"I'll have to find a chance to test it out." Lu Sheng put away the golden feather. His power had obviously increased this time, but he wasn't sure by how much.
He stood up and looked at his clothes. They were all torn and tattered, and he laughed. He walked to the door and knocked on the secret compartment.
"Someone, bring me a robe."
"Yes!"
Soon, a disciple brought a long white robe with golden edges. Lu Sheng put it on and opened the stone door.
There was only that female disciple standing guard outside the door. At a glance, the main road of the Holy Zhi Palace was empty and quiet. It was obvious that most people had gone to the frontlines to fend off the Demonic Disaster.
"Greetings, Sect Master." The female disciple bowed respectfully.
"Where are the others?" Lu Sheng asked casually.
"Back to the sect. Most of the people have gone to clean up the remaining Devils in the surrounding towns. The Devil Army suddenly retreated and held their ground, neither advancing nor retreating. I don't know what they're planning, "the female disciple answered honestly.
Lu Sheng nodded and told her to prepare some food. He ate heartily in the secret room. The Thousand Sun Sect was indeed the wealthiest among the three sects. They ate all kinds of nutritious food without restraint. Lu Sheng estimated that he ate at least dozens of Devil Gold's worth of precious ingredients, replenishing all the energy he had expended during the transformation. Only then did he slowly stop.
After asking the female disciple to clean up, Lu Sheng closed the stone door and sat back down in the middle of the secret room. He opened his palm, revealing the eye-catching "Evil" character.
Disguised as golden Yang Essence, he imitated the Thousand Sun Sect's golden True Qi and slowly injected it into the character.
"Hiss!"
In an instant, the surroundings of the secret room turned gray with the character as the center. All the colors faded away, and even the walls were like pieces of paper that had been set on fire. They quickly burned and shattered, turning into black ash and disappearing.
When Lu Sheng came back to his senses, he suddenly realized that he was sitting at the edge of a black pool.
The surroundings were all thick and dilapidated deep palaces. The pool was similar to the one used by the royal family for bathing. In the rectangular pool, black water was tumbling. From time to time, some corpses and hair could be seen floating in the water, faintly discernible.
Standing up, Lu Sheng surveyed his surroundings. There was a familiar, unknown energy flowing in the air. He knew that he had indeed entered the World of Pain.
"Where is this place?" Lu Sheng frowned slightly. He stood up and looked around. He was surrounded by dark stone pillars of the palace.
There was a faint sense of danger in the air. It was obvious that this was not a good place.
"It's best if I leave first." He cautiously walked along the pool, and soon, he was far away from the black pool and out of the palace.
The moment he left the door, Lu Sheng skillfully manipulated the Yang energy in his body to pull at his internal organs to create pain.
His vision suddenly blurred, as if a layer of window paper had been torn off, and everything seemed to become much clearer.
He looked back into the palace. In the black pool, there was a figure with long black hair. He couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman. It slowly stood up from the pool, and seemed to be looking at him.
His heart skipping a beat, Lu Sheng quickly left the palace. Outside the palace was the main street of the small town. He followed the street, and soon found the four-story building that looked like a school building.
The small building was still silent. The door was wide open, swaying as the wind blew, making creaking sounds.
Lu Sheng paused, and quickly walked to the metal door. Suddenly, his vision blurred, and Xiao Zizhu's figure suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Let's go. We've been waiting for you for a while. For this sacrifice, you and the new members need to make a promise. "Xiao Zizhu's body was obviously hiding the Shizi Star, and his voice was still that of a hoarse woman.
"Promise?" Lu Sheng squinted.
"Go in. You'll know soon." Xiao Zizhu smiled, but the skin on his face was a bit stiff, and he looked a bit mysterious.
He turned and walked slowly toward the building, and Lu Sheng followed closely.
The two of them walked up the stone stairs on the first floor of the building at a steady pace, and walked to the second floor. Shizi Star stopped in front of the third room on the second floor, and gently pushed the door open.
"Creak."
The door slowly opened, revealing a spacious room.
It was a spacious hall with many chairs. Countless black chairs formed a ring, surrounding a small podium in the center.
There were a dozen or so people sitting on the chairs, all wearing black robes and of different shapes.
But as soon as Lu Sheng entered, his attention was not on the people sitting on the chairs, but on the small podium in the center.
The grayish-white podium was circular, and a thin man wearing a goat mask was standing on it. The man was holding an iron rod, and he was slowly piercing a naked blonde woman from her mouth to her lower body, until she was nailed to the ground and became a human stake. Only then did the goat mask slowly retreat.
"This is what happens to those who betray us. Do you see this, everyone? " Everyone. "The man in the goat mask had a smile on his face as he opened his arms and said loudly.
"Traitors do not need salvation. The world will blind their vision, and pain will make them lose the courage to live," a stooped old man with a blue pendant on his chest said slowly.
"Elder Wei is right. Traitors should live a life worse than death! "
"We should cut off her head, throw her body into the filthy swamp, and reincarnate as an idiot for all eternity!"
"Throw her soul into the gray fire, burn her to death! Burn her to death! "
The people sitting on the podium all spoke up, shouting crazily.
Xiao Zizhu slowly walked in with Lu Sheng, and the man in the goat mask also saw him. He suddenly pointed at Xiao Zizhu.
"Just in time, another newcomer arrived today. The newcomer from before was disobedient, and was captured by Master Shizi Star as a vessel. Today, he brought another newcomer that I don't know. Including the two from before, there are three! I wonder if they can pass through the gaze of The Mother Of Pain? "
"That's enough, Sifu. My time is limited, and I need to start the ritual immediately!" Xiao Zizhu, aka Shizi Star, interrupted the man in the goat mask without hesitation.
"Alright, then, which Evil Art Master will be hosting today?" The man in the goat mask raised his hand.
"I'll do it." The old man with the blue pendant on his chest slowly stood up, walked down, and stood on the round podium.
"The three newcomers, please come up." He raised his hand, and waved lightly.
Lu Sheng instantly felt clouds of gray air appear around his body, wrapping around him, and quickly pulling him down.
He didn't resist, and followed the gray air down to the podium.
There were two other people like him, a man and a woman. The man wore a tiger mask, and the woman, like Lu Sheng, had her face uncovered. She looked cold, but her features were pretty.
The three of them walked up to the podium, and each took a side, keeping a safe distance.
"To the great The Mother Of Pain, I offer the Praise of Life." Seeing that the three of them were on the podium, the old man immediately raised his hands, and stretched them high.
"The earth mourns, the sky mourns, the sea no longer surges, like a dead river, the four seasons no longer flow, like a lake of destruction, the wings of the birds turn into wishes and wills, hope leaping from meditation, courage, pain, sorrow, pity …"
While the old man was chanting the inexplicable hymn, the man in the goat mask slowly pointed at Lu Sheng and the other two.
A short piece of information instantly drilled into Lu Sheng's mind. His heart skipped a beat, and he closed his eyes to carefully digest the information.
"Eltina, a small outside world ruled by the Mother Of The Tree Demons. About 560,000 Forest Tree Demons live there.
Because of light, hope, and peace, they live in a deformed world without pain. They forget the sins of their birth, and only know how to greedily enjoy everything that nature and the world give them. They don't know how to give back.
"Some of the Tree Demon believers who yearn for the Mother Of Pain decided to give everything they have to atone for their sins after a sudden epiphany.
"Under the leadership of a Believer of Pain, they used blood sacrifices and chanted an ancient covenant to ask for help from the Black Society.
"What you need to do is fulfill their wish. Destroy the 560,000 parasites of nature in Eltina. Return the world to the right track. At the same time, recover the successful materials from the Lower Realm. "
After reading the information, Lu Sheng had a rough idea of what his mission was …
He raised his head to look at the other two. The woman with a cold and delicate face did not look good. Even in the colorless gray World of Pain, he could see the struggle in her heart.
"Now, let's begin." The old man finally finished chanting. He pointed at the female corpse in the middle of the three.
The entire female corpse, along with the metal rod, quickly melted, turning into a pool of greyish-black sticky mud that gave off a fishy smell.
"Jump in," the old man said in a low voice.
The man in the tiger mask was the first to jump into the mud without hesitation.
"Splat."
The man dived straight in, as if there was a bottomless quagmire beneath the mud. He easily sank into it.
The woman was the second to jump into the mud.
Lu Sheng took a deep breath. He immediately felt everyone's eyes on him. He jumped as well.
"Splat."
His vision instantly turned gray. His body fell straight down, as if he had fallen into an empty hole.
After falling for an unknown amount of time, the gray in front of him gradually faded. What replaced it was a faint yellow light.
Lu Sheng blinked, and found himself standing alone on a three-story-tall greyish-white altar. There were many twisted human heads at the edge of the altar, both men and women.
The altar was located in an underground cave. Torches were lit everywhere in the pitch-black cave. The faint yellow light came from these torches.
"Emissary! Emissary!! " Dozens of men and women in dark green vine armor knelt in front of the altar, praying loudly to him.
"Destroy all living beings in this city? And recover materials. "Lu Sheng recalled his mission. Although he had broken through with the Yin Fire, he was not confident that he could turn against Shizi Xing.
Shizi Xing had easily killed Xiao Zizhu and taken over his territory. She was obviously very powerful. Before he understood the power system in the World of Pain, Lu Sheng did not plan to turn against her completely. After all, even if he was stronger now, he did not think he was stronger than Xiao Zizhu.
Since he did not want to turn against her, he could only complete the mission …
Lu Sheng looked at the dozens of Tree Demon disciples in front of him. These people had already lost all their energy. They would not survive.
"Accept your eternal salvation!!"
Suddenly, the entire cavern shook, and a furious roar came down from the surface.
Shockingly, this language could be understood through the vibration of one's Divine Soul. There was no need for words at all.
"Boom!!"
A thick, emerald green trident pierced through the top of the cave and rushed down towards the altar.
The trident was five or six meters wide, and behind it was a huge white centaur wearing a white crown.
The centaur looked old, with a thin white beard on his chin. His eyes were bloodshot, and his muscles were as hard and strong as steel.
He swung the trident, smashing through all the rocks and stalagmites around him, and roared as he charged towards the altar.
"A Divine Weapon?!!" Lu Sheng was about to stop him, but he suddenly realized that the trident in the centaur's hand was also emitting a strong Divine Weapon energy.
"Stop, Verdant King!" One of the Believers of Pain stood up. It was a bald, muscular man, and he was holding a petite girl in his hand.
"The next Tree Demon Princess is in my hands. If you don't want her to die …"
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