On the thirty-fifth floor of the ghost prison, on top of a tall stone platform, there is a huge hourglass, and two-thirds of the sand in it has fallen, which means that two years have passed.

Underneath the hourglass, sat a man with long hair draped over his shoulders, each holding a fist-sized soul bead in each hand, and a ray of light emanated from the soul bead and poured into the man's body.

At this time, the man suddenly opened his eyes, frowned, and muttered to himself, "Strange, why is you suddenly restless? It can't be that something happened in the fairy world." ”

This man is naturally the ape spirit, in the past two years, he can't remember how many soul beads he has devoured, at the beginning, the speed at which the ape spirit devoured the soul beads was not too fast, but it took seven days to devour all the soul power in the two soul beads, slowly, the speed of his devouring became faster and faster, and now, he only needs to spend a maximum of two hours to devour the two largest soul beads around.

After about an hour, the soul orb in the ape spirit's hand turned gray, and then turned into flying ash, slipping through his fingers.

In the past two years, his cultivation has improved by leaps and bounds, and the soul baby in his body has changed from the original gray-white to crystal clear, and the fluctuations of the rich soul continue to come out, and now his strength has reached the peak of the Ghost Zun, and he is one step away from meeting the requirements to become a Ghost Saint, and then he can enter the highest layer of the Ghost Prison, the thirty-sixth layer.

But this last bottleneck is like a layer of heaven and earth ravine, no matter how hard he tries, he can't successfully break through, and with nothing he can do, he can only keep devouring the soul power in the surrounding soul beads.

With some anxiety, time passed slowly, and less than a tenth of the hourglass above his head had not fallen, and his time was less than two months.

Since three months ago, the soul baby in his body had also reached saturation, and no matter how much he tried, he could no longer absorb even a little bit of soul power.

He knew that he had encountered a bottleneck, and he could only become a ghost saint if he got through it, but in the past hundred days, he had been trying to break through all the time, but he didn't have the slightest clue.

Seeing that there was not much time left, the ape spirit suddenly opened his eyes, glanced at the hourglass above his head, silently calculated the time, and then slowly stood up.

It was like a long-sealed divine sword slowly pulled out of the scabbard, and a strong and suffocating soul power fluctuation came out of his body, and now he only has soul power in his body, and the spell element that fused ghost energy and Buddha light was also completely integrated into the soul infant and assimilated into soul power.

Silently feeling the soul power in his body, he glanced at the soul beads around him, in the past three years, he has been consuming soul beads almost all the time, but the number of soul beads here has not necessarily decreased, and he has great doubts in his heart.

Taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, a divine light flashed in his eyes, and then, with a wave of his hands, a ripple spread, and the soul beads floating around him immediately flew into his body, the number of which was more than thirty, the largest of which was the size of a watermelon, and the soul power contained was huge.

Looking at these soul beads, a trace of madness flashed in the ape spirit's eyes, and as soon as the demon sense dispersed, all the soul beads in front of him immediately shattered, and the rich soul power fused with each other, forming a white mist.

Immediately afterwards, the ape spirit opened his mouth and sucked in, like a long whale absorbing water, and the surrounding soul power was actually sucked into his body by him, and he was forced to suck it into the soul baby.

The soul baby had already reached saturation, and the ape spirit did not have any chance to break through, and when he was poured like this, a heart-rending pain was like an electric current, which instantly spread throughout his body.

But he didn't care about it, gritted his teeth and held on, and forcibly poured the surrounding soul power into the soul baby.

The ape spirit trembled, he had a feeling that as long as he absorbed even the slightest bit of soul power, his soul baby would be unable to bear it and collapse, not to mention anything else, it was a question of whether he could survive or not.

After taking a few deep breaths and calming down a little, the ape spirit's eyes showed madness, his hands trembled, and he took in more soul beads, concocted them in the same way, and immediately filled his surroundings with more soul power mist.

But this time, the ape spirit tried a few times, but he couldn't devour it, because his instinct was resisting, his soul body was resisting, no matter how his will drove it, he couldn't let himself open his mouth and absorb the soul power around him.

Time passed little by little, and I don't know how long it took, the surrounding soul power disappeared, and the ape spirit failed to absorb the soul power.

And during this time, the soul power he forcibly inhaled into the soul infant also dissipated, and everything returned to the starting point.

The pain in his body was gone, but the ape spirit's face became even more ugly, after the previous attempt, his soul baby had been traumatized to a certain extent, and if he didn't rest quietly for a few days, his realm was likely to fall because of this.

Looking up at the hourglass, his time was less than thirty days, and he had to use these thirty days to break through to the Ghost Saint Realm.

Taking a deep breath, he didn't try to absorb it, but sat down cross-legged, grabbed a soul bead, and used the soul power inside to slowly warm the soul baby.

This time, it took him half a month for the soul baby in his body to recover as before, and he didn't continue to try to forcibly devour it, he just used his soul power to slowly nourish the soul baby in his body.

Another ten days have passed, and the expression of the ape spirit at this moment is peaceful, and the soul baby in his body is full of soul power, which is not used to absorb, but to warm the soul baby.

He has already figured it out, in fact, being able to come here is already earned for him, reaching the Ghost Venerable, which is already the pinnacle of existence in this underworld, he believes that with his current strength, it is more than enough to leave the underworld, and since he has achieved the original goal, there is no need to be obsessed with entering the thirty-sixth layer of the Ghost Prison.

What he has to do now is just to restore his state to the peak, so that after returning to the underworld, he can leave this place as soon as possible and return to the immortal realm, and the uneasiness in his heart has not dissipated, and he vaguely guesses that this is likely to be related to the immortal realm.

However, when the ape spirit spent four days calmly, the hourglass above his head fell completely after only a small bite, and the anomaly suddenly occurred.

I saw that the soul baby, who had been nourished by soul power, suddenly opened his eyes, opened his mouth and sucked hard, and the surrounding soul power was quickly absorbed by him.

The ape spirit opened his eyes suddenly, he didn't know what was going on, but now was not the time to delve into it, and in addition to being surprised, he immediately took in more soul beads and shattered them one by one.

The soul baby seemed to have become a bottomless pit, no matter how much soul power was devoured by him, slowly, a little essence light appeared from the center of the soul baby's eyebrows.

This bit of essence light became brighter and brighter, and in the end, there was even a dazzling feeling, and even came out of the ape spirit's soul, reflecting everything around it more brightly.

The hourglass quickly slid down, and the teleportation array under the ape spirit also emitted a faint light, and the ape spirit even felt a faint suction force coming from under him.

He was getting more and more anxious in his heart, and at this moment he clearly felt that his bottleneck was disappearing quickly, but he knew that at this speed, he would definitely not be able to successfully break through to the Ghost Saint Realm within the specified time.

More and more soul beads shattered, and the speed at which the soul babies devoured them became faster, and even slowly centered on the ape spirit, forming a whirlpool, and there was a little essence light flickering in the center of the vortex, and these essence lights became bigger and bigger, brighter and brighter.

About half a day had passed, and the ape spirit was only one step away from the Ghost Saint Realm, but no matter how his soul infant absorbed the soul power, there was no sign of piercing that barrier.

The ape spirit silently calculated the time, and suddenly, the divine light in his eyes flashed, and the speed of the vortex rotation suddenly accelerated, and a suction force came from it, taking all the soul beads floating around.

The moment these soul beads touched the whirlpool, they shattered one after another, and the pure soul power immediately drifted away, and then merged into the whirlpool, and was swallowed by the essence light in the center at an extremely fast speed.

At this moment, the ape spirit's dantian was already filled with a ball of essence light, and this ball of essence light became larger and larger, and soon filled the entire lower abdomen of the ape spirit.

As time passed, the ape spirit's face became more and more solemn, and slowly, his soul body began to distort, and a flame suddenly appeared outside his body.

This fire eye is called soul fire, and it is a soul flame that can only appear when it reaches the realm of ghost saints, and it is a flame that can directly incinerate all souls.

Unlike demonic fire, although demonic fire also has the property of calcining the soul, it is through contact with the physical body, and then burns the soul body attached to the surface of the physical body. However, this soul fire is not like this, this kind of flame will not cause the slightest damage to the physical body at all, but directly burns the soul, so in terms of level, the soul fire belongs to a higher flame than the demon fire.

The moment this soul fire appeared, the color of the teleportation array, which originally emitted a soft white light, immediately changed, and slowly turned red.

The ape spirit ignored this, he only felt empty in his body now, and this feeling could only be alleviated by constantly devouring soul power.

But as time passed, he found that this feeling of emptiness in his body became stronger and stronger, and finally he had a feeling that his body was about to become empty.

The ape spirit's eyes were closed, the soul fire became more and more vigorous, the color of the teleporter under him became more vivid, and the essence light in the center of the vortex increased rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Not enough, not enough!"

The ape spirit kept silently thinking in his heart, and now he was infinitely close to the realm of the ghost saint.

Suddenly, the ape spirit opened his eyes, his eyes became extremely deep, like the starry sky in the night, a little starlight flickered, in the depths of his eyes, some pictures slowly emerged, at first the ape spirit did not know where these things were, but when he saw the souls floating in the air, he immediately understood that this was the underworld.

His gaze went from far to near, slowly remembering everything in the underworld, and finally when his eyes appeared in the city of the underworld, he immediately saw the Optimus Pillar suspended in the air, through the stone pillar, he could faintly see a huge skeleton.

Immediately after, the picture turned again, and he saw the ghost prison, but when he wanted to see the top of the ghost prison, he found that it was still shrouded in fog, and he couldn't see through it.

In the end, everything in the ape spirit's eyes disappeared, and he saw the vortex of soul power again, and the hourglass above his head that was almost completely gone.

The ape spirit understands that his time ...... Almost there.