On the fifth floor of the dungeon, Xiao Qi carried Ma Dakui on his back and walked through the passage of the underground maze with difficulty.

So far, Xiao Qi has not encountered a repetitive road, as if the road ahead of the underground maze is endless.

But Xiao Qi knew in his heart that there was no real end to the underground maze.

He always remembered what the elder brother had said.

There is no such thing as an absolute in this world,

If there is,

That's just a mental barrier that someone else has set up for you.

Only in the human heart can there be those so-called never-ending desperate situations.

Therefore, Xiao Qi thinks that as long as he keeps moving forward and keeps exploring.

The so-called infinite loss of this underground maze will one day be seen through by him.

And during this time, in addition to being careful and vigilant and beware of the few demon cultivators who may appear at any time, the rest of the time he was doing his best to hurry as soon as possible.

Hoping to explore the border of the underground labyrinth one day sooner, but unfortunately, the scope of the underground labyrinth is much larger than he imagined.

So far he has found nothing.

A few hours ago, when Xiao Qi met Ma Dakui, in fact, the internal force in Xiao Qi's body had almost been exhausted, and at the same time, his physical body had reached a limit.

Ma Dakui had already entered his body at that time, and his spirit was already on the verge of losing his mind.

In the past few days, Ma Dakui has experienced no less ordeal than Xiao Qi.

But more often than not, Ma Dakui is fighting against himself.

If it weren't for Xiao Qi in the end, he used the professionalism of the mountain bandits to wake up Ma Dakui, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

The professionalism of this so-called mountain bandit is something that Xiao Qi and Ma Dakui have nothing to do along the way.

The so-called professionalism of a mountain bandit is a certain quality and spirit that a mountain bandit should have.

It is also a summary of a two-cross proverb.

At the last moment when Ma Dakui was invaded by demonic thoughts and lost his mind, at that moment, Xiao Qi even thought that he had come to a dead end.

Because at that time, he couldn't even open his own strange vein.

At the last moment, Xiao Qi's dead horse was a live horse doctor, and he said the two cross proverbs.

Just when Xiao Qi accepted his fate. Ma Dakui, who had almost completely been invaded by demonic thoughts, actually stopped attacking at the last moment, and at the same time used all his internal strength.

And when Ma Dakui used too much force to dissipate his internal strength, it was almost equivalent to self-destructive cultivation.

But because of such a huge pain, Ma Dakui regained his senses for an instant.

After all, he still didn't attack Xiao Qi.

It was precisely because of this move that Ma Dakui finally resisted the invasion of demonic thoughts.

When he dissipated his internal strength, because of the great pain, he regained the clarity of his mind in an instant.

At that moment, a miraculous change occurred in his body.

A dark purple to almost black seed was deeply rooted in Ma Dakui's dantian.

At this moment, what Ma Dakui didn't know was that he had become the only individual who survived after the artificially bred demon seed in the Ram Red Sun research.

Although this was done, because Ma Dakui dissipated all his internal strength at the last moment, he almost became a self-extinct way because of too much force, which directly caused Ma Dakui to fall into a coma after recovering his clarity for a short time.

And it was also a coma in a state of serious injury.

In such a state, his life would not survive without being healed as soon as possible.

Xiao Qi could feel that the originally strong and powerful vitality in Ma Dakui's body was rapidly fading.

Of course, this so-called healing is actually very simple, which is to inject internal force into his body.

But Xiao Qi just tried it and gave up.

Xiao Qi's own dantian is close to exhaustion.

And when he tried to send some internal force to Ma Dakui's body to see the situation, at the moment when Xiao Qi's palm was connected to his meridians through the acupuncture points on Ma Dakui's body.

A powerful suction force poured out from Ma Dakui's body.

It's like trying to squeeze out the internal force in Xiao Qi's body.

Xiao Qi knew that with his current state.

Not only could he not save Ma Dakui, but he might even be able to catch himself, so Xiao Qi decisively withdrew his internal force.

Immediately afterwards, Ma Dakui fell into a coma completely.

After that, Xiao Qi dragged his exhausted internal strength and exhausted physical body, carrying Ma Dakui, who was almost twice as heavy as himself, and embarked on the road to find a way out of this underground maze.

Xiao Qi knew that Senior Brother, or the other senior brothers, would definitely come to him immediately after his disappearance and rescue him.

Calculate the time, in fact, it should be about the same,

My brothers always like to make this kind of joke with themselves,

Every time you want to play tricks on yourself, you will drag on such a crucial thing until the last moment, which makes your heart like a hundred claws scratching your heart, which is very uncomfortable.

My own brother and the rest of the time always appear at the last critical moment, and they never disappoint, and this time is no different!

Xiao Qi hopes that he can survive to the end.

At that time, he could laugh at his brothers in turn.

Say a word to them:

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, I'm not ready to give up!"

Or he will be able to find a way out on his own, and then I will be able to declare to my brothers that I have grown up.

Their shelter is no longer needed!

Of course, the premise of all this is something called belief that Xiao Qi firmly believes in his heart.

But faith, after all, is false, and it can't provide any substantial help for Xiao Qi.

Because of the existence of the underground maze, Xiao Qi was actually a little less confident in his heart......

This place is so weird.

And the strength of those demon cultivators is very strong, if it weren't for his fast speed, plus Ma Dakui's fate.

Maybe these few days are enough for him to be separated from his senior brothers and immortals forever.

See you in the next life......

This place is so weird, plus those demon cultivators, plus this is the territory controlled by the Nanhai clan.

Even the Holy Sect has not been able to build much foundation here.

Not to mention the disciples who have not yet fully graduated from the school.

But whenever he felt that he couldn't hold on, Xiao Qi would think of another sentence that the senior brother said:

Hope is the greatest God-like power a person can have!

A person is born with almost infinite hope.

As long as you are unwilling, you have always maintained a heart that embraces hope and believes in hope.

Then you will embrace this moment of hope to give you back.

Even if you can't do it in this life. It may be possible to do it in the next life,

Even if you can't do it in the next life, then for the rest of your life, life after life, you can wait until the day when you can do it.

Some people may think that there is no point in doing so, and that life is only for the present.

But how do you know that your life does not exist.

And how do you know if certain decisions you make in this life will affect you in the next life?

And what you do in life and life is not a foreshadowing for the final life?

If you think so, then apply it to every day you live now.

You have hope today, and the choices you make and the efforts you make in such a situation may not make much difference to your tomorrow.

But if the cycle repeats itself every day, there will come a time when you will enjoy the good fortune that has accumulated from these days of hope but ultimately unsuccessful.

Let you one day, embrace hope, have hope, and achieve hope.

Xiao Qi's heart is full of hope at this moment, even if there is a seed of pessimism that wants to fall, it will be kicked away by Xiao Qi.

However, Xiao Qi's dantian and physical body have really reached the limit, and even Xiao Qi has broken through the limit countless times.

But he still couldn't resist it after all......

After all, he still has a heavy burden on his shoulders.

Bang!

Xiao Qi's consciousness suddenly collapsed after trying to strain to a certain stage.

Then Xiao Qi instantly fell into a state of absolute silence.

He seems to be conscious, but he can't control his own consciousness.

He was like a spectator, or an environment, a huge, vast, yet pitch black, completely invisible.

And he himself was a faint candle that lurked in this endless darkness and silence.

The kind of candle that could go out at any moment.

In this environment, there is no concept of time, space.

There is only an endless black world, an eternal night sky.

But just when Xiao Qi's chaotic spirit was about to fall into a state of true nothingness......

"Little Seven!"

It's like a call from time immemorial.

It's like the voice of the heart singing from the sky.

In Xiao Qi's heart, this boundless, eternal night and dead environment slowly echoed.

……

Somewhere in the underground labyrinth, Liu Shin and Rokuro walk through the passages of the underground labyrinth.

The two of them were in a hurry with all their might, and Liu Xin didn't have the idea of distinguishing the road at all, so he just covered his head and hurried forward.

When encountering a fork in the road, I also directly chose the nearest one and rushed in.

Rokuro panicked at first.

Because all of this, no matter how you look at it, it is the self-abandonment of his own senior brother.

But when the first repetitive route appeared and was clearly identified by Liu Xin, Rokuro suddenly had a bottom in his heart.

"Do you think your senior brother has no score?"

Liu Xin can actually see the worry in Liulang's heart along the way.

This guy just can't hide the expression on his face.

Especially when I was with Liu Xin and his senior brothers.

"No, no! Big brother, what are you talking about! How could I not believe you, Senior Brother. ”

Rokuro looked embarrassed and tried to hide it.

Liu Xin knew what kind of virtue he was as a junior brother, and he didn't say much.

"The space of this underground labyrinth shouldn't be particularly large, and it has a boundary!

This border is still artificially made! ”

Liu Xin's words surprised Rokuro.

They had only been walking through this underground labyrinth for about an hour, as if he had been completely lost in the endless passages of this underground labyrinth.

But the senior brother has seen through a lot.

Rokuro couldn't figure out how his senior brother did it.

Since he was a child, his senior brother has never forgotten it, and his talent is extremely quick, far surpassing their fellow brothers.

Even the fifth uncle, who is good at scheming, is willing to bow down to his senior brother at some moments.

As the first repetitive route appeared, more and more repetitions appeared in front of Yanagi Shin and Rokuro.

In Liu Xin's heart, a map of the underground maze gradually became clear.

In Liu Xin's estimation, the scope of this underground maze should be no more than five miles long, forming a gourd-shaped.

At the beginning, the five-channel intersection that Yan conspired to bring them to was this gourd-shaped waist.

And the area of the upper and lower ends of this gourd type is actually about the same.

The swallows conspired with their resting stone chamber in the terrain of the one gourd with a slightly smaller area.

The passage from the fourth floor of the entire dungeon to the fifth floor is also here.

The slightly larger gourd terrain is estimated to have another passage to the outside world.

The outline of the map gradually took shape in Liu Xin's mind.

It's only a matter of time before Xiao Qi and Ma Dakui are found.

In the whole process of moving forward, although Liu Xin made a choice at the fork in the road with almost no hesitation, he actually had his own basis.

He chose the rightmost passage at the fork in the road almost every time, so that he could ensure that the route he chose was as far as possible on the outside of the entire underground labyrinth.

Of course, this method is only more likely to make him appear on the outside of the underground labyrinth, but it is not absolute.

But at present, it seems that this approach is very correct, at least Liu Xin has a general understanding of the space of the entire underground maze.

Next, he was about to begin his exploration of the middle part of the underground labyrinth.

And in the process of Liu Xin and Rokuro exploring the entire underground labyrinth, they also encountered several experimental subjects with demonic thoughts.

Most of these test subjects were in a dying state when they were encountered by Yanagi Shin and Rokuro.

After experiencing the demonic thoughts, these test subjects all fell into a crazy situation.

They will unconsciously attack everything around them, even if there is air and stones around them.

In their minds, there is an invisible enemy, like a demon constantly taunting and telling in their ears, and the ghost cries wolf......

After the ravages of demonic thoughts, these people have fallen into madness.

They will unconsciously squander their internal strength.

Either he fell into a state of madness, draining his energy, or fantasized that there were various forms of creatures around him attacking him, and he passively resisted and unleashed his tricks on the air.

until finally exhausting their own internal and physical strength.

Therefore, when they met them, they were already on the verge of dying.

But even in this dying state, they still maintain a kind of hostility when facing Liu Xin and Rokuro.

Even if these people were lying on the ground and crawling forward, it seemed as if they were going to tear Liu Xin and Rokuro apart who appeared in front of them.

See this scene.

Liulang couldn't help but worry about Xiao Qi in his heart.

Liu Xin simply pulled out the Dao Breaking Sword and gave these people a good time.

As the number of people he encounters increases, the worry in Rokuro's heart grows stronger and stronger.

And Liu Xin's heart has a anger slowly burning there, and as he sees more and more of these people, the firewood added by this anger in his heart is also getting stronger and stronger.

It's just that from the surface, I can't see that Liu Xin has such anger in his heart.

Except for the people who are occasionally encountered who have been tempered and eroded, and then become the appearance of people who are not human and ghosts.

More often than not, Liu Xin and the others encountered a pile of dry bones.

However, the more he saw such a scene, Rokuro only felt anger in his heart for the person who built this so-called experimental site, but he had no other emotions.

But Liu Xin was faintly aware of another phenomenon behind this situation.

"Rokuro, did you find a problem?"

"Huh?"

Regarding his senior brother's question, Liu Lang seemed a little confused.

"It stands to reason that the so-called test subjects here are replenished on a regular basis.

So why do we see only piles of bones other than those who are crazy? ”

Liu Xin frowned and pondered, but Rokuro still couldn't figure out the crux of the matter.

Of course, if he is given a little time, Rokuro may be able to think clearly and figure it out, but it is really a little difficult for him to give an answer now.

However, Rokuro knew that once his senior brother showed such an expression and asked such a question, it actually meant that he actually had the answer in his heart.

Sure enough, Liu Xin then said:

"It stands to reason that we will see corpses in different states here, but at the moment we have only seen two states, so it means that those states in the middle are affected by some kind of factor.

And corpses can't be turned directly into dry bones.

So what are the factors that affect those states in the middle and turn them into a pile of dry bones?

In fact, there are not many such answers. ”

Liu Xin looked at Liulang, and Liulang also had an epiphany at this time, revealing a look of sudden realization.

"Senior brother, do you mean to say that there is something here that feeds on corpses?"

Yanagi Shin made an appreciative look at Rokuro.

"That's right, you're right.

I think it's like vultures, they feed on corpses, and as long as the creature has a breath left, they just hover over them until the creature dies.

Of course, there are no animals like vultures in this underground space.

But there may be other beasts that have the same habits as vultures.

Generally speaking, beasts that feed on carrion will be more ferocious.

However, next to these bones, there is no way to tell what this beast is by a few footprints, as the underground caverns are basically devoid of dirt and are all rocks. ”

As he spoke, Liu Xin's gaze lingered on a pile of white bones not far away.

While Liu Xin and Rokuro are constantly communicating, they are also constantly exploring.

And just after Liu Xin and Rokuro skipped through an unremarkable passage, they suddenly stopped, and Rokuro continued to rush forward for more than ten zhang because of inertia before he could stop.

When Rokuro retreated, he saw Liu Xin looking at the puddles of water stains on the wall.

"Senior brother, what's wrong?"

Liu Xin pointed to a small puddle on the edge of the passage.

"There's a little puddle there, and the water is splashing on the walls.

But I don't see any footprints here. ”

Of course, Rokuro can think of this, but he can't do it at a deeper level.

In fact, sometimes it's not that he's not smart enough, but that the knowledge he involves isn't as extensive as Liu Xin's.

Liu Xin browsed the Holy Sect's case library within the Holy Sect.

Among the hundreds of thousands of books in the Holy Sect, Liu Xin read about one percent of them.

Ishei doesn't seem like much.

But in fact, for the Holy Sect's collection of books, this is already an extremely terrifying number.

Moreover, the books selected by Liu Xin are the best in the entire Holy Sect's collection.

In fact, the knowledge covered in it is not duplicated.

Even if Liu Xin reads all the books of nearly hundreds of thousands of books, it may not play a more role in Liu Xin's knowledge.

Therefore, it has also created Liu Xin's extensive knowledge and strong memory, with a wide range of knowledge, and he has been involved in all knowledge.

"In caves, the ground is more likely to dry out.

This small puddle is due to the fact that the stalactites on it are dripping all the time.

And there is no way to cause these marks on the wall by dripping down the water......"

"So what you mean, brother, someone just passed by here and stepped on this puddle.

But why are there no footprints nearby? ”

Rokuro frowned and looked around suspiciously.

At the same time, he suddenly realized a problem.

"Senior brother, do you think that there are no torches in this underground labyrinth, how can the surroundings be so bright!"

"Rokuro, you've really grown!"

Liu Xin's face did not show any changes.

It seems that the situation that Rokuro said has already been discovered, and it is understood how this situation came to be.

"First of all, let's talk about the water stains on the walls, these water stains are not necessarily caused by people, they may be caused by other creatures trampling, or maybe they have something to do with the corpses turning into bones."

Rokuro nodded when he heard this.

Indeed, if according to Liu Xin's previous inference, those corpses were eaten by unknown creatures, then the possibility of being human is almost none.

"And then there's the question you just asked.

Rokuro, you look at all the stone walls, stalactites, or anything else that creates shadows.

Do these things have shadows, and where are the shadows heading?

All the light in the space of the underground maze is emitted from the inside out, and it can be inferred that there is a huge light source at the core of the underground maze. ”

"How bright should the light source be to cover this underground labyrinth."

Rokuro looked a little shocked.

And at this moment, there was a sudden sound of staggering footsteps in the distance.

The sound of footsteps is not loud, and the distance is very far, but Liu Xin and Xiao Qi are both advanced cultivators, although the space of this underground maze is large, but most of the time it is also very quiet, so this sound is very clear into the ears of the two.

Liu Xin was the first to react, just like the previous few encounters with those demon entrants who still had a breath left, Liu Xin was still used to calling them demon entrants.

As long as there are people who are still alive in this underground labyrinth, each one represents a hope.

A hope to find Xiao Qi and Ma Dakui.

Liu Xin and Liulang ran all the way to the place where the sound came, crossed a corner, passed through a narrow and long passage, and two people appeared in front of them, which suddenly made the big stone that had been hanging in Liu Xin's heart fall to the ground with a bang.