Netherworld Painted Skin Scroll

Chapter 5 Outside the door
Li Wuxiang stared at her for a while, then nodded.

It was reasonable. Zhao Xi was different from the 101 beastly teenagers below. She had been with him for a long time.

"what is his name?"

"...Zhao Kui."

——Being with Zhao Kui, he must have given her a somewhat reasonable explanation. But "destruction of the world", "sea of ​​fire and ruins"? This reason is too perfunctory.

Li Wuxiang smiled and let her go. At this time, Zhao Xi seemed to have recovered some strength and was able to lie on the couch with her arms supported by herself. She looked at Li Wuxiang with wide eyes, as if she wanted to see his expression clearly: "What are you laughing at?"

"Have you been out to see it?" Li Wuxiang asked her, "Did Zhao Kui take you out to see it? Or did he just tell you about it? Have you seen the sea of ​​fire and ruins you mentioned?"

"I……"

Li Wuxiang sighed. Not out of sorrow or grief, but a sense of relief. Zhao Xi must have been a victim like himself, and this place must have been built in some uninhabited place. Now, he was not in a hurry to leave. Because the original owner was in a daze, most of his memories about who he was were messed up, and he knew nothing about this world.

Although Zhao Xi was not a normal person, he knew at least a little more than the original owner. He decided to find out everything immediately, at least to know what kind of situation he might face after leaving here, and then talk about "getting out".

"Tell me about Zhao Kui first. What's going on with these kids, and what's going on with you?"

……

According to Zhao Xi, Zhao Kui is a Qi-refining practitioner who is about to form a pill. This level of cultivation is very rare for ordinary people and is considered "immortal-level" - of course, it is also possible that Zhao Kui is bragging about himself.

About ten years ago, a great disaster occurred in the world. The sky collapsed, the earth sank, and fire rain suddenly fell. Within a few months, all living things in the world came to an end.

Zhao Kui accidentally found an ancient immortal cave - this place - and spent a lot of effort to get the restrictions in the cave working again, and then got 102 children.

Zhao Kui thought that since the world was coming to an end, he might as well use this place to preserve some seeds of vitality for the world. On the other hand, he also wanted to use these children to refine "Taiyi".

Zhao Xi had no idea what "Taiyi" was, while Li Wuxiang felt that there seemed to be relevant knowledge somewhere in his memory, but he couldn't remember it for the time being. However, this confirmed his previous conjecture - the 101 children were part of a ceremony or sacrifice.

Zhao Xi served Zhao Kui like this for more than ten years, and Zhao Kui often felt lonely, so he would occasionally reveal some of what he knew so that Zhao Xi would not be as confused as those children below.

Zhao Kui thought that after a few years, a surviving master would come to clean up the world and put out the fire of destruction, but he didn't expect to wait for eleven years until the food was about to run out and the fire was still not extinguished. Therefore, a year ago, he cut off the food for his "officials" and starved them to death. The most important "emperor" was able to survive because of the secret protection of the paper man.

But after another year, the fire outside still continued, so Zhao Kui had no choice but to stop feeding the "Emperor". Later, he noticed that the "Emperor" seemed to be different, so he told Zhao Xi that when refining "Taiyi", there were very rare situations that would attract external evil. He had only heard the ancestors say this, but never thought it would really happen, so he became suspicious.

"I've wanted to kill him for a long time." Zhao Xi was tired of talking and lay flat on the couch again, but his breathing was smoother and his face was no longer pale. "He always tortured me--"

She was wearing a short dress, which was also worn out and exposed in many places. Li Wuxiang looked at her body - the girl was about fifteen or sixteen years old, not very pretty, but her skin was white and delicate, and apart from the knife wound on her chest, there were no other scars.

"You have no other injuries."

"No, it's more painful than beating me. He treated me like this..." Zhao Xi bent his legs, "torturing me like this."

Li Wuxiang waved his hand: "Okay, I got it. Then what?" "Then I thought, if I don't have food for a while, he still wants to keep that external evil, that is you, then he will cut off my food. These past few days I have only been able to eat a little bit every two days. Since you are an external evil, you might be able to kill him, so I asked you to kill him. He was refining the elixir at the time, and I thought he couldn't hear me, but he heard me, and I fought with him. He was going to kill me, but I cried and begged him and said I knew I was wrong. He came to help me, and I stabbed him to death."

"Isn't he a Qi Refiner who is about to form a pill?"

Zhao Xi frowned: "A Qi Refiner who is about to form a pill will die if he is stabbed in the heart?"

Li Wuxiang nodded. It seems that the "cultivators" in this world are not those ridiculously powerful monsters, but rather like the Taoist priests in ancient legends.

He thought for a moment: "Did he ever tell you what the outside world was like before the destruction of the world?"

"It doesn't seem to be very good. I remember when I was a kid, in the first few years, he told me that it would be good to destroy the world, so that I wouldn't have to suffer the anger of the Eight Mysterious Sects and be driven into the wilderness. What else..."

The efficacy of Fuyuan Baosheng Pill is very strong. After such a short while, Zhao Xi's face has returned to normal. He even turned over and put his arm under his head. "What's the point of asking? Zhao Kui said that the mind of an external evil like you will definitely be affected by the original owner. Isn't it hard for you to hear? Besides, it's already a sea of ​​fire and ruins outside, and we can't get out... But you look much more pleasing to the eye than Zhao Kui. Thinking about it this way, you are a good external evil. Zhao Kui was just trying to scare me before, saying that external evils will make people crazy, but you saved me."

While she was saying this, Li Wuxiang walked to the front room holding a sharp-edged dagger and checked the two remaining sacks. He found that they were indeed filled with food and medicinal materials, which were roasted very dry. It seemed that the meatballs they were eating downstairs were made of these things.

"That will last us two several months." Zhao Xi got off the wooden couch, held onto the screen, and looked at Li Wuxiang worriedly, "I don't eat much, just give me a little every day."

Li Wuxiang turned around and looked at her: "You don't have to worry about this anymore. Tell me where the door is and how to get out, and I'll give you a surprise."

"It's already a sea of ​​fire outside!"

Li Wuxiang knew that although Zhao Xi looked normal, she was actually no different from the original owner of this body. She was just trapped in a slightly larger illusion. He didn't want to spend the effort to convince her, but just looked at her in silence.

Zhao Xi was frightened by his stare and shrank behind the screen. He pointed to the east side of the wooden couch and said, "... over there."

Li Wuxiang walked to the stone wall on the east side, stretched out his hand and pushed it, and felt the wall slide outward a little. This should be the same as the one below, there is a door hidden in the wall. He added a little more force, and heard a slight friction sound, and the stone door showed a tendency to open.

Perhaps what Zhao Kui said to Zhao Xi was true, and this was indeed some "immortal cave" he had found, so he didn't know how to lock the door.

Li Wuxiang turned sideways and looked at Zhao Xi who was leaning against the screen and looking at him: "Look and see if there is a sea of ​​fire and ruins outside."

He exerted more force with his arms, and the door was pushed open a crack.

A strong heat wave rolled in, almost blowing him back, and the room was instantly illuminated in a fiery red. Li Wuxiang turned around in astonishment.

There is a cliff outside the door, and the door seems to be opened at the very top of the cliff somewhere.

...He saw a sky full of rolling clouds of fire, countless fallen giant trees on the distant land that were burned into bright red, and a raging sea of ​​fire that filled the space between heaven and earth!

　Let us spin and clap our hands to welcome our No. 0001 leader Jieyu Begonia!
　　The second update will be at eight o'clock in the morning.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)