As soon as Lola opened her flower umbrella.
Gu Qing Shan, Boss, Jang Young-ho, and Ye Fei Li all grabbed the umbrella's handle in unison.
The five of them disappeared at the same time.
The king opened his arms wide, shouting at the grey maw: "Come, serve me — –"
Before he could finish, he was hit by something.
He also disappeared.
A second later.
Dozens of long tongues turned into blurred images as they descended from above.
Boom!
The hovering stone slab gave off a mass of light to protect itself.
But the light couldn't stop the long tongues and was quickly destroyed.
The entire stone slab also broke apart, falling into the endless darkness below.
The darkness was boundless and heavy, as the sound of the stone slab breaking slowly faded away, it swallowed everything else.
Silence.
Other than the corpse pillars that were still wide open, there was nothing else around.
The corpses all had their heads lowered, motionless.
They weren't screaming like before at all.
Swish swish swish.
The sound of something crawling could be heard.
One tongue,
Two tongues,
Countless tongues descended from above, spreading out like tentacles, searching for the source of the power from before.
Thousands of tongues licked at every corpse pillar, not leaving a single inch untouched.
After searching for the corpse pillar, the long tongue spread out in the dark void like a tentacle, trying to touch something.
But nothing.
After a long while, the thousands of tongues finally retracted back into the grey maw.
The sound of swish swish swish came again.
The maw returned to the darkness, slowly going away together with the sound.
The forest of corpse pillars returned to silence.
Time passed.
On the cliff leading to the forest of corpse pillars, a few figures suddenly appeared.
The king swayed and fell to the ground. His face looked pale and twisted. Large beads of sweat hung from his forehead and slid down his cheeks.
Jang Young-ho asked: "Why do you look so pale?"
The king spoke in despair: "It's over, it's all over, the only chance to enter this place has been wasted"
"I don't think so. This is just the beginning." Lola couldn't help but say.
The king replied: 「 You don't know, but that stone slab is the only beacon in this place. Without it, we wouldn't know where to go 」
"We can go back and discuss what we should do," Ye Fei Li said.
"Turn around and take a look" the king said.
Everyone turned around to look at where they came from.
The secret passage had disappeared, and there was only empty darkness left in his line of sight.
The cliff they were on was suspended in mid-air. There was nothing in front of them, behind them, left and right, so there was no secret passage.
"We can't go back?" Gu Qing Shan asked.
The king sighed, "Yes, once you enter, you only have one chance, and there's no turning back. Only by reaching the deepest part of the ruins can you teleport back."
Everyone was silent.
They couldn't go back.
He had lost his way again.
What should I do now?
Gu Qing Shan stood at the edge of the cliff, feeling the frigid wind in the void, she suddenly asked, "What do you think about that monster just now?"
"It was extremely powerful, even stronger than the monsters in the Strife Zones" Jang Young-ho commented.
Lola replied: "This monster isn't recorded in the 900 million World Layers' Bestiary, so I'm guessing that it doesn't belong to the scope of our knowledge"
"That's true" Boss followed up, "I've never seen such a thing before either. It's not a monster from the 900 million World Layers or the Abyss, nor does it belong to the Inner Plane or the Space-Time Mystery Nest. It's most likely a monster from the faraway space vortex, because the Divinities didn't manage to clear that place"
Everyone turned to look at him.
Gu Qing Shan continued: "I heard that for the sake of a place like Calming Soul Country, the Divinities fought against various monsters within the space vortex and cleared out a large part of it"
"That's right, the Divinities also set up many concealment and protective measures within this space vortex — — this was the reason why the 900 million World Layers was able to survive for the last 100 million years" Boss added.
He walked to the edge of the cliff and looked at the void of darkness in front of them together with Gu Qing Shan.
"This place is actually a Dead Abyss" he said.
"What's a Dead Abyss?"
"After the destruction of the Inner Plane, the Divinities created various shelters within the space vortex, such as Calming Soul Country"
"After that, the Divinities fought against the monsters within the space vortex and gradually suffered irrecoverable wounds"
"The Divinities discovered the Eternal property of the Abyss and wanted to use the power of the Abyss to make themselves eternal"
"The seven Divinities worked together to separate a few places from the Eternal Abyss, allowing the Divinities to study the power of the Abyss"
"After countless years, the Divinities still died in the end, unable to protect this place — — - and since this place wasn't part of the Abyss, the Abyss naturally wouldn't protect it, so the monsters from the faraway space vortex gradually found their way here and took over this place"
Everyone's hearts were shaken as they listened, as if they were listening to an epic story from countless years ago.
Boss's tone became heavier: "This place is far more dangerous than you can imagine, with just the few of us, we might not be able to make it to the end"
Ye Fei Li looked outside the cliff and said: "But we have no way out"
"That's right, we've already reached this place, there's no way to return to Calming Soul Country" Jang Young-ho replied.
"Wait a minute, let me take a look" Lola said.
She searched through her backpack and finally took out a compass.
Lola looked at the needle and direction on the compass and sighed: "If that's the case, then we've reached an incredibly faraway place, no warp technique would be able to send us back through such a distance"
Gu Qing Shan said: "Then let's go to the end of this ruin, there should be a way for the God of Life to leave this place"
The king waved his hand dismissively: 「 Do you still not understand? The stone tablet that could indicate our direction has already been destroyed, we can't find the way forward 」
"The way forward …"
Gu Qing Shan pondered, then patted Jang Young-ho's shoulder: "It's up to you"
Jang Young-ho drew a Card and lightly tossed it forward.
The Card fell to the ground and turned into a deep black hole.
"Meow?"
The soft meow of a cat resounded.
The Black Cat leapt out and landed on Jang Young-ho's shoulder.
"Little sweetie, what do you want to eat today?"
Gu Qing Shan rubbed her hands together and smiled flatteringly.
The Black Cat licked her paw and said: "Meow meow meow meow meow!"
"It said it's hungry, anything is fine, but it has to be delicious" Jang Young-ho translated.
Gu Qing Shan thought for a bit, then asked everyone: "Are you hungry?"
"It's almost time for lunch" Ye Fei Li replied.
Boss raised his hand: "Ah, since we're talking about food, I want to eat that egg fried rice from last time"
"I want noodles" Lola said.
"I'll have a steak, and a bottle of liquor" Jang Young-ho said.
Gu Qing Shan looked at the king.
The king took a step back, looked at this group of people in disbelief, then at the terrifying pillars of corpses in the void of space.
Although the corpses were motionless, if you looked at them for a while, you'd notice the eerie smiles on their faces.
And in the darkness above the pillars of corpses, there was an incredibly powerful and terrifying monster.
— — -and you still want to eat in this situation?
The king couldn't help but point at the numerous corpses and said: "And now you're planning to cook? Don't you want to take a look at the situation over there? "
Gu Qing Shan glanced at it and said without a care: "Don't be afraid, if these corpses can still move, that's fine, they're all under my control"
"… I don't have the appetite to eat" the king could only say that.
Gu Qing Shan then ignored him.
Gu Qing Shan turned around and told the others: "Steak is fine, egg fried rice is fine as well, Lola — — - noodles are no good, order something else, and Ye Fei Li, what do you want to eat?"
"Noodles are no good? Then I want to eat the cake you bake "
"I want ramen — — wait a minute, why aren't you making noodles anymore? Fine, I'll have a small mushroom and minced meat rice, then an ice cream and a cup of pear sugar tea "
"Ah, Ye Fei Li is so sly, I also want ice cream" Lola said.
"Ice cream? That's good stuff, I want it too "Boss joined in.
Gu Qing Shan took out an apron and nodded: "Alright, I'll make it now"
In this land of Death Abyss far away from the 900 million World Layers, inside the God of Life's ruin, in front of countless pillars of corpses, everyone enjoyed a warm meal.
Gu Qing Shan made an extra portion of each type of food for Black Cat to eat.
After the meal.
Everyone was very satisfied.
Black Cat was also very satisfied.
Meow meow, meow meow meow!
"It said it's delicious, tell me if you need anything" Jang Young-ho translated as he held a glass of liquor in his hand.
"We're lost here, please lead us to the deepest part of this place" Gu Qing Shan said.
Meow meow!
"It said it's fine"
"That's good, Lola, open the umbrella, Ying Hao, have Black Cat sit on it, Fei Li pay attention to our surroundings, we'll move forward like this"
"Got it!" everyone replied.
Gu Qing Shan clapped her hands and spoke to the void of space: "You stand guard at the front, contact me immediately if anything happens"
Xiu ~
A reply came from the void of space, startling the king.
He didn't have time to think about what it was, because everyone was about to move.
Everyone stood around Lola. Gu Qing Shan looked around and declared:
"Let's go!"
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