The light illuminates the locked room, which is as clear and soft as a dream, and does not feel dazzling.

The mages lay on the ground and carved a circular circle, misty light flowing slowly along the grooves of the circle, extending towards the center and then merging into Leo's body.

"The curse should be almost dispelled, why hasn't this kid gotten up yet?"

Several elven mages stood by and talked.

"If he doesn't get up again, the demon king will use up his people as cannon fodder. ”

"Did we make a mistake?"

They couldn't come to a conclusion, and then they set their eyes on Lin Lei, who was meditating.

"How's it going?"

At this time, Josie walked in.

She was covered in blood, and it was clear that she had been killed. When the situation is critical outside, she will also go out to help, and during this time, the mages are here to take care of Lin Lei.

"He still hasn't moved?"

Qiao Qian saw that Lin Lei had not changed the posture he had before leaving.

The mages shook their heads: "Didn't move. ”

"It's been like this for three days, he must have worked hard!"

"Of course it's hard, why don't we let him rest?"

"No, as soon as he stops meditating, the life energy here will collapse. ”

The mages wanted to let Lin Lei rest, but they couldn't find any other way to keep Leo alive, so they could only let Lin Lei continue to attract life energy.

Qiao Qian walked to Lin Lei and sat cross-legged, the energy attracted by Lin Lei was so huge, so that her cultivation could also get twice the result with half the effort - she had to be carefully selected, and she couldn't absorb the energy indiscriminately.

There are two kinds of energy in the room, one is Lin Lei's own life true qi, and the other is the life energy that he attracted from the natural world, Qiao Qian can only use the latter, if she accidentally absorbs Lin Lei's true qi, the side effects will be very terrible.

She sank down and prepared to meditate, but her ears suddenly moved, and she heard a faint snoring next to her.

"No......"

Josie looked at Lin Lei with strange eyes, his snoring was very quiet, and it would only appear once or twice a day, she didn't notice it at first, but after a few times, Josie always suspected that he was sleeping.

"No way, no way!"

She hurriedly dispelled her thoughts, this is absolutely impossible, how can this guy run true qi in his sleep!

It's ridiculous.

Josie closed her eyes and began to meditate.

But what she didn't expect was that Lin Lei was indeed sleeping, he meditated very seriously at first, and fell asleep while sitting, and the true qi was still flowing according to his operating habits.

Occasionally, when the True Qi went wrong, they would wake him up when they scurried around in Lin Lei's body, but his body was comparable to that of a dragon, and the True Qi going the wrong way would not cause much trauma to him, so he could return to normal every time.

In this way, he sleeps and wakes up for a while, maintaining his life energy.

The frequent transition from dream to reality made Lin Lei gradually forget where he was, and between half dreaming and half waking up, he came to a world where the sky had no color.

In this black-and-white world, he meets Leo.

"Why are you here?"

Lin Lei looked over in surprise.

Leo looked back at him, "I should ask you, how did you come to the Shadow Realm?"

"Where is the Shadow Realm?"

Lin Lei walked to his side and was suddenly stunned, and there were phantoms flying quickly in the sky.

While realizing what these phantoms were, Leo replied to Lin Lei, "The Shadow Realm is the Underworld. ”

Lin Lei was taken aback: "I'm dead?"

He touched his body up and down, oh my god, this is too terrifying, I don't know how he died!

"No, you're not dead, and if you do, you'll be sucked up by something with them. Leo looked at the soul flying in the sky: "Thanks to your life force, I don't seem to be dead." ”

"Then why don't you go back?"

Lin Lei reminded: "Your people are being slaughtered. ”

"I know. ”

Leo certainly knew that every soul in the sky represented the passing of a life.

"Without the bondage of the flesh, I am stronger now than ever. ”

Leo suddenly floated and flew in the direction of the soul's departure: "This is a new realm, I must stay here a little longer, in this state, I can see things that I couldn't see before—like what the Demon King is doing." ”

"What is he doing?" Lin Lei followed: "He seems to have turned your people into cannon fodder." ”

He was also curious about what the Demon King was doing, and he thought that the Demon King wanted to turn the alliance into his own power, but now it didn't seem like it - it was too wasteful for the Demon King to attack the surroundings at the same time after getting the alliance, and use the power of humans as cannon fodder.

"You're right. Leo replied in a cold voice as he flew, "We are his cannon fodder, and the meaning of human existence is sacrifice." ”

He searched for three days in his soul state, and he was about to find the truth.

"High King, do you know the history of souls?"

"The soul still has a history?"

Lin Lei had a question mark in his head.

"In ancient times, the soul did not exist. Leo replied, "The soul is the residue of the will left behind by the death of a living being, and the residue will be absorbed by the land along with the corpse." ”

In ancient times, the first elves discovered that the residue had a stronger use value. For this reason, the queen modified the law of energy, so that the residue of living beings after death will not disappear immediately, but will receive the power of the shadow world to condense and form, and become souls.

"The queen renamed the Shadow Realm the Underworld and created gods to rule over it. Leo's voice was cold and unforgiving: "Do you know why she created the Underworld?"

"It can't be kindness, right?"

Lin Lei never thought that the queen would be so good.

"Kindness? Of course not. Leo replied, "Her purpose in establishing the Underworld is simple, and that is to put all living beings, including their powers in the afterlife, at her service - the most powerful souls are still being held as slaves in her palace." ”

Lin Lei was secretly surprised, that queen was even more domineering than he thought.

"That's not right. But he soon found out what didn't make sense: "Primordial elves have no souls." ”

"Of all the races, only the primordial elves survived, and the queen treated them as her own people and did not desecrate them. ”

Leo goes on to explain that in ancient times, primordial elves were an immortal race, they were the masters of the world, and not many people dared to provoke them - they had no concept of death at all.

At that time, most of the reasons for the death of elves were that they were tired of being alive and chose to return to nature.

Not being able to rest in peace was a taboo for the elves, and the queen did not force them, but she placed a trap: the primordial elves would not be desecrated after death, but the half-elves, and the elves who had lost their eternal life, were not subject to forgiveness.

Because of this, after the forest elves lost their eternal life, their wills after death could not rest, but turned into souls and were absorbed by the underworld.

The last Elven King discovered this and opened up another Elven kingdom in the Netherlands.

It was the only place in the shadow realm that was free from the hands of the gods and filled with warmth. The elves can live there as they did before they were alive, or they can choose to return to nature.

"Your great-grandfather is full of legends. ”

Leo paused: "We humans are not so lucky. ”

Lin Lei nodded silently, Leo's understanding of elves was even deeper than his.

But what does the history of the soul have to do with the present situation?

"What the hell did you find?"

Lin Lei asked.

Leo flew down from the sky and landed on a mountain peak.

"Sure enough......"

He let out a solemn sigh.

Lin Lei looked at the other side of the mountain, on the dark ground, a boundless legion was forming, and above the legion was a huge energy vortex, and there were some phantoms screaming and being swallowed by the vortex.

He gasped, "What is this?"

"Legion of the Dead. ”

Leo watched the legion silently, the howling wind heard the endless and mournful wails of the undead, and as the phantom of the vortex increased, the undead legion slowly grew.

"How can there be demons there!"

Lin Lei saw that there were many demons in the legion who were shouting loudly.

"That's what the Demon King is for. Leo replied, "When the new humans die, their souls will be absorbed here and become part of the army of the undead, and the gods and demons of the underworld will be hooked up." ”

Lin Lei was shocked: "They want to betray our world?"

"It's not surprising, I've heard that during the ancient wars, demons and undead frowned. Leo said in a cold voice: "The soul is the residue of life, and in the banshees created by the demons, there are the residues left over from the eating of them. ”

"Demons can create souls!"

Lin Lei instantly understood.

If the demons can eat people and leave their souls, then they will have no conflict of interest with the underworld, and even after the demons eat all their lives, the power of the underworld will reach its highest.

"Here's my guess, but it's not wrong. Leo said: "After the death of the Queen, the Underworld has become powerful enough after hundreds of years of development, and the gods here do not want to be controlled by the Queen. ”

Lin Lei was stunned: "The Demon King will provide power to the underworld again?"

"Not only that, the mass death of human beings, the huge life energy did not disappear immediately, but remained in this land. Leo looked at Lin Lei: "You know this best." ”

Lin Lei nodded, he meditated and attracted a lot of energy, which was the life energy left behind by the death of the humans around him.

These energies were supposed to be absorbed naturally and turned into new life in the future - but they remained, and Lin Lei suspected that it had something to do with the power generated by Valrhona's potion.

"What does the Demon King do with all this energy?"

Lin Lei asked.

"You can do anything. ”

Leo replied that the demon's power came from life, that is, life energy - as long as this energy reached a certain concentration, the demon could even build an astral portal to summon his compatriots.

"I've heard of the Astral Portal. Lin Lei frowned slightly: "The demon established this kind of facility in the ancient war. ”

"It's a small portal, it can only teleport one army, and if the Demon King plans to build a portal this time, he may be able to bring in the demon's fleet. Leo said as he watched as a pair of eyes in the vortex noticed them.

"We left early. Lin Lei also found out that something was wrong: "The master of the legion is about to discover us." ”

Leo nodded, turned around and was about to leave, but he was suddenly stunned, and his face showed an incredible look.

"Father's ......"

When Lin Lei heard his scream, he turned around and looked, his hair stood on end in fright.

"Hell, ahhhh

"What are you calling, I'm a ghost!"

Caesar looked at Lin Lei angrily, and Lin Lei was stunned: "Yes, this is the underworld." ”

"Old man, why are you still the same!" Lin Lei flew around Caesar a few times and patted the armor on his body: "Well-equipped, but there are no limbs and legs, better than those fools!"

"Less!

Caesar slapped Lin Lei's hand away: "I don't know how thick the sky is, I dare to even break into the underworld—and you, Leo!"

He looked at Leo, and Leo's expression was a little excited: "Father, you are not controlled by the god of the underworld?"

"How could I have been controlled by them, if it weren't for the demon king's despicable plotting against me, I would have slaughtered him long ago!" Caesar looked gloomy, still haunted by his death.

"Your Majesty, don't hold on at this time. Another voice sounded, Lin Lei looked up, and found that Yarman also flew down from the sky: "You're okay!"

"High King ......"

Yarman saluted Lin Lei respectfully: "Thank you for saving your life. ”

Lin Lei was stunned for a moment, the grace of saving lives, what kind of grace of saving lives, your lives are gone, and the grace of saving lives!

"What are you talking about?"

"We are now in the care of your great-grandmother. Yarman replied.

Leo immediately understood: "The elf saved you?"

"Hmph...... Those selfish elves have now learned to tolerate. ”

Caesar was a little hard-mouthed.

Yarman smiled apologetically at Lin Lei, and then told him what had happened in the underworld.

It turned out that they fell into the hands of the gods after their deaths, and just when their will was about to be worn out, the elves came down from the sky and rescued them.

"How can the elves save you?" Leo was dumbfounded, "Aren't they only sheltering their own people?"

He had heard from his teachers that the last Elven King had promised to protect only his own people and not to help the souls of other races, in order not to exacerbate his relationship with the gods of the underworld.

How have they changed now?

"Thanks to the High King. Yarman looked at Lin Lei: "After he established Xia Hua, the elves met in the underworld and decided to help the allies of other races. ”

Although Caesar broke off relations with the forest elves during his lifetime, the forest elves still saved him in large numbers, precisely because of the influence of the present world.

"I didn't expect my influence to spread to the underworld. Lin Lei was a little flustered.

"Yes, the goddess has been watching you. Yarman smiled, "She also asked me to ask you something." ”

Lin Lei was very happy: "What's the matter?"

"She wants to ask you how to build the Santu River, and how many halls are there in the Hades Palace, and how to divide the official ranks, these things are not very detailed in Xiuzhen. ”

As soon as Yarman spoke, Lin Lei was dumbfounded.

What?Santu River?Hades?What did her great-grandmother want to do?She wanted to create the Netherworld!?

She's crazy!

Lin Lei thought about it seriously: "Did she still ask about the Heavenly Palace?"

The underworld is there, and the heavenly palace can't be missing!