Gray world.
Gray sky.
Lu Sheng and Xiao Zizhu's vision blurred at the same time. Their surroundings changed drastically. When they came back to their senses, they were already in a strange, strange world.
Countless gray clouds moved quickly in the sky above them, like a flowing river.
The ground was an endless expanse of gray mud. There was nothing else. There was no sign of human habitation, no trees, no rocks, not even air.
Gray clouds moved silently in the sky. That was the only movement in the world.
"How dare you! Open the Door of Pain! " Xiao Zizhu's expression was twisted. The saber in his hand was sandwiched between Lu Sheng's four arms.
"You forced me to do this. I wanted to come in and see what the legendary World of Pain looks like." Lu Sheng's emotions were calm now. His expression was inexplicably cold.
Xiao Zizhu didn't say anything else. As a high-ranking member of the Devil race and one of the oldest Galactic Nobles, he had come into contact with the World of Pain before, but he had never entered it.
Legend has it that those who went in were either dead or insane after coming out. Even more people disappeared without a trace after entering, completely disappearing.
No matter how high their cultivation level was, no matter how strong they were.
Right now, he regretted coming to cause trouble for Lu Sheng. If His Majesty wanted to reject the mission, there was a way. Unfortunately, it was too late for regrets now.
"Do you still want to fight?" Lu Sheng flung the saber away. He was indeed no match for his opponent. Just by blocking that one strike, about fifty percent of the muscle fibers in his body had been completely severed. It would take at least ten breaths for him to recover.
If he kept fighting, Xiao Zizhu wouldn't let him heal himself so easily.
"Fight my ass!" Exasperated, Xiao Zizhu swung his saber again, accompanied by a large amount of Devil Qi, toward Lu Sheng. But what terrified him was that the moment the black Devil Qi entered the saber, it instantly lost its connection with him, and was completely swallowed by the mysterious power in the surrounding space.
As for the saber, without the Devil Qi, it was no different from a normal saber strike.
"Even my techniques are restricted?" Xiao Zizhu's expression froze. He could clearly feel his core Holy Technique, the Nine Hells Demonic Qi, being instantly consumed.
The key to him becoming a Holy Master and Demon Master was that, many years ago, he had completely fused his divine soul into the Ancient Demon Essence called the Nine Underworlds Demon Essence that he had created. From there, he had obtained the power to completely control this Demon Essence.
The demonic energy of the Netherworld was his unique and unique demonic energy. After it merged with his divine soul, it became even more condensed and powerful, and it had the bloodline power to control gravity. Even Xiao Zizhu's physical body was slowly corroded, turning into a derivative of the demonic Qi. It could be said that he had become the representative of the Netherworld Demon Energy. The Netherworld Demon Energy was him, and he was the Netherworld Demon Energy.
But at this moment, the demonic Qi he released was instantly dissipated.
Xiao Zizhu felt a trace of fear in his heart.
How many years had it been since he felt threatened like this?
He then raised his head to look at the human.
Lu Sheng's body also lit up with specks of gold. Then, the gold was also instantly extinguished by the gray formless things around him.
"Can't I use any supernatural power here?" Lu Sheng retracted his hand and sighed.
"Purely relying on the physical body?" Xiao Zizhu glanced at the bulging muscles on Lu Sheng's body. He had a bad feeling.
His physical body was not bad, but compared to the person in front of him …
"It's said that once you enter the World of Pain, it's extremely difficult to leave. There are very, very few who succeed. Even if they leave, most of them are crazy. Do you know why? " Xiao Zizhu took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart. He decided to stop fighting for now. His advantage had been completely lost here. If he fought again, he might not be able to win. It was better to seek cooperation first, and then fight after leaving.
He was here to kill, not to throw himself into the fray. The World of Pain was mysterious, but it wasn't completely impossible to leave.
Lu Sheng didn't know much about the World of Pain. Hearing this, he raised his eyebrows.
"What are you trying to say? You have a way to leave? " He had used the fragment of the Door of Pain and activated it with the power of both of them. His plan was to throw Xiao Zizhu into the World of Pain, but he didn't expect to be caught up in it.
The key now was not to fight to the death, but how to leave this place.
"Do you know why this place is called the World of Pain?" Xiao Zizhu had lived for so many years, so he knew some inside information.
"Why?"
"Because … if you want to achieve anything here, you must first feel pain before you can see hope and a way out," Xiao Zizhu said in a low voice.
"You think I'll believe you?" Lu Sheng laughed coldly.
"Believe it or not." Xiao Zizhu didn't bother with him. He started looking around. They were all floating in mid-air. Looking down, there was no one around them. It was empty.
"If you want to understand the truth of this place and find a way to leave, you must first feel pain." Xiao Zizhu thought back to something he had read in a book.
He closed his eyes, and the Devil Essence in his body suddenly started churning his organs. It wasn't to the extent of harming them, but to the extent of pulling them out within a safe range.
Waves of pain pierced through his abdomen and spread throughout his body. Strangely, this pain continued to spread up along his blood vessels and nerves. Soon, it reached his brain and burrowed into Xiao Zizhu's eyes.
His eyes suddenly became pitch-black, like two black holes.
A moment later, Xiao Zizhu's body suddenly froze, and then completely disappeared in front of Lu Sheng.
Lu Sheng was carefully exploring his surroundings to see if he could find any clues in his surroundings. Suddenly, Xiao Zizhu disappeared in front of him. He thought back to what Xiao Zizhu had said before.
"First fill myself with pain?" He thought to himself.
He looked around. The gray ground reflected the shadows of the fast-moving clouds in the sky above him.
"Let's try." Lu Sheng reached out his hand. His palm became a knife, and he slashed across his chest.
"Whoosh!"
A faint white mark appeared on his scales.
"Even I can't break through my own shell …" He frowned, then stabbed his chest again.
A sharp pain surged into his brain. Lu Sheng tried his best to soften and relax the skin, muscles, and bones in that area. But his terrifying self-healing ability allowed him to finish healing in a few breaths.
'Having too strong a self-healing ability is also a problem …' Hovering in midair, Lu Sheng frowned. After some thought, he slowly took out a small bag wrapped in cloth from the backpack on his back. He shook the black bag, and a round, faintly golden, amber-like sphere rolled out from within.
This was the golden feather he had wrapped with Yang essence. The Eight-Headed Golden Flame feather.
Yang Essence had an extremely strong insulating effect. Moreover, the feather itself had a trace of scorching nature, which was of the same origin as the Eight-Headed Golden Flame. Under Lu Sheng's continuous replenishment of Yang Essence, the feather did not burn through the cloth.
Gently releasing the Yang essence, Lu Sheng reached out and pinched the Eight-Headed Golden Flame feather.
"Hiss …"
A clear, burning pain surged from his palm to his heart.
Lu Sheng frowned slightly. He held the feather without moving. Time passed slowly. He immediately felt something unusual in front of him.
Giant rays with long tails gradually appeared in the originally empty gray sky.
These gray skates flapped their wings and swam slowly in the sky. Their bodies were semi-transparent, and their images would fluctuate and distort according to the degree of pain Lu Sheng felt.
"Hiss …!"
One of the gray rays was dozens of meters long. It swam past Lu Sheng and let out a cry that sounded like it was sobbing.
Lu Sheng glanced at the ray and found that its abdomen was bleeding. The blood dripped down and landed on the ground. It was instantly absorbed by the gray soil and disappeared.
Xiao Zizhu was in the air not far ahead. His face was pale, and he was on the verge of collapsing. He was slowly flying toward the ground.
Lu Sheng looked in the direction he was flying, and was shocked.
There was a sizable town on the ground. There was clearly nothing there just now.
Under the moving clouds in the sky, the grayish-white town constantly flashed by. There was no one inside, and it was dead silent.
Lu Sheng's heart skipped a beat. He endured the pain and followed Xiao Zizhu.
Since they were already in the World of Pain, it seemed like Xiao Zizhu knew something. Perhaps he could find a safer way to leave by following him.
Of course, he had made some preparations beforehand. But unless he had no other choice, Lu Sheng didn't want to use his methods rashly.
He followed closely behind Xiao Zizhu and flew toward the town. After about ten breaths, the two of them landed in front of the town gate.
As soon as Xiao Zizhu landed, he carefully observed his surroundings and walked into the town. Soon, he disappeared into a house on the right.
Lu Sheng thought about it and didn't follow too closely. He and Xiao Zizhu were still enemies. If Xiao Zizhu found out that he was following him, he might be tricked.
He waited outside for a while, but Xiao Zizhu didn't come out. After some hesitation, he followed him into the house.
The grey residence was built with square stones that were more than a meter long, and it was surrounded by a grey iron fence, forming a small courtyard inside.
Lu Sheng gave the metal door a light push. Instantly, the door opened with a faint creak.
Behind the iron gate was a large and messy garden. The black branches and leaves had withered into clusters of black things that looked like bushes. It looked extremely ominous, and there seemed to be something uncomfortable hidden in the bushes.
Lu Sheng glanced at the bushes, then looked at the half-open door of the house.
The entire house was a four-story square building that looked like a school building. Pieces of gray stones, like a jigsaw puzzle, formed the entire building.
This made Lu Sheng feel like he was back in his student days on Earth. Back then, his high school building was similar to this building.
Looking up from the ground floor, he could see that the doors on each floor were all neatly closed. Some of the doors were hidden in the shadows of the house, while others were clearly visible.
The sides of the grayish-white four-story building were covered with withered black vines. These vines were like a spider's web, and covered the entire right wall of the building.
Lu Sheng lowered his head and looked at the shard of glass in his left hand.
This was the Gate of Pain's medium, the Glaze Mirror's shard, that he obtained after dealing with the Fei Family's Gate of Pain incident.
At first, he only collected these mirror shards out of curiosity. Later on, he found similar information in the books of the Thousand Sun Sect. How to enter the Gate of Pain, how to activate and open the entrance to the World of Pain, he found the steps to enter from the descriptions in all kinds of books.
This was forbidden knowledge. The World of Pain was a taboo topic for both the Great Yin and the Devil World.
Lu Sheng had come into contact with the Gate of Pain many times, and knew how dangerous it was. He wanted to destroy it many times, but never did. He didn't expect this shard to come in handy now.
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