Yama: "Yes. ”

"Then I'm not going to the underworld..."

"Oh. ”

Red Yama thought for a while, and then pulled a consciousness group.

Xia Ji went in instantly.

Then in an instant he was kicked out again.

Xia Ji: ......

"What was it just now?"

Red Yama didn't explain.

For the third time, she finally pulled Xia Ji into the correct "consciousness group", which was the two consciousnesses of her and Xia Ji.

"Gone. ”

"Hey, explain, what was that place just now?"

Red Yama flew away, as if fleeing for his life, and before leaving, he grabbed Hongyu's hand and jumped into the Yellow Spring at the same time.

She didn't dare explain.