purgatory artist

Chapter 26
Liu Ping walked out of the secret room and came to the cliff again.

"Ah... just leave like this? I always feel that something is missing..."

He was talking to himself without frowning.

This is already the 39th floor underground, only a few tens of feet away from the bottom of the cliff.

——The No.40 floor is not far away.

This cliff is a trap.

So--

Has it killed anyone over the years?How many people have you killed?

the most important is--

Have any treasures been collected over the years?
Liu Ping couldn't help rubbing his hands.

The master is no longer there, if there are treasures collected, they should be taken by themselves, this is a matter of course.

Thinking of this, he stretched out his hand and shook it out.

boom--

Countless spiritual stones filled the cliff, extending upwards along the two walls.

Liu Ping walked into the spirit stone, and his whole body sank slowly.

For a moment.

He reached the bottom of the cliff, found the center of the trap behind a hidden rock, and stopped it with a special hand formula.

There was a long humming sound.

All the strangulation circles densely covered in the entire cliff stopped operating.

Liu Ping collected all the spirit stones, and the bottom of the cliff immediately revealed its original appearance.

No one has maintained it for many years, and it is full of weeds, and occasionally you can see some bones buried in the grass.

After searching back and forth, Liu Ping finally found a storage bag.

He pressed one hand on the storage bag with great interest, and kept changing his hand formula with the other hand.

After changing the hand formula dozens of times, the storage bag finally opened with a "snap".

"let me see--"

"A Jade Slip of a Note, oh, it turned out that I got information about this cliff, and knew that it can lead directly to the [-]th floor underground, so I came to find out."

"The seven practice formulas are all the most boring formulas, boring."

"The alchemy stove... is so inferior, it's too easy to fry, and I don't even bother to take it."

"Five thousand spiritual stones, you came out for an outing? With so few spiritual stones? Is this all?"

Liu Ping casually threw the alchemy furnace on the ground, only took away the spirit stone and the Taoist formula, and his interest faded.

He was a little disappointed, and searched the grass again unwillingly, and finally found something wrong.

There are too many bone residues.

That is to say-

Many people died.

But there is only one storage bag.

"What, after so many years, only one unlucky ghost brought money? What do other people think, come to such a dangerous place, and don't bring all the fighting things?"

Liu Ping murmured, his expression gradually becoming serious.

He walked around the bottom of the cliff with strange rocks, and finally found the photo array.

Six spirit stones are required to activate the photo array.

Five thousand minus six equals four thousand nine hundred and ninety-four——

Today, I obviously harvested 94 spirit stones, but in the end I had to spend another six, and in the end I only got [-].

And this matter cannot be reimbursed by the Demon King. After all, it has nothing to do with others, and he has to come down to check the situation.

good, very good.

Enduring the pain in his flesh, Liu Ping put the six spirit stones into the grooves of the magic circle, and then gently squeezed a formula.

The magic circle gradually lit up, exuding aura of aura, condensing into a picture of the past.

I saw a practitioner wearing combat armor appearing on the edge of the cliff.

Holding a jade slip in his hand, he looked at the cliff, nodded and said, "I finally found the way to the lower floor, and I can find out."

The cultivator took the jade slips, held the weapon in hand, and carefully jumped out of the cliff——

Thousands of spiritual lights condensed into threads and twisted around him.

The cultivator immediately turned into a pile of bones and slowly flew down the cliff.

His carry-on bag also fell to the bottom of the cliff.

Liu Ping looked at the storage bag in his hand, and found that it was the one dropped by this person.

That's right.

But there's still so much bone scum...

Whose is it?

Liu Ping squeezed the formula to speed up the display of the photo array.

I saw the light and shadow changing rapidly, and after a few days, there was movement on the cliff again.

A cultivator held a jade slip in his hand, looked at the cliff, nodded and said: "Finally I found the way to the lower level, I can find out."

The cultivator took the jade slips, held the shield in his hand, and carefully jumped out of the cliff——

He was directly obliterated by the trap, turning into a handful of bones and falling down.

A few more days.

A cultivator held a jade slip in his hand, looked at the cliff, nodded and said: "Finally I found the way to the lower level, I can find out."

The cultivator took the jade slips, held the formation disk in his hand, and carefully jumped out of the cliff——

He was directly obliterated by the trap, turning into a handful of bones and falling down.

This situation continued for six or seven times, and finally there was a change.

The eighth time.

Holding a jade slip in his hand, a cultivator looked at the cliff, nodded and said: "This is a trap that I can't go down, it seems that I have to go another way."

he's gone.

Gradually, the scene behind quickly passed by, but no one came to this cliff again.

Liu Ping put away the spirit stone on the magic circle, and stood there for a while.

If people often come to the cliff to investigate the situation, and are killed by traps because of it——

This is actually quite normal.

But what is abnormal is that it is the same person who comes to the cliff to investigate the situation every time.

That practitioner.

No matter how many times he was killed, even if he was turned into bones, he could still come back alive and come to investigate the situation.

He didn't change his course until there was really no other way.

"...They are just being controlled, playing their roles in one world deduction after another—it's like a play."

The little girl's words echoed in his ears again, making Liu Ping feel chills in his heart.

The jade slip guides practitioners to explore the cliff.

Similarly, countless practitioners are doing something according to their roles.

Is this part of the game?

"No...I have to go to the other floors to see where the practitioner ended up going."

he murmured.

Two lines of small characters suddenly appeared in front of my eyes:
"Notice."

"It's getting dark, you have to set off immediately to return to the world of the living."

Liu Ping sighed.

He activated all the traps, and at the same time waved his hand——

Immediately, infinite spirit stones filled the entire cliff.

In the midst of being filled with countless spiritual stones, lines of small characters still popped up in front of Liu Ping's eyes:

"You keep placing spirit stones under your feet."

"You keep collecting spirit stones around your body and above your head."

"You're moving straight up."

……

dusk.

The setting sun has slanted, revealing a touch of blood on the distant horizon.

A long bell rang in the town.

Old K stopped in his tracks and said, "You came back just in time. The first time the bell rang, I have to meet everyone at the gate of the town, but before that—I'll take you to the safe house first."

Liu Ping followed him and asked, "I really don't need to watch the night?"

"You need to learn more, and the boss will let you watch the night with us only after the boss thinks you have the minimum self-protection ability." Old K said.

The two came to a stable.

Old K pressed a piece of wood, and a narrow entrance opened under the stable.

"The sealing array on the magic side has been opened, and there is water and food inside. You should rest in it and wait until dawn." Old K said.

"Yes." Liu Ping said.

He poked his feet down.

"Wait a minute." Old K said.

Liu Ping turned around.

Old K took out a pistol from behind and said, "Take this, use it to protect yourself in case something happens."

"Since we have already reached the safe house, why do we still need to protect ourselves?" Liu Ping took the gun and asked.

"Just in case, besides, you will need weapons in the future." Old K smiled.

"What if I have to get out of the safe house?"

"The source of power for this magic house comes from the magic fire in the fireplace, which will automatically go out tomorrow morning. In addition, as long as you extinguish the magic fire, the way out will be opened."

He nodded at Liu Ping, turned and left.

Holding a pistol, Liu Ping stood on the downward steps for a while, then walked down slowly.

Stone steps appeared out of thin air, supporting his feet, while the ground closed above his head and behind him, without any trace of opening.

After walking for nearly ten breaths, it suddenly became clear below, but it was a room covered with animal skins on the floor.

The room is not big, there are seven or eight water glasses on the table, and white rectangular bars are neatly stacked on the corner of the wall.

In the fireplace, a flame was burning brightly.

Liu Ping picked up the water glass, and a line of small characters suddenly appeared in the void:
"Magic water cup, water storage capacity: [-] cubic meters."

Because of the knowledge of the night watchman, Liu Ping already has an understanding of the basic unit of "cubic meter".

He walked to the corner and picked up a white rectangular bar casually.

Two lines of small characters floated in the void:

"Individual combat rations, Terran."

"One ration can supplement the food consumption of an ordinary person for five days."

——Isn’t this Bigu Pill?

Why is it so long and inconvenient to make Bigu Dan?

Liu Ping looked puzzled, and put the white rectangle back, walked to the fireplace and sat on the floor.

(End of this chapter)