The Guide to the End of the World: Four Sentinels Compete for Favor

Ai Wanxin opened her eyes and saw an endless wasteland with thick smoke rising up. The iron-gray sky was hanging low, as if it would press down heavily on her head in the next second.

Green lava meandered across the charred and cracked surface, wriggling slowly and heavily like a venomous snake.

A burning breath hit me in the face, and every time I took a breath, it was as if a tongue covered with barbs was licking my throat, and my entire chest was filled with the rusty smell of blood.

Occasionally, a green lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating the rotten and mutilated bodies of the huge beasts of various shapes and sizes around them, and the endless pain and despair in their eyes.

This is where?

This doesn't look like Earth.

The beasts around it don't look like creatures from Earth.

"Roar--" The earth-shaking roar was like a stone rolling through the clouds. A giant dragon as big as a mountain suddenly broke through the clouds and swooped down in the direction where Ai Wanxin was.

It has a thick neck, a long and huge head covered with bright red scales, and liquid green flames drip from its ferocious fangs.

The dragon opened its long snout and breath of scorching fire gushed out of its mouth, overwhelming them.

Ai Wanxin heard panicked howls and whimperings of fear. The lava spewing from the dragon's mouth was so hot that the hard rocks on the ground cracked before it even hit the ground. Flames even ignited on some weak beasts.

“Chuckle, chuckle~~”

Amid the deafening roar of the giant dragon, a series of clear and strange women's laughter was inexplicably heard.

Just as the devastating flames were about to devour all the beasts on the ground, a slender black shadow suddenly appeared in mid-air. The green flame torrent hit the translucent red barrier in front of the figure, and a ball of dazzling and brilliant fire exploded.

The splashing liquid flames fell like meteors from the sky. The dragon urgently pulled up before slamming into the barrier head-on. Its strong claws stomped hard on the barrier and it spun around to hover above the scorched earth.

Its brown-yellow vertical pupils shrank into a line, and its leather wings that covered the sky and the sun flapped. The strong wind wrapped in emerald green Mars blew up the woman's ankle-length black hair, like thick seaweed spreading in the sky.

"Is this all you can do?" The woman said with a sweet smile, "Is it possible that the thing I spent so much effort to lure out is a waste?"

Ai Wan's heart trembled. This voice was Lilith!

This was... before Lilith got the body of the red dragon...

Then isn't this the land of evil spirits?

So, in the human spiritual sea, there are memories of demons? !

Before she could figure out what was going on, Lilith waved her hand in mid-air and shook out a dark golden flaming whip. The drooping whip tip rolled back with a snapping sound.

Lilith pulled the corners of her mouth apart, and a strange laugh trembled with excitement in her chest: "You are so strong and beautiful, she will definitely like you. Let me see if you are worthy of being my body!"

She flashed and appeared behind the red dragon like a ghost. From Ai Wanxin's perspective, she could clearly see the bloodthirsty and fanatical light flashing in her scarlet eyes.

The dragon seemed to understand her words. It raised its mountain-like head high, the scales on its long neck stood up, and it let out an angry scream from its mouth.

The round sound waves seemed to be substantial, pushing the rolling heat waves and rushing towards the wounded demons on the ground like a tidal wave.

A green wall of fire over a hundred meters high rushed towards her. Ai Wanxin felt a sudden flash in front of her eyes. In that instant, the world was spinning. She saw Lilith with flying hair and a seductive smile on her lips, rushing towards the giant red dragon with flames all over its body like a cannonball.

It was like stepping into empty air from a tall building and falling rapidly. Countless fragments of memories passed through Ai Wanxin's body, and the final scene was frozen on a black spindle-shaped vortex that spanned the sky and the earth.

Thick darkness rolled in the vortex, and bright green lightning occasionally crawled across like a spider web, like the half-open and half-closed eyes of an ancient god with drooping eyelashes.

The sky and the ground around her were densely packed with hideous monsters.

They looked up at the whirlpool that stretched from the sky to the earth, and their terrifying howls rose one after another, one wave higher than the other.

Even though this was just the fragmentary memory of a certain demon, Ai Wanxin still felt the trembling and restlessness that was as if she was in a boiling pot of soup, causing her to suffer and burn.

After an unknown amount of time, a green phantom light appeared out of nowhere in the center of the vortex, spinning faster and faster, until it finally connected from beginning to end to form a circular channel.

A tall young man with skin as pale as paper walked out slowly.

Ai Wanxin's heart sank. It was Lucifer...

Lucifer's long blue hair was tied loosely behind his back, and his deep blue vertical pupils looked down indifferently at the demons all over the mountains.

He raised his hand and pressed a hazy light halo into his chest, which led to a twisted and satisfied smile.

But that smile was fleeting.

Lucifer turned sideways and looked towards the center of the vortex.

From the illusory light he had just walked out of, he could see a canopy of rich, cyan, and a glowing dark blue ocean all around.

Lucifer sneered and said, "We have been imprisoned for long enough. My most powerful warriors, bring your rage that is enough to burn everything, cross the cracks in time and space, and take back what originally belonged to us."

"It doesn't matter if your body is torn into pieces in space. I will grant you new life!"

The demons in the valley suddenly fell silent, and then burst into cheers like the roar of a mountain.

All the demons flapped their wings and flew into the air, rushing into the vortex channel behind Lucifer one after another.

The owner of memory was no exception. After it rushed into the vortex, like most demons, its broken and decayed body was torn apart by the distorted time and space.

Countless dark clouds broke free from the demon's body, dragging long comet tails, and roared towards the sparkling sea.

Not a single demon would doubt that the giant tree and the ocean could grant them eternal life again.

After leaving the body, the demon's consciousness became chaotic and difficult to recognize.

Ai Wanxin floated in her messy memories and recalled what Madam Bai had said to her on Fengge Lake.

Madam Bai said that the Land of Evil Spirits would sometimes tear apart unstable space-time cracks due to violent energy fluctuations.

If the soul is strong enough, it is possible to travel between different time and space through the cracks in time and space.

Lucifer probably found a way to stabilize the cracks in time and space, and released a large number of expelled demons from the land of evil spirits.

So what did he mean by giving them new life?

Thinking of the strange appearance of the man they caught, Ai Wan had some vague guesses in her mind.

With a gulp, Ai Wanxin felt as if she was sinking into the water. In a trance, she heard someone talking.

"Wow, where on earth is this place?"

"It's so cold. I'm so scared. The dean is missing. Are we going to die here?"

"It's okay, it's okay, the dean will find a way to save us, he won't abandon us!"

Dean, what Dean? Ai Wanxin was excited. Could it be those students from the Academy of Sciences?

"Did you hear any strange noises?"

"Ah - don't scare me -"

"It seems to be coming from under the ship..."

Ai Wanxin finally saw light again. Through the swaying waves, she saw a shivering boy holding a small high-intensity flashlight in his hand, and sticking his head out from the tall bow of the sun boat.