Chapter 102 Dolu River...Old Land of the Underworld...

The heavily armored man, sitting cross-legged in the center of the lake, softly repeated these heartbreaking words, then slowly stood up.

Ripples spread.

The invisible barrier around him expanded.

Jia Wei slowly walked towards the shore.

"Sir, the elders of the Holy Church are all worried about the safety of the Blessed Child. He has now gone deep into the unclean land, and is likely to be haunted by nightmares or encounter unknown dangers."

The old servant bowed and said cautiously, "You don't seem... worried?"

"..."

Jia Wei stepped onto the shore. He paused slightly and gave a soft humph.

Looking back at the gradually calming crimson lake.

This great knight of Light City said quietly, "I understand Meng Xiao. He is the Chosen One blessed by the Divine Seat. Among millions of people, there may not be one with a more steadfast will than him. This mission is aimed at destroying the old traces of the Underworld. No matter what difficulties he encounters, I believe he can overcome them, slay them, and then return in triumph."

The old servant was slightly stunned.

"But that... is, after all, the old land of the Underworld. Now even the Divine Seat cannot contact him with its spirit."

"So?"

Jia Wei turned his head and said lightly, "We have been watching East Continent. Does he still have a chance of encountering the real 'Underworld King'?"

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The wind blows.

The mist dissipates.

Light is exhausted.

Perhaps the Light City prophecy far away in the sky took effect.

Meng Xiao slumped down in the darkness. He tried to ignite the "light" in his Zhen Yue robe, but found that... the blessed light that had accompanied him for more than twenty years could not be ignited at this moment.

There is no light in this place.

It was as if a rule had been established. He tried to burn other fires, but all failed... This was completely different from the rules of Black Snow Mountain. The conditions for the arrival of the [Gate] in Black Snow Mountain were to ignite a certain flame.

But here, the burning of "fire" is directly prohibited!

"Where is this place?"

He was forced to accept reality, and then silently recalled the scene of his arrival here... At first, there was an riot at the bottom of the Black River, and Gu Shen, already at the end of his rope, fled towards the suddenly opened [Gate]. He followed closely behind, but was still one step too late.

At the last moment, the [Gate] seemed to be closed.

No... it wasn't closed.

It was altered.

The place where he had arrived now was not the same place where Gu Shen had fled!

"Behind that [Gate], there seems to be a second person..."

Meng Xiao frowned slightly. He was not sure if his intuition was correct, but at the last moment, he seemed to sense the existence of a third transcendent... In this disaster realm, no one else should be able to reach here.

It couldn't possibly be reinforcements sent by Osmond, right?

Even Lu Zhe shouldn't be able to cross Black Snow Mountain so quickly...

In the darkness.

A faint ray of light suddenly lit up.

Meng Xiao's breathing stagnated. He lowered his head in disbelief, looking at the position of his wrist. What was glowing at this moment was none other than the Calamity Divination Bracelet, which usually only absorbed light!

In this "lightless" environment, the bracelet could actually break the rules!

This greatly exceeded Meng Xiao's expectations...

Almost instantly, he immersed his mental power into the bracelet.

Several images were reflected in front of him—

The first image was of a dark and broken river, and a black gate standing at the bottom of the river.

That was exactly the scene when he was chasing Gu Shen, but what the bracelet saw was far more than what he saw. At the end of the black gate, there was also a woman holding a knife.

"Mu Wanqiu?"

Meng Xiao's eyes darkened slightly. He finally understood who the transcendent aura he had felt when entering the [Gate] came from.

But he didn't understand how Mu Wanqiu had arrived at the River of the Underworld before him?

He was closely following behind the Zhong Yuan team.

And this was the fastest route to Black Snow Mountain, a straight line. Mu Wanqiu's mission location... if he remembered correctly, it should be a remote river branch!

In fact, the moment Meng Xiao saw Mu Wanqiu, his heart suddenly tensed.

Summoning the "Light Divine Seat" to descend in Black Snow Mountain was equivalent to breaking face with North Continent. He knew that if he did such a thing, he would definitely face the Queen's purge... but he didn't expect that the Divine Seat's descent would end in failure.

In that case, what he had to face was more than just the Queen's purge!

Now, those transcendents in the disaster realm should all be hunting him...

Mu Wanqiu's arrival here most likely meant that Lu Zhe, the captain of the Investigation Corps' first team, was also here.

However, the bracelet provided a long period of footage. Behind the dark gate, there was no second person, only Mu Wanqiu alone... Meng Xiao's tense nerves relaxed slightly.

The worst thing he was worried about didn't happen.

If there was only Mu Wanqiu, then it wasn't a big deal.

Although she was a North Continent S-rank, she was only a Deep Sea Third Order transcendent... at most, she was comparable to Gu Shen.

No.

After fighting Gu Shen at the bottom of the Black River and being shot with two arrows, Meng Xiao completely restrained his previous arrogance.

He had to admit it.

He had never encountered a Third Order transcendent as ruthless and bloodthirsty as Gu Shen... Although Mu Wanqiu had a great reputation in North Continent, if she really fought Gu Shen to the death, she would probably be shattered by an arrow.

This North Continent S-rank was not as troublesome as the one from East Continent.

Next, Meng Xiao expressionlessly watched the first image reflected by the bracelet... He understood everything that had happened when he was chasing at the bottom of the river.

It was Mu Wanqiu who had saved Gu Shen at the last moment and closed the [Gate] again, which led to his arrival here.

Judging from Mu Wanqiu's actions of standing against him without hesitation...

The fact that he had summoned the Light Divine Seat should have been exposed.

This crazy woman is really compassionate.

Wouldn't it be better to pretend that you didn't see anything?

Now... he had to kill Mu Wanqiu and Gu Shen together.

He licked his dry lips, and such a thought popped into his mind. Then, the bracelet reflected the second image, and it was from this moment that a strong sense of foreboding emerged in Meng Xiao's heart.

The second image was very simple.

Pitch black.

Then... in the boundless darkness, a pair of scarlet eyes slowly lit up.

This was the first time.

In the image, the bracelet gave a clear mental fluctuation, as an indication.

["Do not... look directly..."]

The picture ended abruptly.

The ominous premonition in Meng Xiao's heart had also reached its peak.

He knew very well that his bracelet was of a very high level. In a previous disaster divination, even the Queen's attic restrictions did not stop his malicious prying... That was a Tongtian figure at the Divine Seat level!

He could clearly see the forbidden things of the gods.

That successful spying made Meng Xiao feel vaguely inflated... The huge, insurmountable gap between the Divine Seat and mortals was easily crossed by him in another way.

Moreover, he didn't pay any price!

But this time, the bracelet gave a clear indication... Was it hoping that he wouldn't court death and not look directly at the pair of strange blood-colored eyes that he might encounter next?

Meng Xiao took a deep breath.

He braced himself and raised his wrist.

Due to the extremely high level of the bracelet, a faint flame lit up in this dark place.

The flame was very weak, but it could barely illuminate the darkness in front of Meng Xiao, allowing him to see the surrounding environment clearly... If he wanted to leave this place, he always had to see something clearly.

He couldn't just stay immersed in the darkness.

From the divination screen of the bracelet just now, Meng Xiao guessed that when Mu Wanqiu closed the [Gate], fate had opened another [Gate] for him... And now he was trapped in this dark place.

Gu Shen and the others were very likely trapped in another secret realm.

The distance between him and those two guys might not be far, and there was a high probability that they were in the same ruin. If his guess was correct, then the ruin he was in at the moment should be the "Old Site of the River of the Underworld" that Light City had been searching for a long time.

Back then, the Holy Tribunal Legion was dispatched, and they joined the Divine Seat in slaying the Underworld King, experiencing a tragic battle.

In the end, the Underworld King was defeated, and the River of the Underworld that he had painstakingly wanted to refine was shattered by the Light Divine Seat, and he didn't know where it had fallen...

"Clang."

Meng Xiao's wandering thoughts suddenly returned.

His mental power was suppressed in his body, and he could only rely on this faint flame to try to find the "exit" in this dark place.

He hadn't walked two steps when he bumped into something hard.

He frowned and cautiously backed away.

Then he adjusted the angle of the fire.

In the darkness, the outline of a behemoth gradually emerged... It was a decaying skeleton of an unknown creature.

This skeleton had been broken for many years and had been silent for a long time, almost merging with the darkness.

What he had just bumped into was the chest of that creature.

If he got closer, he might be embraced by the outstretched ribs.

Meng Xiao subconsciously raised the fire...

The fire emitted by the bracelet instantly began to tremble.

And the ominous feeling in his heart also suddenly rose.

"Chih!"

The trembling of the bracelet's fire reached its maximum when it was raised to the creature's face. A wisp of the already weak flame lay down to its lowest point, and then it flickered and went out.

The whole world was plunged into darkness. Meng Xiao came to the scene in the previous disaster divination as he wished.

He knew very well.

Next, two scarlet flames would ignite in the skull of that creature.

If it weren't for using the bracelet in advance and seeing the guidance of the disaster divination... his gaze would uncontrollably meet those blood-colored eyes, and the final outcome would be obvious.

In the darkness, blood light burst out.

But Meng Xiao's breathing was very stable. It was only slightly disturbed for a moment, and then it quickly returned to calm.

The pair of blood-colored eyes in the darkness quietly stared at the Blessed Child whose light had been extinguished.

Meng Xiao was calmer than the blood color in the darkness.

He closed his eyes tightly.

Not seeing, not hearing, not thinking, not wanting.

The bracelet had already given a hint, and this was the best way to deal with the disaster.

He had already made the most correct response in the first time.

It was a pity.

Anyone who touched taboos must pay the price...

Even if Meng Xiao didn't look at anything, let alone spy on it, he still suffered a "backlash"!

Accompanied by the gaze of the blood-colored eyes, endless storms roared, shaking Meng Xiao's spiritual sea.

A nightmare that struck the soul directly bloomed in his heart.

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