After dinner, Leo said that he wanted to retreat for a few days to resume his cultivation, and then went into a stone room to begin his retreat.

Lan Nuo also entered a stone room and began to cultivate, while Grandpa Tong continued to study the formations in the cave.

In the stone room, Leo was trying to practice a set of body refining exercises, but the corpses of the Wade family guards who were shocked and killed by Grandpa Tong always appeared in his mind, as well as the sea of blood.

I always saw the scene of wild lions gnawing on the mutilated body of my brother, and I saw my frail parents in the tunnels of Fort Wade.

All this left Leo with great grief and despair......

Suddenly, Leo's body suddenly lost control, and he kept shaking, his breath was disordered, and he had a splitting headache.

"Poof!"

A mouthful of blood spurted out of Leo's mouth, and he fell to the ground on his back, fainting.

Immediately, I saw a trace of colorful magnificent fluorescence shuttling through Leo's body, and then even the surface of his body flashed with magnificent fluorescence, and Leo's face gradually returned to normal.

It didn't take long for the magnificent fluorescent fluorescence to extend from Leo's body at a speed visible to the naked eye, slowly condensing into a clump, and a touch of turquoise appeared in the center......

In the middle of the night, Leo slowly opened his eyes, and his head no longer hurt as before, but felt refreshed and full of energy.

"Huh, what are you?"

Suddenly, Leo jumped up screaming.

At this moment, in the air directly in front of him, there was a strange thing floating, Leo had never seen such a thing, and he was immediately startled.

It was a turquoise object, with a colorful glow of fluorescence lingering around its body, a large bun-shaped head with a pair of blue-purple round eyes, and a pair of ovate-lanceolate leafy ears on the top of its head.

On the delicate and delicate little body like a newborn baby, a pair of penguins with short wing-like hands hang down close to the body, and a pair of short oblong feet grow under the meaty little belly.

It looks like an animal, but it's not an animal, because it doesn't have a mouth, it doesn't have a gender, and its green color looks like a plant.

Leo took a closer look and felt that this little thing was not malicious, but rather cute, and there was an inexplicable sense of intimacy.

Leo tried to reach out to it, and the little one put his little hand into Leo's palm.

Leo found that the little guy's little hands were very soft, but they were cold and had no temperature, he looked at the little guy in front of him in surprise, and the little guy also blinked his eyes and looked at Leo curiously.

"You, can you speak?"

Leo asked the little guy curiously.

"Of course I can speak, I feel like I've lived for a long, long time. ”

A childish voice came from the little guy's body, it sounded like a child's voice, but it seemed old-fashioned, and Leo always felt that the voice was indescribably awkward.

"And what are you?"

"I'm not a thing, I'm a sacred tree seed, no, I should say a holy tree, a holy tree, you know?"

"It turns out that you are the holy tree seed that the prophet's predecessors said, aren't you in my body, how did you come out?"

"When I woke up, I came out naturally, but I slept for so long that I couldn't remember a lot of things. ”

"So you saved me just now?"

"Of course, if it weren't for me, you kid would have gone crazy a long time ago, you have to thank me!"

"Okay, I thank you for saving me, but you can't say that you are a holy tree in the future, this is a secret between me and you, and I must not let others know, or I will give you a name, and I will call you 'Rocky' in the future, is it okay?"

"Whatever, it's just a title, you have a powerful power in your spiritual world, and if you can draw out this power, your cultivation will be twice as effective with half the effort. ”

"But why can't I feel it at all?"

"Feel it with your mental and mental strength, the rest is up to you, the old man has to go to sleep!"

After Rocky finished speaking, he got into Leo's body and disappeared, leaving only Leo in the room.

Leo tried to explore the spiritual world with his heart and mental power, but it was dark inside, and he couldn't see anything......

After about an hour, Leo finally reached the depths of his mind, and a few sparkles of light appeared around him, and the closest to him was a drop of light that glowed with golden light.

Leo concentrated his consciousness and slowly approached the golden light, however, an invisible pressure suddenly pressed on him, preventing him from moving forward, and this pressure increased sharply with each step he took forward.

The closer Leo got to the golden light, the burning sensation on his body intensified, and his breathing became more and more rapid.

Leo looked closely, and the golden light looked like a hot and flowing golden liquid.

"Boom!"

As soon as he took a step, Leo's right knee was pressed to his knees by the sudden increase in pressure, and cracks suddenly appeared in the ground, and then the ground collapsed, revealing a golden liquid like magma boiling underground.

Large swaths of stone fell into the liquid, and in the blink of an eye, they disappeared.

Leo didn't have time to think about it, he struggled to his feet with all his strength, and continued to move closer to the golden light.

The rocks behind him kept falling, approaching Leo at great speed, and the slurry in the large golden "magma pool" tumbled and splashed everywhere.

"Ah......h

Suddenly, a cloud of slurry fell on the ground in front of Leo, and the slurry quickly spread, melting the ground, and Leo's body shook a few times, and then fell into the "magma pool" with the remaining stones......

At the moment of his fall, Leo remembered what Rocky had said to him before he entered:

"Feel it with your heart and mind."

"Mental power comes from the most primitive power in the depths of the soul, which is an innate force, the strength of the mind, the tenacity of the mind, and the transparency of the soul......"

"I see!"

Leo shouted excitedly.

Immediately, a powerful force came out from the surroundings and converged into Leo's body, and Leo jumped up and returned to the ground.

At this time, Leo only felt that his body was as light as a swallow, and the invisible and powerful pressure no longer existed.

The slurry behind continued to devour the ground, and Leo rushed forward with his wings, flying into the light......

Suddenly, a hot golden liquid enveloped and annihilated Leo......

Leo felt that the skin on his body was burned by the liquid, the meridians of his body were almost broken, the bones were melted one by one, and his consciousness was dying little by little......

Leo felt like he was about to suffocate, the pain so severe that he couldn't even scream.

As he was dying, Leo's voice rang in his ears:

"Feel ...... with your heart and mind"

After a long time, Leo woke up to find himself lying in a crimson golden world, where the sky, mountains, rivers, and trees were all red gold.

However, the most striking thing here is a statue of a giant bird, this giant bird has claws on the ground, its blue-black triangular head stands in the sky, and a long, blue-black sword-shaped tongue sticks out of its blood-red mouth.

The wings of the giant bird statue are reddish-gold, mixed with conspicuous blue-black horizontal stripes, but the abdomen is blue-gray, two pairs of giant wings are born side by side, covering the sky and the sun, and dragging a long red-gold tail behind it.

The giant bird statue stretched its huge wings, wanting to rise into the sky, as if there was endless grief and unwillingness, and the powerful coercion emanating from the statue made Leo's legs tremble.

"Leo, congratulations on coming to the 'Purgatory City'!"

Suddenly, an ethereal voice sounded in Leo's head.

"Who are you, where are you?"

Leo looked around, there seemed to be no sign of life but himself, and there was no one here.

"I am the guardian of the city of purgatory, 'Purgatory', and in this city, I am everywhere. ”

The ethereal sound continued.

"I remember I was burned to death by a cloud of golden liquid, but how did I end up here?"

Leo had a lot of questions on his mind.

"That golden liquid is called the 'Tempering Liquid', and the 'Purgatory Pool' and this 'Purgatory City' that you encountered when you first entered were formed by the Tempering Liquid. ”

"You are not dead, but the liquid of refining is washing your body and laying a solid foundation for you to obtain the 'Purgatory Body', which is a near-perfect physique, the best physique on the way to purifying. ”

"Those were tests for you, and you came here to complete the last test. ”

Purgatory explained slowly.

"Test? What test?"

Leo asked.