Chapter 364: Soul Worm
"As you can see, it's a city." Writing appeared on the tablet of the god slayer.
"What city can die and live, live and die over and over again?" Li Xiu said coldly, "Tell me honestly, is the City of Love real, or is it simply a city in memory?"
"If you want to know, you can go to the cemetery outside the Black Dead City, where there are the answers you want." This line of words appeared on the tablet of killing gods.
"You can just tell me." Li Xiu stared at the Killing God tablet and said.
"There are some things that you haven't seen, even if I say it, you won't be able to understand it, but after you experience it yourself, you will naturally understand everything." There are a lot of words about the Killing God Tablet today.
"Okay, I'll go there first, and when you come back, if you shirk it like this again, don't be afraid that I'm not welcome." Li Xiu thought for a while and said.
In the cemetery outside the Black Death City before, the things he encountered already made him a little suspicious that those buried in the cemetery might be the people of the City of Love.
Li Xiu first found Chu Jun over and asked Chu Jun to help him treat his injuries again.
"I said Li Xiu, what have you been doing all day? It's only been so long, and why is it so badly injured? Chu Jun looked at the injuries on Li Xiu's body and frowned.
While Li Xiu was treating his injuries, he explained the matter of the City of Love and the Black Death City.
Chu Jun listened and said, "The last time I heard you talk about this, I was thinking, could that City of Love be the former Black Death City, a mirage that didn't exist at all?"
"I think so too, but if it's just an illusory realm, I shouldn't be hurt, and I once killed some demon spirits outside the City of Love before, and brought back the demon core, those things can't be faked." Li Xiudao.
"I've also considered this, do you say it's possible, the City of Love is a fragment of time and space intercepted by some force, and that fragment of time stays there forever, and keeps repeating." Chu Jun thought for a while and said.
"That's probably the most likely explanation at the moment." Li Xiu nodded and said, "What is the situation, maybe if you go to the Black Death City this time, you can get the answer."
"I'll go with you." Chu Jun said.
"No, you're running the Trialist Tournament, and it's a different place than the City of Love, so I'll have to figure it out myself." Li Xiu shook his head.
After healing his injuries, Li Xiu went to the Gate of the Brave Trial, and directly used the trial badge to swipe out the trial with an admission ticket. Li Xiu came to the Black Death City and found that there were already a lot of trialists in the city, which was very different from when it was empty before.
The Black Dead in the city has already been killed, and the trialists are bustling with people, and it's like a bazaar.
Of course, the vast majority of these trialists are not trialists from the City of Light, but those who come to compete. Because the City of Light only has such a gate of trials, they all come here when there are no competitions. Li Xiu took a quick look and saw a lot of familiar trialists, who should be trialists from the Immortal Heaven.
Li Xiu's appearance also attracted the attention of many people, because the things outside could not be brought into the place of trial, and there was no way to cover the face, and everyone could see it clearly.
Li Xiu didn't want to talk to anyone, so he went directly to the city gate of the cemetery, and came to the city gate after a short time. "Li Xiu." Just as he was about to open the city gates, he heard his name called.
Li Xiu knew that it was Li Qingyi when he heard the voice, turned his head to look, and sure enough, he saw Li Qingyi, who was dressed in green clothes, walking over. "Why are you here?" Li Xiu asked with some surprise.
Most trialists go to the canyons and deserts, and few trialists go to the Dead Sea and graveyards.
Li Xiu had already issued an announcement in the City of Light before, telling those trialists that the outside of these two city gates was very dangerous. There have been trialists who have not listened to advice before, and there are not a few who have disappeared.
"There are too many trialists here, and now there are no demon spirits to kill, so I want to try my luck outside this door." Li Qingyi looked at Li Xiu and asked, "What are you doing here again?"
"I have something to do outside the city, and there are some inexplicable things outside the city, and you can return them
Let's go somewhere else." Li Xiu persuaded.
"If you can go, I can't go, do you mean I'm not as good as you?" Li Qingyi said with a smile. "Of course not, and I wouldn't venture there if nothing happened." Li Xiu said.
"I wonder what happened to Chief Li? As a member of the technician team, your subordinates naturally have an obligation to solve problems for you. Li Qingyi obviously didn't want to let Li Xiu go like this.
"For personal matters, I don't need to bother you." Li Xiu is not easy to explain.
"Okay, you do your business, I'll go around by myself." Li Qingyi said.
Li Xiu was helpless, if it was an ordinary subordinate, it would be good to let her go back directly, but unfortunately Li Qingyi was actually not his subordinate.
"Well, let's go together, but the situation outside is a bit complicated, and you don't know much about the situation here.....
Before Li Xiu's words were finished, Li Qingyi blinked his eyes and said, "Don't worry, the chief is under the command of the chief." Li Xiu shook his head, stretched out his hand to push the winch, and raised the city gate.
The two had not gone far when they saw the cemetery.
"Why are there so many graves here?" Li Qingyi asked curiously.
"I think there were a lot of demons who died here before." Li Xiu said and walked towards the cemetery.
"Ah Ghost ....." didn't see Ah Ghost outside the cemetery, and Li Xiu didn't go in directly, so he shouted twice outside.
"Why are you here again?" After a while, Ah Ghost walked out of the depths of the cemetery, stood next to the outermost grave, looked at Li Xiu and said with a depressed face.
But when he saw Li Qingyi beside Li Xiu, Ah Ghost's eyes lit up: "What do you call this beauty?" "Li Qingyi, Li Xiu's subordinate." Li Qingyi said by himself.
Hearing this, Ah Ghost looked at Li Xiu with some jealousy and said, "You kid really has something, you actually raised such a beautiful subordinate."
Li Qingyi heard the meaning of Ah Ghost's words, but he just smiled and didn't explain anything.
Li Xiu was too lazy to explain to Ah Ghost, and asked directly, "Ah Ghost, has anything strange happened in this cemetery recently?" "How do you know there's something strange going on in the graveyard?" Ah Ghost looked at Li Xiu with some surprise and asked.
"What the hell is going on?" Li Xiu hurriedly asked.
Ah Ghost glanced at Li Qingyi, Li Xiu understood what he meant, and hurriedly said, "My own people, just say what you have to say." Then the ghost said, "Remember the grave where something came out before?"
"What's wrong?" Li Xiu asked with a strange expression.
The grave that Ah Ghost said was naturally the one that crawled out of the small steps like a demon last time.
"A few hours ago, there was movement on that grave again, emitting a strange purple light.... "Ah Ghost probably said something.
After Li Xiu listened, his face became even more strange, the time that Ah Ghost said was the time when he entered the City of Love this time and Xiao Bu'er died.
"It seems that the grave is indeed buried in Xiaobu'er, but why does the grave here change after Xiaobu'er in the City of Love dies? Could it be that the life and death of Xiao Bu'er in the City of Love will affect here? Li Xiu thought to himself.
"Take us around." Li Xiu said and stepped into the cemetery.
Li Qingyi also followed, and under the leadership of Ah Ghost, the three of them went to the depths of the cemetery together.
After a while, Li Xiu saw a purple light flickering in the graveyard in front of him, and after bypassing the big grave in front of him, he saw the grave that had crawled out with small steps like a demon before.
The grave was intact, and strangely enough, there were many small purple stars twinkling on it.
After a closer look, I found that those were not small stars at all, but small insects like fireflies and sparks, and their bodies emitted a bright purple light.
"What's the matter with those bugs?" Li Xiu stared at those insects, and on their bodies, he didn't sense the breath of the demon spirit.
"It looks like it's coming out from under a grave
Come, not long ago when I came to see it, there weren't so many, but in such a long time, it seems to have increased several times." Ah Ghost groaned.
Li Xiu looked at the insects on the grave and frowned silently, and asked him to come over from the god-killing tablet, probably to see the things in the tomb.
The horror of that evil ghost little step last time, Li Xiu still remembers it vividly, mainly because the general trialist power has no effect on that evil ghost little step, and it is indeed a little troublesome.
"These should be soul worms, right?" Li Qingyi, who was on the side, said suddenly. "Soul worm, what's that?" Li Xiu and Ah Ghost both looked at Li Qingyi.
Li Qingyi thought for a moment before saying, "Legend has it that there are some extremely powerful demon spirits, and after they die, their souls will turn into soul worms and gather in the land of death."
"I've killed a lot of demon spirits, why haven't I seen a soul worm?" Li Xiu had even killed god-level demon spirits, but he had never seen soul worms.
Li Qingyi smiled, "Only some extremely powerful demon spirits can turn into soul worms after death, and I have only seen them once, and it was a place of trial that my father took me to, where there was a large grave, and the grave was full of soul worms, as if a volcano was burning. However, the soul worms there are golden, not purple, but they all look the same, and I can't be sure if these are soul worms or not."
"What's the harm of soul worms?" Li Xiu asked.
"It shouldn't be harmful, my father caught a few soul worms with his hands at that time, put them in bottles for me to play with, and they were very beautiful, but it didn't take long for the soul worms in those bottles to dissipate." Li Qingyi said.
"If only there was no danger." Ah Ghost was worried about what threat these soul insects would have, and when he heard Li Qingyi say this, he was immediately relieved.
Li Xiu looked at the soul worm on the grave, hesitating whether to dig up the grave and see what was going on inside.
Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly saw that the soul insects on the grave seemed to be frightened, and they all flew up from the grave.
Li Xiu and Ah Ghost both retreated quickly, although Li Qingyi said that the soul worm should not be a threat, but they were not sure whether this was a soul worm or not, so naturally they did not dare to take risks at will.
Li Qingyi is also retreating, obviously she herself is not very confident.
After the group of soul worms flew up, they actually pounced towards the three of them, and the speed was amazing. "Disperse." Li Xiu roared and took the lead in one direction.
Li Qingyi and Ah Ghost also ran in different directions, but as soon as Li Xiu turned around, he found that those soul worms didn't pay attention to Li Qingyi and Ah Ghost at all, and one of them rushed towards him.
"I'll go, I haven't dug a grave yet, but I just thought about it, this can also be retributed?" Li Xiu's mood was slightly depressed. Seeing that those soul insects were already about to arrive behind him, Li Xiu summoned the forbidden spear and blasted at the soul insects in a Gatling state.
As a result, the bullets passed through the bodies of the soul worms, as if they were all ghost bodies.
"This thing is the same thing as the evil little step from before..... Ordinary trialist strength can't hurt them at all....." Li Xiu immediately realized the problem, and he was about to use his spiritual sense to cross the line.
Only the spiritual sense can have an effect on this kind of thing, and that's what I did the last time I dealt with the demon Xiaobuer.
However, before Li Xiu could mobilize his spiritual power, the soul worm that rushed not far in front of him suddenly stopped and did not rush towards Li Xiu again.
The soul insects that flashed with purple light flew in the air, and they were gradually arranged into two words.
"Uncle.....". Li Xiu saw the two words of the soul worm arranged in the air, and he didn't know what it was like for a while. Last time, the evil ghost Xiaobu'er was stimulated by Li Xiu's spiritual sense, and he also called out these two words.
This time, these soul worms actually arranged these two words, which made him surprised and delighted. "Little Steps, is that you?" Li Xiu hurriedly asked.
"Uncle, it's me." The formation of the soul worm changed, and it became four words again.
Countless thoughts flashed through Li Xiu's mind: "If these graves are all those people from the City of Love, if those graves are really small steps, how will she know about me
? Unless our previous speculations are wrong, the City of Love is not an illusory country, nor is it a memory space, if that is the case, even if it is a small step buried in this grave, it is impossible for her to know about her existence."
Now Li Xiu can only guess two possibilities, one possibility is that the City of Love is the Black Death City of the past, and the Killing God Tablet sent him to the Black Death City of the past, and he and the people of the City of Love have experienced those, so Xiao Bu, who has already died and become a ghost, will remember him.
There is also a possibility that maybe the two cities are simply parallel spaces that can affect each other, so what happens in the City of Love will affect here.
These two possibilities, in Li Xiu's view, are very small.
What an incredible power to go back in time, when he was fighting against the God Killing Tablet before, if the God Killing Tablet really had that ability, he would have been killed a long time ago, would he have waited until now?
The fact that parallel space intersects is something that only exists in some fantasy works, and in reality, Li Xiu has never heard of the existence of such a thing as parallel space.
"Xiaobu'er, what the hell happened?" Li Xiu directly asked the doubts in his heart, this may be the closest he has ever been to the truth.
"I don't know what's going on." The soul worm constantly conjured various forms of magic texts in the air, but fortunately, Li Xiu recognized the magic texts.
Li Xiu continued to communicate with the soul worm, and soon he realized one thing.
Although these soul worms have memories of small steps, that memory is only until she is killed by a mysterious person, and she doesn't know what happened next.
As the time of communication increases, there are constantly soul insects disappearing, and there are fewer and fewer soul insects in the air, and there is not much left after a while.
"Big ...... I'm so tired that I'm going to sleep" Because there are so few soul insects, they can only change word by word.
"Little step, wait for me, maybe I can save you." Watching the last soul worm disappear, Li Xiu muttered to himself.
Now that he can be sure that what happened in the City of Love can affect the side of the Black Death City, so if he defeats the mysterious man and saves those people in the City of Love, will Xiaobuer and the others not have to die.
Li Xiu wasn't sure if that was the case, but he wanted to give it a try. But thinking of that mysterious person, Li Xiu had a little headache.
Aside from his psychic powers, his Trialist powers had little effect on the Mystic, and there was no possibility of defeating the Mystic at all.
However, the power of spiritual consciousness does not have real lethality, and at most it can make mysterious people fall into an illusion.
The terrifying thing is that the spiritual sense of that mysterious person is also very strong, and the spiritual power that Li Xiu's body can support can only make him fall into an illusion for a short time, such a short time is not enough for Li Xiu to do anything.
"It seems that you still have to be promoted to the god position, only if your own physical strength is improved, you can explode more spiritual sense, even if it doesn't reach the level of spiritual consciousness hurting, maybe there is a chance to make that mysterious person fall into an illusion for a long time..... Li Xiu and Ah Ghost came to Xiao Bu'er's grave again, the vision there had disappeared, the grave no longer glowed, and there were no purple soul worms on it.
After saying goodbye to Ah Ghost, Li Xiu and Li Qingyi returned to the city.
Li Qingyi had many doubts in her heart, but she didn't ask anything.
"I still have something to do, so I'll go first." Li Xian was about to blow out his immortal lamp, but was pulled by Li Qingyi. "What's wrong?" Li Xiu looked at Li Qingyi suspiciously and asked.
"Do you remember what I told you that my father once took me to a grave in the Land of Trials?" Li Qingyi said.
"Remember, that's where you saw the soul worm, what's wrong?" Li Xiu didn't know why Li Qingyi suddenly mentioned this matter.
"I wasn't very old at that time, and many years have passed, except for the soul worms and the big tomb, there are some details that I don't remember very well, but when I watched you communicate with those soul worms just now, I suddenly remembered one thing." When Li Qingyi said this, he seemed a little depressed and did not continue immediately.
"What's the matter?" Li Xiu knew about Li
Qing Yi said this, and the incident he remembered must have something to do with him, and hurriedly asked.
Li Qingyi hesitated for a moment before saying, "I remember when I was playing with a bottle on the side, my father used to speak to the big tomb like you, and the soul insects on the big tomb were also arranged into some words like this. At that time, I hadn't learned the magic script, and it used to be a soul worm flying around, but now that I think about it, those should be the magic scripts. Because I didn't know it at the time, I don't remember what those magic words were, but there were two relatively simple symbols, and I remembered them at the time, and now that I think about it, it should be the meaning of Xiaobu'er."