purgatory artist

Chapter 8 Escape
Darkness mixed with mist.

Endless coffins are densely packed, extending into the distance, disappearing into the depths of the mist.

wind--

The faint cold wind passed through the air, whimpering mournfully, like many ghosts and gods hiding in the darkness, all making urgent urging sounds.

Liu Ping looked towards the dead silence ahead, and the practitioner's voice could not help but sound again:

"—they will hunt down your soul and body until they completely enslave you!"

Liu Ping deeply collected himself, and couldn't help feeling a little annoyed.

Even the golden core sword cultivator could only resist for a moment, and then he had to evacuate. As a Qi refining cultivator, he had no choice but to escape when he didn't understand the monster at all.

I have lost all my strength, and now I am going to be hunted down——

It's just so infuriating.

As long as there is hope of turning things around, I will never run away in such a mess.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help saying loudly:
"Hey, there is no one here. The spell you gave me is completely useless. Can you change it to a more powerful one?"

The sequence is unresponsive.

In the void, no new prompts appeared.

It ignores itself.

tsk—

What a hassle.

Liu Ping shook his head, and put the broken knife into the storage bag.

How to deal with it?

With injuries all over his body, he couldn't improve his strength even in a hurry.

He looked at the black talisman in his hand.

In fact, think about it carefully-

The two practitioners didn't mean to harm themselves, so they returned this talisman.

So, how to activate this talisman?

He was thinking about it when he suddenly felt something and raised his head to look up.

In the rock wall above the head, fine dust gradually broke away from the rock wall and drifted into the empty cemetery.

Some kind of faint and indistinct sound sounded from behind the rock wall.

"This movement..."

——There must be something coming.

pursuer?
Liu Ping quickly looked around,

He found a corner, opened an empty coffin and lay down in it, stretched out his hand and squeezed a breathing formula.

Concentrating Breath Jue is the most basic technique in the practice world, it is used to conceal one's own strength so as not to be noticed by others.

Hunt down—

This word came to Liu Ping's mind.

He couldn't help mobilizing his whole body's spiritual power to change the hand formula.

——Wan Silence Containing Breath Jue!

This is his unique kung fu, which has been improved on the basis of general formulas, and can isolate all fluctuations in himself.

It's a pity that he is just a practitioner in the Qi refining period, the lowest level of existence in the entire cultivation system, and he is simply unable to fully exert the power of this technique.

But at this moment, there is no other way.

another way...

and many more.

Liu Ping was silent for a while, then suddenly remembered what happened just now, and quickly had an idea.

"Activate 'a person who has no role'!"

He whispered in his heart.

I saw lines of small characters quickly appearing in the darkness:

"You activated the extraordinary ability of the acting department:"

"A man who has no role."

"From now on, you won't attract undue attention from anyone."

"Duration: a quarter of an hour."

Does this thing work?
Liu Ping was still a little apprehensive, but now there was no other way but to use it, hoping to have some effect.

He lay in the coffin and waited quietly.

Whoa- whoa-

The sound of soil being lifted came from the high rock wall.

Soon.

The sound of falling gravel became louder and louder.

The rock wall has been broken through!

Immediately afterwards, an indifferent metallic voice sounded in the crypt:

"The field robot No. S9005 has arrived at its destination."

"No threatening targets were found."

"The report is over."

Waited for a few breaths.

Several voices obviously came from humans:

"Are you sure it's here?"

"Boss, the space-time fluctuation just now came from here."

"Yes, sir, we are close to our goal."

"...It seems that this is the place."

"Everyone, get ready."

"Yes!"

A burst of noisy voices followed.

With his spiritual sense, Liu Ping gradually sensed several figures.

These people flew down from the rock wall and stood among many coffins.

Boom!
One of them landed on the coffin where Liu Ping was.

Liu Ping closed his eyes, stopped breathing, and held the breath-holding formula with both hands without moving.

Those people observed for a while, and the voice sounded again:
"There are no monsters here, are there?"

"Do you want to do a search?"

"Yeah, search it, it's safer."

Liu Ping gently moved his hand to his waist and pressed it on the storage bag.

The broken knife... works too.

suddenly.

A line of small characters jumped out of the void:
"Due to being too close to you, the existence that stepped on your coffin was affected."

"'A man without a role' comes into play."

next second.

Just listen to the voice of the person who stepped on his coffin:
"A group of cowards, the battlefield robots have already checked, and even if there is anything here, it is just worthless garbage."

As soon as he opened his mouth, the other voices stopped suddenly.

Just listen to him continue:

"Don't waste time with me, cheer up, immediately look for the source of time-space fluctuations, and use tokens to open the time-space channel—"

"let's move!"

Everyone responded in unison: "Yes, boss."

A sound of breaking through the air sounded.

Quiet all around.

Obviously, these people have gone far.

Liu Ping let out a long sigh of relief, waited for a few more breaths, and then lifted the coffin board.

None of them.

Looking in the direction where those people left, I saw that in the cave far away, the fog became thicker for a few minutes.

An inexplicable sense of depression welled up in my heart.

"This is……"

Liu Ping murmured.

Relying on the induction in his spiritual sense, he can sense that there are some things waiting around in the extremely distant mist, like countless squirming unknown things glued together, writhing restlessly, giving off a suffocating omen .

Liu Ping's heart skipped a beat.

——That direction is exactly the direction I came from.

Could it be that the fluctuations that those people noticed just now...was caused by that monster in the burial ground?
That monster has locked itself!
A sense of crisis emerged spontaneously, lingering in Liu Ping's heart.

"Hurry up and go..."

He murmured, looking up.

I saw a black hole on the right rock wall tens of meters above.

This is the hole that those people punched just now.

—Maybe this hole can help him get out of here?
With a powerful leap, Liu Ping soared into the air, stuck to the rock wall and walked like a gecko, and quickly came to the entrance of the cave.

A cold wind blows from the hole.

Liu Ping pinched the uneven rock with both hands, and gently sucked his nostrils.

The wind blows long and fast, exuding a fresh and moist breath.

There must be a way to the outside world!

He was about to drill into the hole, when suddenly there were bursts of piercing voices in his ears. He turned his head and found a new change in the depths of the cemetery.

In that fog—

"Help!"

A panicked voice suddenly sounded.

The voice was somewhat familiar, as if it was one of those people just now.

Two or three figures passed through the mist, crashed into the coffins blocking the way from a distance, and ran towards this side regardless.

"Run!"

The leader shouted.

Steep Mutation——

At the far end of the cave, long tentacles covered in mucus rushed toward them like afterimages.

puff!
With one click, the three of them were chained to the tentacles.

The three of them screamed hysterically.

The tentacle didn't care about these, wrapped the three of them and flew away, submerged in the mist again.

A roar full of anger sounded:

"A bunch of guys in the way... I was about to..."

When Liu Ping heard this, without any hesitation, he immediately got into the hole and ran towards the passage with all his strength.

Unexpectedly, the passage was quite short, and within three to five minutes, Liu Ping jumped out.

He looked around.

—Here is another underground cave full of coffins!
On the surrounding rock walls, deep caves are arranged irregularly one after another, and it is not known where they lead.

Those people probably arrived here from a certain cave, and they found that there were abnormal fluctuations nearby, so they continued to dig down, and finally opened the tomb!
But there are too many caves, and I don't know where to go.

How to do?
Just as he was thinking, there was a strange shock coming from his arms.

——That black talisman!
It broke free from Liu Ping's arms and floated gently in mid-air.

Liu Ping stared closely at the black talisman.

——According to what the previous practitioner said, this talisman can help him.

The talisman fluttered towards a coffin tens of feet away.

Finally, it stopped motionless above the coffin.

It's here!
Liu Ping jumped to the side of the coffin, and suddenly heard the faint sounds of wind and water coming from inside the coffin.

He lifted the lid of the coffin.

The coffin was indeed empty, but there was a big hole dug downward inside.

The sound of water came from this hole.

In an instant, lines of burning small characters appeared in the void:
"A specific context was matched."

"Space-time flow anchoring."

"The talisman of spirituality starts to activate."

"You can rely on the power of the talisman to immediately enter the corresponding hidden time and space."

That's it!

Your own escape is here!
Liu Ping grabbed the black talisman, walked into the coffin, and carefully closed the coffin from the inside.

Having done all this, he leaped down the hole—

Take a breath.

Two breaths.

Suddenly, a dim light appeared in the darkness.

A world exuding infinite light and shadow came galloping from an extremely distant unknowable place, bumped into Liu Ping head-on, and completely enveloped him in it.

(End of this chapter)