Streaks of yellow lightning flashed in the dusky sky. They were silent, heavy, and oppressive.
Lu Sheng held his knife as he walked along the dilapidated plaza.
The plaza was circular, and in the center was a white statue of an old woman with two broken arms. She held a walking stick under her armpit, and her head was slightly raised. She wore a wrinkled leather cloak.
Everything else in the plaza was gray. Only the statue's chest was inlaid with a fingernail-sized sapphire that gave off a faint blue light.
Lu Sheng broke through the wall and walked all the way here. He did not see any living creatures. The only thing he saw was this statue.
"Whoosh …"
The wind grew colder and colder. It swept across the empty plaza, causing the corners of his clothes to flutter. Faint white frost also appeared in some corners of the ground.
Lu Sheng didn't notice anything. He looked to his left and right. All he could see were abandoned houses that stretched as far as the eye could see. In some places, broken walls could be seen. All he could see was a sea of gray.
Only the statue had a faint blue light.
"This … looks like it's really the outside world?" This was his first time in the outside world. There was no way to reach this level in the Great Song. Only the Three Sacred Gates had the technology in this area. Other powers could not reach this level.
The outside world, the outside world. There were many names for it, such as the Outer Realm, the Void Realm, and so on, but all of them referred to the same thing, and that was the space outside of this world.
Lu Sheng did not know what kind of world this Black Seal Temple was, but looking at the style of the buildings and the environment, he could roughly guess that it was in ruins and a dangerous environment.
He walked slowly towards the sapphire on the statue.
Then he reached out to touch it.
"Whoosh!"
In an instant, the sapphire gave off a blinding blue light, and the ground shook.
Thick black smoke came out of the statue's mouth and nose. Large amounts of black smoke fell to the ground and condensed into pitch-black monsters with wolf heads and human bodies.
"Roar!"
The shortest of the monsters was three meters tall, and the tallest was more than four meters. Standing in the plaza, they looked like small mountains.
Their bodies were covered in long black fur, and they held long knives and black shields in their hands. In the middle of the shields was a complicated blue symbol.
"Aurilla!" one of the wolf-headed monsters shouted and charged at Lu Sheng, slashing down with his knife.
Hu!
His speed was not fast, but the sound of the air being torn was very strong. It was obvious that he was very heavy. A cleaver of more than three meters in length could even cut Lu Sheng into two halves.
"Your strength is not bad, but your speed is too slow." Lu Sheng leaned to the side and thrust his palm forward.
With a swoosh, his palm accurately pierced the space between the eyebrows of the wolf-headed man.
Bang. The wolf-headed man suddenly exploded, turning into black smoke and disappearing.
The rest of the Wolf Men also rushed over in a frenzy. However, their foreheads were easily pierced by Lu Sheng, and they died on the spot.
"The strength of a Bind, the speed of a mortal, and a constitution that's only slightly stronger than a mortal's." Lu Sheng gave a rough evaluation of the wolf-headed man.
After killing the wolf-headed man, he looked at the sapphire again. There was a crack on the sapphire, but it was still emitting blue light. However, the halo was much dimmer than before.
Lu Sheng carefully sensed this thing again. He could sense an energy that was different from Devil Qi, Inner Qi, and True Qi. However, this energy was incompatible with him and strongly rejected True Qi.
Retracting his hand from the sapphire, Lu Sheng gave up on the idea of digging it out and taking it away. He had a feeling that if he dug out the sapphire, it might cause trouble like an explosion.
"This place … is a little interesting." Lu Sheng was very curious about this energy. Unfortunately, time was limited. Otherwise, he would have studied it carefully here.
Crack.
Suddenly, the sound of a tree branch snapping came from the edge of the square.
Lu Sheng turned his head and looked into the distance. A thin figure hurriedly ran to the back of a building at the edge.
The buildings around the square were in circles, and the grayish-white roofs were full of holes of different sizes. Some of the roofs even had strange sculptures of babies with wings flapping their wings, ready to fly.
The figure darted into a building from the street in the blink of an eye.
Lu Sheng stomped on the ground, and the ground shook slightly. He shot out like an arrow, reaching the person a hundred meters away in a few blinks of an eye.
"Bam!" He smashed the wooden door of the building to the left with a punch, revealing the thin man holding a sharp blade.
“KO！！” The man roared and pounced at Lu Sheng. There were two other people in the house, one with a machete and the other with a steel fork. They attacked Lu Sheng at the same time.
"This aura …" In the blink of an eye, Lu Sheng quickly sensed the repulsive aura emanating from the three of them.
"Outsiders?" He had heard from the elder in Lu Sheng that it was possible to run into outsiders in the Arcane Realm.
Many people in the Arcane Realm were not friendly to them. Most people thought of them as demons from another world.
But this was to be expected. According to the elder, even an official sect like the Thousand Sun Sect would only send people to the Arcane Realm to plunder resources. As for outsiders, they would usually kill or experiment with them. They would never treat them as real people.
Just as he was wondering, Lu Sheng sharply sensed that the three weapons attacking him all had patterns made up of faint white light.
"Bam!!"
After three muffled sounds, Lu Sheng struck with his blade with one hand like lightning. With a horizontal slash, the three people were sent flying and slowly slid down the wall.
Compared to their strength, the bodies of these three fellows were extremely fragile. Lu Sheng was about to go over to check on their injuries and interrogate them at the same time. But he didn't expect them to spit out blood. Their eyes were unfocused, and it looked like they were about to die.
"What a contradictory power. The strength I displayed just now is almost at the Intent Proficiency level among mortals, but the toughness of my physical body is even weaker than that of an average adult mortal. It's no different from a tender child … This world sure is contradictory."
Lu Sheng walked up to check the corpses and came to a conclusion.
"Forget it. I'll finish the mission first. I'll have time to come back to the Arcane Realm later." He checked the corpses, found a few milky white stones, and left the house.
"According to the note, the Bell of Hell is in front of me on the right."
He took out the piece of paper and looked at it again. After confirming the direction, he continued on his way.
There was more information on the note than before.
"To ring the Bell of Hell, I need a Mallet of Necromancy. Three rings will require three Mallets of Necromancy. Mallets of Necromancy usually appear as light blue gemstones."
"Light blue gemstones?" Lu Sheng immediately thought of the statue in the plaza. He went back and dug out the gemstone from the chest of the statue.
This time, it didn't feel like an explosion. The white light on the note suppressed the gemstone's explosion.
Putting the gemstone away, he quickly walked in the direction marked on the note and passed through the plaza.
Soon, at the corner of a street, he saw a statue of a man wearing a hat. There was a blue gemstone embedded in the forehead of the statue, glowing with blue light.
Lu Sheng was about to go forward and dig it out.
"Please wait." Suddenly, a voice came from behind him.
Lu Sheng turned around and saw a man wrapped in a white robe walking toward him. The man only revealed a pair of eyes, and even his nostrils were tightly wrapped.
"You are?" Lu Sheng frowned.
"I'm the inspector. I'm responsible for the inspection and inspection of the test. At the same time, I'm here to protect you from danger, "the man in the white robe said calmly.
"Then, inspector, why did you suddenly stop me? Did you find something wrong?" Lu Sheng was puzzled.
"I personally suggest that you don't choose this gemstone. I know a way. Although it's slightly more difficult, it might be more beneficial to you," the inspector said calmly.
"Thank you for your recommendation, but I prefer to get the benefits in front of me first," Lu Sheng replied calmly.
"Choosing this gemstone might seem easy for now, but you'll find it troublesome in the future. It'll be too late for regrets. Think carefully, "the inspector said softly.
Lu Sheng smiled. "I've thought it through. The location of this gemstone is quite good, and there aren't any troublesome strange powers on it."
The inspector frowned.
This gemstone was prepared for Song Dou, and it was placed here so that Song Dou could use it to pass the test. The messy monsters on the surface had long since been cleaned up.
However, the inspector didn't expect that before Song Dou, who was familiar with the route, arrived, Lu Sheng had already arrived, and so much earlier. Without any other choice, he could only show himself to stop him.
The Song Family had given him plenty of benefits in this test, so he naturally couldn't ignore them.
"This was prepared for someone in the test, right?" Lu Sheng suddenly guessed.
The inspector's heart skipped a beat.
"This is the outside world. You're thinking too much," he said calmly.
"Is that so? It's precisely because this is the outside world that it's easy for you to tamper with it, "Lu Sheng smiled.
"You …" The inspector didn't know what to say.
Suddenly, a series of rustling sounds came from behind him. Soon, a group of black-robed monks appeared behind Lu Sheng. Their eyes were bleeding, and their hands were clasped together.
The monk at the front released his arms, and with a sudden rush, jumped in front of Lu Sheng, and swept his leg towards his neck.
Lu Sheng reached out to grab it, but with a crash, the monk's leg suddenly exploded, turning into a black liquid that passed through his palm and reformed into a leg. It then kicked the side of Lu Sheng's neck.
Bam!
Lu Sheng reached out and pressed down on the monk's leg. A trace of surprise appeared on his face.
Seeing this, the inspector's cold eyes flashed with a trace of mockery.
"This attack is a special technique of the Black Seal Temple. It can't be blocked. Any part of their body can turn into black liquid at will. Most test takers can at most withstand the attacks of three black monks, but there are more than twenty of them here. I suggest you … "
Bam!!
Before the inspector finished speaking, his pupils suddenly contracted.
In that instant, Lu Sheng's hand shot out like lightning, and crushed the head of the black monk in front of him.
A large group of black monks suddenly rushed forward, punching and kicking him viciously. Many of the black monks began to spin and form a formation, quickly moving around Lu Sheng.
With a few swishes, more than ten black monks exploded into black water, and then condensed behind Lu Sheng. Their hands were like blades as they stared behind him.
The rest of the black monks rushed forward in a frenzy, fiercely hugging Lu Sheng, wrapping him up into a giant meatball.
At this moment, the inspector gestured slightly in the direction of the sapphire with his chin. Suddenly, Song Du rushed out from a corner and quickly dug out the sapphire from the statue's forehead. Then, he nodded at the inspector and ran. He quickly disappeared into the alley.
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