Chapter 33: Does the King of Hell know you are so cute?
Shi Xia would never admit herself as a soft …… er …… Cute…… er ….. Girl? Anyway, she is a girl, what suddenly having a pure Yang body? This Spiritual Root of hers was definitely born in the wrong body. According to Zhen Bing, the so-called pure Yang just refers to the speciality of the Qi in her body, and does not refer to gender. If it wasn't like that, she almost plucked that white sprout in her body.
As long as the Spiritual Root doesn't change her gender, she will keep it!
As for the specific attributes of the Spiritual Root, listening and contemplating on Zhen Bing's explanation for a long time, she finally understood.
To put it simply, there are all kinds of attributes in nature. That is to say, as long as it is Qi, she can absorb it. Thinking about the time when she was first introduced to Qi and how to absorb them into her body by Long Aotian, she did absorb all kinds of spiritual energy. Her Spiritual Root is somewhat similar to the Spiritual Root of five miscellaneous elements, but there is a fundamental difference. Because the five miscellaneous attributed Spiritual Root is considered the mix of all spiritual energy generally, where the Yang attributed Spiritual Root is born with only Yang energy and it has an instinctive attraction to the pure Yang energy. Because of this, cultivating with a Yang Spiritual Root is much easier than the miscellaneous Spiritual Root that requires to absorb only one kind of spiritual energy to cultivate at a time.
Moreover, Yin and Yang are two opposite but fundamental forces of nature, but no Yin or evil energy can get close to her body. Because of this, when she released her spiritual energy, all the ghosts around her directly disappeared. Shi Xia suddenly remembered that when she first came to this world, that demonic cultivator, Black Fury's attack made everyone pass out, only she didn't feel anything at all. She didn't know why at that time, but now that she thought about it, it might be because of her Spiritual Root.
So, her body is immune to all kinds of magic of a cultivator and spells? Then, as long as the person opposite her is an immortal cultivator, no one can hurt her. This is so cool and exciting just thinking about it!
Wait ……
She herself is hanging on to the title of Demon King's Sister ……
That means she really has to worry about the immortal cultivators and not the demonic cultivators.
…… This thing isn't useful at all! Throw it away!
"Benefactor look, that should be the exit over there. Let's get out of this hellhole as soon as possible!" Long Aotian pointed not far away and said.
Shi Xia looked at his line of sight and sure enough, there was a door made of stone over there. The door was closed, something seemed to be curved on its surface.
Shi Xia looked around, as far as the eyes could see, all the ghosts were shaking like candles in the wind. Well, it was after all a "ghostly" place.
Pulling Zhen Bing and Long Aotian with her, Shi Xia moved towards the door on the other side. Just as she moved, the whole ghost group shivered even more, their original red eyes began to emit a strange red light, and would flash like a searchlight from time to time. Maybe they were too scared, as she passed all the ghosts, they only kept shivering but didn't move out of the way. If any of them saw Shi Xia looking at them, they would simply hide their head, as if not seeing her meant there was no danger ……
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Shi Xia shook her head with a sigh and continued to walk forward. She suddenly felt her ghost phobia were cured by this group of cowards!
Just as she reached the door, something rolled to her feet. Taking a closer look, she realised it was a white ball like thing….an eyeball, rounding around her feet.
She turned her head and saw a female ghost sitting at the side was missing one of her red eyes. Its face was full of blood on the left side and the eye socket was like a black hole. The ghost didn't even dare to come forward to pick her eyes up, holding a ghost next to her whose half body was nothing but white bones, they both began to shiver and shake, as the bones were creaking.
Shi Xia had a head full of black lines. What did she even do? Giving a long sigh, she bent down to pick up the eyeball that was almost flattened by her and handed it back to the female ghost.
The female ghost seemed to be frozen in shock for a moment, and looked incredulously at her several times. A while later, the ghost seemed to understand that Shi Xia was returning her eyeball. She hesitated for a while, and weakly stretched out a white claw, but before her claws touched Shi Xia's palm, she immediately shrunk back, and didn't dare to take the eyeball back.
"I'm returning it to you, take it." Shi Xia couldn't resist speaking.
The female ghost was even more dumbfounded, she reached out again and retracted her hand again, reaching out and retracting …… Doing this back and forth several times before she finally took the eyeball. It seemed she was aware of Shi Xia's goodwill and forgot to be afraid. Curiously, she glanced at Shi Xia several times and the eyeball suddenly, as if she determined something, rather than fixing the eyeball to its place, she raised her hand and plucked the right eyeball out.
After that, holding the two eyeballs in her palm, she stretched her hands to Shi Xia with a pleasing face. She even deliberately pulled the corners of the mouth, squeezing out a smile of flattery. Her face was full of blood so the smile looked too horrible, and the flattery twisted into intimidation.
"You are giving it to me?" Shi Xia asked in surprise.
The female ghost nodded repeatedly, with a bit of excitement.
The corners of Shi Xia's mouth twitched, she got bribed by this female ghost, even though she is still an evil ghost. This feeling is really …… indescribable.
"No, you can keep it!" I have enough eyes.
The female ghost froze again, anxiety appeared in her eyes….er…face. Holding the eyeballs, she handed them towards her again.
So persistent! Shi Xia sighed and shook her head again, "I really don't want it."
The female ghost became more anxious, as if she was about to cry. But she still didn't give up, gritting her teeth, she barked at the other ghost who also took out its eyeballs, both holding two eyeballs at each of their hands, they handed them together to her.
"……" It's not because it was too little ah! The other ghost, why do you have to give her your eyes ah!
"I think this is the key to open the door." Zhen Bing suddenly spoke, gesturing for her to look at the door next to her.
Shi Xia looked back, indeed, in the middle of the door, there was a circular groove, the same size as the eyeball in the hand of the female ghost. So she was just giving it to her to help them open the door? It turned out that the key was in the ghost group, no wonder the female ghost was persistent in giving her the eyeballs.
Shi Xia had no choice but to choose one eyeball from the ghost's hand, "Thank you."
The female ghost let out a ‘Hehehe' laugh a few times. It was unknown it she was laughing happily or evilly.
Shi Xia inserted the eyeball into the groove, with a ‘click-click-click' sound, the original pitted door suddenly lit up with light. Less than a moment later, a formation pattern converged on the surface and the door also slowly began to open to both sides.
Between the two doors, a curtain of light fell inside the ghostly hallway, as if someone just started a projection. It was just that the people in the picture were still a bit familiar. The scene of what appeared to be a large room appeared on the surface of the screen….er….door. Four people were seen either standing or lying in the picture, all with their eyes closed. Their expression seemed as if they were caught in some horrible dream, with an extraordinarily painful look, their brows and eyes twisted into a ball.
"Isn't this Lu Yi the bitch's group?" The four people in this picture were the same as Lu Yi they met before, "It looks like they chose another path." They hadn't seen the room all the way here, maybe they took the ‘Life' door.
"What's wrong with them?" Long Aotian took a look at the expressions of the four people and couldn't help but ask, "It doesn't look like they are injured, why do they look like……"
"Illusion." Zhen Bing explained, "These four people should be caught in some kind of illusion, but most of the illusions test one's mind and willpower. If the Dao heart is not strong enough, it is very likely to be confused by the false images. Some may be trapped for a lifetime, and can never be freed."
In that case, the machinery set over there must be more difficult than this side. Shi Xia was a little grateful to Zhen Bing for pulling them to the ‘Death' door, fortunately they entered the less risky door.
The image on the door didn't last long, probably stayed for a dozen seconds or so and then with a flicker, the picture on the door died down, plunging everything in dizzying darkness again.
Shi Xia became worried and asked, "It won't be more dangerous inside, right?" Like, another group of evil spirits hiding or something?
While she was hesitant, the female ghost who just gave her the eyeball, suddenly handed her a white bone. With a ‘hehehe' smile full of goodwill, she gestured to Shi Xia to throw it forward and explore the way.
Shi Xia's face showed a speechless expression, looking up and down at the female ghost she couldn't help but say, "You are very talented ah, you have a very promising ass-kissing talent! You helped us just in time, which poor ghost's bone did you snatch ah?"
The female ghost covered her face with her hand, looking a little shy, and let out that ‘hehehehe' evil laugh again.
Shi Xia grabbed the bone and threw it in. With a grunt, suddenly a burst of red fire lit up inside, instantly illuminating the whole place. The place behind the door was actually a room with tall stone walls. The room was huge, like a playground, but completely empty. From the opposite side of the room, the faint figure of several doors could be vaguely seen. Fire lit up on both sides of the room in a row, illuminating the path ahead.
It seems that there is no danger for the time being, Shi Xia breathed a sigh of relief, and then walked in. Just as she walked to the middle of the room, the door behind creaked again, and then slowly closed. Looking back, she saw that red-clothed female ghost was waving her hands towards her unwillingly, with …… bones in hand.
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You guys are so cute, does the King of Hell know?
"There are so many doors, previously there were only two ……" Long Aotian showed a tangled face looking at the opposite row of doors, "which one should we go in ah?"
Shi Xia also had a speechless look, were they being played by these doors? Is this some kind of pattern or something? How would they know which one is the right exit?
"It may be the same as before, just like the previous level, right?"
"No!" Zhen Bing shook his head, "Look at the color of these doors, these seemed to be arranged according to the five elements, there must be a living door among them."
Long Aotian was shocked, "Five elements? But there are six doors ah!"
Zhen Bing closed his mouth.
Shi Xia couldn't help but look at the doors carefully, there were six doors in total. Each door was of different colors, the rightmost one was golden, followed by green, blue, red and yellow. These are the colors of the five elements, no wonder Zhen Bing said that it was arranged according to the five elements. Oddly for some reason, there were two red doors on both sides.
"Huh, there are symbols on this door?" Long Aotian pointed to the lower right corner of the red door, "It seems a fire symbol is drawn. It's really a five elemental seal! It's on all of these doors, benefactor, do you see if it's on the other doors?"
Shi Xia carefully examined the other doors, indeed, in the lower right corner of each door, a pattern was drawn. The patterns were the symbols of the five elements, red is fire, yellow is an earth wall, blue is a water drop, gold is a small sword, green ……
Uh ……
The corners of Shi Xia's mouth twitched, she suddenly felt a group of crows flying over her head. Staring at the icon on the green door, she couldn't believe her eyes for a long time.
"These doors are all almost the same, in the end, which one should we go in ah?" Long Aotian looked at the door for a long time and asked hesitantly. Seeing Shi Xia distractedly looking at the green door, he came over and suggested, "Benefactor, I think one of the red doors will be the exit. Or you can also choose one and we will follow you."
"I choose this one." Shi Xia pointed her index finger forward.
"The green door!" Long Aotian was startled, he said it should be the red door ah, could it be that …… his eyes lit up, "Could it be that Benefactor has cracked the mystery of this door? Really, Benefactor?"
"Oh ……" Shi Xia had a head full of black lines as she pointed to the icon on the green door.
Long Aotian immediately squatted down to look, even Zhen Bing curiously looked at the pattern.
"This pattern is actually not a wood symbol!" Long Aotian looked at it carefully several times before exclaiming, "I've never seen such a strange diagram before, Benefactor, you know this?"
"Know ……I know!" More than knowing it. The stairway, corridor corners of every big building of Earth, this pattern is a must. The exact same pattern is seen everywhere on Earth! A little green human running towards somewhere. In her old world, it was almost EVERYWHERE!
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