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Chapter 177 Boundless Illusion, Soul-Stealing Ghost King! The River Styx Descends!

Lin Yi walked up to the sixth floor, to the door of his "home".

Without much hesitation, I pushed the door open and went in.

The door wasn't locked, or rather, even if it was, Lin Yi completely ignored it, as if a ghost were actually inside opening the door for him.

The room was small and dimly lit.

The radio was playing Pingju opera, and there was a constant hissing sound of signal interference.

The old-fashioned wall clock ticked away, and a faint musty smell permeated the entire room.

This is an incredibly classic rental apartment in southern China from the 1990s.

Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The wall clock suddenly struck, and Lin Yi checked the time.

It is exactly 6 p.m. now.

As the clock struck, Lin Yi saw dishes appearing on the wooden table in the center of the living room, and at the same time, a notification sounded in his mind.

[You have entered the Sealed Ghost Nest, currently at the highest difficulty level of this instance. Please proceed with caution.]

Please note that special spiritual creatures exist within this instance that will continuously affect your sanity and mind. Keep a close eye on your Sanity level.

Once your Sanity reaches zero, you will fall into eternal madness, lost within this instance, becoming part of the ghosts.

Indeed, there is a trick to getting off at which station; getting off at other stations should also allow you to complete the "homecoming" mission.

However, the difficulty would never have been as high as it is now.

As Lin Yi pondered, he saw again two bloody characters appear on the glass of the clock in front of him.

"Have a meal."

Are you going home for dinner?
This dungeon quest actually looks quite simple.

Walking to the table, Lin Yi first opened his personal panel.

Sure enough, I found a hidden attribute unique to entering this type of dungeon.

[Sanity score: An indicator of your current mental stability and normal thinking ability, influenced by multiple factors including mental attributes, occupational characteristics, and soul strength.]

Current Sanity value: 456321/483647

As expected, my Sanity level was also a bit terrifying.

However, only half an hour has passed since we entered this instance.

If you exclude the time spent on the ghost bus, he had only been inside the sealed ghost nest for less than ten minutes, yet he had already invisibly consumed nearly 30,000 Sanity points.

Don't be careless.

Lin Yi sat down at the table and looked at the dishes on it.

One dish is stir-fried liver tips, another is sliced ​​beef and tripe in chili sauce, and there are also stir-fried pork kidneys and stir-fried pork intestines.

Hmm, Lin Yi also saw roasted pig brains.

Although Lin Yi wasn't a picky eater, eating the same things in this godforsaken place made him feel uneasy.

Pick up a piece of pork kidney with chopsticks and put it in your mouth.

The next moment, an incredibly strong smell of blood filled his mouth, and at the same time, Lin Yi felt a sharp pain in his lower back.

Looking over, I saw that there was a bloody hole in my lower left abdomen, and blood was gushing out.

Lin Yi was startled.

The dishes on the table were now covered in blood; they had all been made from his own heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys!
"Have a meal!"

The blood-written words on the table grew even larger, as if possessing a magical power, tempting Lin Yi to continue wolfing down his food and devouring his own internal organs!

hum-

A cool breeze surged up to the heavens, and the next moment, Lin Yi's vision blurred.

The blood-written words on the table and the terrifying dishes all vanished.

He remained in the same position as when he pushed the door open and entered. Thump!
Boom!
The clock struck, and the hour and minute hands pointed to six o'clock.

It's all an illusion!
However, Lin Yi was completely unaware of when he had fallen into this illusion!

If it weren't for the effects of the Immortal Fruit, Lin Yi wouldn't know what he would have encountered in that illusion!
While still conscious, Lin Yi opened the panel and was surprised to find that his Sanity value had changed!

Current Sanity: 4,565,321 / 4,836,479

If the Sanity value he sees at this moment is real, then something in the hallucination just now also tampered with his data.

My own Sanity level was more than ten times higher than what I saw in the hallucination.

But at this moment, only 450 million remained!

The human spirit is sometimes so magical. When Da Ming thinks your limit is a certain number, you often really give up on yourself when you reach that number.

In his hallucination, his Sanity value was reduced by a single digit!

What a cunning devil!
If it weren't for the [Immortal Fruit] and the enormous amount of soul strength given by Lin You, he might have really fallen victim to it, with his Sanity plummeting by millions!

As the bell rang, Lin Yi did not see the blood-written words on the table this time, nor did he see the dishes cooked with his own internal organs.

Because he was unsure whether he was hallucinating again.

He is waiting.

Lin Yi completely lost patience with this dungeon quest.

Ten seconds passed in the blink of an eye.

Another wave of clarity washed over Lin Yi, and the scene before him changed once more.

Sure enough, these evil spirits wouldn't miss any opportunity to force him into hallucinations.

However, this time, the instant the purification effect of the [Immortal Fruit] took effect, Lin Yi uttered two obscure syllables.

That is the truth!
Lin Yi can now cast eighth-tier spells instantly without restrictions.

It was even more outrageous than instant casting; the spell was formed almost instantly with just a thought.

The only thing that requires Lin Yi to use a true incantation is a forbidden spell!

As the two mantras fell.

Ripples of space instantly appeared around Lin Yi.

The next moment, the ripples rolled into giant waves, shattering the entire "home" space like a mirror!
A rift leading to the underworld was torn open by Lin Yi!
collapse!
collapse!
collapse!
Like three mirrors shattering, Lin Yi also broke through the three illusions in an instant.

As the illusion shattered, Lin Yi discovered that everything around him was changing rapidly.

Mottled cracks appeared on the wall plaster.

Blood-red moss, like claw-like vines, grew wildly, climbing all over the walls and the entrance to the stairwell.

"Aa ...

The wailing sounds, seemingly emanating from the deepest hell, echoed continuously in Lin Yi's ears.

Forbidden Spell: Styx Funeral!
Even before the River Styx had fully formed, merely opening a rift to the Netherworld, the illusion surrounding Lin Yi shattered instantly!
Furthermore, Lin Yi discovered that the illusion actually had more than three layers!

As the rift in the underworld widened, the waters of the River Styx, emanating a terrifying chill, began to gush forth.

Lin Yi found that everything around him had become even more sinister and terrifying!
It was as if he had entered another world!
In the end, all illusions shattered completely.

The whole world has become indistinguishable in terms of up, down, left, and right.

The air was filled with red smoke and the strong smell of rust.

Besides this, Lin Yi also saw countless ghosts and evil spirits surrounding the edge of the world, screaming and howling!
Surrounded by countless ghosts, Lin Yi also saw more than a dozen spirit monsters, hundreds of times larger than other vengeful ghosts and spirits.

One of the monsters was fleeing from Lin Yi at an extremely terrifying speed, from the Styx River that spewed out from the rift.

Lin Yi's eyes narrowed.

【The Soul-Stealing Demon King】!
Those illusions from before must have been the work of this guy!
As the Styx funeral was about to take shape, Lin Yi had a sudden realization.

In the end, it is this overwhelming power combined with the restraint of absolute attributes that is able to deal with these ghosts!
(End of this chapter)