When Lu Lie punctured only a small hole in the white cocoon, the water pressure inside the cocoon and the air outside the cocoon were unbalanced, and in an instant, the milky white liquid burst out, tearing the thumb-sized hole into a person's height.

Even with the momentum of the water, Lu Lie was also swept out by half a person, hanging diagonally on the broken white cocoon.

How long has this been his exposure to the air of the outside world?

The world in the water and the world pressure in the air are completely different, and the difference between the two made Lu Lie's lungs, who had been accustomed to the world in the water for a long time, feel a dull pain, and almost burst the moment he came into contact with the air. He began to breathe heavily, each of his breaths clumsy, powerful, fresh air down his throat and into his lungs. Without the supply of the milky liquid like amniotic fluid, he would have to breathe every breath by himself from now on.

His limbs were extremely weak. For a long time, Lu Lie could only lean on the broken white cocoon, maintaining that posture. It's like a patient paralyzed in bed.

Beyond the white cocoon, what greeted his eyes was a vast, dilapidated palace. Countless hideous stone statues hung on both sides, like ancient gods, and their red eyes coldly looked down on every corner of the palace. On each side of the wall was a dark arched gate, beyond which there was a larger, more expansive palace.

And lying in the center of the palace was an eternal monster that made Lu Lie's pupils dilated and terrified from the bottom of his heart. It was a huge ball of black flesh the size of a mountain, smooth and delicate, and it reflected a purple-black oily appearance, not like the skin of a terrestrial creature. And around the ball of flesh that was extremely smooth and soft to the extreme, dozens of thick and powerful long wrists extended, and they spread around with such a big grin. This mountain-like octopus, with its giant black man, alone occupies a third of the palace the size of a football field. Lu Lie could even see clearly the sharp teeth hidden in the huge suction cups on the long wrist.

In front of this strange beast of heaven and earth, Lu Lie was like an ant.

"Poor...... Strange!"

Lu Lie blurted out the words that had been sealed in his memory and had not been spoken for a long time in an almost trembling voice. He felt his lower body get wet, and he couldn't even tell if it was because he had just come out of that milky white mass of liquid, or if he was actually scared to pee. In fact, it's not a shame to be scared and pee at such a close encounter—it doesn't look like a product of this world, like a hybrid that crawled out of eighteen layers of hell. In the Middle Ages, it was a sea monster capable of engulfing a fleet, in the eyes of the pagans of the Westward Lands, it was the most intuitive embodiment of the evil god in this world, and for mortals like Lu Lie, it was the sum total of all the negative emotions in the world, such as fear, powerlessness, despair, resentment, etc.

What I saw through the eyes of a thousand worlds of green ants at the beginning and how I intuitively faced this desolate foreign body were two completely different feelings.

No one can afford not to be afraid.

The only thing to rejoice in is that the beast is dead.

......

"Good morning. ”

The figure jumped from the top of the beast, still holding the bright green, faintly transparent short sword in his hand. passed through the criss-crossed long wrists, and walked in front of the white cocoon where Lu Lie was.

"Good morning? ”

Lu Lie's hands and feet were still not strong enough to support him to move. But at least, he was able to lower his head and spat heavily into the milky white overflow on the ground, and let out a series of incomprehensible curses from his mouth. Even Lu Lie himself didn't know if he was scolding this damn giant octopus, or the person in front of him, or a more ethereal fate or something else.

Finally, Lu Lie's legs had enough strength to support him to stand up. He grabbed the rough white cocoon beside him, and reluctantly stepped out of the egg-shaped cocoon that he had been staying for seventy-two days, and walked out. He walked up to the figure, a thousand words, and finally only one sentence, and patted him on the shoulder: "What?

The man's eyes were clear, and his eyes were ethereal. In the midst of the hellish labyrinthine palace, he was still born like a spotless young deity. It's not Li Yuan, who is it?

Li Yuan responded: "Well, thanks to your care, this month has passed, and I finally didn't die." ”

Lu Lie was silent for a long time, then raised his head and asked, "By the way, let me ask you a question." ”

"Hmm. ”

"Your secret technique called Heaven and Earth Flipping or something—like when we were trapped in the tide of corpses and almost got trapped to death, what is the secret technique that you teleported the five of us?"

"The stars are circling, ninety-nine. ”

“......”

Lu Lie was silent for a long time, thoughtful. In the end, he just let out a soft oh.

......

Li Yuan supported Lu Lie, and the two walked side by side on this vast and boundless land. Along the way, Li Yuan also talked about what happened outside when Lu Lie was trapped in this white cocoon.

This huge Qiqi, the monster born in the Yellow Springs World of the Lost God City, is not any kind of creature in human cognition at all.

It is a delusion, a huge rhapsody accumulated over thousands of years of despair, sadness, fear, trembling, and all kinds of negative emotions of countless explorers trapped here. In this vain land of Yellow Springs, anything can have that cheap life, including monsters that are also made up of negative human cognitions.

It also has no fixed form. In Lu Lie's eyes, it was in the form of a huge black octopus, but perhaps in Yang Wei's eyes, it was a cyan-skinned cyclops, and in the eyes of the man-eater, it was a huge cow covered with pupils and lips. All kinds of things are endless.

And the ultimate purpose of its existence here is to leave these adventurers behind and create more delusions. It is delusional, born of delusion, created by delusion, and returned to endless delusion.

Under the leadership of Li Yuan, Lu Lie saw that the rows of huge white cocoons in the shape of humans displayed in the palace were like eggs to be hatched in the worm's nest, crowding the remaining half of the palace.

In every white cocoon, there is a dreaming adventurer. Some of them have been trapped here since ancient times, and to this day, hundreds of years are unknown, and thousands of years have passed. Their white cocoons had long since run out of moisture, and were so broken that all that was left was a thin shell covering their bodies.

Through the thin shell, Lu Lie saw that the corpse of the adventurer who was imprisoned in it still had a faint smile, as if they were immersed in their dreams until death.