Master the Abyss, starting from an apprentice priest.

Chapter 216 Hiding Place
From the moment he stepped into the abandoned warehouse, Luo Xiu clearly felt that the temperature of his body suddenly became much colder. A strange aura filled the surroundings, and chilling whispers came from the depths.

And in the darkness of the warehouse, there were countless eyes staring at him - they were greedy, threatening, and bloodthirsty eyes. The evil creatures lurking here had already regarded Luo Xiu as food to be exploited.

Those are all the breath of "dead spirits"... Luo Xiu thought. The owner here raised them, but they did not attack the moment Luo Xiu entered the warehouse, and it seemed that they did not receive any relevant instructions from their owner.

Tap, tap, Luo Xiu continued to walk deeper into the warehouse. The sound of his heavy footsteps was now echoing on the four walls of the warehouse.

The light gradually became dim, and in the end it was almost extinguished. Luo Xiu then mobilized his spiritual power and gradually condensed a bright golden light ball in his palm to illuminate the way forward.

When Luo Xiu walked to a black door, the strange whispers he heard when he entered the warehouse gradually died down. The undead lurking in the corners were still staring at him, but there was still no other movement.

Luo Xiu then raised his hand, and the ball of light in his palm suddenly spread out around him, and began to circle around him three times, and then quickly retracted into his body.

A moment later, three layers of faint golden glow gradually emerged above Luo Xiu's body. The "Triple Holy Protection" magic had taken effect, and the generated shield was circulating and circling around him, resisting the invasion that might come at any time.

After completing the preparation for this holy spell, Luo Xiu continued to cast several auxiliary holy spells on himself. After "Hand of Judgment", "Consecrated Prayer", "Consecrated Blessing" and "Shadow of Holy Light" took effect at the same time, Luo Xiu immediately stretched out his hand and lightly touched the surface of the black door with his palm.

Ominous mist was rising from the black door. Just like the door to the secret vault of the "Death Prayer" described by Anthony before, this door was also guarded by a corresponding undead spirit, and it was even more powerful than the one Anthony encountered.

The moment Luo Xiu's palm touched the black door, the ominous black mist seemed to come alive and began to wriggle and wrap around Luo Xiu's arm.

But before the black mist wrapped around him, Luo Xiu's arm that was engulfed began to emit a golden light, and surging spirituality emanated from it, impacting the undead's body from the inside out like a drum.

The thick black fog body like mud was pierced in an instant, and the undead that was entangled with it began to tremble and emit bursts of shrill hissing sounds.

——Hiss! Woo woo woo hiss! A sharp and piercing sound came from the ominous mist, and the mist that touched Luo Xiu's arm shrank back instantly as if it had been electrocuted.

When the undead realized that the "death" attached to his own spirit could not corrode the visitor and that there was still a huge gap between himself and the visitor, he quickly untied the mist and retreated towards the black gate.

But Luo Xiu did not let the undead escape. He had already condensed two balls of holy magic light in his other hand, and swung them from the side at the same time, grabbing the undead's spiritual body.

The next moment, a ball of light that combined the power of "purification" and "annihilation" exploded from Luo Xiu's hand. The dazzling golden light instantly submerged the entire body of the undead, and exploded in its body like firecrackers one after another, blasting the actual spiritual essence that made up the undead's body into pieces!
——Hiss! Woohoo... The undead uttered a final, struggling whimper, and its body gradually broke apart. The incomparably pure and glorious spirituality completely disintegrated it.

The dark light on the "door" that was blocked by it also dissipated, revealing an iron door that had been hidden for a long time and was already rusted.

After the undead spirits were purified by Luo Xiu, the iron door immediately returned to its original shape. The "barrier" that was isolating it also disappeared at the same time. Luo Xiu could hear the noisy sounds coming from behind the door, as well as dozens of spiritual surges belonging to [Lost].

Behind this door, there were dozens of [Lost] Transcendents lurking! Most of them had the spiritual surges of the "Second Fate", and there were about four with the spiritual surges of the "Third Fate".

And at the very core, in the center, the spiritual reaction was the strongest—that was the spiritual surge of the extraordinary people with the "Quadruple Destiny"!
It seemed that the core source of the spiritual reaction was the "Teller of Death" Grion. There were four "followers" beside him. Judging from their spiritual reactions, they seemed to be performing some kind of ancient taboo ritual.

But Luo Xiu was not interested in what this group of "Lost" pagans were doing. He quickly finished his prayer and summoned the "False Guardian", "Holy Flame Wolf" and "Burning Feather Raven", while his right hand was already grasping the staff "Poisonous Bite".

The next moment, the "illusory guardian" Amber possessed Luo Xiu, and a huge golden hammer appeared in his hand, which then smashed heavily on the iron gate!
--boom! ! !

The moment the huge hammer hit the iron door, a loud noise suddenly erupted in the entire warehouse.

The door was instantly shattered by an irresistible force, and the "Lost" pagans inside finally revealed their figures.

There were many believers wearing dark cloaks, forming three circles and prostrating themselves before the "Venerable One" lying on the stone bed in the middle.

The believers in the outermost half circle near the door stood with their backs to their "Venerable". They were holding dead wood staffs with the heads pointing towards the door, and the spell of death was accumulating and nurturing within them.

The next moment, black chaotic light burst out from the staffs in the hands of these believers and moved between the staffs, forming a thick, deep, and ominous black net.

The pitch-black net quickly spread out in the direction of Luo Xiu, and several nodes where spiritual threads intersected flashed scarlet spots of light, and gushed out a mixture of pitch-black and scarlet light.

The mixed-color light surges shot straight at Luo Xiu from multiple angles, and Luo Xiu simultaneously waved his left hand forward, causing the "False Guardian" Amber behind him to swing the golden light hammer in his hand forward at the same time, heavily colliding with the countless light surges containing the power of death.

——Boom! Boom boom boom! The surging spiritual energy caused the several beams of light to deviate from their predetermined trajectory and exploded in mid-air. Fragments of light intertwined with deep red and pitch-black flowed in mid-air, and the escaping breath of death was filled with an uncomfortable stench, causing Luo Xiu to frown slightly.

After blocking the first round of attacks from the cultists, Luo Xiu immediately swung out his right hand, and the fluorescent green magic crystal of "Poisonous Bite" suddenly burst into golden light, and a bolt of lightning landed on the head of a cultist.

——Boom! A huge roar resounded, and the "Thunder of Judgment" had already blasted a cultist holding a staff, as well as two cultists crawling close to him, into dust. The residual power of the annihilation thunder and fire still lingered, causing bursts of stinging pain in the surrounding cultists.

"You... who are you!" someone among the believers in the outer circle shouted in a tearing voice.

At first, the believers thought it was just an ordinary invasion.

They had encountered similar things before - the extraordinary beings of [Supreme], [Wisdom] and [Glorious] often discovered their strongholds during patrols.

But those invaders were almost all wiped out in a few rounds of attacks. The believers of the "Hidden Eye" had never experienced such a situation before.

Luo Xiu did not respond to the believer's cry, but just prayed for his next skill. A pale glow appeared on the palm of his left hand.

The believers in the outer half of the circle re-formed their positions, and the staffs in their hands began to accumulate the energy of death, preparing to strike again at the uninvited guest.

But this time, Luo Xiu was quicker than them. The pale ball of light in his hand had already condensed into shape, and the next moment it flew into the air and suddenly spread outward.

The ball of light that was so dense that it condensed into substance quickly turned into smoke and dissipated. Strands of white light like silk danced and circled in the air, and quickly covered the heads of the "Hidden Eye" believers on the opposite side.

The believers who were gathering strength for another attack suddenly felt their brains churning the moment the white light entered their bodies.

A strong, frenzied desire for blood surged from the depths of their souls and quickly dominated their minds, depriving them of all reason.

——"Frenzy Glow"! This is the new sacred art that Luo Xiu cast!
In the next moment, the situation in the ritual area deep inside the warehouse was completely reversed. The believers who were originally holding their staffs against Luo Xiu turned around and pointed their staffs at the other prostrate believers.

These death mages who served as "guardians" suddenly turned against their own side, leaving their "worshippers" with no time to react.

The first surge of light containing the power of death spurted out from the staff, and then there was the second, third, and dozens of surges of death light, washing over the heads of all the believers like a rain curtain.

Time and again, surges of light mixed with death curses exploded among the believers, the smell of blood continued to spread from them, and flesh and blood and wailing sounds flew outward together.

Scarlet and dark light devoured the believers in large pieces. The death curses cast by the "guardians" who were affected by the frenzy had formed a chain reaction among the believers.

These pagans who worshipped the way of death then, one after another, truly pursued death.

Luo Xiu stood by the door he came from, watching the believers in front of him, who only had two or three chances of survival, fall one after another into the hands of their own people.

But his attention was not mainly on them, but on the center of these believers' worship - the "Venerable" who was lying on the stone bed, looking haggard but still full of vitality. Although these believers under his command had suffered such a disaster, he remained motionless and did not even open his eyes for a moment!
Luo Xiu looked at the "Venerable" vigilantly, and at the same time performed panel detection on him, and soon received feedback.

The feedback from the panel also confirmed all of Luo Xiu's information and conjectures - that "venerable" was the "Teller of Death" Grion! And he was indeed a [Lost] quadruple destiny, and his profession was "Undead Priest"!
It is a [Lost] profession between the "Priest of Advent" and the "Priest of Death". If the extraordinary people with the [Lost] destiny are granted the abilities of "Adventure" and "Death" by the Mother Goddess when they are promoted to the second and third destinies respectively, they can choose to be promoted to "Priest of the Dead" in the fourth destiny.

This profession is not uncommon among the [Lost] believers, and it is not difficult to meet the prerequisites, so it can be considered a semi-hidden profession.

While Luo Xiu was observing the "Announcer of Death" Grion, he also opened his own "spiritual vision".

From the perspective of "spirituality", Luo Xiu saw one black thread after another, radiating outward from the body of "The Announcer of Death" Grion as the origin, and the other end was connected to all the "Hidden Eye" believers.

When the cultists cast the "Death Curse" to attack each other, the threads attached to the dead cultists will stretch outwards, dragging their souls out of their damaged bodies.

At the same time, the black line also contains a certain transformative energy that can transform a newly dead soul into a "dead spirit" in a very short time, dyeing its soul with a deep black.

The newly born "dead spirits" were finally dragged by black threads to the side of "Death Announcer" Grion, and lingered and circled around him. Even though their bodies were dead, they still regarded their "venerable" as their only master after death.

"That's the ability of the Undead Priest Gryn? He hasn't reacted to the believers attacking each other. Could it be..."

Luo Zheng was thinking about these things, and the next moment, the "Announcer of Death" Grion finally made a new move.

The cultists who were affected by the "madness" accidentally cast a death curse on Grion, waking him up from his "sleeping" state.

He opened his eyes, and his dark pupils looked calmly at everything in front of him, as if he had already known such a scene.

Then, he sat up straight on the stone bed and clenched his dry arms forward. Countless black lines appeared from nothing and began to burn with blazing black flames.

The black flames contained the "death" curse that Grion himself had infused. They screamed, burned, and finally touched the bodies of the connected believers.

Those frenzied believers stopped their actions instantly, as if they had regained consciousness the moment they were burned by the fire, but the black flames did not subside.

——Wow! The black flames climbed up the lapels of the believers and began to burn their bodies. The believers watched themselves being burned to ashes bit by bit, but no one wailed because of the bone-eating pain. Instead, they all showed fanatical joy.

"Become one with death... Become one with the Honorable One... Become one with the Mother Goddess!" The believers shouted enthusiastically while performing their final worship in the direction of Grion, the "Courier of Death". Their bodies were soon completely burned to ashes.

And their souls were quickly pulled out by another black thread of "spirituality" and transformed into undead spirits, wandering to Grion's side.

This process did not last too long. The believers who were affected by the "madness" were all killed by Grion himself. The number of undead transformed from their souls gathered into a terrifying number, circling around Grion and emitting waves of gloomy aura.

“…An outsider.”

Grion, the "Death Announcer" on the stone bed, finally spoke after killing all the frantic believers below:

"Why are you here... and why are you interrupting my ceremony?"

"Ah... I can already see the guidance of the Mother Goddess. The door that only saints can enter is not far away from me..."

"And you... reckless outsider, you are blocking my path to becoming a saint."

Green's tone was somewhat angry, but he maintained the calmness of an elder and said:
"But this is also possible..."

"My believers, they were going to be martyred in the end, offering a sufficient death for me. And you... you just brought this process forward."

"Unfortunately, this death is not pure enough, and even less perfect..."

The "Announcer of Death" talked a lot to himself. At the same time, he stood up, raised his right hand, and clenched it heavily in the air again.

In Luo Xiu's "spiritual vision", the undead spirits lingering and hovering around Grien "exploded" one after another, and transformed into spirits filled with the power of death, flowing into Grien's body in threads.

Grion, the Announcer of Death, began to peel off his old, wrinkled skin layer by layer. A dark, deep light covered most of his skin, and bubbles kept coming out of it, accompanied by strange, tentacle-like movements.

Those "dead spirits" offered death to Grion, and Grion gradually transformed into a half-human, half-dead creature. His spirituality was constantly transforming to a higher point, and he was "evolving" into a new, higher-level life.

This process happened very quickly. While Luo Xiu was still thinking about the possible meaning of Green's previous words, Green had already begun to sublimate on the scene!
Seeing this, Luo Xiu flashed forward and took the lead in attacking while Green's sublimation was not yet complete.

The scarlet sickle emerged from Luo Xiu's left hand, and the magic core of his right surgical staff emitted bursts of fine scarlet electric light at the same time, and rushed towards the direction of "The Announcer of Death" Grion.

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(End of this chapter)