With the gatekeeper's order, more than a thousand geismos outside the ruins were about to leave, and suddenly, a huge black shadow appeared on the ground, covering everyone's position, instantly sucking everyone into the ground, leaving only the gatekeeper stunned in place.

"Shadow shift, is it ......" muttered the gatekeeper, who seemed to know who could do such a thing, and ran to the side of a broken earthen wall in a hurry, holding one hand into a fist in front of his chest, bowing his head to his shadow and saying, "Lord Left Envoy." ”

After speaking, the shadow of the gatekeeper shook slightly, and then returned to its original state, and behind him, a man in black appeared holding a folding fan and wearing a face, he leaned slightly on the broken stone pillar, and leisurely shook the folding fan.

"Iron guard of the Boundary Gate, why are you here, didn't I ask Xiaobai to come over and guide the geist?" The man in black asked.

"General Bai has to leave in advance, so let me come and guide these geyers, and after the end, lead the surviving intermediaries back to the realm."

"Something important?" The man in black put away the folding fan, approached the iron guard and said, "Even if there is something important, Xiaobai can leave directly, shouldn't you report to me before you come to replace him?" ”

The powerful aura of the man in black made the iron guard unable to stand upright, so that the iron guard who was originally standing could only maintain a half-kneeling posture.

He didn't say anything more, just tried to stay in shape, and the hand on his chest was still raised.

"Okay, okay, I don't blame you." The man in black said with a smile, put away his aura, and took a few steps back, "Did Xiaobai tell you not to tell me?" ”

"Yes."

"Tsk, this little white, I don't know what I'm busy with all day long, forget it, just drop by." The man in black took out an edict and threw it to the guard, "We have already sent all the more than 1,000 spirits into the ruins, you just need to wait for the time to come." This edict was given to Xu Yong by the Soul Master, so I'll give it to him by the way when you guide the intermediary to the boundary gate. ”

"Command."

As soon as the man in black finished speaking, his jade pendant flashed.

"Oh, how come I just finished running errands, and the Soul Master has assigned another task, then see you next time, dutiful little iron guard." He just wanted to escape into the shadow on the ground, as if he remembered something, "By the way, I'm not in a very good mood anyway, so let's make it a little more difficult for these wandering soul friends." ”

He snapped his fingers, and countless corpses poked out of the sand one by one, as if they were buried in the ruins.

"Hmph, it's just some low-level necromancy, it should be a little fun." He said with a smile.

The man in black waved at the iron guard, jokingly said goodbye, and then escaped into the black shadow on the ground, and in an instant, only the iron guard stood in place in the yellow sand, and then he put down the right hand that had been raised, and when he looked closely, he found that although the various parts of his body were covered with armor, there were many scratches.

"Traces left by shadow nails...... Sure enough, just like the rumors, the adult is not very good-tempered. ”

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Just now, when Lu Yu was still pondering a lot of settings that this gatekeeper said, suddenly, he seemed to have fallen into a bottomless hole, and he couldn't see the scene around him, and he couldn't hear the voices of many people who were chattering next to him just now, and he could only feel that he had been falling.

I don't know how long it has been, it may be an hour, it may be a minute, Lu Yu has no concept of time anymore, he just feels that the current situation is boring for him. Suddenly, Lu Yu felt that the sense of falling disappeared, and was replaced by an upward, extremely strong attraction. And this attraction was like beating Lu Yu's whole person back from the cave where he fell in an instant, until he returned to the ground, exposing him to this wasteland again.

"Phew, ahem...... Cough! Originally, there was no big problem, but when he was sucked out of the shadow cave, Lu Yu accidentally tripped over himself, and as a result, he choked on the sand a few times, and when he thought that the sand was actually countless dense small insects, Lu Yu couldn't help but feel nauseous and coughed.

"It's going to be a nightmare." He stumbled to his feet and patted his clothes and pants, "I guess I won't be able to forget it in ten days and half a month." ”

He began to observe the scene around him: the natural environment was similar to that outside the ruins, with yellow sand in the sky, and the only difference was that there were some well-preserved houses and some facilities in the ruins, although they were all made of earth.

"What's that?" Lu Yu saw that there was an extremely tall pointed building not far from his right, and he approached there, but he couldn't shorten the distance between himself and the tall one.

He tried a few times and gave up, but when comparing the buildings behind him to the distance, he did change, so he tried to get closer to the houses and found that the distance could be reduced.

"Forget it, it's important to find the soul core. It's just that the gatekeeper just said that the soul core was placed in the ruins, and then there were no other clues, which is really a bit confusing. ”

"But there are so many well-preserved houses in this ruin, maybe it's like some RPG game, in some shiny treasure chest in the house."

As he spoke, Lu Yu planned to search the nearest room to see if he could gain something.

However, just as he had not taken a few steps, a hand suddenly reached out from the ground, and it grabbed his right foot.

......Before he could come back to his senses, his center of gravity was unstable, and he tripped over the strange hand from the ground, but fortunately he used his hands to support him in time to avoid a third close contact with the sand on the ground.

The smell of rotting meat filled the air, and he looked at the purple hand that clung to his ankle and tried to struggle a few times, but it still didn't let go.

The sand trembled slightly, and he vaguely felt that something was about to emerge from the ground, and as he continued to struggle, he noticed that around the center of the center where the sand trembled the most, with that hand as the center, there was something shiny and buried in the sand.

"That's ...... My marbles! ”

Although Lu Yu wanted to get the marble back now, he was firmly controlled by that hand and couldn't move.

The marble is said to be when Lu Yu was very young, his grandfather gave him as a talisman, and asked him to take it with him all the time, Lu Yu at first because the marble seemed to be carved with a knife Some special words, he felt that it was not good-looking, and deliberately lost it several times, but after each time he lost it, when he woke up the next day, he could see the marble intact by his pillow, and over time, Lu Yu felt that it didn't matter, so he took it with him. After all, Lu Yu had also carried that marble with him for several years, so it was inevitable that he would have some feelings for this small object.

As the sand continued to shake off, the full picture of the "person" who restrained him was gradually revealed.

It was a person with blank eyes and bloodshot eyes, its eyes did not stare at Lu Yu at all, but focused on Lu Yu's marble, and that person's other hand slowly poked out from the ground while constantly struggling out of the sand, wanting to reach out for the marble.

But when the man touched the marble, it was like a spark meeting gasoline, and the whole person who was not angry at all seemed to be set on fire, and there was a blue-green flame all over his body, and then the skin and flesh were like a snake molting, and gradually disintegrated and fell off, and then it screamed, turned into debris, and disappeared into the gust of wind.

The whole process of all this came so quickly that Lu Yu didn't know what was going on, and it was over. The only thing he noticed was that the man had started to spontaneously combust after accidentally touching the marbles, and he couldn't ask why the other person wanted his marbles or something.

Lu Yu wiped the cold sweat on his head, straightened his clothes, and then went to the sink of the sand to pick up the marbles that he had been slightly buried.

"What's the matter, I don't seem to have seen that person just now, is he a wanderer, but his behavior and appearance ...... It can't be that you have encountered a spirit-level soul beast. Lu Yu looked at the place where the "person" disappeared just now, and there was nothing left that looked like a soul core.

"Sure enough, if it was so easy to encounter a soul beast and defeat it, the first thing I would do when I woke up was to buy a lottery ticket." He straightened his clothes, "It's been the third time I've fallen when I came to this sandy plain, and I really have a fate with this land." ”

Lu Yu waited in place for a short while, and after making sure that there was no change in the surroundings, he continued to walk towards the nearest house.

When he walked to the door of the house, he knocked on the door, but he didn't want it to be unlocked, so he knocked on the door and knocked it open.

"Anyone, excuse me?" As he spoke, he stepped into the dilapidated but still intact room, "That's true, but it doesn't look like there's anyone." ”

He looked around the room, and the dusty furniture and the creaking floor made him reinsure that it had been abandoned for a long time.

"It's just that there is only sand and soil in this hundred miles of circumference, where did the planks in this house come from?"

"Maybe this was an oasis."

Lu Yu searched for a while, only to find a small wooden box on a cabinet, although the box had a small hole in it, but the style and pattern were still very new, as if it had just been made, although there were two words engraved on the bottom of the box, but he could only recognize one of the words "spirit", and the other word was worn and could not be seen.

He dusted off the box and slowly opened it, revealing that it was a crystal that glowed red.

"Is this the soul core?" Lu Yu was a little curious, so he was going to reach out and touch it, but after he touched the crystal, except for the crystal flashing, nothing else changed, the red light was still bright, and Lu Yu didn't feel anything else.

"Isn't this a soul core?" He took out the whole small object and held it in his hand, feeling nothing but the coldness of the crystal itself.

"Tsk, it doesn't seem to be, otherwise there would be one of the two reactions of rejection and absorption, judging from the results, it doesn't seem to be." Lu Yu stuffed the crystal back into the box in frustration, threw down the box and was about to leave, but as soon as he arrived at the door, he turned back and picked up the crystal and put it in his pocket.

"It's better to bring it, maybe it will come in handy."

He then closed the box and put it back in its place, continuing to walk away from the massive building.

After walking for a while, Lu Yu already had about three or four glowing crystals of different shapes in his pocket, and he touched each one of them, but except for the flash when he touched it for the first time, there was no other reaction.

"Speaking of which, why haven't I seen anyone, there were obviously many people coming before I just came to the ruins." Lu Yu muttered.

Suddenly, there was an explosion from not far away, and Lu Yu ran in small steps in the direction of the explosion.

As we get closer to the target location, the explosions that can be heard and the concentration of dust increases. Not far away, within Lu Yu's field of vision, he could already see two people standing facing each other, scattered around with a lot of remnants like the "person" who had just attacked him, a young man who looked the same age as him stood on the right, with light blue hair, a very natural appearance, not like dyed, there were a lot of water blades floating around the young man, his left hand was constantly trembling, blood was slowly dripping, there was also a wound on his face, and on the other side, there was a man standing, With a scar on his face and a thick beard, although the man's body is not very huge, he can vaguely see that the muscles on his body are very strong, completely different from the young man on the other side, he has no scars on his body, he holds a fire knife in his hand, and there is a pile of hot water behind him that looks like a molten spring that is about to erupt, constantly steaming.

"Hey, boy, if you get down on your knees now and beg me to let you go, and promise to help me find the girl I just had, I'll spare you."

"Don't think about it."

"Hey, hey, I was kind enough to save her, is it too much to reciprocate?" Scarface stomped his foot as if he was a little agitated, and the pile of molten fountains behind him bubbled a few times.

The young man on the right didn't say much, just set up an attack posture and quietly waited for the opportunity.

"If that's your reply, then don't blame me for being rude." The man threw the knife back, just into the molten fountain, where the molten flames boiled even more, and it seemed that it could erupt at any moment.

"Let's wait and see what happens." Lu Yu, who was hiding behind the stone wall, muttered.

Lu Yu leaned against a stone wall to avoid being injured by mistake, and observed the battle through a small hole in the stone wall, although he still had doubts about whether this place was real, but he still thought it was better to be careful.

I thought that the uninjured Scarface would take the lead in attacking, but instead, it was the young man who controlled the water blade first, and with a slight wave of his hand, dozens of water blades were launched in an instant, flying towards Scarface. Scarface didn't panic, he just manipulated the pile of molten flames on the ground to burst out in front of him, forming a wall of flames to resist those water blades, but although the water blades were fast, only one or two water blades hit the wall of flames and were evaporated, and the rest of the water blades scattered in all directions, attacking the man in all directions.

"Close!"

The entire wall of flame instantly fell backwards, forming a ball of flame that enveloped him, and instead of continuing to charge forward, the Water Blade slowed down and stayed in the air in order to find an opportunity to break through Scarface's defenses. Scarface saw that the movement of the water blade slowed down, so he let the flame ball form a fire thorn, directly hitting the remaining nine water blades, shattering and evaporating them, and at the same time, forming a molten flame firing device inside the flame ball, launching itself towards the young man, and then wrapping his body with molten flames, and at the same time passing the young man, a hand knife split the young man in half.

"Boom!"

Before Scarface could stand still, he let the flames that remained in the boy's body run wildly when the flame hand knife slashed past, forming a deflagration, and in an instant, the mist was rising, as if he was in a fairyland.

"Cut, it's just like ...... This? Scarface's mouth was still moving, he wanted to say something, but he couldn't speak, he grabbed his throat as if he was drowning and couldn't breathe, gasping for breath, his face was pale, and he gradually fell to his knees, his hands folded, as if begging for mercy.

The wind blew the mist, and under the mist, a human figure gradually revealed. It was the blue-haired boy, who was gasping for air, still wounded, and it was clear that this trick had taken a lot of effort on his part.

"Wrong...... "Help" Scarface squeezed for a long time, only squeezed out a few words, and he landed on all fours, as if he had reached the limit.

The boy relented and let Scarface recover from his drowning state.

"Whew...... ...... Whew," Scarface gasped, "thank you...... Good Samaritans! ”

As Scarface recovered, he flew towards the boy with the scattered molten flames, but when the molten flames were only a meter away from the boy, they fell from mid-air and stopped moving, and then gradually disappeared.

Scarface didn't say a word, and fell to the ground with a "boom", slowly volatilizing like mist, because at the same time that he was making a big fuss after recovering, the boy had already smashed his internal organs and the soul core condensed in his body, and because of this, Scarface's soul was scattered.

The young man trembled slightly, a little incredulous, unbelievable because he didn't expect that he would really do it, but just now, his body moved subconsciously.

Lu Yu saw the man with the scar on his face disappear in the distance like water vapor, and couldn't help but be shocked, just as he turned around and was about to quietly leave this place of right and wrong, he suddenly felt a chill on his neck in front of him.

"Huh?!"

I saw a water blade against his neck.

"Who are you and what are you going to do?" The blue-haired boy didn't know when he was already in his vicinity.

"I ...... I just happened to be passing by. ”

Seeing that Lu Yu was not hostile to him, his legs trembled a little, and he didn't look like an intermediary with special abilities, the young man put away the water blade, and covered the wound on his body with water to stop the bleeding.

"Are your wounds alright?" Lu Yu asked.

"It's okay, this water can help me stitch up the wound."

"Then why didn't you use this water to heal yourself while fighting when you were just fighting?"

The blue-haired boy didn't answer his question, just turned around and walked back to the battlefield just now.

"Hey, you haven't answered my question yet."

"There's no need."

"Huh?" Lu Yu was a little nerve-wracking, and felt that this person seemed to be a little cold, but although this young man seemed to be able to use his abilities very skillfully, from the conversation he had with that Scarface just now, it seemed that he was not a bad person, and he should still be able to ask some other questions.

"Excuse me......" Lu Yu followed closely behind the young man, "I want to ask some questions, okay?" ”

Before the boy could answer, not far from the northeast, there was a roar of a beast.

"Roaring ——!"