Under Hu Tao's expectant gaze, Wang Daoyi's expression did not change,

He knew that it would be safe here, so naturally he wouldn't be frightened by Hu Tao.

Besides, although the cliffs here look deep and dangerous.

But...... The royal road will fly in a while.

"Then I'll wait for you below."

Wang Dao moved and jumped off the cliff directly.

Hu Tao: "? ”

Isn't this man afraid at all?

Not seeing Wang Daoyi's panicked look, Hu Tao was a little disappointed.

But he didn't hesitate, he directly followed Wang Daoyi's movements and jumped down.

However, her figure was much more elegant, and although it was falling down, there seemed to be some strength to support her.

Obviously, in this secret realm, Hu Tao, who is the contemporary hall master of the Afterlife Hall, has preferential treatment.

Floating in mid-air, Hu Tao finally knew why Wang Daoyi was not afraid.

This guy is surrounded by golden energy, and he can fly at all.

gave Hu Tao a smiling look, and then looked at the situation below,

Underneath the abyss is a deep pool,

Therefore, even if someone really listens to Hu Tao's words and jumps down, it will actually be fine.

After all, the people who can be brought here will not be ordinary people, and with the existence of the waterhole, they may be frightened, but there will be no danger.

The toes fell lightly on the water, and the king looked at the walnut on the side.

"Hmph." Hu Tao snorted twice and landed lightly on the stone slab by the pool, "It's not that you have to wait for me." ”

Although he didn't succeed in tricking up to the king, the optimistic Hu Tao is good at self-regulation.

What is the use of flying after a while, flying down is not to wait for her.

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he didn't say anything to refute, Wang Daoyi just looked at Hu Tao, waiting for her next move.

"Let's go, it's the real narrow room of life and death, you hold back your momentum, don't scare the people here."

Hu Tao led the way and said one more word.

The narrow space of life and death is not a place of dead silence, and many souls who still have memories of the world will stop here.

They still have nostalgia for their relatives and friends in the world, and this obsession will make them stay here and wait for their families to arrive.

Passing through the narrow passage, a huge space appeared in front of Wang Daoyi.

In the sky of the secret realm, the dim light casts down, dyeing this space with a hint of dusk.

Directly in front of the road, an ancient tree stands to greet the light cast by the sky.

And underneath the ancient tree, a pale blue figure stood there, looking at the entrance of the secret realm, as if waiting for something.

"Hu Tao has brought guests again." The woman's soul smiled slightly at Wang Daoyi, her face was a little embarrassed, "This place, there is nothing to entertain, sorry." ”

"Hehe, Lanxi, can't you let it go?" Hu Tao was obviously very familiar with the soul in front of him, and asked with a big grin.

Wang Daoyi didn't interject, just nodded slightly, and responded to the kind words of the soul just now.

Lan Xi shook his head lightly: "After waiting for such a long time, if there is no result, how can I let it go, and besides, watching the old people leave here and the new people come again, there is nothing to worry about." ”

"Even if you wait like this, you will never be able to wait, so what can you do, if you want to see the most important person, all I can do now is to wait."

After speaking, Lan Xi's pale blue soul fluctuated slightly, and it seemed that he had lost interest in talking.

Hu Tao shook his head, pulled Wang Daoyi's sleeve, and left Lan Xi's side,

"Souls like Lan Xi, there are many more here, the narrow room of life and death is very merciful, it will not force ghosts to do anything, if they want to wait, they can wait forever, as long as they ...... They do. ”

Wang Daoyi didn't speak, the golden gnosis circulated in his eyes, and in his sight, endless soft aura surrounded this secret realm, and these breaths nourished the ghosts that resided here, so that their spirits were not lost, and their souls were not dispersed.

Seeing that Wang Daoyi didn't speak, Hu Tao didn't care, and continued to walk with him to the depths.

"Yo, Zhu Ming, how's it going? Got used to life here? ”

Hu Tao shouted to a ghost on the side of the road.

The ghost who was originally looking at the scenery turned around: "Oh, it's Master Hu, hahahaha, the scenery here is beautiful, quiet and quiet, you can tidy up your mood here, it's really good." ”

"Oh, that sounds like you're looking?"

"Let's take a look at some, don't worry, when I put it down, I will go on the road by myself, by the way, Lao Li recently said that he put it down, maybe he will have to leave, Master Hu can go and have a look."

"Okay, then you can continue to look at the scenery."

Hu Tao waved his hand, no longer bothering the ghost.

"Let's go, just take you to see what they look like when they put it down." Hu Tao pulled the royal road and walked deeper, "I haven't taken her to see the traveler." ”

The two of them went all the way into the deepest part of the secret realm,

On the way, from time to time, a soul emerges to communicate with Hu Tao.

And Hu Tao can also accurately call each of them by name,

She remembered all the people here.

Pulled by Hu Tao, Wang Daoyi observed the soul here along the way.

In fact, this is not the first time Wang Daoyi has seen a ghost,

The little girl of Wangshu Inn, the remnant of Inazuma's leyline, Wang Daoyi has seen many existences that can be called ghosts.

But the soul of the narrow space of life and death is completely different.

Whether it's the little girl at the Wangshu Inn, or the remnant of Inazuma's leyline, there are more or less magical places,

The little girl can control the ruin machinery to fight, and Inazuma's leyline remnant can also affect the surrounding environment.

And the ghosts here, they are all like ordinary people, without any extraordinary abilities.

The only thing that can be called different from normal people is that they are indeed dead.

Looking at the soft aura emanating from the secret realm, Wang Dao's eyes flashed slightly,

It is the existence of these breaths that leads to the magical situation of the soul here.

Or, this is the outcome that the Secret Realm Builders wanted.

"The ghosts here are different from those in other places." Wang Daoyi sighed intentionally.

Hu Tao didn't feel anything, and when he heard Wang Daoyi sigh like this, he showed a proud expression: "This is all the result of the maintenance of the hall master, if there is a soul that falls into evil and becomes an evil spirit, then it will be destroyed by the Hall of Death." ”

"Is that so?" The royal road was clear in an instant.

The souls here are probably suppressed, they maintain the moral concept of human beings, and they also maintain [purity], and even have the breath of the secret realm to nourish them.

The ghosts of the outside world are not only affected by the leylines, but even themselves are prone to evil thoughts, and once they commit sins, the soul is no longer pure, and becomes an evil spirit that needs to be destroyed in the mouth of the afterlife.

This can be seen from the little girl in the Wangshu Inn.

She is just the soul of a little girl, belonging to the most ignorant time, and likes to find people to play.

But the way she plays is to control the ruin machine.

If it weren't for the traveler's means, who would be able to play with her in a normal person?

If they do not enter the narrow space of life and death, the soul of the deceased is prone to problems and eventually degenerates into evil spirits.

The Hall of the Dead maintains the boundary between life and death, not only to protect the living, but also to protect those pure souls.

The two of them talked as they went deeper.

After a short time, Hu Tao took Wang Daoyi to a place similar to a high platform,

It is said to be a high platform, but when Wang Dao looked at the countless runes engraved on the high platform, this place may be called [Altar].

On the altar, an old man stood alone in the middle, his eyes seemed to be a little nostalgic, and he seemed to have put it down.

It was probably the arrival of Wang Daoyi and Hu Tao that interrupted the old man's thinking.

The originally complicated eyes fluctuated slightly, and his gaze turned from the blank space in front of him.

"It turned out to be Hu Tao, did you come to give it to me?" The old man's gaze lingered slightly on Wang Daoyi, and soon turned to Hu Tao.

Judging from the tone, he is very familiar with Hu Tao, and he has a certain amount of kindness towards Hu Tao.

Hu Tao, who was originally very arrogant, also quieted down: "You have been here for so long, and you have finally seen it, so I naturally want to send you off." ”

"yes, it's been so long, it's time to look away." There was a hint of regret in the old man's tone, but it was more of a relief, "However, thank you, Little Walnut." ”

Hu Tao didn't answer, just looked at the old man quietly.

Just as the royal road was unclear, the old man turned around and walked towards the center of the altar.

A glimmer of light emerged from all directions, and an entry-like passage appeared.

The old man smiled at Hu Tao, and then walked in without looking back.

Wang Daoyi frowned slightly, he couldn't see through the passage in front of him.

Normally, there will be an exit at one point opposite each passage.

But in Wang Daoyi's sight, the passage in front of him leads to nothingness.

With his line of sight, he couldn't see what was really on the other side.

But when you think about it, you also know that the other side can't really be nothingness, after all, it's ridiculous to work hard to keep their souls, and even retain their sanity, and finally send them into nothingness.

Or, on the other side is a realm of being more powerful than Wang Daoyi.

Or, the opposite side is also part of the shroud of the [Deception] Circle.

Watching the figure of the old man gradually disappear into the passage, Hu Tao's calm expression disappeared and returned to his lively appearance.

"Okay, how about it, the picture of the soul leaving is not something that everyone can see."

Hu Tao looked at Wang Daoyi with a smile.

"Across the tunnel, what's that?" Wang Daoyi asked curiously.

Hall Master Hu shook his head slightly: "That's not something I can know, anyway, every soul that is put down will enter it." ”

"And if you didn't stay here when you died, would you have entered it directly?" Wang Daoyi asked again.

Liyue is a great country, and under the maintenance of the Hall of the Dead, the Narrow Chamber of Life and Death does not only accept the people of Liyue.

Anyone who dies in the land of Liyue will be brought here.

And along the way, although I saw a lot of souls, the number was obviously wrong.

There are too few, too few souls that dwell here.

It's nowhere near as high as Liyue's annual death toll every year.

It stands to reason that over the years, the number of souls left here should be very, very large.

"It should be like this, anyway, I have never met the souls of the previous generations of hall masters here, according to this custom, if there are no regrets after death, then I will definitely not stay here, probably directly into it."

Hu Tao said with a smile on his face.

"That's why I know that becoming the master of the Hall of the Dead must be a very right thing to do."

Hu Tao's logic is very simple, the hall masters of the past generations have not stayed here, which means that the hall masters of the past generations have passed away satisfied.

This also proves that the hall master of the afterlife hall is a correct profession.

"If there are no regrets, the soul that lets go of obsessions will be directly guided......

Wang Dao's eyes fluctuated slightly, and he had some conjectures in his heart.

This narrow space of life and death, shrouded by the [Deception] Circle, is probably used to 'intercept' the sky and harvest the beings of Liyue.

As I said before, the sky harvests all emotions, dreams, obsessions, desires, wills, and other spiritual forces.

But if the people of Liyue die, they all need to come here, and after everything is laid down, they will return to the origin of the world.

So, will the sky be able to reap this last wave of power?

When you are alive, you need to move around, and you are shrouded by the false sky, and you can't avoid being harvested by the sky to harvest your spiritual power.

And after you die, the sky won't let you go.

The soul of an intelligent life is the greatest manifestation of the power of the soul.

He is the embodiment of a lifetime of human experience.

Emotions, dreams, obsessions, desires, wills,

All this can remain in the soul.

This belongs to the last fruit of human life, and the sky will inevitably pick it.

And the existence of the Narrow Room of Life and Death and the [Deceptive Heaven] Circle can protect the last fruits from being harvested.

Wang Daoyi's thoughts flickered, and his gaze gradually returned to Hu Tao.

There is another loophole in the above statement.

There are so many people who do not stay in the narrow line of life and death, which means that many people let go of all obsessions soon after death.

As for those who let them let go of their obsessions,

Wang Daoyi thought that it was probably a walnut.

In other words, the masters of the Hall of the Past Generations.

As for why he thought like this, it was because Wang Daoyi remembered something.

Something that feels normal to the whole of Liyue.

"Rites of the Dead."

This magical ceremony, from the funeral of a human being to the ritual of an immortal, seems to be a necessity for everyone.

In other kingdoms of Teyvat, there is also a talk of funerals.

But there is definitely no such complex and forbidden death ritual as Liyue.

"Therefore, the function of the ritual of death itself is to guide the deceased soul to let go of obsessions and return to pure whiteness."

"And some of the revenant souls whose obsessions are too strong cannot be directly let go, they will be led into the narrow space of life and death, under the cultivation of the secret realm, they have almost unlimited time, and because they can only survive in the secret realm, time will gradually wear out their obsessions until they completely let go."

Wang Daoyi's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he felt that he had guessed the truth.

During the Demon Wars, Morax or Hargentus discovered the secret of harvesting beings in the sky.

So they worked together to build this secret place.

Morax struck and killed the evil god mantis entrenched here, and Hargentus took action to set up the [Deception] circle.

As a result, even the sky during the Demon God War could not find out that something was wrong here under the protection of the [Deceptive Heaven] Circle.

When people here die, they return to perform death rituals to eliminate the obsessions of the deceased.

Eliminate all the psychic power needed in the sky, leaving only the pure white soul.

If someone goes through the ritual and does not let go of their obsession, then they will be introduced into the narrow space of life and death, and time will erase everything.

In this way, the souls of Liyue's revenants will no longer be harvested by the sky.

Even, Wang Daoyi guessed that if the Li maintainer became weaker and weaker today, it would be inseparable from the arrangement here.

On the one hand, the Heavenly Principle harvests sentient beings, and on the other hand, it must also use sentient beings as fuels to operate certain laws of Teyvat.

And Liyue intercepts the power of all beings here.

In addition, Barbatos seems to have made some moves on Mondstadt's side.

In this way, at least two of the seven countries directly cut off the supply of the sky.

And under the rules, the maintainer must not be able to attack the Seven Gods at will.

He also wants to keep the heavens working.

As a result, the maintainer has less source of strength, and has to bask to maintain the operation of certain laws.

As time passed, the maintainer naturally became weaker and weaker.

Time has come to this day, and none of the seven gods are honest, and the ice god has directly set off the flag of rebellion.

I'm afraid that the power that the maintainers can harvest from Teyvat is getting smaller and smaller.

Maybe if the time is a little longer, the Ice Empress doesn't need to rebel, and with this bloodletting, she can drag the maintainer to death.

Of course, when the time comes, everyone will probably face the awakening of the Heavenly Principle itself.

"Okay, I'll have to check if there are any loopholes in the secret realm, so you can just walk around by yourself."

Hu Tao looked at Wang Daoyi who was in a daze, and waved his palm in front of him.

Wang Daoyi's dazed expression recovered, and he nodded lightly at Hu Tao: "Okay, I'm sorry to trouble Hall Master Hu." ”

"Hey, no trouble, no trouble."

Hu Tao smiled and turned to leave.

Seeing Hu Tao leave, Wang Daoyi continued to think.

If the above speculations are all correct, then where did these souls who let go of their obsessions go?

Wang Daoyi remembered the situation at the old dean's funeral.

Ishalo crossed time and space, forcibly taking the old dean's soul from Morax's realm.

Then, on the other side of the passage between life and death, is it Morax's [country]?

Put the soul that has let go of all obsessions into the [country] under his control, so that Tianli cannot stretch out his poisonous hand to them again.

This is in line with the concept of the demon god lover.

And, it's not hard to do.

Barbatos can lead to the souls of believers, and Morax can do it too.

Even Wang Daoyi, who lacks a background, can forcibly restrain a leyline, imprint his own brand, and modify that leyline to what he wants.

Finally, the believers who led themselves slept in that leyline.

In this way, as long as the royal road does not fall, even the leylines will not have problems.

This has also formed a [country] exclusive to the lord of the red sand.

Before, in the ruins of the entrance to the narrow space of life and death, Wang Daoyi was very strange why even the magic circle in the sky that did not deceive him could not prevent the leyline monsters from spawning here.

Now it seems that it is likely that this place cannot be isolated from the leylines.

Because the soul here still ends up sleeping in the leylines.

It's just that the leylines here have been completely controlled by Morax.

When these souls let go of their attachments, they can enter them and enjoy a long and peaceful sleep.

It will not be harvested by the sky again, and turned into fuelwood for the operation of certain laws.

Slightly silent, the above inference was slightly confirmed, Wang Daoyi felt that even if this was not the truth, it should be very close.

"Wait back to Sumeru, maybe you can also plan, if this can really accelerate the weakness of the maintainer, then I can push it, it's okay."

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