The information loaded on those runes was like directly instilling information into Xiao Ke's brain, which made Xiao Ke feel very strange and unspeakably uncomfortable.

He touched the runes with his hand, they were just symbols carved into the cultivation tank, and no other materials were used. However, the information they represent alone exudes an omnipresent energy, making these symbols always maintain a high temperature of more than 100 degrees, and even slightly burn Shoko's fingers.

Xiao Ke was thinking about it, and suddenly he felt something change in his environment, he raised his head and looked around cautiously, there were no monsters, and there was nothing abnormal. However, the focus of his gaze was immediately focused on the opposite door, and he could not move away.

In Shawko's memory, this is the most secret and deepest room of the base, and in the real world, there is no such door in the base. And now, the door appeared in front of him so suddenly, the door was open, and a dim light shone from inside, and a whisper of unknown meaning was projected directly into Shawko's consciousness, as if calling him.

Walk through this door and maybe everything will fall into place. Xiao Ke thought so, and walked into the door in a few steps.

Inside the door is a retro world, with no trace of modern fixtures, and the lighting is based on torches burning on the walls, which are no longer made of reinforced concrete, but are made of large blocks of rock. The old wooden staircase spirals downward, and at a glance, you can only see deep shadows, and there is no end in sight.

Shoko began to run, quickly increasing his speed to the extreme, but he still felt that the downward speed was too slow, so he spread his shadow wings and resolutely jumped out of the stairs, falling straight down.

It took nearly 5 minutes for Shoko to reach the bottom, and he jerked on his flying skills and landed gently on the ground.

In front of him was an old but very thick wooden door. Xiao Ke's palm condensed a burst of dark red light, gently touched the wooden door, silently turned it into a piece of wood powder, and strode in.

Inside the door is a study room that resembles a medieval European church on Earth, with dusty wooden bookshelves and numerous religious texts. A very tall man turned his back to Xiao Ke, writing something on the wooden table, his back looked no different from an ordinary person, except that from the long hair on the back of his head, two huge claws with knots and coils stretched out, he sat there, just as tall as Xiao Ke, if he stood up, I am afraid that he would be more than three meters tall. He exudes an aura of terror all over his body, and people who are not strong enough will be blinded even if they just look at him, from the first time he saw him, Xiao Ke knew that this was a person whose strength far exceeded the level of the Seraph, and it was not at all something that he could fight against now.

Xiao Ke walked into the study and looked at the man silently. The man didn't look back, but finished writing a note in his hand, and then stood up and said in a sonorous and hoarse voice: "I'm sorry, this is the holy text given to me by the Lord of Phantoms, and the contents of it make me a little obsessed, so I forgot to greet you and made you wait for a few minutes." ”

He turned around and showed his full view in front of Shoko. He is about three meters tall when he stands upright, and his skin and hair are dark blue. But if you put all of this aside and just look at his appearance, he can even be said to be quite handsome. His pupils shimmered with the color of hellish blood, and in addition to the large curved horns on the back of his head, a small pair of small dark red horns grew on his forehead. He wore a robe that covered his entire body, in a predominantly red and black hue, and was inlaid with countless ornate gemstones.

Seeing Xiao Ke, he didn't look a little surprised, but smiled and pointed to the chair and asked Xiao Ke to sit down. Holding a thick tome in his left hand, he flipped through it, opened one of the pages, and said to Shoko, "You're finally here!" I'm Azler, and I've been waiting for you here for a long time. ”

Xiao Ke glanced at the holy tome, and the content on it was actually full of that kind of mysterious runes. He glanced at Azler suspiciously, and asked, "Are you the one Captain No. 3 said, the person I was destined to meet?" ”

Azler grinned and said slowly, "I am only your guide, and it is the greater being who wants to see you, and it is she who has sent a decree to tell me that you are coming." But I also have a little test, I think, you should be able to read this sentence? ”

He showed a passage from the holy book to Xiao Ke, and as soon as Xiao Ke's eyes fell on the runes, its meaning naturally appeared in his consciousness. So Shoko read it out in pure syllables: "When darkness falls, all things are reduced to ashes." But mortals cannot comprehend the depth and greatness of darkness, all they can feel is boundless fear. ”

Hearing Xiao Ke's recitation, Azler's eyes immediately lit up, and he said excitedly: "Sure enough, it is the purest divine language, and it is worthy of being a trialist chosen by God!" He suddenly straightened up and exclaimed in a voice almost identical to that of Shoko: "When darkness falls, everything will be reduced to ashes!" ”

The rules implied in this sentence were activated instantly, and Xiao Ke did not feel any energy fluctuations, but the bookshelves and books around the study were silently turned into ashes and scattered.

Azler nodded with satisfaction and said to Shoko, "You have passed the test, come with me." With that, he opened the other door of the room and led Xiao Ke out.

It is a deep and long natural tunnel, with torches at intervals on the walls on both sides, illuminating a short distance with the light of a jumping fire. The shadows cast on the wall by the firelight danced constantly, as if they had come to life.

There are many forks in the road that seem to lead to many different places, and from time to time you will encounter monsters with blue fangs, horns on their heads, and hooves under their feet, all of which are typical of the image of the devil. When they saw Shoko following Azler, they all had strange looks in their eyes, but they all chose to ignore Shoko's presence, and instead saluted Azler respectfully, and then turned away.

The passage coiled downward, at least a few kilometers away, before the end was revealed, the air here was already full of corrosive aura, and if Shoko didn't have steel skin, maybe the surface of his body had begun to rot.

In this position, the passage suddenly opens up, forming a hall with a radius of several hundred square meters, and at the end of the hall, there is a circular exit tens of meters high. Walking out of the exit, Xiao Ke saw a majestic palace standing tall at first glance. The palace is built on a mountain, hundreds of meters high, the whole body is made of huge iron blocks, the surface radiates a green glow, the highest part of the palace, has towered into the clouds that roll like black mist, the ground here is not a single grass, all of it is black iron like hard rock.

The entrance to the palace is two huge bronze doors twenty meters high, and all kinds of black runes are engraved on the doors. Azler walked to the bronze door, touched the copper door with his huge palm, and the next moment, the black runes on the door lit up one by one in a mysterious order, and the door continued to sound the jerky and huge roar of the gears when they turned, and dozens of half-meter thick bolts made of unknown materials began to slowly retract, and the momentum of the copper door's activity was extremely huge, and the entire earth trembled slightly.

Even with Shoko's unruliness, he couldn't help but sigh at the grandeur and enormity of this palace, but he didn't expect that in other planes, he could see buildings comparable to those in the Soul Temple.

Azler took a few steps back, pointed to the gate, smiled and said, "My task is to bring you here and help you unlock the door, but not to help you open the door, maybe you can push it open yourself, it's not very heavy, only about fifty tons." ”

Speaking of this, he laughed, pointed to the rune on the door, and said, "If you want me to help, it's not impossible, but you need to make a deal with me." Although most of the objects of the devil's trade with humans are your souls, you are special, and of course I don't dare to fight your soul's idea, so as long as you help me read the contents of the runes on the door, our deal will be answered. ”

Those runes Shawco didn't know at first, but when they lit up in a strange order, their pronunciation and meaning had naturally appeared in Shawko's mind, and it read: "Mortal heroes can restrain fear, but they can't get rid of it." When the realm of fear is opened, the fear that lurks in the soul will become the all-powerful power of Elijah. ”

In those runes, the content representing 'Elijah' has a light that makes it impossible to look at directly, and among all the runes, only this paragraph is something that Shawco can't read, but the divine text representing the real name of 'Elijah' has long been integrated into Shawko's soul, and he can see it even if he can't read it!

When it comes to his real name, Xiao Ke naturally couldn't read it to Azler, he stepped forward, put his hands on the copper door, and the muscles in his whole body suddenly tensed, but the copper door didn't move!

Xiao Ke adjusted his posture a few more times, and continued to exert force, but the bronze door remained motionless.

Xiao Ke suddenly laughed and said loudly: "Do you think you can stump Uncle Ben like this?" ”

He stepped back ten meters, the shadow wings behind him opened, and with all his strength, he slammed into the gate at an extremely terrifying speed, and the huge anti-shock force shook Xiao Ke's brain for a while, and the bones in his body seemed to fall apart.

However, Xiao Ke did not stop at all, stepped back ten meters again, and slammed forward with all his might!

This process has been repeated dozens of times, Xiao Ke has broken his head and blood flowed, the huge copper door finally let out a groan, and was knocked open a fist-sized gap, Xiao Ke condensed the energy spear, inserted it into the gap, pried it hard, and squeaked, and the door was finally pried open a hole that could accommodate a person to pass through, revealing the deep darkness behind the door, the darkness seemed to be an entity, thick, viscous, and constantly flowing slowly.

Seeing this, Azler did not say any more, leaned over and bowed, and said, "The great being you want to see is waiting for you inside, please." ”

Xiao Ke looked at the mysterious world that showed a glimmer behind the giant door, nodded to Azler, and stepped in. The world behind the door was like a rolling tide of darkness, completely engulfing Xiao Ke in the blink of an eye.