At the end of the road is a mural that seems to have been forged with blood.

On the tall dark walls, the crimson lines flow like life, outlining one vivid figure and monster after another, these murals have no obvious dividing lines, but they seem to tell a story continuously.

She struggled to look up, trying to see the top mural, but the wall in front of her was too tall for her to see the end.

Only as far as the eye can see, you can see a majestic Xuanxi city, which is suspended above the sky, and there are many, many ghosts and monsters in it, but in the center of the city, there is a lotus-shaped lake.

The lake is composed of large expanses of red, like real blood, and it seems that it is still flowing and tumbling.

And at the bottom of the city, there are countless people fleeing for their lives in a hurry, with a frightened expression on their faces, and the big mouth seems to let out a scream, penetrating the silent space, and entering Jin Xuanxuan's eardrums, the sharp scream made her frown and immediately covered her ears.

Some of them were scared, some of them fell to the ground, some of them were running, and some of them were kneeling under the black city, stretching out their hands and praying loudly.

Jin Xuanxuan's brain began to throb and ache, but she didn't dare to take her eyes off, but involuntarily followed the mural.

In the place where the majestic city passed, there was a towering circular altar, where the most sumptuous offerings were offered, all kinds of meat and grains, and even the innocent children were tied to the altar.

However, the sorcerer wearing the phoenix feather knelt on the altar and roared as if to vent a monstrous pain.

Below the altar were corpses strewn across the field, and countless rotting corpses were piled up in the barren fields, including men, cows, and sheep...... The corpses were mixed together, emitting a foul smell that polluted the land to the point where nothing was growing.

Evil spirits descend from the heavenly city, gnawing at these carrion and souls that have not had time to be reincarnated.

The more she looked at the mural, the more clear the roar and cry in Jin Xuanxuan's ears became, as if those noisy sounds were invariably gathering in her ears.

Jin Xuanxuan's vision of the mural gradually blurred, and those red lines seemed to gradually come to life, breaking free from the black walls one after another, turning into a messy ball of threads, as if rushing to Jin Xuanxuan as if she was going home.

Jin Xuanxuan screamed, afraid of the arrival of these lines.

However, when these lines were about to rush into Jin Xuanxuan's body, they stopped sharply, and the lines kept flipping and began to rotate slowly around her, as if they were confirming something and wondering something.

Jin Xuanxuan didn't know what these things were, and she didn't dare to run back, exposing her back, and could only confront those red lines constantly.

After a period of confrontation, the red line seemed to finally know something, suddenly stopped, and then flew back into the mural as if disgusted, as if not very much to pay attention to her.

Jin Xuanxuan watched this change in amazement, but before she could think about it, the mural in front of her suddenly dimmed, and those bright red lines fell off in large chunks like fading paint, making these primitive rough but lifelike murals fall back into silence.

The candlelight on the side of the road behind her was extinguished one by one from far and near, so that the road in the distance fell into darkness again, Jin Xuanxuan's heart was anxious, but she didn't dare to go back the same way.

Because in the darkness outside the candlelight, there seems to be something very dangerous lurking.

The candle light went out very quickly, but it was only two blinks of an eye, and only the candle light in front of Jin Xuanxuan remained, but it would not be long before it went out.

Jin Xuanxuan was at a loss, because she was afraid of the darkness, she could only keep going backwards, one step, two steps......

She had her back to the black wall, but she didn't dare to really touch it.

However, in the corner where she couldn't see, a whirlpool suddenly appeared on the black wall, and from the whirlpool stretched out a white arm, pinching the back of Jin Xuanxuan's neck like pinching a kitten, dragging her whole person into the mural.

Jin Xuanxuan couldn't react, so she could only let out a frightened shout.

However, the shouting stopped abruptly as she was pulled in, and only half of the screams echoed in the darkness.

At the same time, the candles were extinguished as she was dragged in entirely.

In the darkness, it seemed as if something was rapidly approaching, and then crashed against the tall wall, but several impacts were fruitless, and the space that should have been silent sounded again with a painful scream.

——

"Ah——!h

Jin Xuanxuan sat up abruptly and screamed in fright.

She gasped for air, cold sweat flowed from her forehead, and the fabric on her back was soaked throughout, and although she couldn't feel the cold wind outside in the carriage, she was still so cold that her teeth chattered.

"What nightmares are you doing?" Gu Yunying, who was sleeping next to her, also woke up, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and asked weakly.

Jin Xuanxuan came back to her senses, she looked around, and found that she had already escaped from that nightmare, and she couldn't help but feel relieved, and the whole person was like a deflated ball, lying half down weakly.

"Sister Gu, I seem to have had a very strange dream."

Jin Xuanxuan didn't dare to hide it, and told Gu Yunying everything she saw and heard in her dream in great detail.

Because monks do not easily dream, they will not appear in dreams unless they are subconsciously or have some kind of sense.

Jin Xuanxuan wasn't sure what was going on, but she knew that she couldn't solve it, especially the cruel images in the murals, which made her feel terrified, not to mention the hand that suddenly appeared and dragged her into the murals.

She couldn't tell whether the owner of this hand was friend or foe, so she could only treat it cautiously and dare not have any presumptuousness.

Jin Xuanxuan was so anxious that she wanted to cry, she hadn't entered the desert yet, and when she arrived in the Western Regions, she encountered such a strange thing, did she really have any hope of coming back alive?

Gu Yunying yawned, as if listening to Jin Xuanxuan's narration casually.

But in her heart, it is also turbulent.

This little girl just saw a mural, but the old lady was in the mural herself, facing the feeling of devastation.

Moreover, just below the black city, she saw with her own eyes those terrifyingly shaped evil spirits, treating the human race without the power to resist as food like pigs, dogs, cows and sheep, like purgatory on earth.

The picture was not too sour, and even she herself almost retched with weak legs.

She didn't dare to fly to the towering city above her head, so she desperately tried to flee from the terrible demons.

As a result, she found that she could not fly with her sword in it, and could only run on her legs with ordinary mortals.

But how can humans outrun those demons with magical powers?

Gu Yunying saw that on the top of his head, five evil ghosts landed, one of the evil ghosts stretched out his hand, easily grabbed the neck of the human being, opened a mouth bigger than his face, and there were a few strands of flesh hanging on the sharp teeth of the mouth, and just like that, the human head was bitten off from the neck.

The man's head was bitten off, and his body struggled twice before he suddenly relented.

Gu Yunying looked at this scene dumbfounded, and the rest of the evil ghosts also began to hunt humans, but only Gu Yunying was left out.

But instead of treating her as non-existent, he regarded her as an existence that needed to be avoided.

Gu Yunying was secretly glad that she had no ability to save those humans, so she could only run into the distance by herself.

But wherever she ran, the black city flew with her, and the demons on it fell like dumplings, and continued to kill humans.

This made Gu Yunying quite irritable, she simply ran in the opposite direction, and the black city still followed.

But in her line of sight, a towering circular altar slowly emerged.

From that altar, there was a hoarse cry.

Hearing this cry, Gu Yunying's body stiffened for a moment, and then her legs began to disobey the call. I involuntarily walked up to the high altar.

On the broad altar, an old man with a white beard and a black feathered witch robe was kneeling in the center, his ghost-like mask discarded to one side, hiding his face and weeping, as if he had just cried out.

In front of him were rows of freshly slaughtered animal sacrifices, as well as precious spirit grass, and beside him a pair of boys and girls were tied.

Both of these children wore masks painted with ghosts on their faces, and they could not see their faces under the masks clearly, except for two pairs of black and white eyes, which looked at the high priest blankly and coveredly, and they wanted to cry but did not dare to cry, so they could only sob in a low voice.

When Gu Yunying ascended the altar, the old man and the child suddenly turned their heads and focused their eyes on her, as if they saw the only ray of light in the endless darkness.

The old man was so anxious that he couldn't stand steadily, and fell directly in front of Gu Yunying, shouting in a hurry:

"Holy Maiden!"

Gu Yunying: "??? ”

So she plays a saint now?

Gu Yunying couldn't help but feel a little flustered, because in her opinion, the profession of "Holy Maiden" was like the old general on the stage, full of flags.

The old man was so sad that he beat his chest and stood, his voice was hoarse, and he looked at Gu Yunying as if asking for help: "Holy Maiden, we have already offered all the sacrifices that can be taken out of the human race according to your instructions, I ...... I also sent my own great-grandson, but it didn't work! It's useless! The god still sent down the divine punishment! ”

"Look at it! Look at it! The old man pointed to the human purgatory under the altar, the whole person was so old that he couldn't be more old, as if the former spirit had been brutally worn out, leaving only the hesitation and helplessness of an ordinary old man, "Please save your people!" ”

Gu Yunying couldn't see this kind of old man kneeling and talking to herself, she wanted to move away, but her whole body couldn't move.

Suddenly, her lips slowly opened, as if another person had possessed her body through the endless desolation of time and space, and she heard this voice that did not belong to her own come out of her mouth—

"Back then, I stopped you, but you still chose to betray."

"Betraying a god is the price."