purgatory artist

Chapter 436 The Unfinished Secret of the Past Life
The finger burrowed into the clouds and quickly disappeared.

after awhile.

Liu Ping slowly got up from the ground, and said with a long breath, "What is that?"

The voice of the Scarlet Skull sounded in his heart:

"There is no need to explore that thing. It is an extremely ominous existence. Even if you just think about it with your thoughts, your spirit may be polluted."

Liu Ping raised his hand and looked at it.

All he saw were long, dark red bony fingers, without any flesh, hair, or skin.

"Thank you just now, but what exactly is Your Excellency?"

Liu Ping asked.

"I am a Nightmare Embrace, the unique armor of the human race." The Scarlet Skeleton said.

"Are you a battle armor?" Liu Ping said.

"Of course, doesn't it look like it?"

As the bloody skull spoke, it was stripped from Liu Ping's body and turned into a red skull again, swinging its pelvis back and forth, showing its own figure in front of Liu Ping.

"So, your defense must be very strong." Liu Ping said.

"Haha, I'm so sorry. In fact, my ability is not in defense, but in other more magical places."

"May I ask, what kind of ability is it?"

"Hey, watch it, I will only perform once, and you are not allowed to pass it on."

"Don't worry, my mouth is very strict."

"That's good."

The Scarlet Skull took out a cigarette casually, lit it, and took a deep breath.

call--

It makes the appearance of exhaling smoke.

Smoke escaped from the skeleton of its chest cavity, turning into a huge smoke ring.

"Ultra-secret chest smoke method - human beings cannot master it, because you have flesh and blood."

"But this is the only ability you have? Don't you have any other practical abilities?" Liu Ping said.

"Of course there is."

After the Scarlet Skull finished speaking, his figure suddenly collapsed.

I saw it turned into large and small spines, ribs, pelvis, skull, leg bones, and toe bones, all falling to the ground and scattered all over the place.

"How about I break up into many parts?"

The Scarlet Skull said as if showing off.

"...It's amazing." Liu Ping said.

Being able to come up with such a stupid method of exhaling smoke and dismantling bones, and even helping myself just now, shouldn't be a bad person——

Compliment it that it doesn't lose meat, and make it happy.

"Haha, isn't it?" The Scarlet Skull was very happy when he heard it, and he assembled it into a complete skeleton in an instant, patted Liu Ping on the shoulder and said:
"Everyone used to call me 'Hong Ye', but there are fewer and fewer human beings who can come, and there are fewer and fewer times when I can come in handy—since I came to this barren land where birds don't shit and chickens don't lay eggs After going out in the field, I have already prepared to remain anonymous, just call me Ah Hong."

"Why did you come here?" Liu Ping asked.

"Wait for you." Bloody Skull Ah Hong said.

"Me?" Liu Ping wondered.

"Back then you promised to take me to see the world beyond the nightmare layer, and I am willing to go," Bloody Skull took out a black scale and said, "It's a pity that you discovered a certain secret, and that secret made you fall into an inescapable situation. In a desperate situation, you had to reincarnate in the end, saying that you wanted to find a way to safely explore the secrets, and then come to find out."

Liu Ping took the scale and took a look, only to see that there was indeed a paragraph of words written on it, which was exactly the same as what the blood skeleton A Hong said.

The scales trembled slightly on his hands, undulating with his breathing, like a part of his body.

That's right.

These are the scales of that battle armor.

It seems that I have really been here before.

As for the method of safe exploration of secrets——

In this life, I already have the prison-suppressing knife, and I can hear all the secrets.

But how many lives have passed in between?

Could it be that the skeleton has been waiting here?
"How long have you been waiting here?" Liu Ping asked.

"Probably two epochs, it's okay anyway, I'll just wait." Ah Hong said.

"So honest?" Liu Ping said.

"That's right, I'm a credible skeleton, and I have never sought death," Ahong said.

"Seeking death?"

"It's boring after all—by the way, have you found a way to safely explore the secret?"

"Found it." Liu Ping nodded.

Bloody Skull Ah Hong said happily: "I will take you to the place where you died in the previous life. The secrets of that place are very valuable, and I have been curious about it for a long time."

Liu Ping was slightly taken aback.

——Go to the place where you died in your previous life?
It sounds weird, but I really want to find out.

"Then let's go." Liu Ping said.

"Follow me, if you take one wrong step, you will be doomed." Bloody Skeleton Ah Hong warned.

"Understood." Liu Ping said.

"You really understand?" Ah Hong sneered.

"Please tell me if there is anything wrong." Liu Ping said.

"I see that your soul has been reincarnated countless times, and only the last trace of soul is not polluted. If you die this time, you will have no chance again." Bloody Skeleton Ah Hong said.

Liu Ping was silent for a while.

This passage... is somewhat familiar...

When I unsealed my memory back then, a voice said almost the same words in my ear.

It was a female voice.

She said she was buried in the deepest part of Eternal Night, or the highest point of Purgatory.

She let herself go to her!
Liu Ping sighed secretly, and said to himself that this time when he went back from history, he must first find the owner of that voice.

"Thank you for your warning, I will definitely follow you carefully." Liu Ping said with a serious expression while cupping his fists at the blood skeleton Ah Hong.

"Very good, I see that you are finally serious." Blood Skull said with satisfaction.

"Yes, I will be extremely careful!" Liu Ping said.

"Then let's go."

Bloody Skeleton Ah Hong took a few steps forward.

Liu Ping followed it cautiously.

The Blood Skull took another step and stood in front of the "giant tree" made of human bodies.

It wiped the cold sweat that didn't exist on its forehead, and said with a sigh of relief:
"We have arrived."

"...That's it?" Liu Ping said, wiping the cold sweat on his forehead.

Bloody Skull glared at him and said, "You think it's easy? I took seven steps in total, and I hit the ground with my toe bones for a total of 670 times in each step, and finally matched the secret room here. We will be able to enter the hidden place in it in a moment-"

Rumble boom!

There was a trembling sound from the "giant tree".

Among the many corpses, a corpse moved a few times and broke away from the pile of corpses.

It looked human, but it had tusks, empty eyes, and gray barbs all over its body.

The corpse looked at the bloody skeleton and then at Liu Ping.

"Why is it you again?" The corpse stared at Liu Ping and asked.

"Last time, he couldn't bear the secret, so he was reincarnated." Bloody Skeleton Ah Hong said.

"He only has the last trace of unpolluted soul left, are you sure you want to come in and have a try?" asked the corpse.

The Scarlet Skull looked at Liu Ping.

Liu Ping looked at the black scales in his hand, and the scales conveyed a certain unwillingness.

This is……

I used to be myself.

Once the secret was right in front of my eyes, but I couldn't really get it, so I had to reincarnate and leave unwillingly.

Countless years have passed.

I don't know how long time has passed.

Is everything like a nightmare, always making people desperate?

Liu Ping sighed and said, "Let me try."

The corpse listened, nodded and said: "It seems that you have forged a long knife that can support you to hear the secret."

Liu Ping glanced at the prison-suppressing knife on his waist, shook his head and said, "I didn't make it."

"Of course you created it. Besides yourself, who would be obsessed with parallel worlds and secrets?" the corpse said.

After it finished speaking, it looked up at the sky, and said again: "Danger is coming, put on your nightmare embrace, and come in immediately."

The corpse stepped aside.

Behind it, a path leading to the inside of the "giant tree" appears.

The road was completely paved by human bodies, and when the corpses got out of the way, those humans all turned their heads and stared at Liu Ping's face.

For a moment, all the humans on the entire "giant tree" turned their heads and stared at Liu Ping non-stop.

This scene is quite creepy.

"Let's go?" Bloody Skeleton Ah Hong whispered.

"Go!" Liu Ping said.

Blood Skull pounced on him from behind and embraced him——

Liu Ping suddenly turned into a bloody skeleton.

"come on in!"

the corpse urged.

Liu Ping sensed some kind of danger looming over his back, and immediately rushed into the "giant tree".

As soon as he entered, the corpse quickly stepped forward and blocked the road.

The surrounding human bodies squirmed and put it together tightly on the "giant tree".

The entire "giant tree" began to rotate slowly.

—The entrance has been displaced, and no one can find it anymore.

As soon as all this was completed, the fog in the sky began to continuously boil.

A huge finger passed through the mist and fell soundlessly, searching around again.

It finds nothing.

But soon-

An even larger face emerged from the clouds, bent down, and stuck to the ground.

There was nothing above this face, it was blank.

It just stuck to the ground quietly, feeling everything around it.

But there was no movement around.

The monster never left.

It stayed in place quietly, continuing to make a listening posture.

—it waits.

(End of this chapter)