Chapter 8: The Old Man in the Shadows

Gu Qingzhou's whole body, from the inside to the outside, without exception, was shrouded in that huge pain, and Gu Qingzhou felt as if his body was burning.

Gradually, he felt a blackness in front of him, and his consciousness gradually moved away.

However, when Gu Qingzhou was completely unconscious, the jade pendant he had been wearing around his neck suddenly emitted a faint light.

The light was extremely gentle, like a liquid, slowly flowing out of the jade pendant, gradually covering his entire body.

In the haze, Gu Qingzhou seemed to have come to a dark place, a long river with a ghostly light in front of him, the river was flowing slowly, but he didn't know where it was going.

Suddenly, Gu Qingzhou seemed to see a small boat appear on the river, floating on the ghostly river. The boat looked like a piece of paper, but it sailed like a wooden boat on the river.

Gu Qingzhou was dazed, as if he saw the boat getting closer and closer, as if it was slowly moving towards the place where he was.

Not long after, the paper boat came to Gu Qingzhou's side. At the bow of the boat sat an old man in gray, holding a pale yellow paper lamp in his hand, emitting a shallow halo.

Gu Qingzhou looked at the old man at the bow of the boat and was instantly startled. The gray-clothed old man's face was pale, without a trace of blood, and the skin on his body was also dry, and his whole face looked more like a piece of white paper pasted on the skeleton.

The old man wears a black hat on his head, the hat has a strange style, the top is a pointed cone, and the front shows a white "poor" character, which does not look like a human thing at all.

"Gu Qingzhou, it's time to hit the road!"

The old man took a light yellow paper lamp and took a picture in front of Gu Qingzhou.

In a haze, Gu Qingzhou seemed to hear the old man's voice, but the strange thing was that his mouth didn't move, and the sound was more like it came directly from his throat.

Gu Qingzhou was shocked, only to feel weird and abnormal, and his heart had begun to be inexplicably afraid.

He instinctively wanted to escape from this strange place, but he was horrified to find that his body did not react, and did not obey his will at all, but began to take the initiative to take steps and walked onto the boat in a daze.

"Sit down and start on your way. ”

The old man's voice was hoarse, and he said to Gu Qingzhou again.

Gu Qingzhou was sure in his heart at this moment that he really didn't see the old man's lips squirm at such a close distance just now. The sound just now seemed to come directly from the abdomen, and it seemed to come from the throat, which was extremely weird.

"What the hell is this place? Who is this strange old man, and how did I suddenly appear here?"

Gu Qingzhou's heart was full of incomprehension.

After Gu Qingzhou sat down, the old man hung the paper lamp glowing with a pale yellow light in his hand on the bamboo pole at the bow of the boat, and the small paper boat began to move slowly, gradually moving towards the depths of the river.

After a while, specks of light began to appear on the sides of the boat. A strong curiosity sprouted in Gu Qingzhou's heart, looking at the countless points of light, wanting to touch them with his hands.

"Don't mess around. ”

An extremely cold voice came into Gu Qingzhou's ears, and the old man directly guessed Gu Qingzhou's thoughts, so frightened that he hurriedly retracted his hand back into the boat.

Gu Qingzhou peeked at the old man sitting quietly on the bow of the boat, only to see that his eyes were slightly closed, and his pale face was expressionless.

Since getting on the boat to the present, Gu Qingzhou found that the old man had not moved once, and there was no trace of anger on his body, giving Gu Qingzhou the feeling of being a corpse.

The scenery in front of him moved backwards rapidly, and Gu Qingzhou wondered in his heart, why the scenery on both sides was moving so fast when this small boat was obviously moving extremely slowly.

As time passed, Gu Qingzhou obviously felt that there were more and more light spots around him, which were getting bigger and bigger, and the speed of moving backwards was getting faster and faster.

"Slag scum!"

Some strange sounds came from the water, and Gu Qingzhou looked around, only to see that some creatures had appeared in the river water that was originally glowing with a ghostly light, moving quickly under the water.

Gu Qingzhou firmly grasped the sides of the boat, feeling uneasy in his heart.

Suddenly, the paper boat began to shake, and the bottom of the boat was surrounded by pitch-black shadows.

The old man, who had not moved for a long time, raised his arm and took off the paper lamp hanging on the bamboo pole. Soon, the paper boat began to slow down and finally came to a stop on the water.

The old man was expressionless, and took a paper lamp to shine into the water. Suddenly, the surface of the water exploded, and a huge black shadow broke through the water.

Gu Qingzhou hurriedly moved his gaze to look, only to see a huge monster surface.

The monster was born in the water, covered in scales. There are two long horns on the head, which are extremely sharp. The two blood-red eyeballs were like two big red lanterns, and under the eyeballs was a bloody mouth, and the fangs in the mouth were extremely sharp. The body is composed of pitch-black bones, the bones are wrapped in a layer of hard scales, and the arms are directly grown into a knife-shaped, and the knife edge is also extremely sharp.

"What kind of monster is this?" Gu Qingzhou was shocked in his heart.

"The Dark Lord!"

The old man at the bow of the boat saw the comer clearly, and his expressionless face sank significantly.

Gu Qingzhou's heart trembled even more when he heard this, the Black Lord is one of the legendary Three Demon Kings of the Underworld, and the other two Demon Kings are the Red Demon King and the White Demon King, they are the existence of the Hades in the underworld.

Gu Qingzhou originally thought that these were legendary characters, but he didn't expect to see them with his own eyes now, and he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart.

"Zizi. ”

The Dark Lord laughed twice, and said, "I feel a trace of aura in him that I hate terribly. ”

When the old man heard this, his already gloomy face changed significantly, and he glanced at Gu Qingzhou lightly from the corner of his eyes, and said: "This person is asked by the Lord Hades, and I ask the Dark Lord not to stop him." ”

"You threaten me?"

The Dark Lord lifted his knife-like arm and pointed at it lightly, speaking angrily.

The old man hurriedly got up and saluted, but said in his mouth: "I don't dare, I'm just acting on orders, and I ask the Dark Lord to make it convenient!"

"Acting on orders?"

The Dark Lord sneered, and the lantern-like eyeballs stared closely at Gu Qingzhou's figure on the paper boat, making Gu Qingzhou feel his scalp tingle instantly.

"In the depths of this person's soul, I felt a trace of extreme disgust, very similar to that person. You know, I was born in the soul, so no one in heaven and earth can compare to me in the perception of the soul!"

There was confidence in the Dark Lord's words.

Legend has it that the Dark Lord was born in the soul, the White Lord was born in the bones, and the Red Lord was born in the sea of blood. Therefore, in terms of the Dark Lord's attainments on the soul path, there is indeed no one between heaven and earth who can surpass him.

Hearing the Dark Lord's words, a trace of panic flashed on the old man's face, but it was fleeting.

"The Dark Lord's skills are naturally very clear, but this person is indeed what the Lord of Hades wants, so please ask the Dark Lord to make it convenient. ”

"Good, good!"

The Dark Lord suddenly sneered twice, and his voice turned into a circle of sound waves and rushed towards Gu Qingzhou on the paper boat.

Before the sound wave reached Gu Qingzhou's body, he felt his soul tremble, and his Yuan Shen became agitated. ,

"What should I do?"

Gu Qingzhou's heart changed dramatically, his face suddenly turned pale with fright, he wanted to dodge, but his body didn't obey his call at all.

Just as the circle of sound waves was about to arrive in front of Gu Qingzhou, a pale yellow light curtain shrouded him first.

Gu Qingzhou looked around, and saw that the old man had come to him at some point, and the paper lamp in his hand was illuminated by him in front of him, and all those sound waves escaped into the water and dissipated.

"There's something strange about this lamp!" the Dark Lord was surprised to see that his sound waves were easily blocked by the paper lamp.

The old man nodded: "Yes, it is the handiwork of Lord Hades." ”

The Dark Lord took a deep look at Gu Qingzhou, knowing that he couldn't make any other moves this time, so he could only say, "Since it is really the person that Lord Hades wants, then it is inconvenient for me to disturb too much!"

After speaking, the Dark Lord's body slowly sank into the river and disappeared.

It wasn't until the Dark Lord completely disappeared that Gu Qingzhou's heart finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, there were always some doubts in his heart: "Why does the Dark Lord say that I have the breath of that person in my mouth, and who is that person?"

Before he had time to think about it, the paper boat had moved again, continuing to sail on this long river with a glowing glow.

I don't know how long it took, the paper boat seemed to start to slow down, and the speed of the surrounding light spots moving backwards also began to slow down, Gu Qingzhou looked at it, and finally saw the appearance of those light spots.

It turned out that those countless points of light were countless blisters, floating quietly in the air. In each blister,

Prosperous and thousands of living beings, it is as if there is a whole world.

"Zizizi!"

There was a strange sound in the river again, and Gu Qingzhou's scalp was numb when he heard it, and Gu Qingzhou looked into the water, but it was pitch black and he didn't see anything.

The paper boat continued to move slowly down the river, and the sound in the water became louder and louder.

Gu Qingzhou's gaze swept away again, only to see some huge things swimming in the water. Around the paper boat, there were also many black shadows again, and they kept swimming around the paper boat.

Suddenly, a huge creature surfaced, shaped like a fish, but with two long antennae on its head, its eyes like lanterns, glowing a faint green light, two rows of sharp fangs in its mouth, and thick mucus dripping from its mouth, two extremely long whiskers growing from the corners of its mouth, a fan-shaped tail, and a body covered with hard scales.

"What the hell is this? ”

Gu Qingzhou's heart was deeply shocked, and inexplicable fear struck. He clung to the edges of the paper boats on both sides, for fear that he would accidentally fall into the water and become the monster's mouth.

Although they had just experienced the Dark Lord, they didn't really get their hands dirty after all. Therefore, Gu Qingzhou's heart is still bottomless, he doesn't know how strong this old man is, whether this paper boat, which seems to be about to break at any time, can withstand the impact of this monster.

A strong sense of fear hit him in his heart, Gu Qingzhou firmly grasped the edge of the boat and peeked at the old man.

I saw the old man, still sitting on the bow of the boat motionless, if it wasn't for the conversation with the Dark Lord just now, Gu Qingzhou really felt that this old man was dead, and there was no trace of anger on his body.

"What the hell is this place?"

Gu Qingzhou's heart was already going crazy, why did he suddenly come here?

The old man sat firmly on the bow of the boat, his lifeless eyes casually glanced at the monster that surfaced, and with a slight wave of his arm, a pale yellow light flew out from the paper lamp, flying directly into the monster's huge head.

The monster let out an earth-shattering scream, and its huge body suddenly seemed to lose its support, falling into the water like mud and disappearing.