Chapter 78: Soul Eater
In the deep underground of the Demon Realm, there is hardly any sunlight to be seen, and the only light is the faint light reflected from the light coming in when the soldiers touched the open door.
Shu Xiaowu was ruthlessly thrown into the prison covered with black mist by the demons with arms crossed, and plunged into this black trail.
The ground of the tentacles is as cold as frozen ice, and you can feel the coolness of the forest just by touching it. Shu Xiaowu retracted his bare hands, got up and groped back to the farthest corner of the cell by the faint light.
During the series of arresting her, Shu Xiaowu knew that he was at a disadvantage and did not resist, but Zhu Qi abnormally did not use too heavy hand, and just asked his subordinates to imprison her in this prison. .
There was no sound in the pitch-black space, and even the demons who were standing guard at the end of the corridor walked silently as if they were walking in the clouds, without making any sound. If it weren't for the fact that she could still vaguely see the light emanating from the sword on her body, she would have thought that she was alone in this area.
Shu Xiaowu leaned her body against the wall in the corner, and the cold temperature spread into her body along the wall she was leaning against, and it was bone-chilling, but in her current state, she could no longer support her body independently. .
After the demons occupied the back mountain, she failed to take out the spirit stone immediately, and she did not dare to take it out rashly. to leave. What will happen next, whether she can get out of here successfully, she has no idea in her heart. For now, she can only take one step at a time, hoping that things will not deviate too much from her expectations.
The temperature in the entire dungeon was terrifyingly low. She supported herself against the wall for a while, and her body was able to adapt to the bone-chilling cold. Although her physical condition was not very good now, she was not an ordinary human race after all. Survival at low temperatures is also not difficult.
Shu Xiaowu withdrew the gaze projected at the door of the prison, and then closed his eyes to sense the surrounding atmosphere. In just a few seconds, she frowned and quickly opened her eyes.
The air here turned out to be quite "clean".
Except for the lingering natural rotten smell, there is almost no other smell. Even though this place is still in the realm of the Demon Realm, the demonic energy is extremely thin. The magic energy is here, let alone finding any spiritual energy in this area, it is simply delusional.
Before absorbing those demonic energy, she had discovered that her body was able to gather the surrounding demonic energy and use it for her own use. It's just that different from the spiritual power that can be retained in her body, she can only use the magic power moment to gather the ability to be absorbed into the body for a short period of time.
However, although she now possesses this skill that tends to defy the sky, she also has drawbacks.
Unlike Yu Shu's magic power, when those magic powers are brought into the body, they will collide with the essential spiritual power in her body, stirring her heart. Even if the ability can be improved for a while, the consequence is physical and mental damage. . After she made a reckless strike before, she found that her body was swept away by demonic energy and was in pain. Although it did not cause irreparable damage, it had prevented her from continuing to use this technique for a short period of time.
Today's accident happened unexpectedly, but before that, she knew in her heart that something was going to happen.
Yu Shu was defeated and arrested, there was a rebellion within the demon clan, and Zhu Qi planned to ascend to the throne... and later, he led the demon clan to destroy the back mountain where she was located. Everything that happened seems to be a thread, and it moves with one hair. She doesn't know the immortal who appeared today, but the purpose of his coming is to save her...
Shu Xiaowu couldn't figure out what kind of trajectory the world was going on right now. There were too many abrupt and unreasonable things that she couldn't figure out, and she added such an immortal whose purpose was to save her from water and fire. Make her dizzy.
But at the end of her guess, she could only attribute it to the undetectable nature of the Dao of Heaven... Even Yu Shu could come here, and the Dao of Heaven had already lost its initial steps.
One day, two days, the hourglass of time slid down silently, and everything in the dungeon did not change in the slightest. Except that the demons at the gate of the prison in the distance have been replaced, the others are the same.
Shu Xiaowu stayed in the corner silently, her eyes were peaceful, and Zhu Qi ordered her to be imprisoned, and no one cared about her. But she clearly knew that he was by no means so easy to let go, no matter what he wanted to do in the end, it would always be of no benefit to her.
After observing for a period of time, she has also discovered that she is probably only detained in this empty and endless dark cage during this period of time.
The wounds on her body are still healed automatically even with the replenishment of spiritual energy, and she is used to the daily cold. If it wasn't for the time when the replacement demons opened the door, she would have even suspected that she had been too early. Been here for several years. The lonely and cold days were too difficult and dangerous.
In the quiet time, she can think of things over and over in her mind. She would think of everything that had happened over the years, the death of Sister Ruling who had left the deepest impression on her recently, Aoki being beaten back to her original shape, the serious injury of her master and uncle... And of all the people who were involved with it, she recalled the most, all of them were Yu. sparse.
Every time she closed her eyes for a short time, she seemed to hear Yu Shu calling her name softly in her ear, her fingers tugging at her drooping hair and spinning around her fingers, but after immersion, When I opened my eyes, it was still pitch black.
Without his wine-colored eyes, nor his smiling face, nor him... The whole area is still cold and gloomy, only the water-red string he gave her exudes a soothing temperature.
After the empty nothingness, there is a pain in the bottom of my heart.
She even suspected that perhaps Zhu Qi wanted to keep her here and drive her crazy.
Just driving her crazy, it seems too insignificant to him...
The faint blue wall lamp suddenly lit up, the light was not dazzling, but looking at the light that jumped with the fire was enough to make people feel scared.
Shu Xiaowu's heart skipped a beat, leaned on the spot and raised his eyes to look at the creepy lights that were slowly lighting up, he breathed out silently, and let down the rapidly rising tremors... He said in his heart: So there are still lights here.
As the wall lamps lit up one by one from the lengthy aisle, the man in a robe walked towards her slowly and unhurriedly with the light of the fire.
The clothes on his body were no longer the pitch black he had seen before, but were replaced by the usual white robes. The embroidery of green bamboo on the robes was vivid and real, and under the faint blue light, his robes were almost dyed. It turned blue, but the bamboo leaves were carved into his robe as if alive. If it wasn't for the look on his face that had lost its original warmth, he would still seem harmless.
Shu Xiaowu looked at Zhu Qi coming towards him, pursed his lips, and slowly got up. She still had her back against the corner, but just stood up.
The chains on the locked prison door were shining brightly, reflecting a chilling light in the dim light of the fire. Zhu Qi looked at the chain in front of him, and raised the corner of his mouth silently. When he raised his hand for luck, the chain was instantly broken under the attack of the devilish energy in his palm.
The chain made by cold iron lost its restraint and fell to the ground, and the iron agent collided with a crisp sound. Shu Xiaowu looked at it and pursed his lips secretly.
Zhu Qi didn't care about the chain in front of him for a long time. After breaking it with a wave of his arm, he let the prison door open and strode into it. He came alone, and even the guards were placed outside the prison by him. Now, in the entire area, there are only two of them left.
Shu Xiaowu's hand on his side clenched into a fist, looking at the strange smile on the face of the demon who was slowly approaching, his heartbeat became more and more violent. He looked subconsciously at the prison door behind him, but was stopped by a sudden laughter that he was about to jump.
"Do you think I opened this place, so you can go out?" Zhu Qi raised his eyebrows and looked at her lightly. He had already regarded the person in front of him as a caged bird, and even if he gave her a passage and let her run, she couldn't fly out of his palm.
It wasn't until she retracted her eyes from behind him that he snorted coldly, stared at her wantonly, deliberately slowed down and continued to approach the corner where she was.
When he was standing a foot away from her, he slowly stopped. With his neck twisted, he locked his eyes on her face with a vicious smile, trying to find a look that would please him.
It was a pity that he was disappointed. Shu Xiaowu's face had already been infected by this piercing coldness. Even in her eyes, he could only see hatred for her... No cowardice, no panic, and no fear, Nothing he expected!
Zhu Qi's brows wrinkled, the momentum on his body suddenly became cold, and the corners of his robes fluttered, and Shu Xiaowu could feel his anger at this time. But for a short time, he retracted the raised jaw again, and half of the momentum on his body dissipated. He forced her to take a step forward, and a smile suddenly swept across the corner of his mouth.
He said, "I really didn't expect your honor to take you so seriously, but now he has become a prisoner in the hands of those mortals, and he can't protect himself."
Zhu Qi's tone was full of teasing smiles, and when he said the word "Zun Shang", there was already no respect in it. Today, he is the king of the Demon Realm, and Yu Shu is nothing but a past and a shame in the future!
As a demon master, he was imprisoned by mortals, and could only be turned into a stain that the demons could never remove.
When he heard Yu Shu's name, Shu Xiaowu's throat choked, his teeth clenched his lower lip, and he didn't make any sound after all. She staggered her gaze from him, as if dismissively no longer looking at him.
Her behavior obviously further angered Zhu Qi, except for Yu Shu, who had been suppressing him, Shu Xiaowu was the person he hated the most for so long.
He will never forget how Yu Shu once made him stand in front of all the demons and decided his life and death with just one of her jokes. That insult, like a sharp knife, carved bloodstains on his heart that could never be erased, reminding him every moment.
He hates him, but he hates her even more!
The anger came, and once the resentment in Zhu Qi's heart dissipated, it disappeared in an instant. He stared at the calm woman in front of him, without a trace of pity in his eyes, but then the corners of his mouth turned deeper.
He would make her life worse than death, and let her slowly enjoy the whole process of death.
Shu Xiaowu's heart suddenly trembled under the vicious smile, and his breathing stopped slightly.
Immediately afterwards, he watched him take another step in front of him, his eyes still flashing with a strange luster, his voice suddenly lowered, and he said, "It is said that your identity is the spirit master..."
His voice deliberately paused, his eyes swept across the slightly fluctuating expression on her face, and his physical and mental pleasure rose again, "You said, if I kill you, will the spiritual source of this immortal world be broken?"
Zhu Qi's face was almost hideous, and a wanton smile filled his body. He didn't know her special identity before. If he hadn't known that the Taoist cultivators had gone to great lengths to find her, he wouldn't have been able to find out the news that made him happy.
It's no wonder that Yu Shu was so precious before that she was kept in the back mountain, and her identity turned out to be so peculiar. And the result of killing her must be enough to cheer him up.
Hearing the words he suddenly turned to this room, Shu Xiaowu couldn't restrain the expression on his face, he frowned and said solemnly to Zhu Qi: "If you kill me, you will definitely be punished. ."
At the same time as she spoke, her hand that was hanging behind her had begun to secretly exert strength. Even if the strength she could use now was too little, she couldn't sit still.
"Retribution? It's ridiculous, are you talking about Yu Shu?" Zhu Qi raised his eyebrows, his elegant facial features had already looked sinister under his changed expression.
He sneered, as if what a ridiculous joke she had just told made him laugh. Looking down in disdain, he only needed a glance to see her small movements.
He raised his hand lightly and simply, and Zhu Qi suddenly hit the gesture she had not yet raised. The light wave that had just been visible was scattered by his horizontal palm, and the impact of the force caused a gust of wind to suddenly surge in the entire dungeon.
"Then I just want to see if this spiritual world perishes first, or if my retribution comes first!"
He grabbed her arm suddenly, and pushed the magic power into her body along the grasped arm.
Her whole body suddenly went numb, and Shu Xiaowu fainted in front of her eyes. When she regained consciousness in the blink of an eye, her whole body was almost unable to move.
Just as Shu Xiaowu raised his eyes, before he cast his hatred on Zhu Qi's body, he suddenly felt a pain in his right shoulder, as if he had been punched into a cold and hard sharp knife, and the pain of tearing flesh instantly swept through her. nerve.
"Huh does it hurt?"
Zhu Qi approached her with a light smile, and arbitrarily pulled aside a strand of her hair that was soaked by the sudden drop of sweat. .
His fingertips gently pressed on the shoulder blades that had long since disappeared, and after feeling the trembling of the human body under the palm of his hand due to the pain, his laughter spread wantonly in the air.
Shu Xiaowu gasped heavily, and while breathing, she could only grit her teeth to suppress the pain that came out. She didn't know what he had punched into her body, but the cold pain But it never faded from the moment it entered.
She finally managed to hold back the pain, she lifted her head that could move, and looked at the man who looked at her with a good show, her eyes were full of hatred, and her chest was constantly heaving due to the lingering pain. , the breath is already chaotic.
Her expression and movements obviously won his heart, and Zhu Qi's smile became deeper and deeper, "Why, I can't bear the pain anymore, we are just getting started."
As he finished speaking, silver light flashed on his flat palm, and a silver nail exuding white brilliance appeared.
The silver nail was only half his hand long, and the body of the nail was engraved with intricate patterns that she could not distinguish. I don't know if it was an alien language or just some kind of pattern. There was a white mist around it, which was a certain distance. The distance also made her feel the cold on it.
"Do you know what this is?" Zhu Qi looked at the silver nail in front of him, and cast a deliberate glance in her direction. Seeing the pain on her face, he laughed and explained generously: " This baby is specially prepared for you, with it, even those gods don’t want to find any trace of you, haha!”
Shu Xiaowu was stunned for a moment, and the forbearance expression on his face was almost unbearable. Looking at the silver brilliance in the palm of his hand, he felt uneasy in his heart. If she guessed correctly, this is the Soul Eater Nail.
Soul eater nails, which only exist in the most evil records.
According to the records, it is only necessary to insert a soul-devouring nail into the enemy's heart, and the silver nail will gradually devour the soul and flesh of the person. In a few days, all traces of him will disappear. Legend has it that there are only five soul-devouring nails in the world, but if all five are used on one person, then the person will suffer the most tragic pain in the world, and his body and soul will be destroyed.
As if he knew what she was thinking, Zhu Qi pretended to be frustrated and blew the mist emanating from the silver nails on his palms, his voice carried a contrived sigh, "Unfortunately, I tried my best to collect them, but I only found four Soul Eater. That's it, now I can only let you feel the power of this world's most evil treasure"
"You will be punished."
Shu Xiaowu bit his inner lip hard, and the **** fishy smell had already spread throughout his mouth.
"Retribution, okay, I'm waiting, haha!"
His voice is still full of disdain, retribution, such absurd things, since he entered the devil's way, he has already ignored it with contempt. His fate is only in the palm of his hand, and he will keep climbing up to the boundary where no one can question the slightest bit, standing at the top of the world and overlooking the world! To block others, only death!
Zhu Qi's laughter was frivolous and slippery. After a burst of laughter, a soul-eating nail suddenly appeared in his palm. Under her vengeful eyes, he waved his hands and smashed Qi into her body at the same time.
The pain in the left shoulder and abdomen hit at the same time, and Shu Xiaowu cried out in pain. The strength on her body that was controlled by him suddenly loosened, her body slipped, and she slumped down the corner of the wall along the icy fence behind her.
She shuddered and shrank into a ball, and there was nothing on her body that didn't hurt. And the ice cold that was shot in the three places stimulated her brain wave after wave, and each wave seemed to make her die, almost shattering her soul. A wave of intense stimulation dissipated, and the unstoppable pain on the body took over again.
Shu Xiaowu has never endured such pain, the kind of pain, like scraping every piece of flesh and blood on his body with a small ice knife, and the part connected to the bones is pressed against the incision with its sharpest blade. Grinding hard, never sleepless, she is bound to spare every part of her body.
When the pain hit, she was already speechless, and her body didn't know what posture she was maintaining, and even the senses around her were weakened too much.
She seemed to be able to hear Zhu Qi's surly laughter even in the midst of the chaos.
Zhu Qi looked at Shu Xiaowu's deep pain, laughter spread throughout the dungeon, and his heart was already full of joy. Looking at her current appearance, all his previous humiliation has finally paid off. Fortunately, he is happy!
However, this is not the end!
As long as the silver nails are not punched into her chest, even if she is in pain, her soul will not suffer the deepest damage.