I might have been playing a fake cultivation game.

Without much hesitation, Zhou Yunshen silently recited the words "store in the trial space" in his mind.

He felt it was a waste to use this ghost messenger token in this hellish dungeon. Since it could be used in the Xuan Yuan Realm, it should definitely be used there.

The ghost messenger token vanished into thin air, and a phantom space appeared in Zhou Yunshen's consciousness, where the ghost messenger token that had just disappeared floated.

This is somewhat like the space inside a storage ring, but many times larger.

The illusory space quickly returned to nothingness.

Zhou Yun Shen frowned and began to ponder the matter of the ghost messengers.

He wondered whether the ghost messenger who had just attacked him was simply passing by and attacked him, or whether he had tracked him down from afar specifically to kill him.

If he was just passing by, that would be fine; he was simply unlucky and ran into someone's trap.

If this ghost messenger came from afar specifically to kill him, then that's a bit terrifying. It means that there's an extremely efficient operating system in this hell, meaning that the killing of the ghost messenger isn't the end. There will be a continuous stream of ghost messengers, or even higher-level monsters, coming to kill him!

Zhou Yunshen is more inclined to believe the latter possibility.

Because he recalled a detail.

At that moment, when the skeleton demon grabbed his foot from the ground, the skeleton demon said in a chilling voice, "A living person, hehe... There's actually a living person who dares to trespass into hell. Quickly tell the ghost messengers, with this merit, I can also enter reincarnation sooner..."

Upon closer examination, this statement contains a great deal of information.

Firstly, the ghosts here are very keen on capturing living people because they can gain merit by capturing living people who have trespassed into hell, and thus enter the cycle of reincarnation sooner.

Secondly, they have a way to contact the ghost messengers and tell them about the living person's unauthorized entry into hell...

As Zhou Yunshen pondered these thoughts silently, he continued walking forward.

He deliberately chose to go to places with fewer ghosts.

If all ghosts are informants for the ghost messengers, then doing this can reduce the chances of him being captured by them.

If he had run to places where ghosts rarely roamed and still managed to be accurately found by the ghost messengers, it meant that the ghost messengers possessed a powerful tracking method. In this case, it would be useless no matter where he hid.

As Zhou Yunshen walked, he began to run. After running for a while, he vaguely heard the sound of flowing water, so he slightly changed his direction and ran towards the direction from which the water was flowing.

The sound of flowing water grew clearer and clearer, and soon a river appeared before Zhou Yunshen.

This is a small river, less than ten meters wide, and the water is very turbid, like the muddy yellow floodwaters during a major flood.

"The Yellow Springs, could this be the legendary Yellow Springs?" A thought popped into Zhou Yunshen's mind.

He released his divine sense to scan the murky river water before him, and to his surprise, he found that his divine sense could not penetrate the water and was blocked outside.

At this moment, a black fish larger than a person darted out of the murky river water, its eyes gleaming with an eerie light, and opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, biting at Zhou Yunshen on the riverbank.

Zhou Yunshen's gaze sharpened, but his expression remained largely unchanged. As he retreated, a streak of fire shot from his shoulder, transforming into a stream of flame that plunged into the black fish's wide-open mouth.

"burst!"

Flames erupted from the blackfish's body, which instantly shattered into pieces before collapsing into black mist and dissipating into the air.

'There are monsters in this river too. This hellish dungeon is really full of monsters.' Zhou Yun thought to himself.

After running along the river for a while, Zhou Yunshen suddenly felt that unease again.

Zhou Yunshen reacted extremely quickly and immediately accelerated forward!

With two hissing sounds, flames burst forth from Zhou Yunshen's feet, and his speed increased even further.

The sound of chains cutting through the air came from behind him.

"These ghost messengers arrived so quickly." As Zhou Yunshen lunged forward, he unleashed his divine sense, scanning in all directions.

Sure enough, he detected a figure behind him.

The figure was dressed in the black uniform of a constable, a style only seen in ancient times in the Xia Kingdom. He held a black chain and his face was deathly pale.

His attire was exactly the same as the ghost messenger he had killed before, except for some differences in appearance.

No, there's more than one ghost messenger!

At this moment, Zhou Yunshen's divine sense scanned another ghost messenger.

Before the ghost messenger could make a move, its body disappeared into the air, leaving only a faint, illusory outline.

Then came the third ghost messenger!

This time, three ghost messengers came to kill him!

If there were only one ghost messenger, Zhou Yun Shen might have stayed and fought back one last time. Although he was not in good condition, he still had most of his true energy left. If he forcibly used the "Soul Burning Secret Technique," he could still fight the ghost messenger.

But now that three ghost messengers have arrived at once, there's no doubt he has no choice but to flee for his life.

Fire Release: Technique!

At this moment, Zhou Yun Shen finally used the Fire Release technique. Bright flames erupted from his body, and his figure soared into the gray sky.

Behind him, three figures—one real and two illusory—flew into the sky, relentlessly pursuing him.

These ghost messengers were flying at a speed no slower than Zhou Yun Shen's, and even faster, gradually closing the distance between them.

Having no other choice, Zhou Yunshen gritted his teeth and forcibly used the "Soul Burning Secret Technique".

With the blessing of the Soul-Burning Secret Technique, the flames on Zhou Yun Shen's body became even brighter, and his flight speed increased dramatically, quickly leaving the three ghost messengers behind.

In the blazing firelight, Zhou Yunshen's clothes were burned to ashes.

His internal energy was also being rapidly depleted.

These are all secondary. The most important thing is that the stinging sensation of the soul being burned is becoming more and more obvious and unbearable.

Zhou Yunshen knew he couldn't hold on much longer.

He gritted his teeth and flew toward the depths of hell he had imagined.

He wanted to see what the legendary Fengdu City looked like.

After completely shaking off the three ghost messengers, Zhou Yun Shen withdrew from the 'Burning Soul' state. The stinging pain originating from the depths of his soul immediately lessened considerably, but the lingering pain remained, leaving him feeling dazed.

Zhou Yunshen forced himself to continue flying forward.

I don't know how long we flew, but a towering black city appeared ahead.

"So this is Fengdu City..."

"Let's go in and take a look..."

The flames on Zhou Yunshen's body dimmed, and he continued to fly forward, swaying unsteadily.

As soon as he approached the towering black city, he heard the sound of birds flapping their wings overhead.

Zhou Yun Shen subconsciously looked up and saw a monster with a bird's head and a human body, wearing silver armor, flying in the air and coldly watching him.

Zhou Yunshen was startled. Just as he was about to make a move, a sharp pain shot through his brain, and then his consciousness plunged into darkness, and he knew nothing more.

When he regained consciousness, he was already lying in bed in his rented room.