purgatory artist

Chapter 73 The Rock of No Existence
"What do you know?" the female voice asked hastily.

"...It's hard to say now, I probably need a shovel." Liu Ping said.

"Take it." The female voice said.

Before he finished speaking, a shovel appeared in Liu Ping's hand.

He looked at the three people across from him.

The three people on the opposite side were also looking at him, with strange expressions on their faces.

"It's obviously solving a problem, what are you doing with a shovel?"

one of them asked.

Liu Ping looked at the shovel in his hand, then at the other person, and said with a smile: "When I'm thinking about problems, I like to dig and dig. This is my unique way of thinking."

The three listened and nodded together.

"So that's the case." The man suddenly said.

"Sure enough, geniuses have some quirks." The second person said.

"Then you dig." The third person said.

Liu Ping swung his shovel and dug into the ground.

After a while, he couldn't help but said: "This efficiency is too slow, is there something more advanced?"

"That's the excavator on the technology side." The female voice said.

"Okay, use it for me."

Boom!
There was a muffled sound, and an excavator appeared beside them.

Liu Ping dropped the shovel and climbed onto the excavator.

As if he remembered something, he looked back at the three professionals on the mysterious side.

He looked at the three people across from him.

The three people on the opposite side were also looking at him, with puzzled expressions on their faces.

"Obviously it's solving a problem, what are you doing with an excavator?"

one of them asked.

Liu Ping looked at the excavator, then at the other side, suddenly smiled and said, "When I'm thinking about problems, I like to drive the excavator to dig the soil, which should be reasonable."

The three listened and nodded together.

"So that's the case." The man suddenly said.

"Sure enough, geniuses have some quirks." The second person said.

"Then you dig." The third person said.

Liu Ping got into the cab and manipulated the machine to dig.

After a while, a large pit several meters deep was dug out of the ground.

"What are you doing?" the female voice wondered.

"Do some experiments." Liu Ping said.

Boom!

Only an impact sound could be heard coming from the pit.

"You have dug a rock!" The professional who stood watching from the side shouted.

Liu Ping jumped off the excavator, walked into the big pit, scraped the soil at the bottom of the pit with his hands, and touched the things below.

——As expected, it was a rock, and it was also very hard.

"I'm afraid we won't be able to dig here, should we dig somewhere else?" Another professional asked.

"No, I have to take a closer look at this thing!" Liu Ping responded.

He put his hand on the rock and rubbed it gently.

"Strange, I know many kinds of rocks and minerals, but I don't seem to have seen this kind..."

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly saw lines of burning small characters popping up in the void:
"The unknown existence has awakened, and it has noticed your actions."

"It is coming to communicate with you."

"At this extremely delicate moment, this sequence must make an urgent statement to you:"

"Everything you know, nothing can provoke it!"

"The next few minutes will determine your life or death, so be careful when you speak!"

Suddenly, the small burning characters quickly disappeared as if they had noticed something.

There was an eerie silence.

Liu Ping slowly looked around.

Three professionals were standing in front of the pit, watching him dig.

The faces of the three were filled with curiosity, doubt and incomprehension, and their expressions froze.

Behind Liu Ping, a woman in a black dress with a white mask showed her figure. She turned slightly sideways, trying to see the secret of the rock Liu Ping was pressing on.

She doesn't move either.

Liu Ping's pupils shrank suddenly.

Where the hell is this coming from?

Even if the Goddess of Torment has died and turned into a servant, her strength is at least far beyond what I can imagine.

——Even a god like her has been tricked.

What kind of existence did he provoke?
boom!
The whole world disappears.

Liu Ping felt that he had come to the endless void, tens of thousands of stars surrounded him, and slowly condensed and formed in front of him.

stars.

The stars condensed into a huge head emitting light.

It overlooks Liuping and makes a loud and deep voice:

"A practitioner..."

Liu Ping clasped his fists and said, "I haven't asked Your Excellency for your name yet, could it be that I disturbed Your Excellency?"

The head made of stars said: "I have a limited time to wake up, the dead god beside you has been blinded by me, she will not hear us."

"Let's get straight to the point—"

"Young man, what have you found?"

Liu Ping thought for a second.

This existence—

It was indeed more powerful than the Goddess of Torment.

In front of such an existence, rather than playing tricks, it would be better——

Straight to the point.

Liu Ping calmed down, and said: "According to the ancient legends on our practice side, some people have escaped from the path of ascension and come into contact with completely unknown existences in other places in the void."

"It is said that only an extremely mysterious power can accommodate such a puzzle."

"—it's called 'The Trio of the End of the World.'"

"According to ancient legends, this incident contains a deep and strange fate, and only those who can really solve the mystery will meet it."

The huge head said: "So, have you solved the puzzle?"

"Untangled."

Liu Ping said.

"Tell me—but don't say a lot. For now, you can only solve the first puzzle." The huge head said.

"Why?" Liu Ping asked puzzled.

"Because fate cannot be taken lightly, you will be safe and sound if you tell the answer to the first puzzle. If you tell other answers, I am afraid that some existences who can pry into secrets and fate will be immediately alarmed--and now I am in a state of death. I can support you on the first puzzle." The huge head said.

Liu Ping took a deep breath and said: "I have heard of the 'Trio of the End of the World', and I roughly deduced it at that time, but due to the lack of detailed information, I just let it go. Today I am lucky enough to see this puzzle with my own eyes, then I will tell you its solution and the first puzzle."

"Go ahead."

"The so-called 'Triple of the End of the World' contains three puzzles, each of which is the answer to another puzzle."

"In detail--"

"The second puzzle is the answer to the first puzzle; the third puzzle is the answer to the second puzzle; as for the first puzzle, it is the answer to the third puzzle."

"To solve the first puzzle, you only need to look at the second puzzle."

"The first puzzle is: how this 'makeshift prison for the useless' was made."

"The second puzzle is: If there is a world similar to 'the temporary prison of the useless', how to conquer this world."

"Obviously, the answer to the first puzzle is: this 'makeshift prison for the useless' is made up of a world."

"The reason why I want to dig the soil is because of the simplest method of elimination: since there is nothing in this world, there is only one mountain, so if there is any information worth paying attention to, it must be hidden in this mountain."

After Liu Ping finished speaking, he looked at the other party.

The huge head made entirely of stars seemed to be smiling a little.

"Mortals, you are so small, but you are the ones who can have an extremely powerful influence on destiny."

It sighed, and opened its mouth to spit out a star.

The star fluttered and soon fell in front of Liu Ping.

The head made a loud sound:

"The gods have begun to fall, and the era has entered a rapid and dangerous change from this moment. Life or death will become an unattainable dream of yesterday, but all living beings know nothing about it..."

"You take... these two things, one of them is what the god wanted, and the other is my gift to you."

"What can I repay you?" Liu Ping asked.

"In the not-too-distant future, you will sense my call. At that time, I will call you to come again, and I will still pay the reward." The huge head said.

The radiant stars fell on Liu Ping's hands, and they became two things.

A black snake coiled into a ball and constantly spitting out letters.

And a palm-sized rock.

Two lines of small burning characters quickly appeared before Liu Ping's eyes:

"You have obtained the legendary artifact: the Whip of Torment and Pain (exclusive to the gods)."

"You have obtained a strange thing: the rock of nothingness."

boom--

All around completely crumbles, falls apart, fades away.

The strong wind scattered hundreds of millions of meteors, leaving everything in a blur of chaos.

next moment.

Liu Ping found himself back on the mountain peak, in the deep pit, with his hands just pressing on the rock.

(End of this chapter)