Chapter 238 Another Encounter with a High Level of Difficulty (8000)

The grassland was empty, the sky was gloomy, and under the black sky, the silver moonlight projected from the clouds, covering the entire grassland with a layer of silver gauze.

But what this layer of silver gauze covered was corpses all over the ground.

Spreading all the way from the distant edge, constantly shrinking inward, the corpses circled one after another, one layer surrounded another, and the grassland was covered as far as the eye could see.

Many, especially many.

From Xu Bai's perspective, there were only a few places to stay, as if this place had experienced a terrible battle.

Each corpse had terrible scars.

The blood on their bodies had dried up and soaked on the withered wild grass. Some of the withered wild grass had been dyed red.

Xu Bai frowned tightly and looked around.

This situation was unheard of.

He was brought here directly at the beginning, and there was not even a person, all were corpses. What secrets were there?

In his opinion, there must be a secret, the entire ruins is a big secret, but there are no clues now.

Xu Bai raised his hand and pinched it carefully.

With all the various skills he had integrated into the first level of Sainthood, he couldn't calculate good or bad luck at this moment, let alone clues.

This situation made Xu Bai's eyebrows jump wildly. He felt that this trip would definitely be dangerous.

Even he couldn't calculate good or bad luck, and even the third level of Sainthood couldn't calculate it. This relic was not simple.

"With this start, let's just go to one place."

Xu Bai first used his soul to spread out and explore the surrounding situation. After finding no useful clues, he decided to find a direction to hurry.

There are only corpses here, and wait!

Xu Bai just took a step and was about to leave, and then he took his foot back. His eyes lingered on the corpses he saw, and soon, the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

"How long has it been since I touched corpses?"

In the past, after fighting and killing people, he would carefully touch them to see if there was a progress bar.

After he became stronger and stronger, no one fought with him anymore, and he stopped searching corpses.

Now this is a relic, a reappearance of the era of resource depletion. If these corpses are all people in the industry, can they find some secrets?

"With so many corpses, it's too slow to search one by one. Oh, I still have this skill..."

The true energy in Xu Bai's body twisted, and then he pinched a hand gesture, and at the same time, a part of the true energy was consumed.

The corpse control method, obtained from the corpse collector in the previous relic, has been integrated into all kinds of miscellaneous techniques.

Since there are corpses everywhere here, it is natural to control them like a fish in water.

Soon, a terrifying scene appeared on this vast grassland.

Every corpse crawled up from the ground. Although they all had no breath of life and had terrible wounds and blood on their bodies, they did come back to life in an alternative way.

If the corpse collector saw that Xu Bai used this method to simplify his method of searching corpses, he would probably be so angry that he ran out of the coffin.

"Then... let's start." Xu Bai snapped his fingers and waited calmly.

Under the moonlight, these corpses began to search themselves. As long as there was something useful, they would find it.

But unfortunately, Xu Bai did not see anything related to the progress bar, and this scene made him feel that there was something wrong.

These people died here, with wounds all over their bodies, and they obviously fought for a while.

Xu Bai made an assumption, if these people were trying to rob things, or if there was some benefit that made them fight each other.

Then people in the industry would definitely leave something behind.

After all, the dead can't take things away by themselves.

But now there is not even a useful thing, let alone a progress bar.

There is only one answer.

Some people left alive, and even took away things here, including the secret book that can generate a progress bar.

But the problem is again, there are many corpses here, and it is impossible for one person to take them away, which proves that there are many living people.

"No traces of movement were found, not even footprints were left. It seems that they must have left by flying, so... the people who left must be at least at the Transcendent Realm or above."

Based on the soul's scan of the scene, no clues were found, so Xu Bai came up with another guess.

In such a messy place, it is difficult to clear all the clues, so it is only possible to leave by flying without leaving any traces.

"But the key is, which direction did these people leave from?" Xu Bai touched his chin and thought secretly.

He must chase them. If it is really those who left who took the secret book away, according to the number of corpses here, even if it is halved, it will not be less.

How could so many progress bars slip away from his hands?

Then the question is, which direction should he chase?

Xu Bai stood there for a moment, then put down his hand, looked at the figures around him who stood up under his control, and then snapped his fingers.

The next moment, these corpses began to run in all directions...

I was alone, and there was no way to search everywhere, so I let these corpses find it.

Nowadays, the corpse control method has been integrated into all kinds of miscellaneous skills, and has long reached the level of entering the saint, and the range that can be controlled is extremely wide.

If he can't find it after searching like this, or if he can't find it after running out of the range, then Xu Bai can only count his bad luck.

The speed of the corpses is not slow, after all, they retain their strength before they died.

And Xu Bai stood there, waiting patiently.

This grassland is empty, and those corpses are frantically searching.

On the black moonlit night, Xu Bai waited for about half an hour, and finally, through those corpses, he sensed that something was wrong in a direction.

"Found you." Xu Bai smiled, and under the operation of his true energy, he soared into the air and chased in one direction.

…

Under the bloody sky.

Dozens of people were confronting each other under the moonlight.

These people were divided into two groups, and the strength of each side was roughly the same.

Behind each person, there was a bag, and some of the bags had a corner showing the outline of a book.

One group was led by a middle-aged man with a goatee, and the other group was led by a white-haired old man.

The goat beard looked at the other side coldly, and said in a gloomy tone: "I know that you want to take away the remaining tokens, and you said that everyone lives in harmony, but it's all lies."

"After all, some of your people don't have tokens, so they want ours."

The white-haired old man did not have the kind look that an old man should have, but instead exuded a gloomy coldness: "Aren't you the same? If we didn't have a common goal, how could we kill all those people and snatch their tokens?"

"Since you have discovered it, we can only rob it by force. Stop talking nonsense. If you throw the token on the ground, I can give you a life."

The goat beard sneered when he heard it, "You want to give us a way out, and I want to give you a way out. Since everyone has torn their faces today, let's fight to the death."

Although both sides said harsh words, no one took action. They confronted each other and weighed the pros and cons after taking action.

Time passed slowly, and these people could hold back their tempers. They just stood there, guarding against each other.

At this moment, a noise came from not far away, attracting the attention of the two parties. When the leaders all turned their heads, they saw the source of the sound and fell into shock.

A large number of corpses were rushing towards them in various strange postures.

Some corpses were on all fours, running like animals, while others jumped a long distance. From their perspective, it was like a wave of waves.

"What's going on? Aren't they all dead? Why are they alive again?"

Everyone on both sides was shocked.

These people were killed by them, and they left after snatching the token, but why are these people alive again, and they are particularly terrifying.

"I won't bother with you for the time being. Let's work together to deal with these weird things first, and then we'll talk about it after we're done!" Goatbeard said loudly.

"Okay!" The white-haired old man looked solemn and agreed with Goatbeard's approach.

Then, the people on both sides actually took off at the same time, and their escape movements were particularly consistent.

This group of people, all of them were at the Transcendent Realm and above, and they all fled by flying.

Goatbeard cursed: "Bah, I knew you wanted to escape."

"Same here." The white-haired old man also mocked.

Although both parties agreed to cooperate in the confrontation, the first thing they thought of was to escape. As long as one party stayed, they would be the scapegoat.

They were not afraid of these corpses, because these corpses were killed by them when they were alive, but there must be something wrong.

The corpses suddenly came to life, there must be a very terrifying reason, so no one wanted to stay.

Neither side stopped to fight, and both were running as hard as they could.

There is a saying that when you are chased by a beast, what you have to do is not to run faster than the beast, but to run faster than your companions, so that you can survive.

At this time, both sides had this mentality and wanted to run faster than the other side, but they were both on par with each other, and there was no difference between who was faster and who was slower.

Gradually, the group of corpses seemed to slow down suddenly, and then the corpse running in the front lost control and fell directly to the ground. The corpses behind fell one after another and could no longer move.

Both sides breathed a sigh of relief, but still did not stop.

They were chasing well just now, but suddenly there was no movement. This situation was even more weird, so they wanted to leave quickly.

But at this moment, someone with sharp eyes noticed the difference and pointed behind him and shouted.

"Someone! It's approaching quickly!"

As soon as this voice came out, several eyes looked over. The group of people flying in the air soon saw the situation behind them.

There was a small black dot, which was gradually enlarged under the moonlight.

The enlargement speed was very fast. In just a blink of an eye, they could already see the outline.

It was a man wearing a Taoist robe with his hands behind his back.

The strong wind blew the man's long hair and blew up his robe at the same time.

The man's eyes were cold, but with a mocking meaning, just like a hunter looking at the fleeing prey.

No matter how the prey escaped, it could not escape the hunter's palm. In the eyes of the hunter, it was just playing with the prey.

Because of the action of looking back, the people present paused slightly, and just as they paused, the man passed them directly and blocked the front.

Xu Bai looked at the group of fleeing people and smiled: "Are you all tired of running? Sit down and take a rest."

As he finished this sentence, the golden and gray-white sky changed and enveloped the surroundings.

The breath of madness and reason continued to spread and was rapidly infiltrating.

Now, he was already a ninth-grade superhuman, and the horror of the sky change was simply enough to make one's hair stand on end.

Even these masters of the Transcendent Realm were unable to resist. When the sky change spread, all the masters of the Transcendent Realm covered their heads, screamed miserably, and fell from the sky to the ground.

Only the goatee and the white-haired old man could barely resist, but their faces turned extremely pale, and it was obvious that it was particularly difficult to resist.

"Well, two superhumans, but not very strong?" Xu Bai's smile disappeared, and his tone became cold: "I'll let you take a break, don't you want to?"

After saying that, he waved his hand casually.

The next moment, a bright light suddenly appeared from his hand.

All kinds of attacks have integrated all his means of attack, and now he can do whatever he wants.

This light can be a knife, or it can be something else.

As the light suddenly appeared, both the external destructive force and the attack of the soul made the goat beard and the white-haired old man spit blood.

The dark clouds in the sky were dispersed, and the moonlight was not as bright as the light in Xu Bai's hand.

"My lord, spare me, my lord, spare me, we didn't know you were coming!"

The goat beard reacted very quickly, kneeling directly in the air, crying.

The white-haired old man was also fast, doing the same action as the goat beard, and raised the token in his hand at the same time.

"We are willing to contribute all the tokens to the lord, so that the lord can enter the End of the Law Pavilion."

The End of the Law Pavilion?

Xu Bai raised his eyebrows, but he didn't expect that there was a new clue now.

But... this is a good thing!

When I first came, there were no clues, but now the clues are here, right?

Xu Bai was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, and directly crushed him with his soul, and everyone present was controlled by him.

The next moment, the faces of the people present, including the goat lake and the white-haired old man, became dull.

"Come on, tell me all the clues you know about this token."

Xu Bai put his hands behind his back and waited calmly.

If he was given a pot of tea now, he could drink a few sips and listen to a story.

The goatee and the white-haired old man had been controlled by him. Under his control, they told the whole story.

When Xu Bai heard the whole story, his brows frowned.

It is still a period of resource depletion, but he doesn't know to what extent it is depleted.

After all, every time you enter the ruins, no one can figure out which time period it is.

There is an organization called the End of the Law Pavilion, which has been opened in many places.

The so-called End of the Law Pavilion is to absorb some masters to rob resources in order to continue their lives.

They firmly believe that this phenomenon of resource shortage is because there are too many people in the industry.

So they take this as the center and continue to slaughter people in the industry.

As long as a certain number of people in these industries die, the shortage of resources will stop.

And this kind of continuous battles will cause casualties even for them, so tokens will be randomly distributed every once in a while, and anyone who gets a token will definitely have a stepping stone.

And this stepping stone will allow them to take the test, and if they pass the test, they can join the End of the Law Pavilion.

In the End of the Law Pavilion, they robbed resources, so they can ease the current situation of resource depletion. The only disadvantage is that they have to go out and experience various battles, but it is much better than being alone.

The people killed by these two forces also came to rob the tokens.

After they killed those people, they robbed the tokens away.

But the robbed tokens were too few, not enough for all of them to enter, so they wanted to kill each other.

"I see." Xu Bai touched his chin and said, "Where is the branch of the End of the Law Pavilion here?"

The goat beard pointed in a direction, meaning that it was probably in this direction.

Xu Bai nodded: "Hand over all the tokens."

Everyone present handed over their tokens after hearing Xu Bai's words. Xu Bai took a rough look and found that there were nearly two hundred of them.

The two parties together had nearly three hundred people.

"One is enough to enter, right?" Xu Bai said.

The goatee nodded stiffly.

Xu Bai put away one of the tokens and ordered: "In addition to those tokens, what else was robbed? Take it all out."

As Xu Bai finished speaking, everyone present opened the packages behind him.

Xu Bai searched and found that there were only seven books, most of which were valuable items such as weapons.

These things were found from the corpses, but the progress bar was too small.

"Why are there only these few secret books?" Xu Bai said.

Goatbeard replied: "In a fierce battle, secret books are the easiest to be destroyed, and now everyone is just fighting for resources to survive, so how could they care about some secret books and carry them with them."

Xu Bai understood.

Even a small thing is still meat. Although these progress bars seem to be not slow, they can still increase a little.

He didn't want anything else, just packed these seven books.

After doing all this, he rushed directly in the direction that Goatbeard pointed at the beginning.

But before leaving, his soul moved slightly, and all the people present fell to the ground and lost their breath.

If these people died before becoming a mind god, they would not become a mind god, so Xu Bai was not worried about the others.

Flying in the air, heading in that direction, hurrying all the way.

Xu Bai realized that this time the ruins were really big. He flew for an hour and still hadn't reached the scheduled place.

But he was not completely without gain.

The levels of these seven books were not high. He had finished them all in one hour. Unfortunately, they were all mental methods, and these seven books did not even increase by 0.1.

Xu Bai felt a toothache, especially when he thought of the various problems of the mental method, he felt speechless.

"I hope I can gain something this time."

After flying for nearly an incense stick of time, a huge building finally appeared in front of him.

This is a city, a city that looks a bit dilapidated, and there are two people guarding the city gate.

There is no plaque, and even the name of this city is unknown.

Xu Bai fell from mid-air, changed his appearance and body shape casually, and walked towards the city.

When he got closer, he could feel that the whole city was filled with blood.

In such an environment like the end of the world, killing is inevitable.

Those who can enter this city alive and successfully join the End of the Law Pavilion have experienced more killing.

Xu Bai walked slowly and came to the city gate. The two guards guarding the gate, each holding a different weapon, blocked the middle.

"Token."

Two simple words, with an extremely indifferent tone, as if they were going to take action if Xu Bai couldn't hand over the token.

Xu Bai took out the token from his waist and waved it in front of the two guards.

The two guards looked at each other, and one of them said to Xu Bai: "Are you alone?"

Xu Bai smiled and said: "I'm the only one."

"Okay." The guard said: "Just follow me."

The guard turned around and led the way.

Xu Bai didn't know what he meant, but he still followed and entered the city.

After entering, he found that this city was completely different from what he imagined.

There were wide streets inside. Although the streets were not cleaned and covered with dust, there were stalls on both sides of the streets.

Unlike the human world, the stalls here were all filled with supplies from the industry.

And the stall owners were all people from the industry.

There were no ordinary people here. Ordinary people would have died long ago in such an environment.

Along the way, the guards didn't speak, and Xu Bai was free, so he didn't speak either.

After walking for a while, a more imposing building appeared in front of them. The guard came to the door and pointed directly inside.

"Go inside to report and see where you will be assigned."

Xu Bai smiled and said, "Excuse me, what are the total places?"

The guard didn't answer, but stretched out his hand: "If you want me to answer questions, you need to give me resources."

"Pills, weapons, or other things, as long as they can improve my strength, they are all fine."

Xu Bai raised his eyebrows.

He seemed to understand that in this world, resources seem to have become a kind of trading item. The so-called resources are things that can keep people alive and improve their strength.

It is not limited to pills or weapons.

But Xu Bai didn't.

He thought that he seemed to have made a mistake just now. He should have picked up some weapons and he would have lived better here.

Seeing that Xu Bai did not answer, the guard laughed. He also knew that Xu Bai had no resources, so he turned around and left.

Xu Bai did not stop him. He looked at the building behind him, thought about it, and walked in.

Inside the building was a vast courtyard, where people walked around from time to time.

As soon as he stepped in, Xu Bai smelled a strong smell of blood. Everyone here had that smell. Obviously, everyone had experienced some battles or killings not long ago.

No one paid attention to him. He thought carefully for a moment and was about to pull someone to ask.

But unexpectedly, a voice came from behind him.

"New here?"

This voice was very familiar to Xu Bai.

He turned his head and looked at the man in white clothes and a tall hat behind him, his face was a little complicated.

——Gao Guan.

I didn't expect to see him again. It was really unexpected. He still remembered that last time in the ruins, Gao Guan found the old man before he turned into a mind god. He had a final battle with the old man and wanted to drag the old man to death to enforce justice.

But in the end, it didn't succeed. It was Xu Bai who used the summoning method to attract Liu Qingfeng and killed the man.

Now that he suddenly saw him, Xu Bai also knew what time period it was. It was definitely before Gao Guan went to the mountain.

In other words, the current resources have not been exhausted to a certain extent. It will not be like before, everyone will try every means to survive.

It can be inferred from this that the Mofa Pavilion may have failed in the end. Judging from what Gao Guan said, it seems that he is a member of the Mofa Pavilion, but he went to the mountain in the end. There must be a reason.

Gao Guan was still dressed in white clothes and a tall hat. Seeing that Xu Bai ignored him, he thought Xu Bai was in a daze, and couldn't help asking again: "Newcomer, it's hard for you to survive in this world in this state."

Xu Bai just reacted, rubbed his face hard, and said with a smile: "Are you the senior here?"

Gao Guan said with a smile: "Of course, I won't change my name, I am Gao Guan, and I am also a very rare corpse collector now."

Xu Bai raised his eyebrows.

He wanted to say, not only do I know you are a corpse collector, but in the end you also gave me your inheritance, so I can help you find a successor.

Of course, he couldn't say these words, he could only pretend to have just met, and bowed repeatedly, wanting Gao Guan to introduce him to what to do next here.

Before these people became mind gods, they could communicate and socialize, and perhaps they could find useful clues from them, so Xu Bai didn't start killing people as soon as he arrived.

What's more, who knows if there are any saints in the ruins?

No one told him that this thing existed, but no one told him that it didn't exist either, so just assume that it existed, and be careful.

Gao Guan raised his foot, walked in front, and waved to Xu Bai: "You look so poor and downtrodden, and you probably don't have any treasures. Come with me, I won't ask for your resources, otherwise you will ask these people to lead the way, and if you don't have them, you will have trouble moving here."

Xu Bai nodded and followed behind him.

The two of them walked one after the other, and soon came to one of the rooms.

Gao Guan pointed to the room and said: "Record your name and information in here, and then wait for a while, and you will know which part you are in."

"Whatever part you are assigned to is that part, don't ask someone to divide it for you. If you have resources, just ignore what I said. Anyway, the good part is always given to those who have resources."

"Oh?" Xu Bai said with great interest: "What is the good part? What is the bad part?"

He knew that the so-called part here must be based on relationships.

Gao Guan pointed at himself and said, "It's not good to be in the combat category like me. I have to fight and kill every day. I might die one day."

After saying this, he pointed to the room again.

"Those who specialize in keeping records and doing other things in the city are considered good categories. They don't have to go out to fight and kill, and they can still get resources."

Xu Bai understood. As long as you don't leave the city, you are a good category.

He nodded, said nothing more, and pushed the door open.

Gao Guan didn't stop either. He left with his white tall hat.

After pushing the door open, Xu Bai smelled a strong smell of blood. A middle-aged man in ordinary clothes with two mustaches was writing on it with a pen.

The strong smell of blood came from the middle-aged man with two mustaches.

As if he heard the sound of the door being pushed open, the middle-aged man raised his head, and his two mustaches moved slightly: "Newcomer? Name."

It was a simple question, and I wanted to ask more questions, but it would be a shame.

Xu Bai looked to the side, where there was a corpse, and there was a little blood on the middle-aged man's hand.

The middle-aged man didn't even raise his eyelids: "He was seriously injured. After he was brought back, he couldn't be saved. It just happened that I could focus on the medicinal materials."

As he spoke, he came to the corpse.

On the belly of the corpse, several medicinal herbs like grass have grown.

"What a pity, a corpse can only grow so many." The middle-aged man said with regret.

These medicinal herbs are also resources, but now, all kinds of resources are exhausted, and medicinal herbs can't be grown at all. Now, this middle-aged man has taken a unique approach and wants to use corpses to grow them.

Xu Bai said: "My name is Fang Mu."

Since the other party only asked his name, he just said one casually. As for why he was called Fang Mu, is there any reason for saying it casually?

The middle-aged man nodded, recorded it in a book, and then got up and went into the inner room.

Xu Bai felt that joining here was too simple, but later he thought about it and realized that it was not that complicated.

It was all for resources. With the token, it must have been a period of fighting. Who would be willing to lie or do anything else if they came here just to ask for resources.

After waiting for about half an incense stick, the middle-aged man took out a booklet and spread it in front of Xu Bai.

There are various categories marked on the settings, including combat category, office category, and other miscellaneous categories, but except for the combat category, the others are clearly marked with prices, and how many resources are needed to obtain them.

Xu Bai remembered what Gao Guan said just now, and looking at the blatant price of this middle-aged man, it should be allowed.

Resources from fighting and killing are also resources, and blackmail here is also a resource. It is estimated that all the resources obtained will be handed over and then distributed uniformly.

Xu Bai has no resources, and he will not give them even if he has them, because he really wants to go to the combat category.

He came here not to be in this city. He just followed this category to see if there are other clues, not to mention that Gao Guan is also here.

Xu Bai has a good impression of Gao Guan. After all, he can face the terrifying old man calmly. This kind of person is not afraid of death and is easy to get along with.

So since there is a chance, he just goes to get in touch with him.

"Combat category." Xu Bai said.

The middle-aged man curled his lips and said, "Poor bastard."

He turned around, took out a bottle of medicine from the drawer, and handed it to Xu Bai.

"Drink it."